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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-09-16
John r. Keith.

The body of John II. Keith, who died
10 the Philippines last year, will arrive
in Walhalla this afternoon, by express
from New York, where it arrived Mon
day on the United States army transport
Fitzpatrick, along with 3O1 other bodies
of dead soldiers. Mr.. Keith was pri-
vate in Troop A, Fifteenth Cavalry, U.
s. A, While serving in the Philippines
he took sick and died on June 8, 1902.
His body was sent home by tho govern
ment No definite arrangements for the
burial have been made.
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Miss Lula Earle, the eldest daughter
of Capt. j. II. Earle, of Midway, left
Tuesday morning for Rock Hill, where
she will enter as student In the Win
throp Normal and Industrial College.
She is one of our bright and promising
young ladies and we feel sure she will
take high stand in her classes.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-31

of bones and killing.
How this form of wrestling came to
bear a partly Grecian title is not salts
factorily explained. The superstition is
that the Romans, who used this modi-
fication of catch-as-catc h-can, not only
named 1t but created it. 1t was eX-
ceedingly popular in the latter days
of the Empire, and to-day it is favored
above all other styles in those CONT
mental countries that the Romans in
vaded, such as France, Germany and
Spain.
In those sections of the United
States largely settled by Germans and
ScandinaVians the Greco Roman bout
is held in all it's Old time glory. Each
community has it's recognized cham
pion who. when farming is not occu-
pying all the time of the immigrants,
is wrestling for his hackers delight
with the champions of neighboring
communities. The Germans are espec-
tally adept in this form of wrestling.
According to experts, the defense
has a little advantage in Greco-Ro-
man, of which four of the more noted
holds follow. AS in catch-as-catch-can
many other holds may be worked out
by little study and practice of these
holds.
DO not forget that the exercise
should Se taken moderately. and that
holds which might prove too severe
should not be carried out to the end.
Be careful also to see to 1t that your
lungs will get an unlimited quantity
of fresh air while you are exercising,
which for best results should be
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-31
From the New York Press.

I should like to live three genera
hence, to see the result of so much
physical training on posterity. The
great majority of people are now TAX
ing some form of exercise. Smart fell
lows, seizng opportunity by the fore
book by selling a hundred and one
schemes for body contortion and mus
Gle building. Most of the instructions
are perfectly idiotic. They are about
on a par with the physicians advice to
a new patient. my dear fellow" he
said, you need exercise. Let me pre-
scribe a walk of five or six miles
day" Couldn't stand a mile more,
DOCTOR" replied the sick man. I'm
making at least thirty miles a day
now" Indeed? What is your bust
ness?" I'm a postman." The most
sensible advice is to follow the ex
ample of your cat in the manner of ex-
ercise. There is no better instructor
than tabby.
When anatomists want to show per-
feet skeleton they produce that of cat.
Cabby is so common that we lose
sight of it's virtues. Every movement is
a poem. Its muscles are short; its &C
ton lightning. In repose it is statue.
1t takes long periods of rest, with every
nerve, muscle, sinew, bone, vein and
artery relaxed. It's rest is the rest that
humans need but cannot obtain. When
ever a cat gets up after a sleep it goes
through a complete system of exercise,
one that nature has taught it. Stu
dents of this have profited.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-31
BY BASSETT STAINES.
Copyright 1908 by BaSsett Staines

in our business. He soon gets scared
to death running in and out among
dozen of ships when he's been used to
hundreds of miles of open water all
around him. He stands it as long as
he can, but at last he hollers down to
us, Say, hadn't you better go a bit
slower? The pilot grins, and, of course,
1 jest signal to my engineer to shove
her along a bit faster. We take her
full tilt on the wharf till that old man
on the bridge is trembling like a jelly;
and then we jest stop her a hundred
feet off and land her 'longside as if she
was glass. You bet we teach those
merchant shippers that we know our
business"
Slipping by Danger.
Standing by the side of Capt. Peet
as he steered the tugboat Baltic
through New Yorks crowded harbor
gave an insight into the daily perils
of the business.
No sooner had the Baltic got clear
of her wharf than another tugboat
bore down on her starboard side and
a big ferryboat threatened to ram her
on the port. 1t seemed impossible to
escape a collision with one or both of
them, but Capt. Peet gave a little
twist to the wheel and the Baltic
glided out of danger, missing the stern
of the ferryboat by a few feet.
Wasn't that pretty near thing?"
the land-lubber queried.
The captain looked surprised.
I'VE shouldn't call that near" he
said. IF you want adventure you've
chosen the wrong time. The rivers
empty to-day. A child could navi-
gate it,"
Empty! It seemed to the unin-
strl'cted eye of a landsman simply
chock full of putting tugboats, I'M
wieldy ferry steamers and ocean
tramps, all getting in one another's
way and threatening to run one an
other down.
feet of big passenger steamer which
was coming down the river as II she
were a torpedo boat. The skipper no
ticed his visitors concern.
The TugbOatman's Chief Concern.
collisions are very rare" he said
comfortingly "a man gets so used
10 the business that he steers by in
sunct rather than reasons lie lodges
other boats without thinking about IL,
just as you would avoid humping into
people on crowded sidewalk. yard
saves a collision over and over again,
but we don't get ratified. A miss IL
az good as q mile.
our only worry IL when some brass
bound captain OF a nickel?plated yacht
come careering up the river Ten to
one he Knows nothing about a. and
he's Just like a man trying 90 learn how
20 ride q bicycle in o crowded street.
lie folls over everything and gets Ia
epeFybodys way. Yea, those yacht
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-31

captains put the fear of death into US
sometimes"
Talk to any old tugboatman and he
will spin you yarns that would make
the literary fortunes of half a dozen
Clark Russells. Every one of them
has his stories of storm and collision
and fWe to tell.
Il remember" said one, ten years
ago, we were beating about off Sandy
Hook, twenty miles out at sea. It was
a terrible night-dark and foggy with
high sea running. l had just step
ped out of the galley after supper
and happened to look up. There was
the stem of a big liner towering right
over us! Next moment she struck us
amidships and cut us clean in halves.
There was hardly a second for thought,
but | knew in a flash that If l jumped
to port of her the sea would wash me
into her propeller So 1 jumped to star
board, and as her huh flashed past me,
I caught rope dangling in the water,
and they drew me aboard Curious
thing was, not one of our crew was
drowned except my pet dog. that I
wouldn't have taken a hundred dollars
for
The story of Dog.
Talking Of dogs" remarked another
old shellback, did you ever hear of
the dog that saved a tugboat's crew?
The boat was tied alongside the
wharf one night, and all the crew were
asleep aboard. Along about midnight
she caught fire and blazed up beau
tifully. The dog howled and barked,
but he couldn't wake the crew, so he
trotted up to the cook and bit him on
the leg. The cooks yell woke the rest,
and they just had time to get clear
ashore before the boat was a mass Of
flames"
1--WE don't usually look on collisions
as lucky things" said a third tugboat-
man, but l know of a young fellow
down Boston way who got a wife and
a fortune through one.
He was deckhand on a Boston tug,
and she was run down one night by
tramp steamer outward bound for San
Fernando, Trinidad. The captain was
drowned, but the rest of them were
picked up and carried to Trinidad.
When they got there, the others were
sent back to Boston by the American
consul: but the deckhand liked the
place and stayed. getting job to boss
gang of coolies on a cocoa planta-
ton.
He was a smart young fellow, and
he made good In a couple of years
he was the planters chief overseer,
and had a small plantation of his own
besides. Then the planters daughter
came cut from England. where she
had been finishing her education.
They fell in love with each other and
got married. The planter gave 'em
a pretty good start. and now that
deckhand is one of the wealthiest
oo,oa growers in Trinidad and has a
treasure of a wife. It was a lucky
collision for him"
TennysOn's TUgbOat Captain.
This story recalled a sadder tale
which is related OF an English tug
boat skipper IL was told to Tenny-
son by the late Lord Acton, and is
supposed to have suggested "Enoch
Arden"
The shippers tug was cut down in
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-31

Copyright, 1903, by Anthony Barker)
The phlegmatic or the stout man who
wants to take up an advanced form
of physical culture can find nothing
better suited to his temperament and
physique than the Greco Roman style
of wrestling. Unlike catch-as-catch
can, it does not require a great amount
of agility. 1t demands hard and
steady work, and that is what the
phlegmatic man needs, if he is to be
developed properly.
Greco Roman has been made a fat
mans exercise by the rule which de-
clares that no hold of any sort is fair
below the waist line. There is no leg
wrestling whatever, even tripping
fair in the three other recognized forms
of wresthng-being barred. The legs
are used simply and solely as a base.
Above the waist line, however, any
hold is allowable, and, as in catch-as-
catch-can, it can be changed as often
holds are the same or analogous to
catch as-ca tch-can holds.
Despite its name. the ancient Greek
athletes did not strive with one an
other in this fashion. They wrestled
largely after the catch atch-can
style, for all holds were fair with
them. They even went so far at times
as to allow gouging, kicking, breaking
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-31

Southampton Water by Royal Mail
steamer bound to the River Plate. He
was saved and carried thither, In
Argentine he got mixed up in a revo-
luton and was thrown into Jail. Al
ter his release a series of misfortuneS
prevented him from returning home,
and over two years had passed before
he saw Southampton again. His
home coming was like that of Enoch
Arden. He found that his wife, be-
lieving him to be dead, had married
another man. His house and his pos
sessions were in the hands of a stran-
ger. He did not anguish and die,
like the hero of the poem; he simply
went back to South America after
painful interview with his wife, who
vainly implored him to stay, and he
was never herd of again.
TugbOat Tragedies.
As a rule tugboatment are happy,
jovial fellows, full of fun and high spir-
it's; but tragedy is never far removed
from their daily experiences. Any day
they may pick up a dead body floating
in the harbor-Some unhappy girl who
has flung herself off the bridge, or
some drunken deckhand who has fallen
off the wharf while trying to stagger to
his ship.
Il ought to be hardened to it by this
ferring to the unpleasant part of his
work, land l don't mind pulling up
mans body so much as l used 10 do
when 1 was a green hand. But every
time we come across a woman floating
in the water l turn sick and think of
my little wife at home. My old captain,
who'd been at the game for forty years,
used to get hysterical sometimes when
this happened. I've seen him cry like
a child.
"A man needs to be pretty tough at
this business" the mate continued
I've seen some nasty sights. A few
years ago / was in a tugboat about
thirty miles off shore, and we had
picked up a leaky, rotten old tub of
schoonepwhich had come through some
heavy weather in the West Indies. A
tearing gale caught US, and the tow
line parted We tried to beat up to
her, but terrible sea caught her on
the beam, and down she went before
our very eyes, with all hands aboard.
We saw them struggling in the water,
but we could do nothing. BY the time
we reached the place, there was moth
ing left but a few pieces of wreckage.
There's another bad day l well re-
member. We had a cook aboard who
was too fond of whisky. He went
crazy with it one day, and tried to
throw himself overheard / just man
aged to lay hold of him as he was half
over the side, and we locked him up in
his bunk. taking away his jack-knife
and razor.
Presently. passing by the door l
heard low groan and went in. There
he was, lying on the floor i'm a pool of
blood, with a horrible cash in his
throat. He had broken the looking
glass and cut his throat with a piece of
IL. They tried to tinker him up at the
hospital but he died sure enough the
next day"
The TugbOat That Ran Away.
The yarns which the tugboatmen tell
are not all tragedies. One Of the
queerest is the story OF the runaway
tugboat. II is absolutely true. and
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-31

A tiny tugboat was threading her
way full steam ahead, putting and
snorting, into the Brooklyn navy yard
dancing in and out among a fiotilla
of steam launches, rowboats and
scows as cleverly as a lady in a
crowded ballroom.
Say, captain!" sang out an officer
leaning over the rail of the cruiser
Cincinnati. Aren't you afraid to
come into the navy yard like that?"
Afraid" retorted the tugboat skip
per in scornful tones. I'VE aren't
afraid of anything in this business.
Give me dozen old tugboatmen, and
I'll come in and take your blessed
navy yard. battleships and all!''
by the Lord" said the officer to
himself softly, looking at the old she'll
backs fierce. weather-beaten face. 81
believe he'd be capable of it at a
pinch"
The anecdcte is illustrative of the
frame of mind of the typical tugboat-
man. There is no peril too great, no
chance too risky for these dare-devils
of coast and port-of New York, Chi
cago, Boston. Baltimore, Philadelphia.
San Francisco, New Orleans and a
score of other American harbors.
Daily PeriIs of TugbOatmen.
Poet and novelist never tire of re-
counting the dangers to which the
deep-water sailor is exposed. But he
leads a safe and placid life compared
TO that of the tugboatman who picks
up living by plying TO and fro among
the crowded shipping of a busy port
Daily, almost hourly. the tugboa tman
faces such perils as come to the deep
water sailor only once in a voyage or
once in a year. He knows this very
well. and has a lofty contempt for
them that go down to the sea in ships
and do their business on great wa
ters."
Steamer cap'ns?" said the skipper
of a tugboat the other day. Don't
talk to me about EN-! They're as tim
i'd as girls. There's nothing ! like bet
Ger than. hitching my boat 'longside Of
a tramp and just soaring the life out
~ the old man on the bridge"
show do you manage that" he was
~4ked. a
The captain spat comprehensively.
why. we just creep up In the dark
Gnul we're right under his bows, and
then let OF an almighty big loot with
the siren. Course, they haven't seen us.
They never do see anything on them
blessed steamers. our loot jest about
hcafeE the old man out Of his wits
When he gets over the shock We
make bargain 20 bring him 10 the
river and hitch 'lonsfide Course we
come ~ pretty fast Times money
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-31

happened in New York harbor few
years ago.
The tugboat, one of the tiniest craft
of it's kind in the harbor had steam
up alongside a wharf. The engineer
stepped ashore for a moment, and
when he turned to look at the boat
he saw that the mooring line had
slipped and she was steaming merrily
away into the middle of the river, with
nobody aboard. She had run away
just as if she were a horse, and the
engineer had not even the satisfaction
of yelling "Whoa!"
Half a dozen other tugboats chased
her, but she had full steam up and
went along as if there were a crew of
demons aboard. zig-zagging from one
side of the river to the other, as her
rudder veered with the current.
Whenever her pursuers drew along
side she would suddenly whizz off at
right angles and make a bee line for
the other side of the river, and the
chase would have to begin anew.
The whole river was in commotion
In the course of her mad career the
tugboat collided with half a dozen
small craft and endangered several
lives. AT last, when the patience of
the pursuers was exhausted and her
own steam had nearly given out. she
finished up by crashing into a canal
boat and sticking hard and fast. She
was repaired and is plying New York
harbor to-day. Her engineer takes
good care not 10 let her run away
again.
"Once n TugbOatman-"
These are only a few of the strange
and thrilling experiences which fall to
the lot of the tugboatmen OF the big
harbors. Hard as nails. Injured TO a
thousand perils. equally used TO buff
feting gales far out at sea IN their
tiny craft and 10 sliding under the
bows OF an ocean liner. with only a
few feet between them and instant
death, these dare devils OF coast and
port are the sturdiest OF the heroes who
follow the sea" They love their ad-
yenturouf life, and would not change
~ for the best billet On an oeean-Roing
vessel
Once = tugb0atmsn, always tug
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-31

The opponent has poor chances of
breaking the heave from behind. At
tempting to open the aggressor's inter
locked hands by pulling at the thumbs
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-31

half hour or an hour after a meal.
Breaking the Waist Hold.

half hour or an hour after a meal.
Breaking the Waist Hold.
The waist hold can be obtained from
the referee hold, with which, as in
atch-as-catch-c 1T is customary to
start Greco Roman wrestling.
To secure the waist hold. put your
head against the chest of your oppon-
ent and tightly clasp your arms around
his waist. Press hard from you with
your hands. so that the opponent will
be bent backward and borne to the
floor.
To defeat the aggressor. the defense
should break the waist hold. He does
this by arching his back, interlocking
his hands, pressing his biceps hard
against the aggressor's elbows, and
walking backwards. (Figure ~
Such tactics will not fail to break
the hold, provided the defense has not
been drawn in very close by the ag-
gressor.
In case the wrestler has been drawn
in very close he should quickly loosen
his hold with one hand, and placing
this hand on the opponents face, raise
the latter's head up and off his breast.
The Body Heave from Behind.
During the scuff1ing incident to the
referee or many other holds, grasp the
opponent by a wrist and throw him
forward in front of you. While <he is
going forward, spin him around, get
behind him, grab him around the waist,
lift him high in the air (Figure p,
swing his feet out in front of you, and
throw him to the floor. Or, while the
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-31
Tennyson's TugbOat Captnin.

This story recalled n sadder tale
which is related OF an English tug
boat skipper IL was told to Tenny-
son by the late Lord Acton, and is
supposed to have suggested "Enoch
Arden"
The shippers tug was cut down in
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-31

The opponent has poor chances of
breaking the heave from behind. At
tempting to open the aggressor's inter
locked hands by pulling at the thumbs
is about his only chancekN.
Working for the H%ep erIOck.
Perhaps all that you WYd with the
body heave was to land on top of the
opponent, who fell on his stomach, and
is now on his hands and knees trying
to rise, with your left arm clasped
around his waist hindering him. But
to make sure that he will not regain
his feet, try for the hammerlock.
Keeping the left arm in its original
position and your body on it's knees
by the side of the opponent, place your
head in his right armpit, as fulcrum.
AS you push forward with the head,
grasp and pull the opponents left wrist
towards you, and lift forward with the
arm encircling the waist. (Figure 3D.
If your strength and endurance are
greater than your opponents this ac
ton will finally result in your getting
his right arm bent backward 'on his
back, which is hammerlock. Then, if
you care to- you can easily turn him
over on his back and shoulders.
To keep the hammerlock from being
secured, the opponent, the moment that
the right Cor left arm is in chancery,
, SnOulu pldCe IL uIluSI DOuy dS La
out of the aggressors reach as posi-
BILE. Even if the aggressor does get
hold of the wrist when it is we'll under
the body he will be apt to desist in his
efforts to secure the hammerlock in
little while if both wrestlers are pref
ty evenly matched in strength and
skill.
1t would be well not to carry the
hammerlock to it's full issue. In this
way severe wrenching, or possible
breaking of arm, will be avoided. All
that is necessary for the purposes of
physical culture is to try for the ham
mer1ock as a point and then loosen the
hold.
Blocking a Roll from the Bridge.
In case the opponent is about three
quarters down, with one shoulder and
| an arm on the floor, work around in
| front of his head, get one arm under
| his neck and the other in the pit of his
appraised arm and under the middle of
his back. (Figure A. This arm is
J thus put out of business. Put all your