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TOMES, Gaffney, SSout li Carolina. fOKYO S JOYOUS REVEL and torchlight procession In the even ing. and the Hags multiplied them- Beh s. The wild men who peddle ex tras dashed about the streets clanging Japanese Capital's Celebration of their bells and making a great fuss. Tokyo was really making a very un- Admiral Togo’s Victory. FLAGS FLAMED ON ALL SIDES. usual demonstration of her feelings, and there were plenty of signs of ex citement. It was not, in fact, the show' of feeling itself that made it noteworthy, but that it was shown. It was the contrast to the awesome quiet of the preceding days that made it suggestive. There was no organization about the demonstration that followed. One of the newspaper extras suggested that something of the sort ought to be done, but no committee was appointed, and there was nothing formal about it. It was simply the spontaneous ebullition of spirits, a truly popular show of Ju bilation. The word went around about midday that there would be a demon stration. and of their own accord the people began to gather at Hibiya park about dusk. At that hour, wherever one went about the dty, little groups of men and boys and even women and chil dren were seen hurrying along to the meeting place. They carried for the most part gay lanterns of bamboo and paper, all decorated with red lines or ligures on the white paper. These ware suspended from long, slender strips of bamboo, so that they were swung over the heads of those who carried them and bobbed back and forth us the people walked. Now and then Jags were carried with the lanterns, for the most part the white Hug with red bail center, which is the national Hag of Japan, hut sometimes the rising sun banner the krmy and navy. Occasionally also a union jack or the stars and stripes showed where some marchers Kt-tvs of tilt* Attack ou Port Arthur at Outbreak of the War Uuded koutf Period of Silence—Entb u«i- as11» Paraded the Street. With Oaf kuuteruM and Cheered the Trau*- pureueie* 'that Told of lioMtilitiea. The pull of solemn secrecy that hung over the Japanese capital for mox’e than u month was lifted and a ray of real e^thij^Lasm broke through on the day that .ice Admiral Togo's victory at Chemulpo and Tort Arthur was cel ebrated in Tokyo, says Oscar K. Da vis, the New York Uerald's correspond ent. A great change came over Tokyo. The stoics dropped their musks and revealed themselves us human beings, dth human emotions, subject to bu jan excitement. They came out of xeir shells and gathered in the streets and talked and laughed and cheered and acted just as any other people would who hud received news of a great naval victory over a powerful enemy. Their joy was real and infec tious. and they exhibited it with spirit and dignity. It was all startt*! by the receipt of reports from the main squad ron of ihe navy, under Vice Admiral Togo, to the effect that a battle had been fought off Port Arthur and a great victory won. The secrecy that had prevailed too! on an added character. It became al most breathless. Then ou the evening appreciated the friendship of Great of Feb. 'J suddenly, from no particu lar point, hut everywhere at once, th< word came that there had been a fight at Chemulpo and that the Japanese bad won. The liussians hud lost two ships, one of them the fine new Amer ican built cruiser Variag, the other the little gunboat Korktz. A little ripple of enthusiasm started on a cautious round of the city and, meeting with a friendly reception, suc ceeded iu inducing others to come out, so that by midnight there was a fair show of interested excitement, and the account of the engagement had grown to the to be expwted proportions. Then came the big news on Feb. 10. The Japanese squadron had come up to Port Arthur and found the Rus sian ships outside the harbor. In the darkness of midnight the Japanese tor pedo boats had sneaked into the en trance of the harbor, getting behind the Russian ships. Then Togo’s fight ing Hue closed in. The Russians endeavored to retire into the harbor and were met in the mouth by the torpedoes. Three were destroyed at once, the flagship Cesare- vitch, the first class American built battleship Retvizau and the big cruis er Paliada. The Russians drew off to wait for daylight, leaving the Japanese in iK^ssession of the entrant .* to the harbor. There the report left Togo standing between the Russian and his base and defying bis enemy to come on. There was no definite authority for this ivport. The naval authorities at the department maintained their si- le-ice and simply replied to all ques tioning that there had been no report Sjk’roin N ice Admiral Togo Still, every ^ an you met assured you that it was absolute fact, and details were [illy forthcoming. Jill Sbimpo. which has the rep utation of being the most reliable Newspaper of Tokyo, got out an extra, saying that the information had been received by a “certain department” from a reliable source, which might have meant anything. But there was enough for the people to go on. Flags appeared as if by magic all around the city. In the streets there were long double lines of tin m hang ing from the windows of the shops and dwellings. Some of the more ex citable of the peoi le carried little ones about, and many wore them in button hole or hatband. The soldiers of the reserve had uo question for the ac curacy and reliability of the nows. They congratulated one another vigor ously. Then about noon came certain con firmation of the fact that there In I been u fight. The captain of a British Ship reported at Chefu that ou leaving Port Arthur he had seen the two squadrons at it and that the Russians had lost two battleships ind a cruiser. The undemonstrative Japanese let themselves go after that. .Word went urrxmA flint there would /ie h luuteri) Britain and the United States. And now, too, there were cheers. I had begun to think the Japanese had forgotten how to cheer, but the ban- zais that went up were more than enough to remove that suspicion. Even the children showed that they could yell as well as their elders. The groups rushing through the streets met every rickshaw with banzais, and the foreigner who looked like an Amer ican or an Englishman was followed wherever he went by plenty of cheers. By 7 o'clock liibiyu park was crowd ed with paraders. The students of the military and naval schools were out en masse, and they carried torches in stead of lanterns. Two or three bands had been engaged also, and songs had been improvised for the occasion. In a remarkably orderly fashion the pro cession was formed at the park and began to march toward the grounds of the imperial palace. There was no attempt at regular or ganization, but of their own accord and as suited them best the people fell In iu a very good column and marched along. Part of the time it was col umn of foqrs, sometimes more and sometimes fewer. They marched when they felt like it and stopped when they pleased to cheer or sing. Ou the flunks of the column bung throngs of men and women who were not carrying lanterns or torches, but who proceeded with the column and were In fact part of it. Mounted po licemen, carrying rod and white lan terns. rode along with the column, but there was no occasion for the display of their authority. The crowd was good natured and orderly throughout. At the gate in front of the iin]>erial palace the head of the procession halt ed. The paraders pressed against the gate and the railings that guard the moat and cheered and waved their lanterns frantically. From the palace there was no sign that any one with in knew anything of what was going on. The building itself could not be distinguished in the dark from the gate, hut that did not diminish the en thusiasm el the marchers in the least. When the head of the column halted, all those behind stopped also, and there was no crowding forward. Each seemed perfectly willing to wait pa tieuily for his turn to stand before the gate and cheer. When those at the head hud cheered enough to satisfy them for awhile, they moved on. When the next section stopped, those In the lead waited also. There was no hurry anywhere, no crowding and pushing. It was a fine, clear, starlit night, dark enough to give full effect to the lan tern display, which was very line. All over the spacious grounds in front of the palace there were lanterns carried by persons who did not care to Join the marching column, and the great mass of them, with those in the col umn, was like a multitude of giant lirellles swayed about by u gently moving breeze. * »•<•» -S' *« *e*U-*' Only the students had attempted to make more show than by the use of lanterns. They had rigged up a few transparencies. About these there was the only pushing along the column. The outsiders were so anxious to get close enough to read the inscriptions that the boys were unable to hold their transparencies against the rush. So they employed a couple of stout wres tlers for each transparency, and after that the crowd might shove as it would with no damage to the display. A few banners with long inscriptions were also carried. Two of the transparencies made great hits with the crowds of onlook ers. One represented Admiral Alex- eieff as a prisoner being led up the street between two little Japanese sailor men. The other showed a Japa nese sailor with a coolie’s bar across his shoulders lugging along two bas kets, one suspended from each end of the bar and both filled with Russian warships. The students stood a long time in front of the palace and sang all their songs to the accompaniment of a band. It took nearly two hours for all the paraders to cheer themselves out in front of the palace, for there were thr<*e or four thousand of them. When they finally got away they went down to the navy department and repeated the performance. But here they were not so slow. Perhaps their throats were tired with yelling. At the navy department the procession broke up, the paraders going away In little groups, as they had come, scattering through the streets back to their homes, but still carrying their lan terns and still with a 1 isky cheer at the slightest provocatioi. It was aft er midnight before the g ounds around the department building-> were cleared of the lantern bearers. And this is the way Tokyo celebrated the Japanese victory. "MACHINERY i 1 1 IIWI Ml Kinds and for all Purposes, /j When in the MarKet for ENGINES, BOILERS, SAW MILLS, AND WOODWORKING MACHINERY, GRIST MILLS, BRICK MACHINERY, ETC*, —WRITE TO— “THE MACHINERY PEOPLr W.h.Gibbes&Co. •'COLUMBIA, S. C. ; | The Gibbes Portable Shlnnlr Machine, t Easter Sunday Would You 1 is the first Sunday in April. Have you bought your Easter Suit? If not, go to Wilkins-Bristow Clothing Co. and select something that is strictly “up-to-date” in every respect. We will have a more complete line of Clothing and Furnish ings this season than ever before. 7? m i vry- 1 1 Source of Coal For Japan’s JTavy. The coal for the Japanese fleet comes chiefly from the island of Hokkaido or Yezo, to the north of the island of Nip pon. the largest in the empire, says the London Globe. The two ports supply ing it are Mororan, on the south coast, and Otaru, on the west coast. At pres ent one company, the Hokkaido Tunko Tetsudo Kaisha, a wealthy corporation owning mines, railways and wharfs, provides the fuel of the imperial navy, which is bituminous and of high grade. The Sire of Manchuria. Manchuria corresponds in latitude to Manitoba, North Dakota, South Dako ta, Minnesota and Nebraska. Its area of 3<;Z,310 square miles is only 10,000 square miles less than the combined area of these great grain states. It is two and one-half times greater than California and is as big as Texas, Ala bama and Louisiana combined. In the northern part of the province are thou sands of square miles of rich wheat land entirely untouched. Manchuria has a possible wheat area as great as that of the United States.—National Geographic Magazine. / like to secure a picture of yourself which is different from those produc- ed by the mechani cal photograper? A faithful repre sentation of the features is, perhaps the main object, but our Photograplis are something more than cold, colorless productions. By skilful posing and effective dis tribution of light and shade, careful toning and fine fin ish, our photo graphs are raised to the level of high art. JUNE H. CARR, 625 Limestone St., Phone 176. Residence 171. Wilkins-Bristow Clothing Co., One Cash Price to Everybody. Pneumonia May be Prevented. If a cold lingers, there is danger of pneumonia. If LaGrippe leaves the lungs in an inflamed condition, there is great danger of pneumonia. Pre vent this fatal disease by using Ry- dale’s Elixir; it cures colds quickly and leaves the throat and lungs sound. It is the best remedy for that peculiar inflamed condition of tiie lungs that so frequently follows LaGrippe. This modern scientific throat and lung remedy is a safe remedy for young and old, in all throat and lung diseases. Gaffney Drug Go. Happy, Healthy Children. Any child can take Little Early HI sers with perfect safety, harmless, never gripe or yet they are so certain i robust constitutions requiring dras tic means arc never disappointed. They cannot fail to perform their mis sion and every one who uses Dewitt’s Little Early Risers prefer them to all other pills. They cure biliousness. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co. Dr. S. H. Griffith, PHYSIC AN SURGEON - OCULIST. Former pupil of the celebra ted Oculist, Dr. Julian J. Chisolm, ot Baltimore. Has also taken s]>eeial post-grad uate course in the Kjre, Far, Nose and Throat Hospital of Baltimore. Glasses Fitted Accurately and Scientifically.' w a j* j* IbjrOflice in Cherokee Drug Co., B’ldg. ^BALE’S T0N15 A REAL CURE FOR LA-AXjAJRIA.. U has recently been discovered that me germs that produce Malaria, breed ,.ud multiply in the intestines and tiom •...ere spread throughout the system ' ■ / means of the blood. This fact ex r’.x.ns why Malaria is hard to cure by the old method of treatment. Quinine, iron, etc., stimulate the nerves ana build up the blood, but do not destroy the germs that cause the disease, 'vydale’s Tonic has a specific effect vV>n the intestines and bowels, freeir" •hem from all disease breeding nu- vrobes. It also kills the germs that •nust the veins and arteries. It drives *ii the blood all poisonous matter makes it rich and healthy. BYDALES TONIC is a blood er, a nerve restorer, and a Malaria Try it, it will not disap For All The News of Cherokee county read the only up-to-date paper published in the county. The Ledger has the largest paid - in - advance subscrip tion of any semi-weekly newspaper in the State. Only $1.00 a year, strictly in advance. :: :: :: THE LEDGER. oir *~ <,yer. ..;it you. GAFFNEY DRUG CO. Letters ot Administration. - " State of South Carolina, 1 * > 4 County of Chkkokkk. / By J. E. Webster, esquire, probate judge. Whereas, Mrs. Victoria Gaffney has mude suit to me, to grant her letters of administration of the effects of Junius H. Gaffney, deceased. These are therefore to cite and admon- 1 i,'..]] KP ish 'all and singular the kindred and ' ‘ . , creditors of the "aid Junius H. Gaffney, BttflClini6Ilt8, Complete 111 The only sew- made with cog Tuesday, March 29th, 1904, next after motion ill the Jinn and with publication thereof, at eleven o’clock in double feed. These are the the forenoon, to show cause, if any they The Accompanying Cut Represents the latest im proved New Home Hewing Machine with ball-bearing et of best steel tile Early Hi- creditors 01 me samjunius ji. <»auney, r. They are deceased, that the> U- and appear before every detail, r sicken, and me, in the couit of probate, to 1m- held at • inap i 1 : np n results that Cherokee court house, Gaffney, S. C., on 1 ' 1 ' have, why the said administration should not t*e granted. Given under my hand, this 12th day of March Anno Domini. 1904. J. K. Wkbstkk, [L. S.] Probate Judge. March 18th-25th, 1904. One Minute Cough Cure For Coughs, Colds and Croup. FOLEYSHONEMCAR Cures Colds; Prevents Pneumonia BANNER SALVE the most heaUng salve in the world. most important features in any machine. Not peddled, not sold by so-called cata logue bargain houses. Price a little higher and the ma chine lots better than others. 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