St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-21
TIFF TRAVELLERS CLUB.


and fighting boys. They worked on the rail-
roads during the summer, and went to school
in the winter time. These big boys made it
SO unpleasant for the teachers before me that
they were obliged to give it up. OF course, I
knew all these things before applied for the
position, and so informed the directors when
they started to tel me about it,
II was just out of college, and, while there,
was somewhat OF an athlete, so was not
scared to death at the prospect of combining
little pugilistic exercise with the duties of
an instructor told the directors would
try it for term. I also informed them,
knowing full well that they would spread it
around the district, that my last school was
similar in mony respects, but 1 finally con-
Quered the unruly boys but not until had
shot one of them.
THE school opened, and appeared wear
ing revolver at my belt, visible to all the
scholars. My first remarks were to the effect
that meant to teach that school. If I had to
kill off several of the scholars who attempted
to run it. Everything passed of satisfacto-
rily until a month after the school opened,
when three of the large boys got up in the loft
over the school-room and refused to come
down when ordered to do so.
ut was early fall. l ordered one Of the
smaller boys to build fire in the stove, and
proceeded to smoke the three larger boys out
OF their hiding place. OF course, they had to
come down, and they come down one at a
time. was prepared for them with hick-
they hung from the opening in the ceiling.
Clearing the room of smoke, went on with
the lessons and never had any more trouble"
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ut was up the Missouri river on q trip not
long ago. said tourist, land learned more
about that river than could be cleaned from
studying biographies Or the reports of the
river commission from now till doomsday.
TO begin with, its so swift that it keeps wash
ing out its sides, which changes its channel
from year TO year and makes it muddy and
dirty, the water going so fast that it has no
time to allow the sediment to settle.
''Thls swift current makes it dangerous for
the steamboats, TO run down stream at night
SO they tie up every night and start out
bright and early in the morning. Going up
stream it don't make so much difference and
boats keep running night and day.
Years ago-so long that hate to admit it
Il went up the big muddy on one Of the
old-tme frontier steamers. It was along
during the Indian troubles, and Indians had
habit Of shooting arrows at the pilot, and
sometimes they hit him, too. So boats, to
guard against this, had great big pieces of
boiler iron on each side and to the rear of the
pilot house. But this did not protect the boat
from herd Of butfaloes that crossed the
river up above Fort Benton.
'There were thousands and thousands OF
the bufaloes in the herd and it took them
four or five hours to cross the river, but they
crossed it. We saw them as we steamed
around the bend, and they kept on Coming as
we approached nearer. Finally the boat was
topred-stopped by the butfaloes, and we
waited until the herd passed over
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"a railway accident is dreadful thing at
best" exclaimed a thoughtful-looking man.
ut has been my misfortune to have been in
several of them, but so far have escaped
without permanent injury. One becomes ac-
customed to such scenes, however, just as u
soldier gets used to seeing the dead and dying
on battlefield without being overcome by
the sight. But don't care how much fell
low has seen, once in while there are little
things-out-of-the-way incidents-thar break
u man all up.
Il was in smash-up not many years ago
on the Hannibal s. ST. Joe road, near Brook
field. Several were wounded and two were
killed The latter were men, and one of the m
was travelling man. AS soon as possible an
effort was made to ascertain the names of the
names of the dead, so that friends and rela-
tives might be acquainted with the sad news.
1--WE turned the body over and looked IN the
pockets to get letter Or anything else tn at
would betray the identity of the hfeess form.
In one pocket was found thouSand-mile
ticket with his name thereon but not his adj
dress In another was letter. The enve-
Ope was gone. The letter was Soled and
creased, as if it had been carried in his
pocket for some time. Thinking it might be
ID letter OF Introduction or recommendation,
we opened it.
''There was disclosed plain white sheet of
paper, with the pencil tracings of the outlines
of baby's hand. The little chubby thumb
and fingers were all plainly marked as though
the baby owner had placed the chubby hand
on the paper, and some one, probably a
mother, had passed a pencil around and be-
tween each of the fingers. Over the tracing
was the caption, Baby Mabels hand
1.-The name of the dead was not discovered
until the widow, Mabel's mother, read of the
accident and of the baby hand traced on the
paper. He proved to be a young married
man. Baby Mabel was his first and only
child
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"a foul tip and marriage are in no way as
ISOLATED with each other,'' said man whose
fin gers were out of shape at the ends, show
ing conclusively that sometime during his
earthly career he had been a member of a
base ball nine, "but nevertheless the latter
followed as a direct result of the former
The little incident occurred sixteen years ago,
and it is not generally known now in Quincy,
ILL.,, where the parties happened to be then
and where the live now.
I'm those days there were very few pro-
fessional base ball clu BIS in the United States.
It was not contract affair. Everything was
from a love of the game and love of the
city or town in which the players resided. In
those days gentlemen came out to see the
games. The Quincy boys were playing q
game with a club from Springfield, tn e
rivalry between the two places being such
that great interest was manifested in the re
suit of the game. 1t was the third game of
the series, each nine having won q single
game.
1.-THE catcher for the Springfield club was
the son Of state officer, and was a handsome
you ng fellow as he appeared on the ground
in his base ball costume. Directly back OF
the catcher's position were numerous car
riages filed with interested sight-seers, ladies
and gentlemen. In those days there was nc
such thing as enclosed grounds or grand
stands. The spectators came in carriages
Well. during the game, foul tip sent the
ball back of one of the Quincy batsmen, and
the Springfield catcher started after it. The
ball landed in private carriage containing
one of the prettiest girls Of the town. She
picked up the ball and, as the handsome
catcher came up, handed it to him. He
touched his hat and thanked her. Their eyes
met and it was a case of love at first sight or
both sides. They were introduced before he
left for home, and within couple of years
they were married. He is now substantial
citizen of Quincy, and has two boys that are
great ball Players
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"Cold water and turnips are pretty poor
diet for @ party, arn't they?'' Queried ar