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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-21

| -Piatt gave twelve bases on balls and
| struck out six men and Lundgren passed
| SIX and struck out four. a total of eighteen
| cases on balls and ten strike-outs in one OF
the Chicaso-Eosto games.
l Bradley of the Clevelands is about as
| able proposition at third base as ever has
! happened along here. McGraw considers
! nm 10 per cent better than any other third
| basenlan-New York Sun. Forty per cent
! better than Collins. Leach, Lave Cross,
/ Coughlin. eh!-Boston Herald.
| Mike Lynch. the Browns College pitcher,
| absolutely refused 10 play professional ball
| until MS college term expires, year from
this time. He has offers from about every
club in the two big leagues, one from the
| New York American Club being a blank in
! strument allowing him to name his own
! terms.
One feature of the outfeld work of the
Omaha team thus far is that already there
| have been more opposing runners thrown
| out at the plate than were during the two
seasons prior put together. 1t has got to
! be that the man who steals base or runs
In on fly against the Omaha team earns
all he gets.-Omaha Bee.
concord has sold her hard hitting right
fielder, John Titus, to the Philadelphia Ma
tional League Club. Titus is young in pro-
fessional ball. He halls from St. Clair Pa.
and last season played in Pittsviile,. hit
ting SO well as to attract general attention.
He Is about q years of age, weighs about
160 pounds. and stands . feet 10 inches. He
is a left-handed batsman and thrower.
Dad Clark, Eccentric Dad is out
West and cannot get home. He was seat a
ticket several years ago by one Of the man
ayers Of a team in the Pacific Coast League.
Dad didn't make good, and they shipped
him, and he has been trying ever since to
get back to Oswego without walking, and
has made a miserable failure Of the at
tempt.
"A friend of mine from st. Louis took a
fancy to a building lot not far from the
American League Park here" said Jack
O'Connor. He figured it would cost about
$1,000, but got a New York draft for sl5,-
90 and went to see the real estate man.
Yes said the man OF dirt. the lot is for
sale How much?' asked my friend.
Well said the real estate chap. ff you
will pay spot cash you can have it for $780,
O99 Ny friend didn't buy the lot."-Ex-
change.
The most Industrious bat hunter on the
Cleveland team is Flick. He picks up two
or three new ones in every city he visits.
And they don't cost the club cent ne
said. That. 1 should think, would indicate
my desire to get up among the .SI5 per
cent hitters. 1 am meeting the ball better
than 1 did last year and am having better
luck, too Out of the dozen sticks I am
now carrying around I expect to get three
or four ckajacks''-Cleveland Press.
There is absolutely no dissension in the
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-21

| National league and the American Associa-
! ton, and this same condition would now be
! established between the National and Amer
1 lean leagues
| Speaking of the consolidation recently
| John T. Brush. the National League mag
| nate. said:
No, and what il more Ban johnson and
! Garry Hermann -cSnnot frame up anything
for me. 1t was not SO long ago that Ban
. johnson and American League boomers in
general threw up both hands whenever a
twelve-club league was even limited at
What has caused this sudden change of
front? There must be some reason for
Johnson's new scheme. and possibly it can
be found right in his own organization. The
National League Is all right-never was
more prosperous-so why should it look for
consolidation?
MIR. Hermann is large-hearted. good
natured gentleman, but he has not been in
baseball long enough to fully understand it
With a liberality that was touching last
winter he presented Sam Crawford to the
Detroit Club IN the interest of peace and
good will. Mr.. Hermann has put the Gin
cinnati club in deep and big hole by his
kindness. If the Cincinnati club had Craw-
feeders in the country and still have Kelley
on first base.
/. That shows how far Mr.. Hermann looks
ahead in baseball. Again, Mr.. Hermann
! formulated a schedule last winter that
called for an Interchange of games between
the National and American Leagues during
the championship season. This looked very
nice TO him on paper, but 1t was not FEAST
. BILE 1t could not be done with any degree
of reason: still. il was an olive branch
swish. and Garry got lots of credit for it
until he was rudely awakened by reason
able facts.
i Now. Mr.. Hermann may have some rosy
! idea OF his own. possibly painted by Ban
johnson. about a twelve-club league. but
| he is only dreaming again"
When asked if there would be way to
stop the consolidation If attempted here
Brush said quickly:
| We'll, think there could be way found
| to prevent 1t"
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-21

renee. Mass. and the league finally dis
banded because il failed to pay, but Sslee
finished the SEASON at Lawrence. keeping
the team as an independent organization.
During the seasons of 1855 and 1856 Se!ee
was with the club at HaverhiIl. Mass. in
the Massachusetts, League. Selee acting as
the present Secretary of the Navy, was
president.
SFLEE IN WEST.
The summer of 1887 found Seize In the
West at Oshkosh. Wis. where he won his
first pennant. 1t is peculiar coincidence
that this year Selee won the championship
Of the then Western League by a margin OF
but one or two games in tight finish with
the Milwaukee club OF which James A
Hart was president.
The next year there was no club at Osh-
kosh. and Selee went to Omaha. his team
finishing fifth in the Western League race
but in 1889. still in the same league. Selee
led Omaha to a championship. and thereby
gained his second minor league pennant by
a wide margin. Selee's work had already
won recognition in the big league. and
during this year he acted as agent of the
Boston club OF the National League in sign
ing players for the Hub.
The following year. 1890. Selee entered the
ranks OF major league managers, becoming
manager of the Boston team. Again he
crossed the baseball path of James 4. Hart
succeeding the present Chicago National
League president as manager at Boston.
Harris Boston team had finished second In
1889. and in 1890 Selee landed his new
charges in fifth place.
HAS GOOD PLAYERS
Among the players whom Selee had on
his team. however, were Lowe. now cap
tain Of the cubs: Herman Long. kid
Nichols and others, all recruited from the
Western League, and in 1891 began Selees
long list of championships. the Boston club
winning the pennant in the National
League.
Then in 1892 came another pennant under
the "two-series plan," Boston winning the
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-21

National League and the American Associa-
ton, and this same condition would now be
established between the National and Amer
lean leagues"
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-24

sire to return to the oppression and grind
ing poverty OF the old world. A dispassion-
ate study of their history in Europe reveals
nothing to their disadvantage. In addition
their normal standard is a very high one.
They are a simple, right-liying people, in
tensely religious and mindful OF family
ties. They are g~uileless compared with the
Hebrew, Italian or Levantine races, and
before the board of special inquiry they
usually toll the plain truth.
The demand for rough unskilled laborers
has steadily increased with our wonderful
Industrial growth. 1t is generally admitted
that this demand cannot be supplied by ma
tive American applicants. OF all foreign
laborers none is better qualified for this
work than the Slavs. Eighty-five per cent
of the male Slavs are unskilled laborers,
and nearly IS per cent come to this coun-
try between the ages of Is and As, when
their economic value is greatest.
These people do not crowd the tenements
of our large cities. but tend to establish
themselves in little homes of their own
in the country or i'm tie suburbs of manu-
featuring towns and cities.
The Slav is popularity supposed to be men,
tally slow and without energy or ambition.
This is not entirely true. In comparison
with the Hebrews who transact nearly all
biG buSiitSS III IOidDu dHu Odllcid, inc
Poles lin business acumen) seem as chill
dren. The Slovak appears mentally slow
compared with the alert Magyar, but it
must be emembered that the Hebrew in
business makes other races than the Slav
seem slow, and that. while almost all Mag
vars can read and write. one third of tho
Slovaks are illiterate. This seeming men
tai deficiency and absence of ambition in
the Slav Is due mainly to lack of education
and to centuries of subsection to tyran-
meal masters. 1t is hard to conceive how
a peasant in Russia under existing condi-
tons could develop such a quality as am
bition. and judgment as to the Slav's en-
ergy and his intellectual possibilities must
be suspended until his children in this
country have had a chance to show that
American schools and American environ
ment can quicken the slow apathy of the
serf into the energetic activity of the freed
man.
The Slavic immigrant fills a place in the
industrial fields of this country in which
he hears no call for such attributes as am
bition, energy and mental b~rilliancy, a place
which no American envies him. and where
he is as necessary to American advance
ment az the coal and iron that by his labor
are mined and made ready for an Ameri-
can mechanic and manufacturer.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-24
RauO to

The Croatians and Slovenes occupy the
two large provinces to the south OF Hun
gary. Croatia and S~lavonia, that lie be-
tween the brave and Danube rivers on the
north and the Save river and the Bosnian
boundary line on the south, A large num-
Der Of the same race also come to America
from the adjoining provinces Of CarniOla.
CarinthIa, Syria. Istria and Dalmatia-
Croatia and Slavcnia formed part of an
cicnt Pannonia. TIL Slavs took possession
about the seventh century after Ostrogoth
and Hun had come and gone. They recog-
nized the authority Of the emperors of the
east until 1875. When their leader. ZwOnimir
Demetrius. threw of the Byzantine yoke
and received the title OF king from Pope
Gregory VII at Rome. The country was
subdued by the Turks Q52O and. from the
time of their expulsion SONS years later.
has been considered a part of the kingdom
OF Hungary. The CrOats took sides against
the MaEyars in the revolt of 1873, and
Austria rewarded them by making them
independent of Hungary. but in 1850 Aus
tria's attitude changed. and to conciliate
the Magyars Il restored them to Hungary.
They are not content. Their national feel
ing Is intense. and. though loyal to the
house OF Hapsburg. they desire complete
autonomy. with the emperor of Austria as
their king. they detest their Magyar ruI-
ers. and there exists as a consequence a
constant clashing OF Magyar and Slav
throughout the provinces. This race OF
southern Slavs presents some peculiarities
when compared with the recognized Slav
type. They are dark-eyed and swarthy-
skinned Every different in complexion from
the northern Siavsl. Their heads are
braehycephRlie, not so much from great
width as from a very short anterO-pOs-
terror diameter. This popularity Is strik-
ing II the subject be inspected In profile.
The line OF contour from the vertex of the
skull to the root OF the neck Is almost per-
pendicular. Compared with the average
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-24
Sitting for Photograph

Don't wait until the afternoon II you are
going to get the best results from a photo
graph. Go early in the day, Don't exreot
to get a photograph that will please you IL
you are fatigued when sitting.
Don't hurry. Haste maxi the face red,
and red comes out dark in a picture. a
result not desirable where complexion is
concerned.
Don't get out of temper. a condition
which brings lines to the face and spoils
the expression.
Don't choose a day when the sunshine
is too bright, or every imperfection will he
mere strongly developed. A well lighted.
cloudy day is best.
Don't wear dead white. Cream white is
prettier and more effective; indeed, the
best color for a dress.
Don't wear black. 1t gives a hard. dense
tone.
Don't wear tan or yellow, or lavender.
They take badly. Gray takes white, and
sky blue generally comes out white.
Don't wear silk or satin. Nothing comes
out so badly as the giimmer of silk or gloss
of satin. Woolens. crepes or velvets are
preferable.
Don't be afraid of wearing lace. The line
between flesh and dress should be soft
ened by IL.
Don't wear diamonds or rubies. Jewels
are best left at home, though pearls may
be worn.
Don't wear screw earrings. They will
look like Jumps, or protuberances-
Don't indulge In any elaborate hairdress-
ing. One can hardly dress the hair too
loosely for a picture.
Don't arrange the hair in fiat style II
your face is round and like the full moon
in all it's glory. The FUZZY or pompadour
effect is better.
Don't take a full face picture II the
nose is crooked or the eyes weak. Try a
three-quarters view.
Don't hide the eyes, II they are fine. Take
a fun face view.
Don't try a profile IL the chin is retreat
ing. the nose a pug and the lips too full.
A sidewise turn of the head may transform
these defects almost into charms.
Don't be afraid OF using a bit of powder
TO cover an obnoxious mole.
Don't cover up graceful curves Of neck
and shoulders with drapery.
Don't smile unless II comes naturally. or
the RESULT will be heartrendIng.
Don't flop into a chair With the arms
In any position and call that NATURAL posing.
Pose must mean something. Sitting erect,
with the head slightly dropping, gives an
expression of contemplation. II the oyes
are raised an expression Of interest is the
result
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-24

AZ SAtNShuent ina nearly All RUSSIAN
immigrants in America come from Austria
may seem strange. but it is true. Last
year $50 Russians came from Austria and
only 1855 Russians from Russia.
The Russian Slavs are divided by philol-
ogists into three divisions-Great Russians,
White Russians and Little Russians. The
Great Russians occupy a large u-uadranEular
area in Russia consisting of the central
governments. from Novgorod and Vologda
on the rOrth to Kiev on the south: from
Pensa and Simbirsk on the east to
the Polish provinces on the west. The
White Russians number less than 4OOo. OO
and occupy some of the western govern
ments adjoining Poland. Great Russians
and White Russians do not emigrate. The
Little Russians occupy the great fertile.
treeless plain. the black mold belt in south
ern Russia. which extends from Kiey to
the Black Sea. They also people the two
Austrian provinces of BukOwina and Ga
hcia- 1t Is said that a line drawn east
ward on the map from Cracow in Galicia
through Kiev in Russia will divide the Lit
tie Russians from the Great Russians. The
Little Russians occupying Galicia and
Bukowina. Austria. are known as Ruthen-
ians. They are also called Russniaks and
Red Russians. Nearly all our Russian i'm
migrants come from these two Austrian
provinces. TIL Ruthenians are typjcal
StaVs- They have a rugged, sturdy
physique. and the men are almost all nm
skilled labOrers. They were distributed in
America as follows. during the year ended
June 20. 1909:
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-24
The Influx of SlavOnic Immigrants

poor to buy any Of the land thus placed in
the market.
But the concliiatory policy of Car Alex
ander ii Is not favored by the present ruler.
His efforts at classification are aggressive
and persistent. 1t is to America that the
Pole looks as the only land likely to give
him a chance. The Polish immigrants
possess the general characteristics of the
Slays. They are of medium height OF very
slightly below IL, very strongly built, with
the broad face and brachycephalic head of
the Slav type. Their complexion shows all
~gradatiOns from the blue eyes and light
hair in the Slavs of the north to the pro-
nounced brunette type of the southern
Poles. Five-sixths of the male Polish i'm
migrants are unskilled laborers. They are
very willing to work and are especially
useful In the mines. mills. manufacturing
concerns and great works of construction.
The geographical distribution of Poles
arrived in America during the year ended
June 30, 1902. is shown below:
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-24

Pole or Russian, who is not above medium
height. they are very tall. Their stature is
remarkable not only because IL is so unlike
that Of the typical Slavs, but also because
II is an exception to the general rule that
European races are tall in the north and
short in the south.
The Croats are Of slighter build than
Pole or Slovak. but they have fewer physi-
cal defects than any other Slavic people.
More than s~even-eighths of the males are
unskilled laborers. strong and willing to
work The table given below shows how
they were distributed in the United States
during the year ended June %. 1902:
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-24

There are two Factors that more than
any others tend to preserve the purity of
q race. They are the inaccessibiIity and
tho uninviting nature of the country it in
habits. Thus. races occupying a barren
mountainous country or a country covered
by trackless forest and impossible marsh
land are apt to be of purer racial type
than the races living upon the great natural
highways of commerce and trade OF occu-
plying territory rich enough to be inviting
TO covetOus eyes. These factors have had
much to do with the preservation OF the
purely Slavic type as represented by the
Slovaks. This people occupies the rough
mountainous country on the Hungarian side
of the Carpathlans, we'll back from the
valley of the Danube.
The Slovak is very closely allied racially
TO the Bohemian or Czech. Their lam
guages are similar. the Slovak being the
more primitive and more like the old Slav.
UP to the beginning of the nineteenth CEN
fury, the Slovaks used the Bohemian lam
guage for all printed or written forms, but
about that time a separatist movement
began and an EFFORT was made to develop
a Slovak literature. This movement was
unfortunate for both Czech and Slovak.
because they had to resist the same natural
enemies-aggressiye pangermanism on the
one side. and the ever-intIusive Magyar on
the other.
Physically. the Slovaks are a sturdy stock.
a little taller than the Poles. The great
majority of the men are unskilled laborers.
The following table indicates how the
Siovaks were distributed for the year ended
June 30. 1902: Ratio to
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-24
Ratio TO Total

From within the boundaries of the king
dom- of Behemia and the adjoining province
OF Aoravia come each year several thou
sand immigrants of Slavic blood. There
Is little difference r~aciaIly between
the bohemian and Moravian and
they are usually classed together as
Czechs. Bohemia constitutes the point of
the wedge formed by the advance of the
western division of the Slavic race into
central Europe. For this reason Bohemia
has been the bulwark of Slavic supremacy.
and has acted the part of a buffer In check
Ing the progress of pan-Germanism In the
Slavic states. The German element is
stronger in Bohemia than in any other
Slavic state. and the Bohemian SIavs are
taller and more blond. possibly because of
a strong infusion of Teutonic blood.
The Czechs possessed a native literature
as early as the ninth century. Their coun-
try is well supplied with schools. I'm about
one hale OF which the Czech language is
spoken. They are far better educated than
any other Slavic immigrants.
The valley of the Elbe Is a rich aEricuI-
tural country. and throughout the kingdom
Industry and manufacturing are highly de-
Veloped- For this reason more than 50 per
cent of Czech immigrants are skilled la
borers or mechanics-an unusually high
percentage for Siavs.
The C1echs have a very wide area of
distribution in this country. This is nat
ural for. being skilled in various occupa-
tons. they can find employment anywhere.
They are scattered from New York to Ne
braska and Texas. The following table
shows the destination by states OF the
Czechs arrived last year:
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-24
Ratio to Total

There are certain cardinal requisites in
the makeup of a desirable immigrant. He
must have a good physique. he must be
willing to do rough hard labor. and he
must be a man who intends TO make this
country his permanent home Observations
OF the Slavic immigrants will show that
they have a very rugged physique. that
they are very willing to work at the most
arduOus labor. and that they have no de-
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-24

A"e iot OF the Polish peasant has alvavo
been Unhappy When Poland at the zenith NJ
is power ruled White Russia. RutbenIans
an" Lit~huanians, when its dominion ex-
.eHuoo from the Odor to the Don and from
nc naIuc TO the Black sea. the position
y tue f'oilsh serf was as unenviable as IL
= today. Poland was an ollgarchv IN which
the ruling mobiles and their miserable serfs
mad no o OF sympathy. There was no
Polish middle class TO carry on commerce
and trade, TO serve as a connecting linz
between the two widely separated classes
and trade were In the hands OF
Foreigners. chiefly Jews. The Pacta Con-
venta ubI) or. as II has been called. the
Polish Magma Charta, was In no sense a
charter of the liberties of the people. II
= true that IL cnrtaiied the power of the
king and made him n mere hgurehead, but
II greatly increased the power OF the no
bies and. II anything. added 10 the misery
of the PEASANTS. These conditions made
impossible a universal national feeling, and
paved the way for Poland's downfall.
No doubt Russian treatment OF Polish
landowners and mobiles has been unjust.
even cruel. but Il must be that
the first real freedom the Polish serf ever
enjoyed he received from his Russian mas
terS. Russia abolished serfdom and. after
the Polish insurrection of 1853. the car
sought to concillate the Polish peasant
class by certain agrarian reforms. BY
these measures the peasants settled upon
land and were made owners. the govern
ment compromising the landlord and ex-
acting from the peasant a small sum yearly
until the amount advanced was paid. Fol-
lowing the suppression OF the revolt. whole
sale oondscatiOn placed upOn the market
thousands OF acres OF good farming land.
and In n great measure broke up the large
estates which kept the peasant a sert even
after he was declared free, Unfortunately
for the Polish peasant. he was usually too