Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-29
TINES HAVE CHANGED.
BOYS OF THE PAST AND SPORTS
OF THE OlDEN TIME.

The professional Mines" of Today-Lawn
Tennis--Yachts for Money Makers-The
Solid Ways of Bygone Years-How
Changed Are Our Ideas.
That there are boys of the olden time some
where in this country l dare say, and / dare
say there are some localities where sports of
the olden time are in vogue, but it is evident
to the casual observer that as the boys, by
which 1 mean lads, have changed in looks, in
strength, in habits, in tastes, SO have the
sports of the country materially and signifi
cantly altered during the past twenty-five
years.
No baseball then?
Certainly, baseball Every boy played base
ball We used to go out in the field in the
country, or in vacant lot in the city. or to
the playground back of the school, set our
bases and play our game, and a mighty good
time we had of it.
But who plays baseball today7
The boys?
Oh, no. The professional mines. Men who
are paid to exhibit their powers, men whom
to see sometimes as many as 10000 or $1,000
people assemble in vast area with prepared
seats and reserved chairs, and all the par
aphernalia Of first class race course. Lit
tie boys still play baseball in the 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 in disgust, and
wonders if there was ever such a mania as
this that seems to have taken possession Of
the entire country.
LAWN TENNIS-YACHTS.
When did you first hear of lawn tennis.
Ten dollars to three cent piece that you
did not hear Of it when you were boy. Per-
haps you don't know what it is now; but for
all that there are thousands of men and
women, boys and girls, absurdly dressed,
grotesquely caparisoned devoting their ex
cited mentalities to throwing ball here rather
than there, and having such nice times all
over the country.
Have you any idea how many yachts there
are in this country, ranging from twenty
tons to the caiber of a first class ocean
I steamer? | am informed that there are no
less than 10000. That represents an immen-
sity of investment and vast outlay and indi-
Gates healthy love of sea life which must of
necessity have its effect upon the growth and
strength Of those who indulge in yachting.
Old time boys had catboatS, yawlS, sail
boats; now, sons of millionaires have yachts
which but few years ago would have been
considered imperial, and their fathers belt
the globe in steamers on whose decks a regi-
ment might easily maneuver. The moment
mans head looms above the ordinary level
he purchases yacht.
What for!
Generally show, rarely pleasure.
And this is particularly true and particu
larly significant in rushes of Wall street,
State street, and other money centers
When brokers make money at all they
make it fast. East come, fast CO." is well
recognized rule, and broker after broker has
within the past ten years Haunted his private
signal from the mast of his private yacht.
Then he fails, somebody else takes the yacht
and a different signal faunts-but it faunts
all the same
THE OLD AND SOLID WAY.
l have book in my work library called
"Great Fortunes" printed nearly twenty
years ago, which tells of the struggles of the
merchants, capitalists, inventors, literary
men, who have attained phenomenal good
fortune.
Among others find the names of Stephen
Girard, John J. Astor, 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 men.
Not one of them sprang into stupendous
triumph, not one of them ate his fruit with
out first tillng his ground, not one of them
flew his kite until he made it, They were all
rich men, substantial men, and their success,
THEN 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 S20, 000- |
600
Their money was in solid, substantial, get
atable cash.
Their property was built upon the rock Of |
honor and integrity.
Is everything changed?
When the blood stirring bat and the high |
flying ball were transformed into 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 a cigarette, did everything
changed
Did the code of morals in Wall street? Did
the habits and customs born and tested by
the experience of century in trade change
alsol
We think nothing now of reading in the
paper that by deft manipulation Mr. Gould
made an addition to his tremendous pile of
$780, 600 at single stroke; it causes no sur
prise, makes very little talk, when we read
that Cyrus W. Field dropped in a single
transaction 100000 The fiippancy with
which we speak Of monumental sums OF
money shows how completely changed are
our ideas from the time when 100000
seemed an adequate competency.-Joe How
ard in Boston Globe.
Russia's Censor of the Press.
me censor OF the press, when he wishes ia
Simply destroy certain article in a news
paper or magazine, generally runs a roller of
olack INK over it. leaving a dense sDot
through which not word can be discerned
ne instrument is ike the ink roller of a
pruning press. II the article IN mavazipe
covers more than page the pages are sim
Sly eorn OUT ana cast into the waste basket
he once OF the censor of the press in a CITY
iAe o., PETERSBURG Is something like that OF
the CITY editor for large American news
paper Inc corps of assistants open the
mails, run through the matter and hand the
questionable stuff to the censor. who decides
II 1t should be detained, DESTROYED or nssSaa
nus process makes the delivery Of all mail
matter, except letters. very slow. The news
papers IN Russia are of very little importance
on account OF the censorship. Ever article
even 70 q local paragraph, discussing Russian
affairs or referring ijra~flv or ra,,,otor,- |