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of the body, the weight
of which is thus allowed
to sink out of healthful
and proper position, drag
ging down the spine with
it. Now, if instead of
this relaxation of the
muscles, they were kept
habitually tense-and I
will explain just how
tense in a few moments
as they are in infancy,
the result would be a
straight and not a curved
spine.
Tension Of the mus
cles in an unframed adult
is diagnosed by medical
men and recognized by
physical experts as a sign
of nervousness. But the
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strain than can the
high liver, suddenly
forced out to some
extraordinary exer-
tion. This was recog-
nized as long ago as
during the War of
the Rebellion, when
regiments of city
bred youths made
long forced marches.
in much better shape
than regiments of
country lads who had
been accustomed to
following the pillow
all their lives. Now
mark this: How long
would any working
man live and keep his
health and power Of
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-16

Il German Turner IecIlon OF tne numan
frame to whose attention it has been
brought home.
In all the gymnasia and athletic clubs
you hear people talking of "the S curve Of
the spine and how to correct it." Checkley
himself made, for use in this article, the
drawings reproduced on very small scale
from life herein. ''The human spine is al
ways curved" Checkley declares, "and this
curvature is caused by the incorrectness of
the position of the body in infancy, when
we learn to walk and run.
ITCAN BE CORRECTED.
'Tt is, however, by no means a necessary
evil, although it is very serious one. It
can and ought to be corrected. If nature
intended mans spine to be curved, she
would have made this curvature at least
uniform enough to enable the student to
strike an average. But maintain as a re-
suit of investigation recently made by me,
now first announced, that in 200 men, say
of a uniform height of 8 feet inches and of
uniform weight, you will find on close
examination no two spines as nearly alike
even as the two corresponding faces.
ITO obtain these measurements have used
machine of my own invention. It is a
simple application of straight ruler to q
wheel upon which it is made to revolve. To
obtain from it an exact reproduction of the
curvature of any individuals spine, run
this wheel up and down the backbone and
trace out its outline from the base of the
brain to the sacrum or base of the spine.
The outlines reproduced in this article are
from measurements taken by me few days
ago of the spines respectively of we'll
known member of the New York Athletic
Club, one Of the Manhattan Athletic Club,
a splendidly proportioned German turner
and my own.
HOW THE SPINE IS CURVED.
'eThis uniform but absolutely variable
of the spine is caused by the re-
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weakness at such a time when all heT
strength of mind and body were needed to
crown their labors with glorious triumph,
No, she was alone with the boy, who had
in so mysterious a manner reused all
the mothers love, crushed, suppressed,
dormant for so many years. She was tree
to act out her own, tender, loving, impulsivs
self, and with a loud cry of joy she sprung
forward and caught Godfrey in her arms,
and with the kisses she rained upon him
came hundred pet names which she had
not dared to utter in Zachs presence. And
now, too, these almost mans arms for the
first time dared to clasp that form, so long
beloved, nay, adored by the waif of the
Walter Home.
''Mother, mother" pleaded Godfrey,
"don't leave me behind, take me with you,
I'm big enough and old enough to protees
you. I love you better than all the others
put together. I'll fight for you, die for you,
if need be. Oh, let me go with you,
mother, let me help find Captain John"
Eyes, yes; come with me, my darling
child" cried Molly, beside herself with joy.
"Be ever by my side, just as my own Wall
would have done were he alive now! God
hath sent you to me to fill his place. 1 can
not close my arms against you, and remem-
Der when Captain John is found you are to
be no longer Godfrey, but Walter; you are
to meet him as you met me tonight and to
call him father as you did me mother. Hs
must not know that you are not the child
we lost in the dark waters of the bay. Such
news might end his life, weakened as he
must be by want and privation."
SIT shall be as you say, mother" cried
Godfrey. "Trust me, I'll be so good to
Captain John that possibly he too may
learn to like me, yes, love me in the end"
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Member N. Y. Il. c. achievement were he
to eat 15-course dinners and drink three
bottles Of wine with them? This is exer-
else of the severest description, and the city
man who is accustomed to it stands the
strain without murmur and comes up the
next morning as fresh as daisy.
BREATHING WITH THE ABDOMEN.
"The only way to develop the lungs is to
inhale fresh air into them aud permit them
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how to correct 1t; Tor
prevented absolutely
it cannot be, it seems,
without almost a rev.
olution in our meth
DDS of life. The
straighter the spine,
the healthier the man;
this is the newest
principle announced
by Edwin Checkley,
who is the strongest
men of his weight in
the world, and un-
questioningly re a f.
frmed by all those
experts in the per
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-16

A letter that has reached the Dead Letter
Office is addressed as follows: Postmaster:
Please deliver this to the young lady living
in the first house beyond the stocking fac
tory, who wears black dress and sacque,
with white straw hat and brown trim
mings. Now don't make mistaken
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a r
10
IS
Checkieufs Srins-

pose.
to exercise is to lie down and stretch your
self out. Exercise in any other way, such
as rowing, boating, riding and the like,
should be looked upon as a means of enjoy
ment, method of relaxing the mind and
so indirectly exercising the body, rather
than as a useful exercise per Sc.
'The whole gist of the true theory is in q
nutshell. Make your brain exercise your
muscle" j. P. B.
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most of our muscles
need and which they
seldom get. You will
see a man in the
morning after a long
nights sleep Stretch
ing himself, that is
giving to the extern
sor muscles the ex-
ercise which they
crave and seldom get.
My advice for exer-
cise is, work the ex-
tensors. For this
purpose there is no
machine made except
a trapeze or horizon
tai bar which will
accomplish the pur-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-16

more. There are about II, 900, 900 people in
Mexico, and 100000 of these are pure
white. These and the metizos govern the
country. For them the great mountains
vomit forth their silver and gold and this
rich soil Yields its wonderful harvests.
Under them Governments rise and fall,
revolutions coms and go. and to them the
Mexico of to-day practically belongs.
The Indian who originally owned the
lsnG is only the silent partner whose name
is not on the business sign and who receives
none of the proceeds, The Indians of Mex
leo are unknown to the world. The term
Mexican as 1t is generally used describes
only the ruling class, and the books that
have been written about the country have
left out the most interesting part of the
population.
THE MEXICAN INDIAN.
The Indians of Mexico are not at all like
our sayages. 1t is a question whether they
come Of the same race and they look more
like the offspring of the Egyptians or the
japanese than of the Mongolians, who are
IN face and form much like the Indians of
the United States. Mexico is more like the
Orient than the Occident. Its common
people live in huts like those you see to-
day on the banks of the Nile and they are
OF the same type as those used by their
forefathers in the DAYS of the Montezumas.
Their dress is not unlike that of the people
OF India and Egypt and their customs and
habits are in many respects the same.
They cultivate the soil in the same way
using the same forked stick with one handle
for plough and driving their oxen with
long gcads while they merely scratch the
ground with the stick. Their women carry
water from the wells in red jars upon their
heads as they do in all the Mohammedan
countries and the draping of the robosa
around the mouth so that you see but little
else than the eyes, may have come from the
eastern custom of yelling the faces of the
women.
EVIDENCE OF THE JAPANESE
1 see here every day features that make
me think of the Japanese, and the skill
shown by those Mexican Indians in pottery
and art worE indicates that they are of
mixed Japanese origin. Some of the pot
terry of Guadalajara is beautifully decorated
and artistically shaped, and the most famous
OF Mexican sculptors has Japanese features
This mans name is Panduro, and he lives at
Guadalajara, which by the way is a city of
100000 people situated in the western part
Of the country, and is the center of art and
culture IN Mexico. Il is the Athens of the
the republic, and the finest art works of
Mexican make are turned out there.
Panduro is wonder He can take a
piece of black clay and in one sitting OF sew
eral hoiszs he Will model for you bust of
yoU-SaG which is a perfect likeness and
which wa not be more than three or four
inches hlga, if you so desire it. have been
in mis- st2Gio. 1t is hut of sunburnt
bricks, and he squats cross-legged on the
floor just like Japanese, and his only tools
are his hands and little knife much like a
case knife o. putty knife. He has lump
Of clay on a Soard in front of him, and he
works away as he talks, turning out his
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a FEATURE OF THE FAIR.

\ tEA4lh VI IdE
He viii, I am told, 60 to the Chicago Ex-
position, and if he does, 1 predict for him
tina, bis fame will be International speak
Of hlm here, however, ~ type of a class of
the Mexican Indians. He has the features
Of a japanese, and the photograph which L
took Of him would not be out of place in any
collection Of picture= from Japan.
The similarity of the Mexican and Japa-
nese art is found IN other articles as we'll.
The Indians of the semi-savage tribes of the
Western parts of the country make lac
qucred tables and bowls which are both
beautiful and artistic. They paint these
with roses and other flowers, and their lac
quer viii stand water, and though not like
the wonderful work of the Japanese it may
have come from the same origin. The Japa-
ncse are fond of flowers and these Indians
have similar taste for them. The Japanese
basket work is noted, and here you find the
finest Of baskets of all kinds, made of many
colors and most ingeniously put together.
In their love fop children the two peoples are
alike, AID L see babies carried about here on
the backs Of their mothers and sisters Just as
you VIII see them in japan. L see them also
carried as you will see them in India, and
note that the numbers of toys for children
are as many il Mexico as they are in Japan.
FREsCoTNG AS IN ITALY.
These Mexican Indians do wonders in
frescoing. AL the houses of the better
classes are frescoed instead of being pa
Pered, and Mexican plasterer at SO cents q
DAY Will turn out effects that would do
credit to Italy. They have all the care and
honesty in their work of the true Japanese
Drtist and will labor for weeks on wax
figure TO produce a certain effect, and they
make the wonderful pictures out of feathers
that surprised the Spaniards under Cortes,
AID ycu can buy these same pictures or have
them made to order here in Mexico City
today.
They work like the Japanese, each in his
OWN little dwelling, and when they have
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Marlboro Enterprise.I
Some one dropped case of lager near the
Fitchburg station one day recently, with
the result of serious damage to the bottles.
There was plenty of moisture in the road
for moments but the earth proved to be
able to take it in.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-16

BE bulk of the In
dian population of
North America is in
Mexico. The United
States numbers only
about $50, 900. Mex
leo has 1900, 900
whose blood has the
bluest of aboriginal
tints, and her met
izos, or people who
have come from the
inter-mixture of the
whites and the In
dians, are 5000, 900
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-16
THE CROOKED SPINE.
A Malf0rmati0n From Which Very
Few Can Claim Exemption.
THE EVIL STARTS IN BABYH00D.
Stretching Is the Exercise the Healthy
Body Most Graves.
AN EXPERT ON PHYSICAL CULTURE.
THE EVIL STARTS IN BABYH00D.
AN EXPERT ON PHYSICAL CULTURE.

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE pIsPATcH.l
NEW YORK, Aug. 15.-The very newest
thing in physiculture is the spine curve ano
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wonderful photographs in clay. He made
remarkable statuette Of Emma Juch, the ac-
tress, when she was here, and his types of
Mexican life fairly speak and act
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-16
ENDURANCE OF THE GLASSES.

'sThe question, it seems to me, is exceed
ingly natural: Why isn't laborer, a
longshoreman for example, an Apollo Bel
vedere in figure instead of being, as he gen.
orally is, rough and clumsy fellow? Why
isn't the constant exertion which he makes
for at least eight hours day calculated to
develop his body toward physical perfec-
ton? Why is it, as matter of fact, that
his only advantage over his wealthier
brethren in the brotherhood of humanity
brethren who never do stroke of work, for
example, and perhaps never exercise, that
he can eat and assimilate food which they
would not put before dog?
1.-THE laborer in the trenches cannot, as
experience shows, endure more of a physical
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-16
RESEMBLETHE JAPS,
Points About the Great Lower
Class of Mexico That
Recall the Orient.
THEIR WORKS OF ART.
Wonderful Panduro Who Will Make
a Stir at Chicago Fair.
THE POVERTY OF THE PE0NS.
Constantly In Debt, but They Can Often
Change Their Debtors.
THEIR WAGES, FOOD AND CLOTHING
THEIR WORKS OF ART.
THE POVERTY OF THE PEONS.
Constantly In Debt, but They Can Often
Change Their Debtors.
THEIR WAGES, FOOD AND CLOTHING

CORRESPONDING OF THE D1sPATcH.l
MEXICO CRY. Aup. 10.
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The Earth VIII Drink Anything.

Copyrighted, 1891, By the author.
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person In whom tenSeness Member NJ H. c.
of muscle warrants such an inference would,
if trained from infancy to hold himself erect
and walk properly, have acquired without
effort, and, indeed. unconsciously, natural
and agreeable and healthful tenseness of
muscle. Thus, indeed, the muscles would
have been trained by simple will power to
support the body and keep the spine
straight. And by tension of muscle here I
do not mean rigity; but, on the contrary, an
easy fexibility.
1.-THE following simple directions, if con-
scientiously followed, will in short time
enable any one to restore the spine, almost
If not quite, to its perpendicular position:
TO CORRECT THE CURVATURE.
"Turn the pelvis back and then draw the
head back and lift it up. Maintain the
face at right angles to the floor and walk as
long as convenient with motion altogether
from the hip joints, and not from the waist
or the knees. Pursuit of this advice regu-
larly for q few minutes morning and even
ing will in a wonderfully short time prove
of the most marked benefit.
'Iet any man, however devoted to physi-
cal exercise he may be, satisfy himself of
the almost universal prevalence of this re-
markable physical malformation by taking
a three-foot ruler and laying it along the
spine, outer clothing having of course been
removed The effort to keep the spine in
contact with this ruler simultaneously
throughout its length will be so great as at
once to convince the most incredulous of
what I say. Of course, one must breathe
and walk in that position. All movement
is an expenditure of energy, and every ex-
penditure Of emery is exercise, whether
made for pleasure or for work or in the
definite pursuit of some ultimate object
other than pleasure.
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'This uniform but absolutely variable
curvature of the spine is caused by the re-
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-17

the weather until presently the cow was
heard from.
"'Lord O. mercyr calculated the old
lady; Il do believe that critters in my
1owerbeds.'
"Never mind, mother asserted the
heroic Sallie. Gimme your crutch and
Dave and L II drive her out
"Out she flew, crutch in hand, and
Dave after her. In his excitement over
the successful working of his plot, Dave
slammed the door behind him so hard
that it blew out the lamp. The old lady
managed to hobble over and relight it
however, and had time to spare before
Dave and Sallie returned from their COW
chase, and blissful tete a-tete at the
front gate.
"'Young man. said the old lady, eye
ing Dave sternly as he reentered the
room, and thinking only of the lamp
young man, you are entirely too bois-
terous, sir; and You showed it when you
went out o this room
1.-The deuce l did, exclaimed the
startled David, taken completely una
wares and blushing furiously. Sallie
blushed with equal vehemenee and the
old lady caught right on. There was a
tableau in which the future Governor
did disappearing act, and he said that
never thereafter could he muster up
courage enough to go back to the house.
And so Sallie is now Mrs. Constable So
and-So and the Governor is confirmed
bachelor, all, he declares, on account of
that unlucky cow-and-lamp' combina-
ton"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-17
BRIEF AND STRIKING STORIES.
Some are Funny and Some are Not.
WEALTH AND IEREDITY.

WEALTH AND HEREDII1.
II. C. Stiekney in St louis Magazine.
1t is a humiliating fact that great men
are not capable of transmitting their ge-
MUS to their sons. In fact genius nev-
er comes from the male parent. On the
contrary, all the meaner traits of charac-
ter seem to be supplied to their sons by
great men, while the characteristics that
have made the father famous are entire
ly wanting.
The nerve cell developed up to the
point of producing something remarka-
bic, something out of the rut of medioc-
rity, seems incapable of going farther
and reproducing itself. Who can un-
derstand the difference between the
| brain of man who makes his mark in
the world and he who merely is born and
dies? Whatever the difference may be
be it goes no further. Not so the nerve
cell controlling the meaner sides Of a
mans character.
These are not only reproduced in the
offspring but exaggerated. A moder-
ate vice which in the father is not
known outside few personal friends,
often becomes the leading trait in the
character of the son. The son of a great
man with slight tendency to dishon-
esty, becomes an unmitigated rascal.
The sons of men of genius, while not
always fools, are always splendid speci-
mems of mediocrity.
The same law seems to prevail in
mans moral nature. Truth, honor, cour-
age, are less frequently transmitted
from the father to the son than the baser
passions.
Physically the same thing is seen.
Men of splendid physique rarely beget
sons of equal perfection. A man will
almost invariably transmit disease or
tendency to it, but not well develop
ed muscular system. Man is a lonely
creature. He stands by himself indie
pendent even of the parents who begot
him. Even they do not know him.
There are recesses in the nature of every
person into which no eye ever penetrates.
There are traits in the character no
glimpse of which is ever obtained.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-17
A STRIKING CONFESSION.


New York Press
The Dry Goods Economist is a journal
that has expressed the strongest opposi-
tion to the Mckinley tariff. But its
character as trade newspaper compels
it to print the news regarding matters in
which its readers are especially inter
ested. Thus in its issue of October 81
We find the following statement in
reference to the seal plush industry
which the Mckinley law has imported
into the United States:
The manufacture of this fabric in this
country has reached large proportions in
a short time, and the great majority of
those unacquainted with the facts have
labored under the belief that the Nc
Kinley tariff would prove a bonanza to
all who engaged in the industry But
like any article, the supply and demand
govern the price, a fact that is safe
guard to consumers, because, at the best,
an artificial price can exist only for a
short time. AS matter of fact, prices
1OA OlO dudliliCo VI ldi &c SOnSuLupJlO0
have been no higher than before, and
probably the average price realized by
manufacturers is less than before the
Mckinley tariff went into effect These
are stubborn facts in face of the many
reports to the contrary, but they are
vouched for by the largest sellers and
buyers of the goods. They interpret the
situation by the law of supply and de-
mand. Those conversant with the fabric
from its manufacture to sale agree that
better goods are made and sold for the
same price than were obtained before
the new tariff went into effect Goods
are made here and sold for $1.75, that
cannot be imported and sold for less
than $l.90 to S2.05, according to the
weight.
The old rate of duty on seal plush was
40 cents per square yard and 35 per cent
ad valorem. The present duty is 49J
cents a ward and 0per cent. ad valorem.
The difference has sufficed to create in
this country new branch of manu-
facture that will employ thousands of
workingmen at American wages, with
the result, as the Dry Goods Economist
states, that the same quality of goods is
sold for less money to-day than it was
under the former tariff.
Protection pays both the producer and
the consumer.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-17

THE laws of health are taught in our
schools; but not in way to be of much
practical benefit and are never illustrated
by living examples, which in many cases
could easily be done. If some scholar,
who had just contracted a cold was
brought before the school. so that all
could hear the dry loud cough, and know
its significance; see the thin white
coating on the tongue and later, as the
cold develops, see the profuSe watery
expectOration and thin watery discharge
from the hose, not one of them would
ever forget what the first symptoms of
cold were. The scholar should then
be given Chamberlain'S Cough Remedy
freely, that all might see that even a
severe cold could be cured in one or two
days, or at least greatly mitigated, when
properly treated as soon as the first
symptoms appear. For sale by
113-5t PATTERSON * Sons.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-17
A Little Fatherly Advice.

"If ever you marry" said an old gen
tleman to his son, "let it be a woman
who has judgment enough to superin-
tend the getting of meal, taste enough
to dress herself, pride enough to wash
her face, and sense enough to use DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription, whenever
she needs it." The experience of the
aged has shown the "Favorite Pre-
scription" to be the best for the cure of
all female weaknesses and arrangements.
Good sense is shown by getting the
remedy from your druggist, and using
it whenever you feel weak and debili-
tated. 1t will invigorate and can not
possibly do harm.