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Show 7 y-r- H Tells DM! PAIDTED All - Ii submarine boats England, and resulting in the downfall of the empire. At its end Ireland is freed and becomes a republic, the British are hemmed in in England, her possessions are divided among the powers, and in this way, the author asserts, universal peace is assured. To further simulate reality, photographs and photographic illustrations accompany the article, which is from the pen of Henri de Noussane. Living soldiery and statesmen are the personages of the story there are Roberts and Kitchener, Rosebery, Sir Charles Beresford, as well as Gen. Marchand of France. The preface of this political cataclysm Is laid at Kouck (Koushk), on the Afghanistan frontier. Its date fs July 16 for the story is circumstantial even to dates as well as to places, atmosphere and the tames of living men. Thus, on July 16 a band of Afghan bandits 200 in number fall upon the railroad at Kouck, slay the attendants and set fire to the rolling stock and station. The news arrives in Russia two days later. At the same moment the ministry is informed that the ameer, has been slain by his nephew, who has been elevated to the throne. It is known that the dead ameer was about to sign a treaty granting Russia permission to n extend the railroad from Merv through Herat to Kanda-ba- r, and as the assassin usurper has appointed a British agent his premier the Influences are obvious. Instantly upoB tie arrival o the informatlon the czar retires to hia palace of Gatchina. Gen. Dragomirow and the minister of war are summoned. In Paris a fever of excitement seizes citizens and officials alike. The exposition has been a disaster; the British are blamed. All the world looks toward Russia. For six days the mr is silent Dispatches show that troops are being hurried by and Russia to the Afghan frontier. M. de Montebello, the French ambassador at St Petersburg, is In conference with the czar at Gatchina. On the morning of July 24 the czar mores. He transmits an order to Gen. Sobeieff to move at once upon Herat At the Same instant Great Britain orders her ambassador to leave Russia; on the following day the Russian ambassador leaves London. War has begun. It Is a foregone conclusion that Herat falls, and ,of this the author says: "The fall of Herat is a date always to be remembered in history. At this point began a war which was to change the entire face of the world, Admiral Fournier commands the French fleet His sealed orders, opened at sea, tell him that he is to meet the Russian fleet at Bizerta, and that English squadron must be led Tpact that he is still at on arriving at Alexandria ther surprise. The British flag no f floats hver the city. Instead, thl ner of Egypt waves In the breezLf explained. Lord Croinev- Abdur-Rahma- Dragomiroff has arrived at Herat, prepared to take full command of the operations. Every hand Is aroused against the English flag. On August 7 her army approaches Gerlcheh, about ninety kilometers west of Kandahar Two days later the two forces hurl tmselves upon one another. Kanuahar falls, Lord ' Roberts i killed and India arises against the British, laying waste with fire and the sword Delhi and Benares. Three hundred million Hindoos revolt against old. Detected Halloo Beartag Dlreetly Above Tbea, Should the submarine boat take the P'e in naval warfare that some nai expect, one of the chief precau-t- li taken by the world s navies will he tn immense increase In the number of balloons, with duly trained etafi to work them, carried by war veiielg. The balloons carried by these battleships are of exactly the same loaierlal and pattern as those In use in the army, only smaller They have u far In advance of any mere longdistance observational purpose, for, though the wake of a submarine boat sunk deeply in the water can only be traced with difficulty from such an elevation as that afforded by a ship, both suck wake and the boat Itself can be aeca with absolute and undevlatlng It the "rather af the Henry Hart, father of the Third Avenue street car line, New York," the downfall of which a short time since supposedly burled hie millions In the wreck end left him aa destitute, save In experience, as he was on coming from London to this country a steerage passenger fourscore years ago. But within a week the railroad stock has taken a rise and his capital has There are gained over 11,700,000. prospects of still greater gains and Mr. Hart will come out. It is said, a big winner. For decades Mr. Hart fias led a hermit's life and has become known as one of New Yorks most eccentric millionaires. He is 90 years of age. For the past 'half century he has been 'as devoted to the interests of his road aa a mother to her flrst-bor- n child, and has watched the property grow with the town. From an old stage line be developed a system that now spreads Its steel lines through two oountlea and carries a hundred million people a year. This was his life's work, the concrete product of hie en- aa? n, both-Englan- ,- OF THE BRITISH FLEET AS SEEN BY A FRENCHMAN. in the Black sea to pass through the their oid-ticonqueror, and men, dearness from a captive balloon. This Dardanelles to Join the French. Mene-ll- k women and babes are tortured and is the result of a scientific and optical emperor of ' Abyssinia, accepting Slain. The English are effaeed.szy law, and" whCti sETp balloons were flrst the advances the the opportunity, along Frenchman,' in the same way that put to tbs practical test hi regard to upper Nile, seizing the British posts England sought to efface the Boers. this matter, the results attained wen At home the channel is closed to the of-t- he and occupying Fashoda. The French most surprising kind. Even and the Russlaas, Joining fleets and British. Already France and Ri where the water is distinctly .cloudy, forces, fortify the Suez canal. On the threaten. On September 7 the tfKatr. objects of a much smaller kind than 19th an attack by Admiral Fournier phore station at the Lizard telegraphs a submarine boat, and painted of neuupon Malt reduces it, and the fleets that a fleet la in sight. Itjjfmaneuv-erln- g tral color, could be seen from a balloon west of ScHly, of Russia and France cover the sea. vjQUeengtown with the utmost clearness at a depth But, curiously, on that 'same day Addmlral 81r Harry of live fathoms, or thirty feet, though miral Fisher opens fire on Toulon. The no doubt. It is the the surface was rough. No submarine blockade of Toulon ie also organised, ts of Russia and France boat could in the daytime get within and Sir Charles Beresford is dispatched strikisg distance of a threatened ship to bombard Marseilles with the Anson. the Mediterranean;- and that Kad a balloon without being obthecPeerlees and the Isis, thus withTsirlke a first blow by liberating Ir served. drawing a portion of Admiral Fisher's forces. On August 28, In the midst rJ Queenstown, with all it defenses, this bombardment of fortification to add to the strength of the stripped is fleet andTthe suddenly English channel fleet, le bound to fall unlees unexpectedly assailed by the be etopped. Reaforces of France and Russbycombined tbe opposing fleet Rawson determine Admiral r dread-petbls, lizing A ful sea fight ensues. Fojr X at tbe Scilly invader i tbe A ce on pathe English fleet he ts off looking while But islands. .Jtffrwbelmed. Ship after ship is the for the allied fleets they steal Into er and Sir Cha are returns yfmk. JrJohn he when and Ties F?for1 wb channel, He 1 of sr In vain h trapped. awaiting. an aea" men, are slahr Wither seeks to break b cordon. Royal Sovr and oVp only-t.- be torpedo submarine The French general destrur 4n lgn from out of the ghostlike rising boats, with the d rfffnn aftec Highly t& launch their unseen torpedoes han't work, the I1, h and Las- depths, the flanks of his battleships. asual w against leeta enter Touk One by one they lurch from the water, In the colonto faster treads turn over with their shells battered in Great Brit sea. the heels of and sink to the bottom of the terI colonial posses11! s doomed. mad with seamen, of Thousands over fr a few miner wave. Of all the men-- j ror, leap into the Is a ,ch holdings sht b further glorious fleets of England not ship Russian by the march Pe left. &poy ia is on fire agaiA But great lathe resistance when the the scene oijhe mutiny of French land at Brighton. The first to land is Colonel Marchand now a general In command of the French forces, j writer. Mr. Somerville stood by the table, opposite to hie wife, and began, Sad to say, the French see fit to slay him. He is shot in the j. load voice, to address her; but as TXtuon Fish-thousan- ds ecftha t"'- fr dif f-trie- n-uci- ng avant-hlstorl- Atmt (New York Letter.) A strange life story is that of old Mm THE DEVASTATION Third Street Car Ll Lwl a Vast For taaa ' Bat JUesvartd It Utl aa a Hartalh by Efftt Trans-Caspia- LIFE STRANGE' STOfeY OP HtNRY HART. OP NEW YORK. About Mow the British Empire Becomes Effaced from the Earth. The fever of war is abroad In France. seized the three British battalions, and The public prints show it and the temMourad Bey, the minister of war, has on of the the people boulevards per eelzed the Suez canal. In addition, the la not a whit leas martial The most cable code of the British is In the remarkable illustration of this, howEgyptian's possession, and for five ever, is found in the last issue of Le days' It answers London's demands Monde Illustre, a Parisian magazine that all la well. In the meanwhile the which might be compared to Harper's Mediterranean of the Britsquadron Weekly in this country. The Paris ish, under Admiral Fisher, Is on Its publication contains a story headed way to destroy the French fleet, supIt is a plaus- posed to be at Toulon. Moreover, the The End of England ible and circumstantial account of a sultan of Turkey, alarmed by .the turn great war, begun by an overt act of of affairs, has permitted the Russians PATHETIC A . blind to everything else a sew power took shape in a new enterprise ltd traffic went up, up, up, doub while the in a , decade, ling held it avenue Third barely went on until, when own., money tightened three, months ago and bis stocks began to tumble, disaster seemed to stare him in the face and ruin wa predicted. Contrary to general opinion, however, he did not lose hie fortune and is still a power in the financial world. The gain in stock has placed him on a sound basis and bis energies will continue to bo exercised Indefinitely In behalf of hi pet railroad. A "The strangest thing that ever happened to me, said tbs old operator,, who was in a reminiscent mood, according to the Detroit Free Preea, Toe- -' curred a good many years ago when I, was a young .man holding down a night office in a little tows in the west. I was half asleep one night when I was called to the key to receive a rush message. 1 took it off the wire . without ' realising what it Uehnl." as a man will do at times when halt asleep. But when 1 glanced at what 1 had put down I aaw that Ulead, 'It you wish to see your brother alive yon will have to come Immediately.' The message came from San Franclsco;and ' was addressed to an old matt who lived across the street from the station, so I put on my hat and went over and ergy. deHyeredJt 8einfJthat It was imMr. Hart is a little old man, scarceportant that be should have it st ly more than four feet in stature. He once. The old man caught the train wears a bunchy white beard on his that left at midnight, and while he was chib that gives length to his sharp- - buying his ticket be told me that the message referred to his brother who had left home twenty years before, and from whom be had heard nothing during all that time. The next night a party called and asked if there were anjr, messages for him, giving the same name as the old man who bad left tba He must have noticed night before. that I looked at him rather blankly, for be went on to explain that he had a brother in California who was sick and that he was anxious to hear from him. Well, it turned out that the message I had received the night before was Intended for him. He was a ;$C-- stranger in the town, and chanced to bear the tame name as tbe old man whom I had sent on a wild goose chase across the continent Fortunately for ' i 6' me, I was transferred to another town before the old man got back. That is all there la to the story, except that :t ' is true." .. HENRY HART. -- 3 -- - Tb Moat (tMatlfal Flag. A curious Incident la reported to th Companion on excellent authority front the Acadian region of Nova Scot! Jn a village school there, the young lady teacher, who waa from a portion of Canada more remote from the United States than the section she was In, was preparing for a little 24th of May. Calling one of tbe boys, she gave him a coin and said to him; "Take this, please, and go out, and get ui the prettiest flag you cam find." She had no Idea, of course, of hie procuring anything else than a; British flag; and her astonishment' wa great, therefore, when the boy. cam back with A small edition of th "What have tare snd stripes! you there? tbe teacher asked, sharp- -, ly. "Did you suppose I sent you for ' anything else than the flag of your "Why," answered the boy,; country? -yon told me to get the prettiest flag 1 could find, and there was nothing The boy's else so pretty as this! Judgment was unprejudiced, at any ! rate, for he was a Canadian. the - pic Of tho Wa With Coras. He was tired and was trying to go home on a Hanscom Park car. Tie lived near the .end of the line. When he boarded the car at Sixteenth and Farnam streets U was so closely packHe ed that be couldnt get a seat had corns on the soles of hi feet, and standing up caused him great pain. A few passengers left the car frona street to street, but as many more got on. Tbe tired man continued to stand up. At last he grew .desperate-an- d raising his voice to an oratorical pitch he eald: "If any of yon people have homes, for Gods sake get off th car and go to them. If you are on the car for shelter in the absence of a home the' Associated Charities will relieve Omaha Bee. your distress, 1 new.IS ; F. ng CjSJ fr,rS1TelU,lta - - - Shi I"! dence v $ to ! oughfar tbe odd vehicle goes, and pedestrians turn and stare at the little In Dublin the republic is proclaimed. man sitting crouched up in the back to masse Queenstown turns out en seat Hie eyes are on the tracks close greet the Russian and French Invaby, and he mutters incessantly as the quays the sion. The picture shows cars Jangle up and down past him. thousands and foreshore crowded with Early In the century Hart came to of shouting men,- - waving the Irt this country and located in New York Russia flag, entwined with those of as the first horse car roJ in the onJust snd France. The Invasion' presses was startedliiere.1 Stage lines world ward. London falls at last At th were in operation several years later, General head of the victorious army but they hsd to give way to Jamont Fournier, elevated to the dig et surprise, "did you say something 7 however, The one plying on Chatham with progress. nity of admiral of France, retire name. street finally fell into the hand of an exclamation point after his established himsnd young Hart, who had On September 20 England fall He looked lender. money a as self 14 the whole world groans and is and made line of the tbe running after The treaty of London signed on Octowas nearly twenty It more money. counber 25 readjusts the map. Each . gfter be landed in New York j pouna from Baltimore to Bahia, try is represented by its PtonlpoWJ Brazil ,nd arrived out Saturday, when 1 company got a franchise to run tla-- for Lord RosebnJ .cablegram was received England car line up Third avenue. Hart I announcing .horse the death. Mr. William anq Sir Henry Campbell he must have the new road saw that W Russia, the Grand Duke Su (blp ch.ndler, broke Vh. bis stage line to go bankrupt, or allow and Count Mouravleff; Thompson Sunday at her home. Mr so, when the railway promoters and WhM Deechanel and Admiral Calllnrd. Thompson txuke. a the startling statement had about abandoned their project, for out happens is this: The colonies of EnF j m connection with the them bought lender death. money xvers that at e is captains next to nothing. Such Was the beginThird avenue system. .I!el!ld , 14 an the half dozen ning of the company of his own toeJ bouse etopped from some ti,d q1 before Jong had horse cars MQV- day the docks. gether end ,n the bedrooms started running by the door of his pawnshop. l again Of their - A Vcorobi How Eoioiv own accord, but the After the war be gave up his pawn-brokiFrederick Waterman, of bOstnes a and kitchen clock. re- Mass., who has Just Pj j malned at Illiterate not knowing how to read standstill his signature The Illustration shown ninety-thir- d birthday has voted D nd able only to scrawl loved kdbrnls who have been men i election nineteen made " these presidential people has of Khlrrghls Aa inoxiv 'T, Idled prince of finance bow hefora (eniimentally). vVl. Md wa at one period many torkoumiss or kln of Each. BiaEBer, which eigh I But he was of millionaire. M6nQffi?nt laid, the . a accompaniment to tIm 10 ueM milk. I broached why T She Be- - wrapped up entirely In hi two tracks i rtuse7 it the music I songs and dances and tbat ,Ur Tery . nn Third avenue, and while be Was of the Massachusetts has 116 street reliy rfGlloa of irnW2. from the next one. gusner, their reed mile Ocean 1,492 Controlling companies, Chicago Inter lr Axlo, In South Africa, whenever traveler "odtspan tor the night, they Invaria- -bly form the wagon Into a defensive work called a laager, Provided there are enough wagons, this is either square or tsblong, the latter shape he-ing preferred, . When each ox ie allowed thirty-ei- x equa e feet the smallest sized laager that will hold the oxen is that formed by sixty wagon. These are formed in single rank in a hollow square, the axles touching, end This renwith their poles outward. ders ths improvised protection easily removed when the order to "inspan is 1 given. Each wheel should be locked and fastened securely to it neighbor, to prevent an enemy from dragging out one of tb wagons and tbua gaining access to the square. Every human being and animal must b within the inclosure before dark, or tbey may run serious risk from being fired upon by If time permit a their own friend belter trench should be dug all around tbe laager, so that, with men lying In them, th others posted on the wagons, a double tier of infantry fire may be maintained. w 1 Tb From Form v , LA0ER8 Wiom Plaeod Ail Pol Oitwir. BOER lined, Impenetrable face. Ilia hair is gone, except for heayy curly white lock over his ears; bis mouth is broad, with thin, determined lips, and about his mouth are half laughing lines that accentuate the ' sharpness and else of hie aquiline nose. His partly closed almond eyes have a mischievous, gnomic sure, and while they follow you about, you feel that they give 'nd consciousness of your presence. 3 A strange old man a reminder of old New York, the mystery of whose hermit life, even by tbe few who have been near him all these years, has never been quite penetrated. Every day he makes his appearance in a saloon on Park row and never does be fall to attract attention. Men who know who he 1 whisper to their companions the little mens name. He seems to notice nobody,, although he mutters sharply to any one standing near him, emphasizing hla uninteUlgi-gl- e remarks by a vigorous, nervous r tbe floor. pounding of his cane-upcTo the proprietor bet 'mutter a few words which are received very respectfully, and tbe old man pounds hi cane harder then ever. Then he goes over to tbe long counter where are spread out the meats end appetizers of the "free lunch," and Uklng, with many ' muttering, as much ae his hands win hold, he goes to the street, both hands full of sandwiches. Waiting for him at the curb Is d barouche that wa old and dilapidated years ago, ' Tbe horses drawing it are old horse car animals; the driver ia a relic of the Third avenues horse car day field of battle. Ell COINCIDENCE. Sorrjr Thai Be R vetoed Aerees Ike Street with the Sleeeese. ' rr , |