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GREAT Saturday IV ~V~rhie: H Consist Clothing, S At less than manufac the choicest of them ; below original cost: mark, bring it with yc I??II?II I This stock must be sold i reduced prices. The purch saves jobbers' profits and I he expects to have the best and we'll have plenty of exl per cent on your purchases DON'T MISS THIS SJ Ti-ii t ? \ EXTINCT ANIMALS' of significant bones. BONES IN ALASKA. The course was laid t -? ' way on the upper part ^ Smithsonian Expedition Finds Inter- by train to While II< esting Remains. steamer through Dawsoi whence came some aneie: A zoological exepdition to Alaska now in the I'luted St: sent out by the Smithsonian Institu- museum. Rampart marl ti??n last season and conducted by Mr. ning of the long jouri C. \V. Gilmore, of the I'nited States For thirty or forty mil< National Museum, lias brought back part the Yukon llows be besides interesting information, many older rocks at from fiv fragments of bones of early animals, an hour, tumbling fast of varieties no longer living there., down toward the rapids Although there is not in the lot ma- ids once passed, Fort (<i terial from which can be constructed ed, below which lie tl ancient genera hitherto unknown, the known "Palisades," d specimens show that over the Alas region the "bone yard, kan liehls at a period long before man have been dug broken arrived on earth roamed mammoths, manv cany beasts, several kinds of buffalo, musk oxen, The pju tv here spci sheep moose, caribou horses and bears. <jntheriuu remains Iron Beavers also built their dams along ,.]il'i's a hundred and lifi the rivers. dred feet high. The aim The ollicial report of the trip will n]nr f}U?es of the cliffs be published in the series of "Smith- (innalv undermined by sonian Miscellaneous Collections" at roil. Large masses br< about the same time as the appear- times with a startling ance of this article. splash as they fall int IOver since Otto von Jvotzebue, below. "Often during t nearly a century ago, brought back says Mr. Gilmore, "Hit from Alaska a few pieces of skulls p<] so like the firing of and bones of strange extinct beasts, were startled by the sh; men of science have looked upon thai The party paddled o region as a possible source of informa search of larger gam* lion concerning the early ancestors of mouth of the Nowitna our Northern American animals, (ion gained from an int< Much has been written about it. Lit- who had visited the tie systematic was done, however, 1111- this stream on hunlii til 1904, when the Smithsonian Listi- that he had seen "big tution sent out its first expedition un- or big bones" on the der Mr. A. G' Maddrcn. This trip was had picked up the "si so fruitful that the institution last some large animal, lur< season dispatched a second expedition, side trip up the river in charge of C. W. Gilmore, which, up, the traveling turn while following a certain itinerary, cache had to be made i was to search for the remains of large not absolutely needed extinct vertebrate animals and to in- tho water has out in un< vestigatc the causes leading to their Tt is a pictnreskue 1 extinction. the water has cut i The party was gone in all about bank," says Mr. Gilmo four months, during which nearly the tends out over the strci entire length of the Yukon river was shelf. The trees growin covered and several of its tributaries dermined banks frequ partly explored. Close upon fourteen over and dip their top hundred miles of the distance was before being carried x?-f traveled by canoe. During the whole blocks of the bank, ^ time search was made along the cliffs bushes and trees, cav and in the river bars as being the stream, where they re , places most likely to show relics of half submerged for a ] ^j early beasts. Mining camps were also quentlv there hangs ( M -isited 011 the way for possible traces top of these undermine & > N BANKRl lorning, June 6th We put on sale the entire bee: b-sbv Formerlv Owned by E. L. Baile ting of about $15,000 worl >hoes, Notion <trv utu-Jtt- . wiiiHi? iiwiiwiw mi wesmmm??m mm MHMMBMHmMHWMvni turers cost. Read this coi at exact cost and a great AFCEHILXDo 1 234 56 7 8 90 >u and buy goods at exact n lO days. Hundreds of new go< aser of this stock buys goods onl he also enjoys the largest cash tr i of it in Newberry, S. C. Come Sa) ^ra help, and you'll find many chc I???E m 111???1WOQIHI . Willi !!! II I B?? BMWi I I ?? ?I?WW \LE, BRING YOUR FRIE G. H. BAILES, Propr J (lo of moss which servos as a curtain many years have been h rough Skag- to hide (ho dost ruction the waters ' export of Siberia. Hut of the river, have wrought." ! mains are not in as I' >rse, then by! The pa 11 y struggled up the Nowit .preservation and unli ii to Hampart, | na river for nine days, hunting for ago, il i-- said a man nt bison skulls the source of all the pieces of an- a lud< as a gill. N'mv ites National eiont bones found washed down from to manufacture curio :od the boign- somewhere above. No settlers wore sorts. iey by canoe, met with, and only an occasional do- !!<?w the aneicul an s below Ram- sorted winter cabin of a lonely trap- mains are now picke I ween walls of per showed that man had ever scram- piece along the rivers, 0 to six miles I bled along the banks or pushed a pad- a subject of speculate or and faster die in the stream. Food lagan to give dern believed they in* ;. But the rap- <uit. so thai they were forced to turn the shore of "l.acial I ibbon is reach- back before reaching the headwaters, their bones, carried ot to now well The side trip, however, was not with- the spring break-up nbbod in that out results, for from nearly every ba* her*' and there a> the for from it searched was taken a fragment or a coming imbedded in tl remnants of complete element of a skeleton rep- more, however believe: resettling such extinct forms as the best specimens have if two daws mammoth, bison and horse gulches and valleys of 1 the frozen Stopping at Mouse I'oint and a. ;,l"l ;!iy more cominoi |y or two nun- Kokrines, an Indian settlement and 111 silt, those animals p lost perpcndic- , trading post, they paddled down into ancient period becaim are being con- a region of towering clill's. In places historic bogs, then not I ho swift our-' the banks rise 200 to '2.">0 feet ami 'he bones were alter eak off, many from them wore taken now ami then separated by the ; report and j a skull or a tusk or a tooth of some '"creeping ol the n o the wa I or | forgo I ten animal. Anvik was visited, ~ ho stay here,"'and then AndreaI'ski, whore the canoe RULER. OF THE > report sound- trip ended. The rest of the journev a gun that wo . was on steamer to St. Michael, Nome, Man Who Tries to D nroncss of it." j and linally Seattle. Besides Governing n, however, in It was found thai the scattered re ? and at the |mains of the very early animals occur A short, stout mat river informa- i throughout the heart of Alaska not gray frock coal whet dligenl Indian, I constantly covered by ice and snow, afternoon tea. plays headwaters of in three <|uite distinct deposit.;: Firsr. good game of bridge, ng excursions, in the black muck accumulated in fate to sit down at tin horns and nth- gulches and the valleys of the smaller a song for the onto river bars and J st roams; second, in I he line elevated parly, and after din tank bono" of j clays of early origin, known as the i known to speed the ^d them into a Yukon silts and Kowak clays; and wilh a long and anirna Throe days i third in the more recent de|>osits along <>n 'he doorstep?this od bad and a the banks of streams. These spoci- the character of Hal r>f all articles mens have been either washed <>ul by Amir of Kabul, Seel the process of erosion or dug out bv Health and Lamp of t :1or the bank, j minors in search of gold. and the Faiths. region. "Often The fossil bones secured came front i He did all these Ih n under Hie localities on Ihe Bonanza crook, Lit- ing India in (ho oar re, "which ox- tie Minook creek, the Palisades of the year, says the London mi like a great 'Yukon, the Nowilna river, the Yuka- seems to have create* ig on these tin- j kakat river and the Klalishkal river, in some minds that he enlly loan far | hi connection with the "bone yard" j counterpart of Ihe f?ei s in flie water of Ihe Palisades, and with Elephant. > Ho told various ] away. Largo I'oint farther north, il has boon met that he was tlx covered with (thought thai there might bo enough Afghanistan, the bos e off into the | ivory in old imbedded mammolIt tucks best drill sergeant. 'I main standing to pay for ils excavation and shipping j to be able lo preach long lime. Fro- for commercial purposes, as is the! than any Mullah, am' lown from the j casa 'w some localities of Siberia. In j fact led 70,000 peop d banks a man- I fact, mammoth tusks for a good Delhi?surolv Ihe I I JPT SALE. I M i, at Nine O'clock J stock Of me: sxo | C ;.j :h of high grade 1 s, Trunks, Etc., it mark and buy these goods, many of them cit 25 per cent. Repeater. This is the original cost cost. BMWHWi ?BtPPOPWi W II IIIIJWMUHHMI. ?? ??? Dds coming in on every train at greatly y from manufacturers in case lots and ade of any store in Anderson, S. C., and turday, June 6t.h, store not open until 9 o'clock, )ice goods|and will save from' 20 to 50 NDS, SATURDAY, JUNE 6THietor. I an important meet:ni; mi record. He speaks seven! them at Kabul. "BBul"?with a sad tlie Alaskan re- <>r eight languages; lie plays cricket; j smile---'41 liey <l?>ii *1 slant! so < lose beresh a state of lie lies acquired a liking lor the motor hind mv chair.'' I a few years .ear and lie s?'ems In think very highly j Then loo the joys of railwav travel would not take jot his own powers :is a doctor. <Ii?1 not appeal to him. In anliciiMitioii they arc used ? Then, 1 n?, lie apparently knows ln| his visit l<> a famous shrin*' a s of ?li(Vereni lio'.v to enjoy himself :it race meet- monorail was Imill to carrv hi to iti_. ,tiu! w! < ii I e makes a hel. lie (|H. sanctuary in a bejewelh d royal iaials whose re- pays l!ie >pot if he lo.^c-t. When he ||,. at the mop .rail, he. d up piece hy was i irdia an ailm-lanl tilk-d |,. *ked : i t lie c ir. and i lien ordered a died, has been soleu v i i. ?! i-i.ii. ?-..? :**. i?: ; a v i- I |..., hi. Mr. Mad- cashho: !l >; e> .nev. iron witi:-'- , . i .i ii' ! ! / so' .sI one who 'I their end on j distmrx -.1 v ; <! \.lien nee- ; , . , . \:i> . *, , liei.i became lakes, and lhal essarv. i : in !. _ <' . . i . . , . i III* < . is ol A , nislan. il on the ice in spo: ' na:. ;i v.. i he piavs ? rn u. ! , . i , ?.-,i i- ,, i , ,i v i Ills r. K. Inil - !.o| so large weie dropped with Ins allendanls Ihe Amu appar: ii i i ,i 11 * i j i i . as lhal maintained If Is- lather. Altice melted, lie- entr ns. H ?? ! < perh*iii< he ri^-Uv i, , i i .. i llamiiioii savs lhal wiien I lie le sill. .Mr. (ill- lor opponeiils In make a heller >how- . ,i . ,i . a 11111* caule to the throne three wives s lhal since I lie iiil. i , i ? i - i 4 , , i i were divorced ill order to keep I lift lieen I mi nd in A slejlit iiii|iediiiienl m Ins speech is . . .... 1 ii , ,ii 4 * i spirit o| I he Koran law, which lorsmaller si reams associated bv tradition with an an- . . i n.. : i t . i hnls I he maintenance ol more than i hi muck than ?*ient palace intrigue In poison linn rohahly al some when heir apparent. * vs,v,s' mired in pre- llis lell hand lias hut four lingers. Many slaves ol prepos.-.es>inii frozen as now. due lo a gun accident some four years ''harms, we are told, are taken into wards prohahly j ago. lie might have been a one-arm harem Irom lime to lime ami ' (lowing" or man had if not been for Ihe skill of added in the number of his concuinck. jn British doctor who wenl from In- bines, lint (lie ((iieens appear to ex jdia and cured an injury which seemed ereise a strict censorship n regard to AFGHANS. likely lo develop into morlilication of ''l(' t.vl,(' elave. Ihe hapless woman ||I(. j!I'm. who becomes a favorite and exciles 0 Many Things When in India his outspokenness admiration ol the amir ''is gener* His People. I ami cheerfulness seem lo have made ally removed." him a general favorite. As Ihe sun One queen, it is recorded, ''has i, who wears a set lie would stop his train al a way- killed with her own hands Ihrcc ol her 1 visiting, likes side station "and invite any humble slaves and personally chastises her a remarkably : loiterer of the Faith to say his pray- erring handmaidens, purposely distidofts not hesti- ers with the king of Afghanistan.'' guriny any whose physical attraclive piano and sing lie wanted to know everybody's ncss might charm Ihe amir. rtaimuent of a i views that seemed likely to be useful The four wives ol I he amir '' occupy nor has been in his homeland, lie stopped at an positions which arc graduated lo a parting friend army sergeant's wife to discuss with recognized scale. The lirst wile draws led conversation her her preferences and ideals, and he i,M allowance of one lakh of rupees ani is one side of made Ihe chemical lecturer at a hos- nnally; the second wife receives eigli>ih-lJ)lah Khan, Ipilal which he visited explain the l.v thousand rupees, the third wife. (or after fJod's' properties of carbon dioxide iu rela- forly thousand rupees, the fourth wile he Congregation tion to combustion. twenty thousand rupees a year." j lint on the other hand he would not One rather gathers that the. domesings when visit- waste any time in inspecting a little lil'1 "I amir is not untroubled ly part of last gathering of warships that had been 'and that the influence of his wives is Daily Mail. He arranged for his special benefit,?t-he j not east on the side of peace and 1 the impression British navy cannot go through Khy- quietness. was the Asiatic I her Bass. Berhaps this explains the ' ? " "man emperor. } fact that he preferred lo hurry off to! |<. ||. McCracken the piano tuner icople whom he the races rather than witness "battle j is in the city, will 1>c here this * best smith in practice." week. If von want your piano I carpenler, the Two things seemed rather to cast a tuned call plionc 214. 2t 1 rhen he claimed shadow over him. "1 hope, you don't I a heller sermon ' mind t he bagpipes!" a neighbor asked DR. HUIET'S All-Healing Liniment, I as a matter of him at one of Ihe innumerable ban- the best household remedy on tlio le in prayer at quels. market, try it and. he convinced. largest. prayer "Not at all," he answered; "I have Mayes' Drug Store. I I