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Barbour County index., 1910-05-11

thus it came about that Charlie,
youngest of the family, became in
very truth his fathers first golf pupil
Moreover, it did not occur to Taft that
he ought seriously to take his young
son in hand in this matter until after
he had been nominated for president
This was about the time that the pres
ent president began to have opportu-
mites to play with and against the
most skilful amateur golfers in the
world-men such as the mighty Ira
vis-and there was brought home to
him the advantage to any comparative
newcomer in golf in playing with per-
sons having the relative rank of ex-
perts.
For all that, the president was all
the while, very busy man. He set
apart period of each day for the in
struction of his golfing protege. In
struction began when the Tafts were
at Hot Springs, Va; 1t was continued
when Charlie spent with the family at
Augusta, Georgia, the first Christmas
holidays after Taft's election as presi-
dent; and finally it has progressed at
Washington and at Beverly, Mass.
where the Tafts spend each summer
Charlie Taft, alike to his father, does
most Of his golfing in summer, and
during the interval between ten
o'clock in the morning and noon, and
for all that the president has been
wont to have a rather watchful eye
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Charming centerpieces for Nav.

Charming centerpieces for MAY.
AT luncheon tIy this: The center
piece high-handled basket gilded and
tlled with daisies and asparagus ferns.
Tie bunch of daisies and ferns to
the handles with soft pink or pale blue
tatfeta ribbon, carrying an end of the
ribbon down to the basket where it
ends a small bow. At each cover have
small gilded baskets filled with un.
hulled strawberries or cherries. Vel.
low and lavender iris, some call them
hags or fieur de lis, in a tall slender
vase make an unusual center, with
small individual vases at each plate
containing one or two of these stately
blossoms. Yellow and lavender are
very striking and are unusually good
as daytime colors, but they do not
light up well. Candles are not as much
in favor for daytime functions and are
entirely tabooed for these glorious
spring-time functions.
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A Tree Party.

The following letter from valued
correspondent is full of interest and
especially seasonable just now, as l
have had so many requests for just
such parties. l give the letter in de-
tail with grateful thanks:
Last year l entertained the club
on Forestry day. A paper on Tree
Planting" a talk by each lady on
some curious and interesting trees
beneficial to man; song, Voices OF
the Woods a paper on the Famous
Trees of History reading of Wood
man, Spare That Tree The house
was decorated on the interior with
boughs and branches of trees. A
small cedar stationed in small tub
was in center of room. Attached to
this were 26 slips of paper bearing
questions relative to parts of tree.
AS an example: When is tree culti-
vator like some politicians? When he
gratis. What part of a tree is a
mathematical term? Root. What part
part of tree is a letter of the alpha
bet and a conceited fellow? S-prig.
What part of tree is a beverage and
uSdu covering! 1-WlS. ana so on.
Each lady was handed piece of wood
upon which she wrote her answers;
on the other side was burned a forest
scene. A basket of fruit was the
prize. Refreshments consisted of ap-
pies, peeled and followed, cooked
long enough to become soft and
blanched. Almonds were stuck on
all sides to give thorned appearance
These were filled with all kinds of
fruit and nuts chopped together,
sugar added and served with whipped
cream, fruit cake, white cake with
filling of fruits and nuts. 1 live in
small town and find it very hard to
get many ideas, but all thought 1 car
ried out the idea of the subject, and
it was purely original. 1 may have
bored you with all these details; how
ever, my intention was good, as
thought possibly l could offer some
thing in exchange (howsoever poorly
for your kind suggestions and valu-
able advice. MRS. HARRY X.
MADAME MERRI
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Wedding Anniversaries.

Ever and anon comes the request
for list of wedding anniversaries.
am now in possession of this little
rhyme of Tudor jerks, and l hope
every young matron will learn and re
member it for future use. 1t is
capable of attaching to the memory
like the immortal Thirty days hath
September etc." of our childhood
days.
Gifts of paper, choice, not dear,
Mark the bride and groom's first year.
Five years bring substantial wood
Type Of wedlock strong and good.
Ten years, homely gifts bring in
Wares of shining, useful tin.
When the years have reached a score,
China will be priced the more.
Silver If the couple thrive,
Tells the years are twenty-five.
Half a hundred. slowly told,
Bring the wedding day of gold.
So few live TO see arrive
The diamond date. at seventy-fve
That custom says three-score may be
The diamond anniversary.
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SOCIAL LIFE IN RUSSIA

The oldest club in st. Petersburg.
the Angliskie, or English club, was
founded in 1859. 1t does not now num-
Der an Englishman, or any other for
e1gner among its members, though
1t was started by Francis Gardner,
merchant, manufacturer and ship
owner, a partner in the old Muscovy
company, whose first charter was
granted by Queen Elizabeth of Eng
land and Gear Ivan the Terrible.
Throughout the ferment Of a few
years ago st. Petersburg was never
without its crop Of mushroom clubs,
which sprang up in night and
changed their names and the names
OF the games they played every other
month or at shorter intervals If they
failed to reach a working agreement
with the local chief of police. The
old Angliskie klub has watched them
come and go with Indifference.
Its membership has contributed to
the annals of universal clubland.
Boeuf Stroganoff, which figures in the
restaurant menu of mankind, is an in
ventfon of one of its members. Count
Stroganoff; sauce Nesselrode is an
other. named after Alexander is Sec
retary of state, who directed Russia's
diplomacy in the days of Napoleon l.,
and signed the treaty of Vienna after
the Corsican's downfall. Pushkin,
poet and officer of the imperial guard,
"Russia's Byron" was a member, as
was Bismarck's diplomatic rival,
Prince Gortschakoff.
The membership today is drawn
largely from the senior officers of the
army and the nominated members of
the council of empire. The absence
of grand dukes is ascribed to a scene
in the club card room long ago when
one of them after a run of bad luck
threw his hand angrily on the floor.
AS he refused to apologize to the 9TH
er players the committee asked him
to resign.
The grand dukes thereafter trans
ferred their club attendance to the
Yacht club on the Bolstova Morskaia.
an institution which has no more rela-
ton to yachting than the Angliskie
Klub has to do with England. The
social customs of the two are alike
dining, cards and plenty to drink, but
no politics, although. of course. there
must be no speck Of doubt about the
loyalty to the czar of any member.
The Yacht club Is also the resort of
the diplomats resident In st. Peters
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Names on Stationery.

There is a new fashion in writing
paper. 1t consists in using the name
by which you are best known en-
graved in a color across the top of It.
This you use to intimate friends, and
keep the paper with address and in.
itials for formal use.
Whether it is pretty or not is a
question. 1t is fashionable among the
few who start new things and drop
them when the world adopts them.
There is no denying that it gives a
sense Of intimacy to receive a note
written on a short paper that bears
the diminutive of formal first name,
or even nickname, engraved across
the first sheet
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as to his sons form" he is prone to
let the lad work out his own salvation
as a golfer. For time Charlie was
content to conf1ne his activities to a
nine-hole course, but now, like his IA
ther, he scorns anything less than an
1S-hole course.
The president and his eldest son al.
most never go to the golf links save
in golfing attire. Not that there Is
anything conspicuous in the costume
Of either, but some concession. even
though 1t be only outing flannels and
a Scotch cap, is made to the business
in hand. The ever-active Charlie, on
the other hand, as may be surmised
from the accompanying pictures, is no
stickler for togs when a-golf1ng. Incl
dentally 1t may be remarked that the
youngest son of the president Is al
ways much more of hero to his
caddy than is his father. Perhaps this
is due in part to his many lfkeable
characteristics by no means the least
of which is his refreshing democracy.
Ever since he took to golfing, Charlie
Taft has chosen his partners and op-
ponents only with regard to their skill
and sportsmanlike tendencies, and
with no reference to who their IA
theirs might be. Charles indepen-
dence in such matters was evidenced
when his father was secretary of war.
by his summary withdrawal from
Quentin Roosevelt's baseball nine be-
cause of some of the dictates of the
youngest member of the Roosevelt
family.
Charles Phelps Taft is now a stu
dent in his uncle's private school at
Watertown, Conn, and is, at 13 years.
about the youngest boy in the school.
He is preparing to follow in the foot
steps of his father, and his elder
brother Robert, by rounding out his
education at Yale. Meanwhile he is
dividing his recreation hours between
golf and horseback riding. Ever since
President Taft acquired an automobile
as the connecting link between his
place of residence and the nearest
golf links, the versatile Charlie has
been more than anxious to be allowed
to drive the car-the theory of the op-
Grafton of which he has already mas
tered perfectly, thanks to friendly
chauffeurs. However, his father will
not as yet, hear of his adding this to
his other accomplishments.
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burg. The annual subscription is 400
rubles. The dinner is served at one
great table and each newcomer be-
fore he sits down must walk around
and shake hands with the members
who have already begun.
Bridge and poker are the games.
Vindt. the native Russian game, which
Is bridge of four dimensions, has been
driven from the fashionable haunts,
but holds its own at domestic parties
and in the provinces, where the un.
worked tchinovnik will play it daily
from noon till four o'clock the next
morning in his government bureau
with his government colleagues.
There is the German Merchants
club in the center of the city. Like
the two senior aristocratic institutions
1t refuses to admit that its title should
define its membership, which is nei-
ther very German nor very mercan-
tile. 1t is the synonym for good
bourgeois comfort and is probably the
most steadily prosperous of all the
clubs.
Its social complexion resembles the
recently founded Octobrists club for
moderate politicians, founded by the
party of that name. Their radical op-
ponents founded a constitutional DEM
ocratic club three years ago.
The problem that the gregarious in
stinct of Russians in their long, dark
evenings has set before the governor
of the city springs mostly from the
smaller clubs. In a tentative way the
chiefs of the government are trying to
steer them into what are officially
looked on as safe and wholesome
courses. Prime Minister Stolypin has
just sent good wishes to the newly
formed Academic club of senior stu
dents and graduates, whose bond of
union is interest in scholarship and
university studies.
None of these institutions is allowed
to see the light until its articles of as
sociation have been passed through
a minute and suspicious examination
by the officials of the ministry of JUS
tice.
The ingrained fear of meetings In
fiuences every application of the re-
gime of REINFORCED protection. In the
private rooms of restaurants where
dinner parties are given, there must
be no key or bolt to the doors, nor
may the restaurant keeper supply his
guests with writing materials. II a
party OF more than ten are to meet In
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MORE THAN TWO
THOUSAND PEOPLE
SEE COOPER DAILY

During L. T. Coopers recent stay In
Boston, it is estimated that sixty-five
thousand people talked with him and
purchased his medicine This is an
average of over two thousand a day.
His success is so phenomenal as to
cause universal comment both by the
public and the press. There must be a
reason for this. Here is the reason
given in his own words by Mr.. Cooper
when interviewed on the subject. He
said:
The immense numbers of peoplu
who are calling on me here in Boston
is not unusual. I have had the same
experience for the past two years
wherever have gone. The reason is
simple one. 1t is because my medi-
cine puts the stomach in good condi.
tion. This does not sound unusual.
but it is in fact the key to health.
The stomach is the very foundation OF
life. l attribute 80 per cent. of all
sickness directly to the stomach.
Neither animals nor men can re-
main we'll with a poor digestive ap-
paratus. Few can be sick with diges-
ton in perfect condition. AS matter
of fact, most men and women today
are half-sick. 1t is because too much
food and too little exercise have grad
ually forced the stomach into a half
sick condition. My medicine gets the
stomach back where it was, and that
Is all that is necessary"
Among Boston people who are
staunch believers in Mr.. Cooper's
theory, is Mr.. Frank D. Brown, of 81
Bloomingdale street, Chelsea, Mass.
He says:
For five years have sought relief
for indigestion. stomach trouble and
dyspepsia, spending nearly all my
wages with doctors and obtaining no
results. l had dull pains across my
back, radiating to the shoulders.
had splitting headaches, which nothing
seemed to cure. There was a gnaw-
Ing and rumbling in my stomach and
bowels. I was troubled with vertigo
and dizziness, and at times almost
overcome by drowsiness.
Il felt tired and worn out all the
time, my sleep was not refreshing, and
[ would get up in the morning feeling
as weary as when l went to bed. My
appetite was variable-ravenous at
times, then again nauseated at the
sight of food. Sometimes my face
was pale. at other times flushed.
was constipated and bilious, and had
catarrhal affection in nose and throat,
which caused me to hawk and spit a
great deal, especially in the morning.
l heard so much of the Cooper reme-
dies that 1 decided to try them. After
taking one bottle, a tapeworm SO feet
long passed from my system. I felt
better almost Immediately. All my
troubles disappeared as if by magic.
and my improvement was rapid. Inow
feel entirely well, and can honestly
recommend Mr.. Cooper's medicine to
anyone who suffers as 1 did,
Cooper's New Discovery is sold by
all druggists. If your druggist can.
not supply you, we will forward you
the name of a druggist in your city
who will. Don't accept something
just as good. The Cooper Medicine
Co., Dayton, Ohio.
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Hints for Hostess
Variety of NoDeL and Pleasing Entertainments,
Designed by Expert

- HIS is the month that
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ing quite the thing to
Shower" expectant brides-elect some
time before the wedding day, thus pre-
venting such an unmanageable rush of
affairs at the very last minute. So
many June brides are to be the re-
cipients of these pretty little functions
this month. OF course only the dear
est friends and relatives are asked to
participate.
| want to tell you of novel pin"
shower that is to be given next week
by a card club of IL who have been
together for years, and this is to be a
delightful as we'll as a sad occasion, as
the bride is to go to a foreign land
to make her home.
The hostess has chosen green and
yellow for her color scheme, as it
shows up beautifully in the daytime.
Glorious daffodills. jonquils and tulips
with the natural leaves are to be ar
ranged "a la Japan" a few blossoms
held upright in flower holders. Each
guest is to send her gift daintily
wrapped in tissue paper, accompanied
by an original rhyme. The center
piece is to be fat green satin heart
on a dolly of white; in it are to be
pins of all descriptions working out
the monogram of the happy pair. At
tached to the cushion there is to be
circle of safety pins to which chains
OF graduated safety pins will make
chain to the place of each guest. Place
cards are to have the names spelled
out in pins, the heads of various col
ors. The napkins are to be pinned
with long violet pins and the nut
holders are to be pinned to the table
by hat pins, each with different top.
Suspended over the table there is to
be a doll-size watering pot covered
with crepe paper; from the spout a
shower of baby ribbon having a wee
heart-shaped card on the end. When
the parcels are opened there will be
found belt pin, veil pin, hair pins of
all sizes, barrette, cubes of all sorts of
pins, and last, but not least-a rolling
pin.
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Shower for a Bridegroom.

A certain bride-to-be had been the
recipient of showers innumerable, so
a dozen young bachelors carried out
this scheme. They invited a dozen
girls to a den" and shop" shower.
All the bridegroom's intimate friends
knew his fad for using tools and his
dream of shop of his own. The af-
fair was given at night, and a right
merry time resulted. The girls ar
ranged to bring articles especially
suitable for the den and the men came
bearing a good-sized chest for the
tools, with many acceptable instru-
ments. l must add that there were
no invitations out for this wedding, as
is was to be an entirely private cere-
mony. so the friends were glad to
make an opportunity for bestowing
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any hired room they must give 4s
hours notice to the police, stating the
purpose of their gathering, even if 1t
is only dance or a wedding feast.
st. Petersburg has an excess of
male population, due to the greater
number of men from the provinces in
the junior branches of the imperial
administration, and to the aggrega-
ton of young army officers. More
youngsters lose great sums at cards
than In any other capital in Europe.
and the cheating is notorious. The
gambling clubs that get closed and
reappear In other premises are usual
ly marked down on the complaint of
a family whose son has gone bankrupt
at their tables. At nearly all of them,
men and women play side by side and.
OF course, take one another's money
with equal remorselessness. Period
1cally there Is a crisis. Somebody
cuts the light of while his confeder.
ate scoops the stakes on the tables.
few revolver shots follow. there IA
a rush for the street and the police
are brought in
hPo III lu0 gam Ding clubs
are so numerous and know so much
about each other that nothing can be
done to get up evidence for a prose-
cutlon. The police have no authority
to arrest officers of the army and ma.
Wy. If they are mixed up in a club
scandal the officer of the brigade on
guard duty must be sent for to dis.
cipline them.
This absolute authority of the ga
nior officer over all military and naval
men at all times overrides club com.
m1ttees or any other social authority
and 1t is exercised without compunc-
ton.
In the main saloon of a leading res
taurant here some years ago, the late
Grand Duke Vladimir after copious re-
freshment left his table, went toward
the wife of civilian, patted her on
the shoulder and told her she was
beautiful. The husband sprang up
and pushed him sharply back some
yards. Diners and the walters looked
for scene, but q very old man in
generals uniform-all military off,
GERS whether on the active or reserve
list wear their uniforms ut all tines
got up and crossed to the grand duke
with the order In one sentence to re-
port himself at once to the military
commandant's quarters.
Vladimir went without q word.
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Was Taking No Chances.

Once upon time a fond mother
disapproved of her daughter marrying.
This was the more awkward because
the young lady had picked the young
man out. Also he had wealth. And
the mother, who was widowed, had
not the wherewithal to furnish her
daughter with the variety of frocks
and things which her youthful heart
craved. II might not object to the
man so much" said the mother one
evening, "if you would only let me
see him. But here is a man whom
have never set eyes on, and yet one
whom you insist on taking for hus-
band. l don't understand such Sc
crecy!" The daughter replied: ''If
l ever introduced him you'd insist on
marrying him yourself"
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means Of diversion and contributory
influence of good health may be
formed from the fact that he recently
insisted that his youngest son, Charlie,
should take up the game. What is
more, the president took time to per-
sonally instruct the junior member of
his family in the rudiments of the
sport.
1t should be explained just here,
that 1t did not require much insistence
on the part of the president to induce
Cheerful Charlie" as he has been
aptly nicknamed, to follow the white
balls over the greensward The 49,
year-old son of the present chief
magistrate is, with the possible excep-
ton of one or two of the Roosevelt
boys, just about the liveliest lad that
ever resided at the White House, and
the only explanation of why he did not
learn golf long ago must be found in
the fact that he simply overlooked the
game. Everything else from tennis to
sailing he had mastered ere he set out
to conquer his first golf course.
Mr.. Robert Taft, the eldest son of
the president. became a pretty good
golfer almost unconsciously in the
days when he and all his cousins gath
cred every vacation at the common
summer rallying ground of the whole
Taft clan at Murray Bay. Canada, on
the shore Of the st. Lawrence river
Miss Helen Taft has never cared
much much for golf as compared with
horseback riding and motoring and
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His Last.

His Last
Poets Wife-My husband read this
poem at public celebration before
thousands of people. Alas! it was the
last poem he ever wrote.
Publisher see. Did they lynch him
or shoot him?-Leslie's Weekly.
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then the material is cut away from
the back and twisted bars are worked
across.
The rose-buds are in very fine cord
ing-stitch, dot and satin stitches: the
stalks are in coarser cording stitch:
the leaves and tie-over of the bow in
satin stitch White embroidery cot
ton of two sizes should be used.
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A Statesman.

The Chinese wall was finished.
II do all my fence mending at one
lick" announced the emperor.
Thus he proved himself a statesman
instead of politician
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@@ HIS is suitable design
,HA, for ornamenting the cor
w n ners OF any square for
NGE which dainty embroidery
pattern is needed; it
would be effective on tea
serviettes or tray cloths, and for
handkerchiefs of rather large size.
The bow and flowing ends are in
open work; the edges buttonholed
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An Enterprisina Ace.

An GnterprIsin9 Age.
What are you affixing to these park
benches?"
I'VE have the opera glass privilege.
Drop in nickel and see the comet
Kansas City Journal.
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some tokens of esteem. A Dutch SUP
per was served at ten o'clock, consist
Ing OF potato salad. rye bread sand
wiches, herring. pickles, coffee, beer,
with crackers, cheese and apple tarts.
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RESIDENT TAFT has
several hobbies, but
foremost of these
measured by loyalty
and enthusiasm - Is
the game of golf, of
which he has been a
devotee for a number
Of years past. Some
idea of the estimate
which he places on
Il