Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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i IL ^ > . . 4 4 *«. SI *Oi JLj^ /*> riLEFlELD a or. n rTr '. L-Lj i..; * Loc E: ’ j. -*-» j. — ^ Scene of the *rnent. I1T SECTION? Goni-i' Khinu.:.> iiiuife. tl»c ISxi c-U hone of Slaiiol:;:ria — < roK»;«*»l l»>- tiie Taitne Itivor—Liaoj :mar In a Wailotl Cll>- (•uilt I’our S«iutlre. The disimidie.s leave the position of Liaoyan-c, the scene of the recent great battle between the Russian ami Japanese forces, somewhat vague, it is really quite clear, says the New York Herald. The general situation is determined by the Khingan ridge, which forms the backbone of Man churia. This ridge runs from the south of Port Arthur right up to the great bend of the Amur river at Khaba rovsk, and is. in fact, the cause of that bend, the Amur itowiug round it to the north. On the east of this back bone ridge lies the valley of the Yalu. On the west of the same ridge lies the valley of the Liao river. The lighting since early spring has been for the possession of this ridge, which was crossed by the Japanese in the vari ous battles of the passes. From tins main backbone ribs of low hills go westward into the Liao river plain. The railroad from Port Arthur crosses several of these Fits, and in parts it resembles a switchback rail way. Between each pair of ribs a stream liows down into the plain, go ing generally due we. t and joining the Liao river in the valley. This valley is of immense fertility and is coveted with magnllicent holds, with numer ous villages and farms and number less tombs, each marked with a tuft of trees, generally elms, willows or firs and pines. It is recorded that the elms near Liaoyang are heavily deck ed with mistletoe. From Tashicluto, the junction for Port Arthur and New. hvraug, the d's- tance north to Lia trang is forty miles, chiefly along the foothills of t! o ridge and across the various ribs. The streams between the ribs are mountain torrents, liable to sudden hoods from cloudbursts, and the bridges, one of M. do Witte's masterpieces, .allow for these floods by the* g’eat liiigbt of their arches. Westward of the rail road. toward the great wall, are mag- nitieently irrigated and cultivated plains, producing tobacco, cotton, mil let, hemp and such fruits as pears, grapes, peaches and cherries. The last rib of hills from the main backbone is some four or live miles south of Liaoyang city, the backbone being in sight to the east of the town The mountain stream corresponding to this rib is the Tnitse river, which liows just north of tl •• {> ; in a wide, snm'.v bed, with ii" - n! banks, o • of which divides its stream into two main brandies. The Russian position was a half circle, the southern front was on the rib of hills four or live miles south of the c.iy. while the right and left wings touched the Taitse riv er,*thus practically endrding die town of Liaoyang. Tin* Japanese position was south of the rib of hills and stretched in a larger semicircle outside the sendcirde of the Russian troops. The land between the southern rib of hills and the city is Hat and richly cul tivated. It is dotted with suburban villages and is largely covered witn market gardens and fruit orchards. To the east of the t ».vn tin* ground grad ually rises till it passes through the chief industry being the distilling < f a native liquor from the hemp and millet of the surrounding lidds. Sonih of the til' of 1 ids already de- •cvibed. ami which bear the name of Khoushan. is anot! or small plain which in it< firn is bounded on the south by aim!;-. .• iib. of which Anslian. the •■Saddle i d!." is l .c chief peak. Anshan-dum. or ‘'Saddle hiil village,” is muew uahy as 1 eing the in > ;t north- ■•dv n oi r.-ndu 1 by the Japanese A Heroic 'Rescue 1 s:H-.. !.io:i I;t-iormined by the ‘’ ‘ nl 11 * 1, ; ! i-Japunf Thrilling Experience of Sac. Cc.ptc.in In Sa.'C- + essence rs. armies in the • n >-.lap ne-e war of isni-bd. At \iis n they m.-ern a feint at Liaoyang. u’ idi was one of the strongest cent, is of Chinese troops, mid then turned southward to New ell wang. It was at this place that «leneral Ku- ropathin lost an important engage ment, which opened the road north- wn"d toward Li; oyniig for the Japu- no'o. Siii'-e the « igement at Shan- dian the .laieinesc have for the first time been traversing new ground, not fought over in the Cliino-.Iapanese war. j- ‘•‘O F-* Three Trips In Hoilins t g Tc ".srer. Z inljutf Ship a n J css 1 Lh v.. g /> Vcl- itMic*.v.u y\ssisic.ncc. JAPAN’S BEST MEN. If the Carnegie hero fund were only applicable to past expl >.is Finlay Fra ser of Brooklyn borough. New York city, would < csorve to be one of the first beneficiaries. Forty seven years igo he helped vave nearly a hundred "When the boats wore filled we east •IT and pulled for the brig, a mile iway. And no boy s play it was, I can Ell you, rowing through that whirl of waters, with the wind howling like a million maniacs and the water churn ed Into foam. Sometimes we would be down in the trough so we couldn't see titber vessel, and the next moment we would lx* on to]* of a wave so high we could look down at the tops of their masts. “If it hadn’t been for the presence of mind of one woman I don’t think we ever would have saved our first boat load. When about midway between the two vessels a giant wave broke above our heads and half filled the boat with water. The woman of whom I speak seized a tin pan and bailed for dear life, keeping the boat afloat and saving us all. “Well, we made three trips, saving all the women and children and forty- live of the men. On our third trip It had grown dark, and when we reached the Marine and had hoisted our last passenger aboard every man jack of RUBBER STAMPS Arc my long suit. I make any kind except the bad ones. I furnish a Name Stamp ami an Indelible Bad for Marking Linen for 4.Q CENTS. 1 have some other good things. J. VVI! .«-i<>>i C. I 111ICCW, Tyj)ewriters, Office Supplies, Etc. 1334 MAIN STREET. COLUMBIA, S. C. Two Dollars I and A. fi• ilitlrs Say* *»!;«- C'nn I*ut 500,1X10 of ’I hem In the Field. In all the world I have never seen finer fellows than some of Japan's troops, says A. (}. Hales in the London 1 billy News. The Tokyo guards were superb, and the general body of the in- fr.ntry very iim* indeed. The best tlx* nation Las is now at the front. For live long years .In]).'in was selecting those men. picking them, choosing! them, trying them, getting them ready tor that fateful February day when j he'd was to be let loose upon the peace ful earth. The Russian officers in Japan saw the prepur; ii >ns and sneered. Today they are reaping the reward of those cheap sneers. I made it my business to look beyond the army corps the Japanese were rushing to the front while I was In Japan. I went into the interior of the country as far as I could got in com pany with a fellow journalist of great eNperieuce. I looked at the men from whom the mikado will have to draw his ligjuin;: forces a year hence, when the grand fellows he now hi s in action are killed or worn out with wounds and marching, torn to pieces by the eternal strain of a long continued sir aggie, s.aittc cd by the frightful horrors of a winter campaign. That they will cie like heroes at the eoin- m. ml of i. eir ruler all the world knows, an 1 when tho.\ are dead or neii tbt-.> m'e stale and sole they will have to be replaced. And 1 do not think that when she is tried to the utterm >..t J ip .n e. n. from first to i.ist, put more than ooo.tmo really high 'lass 1. en into ti.e held. There is a MTinondous drop in the caliber of the ik.ss tie lighters are coining from. M ny generations ot semislavery, of iil breeding, of low diet, of wretched pay and ccasi less work have thinned • ! ' and t!iO"(* is even n l «•; v. ■ n coolies and me 1 mso 1 nave rcierrc . to tiian theie is between the coolies of India and the 1 Sikhs and tno tlhourkas. lives under thrilling circumstances. It was at the wreck of the steamship i the crew refused to make another trip Central America, which went down in and swarmed up to the brig's deck. midocean with -114 souls. Here is the story of the wreck ns told by Mr. Fra- j ser: “In 1S.77 1 was quartermaster on the steamer Central America, plying be- CLUBMcN FiSH SELLERS. THE NEXT MOMENT WE WOULD BE ON TOT OK A WAVE. tween New York and Aspinwall. J'he was one of the old side wheelers, with : 11 the ap;dianecs for sailing as well. In the early part of September, 1MY7, we left Aspinwall for New York with a heavy mail, a large amount of ex press matter and i?l,‘JOt>,000 In gold in our strong boxes, lOo sailors and 474 passengers, of whom twenty-five were women and twenty-five children. The steamer was commanded by Captain Herndon, whose daughter afterward Ili-mnte to Kuril .Money For \i_-w lioiiNe. To obtain n. na y for a new clubhouse they are t * build, members of tbe owl became the wife of President Arthur, dub of Sdtuate. Mass., became fish j| e xv . >s fl t that time a commander In peddlers the other day and in two the United States navy. In those days hours dis' i/. c 1 of Itifi fish out of fiOt) nounds which the members bad caught curing ti.e day, says a Boston special disoi.idi. When the cargo came into town Scit- uatc 11 hcriiicu gasped, and friends of fothiils into tla* backbone ridge, the cm.» nx lasers d.d likewise, for the first, the he cl c its o. none of the nieiii'x i'.s Northward of the city eoca* wide sandy I ed of the Taitse river and then the fiat, richly cultivated plain, twenty-live miles in extent, which di- Mukden. Wcsi- vidcs Liaoyang froi ward of lie town of Lia-t.vang tie country is generally fiat and extends In an open plain toward the main val ley of the Liao river, into which the Taitse flows. The city is built four square. It is sternation of Seituate lisli dealers. would bold his individual capture, and t*-e club refrigerator was devoted to other purposes. Mr. Xewdick conceiv- iil the i lea of selling tla* fish. A wagon was hired, and Mr. Now- dak and Charles Manson, attired in appropriate costumes, drove about the town hawking the fish, to the amuse ment of the townspeople and the eon* surrounded by walls of stone, topped by brick and crenelated for archery or j gun fire. The walls run north and south and east and west. There is a main gate in the center of each wall— thus there Is a north gate, a south gate, an east gate and a west gate. The north gate ojKins out on the Taitse riv er. The west gate opetis on the rail road station and the Russian cavalry barracks, close to the station. From the south gate the old Imperial road goes southward to Newchwang. From the | east gate another imperial road goes eastward to Anplng and thence to the Y’ulu and Korea. The dty measures two and a half miles north and south by two miles east and west, or, rather, this is the extent inclosed by the walls. But the walled space, five square miles iu area, is far too large for the hundred thousand Chinese and Mauchu Inhab itants, and much of it is laid out in Market gardens. Tbe city Itself re sembles ail Chinese walled cities, ex- cept that its streets have, for the last five or six years, been kept somewhat cleaner and lighted at night, by order of the Russians. There is only one slight elevation within the walls, on which stands the Imperial treasury. The Buddhist temple to Kwan Y4n, the goddess of mercy, Is the finest object architecturally, while the mission sta tions are the most Interesting to west erners. These had some 1,200 con verts five years ago, but as Liaoyang was the center of tbe Boxer movement In Manchuria many were terrorized In to relinquishing their new faith. The missionaries relate with pride how one of their number. Hr. West water, pre vented the Russians from storming the city when they were putting down the Boxer uprising by armed f *rce. Liao yang ns "I to be tv* capita! cf southern Manchuria and is still imp >rtant, its A KruJEer Collection. President Kruger is said to have ex pressed a hope on Ids deathbed that certain of ids personal effects might find a resting place la a national mu seum at Pretoria, should it ever be pos sible to establish one there. His wishes applied particularly to copies of the several constitutions of the republic naval officers were granted leave of absence of one, two or three years, with the privilege of engaging In other oc cupations. “Coming hack wo made Havana, both for coal and to transfer passengers to the boats plying between that city and New Orleans. We left Havana on Sept. \ 18.77, and almost immediately en countered heavy weather. On the morn ing of the 12th I went on watch at 4 o’clock. The vessel at that time was keeled over until one paddle box was almost submerged. Captain Herndon ordered me to have the spanker set. to bring the vessel’s head up to the t>ea. You onn imagine the force of the wind when l tell you that the Jackstny, on which the spanker ran, was fastened into the mast with spikes ten inches long. Well, the spank er went overboard, holding on only by the sheet. To relieve the vessel orders were given to cut away the foremast. When this was done, of course, every thing went I y the hoard. “Then 1. e vessel sprung a leak, and th.e water begun coming in faster and faster as tbe breach widened until leaving Quartermaster Raymon and me alone in our boats. We pleadel with the crew, but it was no use. Couldn’t hardly blame them, e ther. They were cold and wet and hungry, and. besides, it was bad enough r »\v- ing through that hell of water in day light. let alone in the dark. Yv’e two tovld da* nothing, of course, but we re mained in our boats, trailing along astern of the brig, hoping the crew might think better of it and try again. The brig kept drifting farther from the steamer, which was burning blue lights. Suddenly, about S o’clock, we noticed the aft lights go out, then those amidships, and finally those at tin* fore disappeared. We knew right well what had happened. The steam er had gone down with every soul on board. Then Raymon and I went aboard tla* brig, which was also partially disabled by the frightful storm. Wo asked the captain to wear up toward t!a* wreck and try to rescue any who might be lighting for life, which he did as well as he could. “That night about 10 o'clock a Swel ls!! bark bore down upon us. for we were flying distress signals and firing rockets by Ibis time, it was very dark, and the wind had begun to freshen again. As wo found out afterward, the captain of the Swedish vessel was standing a) ngside the man at the wheel when a h.rgo sea bird Hying past struck him a roart blow in tla* face with one of its wings. With the super stition peculiar to seafaring men he considered it an omen of something and ordered the man at t)ie wheel to change the course of the vessel three points in the direction indicated by tla* blow la* had received. This was done, and in ton minutes his vessel was iu the neighborhood of where the Central America went down, and he found a hundred or so swimming around and hoi ling on t > spars and what not. and he \v.;s aide to save seventy of them. "Then we headed for Norfolk. In the afternoon of the 13th we spoke a ship and procured some food for the women and children, as tbe vessels we were on were provisioned only for their crews. When near Norfolk wo met one of our own steamers coming out, and we were taken to New York. “There was great excitement In that city when tidings of the disaster were received from Norfolk, for the sad news arrived long before we did. When we reached our pier at the foot of Warren street we found thousands of ••A Shoe i4s Good As Its Name. ” Fifty Cents ^ Buys from us the American Girl Shoe. The best ladies shoe on earth for the money. See the new ^ fall styles at ^ The R. S. Lipscomb Shoe Co's, i is creating a demand for Cough Medicines. We just want to remind vou that if one 50c bottle of NATURE’S COUGH REMEDY doesn’t cure your cough, cold or bronchial affection, that we will cheerfully refund your money. We prepare this medicine from carefully selected, vegetable drugs and sell every bot tle on a guarantee. It is a perfectly safe remedy. It is the only prescription filled in Gaffney that is sold on a positive guarantee. Only at The Gaffnef Drug Co.. L*c:>< > 1-c i Prescription Druggists. tl it-i H c > i~i c < 11 This Bank Pays Four Per Cent. On All Deposits. Gaffney Savings Bank. and t.i a number of relics which might be presumed to possess a national in 1 finally it put out the fires In the fur- lerest for the B *er people. , naces and we were entirely helpless,, for you couldn't have carried a rag of The C'iHrnretle Imhrella. sail In that storm. The crew w >rke(! Ah ingenious novelty Is m the shape faithfully, hut soon it became nppar- of an umbrella which the most modest maldoo might carry without giving suspicion t! w it concealed in the handle cut that unless the gale subside! we wen* iloomed. •When the nows went around tbal were and a match box. collapsible cigarette bolder we were probably living our last day A lieekonlni;. l“Tta-re will ccmc a reckoning wild Sngluml. * * * W*- r< ognlze h< r ns our Ho •*nemy, who has stood In the ]r-,th of Rus sian development.’’—Prliicc IK-spere Ouk- tomsky.] Vo who would reckon with Kmdnnd— Ye who would sweep the s. ;s Of the t!ag that Rodney n; lied aloft Ard Nelson tlurrr to the breeze— Count well your ships and your men, Count well your norso and your guns, For they who re-kon with Kngland ft jst reckon with England's sons. Ye who would chalbnitx' England— Yo who would lu-e-ik th<» might Of the little isle in the foggy sea And the 11- n h< art in the tight— Count wt 11 jour horse and your swordr, Weigh well your valor and guns. For they w ho ride against England Must saber her million sons. Yc who would roll to warfare Your hordes o' p-asar.ts and slaves To nrurh the pride of an i mo|ro And sink her fcr.e In the waves Test well y >.r b!o< d and your IT Count well jorr troop and v< ur irans For th'-y who tattle v.-• i ! >\ i Must war vhh a -d> : —Theodore UH erts in l.ui t n.nnt >n earth there was no panic among the passengers, even the women and chil dren accepting their fate with seeming resignation. At 2 p. m. we sighted a vessel to windward, which proved to he the brig Marine. We were Hying signals of distress and firing guns to attract attention. Tbe Marini* saw us and bore down toward our steamer. Captain Herndon hailed tlx* brig and asked lier captain to stand by and ren der such aid as was possible^ "Nearly all our boats bad been washed away the night previous. Only two were left, and these were Immedi ately lowered. Quartermaster Ray- mon and 1 volunteered to take charge of thorn, although it looked almost like going to certain death. Then with a volunteer crew for each boat we began tlx* rescue. No objection was made by any one when it was announced !'• ’t Hip women nv 1 children should go fi-st. i"d we beg-!n lowering them into !’ i* ’> vits. This was a p —Hons job, I ■ •• e yon. We phi'-i 1 a running . i i* around tlx* I* * - *’ each person ’ ’xweved t!x*i w'!!. Rio r >■»«.< Capital Stock Paid In Thirty Thousand Dollars. D. C. Ross, Brest. J. Q. Little, J. A. Carroll, B. L. Hamks, J. G. Warplaw. Vice-B. Directors. J. N. Lipscomb, R. M. Wilkins, W. C. Carbknter, D. C. Ross. Maynard Smyth, Cashier. William Jefferies, J. G. Wardlaw, O. E. Wilkins, CUTE THE STEAMER HAD GONE DOWN. people waiting to meet us. Many of the passengers had relatives and friends in New York and Brooklyn, as well ns in all the surrounding towns. “Only four of the steamer’s ofilcers were saved. Quartermasters Long, Raymon and myself and Second Officer James Fraser. Before we left the Cen tral America on our first trip Captain Herndon went to Ills room and dressed himself in full United States naval uni form. Then he came on deck and took his gold watch from his pocket and gave It to one of the passeng rs who j was to go In tlx* first boat, with the request that If he survived lx* should give it to Captain Herndon's widow with 'nls love. 1 ascertained afterward that ihls trust was faithfully dls charged." I have “knifed” the prices on all Slippers, Straw Hats and summer Dress Goods. Now is your time to get Slippers and Straw Hats for less than whole sale price. My entire line of summer goods, consisting of Lawns, India Linens, Batistes, Organdies, Dotted Swiss, Dimities and White Waistings in lace-stripe effects will he sold at cost for cash—no goods charg- ed iu this sale. I will also close out a lot of Ladies Summer Under vests at greatly reduced prices during this sale. We will offer a big lot of youths’, boys’and chil dren’s Suits at cost for the next few days. Bring the little gents around and let us fit them up in a nice suit for a little money. We will also offer a few men’s two-piece Suits at cost to close out. We have had a very flattering trade on Negligee Shirts and Gent’s Furnishings generally but still have a nice assortment to select from. See us be fore buying your shirts. Good Flour from $2.00 to $2.00 per 100—every sack guaranteed. One and two two quart Fruit Jars at prices that can’t be beat. If you are looking for goods at money-saving prices go to my store at Goforth’s, S. C., or come to my store in the city. Yours for trade, J- -i n N.