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men are breaking down under the nervous
strain of trying to do the right thing in
the face of such conflicting and contradic-
tory advjces."
''Wot talk have you, with your win
some pants and your one-button night
mares?" asked the house detective,
Have you been hittin' the pipe in the
back room of a retail clothin' store. or
have you been drinkin' absinthy frappys
at a merchant tailors' convention"
I've merely been reading up on the
the hotel clerk. I've been trying to in
form myself how a man shall attire HIM
self in order to avoid making himself
conspicuous in the best circles. 1t would
appear from my readings that the man
who dresses up like human being this
season is in great danger of being jeered
at. as one lacking in the mere rudments
One article that | saw in the paper says
that not only the coatinSs. the vestings
and the paintings, but even the under
shirtings and the pajamarings and the
porous plasterings, if such be worn must
follow common color tone such as
mauve or shrimp pink or musknleIon tan
in order to stamp a fellow as dresser
of discrimination and individuality And
the attention that is being paid this year
idea. Larry. man of even the simplest
taste is going to need at least six walk
ing canes. and as FOR scarf pins and
Come out of it, admonished the puz-
Zled the house detective. You wouldn't
never fall for no such foolshness as all
that and If you did I'd quit speaking to
you. and SO would all your other friends.
wed talk about you, maybe, but not to
you"
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PERIOD OF MOURNING.

ConventionaIly speaking. widow wears
very deep mourning. that Is heavily
crane trimmed for six months. The same
materials. but only lightly trimmed with
crane. the next six months of the first
year.
Black without Grape is worn for the
first six months of the second year. alter
which time one begins to assume half
mourning. BY the end of two years colors
may be worn again.
During the last three months OF the
second year lavender, gray. white. black
and purple may be worn, and, Of course.
the combination of black and white. BY
adopting such tones for this period the
change OF bright colors is gradual.
You should now chevse, say, a black
and white striped goods for your spring
laiIor-made and may have it made with
lavender or white broadcloth trimmings
as you prefer, in the way OF collar, cuffs,
or vest.
Your bat could be white or lavender
not too large-trimmed with black wings.
or the hat may be black and the trim
n,ings light The veil will be a fine mesh.
neither dotted nor bordered, and your
gloves white. pearl or black.
White briiiiantine may be worn either IN
a coat suit or Il house gown. and brighter
looking black materials such as eollenne,
the silky crepes and bright poplins, may
be adopted Nets, plain, ring spotted or
point d'esprit. viii be correct for evening
wear relieved by white or lavender chit-
fon yokes. and white crepe frock worn
with a white kid jet studded belt suggests
a conventional and pretty afternoon house
toilet Lace does not yet enter into the
list of approved trimmings. but fagot-
ing and narrow ribbons IN Il glossy weave
are allowable.
Bright jet. too, may be substituted for
the dull variety
In regard to stationery, you VIII use the
tiniest hair line border of black until the
time that you may adopt bright colof-s.
Handkerchiefs may be all white, with a
pie narrow hemstitching or white bor-
dered with lavender. \ black border is Il
little conspicuous with half mourning
toilet.
Neckwear may now show little touch
of embroidery, either white or lavender,
and jabots scalloped on the edge with
black or lavender may be worn. The little
bows preferably with hemstitched edge,
will finish the collar. White or lavender
may be worn.
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Drag Hunt and succeeded Sir Robert
Harvey as master of the Harriers. which
position King Edward occupied when he
was a student at the university.
1t is nearly thirty years ago that he
left the university and became member
of parliament. He rowed that same year
in the Henley regatta and in the big
race in which American teams have sew
eral times rowed. 1t was the first and
only occasion in which a member of par
lament has rowed in public race.
He was at this time the most noted oar
in England and the unapproachable
champion punter. He made two wonderful
records in rowing. One was to scull from
Oxford to London within one day. To
those who know the Thames and it's in
n -nerable locks this feat will be appre-
ciated. 1t was done in just twenty-five
hours. The other feat was the stroking
of an eight-oared outraged clinkerbuilt
Skif across the channel from England
to France. This was a far greater feat
than the mere distance Of twenty-five or
so miles would indicate. Each man was
provided with jam pot and when wave
struck the boat the crew would use one
hand and the jam pot TO bail the water
out.
One day Willis Grenfel took a trip to
Switzerland. He had never done any
mountain climbing, yet astonished the
Alpine Club by climbing within eight
days, the Little MatterhOrn, Monte Rosa,
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OUTLOOK FOR GAME.
From Forest and Stream.

From Forest and Stream.
1t is seldom that upland game shoot
ers and anglers look forward to spring
with greater anxiety than they do this
year. The results of the phenomenal
scarcity OF ruffed grouse and the drouth
which practically closed the smaller
streams will not be known until the open
seasons for trout fishing and game shoot
ing shall have come and gone. At pres
ent sportsmen are hoping for the best,
and the optimistic ones predict that the
fishing will be better than the circum-
stances would seem to warrant, and that
more grouse will be found in their old
haunts than seems possible. IL view or
the abundant testimony to their absence
in the autumn. 1t is seldom that our
winters are so mild and open as the
present one has been so far. Here il is
we'll past the middle OF January and In
the vicinity OF New York city at least
only one three-inch fall of snow. Last
week there storm which was ac-
companied by thunder and lightning. ana
blackbirds were seen about the city next
day. The brooks in the hills were open
and quite a showing of green was evil
dent in the woods and meadows. Ice
once, and very little of it then.
In the north woods there has been
some snow, but il seems that the deer
are in gooG condition and able To find
food
From different places in the west ana
even the far northwest somewhat similar
advices have been received. In Alberta
las, week there was little to be seen TO
remind one OF midwinter. In Montana
skies were clear and the air balmy, and
in California and North Carolina wild
fowlers were complaining that the
weather was too warm for their sport.
All along the Atlantic coast during the
open season the duck shooting was un-
satisfactory for this reason, and men
who have waited patiently through the
early winter for kilograms advising then,
of the presence of ducks in the coastal
bays have laid away their guns and are
devotinS their attention instead to rods
and tackle and preparations for the trout
season, now but two months in the fu-
lure.
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the athletic youth of the different
countries. by meeting each other in
friendly rivalry will get to know each
other better and appreciate each other
more.
II is also trusted that these great
international meetings will tend to pro-
mote the true sportsmanlike feeling
among the nations which take part in
them and foster amity and concord,
DEsBoROUGH.'
Lord Desborough personally knows sew
eraI members of the American team. He
met them in Athens at the Olympic
games there two years ago.
There he also met Secretary j. E. Sui
Ivan. 1t is not generally known that 1t
is largely due to MIR. Sullivan that the
games are being held this year in London.
The Olympic games held in Athens two
years ago were not of the regular series.
which are held only~every four years. At
ST. Louis in 1904 it was decided to hold
the next series in Rome. But at Athens
the italian member of the International
committee reported that the outlook was
not encouraging. Mr. Sullivan then ap-
preached Lord Desborough and urged him
to get the series for London. With the
help of America this was done. and the
international committee at The Hague
ratified the proposition.
x y
Il hope to visit the United States again
shortly" said Lord Desborough in answer
to my question. 1T is a grand country.
/ enjoyed my visits there immensely. If
l were not so busy / would visit there
much more often.
Il feel sure that the American anna
tours will here have ID most hearty well
come. We are making great prepara-
tons properly to entertain them ! was
unfortunately not at the st. Louis games.
but I was of the English team at Athens
and saw the Americans perform, and met
many Of them also know something
of their records. The United States will
be very strong in all the track athletics.
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shop gods every time the calendar mouths
a page They seem to stick closer to the
old Idols. A highly sheliacked white shirt
with a white tie and a diamond stud
that's the gambler; same with the tie. but
without the stud-that's' local pastor;
same with the tie slipping around under
the ear and marbled design of tobacco
Juice on the bosom-that's a member of
the legislature; same with no collar, no
tie no stud and craving trip TO the
laundry-that's the man who cleans up
around the place for 30 cents week.
WHY. Larry. the wardrobe is everything
In the country, when it comes to dressing
a part The average politician in back
district can lose nearly everything else
and still hold his own and a little bit of
somebody elses If he clings to two
things"
.Wot two are them?' asked the house
detective.
They're his real vital organs. said
the hotel clerk "One's bis voice. and the
others his Prince Albert coat.
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expect them to win in the short-distance
races in the jumps. throwing the hammer
and so on. but / believe Britain will
make a good showing. and perhaps the
race generally causes more excitement
than any other. In this l look for d
British victory.
Il do not. however. know OF any de-
partment in which the United States ath-
letes will be weak
Lord DesbOrough knows more about the
United States than one would imagine.
1t is generally supposed that his trips
there were only for purposes OF sport
Yet he has made visits especially to study
political situations. and particularly the
tariff and fiscal questions, on which he
is an authority in England.
He is a remarkable man, this peer.
Unauestionably he is the Admira bic
esting and representative sportsman Eng
land possesses. He is a man whom
Americans generally would love. for he
is e man of deeds, not words. He is
not a mere dabbler in many things, but
an al-round champion. Many OF his
records were made in the United States.
and in the near future he may add to
these, for il is an open secret that Lord
DesbOrough is slated for the position of
Governor General of Canada as soon a
change of government from liberal to con-
servative may occur.
1t was in the United States, only a
few years ago that he nearly lost his
life. He was on a big game shooting
expedition in the Rockies became sepa-
rated from his party and wandered around
alone for three days. He was almost
down and out when the searching party
found him. for all his cartridges had been
expended and a blizzard had blown up,
although ii was still the fall.
II was in Florida that he achieved his
feat of capturing on his own line 100
tarpon in enc week. In Maine he shot
the giant cariboO. which for years Rad
been classed mere vision of the
guides.
1t was in the United States too. that
Englands champion performed the re-
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markable feat of swimming across the
Niagara river above the falls. and when
few days later i'll New York city the
swim was doubted he promptly returned
to the falls, plunged in and swan across
again.
Lord Desborough is not alone champion
swimmer but champion fencer, champion
waterman. whether with SOUL, oar or
puntinS pole champion stag shot cham
pion four hand whip. He is also a fla
nous big-g game shot. fisherman, rider to
hounds and mountain climber.
Despite his prowess in these directions.
he was also, as Willie Grenfell. a promi-
nent member of parliament for many
years. d government official, prominent
leader. writer and speaker on bimetallism
and tariff reform, a war correspondent
and a writer of books and magazine
articles He is chairman of the Thames
Conservatory and is nicknamed the F'oS-
ter-father'' of the Thames.
Then he is also very rich man. His
historic and beautiful country seat. Tap
low Court is better known as Honey
moon Hail. from the frequency with
which it is lent to notable bridal couples
for. the first week Of their honeymoon.
This Admirable Crichtor is also the
husband of one of the tallest. weaithiest
and most brilliant women in England.
She has a romantic history. and her
family are the owners of Wrest Park.
now leased and occupied by Whitelaw
Reid. the United States ambassador.
In appearance the president of the
Olynpiad is a giant. He stands six feet
two and has a massive chest and finely
proportional figure. Although tifty-thrpe
years of age his hair is still luxuriant
and without a suspicion of grayness. 1t
are gray-bue. laughing and genial. but'
can turn like steel when need be. He
wears musvache. has regular features
and lis one of the handsomest men in
the house of lords.
Lord Desborough comes Of very
ancient Cornish family, whose scions
served their country in parliament for
80 years. The family in the past were
Interested in banking. His grandfather
married daughter of the Earl of Seton
and his mother was sister of the Earl
of Hardwood Both his parents died
when he was an infant and at twelve
Wars of age his grandfather died and he
succeeded in the family estates. Harrow
gave him his schooling. 1t was at this
school, the great rival of Elton College,
where so many American youths now
go, that Willie GrenfeIl first bloomed out
an athlete. He won all the running
races. and was the crack cricke ter, but
also found time to study. took scholar
ships and honoTS and passed on to OX-
ford University. He represented Oxford
on the athletic field and in the boat races.
On. day he won the three-mile running
against Cambridge. and the next
day was of the eight-oared crew which
rowed a dead heat in the me mOrable on
ford Cambridge boat race. He has the
remarka BILE record possessed by no other
man of having been at the same time
president of the University Boat Club and
president of the University Athletic AS
ISOLATION
At Oxford he was also master of the
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when New York family has got so
used, to having money that its mem
bers can call the servants by their last
names offhand and know how to shake
hands at the level of the Adams apple
without appearing self-conscious it usu-
ally produces young Prince Charming
with a head shaped like pineapple
cheese. who is able TO appear happy and
comfortable in garments that you or
couldn't wear in minstrel first part
without attracting comment
We'll, praise be, men amt ds vain as
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We'll. I suppose you're right" said
the hotel clerk. But it certainly makes
me wistful and envious to read about
the garments that are going to be worn
by the pioneers of the world of fashion
next month. / lack the hardihood my
self to do it, / confess it with shame.
Our stock sprang from the primeval
soil at too recent a period to qualify
me to wear those Pains fireworks
clothes. If ] should become the owner
of pair of the fashionable eggplant
purple half hose, formerly socks, hav-
ing a design of southern smiiaX twined
around the ankles and hollyhoeks in
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YHAT do you think about
~ it, Larry asked the no.
AA/ tel clerk of the St. Reck-
wv less Shall | succumo
10 the long green frock,
modelled on the chaste yet graceful lines
of a string bean. with the double row OF
white buttons scattered along the short
ribs like the stops on an organ? Or snail
I allow my errant fancy TO be wooed into
a meIodious coma by the modish one-but-
ton cutaway as worn with the fashionable
wescut of the new squashed canteloupe
tinto Shall | have the scalloped effect on
The turn-back cuffs? Or shall ! order
some of those tasty side pockets mat are
cut out i'm a curve and put on the bias like
a sharks smile? It's all still an open
question to me. and will probably need
the help of few discriminating friends In
making a selection.
"You see there's such confusion Oh
directions coming from those that are best
qualified to speak out and advise palpl-
,ating and excited public One leading au-
thority.} now. says that the broad INES Vi
wayy braid running down the outer seams
Of the trousers, or pants. II made west Oh
Pittsbur2 will provide truly ~insome
finish to a business suit for forenoon wear.
Another who Is Of equal standing III the
profession especially recommends that
they shall be made loose and care free
around the hips, but turned up at the pot
toms as far as the dictates of good taste
and the size of the knee joint will allow.
X
Personally l have haunting dread
that the long and clinging flock coat may
not become me. II would be fine for
slender willospy form saw like Vice Pres
ident Fairbanks, who is really the only
Gibson girl statesman we've got left; but
while I have good figure that is only
pleasantly plump. still at that I'm willing
to admit that may be getting what you
call lumpy in spots. That's what makes
me hesitate in my selection of the close
fitting or princess effect with the sob
away lapels that open back like the shut
ters on a hen house. All. me. no wonder
so many OF our most prominent young
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women about their buds" said the
house detective.
Quite right said the hotel clerk.
That's one of the grandest things about
our sex, amt it? Still, I've noticed that
when a man joins the knights Templar
or gets appointed in the governors staff.
about the first thing he does is to go
down to the photographers and have
few dozen full lengths taken, in which he
is shown with a pleased smile on his
face. standing up courageously under his
weight of epaulettes and gold-plated cur
tain cords. And I've often caught my
self wondering If so many would turn out
for a lodge funeral Of a member of the
Amalgamated Order of L.aryngitis if they
had to leave off the regalia?
This clothes proposition is funny
game, anyway you take it. Larry. When.
our healthy ancestors were inhabiting
the swamps Of Britain, wearing their own
teeth and hair. and carrying no excess
baggage to speak of, they were savages.
When they fell into the habit of wrapping
up their legs the same as comic opera
banditti and wearing outer garments
which fitted them just as bad as If they
had been made by a fashionable London
tailor OF the present day, they were semi
barbarians. But in this century. when a
man puts on pair OF SuSpenders that
saw into his better nature and divide hiS
disposition into two jagged fragments.
and when he inserts his feet into the
pointed toed shoes that have enabled so
many of our leading chiropodists to buy
country places. and incases his dome in
an opera hat that would be concertina
If it had works in 1t, and backs into an
overcoat that fits him like dog tent. and
sometimes even falls for one of those
tweed suits with such nice broad stripes
in 1t that you have to walk around be-
hind him to see the rest of the pattern
why then he's crowning product of civ
ilization.''
"StilI. at that. / bet there amt no other
town in the United States except New
York thatll stand for them foolish Eng
lish clothes said the house detective.
Were all slaves OF some sartorial tyr
amy or other. whether We get our dis
eases out of an almanac. by the light Of
a log fire at night. or buy them indirect
from high-priced specialist on 5th ave-
nue. remarked the hotel clerk.
THE main difference is that out in the
provinces they don't off after new tailor
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By IRWIN S. COBB.

$$N it, Larry" asked the no.
NA/ tel clerk of the St. Reck-
wv less. Shall | succumo
TO the long green frOck,
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Special correspondence of The Star

LONDON. March =. 1908.
a MERICA'S athletes are sure of
~ rousing welcome in England
"A when they arrive this summer
4 y TO take part in the Olympic
mic ed To urir,
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,rtson and E. A. Finnegan.

ertson and E. A. Finnegan.
Precinct No. 8, South Spring, at
East Grand Plains School House, J.
T. Randle, o. L.. Williams and J. R.
Slease.
Precinct No. 4, Dexter, at Justice
Elford and A. e. Macy.
Precinct No. 5, Hagerman, al JUS
tice of the Peace Office, George c.
Stanford, w. E. Bowen and Harry
Cowan.
Precinct No. +, Lake Arthur, at JUS
tice of the Peace Office, E. c. Jack
son, c. F. Matthews and T. A. Stan
cliff.
Precinct No. Z, Lower Penasco, at
Tillotson School House, E. o. Peck,
]. A. Browning and F. NJ. Smith.
Precinct No. 8, Plains, School House
at Plainview, John T. Beal, Lee Driv-
er and S. Pitt.
Precinct No. 9, Hernandez, at Mum
dy's Ranch, A. Stinson, Lem Bourne
and John Ririe.
Precinct No. 10, Dunlap, at Burton's
Store, R. L.. Moss, G.. B. Patterson
and H. S. Shredder.
Precinct Nc. II, Kenna, at Kenna
Bank & Trust Co. Building, John Kim
mons, W. L. Gillian and A. L. Shipper.
Precinct No. II, Elkins, at Justice
of the Peace Office, B. L.. Cooper, R.
E. Muncy and w. K. Carmichael.
There being no further business
the Board adjourned.
Signed, w. M. Atkinson, Chairman.
| Attest:
(Sea1) f. P. Gayle, Clerk.
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Bio Well at Lake Arthur.

P. G. Chamberlain left Sunday NOR
ming for his home in Topeka, after
spending several days here and at
Lake Arthur, where he as president
is interested in the Artesian Valley
Land Company, owner of "The Farms
of Lake Arthur" The Parker Drilling
Company has just finished another
big well for the land company. 1t
rises % inches over an eignt-inch
casing. The new well is one mile
north of Lake Arthur, and the land
upon which it is located has been
sold to E. l.. Davidson, Of Baxter
Springs, Kan, who will plant it in
apple orchard next spring.
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OF h Board of County
Commissioners of chaves County,
New Mexico, at a special meeting
thereof, held at the Court House in
Roswell, on Saturday, September
26th, 1908. The Board met at $3.50
o'clock p. M.
Present: W. NJ. Atkinson, Chairman
Thos. D. White, Commissioner. F. P.
Gayle, Clerk.
The following citizens OF Chaves
County are appointed Judges of the
General Election to be held in Chav-
es County, on Tuesday, November Bird
1908.
Precinct No. 1. Roswell, at Court
House, Lucius Dills, George l.. WHY'S
and J.. M. Nelson.
Precinct No. 2. s. Roswell al Eag-
les Hall, Fred Behringer, A. M. Rob-
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Among the mean things done by
the boys Saturday night, which can
not be classed as innocent fun, was
the hauling away and scattering In
various parts of town the delivery
wagon of Hill & Dunn Not only were
the wheels found a half mile apart,
but then nuts on the ends of the axleS
were thrown away, causing DOT
trouble and expense.