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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. mk rw \ A iVT^i i V“ FIVE