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THE PACIFIC MUTUAL LIfe Insurance Cnmpany of California Organized 1868 on "Old Line" Plan. Read what one who is recognized au thority on the subject, has to say: "Of late the magazines and daily papers have had much to say by way of criti cism of certain Life Insurance Compa nies, and especially with regard to the Legal Organization of such Companies, and of the m:anner of their control. These CRITICISMS do not apply to The Pacific Mutual, but DEMON STRATE the Truth of the Assertion that "for POLICY-HOLDERS The Pacific Mutual has the BEST Legal organization." It is not controlled by ONE or Two men, having no pecuniary interest or responsibility save as policy holders, or recipients of salary; But it is controlled by a BOARD of fifteen Directors, not mere dummies, but Stock holders in their own right, holding a large amount of the Company's stock, and Policyholners as well. The Direc tors of the Company are men of high Financial and Commercial standing, and are by LAW made RESPONSIBLE for the acts of the Officers of the CORPO RATION. "The Company has a capital stock of $500,000 Fully paid up in GOLD coin, but while this Capital and the Stock holders' responsibility afford to Policy. holders the GREATEST possible Secur ity, it Costs participating Policyholders NOTHING, but every dollar paid into the Company by them and the ACCU MULATION thereon, is applied to their BENEFIT. There is no Other LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY trans acting business in America whose Pol icyholders, by Legal enactment, are so Safe-guarded as are the Policyholders of The Pacific Mutual." O l on or write to me, ROBERT NoRRIs, Genl. Agt. for S. C., Newberry, S. C. Office over Post Office. Just received 2car loads of Buggies. I car load of Wagons. and a lot of up to-date and first class Harness. All to be had at REASONABL.E PRICES at A T. BROWN. Dr. R. M. Kennedy, DENTIST. Newberry, - - S. C. OVER NATIONAL BANK. Best Mineral As phalt Roofing. C. H. CANNON, Near C., N. &L. Depot BY A Newberry Steam Laundry Co1 EPOCHS IN SEA FIGHTS. Togo's Victory Ranks High in the Annals of Naval History. Admiral Togo's victory over the Russian fleet commanded by Rojest vensky undoubtedly will be given a commanding position in history among the decisive naval battles of the world. Lepanto, the Armada and Trafalgar are famous names, but it is probable that Togo's latest and most glorious triumph, by whatever title it is called, will be ranked near if not among them. Togo has been dubbed the Japanese Nelson, because of his conquests over Stark, Makaroff and Withoft, success ive commanders of the Port Arthur fleet; but now he is beginning to be :alled the Japanese Howard, after the earlier English admiral who, with the assistance r,f Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Hawkins, destroyed the "in vincible Armada" which Spain sent out to subdue and convert heretic England at the cannon's mouth. The defeat of Rojestvensky bears, indeed, a striking resemblance to the crush ing of the Spanish Armada in the reign of "Good Queen Bess," which is the most celebrated event in the long annals of British marine triumphs. Proud Armada Smashed. The Armada was to the sixteenth :entury what Rojestvensky's com mand was to the twentieth-the most powerful naval armament of its epoch. Every schoolboy is familiar with that old story from the pages of Kingsley's "Westward Ho!" if not From his text-books. Philip II., of Spain, determined to crush for all -ime the English wasp that had been !arassing his unweildly empire, gath ered 132 first-class ships of war and iundreds of smaller craft, under the :ommand of the Duke of Medina Si donia. The Armada carried 3,165 can non, 8,766 sailors, 2,088 galley slaves, z1,855 volunteers, 1,355 gentlemen vol inteers and their attendants, and 150 monks headed by Martin Alarco, vicar )f the inquisition. The voyage began May ig, 1588, and on July ig the mighty fleet entered the English channel. The combined forces of Lord Charles Howard, Drake and Hawkins engaged the enemy July 21, and for seven days a running fight raged, the sharpest conflict taking place July 25. On the 28th fire ships created a panic among the Spaniards as they lay at anchor, and many ves sels were burned. Disaster in Flight. The scattered ships were attacked again that day, and many were capt ured or sunk. Then the remnants of the Armada fled precipitately pursued for a time by the relentless English. They ci,rcumnavigated Scotland and Ireland, meeting heavy storms nearly all the way. In the retreat thirty-five ships were wrecked on bleak coasts, and 13,ooo men perished in the break ers or at the hands of the hostile peasantry. Queen Elizabeth attended a magnificent tha-nksgiving in St. Paul's Cathedral to celebra:e the vic tory, and medals, inscribed "Deus favit et dissipati sunt," was struck off to commemorate the event. A na tional memorial was erected July 19, 1888 Ano'ther world-famous naval con flict is the battle of Lepanto, by which the mastery of the Mediterranean was torn from the hands of the Turks. On October 7, 1571, the combined Chris tian fleets unde-r the command of Don John of Austria, a natural son of Emperor Charles V., representing Spain, Venice. Genoa. Malta and the papal state, shattered an immense Turkish armament in the bay of Le panto, off the western coast of Greece. The Mohammedans lost most of their galleys. 35,000 of their sailors and soldiers were slain or captured and 15.000 Christian galley. slaves were rescued from captivity. Nelson's Noted Fights. Ne-xt on the roll of fame comes Trafaigar. where the conquering Nelscn. mo rtally wvoundled. ordered that his !ast signal be: "England expects every man to do is duty." This battle, between the English and the joined French and Spanish fleets. okplace off Cape Trafalgar. Spain, Oct. 21. 1805. Nehon had twenty seven ships; Villencuve, the French admiral. eighteen, a' d the two Span ish commanders fifteen. Nineteen ships of the allied fleets were capt uired sunk or burned. Another of Nelson's famous battles was that of Ahoukir, or the Nile, Aug. ', t'gn where, by destroying the French fleet, he ended Napoleon's hopes of annex ing Egypt. Admiral Van Tromp, a doughty Hollander, almost succeeded in wrest ing the naval supremacy from Bri tannia in 1652. He figured in a fa mous series of conflicts called the battles of Dover Straits. Although first defeated by Admiral Blake, Sept. 28, he surprised the English fleet in the Downs a month later, his eighty A ships overwhelming the forty flying the Union Jack. Then he sailed up and down the channel unmolested, with a broom at the mast-head of his flagship to announce that he had swept the English from the seas. Blake Turns on Dutch. Blake defeated him again, Feb. 8-2o, 1653, off Portsmouth, destroy ing eleven men-of-war and thirty merchantmen; again off the North into Calais roads, and on July 31 took final revenge (by crushing the fleets of Holland and killing their admiral. At the battle of Campertown, south of the Texel, Holland, Oct. 11, 1797, England again conquered the Dutch on the sea, and ended their aspira tions for maritime power. Duncan command!cd the British and De Win- 4 ter the Dutch, fifteen of the latter's 4 ships being captured or destroy-4. But at La Hogue the Dutch were the allies of the British and helped them to defeat the French, thus averting a clescent upon the Eiigiish coast, and 4 probable invasion of the island. The battle took place off the northwestern oast of France, May 19, 1692, Russell and Rooke being in command of the allies, and Tourville of the French, w.ho lost twenty-one ships, thirteen of which were burned. Deeds of Paul Jones. In bright prominence in the thrill ing chronicles of sea fighting are the battles at which, the Stars and Stripes have waved over triumphant men-of war. First of the American naval victories were those of John Paul Jones, the revolutionary captain, whose little Bonhomme Richard and Pallas forced the British Serapis and Countess of Scarborough to surren der after a desperate engagement, although the Richard sank the next day. Then there was the famous duel between the frigate Coinstitution, captured by Isaac Hull, and the British Guerrierre, on Aug. 19, 1812, in which the Briton was humiliated in thirty minutes. H~e have met the enemy and they are ours," is the watchword which Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry made famous at the battle of Lake Erie, Sept. 10, 1813. With nine ves sels, carrying in all fifty four guns and 490 men, he defeated and capt ured the British fleet of six vessels, carrying sixty-three guns and 500 men, under R. H. Barclay, off Put in-Bay. His loss was 27 killed and 96 wounded; the enemy's 41 killed and 94 wounded. Among modern abattles, in which the terrible fighting machines con structed by nineteenth century in ventions have met in deadly conflict, are the battles of the Yalu, Sept. 17, 1894, in which the Japanese defeated the Chinese fleet: the battle of Manil a Bay, May 1. 1898, at which Dewey made history, and the battle of San tiago, July 3, 1898. when Cervera's5 ships were smashed in record-break ing time. His Only Magic. The old story of the Irishman who, when he was asked how he played upon the fiddle, answered, "Be main strength, be jabber!" is outdone. by the answer of a celebrated violinist to a lady who asked him the same question. "Oh. signor!" exclaimed the fash ionable dressed lady, with a gushing air. "By what magic doa you evoke such divine strains from your violin?" I have no magic. madam." answer ed the musician bluntly. "I have nothn'.:g but '.he how and rmy'hand.' Special Excursion. The Charleston & Western- Caro lina railroad wi run a special ex crion to Charleston, S. 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