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GOLF AN OLD GAME
Was Once Played in Holland on
the Ice.
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Goes Back at Least Five Centuries—
So Popular in Scotland in 1457
It Interfered With Other
Games.
“You have to be a fine rider, do you
not, to play golf?” was the commonest
question in regard to the game not
more than 35 years ago. At that time
the man who traveled about with a set
of golf clubs was an object of some
astonishment to his fellow travelers!
And yet the gjme of golf, according
to the new Encyclopedia Britannica,
goes back at least five centuries. It is
portrayed by early Dutch painters, who
generally showed it being played on
ice! But one of the pictures in a
Dutch illumined Book of Hours, now
in the British museum, is a painting of
three men putting at a hole in the turf
as in our modern golf. Although the
Dutchmen played and painted golf,
they did not write about it and we
have no records describing the game.
Just when Seotland took up gftlf
is unknown, but 1457 it was already so
popular, says the Britannica, that it in
terfered with the more important pur
suit of archery. In May, 1471, an act
of the Scottish parliament was passed
forbidding this sport: “Futeball and
Golfe forbidden. Item, it is statut and
ordaint that in na place of the realme
there be usit fute-ball golfe or uther
silk unprofitabill sports,” etc.
It is rather curious that this is an
edict of James IV who later became
very much attached Jo the practice of
the “unprofitabill sport”—not only he,
but his daughter, Mary Stuart. It was
alleged by her enemies that, as showing
her shameless indifference to the fate
of her husband, a very few days after
his murder, she “was seen playing golf
and pall-mall in the fields beside Se
ton.”
Golf has from old times been known
in Scotland as “the Royal and Ancient
Game of Golf.” Many monarchs have
. it their favorite diversion and
since its introduction into America all
the presidents have found it a favorite
form of exercise.
There is still standing in Edinburgh
a monument of the prowess of James
II as a golfer. After the Restoration
James, then duke of York, was sent to
Edinburgh in 1681 as commissioner of
the king to parliament. He was chal
lenged by two Englishmen, nobles of
his suite, to play a match against them,
for a very large stake, along with any
Scotch ally he might select. With his
partner, who was one “Johne Pater
sone,” a shoemaker, the duke easily
won the game. He made over half of
the large stake to his humble co-ad
jutor, who herewith built himself a
ihouse at No. 77 Cannongate, which has
always been called Golfer’s Land.
Luminous Watch Dial.
The first thing to do is to procure an
ounce of calcium sulphide, luminous.
The cost since the war is $1 an ounce,
'but you can fix perhaps 50 watches
•With that amount. This element ab
sorbs light, and after being exposed
! to any bright light for five minutes will
glow with a purple light for about four
hours, says Popular Science Monthly.
Remove the crystal from the watch
jto be treated, and with a pen dipped
jin shellac go over the numerals and
the hands. Some may prefer to make
dots only at the numerals. Pour out
the calcium on a clean piece of paper,
dip your finger in It and press some on
the moist shellac. Allow about five
iminutes for it to dry. The calcium
not used may be returned to the
bottle.
Wise Husband.
Mr. Barton lived in a suburban
Town. His wife asked him to pur
chase a shirtwaist for her while in
[New York. After telling the sales
girl what he,was after, she displayed
number.
“Here are some very pretty ones.
“What color do you prefer?” she said.
“It doesn’t make any difference,” re
iplied Mr. Barton.
“Doesn’t make any difference!” ex
claimed the salesgirl. “Why, don’t
you think your wife would like a cer
tain color?”
“No, it makes no difference what
'color I get or what size. I shall have
[to come back tomorrow to have it
changed.”
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Important Venezuela Highway.
Consul Homer Brett, at La Gua.vra,
[reports that the government of Vene
zuela has determined to undertake the
[construction of a highway from Carac
as to San Cristobal in the extreme
t western part of the republic. This road
■will be the largest public work ever
■undertaken by the government of Ven
ezuela; it will be 683 miles long
[and will run from Caracas to Valencia,
iSan Carlos, Guanare, Barinas and San
iAntonio de Caoaro.
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.• Take The Weekly for 1918.
AS THE MINISTER SEES IT
Finds Compensation for His Efforts In
Community Where Talents Seem
to Be Buried.
“Why, man, you’re burying your tal
ent in a place like this!” the minis*
ter’s friend said earnestly, almost in
dignantly. “Out in the thick of things,
with your abilities, you could accom
plish almost anything. If you stay on
here, the world will soon forget there
is such a fellow as Ralph Denniston.”
Denniston smiled his familiar quiz
zical smile. “I don’t believe God is
forgetting, McQuiston. When I came
out to this little frontier town, fifteen
years ago, I was confident that I was
being sent. If I hadn’t been, I think
I should have gone somewhere else.
After I had taught six months in the
stuffy, overcrowded, little school build
ing on the hill yonder, I was surer of
it than ever. I knew the place needed
me, or a better man, and I didn’t see
any likelihood that the better man
would come. The pupils ‘took to me,’
the parents say, and I knew I had
an influence with them. I could point
out a good many cases now where I’ve
‘got results.’
“The salary is small, and I’ve had a
dozen ‘better’ offers. They’ve come
mostly through old college classmates,
and for that reason it’s pained me to
turn them down; but —well, I’ve never
heard the order to leave from the
one in command. That may sound
like mysticism to a hard-headed, prac
tical man of affairs like you, McQuis
ton, but it’s very real to me, and yes,
I might as well say it, very precious
and satisfying. I doubt whether a sal
ary of ten thousand a year would give
me the peace of mind it does to know
that I’m where God wants me to be.
“I won’t say I don’t have my long
ings for what you call ‘the thick of
things.’ That’s unavoidable, after a
fellow has once known the thrill of big
undertakings and the zest of neck-and
neck competition. But I think of it
like this: When the workday is over,
I’d want to feel that I could face God
with a clear conscience about this
thing. I’d hate to confess that I’d
obeyed the heavenly vision at the
start, and later on quibbled, and pre
tended I couldn’t see it any longer.”
“I don’t know but you’re more than
half right,” the other admitted soberly.
His eyes narrbwed upon the white
school building on the hilltop, and
there was a long silence. “To feel
sure God knows where to find you, be
cause he sent you there and never gave
you orders to leave —that’s a greut
thought, Denniston.”
Using the Refuse.
What becomes of the old sardine
tins, tomato cans, .meat tins, fruit
tins and tins of all kinds? In France
where nothing is allowed to go to
waste they gather them up and use
them —to cut into tin soldiers.
In France, too, old boots and shoes
are collected and every part is used
over again. The work is mostly done
by convicts in prisons. They take the
boots and shoes to pieces and soak
them: then the uppers are cut up into
children’s shoes or if they are too far
gone for that a peculiar kind of
pressed leather is made by some chem
ical action. The nails are saved and
sold and the scraps go to the farm--
ers to fertilize the soil.
Who would have thought it possible
to make anything out of old saws?
Yet it is said that many of the finest
surgical instruments and some of
those used by engineers are manufac
tured from the steel that first saw”
duty in saws. The steel of saws is of
tile very best quality and finest tem
per. and since It is good in the first
•dace it is always good.—New York
Morning Telegraph.
Plenty of Excitement.
“Poor laddie,” said the lady to the
hotel elevator boy, “don’t you find this
work rather trying and monotonous?”
“No fear, ma’am. I like it. It’s full
of excitement. First of all, there’s
always the funny people coming in
and out. Then there’s other things.
“Only yesterday a man tried to get
out before the elevator was down and
cracked his skull. Then last the
machine broke, and the thing came
straight down from the stxth floor to
the bottom, and everybody was hurt
’cept me. This ’ere rope, too, looks a
hit weak, but it'll probably last till
we get up, though I don’t know what
we’ll do if it don’t’ cos the engine man
is away ill today, and ’is mate’s just
married, and I’m in charge of every
thing and I don’t know nothing about
it. So it ain’t really what you could
call a dull life, is it?” —New York
Globe.
New Moral Codes.
Andrew Lang, the Scotch poet, critic
and satirist, reserved his most deadly
shafts for the founders of new re
ligions and apostles of new moral
codes.
Newfangled religions and newfan
gled moralities he knew must be false,
for any apparently novel truth which
they contained turued out upon clos
er examination to be u old as human
•ociety itself.
Children Cry for Fletcher’s
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The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been
yi use for over over 30 years, has borne the signature of
, and has been made under his per
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£il ow n 0 oue t 0 deceive you in this.
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Experiments *that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children —Experience against Experiment.
c What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric,
Drops and Soothing Syrups. It 4s pleasant. It contains
neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its
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been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency,
Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverishness arising
therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids
the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep.
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Last September Mrs. Willie M. Lane,
iof Tallapoosa, Ga., went to Atlanta
and consulted the One Price DontaS
Office, 104)4 Whitehall st, Atlanta,
about some dental work. The price
quoted was satisfactory and the work
was done. After she paid the -bill and
| counted up what the trip had cost she r
foqnd that the total outlay was $56.33.
“After»l came home,’’ sne says in a
| recent letter, “I went to see one of our
dentists and asked him what he thought
of the work I had had done in Atlanta
and he said I had a fine joh. I asked
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he said SIOO. Should 1 ever need any
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Atlanta and have the work done. I
can’t praise your work too highly."
The One Price Dental Office never
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$3 par tooth; finest set of teeth money
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DENTIST
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(MASONIC BUILDING)
DID YOU
Ever Stop to Think
of the constant service .rear watch per
forms —the balance wheel traveling 3558
3-4 miles, the little second hand covering
18 miles, thus regulating the audible tick
ing <4T of 31*53(1 000 seconds of time in the
course of a year?
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When Was your Watch Last Cleared
and Oiled? Isn’t It 1 inie?
T. H. WYNNE
The Jeweler,
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