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Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-08
GAMES OF THE NATIONAL LEAGUE.
PhiIlies and Boston Begin Final
Struggle for Second Place.
Philadelphia, o; Boston, I.
Pittsburg, 18, Cleveland, 3.
baltimore, 2, Washington, 1.
Cincinnati, 4; Louisville, 2.
brooklyn, 13i New York, 2.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct 7.-Philadelpha
and Boston today began the final struggle
for second place. the Quakers winning the
played between these teams. The Phillies
found no trouble in connecting with Willis
pitching; while the visitors could do moth
put up poor game, but that of the Phil
lies was faultless. Attendance 63l1. Score
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Lacey, Nagle. Cooley, Hayes. Three-bas :
hits: Waller. Lawler. McCaus land, Hoy (2),
Simmons, Hayes. Passed ball: Hayes.
| Wild pitch: Tompsett. Bases on balls: OFF
| McElvaine. 8; off Tompsett, 4; off Scully. l.
Bases on hit by pitched balls: Waller, Brad
| ford, McElvaine. Struck out: BY Tompsett,
| 3; by McElvaine, 4.
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WASHINGTON
BALTIMORE

stolen bases: keIster, Lachance, Holmes,
sheckard (2) Sheibeck (2) Two-base hit
70 arrs FFsf ay Bass on Refr ba TO on fd
2; off McGinnity, /. Hit by pitched ball
BY Fiheld, /. Struck out: by McGinnity,
Z; by Fiheld l. Left on bases: Baltimore,
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Yale backs, Mcbride, Spark and Adams.
The second half was more given to kicking.
Captain Mcbride, who played for the first
time this season, gave a fine exhibition of
line bucklng. Sharpe did most of the punt
ing for Yale,
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Totals .16 IS 27 10 Totals SAFE S

Two-base hits: McCreery, Dillon, Harley,
Hemphill. Three-base hits: Williams,
Schriver, McAllister. Home run: Ely. Sac
rifice hit: Donovan. Stolen bases: Dono-
van, Mccarthy, Dillon, Ely. Double plays:
Dillon to Ely to Dillon; Lockhead to Nc
Allister; Lockhead to Sullivan to Coli
flower. First base on balls: OFF Hoffer, /;
off Harper, 5: Struck out: BY Hoffer, 2;
by Harper, 2. Passed balls: Duncan, 2.
Time LAB. Umpire: Colgan.
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BOSTON.

stolen bases: Delshanty I5, Flick. Two D,
base hit: Delehanty. Sacrifice hit: Cross.
First base on balls: OF Willis. 8; off
Fraser, g. Struck out: By Willis, 81 by
Fraser. 2. Passed ball: Sullivan. Wild
pitch: Fraser. Left on bases: Boston, 6;
Philadelphia, 8. Time of game: 200. Um-
pires: Emslie and Dwyer.
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Z: Washington, 7. Time: 1:4O Umpires
Manassau and Snyder.
Pittsburg, 16; Cleveland, 3,
CLEVELAND.


PITTSBURG, Oct. 7.-Pittsburg won |
from Cleveland in game too one-sided
TO nave any interest. The score tells the |
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baltimore, 2, Washington, 1.

BALTIMORE. Oct. 7.-Fiheld was given
the Orioles down to seven hits. McGin-
nifty pitched just as well and the BaIti-
mores won by timely hits. Attendance
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NEW YORK.

First base s on errors sS New York ficHHy% = Brook %
lyn, 2: Left on bases: New York, S.
Brooklyn, S. Stolen bases Davis, Keller
Struck out: BY Hughes, 2. Sacrifice hit
Fleming. First base on balls: OF Hughes
3; of Doheny, 5; of Gettig, !. Double
/, Passed ball: Wilson. Wild pitch: Get.
tig. Time: 1888. Umpires: Swartwood and
Hunt.
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Cincinnati, 4; Louisville, 2.
LOUISVILLE.

CINCINNATI, Oct. 7-Errors were re-
sponsible for all the runs made in today's
game. Both pitchers were very effective.
Attendance, Co., Score:
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needed. 1t also alleges that those COM
plants emanated wholly from small body
Of British who are breeding race hatred and
revolutionary movement and whose mem
bership and newspapers openly boast of the
influence exercised by them upon the re-
public
The reply adds:
Tho Transvaal is bound to credit these
boasts when II sees blue books issued con-
sisting OF documents drawn UP by these rev.
olutionary members of the South African
league and of lying articles and reports from
newspapers which are organs of the league.
II the real character of the league could be
known 1t would soon lose its influence and
the tension between the two governments
would speedily disappear"
The reply concludes as follows!
"The Afrkanders would then no longer
fear that the interests OF the British empire
necessarily implied the destruction Of the
two republics and the enslavement of the
Afrikander population. and the white races
in South Africa would return to the brotherly
harmony that had set in until treacherOus
plot. at the end of 1895, revived passion on
both sides"
Shocking Barbnrities Alleged
The Evening News publishes the follow
ing telegram from Capetown:
Reports of barbaric exceeses committed
by the Beers on refugees have caused a
thrill OF horror here. In one instance sew
enty women and children were packed in a
cattle truck so tightly that they were unable
to sit and were thus kept sidetracked for
thirty hours without food or water. When
/ they attempted to leave the truck they were
driven back with blows. Every trainload OF
refugees brings narrowing accounts Of the
barbarities of the Beers of the Orange Free
State. a train arrived today that had been
nnety-sx hours enroute. The sufferings of
the women were dreadful. Several births
occurred on the way-one in an open cattle
! truck containing twenty n1en."
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Standing of the Teams.
FAvoRITEs WIN LEXINGTON RACES.

Games scheduled for today: Cleveland at
Chicago; Cincinnati at St Louis
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Totals E. 4 s q IL

Two-base hit: Kelly. Stolen base: Clark
base on balls: Off Cunningham, 8: off
Breitenstein, 2. Struck out: BY Breiten-
stein, /, Time: 1:55. Umpires ODay and
Mcdonald.
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Totals ..12 Ia n u

'Batted for Tompsett in ninth. ""Lawler
out on intield ball. with men on first and
second.
Omaha ............O 1 12O 0 5-12
Superior ..............3 0 0 SIS
Marshall County independent., 1899-06-23
YANKEE ADVERTISING DODGE
Shrewd Hustler Makes r Good CIean-Up
with Cheap Cigars.

From the Detroit Journal: An ex-
collector OF customs relates this as
among his experiences: Some years
ago and shortly prior to the holidays
Il man came into the office and said
that he wanted to talk with me per-
sonaly. He looked like an unsophis-
ticated fellow who had come in from
the country to try his hand at business,
though he had sharp features and a
nasal twang.
Mister. he began. when we were
alone, I'm in kind OF a snarl. and
I've come to you because | want TO do
the square thing. l had nice lot of
Havaney cigars shipped to Windsor,
thinkin' | could do stroke sellin' 'em
here in Detroit. | had a man there TO
take care Of EN- till | came on, but
he. not knowing nOthin' about the law,
packs them cigars in a boat and brings
EN- over here without payin' no duty.
| reckon it was smugglin', but he's
honest as the sun and | hurried right
here sCOns | heerd of what he'd done.
Here's a sample of them cigars as he
held out box. and | want TO say right
here that | never had a more delicious
smoke. He took me to the little room
ne had rented and showed me hundreds
of boxes on which he had paid the
duty, and | let the matter drop. 1t got
into the papers, even TO my verdict as
to the quality of the cigars.
Then my honest Yankee made a
| special Christmas sale, patronized
chiefly by ladies who did not care so
much about price as they did about the
credit of having once selected good
goods. He was closed out in no time
and disappeared. There was rank
| cdor in the local atmosphere that
| Christmas. The cigars were cheap
! Connecticut filters and cheaper Penn
| sylvania wrappers. The cigars he gave
were ringer Uncle Sam got
money that did not belong to him. but
it was an advertising scheme out OF
which the Yankee made fat thing"
Marshall County independent., 1899-06-23
DEWEY'S SUCCESSOR.
REAR ADMIRAL JOHN CRITTEN-
DEN WATSON.
Was Born in Kentucky and Is OF Good
Lineage Served the Hartford
During the Civil War - Embrat ed
by Farragut.

Since the assignment of Rear Ad-
Dewey in the Philippines was an
nounced public interest has been
aroused il the man whom the navy de-
partment considered competent to
shoulder the responsibilities so long
and ably borne by the nations hero.
There is not an officer in the naval
service who is not keenly alive to the
cares and perplexities of the situation
at Manila. and realizes that there may
yet be chances to win unGying glory
and fame
"A thousand questions are likely to
arise said Rear Admiral Jouett. L. S.
N. retired-known in the service as
Fighting Jim Jouett-"to ptrplex and
bedevil the man who goes out to Man
ila as Dewey's relief. Well, the depart
ment has builded wiser than it knew
in ordering Watson to the Philippines.
Watson is an admirable compound in
character of cool courage in the hour
Of danger and audacity. He will meet
ipinos with one a little better, and there
is not filter man in the service for
that most difficult Manila detail thaa
John Crittenden Watson"
John Cri;tendel Watson comes from
good fighting stock. He was born in
Frankfort. Ky, in 1912. His father
was DR.. Watson, and his mother was
the daughter of ex-Attorney General OF
the United States and ex-senator John
J. Crittenden of kentucky. a union
man when it required courage to be
such in Kentucky.
1t may be stated here as a peculiar
fact that some of the most dashing and
brilliant officers of our navy came from
Kentucky. l zoo miles from blue water.
but so it is. There is Jouett. chief OF
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yelled a young voice. and up the rat
lines to the disabled rigging went a
midshipman. followed by the entire
watch, shamed beyond words at their
momentary hesitation. Running out
lightly to the end of the yard and
standing sixty feet from the deck with
the grape clipping ropes and tearing
great slivers of wood from mast and
spar. young Watson as calmly gave the
necessary orders as if he were at a
practice drill One after another the
men were struck by the bowling storm
OF grape and either fell lifeless on the
deck below or was knocked out of the
rigging into the river boiling with the
stroke of shot and she'll. bu. the Indian
fighting blood OF his heroic ancestry
was up and John Crittenden Watson
never looked around. When everything
was taut and in working order, follow
ing the tackles" down, Watson saluted
the admiral and reported, All clear.
sir"
Grim old Farragut simply seized the
daring boy in his arms. and how the
crew cheered Had we ever got
around there the confederate guns
would have destroyed us in five min
utes." said Fleet Captain Percival
Drayton. Of the west gulf squadron, as
he told the story TO Captain. afterward
Rear Admiral Bryson. Young wat
sons ready appreciation of the danger
and prompt action saved the Hartford
in my opinion and Farragut always
thought so. too"
There are many people Sill living III
Kentucky who are bound 10 the incom-
parable Dewey's successor by ties OF
blood and who will watch with Interest
and pride his career in our new far
eastern possession. Doubtless they
have no fear but that their distin-
guished relative will be able to cope
with any and every question. and lend
fresh honors and luster to the names
Of his ancestors.
Marshall County independent., 1899-06-23
Elora's Decora ton Day.

Everybody is carrying flowers to
the soldiers graves" said Flora. Mrs.
Ware has broken off most all the lilacs
on her big bush. Mr.. Peters has his
ladder out under the tall, white lilac
tree, and he's picking the flowers as
fast as he can Mrs. Peters wouldn't
let one OF them be picked till DecOra-
ton cay. The Willard boys went by
just now with their arms full OF apple
blooms. and mamma has given away
all our daffodils and tulips. I've got
basketful OF violets, and I mean TO
carry them down 10 old Mrs. Haw-
thOrne She is always lonesome, she
says. on Decoration day. Last year
mother sent me down there with
nice dinner for her She sat in her
rocking-chair by the window, so that
she could get a good view of the pro-
cession. 1t always passes by there,
you know.
Her soldiers sword was on the
table close by her, and his picture
hung OH the wall rig-t where she
could see it plain. I'm going TO deco
rate the sword and picture. because
Mrs. Hawthorne's soldiers grave is
way down in Tennessee, and she cant
ever go to it."
| So Flora took her basket Of violets
and ran down the street to the big.
dilapidated old house where the sol
dier's widow lived.
I've come to decorate your soldiers
picture and sword" she said. See"
and she held out the lovely violets.
BLESS your heart replied Mrs.
Hawthorne. How did you ever think
of that?"
well. I thought about him. point
ing to the picture. and about you,
because you can't carry flowers to his
grave. And there's so many to deco
nate our soldiers graves, and only me
to bring you viOlets.'
While they talked, the violet wreath
| for the picture grew very fast Soon
it was d, le and hung in lovely loop
ings around the brave, noble face
| Then another wreath was woven and
wound around the sword
Tell me again about your soldier,
pleaded Folra, when the decorations
were finished.
There isn't much to tell" said the
lady, "only that he" and she looked at
the picture, couldn't stay at home
when Mr.. Lincoln kept calling for
men. And l told him we would try
to get along without him for little
while. And he kissed me and the chill
dren and went away, and
Never came back. murmured Flo
"a. But, dear Mrs. Hawthorne, L
think you ought to be decorated be-
cause you told him you would get
along without him, AMI encouraged
him, you know"
Then Flora made little knots of the
dear blue blossoms and pinned them
on Mrs. Hawthorne's gown.
BLESS you for a dear, sweet. COM
forting darling" said the soldiers
widow. clasping the child in her arms
and kissing her. you have done me
a world CT good
Marshall County independent., 1899-06-23

them all. in his brilliant record of al
most reckless daring. whom Farragut-
a Tennessee man-truSted as he did his
good right hand, in the fierce naval
combats of 1S62-3-4. Then comes
Phythian Berry, William Nelson, a
naval lieutenant, whom President Lin
coin made major general OF volun-
teers. killed in 1862, and latest Lieuten-
ant Commander Lucien Young, whose
brilliant dash at Santiago is fresh in
the country's memory.
Rear Admiral Watson is a nephew
OF the late Major General Thomas l..
Crittenden. who commanded the Twen-
tieth corps, who died shortly after the
war. Another uncle was General George
Crittenden. who went south in 1861
and commanded a division in the con-
federate army. Watson was appointed
to Annapolis in 1857, in his hfteenth
wear. the age limit for youth then De-
ing IA to 90. In 1861, passed MID
shipman, he was on the Hartford WIN
Farraeut. and there won the friend
courage that was as necessary as II was
daring.
II was a fine April morning in 1862,
when Farragut's fleet ran by Forts
Jackson and st. Philip, on the Missis-
sinni river. ffty-two miles below New
Orleans. The ships of Farragut's fleet
were all of wood, and General Duncan
commanding the forts. with his second,
Colonel Higgins, thought the Lord had
delivered Farragut and his fleet into
their hands, as they beheld it coming
I'm formed in two lines. the Hartford
being easily distinguished as the hag-
shin by its broad blue adnirals pen
nant. The forts were admirably ar
ranged for effective gunnery. having a
barbette battery of sixty-fourS anu
ouick guns that swept the river for
miles. Had not Farragut directed his
fleet TO run in shore and under the gun
| fire not ship would ever have got
away. The forts are situated on the
| two banks of the river, and about a
mile and a half below each other AS
the Hartford passed Fort ST. Philip a
shower of grape from one Oh the Dig
guns tore the foremast into match
| wood. and seriously disabled the sail
power Of the ship.
1t was necessary to take in some sail
and set others, but the blocks hau
| jammed and the Hartford was in dan
ger of swinging about and runnin G
aground. The fire Of grape aloft was
and clear blocks and tackle on main
yard" was not obeyed with that
promptness that follows an order given
by the commander of a man-of-war
But the hesitance was momentary
Come on. you sons OF seacooks,
Marshall County independent., 1899-06-23
Asked Too Much.

Some time ago the faculty OF theo-
logical seminary received a request for
a minister, from a little Western par
ish. The salary offered was so meager
and the virtues demanded were 50
many, that the heads OF the theological
professors shook with perplexity.
One Of them suggested writing that
the only man they had ever known
who might have filed the requirements
Of the parish was a late lamented
clergyman who had accustomed him
self TO living almost entirely upon
spiritual food in one poor, stony par
ish-but this suggestion was discarded
At last the most energetic member OF
the faculty composed a letter which
he was deputized to copy and send on.
He wrote as follows:
While we full understand that the
lack of money in parish does not
lessen its desire to have fine preacher
and devoted pastor, We are compelled
to say that we know of no man who
can fill your requirements. Were we
living in the days of the Apostle Paul,
he would doubtless have preached for
you-but ask you to bear in mind
that. be could have resOrted TO sail
making on week days in case OF neces-
Sity."
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Ito Slow Progress.

They tell of ali absent-minded pro-
fessor in a college town who Is so
wrapped up in his studies as to pay
little attention TO what is going on
about him.
Meeting a friend one day on the
street, he said to him:
This deplorable war with Spain is
dragging along interminably, Is il
not?"
War with Spain!" replied the
other. why. professor. you surely
know it ended months ago?"
"Is it possible? / had not heard
of it,
Where in the world did you get the
impression that the war was still in
progress"
From the magazines" rejoined the
professor. relapsing into his customary
absent -mindedness.
Marshall County independent., 1899-06-23
! DICK RODNEY;
/ Or. The Adventures Of
) An Eton Boy.
J BY JAMES GRANT.

RY JAMES GRANT.

against a stone and grunting hoarsely.
Excited and bewildered, as he came
on at a quick run, ! charged my weap-
on full at him, and by the mercy of
Providence. the point entered one of
his fierce. glittering eyes, which made
him rear UP and recoil. while in his
rage and pain the bristles on his ridgy
back rose up like little blades of steel.
Into his throat with your speart
cried Hislop; but l anticipated the sug-
gestiOn, for ere the words had left his
lips | had buried-thrusting deep with
all the force that excitement and ter
ror gave me-tbe pointed teakwood
shaft down his red and gaping throat.
Choking in blood, in foam and fury,
the great boar writhed upon his back.
and in doing so twitched from my
hands the weapon. which still remained
wedged in his throat and tongue, and
rendered him almost powerless. |
knew not what 10 do now. for if he
snapped it through, and thus released
himself We, or at least |, would be
lost.
But as he lay there on his back and
sides alternately. snorting. roaring and
covering the grass with bloody frOth,
and tearing it by his bristles. H;slOp
sprang forward and though weak with
many half-healed wounds, drove a
clasp-knife repeatedly into the throat
and stomach OF the monster, which
soon lay still enough.
When 1t was quite dead | drew out
my teakwoOd spear, and found the
point almost uninjured, for | had hard
ened it in fire.
We thrust two crooked branches
through the tendons of the boar's hind
legs. and by these drew it to our hut.
which was about half a mile distant;
there oUr prize caused great congratu-
lation among our crew, and | obtained
no little praise for performing so hardy
y feat
Our ret ;rn diverted for a time some
excitement and surprise which had
been caused by the return of Tom
LambOurne. PrObart and Carlton from
the mountain top, with tidings that
the studdiEg sail boom had vanished
and that not a trace OF it was to be
found anyW here,
Marshall County independent., 1899-06-23

making an exploration OF II. or rather
in walking all around it.
The circumference of the largest isle
is only four leagues, but its shores are
SO steep and rocky in some places that
traversing them proved a most ardu-
Gus task.
On the eastern side we found a great
cascade pouring from brow of rock
upon the beach The latter was COW
cred almost everywhere by a broad
leaved seaweed. the dark and Shiny
tendrils of which were several yards
in length and were termed by Hislop
''the gigantic fucus."
So day after day passed. and amid
our various means of procuring food.
We never failed to keep keen lookout
TO seaward for a passing sail: but
none came near that lonely is let If the
southern sea.
One morning | found there had
drifted ashore near our hut a mass OF
that mysterious substance, the origin
of which has puzzled so many natural
ists-ambergris. 1t must have weigh
ed more than a hundred pounds. and
when we threw some of it into the fire
it melted and diffused around a most
agreeable perfume This marine pro-
ductiOn, which is only to be found in
the seas or on the shores of Africa
and Brazil, is alleged by some to be a
concretiOn formed in the stomach OF
the spermaceti whale.
On the fifteenth morning after our
landing seaman named Henry War
rem, who went to milk our goats.
which had been tethered to a large
tree near the hut. returned in haste
to announce that the ropes which had
secured them were cut, apparently by
sharp instrument-cut clean through
and that the goats, the capture Oh
which had cost us so much labor, were
gone
Cut? By whom" asked every one.
Before we had time to consider this,
HislOp came out of the hut. and stated
;hat one of our three bread bags had
also been cut open, by slash from a
knife. apparently. and that several
pounds OF biscuits had been abstracted
The strange alarm. and what was
worse. the doubt OF each other. which
these discoveries excited, were painful
and bewi!dering
We examined the place where the
goats had heen tethered. but could dis
cover no traces of feet, and nothing
remained but the ends of the ropes
(the long boat sheets and halliards)
tied to the stem of tree.
Ito be continued
Marshall County independent., 1899-06-23
Miss Wick's SnOwbalI-B Bush.

Miss Wick had a snOwball-bush
whose bio. 5oms always came to the
point Of perfection upon Memorial day.
From early morning until twilight,
when the snowballs were in bloom,
year after year, Miss Wick had been
bothered with a train Of children walk
ing up her front path and asking for
the flowers. She had usually given
them because she thought she ought,
but it had been sparingly and not too
willingly. for that SNOWFALL bush in
bloom was the apple Of her eye. This
wear. however, she decided not to dis
tribute her flowers. So she painted a
board and hung it on her front gate
post:
mo snowballs to spare"
Then she settled down to undis-
turbed possession.
The morning Of Memorial day passed
by. the afternoon set in, and Miss
Wick began to feel restless for some
one to ask her for a SNOWFALL. Ii was
then that Bobby Sweet poked his rosy
face in at her front door and said:
Miss Wick, we've only got dandelions
and yiolets for Uncle Gordon's grave,
cause you can't spare us any snow
balls. but we've got a lot. Don't you
want to come out and see them?"
Miss Wick looked at him sharply,
but there was no guile in his good,
sunny little face. Uncle Gordon was
an old soldier who had died in the
village during the winter, beloved Of
every child in it, Miss Wick came out
to the gate and looked at the sorry
collection Of dropping wild flowers the
loving, childish hands had gathered.
"The sod on Uncle G0rdOn's grave
hasn't had time to sprout any flowers,
so these will do this year" said Willie
Lee simply. He looked from the sign
to Miss Wick, supposing, since she
had no snowballs to spare them, she
had other. better uses for them
"They won't do said Miss Wick.
with a lump in her throat. There
nv snowball-bush. Come in. all of
YOU. and pick big punches for Uncle
| Gordon. I'll put on my bonnet and
| go up with you myself"
Gently. although quickly. the chill
dren picked every blossom, for they
appreciated the kindness that allowed
them all that beauty, and showed II
by not marring the bush whose SNOWY