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Show It Is well to be stout-hearted In defeat de-feat and to make the best of reverses; but aro not tho Russians going to extremes ex-tremes In their self-consolations? If they can feel so good over their defeiit at Vafangow, the break-up of the army of relief for Port Arthur, and the kjll-lng kjll-lng and wounding of two thousand of their soldiers, what In this world would happen If thoy should gain' a real victory? vic-tory? They talk of that affair as if they had got precisely what they wanted. want-ed. Possibly they did, on the principle that mothers sometimes tell their sons that they want a spanking. |