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VOL XLVI NO 70~ ~ 41 FNIJDAY. SEPTEMBER,: 1909cWC EK.$.0AYA NORIR POLE FOUND BY AN AMERIGAN DL COOK, A BROOKLYN MAN, THE VICTOR. Cable Messages Tell Story of Explor er's Success in the Search for Northernmost Point. "Reached North Pole April 21, 1908. Discovered land far north. Re turn to Copenhagen by steamer Egede." Paris, Sept. 1.-The Paris edition of rhe New York Herald this morning publishes a signed statement from Dr. Frederick A. Cook, whic'h is dated "Hans Egede, Lerwick, Wednesday," on .is experiences in the Artie re gione. "After a prolonged fight with fam ine and frost,'' says Dr. Cook, "we have at last succeeded in reaching ithe North Pole. A new highway, with an interesting strip of animated na ture, has been explored and big game haunts located, which will delight sportsmen and extend the Esquimaux horizon. "Land has been discovered on which rests the ea.xVh's northernmost rocks. A triangle of 30,000 square miles has been cut out of the terres trial unknown. The expedition was the outeome of a summer eruise in the Arctie seas on the schooner Brad ley, which .arivea at the -limits of nav igation in Smith sound late in August, 1907. Here conditions were found to launch a ventare to the pole. J. R. Bradley liberally supplied from his vessel saitable provisions for local use. My o*n equipment for the emergen cies served well for every purpose in the Arctic. Equipment at Hand. "Many Esquimaux had gathered on the Greenland shore at Annatoak for the winter hunt. Immense quantities of mea,t had been eollected and about the camp were plenty of strong dogs. The combination was lucky for there was good material for equipment. All that was required was conveniently arranged for a. point only 700 miles from the boreal center. A house and workshop were built of packing boxes by willing .iands a-nd this norern most tribe of 250 people set them selves to the task of devising a sui-t able outfit. Before the end of the long winter night we were ready for the enterprise and plans had matured to force a new route over Grinnel liand northwar:d along its west coast out on to the polar sea. Campaign Opened. "Wrje campaign opened with a few scoirting parties being sent over the American shores to explore the way and seek tihe ga.me 'h-aunts. Their mis sion was only partly sacessful be cause of the storms. At sunrise of 1908 (February 19) the ma.in expedi tien emibarked on its voyage to the pole. It consisted of 11 men and 103 -dogs drawing 11 heavily laden sledges. The expedit-ion left the Greenland shore and pushed westward over the t.roubled ice o*f Smith sound. The gloom of tihe long night was relieved only by a few hours of daylig~h.t. The e'nHi* of t he winter was felt at its worst. As we erossed the heights of EII;3.ere s.ound to the Pacific slope the temperature sank to minus 83 eentigra de. Sevei al dogs were frozen and the mn;i suffere:d. severely but we soon found the game trails along w:hi'ch t'he way was easy. "'We forced through Nansen sound to Lands Eud. In tEis march we se cured 101 musk oxen, seven bears an1I 335 hares. "We pushed out into t.he polar sea fromn e southern point of Herbert island M:ireh 18. Six Inquimaux re turned fr'om here. With four men and (60 d(ogs mnovimu supplies for. 80 days, the cre1ossing of' the circu.m-polar pack wais begun. Three days later tw.o ot-her Esqjuimaux, forming t.he last supporting paIrt v, ret u ned~ :nd the trials had nov: been reduced b:: the suarvivtal of the tittest. 'IIe two best men :wud 26 dogs were picked for the fnal effort. Goal Lies Ahead. "'There before us in an unknown li.ne of 460 miles lay our goal. The first days provided long mare'h. an:d we made eneoura1ging progress. A big ea which separa-ted the land from jee or the centrau paek was cross:d with lititle delay. The low tempera ture was persistent and the win,d.s made life a torture. But cooped up in our snow houses eating, dried beef .tallow and drinking hot tea there were some animal comforts occasionally to be gained. "For several days after the s.igh1t of known land was lost the overeast sky prevented an aoeurate determi natiom of our positions. On March 30 the horizon was partly clea:red and new land was discovered. Our obser vations gave our position as latitude 84.47, longitude 86.36. There was ur gent need of rapid advance. Our ma.in mission did not permit a detour for the purpose of exploring the country. Here were seen the last signs of solid earth; beyond there was nothing sta ble to be seen. Beyond the Life Zone. "We advanced steadily over the monotony of moving ice an'd: now found ourselves beyond Vhe range of all life-nei-t(her footprints of bears nor the blow-:holes of seals were de tected. Even the mieroscopi. creatures of the deep were no longer under us. The maddening influence of the shift ing des,rt of frost becane almost un endarable in t.e daily .routine. The surface of the pack offered less and less trouble an:a the weather improv ed. but there still remained the life sapping wind which drove despair to its lowest recess. The extreme cold compelled physical action. Thus day after day our weary legs spread over big distances. Incidents and positions were reeoided but adventure ws promptly forgotten in the next day's efforts. " The night of April 7 was made notable by the swinging of the sun at midnigrt over the nort'hern ice. Sun burns and frost bites were now re I corded on the same day, but tie dou ble day's glitter infused quite an incentive into one's life of shivers. "Our observation on April 8 placed the camp in latitude 86.36, longitude 94.2. In spite of what seemed long marches we advanced but little over 100 miles. Much of our work was lost in circui-tous twists aroud troublesome pressaure lines and high irregular fields. A very old ice drift, too, was driving eastward with sufficient force to give some anxiety. Nature Now Frowns. "Although still equal to about 50 miles daily, the extended marches and the lcn hours for travel-ing wit.h which fortune favored us earlier were no longer possi.ble. We were now about 200 miles from the, pole and sledge loads were reduced. One dog after another went into the stom-achs of the hunry survivors until the teams wvere considerably diminished in number but t'here seemed, to remain a sufficient balance for man and beast to push along into the heart of the mystery Ito which we 'had set ourselves. "On April 21 we had reached 89 degrees 59 minutes 46 seeconids. The pole was in sight. We r-ivered the re maining 14 seconds and made a few final oabservations. I told Etukishook and Alhweish (the accompanying Es kimaux) that we had .reached the 'great nail.' South Everywhere. "Everyhere we turned was south, with a single step we would pass from one s.ide of .the earth to the other; Ifrom midday to midnight. At last sitthe flag fluttered to theb reezes at the pole. It was April 21, 1908. The temn perature was minus 39 eentigrade, ba rmeter 29.83. latitude 90; as for the longitude it was nothing as it was but a word. "Although crazy wit~h joy our spir it. began to undergo a feeing of wea \ias Next dI:y ar f taking aill our oberv2 :iins, a sentimne.t of intense solitude Denetrated us while we look ed t thaC izn Was it possible that this desolate regionI. without a patch of ealrt-h. uad aruied the ambi tiol of sa many meni fo1 so many cent ur'es? The;e .'a. na. graand, only an i:nmensity ofi dazzling white snow. no) living b)eing. no point to bra th e frigW: fad monctonv ')n April 23 we stirted on our Brief Message to His Wife. NewY. Ek, Sev.. 1.-*Suecessful. Well. Address Copenhiaren. Fred.' Fll of mneaninig. if "sue~ssful' wre interpreted to indicate that he ha read the Nm-th Pole, the fore go ) ing - eable message. exasperating in its bi-iefness. was received in New York to-day from Dr. F.rederick A. Cook, the Amnerioan explorer. whom the latest cable advices tonight credit with .having aeconiplished what no matn e.ver did. The message was sent not to any scientific society. nor to any of his associates interested in his expedition fron a s;ientitic viewpoint, but to his wife. w:ho has been counting tlhe days and hours and praying f(r his safety since his departure from this (ity on .Tifly 4. 1907. But by e'hanee Mrs. Cook was not at her Brooklyn home. but spending the sunImer at Harpswell. Me.. so the dispatch was received by Dr. R. T. Dav:idson. a personal friend of the exploreT who nuide its contents Icnown. then flached the good news on to Mrs. Cook. Brief as it was, it was te first news that she had had from her intrepid husband since Mardh li17, 1908. when he wrote from Cape Hubbard on the edge of the Po lar Ice Sea, on the nortih-west side of Elesmere Land. At that time he ad vised his companion, Rudolph Franke, then stationed a.t Etah. Greenl.anid with supplies, to wait there until June for Ihis return. but in the event of Dr. Cook's failure to appear to proceed to America. Franke waited as instruc.ted, but as Dr. Cook failed to come back, he eaught the Peary auxiliary ship and .reaehed New York last fall. Since that time Dr. Cook's wiereabouts have been a mystery, although members of the Aretic Club in this city. viewing the situation optimistically, were in elined to think that he had reacihed the Pole despite his Ion silence. KITLS HTMSELF. Tells Wife and Little Boy of His In tentions.-A .32 Calibre Pistol the ratal Instrment. Hampton, Sept. 1-J. Ebbie Belger committed suicide here last night at 11 o'clock in his Jhome on Lee avenue, using a .32 calibre pistol. The sup posed cause of his rash act was that he had been drinking for the last few days and .became despondent. When he went up to his room last night he told his wife and little boy that he intended taking his life and tihen fired a bullet thr'ough his brain. - He had been constable for Magis trate'Murda.ugh for the past year and a half, while his wife ran a board-ing house and millinery esta:blishment. He leaves a wife and five small children. Newberry Negro Killed. Spartanburg, Sept. 1.-Rome Wil son, of Euford, N. C., assist-ant fore man of the track laying gang of the Meadors Constrnetion company, con t-ract.ors for tihe C., C. & 0. track lay ing. and Joe HIenderson, colored,' of Newberry, a l.aborer on the gang, were crushed to death yesterday when they jum.ped from a' train that they were aboard, trying to get one of the way of a falling rail. Wilson 's body was eut in half and Joe Henderson was crnshed to pieces. J. C. Turner, coU red, who was aboard the train, Ialso jumped and was injured. He got aogthe wheels of the moving train Iand one leg was so badly injured that bhe was brought to the colored hospital in Spartanburg and the injured mern ber was amputated. A falling ra.il was the cause of the death of the two men. A work train Iof seven cars, loaded with rails with the men on top, had just passed >ver the Pacolet river. 'Ihe train was moving at about three miles an hour and had passed the river about three quarters of a mile when one of the steel rails on the front car slipped bevond one of the standards and an end fell. The ra.il swept over the car on which t.he men were seated and to dodge thie great steel bar in its ter rible blow Wilson and Henderson jumped. Wilson tried to step on to the next ear, but in some way ih-is footing sl.ipped and he fell between the cars anid was crushe.d to death. The traini was stopped as soon as pos sible. If I1:'.t : Aldrich desires to direct he money of the country, hope he'll rie the rigiht directions when it NEWS OF BACHMAN CHAPEL. Religious Meeting Soon to Begin. Conference at Little Mountain. Picnic at Bethel by Woodmen. Bachman Chapel, Sept. 1.-Revs. Anderson and Hodges will begin their meeting near Bachman Chapel on next Saturday night, Septembeir 4. Tie meeting will continue for ten days. They both have a wide circle of friends who are always glad to at tend their meetings when possible to do so. It is hoped that the attendance and interest will be good. Rev. Hod-es will conduet the meeting un til Monday, the 6t,h, when Rev. An derson will arrive and assist him. The continued dry weather has in jured the cotton and peas very mu-oh. There will be scarcely any peas made unless we get rain shortly. The farmers have begun picking cotton and withouti a considerable change in the weather we won't have any cold tingers from 'picking cotton this year, as it is opening rapidly. Miss Annie Paysinger, of Newber ry, spent a part of last week witlh Miss Essie Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Wilson spent last Sunday in the St. Paul's section. Mrs. H. R. Epps is -visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Rikard, of the Long Lane section. I attended the Lutheran conference which was 'held at Holy Trinity thuirch, Little Mountain, S. C., on last Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The a'ttendance was good, and a great deal of interest was shown in the dis eussions of the different subjects. The divine services were very helpful. The people of Little Mountain entertained the mem.bers and deleates of confer ence in a way which speaks very high ly for them. Miss Essie Wilson spent a part of last week with Miss Annie Paysinger, of Newberry. Mr. Holland Wilson spent last Sat urday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Paysinger, of Newiberry. Misses Fannie and Loise Wedaman, of the New Hope section, spent last Saturday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Taylor. Mr. Clarence Adams -and sister, Miss Viola, of the New Hope section, spent last Saturday niglht at the home of Mrs. J. K. Epps. Misses Maude and Sallie Cromer, of near Schumpert 's roller mill, visited a't the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Long l-ast Wednesday night. Mr. Ernest Epting spent last Sat urday night witb Mr. Wilbur Epps. Mrs. J. K. Epps and Callie Qu.at tlebaum spent last Tuesday with Rev. and Mrs. P. H. E. Derrick, of Pros perity IThere are several eases of chills and fever in this section at present. 'le picnie which wa.s given by the Woodmen of the World at Bethel school house on 'the 25th of last month was well attended and enjoyed by all present. The day passed off quietly, wit'h only one address, which Iwas made by Prof. J. B. 0O'Neall Hol loway. Prof. Holloway made some good points on the importance of ed ueation, also some remarks in the in terest of the Woodmen of Pomaria. Thiere was also a' game of ball played on the Pomaria diamond between the Saluda and Pomaria teams. The result was in favor of the Saluda boys. The result of the election of last Tuesday shows very plainly tihe opin ion of the people of Newberry county on the voting of bonds for road build ing. We can have better roads thanj we now have by other methods than voting bonds, -if we will just try. Let's see if we can't. Son. WINTHROP OPENING DELAYED.1 Postponement Made Necessary by Failure to Complete Work of Buildig New Dining Hall. Rock Hill, Sept. 1.-President Johnson of WXin-throp h d a onfe enee this afternoon will the con tractor in eharge of building tLe new dning ro:n at the collge andl it was P od~c that the improve:nents could not be completed by Septemabe; 13, so the opening of the college has been postponed for two weeks from the regular date. Girls throughtout the ROMANCE 0] THE OLD SOLDIER'S I By Col. D. The old soldier adjusting himself in his chair and with face wreat-hed in smoke from his pipe, continued: Be fore I go further, boys, I want to tell you there wa4 a traitor in our crowd but who he was, or what he was, we never could find out. He claimed to be a reporter for a Richmond paper, and, he had got hold of our doings some -how or other, and gave everytbing! dead away. He was a poet, too, and such poet.ry! It was more than a col umn in the newspaper. Well, he spared none of us, and set us all off. with a feather edge. Oh! he was a vil lan. He started off 'his doggerel some thing like this: "Now all you boys and girls, that want to see some fun, Jump aboard -the Kitty Floyd, and sail to the Model Farm And I lay five dollars down, I lay it is no harm, I lay it for the seven girls, that danced at the Model Farm." Here is the way he touched me up, as I remember, and I do wish I could think of all the cuts he gave us: "St. Luke he was a silly cub, he bor rows all he wears. But w'hen he swings those girls around oh.! don't he put on aiTs. And I lay five dollars down," etc. Borrowing what I wore, indeed! Why, I had paid my cold cash for the use of it. Here is what he said about Hester and my Maggie. Hester was Dell's girl, and pulled back when all was ready, because she had forgotten she had joined the chureh. A-nd Maggie's shoes, von remamber, hurt her feet and she had borrowed Dixie's. "Miss Hester had religion, s;he had it once before. But when she got 'to the Model Farm, she was theC first one on the floor. Melinda wore a jockey, Miss Daisy wore a sack, . . Miss Maggie danceed in borrowed shoes oh! what do you th'ink of that? And I l-ay five dollars down. I lay it is no harm I lay it for the seven girls that danced at the Model Farm.''" O)h! that .poet was a sinner, talking about Maggie wearing. Dixie's shoes. Why, her father could have bought a whole shoe store. Her shoes just huirt her feet. that was all. If I can think of some of t-he other stanzas as I go along I'll tell you. As I told you, things were going fast and fu-rious, with all ei$ht couples on the floor, Dell 'and Connie leading, old Bones calling out. The little ze'phyrs of the er.rly evening had long since turned into a gale,and the hurri cane wasn't far away. Some of the boys would call out. "'You gimblet les boy, da-nee to the girl with cork serew curls.'' "You slue-footed man turn the girl with the pigeon toes.'' The girls, too, were at their ibest. They would guy at us and say, "Wake up, Richmond. Rockett's getting sleepy; bring in another horse, Rich mond.'' ad such sallies came good h1umnoredlv from both sides. The old bargemian. too. was grow1ig wild with eritement : "A'm.v there. girh, pile on more conivas. the wind T hifting to thie leeward. ''"On with the d:Ise ' eallerd out Daekle2". '"le.t .i,y be unl restrained." The fiddles shrieked and the bones ri ttled. It had e' :ilC to the last show d1'W". afndl Deli wa aigteltl w'dow. It was (Greek meet Greek. The .h('(redE for Del! and the gi-rIs or ed ,n Conu:ie*-all hat Hester, 'she ''x wit 1 h'ak'. on-ne. mad because " 'm'i ad hed her of he:- sweet heart. Bnt Dell didn 't care. They would stand for a moment facing each other, their feet going like mad; then they would turn b::ek :o F ROCKETTS ITORY OF THE JAME8 A. Dickert. back and gracefully glide apart; then hands around and back to your places. Connie's eyes shone like diamonds, while Dell's were glistening as if he was in the throes of a great battle. Old Bones stood upon the box where he had been sitting, the bones going over his head, then at arm's length, then again they would blaze out in a eirele, his body swaying from side to side. The cross-eyed fiddler sat, with his eyes burning holes through every thing :he looked at, his face adamant, but ever and anon he would spring into the air, the fiddle and bow away above his head, and bring a whoop like a Ute or Siwash chief, while Duck was calling all the time, "On with the dance." Dell danced every step, I think, known to modern times. He double-. shuffled, then the pigeon-wing, 'pos sum trot, and buck scrateh. But Connie would mateh him. Her little feet spun around and around, then she would waltz up to Dell as if she would turn him, but she would spin by and then coquette, then again face to face, standing as it seemed upon, her toes in the air. Oh! "such aban don," as the circus folks would say; such grace'and ease, such witebing co-. quetry as the Little Mother display ed, was enough to run a sane man mad. Whea the revelry was at its height, and every one in a delirium of joy, bang! bang! went the guns down the road, and in a moment the negroes threw everything into wild confusion by rushing in, their eyes bulging, theic' faces depieting the terror they felt, yelling out: "Great God-er-mighty!- white folks, the Yankees are on us; the roads full of them!'' If any of you ever saw an old Thomas eat spring into a room full of mice at play, you can have some idea of our consternation, and the girls' fright. Hbt Spur grabbed a rifle and rammed a cartridge home; and others did the -same with the other guns and pistols, Hot Spur leading with a real old rebel yell. The girls ran scream ing to their dressing room, each push ing and tugging to get her wraps an.d hoop skirts, and it was said that some of them in their aitation put 'their .hoops over the outside of their dress es, and some couldn't get them on at all, while others were seeking i the dark, their heavy' shoes. The old bargeman gave a wild snort, jumped the balustrade, and shot like an arrow down the rough descent, to his.ship, calling out at every step: "Hoist away! hoist away! up with the rear anchor, and east off to mid stream.'' I wanted to go out with the aboys, too, to fight, but how could I, with Maggie elinging to me, laying those brown <urls of hers trustingly, upon the lapel of my coat, and looking up at me, through those windows of her soul, with all the confrdence of the weak to the strong, her little bosom heaving, her body trembling with fright, and saying so pleadingly: "Don',t leave me, St. Luke.'' Well, how could I f While I might have been willing to fight an army for her, still somebody must stay and protect the girls. I told her to hang to me, and if the worst came to the worst, we would fly to the river and find that boat or know the reason why. Oh! I wasn't afraid,it was only I didn'<t want to see my little girt frighited. Connie being chaperon, she ran out to the gate to see how matters stood, so that she could allay the girls' fears. She didn 't go a step farther than the gate, but just listen what that w.icked reporter of i. poet had to s:lV. and he was not there either: "Lit tle Conniu lost her garter, a dancing of a reel, And where do you think she found it, way out in the open field. An I la- niv dolktrs B!n." etc.