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FOOTBALL ARMOR
Aocoutrements for Playing a Very
' Dange rous Game. '
Contrlvances ‘Whlch "Are intended for the
Preservation of the Player's Features
and Limbs, But Not to En-
hance His peauty.
'As baseball goes out football comes
in. It is an interestinggame, and an-
nually attracts increasing crowds of
spectators, but it can never be so pop-
ular as baseball for several reasons.
The football season is very short,
two montns as the best,’ as before Oc-
tober the weather is too warm for such
violent exertion, and after the close of
November, although not too cold for
playing, the weather is too frigid to
permit any but the most ardent enthu-
siast to sit for two or three hours
watching the sport.
For another reason football is the
most violent exercisc‘known under the
name of spoit, and it would be abso-
lutely impossible for a team to playIday
after day like a professional club plays
baseball. Then again, it is dangerous
sport. It is all very well to say that it
' makes a boy manly, 01 to taunt pru-
dent boys with being cowardly, be-
cause they shrink from the rough-and-
tumble encounter, but no amount of
public praise can make amends fora
cracked head, dislocated collar-bone,
broken leg or even a fractured rib. So
it is no wonder that the vast majority
of boys and young men—even col-
legians —— content themselves with
looking on and cheering theif side to
. victory.
That football is a rough and dan-
gerous pastime is recognized by the
numerous devices which have from
time to time been brought into use to
soften if not prevent the 1njuries which
the football player has come to regard
as a matter of course.
Nowadays the player is almost en-
c'ased in armor. First came the rubber
mouthpiece, which gives the player .
something to bite and clench his teeth
upon to save his tongue and the break-
ing of his teeth by the shock of being
suddenly downed.
Next a nose mask was worn—.a stout
rubber cover for the nasal appendage,
held in place by a strap around the
forehead. Then came the padded
guards for the ea1s, which seemed to
suffer a good deal 1n the 1u.shes Final-
ly the mouthpiece, nose guard and ear
guards were combined into a piece
called a head harness. _
Quilted canvas knickerbockers pro-
'tect the thighs and a quilted canvas
jacket encases the body, while the shins
are prot cted by a combination of can-
vas an whalebo‘he. - 5-1 t3
For the protection of the abdomen
an ingenious arrangement of wire, cot-
ton and chamois skin fills a long-felt
' want. Of minor protectors there may
be mentioned elastic caps and support-
ers for shoulders, elbows, forearms,
kneecaps, ankles and wrists.
A team equipped with these contriv-
ances is a laughter-provoking sight,
and suggests that a game which needs
all these precautions seems to require
considerable modification of its rules.
As played now it is more dangerous
than prize fighting.
Even with all these protectors every
game of football is productive of a
score of injuries, the majority trifling
of course, but enough are serious to
give rise to the apprehension that any
minute may p1 oduce a fatality.
Surely there must be some way of
making football an inte1esting and ex-
citing game, and yet leave it compara-
tively harmless. Until this is done it
can never be really popular, and will
be confined to colleges where transient
fame is regarded as far superior to the
danger of a broken neck -—Golden Days.
AFRICAN PALM OIL.
An Important Article.— of Commerce in
England.
The palm oil which is the staple
product of the Low or N‘s-m, as of the
west coast generally, is obtained from
a wild palm. The natives use it both
for cooking, for burning and for smear-
ing their bodies with. It is to them,
indeed, -a great deal more than ghee
is to the Hindu. The fruit of the tree
grows in large prickly clusters, and its
skin is of a bright red or orange color,
turning to yellow when ripe. The
pulp is rather bitter in taste and is
reddish-white in color. With the fruit
is a stone or kernel about the size of a
filbert. The natives, gathering the
fruit when ripe. bruise it gently in a
wooden mortar, and then boil it in
water in large caldrons; while simmer-
ing, it is stirred with a stick. to sepa-
rate the pulp from the kernels, which
sink to the bottom and are reserved
for other uses. The oil which floats on
the surface of the water as the boiling
proceeds, is~skimmed 0E and placed in
earthenware vessels.
The Niger affords two kinds of palm
'oil. The one is of the consistency of
butter, and is called .“hard” oil, and
for this the only market is England.
The other is liquid and is called “soft
oil,” and for this the highest price is
obtained in all the European markets.
There is hardly any difference in the
quality, but only in the method of
preparation. The buying price on the
river ranges from five pounds to six
pounds , ten shillings per cask of
two hundred gallons, and it is
calculated that about {eight thou-
sand tons are
from the Niger to Europe, where
it is employed in making can-
dles, soap, railway grease, etc. Both
the trading and the transport to the"
“factories” is carried chiefly by wom-
en, after the manner of the noble sav-I
age; and the strings of females, each
' with a pot of palm oil on her head and
a baby on her back, 'are among the
everyday Isights of the country. At
the factories the oil is carefully meas-
ured by theagents, and is paid for in
salt or cotton cloth. Thenit isvcasked
and stored in the station, waiting for
transport down the river, to be put on
board the ocean steamers at mAkassa ——
Chambers Journal.
"H _.—ur
- Visitor — “Wen?”
annually exported ,
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
—Created the Necessity; — “Say,
Smith’s got a box in a safety deposit
vault.” “What’s he got in it?” “The
receipt for the rent of the box. ”—Chi-
cago Record.
-That Terrible Boy—Awful Child—
“Mamma said‘ you were pretty old.”
Awful. Child—
“You’re old, but not p'retty.”——Detroit
Free Press. . , p
—A correspondent asks: ‘5‘What
should a bow-legged man do?” This is
a hard question to answer‘, but when
he hasn’t got anything else to do he
should be whooping for wider styles in
trousers. —Texas Siftings.
—No Accident. —Mrs. Figg—“Laura,
I had ocular proof that young Smith-
ers kissed you when he left last night,
and 1 do not want it to happen again.”
Laura—“It didn’t happen, mamma. It
was premeditated. ”—Indianapolis J our-
nal.
-—Young Man—“I assure you, sir, I
look forward longingly'to the union
with your daughter.” Girl’s Father—
“Ah, well, that’s a candid confession,
anyhow. She’ll certainly bring you
there if she’s half as extravagant as
I’ve allowed her to be.”"-Household
Words.
——“Disshere little busy bee,” said
Uncle Eben, “reminds me ob er whole
lot ob people. Dey gits mad an’ stings
or man "bout ' little or nuflin’ an’ lays
right down an’ lets do hull hive git
robbed when de critical ’casion comes.”
—-Washington Star.
—-Johnny—-“Sailors named the Rock
of Gibraltar, didn’t they, pa?” Pa—
“What makes you think so, sonny?”
Johnny—“’Cause when they sailed
near it they had to haul in their jib-er-
alter their course. ” Pa—“Go and tell
your mother to put you to bed.”—
Tcxas Siftings.
——An Aristocratic Profession. —Miss
Hogaboom (of Chicago)—“And what
profession is your brother in, Lord
Hamercy?” Lord Hamercy—“Oh, when
Algernon leaves Oxford I fancy he will
take orders.” Miss Hogaboom (sur-
prisedl—“Yes? Well, there are some
real nice gentlemen traveling for pal”
—‘Puck.
——-Strugglin g Pastor—”N early all the
congregation have subscribed liberally
for the buildingjund, and I feel sure
that I also have your hearty coopera-
tion. How much will you—” Mrs.
Leader—“Let me see. Oh, I am the
only member who has a carriage, I
think.” Struggling Pastor—“Yes, the
rest are poor.” Mrs. Leader—“Well, I
will drive round an collect the sub-
scriptions. ”—Honsehold Words.
——Teacher-‘-“In what year was the
battle of Waterloo fought?” Pupil—“I
don’t know.” Teacher—“It’s simple
enough if you only would learn how to
cultivate artificial memory. Remem-
ber the twelve apostles. Add half
their"number to them. That’s eight-
een. Multiply by one hundred. That’s
eighteen hundred. Take the twelve
apostles again. Add a quarter of their
numb 91 to them. That’s fifteen. Add
to What you’ve got. That’s eighteen
hundred and fifteen. That’s the date.
Quite simple, you see, to remember
dates if you will only adopt my sys-
teui.”-—Living Church.
WON HIS_ CASE.
A Philadelphia Law—yer’s Idea of Thiift
and How It Worked.
Otg“ in Philadelphia dwelt a young
lawi student who fell' 1n love just as he
was about to be admitted to practice. _
The girl’s father also belonged to the
prcifession and was reckoned pretty
sm rt, as Philadelphia lawyers go.
lee old fellow gave a partial consent
to Ithe young man’s pleadings, but con-
eluded he would try- the student and
see if he was worthy to be his son-in-
law. So he said:
I‘The case of Blank against Blank
has been on the calendar several years
It has been tried, appealed, decision
re’versed, tried again and comes up
again for argument at the next gen-
eral term. I am counsel for the plain-
tiE. I have had the case four years,
but now I turn it over to you. Here
are the papers; see what you can do.”
1The young mantook the papers and
went to work with a vim born of love
—-fOr if he won the case would he not
also win a bride! At last life seemed to
hi worth the living. He studied the
case thoroughly. I-Ie consulted the
auithorities and was loaded and primed
for a brilliant .11 gument when the
co, rt convened. He made his plea and
wdn the case without any trouble.
With a heart overflowing with joy,
he returned to his prospective father--
inf-law and, slapping down the papers,
he exclaimed:
{See here, sir; the case is won!
These are the proofs. What you tried
for years to do‘ I have accomplished at
a Isingle term of court. Now, may I
have your daughter?”
The old fellow looked 11p with a
smile upon his face as he replied: r
i“I think you a fool and you can’t
have my daughter. But I will just
give you a little gratuitous advice: It
is true I had the case four years with-
dut winning it and it is also true that
I made thousands of dollars out of it.
But you have gone and settled it; and
what have you made? About fifty dol-
lars. No, sir, you can’t have my
daughter!”—N. Y. Journal.
‘. Shot the Deer in Self-Defense.
'The defense of the man -who was'
caught killing a neighbor’s sheep,
that he acted in selfidéfense, fearing
that the animal would' bite him, is re-
called occasionally by some of the
stories invented to evade our Maine
game laws. From them we are led to
«believe that deer are naturally fero-
cious to a degree, with largely carniv-
orous instincts. T1110 Parkhurst young
med are rep01 ted not long ago to have
been “attacked" by a large male deer.
By that singular “good luck” that
seems, in some mysterious way, to be-
friend the'pe'ople who meet with such
. encounters “one of the boys happened
to have a loaded Winchester rifle, and
the other a large butcher knife.”
What rare good fortune! After all, it -
is not surprising to learn that “the
deer got the worst of 1t ”-— Augusta
( Me.) Journal. / .4
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ONE WORD IN TIME
Is Better Than Two Afterwards;~
A Chance to Profit by a Boston
' Man’s Experience.
(From the Beaten Herald )
It’ s a strange thing how people will
put away an opportunity until too late;
11’s only little things that go to make up
our every day existence; the trouble is
we don‘ t pay sufficient attention to
them. “A wink to the wise may be
sufficient,” but sometimes we dou’ I get
that wink. and We are not all Wise.
Now, for instance: WBackache 1s a little
111mg. Sometimes it comes alter a hard
(day’s work, are slight cold. It will
pass off, you- say; it’s only the result of
overtaxing my back. This is where
you are wrong. It isn’t the fault of
your back, but your kidneys. The
exertion or straining has interfered
with their delicate mechanism. You,
call it backache, but it really is kidney
ache. If the kidneys are not relieved,
chronic disorders set in, and this is
where the “little thing” should not be
passed over.
A Boston man has learned to appre-
ciate what delay means. We refer to J.
H. Mathews, who resides at No. 4 Got-
land St. This is how he speaks about
it: ‘7‘ Some eight years ago I had a bad
fall which rendered my back lame and
sore, I was not surprised at this, as
my accident was a bad one, but as time
went on my book did not appear to im-
prove, and I wondered at it. I never
seemed to get perfectly well. It we’uld
hurt me to stoop over or lift anything
‘ heavy. I suffered with dull headaches;
colds, drafts. and even dampness had
immediate effect on my back. I was
always looking for a remedy for my ills.
At Inst I found it, I got a box of
Doan’ s Kidney Pills at Bradbury’ 11
Drug Store, on Washington St. They
were highly recommended, and I be-
gan their use at once. Their action
was “like unto magic, ” and day by day
the pain began to lessen in my back
am glad to give the public the benefit
of my experience. Doan’ sKidney Pills
are excellent medicine, and strike right
at the point of the kidney troubles ”
Doon’ s Kidney Pills are for sale by
all dealers, price 50 cents. mailed by
Foster-Miiburn 00., Buffalo, N. Y..
sole agents for the United States.
Raymond a. Son.
Successors to George H. Raymond.
Furniture Dealers and General Funeral
Directors.
46 and 48 Main Street V011. all. Ct
Residence, Beikeley Place.
Telephone No. 77-4.
DAVID. W. RAYMOND
Funeral Directpr aTII EITIITIITTT.
o1 walk
39 Washington Street {Southfii‘
Residence. Mahackomo Hotel.
Department.
Having good facilities for
Printing, of every description,
we solicit a share of public
patronage. Call or write for
eetimates. We take orders
from all parts of the coun-
ty. Merchants-Manufactur-
ers, Lodges and Societies
will consult their own inter-
ests by giving us a call.
REMEMBER—If you have
' work to do, write to 11s.
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eannm sneer SALE.
We have just purchased of Lounsbury, Mathewson & 00., all their
Ladies Fine Shoes, made for the insolvent firm of Harding & 00., of
Brooklyn. and will close them out in the next 60 Days at about 3.5 their
Actual Value.
120 pair Ladies’ 20th Century Enamel Shoes, worth $6.00, at -
150 pair Ladies’ Razor Toe Kid Shoes; worth $5.00, at -
150 pair Ladies’ Razor Toe Cloth Top Shoes, worth $5.00, at -
$3 79
2 98
2 98
90 pah Ladies’ Calf Opera and Razor Toe Shoes. worth $5. 00, at 2 9S ,
60 pair Ladies’ 20th Century Russia, Lace, worth $5. 00, at - 2 98
All of Harding & 00’ s $4 00 Shoes, at - - - ~ 2 50
All of Harding & 00 3 $3. 00 Shoes, at - - - - - 1 98
All of Harding & 00’ s $2 50 Shoes, at - - 1 74
200 pair Ladies’ Opera Toe, Pat. Tip, Shoes, worth $1. 50, at 890 all sizes
150 pair Ladies’ fine C. S. Shoes, worth $1. 50, at _- -
890 all sizes
Men’s First Quality Hip Rubber Boots,
1T$2
90 pair Men’s $3.00 Patent Lace Shoes, at .
120 pair Men’s $2 00 Invisible Cork Sole Ba]. and Congress,
140 pair Men’s Lace and Congress Shoes at
120 pair Men’s Invisible Cork Sole Shoes, worth $3. 50 at
5 Cases of Men’s Tap Sole Split Boots, worth $2. 00, at
Boys Shoes,
75
$1 95 a pair
I 48 “ .
980, worth $1.25
$2 29 a pair
1 4’5 11 pair
. 880, 980, and $1 23 a pair
This is positively-tithe best chance ever offered to buy a
HIGH—CLASS SHOE at less than the cost of manufacture.
We want you to come and see this lot of goods.
They
are worthy your inspection. These shoes can only be ’found at
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3 GAZETTE BUILDING. NORWALK.
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YOUR SHOES SHINED FREE
HoOd’s Sarsaparilla, . . .
Greene’s Nervura, . .-
William' 8 Pink Pills, . . ~ .
Castoria, . ~.' . . .
Allcock’s Plasters, . ' . .
Pears’ Unscented Soap, .
100‘ two grain Quinine Pills,
R. H. Plaistcd, 43 Washington Street, So. Norwalk.
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