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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-12

some OF the far flung American
foot ball fields. these crisp November days.
when the season is In its apogee, do you
ever give a passing thought to the course
OF training that the boy has had to undergo
IN order to become hero in your own ana
the eyes of the frantically cheering thou
sands about you?
No you haven't. Well let's consider 1t
now; and as we do, it's dollars to dough-
nuts that admiration will grow apace for
the lusty specimen of young manhood, this
moment being lifted in triumph upon the
shoulders Of his joyfuIly insane college
mates For his Is a training that doubtless
would have made a Spartan warrior of the
days OF Lycurgus wince-and admiration
for that doughty. self-denying ancient has
always been great through the centuries
right down TO the present day.
For two months, counting backward
from Thanksgiving day, the foot ball hero
is IN training every minute. As early as
posslble In the season he must become
chock full of strength, agility, speed. en-
DURANGO, above all, and the science or inc
game 1t lie the trainers duty to equip him
Win all the essentials, except the last
that Is the coach's task. That ne may per
form his part OF the work TO the best al
vantage, the trainer, whenever The college
authorities will let him, gathers eacn anu
every foot ball hero unto himself In train
ing or foot ball house. And right here IL
might be well to remark that no college OF
university which offers an advanced course
in foot ball Is without Its foot ball house
nowadays. Only those seats of learning
equipped to give the ordinary course still
Insist that the training shall take place IN
the dormitOries.
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enough to investigate for himself and see
where possibilities for improvement lay
he was courageous enough to carry out the
reforms which he considered necessary. he
reorganized the entire administration Of
the colony, improved the material con-
dition of the residents, suppressed abuses
of authority and irregularities among the
petty officials and made himself, in word,
the active as well as the nominal head.
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Also, as the men are injured, the trainer
rushes them to the ''gym"-that IS, pro-
vided no bones are broken or other serious
by the team surgeon, who always ATTENDS
practice and is therefore, within easy call.
Practice usually lasts for an hour and a
half In that time each man Is instructed
not only in team play. but his own spe-
to make eleven units work beautifully as
one Sometimes the practice Is dlscourag-
ing. sometimes highly pleasing to coach
and trainer and players alike; but Whatever
the state of mind of the players as soon
as the coach Is done with them they go
to the gym strip. and are weighed again
that the trainer may ascertain what Ell
feet physically. the practice has produced
on them. For the first week of training
each player as rule. will lose several
pounds of flesh after practice; fat man
Will get rid of six or seven pounds. man
of average avoirdupois pound or two less
This loss Is usually made up by the next
afternoon, however For several days fol-
lowing the first week it Is the rule Tor
players to put on from eight to ten pounds
apiece; then as the training becomes more
severe, they drop back to normal and re-
main there throughout the rest of the sea-
son. A chart of the weights Is kept by
the trainer and by means of 1t he Is great
" aided in determining the physical con-
dition of each player, and just the peculiar
tiles of training that he needs TO brlng
him to the height of physical condition, and
to keep him there until his last foot ball
a player in this state as 1t is to get him
into it. A player who becomes stale Is
as useless, almost, on the foot ball field
as novice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-12

Although a foot ball house usually holds.
besides the trainer, from twenty-five to
thirty players, four or five assistants to
the trainer chef and a corps OF walters,
there Is only one mind in that house from
the time 1t opens until the men break train
ing at the seasons end. And that mind. IS
the trainers.
When he says come, the man to whom he
says il must come instanter-or else he goes
with even greater celebrity. There must be
no questioning of his authority, even BY
innuendo. in any quarter. His hands mus;
not be tied by any one. in any way. All the
responsibility for the physical condition OF
his charges must be his. His word mus
be law, and final law at that. Else how
could team be whipped into perfect con-
dition, physically, in few all too ffeeting
weeks for the overshadowing big games of
the seasons height? For. as every right
minded person knows. too many cooks in
Variably spoil what was meant to be a good
meal; and the old world long since learned
by bitter experience that the only way to
handle body OF men to the best advan-
tage of all, collectively and individually, Is
by discipline-the more perfect the better
But 1t must not be gathered that the
trainer. because his powers in the training
house are autocratic. 10 anything short of a
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rienced by even the strongest men in ordI-
nary walks of life.
OF course, with the players once on the
field, the trainer drops to secondary, the
head coach taking first place. He alone
instructs the men in the intricate science
of the game, its plays. signals, tricks. me
trainer, so far as this part of the work OF
developing a team is concerned, is as II he
does not exist. Yet before the practice be-
gins he tells the coach how much physl-
cal work he wants each player to do; he
remains on the side lines TO see that each
does his allotted task, and If he discovers
that any man is being worked too hard for
any reason whatsoever. he takes that man
out of the game entirely, or directs the
coach to ease up on him-and the coach
must do 1t.
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That is why his advent to the Elysee is
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The weighing-in over, the players VINO
have bruises or sprains get over not or
cold water jets, according to the trainer $
Instructions. and later on, like their more
fortunate fellows. stand under hot water
shower baths for two minutes, finish or
with dashes of cold water dry themselves
briskly with rough towels, and then go TO
the rubbing tables.
Here the men are rubbed, thoroughly,
Systematically, strenuously. and with ali
and his assistants. The massage that one
gets in a Turkish bath Is merely a ny S
touch compared with the torturous knead-
ing that the player undergoes. Small won
der, them that at this time sprains and
bruises on the very bones themselves are
made to vanish completely.
Every trainer makes a great mystery or
the rubbing ma terial that he employs. Not
for million dollars would he let its IN
It known, these ingredients are the only
ones that, mixed will make bruises to DIS
appear as IL by magic. and cause even
sadly battered player to rise up from The
rubbing table feeling like a freshly
groomed god. 1t has frequently been wnis-
pered by the cynical that this secret COM
pound Is nearly always nothing more than
a mixture of such common stuffs as alco-
hoi and witch hazel. The reply of self
respecting trainer to any such innuendo 10
to throw more mystery than ever about the
preparation. which little circumstance has
led the cynical to add that the trainer
makes all this mystery in order to MI the
PLAYERS with the firm belief that the rub
bling material Is even more potent In its
effects than 1t really Is. Sort of an *
science sort of trick, don't you know.
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S YOU breathlessly watch your
dearly beloved son Tor some other
girls brother) impartially cover
ing himself with gore and glory on
so,,,a oS tho "far dung american
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AT any rate. when the hospital squad has
come out from under the hands of the
trainer himself. and the rest have been
sedulously curried from head to foot ny
the assistants. each and every mother. $
son of them is more than ready for the
dinner of rich vegetable soup. thick, juicy
beefsteak. fuffy mashed potatoes, nneiy
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-06-09

THIS COUPON

and n purchase amounting @ 2 90 or over on
SATURDAY entities you to $500 ~ stamps Free
H. WEDEEN, Prop.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-11-20
NO PLUCKING THERE.

Representative Smith, of Pennsyl-
vania was recently in one of the de-
partments at Washington Cooking
after" one of his constituents Il
wrote you letter." said the represent
tative. land 1 am reminded of what
happened in my state about letter
of introduction.
"A rich old farmer who lived near
Philadelphia, got tangled up in a
money matter with one of his neigh
bors. Mr.. Alston, for that was his
name. sought an attorney, who gave
him a letter of introduction to a
brother lawyer in Philadelphia, at
which place it was necessary to enter
the suit. The letter was delivered to
the lawyer and while he was reading
it he was called out of the room,
leading the letter on his desk. Mr..
Aston let curiosity get the best of
him and picked UP the letter and read
1t. The letter closed with, Mr.. Aston
is fat goose; pluck him heavily
THAT was enough for the rich old
farmer, and, seizing pen, he wrote.
"'P. S.-The goose has flown. feath-
ers and ALL
''It took him about three seconds to
amble down the sta' s and into the
to do with lawyers from that day to
this, preferring to pluck his own
geese. e."-Philadelphia Record.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-11-20
BEST TRIUMPH OF 1905.

The East Oregonian has been asked
TO prepare a 500-word article on the
best triumph of the city of Pendleton
for the year 1905. The article in ques-
ton is to be printed in a distant paper
and circulated to an innumerable
number of eastern people, so the East
oregonian desires to write of the sub
ject which will be most valuable to
the city from the standpoint OF an ad-
vertisement
There is but one overshadowing tri-
umph for the year 1905-the new
public school buildings. and these
shall be the theme.
There are other triumphs, It is true
-commercial financial, industrial,
moral and otherwise. but this one
achievement overshadows them all.
This achievement will stand in the
history OF the city The year 1905
will be memorable because of these
new buildings and therefore in select
ing one subject from among the null
dtude of entertaining subjects to be
found In the city, this one comes fore
most and will be given the honor.
In preparing adequate school faclli-
ties the city has spent over $4,000
and has prepared room for nearly
$4,000 scholars-a standing invitation
to homeseekers and people seeking
schools.
Trade has been heavy, crops have
been enormous, shipments of mer-
chandise have increased over any pre-
vious year. bank deposits have grown,
new mercantile establishments have
been added and old firms have en-
larged-all these are happy themes for
the city to consider and talk about; all
are valuable advertisements, but In
the estimation of the East Oregonian
the crowning triumph Of the year 1906
Is the erection and equipment Of three
elegant public school buildings. con
tanning 20 rooms. all provided with the
latest ventilating. heating and lighting
conveniences.
So this shall be the theme Of thC
article,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-11-20
EDUCATION NO HANDICAP.

Andrew Carnegie, like numedous
other successful men at our day. is
inclined TO think there are no roads
to success but his own says the Seat
| tie Star.
BY all means, he says in effect, be
industrious and honest and loyal, but
don't go to college If commerce is
to be your chosen sphere.
A man with a college education, the
ironmaster says. is lost to commerce.
He has wasted three or four years on
the lives of "old ruffians who lived
! 1000 years ago" and has lost precious
time.
In the main, perhaps. Carnegie is
right, and in view of some of the reve-
lations concerning high finance which
have been made in the last year the
fact that college training may unfit
man for business is highly credltable
to the colleges.
1t might be worth considering that
IL educated men may gain nothing
from business, business has much to
gain from educated men.
The brutal animal greed that enters
so largely into general business might
safely be sacrificed TO higher and
more humane instincts.
Business success ought to mean
more than mere selfish accumulation.
1t ought to mean the basis upon which
civilization. human progress and the
welfare of the millions rest The full
meaning can never come to an ignor-
ant man.
He who is pleased ignorantly to
wallow in his own accumulations and
to regard his achievement as superior
to that of men of better brains but
less wealth-let him look to the hog
for his own superior according to his
own standard of judgment
But Carnegie forgets that his own
success would have been impossible
but for the higher education of other
men whose brains he smelted in his
scientific department Of steel.
And then he forgets, too that even
for the business man there are higher
and better things i'm life than business,
and pitiable and less than fully human
is he who has not the breadth and
clearness of vision to see them.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-11-20
THE BABY CROP.

Comes the bishop Of London. His
lordship bewails the scarcity of chill
dren. This sounds strange from a
swarmlng city where societies are or
ganized to send away to Canada, to
the United States. to Australia and
elsewhere the surplus children who
crowd the purlieus.
His lordship no double bewailed the
scarcity of children among the mod
ern wealthy He could not have
meant royalty, because good Queen
Victoria had set the pace and other
royal houses are in no way solitary.
He could not have meant the lower
strata, because the aphorism, "a poor
man for children and a niger for
dogs" holds good wherever there are
poor men or niggers.
The cry against race suicide Is usu-
ally If not always, raised by the we'll
to-do and comfortably situated. The
poor do not complain. The good bish-
op may confine his exhortations to one
class, as the only class needing them
Memphis News-Scimitar.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-11-20
THE DEAD AND WOUNDED.

What a magnificent casualty list
Tuesdays election produced!
Boss Murphy in New York.
Boss McCarren in Brooklyn.
Boss Cassidy In Queens.
Ross Lentz in New Jersey.
Boss Durham and Boss McNichol In
Philadelphia.
Boss Penrose in Pennsylvania.
Boss Cox In Cincinnati.
Boss German in Maryland.
Boss Lodge In Massachusetts,
Some of them were massacred and
all of them were badly disfigured
Even the survivors will carry theil
scars to their political graves.--New
York World.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-11-20
JUST A REMINDER.

Reminders OF past follies are now
coming to the people in quick sue
cession.
Especially are these reminders most
painful and embarrassing to the peo-
pie of the west.
The last reminder which has cut to
the quick" is the compulsory pur-
chase Of portion Of This Dalles Mill
tary Wagon road land grant, from
the Booth-Kelley Lumber company,
by the government, for the sum of
5000, 900 for use in the construction
OF the Klamath irrigation project.
Just think of the people purchasing
their own land from a grasping cor
poration, which has thrived upon gov
ernment favoritism and which,
through corrupt legislators and cor
rupt political deals, is enabled to sell
the people their own possessions al
exorbitant figures!
The company now owning the mill
tary road grant is not the original
company securing the land, however
but the principle is the same. The
people are forced to buy their owr
land from a private corporation be-
fore they can proceed with needed lr'
rigation works.
In other instances the state and
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-11-20
NEW LIGHTHOUSE IN SAN
FRANCISCO BAY.

One of the most difficult and dam
gerous engineering feats recorded in
lighthouse construction has been the
erection of the new light station on
the famous Mile Rock" located just
outside of the Golden Gate-San Fran
cisco harbor. This station has just
been finished. after more than years
work. at a cost to the government of
more than 100000.
For the past half century. Mile Rock
has been a standing menace to all
vessels entering, or departing from,
the Bay OF San Francisco, The rock
stands three-eighths of a mile off the
southern shore of the entrance, and
Just one mile eastward from a line
drawn from North Head across to the
cliff House beach. AS the rock was
100 large to blow up, the government
finally determined to beacon it. The
very liberal appropriation of $780, 900
was made in view of the fact that the
difficulties of building this particular
station were great, and the perils ex-
tremc.
At mean tide the sharp and jagged
rock juttcd out only IS feet above the
surface of the heavIng waters. At
very high tide the points were entire
ly submerged. It was a mere rocky
pivot exposed to the full force and
fury of open sea, winds, and sweep
ing udal currents. Only 1000 square
Ieet could be found on the rock after
the rough edges were leveled off
around the ragged sides: and for the
foundation but 70f square feet were
secured for the base.
over and around these ragged pin
nacles was constructed a huge steel
cylinder AZ feet high, elliptlcal in
shape, 40 feet long, and 25 feet wide
in the broadest place. This great CYL
inder-base was composed Of steel
plates feet and 10 inches wide, and
three-fourths inch thick, very strong
ly riveted together-boiler fashion.
All the inside space was filled with
concrete-nearly Of pure cement. The
point and sides OF the rock jutted up
ward, and. uniting with the hardened
cement, formed so many powerful
massive braces to hold the cylinder
foundation impregnably firm against
the fury of the gales and seas. Over
100 barrels of cement were required
to form the foundation, and so tons
OF steel plates were used. Above the
foundation was erected the main tow
er-rfsing so feet. and requiring SO
tons additional steeel. The total height
Of the station above mean sea level is
80 feet.
All the work was done by sailors,
under the personal supervision of an
engineer; for so great and constant
were the perils of operating on the
wave-swept rock that no regular
landsmen could be found hardy
enough to undertake the task
The materials were all carried out
on little steam tender. and landed
amid the greatest difficulties and
dangers. Necessarily. the work pro-
gressed very tardiIy. II Is a renarka-
Bile fact that no lives were lost, and
no serious accidents occurred during
the building of this navigation beacon
For many years the beaconing of this
rocky pinnacle was deemed impossible,
even by engineers.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-11-20

against his will for councilman from
the First ward, not only did not regis
ter two years ago for the city election,
when it cost 50 street poll tax to reg
lister, but he has not registered this
year, when registration is free and
when the municipal questions before
the people are agitating every public
spirited citizen to the utmost
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-11-20
CHAMPION EATER.

The eating championship Of the
world is claimed by a Montreal dock
laborer named Pierre Dalbec. Not
long ago he ate four dozen boiled eggs
in 20 minutes, and as he feared that
he was a little behind time he swal-
lowed the last half dozen shells and
all. On another occasion he drank
It's glasses Of beer in n day. but his
most recent achievement was to eat
in one evening six beefsteaks, seven
plates of beans and eight ham omel-
cites. without counting a prodigious
quantity Of bread.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-11-20

government have been deprived OF
magnificent water sources, available
both for power and irrigation. by pri-
yate corporations which are holding
such for speculation and not for utili-
ty.
Cities have been deprived of water
sources by private individuals who die
tate terms to the entire municipality
in the matter of water supply. The
people are striving against untold diff
ficulties to secure water for domestic
purposes as the cities grow. while
their rights are usurped by one indi-
vidual.
These reminders should drive the
people To protest against the disposal
of public privileges to private corpor-
atoms, against the wholesale donation
of public land to private companies,
no matter what the purpose.
The government should have built
the wagon road across Oregon and
kept the land for the people. AS it is,
the road was not built and the land
was given away beside-a double in
justice to the people
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-11-20
If TIVE WON EN-

Who suffer every month from all
ments peculiar to their sex would only
take an occasional dose of IIostetter's
Stomach Bitters they would find their
various organs strengthened and better
able to perform their proper func-
tionS
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-11-20

There are in the United States S0,-
900 blind persons, of which $4,000
became blind after reaching their ma
turity. There are 1900 children In the
blind schools of the United States.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-11-20
HOstetter'S
Stomach Bitfers

is now being taken exclusively by hun
dreds OF women who freely testify to
its wonderful efficacy in cases OF
Bacl<ache, Cramps, Vomiting, Dizzi-
ness, Costlveness or Indigestion. Try
. bottle.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-11-20
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One Of the most widespread =
, superstitions is that every man :
has his own special. definite I
} qualities; that n man is kind, .
cruel, stupid, energetic. apa- Z
thetic or wise. Men are not like =
, that. Men are like rivers: the =
, water is the same In each and Z
} alike in all: but every river is 4
narrow here, wider there. deep. =
shallow, rapid, sluggish. now =
clear, now cold. now dull, now =
warm. SO with men. Every +
man carries in himself the germs =
of every human quality, some Z.
times one manifests 1t. some Z.
times another.-Tolstoy. in the ,
Resurrection" +
n u u 4 n a q n n. =. a n n
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-11-20

Within the past month 159 new en-
gines have been added to the equip
ment of the Erie railroad.