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is made OF certain PhGyllus who jumped
beyond the dug ground" (Which was
turned up with a spade that the point
reached by the jumper might easily be
SEEM, clearing a distance Of fifty feet.
This was probably a standing jump, and
as the modern jumper can, with a run,
clear only twenty or twenty-one feet, it
is perfectly incredible. To assist them
in standing jumps the Greeks carried in
their hands pieces of metal or bells.
The five enumerated contests formed
the Pentathlum or fve-fOld competition,
and the prize, according to one authority,
was awarded to him only who had been
victorious in all. According to Mr.. Ma
hatfy victory in three contests was sutn-
cient. but it appears that sometimes the
running and wrestling were omitted, and
it may have been on these occasions that
three successes constituted a victory.
The most dangerous sports OF all re-
main to be considered-the boxing and
the pancratium Greek boxers were not
content to use the naked fists, but bound
their hands and wrists with leather
thongs. Later on these thongs, which
were termed mild or gentle, were studded
with pieces of metal, and then the blow
must have been frightful, though inten-
ticnal killing of ones adversary was not
commended. It seems that, though great
skill, endurance, and courage must have
been required for such contests, the
Greeks did not understand the scientific
principles of boxing. We read of a boxer
getting up on his toes in order to deal
deadly blow upon the top of his adver-
sary' head, and a boxer was commonly
spoken of as a man with his ears
crushed"
A most terrible contest is related by
Pausanias. Two boxers of great skill
and strength could neither of them get at
the other, and therefore agreed to receive
a blow turn and turn about. The first
struck his adversary full on top of the
head, while the other drove his fingers
into his adversary's stomach and pulled
out his entrails. The dying man was
crowned victor, on the ground that the
hVe-fngered blow was a foul one.
After the competitors had thrown each
other the contest was continued on the
grOund, and sometimes complaints were
choked or had their fingers and toes
broken. The pancratium was the lowest
and most brutal of Greek sports and was
not in favor with the Spartans, who con-
sidered it, as well they might, an un-
gentlemanlike business.
Of smaller and less violent exercises
we may mention ball-playing, which was
much recommended by Greek physicians.
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It was practiced by men, boys, women,
and girls in part Of the gymnasium
specially reserved for it. The balls varied
considerably in size, and the rules for the
various games were numerous. Bathing
was much INDUCED in by the Greeks, and
hot, cold, and vapor baths were attached
to the gymnasia. After violent exercise
the athletes scraped off the dust and oil
with strlgels or serapers of metal or bone.
The cut shows an athlete thus engaged.
Warm baths were taken in the public or
private lighthouses as refreshment after
the days fatigue.
The Olympic victor, in early times at
any rate, received very substantial re-
wards. He won a money prize of con-
siderable value, and was welcomed back
to his native city as hero and enter
tanned IN Its town hall by the dignitaries
of the state. The great sculptOrs of the
day executed his statue, and poets sang
his praises in Odes which in some in
stances have become immortal. But in
later days public opinion altered very
much in this regard The polished Greek
came to value intellectual strength more
than physical, and to esteem mental gym
nastics more than bodily exercise. The
severe training for priZe-winning became
more and more eEactlng, and tended to
usurp an athletes whole attention to the
exclusion of more liberal culture.
Athletes fell into disrepute in much the
bd41o AIuLLGI as r1OLSSblU4d1 Tuu4GI8s
boxers. and scullers have done at the
present day. The athlete was no match
for the polished thrusts Of the philoso-
piers wit, and his heaviness, dullness,
and stupidity were a constant target for
the comic poets subtle hUmOr. Another
argument against athleticism was the
brutalizing tendency of such contests as
the pancratium, in which the vanquished
competitor was put to the humiliation Of
suing for mercy at the victOr's hands.
Finally we may say that though the
pancratiast at any rate was not much
above the level of the modern prize
fighter the Greeks cOEtrived, by the com
bination Of literary and musical con-
tests with physical and by the aid Of
sculpture and poetry, to throw around
their games an unequaled splendOr. The
greatest painters and scuIptors found
their models and the greatest poets their
heroes among the competitors at the
Olympic games.
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preserving the picturesque uniformity
of the choir, which, while surplices
and fashionable toilets mingled to-
gether, was obviously in bad taste.
The Rev. T. W. ShackeIford, OF New
York, in an article upon the subject Of
church music, highly commends the
introduction of tie boy choir. 1t has,
he says, come to stay. In the cities, a
good quartette, apart from the question
of ecclesiastical prOpriety, is an expen-
sive luxury, which poor churches cannot
afford; and if they are driven to the vol
unteer choirs of mixed voices, we have
the old difficulty of temper, precedence,
ETC., to contend with, and unless the
Organist be a clever man, without tenn
per and nerves, with a strong viii and
suave manner, the irritation is ever break
ing out afresh, and is sure to injure the
congregation.
Substitute boys for women and this
trouble disappears. The boys are di-
rectly under authority. and must submit
to rules or be punished by fines if they
are paid, or if volunteers, by suspension,
a disgrace to which they do not like to
submit Boy nature is not usually
jealous, as schOOl-bOys readily grant
precedence to those who are superior to
them in lessons or games; and it is so in
chOirs. The rank and file ire not jealous
of the boy with fine voice to whom the
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themselves as competitors, and IN order
that none might be kept away by war or
political disturbances a general truce be-
tween all the cities of Greece was pro-
claimed and safe conduct to and from the
games insured to ali competitors. The
first competition was a sprint race of l25
yards, and to this were added from time
to time wrestling, discus throwing, box
ing, and chariOt-racing. The running
track was called a stadium and was a
little more than 800 feet in length. The
original race YVES once up the course, but
in time races of double the course were
added, and we hear Of races twelve,
twenty, or twenty -four courses, the last
making q distance of about 5000 yards.
There were short races for boys Of half q
course.
As regards speed it is very doubtful
whether the Greeks equaled the perform
ances of modern days. From what has
been said of the feshiness and grOssness
of athletes and from representations on
vases, which show us men running with
their arms spread Quito increase their
speed, as the German comment atOrs say
quantity enOugh-we may fairly cOnject-
ure that their performances were moder-
means of taking the time of races at all
accurately, and ran merely to see which
competitor came in first, and not to beat
records.
Many instances OF very long runs are
recorded in Greek history, but these are,
of course, tests of wind and endurance
and not of speed. AS the runners wore
no clothes it was impossible to distin-
guish them in any other way than by
means of a herald. who proclaimed the
name and city of each competitor as he
advanced to the starting post. The races
were run in heats of four, and the man
who drew bye was thus often saved a
neat. The winner of the final heat re-
ceived the prize, there being no second
or third premiums For the wrestling
the body was anointed with oil, and to
cOunteract the too great slipperiness
sprinkled with sand. This was done in
special room of the gymnasium called the
kOnisterium, or sanding room.
All kinds of feints and tricks were
used in wrestling, and many things were
permitted which modern rules do not
allow. The contest was begun with the
competitors standing upright, but was
continued after they were on the ground.
A man was not defeated until he had been
three times thrown. In the group shown
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perhaps, in England, been somewhat ez-
aggerated. Boys have been more anxious
to be good oarsmen than good scholars,
and to play in the cricket eleven or win
the IO0-yard race than to be at the head
of their class. The undue Importance
attached to athletic proves was doubt
less the result of a reaction against the
almost complete absence of the means of
bodily training and exercise in the
schools Of a century or two ago. But the
clear-sighted Greeks in this, as in so
many other matters, drew distinctions of
which we in later days have somewhat
lost sight. Bodily exercises were CLASH
fed by the Greeks in three groups: Gym
nastic, agnostic, and athletic.
Of all the public exhibitions of gym
nastic exercises in ancient Greece the
Olympic games were by far the most fam
Gus, and an account of them will serve
to explain the nature of Greek sports.
They were first established in the year 776
B. c., and were not finally discontinued
until about 400 A. D. They were held
once in every five years at Olympia, a
small town in the province of Ellis, on
the western coast of AIOrea. Men Of dis
tinctiOn termed hellenodik@ Judges of
the HeIenes or Creeks, clad in purple
robes, presided over the games. None
but freedom Greeks were allowed to offer
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solo work is given; they are rather proud
Of belonging to a choir that has fine
singer in it.
A poor parsOn had been wrestling for
years with the vagaries and tantrums of
a lot of uneducated, screaming girls, IN
til life had become a burden. On one oc-
casiOn, Thanksgiving Day, because the
choir in the next town, BOreas, had done
it, they insisted on singing the Halle
lujah Chorus" from the Messiah" The
choir consisted Of sixteen trebles, one
half of whom could not sing above F,
and that note very often was quite
screwed up to the pitch; one feeble
alto, the only young lady in the
choir who pretended to read; one
shaky tenor, and three bassos, two of
whom grOWled and the third rOlred like
a bull Of Bashan. No sooner was the ser
mon ended than the choir burst out with
the great, the sublime chorus. Alas! no
longer great or sublime from their lips.
They screamed, they rOared, they yelled
HallelUjab! HaIlelujab! Hallelujub! The
tone became more and more wavering;
the tempo more and more uncertain, until,
when the Tugue was reached, the thing
collapsed like DR.. Holmes one horse shay
all at once. A few high notes sounded
alone, and there was a dead silence. The
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physicians, suffering, as they imagine, one
from dyspepsia, another from heart dis
ease, another from liver or kidney disease,
another from nervous exhaustion or prOstTa-
ton, another with pain here or there, and IN
this way they all present alike to themselves
and their easy-gOing and Indifferent or over
busy doctor, separate and distinct diseases,
for which he pr6scribes his pills and Pc
tons, assuming them to be such, when, in
reality, they are all only symptoms caused
by. some womb disorder. The physician,
ignorant of the cause Of suffering, encOur-
ages his practice until large bills are
made. The suffering patient gets no better,
but probably worse by reason Of the delay,
wrong treatment and consequent cOmplica-
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in a passage Of Status. describing eOn-
test Of this kind. The distance to which
a discus was thrown is also doubtful,
though one author does mention a throw
Of 100 cubits $50 feet as a fine one.
Notwithstanding was performed at irst
with sharp-pointed spears, and was IN
tended as a preparation for actual war
fare, but in the latter times pOintless
spears were used. For throwing at a
mark, however, it is probable that light
spears with points were employed. Disc
throwing thus tested strength and dis
tance Of throw, and javelin-throWing &C
curacy of aim.
The Ieaping was probably what we now
call the broad or long jump. for mention
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in the cut one of the wrestlers has his
leg twisted around the leg of his antago-
mist, and is forcing his right arm up.
The third event was the throwing of
the discus, a piece Of iron or stone Of
circular shape, but of the weight of which
We have no accurate means of judging
One specimen of discus has indeed been
found which weighs about four pounds,
but we do not know whether it was in
tended for the use of boys, youths, or
men, by each of which three classes of
competitors discs of different weights
were employed. The attitude Of a discus
shrower is very clearly shown in the
famous statue, OF which cut is given,
and every nose of which is enumerated
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supplied. Hereafter the ladies are also
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room is provided where they can remove
their wraps and robe themselves in the
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HE Oft-quoted phrase
.Of the Latin poet,
g Mems sana in cor
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expresses t ers ely
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congregation sat down with a sigh of re-
lief; but the fate Of that choir was sealed.
The parson had been trying for months
to get his Vestry to consent to a trial Of
the boys and now they yielded, and when,
after few weeks training. the little boys
took the place Of the girls, the people re-
jOiced and the much relieved pastor said
q special Thanksgiving.
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. RE MAX 4 A . u ii
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througho ut tn Q
country, has lately
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Rev. DR.. Wander
va ter, an Epis-
copalian clergy
man, Of Brooklyn,
n. Y. In his
choir, which is one
Of the finest in the
city, the men and
boy singers are
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THE CHURCH, CHOIR BOY.
A I7TsATARKABLE INNOVATION IN A
BROOELYN CHURCH

The Introduction Of the Boy Soprano
Promises to Put a Stop to the squabbIes
Of Feminine singsrs-Relief for a Dis
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IN BRAVE DAYS OF OLD.
THE OLxmPLAN GAMES OF ANCIENT
GREECE.

They Embraced Leaping, FOot-Raeing,
Wrestling, Boxing, ChariOt-Eiacing' and
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PERSONALS And BRIEFS.

Professor Painter, of Roanoke Col
lege, will fill the pulpit OF the First
Presbyterian Church on Sunday
morning at eleven o'clock.
Major William Jollitfe and DIR. J. r.
Dillon, of Botetourt county, witnessed
the celebration in this city yesterday.
Misses Eta g. Gabbert and Julia
.Sweesher. of Lynchburg, are registered
at Hotel Felix.
Misses Maggie Carper and Sadie
Frees, of Salem, were in the city yes
terday
Colonel G. NJ. Helm, late collector of
internal revenue of this district, is
visiting Mr.. A. Med. Smith, of Vipron.
G. B. Mccarthy, of Bristol, is visit
ing his parents in this city.
C. Fl. Vines. esq, Of Buchanan,
spent the Fourth in Roanoke.