The Detroit times., 1910-11-12
FEATS OF ENDURANCE
By FREDERIC J HASkIN

MODELLING are about as terrific strains
Alas, the love OF money, the love OF
power pun up and make delirious
some who become intoxicated with
ambition. How necessary that all the
Lords followers remember the mes
sage, "He that humbleth himself shall
be exalted and he that exalteth him
self shall be abased!" Humble your
selves, therefore, under the mighty
hand OF God, that He may exalt you
in due time" Il Peter v. g..
as the human frame can undergo.
Long distance riding records have
stood for many years despite the
much discussed ride OF Roosevelt
from Washington TO Warrenton and
return. The longest ride in the short
est time was made in 1884, when G..
NJ. Anderson OF San Francisco, COW
cred thousand and seventy-on and
half miles in seVenty-two hours,
changing horses twelve times n day.
Weston's London performance OF l.
997 miles In a thousand consecutivel
hours and c. A. Harrimans hundred
and twenty-one and a quarter miles
without rest, stand as the walkingl
records of the world.
One OF the most exciting sportingl
contests of the present decade wash
pulled of in Alaska last year. in thel
shape OF a dog-team race from Nomeg
TO Candle Creek, a distance of 4l2f
miles. The race was won by AlbertI
Berger's No. l team, in eighty.twol
hours. and two-hundredths minutes,
having been run-in a temperature of
from ten TO twenty degrees below
zero. The prize was the Suter trophy
and purse OF 1000. Ii awoke thei
sporting proclIvties OF every man.
woman and child, and brought FORTH
wagers aggregating $4,000.
II Is said that upon one occasion
| the. late Richard Mansfield was witt
Messing a great football game bel
tween two leading teams OF the coun-
/ try. At one OF the climaxes or the
game he turned to friend and rel
marked: And they call that physical
endurance" Anyone who saw him I'M
| Peer Gynt, the play that was sol
strenuous that even his sturdy frame
went to pieces in it's presentation
! can understand what he meant. Ind
! that play--an unusually long one
Mansfield ran the gamut OF humaA
/ thoughts and feelings, and was com.
pletely exhausted when the play end9
! ed
There are claimants for long dis
lance records OF every kind AZ
Washington man claims to be thel
worlds champion eater. ready to meet
all corners. A Virginia man asserts
that he holds the record for egg-eat1
ingI having deyoured twenty-threa
for a single Easter breakfast. Al
western milkman claims to hold thel
long distance record for milking. Al
man from Utica. New York. lifted
himself on uptoe 10000 times in three
hours, and thinks he holds the Mara
then tiptoe record.
One must travel in India and places
where superstition reigns TO see what
tests Of endurance men will undergo1
The poor creatures who spend their
whole lives doing penance, proveI
themselves able to undergo pangs OF
privation and physical suffering that
are almost unbelievable. A life-timel
spent on a bed OF sharpened spikes !
years OF lying on edged swords. and
hundreds of other means of self-punl
ishment are inflicted in order to dol
penance for sin and make sure Of
future happiness. To excel all others
in prtvatiun and suffering is the Hight
est aim OF these deluded souls, and
brings TO ones mind the story. Of the
Spartan lad who stole a fox and conf
cealed il under his tunic, allowing itl
to gnaw out his vitals rather than
betray his weakness.
The heart of man seems to excel,
every other engine in the world in
the matter OF endurance. Someone
has undertaken TO estimate the trel
mendous amount OF work it will do
in lifetime. Counting this life-timel
as eighty-four years Ii will propel al
stream of blood more than five mil,
lion miles, to accomplish which feat
1T must beat nearly three billion
times. Every twenty-four hours ftl
would lift 125 tons through a dis
lance of twelve inches. the equivalent
of placing 10000 bricks on a one-foot
wall every eight hours.
Animal life has endurance records
that are not NEUROLOGICAL. A few
years ago a family moved TO WASH
ington from a distant West Virginia,
town. They brought their pet catl
with them. After one night on al
capital backyard fence, the cat be-
gan to sigh for the simple life again,
and the next night set out to find II.
To get back to the Virginia home I'll
had TO cross three mountains, swim
two rivers and many creeks But
with all this II went through safely,
and arrived at it's old haunts in less
time than an Edward Payson Weston
could cover the same distance.
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