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THE ROCK ISTAND ARGUS, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1915. THE ARGUS. Published dally at 1624 Second arc ane. Reck Island, III. (Entered at the postofSoe as eecon d-claas matter.) BY THE J. W. POTTEE CO. Bock Island Member Associated Pre Full I,eae3 YTlre Report. Member Audit Bureau cf Circulations. TelphoaeB in all departments. Cen tral Union, Rock Inland 145, 1145 and 2146. rrWZi-in TPlfi? ;c o u n cO X: : Tp.(!a.T, .Inly 20, 191.",. The fallow who works in a powuer plant is even wor.v? off these days than the one who ilvt s in a glass house. Thaw is out of the custody of the state, but hi still figures with our most prominent oitltT.s w ben it comes to the doling- out of newspaper space. The Argus has m bj;-tion to being termed tin "ever mg organ" if it pleaees anybody to indulge the term especially as the eff.-ct is to designate it as the only newspaper in the even ing field in the city. Even the :i-t.infr9 are turning against John Parleycorn. for they are finding it more profitable to make de natured alcohol to nil war contracts with foreign governments than it U to manufacture the kind customariij USftd to fill these who at" tstliirst. The steamer Steel City, which has JtiBt completed the. trip from LaSalie to New Orleans in 75 hours, break ing all river riords, had 25 Chl cngoans on beard on the way south. It is scurcely to be expected that the craft would have made that time if it bad'- carried a cargo of lower muzzle velocity molasses, for instance."' Whales, which long ago were re ported to have been driven out of the North sea by mines ami oilier devices of war, arc now having a hard time of it in the Adriatic, one of thorn be ing attacked by an Italian destroyer the other day and killed before it was discovered that it was not a subma rine. It is getting so that a well mean ing cetacean scarcely knows where to find a safe place to lay its head. This newspaper docs not feel that it has been called to go to the front for the Second avenue asphalt, al though it may have its faults, and still it. is reasonably certain that the ma terial used on that thoroughfare would possibly stand us good a test as that which is insisted upon in place of brick by certain Ninth street paving objectors and which if adopted might pave the way to removing some of the existing obstacles. And The Argus has no prejudices against the new mater ial, either. THE JAIL RULING. It must bo more or less irritating to the organ of obstruction to know that Judge Church based his denial of the Jail site injunction on (he contentions of the counsel for the contractor, rather than on those cf the attorneys representing the county. It was for benefit of the contractor that the court's advice was given in which he said though he felt it necessary, from a luga! standpoint, to decline to grant the writ, lie believed it wise from a business standpoint to discontinue operations til! the question reaches iinai ajudieation. It would appear to be extremely im portant, iu view of the fact that more consideration was given by the court to the validity of the contract than to the action of the board ia defying the law which ia on the statute books, al though held not in force at the time, and its bearing, of course, will be taken into consideration when the case is wrought before the state supreme court, to which it surely will be taken. FALLACIES OF PROTECTION. Adverting to an editorial by that old stand pat newspaper, the St- Louis Globe-Democrat, in which our heavy trade balance against Europe is dis cussed, with the war blockade held tip as a vindication of the protection theory. The Public says: "From so prominent a protectionist source this admission is important We now have protectionist authority for a fact that baa long been obvious to all not protectionists; that we have protective tariff conditions in the country In spite of tariff red notion. The Glofce-Detnocrat's admission con stitutes a clear confession of the fact that protection la a fraud. "That the war has artificially check ed Imports is no cause for eongraiula ti iHL No goods would be imported at any tfene if Americans did not want to boy them, and they would not want to bay them if It were not evident that these goods offered the beet value for money spent. Now comes the Globe Democrat and considers ft cause for congratula Ion that Americana are hindered by the war from getting as mudt for their money a under ordi nary circumstances they could get. That such a state of affairs must be narmfal la the only reasonable con clusion. That it baa cot made the coun try prosperous, but. on the contrary, has made conditions worse, Is attested by hundreds of protectionist organs and protectionst politicians who have for the past year teen telling about the industrial depression." The Public hits a farorfts protec tionist fallacy a deserved wallop, com ments Peoria Journal. No worse fate .could bofall a people dan to bs dt liens of a country which "buys every thing end sells nothing." The block ade which the Globe-Democrat par allels with a protectee tariff has helped a few American Industries and mad millions to a few Americans, but it has crippled hundreds of American industries and made living a bard problem for millions of com mon people. PUTTING THRILLS IN THE MOVIES. That motion, pictures in the making often inquire the players to face real and serious danger, and even the pos sibility of sudden death, is a feature of the movies that few persons realize. The popular notion is that any act in volving danger is "faked" that in a fail for instance, tie actuai fall ia made by a dummy and not by a living player. This was true of motion pic ture making in the past, and to a lim ited extent, is true even at the present time. Some of the feats shown on the srreeen could never be performed by a living person without the certainty of death. Rut competition between the loading producers has become so keen and the taste of the public so exact ing, that a thrilling act mu ft as a rale bo the perfection of realism, and this usually means that it must be the real thing. How the players go to the limit of safety and beyond in meeting this requirement is shown in a number of pictures appearing in th Popular Mechanics' Magazine. One of the moat daring of these feats is a fall now being shown in one of the big plays. The actor is seen KtaTiditi on a balcony 20 f.. t nbrvc fho ground. Suddenly he clutches at his breast as if shot and pitches back ward off the balcony, turn ove i: a i i d urine the descent, rots e j is performed by a living actor who i makes failing his business ami who is ! said t-o have fallen a tola! cf more than I five miles in the part time jcars. In an act like this, the actual tumble l would formerly have been trade by n j dummy, and the effect, of continuity in i the pictures would have been given by stopping: end starting the camera u just the rielit, instant as the dummy was substituted for the actor and I the actor took his position on the j ground in place' of the fallen dtimrt.y. I Another act of a startling nature $ ; that of a fugitive droppint from a si;t j na! bridge to the top of a moving loco motive. This feat was performed without injury to the actor while the locomotive was running at a spt-i of i IT miles an hour. A fijjl-.r on the pilot of a. liiiTiiimiffl was stayer with the locomotive rnnnine at a Kneed of 2d miles an hour and the pictures were made from the rear of a. train alfed. A Finale careless movement, of either of the actors might easily have r-'-Mt'.fed in the death of one or both. HOUSES IN THE WAS. The 1'nited states department of ott- I rirulture has issuc to'iowinc; j r on Ku- ept erabt-r i (bulletin on horse trie w; i rope; ! During the four months i to December, laH, inclusive, about j 75.0O0 horses were exported from the il'nited States. In addition to the.e several thousand more have necn pur chased for export by the aseuts of the warring nations, it has been fear ed by some that there would be aucii ! large numbers exported as to cause 'an acute shortage of horses in this ! country. There is. i.owev er, no appjr- out innne. liate dancer of thia. j The J9J0 census gave 3,1;,79 as ithe number of horses not. on farms ; There has probably not been any ap I preciable decrease in that number since then. That number added to the ; 21,195. 000, the number estimated by i the department of agriculture, on farms Jan. 3, makes a total of lover 24,000,000 horses in this coon'ry, land we could sell two or three times ithe number already exported without there being an appreciable shortage of work horses. Three times the num (ber exported during the last four j months of the past year, or 225,000, j would be less than 1 per cent of our ; horse stock. Furthermore, the kind 'of horses which have been purchased j are for the most part very mediocre animals, which would ordinarily sell j for less than $100 per head, and are a ! class of which we can wUi afford to be j rid. But a small percentage of the animals exported are mares, and most of these are doubtlessly either old mares or non-breeders. The big demand for horses will probably occur after peace has been declared. At that time the countries now at war, with the exception of Russia, will no doubt be very short of horses for their agricultural and other work. According to the best information obtainable, European Rus sia had, prior to the outbreak of the war, about 25,000,0000 horses, and is the only country having more horses than the United States. This country and Russia together have 50 per cent of all the horses In the world. The world's stock is estimated to be about 100,000,000. A very large number of the horses in Russia will ba destroyed in ths war, and remainder will no doubt be needed by Kossia for her own agricultural and other work. The demands of this country, which has ona-fourth of the world's supply of horses, will therefore be large, and will probably continue for a number of years, for the rehabilitation of the depleted horse stock of any country is a slow process. This country, how ever, will be in position to meet this demand If the farmers owning good mares will see that they are bred. The owners of such mares should see that they are bred to high-class stal lions and produce the kind of stock for wliich there is always a good ciar ket. The production of superior aai mals cf any kind is generally profit able, while the production of inferior ones is seldom so. The Lloyds, of London, have recently issued a form of insurance against appendicitis. The claims have become so numerous that they have found it necesaary to double their premiums. William Diphtheria Tears ago it was a very common tiang to hear of cases of paralysis of the throat, or heart or other part fol lowing an attack of diphtheria. The "neighbors," in those dark days, look ed upon this misfortune as a visitation of providence and said nothing about it. Occasionally, even today, an at tack of diphtheria will leave some serious paralytic condition behind it, or leave the heart greatly weak ened. Now come the neighbors, or at least the chin-wagging kind, to explain that the evil effects are due to the anti toxin the doctor administered. Never theless, the death rate from diphtheria is less than a third of what it was in the days before antitoxin was discov ered; and the cases of paralysis or se rious heart damage following diphthe ria today are so rare as to excite more than passing interest. This, if you please, neighbors, notwithstanding the universal use of antitoxin. The real reason why paralysis or heart trouble still follows diphtheria in rare instances is plain enough; either antitoxin is tised too late in the illness, or not enough is administered at the first dose. Of course, a doctor has no way of measuring the degree of diphtheria poisoning the patient's blood will suffer tomorrow; he can only see what the condition is today, and gauge his dose of antitoxin accordingly. But while false economy or a sad defer ence to the prejudices of the neigh bors may prompt hira to use too little antitoxin for the f.rst dose, it is prac- ally impossible for him to give too BLOCKADING THE "A survey of the coast geography of the British Isles shows some things of tremendous interest when consid ered with reference to the blockade undertaken by the Germans, the first serious blockade ever attempted against the United Kingdom," begins a bulletin Just issued by the National Geographic society, which sketches a few of the difficulties in the way of maintaining an effective blockade of the many-harbored, sea-encircled na tion. The bulletin continues: "Great Britain is a land of harbors and highly developed ports. Its foreign commerce clears from more than 120 seaports, that are situated upon every sea washing the islands. To shut off Enei'.sh commerce with other lands would require an almost impossible sea-sini-rif-'th. Moreover, besides its wealth of w idely scattered harbors, the United Kingdom has a particularly ir regular coastline, which would serve to creatiy multiply the labors of a blockader. "lireken by rocky headlands, bays and ih eidy penetrating inlets of the s.-a. the Kngiish coastline alone stretches for a distance of 2. .".50 if.iles. To the south, upon the Kngiish channel, lie the great seaports of Ply mouth, Southampton. Portsmouth, UrifrUton and Dover; to the east, to ward the North Sea. are the ports of London. Harwich. Great. Yarmouth, Mult and Newcastle, and to the west, toward the Atlantic and the Irish Sea, are Bristol. Cardiff, Swansea and Liv erpool. Hundreds of smaller ports are sprinkled in between these great harbors of world-fame. "Of these English ports, Liverpool is said t i have the best developed har bor in the world; more coal is shipped fror.i Cardiff than from any other sea port ; Grimsby is the fishing capital of the world, and London is more inti -I AUTHOR'S PART IN CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION Illinois authors, historians and com posers will play an important part in the 191S centennial celebration if plans which are now -in embryo can be worked out. It is hoped a com plete list of Illinois authors, histor ians and composers can be obtained and further that a complete file of their works may be exhibited at the time of the celebration. Members of the centennial commission desire to secure all the information that is pos sible from different localities through out the state relative to old-time his torians, authors and composers who may have resided in those localities daring the early history-making days of the state. Little thought is ever given to the fact that an Illinoisan, George Fred erick Root, wrote, among other songs, "The Battle Cry of Freedom" and "Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are March ing." "The Battle Cry of Freedom" was first heard in Chicago at the time of the Civil war and it immediately became so popular that the ture was WORK FOR ALL IN 60 DAYS, PREDICTS CLARK Immediate and country-wide pros perity was proclaimed hfers at Ban Francisco this week by Champ Clark, speaker of the house of representa tives. In an address before the Com mercial club of San Francisco. "I predict that Within sixty days every person in America desiring to work will find employment at a fair waga a great desideratum, be said. "Nobody will ever be able to esti mate the damage done to American business by ths Enropean-Asiacie-Afric war," tho speaker continued, "but business is rapidly righting itself, and I bMleve we are on the verge of a long era of prosperity. ' "We are beginning to harvest the biggest all-around crop that ever grew Drady,rl.L. and Paralysis. much in the first dose. If. perchance, his first injection contains more units of anti-toxin than there are units of diphtheria toxin (poison) in the blood at the time, the superabundance will at least be harmless, and in truth fa vorable, since it will be right there ready to neutralize any furtier poison given off by any germs which may still be doing business in the throat A dose of 10,000 units of antitoxin may sound large to the lay mind, but it is really a very minute quantity of antidote, as compared with the aver age degree of diphtheria poisoning in the blood. Often enough it is not only safe but absolutely necessary to ad minister 30,000 or more units of anti toxin in the first dose, in order to completely antidote the poisoning of the disease and thus save the nervous system and the heart from the damag ing influence of unopposed diphtheria poison. Weak children require many times more antitoxin proportionately than do strong adults. He who objects to antitoxin or to a sufficiently large dose in the first in jection, through misconception of the character of the remedy, is to be pitied if he is himself the patient. If his ob jection interferes with the use of the life-saving antitoxin in the case of a child, he is indeed worthy of the worst indictment. Eraetin and Eigtr's Disease. "What is your opinion of the emetin hypodermic infection treatment for pyorrhoea? Reply it gives very satisfactory re sults. BRITISH ISLES mately connected with the ports on every sea than any other harbor. Eng land has expended with freehanded foresight in the improvement of her seaports, and so the war finds her with adequate harbor facilities upon every hand, with dry docks and shipyards in every more important harbor, with equipment to carry on a great foreign trade from more than 100 different points. "Scotland is a still more baffling problem to an intending blockader. Probably, its most sinking feature is the irregularity of its coastline, and its coast upon the east is shielded by an intricate mass of blood, rocky is lands. Though much smaller in area than England, Scotland, has v. coastline of 2,300 miles, or one mile of coast to every 13 square miles of area. Le;:.h, Dundee and Aberdeen are important' ports upon the North Sea in the. east; Inverness s-ncis its shipping to the north, an i Glasgow, with its famous shipbuilding works and vast foreign trade, lies toward the North Channel and the open Atlantic. Few places in Scotland lie more than 40 miles from1 the sea, and smaller ports dot t lie en-, tire coastline. i "Ireland's, greatest ports, Belfast . and Dublin, are situate ! upon her east : coast, on the Irish Sea. The restless ; breaking of a rough Atlantic over the j rocky r.eedies of her western coast has j retarded the development of cojnnier- j eiai harbors there. Limerick, upon I the River Shannon, gives Ireland an : important Atlantic harbor, while j Queenstown is an outlet in the south and Londonderry in the north. "With its more than (5,500 miles of coastine, and i's well-developed liar-1 lioi-s all along the way. the United! Kingdom presents a problem of ex- treme difficulty to any power intend- ! ing to maintain blockade against it." j whistled on the streets and within the short space of 24 hours thereat'" was being whistled upon the streets of Galesburg. The author resided in Chicago when he wrote and produced the song the first time. At this time the members of the centennial commission are bending their energies to secure all possible information which will put them in touch with the work of other early authors and historians and composers who were residents of Illinois in the early days, and anyone having such information will kindly send same to Mrs. Jessie Palmer Weber, secretary, Illinois centennial commission, Spring field.. Miles City, Mont., shouts "yippee ippeeippee" and lets 'er buck annual ly at the round-up and frontier day celebration. Among those, present this year were the governor, 600 pio neers (count them 500), 500 cowboys wearing chaps and a few assorted hordes of Sioux, Cheyennes and Crows. May the old-timers be ever with them. out of the ground and, after all, agri culture is the root of all prosperity." A merchant marine and rural cred its, Mr. Clark said, were the most Important Questions for the next ses sion of congress. Cotton is said to be fetching 30 cents a pound in Germany at present, which is three times the price a syndicate could have bought it for in the United States about the time syndicates were quietly reaching out for the southern surplus last year. The quotation is particularly interesting in view of the general maritime situation. In fact, if it were not for the general maritime situation cotton would not be bringing 80 cent ia Berlin, CHORDS AND DISCORDS "BEATS His Wife; Police Hold Him." Headline. If they had held him until his wife had returned the com pliment their job would have been complete. HARRY Thaw pays he will devote his time to looking after his property. The lawyers having had the first look Harry had better take a lantern along. ONE of the warnings to men on the Chicago bathing beaches is not to "duck strange women." This is not quite understandable, inasmuch as po lice advice heretofore has always been to the contrary. VILLA has engaged an aeronaut at $15 per week. In Mexican money, of course. He'll have to live a long time before he accumulates enough to in duce a quarrel among his relatives over his estate. COUNT Von Bernstorff says the Lu sitania incident will not be repeated. This should be comforting to those whose loved ones perished with that torpedoed liner a few months ago. YOUNG man shot in a drunken brawl in Chicago the other night apparently does not take much stock in the effi cacy of the Illinois liquor cure insti tution of which his father is presi dent. Or has he been parading as a horrible example? if vor corii) kott. If you could know the half of all I '. yearn to be to you, dear heart! j Each day that dawns I struggle to be ! strong and do my part, ; Yet when at last the night comes softly down I humbly pray j "Lord, grant me still to prove my ten- ! dor love just one more day!" i Just one more day to strive to rise i ! above small troubles, petty care, , ; That my cramped soul may break its i I earth-forged bonds, at last to j dare. j To face the future and to gladly live, ' with courage new, : Loyal, and cheerful, facing toward, the light for truth and you. , j And yet, I feel, in spite of all the j ! heights which I can never scale, i In spite of ail the many tests in which I daily fail, ; That my deep love mere deep and I pure and strong than I can ever ; show i You somehow, through my failure, ; doubts and fears, will come to know. i Tiie dreary clouds can't hide the sun s for aye; it jriimmers through. The sweet, wet violet, struv:t::,?r through dead leaves, show : its blue. i And so I trust, though oft I strike Love's chord with clumsy hand. You'll f.-e! the melody I tried to play and understand. MAHKL A BUNNELL. lietipcehei!. 1 Lor.g Uhiri l man kid his money in the barn in prevent his who from get-I tii-g it and the chickens got away with most of it. Hi nperked husband. Hen- i pecked money. Bad conibiiiatioii. . Milwaukee Sentinel. Hrect Car Citiivci sa! imi. j "I see viiore you wore arrested for : speeding." "Yes, and such a joke." i "How is that?" ! "You have seen that car of mine in j motion? The officer sai l I was going 25 miles an hour. I invited rim into: the car and told him if he could make it go 20 miles an hour the car was his. , 1 was on the souare about if. too. Ke : said he didn't know how to drive a car. I told hini I would teach him. Believe me, if he had accc-ued. hie.' family would have an automobile now." , PAT Fanning was ., .ested in 5 Bloornington 'ho other day during an argumcu. over a baseball game. BEN Grogg is president of a total abstainers' society in Mississippi. i REV. Paul Rader, a Chicago minis- ; ter, stole home in a baseball game ; the other day. This likely was shock ing news to some of the members of ids flock. IF, perchance, some brilliantly hu morous outbreak should appear in tills column during the next few days be careful not to misdirect your enco miums, inasmuch as the perpetrator of this pinnacle of penance is off on a jitbus ride to Springfield, where lie has been summoned to give expert ad vice to the state public utilities com mission in its efforts to solve the local transportation problem which has aris en as a result of the invasion by the automobile of the Tri-City Railway company's field. The utilities commis sion must suspect that we have inside information. We have appealed to sev eral friends to fill our shoes during our absence, but had not received an ac ceptance as we closed our desk. How ever, some one may volunteer in the meantime, and we ask our readers to be prepared for a possible treat. There are some real jokers at the neighbor ing desks la this office, but thus far they have shown themselves to be too self-respecting to permit their vapor ing to get into print. We have dared them, and now they have an opportu nity to do their best or their worst DISPATCH says the village lights.' have been dispensed with in Masthope, ' Pa., because there are so many fire-j files. We may .text hear of an appli- j cation ror an Injunction by the light ing company to suppress the flies. "THE Call of the Child" is to be one of nezt season's new nlavs. We Dre- dict there will be a milk bottle in the cast i '..- J. M. C J The Daily Story Fate of the Brig Ivan By M. Quad. Togo is the southernmost island in the Cape de Verde group, situated in the north Atlantic. I was there in a bark which had brought lumber, hard ware, agricultural implements and oth er stuff, and on our arrival we found the brig Ivan already at anchor. The commander of a Russian man- i of-war on a cruise has more power than the czar at home. The latter must at least have some excuse to ! scud a citizen to his death. The for j mer has only to report him dead, and the details are never asked for. j Several of the crew on the Ivan were ! triced up and flogged in plain view of i us on the first day of our arrival, and j ! it wasn't long before we learned that the brig, was a floating hell. One dark and rainy night, while I was standing anchor watch on our craft, one of the Russian sailors swam off to us. He had come for a talk. He knew nothing whatever of geogra phy and could not tell in which di rection any coast lay. He asked par ticularly about the coast of Brazil, the distance, the people, the rivers, etc. He finally told me the crew of the brig to a man had decided to mu tiny, kill the officers and run the craft ashore and each man shift for himself until the excitement had blown over. The days went by. There was the usual routine of Sog-ging aboard the ! Ivan, and a sailor who sprang over board rather than be lashed was cool ly sh"t down alongside the brig with out being even ordered to return. The next day at 5 o'clock in the after noon the mutiny suddenly burst forth. There were six merchantmen in thel: harbor, hut had the Russian com mander called for assistance it would not have been afforded. At least fifty of us saw the Russian captain shot and thrown overboard, and after him went his first lieutenant. Then fol lowed the paymaster and two others, and the crew had the brig to them selves. Before going out of the har bor men were sent to every vessel to shosv their raw backs and tell how they had been wronged, and as the j brig turned her head to sea she was i cheered. j It w as a week after when we got I ready tor sea, bound for Kio janiero. We had mo idea of ever hearing from the Russians again, but when four days out we ran across a New Bed ford! whaler named Scott, wliich gave us some exciting news. Two days be fore she had been brought to by the Iran in rnidocean. An armed boat's crew had come aboard and robbed the whaler of whatever they fancied. The next news came to us two days liter. A gale sprang up from the so.itb.w-frt, arel before it was four j hours old we were compelled to lie to. I Sidelights on the London. t Correspondence of The Assoi sated Press.) The war on the French, front has now developed into a race between Lloyd George and the ih-rma;; general staff for Calais, de clares J-ovat Eraser, a prominent Brit ish writ-.-r, in a letter to the Mail, urg ing that everything else should be tem porariiv hod aside in England for the work cf reinforcing the efforts of the Ufcw minister of munitions. "With the Germans and their mon ster guns at. Calais, we should lose control of the narrow seas," writes Mr. Eraser. ' If we get enough shells and guns In time Calais may be saved. "There is every reason to believe that the Gentians will soon strike an other blow at Calais. It is no answer to say that .hey tried and failed last November. The first battle of Ypres was a hurried affair which developed ou Idih. sides without careful prepara tion. Tito next time the Germans try to burst through they will throw into the attack every ounce, and they will only move when they are able to ad vance with, a strength which they think overv, iounung. "The enemy regards the seizure of Calais as an essential prelude to the destructio of England. The question is far graver than the country thinks, and this attack will probably come this summer or autumn. "This country still laughs at talk of invasion. Not many months ago it was laughing at eppelins. No one laughs at Zeppelins now. Far strang er and more unlikely things than th invasion of England have already hap pened in this war. The German talk of invading England is more than a dream. They began to think about it very early in the war, and in their us ual practical manner began to prepare for it. They have ready today the transports, the wharves, the railway sidings, and the stores. "If they make the attempt, it ought not to succeed, but there is more than a chance that they might affect a land ing. The problem does not admit of de tailed public discussion, but it ought to be regarded quite seriously and gravely. The best authorities now be lieve that the Germans wilt try to land." Mr. Eraser i3 not sanguine as to the situation in Russia or the Dardanelles, but believes that England must fight out the war right at her doorstep, in Northern France. "The Germans," he observes, "believs they are winning the war, and if a stranger from another planet aligted among us and Judged by surface indi cations alone, he would probably think so too. Take the western theatre; the allies are stuck fast; the French, who have done wonders on their own front, are waiting for the Eritish. The Brit ish are waiting for more weapons and mora shells, and as we have now reached midsummer, they will wait a long time. All through Europe there is not a single big man visible, for Uua, It struck us about 4 o'clock in the aft ernoon and did not reach its height un til about 7 next morning. Everything was boiling and howling when we caught sight of the Russian down in the southwest. She must have run be fore the gale much longer than we did, for she was not in sight when it broke upon us. Being higher out of the wa ter and more heavily spurred, she wan also drifting faster. About !t o'clock she drove slowly past us at not more than a cable length away, and we srw many evidences that things were rmt shipshape aboard her. Just at sunset the brig red a gun for us to heave to. There was an ugly cross sea running, and we doubt ed if they would lower a boat. Wa obeyed the command to luff up. The slovenly way the brig was handled as she made ready to take a position rt our starboard quarters proved that ev erything aboard was at sixes and sev ens. There was a fight on her decks before the boat was lowered., Hn.j 6ft. er pulling halfway to us the yawl, which had eight men in It, returned. It was lying alongside the brig when a solid shot was fired at us. Owing to the heavy sea the aim was bad, and it flew above the topmosts. This ac tion startled us all, and the captain had determined to put the bark on her course and try to run away when there came a sudden and awful explo sion. We soon realized what had occnrrel. The Ivan had blown up. Sh" was to windward of us and about kaif a miio away. There was a dar. cloud, an awful shock, and she Steraed to he lifted bodily up to a height of inn f , t. and then to dissolve. Some of the fragments fell upon our r, :', 8r.-l the sea was littered for a mile around. One man escaped Just, one solitary mam He was one of the eight men in the boat. Perhaps the ot'o-r fcvph had left the boat when the explosion came. The boat wa3 not injured and came floating down upon us with the man sitting bolt upright on a thwart. He wasn't cut or bruised, but the shock had acted altogether on. his mental faculties. Ho had becotne an idiot and was deaf and dumb on top of that. His face took on a childish grin which never left it. and he cm ducted himself Just like Idiots do. We couldn't get any news from the man, nor did w pick up any wreck age except the bout. Man and bo.it were turned over to a Eussiati mat,, of-war at Rio, and it may be that tiui poor fellow suffered death for his share in the mutiny. Every rare was taken to hush the matter up, but the news got abroad and was touched, up by various correspondents. I have seen three or four accounts of it, but none was halfway correct European War Is a war of myriads directed l.y pygmies. "The country ought also to know the real signillcanco cf the Hui siau r. treui in Galicia. There has been tor. r.i talk about magnificent withdrawal s and the unimportance of Lemberg, I The fact is that though Russia ha ! fought bravely, sb.- can do no'! ore; Imuoii more this summer owing to he lack of munitions and ether ruv.-va, and unless the comiag whiter is mura harder than the last, her movements may be greatly restricted until n-s.t spring. "The Dardanelles is nl:ont too p'on ful a subject tow rife about. W r:w.C stick to it now, but we. only vsiit our way there by inches and at grat e ri di -:, ; and to get through we may ro-ed di-o r ! sions from other quarters which are not yet forthcoming. ' London. A leaflet on rabbi hrefd- jing has been issued by the lieeri ? Agriculture with a view of t.etr.o.g out the meat shortage. In norma! tinus-. nearly $3,500,000 worth of rabbit tie?,-, is imported into Great. Itritian arum. 1 ly, mostly from Australia. Double t; s ! quan'ity, it is pointed out, could -aUr j be raised in the kingdom by f,-.d!r.z I the rabbits on potato petdii;y.s ao i ct a j er vegetable waste. London (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) Tho newest of London's six hundred rail ray stations, which has just opened its d .ors in the Maida-vale section of the city is staff ed entirely by women from st-.Lt I on master to porters. London (Correspondence of The Associated Press.)- The war baa brought what, might be described as a trampless era to Emrlaiui. There hi not a workhouse in the United King dom that has not reported a great de crease in the number of vagrants dur ing the past few months. Those who still use the "casual wards" arc men of 00 years or over. Officials fay there are practically no young or znfddlcagad vagrants left. July 20 in American History. 1811 Congress of the Southern Confed eracy convened at Richmond rr the Cr3t time. 1S6S Austrian-Italian naval battle cf Lissa, in the Adriatic; Italy feated. 1870 Beginning of the Franco-Prussian war. French troops marched to the frontier, and Napoleon's dec laration of war -was received and acted upon in Berlin. Tlur war grew oct of dispute over the succession to the throne of Spain. 190(5 Peace between Guatemala and the Salvador-Honduras alliance signed on board the United butel cruiser Marblehead. '