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Sweet Potato Is Size of Watermelon S. A. Lawton (right), county agent, U. S. Department of Agriculture, and D.

B. Hudson of Jacksonville, weighing a 23Vfe pound sweet potato, said to be the largest in the department's history. The potato, which shrunk considerably in size since it was dug, is 16 inches around the belt and 31 inches long. Supreme Court Now Big Attraction in Capital Visitors' Interest Aroused by Talk of Changes. Washington, O.

of possible changes in the number of members of the Supreme court has led more visitors than usual to observe the court in action in its palatial Supreme Court building in Washington. "This Greek temple to modern Justice stands at the quaint address of No. 1, First Street, N. obviously close to the heart of the says the National Geographic society, "It is'just next original Constitution, on ami i "The white marble exterior of the' court building, in its green-and-asphalt setting on Capitol hill, has a startling pearly luster, almost as if illumined from within. Even the tile roof is white; from a distance it "ISOLATES" LEPROSY' Dr.

Earl B. McKinley, one of the world's foremost experts on leprosy, who has announced "isolation" of the true germ of leprosy. The doctor, dean of medicine at George Washington university, is in the Philippines for four, months' research work, in the Culion island leper colony, residence of 6,000 lepers. has the milky smoothness of white cake icing. Because of the dazzling reflection of lighi, guards on duty outside in the summer wear colored glasses.

"Closer inspection gives the impression of less confectionery and more of solid geometry, although the bronze flagpole bases are tiered and cupid-covered like a wedding cake. The structure has a chaste design of massy cubes, giar.t triangles, and towering columns. Bronze Entrance Doors. "A monumental stairway of marble ascends from the marble plaza, with its fountains and flagpoles, to the entrance, where eight pairs of twin Corinthian columns support the sculptured triangle of pediment. entrance doors, shaded by marble columns, are a ton and a bnU of bronze apiece; yet they roll docilely back into the waP at the touch of a guard's hand.

"The portals open on Memorial where an avenue of marble columns leads up to the closed double doors of the courtroom. Even on Mondays, 'Decision when Judicial opinions attract an average of 1,400 visitors instead of the usual 700, the spacious hall is not crowded. This larger attendance becomes only a longer queue of little people beside lofty columns waiting to get in. "For admission to the courtroom, no ticket is required of the visitor; on the contrary, he is given a 'tick- ef while waiting in Memorial hall index-card size diagram of the ing arrangements The of -wiftfni cfowd tance 'Of the words italicized is Re' When ihe doors of the courtroom swing noiselessly open to admit the visitor, under a uniformed guard's close scrutiny, he finds himself in a twilight space behind heavy red velvet He is seated, with 200 other spectators, between the curtains and the 'bar' which shuts off a front seating space for about 75 lawyers. "As hands of the two clocks, suspended from panels frqnt and back, seem on the verge of clasping at twelve, the four page boys busy with turning the chairs a little Curtains billow with hidden activity.

At noon a faint buzzei sounds. The audience comes to its' feet. Led by Chief Justice Hughes, the justices emerge through openings in the curtains and stand behind the bench. "A gavel raps, sharply. 'Oyezf the crier is intoning in syllables of medieval dignity.

'The Honorable, the Chief Justice and the Associate Justices of the Su- North Carolina $4 Bill, Printed in 1778, New Bern. $4 bill, prim ed in 1778, by the North Carolin; state printer, ia on exhibition here The bill was printed in New Bern by James Davis. It was made of rag paper, three inches long and two and a half inches wide. The currency was purchased a few weeks ago by Frank M. Girton.

On one side of the bill is printed: "Four dollars. North Carolina currency No. 6317. This bill entitles the bearer to receive four Spanish mill'd dollars or the equivalent thereof in gold or silver, agreeable to act of Assembly, passed at Hillsborough the 8th day of August, 1778. "A lesson to arbitrary kings and wicked ministers.

Cogden. Colbe. "Death to counterfeit." On the other side was printed: "Four dollars. Printed by J. Davis 1778." YOUNGEST WAR VET Melvin Garrison, thirty-three, ot Springfield, Ohio, who is said to be the youngest World war veteran in the United States.

At the age oi thirteen, he ran away from the Ohio Masonic home and enlisted in the United States army. At fourteen he was corporal of a machine' gun squad at the front. He was wounded four this behind the chairs seat tihV justices. The supreme tribunal is now in session. "Visitors need not listen, but they must not read, write, nor photograph.

"For all its stately dimensions of 64 feet square, the courtroom is small enough to be intimate. "As attorney after attorney places his notes on a desk before the bench and presents his case in muted oratory, the justices listen with bowed heads, or closed eyes, or chins in hand. In the background, the four page boys, on their low-backed seats, play their own little private back-stage drama in discreet whispers, crouched behind the. nine august black chairs. "Bang! The gavel announces that it is two o'clock, and time for the half-hour As the pages man the openings in the curtains, the justices file out without a word, and the visitor is free to join the crowd in the public lunchroom downstairs or to examine more of the building." "Once in Forty Million Births" It could happen only "once in 40,000,000 births" was the verdict ol Detroit physicians commenting on the twin personalities of the Pauline Taylors, No.

1 and 2 shown above. Although not related the girls have the same name, were born on the same day, Sept. 20, 1920. Pauline Taylor No. 1 was born at St.

Ignace, No. 2 at St. Catherine, Ont. They attended an intermediate school in Detroit thret years ago. JITew Little miles QUITE SENSITIVE The other day I heard of one 01 these baby autos speeding 50 miles an hour on one of our main highways.

And every 50 feet the little trinket would hop right up in the air about five feet. A motor cop finally overtook the midget motor and brought it to a stop. "What's the big idea of that car Jumpin' that a-way?" asked the cop. The driver answered: "Why, officer, there's nothing wrong with the car. You see, got Province.

Attnospliere "Take this down," ordered the writer of word thrillers. "One-eyed Jake tip-toed stealthily across the shop floor and paused. Resting one hand on the counter, he listened intently. All was still as death; you could have heard a cough-drop." "Is this a funny story?" asked the secretary. "You mean heard a 'pin don't you?" "Write 'cough-drop' and don't argue," said the author, "this burglary is in a drug store." ACCOMMODATING "You say Harry proposed to you last evening?" "Yes, and I accepted him," "Oh, my! I proposed to Jbim today and he accepted me." He stood regarding the badly motor.

well," he said, ''turn about is fair play." yovOmean by that?" asked the other man who had stopped to look on. "Why," exclaimed the motor car's owner, "it broke me Gloucester, England, Journal. Not a Hoot The horn on your car must be broken. Mr. No, it's.

just indifferent. Indifferent! What do you mean? Mr. X. It just doesn't give a hoot. Annapolis Log.

Cure Voice Over can't sleep, Doctor. Can you do anything for me? the phone and I'll sing you a Press. HIGHBROWS First very fond of Dickens! Second find encyclopedias to my taste! Just Because A young man took his grandmother to the pictures. After ten minutes the old lady wanted to go out. "The seat's so uncomfortable," she complained.

"No wonder," he exclaimed. "You haven't turned it down." Back Again "At twenty you left the farm and came to the city. And for 25 years you've been working very hard. What for?" "To get money to live in the country." No Return "What did she do when he broke off their engagement?" "Oh; she just flung her engagement ring on to her right hand and stalked out." "Quotations" For all the cruelty and etupidity in the world today, man has not done so badly in go brief a Henry Morgenthnu. There can be no permanence for a nation people have only selfish interest in its John J.

Perilling. The people today no longer get their excitement from reading get it from machines going John Minefield. It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is tha formula of human Theodora Parker. The old-fashioned boyhood ideals are what will keep this country Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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