Show GIVE ua A BEST everything is overdone now a day when the very excess of current practices or proceeding force the ingenuity of man to new and strange devices the recent construe soon share alio fato of their pre decessare decess ore that ie they are taken up liand led by everybody hackneyed and ruu completely out alie process never ending long ae a soul will witness or a lone dollar be invested ie the rage now walking for money under all kind of circumstance is the prevailing feature of civilization wo have it raight walking a thousand miles in a thousand hour walking twenty seven hundred miles in twenty seven hundred consecutive quarter hours walking and lecturing combined and so on ad an english woman named adderson Au derson recently completed ono of the exhaustive feats above enumerated and now the air is blue with names of other fe aides who are cither willing have engaged to or are actually at work upon tho samo feat some of them assigning as motive that english woman ha succeeded in doing a thing and there s no reason why american women should bo unable to do likewise Of coursel what others can do we can do the sacred stripes and scintillating stars of our national banner would be trail cd in alio dust if a foreign female were to do anything that some of our kind did not immediately duplicate our national honor is at stake and alio safety of american institution hangs quivering in alie balance bi lance un ices onica american born individual of alio gentle immediately completes alio task of walking twenty seven hundred quarter miles in as many consecutive quarter hour then indeed did our forefathers fight and bleed and die in vain and all hope of perpetuating our institutions is gone but alile must not be the columbia will not permit it no indeed no female of any other nationality shall do more walking in time than can bo at home alie american eagle would droop his majestic beak in and his tail feathers would fall never to rise again if such a thing were allowed to tako place this precedent being established we tremble for the con some english or french or german woman may hereafter take a notion to visit our shores for alie purpose of showing our people that the can eat more onions ip a given time and live than ever was done before and of course we permit our prestige to bo overshadowed in any such way hence a test various kinds would follow such as would undoubtedly perfume alie land from end to end nal mako men mad onions would advance to mich fabulous prices eliat we afford to buy ono alien we desired to died a few respectful tears on alie occasion of brovan ziles departure from utah and all alio sweetly distilled extracts rom arabia could n continent again we may have drawn it rather strong on the onion question but at he rate and in alie manner bilings are on now who can tell to a certainty if people will go crazy in re lation to walking aliat is to prevent their doing likewise as regards bron cho riding kite flying play ing or onion eating it only needs some of foreign shores to come over and something extraordinary in anny ono of those respects to set alio mania raging and well on foot alio could atop it till it had worn itself completely and entirely out who in fact would undertake to do so there is something too much of this and in order to avoid becoming a nation of lunatics it is time that exhibitions which have not even alie doubtful virtue of being amii fing were frowned down test of endurance are very well alien endurance is called for but aliat in the namo of common yeni o is tharo to instruct benefit or in the spectacle of fiuman floeh being put lo 10 its utmost strain when nol liing is expected to but alio pocketing of alio stray dollars which a crowd with more money alian brains contributes A wo said in the us rest |