The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 13, 1920, Page 6, Image 6
AGE-OLD BUILDING MATERIAL j
"Pise," in Use for Many Centuries, Is j
Merely a Simple Form of
Concrete.
What Is pise? The word, which In
Its complete form is written pise de
terre, betrays a French origin and,
from its genera! appearance, might
well suggest some affinity with the
world of art. These preliminary impressions,
however, will be found misleading.
There is nothing peculiarly
French in pise dwellings, though they
are common enough in some parts of
France, and reference to them abounds
in French literature of the eighteenth
century.
The word itself, traced to its Latin
origin, apparently means nothing more
artistic than "battered." Perhaps the
simplest definition of pise is provided
by Pliny the Elder, who calls it
"earth battered between boards,"
meaning by boards a form such as may
be used for concrete in construction
work.
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old and well-tried system of building
and remarks that Hannibal used this
material for watch towers on the tops
of hills in Spain during his campaign.
Who knows whether it was not also
in use when Cheops built his Great
Pyramid; for there are prehistoric
pise buildings in New Mexico and Arizona
which, some say, date back almost
to that period?
Certainly history cannot trace the
system to its origin, and the pise
dwellings now visible in France, Spain,
America, the British colonies .and
elsewhere may give no complete indi- J
cation of the extent to which this ma?
terial was employed in other centuries.
?Exchange.
INDIAN'S TRIBUTE TO MOTHER
Red-Skinned Fighter in World War
Proves Worthy Descendant of
Race of Chiefs.
Wounded-With-Many-Arrows is an
Indian living in South Dakota.
According to an Indian custom, the
first thing an Indian mother sees or
says after her child is born may be
chosen as the infant's name. The
night of his birth, in April, 1891, the
mother saw a warrior who had been
wounded by many arrows; hence the
name given to the new-born child.
Entering the world war in the
armies of the great white father at
Washington, the first thought of this
copper-skinned descendant of a race
of chiefs was of his mother, whom he
named as the beneficiary in his $10,000
government war risk insurance
policy.
The mother's name is Susan-Lovesthe-War
and she lives at Wakpola, S.
D. She was proud that her son was
among the first to respond to the call
of the United States for soldiers to
fight for their country; she was glad
when he came back, unharmed, full of
wonderful stories of the adventure
through which he had passed. And
she realized that he had, by allotment
of pay and by his insurance policy,
demonstrated that all he had was hers,
as everything he was he owed to her.
Wounded-With-Many-Arrows might
be called Indian-Good-to-His-Mother.
Big Money for Perfect Potatoes.
The perfect potato, which resists
blight and other "spud" diseases, has
been developed, according to Samuel
Ryder, head of a ^11-known English
seed firm. '
He refused to give the name of the
hybridist, but said he paid him $12,000
for seed potatoes which wouldn't fill
a peck measure.
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seed of this expert," said
Kyder. "The average potato yield iD
1918 was four tons per acre in England.
With the new seed, six pounds
per root, or 33 tons per acre, can be
produced. The full results of the perfect
potato may not be reaped for two
or three years."
New Matrimonial Idea.
, Connecticut has a married couple
living apart in ttfo towns, the bride,
who has advanced ideas, in one town,
and the bridegroom, who has a good
Job and a big salary, in another. They
decided to live in separate establishments
and to visit each other over
week-ends or run away together, as
one of them explains it, for several
^ days whenever the mood seizes them.
They have rented a third apartment
in New York city, which they will
share "in their play time." The bride
retains her maiden name and title of
Miss. It Is her idea that man and
wife should not live in the same house,
and so get a surfeit of each other.?
Boston Globe.
Many O'Briens.
A soldier named John J. O'Brien,
writing to the war risk bureau about
his Insurance, failed to give his serial
number or policy number, but said the
papers would be easy to identify as
his wife's name was Mary A. O'Brien.
A search through the bureau files disclosed
the names of 175 John J.
O'Briens, and each of an even 50 of
them had a wife named Mary A.
O'Brien.
May Use Concrete Coffins.
The corporation of the town of
Mlddlesborough, England, is considering
the use of concrete coffins in local
burial grounds as being lighter and
cheaper than those made of wood.
His Class.
"Here's some health expert says we
don't need sugar."
"He must be one of those guys who
are always taking the sweetness oof
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DOING THINGS BY WHOLESALE
Easy to See Many Advantages in New
Methods Rapidly Being Brought
to Perfection.
Heretofore we have bought medical
service at retail. Now Glasgow is trying
out a plan to sell medical service
wholesale.
What Glasgow is striving to do is
this: Divide the city in districts and
provide free dispensaries and free doctors
to all who need medical attention.
It is claimed that such a scheme will
reduce the death rate, because many
poor people now skimp their families
in the matter of health precautions.
And the doctors like it, also. They
work fewer hours and a standard pay
is guaranteed.
Withal, the Glasgow plan of wholesale
doctoring is said to be cheaper
than our old-fashioned retail method,
"Girard" writes in the Philadelphia
Press.
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American cities nave maae nan a
step toward such doctoring, of the people
in wholesale lots.
We have boards of health and health
bureau^. They administer in a general
way and they administer in wholesale
doses.
An order goes out and it goes for
all the people. It is economical and
wise, as every one knows, during such
an epidemic as the "flu" was last
year.
Doctoring by wholesale saved millions
of lives in that one calamity.
Uncle Sam did the insuring of his
own soldiers by wholesale in the last
war.
Public schools supply education in
wholesale quantities.
Our spiritual wants are supplied in
a fashion wholesale through the
churches.
So wholesale doctoring is only another
day's march in the general direction
of a socialistic empire.
MAKES NEW USE OF ECHOES
Inventor's Idea May Do Away With
the Old Practice Known as
"Heaving the Lead."
An inventor in Oakland, Cal., has
found a new and practical use for
"* ??mow
ecnoes, ana as a resun uie muc ixi
come when the practice of "heaving
the lead" at sea will be known only
in historical novels and old maritime
history. The marimeter, as the new
device is called, sends a sound from
the keel of the ship to the bottom of
the sea; the sound comes back as an
echo, and the journey, automatically
recorded on a diaphragm, is translated
into terms of length. The report shows,
the depth of water between keel and
bottom, calculated from the known
speed of the sound-wave in salt water,
and the knowledge may be acquired at
the rate of four soundings a minute,
which is very much faster than by the
older methods. The marimeter, to be
sure, has only recently gone to sea,
if indeed the steamer Governor, which
will carry the first of them, has yet
left dry dock in Seattle,'Wash. But
the instrument promises to add materially
to the security of ocean traffic.
Science and Soap Bubbles.
Sir James Dewar, the English professor
of chemistry, who has made
soap bubbles which he kept intact for
more than a year, says that when a
soap bubble becomes very old, say in
three or four days, it offers the only
possible example of the molecule visible
to the naked eye. In the soap
bubble ordinarily there are about 100
layers of molecules, but scientific treatment
has produced black spots in
which there is only a single layer, so
thin that Sir James estimates that it
would take one and one-third million
likeMt superimposed to make an
Inch.
Insures Crusoe's Musket.
The musket said to have been given
to Alexander Selkirk when he was put
ashore on the Island of Juan Fernandez,
400 miles off the Chilean coast,
has been going the rounds of British
museums.
It was Selkirk*s adventures upon
which was based De Foe's famous
story. "Robinson Crusoe." The musket
Is inscribed with the name of "A. Selkirk
Largo, 1771." It was purchased
by Randolph Bereng for $6.25, but the
owner has insured it for $10,000.
Selkirk owned a tavern near Clapham,
England, but died in 1723 at sea
as a lientenant aboard a naval vessel.
Mennonftes Make Trouble.
The Mennonites in Canada are fighting
the compulsory school law, insisting
on sending their children to their
own parochial schools. As a result, a
little schoolma'am has sat at her desk
in a schoolroom in central Saskatchewan
daily since September 1, waiting
in vain for pupils to come to occupy
the empty benches.
Put Over.
"The gentleman disclaims any
knowledge of a huge slush fund spent
in his behalf."
"And you will observe he does so
without rancor."
"Quite so. I also observe that the
gentleman was elected, which may explain
the absence of rancor/*
Salt In Holland.
Holland has begun to produce salt
from wells drilled experimentally in
two provinces and may be able to obtain
enough for all of its needs.
New Metal Ladle Invented.
For workers with melted metals a
ladle has been invented that pours
from the bottom, leaving the dross and
impurities behind.
Helped Fat>
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IT is a well-known medical fact, that
iron is a necessary constituent of the
blood, and that blood lacking iron is
the cause of many troubles that only iron
will cure.
Ziron, a scientific compound of iron
with other valuable ingredients, is the
remedy to take when your blood needs
more iron, and youir system requires a
tonic. Ziron is mild and harmless, does
not stain the teeth, and is good for children
as well as adults.
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