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GAME OF FOOTBALL
18 THE POPULAR SPORT ON THE
DECLINE!
The Slrnnflnn M Viewed n Yale Kx-glpM-atlon
of the RnnijtinrM of the
, OamuTlie Football l'layer In the Field
and In Society.
Biwlnl New Haven l,cttor.
With tho vit0 of Uie fmitlmll npflsoti,
which ltMives Ynlu In Its old champion
position, stmlonts nre bojdiiiilns; to auk
whether nil the tnlk that Is tfolntr on
In tho public press nlumt the brutality
Mid dantror of footlmll Is going to hurt
the popularity of tlio gani, Tho Hint
tnr is liclng sorlously (llseiuwil lnw,
Of courso, football was never nioro
popular at Yalo than now. Tho at
tempt to discredit the game, owing to
the death of two or three players In
minor teams. Is not likely to euooeed.
An Inquiry Into the deaths that have
oecnrred this season does not show
that the ncnicldonU were tho logical
leault of playing footba.lL In one case
i Dlseusaiiifr tho Matter.
player sllppd In running, falling on
his head and breaking bis nwk. Evi
dently tills was an accident that might
have occurred In sprinting, baseball,
cricket, or any other game that calls
for running. In another case the play
er met his death from peretouitls,
caused by falling on a Jagged stone.
Accidents of this kind are character
istic of any kind of outdoor sport.
That they should be seized upon by
the sensational press Is not surprising,
but they do not really affect the stand
ing of football.
It can be fairly said that not a single
player of a iirst-class football team has
been seriously Injured this year In any
of the hard fought contests. To at
tempt to interdict the game on account
of an occasional sprained foot or wrist,
or a few bruises, is really nonsensical.
No such attempt will be made. Foot
ball Is more highly esteemed by college
officers than any game In which stu
dents have ever Indulged. It Is a
game that does not lead to "profession
alism," which is the vice of popular
sports. It calls for the very best physi
cal training and discipline, mid requires
that strenuous effort for success which
develops the highest qualities of mau
hood. The record, at least In Yale,
hows that the football players stand
quite as well In studies ns any oilier
class of students. This is also true of
the other principal colleges.
A piece of news that greatly Inter
ests students is the formal sanction of
football at West Point by the War
Department Tho objection was raised
that football tended to cripple the
cadets nnd render them unfit for after
service in the army. The army au
thorities thoroughly Investigated the
matter and decided that tho objections
raised could not be sustained. Tho
Navy Department has come to a simi
lar conclusion. This ought to settle
the objections to football.
What Is quite os much to point, foot
ball is very popular with the ladles.
The favorite beau in tills college town
Is the stalwart nnd broad-shouldered
type of young man, who is equally at
homo in football uniform or In dress
suit, nnd who is not likely to flunk in
after years when ho comes to face tho
struggles of practical life. The pessi
mists to the contrary, the rising gener-
The Modern Beau.
atlon of young college men is the best
that has ever been produced, both
physically and mentally. If there la
any moral deterioration It is not due
to football especially. Perhaps some
thing may be done- to lessen the temp
tations surrounding college sports.
This, if done, will bo with the entire
concurrence of all lovers of the manly
sport
Tho Idea that athletics Is being over
done at our colleges nnd schools Is
scouted by Intelligent educators. The
fact is. as shown by recent investiga
tions of Prof. Hall, Trof. Itowditch,
Dr. reekham, Dr. Rons, Dr. 11. I,.
Taylor, ami others, tho crying evil of
our American schools Is a lack of physi
cal culture nnd particularly of outdoor
sport As Prof. Hall puts It: "Knowl
edge bought at tho expense of health,
which 1.4 wholeness or hoUuess limit' Li
its higher aspect, is not worth what It
costs. Health conditions all the high
wtt Joys of life, means full maturity,
national prosperity. May we not rev
erently ask. What shall it profit a child
If he g-iiu the whole world of knowl
edge anil lose his health, or what h!i lii
ho give l.i cxchuiigQ fur his health? '
It. L. SIMMS.
Death casts no shadow until it i
n-ar.
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JIM 8HELD0N'S GREAT SHOT.
Iti ItemilU wet. to Extraordinary That
Ho win Nntlsflerl trt Minn limiting.
"My friend, Jim Sheldon, of Cooper
( Ity, on the l'ecos Klver, New Mexico."
said a former rnnchmau of that re
gion, "never went hunting but once in
bis life, but he had a great day of It
the time lie did go. There were a num
ber of elk banging around In that
vicinity, and Jim got It In his head
that he wanted some elk inent.
don't know whether he wanted elk
meat because a cheeky she grizzly bear,
with three cubs, had been playing hob
with his stock of beef rattle for a
couple of weeks and he felt ns if ho
couldn't n fiord to eat beef, or whether
he wanted elk meat Just for the fun
of getting it. Anyhow, he mounted a
burro one day nnd started out after
an elk. He got on the track of one.
and, thinking he could sneak up on it
a nil get a shot at it surer by going on
foot than ue could by riding, he dis
mounted and let the burro take earn
of itself. The contrary little cuss went
right on ahead of Jim, and wouldn t
cotue back. In less than five minutes
he was out of sight.
"If you never saw a burro when he's
seared you've missed a sight. It Isn't
so much the sight of him, either, that's
so runny, although that s funny
enough to get hlni seven curtain calls,
It's the hearing of him that's the side
splitting part of a scared burro. IHit
it isn't often that a burro Is scared.
When he Is, up goes his tail, his ears
and his bristly mane. His eyes bulge,
nnd ho tries to run in every direction
at once. Ills utterances nre what
knock you, though. They are not loud,
but mournful, nnd come In sudden
spurts, for all the world like the queer
noises a couple of deaf mutes mnkt
when in earnest conversation, only of
more volume and of a wider range of
tone.
"Jim's contrary burro had been out
of sight perhaps ten minutes when
Jim saw him coming back. He was
scared, and no mistake. His ears were
way up, and so were his mane and his
tail. Ills eyes were bulging, nnd the
way lie ran the mournful gamut of his
terror-stricken voice when he came up
to Jim was better than a nigger min
strel llrst part. But he wouldn't let
Jim catch him. He circled round nnd
round, now nnd then stopping nnd
gazing back in tho direction from which
he had come, nnd talking fonrfully
about what ho had seen.
" 'I wonder If It's Iujins?' said Jim.
"Jim got it in his hend at first that
it was Indians, but then it struck him
that it must have been that tho burro
had run ncross the elk nnd that the
elk had made a charge on him, so Jim
concluded to go on and see. The burro
didn't go with him, but struck a bee
line for home, and that was five miles
away. Jim sneaked along down the
river for a quarter of a mile or more,
and then rounded a shnrp bend. The
Instant he got around that bend he
squatted, for not more than 100 yards
ahead of him stood a griszly bear, and
tumbling in the gross near her were
three cubs.
" "Hie blasted brute that's been
slaughtering my cattle I' said Jim, and
he pulled up to give her the slugs. But
ns he pulled up nnd ran his eye over
the gun barrel, he almost fell over, for
Just hej'ond tho big grizzly stood the
elk, feeding away ns peaceful as a
cow. At first Jim didn't know what
to do. He wanted elk meat, nnd he
knew that If he fired nt the bear awny
would go the tlk, nnd never stop In
side of twenty miles. If he shot the
elk the chances were that it would rob
him of his revenge on the bear. Re
venge enme out on top, nnd Jim pulled
up and blazed away at the grizzly.
When the smoke cleared away Jim
looked to see what had occurred. Tho
grizzly lay on the ground giving her
last kick. The elk had droppwd In his
tracks and lay there as stiff and mo
tionless ns if he hnd been a stone elk.
The three cubs were sniffing and whin
lug around their mother.
" 'Plzeu Juniper!' said Jim, 'What in
thunder have I done?'
"He walked up kind o' slow and with
his eye peeled, but there wasn't any
need of his doing it Ho had aimed
for the bear's heart as ho thought, but
his bullet hnd severed the spine at tho
neck, and tht-n kept right on until It
was stopped by the elk's heart, which
happened to be Just In range. The
bear nnd the elk were dend before
they heard the report of Jim's gun.
Jim tied the three cubs so they couldn't
get away, and started for home after
help. He hadn't gone half way,
though, before he met plenty of help
coming. His burro reaching the ranch
without him had alarmed his folks,
and a party had started to look for
him. They took In the dead bear and
elk and the three live cubs, nnd Jim
would scarcely talk to common folks
for a month. But he never went hunt
ing ngaln. He didn't want to spoil his
record."
The Mean Thing.
He After all, there la ouo consola
tion In being rejected.
She (curiously) What Is it?
He To know that I shall nlwnys bo
an object of envy to your future hus
band. (Makes hasty exit.)
Value of Itepuintlon.
The value of reputation is almost
cynically set forth by the case of a
young literary mnn whose rejected
story came back to him from a great
publishing house with n few words of
praise, qualified by the declaration that
it showed traces of the amateur. En
couraged by this, he set to work and
produced n novel. Tills he sent to tho
same house, and it was accepted. It
succeeded, and the young author soon
afterwards sold to the same publisher
the rejected story nt double the "price
ho had originally asked.
hlia lie.
"Poor Miss Grabb Is a confirmed
kleptomaniac,"
Aunt. Tlllli-Denr me, why don't sho
t:i!.u something for it? Chicago Inter-Ocean.
How's This I .
We oTcr One Hundred Dollars Re
ward for any case of Catarrh that can
not be cured bv Hall s Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHKNKY & CO., Props., Tole
do, U.
We the undersigned have known F
J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and
believe htm perfectly honorable in nil
business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made
by their firm.
West & Traux, Wholesale Pruggists,
loieoo, unto.
Walding, Rinnan & Marvin, Whole
sale Druggists, Toledo.Ohio.
nans Catarrh Lure is laken inter-
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and mucous surfaces of the system
Price, 75c. ptr bottle. Sold by all
Druggists. Testimonials free. im.
Columbian Postage Stumps,
A dispatch from Washington says :
" e have at lart, said a clerk in the
division of the Third Assistant Post
master General's office to day, "rid
ourselves of the Columbian postage
stamps. There were originally four
hundred million of them. On the day
betore Christmas we disposed of a si.
768,100 Columbian stamps, valued at
$57o,9i- To day we have sent out
to the Postmasters of the country 165,-
530.525. valued at $2,056,320. The
people do not like these stamps, and
but for the precautions taken by the
I hird Assistant Postmaster General
the postmasters throughout the coun
try would have the Columbian stamps
on their hands as dead stock. But an
order has been issued by the Third
Assistant Postmaster General inform
ing the postmasters that 'the depart
ment will expect that these Columbian
stamps shall be exhausted by post
masters bclorc any orders are ser.t by
them for additional supplies.' There
fore we arc forcing them upon the
people in order to get rid of them.
1 he stamps sent out today will end
the business so far as the General Post
Office Department is concerned. The
people must use the stamps now in
gtock before they can get any other. '
The Advertising
Of Hood's SarsapariHa is always with
in the bounds of reason because it is
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substantiated by endorsements winch
in the financial world would be accep
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headache, indigestion.
According to a German authority it
has been found that zinc will rapidly
corrode when in contact with brick
work. To prevent this, roofing-felt is
placed between the zinc and the brick
work.
INKHAM'S
Vecetabiempound
Is a positive euro for all those painful
Ailments of Women.
It will entirolv euro the worst forms
of Female Complaints, all Ovarian
troubles, inflammation ana Ulceration,
railing ana jmpiacemonts, or tue
Womb, ami consequent iSpinal Weak
ness, and is peculiarly adapted to the
t'iaiije qfUfe. Evory time it will cure
Backache.
It lias cured more cases of Leucor
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ever known. It Is almost Infallible in
Rtich cases. It dissolves and expels
Tumors from tho Uterus in an early
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Bearing-down Feeling
causing pain, weldit, nnd backache, li
instantly relieved and permanently;
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Irregularity,
Suppressed or Painful Menstruations,:
WeukiiOHS of the istonmch, Indigestion,:
liloating, Hooding, Nervous I'rostnv1
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Dizziness. Faintness,
Extreme Lassitude, "don't caro" and
"want to bo left alone" feeling, exci
tability, irritability, nervousness, sleep
lessnesi ilatuleney, melancholy, or the
"blues," und backache. Tlieso are
sure indications of Female Weakness,
some derangement of the Uterus, or
Womb Troubles.
The whole story, however, is told In
an illustrated book entitled "Guide to
Health," by Mrs. Pinkham. It con
tains over IK) panes of most important
information, which every woman, mar
ried or fsiiiKle, should know about her
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Kidney Complaints
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and leading physicians everywhere
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Eclipses for 1394.
In he year 1894 there will be four
eclipses, two of the sun and two of the
moon. An annual eclipse of the sun
will occur April 5th, and a total eclipse
of the sun will occur April 5th, and a
total eclipse September 28th, but both
will be invisible in any part ol Ameri
ca. A partial eclipse ot tne moon
will occur March 21st, but will not be
generally visible in the United States.
Another partial eclipse of the moon
will take place on September 14th
and 15th and wiil be visible in all
parts of America.
The Puzzle Solved.
Perhaps no local disease has puzzled
and baffled the medical profession
more than catarrh. While not im
mediately fatal it is among the most
nauseous and disgusting 11 s the tlcsh
is heir to, and th; recoids show very
few or no cases of radical cure of
chronic catarrh by any of the many
modes of treatment until the intro
duction of Ely's Cream Balm a few
years ago. The success of this prep
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