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For Three Hundred Y
Lives to Discover ItFranklin.
De Long ant
Centuries ago men made up their | wi
minds to reach the North Pole and j v
Iaince'then many have gone in searcn dj
of it, to leave their bones whitening w,
in the Arctic circle. None found it, at
but what they did find in its sur- ne
rounding regions has had an important
place in the history of the or
world. w
That the quest for the North Pole cr
has been more persiftfent and more th
extensive than the ?earch for the gc
South Pole is obviously due to the or
fact that the Arctic is much nearer ri:
to the great maritime nations than bs
is the Antarctic and that its waters wi
more nearly merge with those of the m
highways of the sea trade. in
The first incentive which sent err- ai
plorers into the Arctic regions had its er
basis in the commercial instinct, st
And this instinct had two phases, to
One was to extend the limits of the gs
northern fisheries; the other a desire at
to shorten the water route between si
the ports of Europe and the Orient,
either by a northwest or northeast
passage. But while these incentives
were predominating ones in the ear- .
lier history of Arctic exploration, all ot
of the more recent ones have been in
the interest of scientific research.
It is not known who was the first
HI? to venture into the Arctic region? y
the region which, as the little girl ^
||5 wrote in her copybook, "is chifly used cr
H for purposes of exploration." But as n,
all early as 1756 Frobisher made a voyH
age to the southern extremity of
HI Greenland and the opposite American w
| coast, and in 1585 the strait forming ^
prl the entrance to the Arctic regions t
west of Greenland was discovered by
Egg John Davis. In 1615 Baffin and Bylot "j
|bh passed through Davis Strait and
H? sailed up the North Water to Smith ^
Sound, discovering on the homeward fQ
Bag voyage Jones Sound and Lancaster ga
SgS :Sound, which were closed by ice. Ex- -c
jj5 -cept for the voyage in 1631 of Luke
Fox, who sailed up Fox Channel to
i|| Peregrine Point, nothing further was th
HS learned of these. regions for about
III two hundred years, and Baffin's discoveries
were almost forgotten. 0j
I Last Century's Kesrarcn. ca
The interest in a northwest passage bj
having revived. Commander John pi
Ross, in 1818, set out with the Isa- pi
bella and Alexander. He confirmed ri
the accuracy of Baffin's observations, to
and in the following year Lieutenant ar
Parry, commanding the Hecla and ra
Griper, sailed through Lancaster se
Sound. Some few years later Sir of
John Ross made another voyage in m
the Victory, and passed up Regent er
Inlet to the Gulf of Boothia; while ar
his nephew, James C. Ross, traversed lo
the southern part of Boothia and the fa
strait named after him. A few years a
earlier, in 1S26, Dr. Richardson had er
passed through Dolphin and Union se
Straits, and sighted Wollaston Land, th
part of which was afterward named th
Victoria Land by Simpson, of the hs
Hudson Bay Company, who, with ar
Dease, in 1338-9, passed through ta
Dease Strait, and the entrance of la
Simpson Strait; while Dr. John Rae, th
in 1845-7, explored the southern
-coast of the Gulf of Boothia from ag
"? r> Qf roif o An f ho oQcf tr\ fW!
I r ui j auu unaiio wu wut vw fv
Lord Mayor's Bay on the west, and w]
proved Boothia to be a peninsula. efl
The successful though ill-fated ex- w<
ploration cf Sir John Franklin in th
3earch of a northwest passage set sail of
from the Thames on May 20, 1845, bi
With the Erebus and the Terror, un- m
der command of Captains Fitzjames tw
and Crozier, Franklin passed through w;
Lancaster Sound, and, as was after- so
ward ascertained, sailed up Welling- o\
'.on Channel to Penny Strait and down si<
Crozier Channel,returning to Beechey ar
Island in winter. Subsequently the of
vessels made their way to the north- ca
woet moat nf TCino- William TclanH Wi
where Franklin died in June, 1847. wi
The survivors, under Captain Crozier, of
started in 1S48 for the Great Fish th
River, and their remains were found in
.along the route to Adelaide Penin- Ci
.'sula. The expedition had. therefore, til
-ascertained the existence of a sea
passage from the Atlantic to the chan- h?
v nels south of Victoria and Wollaston hi
Land, leading to Bering Strait.
Kane After the Pole. '
I
Hopeful of finding some tidings of
her husband. Lady Franklin, in 1852,
sent cut the Isabel and the Com- uj
mander, afterward Sir Edward Augustus
Inglefield. Steaming up the
open water "stretching through seven j
points of the compass," he sighted
what is now known as Cape Louis ^
Napoleon, but he found no traces of
Franklin, despite a long and diligent o?
search. Twelve months later Dr. .
IS
Elijah Kane, in the United States
1??*i rr A ^vonna fnll ati'qH ir? hie fro nlrc
I Ostensibly Kane was on a Franlclin ^
search, bat his real objective was the
North Pole. He explored the sea
which is named after him and encountered
many hardships and met
with numerous adventures. But he m
was no more successful at finding the se
Pole than he was iu finding traces ?
of Franklin.
On July 10, 1360, Dr. Hayes, who
had served with Kane, sailed from
Bo?ton for Smith Sound, in the
schooner United States, of 130 tons A
and a crew of fifteen men. His ob4****+
f U ~ fsvll/vnr V, ~ i:nA
jtrut was uuc u^ ue nut: ui ic- |
search opened by Dr. Kane. He wintered
at Port Foulke, about ten miles j at
from Cape Alexander, which forms w
the eastern portal of Smith Sound. 111
Dr. Hayes crossed Smith Sound in ^
the spring with dog sledges, but his l)f
-observations are not to be depended dc
on, and it is very uncertain how far 1)]
Le advanced northward on the other ei
aide. He retuVned to Boston on Oc- sc
tober 23, 1861.
With the ill-fated Jeannette expe- w
(lition began a series of Arctic tragedies.
This vessel, which had been ai
fitted out in 1879 with the intention si
of making an effort to locate the lo
North Pole, was under the command F
of Lieutenant De Long, of the United ei
States Navy. Less than two weeks be
after having entered the Arctic
Ocean the Jeannette became solidly lo
frozen in an ice pack and never es- at
caped from it. Jn the grip of .what w
3' EFFORT. "
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ears Adventurers Have Risked
?Tragic History of Search? Ci
1 Andre Most Notable Victims f0
est North p(
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as to prove her tomb, the luckless ^
issel was carried hither and thither ^
r the drifting ice. Eventually she g('
as crushed and her people had to
>andon her, forming a cr.mp on a
iarby berg. This was in June, 18S1.
Vbout 4 o'clock the next morning," ^
le of the survivors wrote, "the camp
as aroused by the man on the watch .
ying: 'Turn out if you want to see j(
:e last of the Jeannette?there she
>es!' Most of us." the ghastly rec- ,,
d continues, "had barely time to gj'
se, when, amid the rattling and P(
inging of her timbers and iron ^
ork, the ship righted and stood al- jc
ost upright; the floes that had come ^
and crushed her slowly backed off, tQ
id as she sank with slightly accelated
velocity the yard arms were QI
ripped and broken upward parallel g,
i the masts, and so, like a great; m
uint skeleton, clapping its hands w
>ove its head, she plunged out of p(
git." w
De Long's Tragic Fate. F.
The Jeannette had been provisioned fa
r three years, but as no tidings had P<
ien received of her up to 1S81, two
her vessels were sent in search of di
;r. One party, under the command 6:
Engineer George W. Melville, of G
a United States Navy, reached w
akutsk, and afterward round tne se
)dies of De Long and some of the T:
ew. To quote from Melville's own n<
irrative:
"I identified De Long at a glance
t his coat. He lay on his right side,
ith his right hand under his cheek,
s head pointing north, and his face
irned to the west. His feet were ,
awn slightly up as though he were 1
eeping; his left arm was raised with |
ie elbow bent, and his hand, thus '
>rizontally lifted, was bare. About
>ur feet back of him, or toward the
ist, I found his small notebook or
e-journal, where he had tossed it
it*h his left hand, which looked as
lough It had never recovered from
ie act, but had frozen, as I found it,
J ? ' Of
jrmseu.
Perhaps no better picture of terrors
! the Arctic and its stabbing cold
n be found than that which is given st
r Mr. Melville: "A cold, barren V
ateau, between a small outlying
omontory and a bleak weatherven
rock of red syenite reaching up w
the skies, on which even the mosses
id lichens would scarce grow. The
ging of the ~ind and the pitiless M
a, and the roar of the black water 01
the bay dashing over the ice-foot,
ade the lonesome picture look coldand
more appalling. Drifts of ice Pr
id snow choked the ravines and holws;
but, saving ourselves r.nd the
mished, skeleton-like survivors, not
living thing appeared on the whit- m
led landscape. The region truly
emed to be the most desolate on
e face of the earth. It looked as f?
oug'n the curses of 10,000 witches
id descended upon and blasted it,
id even the birds would not dare to
ke their flight across the lifeless S?
nd, lest they, too, fall victims iuto
e death-gap below.
"Struggling up the valley of death th
;ainst the frantic wind from the low is
lint to the westward of the camp, ha
here we managed with difficulty to
feet a landing in our whaleboats,
? first came upon tho remains of Ei
e winter habitation,a parallelogram
four walls about three feet high
lilt of loose stone, the inside diensiOns
being eighteen by twenty- zi]
ro feet, with a tunnel or covered su
a j iaLiug luc uiuuuta&u tu uir
uthward. This hut had been roofed
rer with the whaleboats turned upie
down and covered with the sails 01
id tent cloths; the smoke flue made sc
old tin kettles bound with bits of ot
,nvas was thrown to one side, and de
iter had risen in and about the
retched dwelling place to a height
eight inches, concealing much of he
e foul evidence of squalid misery Y(
which its poor occupants had lived, ni
ist-off fur and cloth clothing, empty tw
a cans, and the sickening filth of te
renty-five men for nine months lay el
saped and scattered about, a veritae
Augean scene."
On August 11, 18S1, the steamer ev
roteus conveyed Lieutenant Greely be
id his party to Lady Franklin Bay. pa
house was built and they were left ar
ith two years' provisions. The reg- wi
ar series 01 ooservauons was at sy
ice commenced, and two winters
ere passed without accident. Traving
parties were also sent out in the fo
tmmer, dcgs having been obtained dl
Disco. Lieutenant Lockwood rn
ade a journey along the north coast of
Greenland and reached a small ni
land. Dr. Pavy and another went vi
-short distance beyond the winter m
carters of the Alert, and a trip was
ade into the interior oL Grinnell
ind.
Relief of Greely. vj
As no succor arrived in the sumer
of 1883?though relieving ves- re
:1s had been dispatched both in 1S82 de
ARCTIC TEMP]
l Crystal Palace Foun
Wilderness of
Changeless Arctic temples of ice j or
ma me icy aeseris or ureemanu cl
ere found by the survivors of the je
[-fated Erichsen- expedition to the ici
orth Pole. A crystal palace of su- \vi
>rhuman architecture vaster than * in
)zen cathedrals and Egyptian ternles,
resplendent with jewels and pa
ldless decorations of ice, is de- \vi
ribed. st
Created by nature in a forbidding pr
ilderness, it frightened and awed in
ie explorers. The dreams of poets sa
id the fancies of epic bards were m
irpassed by this vision of colossal ia
veliness, which the painter Achton in
ries, a member of the expedition,
ideavored to carry away for the
ineflt of the dwellers in civilization. B;
More than a mile in length, the
fty nave of this temple was pierced le
; intervals with windows through ri
hick the gleaming sun rays sparkled tii
id 1SS3?Lieutenant Greely started
om Lady Franklin Bay with his
en on August 9, expecting to find
vessel in Smith Sound. On October
L they were obliged to encamp at
ipe Sabiue on the western shore of
nith Sound. A few depots were
und which had been left by Sir
eorge Nares and Lieutenant Beebe,
it all were exhausted before the
ring. Then came a time of inderibable
misery, acute suffering and
jath from slow starvation. When
le relieving steamers Thetis and
sar finally reached Cape Sabine
ieutenant Greely and his comrades
ere found just alive.
During recent years there hare
;en numerous efforts to solve the
ddle of the north. Andre attomptl
it in a balloon and added another
ddle?the riddle of what became
1 him. Then the Duke of the
bruzzi, Nansen, Fiala, and most perstent
of all. Commander R. E.
sary, all essayed the discovery of
ie pole. Nansen entered the polar
e with the Fram in 1903, and
iroughout two winters drifted
wara xne puie, uuu uevei ucai
lough to locate it. Captain Cagni.
le of the Abruzzi party, reached to
5 degrees 34 minutes north, the
ost northern record up to 1906, but
hich was subsequently eclipsed by
gary. Following these came Walter
'ellman, E. B. Baldwin and Fiala.
A. Cook, and once more that indetigable
searcher for the pole, R. E.
?ary, both found it.
There have been 578 expeditions
rected against the North Pole and
L against the South Pole since 1800.
reat Britain leads with 107 northard
and 25 southward. Russia is
tcond, with 105 north and 1 south
he United States is third, with 84
)rth and 12 south.
Tht pigeoa is found in every part
! the t lobe.
There r re more than 600 women
udying n diclne at the French uniirsities.
The boys of ancient Egypt played
ith toy soldiers.
It is persistently reported thai
exico is abcut to remove t?e duty
i wheat.
The earliest known cook book was
inted in Venice in 1475.
At the end of 1908 there were 41,!7
motor vehicles in use in" Gerany,
including 20,928 motorcycles.
Cats have thirty teeth, and dogs
rty-two.
The Provincial Legislature of New
runswick seems to think well of
ving the right to vote to women.
"Eat hard food if you wish to keep
e teeth clean and nreserve them."
the advice of Dr. George Cunningim.
It has been estimated that rats in
igland do damage to the extent of
'5,000,000 annually.
Guatemala now ranks next to Bral
in importance as the source of
pply of coffee. Ecuador is rapidly
panding its cocoa production.
Five Australian States are desiris
of borrowing on an extensive
ale for railway construction and
her public works, the total amount
sired beir.g $60,000,000.
With a view to supplanting the
irse cars of crosstown lines in New
)r!- the receiver of the Thir^ Avele
Railroad is experimenting with
'o cars, one an electric storage batry
car and the other a gasoline
ectric car.
Ancient Egyptians to save theii
es decorated their eyelids with
tautiful black velvety antimony
lint, which protected from glare
id Egyptian sore eyes. The paint
ent back near the ear to end in a
rnbol.
The men of forty-nine, the Calirnia
pioneers, are rapidly dwining.
There are now only sever
embers of the Sacramento Society
California pioneers. The eighth
ember recently died, and the survors
acted as pallbearers. and
ourners.
The Free List.
The President was making out intations
to the tariff dinner.
"That's my personal free list," he
(marked, with a chuckle.?Philailphia
Public Ledger.
LES OF ICE.
c! Amid the Frozen
Greenland.
i columns and cubes and immense
usters of stalactites like pendant
wels. Through the centre of the
e palace flowed a stream of wate:
hose occasional ripple and splashg
fall broke the majestic silence.
Far north it is possible that ice
daces and temples should endure
ithout change longer than human
ructures of stone. The. carcasses ol
ehistoric monsters have remained
violate in Arctic tombs for thounds
of years, while granite pyraids
have worn uway and Babylonn
civilization has been buried deef.
the earth.?Chicago Tribune.
At present the monastery of St
irnard costs about $9000 a year tc
;ep up. This money is partly colcted
in Switzerland and partly deved
from the revenue of the iconasc
order.
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MOW PERFI
I iliSM^S
First Anti-Suffragist?"The ide<
Second A. S.?"Yes, makln' thee
Music Easy to Find.
Have you ever tried to find a favorite
song among 150 or 200 sheets
Df other music? If you have you
i i ?ui i hiii
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l
flVlB
f' ^ I ' '
know that the mythical pastime of
locating a needle in a haystack is a
comparative task. Now comes a New
York man with a sheet music cabinet
j that solves the difficulty. This cabj
(net is a three-sided affair, revolving
I an a stationary stand. The comparti
ments for the music are arranged in
the form of steps and hold the sheets
in a vertical position with titles of
each showing above the titles of those
! below.
I ' In such a stand several hundred
| pieces of music may be kept without
! confusion and anyone can be found
almost at a glance. To facilitate matters
the sheets may be kept in alphabetical
order or the vocal and instrumental
music can be separated 01
i both methods may be used in con|
junction. Such a cabinet is convenj
lent for use both at homes and ir
j music stores or conservatories.?Bosi
ton Post,
j
} v Of the -11,000,000 families ir
France nearly 2,000,000 are child
less.
MAKING I
i f ll ll
ir,,-/! jIKal llfik'j;:
| ^ ^ dear sir^ you aire an idiot
j . "Sir!"
"Yes, an idiot, and if you liac
yourself."?From Bon Vivant.
Holds Phonograph Discs.
Another type of holder for phonograph
records is the wall bracket designed
by a Louisiana woman. The
advantage claimed for this holder is
M rF=il
I
Lids Keeu Out the DubL
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I
i of their wantin' to be like us!"
Qselves utterly ridiculous!"?Punch.
Corkscrew Has Rival.
How many times have you given a
! corkscrew a last desperate yank to
i have it come ripping out and the cork
I remain in the bottle, torn up to such
an extent that it is impossible to get
1 another hold on it? If you have had j
this experience you will welcome the 1
news that there is a new cork extractor
in the market which not only has
not the bad habits of the old corkscrew,
but will extract a cork after
the centre has been pulled out by the
latter. This ntw extractor, which
was devised by a- Connecticut man,
consists of two pieces of wire having
their upper ends hinged and forming
a handle part and crossing each other
at the middle, after the fashion of
I ioo f-rmfa The lower ends are
pointed and curve toward each other.
These points are thrust into a cork
and as the operator pulls on the ex.
tractor the wires grip the tighter. It
does not require much cork to give a
r i * i
l ' "H..1JJM .
Grips Tighter as You Pull.
purchase and the device will-be found
i invaluable when a corkscrew has suc
ceeded in only mutilating a cork.?
Washington Star.
IT STRONG.
1 any intelligence you would see
thQ ro~f
rpnnrri., aS I
tV LUUlIiCl nvvj/o w..w - _
. free from dust as the most airtight of
! wooden cases. The device consists |
i of a rod, fastened to the wall so that
it maintains a vertical position. Piv- I
oted to this rod are holding plates, i
so arranged that they swing back and
forth and are out of the way when
not needed. Each of these plates is
a little larger than a phonograph disc
In circumference and deep enough to j
hold several. A practically airtight |
lid fits over the top of each and along j
the side is a finger opening by which
the lid may be lifted or the records |
taken out. A pin running up through i
the centre of the plate pierces the j
hole in the centre of the disc and one |
: in the lid. The bracket stands far j
I enough from the wall that the plates j
| can be turned in behind it.?Balti- i
* - ?
j more Amenuau.
Successful.
i
"I started out on the theory that
the world had an opening for me.
and I went to find it." "Did you find ,
it?" "Oh. yes, I'm in a hole."
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I ^^^SBHOtD j
For Comfort. ! '
Those who care more for comfort ,r
than for. personal appearance are ad- j .
vised to let the perspiration evapor- j
ate from their faces and hands in- ! j
stead of wiping it off. This way cool- i .
ness lies. It lies so near in fact that ;
the rule has to be followed with dis- j J
cretion, else a chill may be the result, j ,
*?Indianapolis News. I j
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Gasolene Stoves.
When you decide to buy a gasolene j
6tove, says a writer in Good House- |
keeping, be sure Ao have it burned t
off before it is sent home. These
stoves are oiled, it seems, in order to ]
keep them in good condition in the ,
store, and people have been burned j
seriously, besides running the risk of firing
the house, when using one for |
\he first time. <
' r j
Wide Meshed Net. I
Window curtains of a very open i I
mesh, diamond-shaped or square, will j
air than nmnilfl I I
| CAblUUC 1COO iigui/ uwu ?*?*
materials, like batiste, crepe and
dotted swiss.
All of these latter materials will 1
cut in time after having been burned, J
although imperceptibly, by the sun's
rays. The more open weaves will not
suffer in the same way, because some
of the direct sunlight has percolated i
through them, instead of remaining
to scorch them.?New York Press.
' Health Hints.
If one cannot copy the old-time
women with their aromatic herbs,
there are many things which can be
used in the water to soften it and
make it more refreshing. Among
j these is a lemon cut in slices and
placed in the bath ten minutes before
I nainsr A little borax will also soften
the water, or a bag about five inches j
square filled with half bran and half
oatmeal. '
Olive oil is an excellent fattener.
Some can take a tablespoonful after
meal easily. It stimulates and makes
active the digestive organs, clears the
complexion, and makes the eyes
bright and sparkling.?Boston Her- j
aid.
A Dainty Pincushion.
Among the many charming and attractive
novelties seen in the shops,
one of the daintiest was a neat little
pincushion about six inches square, '
covered with fine pique. It was deeply
scalloped around the edge in such [
a way that they alternated, the big
scallops falling below to give the ap-'j
pearance of a double frill.
The top of the cover, which had a
white background, had a convention- j
al design in Wallachian embroidery j
done in several shades of pink. In
the centre was a large embroidered !
monogram. ' <
This pretty and convenient little !
novelty would be a most appropriate j
gift for the traveler who can not
have too many dainty hand-made
cushions.?New York Press.
India Relish.
As the making of proprietary commercial
articles is usually a trade
secret, I am not able to tell you just ;
how manufactured India relish is
Wore Is nn OTPPllftnf' rule. hOW- !
w * r ' ? I
ever, for its making: Chop fine a !
small head of cabbage, six onions,
twelve green peppers and two quarts
of green tomatoes. Sprinkle over j
them one cupful salt and let stand
I until the next day. Drain off all the 1
liquid and put the vegetables in a
kettle. Barely cover with vinegar. :
, Add one-half cupful mustard seed, !
one teaspoonful celery seed and one- .
half cupful of sugar. Boil five-min- i
[ utes, take from the fire and put in j
glass or stone jars. If you like the ! (
relish sweet, more sugar can be
added. Add at the last one table- I
spoonful English mustard.?Washing- ! ;
ton Star. ,
i!
Lemon Sherbet.?Boil two cupfuls
water with one cupful sugar; beat 1 ,
until cold. Add grated rind of one i ,
lemon and juice of three lemons. !
Freeze. .
1
Cucumber Salad.?Peel two cucum- , ,
bers and place them in clear cold <
water. When ready to serve cut j
them in two lengthwise and lay on a |
salad dish, flat side down. Then slice [
across without disturbing their shape I.
and add French dressing.
Filling For Washington Pie.?Beat J '
the whites of twt> eggs stiff, add j
three-quarter cup confectioners' su- i (
gar and beat; then add two or three j ]
teaspoonfuls melted chocolate and ! ,
one-half teaspoon vanilla. This is | ,
also delicious as frosting on a custard : ,
pie. !
Orange and Rhubarb Marmalade. I 1
?Peel six oranges and one lemon; j <
slice the pulp and cut the peel into j <
shreds; put in a preserving kettle and j
add one quart rhubarbcut fine (about , 1
two pounds); now add one and one- '
half pounds sugar. Boil about one 1
hour or until quite thick. I i
Spanish Beef.?Mince finely enough ' 1
cooked beef to make two cups. Melt j
two rounding tablespoons of butter, I 1
add one small onion minced fine;
cook until light brown, add one-quar- i
ter cup of flour and stir until brown. ,
Add the meat, one cup of beef broth,
one cup of strained tomatoes and heat {
well. Add salt and pepper and serve j !
on a hot disn or in a rice ooraer.
Meat Pie.?Take scraps left from
any kind of cooked meat and put in .,
sauce pan with gravy, if you have it;
if not, cover with water. Season well, ^
acV one tomato, if you have it. and
one tablespoonful of butter. When >
it is hot place in baking dish and cover
with mashed potato. The potato
forms a crust for your pie. and if ^
dotted with lumps of butter and
browned quickly you may have a
tempting luncheon dish made of left c
overs from your day-bcfore's dinner, j
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I A DECADE OF AMERICAN J:
RAILWAYS. " S
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The American railroad system
:hanges while you wait. You can see)
t grow. A decade ago the railways;
eceived only a billion and a quarter,
lollars from the patient people, hardy
more than our annual National exjenditure.
Now they receive?with
ewer thanks?two and a half bilions.
Then the passenger traffic;
imounted to only 13.3 billions of:
niles for one passenger; now it
imounts to 29.5 billions of miles. ?
[n other words, if one passenger were!
jarried each week day from Des
VIoines, Iowa, to the sun, his journ6y-j
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ng would iairiy reprebem. me u?:ance
daily traveled by passengers oq'
American railroads. .3 :
Our freight traffic, too, is bigger.1
[n one year we carried a billion tons
3f freight an average of two hundred1
ind forty miles each. If each man,; .
woman and child \ this country)
hauled each day five hundred pounds
}f freight a distance of thirty-two.
miles, they would not accomplish ini
the year .the vast amount of carrying
that the railroads perform.
The next ten years will show still
greater progress. Many railroads \ .
cvill be rebuilt; others will be electrified.
New roadbeds, new tracks, newi
stations, stronger locomotives, bigger '1
and batter cars?all of these are in'
the estimates of the next decade; , , _
And if the people stay awake and demand
their rights, the whole vast en
gine of progress will be equitably ana
efficiently administered in the inter- if}
est,1 not ot stock jobbers, but of investors,
employes, passengers and
Shippers.?Success Magazine.
WORDS OF WISDOM. .
Love levels all things, if it's realty
on the level.
The fellow who doesn't look out
for No. 1 is a back number.
The dead sure thing is often so v
dead that it can't be resuscitated. $
A man cannot serve two masters
any more than a woman can serve
style and comfort.
A smart saying shouldn't leave too
much of a smart. . ?
The political plum always seemf 7
just ripe enough to pick.
Marriage is the monotony that re- . ' i.'"S
lieves the excitement of life. ' , .,'j
It isn't onlyi the golf player who , j
foozles his way through life. Ma
The man who is fonjf of telling you .
that business is business really means I ;"r*
that business is a pleasure.
The assertive man spends half his ,. v"
life looking for a hole to crawl out
Lots of people who claim to love> ..v^
their 'enemies will go back on a
friend.
Many a woman considers that her. ' ' 'ii
husband's, sole claim to cleverness
lies in the fact that he married her.
Some people will ao aimosi any- . ,^
thing to save trouble, while other?
are equally anxious to get rid of it.
The fellow with money to spend ...<
is the one whose funny stories al- \\
ways get the laugh.
.When you bury the hatchet it isn't / '
worth while to erect a monument
over it. The chances are !it will be ;
dug up again anyhow.?From "Dyspeptic
Philosophy," in the New Yorfc'
Times. ' , ;'f
Yankee Tars Amaze Neapolitans.
Some American sailors who had
been Indulging in liberal potationa
and had had rows with some of the
many bad characters of Naples were
conducted by the police to the Central
police station yesterday.
Tired of waiting in the courtyard,
two of them noticed a column leading
to an upper story, and climbed it like *
monkeys, while the astonished police
ordered them to descend. Arrived at
the upper story, the sailors climbed
the balustrade and entered the town
hall amid the lively curiosity of ushers,
clerks and porters. Then they
leisurely passed through the halls, 'J
and at last descended the central
staircase, where they found their way
to the street. - #
In a lew minutes they sauntered)
back Into the courtyard, to the further
surprise of the guard. All were
then marched off to the police magistrate,
who on hearing of the adventure
and seeing the laughing faces of
the sailors, liberated the whole batch.
The sailors gayly thanked him, and .
the whole crowd went back to the
*hip thoroughly amused. ? Naples
Correspondence New York World.
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Dogs in Germany.
The dachshund is the favorite dog
In Germany, and a very useful and
pleasant companion he seems to be.
The English bulldog is a good second
!n popularity, and the nearer he Is to
our standard points the better he Is
like<l. The fox terrier varies a good
deal iu size and marking, and is evidently
not so well known in Germany
as he deserts to be.
The ladies there are as fond of
their little Poms and their King
Liiarieses as are ineir uugiwu sisters
af their pet dogs at home.
Some few dogs in the streets are
harnessed to four wheeled trucks.
Usually a man and a dog pull. The
tvork seemed too heavy and exhausting
for the dogs, which are generally
mongrels of the mastiff type. They,
look in fair condition and are not lit
treated.?Farm * and Home.
Bacon's Political Pull.
"So you are convinced that Bacon
wrote the Shakespearean plays?"
"I am," answered the British dra^
matist.
"But Bacon was a politician rather
than a poet." j ?
"That's just the point. Only a man
with a political pull could have proiuced
some of those plays without
:rouble with Government censorship.*
?Washington Star.
Much Tea From Little Land.
From a tract less than 250 acres in
Mauritius there is gathered an annua!
iroduction of 80,000 pounds of tea
>f superior quality. ' It is all consumed
on that island. ? Yorld
3ress.