Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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MISSISSIPPI'S GREAT WALL. An lntere?lluic Prc li Ut orle Hur? ihm Origin or Willoh ls tl M?M?-r>. Om; ..f ll?:' sci? Illili?- |' izzh ? of lilt- -'.'lie 1 ni Mississippi i- I be "UrandyWilli' ?lone wall." lt In* kag lu-MI -i problem that i> yoi unsolved. S?iiic tinn? ago Mr. Thoma* Watson of lluzkhursi sent d?>v ernor Lougino i pencil drawing of an Immense pilo ol tone in Hie south'-ast <!li portion . !' . '. i?li .il,e COV.Uty, sugg<Ht ing ihat ii?-' stone iniirht li? utilized in building I lu; rn?', ea pi lol. In a kiter whii li accompanied ilie drawing Mr. Walsen stilted licit those stoe.es, piled Muli on each oilier, rover nu :ireu four ir. i len square. ICaeb stone is O feet lone, Ii feet wide lind - feet thick, ai..i they aro joined together with nu ex? ?.(..Heut quality < f eeineiit. So niau kilowa how tiny came lhere, ''?f.oy "lay have beru lhere for thousands of yea ra. The builders, the Jackson News thinks, %vero KOine prehistoric mee-it eould liol he olberwi.se. This struelurc is supposed lo be a eontinualioii of the great Chinese willi, whieh seems to begin below Hay IHOIMI, iu Ibu southern part of Hinda cornily, and whieh is traceable through l.'opia'i. li \< broad enough . ? tieeoiiimo dale two or three wagons abreast and ii ??ne of tlu- wonders ol' the world. ".Mention of Ibis reniai k?hle exhibit," nays thc ilnzlchursr. Courier, "has elicited ie> little comment in far*, has brought a letter to Mr. Watson fr .:..? the warden of the Knited States penitentiary at Leaven worth. Kan., niel also :i letter to I ir. T, IL ibrdsoiig from another distinguished source, it being known that the latter ? line y?..-irs agu invimi?galed the luatter. Mr. Will-on. however." says The Cou rier, "luis tivoli thc subject moro patient I bought :unl none ov<'r the ground moro I huron uh ly than any one elsi*, and to bim Tin. Courier is indebted for the fol lowing facts: "lie call.-, it the 'Hriuidywine stone wiiir and says this wonderful aud niasa ive strm tin?' or parts of structure of masonry done in stone, which have with stood the ravages of timo for perhaps many thousands of years, still stand an enduring relic of a prehistoric civiliza tion and a knowledge of the art of build ing not inferior in many respects to tho present day. Those stone buildings lie for the most part buried in the earth in the southeastern portion of Claiborne county and lying against tho Copiai, county line on the slopes overlooking tho valley of the Brandywine creek from the west side. "These walls run from northeast to southwest. They are built of white or grayish white stone of immense size, weighing from two to (bree tons, measur ing from I? io .S feet in length and ii feet wide by 2 feet thick. These blocks or slabs are laid in n very lino quality of cement and as perfectly as brickwork. The joints are perfect and very close. "At one place the wall is exposed by the earth being washed away to a width of GU feet mid a length of 00 feet. This exposure luis tiio appearance of a brick hearth. "At another [Mace tho stone has been quarried for domestic use to a depth of Ihne layers of slabs, whieh is 0 feet, ii width or 24 feet, or eight blocks, and n length of -."? blocks, or 150 feet. The length of this wall as indicated by tho cropping*; is nuoiit l.UUM feet. "At another placo about fiOO yards away from the place just mentioned is n wall jutting from under a slope for a distance of marly 2.1HH) feet. This stone work is exposed in a great many places over nu aroa ?if lour miles. "The sides and angles ut the blocks of stones are so perfect that they resemble pressed brick. Tho tops of these walls nro perfectly horizontal and without re gard to tho unevenness of tho earth's surface. The seams between tho tiers are perfectly straight, and each block of stone is perfectly horizontal in posilion, ?nd those blocks are smoothly dressed on thc ?'tiges and ?'lids, while the broad sur faces ?re rough, showing a brokeu sur face brought down to a level plano, but not dressed. Tin y are held so Iii inly together by the cement thnt it is willi great di then I ly that (hey are broken up. "A personal inspection of the^e great strueturi's ns they lie pan ly Im ried in the earth would relieve the minds of the most skeptical of ?ll doubt of their nut being the work of the bands ?if man. "In all that is above mentioned in connection with numerous cavings in of the eartha ?.rust, whieh represent the existence ??f underground caverns, abun dant evidence is found to bear out the theory of the existence of a great buried city in that locality. "Tho information above given is vouch ed for by other parties who have visited the scene in recent years aud bears out the theory ndvnncetl by Mr. Watson. Truly there is work for tho scientist bore."-Xew Orleans Picayune. Odd Cent I'rlecu. Analysts ??f human nature vainly seel: an adequate explanation of the species of mesmerism that odd cent prices exercise on buyers. Department stores hnve long used them to whet tho proverbial femi nine appetite for bargains, but tho cus tom is now so widespread among clothiers, hub: : dashers and hatters ns to merit consideration. What aro thc cari cnturlsts ni-" enny n liners, who have poked no e: fun at thc gentle sex foi yielding to subtle fascination of OS cents and S1..S. to do when men's snits nie offere?! for *t>00, hats for .$1.07 and ties for 'Jil couts? Alas for the manu facturers ?>f humor, cruelly deprived of ono of their chief sources of revenue! Seriously, however, the spread of the odd ?ont iden is to be di'procntod. It has a catchpenny savor that is antagonistic to dignitied trading and suggests the street hawker. Fixed prices in round numbers nccord best with straightforward meth ods of soiling goods.-Clothier und Haber dasbers' Weekly. Hir SovorelRii!? of lOuropc. Physically many o' the sovereigns of Kuiopc would ?'ouii -der C ?? general classification nf "squn../." Tb. Dew king of Italy is Ti feel il Inches tall, but still he is not the shortest "overoign. The czar of nil the Itussias i.- rely SJ feet 2 inches. The Prince of Wales i< feet .! inches. Pictures of him give th?! impression thnt ho is a much taller man, but that is he ?.nuse his royal highness knows how to pose before a camera. In a group he so lee . a position in the reny line, where he ?.an stand on a box. or else, ho stops to ene end of the front line and a little in advance ?if the others. Perspective does the r<'st. Ile weighs -?T pounds in spit?? of ?ll precautions and "cures" he can take. Ne W.-;M> .MI IS1? ?ollar, has a ehest measurement of 47% inches, a i ?4 inch leugth of mm, a waist of -l."-or 41 inches ami :> trousers le-- of ".il inches. The f >t king'? prb.o belongs to the king of Portugal, win? is n:il.\ T, foot tl inches tall and weigh:* ."OS pounds.-Argouaut. DISMANTLED. London. Jan. 6.-The British bark Heechbank, Capt. Buchunnn, from San Francisco Aug. 16. bound to Queens town, waa spoken on Jan. 3 In latitude :?6 north, longitude 38 west, with loss of foretfiu mast and multi ?..r. ....o- - * yard. BOOKS TO BE THROWN AWAV Tlu* ' Hr 111 nb I Mu kt* II m Mfcctr <?? ???tia '.Uni! i-;*iuii?u?l<*< '?'?i.-1 li: i! .. lu nm .>? nu, which possesses j th?' h?'gesi ?l.l!? . : i ... . <.r books in lb? J wuihl.piMWiU.V't.stiiii.ui ii m I'.UOO.?MMI vid-1 umes, timi Mivii.s b. -?: . .'.. ''Ki volumen of iiiauu\scripv.<. lind* bsi-Jf . ramped for roon: or nbrettieiieiJ >>uli such :i eondi lion, ?md*:t bill luis pa.-sed a second read ing in iii' bouse "I lords .oil homing *he trusti'UK nf the IIIIIM IIIM i" distribute the lu,mu? volumes ol ni'W.-piipiiis uuil to de stroy sueb books und paiu?,?ilets ns they .shall deem uscles f. lt iii ueedless lo say I half the proposl tion i'? seipiestrnio or destroy any nor tioo of the British in ulenia meets with rstrulig and iimiiediutc opp??-ition. It is urged thal th?- example ami preeedtnl set would be V? ry bad ones, since every great aiid growing museum, including a library, may icucb th? present eotnli tion "i lin* British iuio>euui. 'rbi- library of congress, for instance, which receives copyrighted books, as does thc library of the Uritish niuwum, may some time reach what somebody may believe thc necessity of an ccihtrgusucut of its premires or the repletion of its stores. For ihis reason the 1.* it i-di museum cannot ufford to set tho priHjeiJi?jit of destruction. While it is not proposed io destroy the bound hies of uewspupjrs in the British museum, but to distribute them to vari ous localities, ii ia churned that to take anything out id Loudon ix, in tim British islands, eipiivalviit to biding it? /iud a tliiiiK' hidden is it thiug lost. If it is de sirable preserve these newspapers for the public use forever, London, which is the center and capital of thc British em pire ia il greater and wider sense than Washington is the cupital of the United Slates, should bc the place qt thuir pr?s ervation and keeping. it is urged that there exists no suffi cient reason for thc destruction or dis tribu? iou of any portion of its collections: that the museum luis not yet occupied all of the BJ acres on which it stands; that u separate building or buildings might be erected for the acception of the art col icctious, for Instance, but in any event thc library should be kept intact forever. However the iiuewtion may bo decided in thc case of the british museum, thc present is the time to say that no collec ?ion ot newspapers, once inndu for th? public use, ought to be disproved or made unavailable. The State Historical society of Kan sas has made a great collection of the newspapers of the state. The news popers mailed to tho society by the pub lishers nie carefully preserved and bound in volumes and kept in what: are boped to l?c fireproof receptacles, where they ure opeu to the inspection and reference of all. The point is sought to bc made that the newspaper volumes constitute to the state a well nigh priceless possession, which should on no account be lost, frit tered away, scattered or destroyed. Singular us it may seem, the preserva tion of a tile of new papers is a work re quiring such cure, pntience and attention that it is seldom nttemptcd except by those whose special business it is. Of many lending newspapers no files exist except those kept in thc office of publica tion. Ot thc hundreds of thousands of people who subscribe, pay for and regu larly read newspapers not one in many thousands attempts their preservation. When, therefore, any public library un dertakes thc daily and weekly preserva tion and arrangement ot any newspaper ami the binding of thc same at suitable intervals into volumes, it has undertaken a most useful work, the result of which should be kept forever. Such a houud volume is u book; in fact, it is a bool: of books, lt is such a history and picture nf its own time and locality, of manners and men, in its own place nod corner of this world, ns is not and cannot be found elsewhere, lt embodies not the labors of one historian, but of hundreds of chroniclers, story tellers and artists who work every day to note down what they sec and bear and discover and ap prehend. It is a perpetually proceeding narrative which enlarges, explains, ampli fies and corrects itself ns it goes along, ".'he difference between a newspaper and i.ie historical or other narrative iu the shape of n book is the difference between au oil painting, made perchance from thu scene by the imagination or the broken memory of thc artist, and u kodak snap shot or other picture drawn in an instant by tho sun and on the spot. What would be given now for daily newspaper pictures of tho building of thu pyramids, drawn ns the progress of Con vention ball is recorded now? A con sideration of the value of the bound news paper volume shows that all the rest ot the museum could be more easily spared. -Kansas City Star. Galimba. A. Crow, It has been suggested that some appro priate honor be paid to Congressman Ga lusha A. Grow of Pennsylvania nt the coming celebration nt St. Louis of the Louisiana purchase. Ho is the author of the homestead law, enacted in 1854, which did so much to develop tho wost by making home getting easy. "It is difficult," says tho Washington Times, "for the present generation of Americans, surrounded by the modern conditions, with a berco competition in tho struggle for existence, to realize that there is in congress today a man who is a link between the infancy of the nation and its present giaut proportions-be tween the crude industrial conditions ot the dawn of tho century, now hi its twilight, und the highly organized ma chinery of the country's commercial forces. In his personality and record the Hon. Gaiushn A. Grow is that link. If ho lives until 1003-and his remarkable vitality and enthusiasm indicate that he will-he will occupy a unique nnd con spicuous position in tho celebration cf the great event at St. Louis iu that year." Won i? y ike Monkeys. Monkeys are very amusing creatures, but one hardly thinks of them as useful in edticational work. However, their aid has lately been sought by thc London school officers, with adm5' hie results. It seems that in oue of '' o school districts thcro were not ns many children reported by thc parents ns being of school age as thc officers knew there ought lo be, so to ascertain the real number they called in tho monkeys to help them iu this way: Two monkeys were gnyly dressed, put in a wngon and. accompanied by a brass band, were carried through the streets of the district. At once ero\v?b? of .children made their appearance. The procession was stopped in a park, and tho school officers begau their work. Distributing sweets to .Youngsters, they took their names and addresses. They found out that dO parents kept their children from school. This ingenious method brought to school about '200 boys and giris.-In dian Wifness. THU IOQUA ABANDONED. _8an Francisco, Jan. 6.-The steamer Ioqua, which went ashore on Duxbury reef Friday night and which was ubamloned by her crew yesterday, was P?Sn?'i ?Jir t?i? tOCmB hy iu-?? UK?UV. She ls now being towed to this pity. THE INSURANCE " COMPANY :'l A -OF - New York Leads ali Other Companies in North and South Carolina in O?d and New Bus iness. Life Is a Chance Life Insurance -is A- . Certainty *. WHEN YOU INSURE IN THE MUTUAL! BEFORE TAKING OUT LIFE INSURANCE INVESTIGATE THE MUTUALS NEW GOLD BOND POLICY The Mutuals Policies Contain all Attract ive Features Large Cash Surrenders Paid-lip Insurance Loan Vaines Extended Insurance RELIABLE AGENTS WHO CAN PRODUCE GOOD BUSINESS. CAN SECURE FIRST CLASS CONTRACTS BY WRIT ING TO F.H.HYATT 6ENERAL ?6ENT For North and South Carolina. COLUMBIA. - SOUTH CAROLINA. Fill out Coupon and Hail to F. Ii. HYATT, General Agent, Columbia, S. fe When Information as to Polices will bo sent you. If More Convenient See Nearest Agent. 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