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Gifts That Will Please Father When planning Gifts for Fath er you will find th6 task ex tremely easy if you come here ior suggestions. This en tire store abounds in excellent suggestions of things that will please him above all others. C. E. CANNON CLAYTON GEORGIA. AIR MAIL’S PILOTS DOING GREAT WORK S' They Have Flown Nearly; Six Million Miles. Cane Juice Heavy The sugar cane Juice, constituting lout 80'per cent of the weight of he cane, says Nature Mnguzlne, Is iarlfled by the addition of lime. Again the Sower And again the sun blinks out, and :he poor sower Is casting his grain L-to he furrow, hopeful lie that the zo diacs and far heavenly horologes have not faltered; that there will be yet ra- othcr summer added for us and an other harvest.—Carlyle. Normal Cotton Crop A normnl world cotton crop Is 22,- 100,000 boles. Women Outnumber Men In the Babuyan Islands, recently dis turbed by volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, a very large portion of the population Is composed of women. Fishing Is I he principal pursuit of the men in the Islands and il.o frequent typhoons are futul for the lrall Halting craft, which accounts for the greater proportion of females among the in habitants. Eulogy of the Dead The custom of funeral sermons, to- f It-X-X-******************##**'^ gather with various other rites in com nectlon with the burials may be traced I back to antiquity. Even the primitive peoples hud certain ceremonies in con nection with the burial of their dead. In ancient Greece and Itome the cus tom of eulogizing the dead was very popular. Lincoln, Famous Spy, Turns Up as Fascist *************************** Not Matter of Principle Honesty Is the best policy, but he who acts an that principle is not an honest man.—Bishop Whately. THE SEASONS GREETINGS And While Enjoying the Best That Nature and Man Can Provide, Don’t Forget Chicago.—Pilots winging their way back and forth across the United States In the air mail service had cov ered 5,804,810 miles up to May 81, a distance done In 58,202 hours, 'accord ing to Luther K. Bell, traffic manager of air mall service here. It is a gen eral average of nearly 92 miles nn hour. The names of 41 flyers who have given more than 100 hours’ service to uir m: .1 are contained in a report from Beil, with the veteran E. Ham ilton Lee, Uazelhurst headquarters, leading in number of hours. His to tal May 81 was 2,387 hours and 30 minntes for a distance of 201,205 miles. He was appointed to the air mall in Dpi ember, 1918, and at pres ent has the “run” between Long Is land and Cleveland. To Pilot Will lain C, Hopson, Omalia headquarter.'.. • <-nt the honor, how ever, of having flown liis plane the grentest distance. In 2,230 hours and! 7 minutes service lie covered 221,8701 miles. He now follows the air path! between Chicago and Omaha. Hop- son Is a Hill city. Kan., product, who entered the air mail service In April* 1920, after a long record In Civilian: and army flying. Only a few hours separated Lee and James H. Knight for fiyst place. The pilot who bus made enviable records In night flying and staged his mem orable race with des^th had given 2,311 hours and 58 minutes to the service when the compilation was made, in t which time he had traveled 211,095 miles. Knight is another Kansns man, born In Lincoln,t who first entered the air mall service in June, 1919. He resigned Muy 20, 1920, and was reap pointed In October, 1920. His Is tlio Omalia-Cheyenne route. * Ot\?rs who have served more than 2,000 hours, nnmed according to rank in hours, are .Tames P. Murray, head quarters Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Omuliu. run; William C. Hopson, Frank B. Yager, headquarters Cheyenne, Chey- enne-Omaha run; Warren D. Williams, headquarters Cleveland, Chlcggo- Clevelnnd run; Edison E. Mouton, headquarters Iteno, Beno-Elko run; Wesley L. Smith, headquarters Hazel- hurst, Hazelliurst-Cleveland run; L. II. Garrison, headquarters Omaha, Ohl- cago-Omaha run, and Harry G. Smith, j headquarters Omaha, Cheyenne-Omnha run. and “Ole Bossy . y ‘Ole Dobbin We Handle the Best feeds THat Can Be Had at a\Moderate Price. Derrick & Bearden Clayton, Ga. Ignatius T. Trebltseh-LIncoln, prob ably the most amazing International character brought to public attention durhig the war and nfter, lias nguln appeared, this time in connection with the Italian imbrogollo surrounding the murder of Giacomo Matteottl. Dis patches from the Italiun capital tell of the Identification of "Otto Chlrzel,” one of those under arrest for the slay ing, as Lincoln, Hungarian Jew anil Anglican curate, British M. P. and German spy, and likewise one-time tenant of the Raymond street jnll In Brooklyn. Lincoln’s career takes In episodes from all over the world. It Is said lie once wrote letters which caused distraction among the police heads of Brooklyn’s force. Only Woman Colonel in the United States Thirtieth Infantry Ranks High in Marksmanship San Francisco, Cal.—The Thirtieth Infantry, stationed here, Is establishing the reputation of being the best regi ment of marksmen in the army, it Is said at Western division headquarters. Becently 40 men of the regiment went to the rifle range nt Fort Barry with automatic rifles. The qualifica tion of “expert rifleman,” the highest grade awarded for marksmunshlp, was given to 44 and the other two won the rank of “sharpshooter,” the next highest grade. The automatic rifle, a light, air cooled machine gun, is carried nnd fired like an ordinary rifle and re quires expert handling. Out of 90 automatic gunners of the regiment 85 have qualified as expert riflemen this year and the other 5 rank ns sharpshooters. A $10,000 Soupbone . Muskegon, Mich.—A $10,000 soup- bone threatened to be an Issue In cir cuit court here. Mrs. Mary Kurzdiel, through her attorneys, has filed stilt for that amount against the city ot Muskegon Heights, alleging that the officers arrested her and took a pack age containing the soupbone from her, believing It to be liquor and that she was released when the officers-disco v- ,ered their mistake. j Miss Annie Poagne of Ashland, Ky. t Is the only woman who lias ever been mnde a Kentucky colonel. She was n member of the staff of Governor Black yenrs ago- and because of her early efforts In behulf of suffrage she was awarded the Blue Grass emblem. Plant Parasites Strip Leaves From Sycamores Washington.—Sycamores in Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, W’est Virginia and Arkansas are being com pletely stripped of leaves by a heavy infection of sycamore blight, a fungus disease known as gnomonia veneta, according to reports received by the U. S. Department of Agriculture here. In Ohio the same plant parasite which Is damaging the sycamore has ulso attacked the white oaks. Many val uable trees will be severely damaged If not completely killed by the epi demic. The cool, wet spring is thought to have favored the growth and spread of thin sycamore blight. ' All Girle “Nice” Edward Wander of London was gt\ en a small fine recently for telling girl customer In his sh i that sh was nice. Wander protested that h wo* not flirting, bnt called aU girl a* a general business policy.