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Baseball in Augusta April 17. The largest crowd that has ever at tended a base ball game in Augusta is expected here on Monday, April 17th, when the Augusta Tygers open the season with the Columbia, S. C., team. Interest in 'base ball is at a nigher pitch than ever before in this city or section. The fact that Augus ta has a splendid aggregation of ball players and the further fact that they have been playing practice games with Ty Cobb's famous Detriot Amer / icans, has whetted the appetites of the fans, for the opening of the league season. Manager Neal Ball, who. executed the famous unassisted triple play with the Cleveland Americans some years ago, is primed for the opening game and is confi B dent that his team is going to be well v up in the running. A number of merchants of Augus ta have made arrangements by which, some of their customers may see the opening game without charge, the de tails of which may be ascertained later. The Sunday Chronicle of April 16th will carry the full details of the plan. The merchants have put on spe cial bargains for this day and they expect the largest crowd that has ever been in Augusta. The Augusta Chronicle has donat- j ed a handsome silver loving cup to the city which has the banner attend ance record for opening day and it is confidently expected that Augusta will secure this trophy, in addition to the regular league trophy which is given for the record breaking at tendance on the opening day of the season. Greenwood Farmer Tans Hides and Makes Own Shoes. Greenwood, Apr. 9.-The low price of hides and the high price of shoes cause B. F. Brown, farmer of Troy in this county ,no worries. Shoes sell for many dollars per pair and cowhides sell for almost nothing per pound, but Mr. Brown makes his own shoes, using not even a bought tack or lace. The versatile farmer is now wear ing a pair of shoes which he made himself from a home tanned hide. He whittled the pegs out of wood and cut the strings from rawhide. The shoes are sewed together with home made cotton thread waxed with wax from Troy bees, citizens of that com munity declare. Of course, Mr. Browri admits, the shoes take little polish and it matters not much whether he shines them with ox blood or' blacking, still for boll weevil times, they keep out cold in winter and prevent stone bruises in summer. And then, he proudly adds, they appear to be everlasting. Mr .Brown is an ardent apostle of the live at home doctrine. Bryan D?fends the Bible. New York.-A 62-year-old William Jennings Bryrn, his gray hairs thin ned from many political defeats, fought a great oratorical crusade against the doctrine of evolution Sunday afternoon, before six thou-, sand who jammed the Hippodrome and "cheered for the Bible." ^He was heckled repeatedly from the .floor by professors and scientists, who wanted to show/the Commoner was out of his field in tackling such an intricate sub ject. But he confounded them with adroit appeals to the audience for hacking. His attack against evolution cen tered on the charge it was a mere ""guess" instead of hypothesis, that it was unsupported by facts, and that it destroyed religion and made the Bi ble only a "scrap of paper." "If you believe in evolution, you -can't believe the Bible," Bryan as serted. "You must give up belief in a personal God. You must lose your -sense of responsibility toward God. You must surrender the boon of prayer, for to pray you must believe that God lives and is near enough to hear and is willing to answer." Ringing the Curfew in Atlanta. ' It has been said that, for a strang er, the "deadest" towns in America to be caught in at night, are Wash ington, D. C., and Atlanta, Ga. Yet we find this Atlanta news item; quot ing the chief of police of Atlanta: Then, too, when a fellow comes to Atlanta now, and gets a bid to go to a dance, it behooves him to get his watch set straight, for a curfew law is going to be enforced by the chief. "Loafing around the streets late at night has got to be stopped," he told the police. Dances and parties ought to break up at midnight, they will have to, and the people who attend them must get home. The police force is instructed to stop any people found on the streets after 2 o'clock and find out why they are not at home. People who are out as late as that have a reason, and can give it, but those who have no reason must get home. It is necessary to take strenuous measures to break up these burglaries, and loafing on the streets and around? the pool rooms is going to be stopped right now." But, probably, the chief is wrong about believing that the burglars, be fore they go a burglaring, attend at the minuets and the dances. However, there will be no kick on a 3 a. m. curfew in Atlanta. Any man who will hang out on Atlanta's streets till that hour-just a-loafing-ought to be "run in" for his own sake.-; Augusta Chronicle. DRESS OF PREHISTORIC TIMES Remarkable Frocks Worn at a Recent Display Staged in the City of London. Wearing a dress copied from a rock drawing found in Allandra, Spain, Lady Warrenden appeared at a pageant of dress in London, and the most remarkable thing about this costume \was that it might have come from a fashionable modiste, of today, so near to present-day fashion did it seem, according to the London Daily Graphic. Lady Warrenden's frock was esti mated to represent fashion existent any time between 20,000 an* 200,000 years ago. One young lady wore a Spanish dancing frock believed to b? a repilca of one w??rn at least 200,000 B. C. Instead of painting her arms and chest, she wore brown tights un der a little skirt of buff-colored cloth, covered with real plumage, and feath er anklets to match. The Dally Graphic describes the at tire professing to copy that worn by Queen Boadicea (whose statue stands on Westminster bridge, close to the houses of parliament). This embraced a straight, full tunic, in royal blue woven cloth, over a plaited tartan skirt, similar in character to those colors still worn by the highlanders. Round the tunic were bands of parti colored embroidery, while a graceful wrap of dark gray cloth was flung over the shoulders and fastened with a huge circular brooch. AMERICAN TREES IN GREECE New Verdure for Barren Hills Around Athens Expected to Influence the Annual Rainfall. ' Mrs. P. -Martineaui, the expert on floriculture and tree planting, has just returned to England from a visit to Athens, where she has been advising the king and queen of the Hellenes in the culture and laying out of gardens. She has spent a good deal of time in California and has found that the drought-resisting trees and flowers of that country are particularly suited to KS reek soil. The queen bas formed a small soci ety among her friends with the object of furthering tree planting In the coun try. All the streets of Athens have been planted with pepper trees, the light green foliage, of which, with clus ters of berries, ls very effective. The pepper tree, ah evergreen, Is a native of California. Another tree seen there ls the maritime pine, with which the queen hopes to clothe thev hills of Greece as far as possible. Some of the small hills surrounding Athens ara already covered with this drought-re sisting tree,which is particularly suited to a soil which ls practically lime and dust. The maritime pine grows very quickly, and Mrs. Martlneau thinks that the covering of the hills around Athene may have the effect of bringing' more rain. SCIENTISTS WILL STUDY RAT Good Result's Expected to Follow Ob servations to Be Carried Out at Philadelphia. The superrat, unlike the superman of Nietzsche, is not of the warrior's type, but ls a gentleman, an aristocrat' at heart, although democratic In his ways. He ls gentle and sociable, a good fel low, healthy and active, and has an esthetic side, being fond of good mu sic. These are some of the conclusions drawn from years of experiments with the rodent by'Dr. Milton H. Greenman, director of the Wistar In stitute, at Philadelphia. To make observations on a more ex tensive scale and under more favor able conditions than heretofore, par ticularly in food research, the Insti tute ls building a $30,000 home for rats. The building will be a one-story wing to the present structure, and will be provided with every "kind of convenience conducive to rat comfort and weif being. The results, it is be lieved, will be of far-reaching benefit to mankind. Outside of an office and laboratory there will be a well-equipped gymnasi um for the rats. Ladders for climb ing, modified trapezes, running space, treadmill cages, and knawing appara tus will be provided to give the eu genically raised rat the proper exer cise. J. S. BYRD Dental Surgeon Office Over Store of Quartet Sc Timmerman Office Phone No. 3 Residence Phone 87 WANTED: Representatives to-sell monuments. Attractive proposition. Writa Charlotte Marble & Granite Works, Charlotte, N. C. Largest in the Carolinas. 1)0 IT NOW. He was going- to be all that a mortal should be-Tomorrow. No one should be kinder tr bravur than he-Tomorrow. A friend who-was troubled and.wfaxy he knew. Who'd be glad of a lift ard who needed It, too; On him he called to see what hw could do-Tomorrow. Each morning be stacked up the letters he'd write-Tomorrow. And thought of the folks he wculd fill with delight-Tomorrow. It was too bad, indeed, he was busy to day, And he hadn't a minute to stop on his way; More time he would have to give others, he'd say-Tomorrow. The greatest of workers this man would have been-Tomorrow. The world would have known him, had he ever seen-Tomorrow. But the fact is he died and he faded from view. And all he left when living was through Was a mountain of things he Intended to do-Tomorrow. -Grit. . PLANTS THAT STRANGLE TREE Almost Incredible Power Displayed by ! Vegetation That Seems to Be \ Almost Negligible. Some years ago an asphalt tennis court was laid down near Harwick, England. All went well at first. The asphalt was laid as smooth as a bil liard table and left to set Next morning there was' a bump aa large as an Inverted soup plate in one corner of the court. By midday It had grown to the size of a pudding basin, and then the workmen hacked up the court to see what had caused the mysterious swelling. It was nota-, ing more formidable than a mushroom. Even tiny plants are incredibly strong. A little seedling will push its way through several Inches of hard soil, and If a stone hinders its prog ress, the wee plant will thrust lt aside. Toadstools have been known to push over a strongly built wooden fence. Sometimes climbing plants kill the trees and bushes which they, use as supports. Honeysuckle, for example, clings tightly to the stem of a tree;?he tree exerts its enormous force to burst Its bonds, but the thin stalks of the climber are even stronger, ' and in the end the tree dies of strangulation. MATTER' OF OXYGEN SUPPLY Why Heated Objects Are of Varying Color Is a Matter of Simple Explanation. " . The^ color of a heated object de pends largely upon the temperature to which it is subjected. When, for ex ample, a poker ls placed In a fire, lt will first turn a dull red, then a bright red, and finally a glaring white. The same principle applies to a fiame, the outside of which Is far hot ter than the inside, and, in conse quence, gives off a brighter light This difference In temperature Is due'te, the fact that only the outer portion of the dame comes in contact with the oxy gen of the air, while the Inner part has to be content with the small amount of this inflammable gas which reaches it still unconsumed. , The heat is greatest where combus tion Is fastest and most complete, and It is for this reason that the outer part of a flame ls a bright yellow while the interior Is a dull blue. Gobbler Wanted Care of Family. A gobbler which seemed very much pleased and elated when the little turkeys were hatched and were able to follow him around last .year is owned by a New Brunswick farmer. This past summer he tried to coax the early chickens from the hens. ' Then when the turkey hens began to set the gobbler was missed for several days. He was then found setting on a hen's nest hidden In the grass. He sat on the eggs until they began to batch. The gobbler, however, was so heavy that he crushed the chickens, so he had to be taken away from the chicks. By that time the turkey hens had hatched their young and the gob bler was consoled by having Uiem fol low him, around. EXPENSIVE 1st Neighbor: Didja ever stop t? flggec out what lt cost t' raise a cat or a dog, Bill? 2nd Neighbor: Not But there's a neighbor's cat 'round here what's cost me 'bout a bushel of brisk-a brac, two alarm clocks, and a shoe Jes in th' past month. Calf With Two Heads Lives. The most astonishing animal freak that has ever been at Burton-on-Trent, Eng., was a two-headed calf. It had two mouths and could eat and drink with both at the same time. The freak at three months old, according to the opinion of a veterinary surgeon, was likely to have quite a normal ex istence, as It had only one brain. Needle Can Be Used as Drill. For delicate work In drilling small holes a needle may be used. A part of the eye end of the needle is ?round off ami the ends of the eye and the sidos bovrled to form the cutting lips. The uc-edle then may be used as any ordinary drilL-Cleveland News-Lead er. . _..."..... \ - The - Scrap Book MUCH LIKE PROVERBIAL CAT Grocer Evidently Was Not Going* to Get Rid of That Cheese Very Easily. A grocer had a lot of cheese which was anything but good. Tired of see ing the stuff about, he told his assist ant to leave one of the condemned cheeses at the door for someone to walk off with. Thomas crept to a. window to w?tch results, and at length went to his master, grinning all over his face, and announced that the cheese was gone. "Leave another oat tomorrow night," was the master's order, which was obeyed by the shopman, who, after a few peeps nest evening, went to his master, scratching his head and look ing as though some great disappoint ment had befallen him. ; "Has it gone?" asked the dealer. "No, sir; they've brought back the other." MINERALS FORM HUMAN FOOD Fact Which in All Probability Will Give Some Surprise to tho Ordinary Individual. You might be surprised for a mo ment if you were told that mankind lives entirely upon stones, metals and other minerals. But lt is true. Our food is of two kinds-animal and vegetable, and the first is really the essence, so to speak, of the second, for all our food animals make their flesh by eating grass and other plants. Plants, then, form the food supply of all other living things. But how do plants get their food? They live entirely on minerals ob tained from the soil, and on chemicals distilled from the air. Our bodies need these chemicals and minerals, but we cannot use them directly ; the only two that we can use in their crude form are water and salt. All the others must be worked up into different forms, and this is done by plants. Their roots bore down into the soil, breaking up small stones and extract ing from them the minerals that are' needed for their-and our-existence. These they transform into substances that animals can eat. ? Schoolroom for One Family. Pete Yousey owns a lumber camp in the Adirondacks, has five children, three nf school ag? and the others al most ready for school and lives eight miles from the nearest school. Mr. Yousey ls also a school trustee. His youngsters could not get to school in bad- weather, so Mr. Yousey brought the school to them. One room on the second floor of his house has been re modeled, the district has engaged a teacher, and there school ls held every school day in the year. Incidentally, Mr. Yousey's. children are the only ones in the neighborhood and his house is the only one for miles around, so the teacher rooms and boards there. CONSIDERATE GIRL. "Did you scream when he tried to kiss you?" "No, there's a poor man in ths next flat who is very sick." ._N / Exchange Professors. Spain is consiclerijjjr a proposal from the Belgian government for the ex change of professors and students be tween Spain and Belgium. According to the suggested arrangement the Spanish and Belgian professors will continue to draw their salaries from their home governments and institu tions, and will receive in addition a bonus from the governments to which they are sent. Arrangements are. under consideration also for a harmonization of the scholastic requirements of the Belgian and Spanish universities, in order that students may receive credit In their own Institutions for courses taken abroad. Pointer for Parents. Mrs. Flatbnsh-How did you come to decide on a nome for the baby? Mrs. Bensonhurst-Well, we began at A, and thought of all the names beginning with that letter; then we took B, and so went through the whole alphabet. "But the child's name is Alice! I thought." "Sn It Jifc When we got as far as Z we went back and began all over again at A." Britain's Motor-Cars. The number of motj>r vehicles of all kinds registered in Great Britain from Jan. 1 to Aug. 31, 1921, was 870.782. and thp gross nmnnnt of taxes collect ed wns x.l.HT?.10"). which ls distrib ute.' SJ %>1I?MTX: England and Wales. ?8.777.803; Scotland ?888.227; Ireland ?210.018. We Can Give You Prompt Service on Mill Work and Interior Finish Large stock of Rough and Dressed -Lumber on hand for Immediate Delivery. Woodward Lumber Go. QUALITY-SERVICE Corner Roberts and Dugas Sts., Augusta, Ga, Consult Your Own Interest by Consulting Us When Buying Metal or Composition Roofing Mantels, Tiling, Grates Trim Hardware Wall Board Doors, Sash, etc. FROM Youngblood Roofing and Mantel Company 635 Broad St. Telephone 1697 AUGUSTA, GEORGIA 00000000?000040000000000?0000?0?9000400090?v00000a0<>0 I ;:; Large Stock of I Jewelry to Select From f We invite our Edgefield friends to visit, our store 1 when in Augusta, We have the largest stock of ^ DIAMONDS a',' . WATCHES ?? f CLOCKS * f JEWELRY CUT GLASS 1 AND SILVERWARE s s of all kinfe that we have ever shown. It will be a pleasure to show you through our stock. Every department is constantly replenished with the newest designs. We call especial attention to our repairing department, which has every improvement. Your watch or clock made as good as new. ^Vork ready for delivery in a short time. . , A. I. REN KL 980 Broad St Augusta, Ga. g o o COTTON COTTON SEED OIL W. C. TAYLOR . * GREENWOOD, S. C. Commercial Trust Building Long Distance Phone 880 Local Phone 362 Member of New Orleans Cotton Exchange. Member of New York Produce Exchange. We Furnish a Daily Cotton Letter Free to All Interested. EAGLE "MIKADO Pencil No. 174 For Sale at your Dealer Made in five grades ASK ?FOR THE YELLOW PENCIL WITH THE RED BAND EAGLE MIKADO EAGLE PENCIL COMPANY, NEW YORK Eyes scientifically examined and glasses properly fitted. GEO. F. MIMS, Optometrist-Optician, Edgefield, S. Ci lili'tfl OpC ?S THE OWLY GENUINE NOTICE. All persons who are indebted to the estate of Mrs. Zelpha Thurmond, deceased will make payment to the undersigned and all persons who hold ? claims against said estate will present them to the undersigned properly at? tested for payment. * *"/ 3-13-22 J. H. MATHIS.' Suellen's ?rnica Sut ve fte Oest Salve In Ito World, ?