The soldier's life.
--It is said that the frequenters of the gymnasium experience its advantages in renewed vigor, expanded muscle and the robust health that usually follows judicious exercise. The languor of the student, and the weakness of the sedentary alike disappear under the health inspiring influences it produces. If this be so, in regard to the gymnasium, it is doubly true in regard to the life of the soldier. The exercise necessary to be taken by the soldier is the true medicine of nature, and a "pain extracter" that thousands of dyspeptic and consumptive young men have felt the benefit of. It imparts a healthy step and vigorous mind, and gives a firm tone to both, by a happy combination by which every part of the system receives appropriate care and development. If some of those who seek to escape the responsibilities of military duty by getting substitutes on the equally reprehensible practice of discovering ailments and diseases for the occasion to bring about the desired exemption, were to try this panacea, they would fall in love with it. As the song says, "a soldier's life is always gay," unless we may add, you get a mean commander, and if this be so, it is your own fault and can be remedied. The formation of various companies in this city at the present time presents favorable opportunities to those who desire not only to benefit themselves but their country.
