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THE DOOM OF ROJESTVEN8KY
Even hnd matters boon otherwise,
.Rojestvensky would have stood little
chance with Togo. Through almost
srlmlnal negligence, the recruiting of
crows for the various Russian' ships
was delayed until the last moment.
Thon the rift-raff and guttersnipes of
St. Petersburg, Moscow and other
cities, with stolid rustics from the
provinces, wefo scourged on board
vessels. A motley horde, many of
whom had never seen the sea or han
dled the breech of a gun, for Rojest
vensky to hip into sailors and fight
ers to meet Togo's trained and ardent
veterans all within seven months!
And for assistants in this impossible
task, a corps of swaggering, aristo
cratic striplings, wine-stricken half
the time, land-lubbers many of them,
insubordinate and with exalted ideas
of their own importance.
Arriving in the far east with foul
bottoms, callow crows and proble
matic equipmont taken completely
by surprise, too the result was pre
determined. Rojestvensky months
ago realized his helplessness, and in
a pathetic private letter which bears
the earmarks of authenticity sought
to discount the appalling effect of his
defeat. To have thus gone on stead
ily in the face of assured ruin, dis
grace, perhaps death, was the act of
a brave man and a patriot; to have
accomplished unscathed the first half
of his futile mission was the work of
a highly capable officer. Even despair
ing Russia should take a sullen pride
in the feat of. this man. -Constitution.
In the window of a Broadway Jew
eler there is displayed a line of Amer
ican made watches tagged with the
price, and this price is more than $2
cheaper than that at which these
watches may be purchased at whole
sale from the manufacturers. The
line of watches is a commentary upon
the vagaries of the tariff system be
cause the fact is the watches have
been bought in, England, at probably a
small advance upon the export price,
which is much lower than the domes
tic price, and brought back to New
York duty free, as an American pro
duct. Therefore they can still be fcold
at .the low figure and yield a profit.
New York Evening Post.
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