The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-04-18


my bones are pierced in me In
the night season and my sinews take
no rest"
why do the heather rage and the
people imagine vain things?"
"They mock at my calamity, they
lift up the horn against me-"
My best girl yelled until she split
her left lung and has gone to the
mountains for lighter air and now
sit solitary and alone. My best
friends all lost their dough and have
lifted up their heel:against me. The
deacon's wife bet FIVE dollars and
lost and it is about to make ship
wreck of her faith.
But our western gymnasium will
soon be supplanted by the lazy mans
gymnasium from the east. In Chi
cago they have a place where the ex-
ercise is all done by machinery.
They have machine into which you
can put your foot and it will be sha-
ken so fast that you can hardly see
it. Another machine will jerk and
swing your arms about. In another
you lie face downward on lounge
and the arms of reel from below
will punch you in the stomach. At
tendants will place their patients on
benches and rub and pound them
and knead their inward parts. All
this is done for the accommodation
of people who are too lazy or aristo-
cratic to either work or take exer-
else In a common gymnasium.
The preacher, professor or bust
ness man all say they work with
their brains while other men work
with their hands. But that is not the
kind of work the Lord meant when
he said: "By the sweat of thy face
shalt thou eat bread" The latter
will tone up a mans stomach and re-
lieve his torpid liver, while the for
mer will only aggravate the trouble.
The student of history cannot fail
to discover the divine origin of this
law in the fate of nations. Rome
placed her iron heel on the neck of
every nation under heaven, yet when
she became wealthy and stepped in
luxury and idleness she was easily
by the barbarous tribes of
the north. And today the mightiest
empire on earth is being shaken to
Its foundation by few thousand
Dutch farmers, who for a century
had to battle with poverty and wild
beasts and wild men on the one hand
and the greed of gold grabbers on
the other.
But we do not have to leave home
to study the effect of this great law.
When the rebellion broke out and
called for troops, the west
with their farmers, me-
chanics, cowboys and laboring men
Of all kinds, while the east sent their
clerks and dudes and everybody who
had never earned their bread by
physical labor. While such men as
Generals Logan, Fremont and Grant
were pounding the rebels at Wilson
Greek and Shilon and Corinth, the
gifted and chivalrous soldier Nc
Clellan was drilling his Grand Army
Of the Potomac. Finally, after months
Of anxious waiting, the country saw
them don their good clothes and fine
rigs and, with all the pomp of tri.
lmphal procession, they started
down to take Richmond. At Bull Run
they saw few rebels and, becoming
panic stricken, they ran pell nell
back to Washington, and had the
rebs been wise they would have
chased Mcclellan on through the
Capitol and planted their flags Oh the
white house. But the God of battles
scared them away by the sound of
noise in the mulberry trees, or some
other mysterious way, until the boys
in the west had finished their Job,
then they went east and started the
rebels back toward Richmond. All
one summer they waded through
blood, driving the enemy from trench
TO trench, until finally one Sunday
Jeff Davis and his gang had to leave
church in haste and flee for their
lives. And Robert e. Lee, one of the
greatest generals that ever lived, had
10 surrender to a man who a short
time before had earned his bread by
peddling cord wood on the streets of
st. Louis.
/ do not want you to understand
that / am opposed to athletics as
pastime or sport. l am only opposed
TO giving it too prominent place in
the development of true character
and manhood.
A man who destroys a thorn or
thistle has taken some healthy exer-
else and left the world better but the
man who has been successful in foot
ban has only vanquished an adver-
sary and perhaps injured himself.
But nature shows no mercy to
those who violate her laws. So she
soon destroys those who will not
work and earn their bread by the
sweat of their faces. 1t Is said that
we're it not for the constant infusion
Of country blood into the life of our
great cities, they soon would be de-
populated. One of the great educa-
tors OF New York said in Des Moines