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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-01
htcal Highway robbery, vote the Re
publican ticket, -

htical Highway robbery, vote the Re-
publican ticket
The Republican campaign committees
are endeayoring to rouse the dropping
spirits of their followers by beginning
to talk about majorities. They say that
EuStiS will be elected by from 1900 to
5000 plurality. That is tantamount 10
an admission that he will have hard
time getting any plurality. Minneapo-.
lis is held up by~Republicans as a Re
publican city. 1t will cast vote OF
close upon $4,000. This is a preslden-
tial year, and it is admitted that the
Republicans have all advantage in that.
William Henry Eustis is pointed out as
marYel0usly strong candidate. In
presidential year, four years ago, Babb,
a weak, unpopular candidate, carried
the city by nearly 1000. If, in another
presidential year, in a strong Republic
an city, superlatiyely strong man like
Eustis, according to Republicans, eau
not do better than Babb did, what are
the Republicans coming to?
The following paragraph appeared i'll
the last number of the Protest, Re
publican paper.
"There is a rumor going the rounds
that j. E. Holmberg, candidate for the
legislature from the Thirty-secOnd dis
trict, is opposed to organized labor.
This we brand as al out and out lie, cir
culated for the purpose of defeating Mr..
Holmberg. We know him to be as
friendly to organized labor as any man,
and it is unjust to take up such diShon-
orable means in order to defeat any
man.
The above paragraph is not merely
misleading; it is absolutely untrue.
Not so very long ago Mr.. Hoimberg was
foreman on ''day-work" job, building
a tenement row. out on Fourth avenue.
The bricklayers' union appointed COM
mittee to wait on Mr.. Holmberg with
regard to a question that came up. Mr..
Holmberg positively refused to recog-
niZe the union. He would not employ
union men, but did employ ''scabs."
That looks as if he was friend to or
gained labor.
The Peoples party committee did
some more indorsIng yesterday after
the county ticket had been made up.
1t took both sides of the fence. 1t in
dorsed c. n. Dickey for clerk of
courts, and Frank NJ. Nye for county
attorney, on the Republican side. OF
the Democrats j. <. Egan for county
surveyor, and j. Il. Corrigan for Judge
of probate were Endorsed. The POpu-
lists have also indOrsed \. p. Nelson
and Fred Salisbury, Democratic candi-
date for the legislature in the Thirtietli
district, and Ed Conroy. Democratic
candidate for county commissioner in
the First district
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-01

The momentous question of whose
name shall be first on the city tickets
was settled yesterday morning i'll City
Clerk Haney's Office. The representa-
tives of the four parties, Democratic,
Republican, Prohibition and Peoples
party, met promptly at 10 o'clock. The
four slips, properly labeled, were
dropped into hat, the hat was well
shaken, and they were drawn out. The
Republican candidates will be printed
first, the Prohibtionist second, The
Democratic third and the Peoples party
last.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-01

James Macmillan is back from PhIla-
delpha aud is telling how confident no
torious Dave Martin is that the Repu6-
licans will carry New York. 1t is apity
Mr.. Martin cannot inject some OF his
confidence into the Republican man
ayers of the Associated Press, the re-
ports of which are always favorable to
the Republicans when possible. He
might use his injector on William Pitt
Kellogg, too, the Southern Republican
who is confident that Harrison will lose
New York and the country.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-01

When your mind wanders back, or
jumps ahead. and you see the mail car
rier staggering from door to door
through bowling snow storm or the
driving rain, just remember that Ben
Harrison and his campaign managers
part of your salary or you will be dis
charged" Then, if you believe in po-
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-06-05

recovery, found himself quite = distance
from the bag with the runner equally dis.
tant on the other side. '"The thing to do"
came to Cook and tho runner almost in
stantly, and both slid for third from their
respective opposite positions. But Cook
had thought q second quicker and got the
out.
think nearly every college player has
had tho third base fever" 1t some time or
other, but IL generally does not last long, q
game or two being enough TO cool most
mems ambition in that direction. Tbs
success of Cook, who is a very young
player, is perhaps due to the fact that his
fever cannot DO cured.
The fellow who plays the first sack" has
. snap. In tho first place, everything comes
his way, and he 10 therefore always in the
game; in the second place. he IL generally
big aud handsome; in the third place (Which
IL n corollary Of the second plaoe), all ths
pretty girls at the big college matches are
found directly back of first. This fact of
the pretty girls being back of first, how
ever, nearly caused trouble on one college
nine one year. ~ the third bassman claimed.
with ZONE justice. that his friend on nrat
preferred 10 exert himself ON chasing throws
TO the grand stand rather than going up
into the air . Bit aud saving errors.
Though the position 10 an easy one to
play, . poor first bassman In about the
most damaging thing possible TO a team.
A hrst baseman should never think he IL
simply placed o n the base to poso; ability to
handle ground balls elsanly. to throw
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-06-05
BASE BALL FOR BOYS.
BY DuDLEY g. DEAR, or THE HARVARD NINE.


tion now playing with the colleges, recon-
mends that = pitcher should never lose
sight Of the batter's motions and move
ments while 10 (the pitcher) 10 delivering
the ball, and attributes his success in the
point at hand 10 the observance Of this rule.
Az = rule, 1.-the, quiok-noti0nsd cstchsrs
are the best; beef in . catcher IL not essen
tial, and 10 a disadvantage II II makes him
slow. An an example OF Z slight catcher,
take Fred Poole, Of Yale. He 10 the best
catcher Yale or any other college ever had
% quick with his wits ~ with his body.
His catch Of = foul fly. done almost blindly,
being guided solely by the coaching OF his
pitcher, upon the dead run and oR the
very boards of the Yale grand stand, in .
Harvard game Of 80. showed better than
anything else could what 10 necessary to
make a winning backstop.
II takes q long time to gotta battery work
ing in clock-like shape, but experience has
proved in more than ono college that it oan
b. done In n season il proper coaching is
employed and tho men are conscientious
workers.
Although third base Is not the most i'm
portant position ON a college nine, it has
frequently proved q very troublesome n
to Ill. Tho man who attempts it must be
al easy. accurate thrower, 4 sharp, clean
fielder and quick on his feet. Al far AZ
throwing goes, it is born in = man and not
cultivated, and u fellow who oanno shoot
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about as trying a boy as ever lived,
although a perfectly honest. brave
and truthf II fellow. He had q dreadful
shock of re dish hair that stood straight
up all over his head, and he ran about bare
footed and hatless, looking for mischief to
and when he got into a wrangle With an
other boy he poured out volleys of invec-
tive while fighting like a Trojan. He was
80 tenacious that q t1ogRing bv another boy
did him no good; it was said that he simply
couldn't give up, He was perfectly insen-
sible to fear.
When he was only thi' teen years old he
helped his mother and other patriotic wo-
men to care for the wounded after the bat
tie of WaXhaw, and looked without hlnch-
ing anon the most terrible wounds He
hated the British. ss may DO imagined, and
was ALWAYS slnshing about with some sort
n weapon-a Ratchet, or u rusty sword, or
something of the sort, imagining that he
was cutting down the enemies of the coun-
try. When he was put to moving weeds
about his rude home with a soythe. he went
at it with a fury. shouting, "Oh. il l were
only n man. wouldn't | sweep down the
British with my scytheT' Now, isn't this
exactly like a boy?
When he was fourteen the fighting be-
came SO hot in that part of the country that
the women and children were forced to fly
to safer places. Mrs. Jackson went, and
carried Andy-then II very tall boy, whose
legs dangled very absurdly from the little
pony he was forced to mount.
At sixteen Andy thought he was a man,
and took his hand at fighting the British.
He was, however. captured almost ut the
start by a detachment of Lord Rawdon'S
Dragons. Tn list thing done to him he
was ordered to clean the boots for Il British
officer. Andy's answer to this was:x Sir, l
am Il prisoner Of war, and l claim to DO
treated rs SUCH"
For the answer the officer made q lunge
at him with his sabre. Andy threw up his
arm, and received a sabre cut upon both
his hands and his head that lsft two scars
for the rest of his life.
Soon after he was forced to guide tho
British to a house whore it was supposed
some American ~officers were concealed. He
WAS SO clever that he guided them by a
road which was in full view Of the house
for half IN hour before they got there.
or course, the Americans had '~Ievanted"
before the British arrived.
At last, while still a prisoner, he was
seized with small pox. The British were
very willing to let him go then. M his
mother cans after him. With ~incipisnt
smallpox upon him he walked forty miles
to his home. He nearly died. but his pow
erful constitution brought HIM through.
The war waa now over. and Andy, though
still u boy, had TO make has own living.
He taught school for a while, and wonder
full school teaching 1t must have been.
Although . man OF ~stupendous genius, he
was NOT educated in books. and to the end
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-06-05
Rivalry in the Police Forco.

A little town over in Jersey, which is in
habited principally by New York business
men, has taken a great boom lately. 1t has
laid aside many of its country ways and
taken on some of the trappings Of a ,nunic-
ipality.
One of the latest improvements has been
a kindergarten police force, but this has al
ready led to a great desl of trouble.
Two 'townies'' were selected az the force
and supplied with uniforms precisely sim
liar to thosa worn by Byines' men. Prob
ably this fact had something to do with the
feeling Of oonceit that soon filled their
breasts.
One of the officers was a man with low-
tide chin whiskers and 4 mouth somewhat
after the entrance to the Luray caves. On
the second day of his emu of office he
attracted much admiration. for he had had
the word 'ohief" placed on his helmet,
surrounded by a delicate scrollwork.
Officer No. , was decidedly out Of it that
day. But he also sent a messenger up to
New York and the following morning trav-
eled his post proudly bearing the label ''su-
p~erintendent'"
Down near the railroad station the chief
and superintendent met. B~ystanders said
THAT both ,nen should be terrors TO thieves,
for it wa just such a fight AS Rider Hag-
gard describes in ALLAN Qaatermain" when
unslopoHoas defended tue o Of the pal
ace.
Al present both men are laid up for re-
pal 9 and the police force has been legis-
lated out of ofice.-New York Commercial
Advertiser.
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the balls aoross the full length of the dia-
mond without effort would probably meet
with more success elsewhere than at third.
This 'shoot" Of the ball describes the
throw from third % we'll a. any word Dan;
it 10 a light, short, snappy motion Of the
arm which sends the ball on an unvarying
line, yet the throw il SO easily handled that
the first baseman could hardly drop it If he
would. Get some left-handed twirler to
throw you some of his heavy twists, and by
IMAGINING ire exact opposite you can "p-
At third the underhsnd throw is indis-
pensable on doubles to second. plays to the
plate and hunts to first, and a third base
man should spend q large proportion Of his
time fielding hunts and doubles, and thus
becoming used to this understand motion
and having it down fine."
There IL no time to tumble and recover at
third. n 80 the necessity Of . mans being
a clean fielder and q quick starter might be
merged into one, as getting squarely in
front Of the ball 10 always a very good bid
for a clean pickup. When not expecting a
hunt, third should play twelve to fifteen
with a man on second, it is best to play ON
the front edge Of the base line, as in case of
a steal one then has cleaner ground to work
in. Third should be absolutely sure on
thrown balls. and = quick tagger.
On ground balls between third and short,
VulH0 DAouAN 0A"0yo Sus AAAoVSby oNAooo
towards first and take all chances possible.
shot backing him up. Short should do
the governing, and If he says ''let it come"
third should obey, as or some chRnces he
(third) would simply defect the ball out of
reach of everybody If he followed the iron
Glad rule of taking everything he could get
a hand on.
Not a small part of thirds work ia In
taking in foul flies. and, as in tho case of
the catcher, these chances look much easier
than they are; = deal of practice cen be put
in on this point.
The best third baseman of late years in
the colleges have been Noyes, of Yale. and
Rowland, Of Harvard. Both are pretty
throwsrs and clean, quick helders. Cook,
of Harvard, this year. 10 also a good baseman.
league team showed that no is very quick
witted AZ we'll. With = runner on thir d
Cook caught . swift liner we'll over to-
ward short, and though he made q quick
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-06-05
C%0IyTRY-B0Y PRESIDENTS
BY MoLLIE ELLIOTT sEAwELL.


by the British, he often rods to Boston and
back, a distance of twenty-five miles, going
and returning N eri ands for his mother.
lie was passionately fond of birds and
animals Of all sorts, and studied their
habits intelligently even as a very small
bov.
His father being one OF the leading men
of the country, no Travelled about, both in
the United States and Europe, much more
than the average country boy. But. az no
wrote once, ''Pcnn's Hill and Braintree
North Common Rocks never seemed to me
like any other hill or any other rocks, bs-
cause every rock and every pebble Of them
associates itself with the first conscious
ness of my existence"
Decidedly, John Quincy Adams was a
country boy, and n countryman he always
remained, in spite of foreign travel n an
enforced residence in cities.
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of his life was the ucaA uteesly tee1loeN
Al thia' tims Captain GalbTatths AN .A14YSEE
lean ofloer, threatened AAdy witt Z ehaAaatss
ing, which was, NO doubt, Well deaatvS0e
Andy's reply was: Make reAdy ~ LIZ ~
fore You strike" Hs did net TIL ena e1lAsns
ing. He had the good 1ensey enee4As W
Andy never saw Q town until 13N&sMx
pulled up In time from hia wild .Way1 anMI
became one Of the grsssest 1Aaxee ~
American history. sSAas
He had At his command In laeee lIte Ss14
Of . baCkweodsmaas q 0x.Sn%4
most polished ana striking Souyteey. WisA
women he was always, from ht1 boy1Ue9t
de~ferential to the last dsgsee--an0 4 Ate
widest pranks and heTceet bShAy10k ~
ungentlc word toward : woman WM6 oYeM
known to escAps his lips. Hts SeeDees -
them was almost 3 religion.
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The Boy Of Bridges Creek.

"J
The very first of them all, Norge Wash
ington, was a country boy a(S Aremained a
country gentlemen to the dug OF his death.
All trace of the old house in which no was
born in 1872 IN Westmoreland county, Vir-
ginia, is gone. but il was on Bridges' creek
in which there WAS excellent fishing. and
hunting, and shooting, and country amuse-
ments better than this handsome. dignitisd
Virginia boy, who was destined to be the
greatest man of his ago.
George Washington was one of the po-
litest and best-brsd boys in the world, and
there ia still sxtant a code of rnles In his
own handwriting, when only thirteen years
old, by which he regulated his behavior.
Tn country society in those days in Vir-
GINA was extremely elegant and resembled
English country life.
Washington's half brother, Lawrence,
had q splendid establishment. in its day, at
Mount Vernon. Here Washington was
sent, when only eleven years old. for the
advantages of school. by his mother, who
was a widow then. Lawrence Washington
had been an officer in the British navy and
was a man of polished manners, so that it
il not unlikely that Washington learned
the value of good manners from this elder
brother, who was deeply attached to him
and left him Mount Vernon.
Washington himself was a remarkably
tall and strong boy and was one of the
best shots and best riders in the country
almost before he was Ii years sid. The
place ia yet shown where he once threw q
stone clear across the Rappahannock river.
He was as a boy q favorite with the
great earl of Fairfax, an English noble
man. who, it is said, because of q disap-
pointment in love. came to Virginia and es-
tablished himself at Greenway Court, not
very far from Mount Vernon. He was
Washineton's frat employer. and when the
boy was only 16 he surveyed enormous
tracts of land belonging to the earl, who
paid him at a pretty good rata doubloon
4 day, which is equivalent to about $1S a
day at present.
Washington, as a boy. excelled in wood.
craft; nobody knew moro about trees than
he did. and tree planting was one of the
passions of his later life. He liked his
businesses of Surveying 80 we'll that before
he was regularly employed by the earl Of
Fairfax be practised surveying, and his
land books would do credit to a man of 40
instead of a boy of Is.
For high-bred, polite and graceful coun-
try boys, George Washington could not be
surpassed.
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the Virginia presi-
dents, he was not q
working boy. but led
a life of ease and
leisure, with plenty Of
black servants to wait
on him. But this did
not make any of them
o o d.for-n 9TH in
boys, and they work
cd as hard with their
minds as less fortu-
nately placed boys do
with their hands,. All
of these presidents,
n cl u o h n
Adams. were country
men all their lives.
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aud had as little to Dc with CITIES 40 they
could help.
James Monroe had good tutors: one of
them. the Rev. William Douglass, had been
Jefferson's tutor. He applied himself with
the greatest energy to his studies until the
breaking out of the revolution. Then. al
though only IS. he threw aside his books
and got a commission as lieutenant in the
Third Virginia regiment. But he was q
regular country boy, and spent all his life.
when not in the public service. in the
country.
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sharply to any poiat ON ths diamond and
TO think quickly 10 moro important than to
catch every throw from third or short,
Bassmsn, such 40 wers Dams. Of Princeton,
Mcbride, Of Yale. and Irafford, OF Harvard,
bear this ont.
second ana short, after the battery, srs
the important positions Of Z nine. They
arc the center Of tbs TEAMS field work from
the nature Of their position in the ball field
and from thS o of work which, no
matter how good tbs pitcher. they are
called upon TO do. In fact, . good pitcher
dess not continually, work for strike outs,
bat depends on his infielders, and II might
alnos bs said, his shortatop and second
bassman. The moral influence. also. Of
the two positions 10 considerable-bsing
much like the center Of tho rush line in
foot ball--if second and short are weak,
the pitcher loses confidence aud pluck, and
= kind Of decentralization to tho whole team
follows. just a. q weak center makes a poor
quarter back and rambling nervous halves.
For these two positions, especially for
second, there are lots of candidates, rang
ing from the western wonder Whose abil-
ity 10 YET %unproved) TO the modsst junior,
who has tried for two years, but Il now
out of the abundance Of material it 10 best
to ehooss an soon ~ possible that which
seems best lifted naturally for the two po-
sitions. These natural qualifications are
much like those required at third. aave
that il IL even more necessary that = short
stop or second bassmAn ahould be quick ON
his feet THAT il, able to start for a'ball the
instant it il hit) than that . third baseman
should be 10 gifted, - short and second
have more work to do, and npon their nbil-
ity to staff quick hinges their ability to
cover ground u be of the most uss TO
their team.
It is a mistake, too, TO think that q poor
thrOWer will ''dO" At second. II in uuite
the reverse; a poor throwsr may handle
simple assists to first we'll enough, but hs
will cut a solrv figure on doubles. short in
field plays 10 this plate, and quick returns
of the ball to the catcher If ne is not pos
ssssed of . good arm. A third quaiifca-
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Ar Operntlou for Idiocv.

An exceedingly delicate surgical operation
was performed at Emergency hospital about
i've weeks ago upon a three-year-old boy
named Schoensth. who parents live at the
oorner OF South and Noble streets. The
ohild's head had grown very little since its
birth and idiocv W.s the result. Drs. Wv
man and Parker, after carefully examining
the little patient. decided upon performing
orAniotomy. The child was placed undsr
an %anssthetio and the skull was split along
the center. The enlargement of the brain
which was out Of the question before the
hoped that As the child grows ii will be-
come sound in mind. Tho little ono Ia
doing we'll and IL thought that the opera
ti0n will be suoosssful.-Detroi Tribune.
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6~
Virginia. He
was not az fond Of out
life and country
as most boys,
and was a natural born
~bookworm. His tutors
he had the best
that could be secured
obliged to ap-
ply a check. instead of
a spur, to his reading.
Madison, as . boy. was
much under the inhu-
ence Of Jefferson, who
was onlv eight years
older than himself,
and Jefferson being q
- --l-. AkH Matt
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He was one Of thu wild
boys who take them
selves in time and pre-
vent themselves from
becoming bad boys.
But the times were
wild.
ANDY ~ he was
called as 4 boy, was
born in l767 in a log
cabin at Waxhaw Set
Element in South Caro-
lima. His father died
before he was born, and
-.ndy, in spite Of q
good and strong prin-
ciplod mother. was
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county, Virginia.
He was born III u
log house. although
his father was a
man of wealth and
prominence for his
dav.
Jefferson may be
said to have brought
himself up, RS he
was fatherlsss at
nine wears Of age,
and he seems to
have had nm extra
ordinary degree OF
liberty allowed him.
He was born at Shad-
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JOHN ADAMS. CUTT6CCIV6 anu 6HB IUU
was used with astonishingly good effect.
John Adams, it ia related, got a good
deal of it in his school days--al-
though, in the main. a studious and we'll
hammered %boy-and used it very freely him
self when he taught the grammar school at
Worcester, Mass. He was delighted to
loave the presidential chair for his Quincy
farm. and he retained his fondness for
country life to the end of his days.
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1870. His boyhOOd
was the usual round
of work in summer
and school in winter
of most New England
boys of colonial days.
Like = great many of
t presidents he
taught school at what
would now seem a
ridiculously early age.
In those days moral
suasion had not made
much Roadway as 4
ccrrectiys and the rod