The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-06-27
EXERCISE.
tts Influence upon She Body-Rsmarkabl
Illustrations Of Trained strength.


six foreign nations had recognized the
secret OF success when they called their
armies exercitus. bodies OF drilled or ex.
ercised e Exercise overcomes all
difficulties, and if the power Of its in
duence has limits, they have never been
ascertained. It ensures every victory;
practise, ie., exercise and experience,
would enable a hundred veterans to,
beat q thousand recruits, even il the
recruits were better armed. A Brigade
OF ordinary rifiemen would have no
chance against a regiment of picked ar
cheers, such as were employed in the war
in the Middle Ages.
In the London Tower, and in the
armories Of S%trasburg, Nuremburg and
Vienna, there are several coats of mail
that have been pierced through and
through, and evidently bythe same shot.
That's, the arrow has broken the breast.
plate, passed through the body of the
cuirassier, and then through the back
plate.
A common rife ball rarely penetrates
the body of a full-grown man, even now
adays, when mail,coats are gone out OF
fashion.
During the middle ages it was the
custom to keep runners who followed
their carriages afoot while the horses
were going atfull gallop. Fast runners
We're in great request, and if parents
wanted to qualify their children for IL
position of that sort, they began to train
them from tie earliest childhood, and
made them undergo a singular oper-
alton, namely, the removal Of the spleen,
which was supposed to have an inAu-
epce on the vigor of the lungs.
From the city of Puebla in Mexico, q
sandy country-road leads across the
hills to the valley of Amozoc. Early in
the morning that road is crowded with
Indian hucksters, who carry heavy bas-
kets O. their backs. They often come
from a distance of ten or twelve miles,
but make the whole trip at a sharp trot,
and without a single stop. Their chill
dren trot at their sides, carrying small
bundles or bags. and thus learn their
trade so gradually that they hardly feel
the hard-ships of it.
1t is certainly queer that nowadays a
small short legged dog can easily out
run the tallest man. It has not been
always so. An ostrich proves that two
legs can go as fast as four. Want of
exercise probably accounts for the
whole difference. Next to football,
the fayorite game of the English school
boys is the play called "Hare and
Hounds" In watching their races 1 no.
ticed hat for one boy who is too short
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short winded.
Their lungs giveout along while before
theirlegs do. But that sort ofshort-wind-
edness can be readily cured by various
kinds of exercise, especially by noun
tain excursions.
Lifting weights is another excellent
lung exercise. There is a story of a
Grecian Samson, the athlete Milo of
Crotona, who day after day carried a
calf around the arena, and gained IN
strength as the calf gained in weight
till he could finally carry a steer.
We NAV doubt if the steer was quite
fuu-grown but there is no doubt that
DR.. Winship, of Boston, Mass, prac-
ticed with dumb-bells and bagfulls of
pig-iron till he was able to lift Though
only for n moment) the weight Of the
heaviest steer on the Texas prairie. It
is equally certain that before lie began
to exercise he was the puniest student
of the medical college. And if a weak
lyman of modern times could uplift
such a weight, why should not a cham
pion of the Grecian arena have been
able to carry it for a distance of half a
mile? For it cannot be denied that
people have become more puny since
they began to trust to gun-powder and
steam instead OF to exercise.
In countries where they still rely on
the strength of their limbs, MS in Tur-
key, Hungaria, and ~Afgllanistan, there
are plenty of men earning their bread
by common labor who would astonish
the so-called athletes of q French cir
Gus. A Turkish porter will shoulder a
box which tue driver of n New York ex-
press-wagon would hesitate to unload
without assistance.
During the last Afghan war, the ma
tive Warriors carried amor to a bat
terry on the top of q Hill from where the
English soldiers were unable to carry
them down AGAIN.
The foot-soldiers of the Turkish jan
izaries had to drill in full armor, run,
wrestle, and even swim, without remov-
ing their iron equipments. Such a
value did their drill-masters set upon
the influence Of early training that they
would never accept q recruit of more
than twelve years of age. These cadets
We're exercised for years, like the sons
of the old Spartans, before they were
assigned, to actual duty, and the result
the Janizaries repeatedly beat the
armies of all Western Europe COM
bined.
The ancient Greeks managed to train
not only their troops, but the whole
nation, by offering liberal prizes for
proficiency in all kinds of bodily exer-
else, such as running, leaping, lifting,
spear-throwing and wrestling. At a
distance Of sixty yards their spearmen
could hit a target with unfailing GER
tainty.
Their runners competed with horses
and greyhounds. 1t is on record that
the champion leaper of the Spartan
Helotes onee cleared fifty-two feet, and
a native of Grotona in Southern Italy
V ffty-fve feet.
But the most wonderful results of
lifelong training are seen in the achieve
ments of the Oriental acrobats, who
come from countries where over-popu-
lation obliges suchpeople to work mira
cles in order to excel their numerous
competitors.
During the last Vienna exhibition a
troop of Japanese jugglers attracted far
more attention than the display Of there
native art-works and manufactures.
They had amazingly clever rope dancers
and tumblers, mere boys some Of them.
But their best performers were all
nrar l. old man II had AaLon