The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 22, 1917, Page 2, Image 2
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
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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>
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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
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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.
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LAX-FOS IS AN IMPROVED CASCARA
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CATHARTIC AND LIVER TONIC
Lax-Fos is not a Secret or Patent Medicine
but is composed of the following
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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,
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All leathers and styles.
Endicott Johnson Work Shoes, the
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cannot buy some of these today at the
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