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JAPS USE OF TELEPHONE. Commanding General Was in Com munication With Entire Field. F.iectrical Review. The rapiKity with wich the Jap>an ,ese es:ablished telep:T ne co;mmumi cati(n was remarkab_e. -Lines were 'i Weli in advance of he main body Otr rp:. even when the army was advancing by forced marches and per tect c''nnection was maintained at all times between the different divisions Wherever conditions permitted the ree(s of wire and the instruments were carried in wagons. The line was laid on the ground as rapidly as horse drawn vehicles could advance. If the !ine sc laid was to become permanent J a detail vollowed the wagon at leisure t and attached the wire to trees or .has- e ti!y crectei supports. ifying 1ines. or lines within the zone of action. which connected t th commandcer's headquarters with the various divisions on the firing' line, the detail following the reel wag- c on merely laid the wire in protected c places on the ground where it was y least likely to be disturbed. These e lines were taken up, moved, or aban- t cloned as occasion demanded. Where the nature of the country or other , conditions rendered the advance of a I. wagon impossible or inexpedient, the a line was advanced by men 'carrying i1 coils of wire on their shoulders. t Each division was kept in touch with and under the supervision of the general staff by Tneans of telephonic t, c3mmunication. From the sub-divis ions of each portion of the army tele- t: phone lines were run to a portable n switch-board, and from the various n switchboards trunk lines were run to s ,headquarters several miles to the rear. Thus the parts of each portion of the s arny were made to correspond with i the subscribers of a telephone sub-sta- a tion in a large city, the headquarters being analogous to the central sta- ih tion to which all the subsidiary sta- r, tions are connected by trunk lines. f, The Japanese general thus had com plete control of his entire army and h could work his forces to the best ad- d vantage at all times and under all c circumstances; the movements so di- t, rected were at the same time quick a and accurate. Moreover, for these f, reasons it was possible to use a much thinner line than ever handled previ- u "ously, and also to reverse the usual ;, -order of procedure, namely, to extend s and strengthen the flanks of the army g at the expense of the centre instead t of depending, as heretofore, upon the centre to help out the flanks in cases of emergency. He was able at all times to strike a blow at any weak spot that developed itself in the Rus -sian line on account of the fact that he was instantly informed of such 'weakness by telephone, and because by the same means he could immedi ately give orders for the necessary1 'ttacks. TWO SIGNIFICANT INCIDENTS. President Roosevelt Pays Proper Postage and Promotes Peace. Dr. jas. H. Carlisle in S. C. Advocate. t Two incidents have taken place t lately that were gratifying to those I who read them in our papers. A let ter directed to President Roosevelt< was detained in a post office for lack ofa stamp. Due notice was given him, at the White House. and he at once sent it, and received his letter. That was a little. commonplace af-1 fair, but it is full of meaning. Our president is a law-abiding citizen. Great relief was felt all over the woild when it was stated that Presi dent Roosevelt had made linowvn to the two great warring nations of Eu rope and Asia that he would gladly open :he way for them to consider the question of speedy, honorable peaLcC. It has been most gratifying that his delicate suggestion was prop erly irceived. This was not because the; ';fer was made by a gallant sol die:. cr a popular author, or an ar denm Lear hun:er. The white flag of trlace was raised by t'he president of a gieat codfntry-a man on whom a mrighty r.ation had set its seal. He is, ina ense, the embodied spirit and powetr of many millions of freemen. The people he represents know what war means. They have earned the rig[t to come out in a crisis as a na tional peacemaker. In all the quali ties which the field of honorable war won a high place in history. And the two SectiOns intO which our country has been unhappiiy divided have learned :' re;pect each other. Under code of hior. when blood was .irawn. that was supposed to be a tew tage in the difticulty, opening a f hope. f r an honorable adjust nent. The North and South each ias shed and drawn blood enough to make a lasting peace. founded on :iutual confidence and regard. Dr. Francis Lieber believed that a wound >n a manly face does not leave a dis iguring scar, and added. "Most iistoric nations have their scars." ['his is certainly true of the great em )ire from which we are proud to draw nr historic life. The civil wars of ngland at first divided. and then uni ed. the parties. A wise English writ r of the last century, Isaac Taylor, tates a great truth, in striking words: It is certain that a people. whose his orv is marked by no blood-stains feep and broad-has never yet held piace for itself, !pon the map of ontinents." John C. Calhoun entered ongress in iSi, on the eve of the war rith England. He closed one of his arliest speeches. May 6th. 1812, with his sentence: "Sir. I assert it with confidence, a ar just and necessary in origin. wise r and vigorous carried on and honor bly terminated, would establish the itegrity and prosperity of our coun rv for centuries." A few months later. December 4th, 312, the closed another speech as )l lows: "We cannot, without hazard,neglect hat which makes men love to be 1embers of an extensive commu ity-the love of greatness-the con ciousness of strength. So long as Lmerican is a proud name, we are afe-but the day we are ash'amed of the Union is more than half de troyed." To say exactly what John C. Cal oun would do, if alive today, would equire an-other Calhoun. We may el confident that he would bring his reat mind to bear on the new and ard problems that are before us to ay. He would give his conclusions learly and frankly. He would grant > others the right of free thought nd free speech wthich he claimed >r himself. He would still prize the roud title of American. He would se all proper means to close the war 1 the East, and also to restrain the ectional feelings in our. "far-flung" aily of states. He would know at neither religious nor political odies have anything to gain by fierce rars with guns or pens or tongues. Let our president send an extra ostage stamp when it is due. Then et him take his pen, or a telegraph ;ire, to send abroad a message of eace and good will to other nations. ~nd may his administration have a reat triumph in bringing more close y together the North and the South, like sister streams wvhich some rude, lterposing rock had split." Dr. Wmn. F. Edwards-The Noted Divine Healer. Mr. Editor-Please allow me. space hrough your valuable paper to return hanks to the people of Newberry, own and county, for their patronage. have travelled and advertised myself d my work throughout thirty-one ounties in this state. I am sorry to ay, but must confess the truth, this vas the hardest place in which I ever ttempted to work. However, I have ~ucceeded and will be able to secure nore white representatives from New erry town and county than any other :own and county in the state, except Drangeburg and Yorkville. Had I she same privileges in Newberry as I have had everywhere else throughout the state instead of -having on roll 195 patients I feel assured that I would have had at least 500. 1 can say that out of that number I have cured or benefited 95 per cent. I have made friends with quite a number of good white and good colored people during my stay here. T have been knowing Elder Harper since quite a boy and find him to be a man of truth. The afflicted people with whom I have come in contact ought always to thank Elder Harper for meeting me in Edgefield and ad vising me to visit Newberry. He said: "We have good people there and a great deal of sickness. If you do there as you are doing 'here, you will get a plenty to do." I find his statement just as he said. I have always said that, the sotern white man was the neg-o c st friend. I know it by ex perience. Durin0 my four years practice If my git so'me of the best white pfe,e la. i es nl gentlemen. h:vc ene ..nragCl me I) givin Inc a lair tria1. Nt .niv in this wav but iae al, t:ken b,<I l stand to recom nmei(l lt C I )e ' rttllful and honest :nd that i< all that 1 ask of any one. N,v. iriends. 1 have two special city invitations f-r the near future. I wvill leave -,,ur t.vn: I have dlne I :hing that I am ashaie(d if in New herry. I have certainly done good. Iersons wishing tI see me and de siring, to be benefited or cured will do well to see me by the Ith or 20th inst., as the time of my departure is near at hand. The 1 ndians say. white folks will stick, Indians will stick. dogs will stick but the negro will not s:ick, so let us stick together. Thei i von who have not tried me or come in contact with me would he surprised to scrutinize my list of >atients and see whom I have treated. Time and space will not allow me to mention them. T must say "I have fought a good fight; I have finished my course." I am now ready to de part from Newberry and visit other towns. I am not ashamed to own my God or to defend His cause; maintain the honor of His Word or the Glory of His cross. Jesus. my God, I know His name His name is all my trust, Nor will He put my soul to shame Or let my hopes be lost.--Wm. F. Edwards. Prominent White Woman Acts As Negro's Clerk.1 New York American. Miss Ida Smalley, daughter of Geo. W. Smalley, New York correspondent of the London Times, yesterday began her duties as stenographer for Charles W. Anderson, the new negro collector of the Second Internal Revenue Dis trict. It was a busy day for Mr. Anderson, because he had just taken charge of his office and was getting the wheels in working order. His new steno grapher reached the office sharply at 9 o'clock and at once entered upon her work. For the first hour Miss Smalley took dictation from Mr. Anderson personally. She is a rapid shorthand writer and in time accumulated quite a batch of letters. Throughout the emainder of the business day that eded at 4 P. M. she was kept busy t business correspondence. Mr. Anderson expressed -his satis action with his new employee and Miss Smalley was also pleased with er position. Mr. Anderson's offces are at No. 50 Nassau street. He has a suite of eight rooms, and his private room is t the end of the hallway on the sec o&d floor. It is there that he and Miss Smalley conduct all t'he col lector's correspondence. The salary that Miss Smalley re eives is $r.200 per year, and it was this liberal pay, for a stenograhper, that influenced her to accept the po sition. It is said that considerable influence was exerted to get her the post. but this Mr. Anderson denies. "Miss Smalley was appointed in the regular manner," he said. "She ac cepted the position, and I know of no one who would refuse to a.ccept a p.o sition under the United States gov e rn ment. The Smalley family is now some what scattered. Miss Smalley lives with her mother, Mrs. Geo. W. Smal ley, at No. 125 West Seventy-third street. With theni are two other chil dren. Emerson and Miss Evelyn. It is a modest residence which they have occupied for more than a year. George WN. Smalley, the famous cor respondent, lives at the Hotel Lor raine. at No. 2 East Forty-fifth street; but he left yesterday for Europe. It is said that he will spend the summer in Hamburg. He retains his splendid apartments in the Lorraine. He also has rooms at the Metropolitan club ad keeps apartments for his own use in Was-hington. His income is said to be considerably more than $15,000 a year. Whether or not Mr. Smalley ap proves of his daughter branching out and making her own livelihood could not be learned. A Boy's Composition On Breathing. Good Health. "Breathing is made of air. We breathe with our lungs, our lights, our lier and our skin, if it's not all stop ped up with powder. If it wasn't for breath we would die when we slept. "Our breath keeps zhe life a-going thr"ugh the nose when we are asleep. )ur ii ses were made for breath and lor m 1uths f'r food and to talk with. \\'men that stop in .a room all day shiouilid n,t breathe. They should wait till thcv get out of docre. "People. in a room make bad foul, ttnh,ly s'me air. They make carboni cide. Carbc'nicide is poisoner than a mal d 'g. A heap of soldiers was in a black h.le in India and1 carbonicide got into the -hole and killed nearly every one before morning. "Girls and women kill the breath with corsets that squeeze the diagram. Girls can't holler -r run like boys be cause their diagrams is squeezed too much. If I was a girl I'd wish I was a boy. so I could run and holler and breathe lots of air and have bright eVes and rosy cheeks. a good appe-tite and good diagram. "Give me air or give me death!" Got The Better Of Gen. Butler. Boston Herald. During his boyhood Benjamin F. Butler was a frequent visitor in the town of Nottingham, N. H., where an uncle resided, and among the many stories related of him is one concern ing his examination of Pat Murphy, a local character. Tim Dolan had been accused of MILLINERY, DRY 00 Have you purchased to us. We can give yol Do you need a new d us. Welcan fit you up Dolyou need Collars, etc., etc. If so, we h lot. Call and see them Respectfully, MRS. S. The Wooi Tolcum The majority cause of their < We consider powders the be given. Lazell's Viol< Colgate's Vic Mennen's Ta Lazell's Talc Bear in min and Extracts name are relia Lazell 's Vioh ir a glass jar ounces of deli I Talcum canno At the price Talcum is une The Right selling liquor. and the prosecution summoned Pat to testify in the case. Now Pat was a job teamster, and Butler endeavc,red to make him admit that he had delivered liquor to the de fendant. lHutier asked: "Did you ever take any freight from the railroad office and deliver to Tim Dolan?" "Yis. sor." "Part of this freight was a barrel, wasn't it?"' 'Yis., o . "Pat. what was in that barrel?" "I don't know, sor!" "Don't know! Wasn't the barrel marked?" 'Yis. sor." Then how dare you tell the court :,hat you don't know what was in it?" Be cause. so r, the barrel was mark ed Tim Dolan on one end and bour bon whiskey on the other. How the devil (lid I know which was in it?" NOTICE. We will receive applications for dis penser and clerk for Town of New berry, S. C.. on t'he 22nd day of July, up to 10 o'clock a. m. Will consider same and elect on the 12th day of August for the term of one year. Ap plications must be in legal shape. Jacob Senn, J. P. Harmon, J. R. Scurry, Members Co. Board of Control ODSAND,NOTIONS! your hat? If not, come .z the newest things. ress. If so, come to see in the latest styles. Belts, Fans, Ribbons, we just received a new W. CALMES, Prosperity, S. C. Is are Full of them sold be :heapness. .the following ist at the prices it Talcum 25c. ilet Talcum 25c. Icum 25c. uim l0c. d that Powders. Bearing Lazell's ble. ~t Talcum put up ', containing six cately perfumed tbe excelled. Lazell's ten cent aualled. Drug Store.