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Show LEARN TO SWIM. The story of how three young men, none of whom could swim, leaped from a sinking rowboat into the Delaware Dela-ware river and tvere drowned, sacrificing sacrific-ing their lives to save four companions, com-panions, is briefly told in a dispatch from Philadelphia. It was a magnificent thing to, do to die that others might live and the three young men who yielded up their lives were just as heroic as those who charge up to the cannon's mouth in the beat of battle. "Peace hath her victories no less renowned re-nowned thau war." It is sad, however, to contemplate the melancholy fact that the sacrifice would not have been necessary had the three young men learned how to swim. It is an accomplishment that all youug men and women should have before trusting their lives to the tender mercies of ocean, lake or river. Every summer there are hundreds of distressing distress-ing accidents in which scores of human lives are needlessly sacrificed simply because young men and women who cannot swim go boating. In many cases they do not even know how to manage a boat. There does not seem to be much excuse ex-cuse for an American boy's not knowing know-ing how to swim, save those who pass their lives in a prairie country, where there is no stream or lake at hand. It is true that the best swimmers are ofttimes drowned, but the chances are very much in their favor in case of an accident. Teach the boys and girls to swim. |