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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-07-08

A man should hide nothing from his
wjfG-even if it were possible.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-07-08

Beautiful decorat ed Jardinieres and
pedestals only SOC at Fowler's 100 store
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-07-08

STATE OF GEORGIA, SUMTER COUNTY.
Before me came w. L. Thomas, Cashier
of PLAINS BANK, who being duly
sworn, says that the above and foregoing
statement is true condition OF -
as shown by the books of file in said bank
w. T., THOMAS, Cashier.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this
9th day of July, 1905.
A g. KENORICK,
Notary Public Sumter Co. Ga.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-07-08

A man has uphill work as soon as he
begins to go down hill.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-22

continue so to describe her. Her medi-
cal attendant has told her that her
only hope of regaining something like
her youthful contour of figure lies in
the practice of rigid self-denial with
respect to the dainties she enjoys
most The Princess Of Wales mas also
received hint from high medical
authority that she will some day be-
come a second edition of her mother,
the Duchess of Teck, who was enor-
mously fat, unless she practices fru-
gality in the line of CONNECTIONS.
The Duchess of ARGOS, formerly
Miss Virginia Lowry Of Washington,
wife Of the new Spanish ambassador
to Italy, arrived in Rome recently
from st. Petersburg, the former post
Of her husband. On opening her
trunk it was discovered that it had
been robbed in transit of jewels val
ued at about $4,000. 1t is supposed
that the robbery took place between
Turin and Rome. van Calva.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-22

ersby were likely to be rolled in the
nearest mud puddle and the tendency
to break windows and trough house"
inns and alehouses became so pro-
nounced that keepers of shops and
tayerns put up their shutters and Sc
curely barred their doors. When RI
val bands met there was vast smash
ing of heads which afforded ample
practice for all the BARRIERS and
leeches in the neighborhood.
Matters went from bad to worse
until the public and authorities be-
came weary of reading the annual
list of dead and injured, and about
1880 the great Shrove Tuesday
matches died out. The game was
perTetuated in the colleges, but even
there 1t was no sport for weaklings,
as is proved by the fact that as late
as 1875 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-
letics aroused by the volunteer move
ment in England in 1850 and the
Rugby Union was formed in 1871.
The present rules in the United States
were evolved from those of the Rug
by Union, as opposed to the "socker'
or Association style which has recent
ly been exploited as a possible SUBJ
stitute for the American game.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-22
FOOTBALL ANCIENT SPORT.
ROOSEVELT'S NOT THE FIRST
ROYAL EDICT TO PREVENT
ROUGH PLAYING.

English and Scottish Kings Have
| Debarred Game. Has Always Been
| toughest of Sports for Five Hun.
bred Years-Shin Kicking Approved.
President Roosevelt's attempt to
bring about a revision in the rules Of
the gridiron sport that II may be
played with less risk to the lives and
limbs Of the contestants is after all
but q revival of the caustic COM
ments of at least two English SOW
ereigns who beat the President on
the revision business by several hun
bred years. Football is one Of the
oldest of all the English pastimes, and
1t is even believed that the Greeks
and Romans had similar game.
Ever since it first made Its appear
ance 1t has been characterized by ex-
treme roughness ana has been the
subject of denunciations on the part
of those who cared more for their
own safety and that Of the players
than for the final score.
As early as 1914 football had be-
come SO popular In London as street
game and attracted SO many disord-
erly spectators that the staid old mer-
chants entered a vigorous protest.
King Edward II was on the throne
then and wasted no time dining the
football coaches or arguing about
the matter. He issued a proclama-
ton In which he said:
"Forasmuch as there Is great noise
in the city caused by hustl1ng, over
large balls from which many evils
might arise, which God forbid, we
command and forbid on the half Of
the King, on pain Of Imprisonment,
such games to be used in the city in
the future"
This terse and ominous declaration
forestalled by more man five hundred
years the American legislators who
have come to the front In the past de-
cade with bills to make football H.
legal in their States.
The sport may be rough and IN
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-22
PERFUMES FOR THE NOBILITY.
Amba ssador Whitelaw Reid Engages
Services of Earl'S Son.

Services OF EARS Sons
At one time Lady Curzon had the
reputation of spending more money
on perfumes than any other woman
in England. 1t was said that she was
more extravagant in this respect tnan
Queen Alexandra whose perfume bilis
amounted to something like $1,000 a
wear. Now. the story goes, the Duch-
ess of Roxburgh has become the
most extravagant purchaser of per-
fumery in the land. She patronizes
the heavy-scented essences OF Tic
East which are known to be most ex-
pensive. The cost Of her daily pain
would, it is said, keep middle-class
family for week. Lazy Curzoh
used these same essences at one time,
but she found them so expensive that
she decided to try cheaper extracts.
Queen Alexandra, too, has gone III
for retrenchment in the same d1rec-
ton. and she Is now satisfied with
the favorite scent Of the late Queen
Victoria, which was species of Law
ender water specially prepared for
her by a chemist at Windsor. The
Princess of Wales is also extravagant
in the use Of scents and uses a spe-
cial preparation made from violets
and other carefully cultivated flowers.
1t is strange that Lady Suffolk, for
merly Miss. Letter Of Washington, dis
likes scents, considering her sisters
passion for them.
Even royalty finds it necessary to
yield obedience to the doctors orders.
The fiat has gone forth that Queen
Alexandra must eat no more sweet
things. In consequence, well-known
firm of London pastry cooks, who
have for many years supplied her
majesty with confectionery and other
tempting delicacies, have had their
order cancelled. For their loss of
trade the are consoled by the fact
that they are still allowed to display
the royal coat-of-arms, which 1nd1-
Gates that they are under royal pat
ronage. The Queen has long been in
ordinately fond of sweets and con-
fections and has recklessly INDUCED
her appetite for them. That has pro-
duced an accumulation Of superfluous
adipose tissue which even the most
expert of dressmakers are unable to
conceal. She is no longer slim and
willowy, though English newspapers
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-22
An Early Print.

The finding Of q human footprint,
said to be 10000 years old, in Penn.
sylvania colliery has led to the report
that record in antiquity has been es-
tablished. But this is thing Of yes
terday, geologically speaking. The
day will come. the ethnologists say.
when mans age will be found recorded,
not in thousands Of years, but millions.
Even now they have traced him back
to pre-glacial days. How to express
that in figures Is a problem, but, at any
rate. they fix certain happenings in the
glacial period as 100000 years ago.
And In those days our forefathers, with
or without their tails, their three eyes
or fewer, were busy in Europe with the
mammoth and the elephant, the giraffe
the lion, the tiger and species which
he has outlived. Man was on the eartl,
before Vesuvius and Aetna reared
their fiery heads unto the skies. He
has been found with his works of arr
buried a hundred feet deep in the gold
bearing gravels Of California, overlafd
by four successive lava streams from
VOLCANOES long extinct.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-22
RIVAL NAVAL BUILDERS.
GOVERNMENT CONSTRUCTORS
BEAT PRIVATE CONCERN
IN SHLPBUILDING.

Inc C0nnecttcut Anedo Of sister SnIp
Louisiana-C However Greater
First War Ship Ever Built by the
Government.
There is great rivalry between the
United States Navy Yard at Brooklyn
and a private shipbuilding concern at
Newport News, over the construction
of the two naval war leviathans, Con-
necticut and Louisiana. The Govern
ment is building the Connecticut and
the shipbuilding company is rushing
toward completion the Louisiana.
The figures given out but short time
ago by the Navy Department show
that the Connecticut is 91.36 per cent
completed, while her sister ship shows
percentage Of completion of 1925.
A comparison shows then that the
Government-built boat has a slight
lead, which is all the more gratifying
to the champions of Government con-
truction when it is considered that
this is the first battleship ever built
in the United States by any other
than private constructors and that it
was predicted that the Government
could not compete with private build
ers. Nevertheless the Government
ship win cost the more.
BY act Of Congress approved July
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-22
Queer OdOr of Munn1jeS.

You may put mummy in glass
case and seal it Theoretically so that
no corroding air can get within, but
it will still exhale its odor. Four or
five thousand years. it would seem,
should exhaust all olfactory qualities,
but experience teaches us that these
smells remain while the origin Of their
scents is unknown to us. They are
today as much a mystery to embalm-
ers as when the bodies were put in
the bath of nature.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-22

has been made In each particular case, be
cause to do so controverts the fundamen'
tai principle Of saving the public lands fol
the home maker. Each locality should be
should ultimately appear that this law has
worked benefclally In Nebraska II would
by no means follow that such a law might
be safely applied to other regions different
in topography, soil, and climate. NO arbi.
case the area of the homestead should be
determined by the acreage which may be
necessary to support family upon the
land, either by agriculture. or BY grazing II
agriculture is impracticable. Until such
any new general law providing a method
of obtaining title to the public lands
would, In the opinion Of your Commission,
be decidedly unsafe.
Lieu Lands.
Careful study has been given by your
Commission to the subject Of forest-reserve
lieu-land selections. These selections have
to the acquisition by spectators of much
its consolidation into large holdings. Fur
thermore the money loss to the GoSern
of valuable lands in lieu Of worthless areas
has been very great There has been
no commensurate return IN the way of
increased settlement and business actlv-
lty. fuDllc opinion concerning Heu-ldnQ
selections. by railroads in particular has
reached an acute stage. The situation Is
In urgent need Of remedy, and your Com
mission recommends the repeal OF the laws
providing for lieu-land selections
A partial remedy BY Executive. action
has already been applied by carefully To-
eating the boundaries Of new forest re-
serves, and thus limiting lieu.land selec-
lions to comparatively Insignificant areas.
The last annual message to Congress de-
clares definitely that
7Xs making of forest yessrUes sDikkis railroad
and aasvH-road land,syant Hsiys will Acre.
after, as for tie past three years, 6s 50 managed
as to brsveat tho issue under tAs act Of ./axf 4,
1871, of base for exchange or hea sslectiax (as-
aally called sertp). In aHeasss wkve je,sst re-
SERVES suithin areas COVERED BY land grants ab-
pear to be essential to tAs prosperity of settlers,
miners or others. tie GepernsexA lands svitAin
such PROPOSED forest yesysss psX, as IN ne
recent fasf, BE- witAdyases frpm safe or ssf,y
pending tie eamtlsfies Of sseA Ssgpfiatiass ssstA
the owners eftAs land grants A. ,viX brsvs.t GAe
creation Of sc-saAsd sc'tA
There are now lands In private ownership
lar lands must to a limited extent be In
cluded In new reserves, Therefore. M
thod Ii required by which the Government
may obtain control Of nOnagrleultural
holdings within the boundaries OF these re-
serves. Your Commission recommends the
following flexible plan Upon the recOm>
mendatiOn of the Secretary Of Agriculture,
when the public interest 20 demands. the
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-22

Gle attention then as now, for In 1491
we find another act In which flute
bale and collie" were roasted to a
turn and prohibited under severe
penalties.
The unregenerate Of Scotland were
much given to playing football on
Sunday. At first 1t interfered with
the practice of archery on the Sew
enth Day, and later, when the Sab
batarian movement had acquired
prominence, 1t kept people away from
church,so in 1901 we find the town
council of Edinburgh strictly forbid
ding the playing of matches on the
Sabbath.
Not only was the game itself
rough, but It attracted great con-
courses of people who were willing
at all times to Jump In with clubs
and other weapons and resent I'M
fairness or poor decisions. For
some reason Shrove Tuesday was the
great date for annual contests, cor
responding to what Thanksgiving Day
used to be in this country. On this
day the crowds swurmed out to the
green's and, from the descriptions we
have, their conduct before and after
the games would have made the wild
nights few years ago in the New
York Tenderloin after a big game in
that city look like Sunday School
picnic.
Was a Reign of Terror.
-
shouting and cheering, chasing the
city watchmen up and down alleys
and beating them right merrily. Pass
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-22
Chestnuts are a very similar food to

Chestnuts are a very similar food to
potatoes. The chestnut, however, is
the more nutritious of the two. The
chestnut has only SO per cent. water
while the potato has 76 per cent. of wa
ter. In all of the nutritive ingredients
the chestnut leads the potato. The
chestnut may be cooked exactly as the
potato ia, boiled, baked or roasted.
The culture of the chestnut tree in
this country has as yet been neglected,
and furnishes an inviting field for en-
terprising agriculture and forestry.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-22

took a hand in the game because of
the injuries with which 1t was at
tended was King James I. He was
q patron of sport and believed in his
progeny getting plenty Of excitement,
but he baked at football. 1t was too
much trouble to raise an heir to
have him twisted into a pretzsl just
about the time he might be useful In
holding down the throne. James told
his son to run along and have q good
time with the boys. In fact, he wrote
down certain precepts for the young
mans guidance, but If the coach had
asked Prince Charles to "come out
for the eleven he would have been
met with the familiar parental OBJ
lection" Of the present day, which
King James expressed as follows.
"From this count ] lebar all such
rough and violent exercise as the foot
ball. meeter for tanning than making
able the users thereof"
lnterfered With Archery.
Football has always had a tendency
to run foul Of the law. Its original
first offence was In taking the minds
Of prospective soldiers off from arch
cry, but in this it had as side part
ner the eminently peaceful and gen
tie game Of golf. In 1857 Scottish
act was passed in which the two
sports were condemned in Language
as vigorous as that used by some OF
our college presidents on the same
subject, because they occupied toe
much Of the time of the husky mer
who might Notwithstanding the finer
points of how to send an arrow
through the breast plate of an En-
glish invader. The plants of the
staid seigneurs received about as lit
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-22
THE CONNECTICUT NEW FIGHTER BY GOVERNMENT

/, 1902, authority was granted for the
construction of two battleships after
ward named the Connecticut and
Louisiana, each $50 feet long, 76 1-S
feet wide, with draft of "a feet 6
inches. A short time after this action
of Congress, the Navy Department de-
cided to have one of the battleships
constructed by private parties, the
Government endeavoring to build the
other.
Government Got Bad Start Too.
The contract for the Louisiana was
let to the Newport News Shipbuilding
and Dry Dock Company who laid the
keel for that vessel on February Z,
1903, while the Government was de-
layed in the construction of its vessel
so much that the keel was not laid
down until March 10 of the same
year. The Government was further
delayed in building the Connecticut
owing to non arrival of necessary ma
chinery and armor plate, yet with all
Of these dra whacks the latest figures
published by the Navy Department
show the Governmcnt-built boat
farther advanced toward completion
than that being erected by private
concern. The Louisiana was the first
to receive it's christening, having been
launched August q, 1904; the Con-
necticut did not take to the waves
until September 20 of the same year.
The Brooklyn Navy Yard, where the
Connecticut is being built Is now en-
ploying over 1000 men on the battle
ship and it is stated that there is
still room for 200 more workmen.
With the rapid progress now being
made on the vessels it is estimated
that they will be ready to go into
commission by June of next year.
Most Formidable of War S hips.
These battleships when completed
will be among the most formidable
war vessels of the world; the main
battery on each will consist of four
Pinch, eight 9-inch and twelve z
inch rifles; the secondary battery will
have twenty 3-inch rapid fire guns,
twelve 3-pounders, eight 1-pounders
and a number of rapid fire guns Of
smaller calibre. There will also be
four submerged torpedo tubes The
ships will have multiplication by
heavy armor ranging in thickness
from nine to eleven inches. The con-
tract calls for vessels of 10000 tons
displacement, with steaming capaci-
ty, at 10 knots per hour, Of 5000 miles
without recoaling. They are expect
ed, however, to make IS knots per
hour at the official trial. Each ship
will be manned by 1855 officers and
men. The contract price of the Lou
isiana is $3,99OOOO while the Connect
icut is expected to cost $4,212,0OO.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-22
Many Friendly Pats.

Rodrick-They say Cholly Goodfel-
low Is very popular around town.
Van Albert should say so. Why.
he wears out two coats month just
from people Shaping him on the back.
Chicago News.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-22

The hens eggs produced in this
country last year would fill 3,127,000
crates of 800 eggs each. 1t would re-
quire 107,S1S refrigerator cars to trans
port this crop, and these cars would
make train 900 miles long.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-22

HOBtIy VaIuADIB TOT hRffCuI6urE. EOkdBC 30
black mass of tree growth,
ladyllke nowadays, but what it was
in Edwards time, when the favorite
diversions of the apprentices and other
youngsters were street fights in which
anything from an axe to kick in the
stomach was allowed may be better
imagined than described. The broken
collarbones and strained tendOns with
which we are familiar as a result of
scrimmages must have been mere pin
scratches compared with casualties
attending a buck on center by the
Medieval "backs"
Another English sovereign who
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-22

In India the contribution basket IL
sometimes passed around in the Hin
doc temples by an elephant.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-22
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PIANOS and ORGANS
STANDARD OF THE WORLD
PENSIONS.

Over one Million Dollars
allowed Our clients during the last
six years.
Over one + h you 8 a n d
claims allowed through us dur
ing the last six months. Dis.
ability, Age and In.
Gre a . e pensions obtained
in the shortest possible time.
Widows claims a speciality.
Usually granted within 90
days fplaced with us immedi-
ately on soldiers death. Fees
fixed By law and payable out of
allowed pension. A successful
experience of rs years and benefit
of daily calls at Pension Bureau
are at your service. Highest ref
erences furnished. Local Magis-
trates Gun ia rily
benefited by sending US
claims.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-22

A virgin is maid; when verging on
80 is called an old maid.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-06-24
METUCHEN.

Several trees along prominent
thoroughfares, will shortly be cut
down on account of interfering with
pedestrians.
A chicken roast will be held by
a party of out-of-town people on
Robins Hill this afternoon.
Mrs. Soper and little daughter are
visiting in Perth Amboy.
The Morris house on Main street
is completed and presents a fine APP
p%earance.
The tennis courts are practically
deserted these hot sultry days. No
one seems to have the ambition to
play and the tennis tournament
which was talked of for this sum
mer seems to have fallen through
with.
This afternoon the scholars at the
borough school bid their teachers
farwell for the next two months, and
are now starting on a glorious vaca-
ton.
Every rainstorm floods the depres-
sion under the Pennsylvania tracks
and the inhabitants declare that the
nuisance must be stopped at nee.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-06-24

d HOME WEnDING.

One of the prettiest home weddings
that have occurred on Staten Island
in some time was that of Miss Jean
cite Forest MacGowan, of New
Brighton, and Alexander Ross Ell
lfot, of Manhattan, which was sol
emnized at the home of the brides
aunt, Mrs. John MACEDONIAN, on Sec
ond street, New Brighton, on We'd
nesday night last. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. Frank War
field C%rowder, pastor of Christ
church, in the presence of a large
number of friends and relatives. The
house was decorated with DAISIES,
honeysuckles and palms and present
ed a picturesque sight. Miss Grace
A. MACEDONIAN, cousin of the bride,
acted as maid of honor, and Alexand-
err Ross, of England was best ma n.
A reception followed the ceremony,
after which the couple left for Wash
ington. On their return they will
make their home on Staten Is
land.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-06-24
EQUITABLE wRoNoDoERs.
District and stnte Attorneys Take
Initial steps Against Offenders.


NEW YORK, June 24.-District At
torney Jerome and State Attorney
General Mayer both have taken the
initial steps to bring to justice the
wrongdoers in the Equitable Life AS
surance society.
Mr.. Jerome's efforts are in the di-
rection of criminal action against the
Offenders. Mr.. Mayer co%ntelnplates
civil suits to force the repayment of
profits gained by specializing officials
who manipulated the funds of the cor
poration.
In order that Mr.. Jerome may be in
shape to take criminal action should
his investigations warrant it the court
of general sessions, presided over by
Recorder Golf. and Justice navy's part
of the criminal branch of the supreme
court will remain open all summer.
The usual summer vacation for these
courts was too have begun on July 1,
TO continue for three months.
Through his counsel, Samuel Inter
myer, James II. Hyde offered to accept
service of papers and expedite the trial
of a suit to be brought by Attorney
General Mayer to determine the right
of those who proited by syndicate
transactions with Equitable funds to
the ownership of those profits.
Mr.. Untermyer in a letter to the at
torney general recites that On March %
last Mr.. Hyde deposited with the cash
Ter of the Equitable his check for $685.
233.51, his share of syndicate profits,
and that Mr.. Hyde had been advised
before that date and has been advised
since that he is morally and legally en-
titled to this money.