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|jOME EDITION VOLUME XIX. No. 179. VJorld Armaments on the Verge of a Revolution-Invention For Exploding Mines at a Distance Rome.—The nervousness with which Marine Minister Mi Ho replied the other day to an interpellation of a deputy on what has been done in order to reserve to Italy the exclusive use on Engineer Guilo Ulici’s invention for exploding mines and projectiles at a distance, han been interpreted here tochiy as a sure sign that world armaments are on th* verge of a revolution as great as that brought about by the invention of gun* powder. Since the day when at Florence in the presence of a committee of admirals and experts Ulivi succeeded in exploding one by one four mines p aoed in the Kiver Arno from a distance of four miles, the general staffs of the army and navy have been a number of secret sitting to consider the purchase of this invention and also to discuss with experts what change must be made in the chemical composition of the shells in evder to be safe from the effects of such an inven tion as this in the hands of a rival I*o wer. State Secret. As the government now considers Uli vi’s invention a state secret tile press lias ceased all commits and descriptions of the invention w’hile Ulivi has suddenly disappeared. Today another startling piece of news comes from Syracuse. A young elec trical engineer. Salvatore Spadoni, beside claiming priority of invention oven* Udvi, expresses willingness to test before gov ernment experts another invention, des tined further to embarrass the govern ment’s selection of new armaments. Spadoni in fact claimed that a motor boat fitted with hts apparatus is more powerful than the most up-to-date dread Mid-Season is Upon Us at Last—One- Third of Playing Days of Two Big Leagues Are Used Up New York—-Mid-season is upon us at last. One-third of the playing days of the two hig league races were used up when night fell Friday and yester day the second stretch of the campaign is at hand, figuring on a division into throe equal parts—start, mid-season and finish. Altogether the Major League seas on this year, which began on April 14 and will wind up on October 7, covers a stretch of 176 days. One third of that total is 59 days. The fifty-ninth ray of the season was yesterday and the second segment of the same length "ill wind up on August 10, when the home stretch segment wdll have ar rived Mid-Season. It is in mid-season that the major ity of pennants are won or lost. A review of the big league races for ten years back shows that the pennant winning > elub in nearly every instance gleaned its highest percentage of vic tories during the central portion of the strife. Figuring it conversely the club that had the highest percentage during the middle third of the race won the Hag. Thus, if the usual occurs, we may expect to view practically all the teams at their true speed within the next five weeks or so. There is a sound phychological reason why the team that does the best work just now- should be the winner. Playing good ball at this time regard less. of whether the team’s start was good or bad. gives its members confi dence that will help also in the final run down to the wire. If the team had left the past at a good clip and simply !:ept up this Pace during the midway, It would be proving to itself that after all the galloping beginning was no fluke and that it really had the goods to excel the others, which it would continue to do In many cases. On the ether hand, if it had got away to a poor start and found itself bracing up end playing good hall in mid-season the players would figure simply that they had outclassed the field all the time, that the breaks had been going Mister Mathewson Dilates on the Hazar dous Profession of Baseball-i.e. the Guy Who Writes for Christy Says So New York.—Tlie ball player, in pur euiriß Ills ••hazardous" occupation, often risks his 01, slaved young life, according to one of the articles that hear Christy Muthewaon'a name aa author, but which Christy doesn't write and probably doee n't aee until he orbs them on the news papers that print ’em. Mister Mathewson, (or, rather, the guy who writes the Mathewson articles) as serls with vehemenence that a ball player gambles witli fate every time he ambles to the plate. lie asserts that the player takes his life right in his hands—and his feet, too—when he slides for a base. Also the player runs tlte risk of having Ills skill! busted when he attempts to field a fly ball, for who knows but some day that ball will slip right through his hands, kerplunk on his coco, and then— "another- little job for the undertaker; 'nothcr little job for the casket maker.” Well, what of it, Mister Mathewson? Why do you try to hold up the ball play er as the poorest possible risk for an ac cident insurance company? Is a ban p'ayer's life In any greater danger than that of a structural iron worker, steeple Jack or a husband who goes home on Saturday night with a shortage in the pey envelope? How about the chances a guy has to take when he's caught red-handed by the boa* while he’s in the act of ex pressing his true opinion of the bOBS to the rest of the office force? How about the chances King George and Premies Asquith must take since Emmy Pank hurst got out of jail? How about the umpires General Huerta and Frank Mo ran, the Pittsburg White hope" as poos Insurance risks? It Is to laugli when this Mathewson article attempts to out that base ball is a really dangerous occupation. The percent gc of deaths through acci dents in baseball Is only one person kilt ed for every 1.00T.000 persons playing the game and the ratio of serious In juries in baseball Is so small that IPs hardly discernible even under a mlcro sc oj e Harry Stone, a former Nsw York newsboy, is an example of how a fellow ■an mine gold in Australia with a pair of boxing gloves. About n >g,r ago Stone used to figure occasionally In preliminaries In and aroiutd New York, g’idly accepting IS, *11! cr 1.5 for taking a heating. Stone, •veil «« a prelim fighter dtn't stacs up very high hereabouts. And then he THE AUGUSTA HERALD naught armed with a score ot' fourteen inch guns or any number of guns. Speaking to a newspaper correspond ent. Spadoni, a quiet, unassuming young man who for tlie last five years has spent twenty-four hours a day in his laboratory, said that only the lack of means has hitherto prevented him from experimenting on a larger scale and bringing the public attention to his in- } vention, which he has named “Exterml- j nator” on account of the terrible effects ' obtained with a small model. Magnetic Waves. “Utilization of magnetic waves and their transformation Into •leciric ray#," i Spadoni said, “present endless possibi lities. Besides infiared rays," which Ulivi has utilized for explosion of mines at a .distance, “there are utuer rays whose effects are more destructive. My in- | vention can be easily carried by either «ieroplaii£ or motorboat and can be used also‘as a redicgraphic transmititing and receiving station.” “L cannot say much, but will shortly prov-e to the world that regardless of their contents bomb and mines can be exploded from any distance, range of ac tion depending entirely on the relative potentiality ot the apparatus, that ele- , mentary matals can be melted and anl- i mal life destroyed. “So far, not one per cent of the vast I possibilities of electricity has been utilized and the future has tremendous! things in store for us. The field is so I vast that fifty Marconis could not ex- i ploit it. As for me, I claim no original- j ity, the only merit of my invention being the opening of one of the hundreds of« dors which still shut from us the ulti mate secrets of nature and science.’* against them in the early days but that at last Dame Fortune had shifted and was giving them a square deal. In either case the general frame of mind would be about the same. Bolted Furiously. On the other hand take the case of a team that had bolted furiously at the beginning and then played hardly in ttie middle of the race. The players would get the Idea, subconsciously at least, that their pace in the front part of of the battle was more or less of a lucky fluke and they could not deliver as they should Then take the team that started poorly and kept on doing Poor work in the middle section This team would be "down in the mouth” and anyway would be so far out of it in matter of games won and lost that no sort of hurricane finish could avail it anything. Another factor that figures promi nently- in this mid-season business is the weather. The "hot weather team” is generally the one that lands up on fop. Few successful teams in the his tory of the game have been the sort bothered by extreme heat. It is the team that can stand up day in and day out through the terrible strain of a midsummer sun beating down on the field that wins the games during this stretch. And a team to do that must have machine morals, courage, for bearance and untiring energy. It is such a quality that has enabled John McGraw’a Giants to land three straight pennants. He makes his men work like Trojans on every play battle as if their lives depended on each little thing they did. He makes them keep that up, trying constantly no matter how hot the sun may bake them. Thus he is always getting 100 per cent of the value of his men out of them. Th"t also is the reason why they probably will win a fourth straight flag this year. Connie Mack makes his Ath letics toil in the same way. So make a note of this} —watch for the standing of the clubs on August 10, figure which have done the best work between now and that date, and see if those felloes do not capture the hunting. disappeared to be heard of again just aa he was about to sal! from Australia for England where he lias some big purse matches In prospect. Stone went to Australia direct from New York and landed there wltti hardly enough money to buy the next morning s meal. And now lie’s got $12,000 stowed away In his jeans He harpooned a job doing prelims down in Kangaroo hand and he who wasn’t looked upon as even a fifth rater In New York made a big hit with the pro moters and the fight hungry fans. He Jumped from the prelims to a star bout man and lie made good. The Austra lians now siy he's the beat middleweight that has come to the fore In the past 10 years. Jess Willard, a former cow puncher who has been essaying the roll of man puncher for a year or two, yearns to meet Jack Johnson. 1-Yank Moran or Gunboat Smith. Willard, who Is six feet six Inches removed from Mother Earth, and who totes around 240 pounds, thinks ne can win from 'em all and prove to the public what he has long believed that he’s the best heavyweight in the world. Recalling how Willard conducted him self In his bout with Carl Morris In New York last December we quite ugree with Wjllard in Ills contention that tie's the greatest heavyweight—the weight being mostly in his feet. IF IT’S SUNG BEFORE CROWN PRINCE, ITS 0. K. Berlin. -Hongs that have pleased the Crown Prince and his family can not be Indecent At least, this appears to be the rule of law from the conduct of the state's attorney in an action against a Berlin music publisher. The action began with the confiscation of fifteen songs. The prosecutor contend ed that each of these was Indecent and a violation of the law concerning ob scene publications. The defendant's attorney set up that ten of the songs had been sung at a special performance in the palace be fore the Crown Prince and other mem bers of the Imperlul family by a caba ret pkefortner. These ten were thre upnn released but the court upheld the confiscation of the other five., THE ONE PAPER IN MOST HOMES—THE ONLY PAPER IN MANY HOMES. AUGUSTA. GEORGIA. SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 28, 1914. housefurnishing Club Plan Enables you to buy Furniture, Carpets. Rugs, Mattings, Window Shades. Lace Curtains, Por tieres, Draperies, ere, at cash prices, and can be paid for in small monthly payments. A nominal fee is charged for carrying, but is of:- set by the Purple Stamps which are given at each payment. Two Days Jire Left to Take Mvantage of the Wonderful ductions is Furniture \ Reductions From /0% to 33 h 3 Per Cent. Better and better are the values we are giving. 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