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Idea af iKa Earth and It* Mar-
gia a# Watar.
I4K oa ro ckier for 00a moment what
of the werH! was—hot tad—*1.
at tha earUaat period of which we
hare amj koowtadfe. but at tha dawn
df written blstorr or of written history
among that Indb-Oermanlc paopta
wboaa doaceodanta bare overspread so
muofc of the earth. The world of Ho-
M Doo’l dthod 'ftud rrr;
foiirajtaiid nft%Td^the dil
ly. ’—Diikcnt. *
ihdB he praae lit
>wdarlj, Trxaa aej
V
mcent
I hart suffered
for jean with Khlarj and Bladder
ANTl-BfUOtJS KytjMCIHt,
trouble, using every preparation 1 came
l~ iMHMi aaaj dtMaiMioa was
Piutulee After 80 daja’ trial
^4 ^
dvtllxatioo waa beamed In by foreign
racea. who a gala were anrronnded bj
a great ocean or river over which no
i^had ever peeeed The wedd of
Homer had aajr definite aottoa
Greece—a Greece which hardly
extended aa far as the Rllkaas cn the
north and which acarcely Included the
Levant and the taiaods In the Aegaan
aea. No doubt ha had aome geoaral
quakitance wltb a world beyond
narrow limits. He knew, at any rate,
some of the leading featarea of aartb-
ern Africa. He bad beard, aa waa aaly
natural, of Egypt, whose civilian Hon
bad made such marked advances and
waa exercising so much Influence. He
bad aome knowledge of the great river
on whose recurring floods Egypt de
pends for her prosperity. He bad even
heard of the pygmies and of the Ethio
pians who dwelt higher up Its stream.
Some reports bad reached him of
southern Italy. But It la bopelees to
' attempt to lit the geography of Homer
to the actual facts. If a man were to
search today for the precise spot on
which Captain lemoel Golllrer waa
wrecked In the flrnt of bis famous voy
ages be would And that the LlHlpot of
Swift was In the heart of Australia,
and much in the same way. to quote
Mr. (Uadatone'a language, "the key te
the great contrast between the outer
geography (of Homer* and the facta of
nature Ilea In the liellef of Homer that
a great sea occupied the apace where
we lujow the heart of the Europeu''
continent to lie.”
It la another Indication-of the amatl
nees of Homer’a world that the ten
year*' war. of which be baa given ns
the concluding episode, was not as
even IlerodotiiH has described It one
of the opening chapters of the great
etruggle which has endured throughout
historic time* between east and went
but a contest between men of common
origin. It Is not a mere poetical H-
cause which makes Greek* and Bo-
mans address one a Mother In the same
language. Yet the world of Homer,
smafl a* It *6cm* to us. seemed large
to total. Compared wltb the mighty
ooeaas which men now traverse the
Medtaormucsn Is hut a little landlocked
aea. The Mediterranean of the “Iliad”
waa only the Aegean, yet for Homer It
had terrors which the Atlantic baa not
for na.~4Ur Spencer Walpole la Con
temporary Review.
• ailed to
(tl.ooh lam feeling
ed if not eat 1»fled Sold by
D *4 Co.
Honey refund
by Wafer
boro
“Lei us feYe ti e faith Hint
right makes might, and in that
LIVED AFTER HAUOIHCL
fa.tli let ua dare tn do onr duty
a* we understand it.’'—Abraham
Lincoln.
. u wa
WvB^wlVwO
hints noea of
Wemen Whe
Ordeal ef the
tarable
tkm after-banging are reeaefied. Hen
ry III. granted a pardon ta a woman
named I nett* de Batsham. who wa*
euapeuded from U o'elocfc aa a Moo
day to aanrlee of Thiiredag and after
ward “came ta" Ifr. Plot tell* of »
Swtee who was henaed up tliirfeei
times without cff«N-t on asitmint of tl*
peculiar condition of IHe wlndpl|ie. I
having l>een converted Into bone b;
(Unease
Annie Green, a eerraat girt, wu
hanm-d at Oxford In 1«KVn and recover
ed fourteen hours afterward under 1
doctor's treatment. Mrs Cope, wh-
wee banned at the same place eigh:
year* later, alro recovered. On 8e(>i
2. 1724. Margaret Dlehsou was bange
at Edinburgh und rtM^owred while la*
lag carried to the grave. She lived
for mauy year* afterward and war
onl vena II; know a as “Half HangK
Maggie IMckson."
A bousehrenker named Smith was
hanged at Tyburn la 17<Xx A reprieve
came wfton be bad l*ea sospended r
quarter of an hour. lie waa cut down
bled and revived. Williaia Buell, bang
ed In London Jo 17W, rex* gnd
wa* IrausitorTed. A Taaa banged In
Cork In ITtS wr.s taken In band by a
physician who brought him round lo
six hours, and we are toM the fellow
bod the nerve to attead a theatrical
performance the same eveatag.
Richard Johnson, hanged at Shrew*
bury. Oct S. 1096* obtained a promise
from an undersherlff to pluae him in
A Twenty year Sentence.
• I have jn»t completed a twenty year
I ehltb enu-nce. imponeeed by Bucklen’r
-Africa Solve, nhioh cured non of bleed-
’i a Vlas just twenty yaer* ago,*' write*
OS *00lever, of LsRa)ivtUe, N f.
Puck lea’* Arnica Salve beela tba worst
«• iee, boils, boras, wound* tad enu in
>b» shortest Urn*. 25c at Jno u Klein’*
• r g store.
♦
“B« not aimply good for some
thing.' ? —Thorean.
I!e>e cemts thehpiag winds to chap,
run end freckle. Use Pmesalve Oar-
b.» red, (Acts like a pouitio*) for curs,
sorrv, burn*, chapptd Ups, bands and
face. It soothes snd heals. Bold by
* altetboro Ding Co.
-_J a >
ana loranost
Boden FreDch none, who was invited Airing
teteoM cl 1905-06 to vial America to conduct tome
«t kii owi works with the Boston Symphony Orchen-
fra, tod who played the piano with thfi
the
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PIANOS
PIT Dew Sn>-1 ds aol wiA to !««• AaMrica witMM kAoc 700 bow lunir t Iwt*
^1 beea to know tad pU, your miptirryl ButrumaU^ Your p*M* an quM n-
aooonty,
to
ibidf to thfi
mtfhihie for their
me and which commepdi mem to afl those who _
heart, rather than a pretext for virtuorty. One can om exprmdvdy oo year
jt u tl^iy which to my coaftitotefl thenr chief chefua
7 (Signed) VINCENT DTNDY.
F-nl mny a Stalo cr city hope
*v -hare in Republican plunder
inrrety by adoptins a policy of
turn ng away it eyea while the
plu during proceed^?—News and
L'ouricie
* Geritraly debilitated for years.
H*il sick headsches, lacked ambitim.
whs worn-out and all run-down. Bur
dock Clood Bitters made me a well
«• uiao."—ure (. bai Freitoj, uosop,
(Jt-uu.
THE CABLE COMPANY
the ooOn wHbout
Jack's Lucky Aa*.
The ennnal publication of tha brt-
gads of mldahlpmen at Annapolis go**
by tba aa me of “TbeUscky Bag.
Grim
!*M MtoUweMwetogl X
Point bean the mldtary appettatlon AT
“The Howltaer.* On • boqnj ablp^ia
kept what is called • lucky bag.
tbia are put all aorta of articles that
are left around the dacha or oat of
their proper places by the man. At
the end of each month tha lucky beg la
opened, and the men who have lost
different articles gather around It to
the hope that they have been- tacky
enough to have bad their r iniMliin*
And their way toto the lucky bag. At
the end of the meotb the bag generally
I* Oiled wltb a great variety of articteo.
In tt are Jackknivea. pair* of ahooa.
plugs of chewing tobacco, sewing kite,
rape, photograph*, writing materia la,
and so on through practically tha en
tire list of the sailor's
New Cork Tribune.
DepfereMe Levity.
“We stodents'ean stand a good many
things,” aald the college girl, “but this
last missionary was 400 much for no.
He prenebed or. the glories of the mis
sionary calling for women. He told us
we ought all of us to go and help tha
heathen. That was all right
'But then be worked up to a glow-
g flaish. 'Now. I appeal to you, as
Ing traun. 'Now. I appeal to you.
college women, how much better than
mere learning and mere books tt Js to
go forth Into tba world and become
fisher* of men!*
“That was too much. Of conrae w*
smiled. In fact, some of us snickered
audibly. Then the missionary com
plained to 'prexy' that be couldot help
noticing a deplorable spirit ef levity
apparent among the students.“—Phila
delphia Ledger
—
his clothes.
After banging half aa boar be still
showed signs of life, sod ea eaaminn-
tioa It waa found be bad wrapped
cords about his body oeanootod with
books at the neck which prevented
the rope from doing Its work. The
apparatus was removed aad the man
banged effect nelly. ,
tt mag be offered ta eaptanation of
tha cases meatioued that there was no
daap need at exacuttaus ta those days,
the culprit usually snffistag asphyxia
wtthsut tba cerebral eotama being
-Tlic opror?:.'* of Senator
Bailee in Texrs * :'.l l*avo to
charge some of the linert rapid
opifhet-fiing newspapers tn thia^
country if they expect to defeat
him.-News and Courier.
Everything known in music.
Quantity and Quality rarely ever go
together Here’s the exception* Elliott's
Ktuukioed Gil Liniment contains half s
filnt of an emulsion of Spirits turpentine
Orhmnnm, Kerosene OiL Ether aud
Ammonia, aad sella for only >5c a boitle
Goaraateed or money back. John K
Klein.
Cable Building. J. V. Wallace,Mngr. Charleston, S-
They fail and they alone wbo hare
not strircn.
In whose
be Hoc of .the artor-mana
eompaar she waa piartafi-
“Now. Mias Weak* asM the great
00a. “you'll have aa sppartaolty to
show yoar taleate la aasShw direction
I’ve cast you tar a daadr part small,
but Tat’ And youTI have a chance to
study roe In a new rMe. You've never
teen me do farcufomedp. have your
“Tea. 1 beve.“ couteadkted Mias
Blaakt “Tv* seen your Macbeth.“
Eimiki • s ms,
A Tenue'soe Republican con
vention is no Cougreasof mothers
—News aud Courier.
BEST FOB
18
NITS.
Don’t let the baby sutler from
eczema, sores or any itching of the
•kin. Doan’s Ointment gives instant
relief, cures quickly. Perfectly safe
for children. All druggist* sell iL
MUIIWS NEW DISCOVERY
Sfiifily Step Thai Ci—h.
Mr wm H Aadarsoa, m o„ of Soda
Springs, Ids, rays that Bass Laxative
Coagk Svmp has reilsvtd coughs aad
colds whers all other rsmadia* fall
ad. Ite gentle laxative sffacta ispsuiially
recomamod it for ohUdrsa. It la picas
sat to taka For coughs, colds, hoarse-
Thfi great alien exodus ocn-
tinoee and is tak*n ms one of the
tigi.s of business d+preasion. If
1 he depression extends to Bltck
Uand Anarchy end Mafia circles,
the country will try to pot up
with it for a while longer.
Were the police force of Irav-
eller’s Rest, 8- C., as inefficient
as New Yofk newspapers allege
that of New York to be, cor Legis
lature would take away Travel
ler’s Rest’s charier and set a jus
tice of the peace over the town.—
News and Courier.
If
Drag Co.
whooping-cough. Mousy rtfuudsd
4 satMflad. Bob
Id by walterboro Buckled’* Affllca SalVB
The M Salve to The WtrM.
Dr.Ktos*s New UVe Pills
Th« boot In thw world.
Southern Congressmen who
carry “guns” should hoot on
their own preserves.-News and
Courier.
For Constitution
xrLH Faruhjm. a prominent drag-
list of Spirit Lake, low*. My>: “Chum-
buflulu’s Btomuch uod liver lAMsts ur*
orrtsluly the test thing on the markar
toe constipuilou.” Give tksse tebiet* »
trial. Ton am certain to find them
MieanUe and pleasant in sfiset. Frio*,
25 taatt. Samples free. For asle by 4 lo
m Klaia..
The Illinois Republicans are
extremely polite people. They
have taken the trouble to endorse
Mr Cannon, who is only their
favorite adopte son.—News and
Courier.
He preaches
well.—French.
well who lives
aw
New Goods
Solid Gold Jewelry Watches and
* Clocks
J. A. ViSTBBBSRO, Jeweler.
WALTKKBOKO, ft. 0.
Fine repair work a Specialty.
(Next to C. D. May's ?*L table).
Don't think 1 bat piles can’t bs cured
Th -u-aod* of obstinate outre* bsve been
1‘iiredAj Doan’s Oiuuutbt. 50 cents at.
drug store
auy
America on Tcp.
Some year* sgo. while on a tour
through Europe. Sir Henry Boacoe
ppid ti visit to Veauvlua. which was a!
the tkue Id eruptloa. He there met aa
Atnericftn. who spoke Id depredator}
term* of the magnificent spectacle.
“Well." remarked Sir Tieary. “when
all la apld and dona, you have nothing
like this In AmCrtctr."
“No." replied the other, “but we hare
a tferer that would .put thq whole
dwfiefi thing out In fire minutes."
On Tsrra Firm*.
“What doe* hecotn* of all the plat?”
rrisfi Mrs. X. a* the taialy sought for
*U» m her dressing table
“I knew, mamma." cried her little
he bad Just begun to study Latin,
fail to the earth aud become ter-
raghto.*’—Harper's Weekly.
It is reported that the railroads
are hoading coal in prospect of a
miners’ strike. Y'es, there will
have to he something started to
keep up the price as the hoi
weather approaches.
Don’t cough your bead off when y<w<
can get a guarataed Heated; in fees
Laxative Cough Bvrun. It L eapeetalu
recommended for children ua in plea-* at
to take ie a geatie laxative thus expvl -
lag the phlegm tram the eyeiem. F01
ague colds croup, whoapiag-cotun
Murseuess aid all Bronchial troub-e.
Guaranteed. By Wallet boro Drag Co.
Spring seems to have come, Knt
it reailv has not. Walter WeP-
m «n has not yet made hi* annuxl
unt-ouncement of uu nerinl trip
u» the North Pole.—The State.
kill™* cough
«m CUM ™* LUNGS
Dr. King’s I
Nsv Discovery
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If their dennnoiatkma mean
anything few Demoeratic Con-
gresamen agree with Mr Bryan
ia his estimaie of the President.
-News and Courier. — ,
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to get rid of it e
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lake Dr Sag's W.w
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