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11 fThe Eee'8 H11 Maa:LlrP f3 IBM . THE BEE: OMAHA. THUBSDAY. SEPTEMBER 21. 1911. ge Remarkable Feats of Endurance j What Is the limit of human endurance? Jjdging bv nome recent perfur'nsncee. particularly In the world of iport and athietica, it would almost seem that there la bo limit, save a writer in the Chicago ! Tribune. Take the case, for instance, of Vedrlnes. This plucky aviator confesses that he only had three hours' sleep dur ing the whole of that wonderful flight of over 1.000 miles round Britain. When one remembers that for an aviator there ara no momenta of repose that he must ever be on the alert. eery faculty of mind and body strained to the uttermoet. It Is not surprising that at times both Vedrlnes and Beaumont were In a state perilously near to nervous exhaustion. Perhaps, however, one of the most striking teats of human endurance was that of Tom Burrows, the club swinging champion of England, who. by whirling hla clubs for forty-six hours without a moment's respite, broke all records. Ha reminds one of Arthur Lancaster, who, two years ago, achieved athletic fame by swinging a. blacksmith's hammer for twelve conecutlve hours, and afterwards added to Ills laurels by beating ull Brit ish records for ball punching. Ho punched a tweiu-tour ounce ball for fifteen hours continuously at the aveiaac rate of Hj punches a minute. Occasionally he would go away on a burnt of 2M and 2W a minuto, and so powerful was his first work that three times ha broke the rope of the ball and had to turn his attention to one keut in reserve. It is not to long ago since two French men walked around a billiard labia In Paris for twenty-four consecutive hours, paying game after game and covering a distance of sixty miles. A Land of chime ringers rang the bells of St. Martin's, Birmingham, Eng land, for eight hours without a second's pause.- Then there waa th Polish girl who per formed thu stupendous feat of dancing fur thirty-four hours. It Is not sug gested, of course, that sue danced all this time without a rest; the Intervals, however, were only short and she did not go to bed during that time. Three years ago an Italian living in Part offered foil to anyone who danced longer than himself. Five competitors en teied the lists against him. hut one by one they dropped out. whilst the nim ble I Lai I an fantastically footed it for fourteen hours at the rate uf eighteen waltzes an hour. Among the amazing pedestrian perform ances that of the well known American veteran athlete. Weston, who last year completed 3,j00 miles in seventy-seven days, takes a hiiih place. Mr. Weston la a man of - years of age. and walked tor thirteen consecutive weeks at an average ran of ITU miles a week, or forty-five miles each walking day. it does not qua!, so far as the rate of going is con cerned, the tcorcning of Ueorge Allen, who walked in 1!H from Lands End to John o' Groats, in England, nearly l.O'J miles, in aiventetn days. Aliens best day accounted for eighty-two and a half miles, and , his average for the whole Journey was fifty-eight miles a day. But Allen was about half the age of Weston, who was walking before admiring crowds before Allen was born. Turning to other remarkable examples oi human endurance. It might be men tioned tuat the duke of Wellington was able to go for Uaj s with no sleep, lie ouce remarked that a few minutes' doz ing on the back of his horse waa all ha I squired. And then there Is Edison, who In his earlier days, when working at his grout inventions, has been Known to go five days and five nights without any proper sleep. Forty winks in a chair in his v.oirfshop was all that he required to keep his brain alive, and. being deaf, he was ablo to sleep anywhere, even In a boiler factory. lifts Intense Heat as Cause of Strikes According to a dispatch In the New lork World, no leas uu authority than the dignified medical journal, tlie Lon don Lancet, the recent labor disturbances were due to too much sunshine. The British tales have been getting more than their average share of heat and sunshine this summer and the overdose of labor troubles haa been equally as large. "It la an Interesting coincident," says the Lancet, "that labor troubles of no mean magnitude have broken out during an unwonted spell of sunshine. Of course, we are not regarding the strikes aa caused by tha heat, as the reason for tha prevailing unrest have many of them been obvious for many months. But It is not at all Improbable that the heat haa played Its part In the form which tha manifestations have taken. Let us re mem bor that tha failure of tha white races to colonise certain tropical tracts has been attributed to tha excess of light which there prevails, and not to tha heat or humidity. The white man tn tha tropica gradually becomes disinclined to work under tha influence of the actinic agencies of the sun; he grows neuras thenia and finally breaks down. "Tha widespread discontent of tha lab oring claaaea reached an acute stag during a period of excessive and Intense light which promises to break ail existing records. Have the forces of tha potent sun. consequent upon a long period of chemically active sunshine, altered tha energies of the body and mind uf tue worker, as in the case of the would-be colonizer In the unsuitable tropics? In an admittedly bad state of affairs, has an overdose of sun proved a poiaon? Iu other words, should sunshine, like so many good things, be doled out on posological lines, lest It poison the in dividual? When the dark days of winter come we ahall yearn again for some of' this "poison," knowing, however, full well that then tha doses, even when contin uous, are lesa potent: but it Is quite pos sible that the Instinct Is a sound one which makes many of us. Inhabitants of what should be a temperate lone, almost resent unbroken heat." . THERE 3 7fT NE.W I?EAO OF ClNTUrS WONPER V MAT Hl5 S-OSlNESJ ts t i nette; set Ml WORK AHY. SOAR ON TMe. PLANE TWILL BE A " HE PE10K&S TO a UNION "Ftrfa-etarlana." The table manners of the Popplebury children were execrable. The kicked the legs of their chairs, tilted them back wards, drummed their fingers on the table, hummed snatches of songs over their toup, and always ran over to the window If there was anything on. "Children, children!" exclaimed Mr. Popplebury teatlly, "why can't you be have yourselves ?" "It's the new craze!" mumbled Tommy, his mouth full of plum-duff. "The new craze? Blow the new erase!" cried Mr. P. "It's fidget, fidget, fidget, from the moment you sit down till the moment you get up!" "That's right, pa! That's the new erase!" chimed In Albert. "We're fidget arlans!" New York World. r Corrections Philippe VI. of Prance called "La Blen Fortune," was never fortunate. He was defeated at Sluys, Creeay and Calais, and one-fourth of his subjects were carried off by "black death." Self-Neglect German silver la not silver, neither was It invented by a German. It has been In use In China from time out of mind. Pompey's Pillar, In Alexandria, was neither erected by, nor to. Pompey. it was constructed by the Emperor Diocle tian, according to its Inscription. Mosaic gold has no connection with Moses or the precious metal, being an alloy of copper and sine used tn ancient teasalated work. William the Bllent. the Hollander who occupied the English throne, was far from being silent or taciturn. Cleopatra's Needles were not erected by sor in honor of that queen. Ther were reared by Thotmee III. Goths did not Introduce Gothic archi tecture. It was the ecclesiastical style employed in England and Trance before the Renaissance. J Rice paper Is not made from rice, but from the pith of tung-tsan. or hollow plant. Turkeys do not come from Turkey, but North America, through India. Arabic figures were not invented by Arabs, but bv East Indiana Dutch clocks are not of Holland but -of German manufacture. Ilfrogs Khw Jobs When Colonel William M. Howard, now a member of the tariff board, was electioneering for congress one autumn in bygone days, he struck a backwoods county in Georgia, and got very busy talking softly to the voters. He was much concerned about a man named John, who was now for him. then against htm. and always changeable. "What's the matter with John?" tha colonel asked one of his eonstttuenta "Aw, you can t tell nothln' about John, colonel." waa the assurance. "He Is the met fickle man you ever see. Why. he has had religion so many times, and lost it so many times, and been baptised tn the creek down here so often that the bullfrogs knows him every time he's 'mersed." Popular Magazine. More than 57.000 motor vehicles have been registered by the London County council, and tha lettets L E are to be adopted aa a new index mark. Shakespeare says, "Self-love is not to vtle a sin as self-neglect," and those of us inclined to think little of self -a uuld do well to ponder this a bit Many a mother should take !t to heart, says a writer In the San Francisco Chronicle. She la so absorbed in her children that she thinks little f self. Many a wife Is so taken up with the things of the home that she gives no heed to herself. Some people become so absorbed In their work that self is neglected. All about can be seen those guilty of this sin of self-neglect. Too great self-love Is not to be ad mired, and some go to the other extreme, through disgust at exhibitions of self love they may have seen. Then, again, self-neglect has to some extent been held up as something creditable. It Is In line with unselfishness and selJ-tacnflce, all of which are by soma looked upon as commendable qualities. But If you look deeply Into this matter. It la easily seen how self-neglect can be come a Bin. Every one has the godhead within him. And to neglect this, to let it wither and die. Instead of developing, la a sin. Every one owes certain duties to himself. He should develop the best that la In him, rise to the highest of which he Is capable. And when he fails to do this, surely be la not doing right. And this is what Shakeapeare meant when he said self-neglect was a sin. This master reader of the human character saw the soul tn each, and not to develop that' soul to Its fulleat capacity was to bury the talent, as did the unfaithful servant. mV 30vU.l-eTS THS ROOrltf-vr;': hCr& MM li i -i . i4 r vii - i i Ml v. VV .X 1 WtTK ON. Tf avtaresj nuERS-sril eT 50WR1H' OS Two SOULS, "HP HeRTS, TON CD TO THE SAMS. PlTtR r AJ3et - . - - if- HO f MUSICIAN THERE S Poor SOLM Y KtN PLY AWN WITH, YOONCr UE. UT ClrTTHY ' OrffT TSTti V HUH H' w5H VisHtS raw a mt. rerr- 6a w fa V ITiq BEES Junior BipiMay Boo&r 72ns is &Q DayWk September 21, 1911. Xanie and Address. Helen Adam, 1921 South Fourteenth St Gretchun L. Allen. 2S12 Hickory 8t Wallai-'A. Anderson, 9S1 North Twenty-fifth Ave Myron Blotcky, 932 North Twenty-fourth St . . . . , & v Phote ry Heyn. STANTV KENNEDY li.5 S.iutli Thirteenth Avenue. Sohool. Year. .Lincoln 1S97 .Park 1S97 .Kellom 1904 .Kellom 1903 Herschel H. Brown, 2318 Pinkney St Lothrop l$9."i Arden K. Buohels, 1714 South Thirty-second Ave. .Park 1902 Hazel Carlson. 400 4 Fort St Central Park 1S96 f Loretta's Looking Glass-She Holds it Up to a Traid Cat .Vinton 190.-1 .Central 1901 Park. .High . Monmouth . Comenlua Franklin . Howard Kennedy . IS93 1S9.-. , 1902 . 1S96 . 1S9S , 1900 189.'. , 1S!)S . t9S .1904 J.1 Lanral Carrpy, 4214'i South Twenty-fourth St. . Clarence Christopher. 107 South Seventeenth St. Jesse Danielson, 5331 North Twenty-fifth Ave. . Rosie Dnnilewicz, 4939 North Thirty-sixth St... Albert Dolys. 1934 South Fourteenth St Roland B. Edmundaon. 3313 Hamilton St Myra C. Edwards. 2920 Grant St Tessia Edwards, 2838 Harney St Farnam Kathleen L. Fearon, 911 South Thirty-sixth St High Frances Ferris, 2618 Corby St Sacred Heart. Edna L. Gatchell, 1814 Corby St Lake .' Josephine Gray, 2825 Parker St Long Fontella Green, 1919 Vinton St Vinton 1902 Walter Hansen. 809 North Forty-seventh St Saunders 189S Howard Icke, 1210 South Eleventh St . .Pacific 190 4 ' Mercedes Jensen, 3718 Farnam St Columbian 1901 Stanton Kennedy, 1039 South Thirtieth Ave Park 1905 Elsie D. Larsen. 3468. Grant St Franklin 1901 Ralph Lupton, 3730 North Thirty-sixth Ave Druid Hill. 1900 Donald McAndrews, 811 North Seventeenth St. . . .High 1892 Frank G. McConnell, 4158 Davenport St Saunders 190 4 Philip B. Matton, 834 South Thirty-fifth St Columbian 1897 Francis Murphy, 1118 North Thirtieth St Long 1S95 Claude Newman, 3337 Spalding St Druid Hill 1899 Frederick Olesen. 2605 Bristol St Lothrop 190 Gladys Parcell. 2421 Dodge St Central t900 Mary Randazzo, 1425 South Eleventh St Lincoln 1903 Isadore Robinovltz, 5144 Sherman Ave Sherman 190; Harry Robinson. 2114 California St Central 1902 Julius Rosencranz. 1614 Chicago St Cass 1899 Marian Ross. 206 South Twenty-fifth Ave Central 1903 Claude A. Rusland, 2828 North Sixteenth St Lake 1899 Wlllulmina Scherff, 2015 Castellar St St. Joseph 1898 Goldie Schomens, 2025 Ohio St Lake 1902 Erner Simonsen, 1821 North Twenty-first St. ... . .Kdlom 1895 Jack Slaven, 1709 South Tenth St Lincoln 1899 Ival Smith. 4619 North Twenty-ninth St Saratoga .1899 Wesley Smith, 3313 South Twenty-hlrd St Vinton 1901 Ella Thode, 920 North Twenty-ninth St Webster 1904 H. M. Thorpe, 115 South Forty-second St High 1894 Palma Utbach, Eleventh and Paul Sta Cass 1903 Bertha F. Vaughan. 1522 South Thirty-third St... High 1893 Elizabeth Weeks, 3508 Jackson St Columbian 1901 Madge Wells, 4120 Lafayette Ave.. High 1893 Burton West, 2215 Seward St Kellom ...1902 Paul Wilcox, 202 South Twenty-ninth St Farnam 1899 Rochard Williams. 1224 South Twentieth St Mason 1901 Mary Wilson, 2019 Leavenworth St Mason 1903 Ksawer Wojtklewlcz, 2514 South Twenty-sixth St. .Im. Conception. . .1899 Frank Woodcock, 505 Cedar St Train 1900 Tried To goaa. Husband I think that Mas Ma ad la pretty- Wife Tou do 7 That snicker-faced man hunter! I admire your Idea of beauty. Che's homely enough to frighten blind people. But that's the way It goes after a man tires of his wife everything In skirts appears pretty to him. and then he don't know enough to keep it to him selfcomes home and tells his poor heart broken wife about It. Boo hoo Hm band Pretty well toward 15. I was about to observe. San Francisco Chronicle. Another of the lady cars! Only this one calls herself names Instead of mak ing me do it. Hear what she says: "My Dear Loretta: The paper la which your valuable comments appear encour ages correspondence. They must think women are a brave lot. The way you hurl your acathlng criticisms suggests that performance in the circus where a girl stands against a board and an expert knife thrower launchea gleaming steel knives at her. just missing her, but so accurately aurroundlng her with the harp weapons that when she steps away from the board her picture Is left there, silhouetted by the knives. "One watches with bated breath, fear ful that a blade may pierce the girl. And that's the way it is with your looking-glass play. Tou have stuck your knives all around the girl. Alt her faults have had a jab. At least. I think there can be no more to Invite the accurate aim of your knife till I get the paper. World is Shrinking 3 Why f Why does a shrug of ths shoulders with the hands thrown up In depreciation mean "search me." or why does a down ward nod of the head mean "yeas" and a horisontal motion "nor Why do we say "aa dead as a door nail" (even Dickens wondered at that), when any other nail la Just ss dead; or "as awkward as a cow when a pig ts twice aa much so? It reminds one of the Utile youngsters In quiring Into the whys and wherefores of the language: "They ca.led a pig a pig 'cause he is so awful piggtBh. didn't they, mot her T' Bread and bait were formerly eaten when an oath was taken. "There Is one thing I object to about moving pictures." said a man who ia fond of tha films, "and that Is the fact that they are gradually pinching up thn world until the old ball doesn't look much big ger than Mrs. Bob Crachit's plum pud ding. Whwn a man can see teakwood cut In India, pearl diving off Ceylon, lion shooting In mid-Africa, herding in Aus tralia, mining In Nevarla and kite flying in China, to say nothing of close fa miliarity with all the great cities of the globe, he begins to feel considerable con. tempt for the little old planet he calls home. "And then he Is afflicted with another sort of familiarity, a familiarity that at tacks the ordinances and hedges that are built up around tha chosen great ones of earth. Why. the other morning I saw King George, and the rzar, and Em peror William and the French president. all within twoty minutes met them face to face, aa It were, and saw them smile and nod and wave their hands to me. "Tea, aa I sit In the darkened hall, pry ing tnto the hidden oornera of the earth and hobnobbing with the great, the ter restrial ball growa smaller and smaller. "It's a pity. Isn't it V Cleveland Plain Dealer. "lake Kaewleage. Tha pulgat, a Burmese measurement Is the only foreign measure exactly cor responding to one Inch. The Glnnelle Lock on the Seme ia so uonstructed that one man can open or abut It by simply touching an electrio button as be sits In his office. And there's another punctured. And the queer part of It Is. I have not yet felt that you were 'making up' faults tu&l to fight them. I can see them all In my friends. But you really ought to Klvc the ones who summon courage to write you some credit for bravery. I feel like a regular 'frald cataa I finish this, bt cause I know you will find some fault sticking out that invites the keen blade of your knife. 'FRAID CAT." Bravo, Miss 'Fraid Cat! It takes cour age to march up to a gun you know Is loaded. And I should not want to dis appoint you. If you are braced for an explosion. It would be a pity to put it off till a time when you might not be pre pared. So Maybe you think I am going to concede courage to the girls who write me. I am not. I am not going to concede courage to any girl or woman till I see her atop her backing and side stepping from the trials she has to meet. Right here beside me Is a letter that makes my blood boil and my face flush at the cowardice It confesses and begs me to sympathize with. It's a wife who Is terrified at the threat of her husband's Interest In an other woman, an unmarried, charming woman. Instead of summoning the forcea at her command, she Is whimpering and deliberately inviting the catastrophe she dreads. She ought to go over her arma ment, taking an inventory of its strength. In the first place, ahe Is the wife. It's to be assumed that her husband loves her or she would not have that position. So she has love as ammunition and the stra tegic point of her position with which to fight the other woman. Yea. she haa. A wife can make herself necessary to her husband. If she has not, it is her FIRST AID. .V'5..' -! In cue of drowning, roll ths pa tient over g barrel until til air is expelled from the Jill. own fault that she Is minus one weapon against the other woman. Physical coin fort and companionship mean more to a husband than women seem to tti.nk. The other woman has to offer an astounding array of charms to detach a man from that satisfaction. And, If tshe haa as tounding charms, she is limited neces sarily in their display. If she Is the kind of a woman who can hold a man, she Is the type who cannot sacrifice her dig nity In order to fully reveal herself. The wife can be her mont agreeable self he ought to be. The reason ahe Is a '"Fraid Cat,". Is because she has ceased to be that and she's a craven coward to whimper because the other women happens to be around when she deliberately lets her husband's Interest go a-wanderlng. I'll tell you. If a few more wives were as energetic about de serving fidelity as they are about de manding It, there would be a noticeable decrease tn the number of "other women!" Diary of Village Saga Commmon Fare and Luxuries of Ancients Beef and goose constituted the principal part of the animal fond of the ancient Egyptians, though the ktd. goat, gazelle, duck, teal and quail were well known to them. Small birds they salted and ate raw. Fish obtained from the Nile and Lake Moerls were served whole, boiled or fried. Bread was made from wheat or barley, and frequently from the center of the lotus, dried and powdered. But their staple food consisted of vegetables and fruits cucumbers, gourds, leeks, onions, watermelons, dates, figs and grapes. , In early days the usual fare of the Ro man masses consisted of gruel made of barley and called pulse. People of wealth had their tables arranged with elegance: enjoyed preparing surprises and carrying out disguises in their dishes, making artificial figures of fruit or flesh. They raveled In such dalntlea as fieldfares, hares, capons, peacocks, pheasants and livers of geese, as well as a huge boar urrounded with suckling pigs made In sweet paste. OH was used extensively in the preparation of their food and honey J waa employed for the same purpose that we use sugar. Greeks who Invited Xerxes to supper made their banquets so magnificent that all ceme to the extremity of poverty, and wherever he took two successive meals that city was utterly ruined. Their prln clpol article of food was fish prepared In radons ways stuffed with force-meat and fried, boiled In pickle, baked in fig leaves soaked In oil or cooked in hot ashes. They boiled and roasted meat and had poultry, small birds and game as well as vegetables. Although not great eaters of meat, the Persians always celebrated birthdays with elaborate feasting. The rli.h would sacrifice an ox, a horse, or a camel to be roasted whole In ovena, while the poor gave smaller animals, as sheep. They consumed much sweet food and did not use salt. Ancient Danee and Germans were copious drinkers and paid but little at tention to their eatables. A neighbor's chicken In your pot la worth two in your garden. Sympathy will go a great deal further If It is properly stamped- Sometimes when you put your shoulder to the wheel you have to shove the whole load. Don't get acquainted too easily, because It Isn't so easy to get un-acqualnted. If the course of true love always ran smoothly people would be more earless going over the course. If the noise of your neighbor's lawn mower dlaturbs you the best remedy la to get out your own. Perhaps the reason lightning doesn't strike twice In the earns place Is because It prefers to strike something worth while. The very worst thing about taking things for granted la that fact that so many people are apt to take the things they want moat. Brooklyn Eagle. 1 iB! Carried His Fuel Cal-vtnUt, bat Ceatloes. In the early days of the Puritans a man met one of them going out Into the woods with a gun, and he said: "Where are you going?" "To the wooda." "What are you taking your gun with you tor?" "I may meet an Indian." "Are you not a Calvtnlet?" "I am. In deed and in truth." "Tou can't die until your time cornea" "I know that." "Then why carry a gun?" "I might meet aa Indian whose time bad coma" Captain Smith of the Olympic waa ques tioned In New York about the coal con sumption of the world's biggest liner on Its first voyage. Btlt Captain Smltli shook his head and said: "That la a coal story I am not privil eged to speak about. I'll tell you another coal story, though, if you'd care to hear It." "I'd be delighted," said the reporter. "Well." said Captain Smith. "It's a story about a poor sailor. He waa taken down with fever on a brlgantlne. and, though the mate and captain dosed him well, he died. They buried him at sea. "They buried hira with the usual Im pressive sea rites. He was sewed In a all round which a flag was draped, and. to make him sink, the sail was weighted with a number of big lumps of coal. "A landlubber of a passenger parties pated In the services. He watched the well-weighted corpse slip Into the water. It disappeared at once, and the land lubber shook his head and said. "Well. I've seen many a man go below, but thla la the first one I've aeen taking his own coal down with him.' " I The !Mft A sewer. "Look here!" the restaurateur said, Tha while he pawed the air. "You printers set a line of pi - Upon my bill of fare!" "Why, aure!" the printer anawered him, "And here's the reason why: No one should run a restaurant Without a line of pie." New York Telegram. Fearful Sailors J Those men who go down to the sea In ships and who have recently been In the throea of an Industrial dispute, are full of superstitions. You cannot shake them. Indeed, you will find It practically Im possible to convince sailors that Ill-luck does not cling to a vessel whose name haa been changed, or that a craft whose name ends tn "a ' does not rest under an evil spell. Persist, and you will be asked about the Victoria, sunk in the Mediter ranean; the Stella, lost off the Channel Islands, the Arequlpa. ashore on the west coats of America; tha Cobra, a de stroyer, which broke her back on her maiden voyage In the North Sea: and the Bardlna. burnt In harbor at Malta. Of course, there are hundreds of vessels afloat which bear the unlucky final let ter, and In which it la safer to travel than on the railway, but the list of lofcses is a formidable one. Then, sometimes. It is a member of the crew to whom a particular evil Influence la attached, sometimes It is a passenger. But If you want to see a sailor shiver with auperstltlun, let there be some bitch In the solemn ceremony of launching. It nearly breaks Ja k s heart. San Fran cisco Chronicle. The Icelandic commonwealth was founded by Norsemen In 875, and was soon afterward vlalsted by Irish mariners. Foreigners were banisbed from England In 11SS becauae they were considered toe) numerous. I