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AIRSHIP OX BIBLE PLANS. Ezekiel Designed Flying Craft New York Man Has Built. Taking his plans and specifications from the Old Testament and the vision of the prophet Ezekiel, first and 10th chapters, A. Xiflot has built an airship which he is now exhibiting. Through this Mr. Xiflot attempts to prove that the first flying machine dates back 2,500 years. He j has prepared a model of the airship, j conceived by Ezekiel, which stands! about 10 feet high, and in which he found all the parts of the machine described in the vision. He even suggests that the "burning coals tak1 l- ^ en from between me wiieeis auu thrown over the city" implies a prophecy of aircraft as a means of destruction. The model was made by Mr. Xiflot, who is official interpreter in the city bureau of fire investigation. The Xiflot model has all the essentials of a hot air balloon, from which evolved our present day dirigibles, and more, for it has a car or carriage capable of moving along the ground in any direction without turning, this according to the biblical description of the wheels that "went in their four directions and turned not when they went." "The prophet, Ezekiel," explains Mr. Xiflot, "besides being a poet and a very skillful writer, was also an architect, and was the first man to suggest the idea of artificial water supply iD a house. "Blame it on the prophet," is -Mr. Niflot's response to all arguments on the impracticability of his inven) tion.?New York Telegram. Vogue of the Army Shoe. When the Crusaders returned home, they brought back the Arabian horse. When Pizarro returned from Peru, he brought back the potato. When our militiamen returned from the Mexican border, they brought back the army shoe. The horse and the potato proved to be worth more to the world than all the country the soldiers set out to conquer. The shoe, if we have the . wit to use it, will be worth more to America than all the wealth of the Montezumas. For lack of a sensible, standard shoe we are the nation of cripples, and the mobilization has discovered to us this fact and that shoe. The army medical corps found that 80 per cent, of the State guards were limping along in misfit footwear, while 70 per cent, had twisted and jammed feet, malformed by civilian shoes. On the other hand, 75 per cent, of the regular army men whose ' feet had been clad for a time in army shoes had normal feet. These traveled all day on joyful soles, while the militiamen early fell by. the wayside in blistered platoons. The foot surgeons of the medical corps declare that 90 per cent, of American civilians are wearing shoes that do not fit. Now, there is no need of this sense* less abuse of the human foot. The normal foot is the same today that it was 5,000 years ago. And the foot of the baby bom 5,000 years hence will doubtless be as near like your baby's foot as two peas in a pod. If a shoe of normal shape and a simple rule for fitting it have been found, why need any human foot be injured for its clothing? Why need styles change? Why sv. from the toothpick toe to bread box toe and back again endlessly for the poor sake 01 style? And why trust the fitting of , your footwear to mere chance and fancy. Why the return of our militiamen has sprung up a home demand for the army shoe. Many of these men say they never before knew foot comfort. The shoe is as light and handsome as one need wish; and being of normal shape, should be fit, and therefore stylish every day of the year. The United States army shoe is made in ninety different shapes and sizes, and its measurements, though easily made, are as accurate as those of an optician. Any foot in America can be exactly fitted by this measurement and this shoe. In our handling of the Mexican problem some hold that we have not saved our faces, but if we are wise, we may yet save our feet.?Minneapolis Journal. Wit Not Appreciated. Stubbs was feeling his way to the kitchen stove in the dark when he fell over the coal scuttle. "Oh, John," called Mrs. Stubbs, sweetly, "I know what you need. You should get what they have on battleships." "What's that?" growled Stubbs, as he rubbed his shins. "Why, a range finder." And what Stubbs said about woman's wit was a plenty.?Buffalo News. Natural Sequence. "What sort of a train of thought do you suppose that old grouch pursues?" "Evidently one which is always on the rail."?Baltimore American. OI K ILLUSTRATIONS. What One Author Has to Say About Them. I describe by word and deed a sturdy young countryman, and he becomes under the pencil of my illustrator a sentimental noodle with long hair, declares a writer in the Atlantic. 1 tell of the extraordinary achievement of a very weak persmin the rescuing of a drowning child, and my hero is pictured as a Hercules to whom the feat would have been no feat at all. 1 put upon my country heroine the sunbonnet which is her natural and suitable head-covering, and, sure as fate, she appears in a turban such as only an African mammy would wear. I describe a spotted dog, running as spotted dogs invariably run. under his master's carriage, and the artist makes him a solid black. A gentle protest to a friend produced the astonished and astonishing reply that the artist is the most famous delineator of animals in America and that I should be proud to have his name under mine on the title page. If he is the most famous delineator of animals in America, why could he not draw my little spotted dog? I do not suffer alone. Within a few years a leading American monthly published a story in which there were three characters, two men and a woman. Though one of the men appeared chieflly as raconteur, his sex was made plain, not only by many indirect allusions, but by a clear statement. Yet in the well-drawn and no doubt very expensive full-page illustration, he was a woman. Wnnipn Ovpr a H iinflrwl. .Mrs. S. H. Cohen, who has lived at No. 32 Broadway, Westminster, since the year 1873, has celebrated her one hundred and first birthday, and the old lady had the following letter from the king, dated from his royal yacht Torbay: "The king has heard with interest that you reach your one hundred and first birthday today. His majesty of- , fers you his congratulations, and hopes you are in good health and able to enjoy this memorable day." On her birthday last year Mrs. Co- 1 hen received the congratulations of King Edward. The claim of Frau Dutkiewitz, of Posen, born on February 21, 17S5, to be the oldest woman in the world is now contested by Mme. Baba Vasilka, who was born May, 1784, in the little Bulgarian village of Bavelsko, wh^re she has lived ever since. The record of her birth is preserved in a neighboring monastery of the Orthodox Greek faith. She is the daughter of a peasant and has worked till a com> ij 1? a ,1 ~ A _ T7>? ? ^ parauveiy receui ua.it:. rui uiuic than a hundred years she regularly toiled in the fields, according to the custom of the country, where women are employed in all sorts of manual labor. The events of her life up to the time when she attained the age of eighty are more distinctly impressed on her mind than the happenings of the last forty-six years. Her son, Tudor, following the family traditions, has ^lso worked in the fields as a peasant nearly all his life, but he has also taken part in various wars and rebellions in the Balkan peninsula. He is not so fresh and vigorous as his mother, although he is still capable of doing a good day's work and enjoying such small luxuries of life as a pipe and strong spirits drunk by the Bulgarian populace. The oldest woman in the world is said to enjoy faily good eyesight and good hearing, and she is able to walk without support. She lives on a pension paid to her by many of her descendants, who number more than 100. A woman named Margaret Burns, of Millvale, about ten miles from i Newry, has just celebrated her one hundredth birthday. She is still able to relate stories of many of the stirring events which occurred during the early part of her life . and can move about the house.?New York Press. is this"true? Married Men are the Most Successful. Do you think you are saving money and being successful by remaining a bachelor? If you do, read the January American Magazine and see what a writer says about the ratio between married and single men. Part of it is: "Show me one middle-aged bachelor who has made a success of his life, and I'll show you twenty-six married men who have. Probably the ratio is even greater than this, but I prefer to base my contention on demonstrable fact. Of the twenty-seven presidents of the United States only one lived and died a bachelor. Nineteen of them married before they were thirty, five before they were forty and two after forty. Yet, according to the census returns, taking the entire population of the country, the proportion of single men to those married, widowed or divorced, is about forty to sixty." HUGE FLOWER BEI). An Unwelcome Crop of Daisies Menace Agriculture. Despite the fact that we buy them by the dozen in the cities, paying a dollar or so for a small bouquet, daisies are a menace to the agriculturist, and a patch or field of them is anything but welcome. The March Popular Mechanics Magazine describes the experience of a Nebraska farmer, near Beatrict. Wishing to obtain a good stand of Kentucky blue grass\in his pasture, he last season instructed a well-known mail-order house to ship him several bushels of 5CCU. lit: picpaicu imccu atics ui land and planted it, exercising particular care. The spring rains came, and following them fifteen acres of yellow-centred daisies, a luxuriant crop. The unusual sight attracted motorists from miles around and hardly a day passed without parties stopping to pick armloads of the blossoms. It is not clear how the mistake occurred, but mistake?and a serious one?it was. The company, needless to say, promptly made restitution, so that the farmer in the end got a liberal return for his unexpected and undesired crop. Italy leads Europe in the number of homicides, with 2,500 annually; Russia is next with 2,400 and Spain til 11 Li >> 1 L 11 1 V. BOLL WEEVIL At a meeting at Valdosta, Ga., the planters of South Carolina. Georgia, and Florida, decided to stick to long staple cotton and fight the Boll Weevil. The demand for long staple is steadily increasing. Did you ever stop to think about the quantity of long staple cotton used in automobile tires? We have a beautiful stock of Webber long staple No. 82, Hartsville No. 3, and the famous inch and a half Couliette long staple. Price $2 per bushel. Every farmer should risk sevral acres if no more. We also have Cleveland Big Boll, $1.75 per bushel; Moss Improved, $1.50 per bushel, and the DIXIE WILT RESISTANT that will flourish on your wilt lands, $2 per bushel. Our seed are from reliable farmers only. We will quote prices on large quantities. We can supply you with velvet beans, South Carolina grown soy beans, peanuts. millet, peas and seed corn. Trust us with your order. F. MASON CRUM & CO. Orangeburg, S. C. the Quinine That Does Not Affect The Heao Because of its tonic and laxative effect, LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE is better than ordinary Quinine and does not cause nervousness nor ringing in head. 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Get a bottle 11 today. ?-68 11 WHAT IS LAX-FOS LAX-FOS IS AN IMPROVED CASCARA A Digestive Laxative CATHARTIC AND LIVER TONIC Lax-Fos is not a Secret or Patent Medicine but is composed of the following old-fashioned roots and herbs: cascara bark blue flag root rhubarb root BLACK ROOT MAY APPLE ROOT SENNA LEAVES AND PEPSIN In Lax-Fos the Cascara is improved by the addition of these digestive ingredients making it better than ordinary Cascara, and thus the combination acts not only as a stimulating laxative and cathartic but also as a digestive and liver tonic. Syrup laxatives are weak, but Lax-Fos combines strength with palatable, aromatic taste and does not gripe or disturb the stomach. One bottle will prove Lax-Fos is invaluable for Constipation, Indigestion or Torpid Liver. Price 50c. MnHHHnBBHBnBHl AI IV LA I We were fortunate in buying our line o 1 into effect and can save you money on I the different high grade lines that we ( I We know that we can save you from $ Boyden Shoes for men now worth I $10.00 to $12.50 per pair.- We offer I our entire line at $6.50 per pair. I I Walk Over Shoes $4.50 to II $6.00 per pair, bought before the I | advance ancl worth $2.00 to $3.00 per pair more. Regal Shoes $4.00 and $5.00 per pair, values now $6.00 to $8.00. All leathers and styles. Endicott Johnson Work Shoes, the best on the market, at old prices. We cannot buy some of these today at the prices we are selling them for. $2.50 values Boys' Shoes $1.75 per pair. pjui "The Store of Quality" mum .wi. 11 aggyBBBggBBBBg 11 Ml I " If Horses ai TV *H* tv jf TV TV = j V We have a full stock on hand TV , stock is selected personally b; TV each animal sold has the Jone; VV know what that menas. Whe X t don't fail to come to our stab! aT| X X showing you. Our stock is alv TV are bought sound and sold soi H ====== vv TV vv ft 8 Wagons, Bug! tt' XT H Y: . AA We have a splendid line of Buj AA Robes, Whips, Etc. We have AA gies an dHarness, and we car A A the best vehicles to be had, ant A A Come to see us; you are alwai *B* ===== ft 1 Jones BAMBE IS SHOES I I IDCR'C ir t i i f Shoes before the high prices went your Shoe bill. We mention below :arry, and some very special values. 1.00 to $4.00 per pair this season. Ladies' White Boots at $2.50 to $7.50 per pair, in canvas, Reignskin, buck and kid. We cannot du- kplicate on these goods, so come ear]v. V : * z Sport Oxfords in buck and fancy V ' B i '' n - i ^1. S* M coniDinations, ine newesi ining ior sport suits and sport frocks. : ' , Children's High White Boots V J S1.75 and $2.00 per pair. I I All Buster Brown Shoes and Low \ Cuts at the old prices. The best for* L :.;7:7 your boys and girls and at a saving v *7 of $1.00 to $1.50 per pair. 'v||l One lot special?Ladies? Low Quarters formerly $1.50 per pair, to close out;at 98c per pair. KB.* BERSl Bamberg, S. G. 11 K. A^A A4A a4A A A^A J^A A^I. A. AA-A A.AAj^kAAki^ id Mules || . of Horses and Mules. Our xlp^i f a member of our firm, and | s Bros.' guarantee?and you 1 YY ! n you need a horse or mule, AJL e. We will take pleasure in rays in good condition?they jgies, Wagons, Harness, Lap XX. > a number of styles in Bug- XX j 1 suit you. We handle only XX' -~ \ 1 our prices are always right. ps welcome. Bros, If KG, S. C. J