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_ ^1 S^^D SEIfll-WEEKL^^ ~L^i. grists 80K8, Pnbii.h.r.^ ? JNil8 gtrcspgtr: jor th< promotion of the political. Social, ^flriculimal and Comnwjtial Interests of (he $cojl<. I TBS?oI?c?4,n"o^S.VAI'':E ? Ei^ABlTsHED iSSsf^ YORKVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1909. 3STO. 85. ? TOE SIR' By ETTA ? CHAPTER XIX?Continued. W She looked a little shocked. "Philip is quite content to remain poor. I sometimes used to sigh for riches for his sake, because he was always drudging and overworked; but l not since Moppet's lost?on, no; i ^ never talk of it now." "Ob, these women!" said Mr. Trent, in an aside; "harping forever on one string?love of lover, or husband or child; but forever and always?love!" Clang went the cottage gate. The doctor advanced up the walk. It was sad to see his grave, dark face brighten at sight of the woman waiting for him under his own vine and flg tree. "You find it very dull here, I'm afraid?" he said to his guest. "On the contrary," answered Mr. Trent "I have been Immensely entertalned. Your admirable wife has just been relating to me the story of her lost daughter." Dr. Qower looked very grave. "We seldom speak of it now," he said. "Our sorrow is so old that 't m has ceased to interest others. Come, my dear girl is waiting tea; let us go in." It was a thoughtful and silent trio that gathered around Dimple's table nn this mellow summer night. The doctor made some civil inquiry regarding Mr. Trent's injured limb. ^ "Thanks," answered the lawyer; "it is so fax restored that I think I may safely leave you by the next train, though I confess I am absurdly reluctant to do so." Dr. Gower politely pressed him to remain, but the lawyer refused. "I had a little business to transact in this town," he said, "but it does not matter in the least now. Could I trouble you to walk with me to the station, lest my limb* should fail me on the way, doctor?" "Certainly," answered the doctor. They arose from the tea-table. Trent bade farewell to Dimple, who followed them into the garden. He then lighted a cigar, took the doctor's arm and ^ limped away through the moonlight. "Bless me! how sweet your garden beds smell by night," he said, sniffing at them as he passed. "Are we out of reach of that admirable woman's ears? Pray don't hurry. The train does not 4 start for fifteen minutes yet, and I have something particular to say to you." j "Indeed T" said Dr. Gower. Mr. Trent cast his eyes up toward the moon. His cigar went out, but he puffed away upon it, quite unconsclous of the fact. They left the cotfly tage behind them and paced slowly off WF toward the station. Suddenly Trent stopped and laid his hand on the doctor's shoulder. The two stood eye to eye?the handsome, fastidious lawyer, the rusty doctor, aged and gray before his time. "Dr. Philip Gower," said Trent, "I long ago knew that somewhere on the earth a person existed who could be to me of incalculable value. I have longed exceedingly to look on his face, and at last my desire Is granted, for? 'thou art the man!'" Dimple stands at the window watching those two figures disappear down the street. They seem to be talking ^ very earnestly. "Mr. Trent will be late for the train,1' she thinks, In a womanly fidget. "What can he be saymg to in terest Philip so deeply?" After a weary while her husband 4 enters the gate again and advances toward her up the walk. She springs to meet him. "Philip!" she cries, "my dear boy, how odd you look! What has Mr. Trent been saying?" He kissed her. "Nothing, Dimple ? nothing you could In the least understand." "How pale you are!" "Pale? Nonsense! it is the moon* light!" and. averting his tell-tale face from her, he draws her back Into the cottage. CHAPTER XX. Paulette fled to her own room and flung off her drenched habit Her great eyes burned, her fair little face was glorious with that transfiguration which comes to all women's faces when they love. She looked at her own image curiously in the glass. ' Ar\A la thla the prMt cmnd nassion of which 1 have heard so much?" she thought. "Do I, at last, know what love dW is?" Her own eyes answered her. She did not blush or smile, like other women, but sank suddenly to her knees, as If awed by the great presence that had entered her heart, and stretched out * her arms to viewless air. "How happy?how happy I am!" she murmured. "Ought I to tell him all? No, no! Never to him could I repeat that shameful story! I would rather die than lose one lota of his love! Am I worse than others? Are there not women who carry secrets through all their lives, and keep, them, too, from their best and dearest? Oh. God! Wipe out the past from my heart and my memory!" A son tap ai me aoor. r-auitn-nr i hastily and opened It. On the thresh^ old, dark and sallow, stood Hilda Burr, "The general begs you will come down," she said, sweetly. "May I congratulate you upon your new happiness? I'm sure it is very gratifying to us all." "Thanks." answered Paulette, coldly, though cheek and neck and brow were of a violet crimson. "What bird of the air brought you the news so promptly?" ** "You must blame Arthur's ardor," said Miss Burr, vivaciously. "And you are to be the future mistress of Hazel Hall! How delightful! The general thinks so much of a good alliance?a q spotless name! May I tell him you will soon Join us? Very well." and she flitted off like a brown bat down the stair. Paulette dressed In haste, and In a FIWfWRWWHWfUFVUI IWIWW U#U?IW Wll W. PIERCE. " ? great tremor followed. In the hall below a tall, brown figure was waiting. The moment the soft rustle of her dress was heard, the soft gleam of her starlike face seen In the dusk of the stair, he started up to meet her. "One moment more alone," he whispered, and drew her out upon the vinehung piazza. His face was luminous. He looked down upon her with the grand air of a master. "I suspect," he said, lightly, "that ?"?' hovA hAAn taking counsel wita your own heart. Pray, what la the result? Are you quite satisfied that you love me?" "Quite," she answered. He bent and looked In her eyes. The hot color flamed up and down her temples. "Know yourself, darling," he said, gravely; 'do not dceive me. Do you love me as I love you?better than life, better than anything: under the wide heavens?" The passion in his voice seemed to frighten her. Her footsteps faltered at his side. "I do?I do!" she answered. "Can you ask more?" "Better," he urged, "than you ever loved any other, my precious darling?" "I never loved any other, Arthur," she answered. "Why do you ask?" "Because," he cried, rapturously, "my happiness seems too perfect to be reel. I cannot yet wholly believe it Pardon the doubt. Yonder comes the general, our best friend; let us go and meet him." There, In the soft odorous shadow of 1 hnr nolo VAliniT me creeyeio, no i n. <.<_u ..v > , ? face, and swiftly, passionately, sealed her lipa with his first kiss. The next moment the lion front of the general appeared In the doorway. How sternly cut were the faces of these two men? how like in pride and strength and general look, though one was young and the other old! For once Paulette felt her heart quail within her. The general seised her small, cold hands in his strong, large ones. His eyes, under their bleached brows, beamed with tender approval upon her. "My little Polly!" he cried, with one of his great oaths, "this Is the happiest hour of my life! So ho! it is even as I predicted?Arthur has proved a better wooer than I!" She tossed her lovely head. "And does Arthur know," she laughed, "of your little attempt" at match-making, guardy?was he an accomplice therein?" "That could hardly be," said Arthur, "since I had never seen you; but surely I did not oppose the plan." "And so!" cried the general, in great glee, "you are ready to take back all you said to me, Polly, dear?you are willing, after all, to become mistress of Hazel Hall?" "I do not know?it is very hard for a person of spirit to eat their words," she answered, gayly. "I will consider the matter," and then lifting her great, eloquent eyes to his and growing grave in a moment. "And I owe this also to you, guardy. What do I not owe you?" "Hah! you acknowledge, you stubborn Polly, and to me, that you love my boy! Let the old man hear you say it once? you love my boy!" "What a tragic tone!" she cried. "Well, then, if I must?I love your boy!" and she hid her face straightway on Arthur's shoulder. "He told me," said the general, gravely. "of your peril at Pindar's. Well, well! Thank God he reached you at the right moment! Arthur, I give you joy?Polly, my pet, nothing of earthly substance is too good for you, not even Arthur! And now let us go in. There shall be a wedding, which the whole county will remember." He took her hand, led her proudly under his roof, in among the grinning conscious servants?in to Hilda Burr, who received the future mistress of Hazel Hall very grimly. The Joy of the general seemed to be gall and wormwood unio ner soui. "It lacks but a week to my birthday," she began peevishly, as they sat together in the drawing-room that night; "and you have always remembered It till this year.. We talked once of a bal masque; but, of course, that Is out of the question now. No one can be expected henceforth to think of me when your ward Is by." "Don't be foolish, Hilda," answered the general. "You shall have your ball, and whatever you will besides. Why are women so inordinately Jealous of each other? I would like to see the man who, living under the same roof, could help thinking of you." Hilda craned her neck forward, saw Paulette and her lover haJf hidden In a window at the far end of the room, blind and deaf as mummies, and with a flash of her black eyes she turned again to the old soldier. "You are highly gratified, I see, at Arthur's choice. To understand this, is, of course, beyond me. I never supposed General Guilte would select as the wife of his heir?of the last Guilte of the race?a low actress, a creature of the footlights." The general bounced up from his chair eyeing her in a fury. "How did you know that?" he blurted out. "No matter," she answered, defiantly, "so long as I do know It. Your pretty ward, I find, was picked from the gutter or. rather, from a northern play-house, which is quite as bad. A charming wife, indeed, for the last male Guilte!" "Hilda, you sly cat!" cried the general, through his teeth, "have I been talking in my sleep? Lord deliver me from a prying woman! A lily is none the less beautiful for being grown in the mud. It does not In the least matter to you, or to any one, where I found Paulette. No circumstances, no surroundings, could make her other than what she is?an angel!?yes, by my soul, a genuine angel!" "I hope your comparison of the lily is not too far fetched," said Hilda, dryly. "Now, to me she seems a very deep person, more worldly wise than you suspect. Believe me, she Is nothing near so innocent or angelic as one might fancy; but men never believe anything wrong of such beauty. Patience! We shall see!" "Confound you, Hilda!" cried the general, "what the deuce do you mean? I won't listen to you! I forbid you ever to speak In that way of the child again. Paulette deep! So Is a canary! I thought you had more sense!" "None so blind as those who will not see!" replied Hilda, tartly. "It Is plain I have no place In your consideration; but I can bide my time." "How often must I ask you not to I be a simpleton, Hilda? When I cease to remember the past I shall cease to have consideration for you. Don't let me have any more of such folly! Make ready fcr your bal masque, and put ofT that look of a skeleton at the feast. I want these young1 people to be happy." Miss Burr darted a look of fiery scorn at the old soldier. "Arthur has my best wishes for his happiness," she said, stiffly; "but In its foundation I have no faith whatever. You will find that creature Is not what she seems?you will, Indeed!" "Bah!" answered the general. In the deep window, her face shining like a star among Its flowers, stood Paulette, with Arthur Guilte's tall shadow darkening across her. "I must count myself doubly happy," he was murmuring, with a fervid look, "In knowing that mine Is the first name written on your heart. A woman's first love Is her best love." She colored faintly and half withdrew her hand from his. "Would you love me the less," she asked, "If you knew I had cared for some other before you?" "Perhaps not; but I much prefer you as you are?my little girl, fresh from prim St. Catharine's, where love is not in the list studies. I could not bear to li??? o mamnrv nf that Irlnri hatwaen U3." As he said this, standing there, the born lord of lands and gold, her master, looking at her with his dark, stern Guilte eyes, an indefinable fear crept like a marsh mist over Paulette. "And you," she said, with a little embarrassed laugh, "have you no confession to make?are there no ghosts in your closets?" Like some image in bronze, he leaned against the sash, the moonlight falling on his handsome figure. "None, Paulette!" he answered; "you are the first, the only woman I ever loved!" "Possible, after all your far, foreign wandering. Oh, Arthur! Did you never care for any one the least bit?" "No one!" She looks strangely sad. "Such as I am," she falters at last, "I am yours I do not know as I can say more." Ar week after, Hilda Burr penned a letter to Mr. George Trent, of which the following is an extract: "It is even as you predicted. Arthur is betrothed to the general's ward, and great is the general's rejoicing thereat. You will be glad to learn that Paulette' is lovelier than ever, and passionately fond of the last hope of Gullte?In fact, there never was such a pair of lovers! As for myself, I am to have a bal masque on the eve of my birthday, and all the neighboring1 gentry have been Invited. What are you doing at the north? I fancy your visit there means mischief for some one." [To be Continued.] EUROPE KEG OF POWDER. United States Letting Great Chance Slip, Says Depew. "Europe Is sitting on a keg of powder. All that prevents an explosion Is a lack of a coal of living fire. And some one will place It where It will create aa explosion, sooner or later." So spoke Senator Depew at his home, fresh from a two months' stay on the other side of the Atlantic. The senator thinks the United States Js at peace with all the world. But, as between Germany and Great Britain, he would not be surprised to see war break out any day. "Germany has been poking the noses of her ships into commercial ports that heretofore England has regarded as peculiarly her own," the senator continued. "She Is expanding in every direction. In dotting the whole seas with its flag the kaiser's government realizes it will add to the prosperity of its people. Germany hasn't the resources we Americans possess. xi?ii?iaiiu bcciiicu iu nuvc ucrn asleep while her great rival was wrestling territories from her. Awakening, she attempted to get back that which she had lost. Failing, she has begun preparing for a conflict, her idea being that she can, with her battle ships, do that which commercial competition cannot or has not done. The situation, to my mind, is serious, and a crisis is near. "During my recent trip abroad, I found capital everywhere making inquiries about our securities. Europe's money has been pouring into this country of late, and more of it is coming. But how much more general would our prosperity be if capital understood that in the event of a conflict this country would be in a condition to protect every Interest. That time will arrive when we have taken the iron from our mines, the wood from our forests, the men from field, factory, and store, trained them in the art of navigation and sent them, with our flag and our products to the farthest corners of the world. If we had the ships that Germany has, there would not be an Idle man on this continent. "As It is, we are helpless. While we sell foreign nations about $5,000,000 daily of our products, less than seven per cent of this is carried by American ships. We have what is known as a billion-dollar congress. We spend hundreds of millions for pensions, for the navy, for the army, for our mall system, for the improvement of harbors, but not one cent do we spend toward bettering and broadening our merchant marine. It Is a shame."? New York American. A western girl, who in the matter of beauty and affectionate exuberance was not to say "fresh as first love and rosy as the dawn," was asked why she did not get married, and this is what she said in reply: "I have considerable money of my own; I have a parrot that can swear, and a monkey that chews tobacco, so that I have no need of a husband." | The Conquest j By Dr. Frederick A. cook J Copvriffct-1909, by the New York f HeraH Company, Registered In J Canada In Accordance With Cop*. * ritkl Act. Copyright In Mex* ico Undo' Laws of the Republic * < M..IOA All P;?KI. n ,4 WITH a hasty farewell to Mr. Bradley and the officers and encouraped with a cheer froiD A11 on board, we left the motherly *acht for bur new home and mission. The ypcht stood ofT to avoid drifting Ice and await the return of the motorboat. When we were net ashore we sat do"*n and watched with saddened eyes the denartnre of our friends and the severing of the bond which had held us to the known world of life and happiness. The village of Annootok Is placed In a small bay just inside of Cape Inglefield. Its population changes much from year to year, according to the known luck of the chas? or the ambi tlon of the men to obtain new bearskin trousers. Scattered about It were twelve sealskin tents, which served as a summer shelter fo*- an equal number of vigorous families. In other places nearer the sea were seven stone Igloos. Upon these the work of reconstruction for winter shelter bad already begun. In the Immediate vicinity there were some turf aud moss, but everywhere else wltb'n a few hundred feet of the sea the land rose abruptly In steep slopes of barren rock. To the westward across Smith sound In a blue haze were seen Cape Sabine. Bacbe peninsula and some of the land Iteyond which we hoped to cross In our prospective venture. The construction of a winter house and workshop called for Immediate attention after the wind subsided. Men, women and children offered strong bands to gather the stones strewn along the shore. When the cargo Is packed in this mannof *ho fhlnn-fl on n ho nnlolrlv tossed on deck and transported to floating ice or land. Lrner It Is possible.* with packing boxes of uniform size as building material, to erect efficient shelter wherein the calamities of arctic disaster can be avoided. Building Winter Quarters. This precaution against ultimate mishap now served a very useful purpose. Inclosing a space 13 by 16 feet, the cases were quickly piled In. The walls were held together by strips of wood or the joints sealed with pasted paper wfttrthe addJUuir YJfl itw long boards. A really good roof was made by using the covers of the boxes as shingles. A blanket of turf over this confined the heat and permitted at the same time healthful circulation of air. We slept under our own roof at the end of the first day. and our new house had the very great advantage of containing within its walls all our possessions within easy reach at all times. As the winter advanced with Its stormy ferocity and frightful darkness It was not necessary to venture out and dig up supplies from great depths of snowdrift. Meat and blubber were stored In large quantities about the camp. Much Work In 8ight. But our expedition was in need of skins and furs. Furthermore, as men engaged for the northern venture would be away during the spring months, the best hunting season of the year. It was necessary to make provision for house ueeds later. There was therefore much work before us. for we had not only to prepare our equipment, but to provide for the families of the workers. In the polar cycle of the seasons there are peculiar conditions which apply to circumstances and movements. As the word seasons Is ordinarily understood there are but two. a winter season and a summer season?a winter season of nine months and a summer of three months. But for more convenient division of the yearly periods It Is best to retain the usual cycle of four seasons. Eskimos call the winter ooklah, which also means year, and the summer onsah. Days are "sleeps." The months are moons, and the periods are named 'n accord with the movements of various creatures of the chase. Id early September at Annootob the I tin dips considerably under the north- I ern horizon. There Is no night. \t sunset and at sunrise storm clouds hide the bursts of color which nre *he glory of twilight, and the electric afterglow Is generally lost In the dull gray which bespeaks the torment of the storms of the setting sun. The gloom of the coming winter night now thickens. The splendor of the summer day has gone. A day o' six months and a night of sir months are often ascribed to the oolar regions as va whole, but this is only true of a very small area about the nole. As we come south the sun slips under the horizon for an ever Increasing part of each tweDty-four hours. Preceding and following the night as we come from the pole there is a oeriod of day and night which lengthen? with the descent of latitude. It Is this period which enables us to retain the names of the usual seasons ?summer for the double days, fall for the neriod of the setting suii. TW? season begins when the sun first dins under the Ice at midnight for a few moments. The Arctic Night. These moments Increase rapidly, yet one hardly appreciates that the sun Is departing until day and night are of equal length, for the night remains light, though not cheerful. Then the day rapidly shortens and darkens, and the sun sinks until at least there is but a mere glimmer of the glory of day. Winter is limited to the long night and spring applies to the days of the rising sun. a period corresponding to the autumn days of the settiug sun. At Annootok the midnight sun is first seen over the sea horizon on April 23. it aips in tne sea on Aug. m n, rnus encircles the horizon, giving summer and continuous day for 118 days. It of the Pole j | Harvesting *00^ an'1 + Fnal Fa* tli* Pfllir Trifi Ka m VF ir."V A VIM?/ I Z i Narwhal Hunting &.n * Exciting Sp^rt > | (THIRD ARTIrf.E1 J g^pp* SB* COOK IN XROnC C08T0MK. gets at midday on Oct 24 and la absent a period of prolonged night corresponding to the day and rises on Feb. 20. Harvesting Food and Fuel. Then follow the eye opening days of spring. In the fall, when the harmonising Influence of the sun is withdrawn, there begins a battle of the elements which continues its smoky agitation until stilled by the hopeless frost of early night At this time, though field work was painful, the needs of our venture forced ua to persistent action in the chase of walrus, seal, narwhal and white whale. We harvested food and fueL Before winter Ice spread over the hunting grounds ptarmigan, bare and reindeer were sought to supply the table during the long night with delicacies, while bear and fox pleased the palates of the Eskimos and their pelts clothed alL Many long journeys were made to secure an Important supply of grass to pad boots and mittens and also to secure moss, which serves as wick for the Eskimo lamp. The months of September and October were Indeed Important periods of anxious seeking for reserve supplies. Aid From the Eskimos; There was a complex activity suddenly stimulated along the Greenland coast which did not require general supervision. The Eskimos knew what was required without a word from us and knew better than we did where to find the thlnes worth while. An out Hoe of the polar campaign was sent from village to village, with a few general Instructions. Each local group of natives was to fill an Important duty and bring together the tremendous amount of material required for our house and sled equipment Each Eskimo village has, as a rule, certain game advantages. In some places foxes and hares were Abundant Their skins were In great demand for coats and stockings, and Eskimos must not only gather the greatest Dumber Dosslble, but must prepare the skins and make them Into pronerl.v fitting garmenfa. In other places reindeer were abundant. This skin was very much In rtnmonri tnr alopnlnir hntrs while the sinew was required for thread. In still other places seal was the luck of the chase, and Its skin was one of our most Important needs. Of It boots were ordered, and an Immense amount of line and lashings was prepared. Thus In one way or another every man, woman and most of the children of this tribe of 250 people were kept busy In the service of the erped'tion. The work was well done and with much better knowledge of the fitness of things than could be done by any possible gathering of white men. Use o* thr Narwhal. The auest of the walrus and the narwhal came In our own Immediate plan of adventure. The unicorn, or narwhal, does not o'ten come under the eye of the white man, though one of the first animals to leave our shores. It gave 'or a brief spell good results In sport and useful material. The blubbe** Is the pride of every housekeeper, for It gives a long, hot flame to the lamo. with no smoke to spot thp Igloo finery. The skin Is regarded as quite a delicacy. Cut Into squares. It loots and tastes like scallops, with only a slight aroma of train oil. The meat dries easily and Is thus prized as an appetizer or as a lunch to be eaten en route In sled or kayak. In tbfs shape It was an extremely useful thing for us, for It took the place of pemmicnn ror onr less ur^em journeys. The narwhal, which, apart from Its usefulness. Is most Interesting to denizens of *he arctic deep, played In schools far off shore, usually along the edge of large Ice. Its long l*-ory tu9ks rose under spouts of breath and spray. When this glnd sight was noted every kayak about camp was manned, and the Eskimos' skin canoes went like birds over the water. Some of the Eskimos rose to the Ice fields and delivered harpoons from a secure footing. Others hid behind floating fragments of heavy Ice and made a sudden rush as the animals nassed. Still others came up in the rear. for the narwhal cannot easily see backward and does not often turn to watch Its enemies, its speed being so fast that it can easily keep ahead o? other troublesome creatures. Hunting the Narwhal. The harpoon is always delivered at close range. When the dragging float marked the end of the line in tow of the frightened creature the line of skin canoes followed. The narwhal Is timid by nature. Fearing to rise for breath, he plunged along until nearly strangulated. When It. did come up there were several Eskimos near with drawn lances, which Indicted deep gashes. Again the narwhal plunged deep down with but one breath and hurried along as best it could. But Its speed slackened, and a line of crimson mark ed Its hidden path. Loss of blood and want of air did not give It a chance to fight. Again it came np with a spout; again the lances were barled. i The battle continued for several 1 hours, with many exciting adventures, but In the end the narwhal always sac- I cumbed. offering a prize of several | thousand pounds of meat and blubber, i Victory, as a rule, was not gained until the hunters were far from borne, also i far from the shore line. But the Es- i klmo Is a courageous hunter and an 1 Intelligent seaman. i Towing tho Caroass. To the huge carcass frail kayaks , were hitched In a long line. Towing ( Is slow, wind and sea combining to make the task difficult and dangerous. , One sees nothing of the narwhal and | very little of the kayak, for dashing , seas wash over the little craft, but the double bladed poddies seesaw with the regularity of a pendulum. Homecoming takes many hours and engenders a prodigious amount of hard 1 work, but there Is energy to spare, for a wealth of meat and fat Is the cul- < m(nntl/\n r\f It 11 PalrlwtA n mKlHrtn \ uutiauvu vi as hit r . ti ?irn nuir _ Seven of these ponderous animals 1 were brought In during five days, making a heap of more than 40,000 1 pounds of food and fuel. Then the narwhals suddenly disappeared, and ' we saw no more of them. Three white whales were also obtained In a similar way at Etah at about 1 SCENE AT THE NOETH POLE, I Fading Sun Warns Ex- J J J plorct of Coming Long J 1 Arctic Winter?Prepar- | J ing Sled and Boat * j | (FOURTH ARTICLE] J 1 STORMS now came up with such ^ force and frequency that it was ( not safe to venture out In kay- j aks. A few walruses were cap- ( tured from boats; then sea hunting was , confined to the quest of seal through ( the young Ice. ( A similar qnest was being followed j I at every village from Annootok to , Cape York. But all sea activity would , now soon be limited to a few open spaces near prominent headlands. , The scene of the real hunt changed , from the sen to the land. We had as ( yet no caribou meat. The little auks , gathered In nets during the summer j and elder duck bagged later dlsnp- ( peared fast when used as steady diet. We must procure hare, ptarmigan and ( reindeer, for we bad not yet learned , to eat with a relish the fishy. IIver-IIke , substance which is characteristic of < all marine mammals. , Guns and ammunition were dlstrlb- ( uted, and when the winds were easy < enough to allow one to- venture out ( every man sought the neighboring hills. Francke also took his exercise with a gun on bis shoulder. The combined results gave a long * line of ptarmigan, two reindeer and * sixteen bares. As snow covered the t upper slopes the game was forced ^ down near the sea. where we could * still hope to hunt In the feeble light of ' the early part of the night. 1( p No Anxiety For Winter. I With a larder fairly stocked and j, ! . . b ' ^f^^ ' -- V ^ <K CO?YRiaWT-^Oa BY TH? *CW YORK HflWC POLAE BEAE AND ESKIMO DOG good prospects for other tasty meats ' we were spared the usual anxiety of a winter without winter supplies, and Franc ke was just the man to use this 1 game to good effect, for he bad a way of preparing our primitive pro- 1 visions tbat maae our auiaeni sccui equal to a Holland House spread. In the middle of October fozsklus were prime, and then new steel traps were distributed and set near the many caches. By this time the Eskimos had all abandoned their sealskin tents and were snugly settled in their winter Igloos. The ground was covered with snow, and the sea was nearly frozen over everywhere. Everybody was busy preparing for the coming cold and night The temperature was about 20 degrees below zero. 8evere storms were becoming less frequent, and the air, though colder, was less humid and less disagreeable. An Ice fort was formed, and the winter sledging was begun by short excursions to bait the fox traps and gather the foxes. All these pursuits, with the work of building and repairing sleds, making log harness and shaping new winter clothing, kept up a lively Interest while the great crust which was to bold down the unruly deep for so many months thickened and closed. Last Glimpse of ths Dying Day. During, the last days of brief sunshine the weather cleared, and at noon on uct. z? rverynooj suugui cob i freedom of the open for a last glimpse it the dying day. There was a charm >f color and glitter, bat no one seem?d quite happy as the son sank under :he southern Ice, for it was not to rise igain for 118 days. 1 The Eskimos took this as a signal to enter a trance of sadness, in which ; the bereavement of each family and the discomforts of the year are enact- : id In dramatic chants or dances. 1 Bat. to as the sunset of 1907 was in , M|u I 'HOTOGBAPHED BY DB. COOK. iplration for the final work In direct- j ng the shaping of the outfit with vhlch to begin the conquest of the x>le at sunrise of 1908. Most expedlIons have had the advantage of the | iberal band of a government or of an , tmple private fnnd. We were denied , x>tb favors. , But we were not Incumbered with , i cargo of misfits devised by home 4 lreamers, nor was the project handl- i rapped by the usual army of novices. < tor white men at best must be regard- t >d as amateurs compared with the ex- i jert efficiency of the Eskimo in his >wn environment. Our food suDDly i rontained only the prime factors of < primitive nourishment. Special foods i ind laboratory concoctions did not fill i in Important space In our larder. I Nor had we balloons, automobiles, motor sleds or other freak devit s. We i lid. however,' have an abundance of < the best hickory, suitable metal and i ill the raw material for the sled and < ts accessories, which were henceforth < to be linked with our destiny. 1 The sled was evolved as the result ? )f careful study of local environment ind of the anticipated Ice surface t lorthward. We did not copy the Mc- I 2Untock sled, with Its wide runners, e tvhlch has been used by most ezplor- 1 irs for fifty years. Nor did we aban- a Ion the old fashioned Iron shoes for 3erman silver strips. c What a Polar 8led Should Be. * The conditions which a polar sled * nust meet are too complex to outline f lere. In a broad sense it seemed that /; he best qualities of the best wood fukon sled could be combined with ? he local fitness of the Eskimo craft, rith tough hickory fiber and sealskin ashings to make elastic Joints. With e ilenty of native Ingenuity to foresee j* ind provide for the strain of adaptabiltr and endurance, the possibilities of ? - 01 tt ON THE JOHN E. BRADLEY, in ur aiea iaciory were very guuu. For dog harness the Eskimo pattern was adopted, but canine economy Is such that when rations are reduced to workable limits the leather strips disappear as food. To overcome this disaster the shoulder straps were mad* of folds of strong canvas, while the traces were cut from cotton log line. A boat Is an Important adjunct to every sledge expedition which hopes to venture far from its base of operation. It Is a matter of necessity even when following the new coast line, as Is shown by the mishap of Myllns Erlckson, for if he had bad a boat be would himself have returned to 'tell the story of the Danish expedition to net Greenland. Need for a boat comes with the changed conditions of the advancing season. Things must be carried for lereral months for a chance use in the hat stages of the return: but, since Food supplies are necessarily limited, lelay Is fatal. Therefore when open water prevents progress a boat becomes in the nature of a life preserver. Foolish Indeed Is the explorer who ignores this detail of the problem. Transport of a boat, however, offers many serious objections. Narsen Introduced the kayak, and moat explorers since have adopted the same derlce. The Eskimo canoe serves the purpose very well, but to carry it for three months without hopeless destruction requires so smount of energy which stamps the polar vent-ire with curare. Seleotirp a Boat. Sectional boat*, aluminium boats, ikln floats and other (1pvices hare beat tried, bnt to all there la the same *atal objection of impossible transportation. It seems rather odd that th? ordinary Folding canvas boat has not been press Ml Into this service. We found it to Ot the situation exictly, selecting a twelve foot Kureka ihaped boat with wooden frame. The flats, spreaders and floor pieces were utilised as parts of sleds. The canras cover served as a floor cloth for >ur sleeping bags. Thus the boat did useful service for a hundred days and iras never in evidence aa a cumber?me device. When at last the (raft was spread ind covered, in it we carried the sled. In it we camped, in it we sought game, the meat of which took the place of Khausted supplies. Without it we, too, would not have returned. Preparation of the ample food supply is of even greater Importance than means of locomotion. To the success yt a prolonged arctic enterprise in transit successive experience la bound to dictate a wise choice of equipment but it does not often educate the stomach. Prom the published accounts of arctic travelers It is impossible to select i satisfactory menu for future explorers, and I hasten to add that perhaps. jut experience will be equally unsatisfactory. to subsequent victims. Mor is it safe to listen to cdentiic id vice, for the stomach is the one organ of the body which stands as the intocrat over every other human sense iod passion and will not easily yield .0 foreign dictates. The problem differs with every man. It differj with every expedition, and It a radically different with every niton. Thus when De Gerlacbe forced Norwegian food into French stomachs le learned that there was a nationality n gastronomies. Depending on Eskimo Food. Tn this rouruw*t na In others. I WIS helped very ranch by the people who were to line up my forces. The Eskimo is ever hungry, but his taste is lormal. Things of doobtfnl value in lutritlon form no part In his dietary, animal food, meat and fat, is entirely latisfactory as a steady diet without )tber adjuncts. His food requires nei:her salt nor sugar, nor is cooking a natter of necessity. Quantity is Important but quality tpplies only to the relative proportion >f fat With this key to the gestro10mica of our lockers, pemmican was (elected as the staple food, which also lerved equally well for the dogs. We had an ample supply of pemmican, made by Armour, of pounded lried beef, sprinkled with a few raisins, some currants and a small auantlty of sugar. This mixture was remented together with heated beef allow and run Into tin cans containing tlx pounds each. This combination was Invented by in American Indian. It has been used >efore as part of the long list of foodituffs iu arctic products, but with us t was the whole bill of fare wben iway from game baunts. Only a few palate surprises were arrled, and these will be Indicated In be narrative of camp life The entire Pinter and night were spent with busy lands, under direction of Eskimo and laucasian Ingenuity, In working oat be clothing and camp comforts withut which we cooid not invade the forldden mystery of the polar bann. Although we did not follow tk*d(j Ither the routes or methods of our redecessors, we are nevertheless douly Indebted to them, for their expertnoes, including their failures, were r stepping stones to success. [To be Continued.] How H* mad# a Cuddie.?A gentleian went into a plpemaker's shop lth the Intention of seeing the methd of making pipes. The proprietor, ho was a Scotchman, had arrived ora Edinburgh a few weeks ago. When the Phlladelphlan got In the lop he found only a boy back of tli* junter, so without more ado he thus ? idressed him: "Well mv onllnnt. I'll 'jrlve VOIl a uarter if you show me how you lake your pipes." "I canna mak' a peep, sir," replied ie lad "I ca' only mak' a cuddle." "A cuddle! What's that, my lilney?" "It's a short peep," replied the boy, tic as men and women smoke not a." "I'll give you a quarter if you show ie how to make that." "Gie's yer quarter fust," was the rely. The gentleman gave the boy the narter, and he took a long pipe and roke a piece off It, saying: "There, now sir, that Is the wav I ak' cuddies."?Philadelphia Times. OT True wealth docs not consist In le possession of gold and sliver, but i the judicious use made of them.