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Barbour County index., 1910-05-18
GAME FOR ATHLETIC GIRLS
English Maidens Take Up New Pas
time Goalo, Which Is Expected to
Supplant Basketball.

The athletic girl in England has
just taken up a new game, which is
expected to supplant basketball in ia
vor. 1t has some of the characteris-
tics of this vigorous pastime, COM
bined with many of the possibilities
of association football. The game can
be played either in the open or in a
gymnasium, and is simple, cheap and
healthful at the same time that it
affords the necessary amount of ex-
citement. Goal posts with a top bar
are placed In the center of the field
of play. Strips of webbing divide the
upper part of the goal into squares.
The rival players, who may be one or
half a dozen on each side, are sta
toned on opposite sides of the goal,
and, with each square numbered, the
object is to score the greatest num-
Der Of points by sending the ball
through the spaces. 1t is against the
rules to run with the ball, but it may
be thrown or kicked, and the game
thus affords excellent exercise for the
arms and shoulders, as is the case
in basketball. The game, which is
the outcome of prize competition or
ganized by newspaper. has been
named Goalo.
Barbour County index., 1910-05-18
The Marquesans, Strong and Hand
some People, Are Literally
Rotting Away.

Of all the inhabitants of the South
seas, the Marquesans were adjudged
the strongest and the most beautiful.
And now all this strength and beauty
has departed, and the valley OF Typee
is the abode of some dozen wretched
creatures. afflicted by leprosy, ele-
phantiasis and tuberculosis. Melville
estimated the population at 1000, not
taking into consideration the small
adjoining valley of Ho-o-u-mi. Life has
rotted away in this wonderful garden
spot, where the climate is as delight
full and healthful as any to be found
in the world. Not alone were the
Typeans physically magnificent; they
were pure. Their air did not contain
the bacilli and germs and microbes of
disease that fill our own air. And when
the white man imported in their ships
these various micro-organisms of dis
ease the Typeans crumpled up and
went down before them.
When one considers the situation,
one is almost driven to the conclusion
that the white race flourishes on i'm.
purity and corruption. Natural selec
ton, however, gives the explanation
We of the white race are the survivors
and the descendants of the thousands
of generations of survivors in the wal
with heterogeneous. Whenever one
of us was born with constitution pc
culiarly receptive to these minute enc
mics, such one promptly died. Only
those of us survived who could with
stand them. We who are alive are thu
immune, the fit-the ones best consti
tuted to live in world of hostile mi
cro-organisms. The poor Marquesani
Barbour County index., 1910-05-18
Gives a Glimpse of Manners and
Customs in Demosthenes'
Time.

A little leaden tablet, tarnished, ugly
and otherwise trivial in appearance,
was sent a few years ago from Athens
to the Imperial museum of Berlin, the
Scientific American says. On one side
of it was some writing which only re-
Gently was deciphered with precise
correctness by Adolph Wilhelm. The
tablet is the original of a private let
ter that was written about the time
OF the orator Demosthenes.
The writer of the letter lived in a
rural neighborhoOd and wished to
send a commercial order to a town.
The form of the address was: ITO be
taken to the pottery market and to be
handed to Nausias, or to Thrasykles,
or to the SON. (perhaps the son of the
writer was meant). The weekly mar
ket, to which the Attic countrymen
had gone to offer their produce and
wares for sale, may be imagined in
progress. There the boy who was
bearer of the letter was to find the
stand or booth of one of the three
persons to whom it was addressed and
deliver it to him. The text of the
letter says: 'Mnesiergos greets you
cordially, he greetS your family with
the same esteem and wishes them
good health, and he says also that his
own health is good. Please be so
kind as to send me a mantle, either of
Barbour County index., 1910-05-18
New Feminine Industry.

The studio girl showed 16 slabs of
cake wrapped in tissue paper and
tagged with well-known names. That
is wedding cake" she said. Il got
these pieces because l designed the
cakes. Early last fall came to the
conclusion that wedding cakes don't
stand as high in art as they deserve
to. For the first time in my life I
took to studying society notes. When
ever a big wedding was announced
/ put in a bid for designing the we'd
ding cake, just as an architect bids
for building a house. The idea ap-
pealed to a number of people who ere
always on the lookout for novelties
and they paid me good price for
drawing up plans for the baker to
work on. In addition to the money
1 got slice of every cake. The mon
ey is all gone, but l am still hanging
on to the cake. New York Sun.
Barbour County index., 1910-05-18
TOY FLYING MACHINES SOAR
Some of Them VIII Actually Fly and
Cost as Much as $50-Power
Supplied by Rubber.

Toy flying machines are now made
in great variety as to styles and sizes
and range in price from 25 cents up
to $50. The lower priced toys of this
sort are little metallic airships which
do not actually fly. but when driven by
propeller wheel, operated by a clock
work, swing out and describe a hori-
zontal circle in the air while suspend
ed at the end of a cord.
There are flying machines of this
kind fashioned in imitation of the Zep-
pelin airship, in various sizes up to a
length of eight or ten inches There
are also clockwork bird shaped flying
machines, with wings spreading eight
or ten inches and with the propeller
wheel placed in front, that sell for so
cents and rs cents
The most striking of the clockwork
flying machines that are worked to
swing around suspended is one mod
eled after the Wright flying machine.
with it's planes about foot in width.
The machine sells for six dollars
The machine that sells for $50 will
actually fly: It weighs five pounds, its
length is Ave feet four inches and its
spread of wings or planes from tip to
tip is five feet six inches. 1t has a
frame of wood supported on the regu-
lation roller wheels. three in number,
on which it rolls along the ground
preparatory to starting on it's flight
1t has four wings. placed horizontally
and all in the same plane, two on each
side, one back of the other, and it has
regulation propeller wheel Of wood
with two narrow blades, the wheel be
ing about twenty inches in diameter
Power for this machine is supplied
by a stout. thick strip of rubber, which
| extends from the extreme front end OF
the machines frame along it's top to
| the wheel at the back and which is
| free except at the extreme ends. TC
get the power to move this machine
the rubber strip is twisted by means
of the propeller wheel used as a crank
Thus when the propeller is released
the rubber uncoils itself along its
length, communicating power to the
propeller. This machine will fly two
blocks.
Barbour County index., 1910-05-18

Attachments Which Prevents Writer
From Bending His Finger, There
by Producing Neat Writing.

In the art of penmanship it is of
great Importance that the writing be
accomplished by wrist or muscular
arm movement as contrasted to a
finger movement. The finger move
ment comes most naturally to the
great majority of persons and is read
lily acquired, whereas the art of using
the wrist or muscular arm movement
is one which must be studied and
practiced. The disadvantage of the
finger movement is that in compare
lively long periods of writing the
hand becomes cramped and tired. 1t
is also impossible with this movement
to write a flowing hand, by virtue of
which the writing is much more
speedily and legibly accomplished.
The object of the attachment for pen
holders shown here is to provide a
means for so positioning the fingers
of the writer that all movement used
in writing must be made from the
wrist and arm and cannot be made
Barbour County index., 1910-05-18
GAME OF "coMIc CONCERT
Every Member of Company Initiates
Some Musical instrument-PIay-
ers Must Follow Leader.

Every one in the company chooses
an imaginary musical instrument One
may be a violin, another a piano, a
harp, and so on. The leader of the
band also chooses one, say the flute.
He begins to play this imaginary in
strument, running his fingers up and
down it and footing away in repre-
sentation of the real instrument. AS
soon as he begins the other players
must follow suit; the piano player be-
gins to strum an imaginary piano, the
violin player to WELD his bow, and SO
on-not only must the players initiate
the actions, but also the sounds which
proceed from the various instruments.
During the concert the leader will
suddenly cease playing his flute and
commence playing the violin, when
the violin player must take up the
leaders discarded flute playing. Pres
emily the leader will change again.
Any player who fails to take up the
leaders instrument must take the lead
er's place and likewise pay forfeit
Barbour County index., 1910-05-18
THE OLDEST ATTIC LETTER

sheepskin or of goatskin, and let it
be as cheap as possible, for it does
not need to be trimmed with fur. Send
with a pair of heavy soles also. AS
soon as l have an opportunity | will
pay you"
So much for the letter, to the mo-
tive of which the reader can point
with as much precision as the author.
Apparently it was written in winter,
poor Mnesiergos having been surprised
out in the open country by one OF
those icy Snowstorms which some
times even at this day cover the tenn
pies of Acropolis with mantle of
snow. Therefore he desired to re-
ceive as quickly as possible the heavy
trymen, goatskin, which could be
bought for ~ drachmas, and the
strong soles which were worn under
the ordinary sandals on the rural
plains and hillsides. A good pair of
the latter could be bought for four
drachmas, as a well-preserved bill Of
that date shows.
noteworthy feature of this artless
letter is the formula that may be
found used in very numerous letters
that were preserved by the Greek lit
erature of later times. Even at the
present day every letter written by a
rural Greek begins with the same cor
dial inquiry about the health of the
person to whom the letter is written
and with the brief information about
the health of the writer
Barbour County index., 1910-05-18
Literal Ted.

There is a little boy five years old
who takes everything literally. and
by so doing causes much amusement.
Not long ago he heard his father say:
We'll, am going to take the bull by
the horns!" Whereupon Ted set up
a wall:
"Oh. don't you do it, papa" he
pleaded, 'it is a terribly dangerous
thing to do"
Another day he was given a glass
of lemonade by young lady. "Ted-
dy's got the clam," she laughed, as a
bit of ice slipped into the glass.
Dear mel" frowned Teddy, that
is too bad; l never take clans in my
lemonade!"
Barbour County index., 1910-05-18

no cause he may light cigarette,
stroll into the sugar cane, flip his
partially consumed weed into the field
and pass on. In less than an hour
that entire plantation will be in ashes
and thousands upon thousands of dol
lars will have gone up in smoke. And
who will decipher the origin? No one,
unless the ever-vigilant guard pre-
vents the tossing of the cigarette and
then there will be no fire.
But a great number of tourists new
er see the sugar fields, never see the
tobacco lands Those who are wealthy
spend their time motoring along the
beautiful roads which surround Ha-
vana and stretch even as far as San
ia Clara, third of the way across
the island. The others stick to the
hotels, see an occasional cockfight,
visit the jai alai courts or dance the
pleasant evenings away under the
semitropic moon.
The people who support the leading
hostelries are to a great and growing
extent those who take their own au-
tomobiles to Cuba Every year new
and better roads are being opened.
Already those near Havana are about
as perfect as the climate.
Barbour County index., 1910-05-18
RACE IS NEARING ITS END

had undergone no such selection.
They were not immune. And they, who
had made custom of eating their
enemies, were now eaten by enemies
so microscopic as to be invisible, and
against whom no war of dart and
javelin was possible. On the other
hand, had there been few hundred
thousand Marquesans to begin with,
there might have been sufficient sur
vivors to lay the foundation for a new
race-a regenerated race, if plunge
into fostering bath of organic poison
can be called a egeneration.-Pacif
Monthly.
Barbour County index., 1910-05-18
BEST PLACE FOR "BAD BOYS"
Delinquent Younssters-More
Openings in Country.

Agricultural schools for delinquent
boys are proposed by Fred Ward. He
thinks more of the youth should be
educated in the country and away
from the city. If a boy is taught tc
be a bricklayer, carpenter, stone cut
ter, plasterer, blacksmith, printer, tin
ner, etc., he must necessarily live in
the city if he works at his trade. But
if he is taught agriculture and be-
comes interested in it he will undoubt
edly live in the country.
There are more openings today for
young men along agricultural lines OF
work than along any other line The
farming communities are badly in
need of skilled labor. The graduates
of agricultural reform schools could
supply this need. and they could find
remunerative as well as healthful
work on farms If they were educated
to that end. The boy that knows the
difference between a good and poor
dairy or beef animal, that can plan
balanced ration for the dairy COW
that knows why he cultivates the land
that can tel, the age of a horse, that
knows how to fit a collar, and repair
harness, that knows the names and
nature Of weeds, fruits, vegetables
and grains is a useful boy on the
farm.
Mr. Ward has taught agriculture tc
delinquent boys for about six years
and believes that of the boys that dc
well in the reform schools rs pei
cent. can be interested in agriculture
and gotten onto the farm.
Barbour County index., 1910-05-18
N'|g[aHzT{|Isg, g[HT{|Is IS
.@SEsAA2 2zSH
TRAGIC cARELEssNEss.

Maria lost time as she fingered one day.
And so lost her train. 1 am sorry to say.
And then-what was worse-lost her tenn
per, 1 fear
Because she had quite lost all patience.
poor dear!
At dinner she lost all her appetite, too.
And then lost her head when the dinner
was through
Now see what delaying and carelessness
cost
Maria's completely, entirely lost!
Barbour County index., 1910-05-18
The sehooIboy,s Definition.

Etc. sign used to make people
believe you know more than you
really do.
Poetry. When every line begins with
a capital letter.
Vacuum. Nothing shut up in a. box.
Fishing net. A lot OF little holes
Joined together with string.
Parable A heavenly story with NO
earthly meaning
Barbour County index., 1910-05-18

by the fingers, The attachment con-
sists of two guides. one adjacent to
the pen, to support the fingers, and
the other projecting into the crotch
of the hand The guides cooperate in
preventing the writer bending his
fingers and in necessitating the use of
free and easy swing of the wrist
and forearm.
Barbour County index., 1910-05-18
An Easx AnneL

ANY good thing in the new mu-
sical show ?'
Yes; the hacker was q good
thing kansas City Times.
Barbour County index., 1910-05-18

twin backbone of Cuban industry, and
there, on par with tobacco, is guiding
the finances of the realm; and, as ev-
eryone knows, high finance is today
the soul of politics, indeed of state
craft.
If any Cuban workman becomes dis
affected for any cause wha tever or for
Barbour County index., 1910-05-18
Jefferson, Iowa.
Mrs. w. 81. BURGER, 700 Cherry S
Jefferson, Iowa.
Another Woman Cured.

Glenwood, Iowa. =" About three
years ago 1 had falling and other fe-
male troubles, and / Twas nothing but
skin and bones. / was so sick could
not do my own work. Within six
months was made sound and well by
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. I will always tell my friends
that your remedies cured me, and you
can publish my letter." Mrs. G. W.
DUNN, Glenwood, Iowa.
If you belong to that countless army
Of women who suffer from some form
Of female ills, just try Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound.
For thirty years this famous remedy
has been the standard for all forms of
female ills, and has cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
such ailments as displacements, fibroid
tumQrs, liberation, Inflammation, ir-
regularities, backache, etc.
If you want special advice write
fOrit to OMrs. .Pinkham,L Lynn. Mass.
1t is free and always helpful.
Barbour County index., 1910-05-18
MADE
WELL AND
STRONG
By Lydia E. Pink1am's
Vegetable Compound

men my DaDy
was justtwomonthS
o Id / was COM
|pletely run down
and my internal or
|gans were in terri
bic shape. / began
/ Lydia E.
|Pinkham'S Vegeta-
bic Compound, and
mother wrote and
told you just how I
was. / began to gain
lat once and now I
am real we'll" -
ER, 100 Cherry ST..
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-04-08
MASKED BANDITS ATTEMPT
TO HOLD UP TRAIN

ST. Paul Mimi. April S-Two masa
ed bandits attempted early today TO
hold up the Chicago. Milwaukee a 81.
Paul railroads Pioneer limited.
The men boarded the train at New
Lisbon. WIS. getting I'm by way OF the
front sleeper car which had been left
open when the conductor took his
orders To- the engineer. The men passed
through the 'front.' sleeper into the rear
vesubulc OF the car blocking both
doors of the car.
when Conductor SUBWAY passed
through the train De- was stopped by
Che locked yostbule door Unlocking
the door be was Instantly confronted
by rcEoNers held hy two masked
figures.
Conductor SUBWAY leoped at the
larger 0r the bandits. A tussls FOL
lowed in which the railroad man was
0yerpoW ned one robber then reached
down under the steps and cut the air
connection stopping the train. The men
then jumped Oft and He'd. From Maus.
tom Wis. COMES the report that the
men took gold watch and a $3.50 dia-
mond rims from Conductor SUBWAY.
This report also says that the robbers
went through the day coaches and held
no the passengers. obtaining consider
able cash The report rs not con-
urmed.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-04-08
NOTORIOUS NEGRO
CRIMINAL EXECUTED

Watouga. OKLA, Apru S-Af Hunter
the negro desperate and triple murderer
notorious throughout this part of the
southwest. was hanged here at 1905 This
morning He made short speech on the
scanold. saying he was ready 90 go. lt
was NJ minutes before Hunter WAS proc
uouuCed dead.
All Hunter, alias James klug-bury
murdered sheriff George ". Garrison
OF Oklahoma county in June. 1905, near
Hitchcock. Blaine county. okla.
sheriff Garrison and his deputies
were attempting Co arrest the ucgrs
who few days before had killed a.
negroes in Oklahoma City because ha
feared she would bctray bis whore.
abouts TO the authorities In Arka1sos.
where he was wanted on murder
charge.
Hiding behind "a wheat stack Hun
ter waited until the oklahoma OFFICERS
were near him and then fired upon
them He killed sheriff Garrison ana
seriously wounded Deputy Shorin Fate
Sanders and escaped.
Rewards aggrcgatiug $500 were Of
fered for Hunters arrest and for sew
cral DAYS hundreds of men engaged ju
"a sensational chase OF the negro.
Hunter cluded his pursucrs and went
back 10 Arkansas lie was captured
al Pine Bluff last September. He crn-
fessed the several crimes charged 90
him and was brought TO oklahoma and
sentenced Co death
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-04-08
BUILDING OPERATIONS
DURING MONTH OF MARCH

Chicago April S-Buudius opera
lions during March throughout the
country were ON a phenomenal scale
boz point of money Invested. according
tn advance sheets of The Construction
News Permits were issued Boo 52 priu-
cipal cities for the construction of 90
7lS buildings, involving "a total est-
mated cost of $50 695, 153 as compared
with l1,iSl buildings costing S6s.O5s.l>t
the same month "a year ago. There
were increases boz 33 cities and decreas-
as Boo 10.
The Construction News win say.
"Tho Pacific coast Is the center Of
interest for grcat many persons who
study the growth of cities, and FOR
the first time presents contradictory
conditions san Francisco showing a
decrease of a. per cent while Los An
gelos has gain Ol 49, per cent. Seattle
has loss OF A. per cent and Portland
"a gain of 60 per cent. Oakland has
an increase OF 40 per cent. while san
Diego makes jump of 354 per cent
Tacoma has an increase OF % per cent
The decrease at Seattle should not bee
dishoarteniug. as 70 rs about time that
city should have lull because of pre-
Nious tremendous activity.
Conditions for continuation Of
activity seem good in AN parts of The
country
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-04-08
Confessed Murderers Of George
w. FasseII Brought Before
Judge Lewis.
ATTORNEYS ARE APPOINTED.
james Denny and james T.. Pardcc
Named by Court to Defend
The Two IiOldup-.

Harry Thorne and James Hayes. con-
fesscd murderers Of George w. Fas-
sell. were brought into Judge Lowis's
court this morning for arraignmeut for
the killing Both were under heavy
irons and guarded by q strong posse
Of deputies with sheriff Joseph sharp.
Thorne. who confessed 20 the actual
shooting was extremely ON at ease. but
Hayes. who is believed 90 have plotted
the crime wore defiant look and
carried an appearance of hardened
bravadO.
Judge Lewis read the charge Co
them of murder in the first degree I'm
the killing Of George w. Fasscll on
the night OF March 20. and asked them
If they were able Co employ counsel
Both men said they were unable 20
hire an attorney. whereupon the court
appointed James Denny TO act ass coun-
sci for Thorne. and James y. Pardee
was named 20 represent Hayes
After the appointments had been
made Judge Lewis announced that the
arraignment Of the two prisoners
would be made on Saturday morning
az 10 O'Clock.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-04-08
ROOSEVELT CRITICIZED FOR
RECEIVING FREE MASONS

Paris. April S.-Mr. Roosevelts reccp-
ton Of Free Masons during his stay in
Rome has called forth criticism from
section of the royalist and Catholic
press. The Guslois says the incident
iusti6es the first precautions adopted by
the vatican FOR Sc indicates that Mr..
Roosevelt probably would have re-
ceived the Masons after his audience
with the pope had such an audience
taken place, passing from the vatican
TO the Masonic chiefs as ~ with the
appreciation of the sovereign poutin"
The Eclair accuses Mr. Roosevelt of
wrelking the vengeance OF disap-
pointed tourist aud Furnishing IAN uu-
grateful papacity bv bowling down be-
forc the idol OF Masonry
The paper follows o. long and violent
ly wordod attack with a special dis
patch from Vienna IN which the claim
is made that the government there has
adopted extraordinary precautions 70
prevent Mr.. Roosevelt making "break5''
similar 20 those he made i'm Rome.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-04-08
MAYOR GAYN0R'S SON
REFUS SEEKS DIVORCE

Now York, April s-Rufus W. Gay
nor eldest son Of Mayor william J.
Gaynor. has brought suit TO have his
marriage annulled. il became known
today. John NJ. Ward. the referee. has
made a report to the supreme court
recommending the annulment, as the
evidence shows that Mrs. Gaynor had
a husband living when she and Mr.
Gaynor were married.
Young Gaynor left Amherst college
in 1908 to wed the young woman In
Chicago. where she gave the name OF
Miss May Queen. She left Mr.. Gay
nor when Il became known she, was
previously married.
According to the complaint and the
evidence the facts are that the de-
PENDANTS maiden name was Maria
Oddo; that on June l. 1908, under that
namo she married Salvatore Guih at
Somervine. Mass, and that In June,
1903, her husband sued her IN the dis
trict court OF Harris county, Tex. for
divorce on the ground OF abandonment.