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*t -* I If You I V ' li? m f-V. 'j?$ S p. th< m pri E: pr< IP m am n* m:' fe.K|; offe Sis k*8 W for m IB AMBER* WAI .I.S OF COT I They Have Kept the A Past Eight H On May 29, 1453, the Turkish hordes, under Mohammed II, "the conqueror," stormed the great city which has since then been their capital, as for a thousand years and more before it was the capital of the Roman empire. In those days it was a vast fortified camp, the strongest fortress in the world, as it was the greatest city, impregnable so long as it was adequately garrisoned. That was not the case in 1453: 9,000 men could not maintain nearly 14 miles of walls against the attacks flel?' , of 15,000, supported by such an artillery train as had never previously been gathered together. Since 1453 the city has never been actually besieged, though more than once threatened. The mighty walls which for a,thousand years held every adversary at bay were allowed to decay, and are now in ruins., in 330 Constantine the Great established and renamed the city of Byzas as the new capital of the Roman empire. The population of Constantines's city soon outgrew the hnnnds that he had lain down. and in 413 Anthemius, the city perfect, statesman, financier, administrator and military reformer, raised the first Theodosian rampart more than a mile in advance of that of Constantin^ t;,V. Shattere<l by Earthquake. In 447, in the stress of the disastrous war with Attila an earthquake fell on Constantine City, overthrew the wall, and shattered 57 of the towers. The danger was imminent. The Huns were in Thrace. The Illyrian provinces had been wasted >. * from sea to sea. Three Roman armies had perished in the attempt to hold back the raging torrent of Mongol savagery; and Attila, the "Scourge of God,'" the "Dread of the World," was advancing against the city. Hope there seemed none, but Constantine rose grandly to the ys~'Soccasion. Every craftsman in the city was set to work on the task of restoration; 16,000 citizens served as laborers; in 60 days the fallen wall had risen anew, and a second line of defense had been constructed V - in advance of it. On the gate called anciently of Rheugium we may read Do We i it you want. J ces we receive spared to carry j d Horses we nov We have also a lan >rin? at the closest do and are therefore kfa less money. We car FRA G, S. C. VSTANTINOPLE. indent Capital Safe for undred Years. j to this day the simple, proud inscription which proclaims it to the world: "In 60 days, by command of the sceptered Emperor, Konstantinos the Eparch added wall to wall." Gigantic Moat and Sea Walls. In the succeeding years the work was completed; the gigantic moat, with its solid emba'ttled scarp, its counterscarp and dams was excavated. The sea walls were constructed, and when Avar and Persia and Saracen began to beat at its gates the citadel of the Roman empire, was indeed, mighty. The enemy who came from the side of Europe was faced by three or even four successive lines of defense. First came the moat, 60 feet wide and probably 20 feet deep, with on the farther side a masonry nn ^ i V?t? ? ciaIi/1 an /\ a 11 a r? SUO.1 JJ LUp^CU U> cl 3U11U ^ LWJLi.^ VYClll VI breastworks some six or seven feet high, from behind which archers and slingers could fire directly across the ditch. The solid stone bridges which spanned the latter were broken down . in times of siege, the great civil gates closed or walled up, and only the narrower military gates which gave access to the esplanade behind the breastworks were used. Great Esplanade in Ruins. This outward esplanade, anciently known as the Parateichon, is about 40 feet wide. Along its inner side stood the second wall, fearfully shattered by the Turkish cannonade in 1453, and to-day largely heaps of ruins. It stood originally about 25 feet to 30 feet high. Its solid thickness was about seven feet but on its inner side the earth was banked up against it to within about 12 feet from the top, and the portion rising i i above the esplanade thus formed was I strengthened by casements of mason! ry, with loophole, for archery pierced in the thickness of the frontal v all. 1 The whole was buttressed by some i i i-v X : OA 4-ry. tuu lowers, ranging irum ov icci iu ! 3." feet in height from the Parateichon, and usually about 16 feet or 18 i feet in diameter. The inner and higher esplanade < was known as the Peribolos, or in{ closure; it averaged about 60 feet ; in width. On its inner side was the < I first or great wall, a huge barrier | rising 45 feet from the level of the ] i \re The EWe have elsewhere, are more li Vnd then too 1 by buying in ] rour account t< ij have. We hi ?e line of Buggies, ssible prices. Rem >le to sell you bettei t sell you your Hors NK BOYS KILL TEACHER. Angered Over Thrashing, They Bea Instructor with Baseball Bats. Knocked down between two schoo benches and beaten insensible b: baseball bate wielded by two sons o J. W. Parks, Robert Adams, 19 yean old, a school teacher, died at Te cumseh, Oklahoma, on Tuesday Adams had thrashed the boys? anr they left the school room, return ing shortly armed with bats, and, ir the presence of the other children attacked the teacher. The youngei boy was arrested, but the elder escaped. The boys are 15 and 1' years old. The less brains a man has to span the more likely he is to lose hu head. esplanade and to considerably more on each flank of the towers, where it was carried up to protect the stairway which gave access to their tops This wall had a solid'thickness of IE feet, increased in many places tc over 20 feet by the staircases whict led up to the platforms. There were 97 flanking towers about 60 feel high, projecting from 18 to 30 feel into the Peribolos, chiefly of square or octagonal shape. * Nearly Surrounded the City. This vast bulwark of wall anc moat did not quite cover the lane front of the city, but ended at the hill of Blachernae, a quarter of i mile from the Golden Horn. Ir rront 01 mis nni, wmcn iormea a vast natural platform and embank' ment to it, a single wall extends tc the Xylo-Porta on the Golden Horn This wall, though never apparently covered by any ditch, is in itself immensely strong, and backed up as il is by a hill, was judged by the Turks in 1453 too strong to be attacked Sucessive emperors gave their attention to the fortification of this quarter, and in some places the rampart is nearly 70 feet high and 33 to 6C feet thick. Thus during the eight centuries of its pride was the city of Constantine guarded from attack. Before that vast bulwark in their myriads lie the bodies of Huns, Slavs and Avars, of Saracens and Bulgarians of Magyars and of Turks, of those who came and fought and perished in the vain endeavor to beat down the desperate resistance of the rear guard of Christianity, standing at bay against unremitting onslaught through the long ages. 5 People i a larger drove and where thei ikely to get exact] we give you the large quantities. Mr you. Come i ave some that wi Wagons. Harness. V ember we buy all of * goods for the same r ;e, Buggy, Wagon, He BA TO SELL HIMSELF INTO SLAVERY ( I Virginian Out of Employment Inserts Peculiar Ad. in Newspaper. j Woodstock, Va., Jan. 31.?Chas. ' McClanahan, aged thirty years, a f white man, of Maurertown, a village four miles north of Woodstock, has decided, after a life presenting many phases, that he will sell himself into slavery, and in a Baltimore paper of Sunday he inserted the following ad: "Wanted, a job; anything honest. Have no home; willing to work;\ good reference. Will sell myself into slavery for my keep; I have got to i eat; thirty years old. State best price. Address Charles McClanahan,, Maurertown^ Va." 5 McClanahan is a son of Mr. and 5 Mrs. Laurence McClanahan, the former a retired farmer of comfort; able means. He has worked on his \ father's farm and has been employed on nearby farms. Becoming .tired of farm life, he went to Terra Alta, W. Va., where he was employed in a ) woolen mill, returning recently to his home in Shenandoah county. Mc4 Clanahan received a grammar school J education and early developed a rovj. ing disposition, continually moving > from one thing to another. His father is very old, and has recently lost the sight of an eye. For a number of years the McClanahan family, * consisting of father, mother, two 1 daughters and three sons, have made their home near Maur'ertown. McClanahan is a young man of good morals, and highly thought of by all who know him. His unusual offer of selling himself into slavery is causing much comment, yet no cause is given for this unusual proceeding, unless he had grown despondent because he was out of employment. Federal Good Roads Bill. Washington, Jan. 29.?Senator Jackson, of Maryland, to-day introduced a bill proposing a plan of Fed- | , eral co-operation with the States for | highway improvements. The bill , would authorize the government to pay one-half the cost of improving > highways used by mail carriers, and . would appropriate $10,000,000 an^ nually for the work. A man is apt to dodge up an alley 1 when an office really seeks him. Many a girl fails to select the , right husband because she's' afraid of being left. i Yes, Alonzo, two can live just as expensively as one. To Get than you can i re are so many ly the Mule or H< : benefit of the Then, too, we t ind see the Mi 11 surely please 3 i/liips, Etc., which w< our goods in extra 1 noney, or the same g 1 11 irness, ana an necess MBI ST. GEOF ASSESS>IENT NOTICE. The Auditor or his deputy will be; at the following places on the days i and dates named below for the pur- j pose of taking returns of personal; property, notice of transfers of real estate, and income tax returns: Bamberg?January 1st to 18th. Denmark?Monday and Tuesday, j January 20th and 21st. Lees?Wednesday, January 22nd. j Midway?Thursday, January 23d. |' Olar?Monday and Tuesday, Jan- j uarv 27th and 28th. Govan ? Wednesday, January 29th. Farrell's Store?Friday, January 31st. Ehrhardt?Tuesday and Wednesiloi TTohrn o rv afh on/-? r?tfi St. John's?Thursday, February 6th. Camp Hill?Friday, February 7th, until 11 a. m. Kearse?Friday, February 7th, from 12 to 2:30 p. m. I will appreciate it very much if every taxpayer will meet me and make his or her return in person. All male persons between the ages j of 21 and 60 are liable to $1 poll tax, except Confederate soldiers and sailors who are exempt at 50 years 1 of age. ; All able-bodied males between the ] ages of 21 and 55 are liable to the . commutation tax of $2. Come prepared to give the name and number of your school district, 1 and if you have bought or sold any ( real estate be sure to give notice of same when you make your returns. ' 50 per cent, penalty will be added to all personal property not returned before the 20th of February.R. W. D. ROWELL, Auditor. * fGOWANSl I King of Externals I t Stands supreme under I \ every test. Feel se-1 t cure, keep Gowans in I c the home. Gowans al-1 [ ways conquers Croup e and Pneumonia and your doctor assents. Gowans Preparation was used on my child when it was desperately ill with Pneumonia. Immediately ^ after the second application my physician called ami finding so great an improvement ordered its continuance. The child recovered rapidly. G.J.HECKLE,Druggist, 924 East St. Allegheny, Pa. BUY TO-DAY! HAVE IT IN THE HOME All Druftftict*. $L 50c. 25e? GOWAN MEDICAL CO.. ~ Guirant#id, and mon?y rafundtd by yom Druf?ljf ' ?&*?}?. ?? ' . t " ??? . * Inrca ,, IVIOV It From .... ..g : W-1 find i| you '^fli >rse - :|||| low are '^'Wm les ' -yflll ?OU. : 1 |j|| 5 are '^8 arge 1 oods \ MS aries ji|| IRG lGE, S. C { J. P. Carter B. D. Carter ' CARTER & CARTER Attorneys-at-Law BAMBERG, S. C. '! Special attention given to settlement of estates and invest!gation of land titles. i'OU CAN ASK A LADY TO RIDE . in one of our carriages with perfect confidence. You can even let her take it out alone and have no fear ibout her coining back safe. Better 8 have a carriage of that kind in your barn. We can sell you one at a price that will, favorably compare ' ivith. tiiat of any on the market? ||| sven with that of carriages that are cheap in quality as well as cost. HORSES AND MULES. r < G. FRANK BAMBERG, Bamberg, S. C. NOTICE. ' State of South Carolina, County of Bamberg, Court of Common Pleas. Mrs. Mildred S. Copeland, plaintiff, . 1 rs Robert W. Miller, et al, defendints :Ww^ To Robert W. Miller: Please take lotice that the complaint in the ibove cause is filed in the office fe )f the clerk of court for said couny and State, and you are hereby re- V [uired to serve your answer to same >n the undersigned within 20 days rom service hereof, or plaintiff will pply to the court for relief demandd in said complaint. E. H. HENDERSON, - ' , KJ Plaintiff's Attorney. V't GRAHAM & BLACK - 'V^'. Attorneys-at-Law I Vill practice in the United States and State Courts in any County ' . in the State. . V BAMBERG, S. C. ^ V FRANCIS F. CARROLL Attomey-at-Law Office in Hoffman Building GENERAL PRACTICE. f BAMBERG, S. C.