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SKMI-WEEKL^ TmTgrists sons, Pt.bu.her.] ? 4a?>'S gopstafltr: jor the f romation of th< jgolitieat. Social, ^gricnllncal and (Eommtiicial gnttmts of th< fto;^. i tb?i?olee"SpY.V?lc?? VA'"'t * ESTABLISHED 1855. = YOBKVILLE, S. C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1909. INTX84Y THE SIR' By ETTA 1 V CHAPTER XVII?Continued. Mrs. Arnault gave a violent start. "Simnieton! a girl who has been shut up at St Catharine's ail her life!" "She ought never to have been left so long at that place called Beechwood; I said so at the time," answered Rebecca. "if you only knew," haif shrieked Mrs. Arnault, "how hateful to me is the sight of her, you would not say that, Rebecca. Every time she calls me mamma I feel as if I could strangle her with these two hands." "Hush, mistress; hush!" But Sibyl was already descended the stairs out of reach of that shrill voice. Rebecca followed directly, and running up to the girl, seized her arm. "To tell the truth,"'she said, half in fear, half in apology, "she's not overfond of you, ril admit; but that's because of your father. As for work, think no more of it. She is. rich, and it distracts her poor head to hear you talk that way. Bear on a while?a body so feeble can't last much longer ?then you'll be free." This consolation seemed dui meagre to SlbyL She dawdled about the lower rooms of the cottage. They were all sealed from the sun and air, and smelled musty. She peered Into the kitchen and saw a deaf, old woman, with a forbidding air, dressing a fowl for dinner. She opened the kitchen door and stepped out Into the garden. It was dreary enough?neglected, 'gone to waste; but Sibyl found it bet^ ter than the house. Crickets chirped ^ In the long, unshaven grass. The tan< gled thickets looked wet and dark, even at noontide. Everything was as still as the grave except a pair of wandering pigeons cooing on the top of the high wall Two gates the garden had?both closed and doubly locked. In vain Sibyl sought to climb up and look over them. She wandered about, dragging her skirts In the long, wet grass and finally came to the trunk of a fallen tree, where she sat down to listen to the throb, throb of the sea, breaking somewhere beyond the dividing walL "And I thought," she ponaerea, uiui, could 1 once reach this place, all things would be made clear to me, instead of which they are more murky than ever. Oh, come back to me, my vision with ^ the fair face and yellow hair!" Rebecca came after a while to call her to dine. "Tut, tut!" she cried, crossly" this Is no place for you. Too much dreamin? is bad for girls." But as soon as the monotonous meal was done Sibyl hurried back to the garden. Now shrill, now soft, the in' sects called to her from the leaves. H The pigeons still lingered on the wall, and even hew down for some crumbs which she flung them In the deep grass. Overhead the enormous sky blazed with light. Somewhere without she felt?she knew?the world was beautiful. "But 1 shall live on here," she sighed, "for years, perhaps, and grow ugly and old like Rebecca, or pine myself to death, which would be better, and long before that he will have married that pale-eyed woman and quite forgotten me?oh, my heart?my heart!" She winked back the tears that sprang to her eyes, though nobody was ^ by to see them.' As she sat reflecting on this dismal picture the sun set, the zenith grew rosy with waning day, and a moon, like a yellow thread, appeared on the purple hem of the west Sibyl m looked up and found the garden full * of a tender, luminous dusk, and at the same time she heard, somewhere out upon the violet- colored sea beyond the measured dip of oars. - She started to her feet. With her r heart beating like a trip-hammer against her side, she stood, tall and white, like Hero at her Sestos shrine. Dip, dip! A keel grated on the shore, then there was a .pause, and then the boughs heaved suddenly aside and out of tnelr shadows a man stepped and sto6d before her. "SiDyi!" said eerie vanietR. She did not move or apeak. Pale and with eyes flashing grandly, she surveyed the tall shape that stood looking at her with his heart In his fixed, troubled gaze. "Sibyl, will you not speak to me?" He extended bis hand. She put her own resolutely behind her. "What brings Mr. Varneck to Hammerton?to this particular spot of Hammerton?" she demanded. "I come," he answered, "to explain to you, If I can, my conduct at Beechwood. Do you, then, think me a scoundrel, Sibyl?" "It can matter very little what I think." she replied, cresting her young * head. He smiled bitterly. "You are angry with me?you will not so much as touch my hand? I do not say my punishment is undeserved. but pray listen to me, Sibyl, before you condemn me." "Oh!" she cried, throwing out her hands with a passionate gesture, "why did you come near me again?" "It was torture for me to think of the light in which I stood with you. Three years ago I was betrothed to Miss Varneck. I did not love her? A she did not love me?It was to be what the French call a marriage de covenance. Till I met you I was content to have it so. Then came the tremendous change which made my bonds more hateful to me than words can tell. I left Beechwood the day of your departure to seek relief of Miss Varneck." Sibyl's oolor came and went fitfully. "And she?" "Rejoices In an unwilling captive? to she refuses to free me. Nevertheless, speak I must. Sibyl, I love you passionately. The caprice of no living mortal shall keep me from saying this ?were I irrevocably bound, I would oov It fill tha snmp." She tried to draw herself up with dignity. "Tour cousin warned me that you f HRR W. PIERCE. were fickle. She added, also, that through It all, your heart ever remained true to her." "She said that? Amlatle Lucy! She never occupied so much us the remotest corner of my heart, a<> qhe well knows. Sibyl, Sibyl! do not you hold me to a troth that was never anything * A aVlA^Anr!" out a HJUtnery turn a. ouiv.un . Her bosom heaved. "And Miss Vameck?how do you know she does not love you?" "Lucy was never In her life guilty of loving anything but hfrself," he answered. "Then, why does she refuse to release you! I have no right to come between her and her future?no right to listen to a man whose promise another woman holds, and which, for some good reason, no doubt, she will not give up." He looked desperate?furious. "Miss Varneck will not release me," he answered, "because she hates you as only a Jealous woms n can hate. Do you, then distrust me utterly? Good heaven! and that night at Beech wood I thought?I could have sworn?you loved me!" She did not answer. He drew her suddenly down to the trunk of the fallen tree. Under the touch of his hand, under the gaze of his angry, yet adoring, eyes, she was powerless. "Sibyl!" his voice sank to the tender, luring tone that lovers love. His arm was thrown across the tree, yet It did not touch her; his face leaned so low that the breath of his lips stirred her hair, but It approached no nearer. ViaSiinff hap fthmit with him self, yet carefully, that she might take no alarm, "Sibyl, have I been so . thoroughly deceived, then, and by a girl whom I thought without art?" ( The conscious color flushed over her face. , "Speak to me!" he entreated, ' his , pleading mouth drooping nearer and nearer her own?"speak, Sibyl, to me? your lover! Do you love me?" "You are not my lover!" she flash- , ed, "but Mi'ss Varneck's. I will not hear you?why do you ask me, when you know?oh, you know already!" Silence, eloquent, breathless. "And you fled from Beechwood without a word," he murmured. "Had ( you no faith in me? How you must have hated me in your heart! Are you happy here with your mother? For two successive days I have knock- . ed at your gate in vain. Tonight I , took boat to make a retftfitiolssance, and in doing so espiea a weu piuuc in the wall. Tell me all that has befallen you since we parted, Sibyl." She obeyed. He seemed to listen with disapprobation. "And are you to live on indefinitely, shut up with a half-mad mother who cares nothing for you? Sibyl, since Miss Varneck will not free me, I must free myself. There Is a way by which It can be done at once?It Is marriage with you." She shook her head proudly. "Impossible!" "Hush! I have a boat lying a rod or two beyond the wall. The town is but a mile distant; a short pull, and we are there, and then?then farewell to all the world." She would have drawn back from him, but his arm encircled her swiftly and held her fast. "Leave me now," she murmured. "No!" answered serie varnecK: , "never again. You cannot conceive how I have missed you?you cannot ^ know how utterly desolate and empty my life now is without you! I cannot bear it. If you care for your own happiness?if you car? in the least for mln>\ come, darling?come!" The tears gathered slowly in her big proud eyes. "How cruel you are!" she said: "how cruel to tempt me like this! No?oh, no!" He regarded her with a desperate, reproachful face. "Your pride, then, is stronger than your love? Between it and Lucy's malice I foresee that I shall lose you. Lose you! No! I could not, and live!" Before she was aware, he had snatched her from the fallen tree, and was drawing her blindly, irresistibly toward the foot of the garden. "You must?you shall come!" he cried, fiercely. "You are mine?you have acknowledged it. Do not look back. There is so much before?so little behind." But she broke from that Imperative arm with a cry. "No, Serle?no! I will not go with you! Leave me?in pity leave me!" "Pity! what pity have you for me, mo A o ofvolf lilrck thla? i luai JVU UlUC jut iv a oviuib ??t?v . Sibyl, Sibyl! if you love me in the , least, come!" He snatched at her dres3 as she j darted back, pale, wild, imploring. Then j a step came hurrying down the walk? a hand parted the branches?Rebecca Hardin looked through at the girl standing there in breathless agitation ?at the tall, fair lover by her side. There was silence for a moment, then, in a dry, hard voice, Rebecca spoke aloud: "Miss Sibyl, the dew is falling?it is time to come in." "Go!" murmured Sibyl, hurriedly; "it is my mother's nurse." Varneck's face was eloquent with , pain and despair. . "Good-night!" she said, giving him her hand. He took it. wrung it in his own, carried it to his lips. "And when shall I see you again?" , he groaned. "How can I tell?" she answered, with grieved, quivering lips. Before Rebecca's very eyes he leaned and laid his mouth on hers, then she broke free and ran from him up the path, , ? Acs Kn n'A rnonh neueui'a, luiiumuB. /is> iiiv i.>u .v<?v.. ed the cottage Sibyl turned with a face from which the black hair waved in masses, in which the black eyes shone, large and luminous, like stars of the south. "Rebecca," she began, catching her j breath at every word, "you know my mother so well?tell me, do you think she would be glad to give me to some one who loves me?mind! should thai some one ever be at liberty to ask me of her?" "In short," said Rebecca, dryly, "you mean would she let you marry?" "Yes." "Then, I tell you frankly, Miss Sibyl, she would see you dead sooner." CHAPTER XIX. "'Sleep, baby, sleep! Thy father watches his sheep. Thy mother is shaking the dreamland tree, And down comes a little dream on thee? Sleep, baby, sleep! '"Sleep, baby, sleep! The large stars are the sheep. The little stars are the lambs, I guess, And the gentle moon is the shepherdess? Sleep, baby, sleep!"' The sun had slipped?a ball of purplish Are?behind the apple trees. It was time for the doctor to come, and aW?. ?"MAM t ~ Klnnlr ti ? I f V\ A Kit rtf oAur _ lilt; wuiuau HI uiav.iv, niui ?* uiv vi dvt? lng on her knee, and her hand* clasped upon it, sat under a honeysuckle vine and sang in a dreamy voice this lullaby. Beside her, fanning oft the big, white moths with his hat, and watching the sunset beyond the doctor's humble cabbage garden, sat Mr. Trent, looking none the worse for his accident of the preceding night. "A charming little lay," said he, letting his gaze wander over the figure of his companion, "to sing, even with empty arms." She started, drawing a deep breath. "That was my baby's song," she answered, simply. "Indeed!" replied Trent, from behind his hat "I concluded from your dress that you had met with a loss." Dimple gathered together her bits of sewing and began to fold them up. "It's very sad to bury children," remarked the lawyer, as if he himself had passed through the trial any number of times. "I am suie it must be," answered Dimple. Twenty-four hours had Mr. Trent been at the cottage?long enough to discover that the doctor and his wife were somewhat remarkable people, and he now felt curious. "You are not, then mourning for a child?" said he. "For. a one only darling child," she answered, rising to go, "not dead, but Btolen from us many years since." Mr. Trent drew up his languid body with an air of llvelv interest. "Possible? Ah, don't go, I beg you; there is yet no sign of the doctor. Now, really? A stolen child? Very romantic, I am sure. How was she stolen, and by whom?" In obedience to his earnest gesture, Dimple resumed her seat She glanced out at the empty road, and then at her guest "Moppet's loss is no secret" *he said; "but there is another story Involved in hers?a very singular story, uid I am not sure that Philip., would. iiita mA to reoeat it to a stransrer." "Oh, do not, then!" cried Trent, politely; "tell me nothing which does not concern yourself. You call me a stranger. Presumptuous soul that I am! I have been a night and a day under your roof, and your great kindness has already made me feel like an aid friend." Dimple pondered. "You are very good to say It Guests are rare at the cottage, for Philip and [ are quite alone In the world. Our darling was stolen from us by a woman?a mad woman, Philip says; he can never believe her to be anything else?one who writes us a dreary letter yearly, by which we know Moppet still lives, but no more; who asks i.f us as the price of her restoration something which it is utterly impossible for us to give." Mr. Trent looked blank. "I do not in the least understand you," he said. She twisted a spike of honeysuckle round her hand. "I think I must, then, begin at the beginning," she mused. "it is not a story that you will ever be likely to repeat. Eighteen years ago the doctor (vas called one night to attend a lady taken suddenly 111 while traveling. She lay at a house two miles away on the seashore road, a stones throw above the beach. She had for a companion i man in undress uniform, who gave the name of Captain Forrest?fictitious, as we had afterward good reason to know." And then Dimple went over ihe whole story, and ended by bringing forth to Mr. Trent, who sat brushing iway the moths with his hat, the batch af letters from the desk and the ring found under the hearth of Hannah Duff's house. "The efforts we have made to discover our tormentor," she said, "the sorrow we have suffered, the tortures jf alternate hope and despair can never be told and still Moppet today is as hopelessly utterly lost to us as she was seventeen years ago. Mr. Trent opened and read the letters one by one. Their monotony seemed not in the least to tire him. He took up the ring and examined It with the air of a connoissuer. "A very costly and elegant Jewel," he remarked. "Your foes are evidently people of wealth, and probably of position. It sounds like a romance, and, after the fashion of the same, Mrs. Sower, I trust your daughter will be restored to you safe and sound." "How," sighed Dimple, "are we ever to give that cruel woman back her child when we know nothing of It?" Trent watched her as she stood, like some sorrowful Madonna, In her black dress, with the last sunlight on her face. "And you and our good doctor," he 3aid, "have borne to live on all this while In the home where you lost her! very trying I'm sure!" "Philip Is poor," she answered, simply. "He could not take me away." Mr. Trent gazed reflectively Into space. "He seems to be a man fitted by nature for a higher sphere than this. How few people, comparatively, ever reach their proper plane! The world Is all at sixes and sevens. Egad! Tes, a hard time he must have of It, among these tough, wiry, longshore people. Do they ever die?" (To be Continued.) tv'Salt In the over under baking tins will prevent scorching on the bottom. _ [The Conquest j By Dr. Frederick a. cook J Copyright, 1909, by the New York Herald Company, Registered In ! Canada In Accordance With Copyo right Act. Copyright In MexJ ico Under Laws of the Republic P of Mexico. All Rights Reserved t v * T t * t THE expedition was equipped at Uloucester, Mass. All was ready on the evening of July 3, 1907. Ashore boys were testing their Areworks for the morrow of celebration, but aboard, as our vessel, the John R. Bradley, withdrew from the pier, all was qutet. There were no visiting crowds of curiosity seekers. No tooting whistles signalized our departure. An arctic expedition bad been born without tbe usual- public bombast. Tbere was. Indeed, no excuse for clamor. Neither the help of tbe government nor tbe contributions of private Individuals had been sought. Tbe project was quietly given life and its expenses were paid by John R. Bradley. its destiny was shaped by tbe writer. Mr. Bradley was Interested In game animals of tbe north. 1 was Interested In the game of tbe polar quest. For tbe time lielng the business concerned us only. If the venture proved successful there would be time enough to raise the banner of victory. If It failed none bad tbe privilege of heaping upoD us the unmerited abuse which usually conies to tbe returning polar traveler. In a brief month all bad been prepared for the peculiar mission. We bad purchased a strong Gloucester Ashing schooner. Atted with a motor, covered for Ice and loaded down with suitable supplies for a prolonged period. One mornlnc the bold cliffs of Cat>e York were dimly outlined In the gray mist which screened the land. A storm had carried so much ice against the coast that a uear approach was Impossible, and continued winds kept up a sea which made it equally a difficulty to'land on the ice. In lc? Free Polar Waters. Though anxious to meet the natives at Cape York, we were forced to turn and set a course for the next village, at North Star bay. At noon the sooty clouds separated, and in the north through the narrow breaks we saw the steep slopes and warm color of crimson cliffs resting on the rising water. Darting through the air were countless guillemots, gulls, little auks and elder ducks. We were in the ice free north waters, where creatures of the sea find a marine oasis In midst of a polar desert This kind of coast extends poleward to thp land's end. It Is the shnndsnt sea life which makes human habitation just possible here, though land animals are also Important The people of the farthest north are crowded Into a natural reservation by the arctic Ice wall of Melville bay In the south and the stupendous line of cliffs of Humboldt glacier in the north. Horns of the Eskimos. Widely scattered In small villages, the northernmost Eskimo finds here a good living. A narrow bund of rocky land between the land Ice and the sea offers grasses upon which feed ptarmigan, hare and caribous. Numerous cliffs aud Islands afford a resting place In summer for myriads of marine birds that seek the small life of the icy waters. Blue and white foxes wander everywhere. Seal, walrus, nosnrKol n ltd nrhltn m hn 1a onnef In tKn | uuirruui auu nunc uaiu o^uii iu iuc summer sun, while the bear, king of the polar wilds, roams over the sea at all times. The yacht dodged the Icebergs and dangerous rocks in the fog about Cape Athol. then turned eastward to cross Wolstenholme sound. Ajb we neared Table mountain, which guards North Star bay, many natives came out in kayaks to meet us. Some were recognized as old friends. There was Myah, be of many wives; Oobloiah, who had executed Angoagibsah, styled the villain by Gibson at Redcliffe House, and Pincoota, husband of the queen, in whoso family are to be found the only hybrid children of the tribe. Later, Knud Rastnussen, a Danish writer, living as a native among the DeoDle. came aboard. With him we got better acquainted during the winter. Late at night a visit was made to the town of Oomanool. There were seven triangular sealskin tents, con- | veniently placed on picturesque rocks. Gathered about these in large num- ' bers were men. women and children, shivering In the midnight chill. . They were odd looking specimens of humanity. In height the men averaged but five feet two inches and the women four feet teu inches. All had Viw/\o A #o linorr trnnlro nnH LFl uau, lai iav.co, uca?j ituuao uuu well rounded limbs. Their skin was 1 slightly bronzed. Men and women . had coal black hair and brown eyes. The nose was short, and the hands and feet were short, but thick. There was not much news to exchange. After we had cone over the list of marriuges and deaths the luck of the chase became the topic of conversation. It was a period of monogamy. Myah had exchanged a plurality of wives for a larger team of dogs, and there was but one other man In the tribe with two wives. Women were rather scarce. Several marriageable men were forced to forego the advantages of married life because there were not enough wives for all. By mutual agreement several men had excbauged wives. In other eases womeu bad chosen other partners, and the changes were made seemingly to the advantage of all, for no regrets were expressed. There was un average of three fat, clever cliildreu for each family, the youngest, us a rule, restiug lu a pocket on the mother's buck. Dwellings of the Eskimos. The tent had a raised platform upon which all slept. The edge of this made a seat, and on each side were placed stone lamps, in which blubber was burned, with moss as a wick. Over this wus u drying rack, uud there was , other furniture. i of the Pole I - + { Explorer's Own Account I of His Journey to the ? Cosl ? Hunting Adven- t tures Among the Eskimos | [FIRST ARTICLE] ? On board the yacht there bad been buay day a of barter. Furs and ivory hid been gathered in heaps in exchange for guns, knives and needles. Every seaman from cabin boy to captain had suddenly got rich In the gamble of trade for prized blue fox skins !md narwhal tusks. The Eskimos were equally elated with their end of the bargain. For a (beautiful foxskln of less use to a native than a dog pelt he has secured a pocket knife that would serve him half A lifetime. A woman bad exchanged her fur pants, worth a hundred dollars, for a red pocket handkerchief, with which he would decorate her head and Igloo for years to come. The midnight tide lifted the yacht on an even keel from her makeshift drydock on the beach, and she was pulled DB. FBKDEBICK A. COOK. out into the bay and anchored for a few hoars. Oomanooi was but one of six villages In which the tribe had divided its 250 people for the current season. To study the people, to rurtner encourage the game of barter and to enjoy the rare sport of yachting and hunting In man's northernmost haunts we prepared to visit as many villages as possible. In the morning the anchor was raised, and the yacht set sail to a light wind beaded for more northern villages. Ducks were secured in abundance. Seals were given chase, but they were able to escape our craft. Nearing Saunders island a herd of walrus was seen on a pan of drift ice far' ahead of the yacht. Two with splendid tusks were obtained. and two tons of meat blubber were turned over to our Eskimo allies. An Eskimo Widow's 8tory. Among the Eskimo passengers pacing the deck was a widow, who, In tears, told us the story of her life?a story which offered a peep into the comedy and tragedy of Eskimo existence. She bad arranged a den under a shelter of sealskins among the anchor chains. We had offered her a 1 *- d^MTTT 4 *-? If onH Q Id&gC UCU, tvilu alia n iu Ik, auu ? place between decks as a better nest for her brood of youngsters, but she refused, saying she preferred the open air on deck. She had come from American shores, and, as a foreign belle, her hand was sought early. At thirteen Ikwa Introduced her to a wedded life not strewn with blubber. He was cruel and not always truthful. Two girls graced their home. One was now mnrried. When the youngest was out of her hood, Ikwa took the children and Invited her to leave, saying that be had tak*n to wife Abtah, a plump maid and a good seamstress. \fnnaa ho/1 nolfhar a/lranfaoo hilt kUUUCC UUU UVILUVt UV*1MUM*eV| WMV I she knew something of human nature, and soon found another husband, a good deal older, but better than the first. Their life was a hard one, for Nordingwah was not a good hunter, but their home was peaceable, quiet and happy. Two children enlivened It. Both were at her side on tho vncht a boy of eight, the only deaf and dumb Eskimo in all the land, and a thin, pale weakling of three. Both had been condemned by the Eskimo law of the survival of the fittest, the first because of insufficient senses and the second because it was under three and still on its mother's back when the father passed away, rhey were not to participate in the 3trife of life. But an unusual mother oved them. A few days before the previous winter the old father, anxious to provide warm bearskins for the prolonged aight, had ventured alone far up into the mountains. His gun went off acciJentally, and he never returned. The executor of the brother of Maaee's former husband was kind to ier for the long night and kept famUe from her door. In the summer tnv shp imd hppn able to keen herself. jut who could provide for her for ;he night to eoine? Her only resource was to seek the chilled heart of her former husband, and we were performing the unpleasant mission of :aking her to him as wife No. 2. When we later saw Ikwa he did not hank us for the trouble we had taken, jut we had expected no reward. The speed of the yacht Increased us he night advanced. A snow squall 'rosted the decks, and to escape the cy air we sought our warm berths ?arly. At 4 o'clock In the morning he gray gloom separated and the warm sun poured forth a suitable wealth of August rays. At this time we passed tbe Ice battered and storm swept cliff of Cape Parry. Beyond was Whale sound. On a sea of gold, strewn with Ice Islands of ultramarine uud alabaster, whales spouted and walrus shouted. The grampus was out early for a fight. Large flocks of little auks rushed over on hurried missions. Entering Inglefield Qulf. The wind was light, but tbe engines pulled us along at a pace just fast enough to allow us to enjoy the superb surroundings. In the afternoon we were well into Inglefield gulf, and near Ittlblu there was a strong bead wind and enough Ice about to engage the eye of tbe lookout. We aimed here to secure ttSKimo guides and with th< /eel. caribou in Olrick'a bay. While the yacht was tacking for a favorable berth in the drift off Kanga the launch was lowered and we sought to interview the Eskimos of Tttiblu. There were only one woman, a few children and about a score of dogs at the place. The wo-' man talked quickly and explained at some length that her husband and others were away on a caribou hunt and she told us without a leading question the news of the tribe for a year. After gasping for breath like a smothered seal, she began with news of previous years and a history of the forgotten ages. We started back for the launch, and she Invited herself to the pleasure of our company to the beach. An Eskimo Trade. We had only gone a few steps before it occurred to her that she was In need of something. Would we not give her a few boxes of matches in exchange for a narwhal tusk? We would be delighted, said Mr. Bradley, and a handful of sweets went with the bargain. Her boy brought down two ivory tusks, each eight feet In length. The two were worth $150. Had we a knife to spare? Yes, and a tin spoon was also given just to show that we were liberal. The yacht was headed northward across Inglefleld gulf. It is necessary for deep sea craft to give Karnab a wide berth. There were bergs enough about to hold the water down, though an occasional sea rose with a sickening thump. The launch towed the dory, of which Manee and her children were the only occupants. Karnab was to be her future home, and as we neared the shore we tried to locate Ikwa. but there was not a man in town. Five women, fifteen children and forty-five dogs came out to meet us. The men were on a bunting cam palgn, aiid tbelr location was not exactly known. Attahtungwab, Manee's rival, a fat unsociable creature, stood on a useful stone, wbere we cbose to land, and did not accommodate us wltb footing on tbe same platform. A Thrifty Eskimo Camp. There were live sealskin teuts pitched among tbe bowlders of a glacial stream. An immense quautity of uarwhal meat was placed ou tbe rock* and stones to dry. Skins were stretched on tbe grass, and a general air of thrift was shown about tbe place. Bundles of sealskins, packages of pelts and mucb ivory were brought out to trade and establish friendly intercourse. We gave them sugar, tobacco and ammunition in quantities to suit their own estimate of value. The fat woman entered her tent, and we saw no more of her during our stay, for she did uot veuture to trade as did tbe others. Mauee was kindly treated by tbe other village folk, and a pot steaming with oily meat was soon servea in ner nonor. we were cordially invited to partake of the feast, but bad a convenient excuse, Just having finished a meal. Would, we not place ourselves at ease and stay for a day or two, as their husbands would soon return? We were forced to decline their hospitality, for without the harbor there was too much wind to keep the ya< tit waiting. Eskimos have no system of salutation except a greeting smile or a parting look of regret. We got both at the same time as we stepped Into the launch and shouted goodby. Aboard, the captain was told to proceed to Cape Robertson. The wind eased, a fog came over from the Inland ice and blotted out the landscape down to about a thousnud feet, but under this the air was clear. | Ready For the Dash to + { the World's Farthest J + North?Expedition Well * J Planned and Equipped | [SECOND ARTICLE] + WE uwoke off Cape Robertson and went ashore before breakfast. The coast here rises suddenly to an altitude of 2,000 feet und is erowued with au Ice cap. It is picturesque enough. Large bays, blue glaciul walls und prominent headlands offer a pleasing variety, but it is much like the coast of all Greenland. It bad, however, the tremendous advantages of u southern exposure and rocks, providing a resting place for the little auk In millions. These little birds darted from the cliff to the sea. Rather rich grassy verdure also offer" * """la a Hnfl/. lvo rn n*htla t*u an uuoio iui iuc uiiuv uuiv, " uuv ( the blue fox fouud life easy here, for he could fill his winter den with fat feathered creatures. As we approached the shore 10 men. 9 women, 31 children and 100 dogs J came out to meet us. I count the children and dogs, for they are equally ' Imnnrfutif In RiiHmn wnnnmv The ' latter are by far the tuost Important to the average Caucasian In the arctic. Only small gume had fallen to the Eskimos' lot, but they were eager to venture out with us after big game. At last Mr. Bradley had found a suitable retinue of native guides, and we were not long In arranging a compact. Free passage, the good graces of the cook and a knife each were to be their pay. A caribou hunt was not sufficiently novel to merit a return to Olrlck's Bay, where Intelligent efTort Is always rewarded, but It was hoped we might get a hunt at Kookaan. near the head of Robertson Ray. Setting Ssil For Etah. This venture, however, failed, though It gave us an interesting chase uisuit dangerous wuters lu u violent gale. Wereturned to the Igloo to do homing, paid off our guides, made presents to their women and children and set sail (or Etab. Clearing weather after the storui afforded delightful yachting weather. A fairly strong offshore wind tilled the big wings of canvas. The cool air was bracing, while the bright sun threw glittering smiles from slant to slant The seamen forward sang of the delights of fisher folk. A phonograph sent music, classical and otherwise, into the arctic air from the cabins. At table there was a kind of continuous performance with a steady hand and receptive stomach. During two days of stormy discomfort several Important meals bad been willingly missed. But in the arctic food recounts must be squared as quickly as possible. On the following morning we passed Cape Alexander and entered Smith sound. Half a gale came from the sea, and we entered Foulke fiord. The town of Etah was composed of four tents, which for this season had been pitched beside a small stream Just inside of the first projecting point on the north shores. Tnnldp this nnlnt thpr? wnn ftheltprml water to land the Eskimos' kayaks. It also made n good harbor for the yacht. It is possible In favorable seasons to push through Smith sound, over Kane basin, into Kennedy channel, bnt the experiment is always at the risk of the vessel. There was no special reason for us to hazard life; therefore the yacht was here prepared for the return voyage. This was to consume several days, and we sought to occupy the time in exploration and sport. Much Game at Etah. The vicinity of Etah is notable as the stamping ground of Dr. Kane and Dr. Hayes In the middle of the last century. There were no unexplored spots In the neighborhood, but there was a good deal of game m\r. Far beyond, along the Inland ice. .were caribou, but we preferred to confine our exploration to the seashore. The bay waters were alive with eider ducks and guillemots, while Just outside walrus dared us to venture on an open contest on the wind Rwept seas. After ambitions for the cbase and local exploration were satisfied we were told that the people of Annootok. twenty-five miles to the north, would be glad to see us. Here was the chance to arrange a jaunt In the motorboat The tanks were filled, suitable food and camp equipment were loaded, and off we' started on the morning of Aug. 21 for man's ultima Thule. It was a beautiful day, with a light air from the sea. Passing inside of Littleton Island, we searched for relics along Lifeboat cove. The desolate cliffs of Cape Hatherton were a blaze of color and light, but the sea was refreshingly cool, with fleets of blue towering bergs to dispel the fire of arctic midsummer. As we rushed in comfort past the Ice polished and wind swept headlands the sea was alive with birds, seal and walrus, but little shooting was done, for we were bent on enJoying the quiet sport of motorboatlng. Arrival at Annootok. As we passed the sharp rocks of Cairn Point we located nine tents In a small bay under Cape Inglefield. "Look?there Is Annootok!" said Tungan, our native guide. Looking up Smith sound, we noted that the entire channel beyond was blocked with a Jam of bard blue Ice. The northernmost limit of motorboatlng had been reached. A perpendicular clltf served as a pier to which to fasten the boat Here It could rise and fall with the tide, and the drifting Ice did not give much trouble. A diligent exploration of the town disclosed the fact that we had reached not only the northernmost town, but the most prosperous settlement of the Greenland shore. The best hunters had gathered here for the winter bear hunt. loeir guujt: caicu ubu uccu t lucky. Immense catches of meat were strewn along the shore. More than a hundred dogs voiced the hunt force, with which Eskimo prosperity is measured, and twelve long haired wild men came out to meet us as friends. The wealth In food and furs of this place fixed my determination on this spot as a base for the polar dash. We were standing at a point within 700 miles of the pole. The strongest force of men, the best teams of dogs and an unlimited supply of food, combined with the equipment on board the yacht, formed an ideal plant from which to work out the campaign. The seeming hopelessness of the task had a kind of weird fascination for me. Many years of schooling in both polar xones and in mountaineering would serve a useful purpose. Conditions Right For Dash. Here was my chance. Here was everything necessary conveniently placed within the polar gateway. The problem was discussed with my colleague. Mr. Bradley generously volunteered to land from the yacht the food, fuel and other supplies we bad provided for local use. There was abundant trading material to serve as money. My own equipment aboard for sledge traveling could be made to serve every purpose In the enterprise. The possible-combination left "absolutely nothing to be desired to insure success. Only good health, endurable weather and workable ice were necessary. ? - llllsv** X DG expenditure ui u ujhuuu uuimto could not have placed an expedition it a better advantage. The opportunity was too good to be lost. We ( therefore returned to Etah to prepare j for the quest. Strong efforts had been made to reach the pole from every available quarter. Only the angle between Alaska and Greenland had been left untried. In our prospective venture we aimed to pierce this area of the ?lobe. If we failed In our main eflTort we would at least make a track over a x Dlank spot. With the resources for ? xansDortatlon which the Eskimos of 'ered I hoped to carry ample supplies 1 >ver Ellesmere Land and along the 1 svest coast of the game land. 8 There was reason to suppose that f ve would avoid the troublesome pack J igltated by the Greenland currents. v Che Eskimos were willing to trust to v the game resources of this region to feed and fire the expedition en route to the land's end. 8pl*ndid Advantages Offered. If their faith proved correct, It offered me a series of advantages denied to every other leader of polar expeditions, for the movement would not only be supplied at the expense of the land which It explored, bnt men and dogs would be taken to the battleground In superb training, with their vigorous bodies nourished by wholesome freeh meat, not the nauseating laboratory stuff whlth is usually crowded Into the unwilling stomach. Furthermore, It afforded me a chance to test every article of equipment In actual field work. and. above all. after a hard campaign of this kind I could select with some chance of success the most likely winners for the final race over the clrcumpolar sea. A compact was maae witn toe lirtie men of the farthest north to pnab the venture Into the boreal center. When it was noised about at Btah that prepa rations were in progress to try for the pole most of the men on board the yacht volunteered to serve. Captain Bartlett, skipper of the John R. Bradley, said that be also would like to stay; but, if compelled to return, he required at least a cook and an engineer to take the yacht back to Newfoundland. The situation was eased when the captain was told that but one man was wanted. No group of white men could possibly match the Eskimo in bis own element. The willing hands of a tribe of 260 people were at my disposal. More help was not required. But a companion and a general overseer was In demand for this post. Rudolph Francke was selected. Annootok was to be the base of operations. But there is no harbor near this village to facilitate a rapid landing of supplies, and to hasten the departure of the yacht on her homeward run everything for the polar campaign was brought on deck while the vessel was still at anchor In Etab. and below all was prepared for the expected storms of the return voyage. 8tarting For Annootok. Late In the evening of Sept 1 the entire village of Etah was taken aboard, the anchor was tripped, and soon the Bradley's bow pot out on the waters of Smith sound for Annootok. The night was cold and clear, bright' ened by the charm of color. The son had just begun to dip under the north' era horizon, which marks the end of the summer double duys of spleodoi and begins the period of storms leading Into the long uigbt Early In the morning we were off Annootok. The weather was uow changed. A strong wind came from the sea. With shallow water, unknown rocks and much Ice drifting about no comfortable berth could be found for the yacht. If the overloaded decks were to be cleared at all it must be done quickly. The launch and all the dories were lowered and filled. Eskimo boats were pressed Into service and loaded. Tiie boats were towed ashore. Only a few reached Annootok Itself, for the wind increased and a troublesome sen made haste a matter of great Importance. Things were pitched ashore anywhere on the rocks where a landing could l>e found for the boats. The splendid efficiency of the launch proved equal to the emergency, and In the course of alwut three hours all w is safely put on shore In spite of threatening winds and forbidding seas. Supplies Taken by Dr. Cook. Following is tl - complete list of tbe supplies provided from John R. Bradley's yacht for tbe polar dash of Dr. Frederick A. Cook: Eleven cases of flour, twenty cases corn meal, six barrek corn meal, thirtynine cases biscuits, twelve barrels biscuits, four cases rice. One case smoked corned beef, four cases pork and beans, eight cases bam, five cases bacon, fifteen cases pemmi-, can. one case beef tongue, two cases codfish. I One case peas, sixteen cases beans, two cases potatoes. Twenty-one cases sugar, six cases tea, ten cases cofTee. Four cases milk, one case eating butter, one tub butter for cooking, one tub lard. One case soups, one case catchup, one case pepper, spices, horseradish, etc.; one case vinegar, pickles, mustard, etc. One case assorted jams and fruits, one case strawberry juice for driuktng. one case salt, one case raisins und currants, one case maple sirup, one case dried peaches. Nine cases tobacco, one case washing and baking powder. Seven cases matches, seventeen cases coal oil, 115 gallons alcohol, one case candles. 118 bags coal, four stoves, two alcohol stoves, lamps. One canvas boat, one case rifle*. 2,000 rounds ammunition, one W inchester rifle. 1.000 rounds ammunition, one thermos bottle. Two pairs shoes, complete cooking outfit, hickory wood for fifteen sleds. Iron, copper, nails nnd screws. Bedding, sleeping bags, one silk tent. One box tools for ironwork, one box carpenters' tools, one pair fleld^la^srs. one camera, with plates. Two dories with oars, one dozen panes of glass for windows, fifty feet stovepipe, three chairs. Twelve fox traps, one keg black powder, one box books, 200 tin boxes with wood outside. Wood for building hart e, rope, twine, charts, maps. Instruments, compasses, knives and needles for trading with natives. [To be Continued.] 13" A South Australian farmer durng the harvest has used a 3 1-2 lorsepower motor bicycle to winnow lis wheat. It connects with the vinnower by a universal shaft, the notor being housed in a trolley, vhich is easily movable from place ;o place. When knock-off time comes t is disconnected in about two mlnltes and is ridden home. One gallon >f petroleum cleans 100 bags of vheat, which costs with oil used ibout }d. a bag. X'J The eel has a singular formation >y which it is enabled to retain life onger than any other fish. This is l bladder at the back of Its upper Ins, which it fills with water and is hereby enabled to moisten its gills or a considerable time when out of vater. An eel's heart is in its tail, vhere its beats can be plainly seen.