f
FOOTBALL ANCIENT SPORT.
PERFUMES FOR THE NOBILITY.
I tie attention then as now, for in 1491
¥as beeu made in each particular case, be-
eame to do so controverts th»- fundainen
i we tind another act In which “fute-
tai principle of saving the public lauda for
Ambassador Whitelaw Reid Engages
I balle and golfe" were roasted to a
the home maker. Each locality ahould be
Services of Lari s bon.
severe
dealt with ou its own merit». Even if it
NOT
THE
FIRST
!
turn
and
prohibited
under
G0VERNMENT
CONSTRUCTORS At one time Lady Curzon had the
should ultimately appear that this law baa ROOSEVELT’S
*
rn.no
1 ♦ Liu
penalties.
worked beneficially In Nebraska it would
ROYAL EDICT TO PREVENT
HEAT FRICATE CONCERN
Tlie unregenerate of Scotland were
reputation of spending more money
by n« means follow that such a law might
ROUGH PLA YING.
much given to playing football on
be safely applied to other regions different
IN SHIPBUILDING.
ou perfumes thuu any other woman
1a topography, soli, and climate. No arbi
Sunday.
At
first
it
interfered
with
in England. It was said that she was
trary rule »hould be followed, but In each
the
practice
of
archery
on
the
Sev-
wore extravagant in this respect than
ease the area of the homestead should be
determined by the acreage which may be English and Scottish Kings Have | ^utij |>ay, and later, when the Sab- The Connecticut Ahead of Sliter Ship Queen Alexandra whose perfume bills
necessary to support a family upon the
Debarred Game. Has Always Been batarlan
movement had acquired Louisiana—Cost However Greater- I amounted to something like $5.000 »
land, either by agriculture, or by grazing If
Roughest of Sports for five Hun- prominence, it kept people away from I first War Ship Ever Built by the
agriculture Is Impracticable. Until such
1 year. Now, the story goes, the Duch
Government.
dred Years Shin Kicking Approved. church.so in 1501 we find tne town
•create is determined for each locality,
ess of Roxburgh has becomo the
•ny new general law providing a method
council
of
Edinburgh
strictly
forbid
There
Is
great
rivalry
between
the
most extravagant purchaser of per
of obtaining title to the public lands
President Roosevelt’s attempt to
would. In the opinion of your Commission, bring about a revision In the rules of ding the playing of matches on the United States Navy Yard at Brooklyn fumery in the land. She patronizes
be decidedly unsafe.
Sabbath.
and a private shipbuilding concern at the heavy-scented essences of tlie
the
gridiron
sport
that
it
may
be
Lieu Land«*.
Not only was the game Itself Newport News, over the construction
Careful study has iteen given by your played with less risk to the lives and rough, but ft attracted great con of the two naval war leviathans, Con East which are known to lie most ex
Commission to the subject of forest-reserve limbs of the contestants is after all
pensive. The cost of her dally bath
lieu-la ml selections. These selections have but a revival of the caustic com courses of people who were willing necticut ami Louisiana. The Govern would, it is said, keep n middle-class
fjven rise to great scandal, and have led
at all times to jump in with clubs ment is building the Connecticut, and family for a week.
ments
of
at
least
two
English
sov-
Lady Curzon
o the acquisition by speculators of much
the shipbuilding company is rushing
valuable timber ami agricultural land and iiTeigns who beat the President on and other weapons and resent un
used these same essences at one time,
poor decisions.
For toward completion the Louisiana. but
Its consolidation into large holdings. Fur the revision business by several hun- fairness or
she
found
them
so
expensive
that
The figures given out but a short time
thermore, th«.« money loss to the Govern
Footlmll Is one of the some reason Shrove Tuesday was the ago by the Navy Department show she decided to try cheaper extracts.
ment and the people from the selection I dred years.
great
date
for
annual
contests,
cor-
of . ajsiable lands In lieu of worthless areas oldest of all the English pastimes, and
gone in
has
very great. There has been it is even believed that the Greeks responding to what Thanksgiving Day that the Connecticut Is 91.30 l>er cent Queen Alexandra, too. has
completed, while her sister ship shows for retrenchment in the same direc-
no commensurate return in the way of I
this
used
to
be
in
this
country.
On
Increased settlement and business activ and Romans had a similar game.
a percentage of completion of 89.25. tion. and she is now satisfied with
ity. Public opinion concerning lleu-laml Ever since it first made its appear day the crowds swarmed out to the A comparison shows then that the the favorite scent of the late Queen
selections, by railroads in particular, ba4 ance It has been characterized by ex greens and, from the descriptions we
Government-built boat has a slight Victoria, which was a species of lav
reached an acute stage. Tne situation Is
have, their conduct before and after lead,
1» nrgent NM of a remedy, ami your Coin treme roughneSb and has been the
which is all the more gratifying ender water specially prepnreil for
mission recommends the repeal of the laws subject of denunciations on the part I the games would tfave made the wild to the champions of Government con
her by a chemist at Windsor. Tlie
'
nights
a
few
years
ago
In
the
New
providing for lieu-land selections.
A partial remedy by Executive notion of those who cared more for their York Tenderloin after a big game in traction when it is considered that Princess of Wales is also extravagant
own
safety
and
that
of
the
players
has already been applied by carefully lo
this is the first battleship ever built in the use of scents and uses a spe
that city look like a Sunday School in
cating the boundaries of new forest re than for the final score.
the United States by any other i cial preparation made from violets
serves, ami thus limiting lieu-land selec
picnic.
As
early
as
1314
football
had
be
than
private constructors and that it
tions to comparatively Insignificant areas.
other carefully cultivated flowers.
Was a Reign of Terror.
was predicted that the Government I and
The last aniimil message to Congress de come so popular in London as a street
clares definitely that—
They marched around with much could not compete with private build It is strange that Lady Suffolk, for
game and attracted so many disord
Nevertheless the Government merly Miss Leiter of Washington, dis
T//c making of forest reserves within railroad erly spectators that the staid old mer shouting and cheering, chasing the ers.
likes scents, considering her sister's
and wagon-road Jand-grant limits will here chants entered a vigorous protest efty watchmen up and down alleys ship will cost the more.
after , as for the fast three years, be so managed King Edward II was on the throne and beating them right merrily. Pass
By act of Congress approved July passion for them.
as to prevent the issue, under the act of June 4. then and wasted no time dining the
Even royalty finds it necessary to
of base for exchange or lieu selection {us football coaches or arguing about
yield obedience to tlie doctor's orders.
ually called trip} In all cases where forest re the matter.
The flat has gone forth that Queen
He issued a proclama
serves within areas covered by land grants ap tion in which he said:
Alexandra must eat no more sweet
pear to be essential to the prosperity of settlers,
things. In consequence, a well-known
“Forasmuch as there is great noise
miners or others, the Government lands within
firm of London pastry cooks, who
in the city caused by hustling, over
4«* ' Wî
such proposed forest reserves will, as tn the
have for many years supplied her
»
recent fast, be withdrawn from sale or entry large balls from which many
majesty with confectionery and other
pending the completion of such negotiations with might arise, which God forbid,
tempting delicacies, have had their
the owners of the landgrants as will prevent the command and forbid on the half
the
King,
on
pain
of
Imprisonment,
order
cancelled. For tlieir loss of
treat ion of so-called serif.
There are now lands In private ownership
within existing forest reserves, ami simi
lar lauds must to a limited extent be In
cluded in new reserves. Therefore, a iu*t
thod la required by which the Government
may obtain control of nonagrlcultural
holdings within the boundaries of thes<> re
serves. Your Commission recommends the
following flexible plan : U jhju the recoin
mendatlon of the S»<rpt«ry of Agriculture,
when the public Interest so demands, the
RIVAL NAVAL BUILDERS.
A Tension
Indicator
o
too#
IS JUST
WHAT
THE
-A—’
zU WORD
IMPLIES.
L5
77 û H£
A.
It
indicates
the state
of the tension at a glance.
Its use means time saving
and easier sewing.
It’s our own invention
and is found only on the
olS
W hite
Sewing Machine.
We have other striking
improvements that appeal to
the careful buyer. Send for
our elegant H. T. catalog.
W hite S ewing M achine C o .
Cleveland, Ohio.
trade the are consoled by tlie fact
that, they are still allowed to display
tlie royal coat-of-arms, which indi
cates that tliey are under royal pat
ronage. The Queen has long been in
ordinately fond of sweets nml con
fections and has recklessly Indulged
Pin«, Fir, Cyprew and Yellow Pine.
her appetite for them. That bus pro
Write for Catalogne.
duced an accumulation of superfluous
adipose tissue which even tlie most Eagle Tank Co., 281 N. Green 8t,
expert of dressmakers are unable to
Chicago, Ill.
conceal, She is no longer slim and
willowy. though English newspapers
such games to be used in the city in
the future.”
This terse and ominous declaration
for'stalled by more .. ti five hundred
years the American legislators who
have come to the front in the past de
cade with bills to make football il
legal In their States.
The sport may be rough and un-
silos
THE CONNECTICUT NEW REA FIGHTER BEING BUILT BY GOVERNMENT.
1. 1902, authority was granted for the
PIANOS AND ORGANS
construction of two battleships after
STANDARD OF THE WORLD
ward named the Connecticut and
Louisiana, each 450 feet long. 70 1-8
feet wide, witli a draft of 24 feet 6
Inches. A short time after tills action
of Congress, tile Navy Department de
cided to have one of the battleships
constructed by private parties, the
Over one Million Dollars
Government endeavoring to build the
other.
allowed our clients during the last
Government Go Bad Start Too.
six years.
The contract for the Louisiana was
Over one Thousand
let to tlie Newport News Shipbuilding
claimsallowed through us dur
and Dry Dock Company who laid the
ing the last six months. Dis
keel for that vessel on February 7.
ability, Age and In
1903,
while
the
Government
was
de
ONE ENTRY IN THE DEEP OREGON FOREST.
layed in the construction of its vessel
crease pensions obtained
Here the enti7111*111 «won» that the- claim was in ««tly valuable for agriculture. Forest ho
so much that the keel was not laid
tleuse that uainera showed only « black mass of true growth.
in the shortest possible time.
down until March 10 of the same
Secretary of the Interior should be nn
ladylike nowadays, but what it was
Widows’ claims a specialty.
tiiorixcd, In Ills (llscretl<*u, to accept th«« In Edward’s time, when the favorite
year. Tine Government was further
teliiH|iilshincnt to the United States of any
delayed in building the Connecticut
Usually granted within 90
diversions of the apprentices and other
tract of I hiii I within a forefit reserve cov
owing to non arrival of necessary ma
days if placed with us immedi
•ml by an unpvrftfvtt’d boon tide claim youngsters were street tights in which
chinery and armor plate, yet with all
lawfully inl(hii<«<l or by a patent, ami to
ately
on soldier’s death. Fees
fmit to the owner In lieu thcr<*of a tract anything from an axe to a kick in the
of these drawbacks tlie latest figures
stomach was allowed may be better
ef mnipproprlsteii, vacant, surveyed, non
fixed by law and payable out of
published by the Navy Department
LADY CURZON.
mineral public lain] In tin* name State or imagined than described. The broken
.«how the Government-built tlnat continue so to describe her. Her medi allowed pension.
A successful
Territory nml of approximately equal area
and value as determined by an examina collarbones and strained tendons with
farther advanced -oward completion cal attendant has told her that her experience of 25 years and benefit
tion, report, ami specific description by which we are familiar as a result of
than that being erected by a private
public surveys of Doth tracts to be made scrimmages must have been mere pin
concern. The Louisiana was the first only hope of regaining something like of daily calls at Pension Bureau
ou the ground by officials of the Govern
scratches
compared
with
casualties
to receive its christening, having been her youthful contour of figure lies in are at your service. Highest ref
ment. When exchange under these condi
tions cannot I m « affected, lands privately attending a buck on center by the
launched August 27. 1904; the Con the practice of rigid self-denial with erences furnished. Local Magis-
lag-
owed within forest reserves should be paid Mediaeval “backs.”
necticut did not take to the waves respect to the dainties she enjoys trates pecuniarily
to rln cases where the public Interest re
ily
most.
The
Princess
of
Wales
has
also
Another
English
sovereign
until
September
29
of
the
same
year.
quires that such lands should pnss into
public ownership. The Secretary of the In
The Brooklyn Navy Yard, where the received a bint from a high medical benefited by sending us
terior should I m » authorized to take the nec
Connecticut is being built is now em authority that she will some day be- claims.
essary priM’vefllngs in* rapidly as the neces
ploying over 1,000 men on the battle come a second edition of her motlier,
sary funds are provided.
ship and it is stated that there is the Duchess of Teck, who was enor-
TABER & WHITMAN CO.,
I Imher and Stone
The recf*uiniemliitIons minle
still room for 200 more workmen. niously fat, unless she practices fru
peal of the timber ami atone
Warder
Bld’g, Washington, D. C
With the rapid progress now being gality in the line of confections.
previous reports are renewed
made on the vessels it is estimated
sited. Addit Iona I facts allowing the de
The
Duchess
of
Arcos,
formerly
structive effect *»f this law have strengtli-
that tliey will be ready to go into
Miss Virginia Lowry of Washington,
envd the belief of your Cointnlsaion that on
commission by Junie of next year.
the whole Its operation is derldeilly harm
wife of the new Spanish ambassador
ful. This law has been mad»« the vehicle
Most Formidable of War Ships, to Italy, arrived in ~
Rome recently
tor Iniiuiueritble frauds, ami the Govern
ment has lost ami is still losing yearly vast
Those battleships when completed from St. Petersburg, the former post
sums of money through th»« sale of val
will be among the most formidable of her husband. On opening her
able timber lands to speculators, and nem
war vessels of the world: the main trunk it was discovered that it had
Indirectly to large corporations, al a prh
fur below their actual value. From tt
battery on each “-ill consist of lour been robbed in transit of Jewels val
of the act, June 3, 1M78, to June
12-inch, eight 8-ineh and twelve 7- ued at about $4,000. It is supposed
fo. „
11HM. .
_
< hilms for 7.5IWJ»7S acres
Inch rifles; the secondary battery will that the robbery took place lietween
•f timi»cr laml were patented under Its
have twenty 3-inch rapid fire guns, Turin aud Rome.
provisions, ami on last date 7,<»14 claims
Accident Proof
van Calva.
for i,jo8,3NO acres were pemling. Many
twelve 3-pounders. eight l-pounders
transfers of laml patented umler this law
and a number of rapid fire guns of
Queer Odor of Mummies.
are nuiflr Imineillately upon completion of
smaller calibre. There will also lie
title, often on the same day, to Imlh idurls
You may put a mummy in a glass IE YOU WANT A JACK
and companies. In this way a monopoly of
four submerged torjHslo tubes Tile
the timber supplies of» th»« publl* land
ships will have ample protection by case and seal it hermetically so that
Send for our Jack Catalogue. Sure to coo
States is being creutv»! by systematic col
heavy armor ranging in thickness no corroding air can get within, but tain the description of exactly what you VfC-i
lusion. lluder th»« »•listing rules and prac
It
will
still
exhale
its
odor.
Four
or
from nine to eleven inches. The con five thousand years, it would seem, Hydraulic Jacks our Specialty
tices of the courts It is difficult to prove
this collusion, except In cases of open
tract calls for vessels of 16.000 tons
exhaust all olfactory qualities,
fraud aud It Is therefore practically Im
Watson-Stillman Co.,
displacement, with a steaming capaci should
possible to s«*vure coiivletion. Furthermore,
experience teaches us that these
4(3 Dey St., N. Y. City.
ty. at 10 knots per hour, of 5.000 miles but
under bona ml»* compliance with tne actual
smells
remain
while
the
origin
of
their
without reeoallng. They are exps-ct- scents is unknown to us They are
provisions of th»« law the effect Is almost
AN ANCIENT FOOTBALL GAME IN THE STREETS OF LONDON.
equally bud The law Itself Is seriously de
ed, however, to make 18 knots per today as much a mystery to embalm
tective.
took a hand in the game because of
hour at the official trial. Each ship ers as when the bodies were put in
It lias been urged In behalf of this net
will be manned by 855 officers and the bath of nature.
An Early Print.
that It enables poor uieu to enjoy th«* the injuries with wulch it was at
bounty «*f the Government by obtaining tended was King James I.
lie was
men. The contract price of the Lou
We have published some good ones spec
The finding of a human footprint, isiana
tracts <*f timber which they can afterwards a patron of sport and believed in bls
$3.910.000 while the Connect
The hen’s eggs produced in this ially suited for farmers. Books that will help
sell with advantage.
A careful study
said to be 10,000 years old, in a Penn icut Is is expected
to cost $4,212,000. country last year would fill 43.127.000 • very farmer to make more out of his farm
seems to show, ou the contrary, that tlie progeny getting plenty of excitement, sylvania colliery has led to the report
original entry men rarely realize more than but he balked nt football, It was too
crates of 300 eggs each. It would re Write for our catalogue.
erulnary wages for the time soent in mak much trouble to raise an lielr to that a record in antiquity has been es
quire 1O7.R18 refrigerator cars to trans
tablished. But this is a thing of yes-
ing tlie entry and completing the transfer.
Chestnuts
are
a
very
similar
food
to
WEBB PUBLISHING CO.,
The corporations which ultimately secure have him twisted Into a pretzel Just teiday,
geologically speaking. The potatoes. The chestnut, however, is port this crop, and these cars would
title usually absorb by far the greater part about the time he might lie useful In day will come, the ethnologists say,
make
a
train
900
miles
long.
St. Paul Minn.
the
more
nutritious
of
the
two.
The
**f th»« profit.
In addition to the direct loss to the holding down tlie throne, James told when man’s age will be found recorded, chestnut has only 33 per cent, water
his
son
to
run
along
and
have
a
good
Government from the sale of the lands far
not in thousands of years, but millions. while the potato has 76 per cent, of wa
below tlieir real value, timber lamia which time with tlie boys. In fact, lie wrote Even now they have traced him back
ter. In all of the nutritive ingredients
should have been preserved for the use of
BULLDOGSUSPENDERS
down
certain
precepts
for
tne
young
to pre-glaclal days. How to express the chestnut leads the potato. The
the people are withdrawn from such use
50 centa everywhere Will Oatwear Three Ordinary Kinde
Made in Light nn<! Heavy Weights, fur Mun «nd Youth. Extra length«.
and the «levelopment of th«* country is re man’s guidance, but if tlie coach bad that lr figures is a problem, but, at any chestnut may be cooked exactly as the
Mme
price. With more elastic,warranted non-rusting metal parts, and
tarded until the <«or|M>ratlotis which own asked l’rlnee Charles to “come out rate, they fix certain happenings In the potato is, boiled, baked or roasted.
absolutely unbreakable, «oft, pliable Roll Dor leather rn<I« they are
th«» timber see tit to cut It. The bona thle
glacial
period
as
240.000
years
ago
POSITIVELY THE BEST SUSPENDER MADE.
for
the
eleven
”
he
would
have
been
The
culture
of
the
chestnut
tree
in
settler who cornea Into a country, the tim
I
-ao r <annot siinplv <<>u, we will, posipni'l tor 54* rent -
ber resource« of which have thus been ab- met wllh the familiar “parental ob And In those days our forefathers, with this country has as yet been neglected,
MEWES A POTTER, Largest fliiapender anti Helt Makers
sorts'll, may in» very seriously hampvre«! by jection" of the present day.
»•Pt. M. 87 LINCOLN ST . B08T0N. MASS
,h*
or without their tails, their three eyes mid furnishes an inviting field for en
which
Valaable Booklet, ” Dress and 8uspender Styles," free on requMfc
hts Inability to «ecure timber except from
or fewer, were busy In Europe with the terprising agriculture aud forestry.
a foreign v«»rporatl«»n.
AH «'f th«» timber King James expressed ns follows.
laml has ofteu passed beyond bin reach,
••From tills couut I deb ,r ail such mammoth and the elephant, the giraffe,
am! th«« development of hl» farm may l»e rough ami violent exercise ns the foot* the lion, the tiger and species which
retarded and his ei|M»nu««« gr«'.itly Increased
The Newest and Best
he has outlived. Man was on the earth
because h«» can no longer obtain th«» lie’ Kill. mooter for laming than making
liefore Vesuvius mid Aetna reared
••«ary supplies of fuel, rails, posts, and able the users thereof."
The NEWEST THINGS for CHRISTMAS
tlieir fiery heads unto the skies. He
lumber.
Interfered With Archery.
•re the
Aa In the «•«•»e of other laws. Instance«
has
lieen
found
with
his
works
of
art
of th«* beneficial »»peratlon of this act may
Football has always had a tendency buried a hundred feet deep In the gold-
WEDDING (and other) PRESENTS
LYNCH PERFECTION
'oimlderc'l * from to run foul of the taw.
be elt»*«!. but when It la conaldered
Its origitial bearing gravels of California, overlaid
YALE PRINCIPLE
neral Interest of
the point of view of the
ting the minds by four successive lava streams from
sre our Lock Ruckles for use on Trunks, Telescopes, Cases of all kinds,
the public It tM»cotnvs obvious that l thia law first offence was In taking
should I* repealed.
of prospective soldiers off from arch volcanos long extinct.
rorrfohos. Messenger Bags, etc.
cry, but In this It had es a side part-
Sale of Timber on the Public
ner the eminently pen ?eful and gon-
Necessity for the enactment of
lev are the only Lock Buckle» with the Vale Principle
authorising the sal«* of timber
Vnny Friendly
tie game of golf.
In 1457 a Scottish
an. are made of Manganese Bronze, which looks like «old,
serve public land is becoming IM'
act was passed in which the two
Rodrick—They say Cho’’v Goodfel
dent, and the recouiiuemiatkm*
s sirnnger than steel and will not runt.
•ports were condemned in language low is very popular aroun !
the preceding report < f this < <
• re r*«herated. For the best nt
as vigorous ns that used by some of
Van
Albert
—
I
should
gay
Eubllc land« It Is absolutely «»*
Locks alone (easily attachable). Small, 50c ; medium, 75c;
our college presidents on the same he wears out two coats a
old pvbllc tin»l»er for <ale wh
arge. M.uu. (Beautifully hand engraved and including monogram.
and iu quantities ne««en*da»rd bv the
subject, because they occupied too from people s’mntnR him on the
tlnuous growth of prevailing Indus
much of tlie time of the husky men I —Chicago News.
:
case. 11.00 prep.nl and re-
Provision shoul«! t* made for a II
who might havelievn learning the finer I
free use right by miners an»! actual
turnable if not delighted. Booklet on request. Salesmen and sales
points of how to send an arrow 1
tiers.
women wanted everywhere.
through the breast plate of an En
In India the contribution basket is
A Tfrgln Is a ninld; w'icn verging on glish Invader. The plaints of the sometimes passed around In the Hin
30 is called an old maid.
LYNCH MFG. CO.
i staid seigneurs received about as lit- I doo temples by an elephant.
ersliy were likely to be rolled in the
nearest mud puddle an 1 the tendency
to break windows and “rough house’’
inns and alehouses became so pro
nounced that keepers of shops and
taverns put up tlieir shutters nml se
curely barred tlieir doors.
When ri
val bands met there was vast smash
ing of heads which afforded ample
practice for all the burliers and
leeches In the neighborhood.
Matters went from bad to worse
until file pulilie and authorities be-
ciinie weary of reading the annual
list of dead mid Injured, mid about
1830 the great
Shrove Tuesday
matches died out. The game was
jierpletunted In the colleges, but even
there It was no sport for weaklings,
as Is proved by the fact that as late
as 1876 “hacking.” or kicking an op-
posing player on the shins, was al-
lowed as one of the finer points. The
Football Association formed in 1873
was the result of the Interest in ath
letic« aroused by the volunteer move
ment in England in 1800 and the
Rugby Union was formed In 1871.
Tile present rales in the United States
were evolved from tnose of the Rug
by Union, as opposed to the “socker”
or Association style which has recent
ly been exploited as a possible sub
stitute for the American game.
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