expedition.

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There is a good deal of discussion on the subject of football just now.

The fatal accidents which have befallen the players already this season
have led people to think it a brutal sport, and many are setting their
faces against it.

The legislature of Georgia has forbidden football within the state
limits, and all the prominent colleges in the country are discussing the
idea of prohibiting it.

Chicago has come to the front as bravely as it did in the crusade
against the high hats in theatres.

The same alderman who offered the resolution to suppress the hats has
evolved a new one which will make him famous.

It reads: "An Ordinance to Prohibit the Playing of Football."

While football is a fine, manly sport, the objectors have good reason on
their side for wishing to suppress it.

A good many young fellows seem to forget the true sporting spirit in
which they should play the game, and to use it as a means for paying off
old grudges.

If they cannot rise above their own feelings in the game, the sooner it