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I DOINGS OF THE VAN awan prom you: ' YCU HAVEN'T MARfellB HIS HIGH NOii THB j MAM 1 MB.T' UAUA II JOHN OlMPK'Ni! Xf, R M VVOU BACK. IN TOWN ROOSEVELT TELLS OF QUEER GAME How Indians In Brazil Play Football Witli Their Haads. HANDS KEPT OFF THE BALL Players Show Marvelous Dexterity, and Their Reckless Disregard of the Chances of Personal Injury Amazes the Uninitiated Onlookers Colonel Describes Extraordinary Spiders. From Colonel Roosevelt's Ilftli article describing his Journey In tho Brazilian wilderness in Scrilmcr's Magazine (or Au gust. 1914. Copyright. 1514. by Charles Scrlbner'a Son3.) A unique game of football, played with the head by the r.irecls Indians, Is one of the unusual things described by the colonel lie writes as follows: These Parcels Indians enthusiasti cally play football with their heads. The game Is not only native to them, but I have never heard or read of Its being played by any other tribe or people. They use a light hollow rub ber ball of their own manufacture. It Is circular and about eight Inches in diameter. The players are divided into two sides ami stationed much as in as sociation football, and thu ball is placed ou the ground to be put lu play as in football. Then a player runs forward, throws himself Uat on the ground and butts the ball towaid tho opposite Hide. A Remarkable Performance. This tirst butt, when the ball is. on the ground, never lifts It :y.ch, anil It rolls and bounds toward the op ponents. One or two of the latter run toward It: one throws himself I'Jt on his face and butts the ball back. Usually thl: butt lifts it. and It Hies back In a curve well up In the nlr, and an opposite player, rushing tow.ird it, catches it on his head with such a swing of his brawny neck ami such precision and address that the ball bounds back through the air as a foot ball soars after a drop kick. If the ball Hies olT to one side or the other It Is brought back and agalu put In play. Orten it will be sent to and fro Tl dozen times, from head to head, until dually It rises with such n sweep that It passes far over the heads of the opposite players and descends behind them. Then shrill, rolling cries or good humored triumph arise from t'-e victors, ami the game Lots of farmers declare their telephone service is worth more than it costs. J. W. Harris, a well known farmer living near Choccolocco, Ala., writes: "I had occasion to call our doctor not two hours after my telephone was connected with Jrour exchange. My mother, who is very old. ell down the door steps and broke her arm, and , I called the doctor. He was at my house before I I could have gone to his residence, as he has an 1 automobile. "We would not be without our telephone for more than it costs and appreciate the assistance you rendered us." Our free booklet tells how you may have tele phone service on your farm at small cost. Write for it today. A postal will do. FARMERS' LINE DEPARTMENT Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company INCORPORATED. 399 SOUTH PRYOR STREET, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. LOONS vnu MIHTN T Itspcak Mn.VAN-t n WE WE THAT N.VAY OP fcfoAca: I'VE VUE WIERB TO HAVE. I position not(i nrtni.1 A4Aamr IN FlPTEEN P WEEK AND A c(Ot CHAUcE r0R ADVANCE JUNE OUT VNFORTUN- i AM.naTnj . ftuT II wm- ic jww",, Instantly oegins again with tresn zest. There are. of course, no such rules as In a specialized ball game of civi lization, and 1 saw no disputes. There may be eight or ten or many more players on each side. The ball Is never touched with the hands or feet or with nnythlng except the top of the head. It Is hard to decide whether to wonder most at the dexterity and strength with which It Is hit or butted with the head as It comes down through the air or at the reckless speed and skill with which the play ers throw themselves headlong on the ground to return .the ball If It comes low down. Why they do not grind off their mm I cannot Imagine. Wondarful Colony of Spiders. We came across many queer Insects. One red grasshopper when It Hew seemed as big as a smnll sparrow, and we passed In some places such multi tudes of active little green grasshop pers that they frightened the mules. At our camping place we saw an ex traordinary colony of spiders. It was among some dwarf trees, standing a few yards apart from one another by tho water. When we reached the camping place early In the afternoonthe pack train did not get lu until nearly sunset. Just ahead of the rain no spiders were out They were under the leaves' of the trees. Their webs were tcnantlcss and Indeed for the most part were broken down. But at dusk they came out from their hiding places, two or three hundred of them In all. and at once began to repair tho old and spin new webs. Kach spun Its own circular web and sat In the middle, and each web 'was connected on several sides with other webs, while those nearest the trees were hum: to them by spun ropes. (,o to speak. The result was a kind of sheet of web consisting of -scores of wheels. In each of which the nwner and pro prietor s.it. and there were l:aU a dozen such sheets. e:li h extending be tween two trees. The webs could hardly bo seen, nel the effect wis of scores of Idg. formidable looking spiders poised in midair, equidistant from one another between each pair of trees. When darkness and raiu fell they were still out Using their webs mid pouncing on (lie occasional Insects that blundered Into the webs. I haTi no question tint '.hey are nocturnal: they certainly hide in the daytime, and It seems Impossible that they can come nit only for a few minutes at dusk Speaker Clark's Bridal Spoons. The "Champ Clark wedding spoon" has appeared In Washl-iglon and youn. friends of the speaker and Ids famllj who marry may expect lu be the re cipients of a unique gift.' The spoons were devised by the speaker when he received an Invitation to the wedding j af one of his young iicqmil'itniices. J The spoon Is made of silter and bears 1 x portrait of the spMl.e.- In b-ei-v!lof I JV MEMT r 0 WiMHMN "Worth More Than it Costs" 0 WH1 MAKES THAT MWM Hma a mimotfjohn:) BAU. T V - " TTT .11.-1 ft BAH (star PITCHER AT MpHT MB TO COLLGltn. YWS nc, OR THE iTA. qWMUTR BACK .f. 1V, if SUCH A DAINTY HAT! Tor the white costume a white bat and nothing is more fashionable thar this combination of white tagal and white grosgraln silk, with a big camel lia set in its green foliage, nestled against the crown. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given, that the firm of Gregory and Company, composed of James M. Lewis and the late Mrs. Hli G. Gregory, is dissolved, and that James M. Lewis is now the sole owner. Jas. M. Lewis. R. N. Hudson, As Kxecutor of I5li.a G. Gregory In the News and Out of the Ordinary niaBilMnMMM .utopsy on .lames M Lauglilln ot lames M l.aughlln Dutchess Junction. N. V.. revealed that McLaughlin's heart was ou Ills right side. , In Now York Mrs. Maria Itollec sued Miss Anna Ilolker for $."uo damages because the latter revealed that Mrs liollec wore a wig. Two raids made In Cincinnati. by the police disclosed the fact that several women past the age of th'ee score anil ten have dally been playing thu races. A man who gave a ten cent tip was lined $! and a negro porter who tool, the tip wim lined a like amount at Jackson. M Is.-:., under the state antl tipplng statute. A steel pin which Ldna t'ark of Mountain Home. Ark., swallowed thi: ty years ag- has been removed from her stomach. The pin caused her no trouble until a year ago. when she was taken III with pains In her left side. Plies Cured In 6 to 14 Days Vour druggist will refund money if PAZO OINTMENT (ails to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Trotrudlne Piles in 6 to 14 days. The first application elves IJasc and Rest. SOc. Her Superior English. James ltos and his daughter Janet from Canada visited relatives In Chi cago recently. Day after day Janet and her father went sightseeing, al ways together. .land's aunt, noticing this, one day suggested that she let her father go downtown alone some time. Jokingly adding. "Men do not like to have wo men always tagging' along." "Aye. auiity. but he wahuts me." ex plained Janet earnestly. "He canna thole to stir oot o' the house bis lane. Ye wndna beleeve boo fasht he Is ony where wi'oot me. Ye see. falthei taa'ks sic braid Scoutch that stranger folk dluna ken what It's u' aboot. an' I hue tae gang wl" ulra tae dae the com verrsln." Everybody's. Confusion, Throe ladies as iliey shot In uu obser vation car Callfoiiilawaid through the superbest scenery lu the world fell to talking about dogs. "1 don't know a thing about dogs." Bald the lli'st lady "They're all Just dogs to me If I have n preference, though, ICh for the cob." "Cobs aiv nice so affectionate." agreed the smnid lady, "But I'm no dog sharp either. Still. I must say my choice of a dog would be a mustang. They're such good watch dogs, nreu't they?" "I don't know one dog from auothcr." said the third lady. "I Just divide them Into big dogs and little dogs. I'm very fond of u hackney, though-1 mean, of course, for o lap dog." Chi cago Becord-Uernld. VAN-DErVVWRST r si .SBC, S 1 Considering that JOHN. HB CAM U, RUT A WH0U3. OR F001-BAU. HB NBVEtfi AND 0R MY AM1W- T9 WIN THE can TAX THH CMMU ROWINCi CHAMPION' SHIP FO OVR in lim0winb4 and Hire private boxev BV THQ iBAWN r THB OHrTEO, ATAT , - LABELED BY CARLYLE. The Tag He Plastered Upon a Famous English Historian. In tho "Letters or Charles Kllot Nor ton" Is this amusing epistle, which was written by Norton In IST.'l: The other day l-'roude said to me: "It's a great shame that some one shouldn't keep a record of Carlyle's talk, lie never rails to say something memorable or admirably humorous. Why. he called somebody the otber day 'an inspired red herring."" "Pray." said I. "who Is It that de serves such a label';" lint I'ronde had forgotten. Some days after ward I asked ("arl.vle to whom he hud applied the phrase, but he had form it ten ami said he trusted he was not to be made accountable I'm- all the ex travagant phrases he had uttered In talk-there would be "verm many to rise lu Judgment" against hitn lint lie wouldn't disown "the Inspired red her ring." I told all this to I'orsler. abusing Fronde at the same time, much to Car lyle's amusiimcut. which was Increased when Forster broke out: "By heavens, my dear Norton. I heard that previous utterance, but 1. too. have forgotten to whom it was lilted. Mrs. Forster will remember.' But when we went to the drawing room Mist. Fors(er could not remember, and Forster called down wrath on her and himself. The next morning the post brought me a note from him at breakfast time, which con tallied only the name Henry Thomas Buckle. How To Give Quinine To Children. FKnRII,INK Is the trade-mark name Riven to on Improved Quinine. It is a Tasteless Syrup, pleas ant to take and does not dUtutb the stomach. Children take It and never know it Is Quiulp;. Also etpecially adapted to adults who rann t take ordinary Quinine. Does not nauseate n'T cause nervousness nor ringing In the head. Tr it the next time you netd thiiniue lor any pur pose. Ask for 2-ounce original packace. The uauie 1'lillIUU.NlC is bkmu iu bottle. .'5 cents. ENGLAND'S BLACK MEN. They Are Remnants of the Ancient lua Pointed Britons. Practically every Ihigllslmian N Anglo-Saxon by blood, but there sllb are. according to scientists, one or two corners In Miiglaiid where there are colonies directly descended Irom the ancient Britons, the blue painted men who. according to the history books Inhabited I'ligland before the Anglo Saxons killed them oil'. If you came across them you would at once notice something curious about them. They do not look like Knglish men at all. They are short, as swarthy as Spaniard, with very narrow heads and with curiously cut profiles. There are whole vlllagefuls of these modern ancient Britons, though the villages are very lew and very out of the way. it Is this out of thu wayness that lias kept them so distinct from the country people around them. Some of these villages have not even had road communication with the rest or the world till comparatively recent times. One of these curious colonies is at Dunsfold. lu Surrey. Bedfordshire, too, has some villages of "black meu." London Tlt-BIts. STARTS FOR KARLUK'S MEN. Revenue Cutter Will Race With Fanv ire For Marooned Crew. The revenue cutter Bear, with Cit tuln Hubert Bartlett. master of the wrecked Otefanssou exploring ship Knrluk. ah'iard. Is on Its way to the nrctle to take oh the eighteen white men ami four F.sklimu of Bartlett's command who are ma .ned on Wran gel Island, where they s'Uight refuge iftor the Knrluk was crushed lu the lei rlh or Herald island last winter The Bear carries provisions for nliii ii'imths. Capl'ilu Bartlett says the KarlukV men would run out of provision about the middle of August, and the Bear will make every effort to reach them before thai time They should, how ever, be nl.le to subsist on game, lu which Wrangel Island abounds. If tho rescue party Is delayed. Not So Dutiful. "Where will -Mrs. Dobs go now that botii her daughters are married to her Bou-ln-law's house In Birmingham or to that of her son-lu-law In Leeds?" "One wauts her lu Birmingham, and the other wishes she would go to Leeds." "What dutiful sons-ln-lawr "I beg your pardon. The one In Bir mingham wants her In Leeds; the one In Leeds wants t)or In Birmingham." London Tlt-BIts. Read the Little Want Ads. Grace is a Bride-elect HG OWNS A MATAIt .JMAT.t cCUAOf: AH . cjRACS, PRIVATE YACHTS HEN 100 PO WeU. PRDBABV.V; SPEND not -va HONEYMOON CRUI ME ANy j i n v SN(I ON ONE. OP THBM M THB MSblTBRRANEAN. HUGHES' CHILL TONIC PALATABLE IleU;r ttuu Calomel and Quinine. (Contains No Arsenic.) THE OLD RHLLMILK EXCELLENT GENERAL TONIC A 4 well as ,i Remedy for Chills and l evers, Malarial Fevers, Swamp Fe vers and Ililioiis Fevers. Just what you need at this season. MILD LAXATIVE, NKRVOl'S SHDATIVK, SPLENDID TONIC Sjt'inW Trr It. Ocn'l take r lubilHuli, tt Dliti, SOc mil I 00 Ballltt. PREPARED BY ROBINSON-PETTET COMPANY, IM'OHl-OltATr.li. L. LOUISVILLE, Victoria Hotel LOUISVILLE, KY. 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