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made in It's charting. 1t is more disrep-
utable than that of any intoxicated
man who ever hunted for park bench
in the dark.
The return of Lieut.. Peary from his
unsuccessful attempt to reach this
North Pole--a disappointment which
will elicit for him the sympathy of the
public, although worse might have
happened to hin--suggests the Ques-
ton: What would he have done with
it had he reached It? Because OF the
movement above referred to, this North
Pole is--to compare a great thing to
small--like the agile flea. You put your
finger where the flea is and II isn't
there. 1t is six inches away from there.
Then you put your finger hastily in
that place, and again ii isn't there. So
IT must be with this movable North
Pole. Sooner or later a more fortunate
Peary will succeed, under a combination
OF favorable conditions, in passing the
formidable ice-barrier which thus far
has checked advance toward the pole
at about the saith degree of latitude.
Let us in our minds eye follow the
discoveries movements. Slowly and
painfully he has toiled on beyond the
Szth degree until he has reached the
Goth degree-has reached and
passed the last second of the last min
ute OF the Goth. He is there. OF
course, there is no pole to be seem
nothing like fiagstaff OF tree stump;
but there Is a place for q pole. Our
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-02

| and toes forming an angle of 60 de-
grees. Practice diligently before a
looking glass and the position is OBJ
tained, and then you are ready for a
walk.
But don't walk aimlessly and over
the same courses. Have some object
in view and, if possible, walk with
some one. He who walks without a
companion or without an object, soon
I feels his legs growing heavy and he
tires before covering half dozen city
squares. He who walks with a goal in
view, or with some one to talk to, can
walk for miles and not feel tired.
The policeman is a good example of
the man who never varies his course
of walk and who walks aimlessly. A
splendid physical specimen when he
goes on the "force'-usually he must
pass a rigid physical examination-in
a few years of walking on the same
beat and often with nothing to hold
his attention, he becomes flabby and
fat. But for a shining example of the
man with an object in view, take the
letter carrier. True, his route is the
same day in and day out, but he has
something to occupy his mind and at
tention. He must look sharp, or he'll
get his letters mixed. And the letter
carrier-whoever saw a letter carrier
with big, dropping, protruding alb
domen and a fat, clumsy body? Every
mothers son of them is wiry and mus
cular
The average business man, I'm sorry
to say. when he walks doesn't take the
| letter carrier as his ideal.
The exercises here given will help
one to obtain the proper carriage nee
| essary to health, for walking, and for
all forms of physical culture. At the
same time they will strengthen and
build up the muscles brought into play.
Do not expect to be proficient at once;
1t will take constant practice each day
ten or fifteen minutes on rising and
| the same length Of time before retiring
to enable you to do the exercises cor
rectly and with comparatively ease.
| But, if you value health and a we'll
| groomed body keep everlasting at it,
as yous do at your business, and You
will be rewarded by having glowing
| healthy body that, to show its graft
| tude to you for giving 1t pink con.
dition, will multiply your business ca
pacity an hundred-fold.
Exercise 1-If you have been stand
| ing for years as i'll figure 2, it will he
| impossible for you to hold your body
for any length of time as shown in
| figure 1. To overcome this, resort to
the exercise shown in figure g. GRASP
| firmly cane or umbrella at the ends.
| Put it behind the head and neck and
rest it on the shoulders. Then slowly
push up the stick, inhaling deeply at
| the same time. When the arms are at
| their highest oirt. throw them back,
bend the knees ana lean the body back
| wards as far as possible Hold this po-
| sition for a moment, then let the arms
| gently down to the shoulders and ex-
| hale at the same time. Repeat until
| you find that you are growing tired.
| Never permit yourself to become fag-
| ged out by one exercise. This exercise
| will help you to keep your head erect,
| your shoulders back and your chest
| well thrown out.
Exercise Pin figure the abdomen,
| instead of being held in, wofully pro-
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-02

Physical culture is more than the
busy Office mans substitute for man
ual labor. Manual labor, like every
thing else in the field of human en-
deavor, is so specialized in these mod
ern days that the workman develops
only one set of muscles-those needed
in his task of ditch digging, or what
ever he may be engaged in doing.
Even these muscles are not develop
ed properly by manual labor. Notice
the laborer digging in the street. When
he throws a shovel of dirt into a cart,
he does it, not so much by the use of
the muscles of his arms, as by the
characteristic '1aborer's swing that
he gives to his whole body. 1t is this
swing that makes the Italian laborer
bony, for ii interferes with the proper
development of the muscles that he is
supposed to bring into active play
while earning his daily bread.
Indeed, physical culture is as neces-
sary for the street laborer. if he would
secure all round development, as for
the man who makes his way through
the world with schemes born out of
his brain. Correct physical culture,
unlike. manual labor, gives exercise to
and develops every muscle in the body.
1t lets no one set of muscles gain pre-
dominance over another group, thus
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trudes. To correct this fault. lie down
on the floor. with the body stretched
and perfectly lax. Then with arms
folded across the chest and the legs
touching all the way to the feet. at
tempt to raise, as high as possible, the
upper part of the body, head, and feet
at the same time, supporting the entire
body on the hips Hold this position for
a moment. then relax. Repeat after a
short respite, and keep at it until that
tired feeling threatens. This is a very
hard exercise, so don't expect to do it
at first, but little patient practice will
give you the power. This is one of the
best exercises known for reducing the
abdomen and Strengthening the mus
cIes in this region.
Exercise Sin walking one should
have good stride; a mincing step is
very firing and equally disfiguring.
This exercise will help you to secure
the proper stride. and at the same
time strengthen the muscles of the up
per portions of the legs. Step out as
far as as you conveniently can. then
sit down Figure d as far as you can
and as long as you can. Then step out
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-02

IT comes before his dinner, for 1t
should be employed to create proper
and wholesome appetite for dinner.
There are many physical culture
systems, some intricate, some simple.
some based on common sense, and
some not. The simpler the exercise the
better Is it, and common sense must
always be present in physical culture
as in everything else that is good.
One of the simplest and best ways
70 indulge in physical culture is TO
wa1k--to walk correctly. The average
person walks incorrectly, with his body
In some such shape as shown In ng-
ure q He gets no benefit from walk
ing, for his head and shoulders, being
thrown forward, cramp his chest and
Keep him from filling his lungs with
mo fresh, bracing air that purifies ms
blood and helps to build up muscle.
Before one can expect to be benehted
oy walking, one must learn to stand
correctly-to stand as in figure !. This
position is known as "the soldier pose.
us characteristics are head up,
shoulders back, chest out. abdomen IN,
arms straight and along the sides OK
las body, knees and heels touching.
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making man strong in one spot and
leaving him weak and fiabby and an
easy prey for disease in other parts.
Properly taken physical culture will
give to the bumped, hollow-chested,
and shutting Italian, as we'll as to the
brainy man for whom he drives a pick,
the equipoise and general development
OF a truly strong and healthy man. No
one has ever seen a street laborer who
looks anything like the man in figure
l, but even the casual observer has
seen hundreds of laborers who are the
counterpart of figure 2. Manual labor
alone can't make a man look like fig
ure l, but physical culture can and is
doing 1t, as tens of thousands of men
all over this country will testify read
lily.
So, l say, physical culture is a great
deal more than the busy office mans
substitute for manual labor. 1t is as
absolutely necessary as his dinner to
the best health of every man. In fact,
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-02

position shown in figure raise the
trunk and hold up the stomach as high
as possible. Then rock forward and
backward as far as possible. Finish the
exercise by walking forward and back
ward while holding the position of
figure 6: also walk sidewise. This Is a
hard exercise and requires practice.
Besides aiding the shoulders and chest,
it is good for the back Of the arms,
the wrists and the elbows.
When done exercising take shower
bath If convenient, cold shower, pref
erably. If shower bath is out of the
question, take a towel, dip in cold
water, wiring it, and rub the body
thoroughly.
While exercising only those muscles
brought into service should be rigid,
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-02

trio North Pole is at least ten feet
from where the staff stands. and,
worse than that centuries may elapse
before 1t will again strike the staff.
But there is another side to this case,
a consideration which may afford the
key to this remarkable behavior of the
pole, for who will venture to declare
the designs of nature? No long time
viii elapse after the planting Of the
Stars and Stripes at this point of all
points on the earth's surface until there
will comes thither another adventurer,
this time from Norway, say. He, too,
win have flag to plant, and fortu-
nately he will not be obliged to touch
the STAFF already there at the risk of
international embodiment, for he will
find the pole in a different spot. Next
there will come an italian. say, and a
third staff will be planted in still a
third spot, and so on. Is 1t not con-
ceivable that in time within this in
teresting area, sixty feet across, will
stand the flags of all nations. each
supposed to mark the Pole, yet not
one OF them standing on the spot
where the elusive point really is2
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-02

All others should be relaxed. This
rule, if observed, will keep one from
becoming stiff, nervous and tagged
out before much has been done. II
any stiffness is noticed, little gentle
exercise will give almost instant re-
lief. 1t doesn't pay to stop exercising
until stiffness wears away. for with
the first days exercise it will return in
all it's uncomfortableness. The only
remedy is gentle exercise.
Anthony Barker
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-02

mento of his triumph ana started
southward--the only direction in which
he can start--than this treacherous
spot at which the earth's axis ought to
protrude, but doesn't, slips away from
the flagstaff, and by the time the adj
venturer has returned to his country
and made his report and been booked
regularly for Immortality. this eccen-
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-02
The Wandering North Pole
FROM the philadelnhia Reoord.

rIOHI pIIt IHIIdUtIpIId feCOIu,
Astronomers tell us that the earth's
North Pole has strange and thus far
unaccountable habit of being always
on the move. 1t wanders; or, perhaps,
"staggers" would be a better term by
which to. designate this peculiar habit.
During the last dozen years or SO the
movement has been watched by astron-
omers-from a safe distance-and they
have charted the thing. 1t is confined,
they say, within circular area about
go feet across. AS to the character of
the movement. If no mistake has been
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-02

explorer is equipped, of course, with
instruments by means of which he can
locate the spot with unerring precision.
lie can place his foot upon 1t, and he
does. He can do more; he can plant
there the flag of his country, and this,
too, he does. But was ever anything
more provoking? No sooner has our
explorer turned his back on this me-
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-02

And heavy Underwear Suits Shoes and Wool Overcoats
of an evening are beginning to feel comfortable When
you buy these things you want them good--the best
values to be had for your dollar You will find right
here. Whether you buy $500 Suit of Clothes Is
cent Necktie, you'll find it the very best of its kind
dollar goes long ways here
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-02

Charles w. Simpson. formerly a
wealthy bookseller and stationer OF
New York. is now an inmate Of the
aimshouse there. although sll his rela-
lives are said to be In affiuent circum-
stances. AL effort is being made to
ecmpel them to care tpr him.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-02
PHYSICAL CULTURE
FOR BUSY MEN
Prof. Anthony Baker, Recognized Author
Ity, Describes Simple Health-Givins and
Muscle-Buildins Exercises.
Copyright, by Anthony BAKERY

Copyright, 1902, by Anthony Bakery
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1902-03-08
DECORATING AROUND
1.-THE FARM HOME
How One Family Arranged its Flower Beds
nnnnnHHnnMnHn nMnMnHn MInIII

II will be but a short time until the
seed and plant catalogues will begin to
deck our reading tables again, with their
gorgeous display Of artiul flower designs,
and many housewives will be puzzling
themselves how 10 best spend their
money in order to get the best results.
We grow flowers because We love their
beauty and fragrance, and find so much
restiul peace in caring for them, for we
never come in from the fields and work
too tired to take a stroll through the
lawn among the flower beds and admire
the beauty Of some lreshly-opened bud.
Many new flowers are not for the
amateur to grow, for they belong to the
greenhouse class. Others are too tiny
in their infant days for US to care for,
while many of them are too tender for
the location we must give them. Here is
where our trouble begins We view
them in catalogues, aud read splendid
descriptions Of their growth and beauty
but when we come to grow them We Of
ten are defeated by Unforeseen causes
Therefore, before We succeed with flower
growing, We must study them, learn
something OF the classes, habits o.
growth, the art of grouping them il
beds to get the best effect, for, iiill
grouped, the stronger growers will otter
crowd out the smaller and general,
the most attractive ones.
Our house faces the south, and il
front Of the parlor window we have
triangular bed filled with tulips an,
Easter flowers. These bloom early, an.
when the tops begin to wither they ar
removed and the bed filled with doubl
and single zinnias,
We group all Of our flowers about IN
walls OF the dwelling and let them ban
up against the background exceptin
tSo circular beds in the lawn. One
these, live feet in diameter. y
have near the WELL whic
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1902-03-08

we set in Cannas. The other
is located in the open lawn expanse and
will be planted with mignonette as a
border for It's delicious odor, celosia or
coxcomb for its fiery beauty and at
tractlye appearance, and the centre
filled in with a dozen stalks OF striped
Brazilian corn or maize. Banking flowers
is our pride, because we have them out
Of the way of the lawn mower, and they
give such pretty effects across green
expanses Of lawn.
Uuder another window we have a bed
one foot by ten feet filled in with cam
pannla, marigolds and calendua. Under
a kitchen window a small bed one and A
half by five feet is filled with a half
dozen plants Of datura or sweet nightin-
gale in it's shades OF white, yellow and
purple and glossy green foliage. Under
another window We have a small bed of
daylight dolichos lhoweriug beansl.
We also train the Japanese morning
s'oIy loI lIs shaue and beautiful hued
flowers. Near yeranda bea of Jsv.
light dolichos lie trained upoD wire
netting tor shade. Also a small bed one
foot by three feet lie filed with escholz.a
In the corners Of porchgs are banked
castor beans Ricjuus Zlnzibarensis in
the background, aud zinuias, snapdyagoD
and godetia in front. Ia other noycb
angles are datua in background
with marvel OF Peru -four O'Clock, and
Phlox Drummondi in the foreground
We group these in order TO get GOOD
effect and because they grow well To-
gether in the order named. We ais,
grow beds OF carna'ion pinks. as,s,s
phlox, balsa ms and silver sage gr,o,s4
IN vacant corners about the awsrIiD, d y.
lawn. Any OF the flowers named ir ,tt
! ar'1cle are easy TO grow, and mn. csra5,,
housewife who spends her min 11'r.,, 49,
Tor any OF them vii, be almost sr,s ".ls +.
success and have a beautiful AMI ~,
Fac1Ive array Of flowers. ' ''
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1902-03-08
Birds of Oregon

A new edition of the First Book upon
the Birds Of Oregon and Washington
has just been published by the author,
VIM. Roger Lord, who was for come
time located in Portland, but is now
occupying the pulpit Of Unitarian
church In New York City. Mr.. Lord
says in his preface that II was the un.
usually strange and beautiful songs OF
the western birds that first attracted
his attention and that he was in a
measure induced by this fact to compile
his book. The chief purpote Of the book
ia TO introduce the public to the common
| irds Of the northwest, and the author
has no doubt done this in the most
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1902-03-08
wit and wisdom from New Books

Compiled by The Era for March,
Lie isa wheel, and natures move in
circles, passing the same points again
and again, the points being distant or
near TO the sense as the courses Of life
have influenced the nature.-The Right
Of Way.
Discontent is a coed thing, 1t makes
us go, as fuel does the locomotive; hut,
overcharged with 1t, We do nothing but
szzle and smoke. Musings by Camp
FIRE and Wayside.
light pocket is a plague, but light
heart and light love make amends for
much 1T We're King
There Is no such consolation TO born
coward as a logical reason for not doing
what he is afraid TO do.-Marietta, a
Maid OF Venice.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1902-03-08

Kings are great in the eyes Of
the people, but the people are
great in the eyes Of God.-Ii ]
Were King.
A woman never does care for
her own soul so much as che cares
for the man she loves. But If she
il good she cares for his soul more
than for her happiness, or even
,han for his happiness The
Alien.
Fortunately the best things in
lie are not purchssable; They
would not be best things il they
were -Musings by Campfire and
Wayside.
He read family prayers in meas
ured, exhortatory tones, as II Civ
ing the Almighty His orders for
the day - Casting OF Nets.
A word or phrase which is ps
common and familiar as our hand,
may, in some one minute ot time
take on a significance ard present
a face 80 keen and strange that il
is as il we had ever met it before,
Audrey.
Reactionsry ideas are very se'-
dom put into practice by those
who advocate them. Casting oI
Nets.
Good women don't understand
sinners and bad ones don helT
'em. The Alien.
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RENUN(IATION.

The lips we love and may not kiss,
The self we love and cast aside,
The nowery WAYS we choose 10 miss
For paths where rue and thorns abide
The wistiul eyes that see the shore,
They may not seek beyond the seas
All Life 20 Come, hast thou in store
A fft exchange for gifts like these?
March SCribner's,
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j+ararv News of the Latest Books and Periodicals

mants editorially on Germany's re'a'
tions with the United states, ana es-
pecially on what the editor chooses TO
term ''The American German element
in our population and their loyalty as
Americans. There is also iulI discus
sion of the recent Anglo German
amenities and England's attitude
toward the United States in 1898. An
other international topc OF great i'm
portance treated in this number OF the
Review is the recently ly-announced COM
pact between England and Japan.
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The March Country Life in America
heralds the coming OF spring, and, with
added pages, offers proirsion ut SUI
perb pictures relating TO all sorts Of
wild and domestic life Of the woods,
the fields and Of country places, The
Return to the SliI" is an editorial dis
cuesion OF the successes aud failures Of
the city man in agriculture and country
home making; and, further, along prac
tica lines. Altogether, the success OF
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1902-03-08

lie that would use the auxiliary verbs
correctly-who does?-u anticipate
correctly does?-use desirous aud
anxious correctly-who does use nm
ancial and pecuniary couectly-who
does?-use hasten and hurry correctly
who does?-use capable and suspectible
c1rrectly-who does?-use proposition
and proposal correctly-who does?-use
appreciate correctly-who does?-use in
dividua correctly-who does2-use. the
relative pronouns correctly-who does?
and so on and on, should study Some
Ill-Used Words, by Alfred Ayres. d.
Appleton and Company.
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this most beautiful # magazines is in
eyilable il grows monthly IN number OF
pages and breadth Of feel ng for the
outdoor world, and already is twice the
size originally planned.
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Mr.. Allen French, the author Of "The
Colouals, successful new novel Of the
beginnings Of the Revolution, is a man
who has given himself wholly to literary
pursuits. He has set out to write fiction
as life work. lie iIa well.trained and
widely read student, who takes the great.
est care in securing accuracy of back
ground and in the use Of material. He
holds the creed that not only the care
ful use OF his material is essential, but
that no permanent literary success can
be won without the greatest possible ex'
cellence Of style Issued by Doubleday
Page K Co., New Hoik.
Aproprs Of the visit of Prince Henry,
the Review of Reviews for March com
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The March winds begin to blow early
IN March number of broadway Maga-
zine" There IS wind and blow and lile'
to say nothing Of color that is not dis
NAL, in the front page. Then comes a
remarkable series Of illustrated articles.
All news-stands. Ten cents a copy, tLUo
a year. Broadway Magazine Co., l2o
West Forty-second street, New Ho-k'
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d. Appleton d Co. announce new
and revised edition OF the L. 5 Navy by
Edgar S. Maclay. in the new edition
which is now ready for publication, the
author brings his His ory down to the
present time. In the preface OF the vol
umes Of this history the autho- has eI-
pressed and emphasized his desire for
suggestions, new information, and cor
rections which might be utilized in per
fecting his work He has, therefore,
carefully studied the evidence brought
out at tne recent Schley Court OF Inquiry,
and while the findings Of that Court
were for the most plft in accordance
with the results OF his % yn historical in
vsstigations, he has modified certain
portions OF his narrative. Whatever
opinions may be held regarding any
phases Of our recent naval hislo-y, the
facts remain that the industry, care, and
tho.olghness, whica were unanimously
praised by the newspaper reviewers and
xperts in the case OF tbs first two vol
umes, have been sedulolsly applied to
the preparation OF this new edition of
the third volume.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1902-03-08

Country Life in America offers mum
Der of cash prizes for photographs to
help illustrate series Of articles on the
making Of a country home, which be-
gins in the April number OF that beau
tlful magazine.