The Sunday Oregonian., June 29, 1913, SECTION SIX, Page 3, Image 71

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Senator Tillman Makes Winning Fight
After Three Years, and Is Now
Back at His Work
F anybody doubts that & 63-year-old
paralytic can hold death at bay; If
anybody doubts that by a strenuous
system of physical culture the lame and
t.-.e halt can learn to pick up their
burdens and walk, Just let that person
read the statements of Senator Benja
min R. Tillman, of South Carolina, con
cerning: his own restoration to health.
Three years ago Senator Tillman was
stricken, and for weeks lay helpless In
the shadow of death. His friends and
family lost hope. His colleagues ex
pected to be summoned to his funeral.
The newspapers prepared their obituary
sketches, making ready for what seemed
the inevitable. This was back in 1910.
But the Senator refused to yield. The
same grim determination that marked
his long 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.
He won, too, by a system of exercise
that Is astonishingly simple, yet won
derfully effective. Moreover, he has
gained SO pounds not ordinary fat,
mind you, but 30 pounds of good, hard
muscle.
He is back In Washington doing busi
ness at the old stand. ' He is chairman
of a powerful Senate committee. He
can walk 10 miles a day and do hard
work. All this has been made possible
through a combination of will power
and well-planned exercises.'
"I didn't mean to let paralysis kill
me," says the Senator. "I proposed to
. get well and stay here a few years
longer. I did both fy a simple plan of
physical culture, and here Is my sys
tem :
"1. Before getting up in the morning,
take the head off the pillow and stretch
out straight. Begin by kicking back
ward with first one foot and then the
other, 15 times each. During this and
other movements, where counting is re
quired, I draw in the breath" to tht
limit and hold it while the movement
is on, from 10 to 15 times.
"2. Put the heels upon the bed with
the knees drawn up, then throw the
knees apart as far as they can be car
ried, repeating 20 times.
"8. 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 kicking with
emphasis, so as to strain the muscles ot
the calf and sols 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 a lever to help
elevate the legs and feet, it is very
much more effective. 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 reducine
the paunch, as It substitutes muscle lor
fat and hardens the abdomen.
"6. Fasten the feet under something
ana pun the trunk up to a sitting pos
ture; drop back and repeat four or five
times. This is very straining at first
and one ought to go about It cautiously
until tne muscles have become accus
tomed 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. Repeat two or three
times. This is enough in bed in the
morning.
"8. 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 (34 pounds), to give
momentum to the movements. Begin
to exercise the-- other muscles which
have not yet been used.
"9. While standing flatfooted throw
trie arms down by the thighs backward
Straighten up and repeat ten times.
Continue in the same motion: bend the
trunk forward as nearly horizontal as
you can maintain it and let the arms
swing as near the floor as they can eo.
This limbers up the muscles of the
back.
"10. Now, keeping the knees stiff,
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together as possible, with the dumb
bells clinched hard. Try this ten times.
"13. Still holding the dumbbells,
throw one to the rear and the other to
the front and twist the spine by first
looking over one shoulder and then
over the other. This Is to loosen the
spinal column and make the vertebrae
twist each on the other.
"14. Swing the dumbbells backward,
forward and downward until a circle is
performed by returning them to the
starting point. I do this five times
backward and then five times forward
with each arm alternately. This lu
bricates the muscles of the shoulder
and arms, producing circulation of the
blood.
"15. Any, time you feel the need of
It and think of It, straighten up, ele
vating the hands above the head; then
bend forward and try to touch the floor
with the tips of the fingers, the knees
being held stiff. By reepating this
straightening up and bending I can
usually go to the floor the third or
fourth time. At first I could hardly
go lower than my knees and then the
muscles of my back felt as though I
would wrench them apart.
16. Catch hold of the bed or a chair
and squat as low as you can and then
straighten up six or eight times. If
you have hold of the bed so that you
can bend backward as far as possible
each time that you squat and straighten
up, it will assist you In loosening the
vertebrae and bending the spine back
ward throughout its length. This is an
excellent thing to do, as It relieves the
nerves from the pressure of the verte
brae. It is the use of this exercise
which enables me to mount my horse.
although I am so weak otherwise."
After detailing these exercises, the
Senator went a little further and dis
cussed their effect. He said:
T practice these motions morning
and night, before dressing and after
undressing. It takes about ten min
utes, not including the bath. I feel a
very marked difference In my strength;
as well as otherwise.
'I have found that deep breathing
adds very much to my strength. It has
facilitated my return to health as far
as I have climbed back.
'First, by compression of the dia
phragm, drive all the breath out of the
body that you can. This is what the
doctors call dead or residual air, and
It remains in the lungs unless they are
compressed. After you have exhaled all
you can, then hold the lips together and
inhale to the limit. This is the best
thing I have ever discovered for in
somnia, as almost before you know it.
while you are counting the inhalations,
you are asleep. I never remember hav
ing done this more-than ten times with
out going to sleep.
"Another aid. to my restoration to
health has been hot water. I drink all
the water I can and as hot as I can
bear it. and when I think I have taken
enough I drink some more and still
some more. The average stomach has
become accustomed to cold water and
will reject the hot at first unless It Is
very hot. After drinking It persistently
it becomes very acceptable to the atom
ach and no nausea results.
"I owe my restoration to -the health
I now have to four things careful diet.
drinking hot water, deep breathing and
the physical culture exercises I have
outlined."
These Gir Is Worship Snakes
try to punch the big toe of each foot
with both fists. Repeat five or six
times.
"11. Using the dumbbells, pass them
to the right and left, one arm going
by the belly, while the other is extended
as high above the head as possible, and
as one goes down elevate the other.
This will lubricate and loosen the Joints
or tne shoulders.
"12. Throw both arms behind the
back, go as to bring both hands as near
SNAKES attended by girl worship,
pers, mountain lakes that tumble
like a high sea on a calm day,
and a lake that Is so full of fish they
barely can pass each other are a few
of the wonders of the heretofore un
explored portion of Africa, as revealed
by Captain E. M. Jack, who has re
turned to London from an extensive
research expedition.
Drunkenness is decidedly common
among the Batsul natives, and they
brew an Intoxicating drink from
Matama flour at the gathering in of
the harvest. . Then for weeks follow
the wildest scenes of debauchery.
'Lubare is the common worship of
the Bagansa, and is the belief in a
spirit living in some neglected object.
The common conviction Is that the
python contains the form of a spirit.
and in that case the snake is enticed
to the villages with milk and food
and encouraged to remain near. Girls
of the tribes are sent forth to keep
these deadly man-killers supplied with
"The frontiers of the three powers
How a Motor "Talks-."
Suburban Life.
One day my chauffeur was taken 111,
ana I drove myself in, left , the car
standing in a side street during the
day, and drove home at night. Then,
for the first time, I began to sense the
feeling of mutuality, or mutual sym
pathy, if such an expression may be
permitted, between animate and inani
mate thlngrs. between the machine and
myself. Several trips by myself con
firmed the sensation; then I bought
another car for the family, and now
drive myself regularly in this one.
have often thought of the stories told
by locomotive engineers. In which their
great engines are endowed with almost
mental faculties. There are enough' of
them to fill a book, but I never con
side red them seriously until I began
with this car. Sometimes the engine
sings, sometimes it purrs I know its
sing and its purr. If anything is the
matter with it, it tells it in a language
entirely intellfgible to me. It responds
to my lightest touch In all Its tunc
tions; but once it refused to run into an
unlighted ditch where I was trying to
steer It. I looked for half an hour
for the trouble with the steering appa
rat us, but could find nothing wrong.
Occupations of Xational Solons.
It is interesting to note that over
half of the members of the House were
born on farms, and while almost half
of them. 290 to be exact, record them
selves as lawyers a good many of them
Btlll claim to be farmers or to be liv
ing in villages. Seventy-eight of them
are engaged in various kinds of mercan
tne pusiness, 24 are newspaper men,
several are engaged in iron or steel
manufactories of various kinds, 13 are
educators, five are doctors, one is
dentist, one is a pharmacist, one is a
horticulturist, one a naval architect.
one a hatter, one a printer, two are au
thors, oqe a telegrapher, one a soldier,
one an electrician, one a chemist, and
one a minister.
NURSED--THE.
AT
England. Germany and Belgium Join
each other on the rocky and Inaccess
ible summit of Mount Sabinio. The
volcanic range possibly is the origin
of the old legends of the source of the
Nile.
"These volcanoes rise with startling
abruptness to a height above neigh
boring mountains. Some of them, pass
above the clouds. They were famed
for miles around as the "place where
there is fire," and they belched flame
and smoke.
"One legend declares that Gongo, the
demon that Inhabits the range, cut off
the head of his wife, represented by
the mountain Nina Gongo (the wife
of Gongo). and threw it Into Lake
Klvu. This might account for the
truncated appearance of the mountain
and possibly for the curious disturb
ances in the lake.
"This lake at times is perfectly
placid. At other times, when there is
not the slightest suggestion of a
breeze, it will roll and heave like the
swell of an ocean. This is credited
to the existence of volcanic pressure.
'iNone of the beautiful lakes contains
any fish, but there Is one near Mount
Mikeno that seems to be alivo -ith
them."
Internal Organs Reversed
A REMARK ABLE case Is reported
from France. Drs. Podevln and Do
four presented before the Societ Medl
cale des Hospltant a woman whose In
ternal organs are completely reversed
as compared with the normal right and
left relation. Thus the apex of her heart
is on the right of the median (central)
line, the liver Is on the left.
This subject reached 42 years in Ig
norance of her strange condition, which
was discovered only when she devel
oped symptoms of appendicitis, not on
the right, as any well-behaved patient
should, but on the left.
Her case has been examined by the
aid of X-rays, after ingestion of eighty
grammes of bismuth carbonate, which
makes the structures in which it lodges
opaque, without in any other way af
fecting the human economy. Incident
ally the patient Is not left-handed, as
might be supposed.
Lake Dries Up.Tken Refills
N
EAR Lorrach', in the Black Forest,
is the strangest lake in the
world. It Is called the Elchener See,
and la perfectly dry for from 10 to 13
years at a tim. a tier vhih niAi.
u,bterranean springs refill the lake
wimoui any previous warning, flood
ing and. destroying any crops that have
been planted.
The soil in the bed of th
Productive, but the farmers and peas
ants never know in what year their
work will be useless and their young
crops "drowned."
A few weeks ago the Elchener See.
after having been dry for the last 10
years. began refilling with water,
which in the deepest part is now: 15
feet, the average depth being 12 feet.
The waters of the lake generally re
main a year or two and then graduallv
disappear into the earth, leaving a rich,
soil behind.
New Time System Very- Puzzling
THE use of the new 24-hour time
system In France is likely to give
rise to some rather curious results.
One of these is brought out by A. de
Mortellet, and relates to the striking
of the hour.
It will not be very practical to use
24 strokes or less in succession, as
these would be very difficult to count
after a certain point. The number of
strokes should, therefore, be reduced in
some way.
He proposes using a double chime,
one bell for units and the second for
tens, the two bells to have a different
tone. Or else with a single bell rapid
strokes would show the tens, and slow
Btrokes the units.
With two bells, one bell give strokes
up to nine. The second bell rings once
for ten. For 11. the first bell rings
once and the second once, and so on
in the decimal system. For 20, the first
bell rings twice, and so on.
Freezing Is Said to Be Easy Deatk
FREEZING to death, writes a medi
cal authority. Is preceded, by a
drowsiness which makes the end pain
less the body actually feels warm and
goes comfortably to sleep. Experi
ments have been made with animals to
show just how freezing to death pro
ceeds. In one of these experiments, In
which the animal was placed in a tem
perature of 125 to 150 degrees below
sero the breathing and heart beats at
first were quickened, the organic heat
of the body actually rising above nor
mal. This rising showed a sudden and an,
intense effort on the part of the fune-
tions to preserve the body's tempera
ture. Then violent heart action gave
out suddenly, and death came when
the temperature of the body dropped
to 71 degrees.
375 Coast 'Wireless Plants Now
THERE are 375 wireless coast sta
tions in the world at the present
time, according to a report from the
Intednatlonal Bureau of Wireless Te
legraphy. Of this number the United
States has 142; Great Britain, 43; Can
ada 33; Germany and its colonies, 22;
Italy, 19; Russia, 19; France 17; Spain,
10 and Denmark, nine.
The British and French colonies also
have several stations. Of the wireless
stations on board war vessels the Uni
ted States has 247; Great Britain, 213;
France, 141; Germany, 112; Italy, 77;
Japan. 70 and Russia, 70.
The merchant marine of Great Brit
ain has 445 stations; the United States,
253; Germany, 206; France, 68 and It
aly, 47.
Many Plants Are "Lef t Handed"
HABITS of plants analogous to the
right-handedness and left-handed-ness
of man have been reported to the
Cambridge, England, Philosophical So
ciety by R. H. Compton.
In an examination of eight varieties
of two-rowed barley the first leaf was
found to twist to the left In 68 per cent
of more than 12,000 seedlings, and an
excess of left-handed growth was
found also in millet and in oats.
In corn there seemed to be no marked
tendency either way. No evidence of
hereditary peculiarity appears to have
been obtained and no special signifi
cance of the results Is pointed out.
CCMFEDER6
GETTYSBURG
' Si
f"w-HE Good Mother of the Rebels
at ueiiysourg." Tftls is a title
that deservedly belongs to Mrs.
John H Dye, who is now 81 years old.
Bhe cared for the sick and the dying
of Pickett's division, and the men who
were fortunate enough to fall into the
hands of this "enemy" will never for
get her gracious treatment and kindly
ministration.
Many of these same men are anxious
ly looking forward to the coming cele
bration for the opportunity to shake
the hand of their former nurse. And
Mrs. Dye Is also counting the days.
Although Mrs. Dye had been In many
battles she was a school teacher and
spent her vacations on the battlefields
the horrors of none made as strong
an Impression upon her mind as those
of Gettysburg.
ANOTHER young woman with less
courage would have given up the
work In disgust, but Miss Clarissa Fel
lows Jones showed her true mettle be
fore she attended her first rebel pa
tient. , For, a woman who had enough
backbone to go to Baltimore after the
Philadelphia Commission had refused
her a commission, saying the battle
field was no place for a woman; suc
ceed In convincing the Baltimore men
that she was needed at Gettysburg;
then arrive there to have confiscated
the eight large barrels of choice medi
cines that she had lugged from Phila
delphia to Baltimore, theno to 0tty-
bnrg; then to be threatened with
rest as a Southern spy, one Mrs. C.
Jones; then to volunteer to nurse
rebel wounded, considered an unpleas
ant task Indeed for a Yankee girl; pos
sessed the ability to face the horrors
of war and to nurse the most desperate
cases.
Mrs. Dye has always been proud of
her former boys. She says that the
men were always courteous to her, ever
anxious to do her a favor, and that
they appreciated everything she did
for them.
"I never heard one word out of the
way," Mrs. Dye says. "I was a woman
arone, and I appealed to them. It would
not have been safe for any man to say
a rough word to me.
"I will never forget my first case.
He was a young fellow, lying on a
rock and suffering Intensely from lock
jaw. Besld him was his brother, nurs-
brother did not even have a handker
chief; he waa bathing the boy's wounds
with a piece of paper, I waa burdened
with handkerchiefs at that time, so I
gave the rebel a few and my, he was
so glad to get them. I stayed with him
some time, bandaged his wounds " nd
did what I could for him, and his brotii
er told me his stor. Their name was
Presgraves and they lived on the James
River. He said that he had other
brothers in the battle, and he feared
they had both been killed. When he
saw his brother fall he allowed him
self to be taken prisoner purposely, bo
i"k no covua oe witn mm. when he
Ins and-oaring for him. Th anxio-u told this mob af the story, he looked
up. at me with his big tear-filled eyes.
for he knew his brother waa going to
aie.
" 'How am I going back to my father
and tell him of this, and that, in all
probability, his other two boys Have
been killed In this same battle 7 I am
afraid that I am the only one left. My
poor father! He was more like a big
urumer xo us, ana you aon t know
now much we loved him.'
"The tears came -to my own eves.-
did everything I possibly could do for
mat poor boy. He was so affectionate
to his brother and waited on him night
and day.
Tour d7a later the poor rotnvr
fellow died. His brother asked if he
could not go Into Gettysburg and buy
a pine coffin, for he Intended to come
back after the war and brlnK the body
home. He was given the permission,
and instead ofvbeing burled in a blan
ket, as was the case with the great
majority, this one boy had a pine cof
fin. Major Holsteln and his wife read
the burial service each day over the
long stretch of dead, and Mrs. Moore
and I always accompanied them: But
at, this particular time 'Major Holsteln
did not have his glasses with him, and
he could not read without them. They
were preparing to bury the boy with
out any service. As soon as the brother
realized this he sat on a log and cried
as though his heart would break.
Finally he regained his composure, and,
looking up, said: 'Is there not some
body who will say a word over my
brother? Must I go home and say that
he was buried like a dog, without even
a prayer for hlmT"
"Miss Moore and I could not resist
this appeal. Major Holsteln let us have
his book and we read the burial service.
We all felt Intensely sorry for this
poor boy; he was so much affected by
his loss. He told us that he was going
to escape toia us now ne was going
to do it and how he waa going back to
his father. We all knew about It, but
we said nothing. We let him go. So,
of course, we were not surprised when
we heard that he was missing; but no
one told on the poor fellow, or what
course he had taken.
We had a nephew of Jefferson Davis
in our camp. Poor fellow! He suffered
terribly. A special chair was rigged
up for him because his back was in
jured; but he begged so hard to be
taken out of it that the doctors finally
consented. But no matter in what
position he was placed, he was not
satisfied. When the orders came to
take the men who were not dying to
Camp Letterman, the Union men had
considerable trouble in lifting him into
the wagon; he suffered so intensely.
Finally one gruff soldier said: 'That's
what you get for fighting against us.'
"But the poor fellow answered In a
kindly tone of voice:
" I fought against you only once,
and I'll never fight again. And re
member, my dear man, the Lord says
that you must forgive, if they fight
seventy times seven.' That was the
last I ever saw or heard of him.
"After the wounded were moved to
the wheat field, four men of the sani
tary commission went around the 600
men every night singing their favorite
hymns. I always went with them and
led the singing. My voice waa clear
and strong then, and, besides, I was
accustomed to leading my boys in
school. For the Union men we sang
,woex agar, o x-rayer. &ut tne Con
federates always wanted tlielr old,
plantation hymn. Every night, when
we asked 'What will it be tonight,
boys?' the answer always was: 'Oh,
Sing to Me of Heaven.' It waa a beau
tiful hymn, and the first stanza began:
'Oh, sing to me of heaven when I am
called to die.' The chorus went:
" 'There'll be no more sorrow there.
In heaven above, where all is love.
There'll be no more sorrow there.'
"The Union men could not understand
my devotion to the Confederates, and
finally I noticed among them a cold
ness to me. I asked what was the
trouble and one of them said:
" 'Miss Jones, where are you from?
"I told them I was from Philadelphia.
" 'Are you a rebel sympathizer? an
other asked.
"I answered most decidedly, no. And
then I had a heart-to-heart talk with
them, and told. them of the sufferings
of the rebels and how desperately they
needed the affectionate care of a wo
man. Just as much as they did. Tbe
boys soon saw the other side and
agreed with me.
" That's right. Miss Jones, you do all
you can for those Johnnies; they are
not such a bad sort, after all.'
"We became better friends after that.
"I did not realize at the time what a
dreadful thing this battle was, for
when one Is busy trying to abate a
fire she hasn't time to think what the
consequences will be. It is those who
are in the distance who can see bet
ter. When the fire is over everything
comes to us. So It was with the Get
tysburg battle. I waa too much occu
pied caring for these poor fellows to
think how terrible it really was and
how much the men had suffered. When
the trouble was over everything came
to me."
Longest Tunnel for Canada
THE Canadian Pacific Railway has
just announced it will begin con
struction shortly of the longest
tunnel. It will be built through Kick
ing Horse Pass, in the Rocky Moun
tains, will be IS miles long and will
cost 115.000,000.
It will take seven years, it is es
timated, to build it. The great hole
through the mountain will be four
miles longer than the famous Simplon
tunnel through the Alps. Railway offi
cials assert that the construction of
this tunnel will eliminate many miles
of dangerous snowsheds.
Rigging Ckutes Is Perilous
HUTES of galvanized iron or wood crete up from the mixer and dumps It
automatically into the hopper..
From this point It Is propelled
through the chutes by gravity.
These chutes are held in place by
trusses and cables, and the installation
of them is sometimes rather a perilous
are coming into general use for
delivering concrete from the mix
ing plant to the point of deposit, taking
the place of wheelbarrows and carts.
These chutes are attached to a hop
per at the top of a tower, the tower
carrying & hoist which takes the con- task
1250-Foot Skips in Year o 1930
AT the first International Congress
of Maritime Navigation In Phila
delphia It waa predicted that in 1950
the largest 20 boats on the Atlantic
will have an average length of 1100
feet, with a beam of more than 100
feet and a draught of nearly 40 feet.
A forecast, however, made several
years ago for 1923 materialized last
year, and It may well be that this fore
cast for 1950 will find Itself aa actoal-
lty 15 or 20 years sooner than the time
prophesied.
Work being done to better docking
facilities all over the world gives a
slight indication of what may be ex
pected. The plans for the new locks
of Tilbury dock provide for ships of
a length of 1230 feet, a width of 130
feet and a draught of 39 feet. The Suez
Canal is to be deepened to 39 feet by
1815.