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Mfl ytt 11 A EBBS ana trtatfti., Kicii A Co. Clotltl !VEN the most critical college man cannot but like our two button models. They have an elegance of tailoring and smartness of style which will force the attention of anyone having any ideas about clever style. GREISEN BROS. COLUMBUS, NEB. The itUhman's Resource. In his volume of essays. "Dreams Dead Earnest and rialf Jest," Mr. Coulson Kernahan compares bis com patriots, tiie natives of the Green Isle, with the English: "That your Englishman never knows when he is beaten is the veriest plati tude. In all the world there is no na tionality which can play a losing game with such desperate doggedness. I venture to think, however, that the Irishman and therein is perhaps a reason why he excels in the art of war Is more resourceful, is quicker to think and quicker to act. "An Englishman, Gliding himself in a corner so tight that any one else would decide at once that there was nothing for It but surrender or retreat, says. Here I am. and here I'll stick to be shot at till I'm killed or till relief comes.' An Irishman in the same place would say: 'It's the mischiefs own hole I'm In! But wait now! What way Ml I be getting out?" And get out the Irishman generally does, for he is so resourceful that his resourcefulness might sometimes be better described as sllpperiness." The Making of a Business Man. So many panes of glass in o!d Mr. YIners greenhouse had been broken that he had at last offered a reward of 10 shillings to any one who should give information as to the identity of the latest offender. The bait soon drew. A youngster called on Mr. Viner and informed him that a lad named Archie Thompson was a guilty party He received his reward, went away re joicing, and the old gentleman forth with wrote to the local schoolmaster demanding the production of the said Archie Thompson to make good s lit damage he had done to his windows. Nest day the informer called again. "The schoolmaster sent me." he said briskly. "I've seen a glazier, and he'll put your glass right for 3 shillings Here It Is, and" "Notsafast, my lad." said Mr. Viner. "Have you come on behalf of Archie Thompson?" "Well, yes, sir, in a way." said the boy. "Fact Is." he continued confiden tially. "I'm him!" London Answers Horses In the Time of Homer. The hoi-si's used in Homer's time were wur horses. The warrior.: were drawn in chariots. The art of riding was known, but it is alluded to as something unusual. I'lysses at the time of his shipwreck "bestrode a plauk. like a horseman on :i bite steed." There are reasons for believing that the practice of riding was much later than that of driving, and the myth of the centaur, where, according to Shake speare, "man is iucorpsed and deiniua tured with the beast." probably orig inated at an early period when the ap pearance of a mau on horseback was a novel sicht. Advertised Letters. Following is s list of unclaimed mail matter remaining in the-post office at Columbus, Nebraska, for the period end ing November 12, 191o: Letters Chas E Anderson, H A Dietz Mrs Alice Pinch. Emmet Ferguson, Oliver Gray, 1 J Holcomb, S II Hudson C. Lindsay. Oards Miss Mario Bnttell. (Jeorge Boeme, John Dalton. George W. Gibson, Oliver Gray. Miss darn Mafison, Mrs Lester Miller, Ralph Kisdy. George A Westover. Parties calling for any of the above, will please say advertised. Carl Kramer, P. M. You Nov. Eight DorVt Forget ADDISON WAIT Rep'n Candidate -FOR- 8r RYt iY)JLy iff YvtA A TARCOOLER FUNERAL Wood Was Scare, but They Managed to Rig Up a Coffin. In some of the mining districts of South Australia there is a great scar city of wood. Consequently, If you are so foolish as to die there you must not expect to have a coffin, but must be content to be wrapped In a sack before being deposited in Mother Earth. However, when a certain very prom incut resident of a mining camp died the other people of the settlement by the way, it was called Tarcooler. though coolness was unknown and Tarhotter would have been a more suitable name determined that he should be buried in style. So they set about getting a coffin. They made one of a sort, placed a lid on It and laid it (with the deceased Inside) in an empty tent for the night. Next morning the lid of the coffin was missing. It was afterward found that it had been stolen to make the tailboard of a butcher's cart. However, in spite of this trifling loss the funeral was conducted with great solemnity. The coffin was much ad mired. It had been made out of the boxes in which the dynamite was sent to the mines. Some people might hare considered that the obsequies were marred by the fact that the coffin bore In large letters on one side the legend "Keep dry," and on the other "Stow away from Ixrilers," but that did not trouble the simple minds of the Tar-cool-'uns. London Tit-Bits. An Anecdote of Bach. The Duke of Saxe-Weimar once In vited John Sebastian Bach, the Nestot of German music, to attend a dinner at the palace. Before the guests sat down to the feast Bach was asked to give an improvisation. The compose! seated himself at the harpsichord ami straightway forgot all about dinner and everything else. He played so long that at last the duke touched his shoul der and said. "We are very much obliged, master, but we must not let the soup get cold." Bach sprang to his feet and followed the duke to the dining room without uttering a word. But he was scarcely seated when he sprang up, rushed back to the instrument like one demented, struck a few chords and returned to the dining rcom. evidently feeling much better. "I beg your pardon, your highness." he said, "but you interrupt ed me in a series of chords and arpeg gios on the dominant seventh, and I could not feel at ease until they wen resolved into the tonic. It Is as If you had snatched a glass of water from the lips of a man dying of thirst Now I have drunk the glass out and am content." His Turn Came. Ben Davis defeated President Madi son for election to the Virginia house of delegates after Madison had left the White House. Old Davis, who seldom wore a coat, was sitting on a rail fence on the roadside in Greene county one morning when a young man dressed In dapper fashion and evidently from the city passed by. "Good morning," said David, with the proverbial Virginia politeness. To this the stranger paid no atten tion. In a few minutes, however, he came to a fork in the roads and was evidently In doubt which way he should go. ne retraced his steps to where Davis still sat on the fence and asked him with great politeness If he could tell him which way led to Stan ardsville. Davis made no reply. "Will you please tell me," the young man repeated, "which road I take to get to Stanardsville?" Tou can," said Davis stolidly, "take any d d road you please." Popular Magazine. A Lawyer's Paradise. Naples, under Spanish rule In the eighteenth century, was overrun with lawyers. Of their profusion Joseph Addison hud tlds to say: "It is incredible how great a multi tude of retainers to the law there are at Naples. It is commonly said that when Innocent XI. had desired the Marquis or Campio to furnish him with 30.000 head of swine the mar quis answered him that for bis swine he could not spare them, but If his holiness had occasion for 30,000 law yers he had them at his service." It seems to have been a golden age for lawyers, for. as the author says, "there are very few persons of con sideration who have not a cause de pending, for when a Neapolitan has nothing else to do he generally shuts himself up in his closet and falls a tumbling over his papers to see if he can start a lawsuit and plague his neighbors." Dietetic and Hygienic Ga zette. Technically Gentlemen. There is only one strictly technical definition of gentleman a man entitled to bear coat armor. In the seven teenth and eighteenth centuries it was used with this significance, and the secondliaud bookstall hunter will oc casionally find "So-and-so, "gentle man." written on dusty and stained fly leaves. But this definition has dropped out, for now any one may use arms who chooses to pay for an arms li cense. The inland revenue takes your guinea or two guineas without inquir ing as to your right to bear arms. And, though the heralds college has the right to grant arms to those who can afford to pay the necessary fees. It cannot prevent people from using arms to which they have no right London Chronicle. Spoiled It For Him. Mr. Clarke's butler had asked for a night off. for the purpose, as he ex plained, of attending a ball In the vil lage. The next day Mr. Clarke asked him how he had enjoyed'hiuiself. "Oh, pretty good, sir, thank you," was the response. "It would have been better if it-hadn't a-been for the wom en. I can't abide women at a ball" New York Press. A Beautiful Thought. A little girl absorbed in gazing at the starry skies being asked of what she was thinking said, "I was think ing if the wrong side of heaven Is so glorious what must the right side be!" FLED FROM BOREDOM. The Tale ef a Purseeely Interrupted Yachting Cruise. A Xe seasons back a well known hostess chartered a splendid yacht for August and invited a large number of her friends for a three weeks' cruise. At first all went weli; though the party was not specially well assorted, but after a few days they began to evince signs of being somewhat bored with each other's company. The hostess marked these signs of Incipient boredom, which became more plainly evident each day, and at last In despair she took counsel with one of her guests, an old and experienced yachtsman. "What on earth shall I do to amuse these people?" she asked. The yachtsman looked at the serene sky and calm, blue wafer and shook his head doubtfully. "A storm would enliven them up a bit," he said, "but the weather looks quite settled. There is only one thing to be done. You must arrange a break down; the engineer will manage that all right for you. He has probably often done so before. Then you must make for the nearest port for repairs and let your guests have a run ashore. Some of them, I expect, will find an excuse for bidding you goodby and those who remain with you will get along all right together." The hostess took her guest's advice and arrived at Toulon a day later, where nigh twenty of her guests bid her goodby. London M. A. P. THE PRINCEJVINKED. And Miss Alcott Was at the Other End of the Flirtation. It seems an awful thing, but here is the circumstance on record that Louisa M. Alcott, the sainted author of "Little Women." once publicly flirted with Ed ward VII. The fact comes out iu Mrs. Belle Mose's Iwok, "Louisa May Al cott. Dreamer and Worker." There is a passage in the book which contains Miss Alcott's personal account of the Incident. It refers to the time when the late king, then Prince of Wales, made his famous visit to this country. "I went to Boston." Miss Alcott re lates, "and I saw the Prince of Wales trot over the common with his train at review a yellow haired laddie, very like his mother. Fanny W. and I nod ded and waved as he passed and be openly winked his lwylsh eye at us. for Fanny with her yellow curls and wild waving looked rather rowdy, and the poor little prince wanted some fun. We laughed and thought that we had been more distinguished by the saucy wink than by a stately bow. Boys are always Jolly even princes." By the way. this Incident occurred in 1SG0, when the Prince of Wales was nineteen years old and consequently quite a broth of a loy, and when Miss Alcott we blush to record It was twenty-eight New York Mall. WORSE THAN WAR. Infernal Regions of the Buddhists and Mohammedans. The infernal regions of Buddhism are horrible. They comprise a great hell and 130 lesser hells. In these hells, according to the sculptures of the Buddhist temples, men are ground to powder and their dust turned into ants and fleas and spiders. They are pestled in a mortar. The hungry eat redhot iron balls. The thirsty drink molten iron. IslnmLsm says of the infernal re gions: "They who believe not shall have garments of fire fitted for them. Boiling water shall be poured on their heads and on their skins, and they shall Im lieaten with maces of iron." In the Scandinavian mythology, the mythology of Odin and Thor, we are told that "in Xastrond there Is a vast and direful structure, with doors that face the north. It is formed entirely of the backs of serpents, wattled to gether like wickerwork. But the ser pents heads are turned toward the in side of the ball, and they continually send forth floods of venom, in which wade nil those who commit murder or forswear themselves." The Gold Dust Was There. North America has counted as a gold producing continent only since the late forties. But it might well have done so for altout 1100 years. According to the London Chronicle. In the voyage round the world which begun in 1719 the privateer Captain Sbelvocke found in certain California valleys "a rich black mold which, as you turn it fresh up to the sun. appears as If Inter mingled with gold dust. Though we were a little prejudiced." he adds, "against the thought that it could be IossibIe that this metal should be so promiscuously and universally mingled with common earth, yet we endeavor ed to cleanse and wash the earth from some of it. and the more we did the more it appeared like gold. In order to be further satisfied I brought away some of it, which we lost in our con fusion in China." Ate Himself Thin. A terribly emaciated man, about thirty-five years of age. was eating four meals a day. including a heavy breakfast. He was also taking milk between meals. I induced him to give up the milk letweeu meals and to take only a cup of weak tea for breakfast. At once his weight began to increase. It is now normal. Obviously it was a case not only of ordinary mental wor ry, but also of worry and overwork of the millions of cell lives within him. He gave the cells aud organs a rest and at once there was a storage of en ergy and weight. Metropolitan Maga zine. Linked Before and After, naving entered the church at Re gensburir. in Germany, for the purpose of being married and taken his place beside the bride, a man named Wahl. who seems to have been ofa some what nervous disposition, suddenly rushed out of the building, took a cab to the station and jumped into a mov ing train. We have always maintained that the bridegroom should be band cuffed to the best man until the con clusion of the ceremony. It Is foolish to take unnecessary risks. London Globe. One of the: Tell ' - dsr i Mil UIorud - Bon. 4ea. s. lartley, atats.Treasugcr LlnooinJ;Kif SeaVsir: eBlBe7 .- that I weald Uka to waXe outAneinoteaaafoilowa: i0n due septanber ) . One due October l, 0n duo Kovanbar lv One due neoenber 1, , On due January 1, 189' the letter x night ask to'haa'axtaKaSUji soul t paid at waturity t witH. taraat on yraaant not. - -a llUitiqaiba eatlafaotoryr; HITCHCOCKBARTLEY. Wa reproduce above a copy of one ot the letters between Congressman Hitchcock as Joaeph Bartley, which have caused sack a big political sen sation. Edgar Howard, one of the most prominent democrats in the state and editor of tae Columbus Telegram, produced photographic copies of a number of letters which passed be tween Mr. Hitchcock and Mr. Bartley, while Bartley was still holding the of fice of state treasurer, and relating to money transactions. Bartley turned out a defaulter to the extent of over halt a million dollars of state funds, and served a term In state prison for the oCeasa. It has always been a mystery where the money went It will be noticed that the letter Is ad dressed to Bartley as treasurer and not aa a banker or an Individual, and ia dated during the time that he was treasurer of the state. Other letters and telegrams have been published, which passed between Hitchcock and Bartley at this time. While Hitch cock claims that the money he bor rowed of Bartley was Bartley's private funds, most of the newspapers of the state have scoted at this explanation. SENATOR BURKET ENDORSED BY INSURGENT SENATORS.. The progressives among the repub lican senators are coming to the aid of Senator Burkett In his fight for re election. Certainly these senators are hi a position to know of the work of our senior senator, and their judg ment ought to be accepted by the hon est laquirer. Senator Bristow. Last week Senator Bristow, the In surgent Senator from Kansas, said of Senator Burkett: "I should be Tory much pleased to render any assistance I could to Sen ator Burkett, but I have spent so much time outside of Kansas already that I caanot any longer neglect the "While upon a number of votes Sen ator Barkett and I did not agree, yet he waa of especial value to the pro gressive cause, not only in the tariff fight in behalf ot a genuine revision, but also la the fight for effective and efficient legislation regulating the rail roads, ha rendered lne service. "Wishing yoa success, I am "Very truly yours, -J08BPH L. BRISTOW." Senator Beveridge. And now cosmos Seaator Beveridge, the flgatlag- insurgent senator from Indiana, who last week wrote to the chairman of the republican state com mittee aa follows: "I am Tory aura the people of Ne braska will return Senator Burkett to the senate. The great progressive movement that ia awecping over this country needs every man of progres sive tendeaelea. Generally speaking, the politicians aow in control of the Democratic party are not putting up such men. The whole tendency of the cabal of dominant politicians now in control of that party is reactionary. One has oaly to consider the domi nant influences in that party from 'cw York and Ohio to Texas and Jeorcia. "I am exceedingly sorry that the rgagements already made will pre sent my coming to Nebraska, for I Ex-Preeldent Roosevelt. Ia a speech at Omaha on September I. 1910, ex-President Roosevelt said: cnator Burkett was one of the men . whom I especially relied when I s president, both while he was In House and in the Senate. I was o accomplish what I did in Kington oaly because of the way -. backed by men like Senator .. t. and aa wa have a guest from resent, let me say, like Senator rIght has one to criticize the : a-v.-n election if be doaaa't riappinees. "There Is an Instinct in the heart of man which makes him fear a cloud less happiness. It seems to blm that he owes to misfortune a tithe of bis life, and that which he does not pay bears interest, is amassed and largely swells a debt which sooner or later be must acquit" Her Long Dream. Estelle Ah! His proposal was Just like a dream! Agnes Well, you ought to know, dear. You've been dreaming of that proposal for years. - Tale Letters. HewujD. 2tf ooo ISA aoo! iflSrathara interest . .! JNCUthOjB should Ilka indeed to be of any po: ,ce that I could In the re-alaaUOa) Senator Burkett He should be no doubt ha 1 and I bava tfta tetaraed. "With kind -AfcBaW&aT. BUVBRTDGE.' JBFellette. Senator LaJtotysSta's Magazine, la an article reviewiS; Senator Burkett'a work said: "To get the Cratk about Senator Burkett, you matt gat dose. You must study his record. When you do this, you will see that Be Is a progressive progressing. Yoa will find that dur ing the railroad legislation of 190S he took strong sftrfaes in the people's cause. You will find him forging ahead with the saarest handful of re publican senators la support of the amendment to provide for the physical valuation ot railroad property as a basis for the resalatloas of railroad rates, an amendment that was anathe ma to the 'system' leaders of the Sen ate. You will find him springing for ward to tho support of an amendment to protect the railway employees and to fix a just liability upon the rail roads for their injuries incurred in this hazardous service. You will find him afterwards charging the ramparts of the 'system' in behalf of the rail road company employee's liability bill. You will find him again voting consis tently, roll-call after roll-call, while 'system' senators were 'ducking into the cloak rooms to avoid the vote, to put to passage in the Senate the bill to promote the safety of the traveling public and the employees of railways by fixing a reasonable limitation on the hours ot rsfirnsd employees en gaged in the operation-of trains." Senator Ctsnmfns. In a speech at teoob on last Thurs day Senator Oanualaa of Iowa said: "I am her,eBfjBvr. as most or you know my cMat tjnpose at least In visiting lAxxatOm tt thia time, is to contribute, it Z BB contribute with the little InAOBaw that my words may have.tto OS) telectIon of my as sociate in the) Ofpate of the United States, and tag fcad, Elmer J. Bur kett I haaaltrfJitilHwell;I have known I say to eB)raaatoeTBan,k.and fellow townsmemsMMMBhat to altogeth er unnecassafBjatt'SMlieve, as hav ing witnessed tawork in two of the severest sArasjBjsfiRjhat lmve ever been seen in the flaVta of the United States, that ) OaSYdtt does what he believes is tj tightHand votes as his conscfeae Mb Binr he ought to vote sad no eratJRsj than 'that can be asked ot aa anas. at e He haa serve jmx iwithVnot only great fidelity, Stat I think he iias served you wiSa inasaji ability, and we who avsj ( I hope you will not think ma aajSnalli ill when I say this) aomaasftaisaeaofrwhat jfjoold be done in the Satire, and intend to accomplish it in, t every way .that me can, (honorably can) want Elmer Burkett in the Senate instead of Gil bert Hitchcock ia, the Seaete. for the reasons which I shall attempt in the plainest and simplest way to .state." Senator Cumaakaa in his speech at Chicago says nothing is to :be gained by trusting either house of Congress to the democrats. He has seen some of them at close range. Nwweserfw When you tan how dull business was wtien the democratic party was last in power, isn't it a big risk to try. it again? Ex-Presidoat Roosevelt is having great sport causing opponents out of the jungles in durkfcst New York. After next Tuesday the candidates troubles will, be over, ibut .will yours: t A'ThreatA Immature-1 Conductor (to clarinet player) See here, Mr. Scblag. why don't you Yellow my lieat? Veteran Clarinet (temnJy) If lyouedon't look owid I will:--Ptxk. A (Surprise. Gertie I wanit to givemy sweet heart a surpriseeon M birthday. Can you suggest something"? Anibel Well, you mfgbtftelKhfim your age. Bad men ex;use their faults: Agood men will llearef them. Johnson tmajctch hlne-logfi a e Ylul M. POESCH'S 10c Candy Counter Nothing Over Post Cards, lc each; 10c per dozen CONAN DOYLE WAS LATE. The Lonely Schwarenbach Inn and a Literary Coincidence. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle onee walked over the Gemini. He was much im pressed by the desolate appearance of the lonely looking Schwarenbach i:':. Here, it seemed to him. was an ideal scene in which a novelist might locate a story of mystery and crime. He preceded to Invent a story n mystery and crime suitable to the creepy environment. It was a story of murder the murder of a long lost son just home from the wars by hi own father, the needy innkeeper, who did not recognize him until after the deed was done, but had resolved to kill and rob the first lonely stranger that passed that way with money In hi pocket. "The very thing." thought Sir Ar thur, and he went down the bill cheer fully revolving the morbid conception iu his mind. Then a strange thim: hap pened. After dinner, in the hotel at Leuker bad. he picked up a volume of Mau passant's short stories and he found that the French author had not only been to the Schwarenbach inn before him. but had actually located there vtory practically identical with the one which he himself had just devised. Travel and Exploration. He Took the Blame. The guilty man always gives him self away." said a detective, "fur. like the chap who bought the forty-cent bathing suit, lie can't hide his guilty conscience. The chap I have in mind entered the water at Atlantic 'ity iu a forty-cent suit of blue flannel. As he splashed about he was joined by :i girl friend. Th. girl flashed her lyi'-'ht eyes over the tumbling expanse of sea and then with a sigh of delight she said: 'Isn't the water blue today? "It's shameful, said the man. with a hot blush: 'it's perfectly shameful how this cheap bathing flannel runs!" How to Look Pleasant. By her gracious and cordial manner the wife of a western senator has long charmed those so fortunate as to at tend her delightful "functions." On one such occasion a close friend was alluding to the hostess graceful method of making every one feel at home. "How on earth do you manage to do it?" the friend asked. "Oh. It's easy enough." replied the! woman with the engaging manner . "As each guest approaches to shake j hands I just pretend to myself that , the. person I am going to speak to is i some one I like. Chicago Kecord nerald. Up the Rhine. Mrs. Ib.binson And were you up the IMiine? Miss Ntirich (just returned ...... .. I. it.. f jl...1lll lllilll." so. right to the very top. What a splendid view there Is from the sum mit! Duty and today are ours: results and faturitv belong to God. 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They were broken up :;nd varied iu character according to the nature of the fighting to bs dene or to the caprices of those In au th"i:fy. !i inn occasion ait arena might re semble I he Numidian desert, ou an !ier tht' garden of v Hesperldes. thick set with graves of frees and rising m-urds. while auniu it pictured the gr:-:'t ro;-?;; :! raves of Thrace. With f' surroundings the com batants advanced, retreated, encircled their adversaries or kept wild beasts at buy as occasion offered or as their cour-tge or fear suggested. Men com bated not only with the more common brutes, but with such monsters as ele phanK rWnoeenwes. hlppoimtaiuuse? and eroci diles. On other occasions flocks of game, such a i'e.r aud war ostriches, were abandon, d to the multitude, and In some :! : tht' arenas could 1k turned into lake-, filled with mousten: of the deep. uu,l 'P: U surface of which naval engagements took place. Lon dou Saturday Review. Hints to Swimmers. An expert swimmer Is authority for the assertion that a vast majority of the drowning casualties which are at tributed to cramps are In all probabil ity the result of cardiac exhaustion. Nearly all experienced swimmers, lw says, know that cramps when In the water are of comparatively infrequent occurrence. It is commonly iu the calf ... -.I.... of the leg. ana tne swimmer uy i$iun s. miietlv unon his back without undue X. alarm and stretching out the leg may overcome this somewhat painful invol untary muscular contraction. The ex ertion of swimming, however. Is fully equal to the exertion of running, with the additional tax upon the system of a gradual lowering of the bodily teni perature. It is oue thing to know how to swim and quite another to be In u physical condition to do the swimming. London Globe. The Most Important Thing. Commander Peary, at one of the nu merous Washington dinners following his triumphant return from the polo, got the better of a senator Iu a war of wits. "What is the good of your discov ery:" the senator said. "I'll wager that you didn't find a single iiiiMrtuut tliiug at the north pole." "Oh. yes. I did." said the explorer. "I found one very, very Important thing." "Humph! What was that?" the sen :iter grunted. "The way back home again." was the reply. Vague Information. "What diil the fellow do who stole the drum ftm:i the band when he saw the leader cmning with a policeman?" "lie beat it." Baltimore American. Cheerfulness is an offshoot of good ness nnd wisdom. Bovee. V "THE CLIMAX." M&M.MKM 35c, 50c, 75c, 91.00. $1.50 fJUCS ; jl ." l