Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-01-06
TIMES HAVE CHANGED.
BOYS OF THE PAST AND SPOsTS
OF THE OLDEN TIME.

Tho "Professional Mines" of To-day LIAM
Tennis-Yachts for Money Makers-Ths
Solid Ways of IFgono Year.-How
Changed Are Our Ideas.
That there are boys of tho olden time somc-
where in this country dare say, and I dare
say there are son,e localities where sports of
the olden timo are III vogue, but it is evident
to tue casual observer that as the BOYS. by
which mean lads, have changed in looks, in
strength, in habits, in tastes, so have tho
sports of the country materially and signifi-
cartly altered during the past twenty five
years
No baseball theni
Certainly, baseball. Every hoy played base
ball. We used to go out in the field in tho
country, or in IA vacant lot i'll the city, or to
the playground back of the school, set our
bases and play our game, and II mighty good
time VIC had OF it.
But who plays baseball todayI
Tho boysl
Oh, no. The professional mines. Men who
are paid to exhibit their powers, men whom
TO sometimes rs many as 200 or I5,0 goo
people assemble in vast area with prepared
seats and reserved chairs, and all tho par
tie boys still play baseball in tho street,
school boys play it on their grounds, but base
ball has become national game, and column
after column tells the story OF this nine, that
nine, these giants, those Indians. until the
reader who has no interest in this sort of
thing throws down his paper i'll disgust, and
wonders il there was ever such mania as
Til. that seems to have taken possession Of
the entire country.
LAWN TENNIs-yACHrs.
Whsn id you first heor .. lawn tennisl
Ter dollars to a three cent piece that you
did no. hear - it when you We're boy. Per-
haps you G.nt know what it is now; but for
all that tsere a:e thousands of men and
woincn, buys AMI girls. absurlly dressed,
srot-quel. cnparisoned, devoting their ex-
cited nentali:ie- TO throwing ball here rather
thns tne,., aod having such nico times all
over teo c. uGtry.
Hare vsu any idea how many yachts there
c;e IN tei, country, ranging from twenty
tons 20 toe caliber of first class ocean
steame"i I am informed that thcre are no
less then n. 900. That represents an immen-
sity o. Investment and vast outlay and ind-
Gates healthy lovo Of sea life which must of
necessity have It's effect upon the growth and
strength # those who indulge in yachting
Old tiue boys had catbonts, yawls, sail
boats; nov. Sons OF millionaires have yachts
which but n few years ago would have been
considered imperial and their fathers belt
the globe in steamers on whose decks regi
ment might easily vancouver. The moment
a mans head looms above the ordinary level
he purchases a yacht.
What fora
Generally show, rarely pleasure.
And this Is particularly true and particu-
larly significant in rushes of Wall street,
State street, and other money centers
Whom brokers make money at all they
make it fast. EAST come, fast co. Is n well
recognized rule, and broker after broker has
within the past ton years Haunted his private
| signal from the mast of his private yacht.
Then no fails, somebody else takes the yacht
| and n different signal faunts-but it faunts
| all the same.
THE OLD AND SOLID wAv.
l have book In my work library called
"Great Fortunes" printed sear.y twenty
years ago, which tells of the struggles of tho
merchants, capitalists, inventors, literary
men, who have attained phenomenal good
| fortune.
| Among others l find the names of Stephen
Girard, John J. Aston, A. T. Stewart, Amos
Lawrence, Jonas Chickering, George Pea
body, Charles Goodyear. Elias Howe Jr.,
Richard Howe, Samuel Colt, James Harper,
James Gordon Bennett and Robert Bonner
| 1t will interest any reader to study the
| lives of these nen
| Not one of them sprang into stupendous
triumph, not one of thom ate his fruit with
ont first tilling his ground, not one of them
flew his kite until he made it. They were all
rich men, substantial men, and their success,
their triumphs, aided the upbuilding of COM
munities, the advancement of science, the de-
| velopment of great, broad ideas, the uplifting
of humanity and the development of art.
They were all Of some service in their day,
and not one of them ever failed for $40, 900, l.
000
Their money was in solid substantial, get
| atable cash.
| Their property was built upon tho rock OF
| honor and integrity.
Is everything changed
| When the blood stirring bat and the high
| flying ball were transformed into n wand for
making money and golden sphere for which
| to fight; when sailboats were transformed
into swift speeding steamers; when our boys
became dudes, and the smoking bean was
| changed into q cigarette, did everything
| changea
Did the code of morals in Wall street, Did
the habits and customs born and tested by
| the experience of century in trade change
also2
We think nothing now of reading in the
paper that by deft manipulation Mr.. Gould
made an addition to his tremendous pile Of
$1,000, 900 at single stroke; it causes no sur
prise, makes very little talk, when we read
that Cyrus W. Field dropped in single
transaction 100000. The flippancy witt
which we speak of monumental sums Of
money shows how completely changed ar,
our ideas from the time when 500, 0Ot
seemed an adequate competency. Joe How
ard in Boston Globe.