Evening Star Newspaper, March 3, 1894, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1894—-TWENTY PAGES. 13 INDIAN TROOPERS. Favorable Testimony by an Expert Witness. LIEUT. J. C. BYRONS EXPERIENCE How the Minneconjou Warriors Were Trained. THEY WOULD BE —————___ LOYAL Oo YoU THINK that the Indian will make a good soldier for the regular army?” asked a Star reporter of Lieut J. Cc. Byron of the sec- ond cavalry. “I most empnati- eally do,” he replied. Lieut. Byron Is in a position to give a practical opinion up- on the matter, for he has had severai years’ experience with the Indians, and for nearly three years has com- manded a troop of United States cavalry composed entirely of Indians at Fort Meade, S. D. His Indians were of the Sioux nation, taken from the Cheyenne riv- ‘r agency, and his recruits when enlisted were long-haired, blanket-attited savages, without a knowledge of the English lan- guage. Now they are well-trained soldiers, understand the orders given them in En- slish and many of them can read and write. Continuing his conversation about his troop, Lieut. Byron said: “The idea of the War Department in en- listing the Indians was two-fold. The first object was to give the Indians a means cf employment, to care for, feed and educate @ small number of them, with the expecta- tion that the example they would offer to the reservation Indians would be good; that @ number of them having been kept under discipline for three or five years would, on their return, be prepared for citi- gzenship, would take up their lands in sev- eralty, settle down and become self-sup- porting. The second idea was that it might be an advantage to the army itself to have troops that were accustomed to the habits of the reservation Indians, troops that could stand hunger and hardship and who were, by their nature, fitted for the irregu- lar mode of fighting that has to be prac- ticed with Indians. “I do not think any one had the idea that these Indians would make better troops than white ones, nor do I believe that any one now thinks, after an experience of three years, that they are better or as good. It seems unfortunate that the idea of com- parison should have been brought into the question. It should not be a question whether they make better or as good sol- diers as white men, but it should be ‘can you make soldiers out of them who will be of use to the army in case of Indian hostil- ity, and does having them in the service benefit them and assist the government in its efforts to civilize and make citizens out of them” If both of these questions can be answered in the affirmative I think it is fair to say that the experiment has prov- ed a success. White Buffalo Man. “I know nothing of cther troops in the army except troop L, third cavalry, at Fort Meade, S. D. These are Sioux Indians taken from Cheyenne river agency, once the home of Big Foot. In fact, many of the men in the troop were in the Pine Ridge outbreak of several years ago. They have been in the service nearly three years and have lived in the garrison with troops of the regular cavairy. it was thought best to jt them in barracks, and require every Baty of them that was required of white sokliers. Their hair was cut, they were azequired to bathe, to dress in proper uni- form, to eat, sleep and work like white | ‘our or five of them spoke English, the rest Cid not understand it. In order to drill with the regiment the commands had to be given in English, and a school was started to teach these commands by use of blackboard. They learned very quickly ej it was but a short time before they fad mastered the commands and the two trumpeters could sound all of the calls. | Now at regimental! drill or parade a spec- tator can hardly gle out the Indian troop from the rest. “One day on hearing the Indian troop complimented an officer remarked: ‘Well, they ought to be wel! drilled, they are vet- erans, they have been in the service two years.’ It struck me at the time that if ore officer could discipline fifty-five In- @ians, and in two years give occasion for that remark. the work was not ali lost. | “Today this troop has Indian non-com- ed officers, clerk, blacksmith, sad- dler, farrier, and is entirely independent of all white assistance. In some respects Perhaps the duty is not as well performed | as in the white troops. in other respects the discipline is better. the white troops should not be regarded as a standard of comparison, for to say that one can take g@avages ard in three years bring them to the state of efficiency that the white troops have been years in acquiring would be but @ poor commentary on white intelligence. Sergt. Black Bear. For field service in the cavalry the Indian fs a very effective soldier. He takes good care of himself, kis arms and horse, he an stand cold 2nd heat and get aloug with less in the way of rations and camp equi- pase than any soldiers I have ever seen. “In the post the men have the run of the town and have the same facilities for ob- taining liquor as the other soldiers. At frst this was a very serious thing. Yet, if the Indian ix ever to become a citizen, as we all hope he may, at that time he will have the right to procure these thinzs and he may as well be broken into it gradually. The men began to find out that there was @ limit to their capacity, and by punishing @runkenness I found that aft there was no more drunkennes them than among the rest. On a res>rva- tion, you know, it is a penitentia’ to supply an Indian with whisky, r fou ther could get all they ‘y med all outer recreation fa order to make up for lost time im this nd ent any way, and v: the Sioux the treaty of 1868 provides tha t j Bull. and is something of a fighte: sor, rations shall be issued to them until they are self-supporting. I doubt if we could get many white recruits under such cir- cumstances, for the provision of the treaty acts as an inducement for the Indian not to be self-supporting. An Indian is no fool. The government says to him: ‘Here, you go on and learn to work and support yourself, and when you are self-supporting we will not help you any more, you must then look out for yourself, but until you do, we will take care of you.’ Let the ‘Great Father’ try that plan on the unem- ployed now and watch the beautiful re- sult. I have 2,000 Indians from which to enlist 55 men from, and they must fulfill the requirements as to age, health, etc., that are exacted in the case of white troops. Considering the fact that there is no necessity for the Indian to enlist, the difficulty in getting them may be appreci- ated. Big Boy. “I have always found the best way to get them to enlist was to go to the reserva- tion and give a dance, a sort of informal affair, at which I was expected to pro- vide the beef, hardbread and coffee, and each guest brought his own tin cup and knife. After awhile, when their hearts be- came good, we smoked ‘my tobacco and talked recruiting. It sometimes takes sev- eral days to get a man, and this kind of recruiting is expensive. The difficulty in obtaining recruits is the great difficulty I see in the experiment of making soldiers of the Indians. The Indians in the troop see that it is hard to get others to come in, so they become imbued with the idea that their position is not as desirable a one as it might be, while if every one wanted their job they would probably appreciate it more. “With regard to my troop there is no dif- ference between them and the white gol- diers as to duty. At guard mounting it is a common thing for an Indian to be accept- ed as the commanding officer’s orderly. You know that is given to the cleanest and best equipped soldier each day, and as this soldier does not have to do any fatigue duty the next day the position is much sought after by the white troops. Most of my men now understand English, for I have had a school five months in the year, and many of them have been taught to read and to write.” Hard-to-Kill. ‘In case of a fight with hostile Indians do you think your troops would be likely to desert to their friends and use their newly acquired proficiency against the govern- ment?” Lieut. Byron was asked. “I do not,” he replied, “I think they would remain loyal. Of course we would not use these men against their own sub-tribe, but would put them against some other tribe. However, they might be used against their own people. A year or so ago four white men were murdered by some Sioux, and I was ordered to go into the reservation and arrest the murderers. I went into the room where my Indians were eating supper, told them what we were to do, and ordered them to get ready. They went to work with alacrity, and were all ready to march right into their home reservation, and after their own people, when we received word that our services would not be required. The Indian police had gone after the murderers and had killed every one of them. “There are about ninety men in the In- dian police on the reservation, and they have no compunction about going for ‘heir own people. If the agent sends them cut into the reservation to bring in a bad In- | dian they always bring him. Sometimes the bad Indian is dead, but he is brought in. The Indian police will shoot their own brothers if necessary, and they recognize no family or tribal ties when performing their duty. Not long ago the agent sent the police out to azrest an Indian. The police approached his house and told him. the | agent wanted him. The fellow said no, and grabbed an ax. There w men, and they all shot an: was then loaded en a horse and dumped down at the agent’s door. That shows how they feel about each other.” The pictures here presented are fom pho- tographs of some of Lieut. Byron's troopers. The gentleman named ‘“Hard-to-Kill” was in the battle of Wounded Knee. He and eight other Indians were ensconced in a hole shooting at the troops. Seven of the nine were killed, and this warrior assumed the title he now bears in honor of his es- cape. He thinks he is a mascot. The dis- tingue looking personage named White Buf- talo Man, is a son of the late Mr. Sitting r himself. ere seven police- id all hit him. He ee Written for The Ev ening Star. The Wreck. I walked by the sounding sea As the red sun sank from sight, When drifted a wreck near mm Whereon was no lving wi is’ Or noue there seemed to be. ‘Twas the autumn equinox, And ydon all day Had driven his snow-white flocks Of foam before bim, and spray High up on the frowning rocks. The gloaming came on soon, And the wind along the coust Swept with a doleful croon, And, pallid as a ghost, Slow rose the full-orbed moon, By her light a woman fair I beheld upon the wreck, With a face of wan despair, And down whose snowy neck Was streaming ber golden hair. But, what my soul more shocked, As the bleak shore's battered guest Like a cradle gently rocked, A babe on that lady's breast In her arms lay closely locked. Then drifted the wreck so near, As I stood there, mute with ave, And the moon shone out so clear, That I plainly the sad sight saw, And the lady's veice could bear: “Thou call’st, dear love, to me; ‘The world has no more to giv: I come--I come to thee; Ah, why should I longer live?” And into the surge sprang she. I was impotent to save ‘The twain, though so near the shore; ‘They sank ‘neath the rolling wave; 1 walted—they rose uo more— ‘They found in the deep a grave. And the moon, the pallid moon, Ard the starry heavenly host Saw not them who died too soon, And along that lonely coast low dirge croon. W. L. SHOEMAKER. He Did Not Know It. Fiem the Whole Faunily. ‘The German professor of music to be met with in English drawing rooms is an en- tertaining old gentleman. To him recently a lady said, when one of his compositions had just been rendered by one of the guests: “How did you of your song, professor “Vas dat my song?” replied the profes- with an expression of great astonish- “I did not know him. ment. like the rendering | THE POOR YOUNG MAN | The Price He Pays for Enjoying the Pleasures of the Rich. LIVING WITHIN ONE'S MEANS The Wrinkles of Life Are Smoothed Out When This is Done. CLASSED BY INCOMES Written for The Evening Star. E WAS MOUNTED on a fine looking horse, with a docked tail. He wore a pair of whipcord trousers and boots. The horse was well groomed,and so was he. As he passed by the writer for The Star heard a citizen who was on foot remark, “There goes some rich young man. I wonder how it feels to be rich from the very beginning?” Now, as a matter of fact, the citizen on foot is a prosperous business man, with an income of about $3,000 a year, and the man on horseback is a thoroughly unpzosperous clerk, with precisely $110 a month and no more. Yet the poor man can afford to ride— at any rate he does ride—and the well-to-do man cannot afford such luxury. How does | it happen? Why, the poor man has tastes beyond his means, that is all, and he grati- fles them. He bought his horse on the in- Stallment Plan, he pays for his clothes in the same way, he has a small hall bed room to live in, so that his horse may have a good stable; he never has a penny in his pocket; he is always in debt. This is the brice he pays, 23 a poor man, for enjoying the pleasures of rich men and for giving the appearance to the people on the street of being rich. This man is young, very young, or he would know that there ts no sense in living as he does. He may make more money when he gets older, or he may give up some of the luxuries of life and find out how to live comfortably. At present he prefers dire poverty and the luxuries of life to unostentatious comfort and money in his pocket. In the South. It happened to The Star writer to be trav- eling in the heart cf one of the southern states once, miles away from a railroad and hundreds of miles away from any large eity. The villages were simple little settle- ments, with comfortable houses and a con- servative population that moved about but little, and knew little about the luxuries of the outside world. In one of these villages there was a recognized beau—a sort of rustic Ward McAllister, who got up all the pientes, arranged for al) the church socta- bles, and acted as floor manager at the few dances that were held. He was aiways “natty” in his dress; he drove a pretty fleet horse to a neat side-bar buggy, and he kept a drug store which usually had two or three of the village beauties in it buying soda water. Now, this man was considered a great catch, and all the matrons of the vil- lage were anxious to have him for a son-in- law, and so the question was put to one of them as to his financial condition. “Oh,” said she with an air of positive con- viction, “he is very well off. He has fully $600 a year.” How to Learn to Save. Think of it! Here was a community where @ man with $600 a year was con- sidered well off. There are many young men in Washington who move about with people who live well and who have only $600 a year, but they aze poor, lamentably poor. They never pretend to be anything but poor, they are spoken of a, poor, and they sail pretty close to the wind in making the two ends meet. They have, it is true sutlicient, with great economy,’ for decent subsistence, but there is no margin left for Pleastres or luxuries. They must buy care- Tully, and they must not buy much. There is no doubt, however, that after a young | man has got used to living on this smaii sum, he can, if he will, save everything that in the future comes to him beyond it. Rich and Poor. “What constitutes a poor young man?” asked one young man of another the other day. “Why, not having any money, of course,” was the answer. “hen, according to that, Smithers, who borrowed ten douars or me just now, is poor, yet he has ten thousand dollars a year, as we know.” “wel, Smutuecs was poor at the time. He is ow worn jusc tea uouars, anu no more.” “well, man?” “Why, having money, of course.” “Lhen Smithers was poor wnen he bor- rowea of me, and 1 was rich vecause 1 nad money to iend him. You knuw wnat Smithers’ income 1s and you Know Wuat mine is."" No. What is yours? Have you any?" ©, yet you say 1 am rien?’ “Good day, Socrates, old man, you usk too many questions,” and tne young gentie- man got up trom the table Wnere tne two been sitting and walked away. ut Smithers is poor i he hasn't any money, and the man is the better oft wt: has tne money to lend. ‘he truth is that Smithers, with ten thousand doliars a year, will persist in living as tnougn ne had twelve thousand a year, while his friend, who has very litue, is ver reful | not to spend more than that litle. The | Whole dimculty is put in a nut sheli when it is said that the wrintles of life are smoothed out when a man has settled down in such a way as to live with:n nis means. He may not necessarily he cannot be comfortable it he his living that he is always | see the bills he owes, and always wonder. ing how on earth he is going to pay them. Classed by Incomes. But, in all seriousness, how little must a young man have to be pronounced poor by society? Is he beyond the range of poverty if he has $2,000 a year? Geu. | erally speaking, he is hardly poor if he has that—provided, of course, that he is un- married, for a married man may be pour | with any sort of income short of absolute riches. Yet, in society $2,000 a year keeps | the man who has it in the category of Poor young men. Suppose he has $3,000 a year. He is still a poor young man. If he has this as an income of his own, inde- pendent of his working at all, it 1 un- doubtedly be exaggerated in the eyes of the community, and he will be called a rich young man by mistake. If he has $4,000 a year he is fast escaping from the stigma of poverty. When he has $5,000 he is called rather well-to-do. When he has $5,000 a year he is decidedly well-to-do, and when | he gets up to $10,000 he is classed as a rich young man. It must always be re- membered, however, that the man who does not make his money, who has in- herited It, or got it in some other way without working for it, enjoys a greater reputation for wealth than comes to the one who works for what he gets. The idier has nothing to do but spend his income. and it ts therefore more in evidence than the money that a busy man has. Whatever his income may be, it is pretty certain that people will think it is larger than it really is. A government clerk was talking to a manufacturer in New York one day. “What salary does the assistant secretary of the treasury get?” asked the manufac- turer. “Four thousand a year,” said the clerk, dwelling upon the figures as pleasantly large, and doubtless inwardly reflecting how much he would like to have that unt. Is that all?’ said the manufacturer. ‘Why, if I couldn't make more than that I would go and hire myself out by the di ‘The clerk looked decidedly grieved. 1¢ this prosperous manufacturer would hire himself out by the day rather than take $4,000 a year, what wouldn't he do rather than work, as the clerk was doing, for $1,600 a year? He put the question: “What would you say to having a salary \° then, what constitutes a rich i 1 f $1,600” “A week?” said the manufacturer. | said the clerk, “a year.” “Oh, well,” said the rich man, “if I had met for that I'd go out and drown my- Rich men like the onesjust quoted must not be accepted as fair judges of what poverty is. They belong to the class that allude to themselves as not very rich—only worth a million or two. We have, however, recently had a sort of official definition of what leaves a man on the side of the great majority who are Poor, in the proposed income tax. Accord- ing to that much discussed measure people with less than $4,000 a year are to be ex- empt from the tax. It is doubtless a great consolation to many of us to reflect that the tax may become a law or not without affecting us in the slightest degree. On the other hand there are a good many peo- ple who would be very happy indeed if they might have a chance to grumble and growl because of the hardship of having a piece of the $4,000 appropriated to the needs and uses of the government. The sum fixed upon seems to be the dividing line. Have less than $4,000 a year and you are oon: have that much and you are not poor; have more and you approach riches. Just Starting Out. Poor young men begin to realize that they are poor when they are just starting out in life, The young fellow who has been to one of the great colleges comes to @ new city to begin his career. A simple little suite of rooms, that is all he desires. There must, of course, be a bed room and sitting room and bath room; that is enough. Does he think he could manage to get along in one room? Oh, no; he has been accustomed to a little suite at college and he does not see why he should give it up now that he ts making his own living. He has never made his living before and cannot be expected to bogs So he gets his suite of roe and gone e lives quite as he used to live at ce . . for two months, when he gradually discov-}| Who is there that does not admire the ers the vast difference between paying for | erect, proud bearing of a thorough soldier? his quarters and having his father pay for! yet it is not the uniform, nor yet the barre eee Se hee ait strictly military d-ills that give the soldier charming, and he enjoyed them for four | his bearing and easy step, but the elemen- years. But he gives up his suite after| tary “setting up” drill of the recruit, and awhile when he is his own paymaster, and | this is nothing more nor less than a series it will be a good many years before he will) of wel! aranged calesthenic exercises that be able to live as well as he used to live . i when he was a student. How many young | ®2Y one can easily practice for a few mia- men are there who live as well after they | utes each day; and which if persistently graduate as they did before? While the| practiced for a short time will bring back SOLDIERLY BEARING Simple Rules How Every Man Can _ Be His Own Trainer. THE STOOPING FORM AND BAD GAI? How the Soldier Gains His Erect Carriage. A MATTER OF CALISTHENICS N THE DIFFERENT government depart- ments in Washington * there are thousands of clerks who spend their days bending ove> desks, until their shoulders are round- ed, and that manly erect carriage that they boasted when they entered the gov- ernment service is Gen. Greenleaf. He Knows No Equal of Paine’s Celery Compound. A Soldier Who Has the Courage of His Convictions— Commander of the National Guard } came home last night. parental purse supports them they live in suites, but when they support themselves they are content to live in one room. Here they sleep and here they sit and read and smoke. But they are not very apt to trouble the quiet of the room until night- fall, and that is simply because they must hustle and make their living all day. ed OBEYED ORDERS STRICTLY. How a Collector Secured a Six Weeks’ Holiday and a Partnership. “When I was a youngster of seventeen,” said a successful business man to a Detroit Free Press reporter, “I got a job as col- lector with a man who was about as strict @ martinet as I ever saw. He insisted on everything being done just as he said, and there were times when life was verily a the erect carriage that is lost in work over the desk and do more for the lungs than medicine in profusion, more for rounded shoulders than any number of patent braces that are a clumsy affair at best and only of benefit while worn. The following series of carefully selected excercises can easily be practiced for five or ten minutes after rising in the morning and after work is over for the day, and as the series brings all the important muscles of the body into play and tend to correct every growing infirmity of carriage and bearing the resulting benefit will soon be self-evident to the most skeptical. How It Can Be Done. First of all the clothing should not be | tight about the waist or across the chest, | “TI feel like a new man,” says Brig. Gon. W. L. Greenleat of the National Guard of Vermont. “I do not know the equal of Paine's Celery Com- Haiaespd burden, but I stuck to him for six months, |/@nd hence the best time is immediately | P% then we had a difference. It was this way:| after rising. To begin—assume the erect | Bris. Gen. Greenleaf of Burlington, Vt. is a One morning he called me up and handed me a bill on a man I knew and said to me to take it around and collect it. “It's one of our standbys,’ he sald, ‘and every collector I ever sent to him reported him absent or not findable or something. Position, which is with the heels together | and toes pointing out equally at an angle of thirty degrees from the front; the knees straight without stiffness and as near to- gether as the conformity of the person will | man of national reputation. As a soldier, be has the courage of bis convic- tions, and manfully makes a public statement of what he knows will benefit others, He writes as follow “Permit me to add my testimony to the valuable Now you go and don’t come back here till | allow,the body resting squarely on the hips, | qualities of Paine’s Celery Compound, which I con- you see him.’ “Do you mean that” I asked, as two or three clerks looked up. “You know me," was all he said in reply and I went out after my man. “He wasn't at home, the people said, and wouldn't be for six weeks. So I stuck the bill in my pocket and went off up the coun- try on a visit. The old man sent after me half a dozen times, but my folks could only tell I was out of town, and I never paid any attention to a letter I got from the boss, but went on enjoying myself. Then I came back and had a visit with some other friends and at the end of six weeks I called on my man again with the bill. I found him at home and told him what I had done, and he paralyzed me by paying the bill with interest. Two hours later I stepped into the boss's office. ‘There,’ I said, before he had time to gather his wits, ‘is the amount of your bill and interest. He was out of town for six weeks and I couldn’t see him before. You told me not to come back till I did see him, and I was obeying your instructioi I had a rattling good time and the house owes me six weeks’ salary.’ “The old man gasped, got blue in the face and I thought he was going to explode, but he didn’t; he gulped it all down and stuck out his hand. ‘Young man," he said, ‘you ought to have been a soldier; I’m going to put you in charge of the’ collection department and double your salary.’ And,” concluded the merchant, “when I was twenty-five I was a partner.” soo Gen. Grant's Last Public Address. From Blue and Gray. Another wave of applause swept over the great audience, and when it had spent its force and quiet was again restored the be- leved general, assisted by Mr. Stuart, hob- bled forward, and stood before that sea of human faces, many of which were wet with tears. Then in a low voice, which could be heard only by those who stood near him, although a deathlike hush pervaded the assembly, the victor of a hundred battles made his last public address. It was so brief that it was finished almost before the audience knew it was begun. Leaning painfully upon his crutches, and speaking with great diffi- culty, he said: “Ladies and gentlemen: Under all cir- cumstances it is difficult for me to speak. An hour ago I might have made a speech, | but now I am almost afraid to try. I know, as few cau, the good these chaplains have done—writing letters to che friends at home for the sick and wounded, to anxious, scr- rowing, mothers and fathers. I have not words to express my thanks for this wel- come. I appreciate——" But he said not another word. He stood in the presence of that vast multitude and wept, and the multitude wept with him. Before another year had passed loving hands had laid the body of the incompara- ble soldier in the tomb. a She Knew. the Chicago Tribure. amantha,” said Mr. Chugwater, “do you know where my hat is? h,” ans’ ‘d Mrs. Chug- water, “is in the corne: over there by the bookcase, where you tossed it when you One of your gloves! ere you laid it, and is on the piano just w the other is in your overcoat pocket. The t is b yon a ehai> in the back ly as you tit. Your sitppers he lounge where you threw when you put on your shoes. One of has no heel, and the other has a hole worn through the sole, and—' amantha,"” growied Mr. Chugwater, shoulders well back and falling equally, be- ing very careful that neither is inclined to ! the front; the arms hanging naturally at the side; fingers together and hands ex-| tended; the head well up, with the chin in; the chest well up and out. Then proceed | with the exercises, counting the numbers over as given here, for convenience and pre- | cision. First exercise—Neck: One, place the | hands on the hips, fingers to the trout, thumbs to the rear; two, drop the head as far as possible to the front without moving any other part of the body; three, throw the head to the rear; four, bring the head up, drop the hands and take the erect pusi- tion, Second exercise—Rotation of the head: One, place the hands on the hips; two, drop | the head to the front; three, swing the head | around to the right; four, swing the head | around to the rear; five, swing the head to the left; six, swing the head to the front. Repeat as many times as desired and then assume the erect position. Third exercise— v hands on the hips; two, bring the well to the front; three, throw the elbow Sharply back, and take a full breath; four, assume the erect position. Fourth exercise—Chest: One, place the hands on the hips; two, raise slowly oa the toes, and take a deep, full breath; three, | slowly expel the breath and lower the heels to the floor; four, take the erect position. The last two exercises will do more vw in- | crease the chest measure in a few moaths | than years’ use of the many contrivances | sold by faking concerns. Fifth exercise, arms.—One, raise the arms quickly to the horizontal to the right and left; two, lowe> them slowly to the sides, forcing them obliquely back and down, at the same time taking a full breath. Sixth exercise, extension of arms.—One, raise the closed fists to the breast; two, strike straight out to the front with both | arms; three, bring the fists back to the | breast and extend the arms quickly to the vertical, directly above the head; four, low- | er the arms to the side, forcing them well | back, and take the erect position. The Arms in Use. Seventh exercise, arms in circle.—One, raise the arms to the horizontal to the right and left; two, describe small circles with the hands till the arms begin to tire, then resume the erect position. Eighth exercise, arms to front and rear.— One, raise the arms to the horizontal; two, swing them to the front, striking the palms | of the hands together; three, swing them to€he rear, striking the backs of the hands togethe:, if possible, then resume the erect Position. Ninth exercise, arms over head.—One, raise the arms to the horizontal; two, raise the arms over the head, the tips of the fingers touching the top of the head: three, | throw the arms up to the vertical, then lower them slowly to the side. Tenth exercise, hips.—One, place the hands on the hips; two, swing the body on} the hips as far over to the right as possi- ble; three, swing the body to the left; four, resume the erect position. Eleventh exercise, rotation of the hips.— One, place the hands on the hips; two, | make a complete rotation of the body on the | hips, swinging to the front, right, rear, left | and resume the erect position. This exer- dise is especially beneficial to women, whom the long use of corsets has made weak at the waist. { Tweltth exercise, full swing.—One, raise the arms to the horizontal; two, swing to the right on the hips; three, swing to the | left on the hips; four, resume the erect po- | gathering up his hat and overcoat and moving toward the doo>, “you'd get along Just as weil if you were not quite so knowl- edgeous.”” —+e« Skin Deep. sition. | Thirteenth exercise, arms and hips.—One, raise the arms vertically over the head; two, swing the bedy to the frent on the hips, | without bending the knees, and endeavor to touch the floor with the tips of the finger: three, resume the erect position. Fourteenth exercise, legs.—One, place the hands on the hips; two, wily lower the body to the heels by bending the knees at the same time, keeping the body erect on the hips and head up; three, slowly raise the body, and resume the erect Position. This exercise is the most difficult of all, but it gives the suppleness and strength to the legs that » graceful walker must have, and for this reason is practiced for a long time daily by the stage dancers who delight so many audiences. Fifteenth exercise—The lungs, a combina- tion that brings many muscles of the body General Lord Fitz-Gore (of her majesty's troops in South Africa). Your chief ha ing shown his good will toward her majes- 's armies, I am commissioned by her to pin this Order of majesty the queen the Bath upon his noble breas' (And in his ja eral overlooked one of the of the chief's uniform.) peculiar features into play, and constitutes the chief motion | of fencing and broadside drills: One, face | half way to the left; two, lunge quickly forward on the right foot, throwing it about | thirty inches to the front, keeping the left | leg extended, at the same time extend the right arm briskly to the front; three, re- sume the first position, then take the erect position. Careful How You Walk. These exercises may be repeated to ad- vantage with a pair of light dumbbells in the hands. 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