The Topeka state journal., 1908-09-14

His name is Snow.
]. know. a man who's always blue.
No matter what he tries to do
l His name is Brown.
I know a man who vows that he
His name is Bliss.
know a man who's very high,
/ And people praise him passing by
| His name Is Lowe.
know man who drags his feet
And seems too blooming tired to eat
| His name is Swift.
Birmingham e-Herald.
i Tourists Arc Prohibited.
Enterprising tourist agents profess a
Willingness to carry the holiday-maker
anywhere on the earth and bring him
back again in safety. But in making
this offer they are, in fact, promising
just a little too much. In spite of all
that explorers have done, there are still
bits OF the world as completely bar
private parks, at the gates of which
notices are stuck to the effect that
trespassers will be prosecuted.
We talk great deal about the white
mans power in India. Does 1t surprise
you OF know that there is country in
India, forming an integral portion of
the empire, which no ordinary Briton
lis allowed to enter?
This is Nepal, whose maharajah has
been sojourning with us this summer.
| By virtue of solemn treaty Europeans
are barred" from the kingdom. They
are not allowed to live, or trade, or
even travel in 1t. The only white men
tolerated in Nepal are the British resi-
dent and his limited suite.
l. Tibet is still a sealed kingdom to the
average man. No white strangers are
welcomed in the capital, Lassa, and, If
you want to pay a visit to the grand
| lamas, your only safe course is to go
with an army. If you cannot afford
the army you would better stop away.
Korea, too, was for centuries a sealed
| land, known as the Hermit Kingdom"
into which no white man was suffered
| to penetrate 1t was practically un-
known to the outside world until the
Japanese broke into it,
The archipelago of Tierra del Fuego
is another part Of the world where
| tourists are not invited. The interior
of some of the islands in the Land of
| Fire" has to this day never been trod-
den by white mans foot. and one of
the tribes. the Yahgans, are little bet
| ter than human monkeys.
Many of them are not much over 4
feet high, with wrinkled skins big
mouths, next to no foreheads, and
| ferocious tempers. They are cannibals.
who eat all their old people, and they
are far worse devil worshippers than
the KAYAKS, which is saying a great
deal.
A large part of the big Dutch possess
sion, the island of Java, has never
been explored, and in the forests, for
many miles, the air is so poisonous
that no man can breathe it.-Pearson's
Weekly.
| Remarkable Athletes.
If We are to believe the records of
feats performed on the Olympian plain,
NJ In - ~ T.
! Athens, long before and long after our
Christian era begun, Greece hoasted
| some athletes who could literally
make tracks round" their successors
of today.
Where. for instance, could we find a
strong man who could hold his own
with Milo, of Crotono, who thought
!. nothing of carrying 4-year-old heifer
on his shoulders through the stadium
OF Olympia. and crowned this muscular
performance by eating the animal in a
single day? So sturdy were Milo's legs
that. standing on an oiled disk, the
next strongest man in Greece could not
make him bulge a fraction OF an inch
while, by merely causing the veins in
his head to swell he could break 6
stout cord girdling his forehead as If II
were a circle of thread.
There were phenomenal jumpers, ir
those long-gone Olympian days. There
was one anayllus. for instance, who, ir
one mighty leap, cleared the amazing
distance of So feet-mere than twice
the worlds record jump of today! II
is true that Phayllus had weights and
a springboard to help him in his flight
but, in spite of such assistance, the
jump remains one to marvel at, and
one would think, impossible to rival.
The old Greek boxers were no less
doughty and formidable, and none but
a man OF bulldog pluck and muscles OF
steel could hope to stand up against
their fists, incased in nail-studded
thongs. 1t was no uncommon thing
for a combatant to leave a nose or an
ear behind on the arena; and when
| Eurydamas, of Cyrene, had his teeth
i broken he calmly swallowed them, and
Il made no sign, lest his opponent should
I chuckle and grow more confident OF
success.
The wrestling, too. was conducted on
equally strenuous lines. 1t was often
struggle to the death-as in that ter
I rible bout between Arrachion and his
antagonist. Arrachion was on the
point of being strangled, when, by a
last desperate effort, he broke off one
| of his opponents toes and won a dra-
u matte victory. 1t was dearly won,
however, for at the very moment of ~
triumph he died, and the crown of
olive was placed on his corpse.-London
Answers.
Glass Announced Death.
| Hospital attendants are not supersti-
tious. This may be because they see
| death in it's multiple forms, and there
incident at the city hospital yesterday,
i however, will long be a subject for con-
I lecture and discussion.
/ On the desk in the receiving ward a