“Adventure” Only for Man Physically Fit I find that most people think of ‘'ad venture" when the word “exploration" Is used. To the explorer, however, ad venture Is merely an unwelcome Inter ruption of his serious labors. He Is looking, not for thrills, but for facts about the unknown. Often his search Is a race with time against starva tion. To him, an adventure is merely a bit of bad planning, brought to light by the test of trial. Or it is un fortunate exemplification of the fact that no man can grasp all the possibil ities of the future. Serious work in exploration calls for as definite and as rigorous pro fessional preparation ai does success In any other serious work in life. The first qualification of an explorer Is a sound and trained body. Exploring Involves the hardest kind of physical exertion, and the capacity to endure such exertion under stress both for long periods of sustained endeavor and in the trying moments of emergency. How preposterous, then, it is for men who have lived at desks to maturity suddenly to attempt these arduous en terprlses! — Roald Amundsen in World's Work. Had Business Reason for Making Inquiry Times were hard, and those who hau had work clung to it tenaciously. A small steam roller chuff-chuffed uois Uy up and down a road, which was under repair, and one of the out-of works watched it for a time, studying the engineer Intently. "How do you feel today?" he asked suddenly. “Fine. How's yourself?” came the prompt response Each succeeding day the lohuger appeared, always with the same greet ing. The engineer became curious, al most annoyed at the persistent in quiry. and finally demanded: “Say, what d’you mean by coming and asking ‘how do you feel' every day?” “Well, you see,” drawled the loung er, “you don’t look any too well, and I have a hunch that one of these days you'll have to quit your Joh— and I want to get it.”—Vancouver Province. How to Get Lost A pompous elderly man, visiting a certain rural district, wished to In spect some ruins In the neighborhood. He inquired for the oldest Inhabitant, and assailed him with such a host of needless interrogations that the an cient personage presently lost his temper, and said: ‘Til tell thee a better way yet Go straight down yonder, take fust turn ing through a tuter field, past the Blue Boar, up Mlleston hill, and over the common till you come to the Windy wood: go down till you get into th- middle of that ‘ere wood, und then-” “Well, and what then?" demanded the old gentlem-tn. "Then.” said the oldest Inhabitant, ‘‘I’m blowed if you won’t be properly lost !’’—London Tit-Bits. Grounds for Suspicion "Look there!" said the washing ma chine agent who visited the hamlet sufficiently often to be fairly well ac quainted there. "See those men and hoys—yes, and women, too—pointing at Uncle Skinner and grinning after he has passed by. What Is tickling them T" “Old Skinner is a widower,” re sponded the landlord of the taven at Squnm. “He Is also as stingy as stone soup, but they’ve found out that while he was up to the city last week he went to a beautie shoppe and paid a whole dollar to get manicured. And they nre kinder putting two and two together and making twenty-two of it."—Kansas City Star. Sincerity in Reading “Head to see, as far as you can," says Sir Henry Hadow, “the differ ence between good work and bad, and you will come to like things which you first of all thought dull, austere and ir-accesslble." That Is the secret. Whatever one reads should be read with a critical eye, not merely raced through for the sake of Its passing interest, but more or less studied for the qualities it possesses. Every book, however poor, contains some thing new and instructive. IT one reads for Improvement as well as in terest, an appreciation of the best will come as a matter of course.” Dustin, the Resourceful Harrison Gibbs tells of a night when the stage manager neglected to place a mattress outside the castle walls as a landing place for Dustin Farnum when he made a spectacular leap in some melodrama. Farnum landed with a thud audible ail over the theater. To stave off the laugh he thought fast, with the result that almost immediately he peeked over the parapet and remarked. “The lake is frozen 1” D for Denariun The “d" in English money is the abbreviation for “penny." It stood originally for the Latin denarius, a coin of value equivalent to the Anglo Saxon penny. Medieval money chang ers continued Its r.se as an abbrevia tion for the [jenny and gave It a fixed place In English custom. A penny Is approximately equal In value to two cents. The half penny is therefore about the equivalent of our cent Failed to Appreciate "Alice in Wonderland” All those who have been famous In Imaginative work for children were children—spoilt children—themselves, asserts Harry Furniss in his book, “Some Victorian Women.” Mr. Fur niss, a famous Punch artist, says that “Hans Andersen cried at the table if he was not helped first, and was not given more Jam on his bread than any one else.” Lewis Carroll's childishness was of a different kind; his was pure lit erary egotism. “It was his habit to watch the chil dren of well-to-do people on the sands at Eastbourne and then, without dis closing his Identity, present those he admired most with a copy of 'Alice in Wonderland.’ Subsequently he for mally called on the parents. Then came the moment at which the ltev. C. L. Dodgson Informed the grateful parent that he was 'Lewis Carroll,' the effect being magical and Carroll's delight immense. “However, one day, the dignified lady whose little daughter had been the recipient of a beuutifuily bound copy of ‘Alice,’ by the strange, un canny clergyman, remarked: “ ‘Oh, you are the writer of those rubbishy books, nre you? Well, per haps you may like to know that I threw the book you gave my daughter away—1 certainly could never dream of her poisoning her mind with such as that 1” Mother Sheep Must Have Jumped Fence There is a common expression, "stupid as a sheep," but this is not entirely Just, for the sheep displays surprising intelligence when its ma ternal instincts are aroused. Recently a shepherd was startled by the sudden and frantic bleating of a sheep outside his door. Going outside, he found one of his own (lock, which Immediately led him to the grazing pasture. Here he had to open the gate to let tiie sheep into the field. She led him to a spot where he found her lamb with Its head firmly wedged in a hedge. It was apparent that she hud made frantic attempts to free her baby, und failing had gone to the shepherd's home for help. He freed the lamb, none the worse for its adventure, but has never dis covered how the mother sheep got out of the Held, which was so well fenced that at no point could he find a gup.— London Tit-Bits. Famous Astronomer Hipparchus, the Greek astronomer, who lived more than 2,000 years ago. long before any of the modern astro nomical instruments had been in vented, deserves much credit for his accomplishments, says the Kansas City Star. He catalogued 1,080 of the stars; fixed lattitude and longitude; deter mined the length of the year, the ob liquity of the ecliptic, that Is, the In clination of the earth’s equator to the plane of revolution about the sun; the eccentricity of the earth’s orbit, how far It is from being circular; meas ured the distance of the moon, rough ly, and discovered the precision of the equinoxes, that the sun's place among the stars at times of equal day and night constantly tends eastward. This last discovery of Hipparchus waited 2,000 yearB for its explanation. Iceland in History Iceland was an independent repub lic from 930 to 1263, when it joined with Norway. The two came under Danish rule In 1381. When Norway separated from Denmark In 1814, Ice land remained under Denmark. In 1918 Denmark acknowledged Iceland ns a sovereign state, united with Den mark only in that the Danish king, Christian X, was also to be king of Iceland. Its permanent neutrality was guaranteed. Provisionally until 1940 Denmark has charge of Its foreign af fairs. and a Joint committee of six re views bills of Importance to both states. Extremely Ancient Eggs After cutting his hand on the top of a high cliff, an explorer found a line of egg shells springing like cro cuses out of the ground. These proved to be parts of shells laid by a dinosaur—a prehistoric creature that lived probably ten million years ago. Many of these eggs, supposed to be the oldest In the world, have been re covered from the sands of Mongolia. Hits of them were formerly made by primitive people Into ornaments for women’s necks. Overcoming Fear of Dark Children who suddenly form an aversion to the dark can often be helped In overcoming this fear, by becoming more familiar with the dark. We might play games in dark rooms, and occasionally send the chil dren to unlighted rooms for sweets or new toys. Sometimes giving a flashlight, which he himself can turn on at a moment’s nolle*. has been most helpful. Women Getting Feminine "This design for a dinner dress Is Infinitely more feminine,” says the Woman's Home Companion of a new Paris model. "It certainly Is,” said the crabbed editor. "It leaves cordu roy trousers and high rubber boots miles behind.” CHAS. F. DAVIS, Attorney PROBATE NOTICE In the matter of the estate of George G. Johnson, deceased. Notice is hereby given: That the creditors of said deceased will meet the administrator of said estate, be fore me, County Judge of Douglas County, Nebraska, at the County Court Room, in said County, on the 1st day of December, 1927, and on the 1st day of February, 1928, at 9 o’clock, a. m., each day, for the pur pose of presenting their claims for examination, adjustment and allow ance. Three months are allowed for creditors to present their claims, from the 29th day of October, 1927. BRYCE CRAWFORD, 4t-9-30-27 County Judge. NOTICE In the Municipal Court, in and for the City of Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska OSCAR W. ANDERSON and JACOB HANSON, Plaintiff, vs. CLAUS BJORNBORG, Defendant: Doc. Q. No. 222. To Claus Bjornborg, Defendant: Take Notice: That plaintiff has filed motion and affidavit in the mu nicipal court, the object and purpose of which is to secure revival of the judgment made and entered against you in the sum of $113.00 and court cost taxed at $4.40 in which said olaintiff was plaintiff and you were defendant. You are required to ap pear on or before the 1st day of No vember. 1927, and show cause why said judgment should not be revived against you, the defendant therein. Upon your failure to appear and show ■ause, said judgment will be revived in favor of plaintiff and operate with, and in full force and effect against you. By order of the court, ROBERT W. PATRICK, Judge. WM. B. WHITEHORN, Clerk. RUTH ROBERTSON, Deputy. 4T—10-7-27 LEGAL NOTICE In the Matter of the Adoption of Ethel Margaret Robinson, Minor. To all perons interested in said matter: You are hereby notified that on the 23rd day of September, 1927, a pe tition wah filed in said Court by John William True and Ruth May True, husband and wife, residents of Doug las County, Nebraska, praying for the adoption of said minor; that a hearing will be had on said petition for adoption before said Court on the 12th day of November, 1927, at 9 o’clock a. m., at the County Court Room of Douglas County, Nebraska, and unless you appear at said time and place and contest said petition, the court may grant the prayer of said petition, whereby said minor shall be adopted by John William True and Ruth May True. BRYCE CRAWFORD, 4t-9-30-27 County Judge. H. J. PINKETT, Attorney PROBATE NOTICE In the matter of the estate of Hen ry Hunter, deceased. 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