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Give Us If- wc can get competent men, we will by good team work build up the circulation of THU, SATURDAY EVENING POST to unheard-of figures. It is now three-quarters of a million copies weekly, so m ct hing never before attained by a weekly maga zine. Wc want one good man in this town to organize a selling force and push it thoroughly and sys tematically. THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY PHILADELPHIA, PA. 7*. ?1 Cherrr Strwt. B. S. VAN DIVER. E. P. VANDIVER, - OFFICE O XT - TANMVEM IVIex'olia.iits TO OUR GUANO TRADE. Please kindly arrange to settle your Guano Notes by the 1st day of ?Tovember and GREATLY OBLIGE. if you want to hold your Cotton that is all right. You can arrange to g?i ?. from your Bank for ue, and coat you no more, and be highly appre '?.uietl by us. Your friends, VANDIVER BROS. P. 8-GUANO and ACID for grain in Btook all the time. Dug^iCo aim UdllluoM Now is a good time to buy a now Baggy and Harness, and we want yon to look at our large stock of the latest and ftest up?to-date styles, and it will be no trouble for you to ?eke a selection, Our work is all sold under guarantee. We kave eSkira bargains to offer. Give us a trial. Our prices are low and terms to suit. THE J. Se FOWLER COMPANY, F. S.-Wo have a few last Fall's Jobs to go at Cost. MASTIC MIXED PAINT. We Want to Sell Ton Your Paint. Cents is to sse u=, ssd 1st us tell you ali about it. We have sold this Paint for many years, and all have been pleated who need it. We have a fine selection of colors, and will gladly give you a card showing them if yon will call in and request same. Also, a fall line of Varnishes. Stains, floor Faints. Furniture Polish, Faint Brushes, Eto. ORR, GRAY & CO., West to Bank of Anderson. Sellable Druggists. esl Bini Che A Bssi Thia Establishment has been Selling IN ANDERSONFc^jS'J'0 *kan forty years'. .During all thai time competitors nave come and gone, bttfc Wi "Ve remained right here. We have always sold Cheaper thoa any other a, and Wiling those long years We have not had one die satisfied ouetomer. Mia takes will sometimes oconr, and if alan/ time we fovud that a easterner wa?dissatisfied we did not rest until we had mode bim satiated. This poliey, rigidly adhered io, has made ns friends, trae and last ing, and we can say with pride, but without boasting, that wo have the confi dence o? the poopfo o! this section. We have a larger Stock of Goods this season than we have ever had, and we pledge you our word that we have sever sold Furniture at as close a ssirsinof p-voni as we are doing now. This ts woven by the fact that we are selling?airsHsrc not only all over Anderson ' County but in every Town in tho Piedmont section. Come and eeo UB. Your nsients saved money by buying from ns, e^ yon and your children caa save money by buying here t>o. We Carry EVERYTHING in the furniture line, G. F? TdLLT * BON. Dooof Street The Old Reliable Furniture Dealers A LONG LOOK AHEAD A mon thinks it is when Ute matterjof life ',. . ineuranco suggests itself-bat.circumstan<. ces of late have shown how life hangs by a . j thread when war, flood, hurricane, andora : suddenly overtakes yon, and the'?wy?w^.7^^^. v'-^/V-?-^?' ' . i . < to be Bure that your family is protected !? .. , >' . . . c?se?f cawr^tv over^^ . 'swMaiB&d-va^^ t?nB.Oo. WAR SI Anderdon Boy's Life ' William E. Curt?a i Lieut. Newton A. McCully of tho navy, who has just returned from Vladivostok and Mukden, after a series of exciting adventures in Port Arthur, tells his story in a very mod est but interesting way. "I wa6 sent over in February, 11)04," he says, "to go with tho Rus sians as an observer for the navy de partment. I went via St. Petersburg and the great Siberian Railroad to Liao-yang, and reported at the head quarters of Gen. Kuropatkin. I was delayed there for two weeks, trying to got a permit to go to Port Arthur, and finally obtained it just as the Japanese were landing to begin tho siege. On the 4th or 5th of May I started for Port Arthur with a scout ing party of Primorski dragoons from a Russian province of that name, which means 'by the sea.' They were under command of Capt. Boutakoff, a cousin of tho present naval attaohe of the Russian embassy here. The 'railway had been torn up in places. The Japanese bad blown up a bridge to prevent the Russians from using it, while the Russians had torn up a lot of track to prevent the Japanese from using it. So we hal to go on horseback until we reached the lower end of the line, which was still in working order. We were three days on the march. All I had was the olothea I wore, a camera and a oanteen, but I got part of my bag gage a few daya Uter. The dragoon? drove the Japanese off so aa to let an ammunition train through, and my frienda at Liao-yang had put some of my baggage on one of the wagons. - 1 got tho rest of it six months later. They sent it baok to headquarters and kept it carefully for me until my return. "Upon arriving at Port Arthur. I was assigned quarters in a Chinese house near the navy yaru, with two Germana-Capt. Hapman and Lieut, von Gligenheim-and the French ob server. Viscount Cuvervillo. I had a good room, and we took our meals at the naval dub. There were no Americans or English is Port Arthur st the time. Heotor Fuller, a ner. a paper correspondent, came in while X j sss thora, but I did not see him or j know anything about him until after uv had boos sent s.way? ? rsmained in Port Arthur from May 8 to August 14. "We were reasbnsbly comfortable ?nd had nothing to complain of. Everybody.was very polite to ua and there waa plenty of tinned gooda to sat and plenty of tea to drink, but rory little fresh meat or vegetables. Wo wore allowed to go around the billa and up and down the beach, and sould see a good deal. I visited all the ships in the harbor, but they afoultl not let me go out with them r?nou they went to moot the Japanese 2 cot. ! did set cs peet trey would, because it waa not custom *ry to per? nit foreigners to accompany ships of ?ar into fiction. * "The blockade was not very B tri ct seforo tho 26th of July. I saw the aeet go out on June 23 and August ?? For those two fights, aa a Seet; and jingle ships or squadrons of battle-j ?hips S?d cruise?* fr*q??nlly i weet I )ut to engage the enemy. They would ezohange shots and then return :o the harbor. The Russian offioors NOVO friendly and talked freely, but j gould not give us any offioia. data. Fhey gave us every opportunity, how* iver, to iee their methods of laying nines and taking them up, and the sffeot of the mines upon the enemy. [ did nbs tee the Japanese- cruiser | datante blow up, but got to the top )f Gold Hill !aV.few moments afterward, ?hilo tho Japanese were still picking j beir men ont of the water. I could iee the Yaihima limping out to caa rory p&infally ofter fabe Struck a nine. She sank the sane flight. X remained; on Gold Hill moat of that aighi, and saw the searchlights of the Japanese fleet playing around the Sfashima. They were .tryingr'i Uss?v? lier and af ter she aank they wore [ pi?kiag sp tho Crew. I saw the tor- -f pedo attack of the Japanese upon the Russian fleet on the night of June 23. li continued all night long, and no picked up torpedoes alivOverHh?i beaoh tho next day, but 'they bad not ] touched a Russian ship. ?^?I?? "I could not ace the naval battle of j August 10," continued XieU>v B?c? Colly, "because it took plaoo 100 m.ifea away ; Jina I :asw ?the fleet/com?' baok tho next day. ; One tleahipa waa very badly/ battered, but thy ??5t did cot s?jCSi to hive su5?r?? j cinch; 'damage,-- ' ,JThe':; iui^ed#?? were, most ihteros? ooo?r-j rei nearly every night; ?he JapaueaV torpedo flotillas would come in for aa afet?ck*, tho land batterieswould opesj up on- them,'and .i??,-KuaaM ;gu^ boats would engage them 'add chase I While in !Port A-rthur. a Washington Star. them away. It was liko a theatrical i performance. Gold Hill was a plat form from which we could see it all. Tbe Russiau Scot was in the fore ground; the Japanese fleet on tho horizon, and its ships would oome up four at a time and discharge their batteries and retire; then another four would come up. sometimes nearer than the others, fire and retire. Tho Russians constantly responded both from tho ships aod land fortifications, keeping up a continuous cannonade. | The torpedo boats and destroyers I would be playing around trying to get j io their work. I saw half a dozeu of | these duels but comparatively Htf.l?1 damago was done by either sice. ! More was done by tho miues than by | the artillery. In one of the battles I the Japanese oruiser Chiyda struok a mino and was towed off badly injured. 'In the meantime, the Japaneee army was surrounding the city, and j the bombardment began in earnest on j August 7. The first shot struck only a few feet from the office of the Rus sian commander-in-ohief. The shells struok all parts of the town. The gunners were evidently aiming for the navy yard, but they had to shoot over the hills that lay between and could not Bee where their shots fell. There were a great many killed and a good deal cf destruction, but it wa? mostly outside of the town, among the outer lines of defense. Only about 20 people were killed in the oity while I was there. The firing became monotonous after awhile and, as the Japanese dosed in around the town we were forbidden to go any where or eco anything, and our use fulness was practically ended. We knew the Russian fleet was going to Vladivostok at the first opportunity. It went out twioe with that intention. 'The first time it was driven baok; the second time it was badly broken up and scattered. This left us nothing further to observe, and as we antici pated that the naval operations would be transferred to Vladivostok . we asked permission to go there. "Gen. Smirnoff gave me a pass, and Tfith two ladies I took a Chinese coasting junk across the gulf to Shan-haikwan. One of the ladies wS5 tho wife Of a Hessian ora???, =sd thc other thc wife of a Frenchman living in Fort Arthur, traveling with ber child. Capt. Hopman had been reoalled by the German emperor, and went out through th' Tapaness lines on a safe ccsduot. ?nali von GU* genbeim and Viscount OnveVvillo We.-e intending to go with me, but were not ready, and th? junk sailed without them. They started tho next day? but they did not reach their i destination, and we have never had any definite nowa concerning, their j fate. Th? Chinese authorities exe cuted the brew of a junk on whioh it is said they sailed, but the evidenoe against them wa9 only circumetantial, and it if . not . eenuin that tho mea who were executed. -: were respon sible. No direct ?vidence w*?! brought i against them. : They have been guilty of makio]* away, with Vea Gilgenheim and Cu vcr ville, yet at the seme time, it is possible that tho officers may haye been on another j auk, wn iou may havo sicuak ? ?ut u c -t or the Japanese : may have sunk them ; or tb ey may have been cap-} tared and murdered by pirates. Ho body koo ws. ?] Their fate is involVedi In complete my a tory. Not the slight cat trabe bf them has ever been dis covered since th ey sailed from Port Arthur. We might have met witfi the same mysterious fate, but for tho? faut that Miss Helene Ohaffanaon, ] the young daughter of tbs Preooh | lady withiwhom I eailed, was able ,. oonvsrao freely with our boatmen in Chinese, and eoald explain to them myVbrder*,. and''.OW'.; wishes^-v;Miss English, French, Russian abd flhineee;, f.-U:'t??: ? Gilgenhelia^t; ^tiverville had been abli-l?l^lii^pj vtlCir VW^WVM,. Of;af; mo/ usu u?w aa ] interpreter on ?the junk, ?u^i. mun U?IJU. u?*u WweM.-' : WVJggf > It ia risible tfcatrs?rhe^ standing- ' occurred' through; their ?R? ability to talk to tho men of W^oji j were the vie tims. %y ' '.: 'R. A*Junis' ;were'golnt |i|^M|Pi alt ihe I timb,y ex plain ed Lieut. 1 Cully, i'hctwgea: Port Arthur and the. p&ines? boast. The Russians e^uraged theta because tl ^ohfts;??u^f'^ bad a little excitement on the voyage, unused by two suspicious looking junks whion we had run afoul of and which had fired on us. They were evidently pirates, but our captain knew his business and his men were good sailors and wo escaped in the dark. "From Shau-hai-kwan I started for Peking, and from there made my way to Vladivostok via Mukden, partly by I cart and partly by railroad. I had e I RuBsiau oflioer for a traveling oom j panion, and wo got through without I any trouble, although we were a litth uneasy because of the ChincBO band ite, who were pretty thiok and vern troublesome in that locality. Wi nat? A skirmish between them and i party of Chinese soldiers, but nothioj happened to us and wo reached Liao yang in time to see tho battle-a much as could be seen of it-and tho was only the Artillery fire. I waa it uide of the town at Bussian heac quartors, and the fighting was goin on outside. "I was at Vladivostok ni togo thc about six months, but most of thi . time was going back and forth betwec the oity and tho Russian army. Ti railroad was open to Mukden and wa* easy to ruo down by train. Tl Russian authorities allowed us eome and go wherever and whenev we pleased, and gave us every oppc tunity to see what was going on. was in Mukdea during tho great bi tie there, but did not see much of It wes impossible to do so. The li of battle was 80 miles long; the ooo try around Mukden is a dead lev the ooil is very dry and between t dust and smoke we oould scarcely t farther than aoross the street exe? at rare intervals. Under ouch oircu stances it is not easy to observ?t _-.?- ~e *u_ i_T BUVIUU Ml IU? MWV|>S| IS lt li A O m Tl pty? of Japanese 11-inoh shells droppi into the Russian trenohes. "There wero a number of fore! attaches there-British, Dani Swedish and Argentine-and went around together. We remaii at Mukden until the end of the fig iog and then started for home by v of the Amur river and aoross M golia to Peking. Then we went do to Shanghai and took a steamer the Suez canal to Genoa. From th I went to St. Petersburg yia Vien paid my respects to the minister ! marine on Sept. 22 and returned he via Norway nod Sweden, j "I have aoaroely begun on my port," said the lieutenant in oom sion, "bub am getting my no teg order. The war baa developed a gi deal of interest in military matt and h no fur niched many [valut leesons in strategy, organisation, uioanse and eib.es respects. ? It is only practical guage we h ava 'for ?s ern warfare, and ia equally import to army and navy men?" Calle Beet Idle. * Dedham, Me., December 2.?~'*3P1 are several popular errors about way o of bees which need reo tif y i i said Ike Hubbard, a honey: hut "Tba average bee, instead of bein example of iuduatry, ia about laaieat thing that Sics. ; :;V:; J': ? s"jBven in the buoy soasen of : summer no bee will quit itshivo \ after theinn ie well up ?sud has ti off the heavier part of the dew, ac eoon as tho eun slants toward the ivs the afternoon every bee will < flying 'homo and go to roost,, th darkness ia four hours away. .. "Thenthcre aro a few bses that hunt for noney from flowers so Ipi ^?y can -find, cora ayron or b ouj? oT1' ,v..-afassB ?av? to DU fcriowV/tn tpiarista? ,\tlia~tj 'manyi; keepeta bu jr ooria syrup for 60 co gallon and pa^sa it adong to' the. which convert in into sbtaething resembles" honey,-, but ipg;^^' t?d ' Btili ?ells for the genuine prc *8 a gallon he cad'. get rieb right : provided ho. tai i)w>bgi;bee3.:.. about bees la the b?Uet that' fn^ "When a ?lade?^?iB going ;. with a big load <i? hon ea in ? ts ;a|i ?^tn?.l:w?deWp^?^n legs li ts-kes ?ho easiest Cours Maine country no boo wu! rise air to surmount a MU when i%rt around the obstruotlon. i : ^^^^?|etarp ^^ae;l^^ ?ny: bft^ey bo *>nd the be^^a; $? flies a*(e*|n ^'m?ot? cu arto;: avoid ?e*tlsg:tte*ir? fcV In^fc)^ b &iier .aiic of;; -tB^bili'aod^mi : tr^n|rfclft^pn>: n^rer>; the/, a nm werev ;tp; g^'^iiid^af ts^ Hi was fly|n^;ir^^4 :? hiU hi? 7 r vf . ' .^mr^^*t?T'try^!m.'''' *^*?^? ."UMT'? I'-S^?"! clover boney ia. the boabf$u{i J, a^trae;- arith' ib*m^.':'teme^:i anea as is gathered irorn white wood and basswood and wild thyme i and mints and nettles ia far better < than anyi ling ;b.9ug,^t in the nstores. It has a ? .vor about it that suggests wild woods aud great trees and singing brooks t -I everything that lives out of doors '.way from the contami n?t) mankind.-New York Sun. * orgeltulneas. To i ooldiers it will seem incredi ble that a veteran could forget the company and regiment lie served in during the Civil War, but that suoh a thing oan happen and bas happened can be amply verified in the bureau of pensions. Congressman Victor Mur dock has two notable cases of that kind. One of them is Nicholas Ham mond-known to nearly everybody in Wichita. That he served in the army during the war there is very good reason to believe, but he cannot remember a single inoident or feature of his servioe, not knowing where he waa enlisted or discharged or what company or regiment he served in Some thirty odd years ago he wai struck by lightning 'and does not re member ? thing behind that event. Former Commissiojier of Pension Eugene Ware knew that such forget fulness was possible, for he once re lated this story: Ho and Jame Whitcomb Kiley, the Hoosier pool were giving readings in 'Coloradc Kiley was to recite one of his ow picosa, one he had composed ap written himself, and one he hi already recited over 100 times tin season. When he went .upon ti stage he- forgot it utterly. One of the most peculiar cases < amnesia in history is recorded in tl reminiscences of Bishop MuuBte He went out xor a walk one day, ai for the information of some visitors 1 espoo ted, he had this written on h door: "The master of the house not at home." When he return from his walk ho notioed the sign the door, and forgetting that, he ? the master of the house, h* i down on the steps and waited i himself. m I met a citizen opposite where l National Bank of Oommeroe u btands who waa aotually waiting himself. He said that the man v was his actual self had promised Imeet him there/ and twas Very mi an rn??? a ad '1t?'..?S? SStk???i. . -^m- .- T- * -'.. ;^.m~ engagement. He has laughed mi timob at thr queer incident. I do not propose to show that ey time a man forgets td pay haok i rowed money his cells are on a stri) but I know of one very, notable dasi vhich that was true. A prominent sitixen who got $400 from another nan aotually forgot it. Until thia dey ie cannot rememher getting the noney but fortunately his bank icooaot proved that he did get H, and tie paid it back promptly. A preacher who had a congregation in a well to do central Kansas town ono Saturday afternoon bought a cow ?nd tied her in front of the church until he was ready to go home. When be came to the church to hold ser vices the following morning he saw the cow suffering for food and water. He discarded, his. well prepared ser mon and preaohed powerfully on the text "The meroiful man is merciful to his beast." He gave a very severe roasting to the "brutish" por tion who had allowed the eow to suf fer, and it never dawned upon his mind that he himself was the owner of the oow MO til after he bad dismissed the congregation. Sinoe X am talking of thia pastor I am reminded' of the fact that the word "minister" as applied to pastors waa associated with a very peculiar ouse of forgetfulness. Calvin first applied the word to the pastora of bia following inconsequence of the fact that one of his dioiples waa educated in' a hall of tho School of Equity of Poitiers, whioh was known a? La Ministerio. One of th graduates of that ball had to deliver an odaay, and, as graduates are wont to do even now, he selected a fine garden of big cab bagos to ptaeiioe in. When the day came and be Blood before his audience he entirely, forgot that he waa not talking to cabbages until he arrived nearly at the end of bia address, when he coinpletely broke down, say ing: "Gentlemen, i now olearly ese that ' you are not Oabbagaa. aa I ann posed." La Fontaine does not say What the studentB did to him. Wiobita Eagle, r -- .Senator Burton, of Kansas, con victed in the -United States court in St. Louisfor practicing and receiving feen in tho pooiofnoo department while a. member of the Senate has been sen tenced' to confinement for'Bl? months in the Iron County jail of Missouri and to pay a fine pf $2,500, and to bs debarred from holding any omeo of honor or trust. v William Talley, a white man in charge of W. N. Maddox's ginnery al Wbiteaville, Ga., was .accidentally killed Saturday. Something had got ten wrong with the gjns Saws, an? Btoopiog down, to examine th?' ma ohinery, and adjust the difficulty, hi foot slipped, and he waa thrown o! the raws. His body and lower limb were, BO terribly lacerated and th shook so great that before medical ait could bo summoned he waa dead. Mi Talley waa 50 years of age^ #. .. . . ... ? -, :. .. r ? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ BY CMNKSCALES & LANGSTON. .. S "ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1905. VOLUME XLI---NO. 27,