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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 !? ..
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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^
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BY CMNKSCALES & LANGSTON. .. S "ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1905. VOLUME XLI---NO. 27,