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BEFORE THE DAY OF SCIENTIFIC BASEBALL (Memphis Commercial-Appeal.) until the "den" was reached. Some of the players became profcient in ducking, dodging, and side-stepping, and others learned to throw the ball with the accuracy of a rifle bullet. No matter how many players were on a side Time will not turn backward in his each and every one had to be put out. flight, but the mind can travel back to And if the last one made three succesthe days before baseball, or at least sive home runs, he "brought in his to the days before baseball was so well side," and the outfielders, pitcher, and known and before it had become so catcher had to do all their work over sc'entific. There were ball games in again.

'The boy who could "bring in those days in town and country, and his side" was a hero. No victorious the country ball game was an event. general was ever prouder or more There were no clubs--the country boy lauded. Horatius at the bridge was of those days was not gregarious. He small potatoes in comparison.

lIe was I referred flocking by himself and re- the uncrowned king. maining independent. On Sunday There were no foul hits. If a ball the neighborhood boys met touched the paddle ever so lightly it On some well-cropped pasture, and was a tick, and three ticks meant a v. Lether ten or forty, every one was to compulsory: run.

The score was kept take part in the game. Self-appoint- by some one cutting notches in a stick en leaders divided the boys into two and the runs during a afternoon ran companies by alternately picking one. up into the hundreds. If the ball was until the supply was exhausted. Icst in the grass or rolled under a bat, which was no round stick, Scotch thistle, the cry "lost ball" was such as is now used, but a stout pad- raised and the game stopped until it with a blade two inches thick and was found.

four inches wide, with a convenient Only the older country ballplayers hardle dressed onto it was the chosen can remember those days and games. arbiter. One of the leaders spat on They did not last long. When the one side of this bat, which was hon- change came it came suddenly. Techestly called "the paddle," and asked nicalities and rules began to creep i in.

the leader of the opposition forces. Tricks between the pitcher and the "Wet or dry?" The paddle was then catcher designed to fool the batter besent whirling up in the air, and whea gan. The argot or slang of the (game it came down whichever side won went irtruded. The country boys who went to the bat, while the others scattered to college found more than' their new orer the field. homespun suits of which they were so The ball was not what would be proud on leaving home out of date.

called a "National League ball" now- The ball game was all changed. They adays, but it served every purpose. It bad to use a round club instead of a was usually made on the spot by some paddle to hit the ball. They had to boy offering up his woolen socks as an change their tactics all through oblation, and these were raveled game. They found the pitcher not inand wound round a bullet, a sand- tent on throwing a ball that could be ful of strips cut from a rubber hit, but so that it would be hit at and overshoe, or a piece of cork or noth- missed.

The bases were laid off with irg when anything was not available. mathematical accuracy. They coula The winding of this ball was an art, be put out in so many unknown and and whoever could excel in this art was surprising ways. They could not throw looked upon as a superior being. The a ball at a base runner.

They could ball must a perfect sphere, and the not wander at will over the field, but threads as regularly laid as the wire must occupy a certain position. All on the helix of a magnetic armature. was changed. When the winding was complete the All has been changing since. The surface of the ball was thoroughly expert of even twenty years agc would sewed with a large needle and thread he lost today.

The "game of ball" has to prevent it from unwinding when a teen growing more scientific. and thread was cut. when the elements of sport and specuThe diamond was not arbitrarily lation are eliminated, it will diminish marked off as now. Sometimes there ini public favor--die, perhaps. The were four bases, and sometimes six or change is not only rapid, but universeven.

They were not equidistant, but sal. The homcspun-clad boys who re. were marked by fortuitous rock or turned home on vacation expecting to shrub, or depression in the ground "show off" and teach their former where the steers were wont to bellow companions the game of ball up-toand paw up the earth One of these had date, discovered that the inacvation tellural cavities was almost sure to be preceded them, and that those selected as "the den," now called the who had not left the old haunts knew home plate. all about the game, excepting the very There were 11J masks, or mitts. or newest wrinkles.

And they knew protectors. There was no science or something which the college bovs had chicanery, now culled "head work." not learned. The strapping young oafs, embryonic preachers, presidents and premiers, ere too honest for this The pitcher was the one who throw ball oper the door, and few could do this. His object was to throw a ball that cculd be hit. The paddleman's object was to hit the ball, and if he struck at -which he need not do unless he chose--and missed it, the catcher.

standing well back, tried to catch it after it had lost its momentum by striking the earth orice and bounding in the the first bounce" it was called-and if he succeeded, the paddleman was dead and another took his place. If he struck it. and it was not caught in the field or elsewhere, in the air or "On the bounce," he could strike twice more. but the third time he was compelled to' run. There was no umpire and very little wrangling.

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Dewitt te Co. Chicago 065 05 (Manchester Union.) AS TO CANADA. It is only in recent years that people of the United States bave gun to realize the possibilities of country to the northward. There still a generally prevalent notion the United Statcs is all there is of North American continent, but men, both in Canada and the United States know better--that is. statesmen, and not mere politicians.

So it is slowly, very slowly, coming to be. understood that the United States made a great mistake, back in the sixties of the last century. in not continuing the reciprocity relations with Canada which had isted up to that time. Since Canada has been drifting farther farther away from any thought closer political affiliations with United States. If Canada should cide to cut loose from the empire Great Britain, today, or in the future, would not be to become a part the United States, but to become free and independent country, alongside which the United States must live, either at peace or war.

Hence there is good sound sense in the Springfield Republican: "In a proper sense, there are what may called 'political' reasons why American should desire a greater timacy with our northern neighbor. They do not in the least involve nexation, but they do involve the deviating maintenance of friendship and good will. The growth of Canada population and piwer in the twentieth century is a fact statesmen on both sides of thte frontier can accept as already assured. It Is not impossible, to speak frankly, that the United States will in time view with some jealousy that growth, especially Canada is able to assert a position inconsistent with the claim of the United States. now dear to all that school of which President Roosevelt today is the foremost exponent, to be paramount power in this hemisphere.

It is not statesmanlike to forestall the possible dangers of such time by making these adjoining countries so intimate in their common reiations that the bonds of trade. of family connections and of selfish interest, if you will, would render any serious clash impossible? The United States and Canada hold the peace of continent, in the coming centuin trust; the more you can identheir economic interests, the more can make the prosperity and the happiness of the one dependent upon other, the more you render North America immune from costly strife even war. Viewed in this light the 'political' aspects of the reciprocity question ought to gain the enthusiastic endorsement of the thouof Canadians who have found in the United States and have become American citizens. The States and Canada must live by side so long as the earth is inhabitable, and there are duties into neighborliness which are as sacred as those inherent to membership in the British Empire. End of Bitter Fight.

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cod the bethe is that the states- rear away trade exthen and of the deof of a very be an in- anun- a it on the lot is tite or safer in W. habit views selves THE SODA FOUNTAIN. The lowa W. C. T.

U. Finds Fault With Its Product. (Clinton Age.) Some associations formed to reconstruct the world are kept busy searching for things that require reforming. The W. C.

T. U. has no doubt in its own estimation accomplished wonders. No doubt it has done much good. We would not throw a feather in its path.

But just now a great many people are laughing at its efforts to reform the wicked soda fountain. The Times pays attention to this Dubnque latest re. formatory movement: "The W. C. T.

U. for the Sixth dis. trtict of lowa in convention ar Oskaloosa the past week not only condemned the tune horvl at ali social functions as a part cf its opposition 'to the liquor traffic as carried 011 in the soda fountains of this It proposed to fur. nish each of the thirty unions in the district a list of the places drinks and resolved, 'That dispensing as these drinks consist largely of form of alcohol, and are indiscriminately sold, the members of this vention show their disapproval by fusing their patronage, and using influence with their friends to prevent trading at establishments where so-called fancy drinks are sold these in open violation of "The ladies are reasonable have if they evidence that the soda water dealers of the Sixth district dispense intoxicating beverages to their rons, but it appears from the report their proceedings that no such dence was produced and that their tion was based on fanciful and sentimental grounds. In Dunham an interview Mrs.

of Burlington, state president, went so far as to declare present day soda fountain the 'more harmful in its effect on womanhood and the youths of the land than the lowest loon in She charged that the women and children received the soda fountains 'the same drinks that the toper had doled out over the bar of a Mrs. Ida B. Wise Muscatine Valley, district president, condemned the habit of dropping into confectionery or drug store for drink when down town. She thought led to strong drink and her scruples the matter were such that she had long 'refused to eat ice cream at soda fountain Various other WOmen expressed themselves to the same effect. There was objection, too, because some of the drinks dispensed at soda fountains bore wicked names, such as Manhattan flip and Turkish cocktail.

"Either the soda water dealers of the Sixth district are an especially vicious or the W. C. T. U. has been betrayed into a very absurd position.

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Gen. Miles will proceed to his The travel enjoined is necessary for the public service." That is to say, an allowance for mileage on the journey homeward from the seat of government sums up the whole recognition that, in Mr. Roosevelt's opinion. Gen. Miles' career deserves.

The record itself need not be told at length: it is familiar to all as one of the most notable in our military history. Nelson A. Miles fought through the most stupendous war known to history. entering the service as a captain and leaving it as a major general: was wounded and commended at the battle of Fair Oaks: commended in the seren days' battles: wounded and commended at Fredericksburg: again wounded and commended at Chancellorsville: actively engaged at Gettysburg; then in the Mine Run campaign; in the terrible campaign of the Wilderness; In the Richmond campalgu. and in the decisire campaign that closed at Appomattox.

Of his services against the Indians. which began in 1870. and did not end until there ceased to be an Indian question. it is superfluous to speak. because they are fresh in memory.

When General Schofield was retired eight years ago the announcement of the war department contained very handsome expressions of praise and appreciation. Similar tokens of recognition have later fallen to Gen. Otis. Gen. Merritt.

and. as might hare been expected as ineritable, "The war department. by direction of the president. thanks General Wood and the officials. ciril and military.

serving under him. upon the completion of a work so difficult. so important and so well done." It is silly. therefore. to plead that a suitable exprossion would bare horn contrary to custom.

Just the royorso is true. as. of course, the president is Tell aware. The snuh, as we haro said, is proved to have hoen deliber. ate.

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