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Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-01-25
a WONDERFUL PEDESTRIAN.
waIk~ George II. Baird, who Recently
..a-a a.. aehN-N.

walker George -. BAIRD, who Recently
Astounded the Athletes.
Georgp ID. Baird. the ex-chAmpion walker,
whose pictur. appears below. j. probably
the smallest man that ever won the cham
pionship honors ina a walking contest.
Baird. who has not been a competitor At
any Of the amateur championship games
since isS5. was generally looked upon A. a
hack number until he electrified the ath-
lrtic world by walking half a mile Ia I'm.
IAs. at san Francisco recently. which
clearly demonstrate that Baird. like that
other veteran walker. r. =. Murray, still
retains his best form. Baird's great walk
was not done for "a record, and none has
been claimed ty him.
Baird made his first appearance in a
walking competition ou Thanksgiving day.
ISL. He won his first race of Importance
July II. I-s2. which Bee followed mp with
other victories sept ~ and nov. a. At
Madison square Garden Dec. T.. the same
year, Baird and Hart walked their memo
rable ons mile match. The track, which was
composed mostly Of loose sawdust, was ali
against fast time. The garden was crowded.
and the vast assemblage certainly got their
moneys worth, a. a more determined and
evenly contested race was never witnessed
in this or any other country. Hart being
declared the winner by one foot only In
I'm. 32-5s. At the amateur championship
games June 9. 1883, Baird won the three
mile event, beating Murray, Hart, Parry
aud other Rtnous walkers in 23m. : Sis
In the spring of 1856. having % numer-
Gus races iu the interval, he met and ran
pushed IT, Whyatt, the English champion,
ia "a one milo walking match FOR the worlds
championship. Baird winning easily in Gm.
~.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-01-25
INDOOR BASEBALL.
Even Winter Cannot Stop the
National Game.
THE NEW SPORT Is A GREAT HIT.

At Does Not Go" Professionally. but the
Amateurs Like 1.-THE Game as Played
in Chicago and New YOrk-Representa-
tive Players Of some of the Teams.
Despite the late unpleasantness between
the Brotherhood and the National league,
an unpleasantness that greatly disguised
the public with baseball, the sport grows
constantly in the favor OF young and mid
die aged America. Even winters snow
and chilling winds, hitherto u-nconquered
enemies. nave at last succumhed 10 the
march Of the game, and indoor baseball
now RACES in Chicago. New York, Brook
Ign. Philadelphia, BufalI ID, OTTAWA. Grand
Rapids. Detroit, Joliet md many other
places where large arm -ie~ club houses
or Kinks give the white. teams space and
shelter.
The game is p0pu .r wherever it is
PLAYED. but Chicago, . birthplace Of the
sport, has distanced q rivals. The game
was invented in Is by a Chicago man,
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-01-25

New York girl,
whose spelling
shoes have been
pAwned by her
brother. and the
scene occuB the
~pawnshop where
she j. trying 20
get them out 81
hook" 80 that she
may attend the
police ball The
tough yOuug
man has ts-en rep
N-ent.-l on the
stage d0Dens OF
tim but the
tough young
appears
now for the first
lime You can see
her any day ia
real life by walk
ing through one
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-01-25

To the East Siders' Of New York the
name Of Harrigan is soothing and mirth
provoking at once, for Harrigan gives TO
them the stage amusement they like best
and they are great theatre goers. 30 when, "A
few weeks ago, Harrigan opened his new
and handsome playhouse on Thirty-hfth
street with his new and characteristic play,
REILLY and the Four Hundred" the
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-01-25

New York. however, the GEO. ". HANCOCK.
Seventh regiment teams, now playing for
the intercompany championship, use a
regular League ball, with a cork instead
Of a rubber centre, and an ordinary bat,
and 70 all appearances play a regulation
outdoor game, under the rules Of the Anna
teur Athletic union, excepting that a ball
striking the roof counts as II it were not
interfered with. The two-umpire system
is used. and the windows, chandeliers and
spectators are protected by netting from
the ball. The following teams comprise
Chicago's leagues
Midwinter leagUe-Ashlands. la SALES,
KenwOOds, Marquettes, Farraguts. Idle
wilds, Cartoons and Oaks.
Chicago league-Harvards, Chicago Cy-
clings, Lincolns and Illinois.
Bankers league-lllinoi, Trusts, Metro
politans. First Nationals. Fort DearbOrns,
American Exchange and Chicago Nation
ais.
There are many crack ball players and
well known athletes among the Chicago
teams. Bicyclist Arthur T. Lum-den l.
captain Of the Chicagos. George ". Han
cock, father Of the game, plays with the
Illinois team. ". a. Sloan occupies the
box for the Harvards and puts up a great
game. One Of the best clubs in Chicago is
tue A@AAaAA AlAD u a. AN"eeN+
The first baseman and catcher Of this team
is -. :. Newman, "a player Of rare merit.
The Seventh Regiment armOry corner
Of Sixty-seveuth street and Park avenue,
New York, is probably one Of the finest in
door baseball fields in America. The drill
door l. 800 feet long. 200 feet wild and con
tains GU.O0O square feet. The big rooms
greatest height is = feet. Thirty-three
biz gas chandeliers furnish light, but
hardly enough 10 fully satisfy the soldier
boy ball players. There are six companies
represented by mines in the reglmental
league-Companies A, B, c, ID, + and H..
They are all handsomely uniformed, and
the catchers wear masks and body pro
teCror-.
Company F at present leads. Two IA
nous young amateur ball players compose
lis batrerH-Malter j. CurrIe and William
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-01-25

NE BROTHER HOOKED NE reporters, human
sh"h nature is much the
same all the world over, and New York is
not unique. The clothes which she wears
on the stage were gathered from the ward
robes Of these Frisco Gamers, and her
dialect is patterned after theirs. But when
she says 10 ths pawnbroker, ''Saay, Reilly,
/ a ter gis the new spsilin' shoes Outo'
hook. Me brothers touched me for all /
got" every one who has ever heard one o.
the real tough girls talk to her 'tfeller," or
try 70 explain things to the police Justice,
recognizes the fidelity OF theaecent at once.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-01-25

George La Blanche and Young Mitchell
will fight before the California Athletic
club in February. A purse Of 5000 goes
10 the winner. $500 to the loser.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-01-25

Allen ". Thurman, the new president
Of the American association, l. as well
known among baseball men as his father,
Hon. Allen q. Thurman, is among poll
ticians He has for a long time been promi-
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THEATRICAL NOTES.

It is said that the New York theatre
yoers have nut taken very kindly to Den
Thamp-Jn'- change from THE Old
,r r.-,.e I' fl "t ncle Josh Whitr1mb."
me craze IN America for English actin.
seems 10 be- dying away. Where last sea
IN there were a dozen troupes Of English
performers making money on this side OF
the water. this year there are less han half
that many.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-01-25

perfect her work,
aud the assertion
has been made
that she used 10
20 20 school in a
of the tough
wards As a mat
ter of fact she has
lived In San Fran
cisco during O
Of her life, and her
character work IT.
the result Of care
full observation Of
the girls W h o
worked in a big
canning fact DRY
there, which goes
10 show that, con
trary 10 the ideas
Of the New York
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-01-25
coLLlEs OR SHEEP DOGS.
John GiImer speed Writes About These
Famous Canine Breeds.

The collie year by year has become more
fashionable in England as a companion,
and rs we follow English fashions in dogs
more closely perhaps tina in anything else
the collie has become quite a pet in Amer
lea. He is, however, essentially a working
dog, and is not particularly suited to the
part which fashion has assigned to him
He has a great aversion To tricks, and
doesn't like TO fetch and carry. He will
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-01-25

=. JAEssES VIZ CURRiE
Is well known During
the season Of 1890 Will
lam caught every game
the n. J. A. G. played for
the A A. u. champion
ship. and W. J. pitched
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-01-25

nently connected with the national game,
and attracted particular attention last sen
son As an advocate Of peace in the fight be
twean the Brotherhood and b magnates.
Mr.. Thurman succeeds Zach Phelps as
president Of the association.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-01-25

The tour Of Bronson Towards "Shenan-
doab' company through the southern
states has been watched with considerable
interest by American theatrical managers.
Il is the first time a northern war drama"
has been played south OF Mason and Dix
ms line: and the fact that, while IL has not
been phenomenally successful from a flnan-
ciaI standpoint, it has made some money
and has caused very little adverse nm
ment, seems to indicate that sectional feel
ing is indeed a thing OF the past.
After the retirement from Mr.. Days
stage in New York Of '"The School for
Scandal" he will give a magnificent revival
Of Loves Labor's Lost" This SHAKE
spearean masterpiece has not been played IN
America for years. The costumes viii be
historically perfect. One of Miss Rahan,s
dresses is 80 stiff and broad n the hipsthat
it was necessary to use considerables inge-
nuity 20 get the box In which IL arrived
from London M the stairs Of the thsatnA
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-01-25
THE TOUGH GIRL.
A Bit of Character Acting Which
Has Created a Sensation.
ADA LEWIS AND HER BIG hit"

she plays the Part q a Young Woman of
the sIums aud 1t Has Made Her Pa
mous-A Careful study of Low Life In
San Francisco Goes in New York.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-01-25
CHECKERS AND CHESS.

Checker problem No. gs-By A. Bryce.
Black i, q, :, Q. 3l+, -.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-01-25

". A. SLOAN. c. s NEWMAN
very soft ball, a small,
slim bat resembling a bill
isrd cue, and other slight
changes in the laws Of
orthodox baseball. In
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-01-25

Currie. They have trav-
eled together as pitcher
and catcher for ten years,
and their work for the
New Jersey and the New
York athletic clubs and in
Currie's Winthrop team
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-16
Na,y-Rorn Infants.

According to Yorkshire England
notion a newborn infant should always
be placed in the arms OF maiden be-
fore it is touched by any one else; and
in some instances its right hand is
bound in cloth during the first day of
its existence in order that it may gather
riches when grown to manhood or
womsnhood estate. In many parts Of
the United States, Germany, France,
and Holland, as well as throughout the
British Isles, it is considered very inn
portant that an infant should "go up"
before it goes down in the world.
Thus, if a child is born in the lower
story of house it is instantly bundled
up by one of the old women and carried
upstairs; il the event occurs in the
upper story the same old woman is ex-
pected to take the child in her arms and
Chamber upon the top of the table,
bureau, or even chair, anything to get
the little one up in the world.
In the north of England when child
is taken from the house for the first
time. it is given an egg, some salt, and
little loaf Of bread, and occasionally a
small piece of money-these gifts being
supposed be insure the-child- against
ever standing in need of the the COM
mon necessaries of life. In the East
Riding of Yorkshire few matches are
added to light the child to heaven. In
Holland, Sweden, Norway, Poland, and
parts of Russia the mother of q new
born babe, if not too poor, provides o
small cheese, which is cut in small
slices and distributed among the I'M
married ladies of the neighborhood.
Amy young lady who receives her share
of the cheese and eats it without asking
where it came from or who sent it, will
meet her future husband at cross path
or crossroads within the month. In
Northumberland o cake called the
dreaming bread" is distributed in the
same way, the young ladies who par
take of it being supposed to dream of
their future husbands the same night.
In the United States, as we'll as in
many other countries, o book, piece
of money, and a bottle of liquor is
placed before an infant the day it is /
year old, the object being to test what
its after inclinations will be.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-16
BY The WAY.

q
Tfn Colossus OF Rhodes marked 4
great stride in art.
MONEY Is the root of all evil, but the
need Of money is the evil itself.
THE world never sits down twice on
man who has any point about him.
ELEVEN battle ships are now being
built for the German government.
GEN. SHERMAN's papers are to be put
in order and published In biographical
form.
Ii Is easy to gain great reputation
for truthfulness by always speaking i'll
of yourself.
You may doubt a mans Christianity
who is always complaining Of his dinner
on wash days.
This is no laughing matter said the
author, when the editor handed him
back his jokes.
The death of bookkeeper should oc-
casion no surprise, as it is natural for
him to go to his accounts.
EVERY heart knoweth its own bitter
ness Many man who looks happy Is
wearing a shirt his wife made.
In New York city last year the saw.
ings banks handled over $1SS, 900, 600
and had over RIO, $50 open accounts.
ToMMY-"Paw, what is sfame?' Mr..
Flgg-"Fame, my son, is something a
man makes money out of after he is
dead"
liz is easy enough to find friends who
will advance theories or opinions, but
when it comes to advancing money, that
kind is scarce.
SHARPsoN-"Phiatz, what makes your
nose so red?' Phlatz-'sIt CLOVIS with
pride because it never pokes itself into
other peoples business"
A ROCHESTER, teacher having occasion
to use portrait of George Washington
at school exercises, was unable to find it
on sale anywhere in the city.
DEAR WIFI - said Sam Jones in a
dispatch to his wife the other day, 81
licked the mayor of Palestine, Tex, this
morning; will preach in Taylor tonight
MISUNDERSTANDING have You ever
spoken to the milkman about the kind
OF milk he has been leaving us lately?'
Bridget (recently imported)-"No, mem.
never shpake to strangers until am
we'll acquainted wild 'em.''
Mr.. BILLUs-''Anothe pair of shoes
already for that boy? He's the most
destructive and wasteful younster or
earth" Mrs. Billus-"Johnny waste
full? That is unjust, Mr.. Billus. A boz
of backing lasts him year and half.
PRINCE HATZFELDT, the interesting
sprig of German nobility who married
the daughter of c. P. Huntington, was
at an early period in his Partisan career
desperately in love with Emile Loisset
the charming circus-rider, who returned
his affection. A time was set for the
marriage, but before the happy day ar
rived poor Emile was crushed to death
by the fall Of her horse in the ring
Hatzfeldt was Frustrated with grief, but
as an act of vicarious sacrifice he bought
the horse, led it to her grave, and sho
him.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-16
knew ii was Is be life or death struggle

knew il was 10 be life or death struggle
with us.
with the bound Of wild
beast he began the deadly en-
counter. The first thrust I
warded off with my left arm, receiving
q slight wound; and in return I
wounded him, as could see the blood
running down his sides.
In few moments we were covered
with blood. ] soon saw that if I didn't
dispatch the savage in short time I
should be dead man!
With last and super-human effort.
1 grappled with my antagonist and
threw him. In the fall he lost his
knife. / spatched it up and drove it
through his chest. With o wild yell
he rolled over-dead
| was on my feet in an instant, to
meet the other Indian; he still lay
where he had fallen, close to the one /
had shot. They were both dead
VI dressed my wounds, though weak
from the loss of blood, and ate
the meat 7 had roasted. The storm
was soon over; and the hollow rayine
was made lighter by the full moon
which was now high in the heavens.
"Remounting my horse I returned to
the camp; where | found the remainder
OF the party, greatly alarmed at my alb
sence.
In after years I engaged in the min
ing business, and laid up for the rainy
days few thousand"
Wallace concluded with: "But that
nights adventure was the most perilous
of my life"
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-16
Ladies Fond of Tobacco.

Inquiries at few of the principal to-
bacco stores of London has revealed the
fact that smoking is very fashionable
among women, especially among those
of the upper ten. I'VE are used to he
ing asked for ladies' cigarettes here"
said salesman at one of the big stores.
We serve the ladies with cigarettes in
as marter-of-fact way as We do gentle
men. Not only do ladies smoke cigar
ettes," he went on, some of them smoke
cigars. One lady comes in frequently
for box OF cigars. She smokes almost
the costliest brand we keep"
Some of the most expensive brands
Of ladies' cigarettes, he said, were arti-
fiicially scented. The manager said
that the ladies whom they supplied
were chiefly ladies of rank and fashion
duchesses, countesses, etc. They pat
ronize good Turkish brand costing six
or eight shillings hundred. / asked
what the opinions of gentlemen were on
the subject. WELL" said my inform
ant, those of the old school naturally
don't approve of ladies smoking, but the
young men take it as matter of course.
I have never heard man speak in q
derogatory manner about lady because
she enjoyed cigarette. Mrs. Grundy,
OF course, objects. but I don't think
anybody pays much lheed to the old
lady.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-16
Gnraa of the Nation.

The pistol is, in my Judgment. the
curse of the nation. AS an American I
deplore its use, which has brought dis
grace upon our people, and should be
stayed, If possible, by general COZ demna-
ton, by the power and vlgor of the
press, by all citizens and by such strin-
gent laws as may be enacted by the leg
islature. Thousands of valuable lives
have been sacrificed by its use either to
redress fancied wrongs, to vindicate
Outraged feelings'-but only so in
thought-to crafty revengeful disposi-
tions, TO indulge bad tempers, or to pa
rade as q bravado, the occasion rarely
existing when its use for deadly pur-
pose is ustifable.-JlCdge Brady.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-16
2-yIus,s Da,sesr !,

Threatens every man, woman or child living In
3 region 81 country where fever and ague IL
prevalent. since the germs OF malarial disease
are inhaled from the air and are swallowed from
the water Of such q region. Medicinal SAFE
guard is absolutely necessary to nudity this
danger. AS means OF fortifying and acclimat-
ing the system so as ito be able to resist tho
malarial poison, Hostetter's stomach Bitters ia
incomparab1y the best and the most popular
encourage malaria; but these are speedily recti-
fed by the Bitters. The functions of digestion
and secretion are assisted by its use, and q
vigorous as well as regular condition of the sys-
tenn promoted by it. Constitution and physiau e
are thus defended against the inroads Of malaria
by this matchless preventive, which is also .
certain and thorough remedy In the worst cases
of intermittent and remittent feyers.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-16

The numerous readers of this paper win
be pleased to learn that there is at least one
dreaded disease that science has been able to
cure IN all it's stages, and that is Cararrh
Halls Catayrh Cure is the only positive cure
now known to the medical fraternity Catarrh
being constitutional disease requires a con-
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taken internally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system thereby
destroying the foundation of the disease, and
giving the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have so much faith IN
fits curative powers that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send
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Address, r. j. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo q.
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Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-16

We take pleasure In calling the attention
of our readers to the advertisement OF the
Chesebrough Manufacturing company,
which appears in another column. This
company is the original discoveries and
only manufacturers Of Vaseline, which Is
known all over the world as the best emol-
lient, and the most valuable family remedy
in use. Their goods are sold by druggists
throughout the country. but we wish to eau
ton our readers, when buying, to accept
only goods in original packages, and labeled
Chesebrough Manufacturing Company, as
sometimes INSCRIPTIONS dealers try to sub
stitute preparations which are of little value
when compared with Vaseline, and some
are injurious and unsafe to use.
By sending the company O dollar by mail,
the sender will receive free quite an assort-
ment of these beautiful and valuable goods
without any charge for delivery. We know
whereof we write when we say the "Vase-
line" Soap Is a revelation.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-16
A Partner Wanted.

n FaFGh6r wanted
At Wichita, Kan, had to occupy
room at o hotel with stranger, who
told me that he lived about fifty miles
away on a ranch. We got along all
right for three or four days and then,
one night as we went to bed, he asked:
"You kin read and write, spn't ye"
"Yes."
II sorter mistrusted you could. What
do they call this thing they get out
about q new town."
"Do you mean prospectus2"
"That's it. Kin you write one?"
II think So"
kin you draw sort O. map2"
"Yes."
"Just as lief lie as not?"
mo, sir!"
well, don't get hot. Here's what I
want. I've got 200 acres of land thirty
five miles from anywhar, and it's too
cussed poor for jack-rabbit to even
run over. want to lay out town thar
aud sell off $50, 900 worth of lots before
the end of the month. It kin be done
if I kin git the right sort of q part
ner."
AOA WAAb v 41hIS OH
SCOT to be. He's got to lie river
alongside that property, two railroads
across it, $1,000 population into the
county, and then wiring in a lot of
churches, schools. and factories to gild
it of. I'll give You half"
"No, couldn't"
"An right-no harm done. If you
are not liar, that settles it, and We
won't have no hard feelings"
Six weeks later / met him in bank
in Omaha just as he was depositing
$27, 900, and he held out his hand and
said: @Shoo! Is it you? Wish you'd
have come in ten minutes ago and seen
my liar holding up his half of the deal.
Conscientious scruples, Ell? Well,
some folks has'em, and when they does
it's all right, and no hard feelings on
my part"