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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-09-22
Too Slow.

A negro lad had been brought into
Virginia police court for the fifth
time charged with stealing chickens.
The magistrate determined to ap-
peal to the boys father.
"See here" said his honor, this
boy of yours has been in this court
so many times charged with chicken
stealing that I'm quite tired of seeing
him here
81 don't blame you, jedge," said the
parent, IAN Is tired of seein' him
here as you is
. Then why don't you teach him
how to act? Show him the right way
and he won't be coming here
Il has showed him re right way
said the father, "but he jest don't
seem to have no talent for learning
how, jedge; he always gets caught.
Lawyer and Banker.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-09-22
DECLARES EARTH NOT ROUND.
Overseer of Zion City Cites Proofs
to Refute Modern Astronomy.

Chicago, Sept. 1.-THE story of
the "Village That Voted the Earth is
Flat" has an earnest adherent in Will
bur Glenn Voliva, overseer of Zion,
the religious community that Alexan-
der Dowie founded at Zion City, a
little north of Chicago.
Declaring that there is no proof
whatsoever of the sphericity of the
earth or that the earth has any mo-
ton, Overseer Voliva says he iss"pre-
pared to refute modern astronomy,
Scientifically as we'll as from the
standpoint of the Bible.''
Here are some of the points he ad-
vances:
''All standing water is level. Let
any one disprove it if he can. They
cannot disprove it. This is conclusive
evidence that the old Pythagorean-Co-
pernican system of the sphericity of
the earth is false.'
"a man stood at Kingston, Jamai-
ca, aid saw the lighthouse in Havana
harbor eighty-two miles distant,
which is another conclusive proof
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-09-22

ord that there have been a number OF
eclipses with both the moon and the
sun above the horizon. No one
knows what causes eclipses.
"They tell you that the sun is nine
ty-two million miles away. I laugh at
that, not only as a mathematician,
but also as student of God AL
mighty's Word.
Did God Almighty create the earth
and then create a light to light it up
and put it ninetT-two million miles
distant and make it million times
larger than the earth? What kind of
a fool would build house up in Ke-
nosha and erect light hundred
miles from it to light up the parlor?
"They say that science is not specu-
lation; but if science is true, then
there can be no conflict between it
and the Word of God-but when it
comes to the word of God, they have
not leg to stand on. I will take
the Word of God and down any mod
ern astronomer on the face of the
earth and dispose of him in less than
thirty minutes"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-09-22
that the sphericity of the earth is a

that the sphericity of the earth is a
fake.
The midnight sun has been seen
hundreds of times, but it would be
absolutely impossible to see it on a
sphere You would have to look
through hundreds of miles of earth
and rock.
There is railroad in South Amer
ica two thousand miles long which is
almost perfectly level. The Suez Canal
is hundred miles long without locks
and with scarcely any rise at all.
Where is your curvature of the earth?
There is none.
''No wonder higher critics and mod
ern believers in the Copernican sys-
tenn of astronomy laugh at the food
and say that such a thing as flood
could not occur on a globe or a
spherical earth-and / agree with
them. They are perfectly right. That
is what the devil intended when he
invented the modern astronomical the
ory-to destroy the Word of God.
''They say that eclipses are caused
by the earth passing between the
moon and the sun, causing the shad-
ow, but how can you have an eclipse
with both the sun and the moon above
the horizon? It is a matter of rec
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-09-22

in SO minutes, an average speed of IS
miles an hour.
The worlds record was set near
Screven, Ca, IL miles south Of Jas
sup, where No. Ill and her train
covered five miles in two. minutes
and 80 seconds.
No. Ill arrived at the union sta
tion in Jacksonville ahead of the
Seaboard test train and the Atlantic
Coast Line and Plant system was
awarded the mail contract.
Some time later the Atlantic Coast
Line absorbed the Plant System and
No. Ill became A. G. L. No. 210.
There is nothing out of the ordina-
ry in the design of the engine, which
is a typical ten-wheeler type, three
pairs of drivers and four pony truck
wheels. She has 19 inch cylinders
with a stroke of 2S inches, 70 inch
driving wheels and carries a boiler
pressure of $50 pounds. The engine
weighs 10000 pounds. Her rated
tractive power is 21,4S0 pounds.
The old Plant System track be-
tween Savannah and Jacksonville is
known among railroad men in the
southeast as "the speedway" be-
cause of the fast time that has been
made on it. No. Ill made her nota-
BILE run in 1901 and after the Allan
tic Coast Line took over the Plant
System a special train was handled
at rate of 1866 miles an hour.
This instance was on March 9, 1908,
when a train chartered by the family
of George Gould was run 172 miles
from Jacksonville to Savannah in
1852 minutes, or at speed of 7O.7
miles an hour. Engine No. 271 with
Engineer Thomas Leake in charge,
which pulled the train, ran the seven
miles between Walthourville and
Mcintosh, Ga, in four minutes, ex-
ceeding 1862 miles an hour.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-09-22
RECORD ENGINE NOW SLOW.
Seaboard Air Line and Atlantic Coast
Line Staged Competition.

Pulling a slow local passenger
train in Georgia is the ''ten Wheeler
which one day twenty years ago trav-
eled at a speed greater than that of
any steam locomotive ever built, 12o
miles an hour.
The engine, now Atlantic Coast
Line No. 21O, was Plant System No.
III when it set the worlds record
for sprinting. At the same time it
won a United States mail contract
from Washington, D. c., to Jackson
vile.
The Seaboard Air Line and the
Atlantic Coast Line Plant System in
March 1901 were conducting tests
under observation Of postal authori-
ties. Each road, it, was agreed, was
to run three trains to determine as
to which could handle the Florida
and Cuban mail the quicker. 1t was
while pulling the third test train be-
tween Savannah and Jacksonville
that No.. III, of the Savannah, Flor
ida and Western, just delivered to
the raidroad by her builders and still
stiff from lack of use, unexpectedly
set it's record that still stands.
Shortly after leaving Savannah,
No. 107, new locomotive assigned
to the test developed hot driving
box and the Seaboard test train
passed it at Burroughs, II miles out
the two railroads parallelling to that
point.
At Flemming, % miles from Sa-
vannah, No. 107 was still expert
encing trouble and when passenger
train No. 1913, south bound, with en-
CINE No. III in charge of Engineer
Lodge, overlook the test train. Off
cia1s substituting the Ill for the
1O7, ordered dispatches to clear the
road between Flemming and Jackson
vile and Instructed Lodge to push
his engine to the limit.
A fire some years ago destroyed
the records of the run between Flem-
ming and Waycross, but reports show
that the No. III made the 76 miles
between Waycross and Jacksonville
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-09-22
MINE SHAFT MAY
REVEAL SECRETS

above the tremendous telescope made
of the mine shaft in Chile, Professor
Todd will take a look as it passes
over the shaft. At that point a mag
niier, capable to tell with surety
whether the Martians are merely sup
positional folks, as fanciful as the
fairies, or are real, active beings.
The telescope will be unusual in
construction. At the bottom of the
long mine shaft will rest plate OF
mercury, almost nineteen hundred
square feet in area. AS the mirror
must be concave in shape to concen-
trate it's captured rays as a given
point, the plate will be revolved. AS
the plate is revolved the liquid mer-
curry, by centrifugal force, will as
sumo a concave surface.
When Mars sails across the top OF
the mine shaft, the rays of light
from it will be caught in the gigan-
tic mirror and reflected and concen-
trated at a point some distance up the
shaft. At that point a magnifer, ca
pable of charging the concentrated
image twenty-five million times, will
yield photographs which will tell the
true story Of this neighbor of ours in
space.
Professor Todd is one of the lead
ing astronomers of the country, and
has been professor of astronomy and
navigation at Amherst since 1881, as
we'll as director of the Amherst OBJ
servatory. He has headed all i'm
portant United States astronomical
expeditions since 1878, his travels
having carried him to many lands. OF
recent years he has devoted himself
more deeply to solving the mystery of
Mars.
1t is strange, this quest of ours for
information about Mars. Mars, when
near us, looks simply bright star.
To one on Mars the earth would look
scarcely brighter. And yet it is this
body. almost the smallest of the plan
cts, but a pin point of light to the
naked eye, that stirs us to our nu-
merous questionings. II
A curiosity as old as man has
prompted him to ask if he were alone
in this mighty universe, or system OF
universes. It is as if some jealousy
were disturbing him. For man has al
ways felt that this is his universe;
that the stars are for him, and the
moon, and the sun, and the distant
stars and moons and suns. The
thought that there are living beings
on Mars neighbors in space, but utter
strangers, with, perhaps, civilization
resembling ours, has always bothered
him. To the astronomer he has said:
Tell us-are there living being also
on Mars? What are they like? Are
they fighting losing fight against
extinction? Or are they strong and
progressive and more advanced than
we?
And Prof. Todd, when he brings
the planet to within one and half
miles to the human eye, will en-
deavor to answer.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-09-22

'If there are human beings on
Mars" said Prof. David Todd, of Am
herst, one time, Il have no doubt that
they have been sending us messages
for years and are still wondering at
our stupidity in not replying.'
For years Professor Todd endeaV-
ored to communicate with Mars. He
even ascended high above the clouds
in a balloon to receive wireless mes
sage from Mars that would solve
the astronomical puzzle. But for those
years his every effort was bafded.
Today, for the first time, his work
faces success. Today he can say, 1.-The
planet will be brought within less
than one mile and half of the eye.
T expect to find on Mars evidence of
work done by intelligent human be-
ings."
With BENJAMIN A. McAfee, million
aire, erstwhile of Stamford, Conn.,
Professor Todd, on a seventy-acre
plat near Deauville, France, is pre-
paring plans for mighty telescope
which will bring the planet so near
to the eye that all its mysteries will
be laid bare.
Mine Shaft as Telescope.
Several times il the year 1924,
saws Professor Todd, MARS will be
nearer the earth than in any year in
a century. Mars will also be at the
zenith during 1924 and may be ad-
mirably seen from a disused mine
shaft found at Chaneral, Chile.
''My idea is to use the mine shaft
as the barrel of gigantic telescope,
fifty feet in diameter. Telescopes OF
such size have been difficult to con-
struct, owing not merely to cost, but
also to the physical obstacles in the
way of building mirror sufficiently
large.
We are doing away entirely with
a mirror and substituting revolving
plate of mercury fifty feet in diane
ter. AS the plate revolves the mer-
curry will take form and serve the pur-
pose of a perfect condensing mirror.
Microscopic photographs taken under
these conditions will yield magnifi-
cation of 25,000,000 times"
For years the question of life in
Mars has puzzled astronomers. Prof.
Percival Lowell and some fellow sci
entists, as Flammarion, of France,
have been staunch in their belief that
Mars is inhab bited. Not long ago the
world was startled by the statement
of Signor Marconi, the wireless wiz
ard, that unusual sounds are from
time to time received by wireless ap-
paratus, and in view of their reaching
simultaneously stations far apart they
seem to come from a great distance
beyond the earth. Immediately the
question arose: Is Mars signaling
us? No definite answer has yet been
given.
To See at Close Range.
Now the world awaits the work of
Professor Todd and his novel tele-
scope. When, in few years, Mars
is at the zenith, and passes directly
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-09-22
Seekers After Grace.

Wife Did you notice the chin
chilla coat on the woman sitting in
front of us this morning?"
Husband -"Er-no. Afraid l was
doing most of the time
Wife-"Um. 4 lot Of good the
service did you."-Chicago Tribune.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-09-22
Environment Again.

Lady-"Isn't it strange that some
fish are fiat, and yet so many aren't?'
Boatman-"Well mum, these ERE
waters are so shallow that fishes is
bound to grow fiat else they'd get
their backs sunburnt!" - London
Passing Show.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-09-22

The only unchartered bars along
the Atlantic coast are those aaoat
three miles out.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-09-22

deavor to answer.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-12-08
BENNINGTON VERMONT.

FRANK C. HOWE. Editor mud ruhr.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-12-08

The Vermont newspapers have
been having another inning of refer.
ence to Daniel Webster's famous
Stratton address in 1910. Most Of
them speak Of the great stratton
gathering as having taken place on
Stratton mountain. Actually the biz
rally took place. in an open field adj
jacent to the Stratton-Sunderant
turnpike and some distance from
even the foot OF Stratton mountain
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-12-08
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1921.

Probably Fatty Arbuckle ism t
guilty Of manslaughter. Most law.
yers hold to that view, but q good
many people win confess to seme
admiration for the woman juror who
had the courage to stand out against
the other eleven because she believed
that the big brute ought to get some
sort of punishment.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-12-08

We in Vermont think that we have
a burden of debt and taxation but
we are greatly favored compared
with some parts of earth. France
has national debt of over $l100 for
every man and woman and child IN
addition to local and municipal debt
equal to that Of town and cities in
this country. Vermont share of the
debt Of the United States is about
$S0.O0O,OOO, or $245 per capita. The
state and local debts would probably
raise this total to an average OF
somewhere around s27O per person
This ought to be enough to serve as
warning against adding more to the
principal, every dollar OF which viii
have to be paid.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-12-08

That history repeats itself over
and over again is clear to any per.
son who reads hstory-not with
analogous conditions and relations
that are often fairly astounding, The
new government propose1 Tor Ireland
places ireland in much the same
political situation that it was a
thousand years ago Most Of the re-
cent political events in Europe have
had their counterpart in past centur'
les. The events in Russia are, on a
greater scale processes which have
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-12-08

worked out in ages gone by in Eng
land, France and o;aer countries.
Russia is merely few hundred years
behind other nations in passing
through this communistic expert.
ment.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-12-08
The close season

on Life Insurance is after any one
of many diseases develops. Better to
insure. while sinsnrab.e thaAssfo take
chances. Well insured people are
less apt to worry themselves sick,
National Life ms. CO. Of VT. (Mu-
tual. Earle S. Kinsley, General
Agent, Mead Building, Rutland, Vt :
Advertisement
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-08-19
Carrying On With the
American Legion

Not to be outdone by the WOmen'S
Auxiliary of the American Legion and
the various associations of war moth
ers. dad" is now forming an associ-
alton of his own. The new fathers
organization is known as the "Order
of Loyal Dads" Il will cooperate
with all patriotic orders, and will be
especially affiliated with the American
Legion. dad" Sheldon Foote, of FIT.
Myers, Fla, is the founder of the pa
ternal order. It's principles will en-
courage ''clean, patriotic living ire
spective of party, politics, race or
creed" Men whose sons served in
the Spanish-American or World wars,
or who served in the army or navy at
any other time, will be eligible.
A sales system for the hundreds OF
practical articles and ornaments that
are being made by disabled veterans.
is being developed by the East Side
post at st. Paul, MINI. The sale
opened on Bastille day. July IA, with
carnival, the proceeds of which will
aid their unfortunate comrades in
civil establishment. The American
Legion Welfare Bureau of st. Paul, is
fighting for the unemployed ex-service
men with financial handicaps in what
it terms determined effort to keep
the bread line and soup kitchen out
of st. Paul."
Thomas ]. Bannigan, the new vice
commander of the American Legion,
is well-known in New England for his
record as chairman of the legislative
committee Of the Connecticut depart
ment of the Legion. He waged fight
against politicians who. he declared,
were trying to .commercialize, fed
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-08-19

such procedure, but she couldn't
help it.
sWhy don't you ever come to see
me?" she asked him. Il said we ougnt
to remain away from each other Tor
while. but didn't mean forever
Harvey appeared his same old SELF.
.I'll see you tonight-if you haven't
J another engagement he said.
Florence had no other engagement
and Harvey called. He got right 10
business at the start.
II love you, Florence, and wang
YOU" he told her, but I'm tired Oh
never knowing where | am at. Ii
can't have you all to myself ! won
have you at all"
"Yop mean" she said very sweet
ly-and meekiy.
81 mean that am proposing TO you
again, for the'last time. Ii you say
YES well and good. 1t will make me
happy. If your answer is no III be
unhappy, but I'll never bother you
again. But if you accept me all TINS
tact and diplomacy stuff OF yours mas
got to stop. How about it!'
Florence was silent for moment.
When she spoke there were hints OK
tears in her eyes.
1T suits me, Harvey" she told him.
"Pll marry you, and in the meantime
I'm yours alone. I'll never be mean
again, and I'll never keep you guess
ing. You can depend on me all the
time"
When Harvey left her that night ne
was fer happier than he ever hau
been before. He whistled gay tune
as he walked home under stars gleam-
ing in a deep blue sky. He went 10
his room and sat for long time gaz-
ing at picture of Florence and smll-
ing. 1t was smile of triumph as Wen
as happiness.
Before retiring he opened a drawer
Of his dresser and brought forth
paper-covered book.
"This Arabella Anderson has the
right DOPE" he 'murmured. "Only she
forgot to mention that it works Doth
ways. Maybe she didn't know 1t when
she wrote this Keep Them Guessing
volume"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-08-19
EVEN SENATORS DON'T RULE
Wife Of Eighty TWO Year-Old Live
One" Waxed Sarcastic at Hubbys
Expense, the Morning After.

The story Is still told In chuckle
circle in Washington, where old GRO
MES get together, of the night when
e. w. Pettus, senator from Alabama,
then eighty-two years old, stayed out
too late.
The day after the escapade the SEM
ate was droning along and Mr.. Nc
Cumber was making a speech that
was well studded with statistics and
entirely denuded of thrills. The SEN
ators drifted into the cloak rooms.
Only Senator Pettus remained. Sud-
denly his shoulders were seen TO be-
Gin to shake with mirth, and some
observer went over to learn what, in
so dry a speech, could have made him
laugh.
He said he had played poker with
the Joe Cannon crowd the night be-
fore and when the hour of midnight
arrived, the time at which Mrs. Pet
tus required his presence at home, he
had all the blue chips and could not
gracefully get away. SO he played
till three o'clock.
When he got home ne pulled OH ms
shoes at the front door, slipped into
his room, undressed in the dark and
sought to go to bed. Mrs. Pettus, UNI
fortunately, had cast anchor in the
exact middle of the bed SO he be-
slowed himself most uncomfOrtably
on the edge and courted Morpheus i'm
vain.
Just at dawn Mrs. Pettus awoke.
The senator pretended that he was
sleeping. She got up on her elbow
and looked at her partner for so years
in the increasing light. Instantly she
detected his discomfort.
"Mr. Pettus," said she, ''you would
rest at greater ease if you would take
off your hat."-William Atherton Du
Puy in the Philadelphia Evening
Public Ledger.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-08-19
Sermons by Wireless Telephone.

The day may soon come when the
itinerant minister will be thing Of
the past says Popular Mechanics Mag
azine. The Heron Avenue Presbyte-
rian church OF Pittsburgh, which had
been without a pastor for some time
and compelled to rely on substitutes,
decided on the installation of a wire
less telephone receiving outfit in the
pulpit. The outfit was a compact ar
rangement Of loop antenna, amplifier
and condenser, and it was the means
whereby the interested congregation
listened to a service from the Calvary
Episcopal church of the same city.
Although the speaker differed in creed
from his auditors, attentive ears re-
ceived his sermons as transmitted by
the wireless.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-08-19


His application for compensation
has been on file for more than a year,
but no action has been taken by the
bureau of war risk insurance, although
time and time again, Pinnell's critical
condition has been brought to the bu-
reau's attention. So he has been eX-
listing without compensation and de-
pendent upon members of the Ameri-
can Legion who visit the hospital reg
ularly, for the many little necessities
dear to the heart of every sick man.
Walter T. Hamilton, chairman of
the Bronx county Welfare committee
of the American Legion visited the eX-
COB and the latter confided to him
: that he longed to be back home in
California among his people. HamR-
ton got busy. The next day he took
the matter up with his committee and
$3.50 was raised by the Legionnaires to
provide for Pinnell's transportation
and an attendant nurse.
Pinnell is home now with his aged
father. His country for whom he
fought may have forgotten, but his
buddies-never.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-08-19
MONUMENT AT NEW ORLEANS
Memorial to World War Fallen Heroes
Regarded as One of the Most
Interpretative.

One of the most truly interpretative
memorial monuments erected since the
World war was recently completed at
New Orleans. 1t is the work of
Charles L. Lawhorn, designer, and G..
III. Dodd. sculptor. Local American
Legion posts presented the monument
to the city.
Standing In a bed of red peoples
In the beautiful city park. the monu-
ment is silhouetted against the palms.
AT the base is the simple inscription
''In memory of our comrades who
made the supreme sacrifice" Slight