The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, June 30, 1920, Image 10
REWS SPARRIED BY CHILDREN
woungsters in Bosnia Are Used to Die.
seminate information, Since Print.
ed Sheet Is Ijnknown.
Bosnian children of the Mohant
medan faith have perhaps the most
remarkable memories and aptitude
for languages of any children in Eu
rope. Despite the fact that the per
centage of illiteracy among the Bos
nian Mohammedans is very high,
the memories of the children have
become remarkably developed by the
memorizing of thousands of prayers.
Some of the children are also used
by the villages as "walking newspa
pers." The brightest boys go to a
coffee house where a Mohammedan,
speaking in a high clear voice, trans
lates the latest news from the Ser
bian newspapers.
The boys listen attentively and
then go out on their "paper routes."
When they enter a village on their
route the town crier beats a drmn
and all the men of the district gath
er about the boy. (The women usual
ly are working in the fields while
their lords drink coffee and ferment,
ed plum juice at the town cafe). The
little "walking newspaper" then per
forms his feat of memory. Word
for word he repeats what he heard
translated to him. His pay consists
of food, lodging and a few kronen.
PROBABLY WOULDN'T
Hicks-Do you think it's going
to rain?
Wicks--Guess not. I just saw
the weather man going down the
street with an uibrella.-Boston
Transcript.
GRAZING IN NATIONAL FORESTS.
The demand for range on the na.
tional forests was greater the lust
year than ever before in the history
of the forest service, which branch
of the United States department of
agriculture has contri of these
Tr'as. Espeelally in the drougit
stricken regions, stockmen using the
tunreserved public domain or private
pastures eagerly sought fo rest pier
mits in ordler to save their stock.
'lhe v'alue of the system of range
regulaioni in use has been so thor
oughly demonstrated that represent
ative stockmuen from all the Western
states have declared emphldatieally in
favor of placing t he remnain ing un
reserved public lanuds undi'er fedk-ral
control and having them managed
under a plan siuihu- to that in ef
feet On tihe national forests.
OIL FOR PARIS.
Trhe Frenchi government has ap
proved the building of a double pipe
line for' oil between Ifar andT~ lI
Paris, 1.50 mniles. One of the lines
of ten-inch dhiameter will be used for
heavy fuel oils, and( thle other, a
sumaller pipe line of fon r inaches, for
petroleumt and motor spirit. It is
estimated that 4.500 tonts of heavy
and 1,000 tons of light oil and spirit
can be poi n ped Lbhrough these IineIs
daily, thus hlin lig to umiee the prob..
lemn of the coal suipply of Puaris. It
is hoped to complete the lines in
time for next winter.
-HER JOB.
"That young lady is very strik
in'g."
"A handsome girl."
"But I neover see her doing any
work around your law office."
"SheI's valurable, hoviever. When
the other side has a pretty witness
we find her very useful as a counter
attraction." - Louisville Courier
Journal.
A TRAGEDY.
Hoe-Life with me has been a fail
ure.
Sho--You must have had and
wasted some opportunity.
tie-No; I have spent half my
life raisin~g whiskers to conceal my
youth, and( the other half dyeing
them to coneal my a&n.
WHY FRANKLIN WOBE NO WIG
According to This Story, Quaker Sim.
plicity Had Nothing to Do With
the Matter.
Benjamin Franklin was about to
be presented to the French king on
the occasion ' of his first visit to
France in the capacity of representa
tive from the &w America. The
court custom of the time demanded
that one going to an audience with
the king must wear a wig of the
proper fashion. A count, who had
Franklin in tow, sent a wigniaker
the day before to take Franklin's
measure and fit him out for the au
dience. The wigmaker arrived at
Franklin's lodgings, measured the
poll of the great American fore and
aft and round and about, and took
his departure. An hour before the
audience the wigmaker returned
with the wig. But when Franklin
attempted to put it on it would not
fit; lie couldn't begin to get it on his
head. "Sir," said Franklin to the
wigmaker, "your wig is unfortuiate -
ly too small for my head."
"Pardonnez moi, monsieur," re
plied the wigmnker, "your head is
vastly too large and quite beyond
the fashioi of the court."
YFran klin appeared, therefore, at
court with his bald pate and shaggy
gray hair.
ITS EFFECT
"I fere's a new play to be pro.
duced to be called 'The Hammer.'"
"That ought to make a stunning
hit."
DETERMINING STAR COLOR.
A new means of determining stair
colors, devised by Dr. E. S. King,
is described in the Journal of the
British Astronomical association.
Over the telescopic objective is
placed a piece of plate glass (comn
mercial glass is good enough for the
purpose), which is coated with a
gelatini fil, one-half of which is
staimd yellow an( the other hall
b~lue. 'Ie images of the stars are
then ph)lotograplied out of focus o n
isochromnatic plates. Each image,
thieref ore, appears as a disk, one por
tion of which shows the effect of the
blute Iliht., and the other the elfect
of the yel low light. Th'le two halvecs
of the ihnge are then comaliredl by
iin(:ans of a phortogaraphiic wedge or
by sonie similar meanms.
ARTIFICIAL FUEL.
Frin coal Islack and ducit, l'gnite,
heat an a hinder of pitch. says an
articale ini Popular Mechanics Maga''
z.inie, an exuellenit hous.e or inidus
trial fuel will ha mauiifae1tured. T1hec
ingreid int. are* prosedl itlo blocks
of ainy size( , anid of a lyered or launi..I
niiaiied stuciture tht hiibtenis thle
rsemainuit to nottura~l caal. As the
stuff 1 is niul( from~ malterials re'gard
cal litherto as praeticailly vtaleh
thle mtarket. priice will ba less than
thiat of the o'hieap- si, coal.
*WOMEN VOTERS.
Massachuisit ts hais thle greatest
prerleran~iOuCe' of w~~~oan "voters,"
w i 58;j maore womand thn mnen.
Northi ('arolinia is next, with a womn
aii umjnority of 1 5,388, and South
(Carolinia. with 10O,8O'7, is third. In
I~ hod1e Islandia women of vot ing age
outuinbiler mn by 3.19)6, and in
Mfarylaind by 1 ,292.
BAR CA STIC.
"So t~he baseball seasonis on01
again."
"Yecs, and the husbands who~
couldn't possibly get home to dinner
before seven o'clock, will be quitting
their offices at tree every af ter
noon."
FLYING FATALITIES.
Of the 74 flying fatalities in the!
United States air servico duringf
1919, 83 per cent arc attributed tol
the fault or carelessnmess of the pilot
as-the primary c.ause, and1( 8 por cent
to the failure of the plane.
MAKES SALVAGE WORK EASIER
Device Likely to Play important'Part
in the Recovery of Ships
Sunk by Germans.
An interesting public deionstra
tion of its burrowing machine given
at New York by the Saliger Ship
Salvage corporation promises much
in the salvage of sunken ships. This
novel device has the ability to navi
gate through the ground, like a sub
marine navigates through the wa
ter, but, unlike the submarine, it
has no pilot aboard. It is directed
and controlled by an operator from
a distance. Its purpose is to drag
lifting cables through the ocean bot
toni under sunken ships.
In appearance it resembles a pair
of torpedoes, placed tandem, with
screw-blade propellers in front and
aileron rudders at the opposite end.
It wasstarted into a huge pile of
gravel, head down, and reappeared
again at a distance, having bur
rowed its way in a half circular
course through the gravel, dragging
the cable behind it.
The burrowing machine is the in
vention of A. 11. Saliger, president
of the Saliger Ship Salvage corpora
tion, and it seems destined to play
an important part in the recovery of
many of the ships sunk by the Ger.
man subimarines.
SEEMS LIKE A LOT
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"We have 3,000 contented work
men on our pay roll," said the
manufacturer.
"Gosh il" said another. "I didn't
know there were that many content
ed workmen in the world."
MAN, 94, RIDES TO HOUNDS.
One of the oldest followers of the
hounds is Capt. Thomas Dallas
Yorke, .the dilelless of Portland's
father, who was ninety-four last
February. For his age he enjoys
excellent health, and lie has hunted
several times this season. He is
haP)py in the saddle, and recently
whien the hounds started to run, his
hiorse leaped ai hedlge. with posts anid
rails, landling safely. Captain
Yorke's hat fell off, and lhe said aft
terward to a friend: "I did niot in
tend to (come over so large a jump,
lbut t he horse goJt away a li ttle."
Contfiinetaml Fdition of the London
PIGEONS IN FORESTRY.
During~ the recent severe forest
fres in. t&ert ain sectiones of thle West,
(aier'" 1a p ins were suctcessfully em
ployed to conIv'ey misa !es fronm t he
fire fig'ters '"at the front" to head
<iuarters, rays t he Ann-rtieani For
estry' \ f igaz inie of Wasihi igton. The
test of the birds for this use was on
a Iim1it ed sealec, bm iu has encouragedl
lhe forest service (iflit iuals to believe
that they ennI be (Irnplyd profita
lbly oni a larger sea!r.
Fiim of (;t' miles ini a single (lay
have been-J madetl, whmile ai (ist an1ce
of 1-10 to 200( miiles mantis a two or
three-hour flight for the average
bird.
PHILIPPINE TOBACCO Tr'ADE.
The last year was regerded as
very profittible for the Phi!ipineii to),
ha to initerests, ams there wn.< rn in
(!rease of I ,000,0(0 p~e~'s in the
valu te of cigr.rs manummfacture d, a
grea t proportioni of wic h wenit to
tihe Iited (S States, anId :'mt'iderable
exports to China and1( I'u:rope
ENDLESS ENTERPRisE.
"I don't believe you Socialista
know exactly what you arc talking
abot."
"Assuming that you are right, our
only hope of finding out lies ini pro
SHOULD BE WELL LIGHTED.
. T1he lighting e~jui pmenIt jin the
new mtu:Iicipal bulildling of New
York eity retiuires more tha::i 1,000
'ehutriv lumps.
Dodge Brothers
BUSINESS CAR
The Service it renders, its reliability
and its very moderate operating
cost make it a real economy in any
business
It more than "earns its keep" in de
livery use in the extra daily work it
does.
Palmetto Auto & Accessory Co
Phone 200- Laurens S. C.
As Regularly as the Cock Crows
Good health is a tonic that brightens your mornings. It throws a
halo of happimess about your day. It brings you to your task with
a sense of perfect fitness.
And the secret of good health is regular elimination. If you have
a tendency to costiveness, Nujol will help you back to habitual
mfovemenflts.
Nujol works on an entirely new principle.
Instead of forcing or irritating the system, It simply softens the food
waste. This enables the many tiny muscles in the walls of the intes
tines, contracting and expanding in their normal way, to squeeze the
food waste along so that it passes naturally out of the system.
Nujol thus p revents constipation because it helps Nature maintain easy, thor
ough bhowel e vacuation at regular intervals-the healthiest habit in the world.
Nujol is absolutely harmless and pleasant to take. Try it
Nujol ir ol by all druggi ta in sealedhtad (lo onlharngNjo ere
50 Broadway, New York, for booklet "Trhirty Feet of Danger"
The Modern Method of Treating an Old Conplaint
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