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Where Exj ^ #&< A view of the trading settlement at Inhabited of all settlements there. It wa 'Shoe' Mil of J *Specimen Found in Limestone of the Triassic Period Amazes Scientists. THEY CALL IT "NATURE FAKE" Stitching Is Perfect, but Man Didn't Exist When It Was Made, Professors Assert?Found in Nevada by Prospector. New York.?Wliat appears iv ue the petrified sole of a carefully made shoe has beeu submitted by John T. Iteid, a mining engineer of Lovelock, Nev., to Dr. Jaines F. Ketup, professor of geology at Colun^'a university, and to Dr. William D. Matthe\y, paleontologist of the American Mtlseum of Natural History. If It is what it looks like, it is proof that human beings were walking about In shoes of finer workmanship than are made today on this continent > between 10 million and 300 million years ago. The seeming fossil was found in blue limestone of the Trias8ic period on a summit in the southern extremity of the Humboldt mountain range In Nevada. Both Dr. Matthew and Dr. Kemp said that the object was the most surprising imitation by nature of the workmanship of man which had ever come to their attention, but that it was absolutely Impossible that it could be a genuine fossil because the evidence was overwhelming that the career of humun beings on earth wus j not over half a million years, whereas 1 the Triassic rock of which the neatly ; sculptured sole is made is so ancient, i Shows Lines of Stitches. It would fit nicely a boy of ten or twelve years. The edges are as smooth as If freshly cut. But the surprising part of it is what seems to | be a double line of stitches, one near ' the outside edge of the sole and the | other about a third of an Inch inside I the first. The "leather" is thicker inside the inner welting and appears to % be slightly beveled, so that at the margin, ha!f an inch wide, which runs outside, the sole is something like an eighth of an Inch thick. The symmetry is maintained perfectly throughout. The perfect lines pursued by the welting and the apUnique The unnual burro show for the chili ^ list of entries competing for the silver tri i fir flniil Injunction WHEAT SUPPLY * Enough of the Grain to Supply r All Nations of World. * Surplus of 11.800.000 Tons In Exporting Countries From Year's Crop? Increased Production in Wheat 13 Shown. i Home.?After setting aside the quantities of wheat required for home consumption until the next harvest, the wheat exporting countries will have] I an exportable surplus of 11,800,000 J metric tons, says a statement concern- j ing the world's wheat supply just is? sued by the International Institute of Agriculture. k it is impossible to form an accurate estimate of the quantities the importing countries will require before the t iid or July, when their next wheat crop will he gathered, adds the statement. but It is ascertained that the aggregute wheat crops in the import-1 Dlorer Shackleton W; j v^A\y^iyw.-.WA^^/AVA%)yv.w;.;;/.ssN^iw .,., w. - ' v South Georglu. wh Ich Is the farthest so o o? Contii fionpiria Hint <<lr I<"!rnf?t Shnrk [lions ears Old pearance of hundreds of minute holes through which the sole was sewed to the shoe ure the things which make the object such an extraordinary freak in the eyes of the scientists who examined it. Under a strong glass. Mr. Reid found that the tiny holes uppeared with such exact regularity that it set at naught the laws of probability to 1 believe that the thing was anything I except the handicraft of man. The edges are rounded off smoothly us if it I were freshly cut leather from the ! hands of an expert cobbler. The ' heel and part of the sole appear, the , toe end being missing. "It is not extraordinary," said Pro fessor Kemp, "to tlnii natural imitations of bones or man's handicraft* The}' turn up frequently. But this is by far the most perfect thing of the kind that I have ever seen. "On the other hand, I have no hesl- | tation in saying that it is not a fossil ! but an accident. If it were a fossil, It would probably be 10,000,000 years old or older, because it appears to j come from a Triassic formation. Man ] did not exist that long ago. Found by Prospector. Mr. Reld said that the object was found by Albert Knapp, a prospector, whose attention was immediately ar- I rested by the striking resemblance to , a cobbler's work. The uppearance is aided by the fact that the color is i thut of leather, which is due, accord- j ing to Dr. Matthew, to Iron sulphide ' present In the alleged fossil, but not In the rock on which it is mounted. "The two scientists that I have 1 j talked to simply take their stand that i the Darwinian theory is so completely j proved that man could not have pos- j sibly existed during the Triassic peri- j od, that only lower forms of life then ; existed," said Mr. Iteid, "and they' say that no amount of evidence that this was a genuine fossil shoe would convince them that it was such, although they admit that the resemblance to the sole of a shoe is exact and extends to so many particulars. I "Under a glass. It is perfectly plain i that the leather was first perforated 1 by a line perforating machine before [ i it was sewed. They call it an accl- j < dental concretion. But they admitted that they would not consider uny evidence of the genuineness of the fossil because they were so weddet] to a [ i theory which would make It iuipos- i slble" |] Burro Show Held in .; :-v<S: dren of Sun Antonio, Tex., wus this yea phy annually awarded by tlie mayor. 1 IS NOW AMPLE ing countries which are furnishing data to the institute will he consider- ! ably larger than last year, being 27,700.fx?o metric tons, as compared with 21.SOO.OOO metric tons Inst year. Imports of all the Importing coun- | tries together between August and i December. 1021. were larger than the ( previous year, and. supposing the shipments between January and July of , 1022 reach the same figure (despite the i Increased yields and additional quan- j titles imported during the last live j months, the totals, according to the !; institute, will still he within the limits . >f the exportable surplus. It is even probable that an exportable surplus will still exist in August, 1022. The aggregate showing of wheat during this winter extended to 107,- , (n 10.000 acres, or l..'i per cent more L than Inst year. It ye sowings reached i; I'O.O'Ki.tKKi acres, or more than 12 per j, cent greater than Inst season. A reduction in the areas under I wheat occurred iu Europe, utid there < . _ - M I as Buried If ' : \ SfiK ~ :t,, -,-? y? , ' : \*: t? & * ' #.X: ::*X;X;:* *: ,JJ/ \ .u.-.,. ^ M S3 uth In the Arctic circle und the m'st leton, the British explorer, was bur'ed. "It Is the most perfect piece of natural mimicry that I have ever 9een," said Dr. Matthew. "But that Is all. It Is not the work of man. Mau lias not been In existence much more than 500,000 years or so on earth, and It Is not believed that man has existed on this continent for more than 30,300 years. That Is, of course, only an approximate guess. The Trlnsslc formation in which this appears to have been found might have been 300,000,000 years old. Sudi finds are made every now and then, though I have never seen anything so extraardlnary as this before. A man recently* found, for Instance, what he thought to be a fossilized human eye J of great antiquity. It bore a very strong resemblance to an eye, but of j course was no such thing." earthquake recorder ' M The earthquake recorder at Georgetown university Is regarded as one of the most accurate Instruments of the kind <n the world. It will record the slightest quake in any part of the world. Raleigh Pipe a Relic. The pipe which Sir Walter Raleigh j smoked on the scaffold, In H518, is now ! In the private museuiy belonging to a London firm of tobacconists. Texas r u most successful affair with a Inrpe I'he entrants are here shown lined up was also a sllpht reduction In the wheat aren In the United Stntes, but this Is neutralized by an Increase In Inrlln Ttvp smvlnps Increased both In Europe and the United States. Largest Olive Tree. Yuba City, Col.?What Is held to t?e the largest olive tree in the United States so far as known has been jlscovered by Deputy City Marshal Lee McCuno on the Hoy Hull ranch, nine miles below this city. The tree, which was planted about ! forty years ago, stands 30 feet In ' height, has a spread of 20 feet and ' - feet from the ground the trunk has a circumference of 0 feet 0 Inches. Dog Saves Little One. Livingston, M:?nt.?Three children of K. J. Lyons, rancher, and the family ilng were buried under eight feet of snow during the storm here. Using a skill gained in digging up hones, the dog dug his way through the drift with a little girl, Xonie, aged eight, hanging to his neck. The two, sufe uu the outside, brought help. 11??iimnrw COLUMBIA TO HEAR! REV. BUT SHAY' NOTED EVANGELIST OFFICIALLY ACCEPTS INVITATION FOR ( REVIVAL. , MEETING 10 LAST SIX WEEKS j Evangelistic Committee to Make lm- 1 mediate Arrangement! of Preparation. , Columbia.?Definite acceptance of , Columbia's invitation to conduct a re- ] vival here was received from the Rev. j William A. Sunday, the noted evange- | list. The dates will be the same as ] those named in the temporary ar- ( rangement, the meeting to start ap- j proximately March 15, 1923, to run six , weeks. Columbians who have been ( deeply interested in the proposed re- ( vival were Jubilant that Mr. Sunday ; had officially accepted. < A city evangelistic committee is al- ( ready formed and this body of men j will meet in a few days to make im- j mediate arrangements of preparation. ] W. D. Melton, well known Columbia \ lawyer, heads the commltte as chair, man; the Rev. T. C. Skinner, D. D., | pastor of the First Baptist church, is i vice-chairman, and J. B. Horton, general secretary of the Young Men'? j Christian association, is secretary < Other members are: Dr. W. R. Barron. prominent physician; H. T. Pat 1 terson, treasurer of the State hospital; ; J. Nelson Frierson, dean of the law ( school. University of South Carolina; | T. B. Lanham, state secretary of th? Young Men's Christian association; Mrs. O. J. Kreps, president of the Co i. lumbia Woman's Interdenominational Missionary union; Rev. R. S. Trues , dale. D. D., pastor of the Main Street Methodist church; Rev. E. M. Light foot, pastor of the Second Baptist church; Rev. Wade Bogge, pastor o: the Arsenal Hill Presbyterian church; Julien C. Rogers, cashier of the Liberty National bank, and E. I-I. Schir- ; mer, secretary and manager of the manufacturing department of the R. L. Bryan company. It was announced by Secretary Horton that Mr. Sunday's manager would be here in a few days for a conference. TV.,* raattor nf a tahfimarle suffi cienlly large to handle the enormous crowds will be one of the principal matters to be disposed of by the committee. While there has been no definite selection and several places are under advisement, it is understood that the block on lower Main afreet owned by the University of South Carolina, between Green and College streets, is being favorably considered. When Mr.* Sunday was in Spartanburg he was visited by a Columbia committee and invited to come here. At that time there was much encouragement from Mr. Sunday, in fact the matter was practically settled then, but no contract was signed. The official word from Mr. Sunday means that the matter is closed and that Columbia and all of South Carolina may look forward to the revival in March, 1923. 1 < Men Attack Obliging Friend. Orangeburg. ? Stewart t. Coy. of Pittsburgh, Pa., ?nd John A. Robinson, of Blackstone, N. D., are in the Orangeburg jail, having been arrested on a charge of attempted highway robbery. These two - young white men came to the home of E. L. Pull, a prominent farmer of the Parler section of ( Orangeburg county, and told Mr. Bull that they were tourists, that their car had broken down and requested him to drive them to Parler that they might catch the night train. Mr. Bull , consented and while driving his car toward Parler and when Vance mill dam was reached, the road being quite secluded at that spot, the young men as- ( saulted Mr. Bull with their fists. Mr. , Bull was being choked by one of the , men. but he managed to get his Knire out and he cut that man's throat from ( ear to ear, cut the other man on the ( hand and about the mouth and shot one of the men in the leg. Although , Mr. Bull was bruised considerably, he ( was not badly hurt. The robbers were ] painfully injured and could not even , attempt to escape. ( Woman Gets Medal. Anderson.?Mrs. James Hunter, of Pendleton, hns received from the British government a handsome silver | medal for distinguished services riur- , ing the war. This medal was presented to Mrs. Hunter on a recent visit to her former home. Mrs. Hunter was se- , verely injured by the blowing up of a , TNT plant during the war. Before she married Mr. Hunter, an American , soldier, she was Miss Hilda Fern. She | says there is pending in England a , bill similar to the bonus bill of the , United States. , School Highly Kraisea. Batesburg?The Bateaburgfl^esville high school, which has been receiving ( federal aid for vocational training, < was visited by the federal agent for ] agricultural education who has charge f of the work in 14 southern states. Ac- ( cording to information received- . through the office of the state super- , intendent of education, this agent re- , ports that the local school has as ( good equipment for teaching voca- ( fional work as any school in the South. ^ He complimented Superintendent ( Scott and the local trustees. ( Laurens Farmer Kiled. Laurens. ? Riley Hammond, a merchant of Laurens Cotton Mills vil- , lage, wns shot and killed by Thomas t P. Duncan, a farmer residing near f Madden station, about six miles south- , west of Laurens, the homicide occur- ( ring in the home of Duncan. A single- ( barreled shotgun was used and it was said three shots were fired by Duncan. ( two of which took effect. Hammond , lived about 4o minutes after being j shot. but. so far as known, he madp , no statement. Coroner R. R. Owlngr j held the inquest. ; f STATE AID GOMES IN TIME Calhoun County Receives $2,200 From Department of Education For the Rural Graded Schools. St. Matthews.?George W. Wannanaker, county superintendent of education, is in receipt of $2,200 from ;he state department of education, which is the apportionment for this county for rural graded schools. Mr. tV'annamaker says the money arrived 'in the nick of time,' since the delinluency of taxes has drawn some of :he schools very near the twilight end >f the session. He also expressed himself as being highly pleased with the showing made by this county. Out of 20 districts In the county, three of which are Joint with Orangeburg and Lexington counties, lb 01 tnese support 16 schools. Of these 16, nine are rural graded schools, receiving state lid. All of these, in compliance with the requirements of the state aid laws, tave two or more teachers, and two >f them are high schools. There are five one-teacher schools which are unible to meet the requirements, not because they have not the spirit to do io, but because one of the essenital requirements is unavoidably missing. Taking into consideration the various standards and requirements to be met ind the difficulty usually encountered In meeting them by average school. Mr. Wannamaker feels that this county makes a remarkable showing. The following schools are now rural schools sharing in state help: Pine drove, $300; Woodland, $200; Fort Motte, $200; Bellville, $200; Midway, $400; Creston. $200; Spring Hill, $200; Center Hill, $200; Sunny Plain, $200. Midway, with 112 pupils and four teachers, is the largest rural school In the county. The Creston school was awarded a prize of $15 by the state scb|ool improvement association, for which, it is said, credit is principally due to Mrs. W. A. Keller. Center Hill is the only one which has suspended on account of shortage of funds, but all will run the six months. New Board Begins Duties. Laurens.?According to a special act passed at the last session of the' general assembly, abolishing the county highway commission and transferring the duties to the Laurens county board of commissioners, the former board was formally dissolved at a final meeting Leid here and turned the work over to the legally authorized successors. The Laurens highway commission, authorized and named a few years ago to have charge of the construction of the highway system of Laurens county, was composed of John D. W. Watts, the county supervisor; George M. Wright, who acted as secretary; O. C. Cox, Henry Sims and Willis Putnam. Under the supervision of this board over $500,000 has been expended on the public roads of the county. Standard top soil roads have been constructed from the county line at Kinards via Clinton, Laurens and Gray Court to the Greenville county line at Fountain Inn, from Laurens to Princeton, from Laurens to Cross Hill via Cold Point, from Laurens to Enoree with the exception of about five miles between Watts Mills and Ora. More Detroyers Go. Charleston. ? Destroyers of squadron No. 3 steamed from Charleston harbor for League island, where they will be put out of commission along with scores of others of these warships. There are 16 destroyers in this squadron, making the largest single movement or vessels yet to go under the schedule in force which is taking the trim vessels from their winter base at a rapid rate. By the end of this month there will be only 39 left of the 106 here early in March. As the swift warships trailed from the harbor they made an impressive spectacle. School Funds Short. Laurens.~-A meeting of the school trustees of 60-odd districts of the county was held In the court house in response to a call Issued by Ralph T. Wilson, county superintendent of education. The purpose of the conference, as announced by Mr. Wilson, was to discuss the situation In regard to the matter of continuing the schools to the end of the full term as originally planned. For the lack of funds many of the schools will have to close sooner this, year than formerly. Will Try Potatoes. Greenwood.?A potato curing house with a capacity' of 10,000 bushels will he opened in the second story of the Greenwood Fruit company, President T. W. Bradford has announced. Thi.? potato hous^ will be only one of a number of houses to be opened througout the county. Farmers are turning to the sweet potato industry as a means to meeting boll weevil conditions. In a large number of communities co-operative potato houses have been built and farTiers are planning to ship potatoes. Live Stock Men Form Association. Sumter.?At a meeting in Sumter jf farmers and live stock breeders of Sumter, Lee. Beaufort, Charleston, Darlington and other counties, the organization of the South Carolina Cooperative Live Stock association was completed with an initial capital Uock of $50,000, 20 per cent of which ras paid in. The following board of iirectors was elected with lnstruc;ions to begin operations at once: L. D. Jennings, C. J. Jackson, Archie Shlna, Sumter; Robert M. Cooper, Lee :ounty. Bamberg Farmer Takes Own Life. Bamberg?John Steedlv. 35-year-old vhite farmer, who resided seven or dght miles from Bamberg, took his >wn life while riding along the high vay in his automobile with members the family in the car with him. No tause for the rash act is known. Besides Mrs. Stcedly, a brother and he brother's wife were also in the nachine at the time. Without any provocation or warning Mr. Steedly Irow a pistol from his pocket and Ired a bullet into his chest. Death ollowed almost Instantly. ^SEALED AIR.I ICjHI #81 Penn s spells J Peon's is packed M air-tight in the pat|f ented new conIll tainer. It is always 11 Chew fresh toB bacco. Try Penn's next time. Clean? /) Guarantee USKER BEFORE COMMITTEE HOUSE AND SENATE COMMITTEE um n mimt ucidimr r>m MEASURES. Says That Shipping Board is Standing Fast by the Administration's Program. Washington.?Enactment of the ad ministration's ship subsidy bills with out radical change is the hope o: President Harding and shipping boart officials, Chairman Lasker told mem bers of the senate commerce ant house merchant marine committees a the opening session of joint hearing.' on the measure. Declaring that the shipping boart "stands fast" for the general princi pldh embodied in the program en dorsed by the President, Mr. Laskei expressed the opinion that "any radi cal change in the proposals might re suit in the destruction of the whole.' After he had read a lengthy state ment in which he-contended that gov ernment operation not only hat proved a "costly failure," but wai driving private owners off the 6eas the shipping board head became th< target for a rapid fire of questions most of them from democratic mem bers of the house committee. Fre ? - * *- ? * ? T o o quent veroal ciasnes oeiweeu mi. ker and Represnetative Hardy, Texas ranking democrat of the house com mittee, marked the cross-examination Quizzed by Representative Briggs democrat, Texas, as to the board's experience with ship operators, Mr Lasker said he had a "suspicion tha a few operators have purposely abus ed their operation privileges" to prov< government operation a failure. Th< chairman added that he would noi make any specific charges on this point. -v Guard Shot Down by Bootlegers. Baltimore.?A band of bootleggers motored up to the Gwynnbrook Dis tillery, 15 miles northwest of Balti more, summoned a guard to the door calling him by name, and shot him down. He died within an hour. Po lice of Baltimore and Baltimore coun ty were rushed to the distillery. I) is believed no liquor was obta'red ir the raid. Pays Bill After 51 Years. Utica, N. Y.?Because he left Col gate university in 1871 unable to pay a board bill of $7, Frank S. Lyon, of Wolverine, Mich., has sent to the treasurer $27.42, which is equal to $7 and simple interest for the 51 years intervening. The amount was owing to Byron Richardson, who conducted a boarding house and Lyon requested that the money be turned over to . -1 A him. if living, or nis neirs. ALIC1 iuc letter from Lyon was read to 'the student body, Harold B. Anderson, of Hammond, Ind., now a freshman, at the university, informed the treasurer that he is a grandson of Byron Richardson. Maryland Passes Bonus Bill. Annapolis.?With only four dissenting votes, the house of delegates passed the state soldiers bonus bili. The measure having passed tb& senate, now goes to the governor The bill provides for a $?tOCO.(?>0 bond issue, which 's to be submitted to the people. If the bond issue is approved at the polls the money will be distributed to ex-service men in Maryland as follows: Ten dollars a month for every month of service for all Marylanders in the army, navy, marine corps or nurses corps. Failures of Month. New York.?Business failures in the United States during March increased in number over those of March, 1921, but decreased in the total amount of capital involved .said a report issued by Bradstreets. There were 2.307 failures, for a total of $57,513,590 last month as against 1.500 for a total of $6S,698,350 in March, 1921. For the first quarter year, there were 7.111 failures for $230,219,350 in March, 1921. 9H 3Be ffiSr^ Bfi jfi *1 \ J ** %/ ^?? te<st^L- wfc^^g. General Semenoff Arretted. 1 New York.?General Gregorie Ataman Semenoff, anti-Bolshevik mill- i tary leader In Siberia, was arrested at the Pennsylvania station' upon his ' t i u ?mam. u?? qv?a ' arrival ueru lium tvasuiagiuu u/ t?ucriff Nagle. In the custody of six deputy sheriffs, he was taken to the 1 ^Waldorf-Astoria hotel where arrangements were under way- to have him ;] released on $25,000 bail. The arrest was made in a civil ac?N J tion involving nearly half a million dollors on an order issued by Supreme Court Justice Delehanty. General Seminoff was charged with . the theft of woolen stuffs and furs t valued at about $475,000, property of j the now bankrupt firm, Yourevata . Home and Foreign Trade company, 1 Inc. The theft was alleged to ha4re t been made in or near Chita. 3 1~ Moore Serves Term. j Indianapolis. ? Isaiah Moore, selfconfessed spouse of 13 wives, was sentenced to serve from two to 14 years ' in the state reformatory on a charge of embezzlement and was fined $1,100 and costs and disfranchised for five ? years. Moore was sentenced to serve from v two to five years in the state prison j on a charge of bigamy. He pleaded 5 guilty to the bigamy charge. Moore is said to have embezzled $512 from Miss Harriet Evans of MepI Tn<1 Itu, 1UU. Kindness Costs Him $24,077.71. New York.?The kindness of heart of Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst, the [ noted Presbyterian divine, cost him * $24,077.71. '' A Supreme Court Justice Geigerich ' awarded a verdict in that sum against 3 him in a suit on a $20,000 promissory ' note brought by Albert K. Kintner. Dr. Parkhurst. who is ill with pneumonia, said in an affidavi that he en* dorsed the note in September, 1919, ? purely as an act of accommodation to the American Education Alliance and 3 the German Publication Society, which were named as co-defendants. 1 Bandits Hold Up Passengers. ' St. Louis.?Compelling 30 passen- * " gers to hold up their hands, three " younthful bandits in a daylight street > car robbery robbed Harold Kaemmer1 er, 17, bank messenger, of $5,600 in " cash and $1,600 in negotiable paper. * The bandits escaped in an automobile * driven by a confederate. i Twenty-two Aliens Caught. Tampa. Fla. ? Twenty-two aliens^ patrons of the gigantic smuggling sys. tern operating along the Atlantic seaboard, were captured by federal of; fleers off Tarpon Springs, near here, i The men?Spanish, Greek and Ger.. A.. 4Uin man?were attempting to emer una i country through the "underground" soute, authorities declared. 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