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SEMINARY BURNED. Thornwell Orphanage at Clinton Is Visited By Another Calamity. Clinton, November :5;.-At about 6 o'c!ock yesterday afternoon the Thornwell orphanage seminary buildiag caught tire in the roof from a defcctive flue and was burned toI theground. Workmenhadjust finish ed testing a new turnace and the building had been closed for the day. The ire was discovered early but as the town has not yet put in its water works the efforts to put out the flames were of no avail. The fire soon reached an 85 foot tower and became a huge pillar of flames. Ef forts were then diverted to the pro tection of the McCorinick, a dormi tory building on th:- orphanage cam pus and the recitation hall of the Presbyterian college, both of which were threatened. Both buildings were adeq.it-,ly protec-ed. The "Thornwell Seminary for Or phans.' 'which was the name of the burned .uilding, was dedicated in 1883 by Gov.' Hugh S. Thompson, whose death the people are now la The building was in process of menting. constmuetion for i8 months, during w..:ch 1eriod the labor and other 'ills were promptly met at the end of each week, though at no tim"C were the funds in hand sufficient to oav them a week in advance. This was the main educational structure of the institution and contained in adt.- or to a large chapel some six class rooms. The loss is $8,ooo. with only $i,ooo insurance. It falls therefore as a heavy blow upon an institution which only a few days ago had a similiar loss, from which it had partially recovered by dona tions. In the dining hall of the or phanage help is needed as never be fore. The flues from which it caught have been in almost daily use since 1883. The president of the orphan age has made a practice to walk around the grounds each night after the refiring hour to see that all was safe. The Thornwell orphanage has many friends. The help of everyone of them will be needed now. A JAPANESE HERO. One Example of the Spirit That Is Actuating the Soldiers of Japan. November Century. Sanko Takano ,sergeant major, special duty, belonging to the Sec ond company, Second cavalry regi ment, Second division. On a dark night in early April, soon after his regiment had reached the Yalu river, he and Lance Corporal Shin obu Wantanabe were sent out with a third man to ascertain the width and depth of the main stream of the river where it flows between two large islands opposite Wiju. They crossed the first channel in a boat which the sergeant major and the corporal left on the first island in charge of the third man. Then the two worked across the island to the main stream. The Russians occu pied a little village on the opposite side, directly across from the place wvhere Takano and Watanabe struck the ri':er. Takano saw: that it would be very di2!icult to get across with out attracting their attention. Ice was rrr.riing in the river, and the wa ter was bitterly cold. Takano thought that if he tried to swim he would surely arouse the Russians. So he determined to walk across on the bottom of the river, rising oc casionally for breath. They had a coil of rope with them. Takano took off his uniform and fastened one end of the line to his body. Then he picked upon a stone to help him keep on the bottom. and waded in, leaving the lance corporal to hold the rope by which he was to be dragged hack whenever he gave a signal of two sharp pulls. Pounded by the ice and chilled to the marrow by the cold water, Ta kano struggled on. The water rose over his head. but the heavy stone he carriedl enabled him to keep on the bottom. N%ow he could walk a little faster, for he was free from the battering ice, but as he nearedl the center of the stream the currenm grew swifter, until, if it had not been for the stone he carried, it would have swept him down. He grew numb from the cold, aned it took al his strength, stout swimmer as he was, to rise to the surface and stay there long enough to breathe. Yet he dared not drop the weight, for he knew he could not get down to the bottom again. So he worked. with W'atanahe paviig out the rope. until he felt the bottom rising and knew he was beyond the middle of the stream. Almost senseless. Ta kano stumbled along. striving to carry out the letter of his orders and reach the oposite bank. But not even Japanese nature could stand such a test, and Watanabe. waiting on the bank, felt the long. steady pull on the rope that toi<l him Taka no had lost consciousness. With all his might the corporal hauled in the line, and soon had the unconscious sergeant major out of the water. A brisk rubbing and the contents of his flask finally revived Takano, who got into his warm, dry uniform again and started back with the cor poral ac.oss the island. But when they reached the place where they had left the boat, it was gone. The third man, concluding that they had been captured by the Russians, had started back. There was nothing for it but to swim, so in the two men punged. The floating ice hammer ed them and the cold- water numbed them, so that they could not make headway against the current and were carried down the stream. But fortune had not deserted them, and they drifted against the boat in which their comrade was trying to scull back to shore. He, too, had been swept down stream by the swift water and the ice which hin dered his scuttling. He hauled them in, and soon they were landed on the Wiju side, to be commended by the captain for showing the real spirit of Yamato Damashii. Boers Plan For Self-Rule. St. Louis Republic. Commander Jan Luow, the Boer officer who refused to la1 down his arms when his countrymen surren dered to the British. and who fled to the Longberg mountains, on the bor ders of Germany, east Africa with his band of burgher fighters, has been successfully resisting the combined Enzli-h and German forces in South Africa for more than two years. In June, 1902. when the Boer army cap itulated, Luow fled with only about 300 men. Within the first year, however, this number was increased to 2,00o and today he is said to have a comlfined force of 8,ooo warriors under his command. Many Boers still believe that their country can be rclaimed, and many of them look to Luow as the man who will start the next rebellion. There still exists an understanding between Boers and their sympathizers that the next up rising will be in 1906, and it is also stated that 15,0oo men have agreed to respond to the commandant's call. Luow's position in South Africa is most peculiar. He is now on Ger man territory and it is known that English government has made many urgent requests to the Gerrian em peror to have these stubborn Boer fighters driven out of German WVest Africa, but to no avail. For the past year tribes in this German possession have been waging a serious rebellion against the German military and are almost impregnably ensconced in the border mountains. Mere woman is not counted as a personal entity in the census of Siam but the queen appears in bloomers and a fancy blouse at public recep tions. Electric street-cars, controll ed by Danes, run at a fast pace over an 11-mile route in and about Bang kok. A girl who is a brilliant conversa tionalist should talk to herself if she wants an apprecative audience. About 6o.ooo water-wheels are used for manufacturing in the United States, yielding 1,300.000 horse-pow er or one-quarter to one-third of the whole power used, Of this total 250.000 horse-power is usedl by the 2.000 mills in New England. Fa:her Ambrose Agius. recently appointed dele"gate from Rome to the Philippines, was born in Egypt, edu catedl in England, founded a Benedic tine house at Malta, and is an appos EXECUTORS' SALE. Bv virtue of the powers vested in us bv the last will an( testament ,f J. W. B. Lever, deceased. which will has been duly probated and filed in the Probate Court (f Lexington CMUmyI. State of South Gardilna, we wvIl! ' ffer for taoe t( the hiighe t blid der, at puiblic outcry tn the 19th day; of Decenber, next. 1904. at eleven clock a. i.. before the Court use d or in Newberrv County. State of South Carolina, the follow ing real estate to wit: i. One tract of land, known as the IKelley place. containing one hundred and thirty-jive acres (135) acres, more or less, bounded by lands of Jenkins H. Smith. and J. Munroe Wicker, and Willie Ruff. 2. One tract of land. known as the Rose place. and containing twenty four and one quarter (24 1-4) acres, more or less, and bounded by lands of John F. 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