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..field surgeon did his1
; ' '.: .sowio" v/ordn in his now ijlnrhis
meaning. The
^^pen^J^anU
tired,, and we were making our
Suddenly, Cull behind us, came the
snarp burst; of- anexploding shell, and
MUlWwimW^nslwl^^i^^V^rviTipr. Hip Tan H anil 1 ton's
I kit scattered in many pieces
. A live shell left on the
hd done the -work. A chance
passing- cart, then two men
ifebrses were blown to bits,
an died soon after and a
jered but a little longer.
ieiral : and staff of the first
d; on top of the hill watchem
a held telegraph was
( a soldier jumped to his
an -down the si ope into the
below. A Chinaman there
like-a rabbit, but the solid
quick, and scon had him
t-eral Japanese -came up,
a brief animated conversaiinaman
screaming piteouswhile,
and then the prisonbed
on his knees, the sol1
flashed, and in a moment
head fell and a gush of
ed from his severed trunk,
a slight hole where he fell
the body ir.tj it, covering
h millet stalks. Then the
ied his sword clean, and
is though nothing had hapaman
was a telegraph-wire
by the Russians, and had
? h&lnw. -.lot realizing that
Ijthe^station was just ahoveSevtn
Russians came out cf tne
casement. For thirty-six hours, surrounded
hy the Japanese army, they
-defied every effort to capture them.
iVi^PJien the Russian forces had retired
to biao-Yang these men throw
themselves into a bombproof caso;'ment;.;:in
the redoubt, piled up sandbags
in front and waited. "When the
Japanese entered the earthworks, the
men from their shelters opened otit
-feth magazine rifles upon them.
^ ;it was impossible to storm the casement
without much loss of life, so
the Japanese, avoiding the line of their
fire, waited, shooting into them from
'Odd corners. The men had no food or
-water, save the little they carried on
their persons, and as hour after hour
bassed their thirst grew to agony.
They hat! to keep constantly on the
?jij ; watch, and at last there was nothing
to do but surrender. The Japanese
f - tame up and gingerly took their rifles
fat, ' and bayonets over the sandbags.
Then the Russians stepped - out.
They, twero ghastly, save for the grime
jS?J -which long fighting had put on them.
gj|| fu^^-Every .'soldier respects courage, and
sfe there was no sign hut honor for them
s|||| | as they marched into captivity.
The/War correspondent had ridden
" away from his fellows to see fighting
v, | at its closest range. For days, defy'
ihg regulations, he mingled with- the
' soldiers in their trenches and on the
Kg^/'", first fighting line.
i The men shared their scanty ratibn's
with him, and he went hungry
: and thirsty with them. He was among
the foremost to enter Liao-Yang, and
then ruslicd for his typewriter to tell
5?T,i liis story But before he could strike
. a key a bad attack of dystentery tooh
Eg&j. . him. His brain could not think, his
fray-,,-hands could not write, and he could
j&j- ; not ride a hundred yards, much iess
6^ . go the hundred miles be wished to
Isife go to Yinkow telegraph office. Yet
.. one thought possessed him. "I must
my story, I must ride down the
He tried to rise, but a spasm
tjr And his story Is not written.
was the night of August 2C.
High atop of the great ridge o!
KWansalin-lay many companies ol
varied Russian soldiers. Grimy gun
rj^^fiafi/dVopped limply beside theii
worn andviQUddy. weapons of death
I ~
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"Russia will win in the long run."?F
Lines of unwashed infantrymen vrrapped
in gray great coats were stretched
on the ground, with heaps of big
atones before them on the edge of the
ridge.
On the hills opposite .were the Japanese:?the
right wing of the firs';
army?bitterly conscious of failure.
The keen territorial rivalry fostered
ijy-Tueir uinnury unu umuv vu?=>
hours of rosl a purgatory for tfcero.
They had been uj> most of the night
before, and had fought continuously
through the heat and wet of the long
day. They had had little to eat, for
rice could not he cooked. Limbs were
leaden witli much exertion. Bur u
was not these things which drove the
iron into their souls.
Word had gone around that the
central division of the army had succeeded.
had driven the Russians bacic.
and was now on the Russian heights
to the south. Could it ho that, cite
Kuishu danzi, who had fought and
won for the Emperor during the great
revolutionary war should he surpassed
by the To-liok, their hereditary rivals.
who :JT years ago had been in
arms against them to maintain the
Shogunate? Let death come, but not
such humiliation!
At midnight the longed-for word
went forth. Slowly, stealthily, in scattered
ranks, the men of Knkura moved
out. determined to' uphold the honor
of their island. With mist- blinding
them and rain beating i.i their faces,
they advanced from rock to rock, near
to the base of the ridge.
There was to he no surprise that
night. As the Japanese crept out. the
.Russians raiseu inemseivt's, louk ljich
exact places on the ridge top, and
-waited.
Now the Japanese had reached the
foot of the slope, and now began the
toilsome ascent.
Suddenly there burst on the ears
of the astonished soldiers, not the
tearing explosion of shell, not the
deadly "pist' of rifle bullets, but the
crash of many boulders pouring down
the hill. On and on came great
stones, jerked forward by the Russians
at the top gathering momentum at
every yard, 'striking bigger stones on
their way, splintering them and making
them join their avalanche, until
at last, with irresistible dash, they
tore through the Japanese ranks. Alas
for the man they met on their way.
A rifle bullet does not, as a rule kill,
and shell wounds can often he healed,
but the doctors afterward said that
few whom the stones struck drew
breath long after, the velocity, weight
and jaggednoss of the weapons mak
ing men mangled pulp.
Even this did not stop the Japanese.
Planting their feet in the muddy
slopes, clinging to the wet, slpipery
mountain hushes, they still advanced.
Hundreds were hurled hack into the
valley below, hut thousands came on.
and like a flood they swept the hill.
None asked or gave quarter in that
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and the Russians were driven
down the opposite slope.
Now the Japanese had their innings.
Boulder after houlder crashed
down upon the descending Russians.
Twice the soldiers rallied and
returned to restorra the hill; twice
they were driven back. But when the
dim, misty day broke, and the Japanese
checked their muster, they
found that nearly four hundred would
never answer the roll again.
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for the men who are engineering
tire consolidation, it is believed,
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Buried.
CHICAGO; Nov. 21.?Miss E. Gcsterling.
of Denver, killed * herself \ SaG
urday afternoon In her apartments
in the Vendome hotel by drinking a
cup of poison. At the hour at which
she committed suicide the body _ of
Herman Parker, to whom she was engaged
to be married, was being burled,
in St. Lquis.
Mr. Parker, who was in Chicago ten
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went to church last Sunday a week
ago. He was employed as secretary
to Eugene Zimmerman, president of
the .Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton
Railroad. Last Thursday, it Is said,
Parker dropped dead at his desk. After
receiving word of his death. Miss
Gesterling refused to leave her room,
and declined to see anybody. ' It is believed
that Miss Gesterling, knowing
the hour at which the burial of her
fiancee would take place in St. Louis,
decided to end her life at the same
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funeral, saying she was too sick to
travel.
WIFE MURDERED AND
PLACED IN A TRUNK.
German Police Trying to Find the
Criminal?May Have Fled to
This CountryBERL1N,
Nov. 22.?The German
police are occupied in a search for a
well-dressed man, who a few days ago
left a trunk in the cloakroom at the
railway station of Baku, in Russia. As
i he truriiv negan to emit an uiLt-nsive
smell, if was opened by the police,
and the dismembered body of a young
woman, covered with a few rugs, was
found inside. A rope was drawn
tightly round the neck, and a hand- j
kerchief was stuffed in the mouth.
Medical investigation revealed the
probability that the murderer first
gagged his victim to prevent her
making a noise, and then strangled
her with the rope. Afterwards he
cut the body in pieces for the purpose
of packing it in the trunk.
Another trunk left by the same man
contained letters, photographs, and
other articles, providing useful clues
to the identity of the perpetrator..
From these, it appears that the victim
was the young wife of the murderer,
to whom she had been married
but a short time.
Further clues lead to the supposi
lion that the murderer fled across
the frontier to Germany on his way
to London for Liverpoool and New
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