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SUNDAY, JUNE 14.
100 Trap Shooters to Gather Here on Tuesday
and Wednesday For Annual Meeting of Georgia
Trap Shooters' Association; to Be Interesting Event
Mr. James Barrett, of Augusta,
is the Champion of Georgia,
and Will Defend His Title.
Won Last Year Bv Breakinq
98 Out of 100
Shootinf*Will be Held in Center
of Race Track at the Fair
Grounds and Public Will Be
Admitted Without Charge,
The annual state shoot of the Geor
gia Trap Shooters Association will be
gin here Tuesday morning and con
tinue for three days. The shoot will
he held under the auspices of the Au
gusta Gun Club, whose invitation to
have the state shoot at Augusta this
year was accepted at the last annual
shoot of the association.
Mr. James Barrett of this city is the
Georgia champion, having won the
honor last year at Macon when he
broke 98 out of 100 balls.
There will be 100 shooters here from
Georgia and surrounding states ami
the headquarters will be at the Albion
Hotel.
The shooting will begin at 9 o’clock
in - the morning and continue all day,
each shooter partaking of dinner on
the grounds.
The most important event of the en
tire meeting will lie on Wednesday af
ternoon, when the championship ol
Georgia will be decided. Mr. Barrett
w ill defend his title and the contest ia
expected to be a very interesting one.
There will be representatives from
the big powder manufacturing con
cerns and all manufacturer's of guns.
The following announcement is made
regarding the shoot:
Seven trophies will be awarded to
the winner of the first seven places
in the Interstate Association Amateur
State Championship event, and $50.00
in cash to the winner of the state
championship (or to the runner-up in
case the winner cannot attend the
Grand American Handicap Tourna
ment), conditional on said winner or
runner-up making entry and compet
ing in the National Amateur Cham
pionship in the Grand American Han
dicap Tournament
Contestants are allowed to shoot for
targets only Mn any or all events.
Trophy guaranteed to high amateur
over all registered targets (Handicaps
not registered.)
While non-residents of the state of
Georgia are not allowed to win the
Georgia State Championship, they are
allowed to shoot in this event.
Ties to be shot off in 20-bird events.
' i case of heavy rain on day of
shoot the secretary has right to post
pone shoot.
Railroad Rates.
Round trip tickets will be for sale
from all over the South for the occca
sion. Ask for round trip tickets.
- Automobile Transportation.
l <J'Good clay roads running into Au
gusta from all over the South
Lunch served on grounds.
A big, large, beautiful city; hospii
table people, and we want you to come.
There will be no checks or drafts
cashed on grounds or received in pay
ment of entrance fees.
No intoxicants will be allowed on
the grounds.
Professionals will not be allowed to
win any money or trophies —they will
shoot for targets only
The committee which will allot han
dicap in the state shoot will be select
ed from the shooters who attend the
tournament.
General Information.
This tournament will be held on the
grounds of the Georgta-Carolina Fair
Association, under the auspices of the
Augusta Gun Club, Augusta, Georgia-
Three ideal Leggett traps will throw
bl > clay pigeons.
Shooting will begin at 9 a. m. each
day.
The regular events will be 16-yard
rise.
The purses in the regular events will
be divided into four equal moneys.
The added money and trophies will
amount to $540—5415.00 in cash money
and $125 in trophies.
The shooting grounds w ill be open for
practice on Monday before the shoot
A supply of standard factory load
ed shells will be for sale on the
grounds.
The interstate association revised
trap shooting rules will govern all
events not otherwise spepclally pro
vided for.
You can travel Sunday, practice
Monday and shoot Tusday and Wed
nesday. Plenty of money, and divided
so the poor shots have got an equal
chance. Express your guns care of the
hotel advertised in program.
For any information write R. M. Ri
ley, Secretary, Augusta, Georgia.
Here is the prpogram:
Program.
First Day—Tuesday, June 16, ,1914
9:00 A. M. Prompt.
Events. No. of Added
Targets Money Entrance
1 20 $15.00 $2.00
2 20 15.00 2.00
3 20 15.00 2.00
4 20 15.00 2.00
5 20 15.00 2.00
6 20 15.00 2.00
7 20 15.00 2.00
8 20 15.00 2.00
ft 20 15.00 2.00
10 20 15.00 2.00
Price of targets (2 cents each) in
cluded in all entrances of regular pro
gram.
Purse to be divided into four equal
moneys.
Handicap 16 to 22 Yards.
Events. No. of Added
Targets Money Entrance
11 50 $50,00 $2.00
Seven moneys: Fix 15 per cent and
one 10 per cent.
Second Da) —Wednesday, June 17,
1914, 9:00 A. M. Prompt.
Events. No. of Added
Targets Money Entrance
1 20 *15.00 $2.00
2 20 15.00 2.00
3 20 15.00 2.0*
4 20 15.00 2.00
5 20 15:4)0 2.00
0 25 20.00 2.50
7 25 20.00 2.50
Price of target* (2 cent* each) In
eluded in all entrances of regular pro
gram.
Purse to be divided in four equal
moneys.
Events. No. of Added
Targets Money Entrance
8 .. .. .. ..100 SIOO.OO SIO.OO
Purse will be divided into 10 equal
moneys.
The shoot will be held In the center
of the race track at the fair ground*
No admission will be charged and
public ia invited.
Georgia’s Best Trap Shooter
Mr. James Barrett, of Augusta, who won the championship last year by
breaking 98 out of J9O, and who is expected to make a great showing in the
shoot this week.
Kaiser Again Attempting to Stamp Out
Cruelty to Army Recruits; Are
Charges Exaggerated?
Berlin.—The Kaiser is again at
tempting to stamp out cruelty to army
recruits. General Falkenhayn, the
Minister of War, in a recent speech in
the Reichstag adopted the usual atti
tude of calling the cases of cruelty
much less grave and less frequent
than charged, but later in his oration
surprised his hearers by anounclng
that the Emperor had once more In
tervened in person.
In his annual (confidential) address
to commanding generals, too, the
Kaiser made a very pressing appeal
for sterner measures of suppression.
It was a strange coincidence that a
few days before there had been a ser
ious incident involving a protest to
the Imperial Government, from the
French Foreign Legion, and that a few
days later, there should be an appeal
by the prosecuting counsel against twci.
otherwise rather sharp sentences
against a couple of curaissier guards.
The two men had come back to the
barracks late one night rather under
the Influence of liquor. They had
then routed the younger recruits out
of their beds, and had made them
stand, sleepy, and shivering, on the
tops of the cupboards nnd there sing
comic songs. Some had been rather
roughly knocked about with the flat
of the sabres. One, indeed, was wound
ed on the shoulder and cut in the
face.
At the first trial the chief culprit
was sentenced to two months and his
assistant to four weeks Imprisonment.
Rut the prosecution did not consider
this exemplary enough. At the trial
on appeal sentences of as much as six
months and eleven weeks were asked
for by the proseeuting counsel. The
court actually did increase the sent
ences.
A MECHANICAL
CHESJLPLAfEH
Plays a Correct Game of Chess
—and Wins Every Time; Fol
lows Games Rule.
Paris.—One of the most complicated
pieces of mechanism ever devised by
the Ingenuity of man is that which
plays a correct game of chess —and
wins every time!
The apparatus Is the work of Senor
L. Torres y Quevedo, a well-known
Spanish civil engineer, who first be
came famous ns the Inventor of a
machine which solved algebraical
equations.
Demonstrations of his chess-playing
contrivance, the Intricacies of which
consist of a bulky and amazing mass
of wires, buttons, and electric bulbs,
are being given in the Sorbonne. Ex
plaining the invention ,tlie engineer
said: “The apparatus plays the white
king and a castle against the black
king “
"This certainly gives the machine a
certain advantage,” he added, “but the
interest is concentrated In the move
ments of the automaton In answer to
those of the black king. These move
ments finally lead to the checkmating
of the black king.
"The machine never disobey* a rule
of the game. You may take your king
and move him anywhere you like; the
automaton will prove quite an up-to
date player.
"Should you give your king a false
move the automaton will Immediately
warn you by lighting the lamp. If
you make three wrong moves In suc
cession the machine will light three
successive lamps and then stop play
ing, and the only thing you can do Is
tt> press a button, which causes the
pieces to resume the position In which
they were when the game started. The
game will then begin anew.”
The Inventor says that his device
Is merely a toy, but he adds that the
principles embodied In the machine
show that—ln theory, at any rate —
mechanism can be substituted for all
human work.
Public opinion Is curious to know
whether this case is to establish a pre
cedent. In the recent debate In the
Reichstag on the ndlitary estimates a
Socialist member stated that the num
ber of suicides In the army between
1870 and 1910 was 10,439, and that in
the same period there had been 2353
unsuccessful attempts to commit sui
cide. General Faulkenhayn did not
refute these figures but argued that
since they amounted to only 13 per
thousand among the military element,
and the figures for civilians between
20 and 25 was 36 per thousand, they
did not bear the very grave Interpre
tation that was placed upon them.
Cruelty.
Rut be this as It may, It Is admitted
by all who look into the matter that
the severity and cruelty of non-com
missioned officers, and as In this case
of elder recruits, are the most import
ant factors In providing about a couple
of thousand soldiers for service under
the tri-color In the Foreign Legion.
A very tempestuous and unscrupu
lous campaign has recently been car
ried on in Geormany, which logically
amounts to interferenece In the inter
nal affairs of another country. Indeed,
the campaign has gone so far that few
can believe that the Foreign Legion
is not the only organization of its kind
in the world, and that It Is not almost
exclusively constituted of Germans
whereas reliable Information shows
that Holland has also such a foreign
contingent (and even proposes to en
large it), that Italy and Rpaln are
considering the formation of similar
bodies, and that all In all, the German
element In the French Legion Is
scarcely more than 18 per cent of the
whole.
Divorce Rumors Afloat;
Deposed King Manuel,
'His German Princess
Paris.—Although the repeated ru
mors of a divorce between the depos
ed King Manuel, of Portugal, and his
German Princess lack confirmation,
Wends of the family In Paris declare
that their affairs have reached an
acute stage. Manuel and his wife
have never understood each other,
and In spite of praiseworthy efforts
on the part of both to arrive at an
honorable arrangement of Hhelr life,
they have never succeeded In bring
ing the gulf which opened between
them immediately after their mar
riage.
The marriage was an idyll. Queen
Amelia looked upon the daughter of
her old friend, the Prince of Hohen
logne Slgrnarlngen as the ideal wife
for her son. possessing all those qual
ities which were lacking In his char
acter. The little princess had a will
of her own and was not devoid of am
nition. Might Bhe not be the means
o' bringing Manuel hack to this
throne? Such a role, however de
manded. first of all expe
rience, and In this, tfie prin
cess was totally Lacking. She
found that Manuel was a careless
easy-going, almost Irresponsible ynutH
irresolute hut yet capnblo of sudden
and unforseen obetlnancy, He on his
side saw In her a narrow-minded au
thoritative young person, with Ideas
which appeared to him out-of-date and
provincial—a ipaaslon of housekeep
ing and other domestic virtues which
fell in neither with his tastes nor his
requirements. Under these circum
stances a quarrel was Inevitable.
Queen Amelia and the Intimates of
the two families are doing their best
to smoothe away the differences be
tween the young couple, but they sr*
not optimistic.
Straw Hats SI.OO, $1.60, $2.00;
Panamas, $3.00, $5.00, $6.00, at F. G.
Msrtlns.’
WANTED: SEVERAL BOTH TO CAR
ry The Herald. Apply Sub Station
, No. 1, Kollock street. If
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA. GA.
THESE SUITS FOR WOMEN
AT LESS THAN HALF PRICE
These are but. (Tearaway days in the Ready-to-Wear Department.
Summer suit money goes far today at White’s. Dollars are doing double duty.
Every suit, of whatever kind of material, has been put into the clearance at less than half price.
Clearance Prices on IGO of the Fmest
NEW SUMMER DRESSES
Lord Byron collars, long tunics, set-in cuffs and glazed leather belts
are the charming characteristics of these new summer dresses, made in
white and colored materials appropriate for the Southern summer.
The price is $6.50.
Diaphanous Cloth is used in making white and colored dresses, just ill,
which are priced, at $8.50. So cool and comfortable; made with Russian
blouse and long tunic. Special price $8.50.
Distinctive dresses of white crepe and embroidered dresses are made
with ruffled skirt, Russian coatee and soft ribbon girdles. We have them
in sizes from 1(5 to 42, and the prices are from $9.50 upwards.
New Arrivals in the Waist Section
To the already complete stock of cool, light blouses and waists for
summer, we have added a new shipment of SI.OO and $1.25 waists, the dis
tinctive notes of which are the cords at neck.
Sea
Dresses
Becomingly made
tilings, also are ruf
fled and puffed.
The prices begin at
$295 ranging up
wards.
The Story of the Stars and Stripes
Prior to the First Flag Day,
June 14th, 1777
The American flag Is a growth, rather
than a creation. Its history can bo
traced hack to the 12th century, or
nearly 600 years prior to the “Flag Day”
June 14th, 1777,
During the first crusade In 1195, Tope
Urban II assigned to a 1 of the Christian
nations as standards crosses varying In
color and design, emblematic of the
warfare In which they were engaged. To
the Scotch troops was assigned the white
saltire, known as the white cToss of ht
Andrew on a blue field. The British
used a yellow cross, but a century and
a quarter later they adopted a red cross
on a white field, known aB the red cross
of fit. George. „ M
When James VI, of Scotland, ascend
ed the throne of England as James I, he
combined the two flags, and Issued a
proclamation requiring all sh*r* to carry
the new flag at their main masts. At
the same time the vessels of south Bri
tnin were to carry at thslr foremasts tno
rod cross of Ht. George nnd the ships
of north Rrltaln to carry the white cross
of Ht. Andrew.
The new flag was known as Klnos
Colors,” the “Union Colors’ or th#
‘■Great Union,” and later as the Un-on
lark ” and was the one under which the
British made all their permanent settle
ments In America It was the flag of
Great Britain only by proclamation,
however; not until 1707 did parliament
n»SH an B't definitely uniting the two
countries and their flags. In the same
year the government Issued regulations
requiring the navy to uae what was
known as the white ensign; the Naval
Reserve the blue ensign; and the Mer
chant Marine the red ensign. Owing
to the fact that the Rrltlsh merchant
venae's were everywhere, the colonists In
America came to look upon this red en-
St-n as the flag of Great Britain.
Bitterly Oppo*< J.
The people In the New England colo
nies were bitterly or posed to the cross
In the flag- In 1635 some of the troops
In Massachusetts declined to march un
der this flag and the military comm *-
Stoners were forced to design other flags
for their troops with the cross left out.
The design they adopted has not been
preserved. In 1652 s mint was estab
lished In Roston. Money conned In this
mint had the pine tree stamped on one
aide of it- The pine tree design was
also used on New England flags, cer
tainly by 1704 and possibly as early as
1 At the outbreak of the Revolution th*
American colonies had no fDg common
to a'l of them. In many cases th* mer
chant marine flag of England wa* used
with the pine tree substituted so- ihs
Union Jack. Massachusetts adopted th*
green pine tree on a white field with
the motto: “An Appeal to Heaven."
Home of the Houthern state* hid th*
rattlesnake flag with the motto: "Don’t
Tread on Me" on a white or ye'low field.
This flag had been used by South Caro
lina as early as 1764. Beniamin Frank
lin defended the rattlesnake device on
the ground that the rattlesnake la found
only In America aid that serpent em
blems were considered by enrients to be
symbol* of wisdom.
In ths South
In Heptember, 1775, there wa* display
ed In the Houth what la by m*ny be
lieved to be the ftrst distinctively Am
erican flag. It was bill* with a whit*
orescent, end matched the dress of th*
troops, who wore cwps Inscribed “Lib
erty or death."
Ten suits, wool crepe and silk poplins, values
to $47.50, for $20.00
Twenty suits, poplins, crepes, and fancy
weaves, values to $37.50, for . . $16.75
Ten suits, of latest fabrics, values to $32.50,
for $14.75
Seven suits, values to $29.75, for .. ..$12.75
Twenty suits, values from $23.50 to $27.50,
for .. $10.50
Twenty five suits, in diagonals of black and
navy blue and brocades, values to $22.50,
for $8.75
Five plain tailored suits, value? to $22.50.
for -..54.50
Ten silk poplin suits, values id' $57.50,
for.. .. .. 822.50
Wistaria Moire Suits, $440.00 value, . .$15.00
WEATHER nL/Tl ) FAIR
GREATER GEORGIA’S J
GREATEST STORE
The colonists desired to adopt a com
mon flag; but thoy had not yet declared
Independence nnd were not at first seek
ing Independence. They took the Brit
ish flag ns they knew It, and mode a
new colonial flag by dividing the red
f’eld with white stripes Into 13 alternate
red nnd white stripes. Thla la known «s
the Cambridge flag,' because It wan first
unfurled over Washington’* headquarters
at Cambridge, Mhm., on January 1, 1778.
Tt compiled with the law of 1707 by hav
ing the Union Jack on It; It also repre
sented the 13 colonies by the 13 stripes.
As the colonist* gradually became con
verted t*t the Idea that Independence
from the mother country was necessary,
they began to modify th" flag, firs! by
leaving off the Union Jack and using
only the 13 horoontnl stripes The modi
fied flags were not awnys red and white,
but regularly consisted of combinations
of two colors selected from red, white,
blue, and vellow. The final modifica
tion was the replacement of the Tnlon
Jack by the white stars on a blue field.
The Distinctive Stars.
The stHra are the only distinctive feat
ure of the Arnerhari flag. The charming
storv which credits Betsy Boss with
making the first flag of stars and
stripes Is art 111 accepted by histo
rians. When Washington suggested
the slx-ipolnted star, she demonstrated
the ease with which a f ve-polnted ata*
could be made bv folding a piece of
Taper and producing one with a .single
clip of tlie scissors Home wrlteia are
of the opinion that both stars and
stripes In the flag we r e derived from the
eoat of arms of the Washington family,
hut this theory Is not generally held.
The official adoption of our first flag
was la 1777. On June 14th of that yes
the Oonstlnentnl Congress passed nn art
providing that “the flag of the thirteen
United States he thirteen stripes, alter
nate red and white; that the union be
thirteen stars, white on a blue field, rep
resenting a new constellatlon." The 13
stars were arranged in a circle to sym
bolize the perpetuity of the union of the
states.
Vermont was ndmDted to the Union
In 1791 and Kentucky In 1792. Tt was
felt that these two new' states ought to
he recognized on the fag. so In 1794
Congress parsed nn act making the flag
1r» stars and 1 f» stripes.
This remained the flag of the United
States throughout the war of 1312. until
there were 29 states In the Union. In
19J8, an effort waa again made to modify
the flag So that all the new slates
would he represented on It, To he con
tinually adding stripes would make the
flag very awkward In shape aryl ap
pearance, so after arguing the matter for
two years. Congress decided to return
to the original 13 strlres and one star
for each state. Congress has never de
termined the arrangement of the stars
nor the shape and proportion* of the
flag, and there has 1 een great variation,
especially ‘n the grouping of the stars.
There are still many who believe that
the symbol!'- < Ircular grouping of stars
should he restored.
_ THE WEATHER
Washington, D C. Forme**!: Georgia:
GrnrvMly fslr Hun<l»v and Monday.
Booth Carolina: l,ne*l thunder show
ers Htindsy snd probably Monday.
To Complete Now Famous Unfinished
Picture of Coronation Luncheon
at the Guildhall
London.—Royal permission lias been
grantod this week to Mr. Solomon .1.
Solomon, a member oT the Royal
Academy and a portrait painter ol
great eminence, to complete the now
famous unfinished -picture of the Cor
onation Luncheon at the GuJMhall,
which the lute Mr. John H. F. flacon,
A R. A., left on his easel at the time
of his death early this year.
The king and queen had given Mr.
Bacon Beveral sittings for this great
canvas, which Is expected to become
one of the most notable historical pic
tures of the generation.
It will be remembered that Mr. Jno,
Henry Bacon, seized by Berlous Ill
ness Just as his Guildhall painting
was making rapid progress pleaded
with his doctor to patch him up
awhile. ”1 must finish that picture! ’
was the artist’s cry for a longer life.
Had he lived that little longer, until
his fiftieth year, In fact, and until
the completion oT his coronation
commissions, Mr. Bacon would, It Is
whispered In art circles, have receiv
ed the honor of knighthood. In any
case he was at the zenlta of a very
notable career.
The tragedy of the artist’s passing
at such a moment Invests with poig
nant. pathos a picture which Is hung
at this ye,ar’s Royal Academy exhibi
tion.
This Is Mr. Bacon's last finished
painting. It hears the strange sig
nificant title of "What Might Have
Been!” It was one of the dead ar
tist’s own favorite works, and depicts
a Cavalier gazing abstractedly
through the prison casement.
Indolent society women are even
on the qul vlve for some new and
entertaining pet, and there was Just
a chance that the pet poodle would
be ousted from favor by the playful
young cheetah as the result of th*
young Duchess of Koutherland's re-
That Weak Back
accompanied by pain here or there extreme nervousness—
sleeplessness - may be feint spell*—orapesm* - all are signal* of
distress for a woman. She may be growing from girlhood into
womanhood—passing from womanhood to motherhood—or Istar
suffering from that change into middle life which lessee to many,
wrecks of women A l any oral! of these periods of* women's life'
she should takes tonic and nervln* prescribed for Just such cases
by e physician of vast experience in th* diseases of women.
DR. PIERCE'S
Favorite Prescription
flan successfully treated more cases In paat forty yaara than any other known remedy. It
ran now be had in sugar coated, tablet form as well as in the liquid. Sold by madicina
dealers or trial box by mail on receipt of DO centa in stamps.
Miss Khsobeth lendahl of Berkeley, Cal., in a recant latter to Dr. Pierce said: "I was completely
broken down In health. I aeaacblns and had palnsal I over mr body and was so nervous that I couid acraam
If anyone talked to me. but I had the rood fortune to meet a nurse who had boon cured by Dr. Pierce *
Prescription. I bars never had an oocasiou to consult e physician since—am In excellent health.*
I Dr. Pierre's Pleasant Pallets regulate stomach, I
| Hear and bowels - sugar-coated, tiny graaales |
Changinq
Fashion
lias taken with it the
separate skirts, and this
year pique and ratines are
extensively used.
These skirts are priced
from $1.49 upwards.
Imported striped ratine
skirts for $3.49 ;and
$4.25.
* rt P Mombasa. She brought
«<k a baby cheetah and some little
own S°, used to <*** him about
UiM t'nf«£v a “ tor " obl| o Then she
ncra av. h .i h m i lrawl, if?-rooni man
wu a . t, . n ? e ho | ir °ved an amus
.P®l, hut his Troflcs soon began
.21* "1 vls * torß - a,; d It became nec
essary to put her Grace's strange
companion under restraint
Accordingly he has been sent to
he Zoological Gardena and friends of
the Duchess are no longer Invited to
her At Homes" to meet a playful
young cheetah from Africa.
A picturesque Roumanian, Dimitri
Dunn, Is in London and you are to
see him in America; uat is, Just as
soon as he can get there because he
Is "walking'' round the world, though
lie will "walk" to America by way of
a line r from Liverpool to Canada.
Dimitri wears his national costume
with its short petticoat and broad
waist-band. His footgear consists of
the cord shoes f opine! is the Rouma
nian word) common to all Latin
countries. He also adorns his other
wine Intelligent fa-e with a monocle.
“Why the monocle?” [ asked him.
and his a'ologetic explanation was
given thus;
"I was given a stall at the Paris
Opera House and another at the
Theater Royal in Brussels, and one
lias to go decently 'addressed.' "
He has already walked over 3,000
tnllcs In Ifi months, and he reenns to
cover 38 miles a flay on good roads.
He says lie started his trip with a
companion, who fell over a precipice
near Mont Blanc and was fatally In
jured.
Dimitri Pann takes coff-t and milk
at early morning, milk ant coffe# ct
neon, and in the evening has what he
calls his one “Big Meal,” eggs and
vegetables. Meat be only touches
once or twice a week.
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