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THE KISS Or PEACE. Hope That It May Yet Take the Place of Duels. -Chicago Examiner. That was a significant, if unpre meditated, conjunction of ideas ex pressed in the news columns of the! Examiner when an account of the peaceful ending of a French duel in! a fraternal kiss was followed by the news of the projected sale of a his toric guillotine- Surely it was a blitnesome token in this holiday sea son of good will on earth. It may be that the code of honor, so -called, ia France will pass away ai swiftly and unregrettedly as the gruesome instrument of death. The ,guillotine, that dates its energies from the reign of terror, and num bers its victims by the hundreds and thousands, is not exactly .the sort of souvenir a gentleman would appro priate for his private collection, but it is pleasant to think of it-if not consigned to the junk heap-as rele gated to some historical museum or speculative .chamber of horrors. There is a grotesqueness, a seem \og anachronism, in the duel, even more antagonistic to advanced popu lar opinion than t'he guillotine. Mod ern law and modern thought have not yet departed entirely from advo eacy of capital punishment, and per haps swift decapitation is as merei ful as any device. But the duel, as 'a code of honor, 'has too many ridic ulous and strained features to zom mend itself to the mind alert to rid i.eule, and as surely as Cervantes sounded the knell of chivalry, the modern, progressive idea will com plete the downfall of the call to mor tal combat. The guillotine has followed the raee, the thumb-screws, the wheel, and the Nuremberg Maiden. The kiss of peace administered by the im palsive M. Tailhade to M. Gohier, emirently and fervently Ga"'n as it was, may be the forerunner oi. a long series.of fraternal macks tha't will banish .the dietum of the code. There is much cheer for Franee in these s -as and wonders. There is hope for a general 'sentiment that will fol low the most amicable impulse of the Nobel foundation. Iittle 'Men. When we are informed that this or that great man was small the fact Sis mentioned as exceptional an.d to ereite our- special wondet. Somehow ''the impression prevails 'that in the'. race of life delicacy r.nd littieness are handicaps, when the truth is they' are wings to the feet of their posses sors. It 'will surprise many, there fore, to be told that nearly all of the ~ world's great heroes have been little men-that every man who has ,ac -quiired the <}istinction of "The G}reat'' has been less than five and a h'alf feets high. Louis XIV., whose addition of "La Grande'' r\ferred rather to his dress than to himself, though'-he posed through life as tall, was found, when death had stripped him of his feathei-s, to ha'r been lit 'tie more than a dwarf. ~'We may take a more comprehen ive view and include the men of all uations w'ho have won large renown, an~d they will, almost without excep tion, come under the standard I have .n.amed. We know that St. Paul, easily the first of the Apostles, "was in. bodily presence small and weak." xAristotle, who first taug'ht men to think, was but a pigmy in size; and the great poet of Athens so slight that his 'sandals had to be weighted with lead to provent his being blown Sinto the sea. Virgil and Horacee were each ,below, and "the mighty Julius little, if any, above my new heroic sta&ture. Voltaire, the greatest man of letters France has ever produced, weighed only fifty ounaces at birth,' a,nd when he died his years outnum * ired his pounds. Picture, if you can, the sallow Lit tia Corporal in top-boots and cavalry sa.bre, paying his devoirs to the bux om widow Beauharnais, without laughing with her at the absurdity of his appearance; yet who doubts tha~t he was the greatest 'soldier that has risen in the tide of timet Thiers, Lesseps, and Meissonier, all dwarfs, according to our Western notions, are the most distinguished of contemporary Frenchmen. If, as Bacon says, men finod in de Mo'rmity and littleness perpetual g'oads to rescue and deliver them fi'om scorn, Lord Nelson, the most saiietit figure in t.he annals of navaUL warfare, and Alexander Pope, who -gave to English literature a nobler . Illiad than Homer wrote, were both driven like Texas bronehos with two -snurs. Milton. too, was small, and Mo~ore, being as diminutive.as hewas ,rdent, was threatened by burly G'eorge IV, with imprisonment in a wine-cooler. Wardsworth, Dickens, Poe, Harte, Holmes, Lowell-but why enumerate names when nearly the whale roll call of letters is answered by smuil men? The same rule holds in every other department of human achieve ment: the select few at the top have been almost without exception little giants-Alexander, the soldier; Aris totle, the philosopher; Raphael, the artist; Newton, the astronomer; Hume, the historian; Milton, the poet; Talleyrand, the diplonatist; Mon-tesque, the lawyer; Erskine, the advocate; Hamilton, the statesman; Spencer, the publicist; Gould, the noney-getter. It will be admitted, I think, that these are they who stand upon the minarets of that proud temple which ihines afar. Had Napoleon been six feet high, says Hazlitt, he never would have been emperor of the French. So far from being "stung by the nickname of 'Little Corporal into that terrible activity which made all Europe tremble," it was no loubt regarded by him as a term of nidearment. These examples, though ilastrating the Baconian theory, do aot sufficiently account for the su remacy of little men. So far from being handicapped by their size, hey are cheered and sustained. by the God-speed of the world, which s in itself no slight impulse. By the Galton tables five and a alf feet is given as the average, and, :herefore, the natural height of nen. Every inch added to this stat are is so much impedimenta to be arried, and is usually found to be n the length of the limbs. Between he hearts of David an.d Goliath here was probably a difference of a ozen pulsations to the minute. While the blood of a giant flows like ap, that of Caesar rushed through iis brain with so much force that he )ften fell in a fit while writing an rder. Other things being equal, he shorter the person the more vig rous the heart, and the oftener the lood passes through the lungs and is oxygenated the quicker the intel Lect becomes. Chicago, of Course. "In venice not long ago I ran gross a Chicago contractor to whom :he antique and the picturesque, so nuch in evidence in t.hat place of >eauty, did 'not appeal,'' said Judge 1. M. Long. of San Francisco, at the stafford. "'The man was a utilitarian to the >int of' savagery. We stopped 'at he same hotel. One 'day I caught ui immersed in a maze of figures :hat it had taken him hours to pro luce. " 'What these blamed Eyetalians want,' he said, 'is to clean up this :own. It's horribly in need of mod irn sanita.tion, and most of all they rant to buiM some solid streets. I'd ake the job of tidying up Venice and illing up these ditches for about p20,000,000, and then they'd have something to boast of properly." Baltimore American-. A Frightful Wreck f train, automobile or buggy may ause cuts, bruises, abrasions, sprains >r i-ounds that ~demand Bucklen's Xrnic.a Salve-earth 's greatest heal 'r.. Quick relief and prompt cure results. For burns, boils, sores f ill kinds, eezema, chapped hands and ips,'sore eyes or corns, its supreme. Barest nile cure. 25e. at W. E. Pel lam &d TATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Newberry. Court of Common Pleas. ?eo. S. Mower, Plaintiff, Against !ary Caroline Hardy, in her own right and as executrax of the last will and testament of John Rogers Renwick, -deceased; Ben. S. Hardy, The Newberry Savings Bank of Newberry, S. C.; John G. Wollin, Jr.; Kate Wolling, J. D. Trail, Emma Newman, as administrator of W. P. Newman , The Commer ial Bank of New,berry, S. C.; Martha M. Hipp and S. M. Wet more, as receiver of Carolina Mu tual Fire Insurance Company, De fendants.. By virtue of an order of court erein, I will sell before the court house at Newberry, S. iC., on the frst Monday in February, the same being the 7th day of the month, with. in the legal hours .of sale, all that tract, piece or parcel of land lying and being situate in the county of Newberry, state of South Carolina, containing Eight Hundred and Six ty (860) Acres, more or less, known as the "Reuben Chick Place,'' and bounded by Enoree river, lands of Mrs. M. F. Bynum and lands of the State of South Carolina. Terms of Sale: The purchaser wil be r'umied to pay one-third Icash and the balance in one ye from day of sale, the credit portio to be secured by the bond of th purchaser and a mortgage of th premises sold and to bear interes from day of sale at the rate of eigh per cent. per annum, said bond t provide for ten per cent. attorney' fee in case of collection by an at torney or suit. Purchaser to pay for papers ani for recording same. H. H. Rikard, Master Newberry County Jan. 12, 1910. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Newberry. Court of Common Pleas. The Bank of Prosperity, Plaintiff, Against E. A. Hentz, J. J. Hentz, M. C. Kis er Company and G. B. Bundricl Defendants. By virtue of an order of Cour in the above entitled case, I wil sell before the court housd of New berry, S. C., on the first Monday i: February, the same being the 7t: day of the month, within the lega hours of sale, all the interest of F A. Hentz and J. J. Hentz in tha tract, piece or parcel of land lyin; and being situate in the count and state aforesaid, in No.' 11 town ship in the Town of Pomaria, S. C containing thirty feetby eightt-ei bh feet, bounded on the south by Hol loway street, on the north by Victo ria street, on the east by Lot No. and on the west by lot of C. E T H.E F r'R L e4 Apples, * Grapes, * I Candle Raisins,P + Dates, Citr 0 + Lemon and 0 + Cr. Tartar, B S + Extracts *All kinds tabl * Pickles, .0. Fancy!and St * We have a few old stock that will * of price. iJOES' MONU) I am repr Meckenburg Marl CHARLC in this section, and a prices on anything in Tablets, Monuments, E my pric'es before placil and work guaranteed fi RBB..H IL LE R la r Counts, this being the same lot con- a a veyed from E. A. Hentz to W. W e Hentz and J. J. Hentz and recorded e in Book 14, at page 459, in the office t of the register of mesne conveyances t, for said county. . D) Terms of Sale: The purchaser s will be required to pay one half cash and the balance in twelve months from the day of sale, the credit por I tion to be secured by the bond of the purchaser and a iortgage of the premises sold, said bond to provide for interest from day of sale at eight per cent. per annum and that the ,buildings on the said lot be insured from loss or damage by fire and the policy of insurance assigned to the Master as additional collateral. Purchaser to pay for papers and for recording same. H. H. Rikard, Master Newberry Co., Jan. 1, 1910. t At the same time and place, and\on same terms, I will sell the interest of Hentz Bros. in .bove described. (brick store house and lot) property located in Pomaria, S. C., and make 1 deed therefor at same time with the Master of Newberry County. Lambert W. Jones, Tru'stee of Hentz Bros., Bankrupt. - Chamberlain's Cough Remedy nev er disappoints those who use it for obstinate coughs, colds and irrita tions of the throat and lungs. It - stands unrivalled as a remedy for 2 all throat' and lung diseases. Sold by W. E. Peham & Son. JIT S* Oranges Bananas s:Nuts I ruies, Figs+ S on, Currants+ Orange Peel aking Powder and Spices0 le condiments Etc., Etc.+ and All Kinds: aple Groceries: Toys left from our0 be sold regardless* GROCERY. I E NTS. seting the ils and Granite Coe, ~T TE, N. C., m prepared to make you the way of Headstones, tc. See my cuts and get g your order. Material rst-cla ss. JEWBERRY.52.C. 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