Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-09-17

lis sixty-two and d half. Yet Muldoon
still looks as pretty dis the bIoorny side
|of an Elberta peach, and he can punch
the bag box, wrestle, ride, walk or.
work to the limitof endurance for any
one OF his patients, even the youngest
and strongest of them.
Genesis ct Muldooning.
In his early manhood Muld doom was a
cavalry officer. He served during The
eivil war and In the regular army aft
er the war. Tt lis said that he con
ceived his theory Of building up run-
down humanity in the service on the
plains, when gangs Of recruits We're
sent to him to be made into troopers.
Many of the. men who enlisted in those
L days just after the war were sorry
specimens of humanity. Most of the
good ablebodied fellows had had too
much of war. 1t was difficult to get
recruits. But when a man was stary-
ing he was willing to enlist, and Null
doom got many of that sort. He put
them through a regular course Of train
ing-in eating, sleeping and working.
They made new soldiers. That gave
Nfuldoon his idea, which he put into
practice a quarter of a century later
1T was the genesis of muld coming.
Those who so to Muldoon's place so
to him who must be obeyed. The pro-
fessor is the commanding officer He
looks over the man and tells him pre-
cisely what to eat, how much and
when. He prescribes just 50 many
hours sleep, usually about nine. The
recruit must get up when the com
mander knocks, on his door, about
O'clock. When Muldoon says work he
must work, whether 1t be some form
of play exercise or real labor in the
fields. If man needs something in
his diet to make him sleep better, Null
doom feeds him lettuce, but more often
he feeds him work.
Once man went to Muldoon's who
was troubled with eplessness. AT 4
taps" o'clock, every light is sup
posed to be put out. The professor no.
ticed some time later light in this
mans room. He was reading.
AL right. my man, = muttered the
professor. FL
It wasn't all right. It was all wrong.
That was merely the Muldoon way Of
keeping to himself what he intended
doing next day ito the derelict one.
He simply put on the patient a con-
siderable amount of extra work say
! ing nothing as to having caught him
with his light burning after taps. That
night Mr.. Patient excused himself
shortly after supper and retired. He
slept sound1y until the professor rap
ped on his door next morning at 8.
Medicine Ball Drill.
Mr.. Muldoon has invented one form
of exercise which looks amusing to
1 the outsider, but it Is said to be the
4 most efficacious OF all. 1t is the medi-
cine ball drill. The professor conceiv-
ed the idea OF making some balls rang
/ ing from six to thirty inches In diam
eter. The men at the farm divide into
sides every morning and proceed to
pass the medicine balls. No man
/ knows at any moment the size or
4 weight Of the ball he Is going to get
tossed at him. 1t may be little fell
low or the biggest in the series. This
4 keeps him mentally alert as well as
physically.
4 Any system that trains the body and
neglects the mind, according to Null
doom, is false to the first principles OF
i physical culture The ability to see,
4 think and act at one and the same
a time is the secret Of success In ath-
fioc.r
I ter muldooner Of men. .%s
When Secretary Root went to Null
doon's some weeks ago he was in
condition which gave his friends much
alarm. He had been working too hard
Il The secretaryship of state is no sine
4 cure. Mr.. Root was run down. For
some time be had been thinking Of 60
/ ing to Muldoon's, and his friends ad.
yised him to dosso
Mr.. Root feels like a new man al
4 ready said the professor d few days
4 ago, and the secretary Of state was
seen to leap into the Muldoon wagon
at the postofiice without touching the
step, which went to prove that he was
physically active.
The professor viii not let Secretary
Root work at official business more
than two hours day. and some days
4 he IS said to limit the premier to half
4 an hour, according to his condition.
Il Horseback riding is prescribed
4 daily, winter or summer, rain or shine,
i and daily walk OF four miles or so
is III the curriculum Of this school for
Z. regularity. The Muldoon guests, from
statesman down, are simply pupils UNI
der the professor, who is quite q pug
naeious man, by the way, and will
brook no interference with his author
ity If q secretary Of state or any.
Z. body else declines to obey the rules,
what happens? Well, the head master
lis not authorized to SO to the woods,
cut birch switch and apply 1T. But
a he shows the farm gate to the obstrep-
Il erous one.
Every Sunday morning the guests
\ are weighed The professor also steps
on the scales, for he wants to see
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