The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, January 10, 1901, SUPPLEMENT TO Bamberg Herald, Image 12
MISSISSIPPI'S GREAT WALL, j
An Interesting: PrcIilstoricNWorlv the
Origin. of Which Is a Myistery.
One of the scientific puzzles oWLe state
of Mississippi is the ''Brundvwhie stoue
wall.*' It has long been a problem that
is yet unsolved. Some time ago Mr.
Thomas Watson of Hazlehurst-sent Governor
I.ongino a pencil drawing of an
immense pile of stone in the southeastern
portion of Claiborne county, suggesting
that the stone might be utilized in
building the new capitol. In a letter
which accompanied the drawing Mr.
Watson stated that these stones, piled
high on each other, cover an area four
miles square. Each stone is ti feet
long, 3 feet wide and 2 feet thick,
and they are joined together with an excellent
quality cf cement. Xo man knows
how they came there, ^ey may have
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builders, tlie Jacksoa News thinks, were
some prehistoric race?it could not be
otherwise. This structure is supposed to
be a continuation of the great Chinese
wall, which seems to begin below Raymond,
in the southern part of Hinds
county, and which is traceable through
Copiah. It is broad enough to accommodate
two or three wagons abreast and is
one of the wonders of the world.
"Mention of this remarkable exhibit,"
says the Hazlehurst Courier, "has elicited
no little comment?in fact, has brought a
letter to Mr. Watson frcr.i the warden of
the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth.
Kan., and also a letter to Dr. T.
B. Birdsoug from another distinguished
source, it being known that the latter
some years ago investigated the matter.
Mr. Watson, however." says The Courier,
"has given the subject more patient
thought and gone over the ground more
thoroughly than any one else, and
him The Courier is-; indebted for the following
facts:
"He calls it the 'Brandywine stone
wall' and says this wonderful and massive
structure or parts of structure of
masonry done in stone, which have withstood
the ravages of time for perhaps
aiany thousands of years, still stand an
enduring relic of a prehistoric civilization
and a knowledge of the art of building
jaot inferior in many respects to the
present day. TiNese stone buildings lie
for the iC-ost part buried in the earth in
the sontfife^stern j.>ortion of Claiborne
county and lying .against the Copiah
county line on the slopes overlooking the
valley of the Brandy wine 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 tbyee tons, measuring
from 6 to 8 feet ic length and 3
feet wide by 2 feet thick. These blocks
or slabs are laid in a very fine quality
of cement and as perfectly aS brickwork.
The joints are perfect and ver.p close.
"At one place the wall is. exposed by
the earth being washed away to a width
of 60 feet and a length of 90 feet. This
exposure has the appearance of a brick
hearth. ,
"At another place the stone has been
quarried for domestic use to a depth of
three layers of slabs, which is 6 feet,
a width of 24 feet, or eight blocks, and ,
? n-f o"\ nr 1 .">0 feet. The
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length of this wall as indicated by the
croppings is about 1,000 feet.
"At another place about 500 yards
away from the place just mentioned is
a wall jutting from under a slope for a ,
distance of nearly 2,000 feet. This stone- 1
work is exposed in a great many places
orer an area of four miles. j
"The sides and angles of the blocks of ?
stones are so perfect that they resemble i
pressed brick. The tops of these walls
are perfectly horizontal and without regard
to the unevenness of the earth's .
surface. The seams between the tiers ,
are perfectly straight, and each block of ,
stone is perfectly horizontal in position,
and these blocks are smoothly dressed on ]
the edges and ends, while the broad sur- (
faces are rough, showing a broken sur
face brought down to a love! plane, but
not dressed. They are heid so lirmly
together by the cement that it is with j
great difficulty that they are broken up.
"A personal inspection of these great <
structures as they lie partly buried In
the earth would relieve the minus of the ,
most skeptical of all doubt of their not
being the work of the hands of man. ,
"In all that is above mentioned in | 3
connection with numerous cavings in of ,
the earth's crust, which represent the ]
existence of underground caverns, abundant
evidence is found to bear out the :
theory of the existence of a great buried I
city in that locality. '
"The information above given is vouch- t
ed for by other parties who have visited .
the scene in recent years and bears out
the theory advanced by Mr. Watson. .
Truly there is work for the scientist
here."?New Orleans Picayune.
Odd Cent Prices. j
Analysts of human nature vainly seek ]
an adequate explanation of the species of ,
mesmerism that odd cent prices exercise ]
on buyers. Department stores have long 3
used them to whet the proverbial femi- nine
appetite for bargains, but the cus- ]
torn is now so widespread among
Vi o fforo Q c frv J
<JAUimcia, iiauriuaoucio cllxka uauv*^
merit consideration. What are the caricaturists
ar-' vor.ny a liners, who have ,
poked no o; fun at the gentle sex foi ]
yielding to subtle fascination of 9S \
cents and to do when men's suits ]
are offered for ??9.99, hats for $1.07 and <
ties for 23 cents? Alas for the manu- \
facturers of humor, cruelly deprived of ^
one of their chief sources of revenue! j
Seriously, however, the spread of the odd <
cent idea is to be deprecated. It has a \
catchpenny savor that is antagonistic to ]
dignified trading and suggests the street ]
hawker. Fixed prices in round numbers ,
accord best with straightforward meth- ods
of selling goods.?Clothier and Haber- {
dashers' Weekly. j
lite Sovereigns of Europe.
Physically many of the sovereigns of
Europe would couu *:<ler tv2 general ]
classification of "squa../." TL_ 3ew king i
of Italy is 5 feet 3 iuchcs tall, but still be 1
is not the shortest sovereign. The czar <
of all the Iiussias ire rvvly 5 feet 2 inches, i
The Prince of Wales is o feet 4 inches. \
Pictures of him give the impression that ]
he is a much taller man, but that is be- i
cause his royal highness knows how to j
pose before a camera. In a group he st~ 1
lects a position in the rear line. where he
ean staud on a box, or else he steps to j
one end of the front line and a little in i
advance of the others. Perspective does \
the rest. lie weighs 2" pounds in spite x
of all precautions ;:nd 'vutvs" be ean ,
take. He wears ;>u 1>1^. collar, has a (
chest measurement <?:" inches, a 34 s
inch length < t arm. a wni>t 43 or 44 ,
inches and a :musers le-.; uf ',) ) inches. ^
The fat kind's ]>:;;:? h.-lonrs to the king ?
of Portugal. \vh" is feet ?'? inches- .
tall and weighs ob'S pounds.--Aigoaaut. (
DISMANTLED.
London. Jan. 6.?The British bark
Beechbank, Capt. Bucdianan. from San
Francisco Aug. 16, b^pard to Queens- 1
town, was spoken on Jan. 3 in latitude r
36 north, longitude 38 west, with loss a
of foretop mast and main top gallant P
yard. k
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BOOKSjTTO BE THROWN AWAY
The British; Masesm U'ikclr to Set a
Br.d Kxaugple.
The BtrirteU mnsviju!.; which possesses
the largest collect ioni* W hooks in the
worid, UbCally estimaud ai -.000,000 volumes,
and owns besides fs'.oOO volumes
of manuscripts. iinds irse-if cramped for
room c-r?thre.uonetl with. such a condition.
and a. bill has passed a second reading
iu the oiouse <>? lords authorizing the
trustees ol* the muse art to distribute the
bound volujmes of lieucqmpers and to destroy
such books and ?pamphlets as they
shall deem useless.
It is needless to say thattthe proposition
to sequestrate or destroy any portion
of the British museum meets with
strong and immediate opposition. It is
urged that the example and precedent set
would be very bad ones, since every
great and growing museum, including
a library, may reach the present,condi
tion of the British museum. The library
of congress, for instance, which receives
copyrighted books, as does the library of
the British museum, may some time
reach what somebody may believe the
necessity of aai enlargement of its
premises or the reduction of its stores.
For this reason tie British museum cannot
afford to set the precedent of destruction.
While it is not proposed to destroy the
bound files of newspapers in the British
museum, but to distribute them to various
localities, it is claimed that to take
anything out of London is, in the British
islands, equivalent to hiding it, and a
thing hidden is a thing lost. If ic is desirable
to preserve these newspapers for
the public use forever, Loudon, which is
the center and capital of the British empire
in a greater and wider sense than
Washington is the capital of the United
States, should be the plactyof their preservation
and keeping.
It is urged that there exists no sufficient
reason for the destruction or distribution
of any portion of its collections:
that the museum has not yet occupied all
of the 13 acres on which it stands; that
a separate building or buildings might be
erected for the reception of the art collections,
for instance, but in any event
the library should be kept intact forever.
However the question may be decided
in the case of the British museum, the
i?resent is the time to say that no collection
of newspapers, once made for the
public use, ought to be destroyed or made
unavailable.
The State Historical society of Kansas
has made a great collection of the
newspapers of the state. The newspapers
mailed to the society by the publishers
are carefully preserved and bound
in volumes and keDt in what are hoped
to be fireproof receptacles, where they
are open to the inspection and reference
of all. The point is sought to be made
that the newspaper volumes constitute to
the state a well nigh priceless possession,
which should on no account be lost, frittered
away, scattered or destroyed.
Singular as it may seem, the preservation
of a file of new papers is a work requiring
such care, patience and attention
that, it is seldom attempted except by
those whose special business it is. Of
many leading newspapers no files exist
except those kept in the office of publication.
Of the hundreds of thousands of
people who subscribe, pay for and regularly
read newspapers not one in many
thousands attempts their preservation.
When, therefore, any public library undertakes
the daily and weekly preservation
and arrangement of any newspaper
and the binding of the same at suitable
intervals into volumes, it has undertaken
a most useful work, the result of which
should be kept forever.
Such a bound volume is a book; in fact,
it is a book of books. It is such a history
and picture of its own time and locality,
of manners and men, in its own place and
corner of this world, as is not and cannot
be found elsewhere. It 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 see and hear and discover and apprehend.
It is a perpetually proceeding
narrative which enlarges, explains, amplifies
and corrects itself as it goes along.
The difference between a newspaper and
the historical or other narrative in the
shape of a book is the difference between
an oil painting, made perchance from the
scene by the imagination or the broken
memory of the arttet, and a kodak snap
shot or other picture drawn in an instant
by the sun and on the spot.
What would be given now for daily
newspaper pictures of the building of the
pyramids, drawn as the progress of Convention
hall is recorded now? A consideration
of the value of the bound newspaper
volume shows that all the rest of
the_museum, could be more easily spared.
?Kansas City-star. ' - -
Galtssha A. Grow.
It has been suggested that some appropriate
honor be paid to Congressman Gniusha
A. Grow of Pennsylvania at the
coming celebration at St. Louis of the
Louisiana purchase. He is the author of
the homestead law, enacted in 1S54,
which did so much to develop the west
i>y making home getting easy.
"It is difficult," says the Washington
Times, "for the present generation of
Americans, surrounded by the modern
conditions, with a fierce competition in
Ihe struggle for existence, to realize that
:here is in congress today a man who is a
link between the infancy of the nation
and its present giant proportions?between
the crude industrial conditions of
the dawn of the century, now In its
twilight, and the highly organized machinery
of the country's commercial
'orces. In his personality and record the
Hon. Galusha A. Grow is that link. If
he lives until 1003?and his remarkable
ritality and enthusiasm indicate that he
will?he will occupy a unique and conspicuous
position in the celebration of the
freat event at St. Louis in that year."
Won by the 3Ionkey?.
Monkeys are very amusing creatures,
but one hardly thinks of them as useful
in educational work. However, their aid
has lately been sought by the London
school officers, with admirable results. It
seems that in one of the school districts
ffiere were not as many children reported
by the parents as being of school age as
he officers knew there ought to be, so to
iscertain the real number they called in
:he monkeys to help them in this way:
Two monkeys were gaylv dressed, put
in a wagon and. accompanied by a brass
jaud. were carried through the streets of
:lie district. At once crowds of children
nade their appearance. The procession
was stopped in a park, and the school
)fficers began their work. Distributing
sweets to youngsters, they took their
james and addresses. They found out
:hat 00 parents kept their children from
school. This ingenious method brought
o school about 200 boys and giris.?Inlian
Witness.
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THE IOQUA ABANDONED.
San Francisco, Jan. C.?The steamer
oqua, which went ashore on Duxbury
eef Friday night and which was
bandoned bv her crew vesterdav. was
ulled off the rocks by tugs today. She
? now being towed to this city.
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