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ROYAL COMPOSERS.
Henry Wills Anthems Sung by Cathedral
Choirs-Prince Albert's Works.

From the London Chronicle.
The first of the English sovereigns who
won fame as composer was Henry VIII
Many of his anthems are sung to-day by
cathedral choirs. He also wrote a melodiots
effusion. Now Fsyre, Fayrest of Every
Fayre.' to quote the original title, for the
marriage Of his sister Margaret with James
". Of Scotland" said Miss Alys Lorraine.
Charles !. was another composer and I
am including In my programme his effective
setting Of Thomas Carew's poem Mark How
the Blushful Morn
I think everybody knows that Queen Vic.
torta was flne singer and q good pianist
and the late Prince Coneort was most jealous
in popularizing the art in this country. The
majority Of Prince Albert's compositions have
been collected and pu ublished or the present
members OF the royal family the most dis
tinguished as composer is Princess Henry
Of Battenberg.
Turning aside to foreign courts, the Ger
man Emperor has won some fame for his
Song to Egir,' which Ia included in my pro-
gramme. The late Duke Ernst III. of Sake
Coburg -Gotha the brother of the Prince Com
sort, composed several operas.
Marie Antoinette will be represented in the
programme by her setting OF Florian's 'C,est
Mon Ami, and from the many works of the
Saxon monarch Anthony the Good. who died
In 1896. have chosen a song he composed In
celebration Of the birth Of his nephew, Prince
Clement.
Who was the greatest royal composer,
Well, I should think that honor might fall
to the nephew OF Frederick the Great. Prince
Louis Ferdinand OF Prussia, who was killed
at the battle Of Saalfeld."
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ground and sit airily on the soft end. The
average length Of the club game is an hour.
and in that time the players walk gently
and constantly in all about ten miles.
which furnishes NICE rational amount Of
exercise. AS it Is no uncommon stunt for a
member to play three games in an afternoon
it is easy to understand why health and
longevity are 80 apparent.
Croquet. it Is learned from the experts,
does not strain the heartstrings nor bring
on apoplexy. as walking out with your
wfe's dog, or moving O lawn has been
known to do. The danger of a badly
putted golf ball. which may hit tho skull
OF an innocent passer-by. does not exist
here. There are absolutely no highballs
allowed on the croquet field.
1t is well understood, an explanation very
delicately offered by one of the senior
players. that as played to-day croquet is
altogether too scientific for ladies', so that
there can be no domestic wrangles. no accu-
sation OF a croquet rendezvous as the real
reason for the absence Of the head Of the
family from pink teas and the like, which
in itself should be a sufficient explanation
for its popularity
While it is quite true that the common
people always will play the croquet game.
their game Is entirely different from that
exhibited by the clubs. The difference is
not only one Of implements-ln the former
case whole sets can be had at s1.29. while
the scientific players use vuloanized balls
at $40 dozen, mallets at $3.50 each, and
wickets Of rubber equally valuable-but it
is difference as well of rule. ~.
The rules adopted by the clubs are those
collated and used by the Brooklyn Croquet
Club. The game played is known as the
tight game. The stake shows only four
colors, arranged in the way the players are
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are merely fair weather players. there
were many winters when like their esteemed
contemporaries they played right through
I This was when the site OF the Majestic
Theatre was vacant lot, owned by
John G. Emo, who was an intimate friend
Of one of the players. Mr.. Fowler. and
gave the club the privilege Of using it
rent free.
1t was boarded up. dirt court made
and there every day the Union club met
A number Of times Mr.. Emo was offered a
couple Of thousand dollars for the lease
Of the ground. which he refused. There
Mr.. Fowler played until the year before
his death. when he was 90.
Mr.. Welsh takes his age as a starting
point to emphasize the fact anew that cro-
quet playing tends to long life, as is proved
by the records. He says. too. that man
cannot have indigestion IL he plays every
day from IL to 9. A-genuine croauet player
never complains OF nerves and sleepless-
ness. 1t concentrates the mind and pre-
vents worry in consequence.
The croquet player is not scared by bad
weather and consequently toughens him
self by exposure The game itself is a
quiet protest against the sins of hurry
and scramble, the marks Of an unregen-
crate and restless age. The American
man who forms the habit OF work and in
consequence goes on working after the
need has passed, II he once forms a liking
for croquet will never be accused Of this
error against common sense.
He points out as a proof Of these asser-
tions the massive figure OF Oscar Purdy,
the senior member of the club. Mr.. Purdy
is attired in dove gray, light felt hat,
sky blue necktie and russell sneaks Mr..
Purdy Is just turned 80 and plays every
day from May until November.
The Rev. DR.. John Paxton was former
member OF the club, and his frook coat.
patent leather pumps and silk hat were
familiar objects for many years. Con-
temporary with him was the Rev. DR..
George Gross, who now lives up the State
but was an active participant in the sport
for fifteen years.
Ten doctors are on the roster at present.
and the name Of DR.. Samuel Tracy is ia
miliar to the older members. The Rev.
DR.. Gsrmond died last year. his age hardly
commensurate with that expected Of q
oroquet player. and the Rev. DR.. Lowney
and the Rev. DR.. Patton are still enrolled
with the Rev. DIR. De Witt.
The father Of Gov Hughes is an enthusi-
asst and played with the Union club until
he moved to Brooklyn. He transferred his
membership then to the Brooklyn club.
R. J. O'Connell, writer Of jokes. has beer
a member since the inception, and could
not pursue his profession successfully, so
he believes without the gentle stimulus
to the humorous faculties afforded by the
game.
One Of the rampant Socialists, W. F.
Client, who is described by a junior Of the
club as being regular blood and thunder
anarchist and dealing in hair raising liter
ature. chooses oroquet as his relaxation
and Ia a much admired and feared men,
ber. He also acts as secretary Of the club.
The other officers are James Taylor. presi-
dent; DR.. Dexter, vioe-president, and Mr.
Cook. treasurer.
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lesson OF your childhood, that the man who
saves money really makes it and that when
a mans life is filed with the interest Of
croquet he has neither time nor inclination
for speculations.
The oroquet players are all dandies.
They are nicely ,groomed. with fresh pink
faces. and many OF them, like the Dun
dreary gentleman above mentioned. add
hirsute adornments to the roseate hues Of
their cheeks, They are never dusty or
unkempt, and it is only occasionally that
they relax into the abandon of removing
their coats. Such horror as a collarless
croquet player has never been known to
either club, although ono of the New Yorks
whispered that once-but then, it may have
been his bad eyesight. and perhaps we had
better not mention It,
They have ono and only one distinction
by which you may know them from other
middle aged gentlemen who have bank
accounts. good tailors. careful feminine
oversight and taste toward neatness and
elegance in attire. Their trousers all have
strange masses OF wrinkles at the knees.
If you watch a good croquet player, see him
bend over and sight his opponents ball the
length of a field. you will easily know the
reason thereof. They are distinctly cro-
quet wrinkles. known to the cult.
Wrinkles there are in the trousers. but not
in the faces. These represent in their
smooth surfaces absolute lack OF those
widely known things yclept worry. irri-
tation. safety. The embonpoint OF middle
age. too. is kept nicely In check.
Some OF the members walk jauntily with
a hip motion which denotes joyous
temperament untrammelled by q weighted
conscience. Occasionally you will see a
tnsmbsr put the stem Of his maIlet In tho
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grouped black. white, blue and red When
you ask, innocen tly, if black and blue do
not always go together in every game an
admonitory cough tells you that you have
moved little outside the boundaries of
good taste in suggesting humorous oom-
hinations Of that kind Little clips or in
Gators arc placed by each player on the
Sioket he Is aiming at, which does away
with the mnemonic obsession that made
the old game so difficult
In nothing else do the members OF the
clubs show their opposition to the received
tendencies Of the born and bred Manhattan
ite more than in the heartfelt tribute they
pay to the Brooklyn players According
TO unanimous opinion there are no such play
ers in the United States as these, first of
whom is DR.. George Wordenburg.
He is spoken of as grand shooter. and
it is due to his care that the rules of the
old games We're compiled in their present
scientific form. He has taken many prizes
in tournaments and has been president
Of his club for number of years. The
Brooklyn Croquet Club has 100 members,
including some women. and is divided
into four CLASSES the experts and the first,
second and third CLASSES. Besides DR..
Wordenburg in the expert class are F. NJ.
jackson. George Barber and MIR. Rice
While the Union club with its larger
membership Of thirty-five is undoubtedly
more popular with the fans than the New
York with its exclusive roster of six. still
the latter is by no means left alone in it's
glory. Its play is watched intenty. il
not very enthusiastically. by a number
OF men. women and children.
This rim of lookers-on forms about the
heavy cord which marks the boundary
line, and sometimes one of them sauatting
on the grass falls sleepily within the field
The children keep wary eye on the balls
and when they get out of bounds roll them
back. to the irritation Of the players, who
are thus deprived Of their legitimate exer-
else. When a particularly good play has
been made there is faint "Oh" OF "Ah"
heard, and once in the crowd of hundred
or 50 The SUN reporter heard faint
handolap. stified Immediately as II tho
aggressor was conscious Of his breach Of
good manners.
The most interesting spectator Is a lone
mortal who sits by himself near the furthest
stake chewing blade Of grass refiectively.
He has all the hall marks of prisefghter
out Of business Temporarily. He 10 band
aged and bruised and has apparently
orawied to this sunny spot to te6t the
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o,irativ,s powsslrrs q ths ln,a.ural asen.s

curative powers Of the natural agents
Sum and air. yls,. l
In his face horror and disgust are plainly
visible, II does not require an overworlsed
imagination on your part to picture the
working Of his, which sees his own finish
whom the rigid requirements Of the ring
can no longer be met with ,g ,sN
You trace these mentai pictures the
public match, the private bout, the teach
ing of young muscle, the down wn-and-outer,
and finally. the oroquet player, who is not
allowed to give any punch except to his
ball and no blood Is shed. 1t ls no wonder
that he finally spits out the grass and
CALCULATES. -Piffiel" word at which the
croquet players prick up their ears as II 1t
were unfit for such place. and oon noluding
thatit could not be found in the vocabulary
Of tho Brooklyn. Oroquet Club they re-
place 1t with the mild admonition, sit thee
down, Charles and THAT was a pretty
little play of Fred's, now
The Union club is twenty-five years old
and was organized by John II. Welsh, who
was for many years it's president. Six
years ago the last tournament between
the Brooklyn and the Union club players
took place and Mr.. Welsh and Dr. Worden-
burg were opponents. There was Q diff
ference at the end Of one game in DIR. Wor-
denburg's favor. The games took three
hours and there were more than 1000 spec
tators present.
Mr.Welsh admits that at that time people
knew good plays when they saw them
and were 90 we'll up In tho intricacies Of
tho game that they could applaud finely
executed technical shot with fine discern
ment. To-day II man hits . bali at one
end Of the ground with another ball struck
from the other end and makes big noise
doing It he may get an Idle hand. He
points out that the very best play made
In the just finished game. the placing Of
q ball between the wires Of a wicket 30
that 1t was practically dead. absolutely
elicited not even glance Of understanding
from the rim Of spectators. which all goes
to show that the greatest game In the world
has shared the fate Of many another art
and has been left behind while the people
chase newer pleasures less worthy Of their
time and attention. .....
While the accusation Of the New York
club is true that the Union club players
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Sounds Fish Make,

From the London Daily Nevs
The horse mackerel or scad In said TO grunt
Purring noises are heard from the cuckoo
gurnard when II is being removed from the
water. The herring, again, is said TO emit a
faint squeak when the net has been dra vn
over il, and there are other fishes which are
credited with vocal powers.
Most certain OF all is the case OF tho little
creature known to many a shrimper and
nshsrboy as the hummer, or. hard head
when held IN the hand near to the ear "piS,. pro-
duces so distinct buszing noise Iat it
on. caused BY the sound u ' peroeptib,s b'Is, by
the hand. le secns 70 be the result Of fear.
snd d Gomez apparently from the inside oi
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LIFE IN THE SUBWAY.
Wit and Humor as They Affect the Ticket
Seller.

The fresh young man paraded down In
front of the booth In the subway station
and slapping down dime said:
= 1Give me two In the front row. can't
see very WE'LL
Then as the ticket seller stared at him In
amazement he gathered up the tickets
and cantered away laughing.
Huh growled the tioket man, she
amt as bad as the fresh guy who hands In
n nickel and says Give me two! They all
seem 70 think that How manyr, sign 10 a
good Joke. " s
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ing and shipping.
HTo produce good melons for the home
garden ! should advise warm, sandy land
Heavily enriched. II such land is not to be
had the gardener may readily grow them
on much colder and heavier soil by digging
broad deep hills and filing them with well
rotted stable manure mixed with as loamy
earth as is to be had. These hills should
surrounding surface soil when the seeds
sIhe most serious menace to successful
melon growing is the foliage blight. Even
though the foliage is only slightly affected
the fruit is often seriously damaged both
ruin an entire patch in only few days.
AThe best preventive 30 far as know Is
spraying with Bordeaux mixture at inter-
walls Of from ten to fifteen days. beginning
as soon as the plants are well started. For
a small garden there is no need to go to the
expense Of buying pumping apparatus,
as the Bordeaux mixture can readily be
applied with whiskbroom.
with he land and culture right there
are three causes for poor. quality In meions.
Either they have been picked prematurely
or the seed has been poor or else there
The only way to distinguish between bad
and good seed is by having a test patch
for the purpose OF trying new seeds and
varieties. Nobody 30 far AZ have heard
has ever been able 70 Tell wnat q melon
seed would bring forth.
After cantaIoupe becomes fully grown
there seems to come a period OF several
days when It remains semi dormant. Then
YOU will notice that the stem where IL Ia
attached TO the melon will begin to swell
and have shiny and greasy appearance.
The next symptom will be little crack
ing away OF the stem from the melon and
when by just touching the melon the stem
parts from IL you may be sure you have the
frliit La its perfection OF development. !,
For homo gardens would rscommsnd
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-05-07
Pla ees two TkousaN nd Farms on Market

Washington, d. c., May 1.-The
government placed on the market to-
lay more than 1900 farms, and will
illow their purchasers ten years
within which to pay for them. The
irea of the farms ranges from 10 TO
100 acres and they are all close TO
railroad connections. The farms are
,uade available by the completion and
development of irrigation projects In
the west.
In Nevada, In connection with
the rrockee-C Carson project. farms OF
80 acres can be taken up with an en-.
Try fee OF ss aud o. per acre annually
for 10 years. There are 1000 OF
these farms. In Oregon 200 farms
ire available on the Umatilla project
II from 10 To 20 acres These LANDS
viii cost from 5000 TO 1920. In
south Dakota, on the Belle Fourchc
project, l75 farms are available In
tracts OF 50 acres; In Wyoming, 200
On the North Platte project and 200
~ the Shoshope project, costing
from 5000 To 200. Residence and
cultivation OF the farms win be re.
quired OF purchasers, and every
means is TO be taken TO guard against
spectators getting bold Of then.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-05-07
NOTICE To 90 OWNER.

To ihe heirs, executors. assigns, % admin.
,sifaiors OF John SBDser.
Won are hereby notified that !. your co own.
er. have expended $1,000 IN labor and i'm
provsmenis upon each 81 the following
named Lode mining Claims situated in Dab
lOnega Mining. District. County Of l-cmhi
aud State Of Idaho, 10 wit the Iowa" Tod,
claim. recorded in Book al at page 100
The slowa Extension" lode claim. recorded
IN took Il !" al page Igs. and the Iowa Mol
lode claim recorded in Book N" at page -
otficiai records Of Lemhi County. State Of
Idaho.
The expenditure Of said sums, to;alins
$1,000 being necessary t. hold the sh,os
named lode claims for the year 1907 undei
the provisions OF Section zgzs Revised Stat
uies Of the United States
II. within ninety DAYS Of the completion d
this notice by publication. you fail 10 eoRtnb
ute your proportion Of the above mentioned
4 e1penditnTf. as owner o. an undivided one
hall interest IN the above named lode claims
amounting 10 sfso.oo, your interest Ia ihl
above mentioned claims viii become n,
property Of the undersigned under IN
/ provisions Of Section aga above name.
Dated at Cibbonssille, Idaho. februar
REUBEN BENNETT
Fur publication February s7th foos
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-05-07
In Very Serious Condition.

New York, May 1.-The Evening
World gives prominence TO-DAY TO the
following:
There is a report current I'm Hnan-
cisl circles. emanating from the Office
Of the Equitable Life Assurance So
ciety: that former President Grover
Cleveland is a sufferer from cancer OF
the stomach and that his case has
been pronounced hopeless by special.
lists called into consultation by Dr.
Joseph u. Bryant, of this city. the
family physician.
Mr.. Cleveland remains at the Lake
wood hotel In Lakewood, n. j., al
though the hotel closed FOR the sea.
son ten days ago. His wife and chi.
dren are the only other guests. A
physician and nurses are In constant
attendance, and a small stat ol
servants has been retained 10 lool
after the Cleveland family.
| Efforts to confirm the EvenInl
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-05-07

Bureau OF the Capital News, u
Munsey Building.

bureau OF The Capital News, I2i |
Munsey Building.)
Washington, ID. G., April Ill |
will have the Pennsylvania delega.
tion In the Denver convention, - said
W. j. Bryan the other day; whereat
many scofied, predicatlLg their scott
ing on the report. widely published.
that National Committeeman Guifey,
strongly anti-Bryan, equally strongly
pro-Standard Oil, had won an IN
equivocal victory In the Pennsylvania
primaries.
While Mr.. BRYAN has sometimes
missed guess as TO 4 general cleo
tlon result In the nation, as, indeed,
all politicians often do, he usually
has made specific assertions as to q
particular state only when he knew
his facts. These facts are:
At least two-thirds OF the delegates
chosen nj the recent uniform prin,ar-
les In Pennsylvania are committed
to Bryan. A majority OF the dele
gates selected are under absolute In
srtuctions. The state delegates to
meet May 20 at Harrisburg will show
these allegations are true. Pennsyl-
vania has - election districts, send
Ing "a national district delegates TO
Denver. The bryan men eleoted 81
o! these "a, and IL is beyond question
that .he large to bt
chosen May 20 will be tried Bryan
men aud that they will go to Denver
instructed for the Nebraskan.
Mr.. Guifey did not win the victory
credited to him, In the press dis
patches. so that the claim OF Mr..
Bryan lately that he would have
Pennsylvania at Denver is grounded
in accomplished fact.
1t Is noted that anti-Bfyan men
are standing for the maintenance Of
democratic traditions Ms TO the two
thirds rule In national conventions,
l. rule established In 1892 and hon
ored invariably ever since, The unit
rule Tor state delegations Is an equally
well established democratic tradition.
Such rule maintained at Denver,
therefore, will give Mr., Bryan that
,tate solidly; aud, even although
such rule were ahrogated, he would
have more than "A majority OF Penn
sylvania's delegates, according TO the
foregoing.
| Authority for the assertion was
carried to Mr.. Bryan during his visi,
TO New York recently, by Pennssl'
vania friend, who demonstrated &c
him the situation beyond peradvent'
! ure.
Yet with practically no exceptions
the country has been informed that
!. Pennsylvania repudiated Mr. Bryan
At its primaries.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-05-07

Mr.. Norris said that he and his
associates bad come before the COM
mittee in answer to its summons OF
yesterday. 1--WE APPEAR said be,
"as representatives of all the daily
newspapers Of the United States.
We consume at least SO per cent of
tile newspaper print paper used In
the United States. We appear here
as representatives of the seventh
largest Industry i'm the country; an
industry that has been menaced by
an extraordinary aggregation of law
breakers. :"
Mr. Norris declared that his asso-
citation had appealed to the house, to
the president, to the department OF
justice and to congress for immedi.
ate relief and for months hau been
asking an opportunity to tell their
ste-y to congress. In reply he said
his association had been told at least
twenty times and in various ways
that they could not look for any re-
taxation OF the expressions, which
the papermakers, ''as the objects OF
congressional favor had imposed up.
on the vast public interests of the
country and that congress would not
aid at this time In correcting gross
public wrong"
Therefore he said the association
was apprehensive that the investiga
tion, because it had been started late
in the session, could only have one
meaning, ''delay, postponment and ;
continuance for another year OF con
ditions which are intolerable. +"
Mr.. Norris said that the associa
tion did not intend tC imply an,
mistrust of the committees inten
lions, and he asked under what pro
gram the committee will proceed
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Worlds statement that Mr.. Cleveland
Ia suffering from cancer and that bis
condition Is critical are unavaiIiug.
owing TO the extreme reticiencc Oh
served by all connected with the case
since the beginning Of the former
presidents illness.
When DT. Bryant, who has been
Mr.. CleveIand's physician for years,
was asked whether IT. was correct
that his patients illness bad been
diagnosed as cancer Of the stomach
he replied
"Mr Cleveland Is all right There
is nothing ! can tell you Of any In.
terest."
AT the Lakewood hotel today IL
was said that Mr.. Cleveland vas
making very satisfactory progress
and that there vas no material
change In his condition. The repor,
that the former presidents case has
assumed a grave aspect was denied.
| Later DR.. Bryant said that h,
could not as physician make public
the diagnosis In the case Of any o.
bis patients
Il have received favorable reports
from Lakewood and expect TO taxi
a train for there late this after
! noon"