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WAR STORIES.
Saved Her Home.

stand W and givca chance, aud NO
run away lie would destroy his com.
mand and bring Forrest back pris
oncr. Tho lady replied
Look out. he may send you back
running
"The General laughed and said
NO danger, and DO not be surprised if
stop On my return with Forrest a
prisoner.
"The proud and confident General
moved his army forward in military
order, with everything in proper
trim. lie knew he had three times as
many men as Forrest, and he also had
a splendid artillery battalion.
General Forrest struck Sturgis un-
awares. He rushed at his column and
whipped him before he could gather
his forces. Our old ragged boys were
feeling good that summer morning
The news of the defect reached
Salem before General Sturgis did, and
the lady was standing at the gate to
see if he had General Forrest. When
he left her, his uniform was bright
and new, but when he returned he
was covered with mud. His horse
was exhausted, and both presented
the appearance of defeat and disaster.
The lady asked:
General, did you find Gep. For
rest?'
No. Gen. Sturgis replied, but
he found mel"
The Aberdeen lady's prophecy to
the gallant Captain was not an idle
boast.
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How Jap tiunners Became Expert

The secret of the remarkable gun
merry OF the japanese Navy was re-
Vealcd yesterday by retired officer of
the United States Navy, says the New
York Times. In all of the hotels and
public resorts where the great victory
of Admiral Togo was discussed bv
groups almost invariably some one
propounded the inquiry: How was it
possible for the japanese to sink such
fleet as the Russians had with loss
to themselves proportionally so small?
1t was in response to such query
that the retired officer of the United
States Navy, who took part in such
discussion at the Hoffman House.
gave the following interesting expla-
nation:
IF the japanese are not at the
present time the most accurate and
deadly gunners in the world it is due
to the fact that Of late the Americans
and English have adopted scheme of
target practice which was originated
by the Japanese. One day about two
years ago Chinese Admiral received
the American and English command
ers on the Asiatic station aboard his
ship for friendly visit. The Chinese
commander mentioned that he had
observed Japanese war vessels using
new tactics. He said that twice he
had passed Japanese war ships when
the men were being put through drills
which had mystified him. He had
noticed that they went through all the
motions OF gun crews when about to
discharge one of the big guns in tar
get practice, but instead Of the big
gun being discharged there was re.
port which did not sound any louder
than rifle. He asked the English
and American commanders if they
could enlighten him as to what the
new tactics of the Japanese were.
They were unable to give him any :n-
formation on the subject.
Both the English and the Ameri.
can commanders decided that .hey
would take the first opportunity of
finding out the nature of the perfor-
nance which the Chinese Admiral
had witnessed.
Through persistent and csutious
inquiry they uaraveled the mystery.
They learned that on every one of the
large calibre guns on the Japanese
battleships and cruisers there had
been placed miniature gun. For
hours at a time, day after day, the
Japanese would engage in target prac-
tice with these miniature guns.
"They would shoot ct target
which would be placed at distances
which would be in the same proportion
to the carrying power Of the miniature
gun as one, two, three, four or five
miles, We will say, would be to the
big gun. The gun crew would go
through exactly the same drill prepar-
atory to discharging the miniature
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-06-21
For RattIer's Poison.

Supt. B. L. Daniel, of the Territor.
lal prison, who has been in the citv
Tor the last three days, says the Ari.
zona Republican, told while here Of a
certain cure for the bite of the rattle
snake.
He had heard Of it while he had
been engaged in mining in Mexico,
and since he became superintende nj
OF the prison he has seen two or three
Mexican convicts who had been cured
and who had been bitten. On the
hand of one Of them was the trace Of
centipede; whose pcison also yields
to the remedy. Its existence, how
ever, is not widely known, even in
Mexico, and is supposed to be entirely
unknown out of that eoantry.
There is in every rattleanske small
sac, about the size OF a Mexican
bean, attached to the intestines. This
is filled With : brownish or black fluid
and that fluid 10 the cure for the bite.
If it is applied Immediately the patti.
ent will not even suffer any swelling
and will entirely avoid pain.
Many Mexicans carry the fluid with
them at ell times when they are in
the mountains or en- the desert. These
Mexicans kill all the rattlers they can
find, and most Of, them store the fluid
in bottle made Of rife cartridge
shell which is tightly corked.
In anatomical descriptions of the
rattler no mention is made of this
particular sac, though air sacs are
numerous in the intestines of sll mem.
bers Of the snake family. But there
is no doubt Of she existence of it, for
Mr.. Daniel said he had seen Mexicans
remove it frequently.
1t may be that this fluid is the Sc.
cret of the Moki Indians, and. accounts
for the immunity that they enjoy from
the poison Of the rattler. Those who
have attended their annual snake
dances and have seen dancers bitten
have wondered that the bites were not
fatal.
At any rate the secret Of the immu.
nifty is one Of the most carefully
guarded secrets ee the rites Of the
Mokis and is kept within q select
order Of The priesthood. Dr.. j. Mil
ier for years annually attended these
dances and made study of the oere.
monies. The Indians formally adopt.
ed him not only into the tribe but ad.
vanced him at the priesthood. The
doctor wanted chiefly to learn the SIC.
cret of the poison antidote, and he
was told year aftc. year that he would
be put in possession of the secret.
But he died without it.
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Easily Managed.

A famous lawyer once had singu,
lar case to settle. A Doctor came to
him in great distress. Two sisters
living in the same house had babies Of
equal age who 80 resembled each 9th.
er thai their own mothers were unable
to distinguish them when they were
together, and it happened that by the
carelessness Of nurses the children
had become mixed. How were the
mothers to make sure that they re-.
oeived back their own .infants?
"But, perhaps" suggested the law
yer, "the children weren't changed at
all"
''Oh, but there's no doubt .tL.:4: they
were chaugedT' said the doctor.
"Are you sure of it,"
Perfectly
''Well, if that's so, Why don't you
change them back agaiu2 I don't see
any difficulty in the case
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gun as it would if the big gun of
which the small gun was the counter.
part was to be fired
The cost of such target practice
vas trltilug as compared with the cost
of using the big gun, and SO expense
put no limit to the number of shots
that could be fred. The gupners
would shoot the small gun on the din
and rise Of the vessel, when she list
cd, In heavy and calm seas, until thew
became SO expert that their percentage
was phenomenal
both the American and the Eng.
llsh commanders were very much i'm
pressed 9th the Japanese idea, and
the English commander wrote to the
Admiralty and the American to Tie
Navy Department to get permission to
try the Japanese plan. The English
commander got the desired permission,
but it was refused to the American
commander. He was told that in the
opinion of the Navy Department it
would be better to have the men prsc.
tice with the big guns. He would not
be stinted in ammunition for all Of
the target practice which he thought
it necessary for his crew to have, he
was told.
"Some months later the American
officer was either recalled or came
home on a furlough. One of his first
acts was to 60 to the Navy Department
to urge those in charge to reconsider
their decision not to permit the adop-
ton of the Japanese plan of target
practice. He dwelt enthusiastically
on the advantages of the plan, as he
saw them. The saving Of ammunition,
he said, was not the thing that ap-
peaied to him at all. The great con-
sideration, he argued, was that the
ability to fire the miniature gun 80
much oftener than it was possible to
discharge the big gun was bound to
mske the gunners more accurate
marksmen. Failing to convince the
Ordnance department, he went to the
Secretary of the Navy. His argum ents
to that official were equally ineffect-
ual.
Leaving the department discourag.
ed, the officer said: I'll be hanged if I
don't 60 direct to Theod ore Roose.
velt.' He did 80. The Pres
ident listened to him with the great
est interest.
I'VE must try that he said.
How would you like to try that on
the Kentucky?'"
THE officer said he would be pleased
to do so. He was given the authority.
A miniature of one Of the Kentuoky's
big guns was made and set up, and a
gun crew assigned tc it. After three
weeks of drill that crew had increased
its percentage Of hits with the big gun
over 20 per cent. The plan of the
Japanese had been fully justified, It
is now in use on other ships of our
navy.
1t was The deadly accuracy they
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-06-21
Congrsssman's Joke.

"a negro naturally loves q water.
melon" said Representative johnson,
Of South Carolina, while speaking Of
the melon aud peach crop, says the
Washington Star. ''Strange, too,
the. when policeman sees negro
with melon at an unreasonable hour
he has it right down that that coon
has stolen the melon. I heard story
about policeman who met coon
in the early morning hours, and he
had big melon on his shoulder. The
cop eyed tho burr head and the melon
and said:
II see you have melon there"
eyes, sab" answered the darkey.
"I'se got er melon. but Use fixed fer
you, sah," and, pulling out paper.
he handed it to the officer, who read:
"The bear Of the G. A. He
paid me ten cents for the melon, and
he Isl pillar'in the church. James
Elder"
You arc fxed,' said the officer.
"'Dats what I lowed answered
the negro, and he moved on"
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A HERO WHO WAS MURDERED.
Shooting OF James Miller by Sherm an 6
Army.

To the Editor Of The Sunday News:
/ have read with interest the articles
of Mr.. Ford and others in recent is
sues Of The Sunday News, in reference
to the shooting of James Miller by
Shermer's army, il March, 1865,
in retaliation for the killing Of q
Federal soldier by supposed bush
whackers. MIR. Miller lived near JEFF
ferson, in Chesterfield County, S. G.,
and I knew his brother, the late Maj.
John s. Miller, and many Of his
neighbors and friends, among them
some of those who participated with
him in the casting Of lots. Some
years ago newspaper was placed in
my hands by son-in-law of James
Miller, in which was an account Of
the shooting Of Mr.. Miller. rurporting
to have been written by an officer
connected with the affair and present
at his death. I have forgotten the
name Of the officer, and of the news
paper, which I think was published
in Lancaster or Chesterfield, s. G.,
| and reproduced the article from q
Western paper. This paper was in
my portfolio. which was mislaid, lost
or stolen about two years ago.
EXCUSE FOR MILLERs MURDER.
II is stated that the dead body Of a
Federal soldier, belonging to West
ern cavalry regiment, l think from
Michigan, was found where he had
evidently been murdered by bush
whackers, that the Federal commander
had determined to resort to retaliation
to prevent such killings, and General
Francis p. Blair, who commanded the
l7.h army corps, issued orders for the
casting of lots for one man to be put
to death for the killing of the cavalry
man aforesaid.
My inforpants did not know all who
participated in the casting of lots, but
among them we're Mr.. B. r. Clanton
now living in Chesterfield County,
Mr. Robert Griffith and others who
knew James Miller. I have talked
with and oorresponded with other
about the cruel tragedy, and from
them and the account by the Federal
officer before mentioned my iuforma.
tion was obtained.
DRAWING LOTS TO DIE.
One or more Of the participants said
it came as great surprise to ell who
were made to cast lots, nnd one o.
them declared that he never before or
after found it such q task to stretch
forth his right hand to draw little
piece Of paper out Of a hat. James
Miller drew this fatal lot. He was
man between forty five and fifty years
of age and had been captured day or
two before some distance west of Che
raw, while on his way home on fur
Tough from Florence, 8. c., where ne
had been engaged in guarding prison
ers. He protested that, while he
sympathized with his State in her
struggle, aud had given Of his means
for the support Of the Cause, he was
over age for active service, and had
not fired gun in the war. But he
was told that the order wasimperative.
He begged to be allowed to eommuni-
cate with his wife and children, but
this privilege was denied him. He
then asked to confer with such Of his
I lsneighbnrs and fciends as we're scaptives
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acquired by constant use of their
miniature guns which enabled the
japanese to use their big guns against
h0JestVensky l with such terrible eff.
feet"
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rections for his wife, asking that she
be told that he was not coming home,
aud advising her about his firm and
about the children, just as if he were
going off on u journey to be absent for
time
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Keeping others from making
money seems to give some people
as much pleasure as making it them
selves.
When Q girl has pretty teeth it
is sign she will let everybody see
them. b
He He who. who makes makes friends makes
fortune.
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=. The only defence that any creed
needs is the right kind sofcharacfesbe
hind It, n sf,3;s, 5s., q
81 Don the a miseortuna allefss q i.SS NJ,
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The Forrest City times., 1905-12-08
EXODUS OF IRISH YOUTH.
Aged Parents and Small Brothers and Sisters Left in the
 Villages.
Villages.

lt l. largely Gs 6 result of the unyre- 5edented loss of half it's population in half century that the present condition ef rural Ireland k so interesting 5tufiy. says Hummer F Jones. in American Monthly Review of Reviews The de- population of Ireland has largely changed the life of the people, and the Ireland os to-day lacks much of being tIe Ireland of 50 years ago.
 Owing 10 lack of labor the former in. tensive cultivation of the soil has ceased. Tiilage has been superseded by pasturage. Thousands of acres that in former years were teeming with lab6rers planting and working potatoes and turnips, and harvesting wheat and oats are now turned out in grass. and the song of the laborers and the whetting of soythes have been huShed. and in their place can be heard the lowing of cattle and the tinkling of sheep bells.
 In all parts of the middle. south and west of Ireland enc sees evidences of this remarkable change-more remark able since the signs of former possession and cultivation are still so evident For 50 years the young and vigorous farm hands have been dropping the hoe and spade and emigrating to America. leav- irg behind them to attempt their work their infirm old parents and their little brothers and sisters The children dream through their boyhood anr girl hood of the time when they in turn can 20 down to Queenstown and sail on the big ship for New .>ork or Boston.
 Whole villages have thus been robbed of their ,.0ung people, and vast country sections that once teemed with vigorous farm iaborers TOW contain but a handful of men who are really capable of hard labor. Indeed. one of the most striking. and at the same time most melancholy. sights in rural Ireland to-day is the un- usually large number of desBondent- looking old men and women who mope absent-mindediy about the roadwavs of the countryside or the alleys of the hundreds of semi-deserted villages 1 Their sons and daughters have grown up and gone to seek their fortunes in the west. Net one in a hundred of them will ever return to hoe and spade the rocky old Irish fields again
The Forrest City times., 1905-12-08
Idaho Joins.

Fraser. Idaho, Nov. 27th tspeei N.- Nf. Martha j. Lee has gwen Tor Puuhga- Ion tae following statement. concerning )adls Kidney Pills:
 "l Wa down with Rheumatism three 9ae,. she say~. aud each tiHe Dodd s '5daey Pills helped me. The h7y tfme sheY cmed me, and now aiu able to get around anG ae all my work. though l an sitty-eight. and l can walk to sunday School eveey sunday. Before taals D5dd s Kidney Pil~ WIS sa bad l eaald use neither hand nor foot. shall keep 9odd.s Pills on hand Ill the tane.
 Rheumatism k caused by tue Aeld cryszallIsInG in the muscles Hea.thy Eis.'zsys remove an rrie Aed ffsa the blo5z Diseased Kidneys cannot remove thjs Ac.j which collects m the blood and paiS3ns every vein and artery. Ba5d $ kidnas Pfll, cure Rhaumatsa hx eufing the Kidneys: by healing and strengthen ing them. so that they can Id the blood of all impurities.
The Forrest City times., 1905-12-08
LITERARY LITTER.

Maxim Gorky, wh5 was arrested n g. Petersburg as a revolutionist. owes lis liberty 10 County Witte.
 When Audubon began the publica- ton of his great work in 1S2G he re- ceived from many subscribers 1000 a copy.
 Spiridion Gopceyic. who lives in LussInpiccolo. has written newspaper articles and books In nine languages. The former number s 263.
 James Riley, dialect and humorous poet. of Irish birth, now a resident of Boston Mass. is visiting southern tattlefelds gathering material for new look.
 The Edinburgh edition of Stevenson's writings is said to be steadily going up in it's auction p,lce. Something over $50 Was paid for the last copy brought to the auctioneer's table.
 There is 10 copyright law in Japan as yet. although about 20.o0Q books are published there every year Books about Russia have been popular iate- lv. At least one literary journal ls published there.
 Robert Jasper Martin. J, P, who recently died, was one of the fine old Irish gentlemen who inspired Lever J novels, and was both writer and com poser of "Ballahooley" and "killiloe, as well as ether famous songs.
 lbsen works in room in which there are doors opening into five other apartments. As he composes he wan 0ers from room to room. He eats little while writing his dramas, and declares that good meals prevent keen traln work.
 Miss Mildred, daughter of William Dean Towels, the noielist, is a clever artist. and began to show her talent when II years old At that time she produced . series of sketches around whica her father wrote a little book which was quite successful. Miss How els is now a slender, spirituelle young woman, much deyotei to art and lit- erature. and with no taste for society