The Detroit times., 1910-11-12

mODlllnB are ABOUT as terrlnc strains
Alas. the love OF money, the love or
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 abasedl" Humble your
selves, therefore, under the mighty
hand OF God, that He may exalt you
in due time" Il Peter V. o..
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 longese ride in the short
est time was made In 1884. when G.
NJ. Anderson OF San Francisco, COW
cred a thousand and seventy and
half miles In seventy-two hours,
changing horses twelve times a day.
Weston's London performance OF l.
997 miles in a thousand consecutive
hours and G.. A. Harrman's hundred
and twenty-one and quarter miles
without rest, stand as the walking
records OF the world.
One of the most exciting sporting
contests OF the present decade was
pulled off I'm Alaska last year. in the
shape of dog-team race from Nome
to Candle Creek. a distance OF 412
miles. The race was won by Albert
Berger's No. team, in eighty,two
hours, and two-hundredths minutes,
having been run in a temperature OF
from ten TO twenty degrees below
h. K,rfw h.. hxg
and purse of Sill 900 1t awoke the
sporting procliyities OF every man
woman and child, and brought forth
wagers aggregating $l50,000.
II is said that upon one occasion
the late Richard Mansfield was wit
Messing a great football game be-
tween two leading teams of the coun-
try. At one OF the climaxes OF the
game he turned TO a friend and re-
marked: And they call that physical
endurance. Anyone who saw him in
Peer Gynt, the play that was SO
strenuous that even his sturdy frame
went TO pieces in its presentation.
can understand what he meant In
that play-an unusually long one
Mansfield ran the gamut OF human
thoughts and feelings. and was com
pletely exhausted when the play end
ed
There are claimants for long dis
lance records OF every kind. A
Washington man claims TO be the
worlds champion eater, ready TO meet
all corners. A Virginia man asserts
that he holds the record for egg-eat-
ms having devoured twenty-three
for n single Easter breakfast. A
western milkman claims 10 hold the
long distance record for milking A
man from Utica, New York, lifted
himself on tiptoe 10000 times in three
hours. and thinks he holds the Mara
then tiptoe record
One must travel in In6a and places
where superstition reigns to see what
| tests OF endurance men will undergo.
The poor creatures who spend their
whole lives doing penance, prove
themselves able TO undergo pangs OF
privation and physical suffering that
are almost unbelievable. A lifetime
spent on a bed of sharpened spikes,
years OF lying on edged swords. and
hundreds of other means of self.pun.
ishment are inflicted in order TO do
penance for sin and make sure OF
future happiness. To excel all others
in privatiCn and suffering is the high
est aim Of these deluded souls, and
brings TO ones mind the story OF the
Spartan lad who stole a fox and con.
cealed II under his tunic, allowing II
10 gnaw out his vitals rather than
betray his weakness.
The heart OF man seems TO excel
every other engine in the world in
the Tnntfpr ~ endurance
has undertaken TO estimate the ire
mendous amount of work IL will do
in a lifetime Counting this lifetime
as eighty.four years 1t will propel a
stream of blood more than five mil
lion miles. TO accomplish which feat
it must beat nearly three billion
times. Every twenty-four hours It
would lift l2j tons through a dis
lance OF twelve inches, the equivalent
of placing $1,000 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 distant West Virginia
town. They brought their pet cat
with them. After one night on a
capital backyard fence, the cat be.
gan to sigh for the simple life again.
and the next night set out 10 find it,
To get back to the Virginia home 1t
had to cross three mountains, swim
two rivers and many creeks. But
with all this IT went through safely.
and arrived at its old haunts in less
time than an Edward Payson Weston
could cover the same distance.
Monday-FoN Hunting.