The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-02
FIGHT WITH DEATH
THE GRIM REAPER BAFFLED
BY SENATOR TILLMAN.

He Tells for the Benefit of Others
What He Did to Regain in Part
HIS Health.
Some few week. ago The Times
and Democrat "said Editor E. H.
Aull Of the Newberry and News says
he met Senator Tillman on the train
recently and he was much pleased to
find him "as strong and vigorous as
he was, both physically and men
tally. His mind is strong and Wig
crous and there is much of the old
time fire and snap about the eye.
All the talk about his mind being
weak is unkind and besides unfound-
ed. He can't eat the big meals that
he once could but otherwise eeems
entirely we'll" In commenting on
the above the Columbia Record says:
Death, the universal conquerer,
has had some notable contests and
many notable victims, but seldom
has he been baffled and held at bay
in contest fought out before the
public eye and on a world arena so
CONSPICUOUS as in the case Of Senator
Tillman. No doubt the senior South
Carolinian's fight against the grim
monster after he had called and Civ
en- the word to go on the last dread
journey will go down in the medical
records as one Of the most notable
in the professional records.
Three years ago Senator Tillman
| was stricken, and for weeks lay
helpless in the shadow of death, as
a writer in the New York Sunday
Sun recites: "EIis friends and fam
lily lost hope. His colleagues expect
ed to be summoned to mis- funeral.
The newspapers prepared their obit-
uary sketches, making ready for
what seemed the inevitable. This
was back il 1910.
But the senator refused to yield.
The same grim determination that
marked his political career led him
to make another fight. And he won
again, as he had won so many times
when the odds against him were not
so great"
"The methods by which the veter-
an senator waged and won his fight
were original and heroic, il keep
ing with his always resourceful and
strenuous career. He won by sys-
tenn of physical exercise in aid OF
nature, that is simple but has proven
marvelously effective in his case. And
in the process he has not only got
rid of the dangerous fatty matter
that accumulates with age, but he
has gained thirty pounds of good
hard muscle.
"The Senator is back in Washing
ton, the chairman of powerful SEN
ate committee, able to walk ten miles
a day and not only do hard work, but
his mind in some respects is clearer
and truer in it's processes than ever
before. I didn't mean to let paraly-
sis kill me- the senator is quoted as
saying. 4 proposed to get well and
stay here afew years longer
He did both by a simple plan OF
physical culture, the rules for which
he gives as follows:
"1. Before getting up in the morn
ing, take the head Oft he pillow and
stretch out straight. Begin by kick
ing backward with one foot and then
the other, fifteen times each. Dur
ing this u. other movements. where
counting is required, i draw in the
breath to the limit and holl it while
the movement is on, from ten to
fifteen times.
''2. Put the heels upon the led
with the knees drawn up, then throw
the knees apart as far as they eau
be carried, repeating twenty times.
"3. Throw first one foot and then
the other toward the headboard,
| keeping the knee joints as straight
as you can.
"4. While still lying on the back,
kick out with both feet as wide
apart as you can and do the kick
ing with emphasis, so as to strain
the muscles on the calf and soles of
the feet. Elevate both feet at once
toward the headboard and then the
spine as much as possible by using
the abdominal muscles to pull up
the lower extremities three times. If
the hands are placed under the small
part of the back and the arms are
used as lever to help elevate the
legs and feet it is much more effec-
tive. If in an iron bed this can be
facilitated by grasping the railing
above the head with the hands and
pulling up the legs and feet by the
use of the muscles Of the back and
belly. This is very fine for reducing
the paunch as it substitutes muscle
for fat and hardens the obdormen.
Sc. Fasten the feet under some
thing and pull the trunk up to
sitting posture. drop back and repeat
for four or five times. This is very
straining at first and one ought to
go about it cautiously until he mus
cles have become accustomed to the
strain.
"7. Throw the head back with the
feet on the bed and lift the body
clear so that the shoulders do not
touch. This will form an arch Re-
peat four or five times. This is
enough in bed in the morning.
IS. Take a cold bath and rub
down briskly, unless you do not like
cold water or have not the facilities
to do it. Put on underwear and take
a light pair of dumbbells 6 1-2
pounds, to give momentum to the
movements. Begin to exercise the
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