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Tlili Interior view of Ueroiany's newest and highly modernistic Evangel
leal I.uthrma church it Rchtnargendorf aliow the unusual altor with lu
croM of Melssner porcelain measuring about seventeen feet iu height The
four symbolic figures of (fit evangelists. rtpl tf(l lu bronze, tuny also be teen,
while before tlx altar statu) the beuutlful baptistry.
Death for Eskimo "Purifier"
Winnipeg.-Relieved by the North
went Mounted 1'olWe authorities to
liave been a victim of a recurrence of
the wave of religious mania which
swept over this lonely land about ten
years ago, a young ICuklmo Inhabitant
of the Interior of the southern portion
of Unftln lund became demented and
hot and killed his parents and a
young notnun relation.
II shot at but mimed his brother.
The Fklmo tribe of which he woS
formerly a law alMlng member kept
Mm In chwe confinement through a
long winter, but In the spring, after
be hsd twice escaped their vigilance,
they punhed him through a h' and
drowned him beneath the be of the
subarctic.
Kergt. J. K. F. Wlsht. In charge of
the detachment st Lake llnrttnr. re
ported that lnnt winter, accompanied
liy Countable I. Persch. be nmrte a
long piil nil through a section "f south
ern Itntfln Island, where white men
were unknown before the great war
lie lenmcd the story from the tribe
In which the tragedy occurred.
Tbe rcHirt stated that MmUo dllak,
a yming man. became obsewwd with
the Ides he wss a purifier of his nice,
lie told bis relatives be had beard a
voice from heaven telling him to kill
all Id people. He promptly proceeded
to put his tnlilin Into operation.
As Mnko wus ohvlouxly under a
iell the Ksklmos did not know what
to d with blm. The nearent post.
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ENDURANCE
TESTS
I Br THOMAS ARKLE CLARK t
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Uliwois.
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I suppose thst even In prehistoric
nd pre-clvlllsatlon times human be
ings vied with
each other to aee
which could the
longer endure
' ', ' 'J rertaln physlcul
or meniai strain
though, never
more so than
now, Some times,
possibly, there
was virtue and
progress In such
contests; aome
times there wu
only the stitlsfao-
tlon of vanity or the winning of a
prlxe contributed by those who are
willing to give prizes to see aome one
fine suffer, or iimke a fool of himself
In testing his endurance. The athletic
contest of today I often little more
than nn i-Jyluriiiice teat.
When i w s boy we used often to
see who could hold his breath the
longest under water. So far as I
could see then or even now with the
sldciied perspective of Intervening
years, there was no advantage to any
one either then or later. In one's hold
ing bis breath an unbelievable period
of time, excepting as one could bonst
shout doing without oxygen longer
than the other boys.
I have
Jui n
rend In the evening pa
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SUCH IS LIFE -This Happens in Every Home & By
fflcre.i'MSaol , so gmopadcy cwctmuv- aaxel Jiift
TOsVO? JMc w& 1 ail
of Church Altar
" mmtmm i
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l.iike llsrbor, wss U0 miles away, and
they hud no meons of making such a
long Journey with a madman.
They bound hi in np with thong of
sealskin and kept him undor guard In
PEA-EATING EXPERT
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La ".UL U..: r- V
Mlit l.uclll Auderson of An
geles holding her seclal knife with
which she won the world's pea-eating
championship by eating upward of
five thousand pen In exactly one min
ute and ten seconds.
per an account of a man In Colorado,
who, for the good of his body or hie
soul, hsd fasted for a full calender
month, and had reduced his weight
by half, and out fasted sll of his com
petitors. It Is true thnt when he broke
bis fust be did so with such esger
ness thst It resulted In bis death. It
must have been a great satisfaction
INDIAN GREAT DRIBBLER
Louis Weller, who Is s full-blooded
Caddo Indian, from Anadarko, Okla.
lie has learned to dribble the basket
ball in a way tbnt has won the
td.mfry(nn of Dr. James Malamlthi
the Ihventnr of basketball. Wei
Icr Is a forward on the Haskell Insti
tute -twain and haa frequently drib
bled his way through the entire de
fense of nn opting team. He Is also
a lightning halfback at football and
looks after second base on the college
nl no.
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Airship Expected to Lower Record
AtlNiita, On. Home time next spring
wJien the element between Ios An
geles and New York return to nor
malcy, Doug Purl, crack Atlanta pi
lot, expect to fly tin distance la
about twelve hours.
The record, now held by Capt. Frank
Ilfiwkn, Is clou to sovrntenn bours.
Hut tbnt fact apparently ofTcrs llttl
vbstucls to tbs lonn who recently
clipped thres hurs from tbs record of
tbs trip from New York to Atlanta.
lie uaed a Traveller "MyKtery" ship
a bullet like monoplans wlilch look
like a bumble bee upalde down but
which functions with unprecedented
efficiency.
DhvIs won the cup for America's
most meritorious flyer of Ity.t) la the
same pro' tllellke craft at tbe Cleve
land air i .lie. II was In New Tork
enrly In November and wanted to en
ter It In an air race In Atlanta.
Ro he took breakfast In Gotham and
lunch In Georgia, actually flying the
BOO rnllea In four hour and thirty
minute through rain and fog. The
entire trip required life hours, with
two atop of fifteen minute each for
fuel.
Purls believe hi "Mystery" ship
haa greater possibilities than any sim
ilar crsft eitsnt, believe Ita highly
an Igloo all winter. About March of
the following year members of the
tribe decided that they could not keep
blm any longer. They told police that
the men ef th tribe were all worn
out by this time In maintaining a
sharp, vigilance lest Mako should
escspt and continue his crazy plun.
They summoned hlin before a meet
ing of the whole family one dsy and
told bltn he bad to die. They gave
him his choice of the manner of
death. II could be shot, stabbed or
drowned whichever be preferred.
Rut Mnko did not wish to die, tbey
told police. However, hi end wa
decided upon, and a hole waa made In
the Ice. He ws pushed through thl
and river current carried htm to bis
death.
Westminster Loses Favorite "Cop"
London. Tills Is s story about a
big man with a big record, about
weights, lengths, measure, parlia
mentary procedure and dignified phys
ical scuffles In the house of commons.
In brief, shout George Fulcher, weight
204 pounds, twenty yesrs a policeman
In the palace of Westminster.
Fulcher has retired. Fulcher not
only wo the most popular member of
to him, however, to realize that he
had been able to do without food long
er than any of his friends.
For years we had ambitions people
risking their lives snd their health In
an attempt to swlra the English chan
nel. Finally aome super human Indi
vidual succeeded, snd now It Is no
feat st all to swim across thl rather
turbulent water way. Why anyone
should wsnt to do It and what virtue
or good of any aort there la In the
feat when It has been accomplished.
I cannot see.
Just recently a fellow townswoman
of mine won s rocking contest For
sn Impossible number of days and
nights with only brief Intervals for
rest she sat In a rocking chair keep
ing up a constsnt motion while neigh
bors snd curious onlookers bet on the
outcome, or psld to see how long she
could keep np the sgttstlon. And
now I am told she Is staging rocking
marathons. Of what value such s
contest can be to society or to the
human race I fall to aee.
There may be some value In seeing
how long sa airplane can remain In
the air without fueling, or how fast a
horse or an automobile can get over
tbe ground, but how many hours or
days two people can dance, for In
stance, without food or sleep, seems
to me of no value or real Interest to
anyone.
(& llll, WMUra Ntwipp UbIob.)
Tas Irks Chines
Rhanghal. Angry at a new 30 per
cent "superstition tax" which the local
Chinese municipality has ordered
levied against religious Incense and
candles, shopkeepers sffected have
Joined to resist the duty snd threaten
to declare a strike unless the order Is
rescinded.
developed maneuver ability and ex
cessive speed would make It an In
vulnerable fighting unit In time of war.
He recently said that shortly he ex
pected to open Its throttle somewlier
In the vicinity of the ground, point It
oose "absolutely straight op," and cut
awlftly heavenward for one solid mile
at an angle of 180 degree.
Already he ha climbed to 8,000 feet
In that manner after a 2.V) nille nn
hour start Present equipment of tbe
plane, be said, doe not permit more
altitude because of gn tank adjust
ment, which he expects to alter.
The plane can take off at an angle
greater than 4.1 degree and bold It
Evil communica
tion corrupt good
word. Every de
cent word used as
a substitute for a
bad one finally Iowa Its decency.
Largeit English Lifeboat
to Aid Channel Planet
Hamptoo-on-Thauje, England.
England's new lifeboat, considered tbe
largeat In the world, which was re
cently launched here la now stationed
at Dover to assist Channel planes.
The lifeboat I tb first speclflcaly
adapted to help airplane coming down
at ea. Tb craft tuts a speed of
about 18 knot.
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DIPPING INTO
SCIENCE
H It I 1 1 I I II I I I I I I I I I 1 1 I A
Deafness in Insects
I Tbe sense of hearing wa th I
t last of the five sense to be de- t
X veloped In the great scheme of I
t evolution. Few Insect can hear, t
f Even the highest types of In-
) sects, such as ants and bees, are '
deaf although the sense of
! ! sight, smell and touch are very ',
keen. Flies ars also deaf.
4. Q. till, Wwlara Ntwip.pr falsa.) J.
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the parliamentary police staff, but
also the most Impressive. When he
trod down the long medieval, dimly
lighted corridors the whole British em
pire, with the possible exception of
Australia, knew about It
He was particularly useful In the
event of an occasional row within the
sacred precincts of the house. All
Fulcher bad to do was to walk right
into the dozen or so rioters snd It
was then only a question of the old Ir
resistible force against whatever ob
ject stood In tbe wsy.
Fulcher knew hundreds, thousands,
even, of M. p.s, for It must be re
called that Fulcher was fixture In
the house of commons while 11. P.s
sre not But Stanley Baldwin prob
ably could tell you more about It
House of commons police have e
bigger beat to cover than many of
Sights We Hope to See
MAN WW0 lOVtS TO )HOW Off
MIS POWIRTUt CRIP, SHAK15
HAND WITH A ONE ARMED
MAN.
"all the way to the celling," Davis
said. "1 believe It la unquestionably
the fastest climbing plane ever built"
It I an open cockpit affair and re
sponds so swiftly to tbe controls that
a sudden change of direction will pro
duce temporary blindness for the pi
lot That happened In the Cleveland
races, Davis said, when h rounded a
pylon too abruptly.
A nine-cylinder motor of !IO0 horse
power twirls the plane's 22 degree
pitch propeller 2,300 revolutions pef
minute snd propels the whole craft
more than 2.7) mile an hour.
"A novice la out of place at It con
trols, but It ts perfectly safe In the
bands of o experienced pilot," be
said.
SMART HOME COSTUME
Here's a house dress smart enough
to wear almost anywhere. It Is a
wash frock of red and white polka
dots, with trimming of red and pearl
buttons.
the metropolitan police out on tbe
streets. Tbey have two miles of cor
ridors to cover on each floor. In some
respects the house Is like the Grand
Central station. There are shops
where one may buy posts! cards.
There sre Innumerable restaurants for
all manner of folk. There are vis
itors' restaurants, members' restau
rants and employee' restsurants.
Then there are Innumerable tea
rooms, and. In the words of s promi
nent lady M. P., all bad.
All these things tend to make
Fulcher yearn for his old Job. So
much ao that according to recent re
ports the former big roan of the house
hss become a mere ahadow of his
former self and Is said to weigh but a
mere 2S0 pounds, having lost a full
stone since be left the dignified por
tals of Westminster palace.
Charles Sughroe
-n?r- On the
j&l Funny
jiSflUii
MOTHER OF INVENTION
The great sliver cigar of the It 101
was drifting lazily over the interested,
upturned faces of a great crowd. Said
one spectstor:
"Can you tell me whst relation
loaf of bread Is to that alrshlpT
"What nonsense I" replied snother
onlooker. "There can be no relation
ship." "Oh, ye there Is I" said the first
speaker. "A loaf of bread Is s neces
sity snd the airship an invention. And
everybody know that necessity Is the
mother of Invention."
APPLE SAUCE
8he Why did we ever marryl
We're entirely different In every way.
He Too flatter me.
Sack Ability
Th ball of fm
For Jcrtmlab Krouss:
H laid lot eorntr atons
la lb first rouodhouM.
Preparation
Hostess (sending out cards) If
most of the people we are sending to
accept we shall hsve our work cut out
to cater for them.
Uost Oh, I dont auppose more than
half will accept We must hope for
the best
Hostess Thafa all very well aa far
aa you are concerned. What I hsve
to do Is to prepare for the worst
Comparieg Points
The Hungry Man Say, but that or
der's s long time coming. Isn't there
a good waiter In this place?
The Starving Man Gaston, over
there, is considered the most efficient,
but I am the most patient
His QUt Way
Jones Smlthklna Is living on bush
money.
Brown ThiU's why be Is such
soft-spoken fellow.
DEEPLY RED
"Is (he a deeply read gtrlT"
"Well, yes, oo her lips and cheeks."
Ki Ho, Hum I
Ths dollar down."
Sighed Hiram Hupp,
"Ii what keeps many
Mn hard up"
Bat H Kept la Step
He (during the entertainment)
You know that dancer spent all the
World wur up In the front line
trenches, and yet came off without a
scratch.
She How lucky.
He Oh, no. Just fast on his feet
Tb Discoverer
"How did that restaurant man make
ao much money r
"He Invented the procesa of cutting
a pie Into five quarters."
Try Caa
"Do you know your wife Is telling
every one you can't keep her In
clothes I"
"That's nothing; I bought her a
home and can't keep her In that,
either
A Dyspeptic Speaks
Son Dud. I'm going to mnrry a
pretty girl and a good cook at the
same time.
Dad Don't try It son. That's bigamy.