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WILBER, 3 Wholesaler of WINES, LIQUORS BEERS AND ALES TN RS 109 Packer Avenue, SAYRE, PA BOTH "PHONES. ALEX D. STEVENS, NSURANGE AND REAL ESTATE. Loans Negotiated, Insurance Writ ten, Houses Rented, Rents Col- lecled, Taxes Paid. ROOM 7, ELMER BLOCK LOCKHART ST.. SAYRE WHEN YoU want a glass of good, pure r you should insist on having STEGMAIER’S It is bottled at the brewery by the latest | Scientific methods for “bottling and it costs You no more than _commbn beer bottled _ with a piece of rubber Insist on hav- Stegmaier's Beer CAME WHOLLY UNFIT President of Harvard Con- demns Football as Played. WORE BRUTAL THAN PRIZE FICHTING Coaditions Bar All Generosity and Goodtellonship Between (ombat- ants and Are Workiag Great Moral Milschlef to Studeats. SAMBRIDGE, Mass, Fel 3 -The naval report of Preskdeut Charles W Eliot of Harvard university says that the American game of foothall as now played Is wholly unfit for colleges and schools. He declares that as a spec facie for persous who know the gaine football Is more brutalizing than prize fighting. cock fighting or bull fight- ing. and for the contestants he be eves the rules governing football to be far less humane than the rules which govern the prize ring He adds that it is childish to suppose that the athletic authorities which have permitted football to become a brutal, cheating. demoralizing gawe can be trusted to refurw It The report declares that the game Las reached a point where it sets up a wrong kind of bero, that there is no sich thing as generosity between com- batants any more than in war and that all the evils of football have descend- od into the secondary schools, where they are working grest mors! mis chief. “Regarded as a combat be tween highly trained men” says the report, “the prize ring has great ad. rantages over the football field, for the rules of the prize ring are more ho- maue than those of football, and they can be and often are strictly euforced. The fight In a prize ring between two men facing each other is parfe tly vis ible, 50 that there are no secret abomi- nations as in football. Yet prize fight. ing Is illegal” The report declares that football Causes au unreasonable number of se- rious Injuries and deaths that the public has beeu kept ignorant concern- ing the number and gravity of these injuries, that many of the serious In juries are of such nature that in all probability they never can be perfect- Iy repaired, that violations of rules of the game by coaches, tratuers and pliyers are highly profitable aud are constantly perpetrated by all parties and that gots of brutality are con stantly committed, partly as s result of the passions naturally aroused in fAghting, but often on well grounded calculations of profit toward viotory “It Is clearly the duty of the col- leges which have pertuitted these mon strous evils to grow up and become In- tense.” the report gomtinu-«, “to purge themselves of sueh [ni oralities snd to do what they eam to help the sec ondary schools to purge thewmseives tiso. Intercollegiate and futerseholas- tie football ought to be prohibited un- tl a reasonable game has been formu- fated and thoroughly exemplified in the practice of Individual institutions. “The perversions of athletic sports In schools and colleges have tended to Bold boys back from the university un- til they have attained their full size and weight. A common impression in the minds of parents that a freshman of nineteen or twenty has a better so- clal chance at the university than a freshman of seventeen or eighteen and Is on the whole safer, both physically and morally, contributes to the unwise postponement of entrance on liege life.” The Meter Boat Regatta, PALM BEACH, Fla Feb 8.—At the motor boat regatta on Lake Worth the chief event was the one mile dash for the Bir Thomas R. Dewar trophy. Two beats were run In this event, H. L. Bowden's Mercedes wiuning both. The Mercedes made the mile in the first beat from a fiying start io 3 minutes 6 Seconds, defeating the second boat, George Gingra's Twenty-three, by 28 seconds. Jerry Lynch, Legates and Holloway. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 8.—In the Fair grounds card both Jerry Lynch apd Legatee won rather on the poor quality of the material opposed to them than on their merit. Holloway was the uly winning favorite. Saivisa in the second race was all but left at the post King Ellsworth pulled up bleeding at a crit ical moment iu his rece Four Favorites Won at Ascot. LOB ANGELES, Cal, Feb 8 Large fields were the rule at Ascot, and four favorites won. Alonzs and Lady King, both at 10 to 1. won the other two races. The best race of the day was the third, in which Sad Baw, Tim Huret and Golden Duck finished beads &part in the order nawed. Whirlwind Plight of Twe Kids, BALTIMORE, Feb. 8 Kid Sullivan of Washington last night knocked out Kid Parker of Chicago in the second round of what was scheduled as a fir teen round Mght before the Eureka Athletic club. Parker made a good fight while it lasted, but succumbed te a whiriwiud of blows All Vavorifes Beaten. NEW ORLEANS, Fel. 3 —Favorites failed to land a single race ou the Clty park card. In the steeplechase Redman bolted and Oblo King, Blue Grass Girl and Tripoll fell. The defeat of Minnie Adams In the fourth was the surprise of the day Longest That Was Third. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8-Dr wou the Potomac handicap at He raced out wilh Fireball, -e RATE BILL IN CONGRESS. HeCall Attacked the Messurs, Want ing It Hegulated by the Courts. the rallway rate bill held the atten- The speeches of Burton (0), McCall (Mass? and Russell (Tex) were fea. tures, while Thomas (N. C.). Burke (3. D) and Goulden (N. Y.) took up particular and specific topics Mr. Burton discussed the broad field of proper national ideas and growth of industry, of corporation develop- ment and trafic increase Mr Me Call made an attack on the Lill. op posing Its fundamental features and making as he knew a vain effort to have the power to reguinte railroad tates administered by the courts. Point after paint he made to show what he contended were the weakness and evil of governiuent rate making, {Hustrating by records of foreign coun tries Mr Hussell argued for the measure He spoke as a Democrat and gave that party credit for sus tained effort and for careful sc rutiny In the perfecting of the measurs, Mr. Burke, a wember of the commit. tee i which the bill originated, ex- plained [ts details. Mr Thomas, who fepresents the strawberry belt of North Carolina, exulted In what be regurded as the rellef in sight for his constituents, while Mr. Goulden prals od the hill as the. best yet produce! on the subject President Roosevelt is not trying to lictate to cougress what it shall do or got do rexanling the railroad rate regulation or any other problem of legislation. He has not delivered to the seuste or to the house Ruy sort of 30 “ultimatum” of subjects of legisla tion aud bas not held over the heads of congress the “threst of an exirsor dlnary session” If he does not obtain the legislation for which he is hoping This statement is made by autbority from a person close to the president. ——— A SPECTACULAR FIRL. Factory and Twenty-one Dwellings Destroyed In Cleveland, CLEVELAND, 0. Feb. 8- [he ex plosiou of a gasoline tauk on the sixth Boor of the knit goods factory of N J Rich & Co, Payue avenue aud Seven teenth street, started a fire here which cotnpletely destroyed that bullding, with an estimated loss of $300 (xe) The flames sent at least 200 girl em ployees In a sewlpaulc from the several lower floors, aud before the fire was #ot under control It bad communicated to and destroyed twenty-one dwelllugs adjoinlag the Rich factory on Payue Avenue aud on both sides of Beven- teenth street. The fire was attended with wany spectacular scenes. The Rich Luilding Was compictely gutted nothing remain lag of it but small fragments of the walls. The employees uumbare! 4m girls. men and boys, the majority, how. sver, being girls The fire spread so Quickly that scores if the girls who were caught had to leave the factory without thelr street garments to face almost vero weather >utside. Rome of the girls Were ®0 pan i¢ stricken that when they reached the suter doors of the factory they fainted So far as learned no person was hurt —————————— HAD SORE FEET. Hilltonaire Schermerhorn Tries Mag- fc Boots, Wik Scant Success NEW YORK, Feb 3 -Among the Lnny persons who were persuaded into buying the “magic boots.” which “Pro fessor” Matthew H. Hilgert made for persons suffering from rheumntism or physical deformities, was John E. Echermerhorn, a multimillionaire mem ber of sn old Knickerbocker family Mr. Beherwérborn says he iad an af fection of the feet Lefore taking Hil fort's treatment. He adds that he stil) has the affeotion. Mr. Schermerhorn says be was asked to pay $1,500 for the shoes. He wore them twice and then found they harm- 8d rather than benefited bim He re fused to pay a bill, which be says was L “preposterous extortion.” Rather than defend a sult In court be settled for $100 Among the others who belleved In Hilgert's “magic boots” and put them fo practical test ts Matthew J Bennett, t diamond dealer of 10 Malden lane. He, ton, objected to the exorbitant price charged The case was taken to court. Hilgert suing for £313 80. Ihe case was to have been tried on the day Hilgert and his ald, Albert Whitehouse, were arrcated ——————— Nationnl a Holding Company Only, CHICAGO, Feb, 8 — Arguments con rerning the Admissibility of evidence weupled the greater part of the moat packers’ plea for Immunity case here, ind at the time of adjournment only {Wo witnesses had been on the stend Mr. J B. Lyman of Boston testified that he was formerly president of the National Packine company and that It tad never slaughtered an animal or made a sale. He declared that It was t holding company only s—————————— Peace In Santo Dominge. WASHINGTON, Feb 38 The fol lowing cablegram has beeu received at the insular bureaw from Colonel Col ton, the comptroller of Dominican cus toms: “Generals Candelurjo de la Rosa, Barahona and Mota. the Inst revoln tion'sts to hold oul, have surrenderad and Are granted animesty Peace and sormal business conditions throughout the republic is entirely restored Seven Bodies of Valencia Victims, VICTORIA, B. Fely 3-The tug Lorne is here with the hodies of seven victims of the wreck of the steamer Valencia. One body (a mpposed te he Misd Van Wyck of Ban Fran. One In dent BR Ora: MIZNER, NOT YERKES Widow of Millionaire Finds She Has Remarried. “DON'T SAY I AM EICHTY YEARS OLD." Dramatic Pud te Unigue Tansxle. After Denylug Marriage For Three Days Lady Owns tL p—doy of Her Young Husband NEW YORK. Feb. 8 -After persist eutly denying her marriage te Wilson Mizner for turee days the widow Charles T. Yerkes has exercised her feminine prerogative aud scknow lel of a ers wit after mass weeliug of report. The noknew led ment drauiat] Mr Mizner regula; was had elfere * > - ~ 5 > - + + The Record, has the best House Vest Pocket and Desk R and a variety of Legal for Justices and Constahles, WRO Cards For Sale. . The Vallay Record bss in wtook the For Rent * Please Do Not Aak for Credit Positively No Adovitiapee