If our esteemed sheet, the _Daily Independent_, feels so cock-sure of its position, why does it not do a little demonstrating?  Why does it not organize an expedition, and prove its claim?  This is all bunk!  We are so sure of it, that we right now challenge our misguided friend to run us a race around the world on a course of his own selection, at any time, by any mode of travel he may choose.  There! we have knocked the chip off of the _Daily Independent's_ shoulder.  Now let's see if our friend is really a bluffer or a fighter.