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*as Ix>pu made In each particular cate, be- •houW ultimately appear that this law hat _ applied to . _ la topujcraplijr, soil, and climate. No arbi trary rule should be followed, but io each case the area of the homestead should be determiued by the acreage which may be accessary to support a family upon the land, either by agriculture, or by grazing If agriculture Is Impracticable. Until such acreage is determined for each locality, any new general law providing a method of obtaining title to the public lands would, in the opinion of your CommlKSInu, bo decidedly unsafe. Lieu Lands. Careful study has been given by your Commission to the subject of forest-reserve lleu-Iund selections. These selections have given rise to great scandal, and have led to the Requisition by speculators of much ▼aluahle timber and agricult' its consolldati' thermore, the _ . meat ami the people from the sclccth of valuable lands In lieu of worthless areas ins been very great. There has been nsurate return In the way of — agrlt ^ ...— into large holdings, t-y loss to the (Jove Increased settlement and huslne: Ity. Public opinion concerning Hen-land •elections, by railroads In particular, reached an acute stage. The situation In urgent need of a remedy, and your Com mission recommends the repeal of the laws providing for lieu-land selections. A partial remedy by Executive action has already been applied by carefully Io- rating the boundaries of new forest re serves, and thus limiting lieu-land selec tions to comparatively insignificant areas. The lasV annual message to Congress de dares definitely that— . FOOTBALL ANCIENT SPORT. ROOSEVELT’S SOT THE FIRST ROYAL EDICT TO PREVEST ROUGH PLAYISG. The making of forest reserves utilhin'railroad and wagon-road land-grant limits will here- offer, as for the past three years, be so managed as to prevent the issue, under the act of June 4, s&flt of base for exchange or lieu selection (us• ually called scrip). In all ca tes where forest re- serves wit km areas covered by land grants ap pear to be essential to the prosperity of settlers, miners er others, the Government lands within such proposed forest reserves will, as in the recent past, be withdrawn from sate or entry fending the completion of such negotiations with the owners of the land grants as will Prevent the creation of so-called serif. There are now lands In private ownership within existing forest reserves, and simi lar lauds most to a limited extent be ln- eluded In new reserves. Therefore, a me thod la required by which the Government may obtain control of nonagrlcultural lea of these English and Scottish King's Have Debarred Came. Has Always Been Roughest of Sports for Five Hun* dred Vears-Shin Kicking Approved. President Roosevelt's attempt bring about a revision in the rules of the gridiron sport that it may played with less risk to the lives and limbs of the contestants Is after all but a revival of the caustic com ments of at least two English sov- relgns who beat the President the revision business by several hun dred years. Football Is one of the oldest of all the English pastimes, and It Is even believed that the Greeks nml Roman* bad ft similar game. Ever since It first made its appear ance It has been characterized by ex treme roughness and has been the subject-of denunciations on the part of those who called more for their own safety and that of the players than for the final score. As early as 3314 football had be come so popular In London as a street game and attracted so many disord erly spectators that the staid old mer chants entered a vigorous protest King Edward II was on the throne then and wasted no time dining tbe football coacbes or arguing about tbe matter. He Issued a proclama tion in which he $aid: “Forasmuch as there Is great noise in the city caused by hustling, over large balls from which many evils might arise, which God forbid, we command and forbid on tbe half the King, on pain of Imprisonment, such games to be used in the city In the future." This terse and ominous declaration forestalled by more —an five hundred years the American legislators who have come to the front la the past de cade with bills to make- football 11- tle attention then as now, for in 1491 we find another act in which “fute- balle and golfe" were roasted to a turn and prohibited under severe penalties. The unregenerate of Scotland were much given to playing football on Sunday. At first it Interfered with the practice of archery on the Sev enth Day, and later, when the Sab batarian movement had acquired prominence, it kept people away from church.so in 1691 we find the town council of Edinburgh strictly forbid ding the playing of matches on the Sabbath. Not only was the game itself rough, but It attracted great con courses of people who were willing at all times to jump In with clubs and other weapons and resent un fairness or poor decisions. For some reason Shrove Tuesday was the great date for annual contests, cor responding to what Thanksgiving Day used to be In this country. On this day the crowds swnrmed out to the greens and, from the descriptions we their conduct before and after the games would have made the wild nights a few years ago In the New York Tenderloin after a big game in that city look like a Sunday School picnic. .*>- ‘ > r. Was a Reign of Terror. They marched around with much shouting and cheering, chasing the city watchmen up and down alleys- and beating them right merrily. Pass- RIVAL NAVAL BUILDERS. GOVERNMENT COXSTRVCTORS BEAT PRIVATE COXCERX IS SHIPBUILDING. The Connecticut Ahead of Slater Ship Louisiana—Cost However Greater— First War Ship Ever Built by the Government. There is great rivalry between the United States Navy Yard at Brooklyn and a private shipbuilding concern at Newport News, over the construction of the two naval war leviathans, Con necticut and Louisiana. The Govern ment Is building the Connecticut, and tlie shipbuilding company Is rushing toward completion the Louisiana. The figures given out but a sliort time ago by the Navy Department show that tbe Connecticut Is 01.30 per cent completed, while her sister ship shows percentage of completion of 89.25. comparison shows then that the Government-built boat has a slight lead, which is all the more gratifying to the champions of Government con traction when it Is considered that this is the first battleship ever bnllt In the United States by any other than private constructors and that It was predicted that the Government could not compete with private build ers. Nevertheless the Government ship wifi cost the more. ' By- act of Congress approved July PERFUMES FOR THE NOBILITY. ONE ENTRY IN THE DEEP OREGON FOREST. Haro the entry™ in swore that the claim was mostly valuable for agriculture. Forest bo — » fhowud only -b block: aus* of true growth. Secretary of tbo Interior should thorlsed. In Ills discretion, to accept the relinquishment to the United States cf any tract of !hu(1 within n forest reservo cov ered by nil unperfccted bonn fide claim lawfully Initiated or by it patent, ami to grant to the owner Id lieu thereof a tract ©f unappropriated, vacant, surveyed, non- mineral public land In the snmo State or Territory and of approximately equnl area and value as determined by nn examina tion, report, and specific description by public surveys of both tracts to be made on tbe ground by officials of the Govern ment. When exchange under these condi tions cannot be affected, lands p -* •- uld terlor should be authorised to take the nec essary proceedings as rapidly as the neces sary funds aro provided. s Timber and Stone Act. Tbo recommcmlntloua made for the re- paal of tho timber aud stone act In tbo previous reports aro renewed aud empba- ■u«‘d. Additional fn«-la showing tho de structive effect of this law have strength ened tho belief of jour Commission that on tbe wholo.lta operation la decidedly harm ful. Tbla law has boon made the vehicle for Innumerable frauds, and tbe Govern ment baa loat and Is still losing yearly vast sums of money through the sale of valu able timber lauds to speculators, nml henco Indirectly to large corporation*, at n price far below their actual value. From tho passage of the act. June 3. 1878. to June io, 1804,' 55,37*.! CWU for 7,500,078 acres «t timber laud were patented under its. previsions, aud on last date 7.C1-1 claims for 1,108,380 acre* were pcudlng. Many transfers of land patented under this law are made Immediately upon completion of title, often on the *ame day, to Individuals aud*companic*. In this way a monopoly of v the timber Huppllea of tbe public-land States Is being created by systematic col lusion. Under the existing rules and prac tices of the courts It la difficult to prove ltd* collusion, except lu cases of open fraud and it Is therefore practically Im possible to secure convlctlou. Furthermore, under bona fide compliance with lue actual provisions of tbe law tbe'effect Is almost equally bad. Tbe law Itself la seriously de- It has been urged la behalf of this act that It enables poor men to enjoy the bounty of the Government by obtaining tracts of timber which they can afterwards sell with advantage. A careful study seems to show, on the contrary, that the original entrymen rarely rcalUe more than ordinary wages for the time anent In mak ing the entry and completing tne transfer. Tbe .corporations which ultimately secure / title usually absorb by far tbe greater part of ih.* profit. In addition to the direct loae to toe Government from the .ale of the Unde far below their real value, timber land, which ihouid hare been praaanred for the nso of the people are withdrawn from anch ih and tbo development of tbe country la re tarded until tbe corporation, which own the timber ace fit to cut It. Tbe bona tide aettler who cornea Into a country, tho Um ber reaourcea of which have thus been nb- aorhed, may bo very serlou.ly hampered by hla Inability to eccure timber except from a foreltn corporation. All of the. timber land lias often .paaied beyond hla reach, and the development of bis farm may be retarded and hi. expenae. pasta, and ^ should be Sale of Timber on the Public Lands. Necessity for the enactment of a,., law authorising tbe ule of timber on nonre- serve public land ia becoming more evi dent, and the recommendation* made In the preceding report of this Co— are reiterated. For the best ore public lands it Is absoli~ bold public timber for i and In quantities n tlnnons growth of fhx>vlslon shoo* * *" free-use right 1 tiers. A virgin la a m.iltl: when verging on 30 la called an old maid. ladylike nowadays, hut what It was In Edward's tlim-, when tho favorite diversions of. the apprentices and other youngsters were street lights lu.whlch anything from nn nxu to n kick In tho stomach was allowed may be better Imagined than dcsrrlbeci. The broken collarbones and strained tendons with which we are familiar as a result of Bcrlmmngos must bavo been mcro pin scratches compared with casualties- attending a buck on center by tho Mediaeval "backs." Another English sovereign who THE CONNECTICUT NEW SEA FIGHTER BEING BUILT BY GOVERNMENT. Tsby were likely to be rolled In the nearest mnd paddle and tho tendency to break windows and "rough home" inns and alehouses became so pro nounced thnt keepers of shops and taverns pat up their shutters and se curely barred their doors. When ri val bands met there was vast smash ing of heads-wblch afforded ample practice for all the barbers and leeches In the neighborhood. Matters went from bad to worse until tbe pnblic and authorities be came weary of reading tbs annual list of dead and Injured, and about 1830 the great Shrove Tuesday matches died put. The game was perpiotiintca In tho colleges, but oven thore It was no sport for weaklings, as Is proved by the fact that ns late as 1870 "hacking.” or kicking nn op posing player on tho shins, was al lowed aa ono of tho finer points. The Football Association formed In 1878 was tho result of t(p> Interest in ath letics nroused by tho voluntoer move ment In England lu 1800 and tbe Rugby Union wtii formed In 1811. The present rales In the United State, were evolved from roost of the Rug by Union, na opposed to tho “socker” or Association stylo which hss rodent 1 ly been exploited as s possible sub stitute for tho American game.. AN ANCIENT FOOTBALL GAME IN THE STREETS OP LONDON. took n hand In tho gnme because of the Injuries with wnlch it was at tended was King James 1. He was a patron of sport and believed In his progeny getting plenty of excitement, but ho balked at football. It was too much trouble to raise an heir to have him twisted Into a pretzel Just about tho time he might be useful In' holding down the throne. James told hla son to run along and have a good time with tho hoys. In fnct, ho wrote down certain precepts for mo young man's guidance, bnt If tho coach had asked Prince Charles to “come out for the eleven" he would have been mot with tho familiar “parental ob jection” of the present day, which King James expressed as follows. “From this count I deter nil such rough and violent exorcise as the foot ball, meeter for laming than making able tho users thereof.” Interfered With Archery. Football has always had a tendency to run foul of tho law. Ito original first offence was In taking the minds of prospective soldiers off from arch ery, hut in this it had as a side part ner the eminently peaceful and goa- tle game Of golf. In 1157 a- Scottish act waa passed In which the two sports were condemned In language as vigorous as that used by some of our college presidents on the same subject, because they occupied too much of the tlmo of the husky men who might have been learning the finer points of how to send nn' arrow through the breast plate of an En glish Invader. The plaints of the staid seigneurs received about as lit- An Early Print. The finding of a human footprint, said to be 10,000 years old, In a Penn sylvania colliery has led to tho report tfat a record In antiquity has been es tablished. But this is a thing of yes terday, geologically speaking. The day will come, the ethnologists eay, when man’s age will be found recorded, not In thousands of yeare, but millions. Even now they have traced him hack to pre-glacial days. How to express that lu figures la a problem, but, at any rate, they fir certain happenings lb the glacial period as 210,000 yeare ago. And In those day* our forefathers, with or without their tolls, their three eyes or fewer, wcrwbuay In Europq_With the mammoth and-th* elephant, the giraffA the lion, the tiger and species which he has ouGlved. Man was on the earth before Vesuvius and Aetna reared- tbelr fiery heads nnto the skies. He has been found with bis works of art burled a-hundred feet deep In the gold- bearing gravels of'Callfornla, overlaid by four successive lava streams from volcanos long extinct . **■' 1, 1002; authority was granted for tbs construction of two battleships after ward named the Connecticut and Louisiana, each 150 feet long, 76 1-8 feet wide, with a draft of 31 feet 8 Inches. A short time after this action of Congress, tbe Navy Department de cided to have one of the battleship* constructed by private parties, tbe Government endeavoring to bolld tb* other. Government Co’ Bad Start Too. Tbe contract for tbe Louisiana was let to the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company who laid tbe keel for that vessel on February 7, 1008, while tbe Government wi* de layed In tbs construction of its vessel so mneb that tbs keel, was not laid down until March 10' of tbs same year. Tbe Government - was further delayed In building tbe Connecticut owing to non arrival of necessary ma chinery and armor plats, yet with all of these drawbacks the latest figures published by tbs Navy Department show the Gown mont-bullt Rost farther advanced .oward completion than that being erected by a private concern. The Louisiana was the first to receive Its christening,-having been launched August 27, 1004; the Con necticut did not take to the waves until September - 20 of the earns year. The Brooklyn Nary Yard, where tbe Connecticut Is being bnUt la now em ploying over 1,000 men on tbs battle ship and- It Is stated that there is still room for 200 more Workmen. With tbe rapid progress now being made on the vessels it Is estimated that they will be ready to go Into commission by Jane of next year. Most Formidable of War Ships, Tbesd battleships when completed will be among the most formidable war vessels of the world: the main battery on each win consist of lour 12-tncb, eight 8-ineb and twelve 7- inch rifles; the secondary battery will have twenty 3-inch rapid fire ' gone, twelve 3-pounders, eight 1-pounders and a number of rapid fire guns of smaller calibre. There will also lie four submerged torpedo tubes Tbe ships will have ample protection by heavy armor ranging In thickness from nine to eleven Inches. The'con tract cells for vessel* of 1&000 tons displacement, with s stesmtagespset- ty, at 10 knots par boar, of 6,000 miles without recoating. They are expect ed, however, to make 18 knots per hour et the official trial. Each ship will be manned by 866 officers and men. The contract price of the Lou isiana la 13,090,000 while tbe Connect icut Is expected to cost $4,212,000. Many Friendly Pals. Rodrlck—‘they say ChoIIy Goodfel- low Is very popular around town. Van Albert—I should say aO. Why. he wears out two coats a month Just from people slapping.him on tbe back. —Chicago News. In India the contribution basket la sometimes passed around In the Hin doo temples by an elephant. Chestnuts are a very similar food to potatoes. The chestnut, however. Is the more nutritious of tbe two. The chestnut has only 33 per sent, water while tbe potato baa 76 per cent of wa ter. In all of tbe nutritive Ingredients the chestnut leads the- potato. Tbs chestnut may be cooked exactly aa the potato Is, boiled, baked, or roasted. The culture of the chestnut tree in this country baa as yet been neglected, and furnishes sn Inviting Arid for en terprising agriculture and forestry. Ambassador Whltelaw Reid Engages - Services of Earl’s Son. At one time Lady Curzon had the reputation of spending more money on perfumes than any other woman lu England. It waa said that she was more extravagant in this respect then Queen Alexandra whose perfume bills amounted to something like $5,000 a year. Now, the story goes, the Duch ess of Roxburgh has become the most extravagant purchaser of per- fnmery In the laud. She patronizes the heavy-scented essences of the East which are known to he most ex pensive. The cost of her dally bath would, tt Is said, keep a middle-class family for a week. Lady Curzon used these same essences at one time, but she found them so expensive that ebedeglded to try cheaper . extracts. Queen Alexandra, too, has gone In for retrenchment In the same direc tion, and she Is now satisfied with the favorite scent of the late Queen Victoria, which was a species of lav-, ender water specially prepared for her by a chemist at Windsor. The Princess of Wales la also extravagant In the use of scenta and .uses a spe cial preparation made from violets and other carefully cultivated flowers. It Is strange that Lady Suffolk, for merly Miss Lelter of Washington, dis likes scents, considering her sister's passion for them. Even royalty finds It necessary to yield obedlenco to the doctor's orders The fiat baa gone forth that Queen Alexandra must eat no more aweet things. In consequence, a well-known firm of London pastry cooks, who have for many yeare supplied her majesty with confectionery and other tempting delicacies, have had their order cancelled. For their loss of trade the are consoled by tbe fact that they are still allowed to display the royal eoat-of-nrma which Indi cates that they are under royal, pate ronage. Tbe Queen baa long been In ordinately fond of sweets and con fections and has recklessly Indulged ber appetite for them. That bas pro duced an accumulation of superfluous adipose tissue wblcb even tb* most expert of dressmakers sre unable to conceal. She Is no longer slim and willowy, though English newspapers IA Tension Indicator: B JUST "WHAT THE WORD ] IMPLIES. It indicates the state cf the tension at a glance. Its use means time saving and easier sewing. It's our own invention and is found only on the. White Sewing Machine. We have other striking improvements that appeal to the careful buyer. Send for our elegant EL T. catalog. s Sewing Macbe Cleveland, Ohio. SILOS flat. Hr, Cypress sad TsDow Has. Writ* lot Catalogse. Eagle Tank Go., 281 N. Green 8fc, Chicago, 111. PIANOS AND ORGANS STANDARD OS’ THE WORLD LADY CURZON. continue to’ to describe ber. Her medl cal attendant hae told her that ber only hope of regaining something like her youthful contour of figure lies In the practice of rigid 'self-denial.with respect to the dainties she enjoys moat The Princess of Wales has also received a bint from a high medical authority that she will some day be come a second edition of her mother, the Duchess of Teck, who Was enor mously fat,, unless she practices fru gality In tbe line of confections. Ths Duchess of Arcoe. formerly Miss Virginia Lowry of Washington, wife of the new Spanish ambassador to Italy, arrived la Rome recently from St Petersburg, tbe former post of her husband. On opening her trank It was discovered that it had been robbed In transit of Jewels val ued at about $4,000. It Is supposed that the robbery took place between Turin and Rome. van Calra. Queer Odor of Mammies. Ton may put a mummy la a glass case and seal It hermetically so that no corroding alt can get within, bnt tt will attn exhale Its odor. Four or five thousand yeare. It would seem, should exhaust all olfactory qualities, but experience teaches us that these smells remain while tb* origin of tbelr scent* la unknown to us. They are today aa much a mystery .to embalm- ere a* when the bodies ware put In the bath of nature. Tbe ben’s eggs produced In tbls country last year would fill 48,127,000 crates of 800 eggs each. It would re quire 107,818 refrigerator care to trans port this crop, and these cars would make a train 000 miles long. PENSIONS. Over one Million Dollars allowed our clients during the last six years. Over one Thousand claims allowed through us dur ing the last six months. Dis ability* Age and In crease pensions obtained in the shortest possible time. Widows* claims a specialty. Usually granted within 90 days if placed with ns immedi ately on soldier’s death. 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