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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1904)
16 Fighting Leaders (Continued from Page Four.) bead of the war party In Ruonl.t. He be lieves In pUHhlng KusHlan t loops to the UttermoMt ends of A.-I i. In the movement toward the Imllun frontiers, which have alarmed Kngland In recent years; In the absorption of ManchuiU, and In the threat ened atta ks on Korea, hU hand la plainly to ho Keen hy anyone familiar with Rus sian politics. Ifc-fure becoming minister of war Kouro patkln commanded the Itupxlan army. He would prolmhly command It OKnIn In the field In liny rnmpnlKn tht amounteil to a nationnl cmerg'-itcy. for he Is unquestion ably R'issIh'k tfreatrrt general. He Is the Idol of the ermy, for Rkobclf IT Is a name to con.lnre with In the Rustlrin rervlec, and lie was r'kcbHcff's right-hand man In four campiilKns the ItusHo-Turkish war, tho Khlvan expedition and the Khoknnd.sc and Merv campaigns. Ono of Koiiropntkin's strongest support ers today Is the same Ocncral Annenknff who ndmlred his march through the desert to Join Skobelcff before fSeok Trpe. Oen eral Antiriikiiff made a great reputation by building strntcKle railways In Central Asia, and his was the vast scheme for a tranr slberlnn line to the Ia."lllc. He first out lined that plan In di tail during a visit to I'm Is In lUI. ' Many so-called "practical men" laughed nt him then, but his Ideas have ulnte produced the urea test railroad In the world, nt nn admitted cost of Ki,. (XX.'.OOO, and pi rhaps a grcit deal more. Annet.kofT Is one of "Skobcleffs men." like Kouropatkln. No general Is thought much of In the Russian nrmy tmless he Is nblo to say, "I was with Sknhelcff nt Plevna," or, "I fought In Turkrt,in under fikobelfff." There !) hnrdly a slnple prom inent geneial In the service who Is not one of "Hkohcli'ff'H men." That grent com mnnder showed unerring Judgment In pick ing his siihrrdlnatm. The unknown snbnl tcrns whom he rhre for his staff officers and the captains nnd colonels to whom he entrusted the commend of small armlre have since become, nlmost without an ex ception, famous generals. Michael Annenkoff was horn In If 31. and received his first commission In the Run in ormy In 1W3. He Is nn older veteran than Kouropatkln, for he served nn a stnff captain during the Polish Insurrection, and rose to the rnnk of colonel at tho remark ably esrly age of ?S. He was with the Ger man during the Prnno-Prusslnn wir ns Russian nMncho. snd acted ns one of Pko beleffs chief staff officers In the Merv cam paign. General Annnnkoff -has n'aved n lending" part In the Intrigues against Vnrland nn the Indian frontier and Is credited with having; at least fifty specific schemes for conquering India pl"on-holed In Ms desk. "I nuestion whether there Is a single Hrtlsh officer who has such a good col lection of Rngtleh snd foreign books on India as I have pulled about In the library of Genera Annenkoff." said nn Englishman ha became friendly with him while trav eling In Central Asia., Another wvll known Russian soldier. Who might be expected to play a leading part In time of war. Is General Obrubcheff. He Is the hero of a hundred desperate fights In the successive Centra.l Asia cam paigns and enjoys a greater reputation for personal courage than probably any other Russian general. During tho selgo of Oeok Tepe. Obrub cheff was sent out by Bknbeleff one night to reconnolter the position of the enemy. Tie refused to take any anbliers with h'm, as the other officers detailed for that duty used to do, but went alone disguised In Turcoman costume. Ho penetrated to one of te cimpfires of the Turcomans, under neath the walls of the fortress and sat down and calmly ate supper with them. Introducing himself as a man from another branch of the tribe who had been sep arated from his comrades. From the talk around the campflre he learned all he wanted to know and he was about to retire unobtrusively when a Tur coman, who had known him as a Russian officer before the war. strolled up to the campflre and recognised him. Almost before the Turcoman could de nounce him, Obrubcheff sprang to his feet, drew his sword, rushed to the nearest horse and cut it loose from Its heel-rope. Several Turcomans rushed up, btit he cut his way through them and was swallowed up In the darkness before most of them realised what was happening. General Robrlkoff, the governor general of Finland, Is another of "Skobeleff's men." He Is an able corn-pander, but he has a reputation for extreme harshness, and even cruelty. His recent administration of Fin land has not belled that reputation. He Is credited with great Influence In the coun cil of state and the committee of ministers, the two bodies which formulate and ex ecute Russian policy. He Is a warm friend and ally of his old comrade. General Kouro patkln. The esar's uncle, the Grand Puke Mi chael, may be regarded as the nestor of the Russian army. He played a leading part In the Ruaso-Turklsh war, command ing the army of the Caucasus. He is now T2 years old, and would not be likely to take the field strain. But he would cer tainly help to form Russia's plaa ot cam- THE ILLUSTRATED BEE. pnlgn If It went to war. He has been a soldier for over fifty yeirs. and his military talents are held In high esteem by Russian officers. "He would have been a greater general," one of them declared the other day, "if he had not had the misfortune to be born a grand duke." This veteran prince should not be con founded with the younger Uraul Dike Michael, the esar's brother and hdr to the Russian throne. The elder of the two Mi chaels in now president of the rommiltej of ministers. Although lilms-lf an oM w .r horse, he is the strongest ally of M. W'i'.to ' nnd Count Iamsdorff In their fffurti to keep Russia at peace with th? worl I. "I have seen too much war," he oivo said to nn ardent young cifl er. who tol l him he hojed there would koos. be a chance of active service. "1 want to see no m ire. War Is devilish." Another grand duke, Alfxls A!cxam!ro vltch, In the theoretic il head of ti e Russian army, being "high nilmlr.il." lie takes keen Interest In nival matters, but the practical control of them l.t In the hands of Vice Admiral Tyrtow, who d!re.-U the ministry of marine. Count I-amsdorff, the foreign minister, It regarded in Russia ns a very poor succesor to su: h dlplrmatle giant.i i:s Ignatliff Co t chakoff und I.ohanoff. lie Is unpopular with the army because ho has always shown himself to be one on t!ie i i.le of peace. The officers accuse hi n, as English men accused 1-ord Salisbury, of making too many "graceful ronc.s.slon" to the nation's tl vn Is. Personally, Ijimsdorff It nn attractive man. No other Russian statestnin Is .so much liked by the fori l.jn colony in Ht. Petersburg and by the mass of the ejplo. He Is democratic nnd approachable. Other ministers of the czar surround themselves by secret service agents, and nre as dl(T eult to Interview nn the grnnd lama of Thllet. Not fo Kamsdorff. He mixes freely v.llh tho public, alone nnd unguarded; nnd anybody with a reasonable excuse can BC3 him at his office any day. IVAN VANNEKOFF. The Diamond Derelict (Continued from Pnge Fifteen.) among sailor men, he told me. I can rend lly believe It. You have doubtless earned it." The mate had leaned back against the ship's rail, but as Parton paused he started forward with his fists clenched. But in a moment the fingers, which had been tightly closed In great knots, slow'.y relaxed; the face which had been tense and drawn with pa.ssion, slowly changed its expression to one) , even, leas admirable, but far from de- -flnnt; the voice which had been harsh and overbearing became somewhat propitiatory, although It was not a pleasant one as he speke: "Well,", said he, "there's no use of rowing over It. What I ask of you Is very reason ble, and you ought to be damned glad that ' I am reasonable. . Perhaps I haven't put It very well, but you know that I am a rough man and I spoke roughly, I sup pose. There' ain't no use of your flying at me like a tiger. . I suppose that we fel lows who spend our lives at sea do git 'rough In bur way of talking." "As I remember what has been said." said Parton, not raising his voice at all, but still with, the glitter In his eyes, "it Is I who have used the rough language. I will add something. , You nro not only a cur, but you are a coward. I will go even : a little farther still. You are not only a cur and a coward, but you are a thief or would be if you had nerve enough to steal. : What you lack is the courage of the pick- . pocket. You thought that I had some- , thing valuable In my possession when. I came on board, and you have ransacked my bunk In trying to find It, so that you might steal It; but there has been nothing . there. You are a cur, a coward and a thief. As a cur and a coward-you are suc cessful. No one could be more cowardly or more a cur.' As a thief, however, you have failed, ' because you could not find what you wanted to steal." ' For an Instant the mate paused, ns If dnsed by the temerity of the young Eng lishman." Than he clenched bis fists again and started forward with the look of a devil on his face. "You you you," he said, almost Inar ticulate from rage. Rut that was all he said, and again the clenched fists loosened. . Other clenched fists had loosened In South Africa when the gleam that there was there now had come into Parton's eyes, and when their owners had noted the lron- like rigidity of the muscles which con trolled Parton's face, holding It In a hard, angular, fixed expression of real hatred. For a few seconds only the mate tried to answer eye with eye. Then his face broke weakly up Into what he desperately tried to make a contemptuous smile, but which really amounted to nothing more than a frightened and astonished contor tion. He turned away and went out of the cabin. Parton went on deck, and for an hour paced the ship from end to end, with no more sign that he dreaded the mate or anything which he might do than that he saw fair women and heard wit passing. As the afternoon waned he went below Kiln. Th mat was lu Ike cabin and was smoking. This Infuriated Parton. Tie paid no heed to his nod of greeting, but went to the opposite side of the cabin tablo and, quietly reaching across It, took the cigar from' between the officer's teeth, and tossed It through the open port hole. "We will not smoke In the cabin, Mr. Brown," he said briefly and calmly. "I fancy that the captain will want all tho air that he can get. If you want to smoke, smoke on deck. If tomorrow is a fine day I shall have the captain tuken up there, where the breeze may freshen him up a bit." The mate said absolutely nothing. For a moment he sat at the table, breathing . so heavily that the hissing of the air be tween his lips and teeth was louder than the captain's labored respiration. Then be ross nnd went to the conipunionway and out u:;on the deck. (To Be Continued.) Secret of the Ancients (Continued from Page Eight.) tell where one riot of color begins and another ends. The wonderful colors thus secretly, yet apparently openly. Imparted are on the surface only und constant washing and scouring will eventually cause them to fade und disappear. A vase, however, to adorn the parlor mantel, colored thus, would retain Its wonderful hues for all time. The World's fair means much to these Aztec artists and laborers. When the fair Is over they may return to their southern homes nnd live the life of luxurious ease so much desired by the natives of that seml-tropicul climate. There ore eighteen of these Aztecs to be engaged In tht re plica of tho Carrlzo mine. The average wage puld laborers there Is 37Vi to 62 cents per day, nnd this, too, in Mexican money, which In American money would he equiv alent to from 15 to 23 cents per d y. Jesus Tobano, with bis wonderful secret known to only one other man on earth, and with a skill lltllo short of marvelous, draws a salary of $1.26 a day, Mexican money, or CO cents a day in American money. During the World's fair nt St. I-ouis those men will draw the wages of Americans and unless they develop unex pected extravagant habits each one will be able to return after his seven months' harvest with sufficient wealth to live In affluence the remainder of his days. W. C. M'CARTHY. First Paptist Church (Continued from Page Nine.) . feet, with a height from the street grade of 63- feet. The auditorium Is to be oc tagonal and will be 63 feet across. The floor will be sloped. . The. pulpit Is to be at the east, with organ loft at the. rear, also robing rooms, toilet, choir rooms, li brary and pastor's study. At the west end of the auditorium will be a gallery over the vestibule. In the lower floor will be a large Sunday school room, which can be separated from other rooms or enlarged by movable partitions. There is a vestibule to the entrance from Harney street and a woman's parlor, ' toilet rooms, kitchen, pantry and boiler rooms. ' Blundering Again "I tell you," observed . Mr. Shenson, "I think a grent deal of my daughters. I have six, but I am not in a hurry to part with them, and If some young man should marry one of them and not treat her right I'd wring his neck." "I believe you would," said Mr. Makln- SSSSSBSSSSSS if THE HALFTONE PIATES FURNISHED THE ILLVSTRATBD BED Are Engraved bp the BAKER BROS.EiGKWIiG CO. January 24, 1001 brakes, cordially assenting to the propo sition. "I'd hate to marry one of your daughters that Is, of course, If I were a young man I mean, you know, that If I were a mean young man, I'd be afraid to or rather I'd know, you know, that I that there would be all kinds of trouble ahead, and It wouldn't be er, safe, and all that kind of thing and anyhow looks as if the war between Russia and Japan might break out any minute, doesn't it?" Chicago Tribune. 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