The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-04-07

had the deciding vote, and M!ltiaGeS
addressed him Sayin,:
L. now rests with you, Csllina,
chus. either 70 enslave athens, Or, by
insuring her freedom, TO win yourself
az Immortality o: fame, .oc power
since the Athen!ans wee q people
were taey n sUch danger as they are
10 at this moment. Il they bcw The
! knee 10 these MedeS, they are 10 be
given up 10 Hippias, and you know
what they VIII taen have 20 suffer,
bu. if A-henS cones victorious out o.
this contest sne has it in her power tc
! become tae first city OF Greece. Your
vote is 10 decide whether we are 10
! Join battle or not. II We do not bring
! on bsttle presently, some facIo2S
! intigue viii Unite the Athen:aaS, auG
The city Will BE- betrayed to the Medes,
cat # we fgh. beiGce there IS any.
hing rotten u lie state o. Athens /
believe that. provided the gods vii!
! give ta;r field and 40 favor, We are
| able TO get the bes. OF i II the en-
| gagemant.
| That won the vosa OF CAlIimach2s,
and sooa the battle opened, AID N
! tull run the men O: M.l.iadeS teIl up.
| on the Persian hosts, shouting: "O2
sons OF Greece, Strike for the free
dom of your colnt-y! Strike for the
freedom OF your children and your
wives, for the shriues CT your fathers
| gois and for the sspalchers OF your
| SireS..7 While only 1872 Greeks fell
i 500 ParS;ans lay dead upon the field,
and many Of the Asiatic hosts VINO
took 10 the war vessels in the harbor
were consumed ia the shipping. Per
| sian oppression was -ebuked, Gfacian
| liberty was achieved, the cause o. civ
ilization was advaGce3, and the west
ern world and all nations have felt
the heroics. Had there been no Mil
tiades there might have been no
| Washington.
Also at Taernopyla 800 Greeks,
along road only wide enough for q
wheel track between q mountain and
marsh, died rather than surrender.
; Had thers oesa no ThsrmopyjH There
might have been no Bunker Hill. The
| eclo OF A!heniaa and Spartan neroics
Twas heard at ths gates OF Lucknow,
aud Sevassopol, and BAnnocko1rn,
and Lexington, and Gettysburg, Eag-
lisa Magma Caarta, and Declaration
of American Independence, and the
|song Of Robert BIr1S, entitled "a
| Mans Nan for Ali Tnst, were only
! the long continued reveroeration o.
| wha. was said aal 6one % centuries
! before n that little kingdom that the
powers OF E1:op9 are now imposing
upon. Gfeec7 having again ana again
shoTn ina! 10 men IL the right are
stronger an 100 men in the wrong,
| the herol II LeonidaS and AriStldeS
| and Tneu lccleS will not cease theii
mission i the last man on earth Is
as free as od made him. There Is
/! not on eli side OF the Atlantic to
| day s republic that cannot Faithfully
! employ the words Of the text and say
i" u am debtor TO the Greeks" :"
But now comes the practical ques
! ton, How cau We pay that debt or
part OF it, For We cannot pay more
than 10 per cent of that debt IN WHICH
| Paul acknowledged himself bank
rupt. By praying Almighty God that
| he will help Greece in its present war
with Mohanmedanism and the con
carteS empires OF Europe. I know
her queen. noble, Christian woman,
| her face the throne OF all oenehclence
and loyeliness, her life an example OF
| noble witehood and motherhood. Goa
! help those palaces in these days OF
| awful e1igency.. Oar American senate
did we'll the other day, whsn, IN thai
capitol building which owes to Greees
! its coIumnar lmpressiveness, they
passed hearty resolu siol OF syupa
thy for that nation. Would that al!
VINO have potsn. woros tast can os
heard in Europe would utter them
now, when they are SO much needed
4 Let US repeat to them in Eagisn what
they centuries ago declared to th5
world in Greek, BLESSED are taoss
who are prosecuted for righteousness
sake, for theirs IS the kingdom o!
heaven" :"
Another way Of partly paying ou1
debt to the Greeks is by higher appre
ciation of the learning and self sacri
6cs OF the men who in our own lanc
stand for all that the ancient Greek:
stood. While here and there ons
comes to public approval and reward
the most Of them live in privation o.
on salary disgrscsfully small: Tnt
scholars, the archaeologists. the ar
fists, the literati-nost OF them live Vi
three or four flights OF stairs and BY
small windows that DO not let in th'
full sunlight. You pass them every
day in your streets without any recog
nition. Grub street, where many o.
the mighty men OF the past suffered,
is long enough to reach aroupd M
world. No nead Of wasting our sym
pathy upon the unappreciated TANK
ers ana workers OF the past, thougt
IL;nnaeous sold his works for g slngls
6ucat, though Noah Webster S spell
ing BOOK yielded him more than n:
j dictionary, though Oorrsggio, the
great painter, receiving for long con
tinued work payment OF S9, dlet
from overioy; though when Gold
smiths friends visited him they wer'
obliged to sit in the window, a
he had but one chair; though Sanus
Boyse, the great poet, starved to death
though the author of 'Hudioraso dlet
in CARROT, though Paradise Lost
brought its author osly s25 cas5
down, with promise OF $50 more |
the sale warranted it, SO that s75 wa
all that was paid for what Is consider
ed the greatest poem ever written
Better turn our attention 10 the fac
that there are at this moment hun
: dreds of authors, painters, sculptors
architects, brain workers, withou
bread and without fuel and wlthou
competent apparel. As far as yol
5 can sEord i, buy their sc1lptUr
reach their books, purchase thel
! pictures, eccouraee their pen