n is ni Japanese Blew Fort to Pieces from Several Tunnels. QUEER UNIFORMS WORN. Besieger Carried Dynamite Grenades and Lighted Matches Many were Killed by Falling Debris of Iho Fort After Explosion Owing to Rapid Advance. Headquarters of the Japanese Third Army, before Port Arthur, via. .'In-Kow and Tien-Tsln. After the : noral assault against the forts of "h-Lung and Keek Wan Mauntaiis, -'lilting In furious lighting and it loss of life, the Japanese wore 1 ;..igcd in tunneling under the uoilh i. .it of Keek-Wan Mo'-.ntaln. The fort, had so l- ; rciistLvl tho a? s.iults of the Japan o that It was considered necessary that the explo sion of the mines and the subse quent attacks should he carefully r'anned. Hen. Sar.iejlmr., winmiiml Ins tho left division, asl-.od for volun teers who would be prepared to cap ture the fort or die la the attempt In order that the dark blue uni forms of the men niijii t not show ,-nii)st the brown of the roil which w.'ii'd be tunud by t!:? force of tho explosions, nil the altael.ers wore brown woolen undordrawcrs over their tunics. Instead of a cap each man wore a brown woolen headpiece, which extended to the shoulders, leav ing only the face visible. Every man carried a rifle in fcl3 right hand and dynamite grenades In his left, while a lighted slow match was attached to his cartridge b?lt, with which to Ignite the fuses of tho Jreuades. In this peculiar garb, with the lighted matches at their waists, troops presented a strange appear ance. The explosions made two large breaches In the. north wall of the fort, through which tho Japanese In the moat swarmed. They charged bo eulckly that fifty of them were either killed or wounded by the falling aebrls. In the meantime the Russians had ished some 300 reinforcements to the fort through the covered wall at tfce rear. The commander of this enterprise realized that any attempt to gain the Interior of the fort would end In dis aster If his whole force advanced in ne body, so he disposed of his men along the wall and ordered them to fain the lower level of the Interior of he fort by twos and threes, and to ''.id cover in the holes which had been 1e In the surface by the Japanese c lis, these offering good cover from 1 n rifle and machine gun fire direct- 1 from the rear of the fort. In these -.iles 150 of the attackers had found j. ver by 5 o'clock in the morning. Advancing carefully, the Japanese approached the Russian defenses In tho rear of the fort, and by working tmm hole to hole under cover of the avkness, the entire battalion gained the Interior of the fort, notwithstand ing the desperate resistance made by the Russians. The first charge made against tho wall of sandbags proved unsuccess ful but charge followed charge until midnight, when the last corner of the Eussian defenses was captured. The fighting was desperate In the extreme with bayonets and dynamite land-grenades, and the entire garri son was killed with the exception of a party of twenty, who escaped through the covered wall, which they destroyed behind them by exploding tour mines, thus preventing the Jap anese from pursuing them. Though the numbers engaged and Che area of the fighting were small, both assault and defense were more furious than any In the previous his tory of the siege of Port Arthur. With the exceptions noted, the garrison tied fighting to the last man with wonderful determination. The final rushes of the Japanese were Irresistible. Their wounded re fused to retire, and Insisted on con tinuing the fighting saying that tliey bad vowed to take the fort, and that they must succeed. Walter Camp, j Yale's athletic adviser, may be re farcied as the most Influential man connected with college football Iq America. His suggestion of so radl cal a change In the rules as to re. autre In the past, Is the most vital cbange proposed In connection with, the great game In many years. Oscar Malmras. U. S. consul at Co, inn, was appointed by President Lin. ' so'n ln" iajr before he was assess! ! anted and has lioeu continually in ti a tii'Vice ever since. I 7 1 IRELAND TO GROW TOBACCO. Experiments with Governmental Aid! Give Hope of Much Success. Dublin. A new era appears i have opened for Ireland. Not only will she be a manufacturer of tobac co, but she appears likely to be able to grow a good leaf of her own. Prom tho lands cf Colonel Nug'nt Everard In Itandalstowu, County Mealh, twenty acres of tobacco have been harvested, and Professor J. N. Harper, of Kentucky University, tho American tobacco expert, describes It as "a tobacco crop of the highest quality, quite equal to that grown In Virginia and Kentucky." Professor Harper also pronounces the Irish cli mate to be almost perfectly suited for tobacco culture. Colonel Kvorard has been support ed by the Irish department of agri culture, and his Is tho first experi ment In producing a tobacco crop in Ireland on a commercial and practi cal scale. The department of agriculture agreed to assist any one who would experiment with tobacco culture to the extent of ten acres by bearing th-j cost of the drjlng and curing plant. Colonel Everard agreed to lay down twenty acres. The best procurable seed was brought from Virginia, and the process of curing, sorting, rnd drying has givin employment to a number of local hands. Tho twenty acres have yielded about 14,0(10 pounds weight of leaf. ' Jills is a remarkable result for what i Is practically aii Initial cxperltrent; i it is estimated, however, thiit the ! average yield per acre will be about 1.000 pounds of tobacco. Dublin man- ' ufacturcrs and experts have valued : the samples already grown as high as . iC cents a pound for ths best leaves, j The government lias removed the ' prohibition against tobacco culture, and undertakes to refund to the grow- j r one-third of the duty levied. The ! concession, however, Is limited to '. five years, and it is Impossible to ex pect farmers to undertake the heavy Initial cost for this limited period. rrat; v. Rear Admiral Vsn F.eypen. Who hastteen choseu president ot the American National Red Cross So ciety to succeed Miiis Clara Barton. Admiral Van Reypen has for many ycurs been ideutiiiod with work of mercy in time of war and was Ameri can delegate to the International Red Cross conference in St. Petersburg two years ago. Auto Cotton Picker. The Lowry auto cotton picker la yet In an incomplete stage, but its in ventor of the round bale process, promises that when it has been per fected, the expense of picking cotton will bo reduced to about one-fifth of the present cost. The machine is not automatic, and Is really nothing more than a labor saving device, designed to be operat ed by five negro boys. The pickers are long arms, which are held by the boys and placed against one boll at a time. The moment the arm touches the boll the machine becomes whol ly automatic, but not till then. Preliminary tests were held near Shrevoport on the Foster cotton plantation, and each "arm," as the pickers aro called, picked an average of 120 bolls a minute. This is at the rate of about 3,000 pounds of seed cot ton per day per machine. The ma chine is propelled by a gasolene en gine, which also furnishes the power for operation. The machine strad dles over one row, which It picks clean, and also picks clean the inside half of the row on either side. The Passing of an Athlete. It does not seem right that that stalwart expounder of physical cul ture, the late William Blalkle, should have died of apoplexy at the com paratively unripe ago of sixty-one. Ills well-known treatise "How to Get Strong" (Harper's), published thirty years ago and still very much alive, was a ploneei ln the field of physical culture literature, a field now culti vated by an army of writers and ad vertising practtoners. To be sure, Mr. Blalkle put his mind rather more on strength than on longevity, but be aimed to make his disciples healthy, and longevity ought to be one of th natural fruits of healthfulness. II was famously strong as a- Bostoi Latin School boy, stroked a winnis Harvard crew ln 1866, and went ; England as trainer of the Harva: crew of 18C6 that rowed Oxford. , the early years of his law practice 1. was a frequent lecturer on athletic and It is doubtful If any proselyiin; athlete since his day has quito equal led hlni ln Influence. Harper' Weekly. Miss Philadelphia can truthfully say to tho Liberty Belle, "you aro makiu you.'aelf alto$'eti.er too free" " i i tJ i ri v -r t ? n COLUMBIAN, New Invention in Telegraph) Improves Old System. HIGHER SPEED CLAIMED Adaptation of Typewriter to Tele graph and Substitution of Type written Message System of Two Austrlans Cells In the Aid of Photography. New York. It has been estimated that for every wireless message sent and received there are sent more than 300,000 messages over the wires. With this In mind, it Is easy to see that an improvement or Invention that great ly facilitates the Bending of messages in the old way is of greater present day value than the discovery of a system or principle which will prob Bbly remain In the experimental stage for at least a score of years more. Two such inventions and discov eries have been made recently, or rather, which. If capable of ac- co'.nphshlng what the inventors as pert, must produce a change, amount ing almost to a revolution, ln tho or dinary telegraph of every day life. The first of these Inventions is the werk of au American, J. C. Barclay, flsMstnnt general manager of the We;;: r rn Union Telegraph Company. The invention consists of the adapta- tion of tho typewriter to the tele- rrurih and tho substitution of a type written mentago, given at full type writer speed, for thy slow rnd labori ous code of the Morse alphabet. By the use of his appliance, according to Mr. Barclay, a person may Bit at a typewriter in one city and hammer out his message aa fast as ho is able, while a similar typewriting machine In another city at the other end of the line takes down the message ln Identi cally the same way it is given, capi tals, punctuation and all. It is obvious whiit a saving of time and labor this means. According to ' Mr. Barclay the sender needs to know only how to operate a typewriter. The receiver needs only to keep the machine supplied with paper. Mr. Barclay said recently that ho , bad been at work on his Invention for I a long time and had overcome all de- ! fects. ' Mr. Barclay said that there were reasons why he could not now give out a technical description of the ma chine in use or allow the machine It self to be seen. When these reasons aro done away with he will issue a description of the patent and give a public exhibition of its work. The second invention "which seems j destined to work a great change ln uit moos oi leiegrapning is me wont of two Austrian scientists, and is known as the Pollak-Virag telegraph Instrument. The results claimed to have been achieved by this instru ment are much more wonderful ln their way than those accomplished by Barclay in his adaptation of tho type writer to use In telegraphing. The Inventors of the Pollak-Virag telegraph Instrument assert that by Choir system they can send without undue haste from 40,000 to C0.000 Words an hour, and that It is received in good legible handwriting which need not be translated. How this Is done it is not so easy to explain or understand. The techni cal description given by the Inven tors Is far too complicated for the layman to get anything from. As nearly as It enn be described the sys tem is about as follows, says the Brooklyn Ragle. The message to be transmitted Is : converted into telegraphic dots and dashes on a "perforator" that looks like a typewriter. The perforator punches ln a slip of paper a series of email holes that correspond to the form of letters. The slip Is passed over a series of cylinders and electric waves, find their way through the prepared holes and come out at the other end in the same sequence ln ! which they were sent. I (n recording the letters the system calls in the aid of photography. The electric waves are conveyed to a little mirror and they cause the mirror to move in two directions, horizontal and vertical. Electric light is focused on the mirror and sent by it to a sen sitized paper. The mirror moves only the smallest fraction of a milli meter and tho exposure of the sensi tized paper Is only the thousandth part of a second, but lcgibK writing at the rate of fifteen a second. The motions of the mirror are only two, vertical and horizontal. If pro duced slowly the letters would be angular, but the rapidity of the flashes with the movement of the paper film give the finished message the appearance of handwriting. De veloping and fixing the message takes ton seconds. Cabbies' New Measuring Device. Paris. The new device known as the "taxameter," consisting of a clock-work arrangement for measur ing distance and indicating the exact amount of the fare was placed in a limited number of cabs The fare is 75 centimes for 1,200 meters. The trial appeared to bS satisfactory and the apparatus will probably gradually be adopted by the various companies. Cabbies that have tried it are pleas ed with the system and think they can make more money than by the old method. Actions speak louder than words, but they do not speak as often. you wish to flatter a man it is suflV r'out to say: "In business every one recognizes your genius." mm mm " - I I bllllllb I BLOOMSBURO. GERMANY OUR ALLYf She Looks to Us for Aid In Gratify Ing Her Imperial Ambitions. Dr. Emll Reich writes, In World's Work, of tho attitude of Germany to ward tho United States. He says: There have been states which have found It possible to stand outside the arena of European conflicts, always celling their inaction dearly to the combatants. Such a power up till 1870 was England, favored great ly by her geographical position. It Is thus, though not exclusively thus, that England was able to rise to a height, to which her rivals struggleJ vainly to attain. But to-day the vortex of European rivalries has widened and England can no longer act the spectator. Up to 1S70 she was courted by Germany, who knew that ln the coming strug gle tho neutrality of England meant the very existence of tho German Empire. But since her victorious issue from that trial, the ambitions of Ger many hnve grown and can only be assuaged at the expense of the Brit ish Empire. Iok where she will, Germany finds In Europe no steadfast friend; some have humiliations to tevenge, others fear humiliations to coe'.e. This it Is that explains the extraor dinary Interest manifested by Ger ti:.uiy in Amerlrn; for America no luucor remains isolated from Euro pean polities. Henceforth It Is pos h!b!.' f'er her to take up the part of umpire-Empire no longer played by Ell'T'llll'l. German Imperialism has a charac ter of it..-; own. It is the outcome of hi;,; ninbil !"ii and lofty Ideals upon the one hand, rnd of stern necessity rn the other. Whether it be granted to av.y nation to accomplish so high a destiny rs that which Germany has feci before herself, may w.ell be doubt ed, Germany aims at more than mere tonqu'vsta of power, more than the f.chlevciiient of an outlet for her tecr.iing pons. She wishes also to im pose, her intellectual stamp upon the world; she wishes at tho same time to play the part of both Greek and Roman. In both dlreotlons she can find no more powerful ally than the United States. American Shoes In France. Nantes, France. Among the feat ures of the season has been tho gen eral appearance of shoes closely re sembling ln form and style those made in the United States. The clumsy, ungainly and heavy French shapes are gradually disap pearing. In their stead are coming Gracefully cut and finely finished shoes of a decided American appear ance. The fact is, however, that It Is rather our shoemaking machines than the shoes themselves that have come to France. In any event, the American-appearing shoes which aro now quite generally seen in this city and elsewhere in the provinces are made principally In Paris with machinery imnorted from the United States. This does not alter the fact that Eonie bona-fide American shoes are en raie hero, but they aro much dear er than the French-ninde articles, and it. .-, not likely that they will makjs headway ap.lnst the utrong combina tion which is represented by cheap French labor and prolific American machinery. Bulldog's Long, Lone Vigil. A big bulldog guarding its master's camp was found in the northern wilds of Minnesota by members of the sur veying party Ju&t returned from sev eral weeks' work along tho northern boundary line. A trapper named Edwards, who had lived near Basswood Lake, north of Ely, for a number of years, making Ws living by trapping bear and other animals, has disappeared. H's only companion during his long trips in the woods was a huge bulldog, and the scores of deep scars on the animal testify to the many hard battles he has been engaged ln with beasts of the forest. While the surveying crew was near Edwards's place he left on one of his trips. A month later the same party found his camp outfit and boat on an island ln Bear Island Lake. The bull dog was there, almost starved, but still on guard, and It was a long time before he would let one of the party get near. It Is the beltef that Edwards nay have been killed ln a quarrel Modern War Changes Fast. London. "A terriblo lesson," Lord Roberts writes ln an article in the Nineteenth Century, "awaits the na tion whose soldiers find themselves opposed by equally brave but better trained opponents on the field of bat tie. No amount of money, no nation al sacrifices, will then avail; for mod ern warfare moves fast and time lost in peace can never be made up dur ing the stress of a campaign. "If the citizens of so great and prosperous a nation as ours are to re main exempt from compulsory ser vice in time of peace without the safety of the empire being endanger ed the right class of men must bo at tracted to the regular army by good conditions of pay and pension; and It is the bounden duty of the state to see that every able-bodied man in this country, no matter to what grade of society he may belong, undergoes some kind of military training In youth, sufficient to enable hint to shoot - straight and carry out simple orders if ever his services are re quired for national defense." England has mora doctors, propor tionally speaking than any country In Europe. To every 100,000 persons there are 150 medical mou. Germany has 48. Switzerland 43 and Russia 15. PA i nmnin'ninnnrnTnnnnni I PKLUuLllllululiU New York to Have Giant Struc ture for ChiUren. ROOM FOR 8000 PUPILS. Will Front on Three Streets and an Alley, Will Have Two Hundred Classrooms and be Fireproof Twelve Stories High Many Ele vators and Escalators. New York. The IVard of Educa tion believes that the utilization of tho KltrscraixT idea In a twelve story sohoolhonse will solve many difficult problems encountered In tho congested districts of tho city. Ar rangements to put tho new plan Into execution hnve already been com pleted. Tho biggest school building In the world is to be erected at Grand, Lud low and Norfolk streets, on the site of School No. 137. This building Is to bo torn down to make way for the skyscraper, and the pupils will be ac commodated in Public School No. 62, at Hester, Norfolk and Essex streets, while it is building. The new skyscraper will be abso lutely fireproof and will have every possible means of ceapo In case of danger. It has not yet been decided whether the building will be ten or twelve stories high, but if It Is ten r.torles high It will accommodate S.OOO children. Associate Superintendent Georgo S. Davis, who has been interested in tho skyscraper building as a solution to tho crowded school problem, said that the Idea was generally favored by tho school authorities, and that ho and Building Superintendent Snyder had decided that it was bo perfectly practicable that plans would be push ed through at once. "School building No. 137," said Mr. Davis, "stands on a site of 80x175 feet. When the new building 13 erected on that much ground It may readily be seen what economy In space will be brought about. This land is valuable, and we can accom modate Just twice as many pupils as tho ordinary large building by run ning U up Into the air. "The new structure, for which Mr. Snyder has excellent plans, will con tain about 200 classrooms. Classes will be confined to floors in relation to their grades, so that there will be ao necewslty for pupils leaving the one floor. The building will bo de voted to the higher grades, and that will be another point ln favor of the skyscraper ln case of fire. The older pupils will have more self-possession, and then, besides that, the excellent control teachers have over scholars on account of fire drills Is almost per fect. "The fire-drill problem In the large schools has reached a degree of per fection thnt makes the handling of large crowds a simple matter. "Of course, tho building will be as nearly fireproof as modern building construction will allow, which means that practically the only Inflammable substances will be the furnishings. There will bo four exits nnd four high-speed elevators. Escalators will run between floors, and there will be a number of broad stairways. "The departmental system will bo used, and this, together with the fact that the scholars aro all of tho higher grades, will help a great deal. The departmental system of teaching was proposed for the new building in or der to keep each grade to a single floor and do away with the necessity for pupils to pass from one floor to another. "The building will be especially suited to night schools, and as this proposition has been almost as seri ous on the east Bide as the day school, the skyscraper will be a great advantage. The building will be as nearly like a modern office building as possible, and when it is finished it will be the biggest school building In the world, and the first of its kind as well. "The skyscraper Is bound to be the solution of the problem," said Mr. Davis, "for it is necessary to make tho most of tho ground allotted. We have already planned the problem of dismissal to a certain extent, for to turn 8,000 Or 10,000 children out at once might be confusing. For this reason different hours of dismissal will be arranged. At dismissal the pupils on the lower floors will go out by the stairways, the upper-floor pupils using the elevators. As the building will front on three streets and an alley It will be easy, compara tively speaking, to empty the school. "The building will be arranged with fifteen classrooms on each floor, and each room will accommodate fifty pupils. Of course, we cannot begin the building until No. 137 la torn down, and this necessitates finding accommodations for the scholars ln this school. No. 62, which is a large school, will offer this room, and as soon as it Is completed the pupils will ba transferred to It and No. 137 torn down." Building Superintendent Snyder said In regard to the proposed sky Bcraper that It was entirely practica ble, and had he not considered It so he would never have proposed it for school building at No. 137. "I believe the skyscraper school building to be the practical solution of the school problem. There Is not space enough to expand on the Kround, so the schools will have to follow the plan of the office building expand upward." A lawyer's fee is due to the other chap's ignorance of the law. THRILLING E8CAPE AT 8EA. Constant Battle with 8 harks In Row of 200 Miles. Pan Francisco. A voyage of 200 Uilles by oar, almost destitute of pro visions and water, and pursued by a school of giants sharks that day and night threatened momentarily to cap size the craft and devour Its occu pants, was tho experience of CnpL Bam Harris and four South Sea Isl anders, who composed the crew of the little trading schooner Victor, wrecked on Apatakl Island. Apatakl Is 200 miles from Papeete, the Port of Tahiti. This Is A tale of tho sen brought by the liner Mariposa. Junt arrlvod. which left Papeete on tho day Capt Harris and his men landed there, emaciated and nearly crazed, but still alive. When the Victor struck the reef, tho shipwrecked crew barely had time to put off In tho boat for their long voyage, made without a com pass and no sail, with one day's pro visions on board and half a dozen co-counut-s. The milk from tho latter was all they had to drink during the 11 days It took to reach Papeete. The pn.'sago was enlivened by a constant combat with the sharks. In verifica tion of their story oars were shown ppllntcrcd and worn repelling tho at tacks of the ferocious fish which gave them no rest. mm. ; Countess Czaykowskl. Senator Depew's former ward has obtained a divorce. The Countess be fore her marriage was Miss Edith Ly man Collins. She Inherited a large fortune from her grandmother, Mrs. Nevcn. She was married to Reched Bey, Count Czaykowskl, the repre sentative of a nob lo Polish family, Tne Count was considered to have a brilliant diplomatic career before Lint, having been secretary of the Turkish embassies at St. Petersburg and Rome. Englishmen and Mr. Roosevelt. Looking to tho decisiveness of Mr. Roosevelt's majority. Englishmen ask, with the Spectator, "What will he do with it?" That he will da nothing with It, nobody expects. Un leis Englishmen are wholly out of their reckoning, Mr. Roosevelt is not the man to rest on his laurels. The conviction over here Is that tho next years aro destined to bo memorable ln American politics, that Mr. Roose velt Is at last "unmuzzled," that he has a free hand, and will use it free ly. People In this country regard the issue of the election as a mandate to Mr. Roosevelt to continue as he has begun. The Spectator, In attempting to forecast his policy, declares that "he will guide the American Bhlp wisely and well, and Instil into every branch of the government that high sense of public duty with which he Is himself inspired." "He will Insist la domestic, as In foreign, affairs that the government of the United States shall hold Its head high. Under his guidance It will neither fear the mob nor the plutocrat at home, nor allow Its greatness abroad to dwindle and grow dim from "craven fears of being great." It concludes by prophesying that his ensuing administration "will leave Indelible traces on the larger half of the English-speaking race, and that for the whole of that race it will be a lesson and an example ln sound and sane government." Sydney Brooks, ln Harper's Weekly. Liberia Is Progressing. "lite one thing lacking to complete the system of education in Liberia, Africa, is a first class industrial Bchool," said Dr. James Robert Spur geon, the former charge d'affaires of tho United States in Liberia, to a Brooklyn Eaglo reporter. Within the last five years the edu cational progress of Liberia has been rapid and to-day conditions will com pare favorably with those of any other country with similar opportuni ties. The credit for this is due to tho Interest and efforts of the officials of tho Llberian government aided by the American Colonization Society ln Washington and of New York and the Boston Board of, the College of Li beria. The government makes a lib eral allowance for tho school, . and of the 160 college students 110 are ln tho preparatory department. Sli young women are in tho sophomore class aud have the distinction of be iug the first women admitted to the college as students. Dr. Spurgeon la a graduate of the Hampton Industrial school and also cf Yale University. Perhaps it's because time files that wo Hiiir about "the wlns of occng-ionu."