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Arizona republican., 1908-11-26

In the stockade just as sometimes hap pens now at even the best of wel-rCgu- lated contests. And last. but by no mea ns surprising. the victOrs cheered and nine rahs-and-a-Ti Tigercd" Valiant to :he echo and bore him aicft on their shoulders Naifant vas the original football hero. BGt there is one more pols't that clinehes the argument. Did you ever stop to think of the evolution of the football: Clip the legs. wings and head of of the average turkey sud you nave the model for the present-Gay pigskin.
 Handing Dawn Fundamentals.
 When colleges and universities first began to spring up all over the thirteen original states, their supporters thought over the matter of the football game as played by Valiant, and started to im- ptoye upon 1t. They've been Improving 1t ever since. They're improving" 1t still. Incidentally, it also improves the possibilities of the medical profession.
 Tn those Olden days the idea of Thanks giving seems to have been a combination Of Lenten service and eoroner's inquest Joviality had but little place in the cele bratiOn. The day was devoted to prayer and feasting. the former being out of all proportion 10 the latter. Papa Goodman got -up at some uuearthly hour of the morrlug and dressed himself in clothes. painfuliy plain and uncomfortable, and opened the best parlor. Mamma Goodman attired herself m a similar garb of som her, unplessins appearance. And all of the little Goodmans were tortured into high collars that chafed the neck and blouses :hat pinched and squeezed.
 In the OIden Days.
 Then they all packed of to church. Elder Weekly preached the sermOn-not a sermon of the present day of 70 min utes' duration; but long, exhaustive. sOmber discourse. Many a little shaver. In whose breast the love of wild. wild fsht on the football field would have burned had he lived nowadays, had to be repeatedly prodded and pinched to be kept awake. The day was intended as oue of thanks for the mercies of the past year and was strictly observed us such.
Arizona republican., 1908-11-26
DENVER MAN WANTS
 HIS WIFE BACK AGAIN
He Thinks She Is in Phoenix and Writes a Pathetic Letter to the City Marshal.

The following letter. with its little touch of pathos, was received by Mar shal Moore yesterday:
 Denver, Nov 21 Dear Sir:
 Would you .indly look up a couple of women who just arrived there about four or five days ago? They had two children with them, one about three months and the other two years old The youngest is my wife and the other is her mother. They left me and would like you to find out what they are doing and which way they went from there. I am half crazy about my wife
 I am out oc work at present and times are hard here in Denver. I am a horse shOer by profession and would like to find my wife again. so if you will hold her in Phoenix I will try to get down there. If you know of Q blacksmith who will send me a ticket ] will pay him back in work when I get there. If you can send her back here I will pay you as soon as I get work 1 love my wife dearly and by doing SO you will make a heart broken man happy. She has light complex ion ard blue eyes.
 EDWARD NICHOLSON.
Arizona republican., 1908-11-26

Church and prayer and worship seemed the most fitting way to celebrate. It was indeed a serious day. solemn celebration. and yet one of great joy to all the Pilgrim Fathers. More than all c.se. it was the day of all days for the family Not even at Christmas were the Puritan families so close In spirit and love as at Thanksgiving. Amusements such as those of the present day were Gn- dreamed of An occasional hunt-and for the need of the game, not the sport Of it-was tue sole relaxation.
 Tn the Present Day.
 There Is a vast difference today. The modern descendant of the Pilgrim Fathers arises late, attires himself in a sleek frock coat and goes to church with his wife. where a comfortable sermon on crops Is beard. He looks asi1nt at the four corners of the church to locate his neishbors, and then settles uncOmfort- ably back h his pew until the close of the service Afterwards, he goes home to a table grooming beneath huge turkey and all sorts of indlgestible trimmings" Arising from the table after his two hours gorge, he bites the end o6 thick. black cigar, retires to his library with few papers, heaycs several sighs of grati- tude that he didut eat any more than he did. and begins cnnsclertiously to read the Presidents Thanksgiving procama- tion. After wadIng half way through 1t. Le turns to the sport page" where is given in blacS type the dope" on the weight. hair. teeth and previous condi- tion of servitude of the giants. shaven and unshaven of the two local football teams. ready fer the afternoons fray. He finds that both coaches are confident of victory. though each of them has sey- eral men jGst triie "oyertrained." Each also claims that the others team out weighs. his own "lO pounds to a man" Of course. neither calls the other ia-, but that's because they are both, by pro- fession. uunetilliOus in observing the cour- tesies of life.
 The Field of Blood.
 And then he hikes off to the game. The cars are crowded with red and blue or orange and black-or what nOt-ribbons, all waving defantly in the swirl Of the car It Is to be supposed that there are people under the ribbons or over them. or beside them. for they couldn't of them selves hang on to the straps-but, to
Arizona republican., 1908-11-26
ZzhaAAlyl5an9N NWM M Ahe 0aa1 NZ0e

EVERY national holiday on the cal E endar has one or more things that A are of themselves appropriate 10 and suggestive of the day. At Christmas there is the fir tree ablaze with candies. .ba Dresents the big bowls or egGnoS and the holly. The Fourth of July has. of course. It's 1re-crackers. Its appalling list of casualties to small boys its long winded orators and its inevitable rain storm that spells the fireworks In +he evening. With Easter Is generally asSo- ciated the lily. the elaborate choral serv- ices in the churches. and the bills for the new spring hats of the feminine members of the household. Decoration Day has Its flags and flowers: Labor Day its hilarious parade-and so on throughout tue year
 Turkey and Football.
 But Thanksgiving has two things that are its very own to a greater degree than has any of the other holidnys-turkey and football. Or. rather. football and turkey Of course no one forge;s the real spirit of the day, and the wherefor of 1.-the rendering Of thanks for the blessings of the past year; thanks that last years oyercOat can be cleaned ana pressed and made fairly presentable; thanks that the winters supply of coal Is in the cellar; thanks that there's dis count on the gas bill if paid within 10 days; thanks for this and thanks for that, and thanks for the other thing that might be worse than 1t is All that is taken for granted. But. though some may deny 1t, the two things that make Thanksgiving Day are football and turkey.
 It was not like this in the olden days. Not at all. The Puritan fathers had tur- key, of course-great, heaping, steaming platters of choice white meat" and ::drumstlcks" They also had many things to be thankful for. for which 1t is really difficult to see why they should have been thankful, such as halrbreadth es- capes from the Indians, woeful lack Of cranberry sauce, plum pudding and Its consequent indigestion, and an entire day to be spent in cold log church in con- temptation of the dire wages of sin. They even had a certain species of football, without recognizing it as such, but they never had that wonderful combination, football and turkey. They had the funda- mentals of the modern Thanksgiving Day celebration, but never the finished prod uct
 The Football Enthusiast.
 Football! What a word to conjure
Arizona republican., 1908-11-26

with-on Thanksgiving Day! To many Thanksgiving Day means football and football Thanksgiving day. The smal boy in the days of tie Puritan fathers was In the sevelth heaven of delight with his face buried in ihe juicy drum stick" of q big turkey gobbler and he asked for nothing more. Today. the av. craze youngster enjoys his "druAs.ick" and eats ravenOusly, but he Is in q hurry 10 get OE tine outside of his turkey and on the inside of the football 6eld. Tn Puritan days, the father went to church fin the morning and in the afternoon and then had little service at night for his own family Today. the average grown- up ceiebrant of the festival may or may not attend church in the morning. but he Is almost certain to he at the football game in the afternoon. In n coat of some heavy material he hops up and down. first on one foot and then on the other, 10 keep from freezing. while he mhdly cheers on II of the 22 long-haircd war rors who pummel each other according 10 Hoyle until the lanky doctor with the neat, innocent-ooking brown satchel rushes out on the field and the city am- bulance backs up to the side lines. He and his sons and his daughters, and even his wife sometimes. are ''football-crazy.
 Imagine lIe tuTllaus Eh HE tuhuhS ih such fashionl No chance No such thing as that fin their family. And, yet, if one is a dyed-in-the-wool football enthusiast, 1t is possible to convince ones self that the Pilgrim Fathers did play football. And an euthusiast who, In his younger days, played the game himself can even trace the origin of the great Thanksgiving Day game back to his Puritan ancestors. That is, he can do so to bis own satisfae- tion, at least.
 One would hesitate, even the most be- ribboned and 'be-chrysanthemumed rah- rah" boy, to state boldly that the "stern New England fathers actually played football IH none of the historical data left by them to posterity can any record be found of drop kicks" forward pass es' and ''off-side plays" But. neverthe- less, the football bug was alive in those days, though still embryonic.
 Hunting for His Turkey.
 It was several centuries ago that Valiunt Goodman, one of our ancestors, who cafne over on the Mayiower. was searching for game In the woods. just outside the high stockade, with his double-jointed blunder- buss. He was not particular what sort of
Arizona republican., 1908-11-26

game he shot. He had no object in view except the securing of sUfnn sort of ami nal to grace hIs table on the morrow after the long. long service of Thanks giving was over. And of that he was In dire need. The winter hGd been hard and the crops bad that summer and the only man who had prospered vas inc under taker-ant he was not particularly rich. as he had buried most of the folks on credit. To repeat, Valiant WIS locking for game Suddenly. with great joy. he beheld roost- tug in the tops of disconsoate pine tree m obese and self-satsfel turkey.
 Valiant planted the stick that supported his gun firmly In the ground. fitted the butt snugly to his shoulder. aimed care fully with Puritanical preclseness-and bazed away The ensuing roar nearly broke the breaking waves that dashed so high on the stern and rock bound coast The turkey, necessarily lacking that degree of sophisticntion so characteristic of the present day birds. of his feather around Thanksgiving gave q squawk of surprise and indignation and Guttered dONq to vajiant's feet Valiant solemnly picked the red-stained. crumpled pile. with fieeting, inward Gualm us he realized he had taken n life.
 But as the brave marksman. carrying his turkey, was about to leave the held of achievement. be heard a sound tha; caused his aristocratic hair to stand up on end and his blue blood to do an ancient sort of s'Merry Widow" waltz through his sen sltive veins
 Puritan Makes Touchdown.
 wild howl came to his ears. It was the dread war-cry of Old Kicked-ln-the- Rib. the sworn enemy of the Purltans and n 'heap-much Indian. Valiant clutched his turkey under his arm, hastily deposit ed hls hat upon the top of nearby bush as a decoy and hot-footed 1t fO: the stock ade. ab
 ''Wow-wow- -ei ei-el! v
 The cry was drawing nearer as the owner of the megaphonic voice followed Valiant's feeting footsteps. Valiant ap- preciated by this time that his position was in certain way embarrassing. Be-
Arizona republican., 1908-11-26

fore he had run another hdndred feet he behcld the jovlal Indians form in the clearing behind him. Harder and harder he ran. hunchine the precious turkey un- deT his ariu. DaHr old Kicked-in-the Rb pursued as only one can pursue whose mouth Is watering for turkey.
 By thIs time several of the Puritan Fathers within the stoctade had heen reused from their labOrs by the NOb,p Redman's vociferoIsness Throwing wide open the gates. they rushed forth. guns in hand. to find out what the trouble was With lusty. ringing cheers they urged on ;he panting Valiant il the meantime fir ing vigorously away at kieked-lp- the Rib. In chorus and slngly they tried to lend wings to their comrades faltering steps. A bullet grazed the Ind!an and te straightway ceased hls howis and turned back to the tall timber. At last, gasping and exhausted good Valiant reached the stockade. where be wns lifted aloft on the shoulders of his companions and borne within amid great rejoicing. That Thanks giving was real One--:or Valiant. at least.
 4 Ia Football.
 To the enthusiast who celebrates Thanks giving nowadays a Ia football. there suoulu De mucu or interest," III tht uiS place the chasing of Valiant by the red skin was the origin of the American game of football. There are some who claim thnt the American game is the outgrowth of the English. This IS a sad mistake. Again, Kicked Iu-Tne Rib orig mated the college yell. All the time he viciously pursued the trembling Puritan he kept up a series of rhyming grunts and yels which have today degenerated into the mere ''rah, :ah, rah" of the college student. Furthermore, Valiant se- cured the first patent-ap applied-for on the way to carry a football while running. when he clutched the turkey so tightly under his arm. Poor k:cked-In-The-leib missed his tackle, IS many good end does nowadays on the gTidiron. The Puri- tan Fathers standing on the side lines h. terfered with the other nls1 and thns al- lowed Valiant to score -touchdown witi-
Arizona republican., 1908-11-26
BARONESS
 DIES HERE. Sad Death of Wife of Belgian Diplomat WAS HERE BUT 4 MONTH.
Baroness de Cartier de Mar chienne Lived in Seclusion
 in Webster Street Resi- dence--Her Husband Coun- sellor of Belgian Legation.

Baroness de Cartier, wife of F.. de Cartier de Marchienne, counselor of the Belgian legation at Washington, .died last night at To o'clock at the residence of the late Judge Webster Street, where she had been living dur ing the past month. The only member .of the family Xyho was with her at the time of her death was her mother. Mrs. .Colburn
 Baroness de Cartier came to Phoe- nix about month ago from Denver in the private car of F. D. Coburn. She was then ver- ill and was brought here from Denver, where she had gone for her health. because it was thought that a change Of climate might prove a benefiS to her. The car was sent over the Santa Fe and unusual pre- cautions were taken that the invalid might not suffer from the journey. The train drawing the private car came at a low rate of speed that no jarring might be communicated to the car The baroness was at once taken to the Street residence and competent medical attendance engaged Her husband whose duties kept him in Washington was continually informed of her con diti0n.
 Although the end was anticipated by those in attendance. it came suddenly and almost without warning. A brief dispatch was sent to Baron Cartier. in forming him of the death of his wife
 No arrangements have as yet been made for the funeral and will not be until the baron can be heard from. The body was removed last night to the establishment of Easter ling X Whitney.
Arizona republican., 1908-11-26

Charley Potts enjoyed his breakfast better than ever because his wife served him Folger's Golden Gate Golf fee, ground just before using.
Arizona republican., 1908-11-26

The Football Enthusiast. Football! What a word 10 conjure
Arizona republican., 1908-11-26

Strictly all linens, in pure white, red and blue bordered designs; finished with tied fringe Should be worth COG pair. Special in this sale for
 45c Pair
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-06-03

r HE war department is looking for a
1 beverage to take the place of
beer and whisky at army posts. The
beverage must not be of the class of
drinks prohibited by the anticanteen
law.
The federal courts have never
passed upon the question of the per
centage of alcohol which will render
a beverage an intoxicant. The state
courts also have been chary of decid-
ing the question. In certain cases the
authorities have spoken. however.
Thus, in Rhode Island, it has been
held that where beer contained 2.S9
per cent. of alcohol no evidence was
necessary to show II was Intoxicating.
In Texas. tonic containing from 3h
to per cent. of alcohol has been
held to be intoxicating liquor by
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-06-03

;lT census taken
w recently by the police force of
the District of Columbia indicates
that the national capital is growing
in population at an exceptional rate.
The increase in inhabitants for the
last year is reported as 9,S12. which
would mean a growth. If steadily main
tanned, of almost 100000 for the cur
rent decade.
OF course such rate of growth has
not been maintained since 1900. Ac-
cording to the federal census of that
year, Washington's population was
27S,71S. The population reported by
the police in 1908 is 339 iO3. So that
the increase in eight years has been
G0,GS5. BY 1910 Washington may be
expected to gain at least $4,000 more
inhabitants and Its population to rise
10 about 355,000
Compared with its nearest rival
Baltimore - Washington is making
rapid strides forward, Baltimore
percentage of growth between 1890
and 1900 was III. while Washinston's
was 20.9. The disparity In expansion
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-06-03
War Department Seeking Legal Drink

the laws of Massachusetts it is held
that a beverage containing more than
one FER cent. of alcohol at GO Fahren.
hclt is Intoxicating
The law in regard to the nonsale of
intoxicants in post exchanges. must. of
course, be followed in good faith by
the army. In the absence of any fed.
eral decision as to the question at is
sue. the authorities must fall back on
the decision of the state courts. These
vary materially, and. therefore. the
department may seek the solution in
practical way by ascertaining the
view taken in prohibition states as to
the sale of any given drink.
Where posi- exchanges are situated
in prohibition state 1t is considered
entirely safe to prohibit the sale in
such exchanges of preparations not al
lowed to be sold under the prohibition
laws of the state. Where such ex-
changes are situated in nonprohibi-
ton states 1t would be safe to ascer.
tain whether any specific drink is al
lowed sold in any prohibition state
and let the exchange be guided accord
ingly.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-06-03
! At the National Capital
Gossip of People and Events
Gathered in Washington
Rapid Strides of Capital in Population

will undoubtedly be greater in the
decade from 1900 to 1910, for Balti-
more's growth was checked for year
or more by the losses of the great
fire of 1904, while Washington's
growth has been stimulated by enor-
nous building operations most of
them conducted under the auspices of
the national government.
The check to business resulting
from last falls panic will also be felt
less in Washington than in perhaps
any other American city. The ma
tional capital does not depend for a
livelihood on manufacturers or COM
merce, and its workers have steady
employment assured them because the
governments activities are being con,
tinually extended.
In its physical aspect Washington
has gained enormously in attractive
ness in the last eight or ten years. 1t
is an ideal residence city, and its
charms appeal most potently to Amer
leans with leisure enough to enjoy
them. 1t has become the winter home
of families of wealth and refinement
from all parts of the union, and its
quiet, order and beauty make living
within its borders constant satisfac.
ton. 1t still has great potentialities
in the way of architectural develop.
ment, and its material prosperity is Sc
cured by ever broadening activities OF
the great governmental machine.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-06-03
Gordon Unlocked the Door Quietly.

all the work of yesterday was gone
over again.
So close was the pack of people that
the fire roaring in the big stove in the
middle of the room was allowed to
sink in smouldering quiet. The heavy
air had been unbearable else. The
snow that had been brought in on
tramplng feet lay in little melted
pools on the rough flooring. Men for
got to eat peanuts and women forgot
to chew their gum-except one or two
extremely nervous ones whose jaws
moved the faster under the stimulus
of hysteria. Jesse Black was telling
his story.
Along toward the list of last July.
| took hike out into the Indian coun-
try to buy a few head,o' cattle. 1
trade considerable with the half
breeds around Grow creek and Lower
Brule They're always for sellin' and
if 1t comes to n showdown never bag
gle much about the lucre-it all goes
for snake-juice anyway. Well, landed
at John Yellow VOLTS shanty along
about noon and found there was 9TH
ers ahead of me. Yellow Wolf always
was a popular cuss. There was Char
lie Nightbird, Pete Monroe, Jesse Big
Cloud and two or three others whose
mugs | did not happen to be onto.
After our feed, We all strolled out to
the corral. Yellow Wolf said he had
bought likely little bunch from some
English Teller who was skipping the
country-starved out and homesick-
and hadn't put 'em on the range yet.
He said r was the English feller's
brand. l didn't suspicion no under
hand dealin's. Yellow VOLTS always
treated me white before, so l bar
gained for this here chap and three or
four others and then pulled out for
home driving the bunch. They fed at
home for a spell and then decided to
put 'em on the range. On the way l
fell in with Billy Brown here. He
was dead set on havin' the lot to fill in
the chinks of the two car leads he was
shippin. so | up and lets him have
'epl. l '3owed him this here bill-o'-
sale from Yellow Wolf and made him
out one from me, and that was all
there was to 1t. He rode to Velpen
and l turned on my trail"
(To Be Continued.}
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-06-03

TINTED States senators often be
~ come good friends, but somehow
they are not prone to becom
ing real chummy with one another
Exceptions occur from time to time
to prove the rule. One of these excep
lions applies to Senator Philander c.
Knox of Pennsylvania and Senator w
Murray Crane of Massachusetts. II
the afternoon wanes without their
meeting, one is likely to start out to
see where the other is and to learn
what has happened.
Often the Knox automobile and the
Crane automobile exchange honks in
the morning. Not infrequently the
senators ride to the capitol in the
same car. When the luncheon hour
comes, Senator Crane may descend to
the committee on rules, perhaps herald
his advent by turning out the lights
in the vestibule, and then lead his
crony off to the senate restaurant.
The fondness that Senators Crane
and Knox evince for eating together
is reminiscent of the tondness that
former Senator Edmunds of Vermont
and the late Senator Allen G. Thur
man of Ohio used TO have for drinking
together That was in the earlier
days, when drinking at the capitol was
not frowned upon.
All the oldsters in political Wash
ington are fond of recalling that story,
how the two senators kept black bot
tie in the room of the committee on
judiciary. They were certain to ad-
journ there twice or thrice every after
noon that the senate held a long ses-