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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-13

KNOTTY MUSCLES
OF LITTLE VALUE,


A professional strong man came into
my gymnasium the other day.
Say, Bob" he said, I'd like to be a
boxer"
"A boxer, eh?" I replied. What
makes you think you would make a
good boxer?'
"Why, I am as strong as a lion. Just
come in here and I'll show you"
And then his strong man went TAO
my gym" and took the heavy weights
and the heavy punching bag and the
punching machine and made them look
sick. He tossed them around like
feathers. He was putting and blowing
like a purpose in a moment, but he
stepped back M looked at me with a
smile. He certainly was a picture Of
strength. The muscles stood out all
over his body in big knots. From top
to toe he was one mass of knotty, pro-
truding cords.
Flows that for a starter?'' he said.
I didn't say a word. His ignorance
was pitiful to me. Walking over to one
side of the room. I took a set of boxing
gloves from the wall n handel him
a pair. Following my lead he put them
on.
1t took me o two minutes to show
that chap just how useless, unwieldy
and impracticable his muscles were. He
handled himself like a cart horse. He
was as slow on his feet as a messenger
boy.
And his brain acted as did his mus
cles, slowly and stiff1y. Although, {. big
man. weighing perhaps two hundred
pounds. he did not make as good show
ing with me as many amateur light
weights with whom I had put on the
gloves.
think I showed him clearly the use
lessness of his heavy weight-lifting
muscles. They We're good for one thing,
the service for which they had been
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-13

my seat, take a shorter and firmer grasp
of the reins, CHI: rup to Jack and away we
60. r.
=, I believe my horse enjoys a brush with
another as we'll as I do. He settles down
to hard work, n as we near the end of
the road he seems to put on more steam
in an effort to shake off his opponent. II
. Then I begin to feel the blood course
through my veins with renewed force; |
tell him to get along like a dear old fer-
low, n as we come tearing down to he
finish 1 put my whole mind on the one
thought that Jack simply must beat the
other horse. 80
i And he does, too, a great many times!
, I never use a whip on a horse, and
don't believe in it. I make friends with
the horse I am to drive, and when I want
more speed I speak to him. I feel that
If kindness cannot get a horse to go his
fastest a whip cannot. ="
Jack, the horse l drive, is a half brother
to Star Pointer, and has a mark of 2:12h,
He is my favOrite steed, and seems to
feel an equal affection for~-ne. Hers
sixteen and a half hands high, and is
driven without a check. M .
I use a road wagon Weighing about
slxty-five pounds. l like a stiff wagon
BETTER than one that is too light. I usu-
ally sit we'll forward in my seat, and
keep a short grip on the reins. This posi-
ton is perhaps not exactly as graceful as
others, but it is far more conIfortable.N
Sometimes my husband accompanies
me with Anheuser, but 1 generally work
out alone. Jak is a reliable animal and
never causes me any alarm.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-13

trained. Like every athlete in his pro-
fession he was muscle-bound. Those
huge masses of muscle, gained at the
expense of many, many hours hard
work, were for all practical purposes of
no more use than a hand organ would
be to a shipwrecked sailor on a raft in
the middle of the Atlantic ocean.
In fact, such muscles serve to help
shorten ones life. The muscle-bound
man with every fibre of his body drawn
to a tension that pulls at the very heart
strings, nine times out of ten dies with
what is known as an athletic heart
A muscle-bound man is worse than a
skin-bound horse. He is as awkward
and ~ungainly as a crocodile would be
in a ballroom. Take him away from
his chosen profession and he is all at
cla. He is a frightful object lesson
against the use Of heavy dumb bells
or heavy weights of any kind.
The man or boy who wants to become
quick, strong n clever must avoid the
use of heavy weights as carefully as
though they were poisonous snakes.
They completely destroy all that sup
pleness and agility which marks every
detail of the clever athletes work.
Be a man a runner, jumper, boxer or
in fact anything under the sun except
q heavy weight litter, he can have no
use for knotty, unweilding masses Of
strength.
Even our best wrestlers nowadays
recognize the fact that muscles of that
kind are of no use to them. They know
that there are right and wrong muscles
just as well as they do that there is a
right and wrong way to wrestle. They
know that such muscles bring them
premature GOLD and eaarly death.
And thus it is that every ambitious
young athlete should strive to train his
muscles in the proper way. Light dumb
bells, Indian clubs and other muscle
building weights hould never be for
saken.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-13
GUIDING A HORSE ON TO VICTORY.

I think speeding behind a fast trotter
the grandest sport of all. If more women
could get out on the road and feel the
thrill that comes when you are cutting it
gu at a 2:20 clip or better, there would
be fewer .prematurely old women with
weakened NERVES in society.
i l have gone Oh. for a drive behind my
horse, feeling depressed, and nave come
back in the best of spirits, with my head
clear and feeling years younger. I find
the excitement of mixing it up on the
road win some other driver the very best
of tonIcs, and heartily commend this to
my sisters as a nerve sOother.
l have been a lover of horsefiesh as
long as l can remember, though it has
only been for the past nine or ten years
thai I have been behind fast trotters. I
was born and brought up in the country
and must ave taken a fancy to horses at
ar early age. for one of my earliest recol-
l~ections is falling off of old Tarlton, on
whose back I had tried to scramble.
Those We're jolly days for me, for my
father had quite a number of horses on
his place, and / felt happier than
When seated in the road wagon behind
one of them and taking long jaunts on
the country roads. Nearly every morse
on the place knew my whistle and would
come up to me when I called them.
HOW SHE RACES.
The Speedway, New York's. famous
drive, is my objective point nearly every
pleasant afternoon nowadays. Seated be-
hind Jack in a road wagon, I jog along at
an easy clip until someone draws abreast
and looks as If he wanted to haNc a trial
of speed. Then I settle myself firnlly in
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-13
SPORTS OF COUSIN JOHN CH|NAMAN.

little. Many kites, especially Korean,
have u hole in the center. This is said 70
steady Them. The time for kite flying
is in the spring only. On the 14th day
of the first month, Korean parents write
on a kite a wish that the years misforI
tunes may fly away. A piece of sulphur
is tied to the tail of such a kite SO that
it may burn the tail and cause the kitP
to fall. Kite-flying is considered the best
of fun. No American could copy the skill
of the kite fighters, who make their toys
perform wonderful feats high in the air.
Chinese kites are made in N beautt-
ful shapes. The double fan in a favor
lite. 5S'i
Tops are immensely popular in all
Eastern countries. In China the peg or
is the favorite. They are
spun in winter on frozen ground or ice
The Chinese have a game in which
saucer-shaped tops. filled with shells, are
spun. The top which carries Its load
longest wins. Humming-tops are COM
monty made, and there are, besides,
whistle-tops and lantern-tops. The Chi
nese name for h~umming-top is literally
thunder-tOp.
Chinese blind -man's-buff is quite sim
liar to our game, and SO are Chinese
stills, Chinese boys are as fond as Amer.
can village .urchins of cutting lanterns
out of turnip-tops, and Chinese girls play
cats cradle. Leap frog is most popular,
so is theskipping-rOpeS, swinging, n
the see-saw.
The Chinese are great gamblers, in
deed the passion for speculation has
sue q hold upon them that they will
gamble on anything and everything, and
the greater he excitement provided by
the fluctuating element of nance the
more it is to their kim
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-13

The Chinaman Is SO tremendously hard
working thai it is difficult to imagine
when he finds time for games. But, like
everyone else, he has an occasional hOli-
day. about twenty in M year., and on
these occasions he goes in for games with
much vigor.
There is hardly a game we play our
part Of in China. Indeed, many. of our
garmes such as football, battledore and
shuttlecOck, chess and backgammon, we
owe directly to Chinese inventiveness.
Shutt;ecock, though played in Japan with
a ba.ttledore, is played by Chinese coolies
with their feet. The shuttlecock, called
literally Chicken Feather Swallow" is
made Of several pieces of snake skin,
about an inch and a half in diameter.
having a few feathers roughly stuck in
the top. This and q similar game with
a small ball Is played chiefly by the
kwangtung men.
CHINESE FOOTBALL.
Football Is played in inland China. The
biggest men form the team. There are
from twenty to forty a side. The game
lasts until one side wins-that is, drives
the ball right through the town and out
on the other side.
All our children's games are common
in China, top spinning, kite flying. blind
man's-buff. hide-and-seek, stills, and
many others. OF these, kite flying is the
most important, and is INDUCED in by
men as well as children. Chinese kites
are usually square, the string is made Of
pure silk and is wound on a wooden reel,
rather like a fishing reel. People of dir
terent grades of society use string of diff
ferent colors. The string is the most ex-
pnsive part, h kite costing but very
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-13
MOTTO FOR PUBLICATION.
Department of the Interior. Land ONCE
at Helena. Mont. Sentemher Il 1900.

at Helena. Mont, September II, 1900.
Notice is hereby given that the fol-
lowing-named settler has filed notice of
his intention to make final proof in sup
port of his claim. and hat said proof
will be made before Charles Houck, U.
S Commissioner al Anaconda. Mont,
on October :e.h. 1900. viz: John Ole
Allen, for homestead entry No. 1911 for
the n. e. quarter sec. "a. :. I n. w. r. II W.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon and
cultivation of said land. viz: John Kar-
lax, Arthur ,. Lindsey, William Callen.
Thomas Parker, of Anaconda. Mont.
GEORGE u. GREENE,
Register.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-13

Crisceus has troted four miles below
2:O7 in races one more than Directum
trotted below that mark in all his career.
Cresceus has also trotted ten miles below
POS, which is one more than The Abbot
has trotted below. that mark.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-13

The Abbot 2:03A, Fantasy 2:06, Lord
Derby 2:O7, Nightingale 2:0s, The Monk
2:0SA, Dare Devil 200 and Battleton
2:O9M, all troters n race horses, We're
bred by he Hamlins.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-13
C0URSING, SADDLE and SULkY, THE RING

Jockeys ,ok UP the American seat and
short stirrups. Sloan was all the vogue.
Scan has ridden for the Prince OF
Wales several times this year, but no n
suspected he would be engaged to ride
fer him next a This move of the
princes smashes the old tradition tina.
only an Engiishman could ride a horsc
properly. Now everybody In England is
likely to follow the lead set by royalty
and secure American Jockeys.
The Reiff brothers. Johnny n Lester.
ave assisted materially IN the change
of sentiment toward our Jockeys. Their
ability In the saddle and their excellent
behavior in private has compelled rec
OsnitiOn to the greatest riders in the
worh-the American jockeys.-Chicago
journal.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-13

apOiiS on FRIDAY OF last week, n IN
which Anaconda was distanced, Is thus
referred to by one of the papers pub
lished in that city: THE much-adver-
tised match race between Searchlight.
2:o3k, II Anaconda, 2:02A, on the
State Fair track, was a disappointing
event both on account of the weather
and on account of the action Of the driv-
ers in the second and last heat, and
when Mccarthy and McHenry returned
to the judges stand both were Kissed by
the disappointed crowd The first heat
was gotten off with Searchlight half q
neck behind, and when the half mile was
reached Anaconda had increased the dis
tance to a full length. In the third
quarter Searchlight recovered the lost
ground, and they passed the pole head
and head. Searchlight gradually gaining
on the homestretch and passing under
the wire fully four lengths in the lead.
Time, 2:12. The second heat was a pro-
ceSsion rather than a race. At the
seventh furlong pole Anaconda broke
and was pulled down to a walk. and the
distance flag shut him out. Searchlight
passed under the wire in 2:14.
So. far this has not been a great year
for ''baby performers" Not a single
yearling has beaten thre minutes, a two
year old 1925. nor a three year old beat
ing 2:14. Racing men regard this lack
of phenomenal showing by youngsters
as rather encouraging than discourag-
ing, for to us 1t means better aged
horses. Many of the brightest prospects
for worlds records ever foaled have been
knocked out before maturity.
Joe Rhea has the Marcus Daily string
of young ~trotters at the Lexington. KY,
track. The youngsters viii start at the
Lexington meeting the first week in
October. Rhea e to Montana
avowedly in the last stages of pulmon-
airy disease and went to work for Mr..
Daily believing that he had only a few
months to stay on earth, but from the
: first moment he mounted a Bitter Root
sulky he began to improve and he is now
q we'll man, besides having done well
with the young things placed in his
charge.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-13

NOUS TRpTEDJ JACK 10
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-01-19
Sale of Real Estate.

BY virtue of an order and decree OF the
county Court OF Rock Island county. Illinois.
made on the petition OF The underS gned. vii
Ii IN DOOnau. administrator OF the eState-D'
FredeIi lex Buckley, deceased, for leave TO sell
the real estate of said deceased. at the Janu.
term A u. 1900. of said court. tO-wiJ: On
9TH day of February ueX.. between the hOu :
Of 10 O'Clock in tue forenoon and clock in
the ate no n or Said uav. sell At puOhc sale
at the east door OF the court house in the city
Of Rock Island. in said county, the real estate
described as follows. to-wit:
The west half 90 OF the northwest quarter
90 OF section twenty-One t2ll. in township
sixteen l6). north range three 49,. west of tbs
fourth principal me- idial, containing eighty
800 acres more or l-sS
Also the north eaStquarter 90 of tn south
wet quarter OF secIiNn twtDJy-one (2D. IN
township sixteen 90. north range three 81.
west Of the fourth principal meridian, contain
ing forty tiOD acres more or less
Also the following, viz: Beginning at a point
in the east line of the sOuthwt - qu after 90 OF
ion number twenty-One (2D in tow ship
number Xteen (I6J north OF range number three
rlnety-tye I95D rods north OF the southeast
corner OF the north one-half "a OF the north
west quarter ca of section number TWEEN v
eight t2sD II township number sixteen co
north range three 81 west of the fourth prin
cipal meridian, the zee north siXty-tive (65
rods more or less to the northeast corner of
section number twcuty-One t2D: thence west
at right angles, one hundred and sixty G6Jl
rods 10 the wess line of sad section number
tWenty-One CD thence south along said west
line ii vty-tiv- t6'J rods: theDce east one hun
dred sixty $50 rods to the point of begin
ming, containing ~iNty-iivc f65D acres more or
less AL in the county of Rock Island and
state OF Il ino~. on the following TENS TOW i-:
For cash n hand at the date OF sad ~Ils.
Dated this ~Jh day OF January. 4 ID. 1900
WILLIAM II. DOONAN.
Admins rdtor OF the estate OF FrcdericK
Buckley. deceased.
SAMUEL K hENTwURrHY, Solicitor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-01-19
BUSINESS FAILURE
Is Frequently Caused by the Worry
Attendant On Dyspepsia.

If you would win in the Battle of Life
you must have clear brain, keen
senses, perfect vigor, shrewdness, en-
ergy and ambition.
Dyspepsia kills these needful quail
ties. You can't succeed if you are con-
stantly tortured by dyspepsia or indi-
gestion. But you can get rid of dys-
pepsia, indigestion, biliousness, sour
stomach, or any other ailment of stom-
ach or digestive organs by simply
taking one or two of Dodd's Dyspepsia
Tablets after each meal.
With a perfect digestion go a strong,
healthy body, a clear, capable brain,
Yigor, ambition, determination, ener-
gy, activity, keen, alert senses. Dodd's
Dyspepsia Tablets ensure all these.
Dodd's Dyspepsia Tablets have new
er failed to cure any or all of the dis
eases named when they have been
fairly tried. They cannot fail.
DR.. r. B. Strong, New York City,
writing in the American Journal of
Health. describes Dodd's Dyspepsia
Tablets as a remedy which could not
possibly be more efhcacious though il
emanated from council of the leading
physicians of the world.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-01-19
UNITED NINE WORKERS.
Radical Resolution That Was Reporte
Unfav solutions Acted On. -

Radical Resolution That Was Reported
UnfavOrabIy-ResOIu Acted On.
indianapolis. Jan. 19.-PreSident
Mitchell presided al yesterdays session
of the United Mine Workers The COM
mittee on resolutions reported several
resolutions. which We're disposed Of
The most radical proposition presented
TO the committee was in resolution
providing that if any federal judge i'm
posed a sentence similar TO that given
John L. Reese by Judge Williams. of
Fort Scott. Kan. the entire forces of
the United Mine Workers be sus-
pended until the courts order was
reScinded. The committee reported
against the resolution. The initiative
and referendum resolution relating to
popular vote on all matters relating
TO government was tabled.
Resolutions TO abolish pluck me-
stores We're adopted: another To ~appro-
pirate $1,000 from the national treas
ury for the southwestern striking min
erS was killed: another 10 abolish the
use of script" and boycott non-union
made goods was tabled: another Ia
compel operators when men are not
working to pay for full time in cash
was passed.
y report was adopted by the conven-
ton which is strongly against the
Knight of Labor
The scale committee met yesterday
afternoon and organized with W. ID.
Ryan. of Illinois. president. After the
Adjournment of the days session the
committee again met and decided to
take no action until after the election
of officers
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-01-19
PIG IRON PRICES ARE STRONG,
No Weakening from the December Level
Finished Materials Firmer.

No Weakening from the December Level
Finished Materials Firmer.
Cleveland, Jan. 19.-The Iron Trade
Review says: Just how long Il wait
the pig iron trade can stand and still
maintain prices on the level of today
is question on which opinions are OF
little value. The important fact is that
there has been no weakening from the
December level and that production
does not grow according 10 theoretical
calculations. Meanwhile there are
signs of greater firmness in some fin
ished materials, particularly plates and
sheets, which for some time have been
notably weak.
The equilibrium between production
and consumption of pig iron. which
was reached in December had changed
to an insignificant gain in stocks on
Jan. l. the report of the Western Pig
Iron association showing 10000 tons
more on that date than on Dec. l..
Foundry buyers. who will need cOnsid-
crably more iron for the first half OF
the year. are waiting, believing that
lower prices are due. But from the
standpoint of the furnaccmcn the con-
ditiOnS do not suggest concessions.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-01-19
FIGHTING AN INJUNCTION.
City Dads of Milwaukee Want to Have
Ludwig Restrained Now.

Milwaukee, Jan. 19.-The Milwau-
kee street railway fight has been trans
ferred TO Madison. Yesterday morning
Mayor David Ross. Alderman COrcOran
president of the council, and City
Clerk Schuengcl. accompanied by At
torneyS Hugh Ryan and Charles
QuarleS. went to Madison and applied
to the supreme court for an alternative
writ of prohibition to prevent Judge
Ludwig from proceeding further in the
contempt case under which they have
been convicted of contempt of court
for passing the street franchise extern
sion against the order of Judge Lud-
wigs court.
His sentence upon them has not yet
been passed and this is what they seek
to prevent. The writ is asked on the
ground that Judge Ludwi2'S court has
no jurisdiction.
Madison. Wis. Jan. 19.-The su-
prime court yesterday afternoon, in
chambers. granted an alternative writ
of prohibition restraining Judge Lud-
wig, of the superior court, Milwau-
kee, from going further in the con-
tempt proceedings against the city Off
cials in the street railway case.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-01-19
STATE BINDER AND PRINTER
iowa Legislature Refuses to Elect Chose
OmcinI>-BiIlS introduced.

iowa Legislature Refuses to Elect Those
omcinI>-BiIlS introduced.
Dies Moines. Ia. Ian. 19.-The two
houses of the legislature have defeated
the proposition 10 elect 4 state binder
and printer Bernard Murphy. of Vim
ton, and Howard Tedford. OF Mount
AYR. are the candidates for state print
er and state binder. In every session
of the legislature for years there has
been Il fight for the adjustment Of the
offices. BY 4 vote of 40 TO % the house
defeated proposition 10 elect these
officers. and later the proposition was
defeated in the joint convention The
failure to elect was i great surprise.
and indicates that the offices may pos
sibly be- abolished this session.
In the senate Cheshire introduced
his bill To tax telephone, telegraph,
and express companies. under the
mileage system. based upon the entire
capital stock of the corporation. as is
done in Indiana. The bill is expected
TO stir up bitter opposition on the part
of the companies in the state affected.
The senate held memorial exercises for
Ex-Governor {. c. Carpenter. EN-
Governor Larrabee. Governor Shaw.
and Senators Healy and Bolter deliv-
cred eulogiStic addresses. Cheshire
introduced a bill apprOpriating S2l2.-
600 for Il state agricultural college at
Ames. and continuing n tenth-mill tax
for the college five wears
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-01-19
Corner Second Avenue and Seventeenth St
LEGAL.
Administrators Notice.

Estate OF WI lam J Shea. deceased.
The undersigned having been appointed ad-
ntntstratriI of the estate OF William j.
Shea, late of the county of Rock Is
land. state of Illinois, deceased hereby
gives notice that she viii appear before
the county court of Rock Island county, at the
county court room. in the city of Rock Island.
at the February term on the first Monday ia
February next. which time all persons
having claims against said estate are notified
aud requested to attend. for the purpose OF
having the same ad justed.
AL persons indebted TO said estate are re-
luested to make immediate payment to the
undersigned.
Dated this 18th day OF December. A. ID. 1899
CATHERINE SHEA Administrative.
MCESIRY 4 MCESIRY, solicitors.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-01-19
Local Markets.

Sheep-4T4iz-
sCorn-3yTs3l.
Oats -24a=5.
Hay-TImO:hy- $3.50
Straw-S4- 5GfIS5-
POtatOes-25c.
Butter-Choice 70 fair. sOci fresh creamery,
Sc
Eggs-2Dc.
Hens-5c per pound.
Spring Chickens-6c.
TurkeyS-Sc-
Ducks-6c.
Coai-Soft. lie
Cattie-ButcheFs pay for corn fed steers
5G5A; cows and heIfers1 315Gi1:' calves. 515c.
Eogs-4SSG4