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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
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* 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
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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
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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
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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 ]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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expensively as one.
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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?
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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
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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.
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BAMBERG, S. C.
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FRANCIS F. CARROLL
Attomey-at-Law
Office in Hoffman Building
GENERAL PRACTICE. f
BAMBERG, S. C.