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THE OMAITA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, MAY 8, 1004. ID laps Joke as war proceeds Llttla Brown Vn Have Thir Fan it Sauift'i Expense. HUMOROUS SIDE OF THE PRESENT WrR Mistakes at the Enesar Afford Cause Laagkter Seal ! B latrlots la Sabjeet for Merry Jest. ' TOKIO, April 4. The Japs are having their little Jokes at the expense of the KuiiUni.' Here are representative speci mens of their wit culled from various newspapers: "The Russians In Port Arthur, hearing that we are celebrating our victories, are trying to get up a counter demonstration. They mean to have a celebration, called 'The' Celebration of Defeat." They have sent out Invitations to the csar's officers stating that the glorification will be held In one of the theaters. But the officers, on reoelvtng their Invitations, trembled with leer. They had enough of theaters when Port Arthur was attacked." Americans who have kept up with the war news will have no difficulty In seeing the Joke's point, but In order to under stand the one following It Is necessary to explain that the word "sensho" means "total victory." "The Russian battleships attacked our transports, Nokonoura Maru and Zensho Mura. They succeeded In sinking .the Nokonoura Maru, but when the Zensho escaped they were greatly disappointed. The Russians now have no hope, because they let the Zensho escape." Jlere is a fling at Viceroy AlexlefC: "Alexleff questioned his subordinates as to why their defeat was so great, but no una could find a reason. Finally, when every officer had failed to make 4 report clearly explaining the cause, Alexleff drew this conclusion: 'Our forues ara neither weak nor to blame. The extraordinary strength of the Japanese alone caused our defeat.' " At Rassla's Army. Another witticism, which naively ends with "and the Russian officer had no other question to auk." runs In this manner: "The Russian civilians In Port Arthur have been much excited since the war. They want to equip themselves with weapons of defense. 'You don't need to get excited,' said an officer to them. The Japs will never get Into port' "The civilians replied: 'If the Japanese sir coming, we are at perfect peace. We are so worried because of their not coming.' " 'Whyr asked the officer. " 'Because,' answered the civilians. In time of war nothing is more fearful than cur own army.' " The papers are also having their little laugh at the Japs who are contributing their Jewelry to the government war fund. "The pefcrs, nobles and rich merchants give their gold watches, gold pipes and gold ornaments to the government, but a man who had no gold possessions remem ' tiered that he had gold In his teeth, took ll out and gave that to the war fund." AS a foreigner will be able to discover after a while, the point In this Joke lies in the last five words. "On the night of February S, when our torpedo flotilla attacked Port Arthur, the Itueslan battleships attacked In turn and aunk three torpedo boats. Tha Russians Were much gratified over the victory. They were proud that they could handle the big suns so skillfully. But when dawn came they found they had sunk their own boats. ssl ' stai o for Baby? EVERYTHING that Is cleansing, purifying, and beautifying for the Skin, Scalp, Hairy and Hands of Infants and Children YSiP Assisted tr CUTICURA Oint ment, the great Skin Cure, will surely do. No person need go forth into the world tortured And disfigured by Inherited humours of the Skin, Scalp, and Blood if CUTICURA REMEDIES hive been used in childhood. Sol UlMUf bMt Mm VMM. ClMkura Sh. BV.OIal. ln.nl, frfce., I(;tti, . (! Inm l I'buculait C4 tint, te. , f Ui ml M). Ikpvh. lon4n. IT Cli..i.f. NN t rtrte. Ku4 M U 1'aU . Uf Cilftlfcl . full. lJf th Cor, . if rrrh4r. rltalhi "Its Kt I'urH,. .X BmhIIIi SM Mia, iM, Biu, ws kU tt linn tMtXtffcw and their face were as white as the blue sky.'' Peete Are Fair Oh me. The poets also the would-be versifiers of Japan are having the time of their lives. They arc literally flooding the Island with their metrical effusions anent the war, and the newspapers, In lieu of legitimate war news, ara bravely trying to keep up with the Inspired. The censor doesn't touch poetry, but Judging from the ma jority of the poems published, he certainly ought to. Time was when the Jap poet, unlike all his fellows elsewhere, took only short trips on Ms Pegasus. Two stansas of a few lines each was about his limit, and his ability to condense the tenderest feelings of his soul Into so brief a space was his one particular pride. But that fair time has passed. The poet doesn't breathe In all Nippon today who doesn't cover reams of pink and blue and yellow paper with hieroglyphics from his Ink - pot In telling the Russians what a barbarous and disgraceful and wicked peo ple they are and what Is going to happen to them when the mikado's troops get at them. Even the big fellows, who ought to know better, have the long-winded habit bad. Take Ochlha, for example. He is one of Japan's leading contemporary poets. He's Just had his latest fancy published, and It takes up a good two-thirds of a page In the JIJI Phlmhun, which Is about the slxe of an American newspaper. Pom bards with Words. I.Ike the politician who goes back to the Flood for material to support his argu ment. Ochlha begins c the beginning. "Russia, what art thou?" he asks, and then he ambles contentedly along for a column or more telling Rusula all about herself from the dawn of her history. It's a frightful picture this that he paints of poor Russia In the first stansa. . In the second stanza Ochlha details at equal length the causes leading up to the war. To do this he finds It necessary to reach back several hundred years. The third stansa warns the "old demon" to look to her laurels, and tells at great length how the heavenly emperor will say. "(Jo away, csar, thy country Is In ruins, thy subjects tired out, thy throne declin ing; retreat and fasten the cord of thy crown." Which Is the poetic way of say lag, "repent and turn to better deeds." And so the poem runs on, the fourth stanza, describing the battles at Port Ar thur and Chemulpo, and the fifth, and, hap pily, the last, continuing the story of the fourth, and winding up with a mighty ef fort predicting the complete overthrow of Russia. Here Is the peroration: The fate Is already fixed! It Is too late to reeret. too lute to rtravf Let all thy maidens pew the white flag- Ana u tnou aost not wisn for surrender, Then prepare for destruction. It Isn't too late, however, for the censor to get in his good work on the poems, but will he do it? He has his hands full of trouble already coping with the corre s pendents. Geisha. drl'a PrnrrMi. The geisha girl is rapidly losing one of her chief charms, and all on account of the war. She no longer universally dresses her hair In Japanese style. Her wonderful native coiffures, at once provok ing the wonder and admiration of the foreigner, are giving way to foreign styles or rather Imitations that are truly won dcrful and give the merrymakers of Japan a really ludicrous look. The geishas of Osaka, an Important busi ness center, are primarily responsible for the change. On the outbreak of the war they, In common with the rest of the Island, began cutting down personal ex penses that they might contribute to the war fund. One of the geisha's chief ex penses Is her hair; the geishas of Osaka hit upon the idea that If they would wear their hair foreign style they could dress It themselves and thus save this particular item entire. Tha supervisors of geisha houses gen erally have a bylaw prohibiting all coiffures except native ones, so the Osaka girls straightway petitioned the supervisors to grant them amnesty during the length of the .war, the geishas solemnly pledging themselves' to turn every sen thus saved over to the government for Its war fund. When the supervisors were convinced that the girls were In earnest they granted the petition. The geishas In other centers have learned of the success of their Osaka sisters, and they, too, have petitioned and secured the same temporary privilege. The amount of money that the govern ment is receiving by reason of this con cession is by no means slight. A geisha pays from lft to 3 yens (75 cents to 11.50) a month for hair dressing. The girls of Osaka during the past month have turned In over 4.000 yen, or $2,000, to the war fund. Thus they swallow up the ludicrous n Example of Patriotism. The lengths to which the Japanese will go to further the cause of their august emperor cannot be better explained than to tell the story of Balto Okuzo, who lived In Chlba prefecture, near Toklo. It is a trait that ts causing many little tragedies to be paralleled with the humora of war. Balto was a crippled old man of 61 years, dependent on his nephew, Yoshloka, who visited him morning and evening and saw that ha did not want. When the war broke out Toshloka re ceived a pink ticket, his summons as a reserve to Join the imperial bodyguard in Toklo. Tha young man was worried about the future of Ms uncle, but the old man angrily order: ui the younger to prepare Immediately to obey his emperor's call. "Co not hesitate, but leave at once," was the eldev's command. . The next day, when the nephew went to his uncle's houso to say goodbye, the old man could not be found. Inquiry estab lished the fact that he had been seen hob bling toward the mountains. There, a few hours later, he was found hanging to the limb of a tree, with this message pinned to bis breast: "Now you can go to serve your emperor without anxiety." And one of the newspapers that told this story added: "And when the nephew read the message he went to the barracks with an unclouded face." Time of Years Ago. The all but forgotten Incident that sixty- five years ago Russia began an Invasion of Japan has been recalled by a bit of news from tha Island of Tsushima, which Is In the Japan sea, about midway between Japan and Cores. At that time a Russan man of war en tered the harbor and. without so much as "with your leave," erected barracks on shore, opened roads, surveyed the ports and began other military operations. The Russians met no opposition until they at tempted to pass the gate msrking the do- mains or the fsudal lord, Ofunakosht. Mat suraure Jasugoro, tha samurai on guard, refused tbem passage, and, when the Euro peans Insisted, attacked them with all the traditional fury of a samurai, driving the Invaders back at first, but latter getting killed for his fidelity to his lord. This fracas Immediately led to an Inter national hubub that was only quieted by the energetla actions of the English consal at Shanghai, who diplomatically in duced the Russians to withdraw from the Island. The samurai was burled where ha fell near the gate and his grateful lord erected an Imposing tomb over his body and placed on It a glowing Inscription of his death. Now tha Islanders, wben their country ! at last at war with their invader, have at this lata date made a hero of Matsumura sad are burning Incense and holding festl ivalg at his tesnhb WHEN ME BEAR WAS SKIS5ED A Leaf from Hisfsrr Dttailias; What Email Army D 4 to tussls. MILITARY IMPORTANCE OF QUICK ACTION How RtOO Swedes Defeated Peter the Great aad 80,000 Treepa-.Victor? Rot Always with the Stroa est Kamerleally, Will history repeat itself? The successes that has so far attended the arms of Japan In Its struggle with Russia gives pertinency to a short account of how Charles XII., the young king of Sweden, at the head of a heroic little army of 8,000 loyal subjects, a little over 300 years ago, defeated Peter the Great and his army of 80,000 men. History in this case, as In many others, proves that victory does not always at tend the army numerically the strongest, but that success more often depends on resourcefulness, decision, quick action and the fact of knowing how end when to fol low up advantages gained. The following Incident further shows that Charles XII., whom the great Voltaire called "the most extraordinary man, perhaps, that ever ap peared In the world," was not only a most generous and noble hearted foe, but also a most strenuous exponent of what has been styled In these latter days "shirt sleeve diplomacy." He placed but little faith In the nice and Intricate peace propo sitions of his own diplomatic representa tives and those of his enemies, and In sisted on conducting peace negotiations himself at the place where he had gained the victory. The following historical In cident also shows the double dealings of the Muscovite ambassadors attached to Charles's court, who had sworn to pre serve "Inviolable peace": The founder of the Russian empire Feter the Great, was ambitious of being a conqueror, and he wanted a port on the east side of the Baltic, to facilitate the execution of his numerous schemes. He wanted the province of IngTia, to the northeast of Livonia. The Swede were In possession of it, and from them he re solved to take it by force, and he therefore made a league with the king of Poland to wrest from young Charles XII. all the territories bounded by the Gulf of Fin land, the Baltic sea, Poland and Muscovy. Voltaire described the Swedes as "well made, strong and active, and capable of enduring the greatest fatigue, want and hunger. Born with a military genius and high spirit, they are more brave than In dustrious, having long neglected, and even at present but little cultivating, the arts of commerce." A Fight to a Finish. Realizing the danger which beset his country, Charles, who formerly had been fond of gayety and dress, resigned his mag nificence and Indulged no longer in sports and recreations, but henceforth never clad otherwise than as a common soldier. He hardly ever assisted at the council of state, but at this critical moment his councillors happened to hold a deliberation In his pres ence concerning the dangerous situation of affairs. Some of the members proposed to avert the storm by negotiations, when all of a sudden Charles arose, with an air of gravity and assurance, like a man of su perior consequence who has chosen his side. "Gentlemen," said he, 'Tarn resolved never to begin an unjust war, nor ever to finish a Just one but by the destruction of my ene mies. My resolution Is fixed. I will attack the first that shall declare against me, and, after having conquered him, I hope I shall be able to strike terror Into the rest." The old councillors were astonished at this dec laration of their king, but they dared not reply. They received his orders for the war with admiration. Charles at once took the offensive, dispatched a fleet to Copenhagen, the Danish capital, and defeated the army and navy of the king of Denmark, who was In league with Peter the Great against Charles, In a , War which lasted less than six weeks. Charles was then 18 years old. Exactly at this time the king of Poland Invested Riga, the capital of Livonia, and the czar was advancing on the east at the head of nearly 100,000 men. Riga was de fended by the old Count Dalberg, a Swed ish general, who, at the age of SO, Joined all the fire of youth to the experience of sixty campaigns. He baffled all the efforts of the enemy, and the king of Poland, after despairing of being able to take the town, laid hold of an honorable pretext for raising the siege, which he did, The only thing that Charles had now to do toward the finishing of his first campaign was to march against his rival In glory, Peter Alexlovltch. He was the more exasperated against him as there were still at Stockholm three Mus covite ambassadors who had lately sworn to the renewal of an Inviolable peace. Pos sessed of the most Incorruptible Integrity, he could not conceive how a legislator like the czar should make a Jest of what ought to be held sacred. Russian Reasons. The emperor of Muscovy had Just pub lished a manifesto, In which" he alleged as the reason of the war the little respect that had been shown him when he went Incognito to Riga and the extravagant prices his ambassadors had been obliged to pay for provisions. Such wers the mighty Injuries for which he ravaged Ingrla with 80,000 men. At the head of this great army, he appeared before Narva on October 1, and Charles XII at once ad vanced to its relief. The Muscovites had 160 cannon, but were hardly able to make breach, while the artillery of Narva mowed down at every discharge whole ranks of the enemy In their trenches. Narva was almost without fortifications; Baron Horn, who commanded there, had not a thousand regular troops; and. yet Peter's Immense army could not reduce It In six weeks. On November 15 the ccar learned that the king of Sweden had crossed the sea with 200 transports and was advancing to the relief of Narva. The Swedes were not above 20, OX) strong. Not content with 80,000 men, he czar resolved to oppose to Charles another army still. and to check his progress at every step. He had already given orders for the march of about 80.000 men, who were advancing from Pleskov with great expedition, and resolved to shut up Charles XII between two armies. A detachment of 30.000 men from the camp before Narva was posted at a league's distance from the city, di rectly In the king of Sweden's road; 20,000 Btrellta were placed further oft, upon the same road, end 6,000 others composed an advance guard. Before reaching the camp, which was fortified with a rampart and double fosse, Charles must neces sarily force his way through all these troops. The king of Sweden had landed at Pernau. In the gulf of Riga, with about 16.000 foot end a little more than 4.000 horse. From Pernau he made a flying march to Reval, followed by all his cavalry and by only 4.000 foot. He always marched In the van of his army, without waiting for the rear. He soon found himself, with his 1,000 men only, before the first post of the enerly. He immediately resolved, with out the least hesitation, to attack tbem one after the other, before they could pos sibly learn with what a small number they bad to engage. The Muscovites, seeing the Swedes come uudn them. Imagined they had a whole army to encounter, and the advanoed guard of 6.000 men, posted among rocks, a station where 100 resolute men might have stopped tha march of a large army, fled at their Jlxst approach, Tb 30.000 sms Uut lay be hind them, perceiving the flight of their fellow soldiers, took the alarm and carried their terror and confusion with them Into camp. All the poets were carried in two days, and what upon otber occasions would have been reckoned three distinct victories did not retard the king's march for the space of one hour. He appeared then at List with his 8,000 men, exhausted by the fatigues of so long a march, before a camp of 60,000 Muscovites, defended by 130 pieces of cannon, and scarcely allowing his troops any time for rest, he Instantly gave or ders for the attack. The signal was two musket shots, and the watchword In Ger man, "With the aid of God." A general officer, having represented to him the greatness of the danger, he said: "What? Do you think that with my t.OW brave Swedes I may easily beat W.000 Russians?" But soon after, fearing that what he had said might savor too much of gasconade, he ran after the officer and said to him: "Are you not of the same opinion? Have not I a double advantage over the enemy one, that their cavalry can be of no serv ice to them; the other that the place being narrow their number will Incommodw them. and thus In reality I shall bo stronger than they?" The officer did not care to differ from him, and thus they inarched against the Muscovites about midday on Novem ber 30, 1700. As soon as their cannon had made a breach In the lntrenchments the Swedes advanced with fixed bayonets, hav ing a furious shower of snow on their backs, which drove full In the face of the enemy. The Russians stood tne snocv ior half an hour without flinching. The king made his attack upon the right of the camp, where the csar's quarters lay, hop ing to come to an encounter with him, as he did not know that Peter the Great had gone in quest of 40,000 men, who were dally expected to arrive. King Stops a Bullet. At the first discharge of the enemy's muskets the king of Sweden received a shot In his neck, but as it was a spent ball It lodged In the folds of his black neck cloth and did him no harm. His horse was killed under him, and, mounting another horse with srreat agility, he said: "These fellows make me go through my exer cises," and continued to fight and give orders with the same presence of mind. After an engagement of three hours the lntrenchments were forced on all sides. The king pursued the right of the enemy as far as the River Narva, with his left wing of about 4,000 men, who were In pur suit of nearly 40,000. The bridge broke un der the fugitives and the river was im mediately filled with dead carcasses. The remainder returned to their camp, without knowing whither they went, and, finding some barracks, they took post behind them. There they defended themselves a while, as they were not able to make their es cape, but at last their generals, Dolgor ovkl, Oolovkin and Federovltch, surrend ered themselves to the king, and laid their arms at his feet, and while they were pre senting them to him the Duke de Croy, the commander-in-chief of the Russian forces, came up and surrendered himself with thirty officers. Charles received all these prisoners of distinction with as much civility and politeness as if he had been paying them the honors of an entertain ment in his own court. He detained none but the general officers. All the subalterns and common soldiers were disarmed and conduoted to the River Narva, where they were supplied with boats for passing over, and allowed to return to their own coun try. In the meantime eight came on, and the right wing of the Muscovites still con tinued the fight. The Swedes had not lost more than 600 men. Eight thousand Mus covites had been killed In their lntrench ments; many were drowned, many had crossed the river, and yet there still re mained In the camp a sufficient number to cut off the Swedes to the last man. "But," says Voltaire, in his description of the battle, "the loss of battles is not so much owing to the number of the killed as to the timidity of those who survive." The king employed the small remains of the day In seizing upon the enemy's artillery. He took possession of an advantageous post between the camp and the city, where he slept a few hours upon the ground wrapped up in his cloak, Intending at daybreak to fall upon the left wing of the enemy, which was not yet entirely routed. The Crowalsf Triumph. But at 2 o'clock In the morning General Vede, who commanded that wing, having heard of the gracious reception the king had given to the other generals and of his having dismissed all the subaltern officors and soldiers, sent a messenger to him, beg ging he would grant him the same favor. The conqueror replied that he should have it, provided he would come at the head of his troops and make them lay their arms and colors at his feet. Soon after the gen eral appeared with his Muscovites, to the number of about 80,000. They marched, both soldiers and officers, with their heads un covered, through less thsn 7,000 Swedes. The soldiers as they passed tha king threw their guns and swords upon the ground, and the officers presented him with their ensigns and colors. He caused the whole of this multitude to be conducted over the river, without detaining a single soldier. Had he kept them, the number of prisoners would at least have been five times gTeater than that of tine conquerors. After this Charles XII entered victorious Into Narva, accompanied by the Duke de Croy and other general officers of the Muscovites. He ordered their swords to be restored to them 11, and, knowing thst they wanted money and that the merchants of Narva would not lend them any, he sent 1,000 ducats to the Duke de Croy and 8"0 to every Muscovite officer, who could not sufficiently admire the civility of this treatment, of which they were Incapable of forming the least conception. An account of the victory was Immediately drawn up at Narva and sent to Stockholm and the allies of Sweden, but the king expunged with his own hands every circumstance In the relation that tended too much to his own honor or seemed to reflect upon the czar. Before he had proceeded halfway at the head of 40,000 troops, hoping to surround the youthful Charles XII on all sides, the csar received Intelligence of the utter rout of his troops St Narva. He returned home with a determined resolution of disciplin ing his troops at the same time thst he civilized his subjects. Moscow, his capital, was in ths utmost terror and consternation at the news of this defeat. Such was the prids and lgno-ance of ths people that they actually Imagined that they had been conquered by a power more than human and that the Swedes were so many ma gicians. This opinion was so general that public prayers were ordered to be put up to St." Nicholas, the patron of Muscovy, on the occasion. While the Muscovites were thus complaining of their defeat to St. Nicholas Charles XII returned thanks to God and prepared himself for new victories. New York Tribune. Ladies and Men Razzle () Note A4vrtl4tinsDt on Paga 7 Orchard & Wilhelm Carpet Qo. Special Sale of Library Tables You can pin your fnith to our sayings you will find each and every statement backed up with facts no misrepresentations. "Bargain" is a word never mis used in our advertisements. 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