Show TRYING FOR RECORDS The newspapers recently have nn an announced man many attempts and as to swim the tho English channel Thirty years ago Ca Captain tain Webb suc ploughed the waters fron t Dover to Brest Brast Nobody has evoi equalled his rec rd though have havo tried TJ years Isa is a long S for any sort ot of record to stand In th thee tO times of record making and record I breaking but It looks now nov as It if Cap tam Webbs feat would not soon De bE duplicated The world be no bet r ore of te if n r t dozen people swIn the 1 every year No usefUl F was va served when whon Captain Webb p pushed the feat unless the diversion I or of the thoUghts of some athletes Into I harmless channels can be called u us tul ful Some Somo people are possessed ith itha 1 a mania for doing the Ithe seemingly mi im possible things The They hear that a amoun I moun mountain presen presents hIe 2 obstacles and they set out nul outto L to climb that mountain mountain More fore often th than n not they lo lOc e their liv lives but sonic some fool wins the and then year after year thor other t tA and lotie ThIs year many lives have been l lost lostIn st stIn In the Alps because their oWners thought they could do what hat other ther harebrained individuals had And so it goes goos In man many other absurd performances A man goes the Ithe Niagara rapids in iii a a and 1 htway the he I water tater is all tod up fools In barrels bairols a ran rank f jumps off f the Brooklyn bridge and ana sets gets a place in a dime museum where tools fools ma may gape at him and pr the supply or of bridge jumpers is far beyond the demand to say of the graves braves filled by bj t the e unsuccessful suJ suJA A bicyclist goes about the country I l the Iop H He has heard head that It Is the most dangerous thin thing lie he c cn n do aad Qa ute it is a P per r hun rods ot of t sk to tosa tosea sea sa It So he gues on ou ut j but there here itS is to her fotI wai waling ing to take his place There f no real courage In such acts F h it nets is not bT bravery ery J JIt It If it could be e shown shon that the tha r dl who takes desperate chances of iS sort does 0 eiren even a Ut tithe e Of good goodby by them it would be SU o 0 ip I with sitt e is it is thy should by be rented by bv 1 w qi h r I can he be J t tut tv t lut ut thorn them out or of the wa sin es Iy aud ami without spectacular u r trimmings I J |