Widnes Examiner. — 1909-01-09 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

POOII WIDOW. * * * You can have a regiment of good business qualities, and still fail without courage.—G. ll.Lorrimore. The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous; the sensible man hardly anything.— Goethe. _ _  Enough and too much of the sect and the name; What matters our label so truth be our aim. Whittler.  Comparing man and woman generally, one may say that woman would not have the genius for adornment if she had not the instinct for the secondary rOle.--Friedrich Nietzsche. ___  Riches, one may say, are like sea-water; the mor you drink the thirstier you become.—Schopenhatter. Mankind are unco' weak, and little to be trusted; If self the wavering balance shake, it's rarely right adjusted. —Robert Burns. Some people are so much easier to get on with when they are mad than when they are sane.— G. B. Burgin. * * *  Not many people have seen Councillor Pemberton turn tail and run. Pugnacity is one of his strong points and if any man can be relied upon to keep his face to the foe it is John Pemberton. But on Wednesday morning he met a foe from whom he fled without troubling about the order of his going. The foe had a knife and made a slash at Councillor Pemberton without a moment's warning. Our friend dodged the blow and then negotiated the staircase behind him with unheard of rapidity. Councillor Pemberton informs us that he never came downstairs so fast in his life. A madman with a knife in the rear makes a wonderful accelerator. These exciting incidents occurred in the office of Councillor Steel, who himself had a very narrow escape as the man threatened to murder him first and then turned on Councillor Pemberton when the latter tried a little calm and gentle reasoning. He seemed to be wrought to a frenzy by some real or imagined grievance against the solicitor, and both Councillors are to be congratulated on their narrow escape from serious, if not mortal injury. * * *  The Channel has been swam—in America. Our readers will doubtless have seen statements in English papers that a Boston, Mass, newspaper recently published thrilling accounts of an American swimmer's success in swimming the Channel. Curiously enough nothing was known of the achievement here. Perhaps the Yankee hero performed the feat in the dead of night on the sly. Anyhow the descriptive details are typically American. The chronicler, one Hamblin, thus describes the finish. Mahony's legs were useless, but his arms were still going grand. Mahony turned over on his breast and used a double overarm stroke, trailing his legs. About 100 yards from shore I pulled up beside him and, wrenching the American flag from the stern of the boat, handed it to the swimmer, and shouted," Carry it ashore and plant it in Old England." He took the flag. In half a dozen strokes he would touch the bottom. His legs refused to support him, and he fell twice, but he staggered on. When in water up to his waist a wave a foot and a half high knocked him over.. He clung to the flag and stumbled on, half swimming and half walking, until he took the flag ashore, where he went down_ for good, and the greatest  swim on record was finished. . Holbein, Burgess and Co., must feel that the one thing lacking in their case was the Stars and Stripes.  OUGHT I TO lISB