COLOSSAL STATUES.
SPECIMENS OF THE WORK OF
! SCULPTORS IN REMOTE AGES.
Some of the G ?gantte Stone Figures Foun?
i in the Old World -The Colossus of
j Rhodes-A Music Making Granite Image.
Barneses the Great.
1 Among the statues, images of heroes
and the gods, and of symbolic figures
that sculptors have fashioned of stone or
metal from remote ages, some are dis?
tinguished and attract special attention
on account of their great size. Some are
found in distant and almost inaccessible
places, others are in cities and museums,
while a few exist only in the pages of
history.
Under the successors of Alexander th?
taste for colossal statues enjoyed a
"boom." Colossus came into being in
numerous places. The most famous was
Apollo at Rhodes. This was by a pupil
of Sysippus, and is ranked among the
seven wonders of the world. Pliny
writes that it was seventy cubits, or
about one hundred and thirty-two feet
tall. It ls said to have been placed on
piers at the entrance of the port, as
snown in the illustration, so that vessels
sailed between the legs when entering
or leaving Rhodes. Fifty-one years after
being erected it was overturned by an
earthquake, and lay prostrate for 900
years, when, in 672, it was destroyed by
Arabs and the metal exchanged with
Jews for goats. "
The first colossal figure met in travel?
ing through north Egypt is the sphinx,
beside the pyramids of Gizeh. The body
is of a lion, with a human head crouch?
ing in a plain of sand. It has the appear?
ance of being the guardian of the pyra?
mids. The sphinx is ninety feet above
the sand. The face, including the hair,
is twenty-six feet high In the Sixteenth
century Prosperus Al pi nus, who beheld
it intact, wrote highly of the beauty of
the features, and AbdallatiiT, a learned
Arab physician, who saw it 400 years be?
fore, praised warmly the sweetness cf
the mouth and expression carried in the
smile, lliis is all lost now, as the nose
is gone and the rest of the face badly de?
faced. The Sphinx is supposed to have
been chiseled 1050 years B. C., by order
of Thoutmosis IV, to honor the memory
of his father. Some historian?, however,
take the ground that the Sphinx existed j 1
in the time of Cheops, prior to the great j '
pyramids bearing the name of the prince.. ' 1
The sound giving statue of Memnon,
which was early overturned byan earth
quake.but restored by Septimius Severus,
easily follows the Sphinx. Tins colossus
is now without a face, the forehead, nose
and mouth having disappeared. The
chest, anns and legs are also broken and
crumbling. Not far away is the statue
of Amenophis. The two great figures are
near Ramesseura, on the left bank of the
Nile, and are each sixty feet in height.
They are ail that remain of the palace of
Amenophis III. Each statue ison a base
of red granite as high as a four story
house. It was in Nero's reign that the
musical propensities of the Memnon came
to light. Refer to almost any one of the
ancient histories, and tlie melodious
sounds that the Memnon gives forth at
sunrise will be found spoken of. Tacitus
compares them to the ring made by
bre?king ?he string of a lyre. On the
Memnon legs and base are severity-two
inscriptions, the earliest in Nero's time,
dated* A. D 44. and the last 130 years
after, in the reign of Septimius Severus.
The most famous inscription is .?that of
the Emperor Adrian, who in 130 went
with the Empress Sabina to; upper
Egypt. Their names, half tn Latin and
half in Greek, are still distinctly visible.
The renown of the speaking Memnon
was much increased under the Antho?
nys, and pilgrims came to ina"ke offer?
ings at its feet, never doubting that the
sounds were other than the voice of
Memnon. the hero of Homer, the king of
the east, saluting his mothejr, Aurora,
each morning at the sun's rising. Science
in recent years has "laid our" the ro?
mance of mythology in the inpst prosaic
way, by finding that the stones in thu
statue gave out diiTerent noises when the
sun began to shine on them after the cool
and dew of the night.
Luxor is an Arab village, Which gives
its name to the ruins in thje midst of
which it is established. These* ruins are
the remains of the grand palaces con?
structed, one by Barneses tho Great, the
other by Amenophis-Memnon of the
eighteenth dynasty. The fatter is the
more ancient: the palace '->f Rameses
Sesostris is of later date. -;
The entrance to the palac/e of Ramesea
is of incomparable grandeur. Against the
entrance stand four colossal statues rep?
resenting Ramescs the Gr?eat. They are
each sculptured of a single) block of Sy- j ]
ene granite of mingled rVd and black, j
They are scated upon cubical stones, one j
of them leaning against a fattie obelisk, j
They areforty-threefeet hig)h. Although \
tlu-y are much disfigured alid dilapid?t- \ ?
ed. ont- recognizes the higl/head dress in j
the lorin of a miter, the collars that en- ?
circle their necks, the legends engraved
iij>on their arms, as weil as$ the patterns ; P
cf the robes, fastened by a! belt around
the waist. These four Colosses, titting
in majestic silence at tho rites of the j
palace, must have produced a most im?
posing .'lit ct. /
Within one of the ruined courts lie the j
remains of a gigantic statie of Rameses !
the Great. In one block we have in*
head, chest and ariusas fa-r as the elbow;
in another the stomach aiy?d thighs. The j
left hand has been fount f; and also ?one ;
of the feet. The head has; preserved ita I
fora;: the (limeront :hap;s,f the head
dress are easily distinguishable, but the /
face is hopelessly mutilated. It is almost \
impossible to give th<- exfact height of
this Colossus. The cartis nearly four j
feet long. Thedistance from one ear to
ihe other, across the facet; is seven teer. I
The circumference of th&anti below the |
flbow is .sixteen feet. ?VJthough it vas :
seated, this sta! nc ougiVt to have been,
without its pedestal, wjf?eh is stiil ii' irs
place, nearly sixty feet-KI height. Ii was
sculptured of rose gianite of a single
pt one weighing iro/e than 1/H'?O.OOO :
kilogrammes.-St. Louis Globe-L>oino?
cr t /
-.-/? ----- - .
Proper* <*re?Jit.
There war. a simile ol<l Irish gardcnei j
who had laid ou I his master's gr ? lee
very beautifully. ' He took that pride ir
it that all gardeners talc in their work.
Weall take more'or less delight in oui
work, and artists /who point pictures A
men who write b<x>ks, machinists whe
run engines and everybody who has con- T
genial work au?l ?congenial implement* '
gets up a certain affection for them. Bul
did you ever see gardeners hang ovei
their flowers? Something of the love ol j
mothers for chihilren seems to animate '-?
them. They waty-i, them grow from ?-u< |
to flowers with yvonderful interest: the; Jj
take them up/ tenderly: they toucl;
them with carr/, and when they withei
they cut the whithered stem with a cer?
tain pity whj&h is very creditable to hu J
man nature*. This old Irishman was
showing a stranger over the grounds
and with enthusiasm he explained how
he had dogfte everything, what idea h< "1
had in ttye designs of the flower plots
and ho was taking great pride in it ali ?
The stranaer would frequently point t< '
6ome Kttk* bit of design and remark or 1
its beauty. The Irishman would hay: J
"Yes. sw. I did that.*' u
The stranger pointed to a spreading '
tree that threw a shadow over the ceutei
of the gr<M mds. . ?
"What a beautiful tree!*'
f
"Indade it is, sor. God Almighty did
thai, sor."-New Orleans Picayune.
From Jest to Earnest.
It is often hut a step from the jest tc
the truth. Many years ago three young
English officers stationed at Madras wenl
down to the l>each one evening to re?
fresh themselves hy bathing in the sea.
The sharks were abundant and hungry,
but the young wen were indifferent t<
the danger, for they did not believe thal
these sea wolves would venture so neal
to the shore.
They stripped and began frolicking OE
the heach and digging holes in the sand.
4'Let's dig a grave for B-, and bury
him," said one of them.
"No, you won't!" he shouted, and
dashed into the sea. A frightful scream
told them that a shark had seized him.
His two companions, splashing in to hi*
rescue, got hold of him and the shark let
go. Before they could drag him out the
fish returned to his prey, fastened upon
him, and quickly got him under thc
water.
His comrades held on and pulled him
to the beach. They succeeded in rescu?
ing him, but he was so torn and mangled
that he bled to death on the sands.-Ex?
change.
A Charming Little Follow.
Aristocratic but Vinegar Faced Caller
-He's a channing little fellow, Mra.
Grindstone. Only 5 years old, you say.
You'll give me a kiss, won't you, Willie:
Willie- Yes'm. (Kisses her.)
Caller-That's a good hoy, Willie. But
what are you holding in your hand so
tightly?
"It's a half dollar mamma gave me.
She said site 'spected you'd want to kiss
me and I told her I wouldn't do it for
le^s."-Farmer's Voice.
--
Sei d Twenty-Five Cents
To "The Dispatch," Bla'kshunr, S. C., and
receive that targe, well-printed paper two
months on trial. It tells all aboni the rapid
growth of that magic city of South Carolina.
-- ttm
Art Old Story.
When a man says he feeis drowsy in the
spring:, that his digestion is b*d, and that
?ie don't feel well generally, he kr:ows that
3e needs something to pi ve tone io his sis?
ero, to purify his n?ood and put his liver
n proper condition to periotm the duties
>f organic life. He goes ty his physician
v;:h ibis same old S?ory \ear After year
md ttie {hysietan prescribes a tonic and
iltt-rntive. The bes' tonic in a case like
his is Dr. Westmoreland's Calista Tonic,
t acts charmingly on the liver, purifies
he blood and strengthens the system for
ts daily work. This treat medicine can he
ion?ht for 50cants and $1 CO a bottle.
For sale hy al druggists, and wholesale by
)r. A. J. Chins. Dec 4
ADVJCB TO MOTHERS.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should
Iwavs he used for children teethtag. It
Oothes the chile, softens the y urns, allays all
iain, cures wind colic and is the hest remedy
ur diarrhoea. 25c a bottle.
IIOL?D? NOTICE.
GREEN'S
FRUIT STORE
YOU CAN GET
FANCY FRUITS,
;UTS, RAISINS, CURRANTS,
CITRON. 4c.
TOYS
IND FANCY CHINA WARE.
Fire Works,
1? nnd V'iVi
AU of my goods wiil be sold at the
losest figures Examine my stock be?
tte purchasing.
MOSES GREEN
Nov. 27
FALL AND WINTER
MILLINERY.
Ve would invite our friends and the ladies
generally tocal! and examine our
LOWERS, FANCY FEATHERS, BIRDS
AND RIBBONS,
TRIMMED AND UNTRIMMED
lats and Bonnets.
Children's Silk and Plush
BONNETS.
ZEPHYRS IN ALL COLORS
AND SHADES.
Orders intruded to our care Till receive
romp' at ten lion.
?RS. WHITE & MISS MILLER.
Oct. 2.
GLENN SPRINGS
MINERAL WATER,
A S;>fc, Pleasant and
Effective Remedy
FOR ALL DISEASES
)f t!ie Kidneys, Liver. I
STOMACH ANO SKIN, j
t Acts (?ii the Bowels, Cleanses j
the Syst (.'in,
- VN I? -
Requisito* the Liver,
And is 5i specific for most
FEM A LE DISORDERS.
i
F?ir sisle hy IV A. J. China, and !
)r J F W. I) Lorine
SIMPSON & SIMPSON, Props., !
GLENN SPRINGS, S. C.
.pril IO.
mm? m SOUTHRON
-AND- I
Tie (?rtal Fit TH. Industrial und Stmk .Tournai ;
-*/ th" South,
ONE YEAR FOR $3.00.
i
PLUMMER JOHNSON.
BOOT AND SHOE M A KKK,
SUMTER, S. C.
[S PR EPA fl ?D To DO A LI, WoRK
I entrusted .<? his care, either in tue mak*
j.? of new wot k, or mending hue and guaran?
?es satisfaction. Terni-? low. ("?! und see
ie at Shop, next door to Moises & L e"s law
fri*.
Dec. 4. .
WE WILL
GIVE YOU A LIFT
In the right direction if you will permit
us; help you in the upward path so to
speak-the path of plenty and pros?
perity. Do you want to rise in the
world? Remember that econ?
omy is the parent of pros?
perity, and become a prac?
tical economist by
TRADING WITH US.
The heavy profits which some merchants make, like the in?
terest on borrowed money, eat up the earnings and prevent
saving. We make no such profits, and those who trade with us
will find their savings increase with every trade. An honest
profit and an honest price is our idea of price and profit
making. Big prices and big profits aie not honest. We have
nothing to do with them. We will save j'ou also in the goods
we supply. Good grade goods go farther than low grade.
Even at a higher price they are cheapest in the long run. But
we put good grade articles on the same price-level as the low
grade. That makes them cheapest in actual cash as well as
cheapest in actual value. It takes us to make bargains ! We
are old hands at it. We know how to buy and that's how we
have the secret of selling. We are past masters in the ancient
and honorable art of bargain-making and will convince you
that we know our work if you give us a call.
Recollect that we show what we ad?
vertise, that we have the goods, make
the prices and mean all we advertise.
No one talked to death. No misrepre?
sentation of goods. No matter what
prices others may make we will beat
them, and you are not restricted to buy?
ing a couple of yards. Do not be misled
by dealers who shout big things and claim
to show what they cannot produce.
We give you real and not imaginary value
for your hard earned dollars, for next week
we have made Special Prices in every depart?
ment.
The wonderful increase in our trade this
season amply justifies us in inaugurating
from time to time these special low price sales
that have become so universally appreciated.
Whilst these sales are in progress we give no
consideration of profit but allow every one an
equal chance to secure the bargains we offer.
As thousands are to hundreds so is the com?
parison you can make between our stock and
that o? others in the city. We give you qual
i
ity, we give you style, and we give you the
lowest prices. Take the hint and come to
J. RYTTEIIRE & ?.
Nov 13
HSV GOOD
OTJK
NEW STOCK
.TS
We are Chock Full
-OF
BARGAINS
-IN
All Departments.
Call and get our prices before
purchasing.
ALTAMONT HOSES.
FIRN??
We are Agents for several large
FIR E
Insurance Companies.
We take Risks on
GINS and
GIN HOUSES,
RESIDENCES, &c.
ALTAMONT MOSES.
Sept. 4.
A
Auk
I
i
Ot" merchants, our town has had many
Of fortune, of fame and renown,
But never a combination
Made up of a Brown and a Brown.
The aforementioned rare combination has brought together
I a stock of pure, fresh and popular goods, staple and substantial,
j good to eat and good to wear-all of which goods are enhanced
j in value by the men who are putting them before the public,
for it gives us pleasure to say
Tbe fam'ly of Brown reaches backwards,
And is kin to the kings of old ti.'ne ;
But tbe climax of fame is accomplished
In this year of our L->rd, eighty-nine.
The climax referred to is the low price at which our goods
j are being sold. In SHOES we are running a Hue of specialties,
and the open-eyed amazement that smites our customers as they
behold our lay-out, is equal to a seventy-five cent show.
And further.
We stand in the end of the agps,
A Brown by the .?ide of a Brown,
And declare to the town and thc country,
We'er not seeking geld, but renown.
To enable us to lay a foundation for the said fame and re
i nown, we have put down a solid substratum of low prices and
! formed new purposes of honesty and uprightness in the hand?
ling of FLOUR, BACON, SUGAR, COFFEE, and GROCERIES of all
! kinds.
In the line of DRY GOODS, we have displayed our best
taste and are prepared to knock out all competitors in four
rounds of four minutes each. We are cosmopolitan in principle
and philanthropic at heart, with a strong leaning towards the
doctrine of man's universal brotherhood. We believe in the
Alliance, in Free Trade, and Protective Tariff, and in Tariff for
Revenue onlj\ We accept all the creeds and isms of our cus?
tomers, and we believe heartily in the nebular hypothesis, and
meanwhile endeavor to keep our stock full in every depart?
ment.
Store on Liberty Street in rear of the famous Clothing
Store of Brown & Chandler.
Our clerks are models of politeness and affability, a supply
of good manners, ami suaviter in modo having recently been im?
ported from France for their individual use.
LE
A QUIET POINTI
WE CARRY THE
Largest and Most Complete
LINE OF
FURNITURE, WALL PAPER,
SHADES, PICTURES, (fcc.,
EYER SEEN LY
This Section of the State, and
Buying direct from the
Largest Factories
Are enabled to sell at Prices that
DEFY COMPETITION.
An examination of our Goods aud Prices will
convince you that THIS IS A FACT.
$3^ Don't forget our Prize Suit.
DURANT & BELITZER.
CAN BE SAVED BY THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTY.
NOW IS THE GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY !
Sim^es I Stores I Stoves !
PUMPS ! PUMPS! PUMPS!
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, CROCKERY, GLASS?
WARE, HARDWARE, WOOD EN WA RE, CHINA.
FANCY GOOD*, TOYS, TIN WA H E,
in fact our immense assortment of
New Fall and "Winter Goods
is now in stork and opened for inspection and offered at extremely ?otcprices.
Wliiic maintaining the uniform standard of quality and excellence b\ good management, careful buying and being
content with SMALL P KO FITS, we have raised the standard and lowered our price, until it is now a fact that the
nicest sfni'k of goods in this section is now being offered for sale hy us for the least money.
COME AND CATCH ON NEW GOODS VOW EVERYBODY, GREAT VARIETY TO SELECT FROM.
Roofing, Tinning, Guttering and Repairing done at short notice. Pumps put down and taken
up at lowest rates. Sole agent for the Safety Tether Machine for grazing stock.
Thanking the public for their past kind patronage and soliciting a continuance of the same, I remain, respectfully,
T. C. SCAFFE,
Aug. 2S
Sumter, S. C,
THE ELECTROPOISE
FOR T3E
Much interest is now being manifested io *
new treatment by electricity for all diseases.
The Electropoise is the nam? of this wondet
ful instrument. It bas alieady passed th?
ex peri men ta I striae and has proved a great
success wherever and whenever used. The
process of treatment ts by negative electricity.
Results are the best argumenta, and tbe in?
st ruinent has accomplished wonders in its
treatment of all kinds of diseases. Tbe best
of testimonials are in the possession of tbe
Elect ro-Librat ion Company. Up to tbe
present time no effort has been made to ad?
vertise the Electropoise. It bas advertised
itself. Wherever one has been placed orders
for more have been seat ;^ D. B. Anderson,
formerly of Sumter, S x?., .mt now of Nash?
ville. Tenn, is one of the rep rest o ta ti ves of
the Electro-Librfliion Company.
lt is pan?cula riv recommended for dyspep?
sia, insomnia, nervo??ness, rheumatism and
neuralgia, hay fever, asthma, heart disease,
catarrah, tumors, Bright's disease, dropsy,
weakness of all kinds, especially of females,
sick headaches, constipation and billions
complaints. "All malarial troubles quickly
vanished, and new life and vigor are i ot used.'*'
Clears the complexion, giving a healthy color.
Chronic invalids are especially invited to give
.in account of their case3. no matter bow
aff<-ct*-d, or to what stage they have progress?
ed. They make a specialty of treating phy?
sician's abandoned cases, and cure diseases
that medicine will not touch. It is claimed
to correct every disorder of the bnman sys?
tem. True, it can't make new lungs, but
consumption in its early stages may be
Checked.
Tlie following extract is from a letter from
Dr. King, of New York, to John N. Webb,
President Electro-Libration Co. :
"I am treating experimentally a namber of
my Wall street patrons for brain fatigue and
general debility to give them some idea what
the instrument can do in the hand3 of one
who understands it. I ara treating a case of
secondary syphilitic eruption on the body
and face with the mest prompt and satisfac?
tory results We can do very little with
medicine in this c!??use and I look with as?
tonishment at the effect of the Electropoise
upon it. I see a great future her*? for the
Eieciropoise. Refer every one you like to me."
The Nashville Dn?y American of recent
date contained an article in regard to tbe
Electropoise from which tbe following extract
is taken :
''Most extraordinary faith in the Electro?
poise was demonstrated last fall by Dr.
Sanche and Mr. Webb, who went to Jackson?
ville, Fia , to treat yellow fever patients.
They had annoying trouble by the authorities,
hut were persistent. Although Dr. Sanche
had before that mach experience to the treat?
ment of the oisease and stood well in bis
profession, "the President of the Board of
Health would not allow the treatment until
Mr. Webb would agree to take tbe first
twenty cases diagnosed by regular physician's
and of pronounced yellow fever, and that be
would go to Camp Perry on the first death."
To this extraordinary demand Mr. Webb con?
sented and the risk and expense in every way
were all without a cent fee in any respect.
Mr. Webb had not been acclimated and from
the first occupied a house in which there were
several sick of yellow fever. Over eighty
cases were treated and bot one is believed to
have failed from reasonably fair opportunities
to get well. It was applied to two wbo bad
blaik vomit already and a third ?ne relapsed
through imprudence who had been practically
cured."
The Alabama Christian Advocate contained
the following :
"Dr. Beard, rector of the Episcopal Church,
Birmingham, says : I take pleasure in saying
that the Electropoise has given me substan?
tial benefit. An attack in September of what
was called neuralgia of the stomach and bow?
els. accompanied with much pain and con?
stantly increasing fever, was permanently re?
lieved within twenty-four hours, after all
other remedies had failed lo arrest tbe disease.
As to my general health, which had been im?
paired by au overstrain of the nervous system
a year or two ago resulting in nervous pros?
tration, a decided improvement followed tbe
use of the instrument."
President John N. Webb, Secretary A.N.
Webb, aud Col. J E DuBoiseare now laying
the foundation to put the E'ectropoise in every
nook and corner of the world.
Mr. Anderson has an office at Na. ?, Berry
Block. Nashville. Tc-no., and will take pleas?
ure in exhibiting the Electropoise and ex*
plaining its operations. The Electropoise
may be rented but is not for sale.
OLD RELIABLE.
HONEST WORKMANSHIP.
NO PINCHING.
All work executed in accordance with
design selected.
No blow-hard agents in the field.
MONUMENTS,
-AND
ALL STYLES CEMETERY WOE^
As cheap as the cheapest, and as
good as the best. Also
All Styles Iron Peacing.
W. P. SMITH,
Oct. 2 SUMTER. S. C.
Tl PALACE SALOON,
A. P. LEVY & CO, Proprietors,
(Successors to Rosendo!f & Co.)
..A
We always have a complete Hoe of Im?
ported and Domestic
Wines, Liquors and Cigars,
and desire to call especial attention to our
PURE NORTH CAROLINA
(OM WHISKIES,
especially selected for Medicinal purposes.
A complete line of
CHEWING AND SMOKING TO?
BACCO, PIPES, ?c.
Sept. 20. _
NOTICE.
TT7E, THE UNDERSIGNED, MEMBERS
y\ of the "Magnolia Presbyterian Church
of Magnolia," in the County of Sumter, io
the State of South Carolina, give notice that
thirty da\s after the publication hereof, they
will apply to the Clerk of the Court of Com?
mon Pleas for tbe said County, for a charter
of Incorporation of the said society ander
the name and style of "Tbe Magnolia Pres?
byterian Church."
J. B. PEYTON,
HORACE WILSON, SR.
HORACE WILSON, Ju.
Nov. 27, m.