lllllllllllllllllUMIQM is i in in ... in m n in or an Pris Newspaper Man Try ing to Break All Pre vious Records. HI H'-I"H-M"H"I"M"I"M-M"H-l-Ooo EVERY little while Mother Earth reduces her waist meas ure. The distance around gets smaller every few ears now. If engineers keep faith with their time tables and pilots steer their ships clear of rocks and shoals a trav eler from Paris will carry a belt around the world in forty-two days. He is on the way due In Paris again on Aug. 20. That beats the time of Nellie Bly, the famous newspaper woman. She went around in Beventy-two days and a quarter. On her way she stopped off some hours at Amiens, in France, to tell Jules Verne that she was hus tling to beat the time which he made his imaginary hero. Phileas Fogg, take to accomplish the circuit of the earth, which was eighty days almost to the second. What would some of the old timers say to such feats? Think of Magellan, first man in all the world to go around the globe. He started on Tuesday. Sept 20, 1519, with this rosier of In struments: Twenty-three parchment charts, six pairs of compasses, twenty one wooden quadrants, seven astro labes, thirty-five compass needles and eighteen hourglasses. A meager quipment. Indeed, would be the ver dict of the most daredevil skipper of the craziest tramp steamer that ever entered an American harbor. Yet Magellan butted his way through the terrible strait that now bears his name, with a half subdued mutiny In his rear. He found the Philippine Is lands, and there he was murdered, and -one of his subordinates, Sebastian del Cano, completed the voyage in one of his ships, reaching Seville, Spain, In twelve days less than three years from the day they bad started from that port Lrake'i Voyage. Think of Drake, England's naval hem, first to carry the English flag around the world. Without charts be steered his solitary voyage for weeks through seas utterly unknown. He left Plymouth In the middle of De cember, 1577, aud returned to that port after a cruise of two years, ten months and some days, which he and his men had spent "in seeing the won ders of the Lord in the deep, in dis cerning so many admirable things, in going through with so many strange adventures, lu escaping out of so in any dangers and overcoming so many dilllculties In this our encom passing of this nether globe and pass ing around about the world." And there was Captain Robert Gray, first to carry the American tlag around the earth. Leaving Iloston in 178", he returned in his good ship, the Colum bia, In fifty days less than three years, having given a name to the great river of the northwest, crossed the Pacific to Canton aud rounded the Cape ot Good Hope with tea for the port of the lurituns. For centuries the time around the globe had to be counted In years. Then came the railroad and the steamship, and the itinerary could be figured lu mouths. The tunneling of the Alps and the bridging of India by rail gave the French novelist his story. Then the American girl took advantage of the bettering of the time of steamlioat linos and railroad systems, and going cast and returning west to the starting point became a matter of fewer days Mill. Now It Is the Transsiberlnn rail road that makes the forty-two day jm nt a possibl'ity. Always the first trip and the last will be the most romantic, the siory of the man who dared what men had rcver dared before and the tale of t li; l ;st adventurer to grab u bag of money nnd n couple of brushes and try v.-hat doss connections can do in shaving a dry or nn hour off the l:est time o dute. Three Ceat Eiscovsries. Fernao de Mag dimes in Ills lifetime wiw the three most i! si inp-.i.-iied dei ds of geographical c'seoveiy tiie round ing of the Cape of (.; od II pe by Inn.. the voyage to India by la damn and tiie finding of America by Columbus Prince Henry of Portugal, the navlga lor. bad given himself heart and soul to adding new lands to his crown by the daring of his seamen. Magellan, to use the name by which he common ly Is called, was a man of steel, de spislng dilllculties. Portugal would not equip him for his enterprises, and he publicly denaturalized himself and entered the service of Charles V. of Spain. He would undertake a voyage by way of America to the Moluccas. The way across the isthmus of Tana ma and the passage to the north of the western continent had alike proved Impenetrable. He would go by the south, seeking a passage from the At lantic to the south sea, and for the discovery of that passage he was pre pared to push as far southward as 70 degrees. In March, 1513, the Spanish king prnnted a capitulation settling the terms under which the explorer was to sail. A year and a half later on a September day a favorable breeze Mining up. and the ship cleared the rtver and commenced their memorable 00 M llllllllllll Feat of Magellan and Nellie f Bly's Fast Voyage Are Recalled. J.f..f. f- -' -f - --- -i- voyage. The ships were old and small and in bad conditiou. The commander's pennant flew from the masthead of the Trinidad, the most seaworthy of the five. For armament there were 1,000 lances, 200 pikes, 10 dozen jave lins, 300 dozen arrows aud 5,600 pounds of powder. There were also a very large number of articles for bar ter. On Their Way. The Trinidad, led the way. The oth er boats were to follow her flag by day and her lantern by night. On Sept. 20 they were at Tenerlffe, on Nov. 20 near Pernambuco, and Dec. 13 to 20 was spent lu the harbor of Rio Janeiro. They went forward slow ly, groping their way, spending some days exploring the La Plata, uncertain often what course to pursue. At last more than a year after leaving Spain, on Oct. 21, 1520, they entered the strait of Magellan. The land to the south they named Tierra del Fuego, the land of the fires, from the con stant fires which were seen. On Nov. 28 they passed Cape Deseado, "the longed for cape," aud sailed out into the hitherto unknown south Pacific. Facing northward aud theu north westward, they sailed for ninety-eight days un utterly unknown sea. On March 0, 1521, they found the La drones, Guam, now owned by the Unit ed States. Ten days later they saw the southernmost; of , the Philippines. Among these islands the fleet was to spend considerable time, and in a mis erable skirmish with the natives Ma gellan lost his life, April 27, 1321. It was Del Cano who completed the voyage. The shliw went to Borneo and the Moluccas, where they had a warm welcome and got a valuable car go. Almost at the end of 1521 they started for home. On May 8, 1522, they sighted South Africa. When the Victory, commanded immediately by Del Cano, bad but eighteen Europeans and four natives left on board, scarce ly enough to work the ship, they sight ed Cape St Vincent, and on Sept 8, 1522, they anchored at Seville. A voyage "without parallel In the his tory of determination and suffering of disaster and success" had ended. Next day all who were able to walk went in procession, barefooted and carrying tapers, to the shrines of the city to offer their thanks. Aud then they faced a new puzzle. When they discovered that they had missed a day in their reckoning, some how, the fact, now familiar, dawned upon them that in going around the world one loses or gains a day, ac cording to the direction of his Journey ing. Nellie Ely's Wonderful Time. Elizabeth .Cochrane, to use Nellie RIy's real name ns It was then she Is now Mrs. Elizabeth Seaman made her record breaking trip In 1SS0-0O. The exact time was 72 days. 0 hours, 11 minutes and 14 seconds. She sailed at 9:40 n. m., Nov. 14, from Hoboken. Here is her itinerary: Southampton. Nov. 22. 2 a. m., by the postofllce special to London, reach ing the city shortly after 5. Instead of waiting for the India mall at 8 p. in. she started twelve hours earlier by the Tidal train via Folkestone and made a detour to Amiens to call on Jules Verne.' She then Intercepted the India mail at Calais, reaching Itrindlsl on time. Palled from Rrimlisl at 2 a. m Nov. 25. Passed through the Suez canal and reached Ismaila Nov. 2S, a day behind her schedule Crossed the Red sea and sailed for Aden Dec. 2. Reached Colombo. Ceylon, Dec. 8. two days ahead of her schedule. The steamer from Calcutta was a day late. Rut she reached Singapore exactly on time. Dec. H. On Christmas eve she was lu Hongkong, where she spent four days. Next came Yokohama, where there was a wait for the mails for the United States. On Jan. 7 she sailed for Golden Gate, and she ar rived in the harbor of San Francisco on the morning of Jan. 21. Then came the rush across the continent by the Southern Pacific, the Atchison. Tope k a and Santa Fe, aud so on to Chicago and Philadelphia and New York. She said be first heard the popular soug about Mr. McGlnty at Albuquer que. At Philadelphia her mother and other friends met her She alighted at the Jersey City depot of the Pennsyl vania road on Jan. 25, 1S00, carrying the same little band bag and wearing the same navy blue dresa with which she had started. It was exactly 3:51 p. m. when both of her boots touched the platform. An American girl has been around the world In what has long been regarded as one of the most Vtuarkable trips of modern times. Circling Globe In 42 Days. And now It Is Andre Jagerschmldt. a Paris reporter on the staff of the Excelsior. He means to make it In forty-two days. Nellie Bly had to go around Asia by way of Italy, the Suez canal, the Red sea ond the Indian ocean. The latest of the glrdlers saved tlmo and distance by crossing the con tinent from Moscow to Vladivostok by the Siberian railway. He left Paris on July 10 and plans to reach there again on Aug. 28. JUDGE W. 1 POLLARD. American Delegate to Anti-Rum Congress at The Hague Next Month. "DRYS" OF WORLD TO MEET Inernational Congress Will Be Held at The Hague Next Month. The Hague, Aug. 21. Arrangements are nearing completion for the twelfth International congress against alcohol ism, which will be held here Sept. 11-16. The program has been divided into two parts, discussion on the relation J of society to alcoholism and of the state to the liquor traffic. There will be four sessions in each section and two special evening meetings. Judge Jefferson Pollard of St. Louts, Mo., will speak on conditional con demnation under the heading "The Judge and the Alcohol Patient." BARES BREAST: GETS BULLE1 Fremont Mart Dares Wife's Affinity U Shoot and Latter Fires. Fremont, Neb., Aug. 21. Baring hii breast, to his wife's affinity, Herman Wasmer shouted, "Here's my heart, shoot if you dare," and 'ell with a bul let in his side Fred Matholssou, a well known business man, known as the "affinity" of Mrs. Wasmer, held nn automatic revolver In his hand and when Wasmer made his melodramatic cnallenge he pulled the trigger. Was mer, ,who is a signal supervisor foi the Union Pt'dflc, resented his atten tions to his wife and went with her to the store to protest to Mathelsson The men quarreled immediately and Wasmer got the better of a physical argument, which Mrs. Wasmer wl nessed. Mathelsson drew the revolver from a drawer and shot Wasmer down ns he stood. Then he turned to a by stander and remarked, "I wish I had killed him." Roth Mrs. Wasmer and Mathelsson are In the county Jail and a charge of shooting with Intent to kill will be filed ngalns-.t the man. The sympathy of Mrs. Wasmer seems to he entirely with her lover, and the hus'iand, who will recover from his wound, is forgotten. Su't for Ten Thousand Beer Bottles. Mason City. Ia., Aug. 21. Joe Goss It. the rightful owner of 10,000 empty l.ter bottles. The Ham Brewing com pany claimed them and caused a re plevin to be Issued. Goss bought the bottles ovc-r the county, as he Is a J'jok dealer, and the Ham Brewing lonipany claimed that he had no right to them. The Judge held that Inas much as they nre charged to the con signee upon shipment, he has a right to sell them to whom he pleases. New Strike at Muscatine. Muscatine, la., Aug. 21. Following the failure of an attempt to secure ar bitration of the difficulties between the McKee & Bllven button factory tnd Its union employees, a strike ot the 200 operatives employed il that plant was called. The Thing to Get At. Chief Counsel The first thlug to do la to get at the root of this trouble. Associate Counsel The root of the trouble is the late Mr. Blgwad's for tune. Chief Counsel Exactly, and we must get at It New York Tribune. Woman's Method. "Mr. Floorwalker. I wish you would give me a clerk who can show me what I want!" "And what do you want, madam?" "How do I know until I have look-ed?"-IIouston Post. A Sure Way. Ethel Their parents made the match. I believe. Arthur-I thought they opposed It? Ethel Yes: that's how they made it-Philadelphia Bul letin. No, Indeed. Just because n man wants but little here below Is no sign that he has any. thing coming to him on high. Galves ton News. "What the world is waiting for," saH a man whose garments glistened, "li some sort of a simple, easily applied and Inexpensive preparation that woulc give a dull finish to shiny coats."-Nen York Suu. .. TIIE SHIP CAPTAIN His Life Pays the Penalty if His Vessel Be Wrecked. SAD TRAGEDIES OF THE SEA. Bravo and Skillful Mariners Who Went to Death With Heroio Calmness When Disaster Overwhelmed the Craft Committed to Their Car. For this Is the law without excuse For all of the lords ot the ten That each mutt hoUi his ship from harm. Whatever the odds may be. There are many tragedies of the sea that the world knows very little about or, knowing, very soon forgets. These are the tragedies of the men whose lives have beeu spent In the bard and exacting service which the sea de mands, whose long years of toll and seal and skill have brought the high responsibilities of command and whose careers have been cut short by the fault of nn hour yea, even by the er ror of a minute. The old rubric that those who never make mistakes have had few oppor tunities for making them does not ap ply here. There la never a voyage that does not have its possibility of error, and in many of them arise the sudden emergencies which bring the acid test of presence of mind, cool Judgment, expert seamanship and skill. Let these qualities fall the master mariner In his time of need. and. no matter what might have been the stress of body or brain, or of both, his professional ca reer Is at an end. If the lapse involves disaster to his ship. There Is that veteran mariner Cap tain Frederick Wntklns. He it was who commanded the City of Purls when the old Intnan liner came stag gering to port with the Atlantic waves swashing about her hold and surging against her bulkheads, the result of a fog shrouded Impact with an Iceberg The liner was thronged with passen gers The unforeseen danger came near to sending her and her thousand souls to the bottom, but the energy, re sourcefulness and skill of her com ma nder brought her safe to port a deed to be long remembered It was remembered up to a few years ago. w hen a slight miscalcula tion on the part of Captain Watklns sent bis vessel uon the Manacle rocks, on the Cornish coast. Now you may search nil of the obscure places of the earth and you may not locate Dim. There was the Prtnaessin Victoria Luise of the flamburg-Amerlcan line, which drove hard usn tbecorul beach at Port Royal, in the island of Ja maica. The vessel was thronged with tourists, making a Jaunt to the West Indies. Fortunately the sea was calm, and there was no difficulty in getting passengers ashore. When the last hod been safely landed the captain went to his stateroom and put a bullet through bis brain. The pitiable part of it all was that he bad no need to. it was not the brain he shattered that was at fault but the Kingston earthquake, which had destroyed the lighthouse. Captain Griffith of the Mohcgan stood on the bridge of bis fust sinking ship until the waters engulfed him. Deloncle of the French liner Hour gogne. sunk in mid-Atlantic by a col lision with the British steamship Cro martyshire, was last seen on the bridge, with band on whistle cord, as bis vessel took the long dive. Von Goessel of the Elbe went down with bis ship, standing with folded arms upon the bridge as the vessel slowly sank. One of the snddest tragedies of the sea was the wreck ot the British steamship Wnlearapa. which went ashore on Great Barrier island while on a voyage from Sydney to New Zea land. As the vessel n en red the en trance to the harlmr of Auckland a thick fog shut in Captain Mcintosh, who commanded her, had been many years In the service of the line ond was reputed to he very careful nnd capable, but while the steamer was groping her way through the mist It was noted that he was exceedingly nervous nnd depressed. When night came the fog was so thick that the lookouts could not see half a ship's length ahead. A few min utes past midnight there was a sud den crash, which lold the steamship almost on her beam ends, disabling all of the boats on the careered side. Cap tain Mcintosh was on the bridge at the time. A great wound which bad been torn in the vessel's side showed the extent of the disaster. A soon as he realized that bis ship must be come a total loss the captain strode to the end of the bridge and. exclaim ing "This is the last watch I" plunged overboard to his death. Walter Scott Meriwether tn Munsey'a Magazine. Those Burled Treasures. "My speech was rather lengthy, I am afraid," said the young statesman, "but I assure you that It contains numerous gems of thought." "Perhaps." replied Mr. Orowcher, "but 1 have never allowed myself to take the slightest Interest tn these stories of burled treasures." Washing ton Star. Question For Question. Glbbs What an aggravating habit Jones has of answering a question by asking another. Dlbbs-Yes; I've no ticed that Lost night I asked blm If he'd lend me $.1. nnd he replied by ask ing me if I took him for a darned fool. Boston Transcript He is the best physician who Is the roost Ingenious limplrer of Dope. Coleridge. OBLIGING CRABS. Present Their Clews to fishers Wlie Shake Hands With Them. Visitors in Seville see women carry ing baskets full of rraba' claws. The claws are cooked, and people nibble at them more for fun than sustenance. Just as Russians nibble sunflower seeds. What becomes of the rest of this crustacean, especially If be ts a crawfish, ot bis tall? As a matter of tact the crawtlsh has no part lu the business. The claws are taken from a salt water crab which lives along the shores of Mo rocco. Spain aud Portugal. Each little crab, with its one little mate, has a cave for a home, and. adopting the eastern estimate of the other set. he usually keeps bis wife shut Inside the cave, meanwhile staying about the threshold himself and making a brave show with his big claws. When the tide runs out the crab fishers prowl along the beach looking for crab holes. Either the crab is stalking up and down seeking what he may devour aud thus showing whether he has fine claws or he is still at home, and the size of his door way Indicates tho size of the house holder. In one case the fisherman cuts off bis retreat by blocking his front door with mud; In the other case he digs him out Anyway, he deprives him of his pincers and sets blm at liberty fl grow some more. IMght here appears the quaintest fea ture of the whole affair, for the pin cers are uot torn away from the crab nt nil. Instead he presents them to the fisherman, perhaps even with bis compliments. It Is a fact easily de monstrable that the crab can detach his claw by muscular elTort. thus mak ing no hemorrhage, but leaving the stump in such condition that a new claw is soon grown. The fishermen simply take the crab by the band, whereupon It lets go, leaves the claw with them nnd romps off home with out it Chicago Record Herald. PRESSURE OF WATER. Its Effect Upon a Corked Bottle Low ered Into Ocean Depths. A bottle partly tilled with fresh water and tightly corked can be lowered Into ocean depths, and on being raised to the surface It will be discovered on opening It that the fresh water has been replaced by salt This really extraordinary phenome non Is explained In the following way: The pressure of water increases as the distance from the surface In creases. Thus nt the dlstsuce of a foot beneath the surface tho pressure of the water a square inch will be about half a pound; iff a dlstunce of, say. 2(Nl feet It will be 125 kuik1s to the square Inch. At ocean level the pres sure of the atmosphere Is a little over fourteen pounds. Thus If a bottle con taining air were lowered thirty feet be neath the su.-faee the pressure of ws ter would more than counterbalance the pressure of the air. Ordinarily ut this depth, therefore, the pressure ot water should be sufficient to drive the cork within the bottle, but. the cork Is tightly wedged in position. To squeeze It within the bottle it. too, must first be compressed, nnd also there is friction to be overcome. The distance varying, then, accord ing to these conditions, at some point beneath the surface the weight of wa ter will force the cork into the bottle, compressing the nlr before it The salt water of the ocean mingles with the fresh water within the bottle. As tho bottle again approaches be surface tho air that remains within Is sub jected to less and less pressure till finally, now having Itself a pressure greater than that of the water, It drives the cork back Into Hsltlon. St. Louis Republic. Counterfeit Detectors. "Few men carry n bigger roll than the professional detector of counter fells." said H receiving teller of one of the big banks recently. Each ot these counterfeit detectors has a spe tial license from the treasury depart ment at Washington which permits him to carry about 1.10 samples ot counterfeit money. It Is a felony to have counterfeit money lu your hih session without proper authority. For each bogus bill the counterfeit de tector carries a genuine note of the same kind nnd denomination for the purposes of comparison. The total value of this good money that Is car ried side by side with the bad is be tween $W,()H) nnd :pO.(KX. The bills run from a dollar up to $1,000 In d denomination."-New York Sun. The Solar Plexus. The Scriptural expression "bowels of compassion" Is Justified by the disco v eries of modern science. Whenever anything affects our nerves we feel It more or less In our "innards' It Is the solar plexus which Is concerned In such emotionalism. Of course in Itself It cannot fuel, but It sends messages to the brain, which inter prets them as coming from there. The solar plerus Is a mass of nerves and nerve structures In the abdomen at the bnck of tbe stomach. New York Trlh une. Her Great Love. "Could you love me. darling?" he whispered, with a lender, pleading look In his eyes, "if I had only the one coat to my hackV" "I could." she replied softly as she nestled In his great strong arms, "If I knew you had sacrificed Hip others to buy me n new dress." London Mail Diffennt From Wsll Stroot. Wise (Juy Speculating In stocks Is nothing but "ttheriiuiir) luck " Shorn La tub--Hardly that. I've sometimes gone fishing and succeeded In saving tuy bait 'hicago News. LOCAL NEWS From Monday's Daily. Tom Parmcle spent the day ia Omaha. C. C. Parmcle was a visitor ia Omaha today. W. S. Horing went to Ashland this afternoon. James Robertson was a visitot at Elmwond today. C. I. Quinton went to Klmwood today on business. II. McKay returned from Oma ha this afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Pribble went to Louisville Saturday after noon. Marie, Opal and Willie Fit gerald returned this morning" from Louisville.. Miss Nellie Lowe returned to Tekmnah this afternoon, after visiling here with Mrs. A. A. Dot son. Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Lewis and daughter, from near Murray, were m the city today, driving up from their home this morning. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Karnes re turned to South Omaha today, af ter visiting the former's sister, Miss Myrtle (iochnour. Mr. and Mrs. Olmstead of Car roll, Neb., who were here to at tend the funeral of Mrs. L. H. Young, returned to their home Ibis morning. Mrs. Frank Wilcox returned to Omaha today, after visiting her sister, Mrs. Tom Patterson. She was arompanied by a son and two grand-children. Misses Helen Chapman and Ruth Johnson were passengers to Mediapolis, Iowa, Saturday even ing, where they will spend a few days with the former's sister, Mrs, Doutell and family. Mrs. Fred Patterson and daughter, ElUe, went to St. Jos eph this morning to visit Mrs. George Deem and other friends, there. Mr. Patterson went as far as Pacific Junction with them. Mrs. V. E. Crabill nnd children, of Waukeeney, Kas., who have been visiting here for & couple of months at tho homo of J. W, Crabill, returned homo today, ac companied by Mrs. W, F. Crabill, Tom Salmon came in yesterday morning to spend Sunday with his wife and boy, who have been her for a week. They aro moving from Jturlington, Iowa, to Gales burg, Illinois, where they will re side. Senator Untitling passed through the city last Sunday morning en route to his home in Fiu'on, coming in over the Bur lington. Mr, Maiming went out to Colorado wilh a party of sight seers in charge of W. E. Rosen crtins, and was returning over the Kiirliugloii. C. L. Graves of the Union Ledger came up this morning to look after some business matters and was a caller al the Journal headquarters. Charley reports a splendid rain in thai vicinity, the llrsl genuine good downpour they tunc had since I lecoral ion day. Hubert llchul, Hie genial clerk in the drug store of Weyrich & lladroha, departed this morning via Omaha for Iowa City, Iowa, where he will spend his week's vacation wilh relatives and friends. Iowa City was James Rebal's home prior to moving to IMallsnioulh. DR Herman Grccdor, Graduate Veterinary Surgeon (Formerly with U. S. Department Agriculture) Licensed by Nebraska Staia Board Calls Answered Promptly Telephone 378 White, Flattsmout Do you want an AUCTIONEER? If you do, get one who has Experience, Ability, Judgement. Telegraph or write ROBERT WIKIIISOII, Dunbar, Neb. Dates made at this oflico or ths jt Murray State Bank. T t