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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-05-21
TAX ON EVERY RACE HORSE.

In the past the opening Of a rae.
ing season interested the treasury.
For the horse paid his footing i'll the
field. In 1884, for instance, Pitt,
ever in search of things to tax, sug-
gested a fine of SIS on each horse
Starting for a race" The sporting
earl of Surrey, however, thought a
tax of SIS on "all winners of any
plate or other prizes amounting to
$50" would better fit the case. Pitt
considered the suggestion and went
one better. He amended his resolu-
ton to embrace both taxes. Some
modification was found necessary,
and in the end a fee of two guineas
was imposed on "every horse entered
for a race" to be paid to the clerk of
the course.-London Chronicle.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-05-21
FOOD TAsTERs AT FEAST.

The sixteenth century feast was a
round of precautions. The table
laid, the panther at once tasted the
bread and salt as preliminary
"feeler." Then my lord washed in
water tested for poison and dried
with a towel already kissed as a
like precaution. This the while each
dish of the first course, then on the
dresser, was being tasted by the stew
ards and cooks under the direction Of
the sewer. The dishes then came TO
the high table and "assaye" was
taken by the carver and the sewer
himself. Nothing was left to chance.
Pieces were Clipped from each loaf
and corners from all meats. Pies
were broken open and "cornets" of
bread dipped into several places, and
swallowed by the tasters. Granted
the well-being of these tasters, the
feast could then proceed.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-05-21

DID NOT THINK IT FUNNY MINoLINa OF OLD AND new RI
German inventor Comes to Aid Of
Diver Who ls often Threat
encd by Sharks.

A German inventor has come to
the aid Of the worker under water,
the diver who is threatened by sharks
and other monsters of the sea. Hith-
erto the diver in dangerous waters
has had to rely for his safety on the
use Of the knife, or, failing in that,
upon a quick return to the surface.
The German has invented a rifle
that can be fired under water and is
designed for the complete arming of
the diver. The strange feature about
this device is that it fires not bullet
but water, which is driven with such
force that it penetrates with remark
able power. Indeed, it is claimed
that the inventor has pierced armor
plate of ordinary thickness with the
water jet from this strange weapon.
The water rifle has a stout barrel
and is loaded with a cartridge en-
cased in india rubber. 1t is worthy
Of note, in this connection, that in
the '60s experiments we're made
with a submarine rife firing small
explosive projectiles by means of
compressed air, but the invention
never got beyond the experimental
stage.-Harper's Weekly.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-05-21
PosToFFIcE SUPPLIES.

All the supplies required by the
$500 post offices are furnished from
Washington. They need six tons of
stationery every working day and
consume $4,000 pounds ow wrap
ping Irvine every week. All of the
locks on the mail bags are changed
once in eight years. AS fast as mail
sacks wear out they are sent to
Washington, where a hundred wom-
en- are constantly engaged in mend
ing them. There is only one man
in the country with whom the deci-
sion lies as to when a mail sack is
worn out and shall be used no longer.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-05-21
Lawrence D'orsay's Typical Version
Of Willie Golfers oulp In
the Lambs Club.

Nat Goodwin and Chauncey Oh
colt we're sitting in the Lambs club
one morning when Willie Collier en-
tered, evidently feeling very much
at peace with the world. Near by
sat Lawrance Dorsey, the English
actor.
"Good morning, Nat" said Will
lie airily, u trust | see you well
this morning"
"Rotten, thank you, rotten" said
Goodwin, who had been making
merry.
"Well, Chauncey, 1 hope you are
WE'LL" continued the unperturbed
Collier.
"Also rotten, thank you" was Oh
colts reply.
81 hope, then, see the ink well, "
Collier remarked as he lodged away.
Goodwin and Olcott roared, but
D'Orsay, who had been an auditor
of the entire colloquy, said nothing.
A few nights later the English
man was a guest at dinner. He was
talking of American humor, and re-
peated the exchanges between Col
lier, Goodwin and Olcott straight
enough until he came to the climax.
"And Collier said," D'Orsay quot
ed, "I'm glad to see the ink stand,'
and everybody roared. And l don't
see anything funny in that"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-05-21
SHE sTuMPED HIM.

In a recent debate at the Wichita
high school the woman suffrage
amendment was under discussion.
"It would be unwise to give woman
the ballot" declared a budding Dan
iel Webster, in attacking the propo-
sition. "Woman could not be re-
lied upon to exercise good judgment
in voting. She changes her mind
far too often" The next speaker
was a young woman. She arose and
cast a plying glance at her oppo-
nent. 81 would like to ask my hon
orable opponent" she cooed sweetly,
"if he ever tried to change a wom-
ans mind once it was made up?"
The young woman got the decision.
City Star.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-05-21
WHERE ALL LOVE GARDENS.

In Japan every one loves gardens,
knows gardens and makes gardens.
The children amuse themselves with
toy gardens instead of mud pies, and
model relief maps in the sands Of
school Fairgrounds. In the recent
wars the soldiers, after long march,
es, amused themselves by making
little home landscapes before their
tents. In more remote times en-
perors and shoguns abdicated and
joined or established monasteries in
Kioto, that they might the better
mediate upon the eternal truths,
and enjoy gardens of their own de-
signing. Priests, mobiles and court
ladies all observed the conventions
and practiced the rules of Landscape
art.
OF the making of gardens and il
Illustrated garden books there was lit
orally no end in the leisured centu
ries before the restoration.-Cen
fury.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-05-21
Lawsuit over Patent for v-Wound
Cop Reveals Most Interesting
Complications.

Some years ago the old and the
new figured in a curious way in an
application for a patent made by an
American. This mans application
had reference to what is known as
"V-wound cop" a cop being a cyl
inder Of wound thread or yarn. The
V-wound cop is held to be superior
to others in compactness and uni
formity Of tension. For some time
it was thought that this sort of cop
was the result Of American ingc-
unity.
The American patent, however, be-
came the subject of a lawsuit, and it
was discovered that two museums in
this country had cops of wood made
years and years before by Fiji island
ers and that the cops made by these
semi-civilized people were practically
the same as those turned out by the
American. So the latter's patent
was declared invalid. Then a new
complication arose, inasmuch as, the
museum authorities refusing to have
their cops unwound, it was impos-
sible to prove legally that the same
wind extended throughout all the
layers. Accordingly the patent Of
flee reissued a patent to the Ameri-
can inventor for his cop.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-05-21
GOOD FORTUNE OF MlLLE7
Artist Was Never Subject of Gossip
and Escaped SenseIess Admiration
of ThoughtIess Followers.

If Millet's work failed Of full APP
probation in his lifetime, he was
nevertheless fortunate in many
things. He was never the subject of
public gossip, and he escaped what
is still worse-the senseless admira-
ton of thoughtless followers. No
crowd of common artists and ANA
tours followed his footsteps or sang,
his praises in or out of season. He
never had anything to do with what
is called art life; he simply minded
his own business. His tendency to
seclusion was blessing to him, and
the findings of Barbison are good
fortune.
Seeking no display, his time and
thought were his own, and all he
asked or expected was to live. He
was free in spirit, and whatever
bonds he was in were caused by
forces greater than himself. He tried
to hide his troubles from everyone
but Sensier, to whom he went as
to a brother. In his work he trusted
himself. His subjects were of his
day, but his manner of treating
them was original and included prin-
ciples that are universal. Century
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-05-21
1T WAS WORTH A WHIPPING
coIored Boy Decided He Never Would
Have Another Chance to See
Court House Burn.

The county court house was burn
ing and the judge was very anxious
to arrive at the scene of much of his
life work as quickly as possible, and
post haste sent the negro house boy
to saddle Sintram, his horse.
The judges sons, seeing Sintram
in process of being saddled, pre-
empted the remaining horses and
rode off. The little negro considered
the matter for a moment and rode
off, thus forcing the judge to take
a hurried, and, as he considered it,
an entirely unnecessary walk of half
a mile.
To the surprise and chagrin of
the small negro, when the judge
caught him he gave him a good
thrashing.
When one of the young men re-
marked:
'Zeck, you should not have ridden
fathers horse off; you might have
known he would have whipped you,
and you deserved it."
81 know dat, Mister Dave" re-
sponded Zeck, "but l kin git er
whippin' mos any day, an 1 never
will see de cote house burn again" p
Los Angeles Times.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-05-21
LION OF THE LADIES.

Mrs. Morbid have called, sir,
to offer some words of sympathy to
the unfortunate wife murderer il
cell 1901.
Prison 0fficial-Take a chair
madam. AS soon as a new block o.
six is made up we will dismiss tn
ladies who are calling on him now
Our corridors are very narrow, yol
know.-Puck.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-05-21
A FINE Line OF COPY
RIGHTED ART CALENDARS.

The plans for your advertising campaign
this year should by all means include hand
Some Art Advertising Calendar for 1913.
We have secured the exclusive agency for
the Copyrighted Calendars produced by the
A. M. Collins Mfg. Co., of Philadelphia.
This is one of the largest and most SUBJ
stantial Calendar houses in the United
States, and the quality Of their line is SUI
perior to that of any ever shown in this
section.
This line will be handled exclusively by
US in Christian and Trigg counties. 1t in
cludes great number and variety of SUBJ
jects in full color, as well as some hand
colored pictures of exceptional beauty.
The samples for 1913 will be in our hands
shortly, and we shall be glad to show them
to you at an early date. MAKE NO PLANS
FOR YOUR 1913 CALENDAR UNTIL YOU
SEE This EXTRAORDINARY LINE.
BROWNSVILLE kENTUCKlAN.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-05-21
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Time Card No. IA
Effective Sunday April 80. 1911

Effective Sunday April 80. 1911
TRAINS GOING SOUTH.
40. CSC. & N o. Linn. 11:56 D. o.
No. 6l--St. L. Express 5:35 p.
No. 95.-Dixie Flyer, 9:01 a. m
No. 55-Hopkinsville Ac. 7:05 a. u
No. .53-St. L. Fast Mail Sag q. 10
TRAINS GOING NORTH.
No. &C. & st. L. Linn, 5:25 a. u
No. 52-St. LOUIS Express. $685. q. %
No. 94.-Dixie Flyer, 6:27 p. m
No. 56-Hopkinsville Ac. 8:55 .. m
No. 54- st. l.. Fast Mail, 1920 p. N
Nos 95 and ga will make Nos. 80
and 91's stops except 81 will not stop
at Warrington and No. 95 will
not stop at Warrington or Empire
No. q and 81 connect at st. Loui. and 9TH
pciu,s west
No. 81 connects at Guthrie lOr Memphis In
oints rs far south as Erin and for Louisv
cinetnnAt ii and the East.
Nv. - and IS make direct conn At Gut
RE for Louisville, Cincinnati and all point
mort and east thereof. No. 50 and IS also con
meet for Memphis and way points.
o. % runs through 70 Chicago and viii aoi
r,y passengers to point South Of EvansvEle
No. q3through sleepers TO Atlanta, Mac'n
yactsonv Vile, St. Augustine an Tamre, Fla.
Also Pullman sleeDers TO New Orleans. Cen
meets at Guthrie for points East and West.
g vii not carry ocal passengers for potts Mort
Na.A'ne rer
J. G. HOOE. Agt.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-05-21
THE TEST.

'sWhen you are at church on
Easter day, don't big and beautiful
ideas come before your"
"Yes, indeed. Some of the IDEAS
on the new imported French hats are
iuaf lovolv0
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-05-21
OBJECTIONABLE.

''That grand opera bassc has a
powerful voice."
powerful 1 should say SO ! Why,
the other night when he was sing
ing, not one of the party in our box
could hear a word the others were
saying"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-05-21
ONE METHOD.

"Do you always keep a-smilin.
about your daily duties? ?"
NAV; l look grouchy all Il
lime. Then / amt asked to do I
xfra work"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-05-21
THE REASON.

at seems to me l am the goat
ior everybody"
THAT'S because you're always but
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-05-21
Tennessee Central
fine Table No. 4 Taking Efteci
j. G. HOOE. Agt.

SUNDAY. March 10. 1912
EAST BOUND
No. IL Leave Hopkinsville $50 am
Arrive Nashville. 9:45 N
No. ID Leave Hopkinsville 400 o II,
Arrive Nashville. ..7:15 p. m
WEST 4 JUND,
No. II Leave Nashville. ..8:95 an
Arrive Hopkinsville 11:20A II
No. ID leave Nashville 80. 500 pm
Arrive Hopkinsville 8:l5 pm
T. L. MORROW. Agent
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-05-21

Jiggson-How can you always To-
cate good place to fish?
Jackson-By the number of empty
bottles lying on the bank.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1912-11-08
The Calamity
HOWlerS

NOW that it is established that
the Nation is Democratic and that a
Democrat President will take over
the business of the Chief EXecu-
tive, the calamity bowler is already
busy He is predicting all kinds OF
disaster. He is telling his neigh
bors that the Democrats are going
TO rut the manufacturer out OF bus
mess and that hard times are here.
1T is such talk that tends to make
hard times.
The truth is that the Democrats
have as able men at their heads as
any other party. They wish the pros
perity and hope to make it, They
also demand that the big interests
be made to stop trimming the peo-
pie and that the tariff will be trim
med down to meet the wants OF the
people.
There need be no calamities;
there need be no hard times. but the
croaker is already abroad and the
cry is on. 1t happens every four
years but never comes to pass.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1912-11-08
FOR BIDS

Notice is hereby given that the
Board Of Capitol Commissioners OF
the State of Nevada will receive
| sealed bids for supplying and laying
a carpet III the Senate Chamber IN
the State Capitol Building at Carson
City, Nevada: the carpet to be OF the
best grade OF Body Brussels and to
be underlaid with a double thickness
of the best quality of carpet lining,
Information concerning the size
of the room to be carpetcd will be
furnished by the Clerk of the Board
All bids must be filed with the
Clerk of the Board in Carson City
on or before twelve o'clock, noon.
October 5. 1912.
A certified check for ten (lO) per
cent of the amount Of the bid must
accompany each bid.
The Board reserves the right to
reject any and all bids.
BY order OF the Board OF Capito,
commissioners.
AUSTIN JACKSON,
Clerk Of the Board.
Dated, Carson City. Nevada, Septe,a-
Der %, 1912.
Meals at all hours, day or night, at
the Park Motel.
Virginia Beer at the Nevada Saloon
WANTFD-Trave1ing men who are
making small towns and cross-road
stores to handle our new up-to-date
pocket side line. Pays a commits
sion of $500 per order. A winner !
For full particulars address Bnrd
Mfg. Co., 2l2 Sigel ST., Chicago. III.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1912-11-08
PROPOSALS FOR BIDS

Notice is hereby given that the
Board of Capitol Commissioners oil
the State of Nevada will receive seal
ed bids for supplying and installing
filing cases i'll the office OF the Adiu-
~tant-General in the State Capitol
Building at Carson City, Nevada, the
same TO be in accordance with plans
ana specifications on file with the
Clerk OF the Board OF Capitol Com
mlSsioners at Carson City, Nevada.
All bids must be filed with the
Clerk OF this Board at the State Cap
'tol Building at Carson City, Nevada.
on or before twelve O'Clock. noon.
October IA, 1912.
A certified check for ten lO) Der
cent OF the amount of the bid must
accompany each bid.
The Board reserves the right to
reject any and all bids.
By order of the Board of Capito,
Commissioners.
AUSTIN JACKSON,
Clerk Of the Board of Capitol Com
missioners.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1912-11-08
Newspaper
Advertising

A late issue of Leslie's Weekly
Says:
"Wh n circus men 90 back on
bill boards it marks the beginning OF
the end of that form of aGvertisins.
The travelling circus initiated the
|billboards, and in turning from them
to newspapers the circus advertises
Iinaugurates a departure from a ira
dition and custom which have un~
questionably built up many a for
tune. While still a novelty bill
boards told a story and were effec-
tive. But in their rapid multiplied
ton they no longer make the in
PRECISION they once did.
Newspapers give immediate re-
suits. They reach the class of peo-
pile you wan to interest. Where n
person read newspapers thirty years
ago hundreds read them now. 1t is
to the papers everyone goes to fnu
the record of births. deaths, mat
|riages. weather predictions. Wall
Street reports, sermons. prize fights
land everything else that is going on
in the world.
"The circus man figures correctly
that 90 per cent OF the people will
look in the same place to see about
the coming OF the circus
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1912-11-08

The vote cast by the Socialists in
state have made a lot of people sit
up and take notice. They cast a
heavier vote than the Taft ticket,
they have elected members to the
Legislature and have given the old
parties a hard shake-up. As both
the old parties have been bodily lift
ting planks from the Socialists the
past few years, they will be kept
hustling il the Socialists don't take
them away again. Election made
many strange results, but the most
startling is the steady growth of
Socialism.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1912-11-08

organs home town in Nebraska
went Democratic and gave Wilson
its support. 1t was the practice of
the district to go Republican. The
victory for Wilson in Bryan's town
made the Nebraskan almost as de-
lighted as had he been elected.
Bryan is the boy who turned the
trick at Baltimore and the people
have backed him up in every State
in the Union.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1912-11-08

The election is over, the results
are practically known. The Appeal
is satisfied and has no apologies to
make. 1t is a Democratic paper and
has faithfully stood for every Demo
cratic candidate on the ticket. The
Appeal is the only paper i'll the State
Of Nevada that stood by its party
and party candidates from one end
to the other. 1t entered the cam
paign as a Democratic paper, every
body knew where the paper stood
all through the campaign and it is
yet Democratic and everybody
knows where it sands now.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1912-11-08

The people in Nevada have decid-
ed that they want the recall. 1t will
be remembered that McCarran ran
with the understanding that he fav-
ored the recall of the Judiciary.
Bartlett ran with the understanding
that he was opposed to such action.
Pat was elected, George stays at
home. The people have had their
say, and it is the recall.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1912-11-08

With one exception The Appeal
was the only paper in the state that
stood for Pat. McCarran from the
time he made his announcement un-
It'll the votes were counted, and he
received the largest state vote Of any
candidate on the ticket.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1912-11-08
OFFICIAL MONEY COUNT
State of Nevada
County of OrmSby

Cleve H. Baker and Geo. Brodi-
gan, being duly sworn severally say
they are members of the Board OF
Examiners of the State OF Nevada;
that on the 30th day of Oct. 1912,
they CATER having ascertained from
the books of the State Controller the
amount of money which should be in
the Treasury made an official exam
inaion and oun of the money and
vouchers for money in the State
Treasury of Nevada, and found the
same correct, as follows:
Total as per Controller ,S34S.8o8.96
Paid Coin Vouchers not
retrrned to Controller. $4,000
Coin III Treasury .,~.-S2ol ,272.l7
State School Fund Securities
lrredeemable Nevada State
School Bond ....-~.-... $380,000.O0|
Nevada State 4 per cent
DOIluS ...-..--.
United States 4 per cent
Bonds 2l5,0O0.OO
Massachusetts, State 3 per
cent Bonds .....--. 797, 10000
Massachusetts State 3X per
cent Bonds ............- ~3l3,0O0.0O|
Idaho State 4 per ct. bonds..l85, 10000
Total as per Controller -S348, $685. 6
Total Az, 1896
CLEVE H. BAKER,
GEORGE BRODIGAN
Subscribed and sworn to before me,
this 30th day Of October, A. D., 1912.
J. DOANE.
Notary Public, Ormsby County,
Nevada.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1912-11-08

With Illinois going to Wilson it
makes the running of Wilson in e>-
cry state a wonder. 1t was conced-
ed that Illinois would be in the Col
onel column but revised figures
give it to the Democracy.
The land-slides is complete.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1912-11-08
NOTICE TIC TAXPAYERS

NOTICE is hereby given TO the tan
both known and unknown, of
Ormsby County, State OF Nevada,
that the State, county and city taxes
for the year 1912, will be due and pay
able at the office Of the County
Clerk in Carson City, Nevada, on and
after the first Monday in November.
the 4th instant.
Taxes will be delinquent after
December ?, 1912. after which date
10 per cent will be added, and the
collection of the same enforced ac-
cording to law.
f. O. PATTERSON,
County Treasurer and ex officio Tax
Receiver of Ormsby County, New
ada td.adv
-
The Famous Fredericksburg Beer
at the Sacramento Saloon, South Car
son Street. drop in and try a glass.
it is good. Ii you do not drink beer,
try anything else. something you do
like.
Now is the time Of year to play
box ball at Paxton's. adv
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1912-11-08

FOR SALE-Cheap for cash, an up
right piano. Inquire of Mrs. Ma.
Their, 5l6 F. Proctor Street, or at
this office. adv
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1912-11-08

Colonel Roosevelt states that he
hopes to retire from politics. The
people have also given him permits
sion along with Taft.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1912-11-08

The box ball game at Paxton's is
proving one of the most popular
games that ever came to this city
Many who never tried the game are
now enthusiasts. Drop in and try a
game, its worth learning.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1912-11-08

Stop your knocking, the smoke
will go up he chimney just the same.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1912-11-08
WILL RECEIVE ORDERS

The Ladies Aid Society of the M.
f. Church will be glad to receive
orders for plain sewing such as
aprons. children's nlain garments.
comforters, etc.
Telephone orders to the president
Mrs. N. Wylie.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1912-11-08

Drop in at Jess Paxton's and plav
a game Of box ball. It's the best
kind of exercise.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1912-11-08

Now is the time Of year to play
box ball at Paxton's. adv