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WBPHB8DAY, MAY 2. 189*.
BEGINNING OF MAN.
DR. BR1NTON FURNISHES INTEREST?
ING DATA ON THE SUBJECT.
; ?General Agreement on tba Discoveries In
the "Drift" -The Glacial Age Sand?
wiched In Between Warm Periods.
Where Maa Opened His Eye?.
"The Beginning of Man and the Age of
the Race" is the subject of an article in
The Forum hy Dr. Dan el G. Brinton,
one of the foremost anthropologists of
the time. The very earliest deposit in
which there may be said so be a general
agreement that man's remains are found
is that called the Drift, a series of gravel
beds in the valley of the 'Thames in Eng?
land, Somme in France and the Manza?
nares in Spain, and elsewhere m western
Europe. In these beds his stone tools and
weapons are found lying in un disturbed
relations with bones Of animals long since
extinct, and which nnder the present con?
ditions of the climate could not exist in
that locality, these animals belonging to
a tropical or subtropical fauna. From
this one is led to believe that man lived
there at an early date when the climate
was much warmer than now, and that
he had fired there for a long time, for
thousands of his implements have been
found in various strata and scattered
over a wide area.
After this warm period a period of ex?
treme cold descended from the north
over central and western Europe. Enge
glaciers covered Scotland, Scandinavia
and Switzerland, and the forests of
France were the haunts of arctic qua?
drupeds and hirds, of musk ox, reindeer
and the white fox. Man, however,
weathered this cold period and contin?
ued to roam the woods and fish the
streams, transferring his habitations to
nato ral caves, where evidence of his
hunts and his battles are still to be
found. This period of cold is what is
called the "glacial period ," and by some
of our most learned geologists the length
of this "icy age" has been placed from
30,000 to 30,000 years.
Adding this to the former calculation,
and allowing a reasonable time for prime?
val man to develop and spread over the
' area in which he Jived, we have as the
approximate lame since man has ap?
peared in Europe-where, up to date, we
have found, the earliest trace of his ex?
istence-about 50,000 years. This Mr.
Brinton regards as the minimum allow?
ance for him. Some writers of eminence
have required 200,000 years to explain
a& these changes in climate, in organic
?fe and in geological deposition, but Mr.
Brinton points out that the tendency of
late years has been toward a reduction
of these figures, especially by field geol?
ogists, who seem to be more impressed
with the rapidity of natara! actions than
heretofore.
Coming next to the consideration of
the origin of man, Dr. Brinton declares
that ''there is no trace anywhere of the
missing link, no evidence that man de?
veloped oat of some lower animal by
long series of slow changes." Nor does
he accept the doctrine of specific crea?
tion as a scientific explanation. There
isa third possible theory of the origin of
man which Dr. Brinton holds is as good
as another-namely, that called "evolu?
tion per saltum," or with a jump.
"It is that process, whatever it may
be, which produces 'sports' in plants and
'cranks* and 'geniuses' in respectable
families. No doctrine of 'heredity' or I
'atavism' or 'reversion' can explain these
prodigies or monsters, as they happen to
be. A family of we know not which of
the higher mammals, perhaps the great
tree ape which then lived in the warm
regions of central Fiance, may have pro?
duced a few 'sports,' widely different
physically and mentally from their par- ]
en ts, and these 'sports' were the ances?
tors of mankind. This is a theory which
asks for its acceptance no blind faith in j
the dogmatic assenions either of science
or religious tradition.''
As to where man first appeared Dr. ?
Brinton says: "In fact, we are limited by \
a series of exclusions to the southern (
slope of that great mountain chain which i
begins in western Europe and Africa <
with the Atlas mountains, the Cantabri
an Alps and the Pyrenees and continues 1
to the Himalayas and their eastern ex- J
tensions in farther India. Somewhere g
along this line in southern Asia orin \
southern Europe or in northern Africa I
we may confidently say man first opened
his eyes upon the world about him. Up
to the present time his earliest vestiges
have been exhumed in the extreme west
of this region, but that may be because
there search has been more diligently
made, but the fact remains that, speak- 1
ing from present knowledge, we know of 1
man nowhere earlier than in England, i (
France and the Iberian peninsula."-Be- ! .
view of Reviews, i}
Goes Gunning at Ninety-six,
John "Walters, who lives about two ? J
miles west of eatonsville, is 96 years old j i
and is probably the oldest man in this j t
part of the state. Mr. Walters is an ex- j i
pert shot, and at his advanced age takes ? *
great pleasure in gunning. Recently he
walked about 12 miles in the morning in "
pursuit of game and in the afternoon t
walked to eatonsville and return, a dis- j c
tance of 16 miles, in one day. Mr. Wal- i
ters' mother died at the age of 105 years,
-eatonsville (Md.) Correspondent.
Not a Romance.
Mr. Farwest-I met my old school
mate, Lakeside, today, for the first time j _
in an age, and I thought from the way
he acted when I mentioned you that you ?,
and he must have had some romance or
ether before we met. ! c
Mrs. Farwest-No romance about it. ' a
We were married for a few years, that's '
?H.-New York Weekly. ; fi
The Becky Mountain Tunnel. i .
The Rocky mountain tunnel on the :
Colorado Midland railway goes through
two miles of granite, cost a million of
dollars and shortens the distance by r
eight miles, besides doing away with
what was the most expensive.railway j &
climb in the world.- - " I P
A Stone In His Heart.
James O'Rourk? died in Fitch hos?
pital recently. Postmortem Examiner
Thornbury held ah autopsy and found
imbedded in the center of O'Rourke's
heart a stone about the shape of an Eng?
lish walnut, which weighed between
four and five ounces. The heart was
abnormally large, being nearly four
times as big as a man's heart usually is.
It took up a large portion of the chest
cavity which is usually occupied by the
left lung.
The stone was in the aortic cavity
and almost completely filled it up. The
only opening through which the blood
could flow was a space about the size
of a small goose quill, and for a long
time past the heart had been able to do
only about one-eighth of its work. The
formation of stone is of a calcerous na?
ture. The case is without precedent
and opens a new field for surgical re?
search.-London. Dispatch.
A medical journal commends the in?
vention for discovery of a method of
treating certain disease by a doctor in
Trinidad, but says that "unfortunate?
ly" he is deterred from putting it into
practice in his country owing to the
scarcity of these particular diseases
there.
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Hiss, she dung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria
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THE FABME8S' MUTUAL
tNSURANCE ASSOCIATION
OF
SUMTER COUNTY,
ls a CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION oper
iting nuder an Act of S. C. Legislature, 1891,
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md help build up your own section.
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-THE
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0ULD RESPECTFULLY inform the
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irst class.
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I solicit their continued patronage in my
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Dec. 6-4.
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GEN. AGENTS, COLUMBIA, S. C.
The '94 Model just out is Unrivalled.
NOA. 29.
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Mcb 21
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THE LEADERS
-Have a New Feature
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On which will be placed all remnant lots of
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In which most of the sizes have been sold. On this counter
from time to time will be placed
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and if you do not we will sell you a pair from the shelves
almost as cheap. We have a full stock and we must sell them.
Our line of Dress Shoes for Ladies and Gents
will please anybody.
WALSH & CO.,
Monaghan Block - Sumter, S. 0.
April 18.
for Infants and Children
" Castoria is so well adapted to chiklren that
; recommend it as superior to any prescription
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New York City
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Feb. 7._?
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Feb 14-x
LOW FOB CASE
A CAR LOAD OF
Fine Buggy Horses*
A Fuli Line of
OLD HICKORY WAGONS,
BUGGIES, CARRIAGES. HARNESS,
WHIPS, ETC.
ALL FOR SALE LOW FOR CASH.
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Jan. ll.
I RETAIL
White Com at 75c. per bushel in sacks,
Mixed Oats, at 55c. 44
Sbip Stuff, at $1.25 per 100 lbs., in sacks.
Choice Timothy Hay, $1.20 per 100 lbs , in bales.
Cotton Seed Meal, at $1.30 per sack.
Cotton Seed Hulls, at $4 50 per ton in bulk.
Lime, $1.25 per barrel.
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Rosendale and Portland Cement, Plaster of Paris,
Fire Bricks, Flue Pipe,
And Other Building Material.
Cow Hair,
Sewer Pipe,
Special Prices on Large Lots,
H. HARBY.