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PEART REFUTES ' THE CLAMS UF ' EXPLORER COOK ISSUES LONG PROMISED STATE MENT IN NORTH POLE DISPUTE. GIVES STORY OF THE ESKIMOS The Statement Is Signed by Peary, Bartlett, McMillan, Borup and Hen son of the Roosevelt Party—Eski mo Boys Closely Questioned by All. >4t " (Entered according to Act of Congress. In the year 1919. by the Peary Arctic Club, hi the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.) % New York, Oct. 12. — The following statement of Command er Robert E. Peary, which he submitted, together with the accom panying map, to the Peary Arctic club in support of his contention that Dr. Cook did not reach the north pole, is now made public for the first time. The statement and map have been copyrighted by the Peary Arctic club. INTRODUCTION BY PEARY, Some of my reasons for saying that Ur. Cook did not go to the north pole will be understood by those who read the following statements of the two Eskimo boys who went with him, and who told me and others of my party where he did go. Several Eskimos who started with Dr. Cook from An oratok in February, 1908, were at Etah when I arrived there in August, 1908. They told me that Dr. Cook had with him, after they left, two Eskimo boys, or young men, two sledges and some twenty dogs. The boys were I-took-a-shoo and Ah-pe-lah. I had known them from their childhood. One was about eighteen and the other about nineteen years of age. On my return from Cape Sheridan and at the very first settlement I touched (Nerke, near Cape Chalon) in August, 1909, and nine days before reaching Etah, the Eskimos told me, in a general way, where Dr. Cook had been; that he had wintered in Jones Sound, and that he had told the white men at Etah that he had been a long way north, but that the boys who were with him, I-took-a-shoo and Ah-pe-lah, said that this was not so. The Eski mos laughed at Dr. Cook’s story. On reaching Etah, I talked with the Es kimos there and with the two boys and asked them to describe Dr. Cook’s Journey to members of my party and myself. This they did in the manner stated below. ((Signed) R. E. PEARY. Signed Statement of Peary,•'Bartlett, McMillan, Borup and Henson, in Re gard to Testimony of Cook’s Two Eskimo Boys. The two Eskimo boys. I-took-a-shoo and Ah-pe-lah, who accompanied Dr. Cook while he was away from Anora tok in 190S and 1909, were questioned separately and independently, and were corroborated by Panikpali, the father of one of them (I-took-a-shoo), who was personally familiar with the first third and the last third or their journey, and who said that the route for the remaining third, as shown by them, was as described to him by his son after his return with Dr. Cook. To go more into details: One of the boys was called in, and. with a chart on the table before him, was asked to show where he had gone with Dr. Cook. This he did, pointing out with his finger on the map, but not making any marks upon it. As he went out, the other boy came In and was asked to show where he had gone with Dr. Cook. This he did, also without making any marks, and indicated the same route and the same details as did the first boy. When he was through, Panikpah, the father of I-took-a-shoo, a very in telligent man, who was in the party of Eskimos that came back from Dr. Cook from the northern end of Nan sen’s 6trait, who is familiar as a hunt er with the Jones Sound region, and who has been in Commander Peary's various expeditions for some fifteen years, came in and indicated the same localities and details as the two boys. Then the first boy was brought in again, and with a pencil he traced on the map their route, members of our party writing upon the chart where according to the boy’s statement, they had killed deer, bear, some of their dogs, seal, walrus and musk oxen. The second hoy was then called in and the two went over the chart to gether, the second boy suggesting some changes as noted hereafter. During the taking of this testimony. Trained Eagles for Aviation. One of the most fanatic ballooning projects of the past was that of an Austrian who suggested, nearly a cen tury ago, that balloons might be guided in any desired direction with the aid of trained eagles. Long Delayed Tribute. “The experienced reporter is n model of courtesy,” acknowledged a Philadelphia preacher. First bouquet of that kind in years and years.— Cleveland Leader. Asbestos Houses. Asbestos houses are much used In Australia. They are not only fire proof, but impervious to water, unaf fected by beat or cold, and of high in 8ulating properties. Still another fa vorable feature is the fact that It is not attacked by white ants.—Popular Mechanics. New York Hospitality. Hospitality in New York is the easiest thing in the world to buy if you have the price.—Washington . Post. It developed that Dr. Cook had told these boys, as he told Mr. Whitney and Billy Pritchard, the cabin boy, that they must not tell Commandei Pe-ary or any of us anything about their journey, and the boys stated Dr. Cook had threatened them if they should tell anything. The narrative of these Eskimos is as follows: They, with Dr. Cook, Francke and nine other Eskimos, left Anoratok, crossed Smith's Sound to Cape Sabine slept in Commander Peary's old house in Payer Harbor, then went through Rice strait to Buchanan bay. After a few marches Francke and three Eski mos returned to Anoratok. Dr. Cook, with the others, then pro ceeded up Flagler bay, a branch of Buchanan bay, and crossed Elles mere Land through the valley pass at the head of Flagler bay. indicated by Commander Peary in 1898, and'utilized by Sverdrup in 1899, to the head of Sverdrup’s “Bay Fiord" on the west side of Ellesmere Land. Their route, then lay out through this fiord, thence north through Sver drup's “Heuerka Sound” and Nansen strait. On their way they killed musk oxen and bear, and made caches, arriving eventually at a point on the west side of Nansen strait (shore of Axel Hei berg Land of Sverdrup), south of Cape Thomas Hubbard. A cache was formed here and th-3 four Eskimos did not go beyond this point. Two others, Koolootlngwah and Inughito, went on one more march with Dr. Cook and the two boys, helped to build the snow igloo, then returned without sleeping. (These two Eskimos brought back a letter from Dr. Cook to Francke, dated the seventeenth of March. The two men rejoined the other four men who had been left behind, and the six returned to Anoratok, arriving May 7, This information was obtained not from the two Eskimo boys, but from the six men who returned and from Francke himself, and was known tc us in the summer of 1908, when the Roosevelt first arrived at Etah. The information is inserted here as supple mentary to the narrative of the two boys.) After sleeping at the camp where the last two Eskimes turned b2ck, Dr Cook and the two boys went in i northerly or northwesterly directior with two sledges and twenty-odd dags one or more march, when they en countered rough ice and a lead of eper water. They did not enter this rcugl1 ice, nor cross the lead, but turnec westward or southwestward a shori distance and returned to Heiberg l.anc at a point west of where they had lefi the cache and where the four men hac turned back. After being informed of the boys’ narrative thus far, Commander Peary suggested a series of questions to be put to the boys in regard to this trip from the land out and back to it. Did they cross many open leads or much open water during this time? Ans. None. Did they make any caches out on the ice? Ans. No. With how many sledges did they start? Ans. Two. How many dogs did they have? Ans. Did not remember exactly, but some thing over twenty. How many sledges did they have when they got back to land? Ans. Two. Did they have any provisions left on their sledges when they came back to land? Ans. Yes; the sledges still had about all they could carry, so they were able to take but a few things from the cache. From here they went southwest along the northwest coast of Heiberg Land to a point indicated on the map (Sverdrup’s Cape Northwest). From here they went west across the ice, which was level and covered with snow, offering good going, to a low island which they had seen from the shore of Heiberg Land at Cape Northwest. On this island they camped for one sleep. From this island they could see two lands beyond (Sverdrup’s Ellsf Ring nes and Amund Ringnes Lands). From the island they journeyed toward the left-hand one of these two lands (Amund Ringes Land), passing a small island which they did not visit. Arriving at the shore of Amund Ringnes Land, the Eskimos killed a deer as indicated on the chart. The above portion of the state ment of the Eskimo boys covers the period of time in which Dr. Cook claims to have gone to the pole and back, and the entire time during which he could possibly have made any attempts to go to it. If it is suggested that perhaps Dr. Cook got mixed and that he reached the pole, or thought he did, between the time of leaving the northwest coast of Heiberg Land at Cape North west, and his arrival at Ringnes Land, where they killed the deer, we must then add to the date of Dr. Cook’s let ter of March 17th, at or near Cape Thomas Hubbard, the subsequent four or five sleeps at that point, and the number of days required to march from Cape Thomas Hubbard to Cape Northwest (a distance of some sixty nautical miles), which would advance his date of departure from the land to at least the 25th of March, and be prepared to accept the claim that Dr. Cook went from Cape Northwest (about latitude eighty and a half de grees north) to the pole, a distance of five hundred and seventy geographical miles, in twenty-seven days. After killing the deer they then trav eled south along the east side of Ring lies Land to the point indicated on the chart, where they killed another deer. They then went east across the south part of Crown Prince Gustav sea to the south end of Heiberg Land, then down through Norwegian bay, where they secured some bears, but not until after they had killed some of their dogs, to the east side of Gra ham Island; then eastward to the lit tle bay marked “Eid's Fiord” on Sver drup’s chart; then southwest to Hell’s Gate and Simmon’s peninsula. Here for the first time during the entire journey, except as already noted off Cape Thomas H. Hubbard, they encountered open water. On this point the boys were clear, emphatic, and unshakable. They spent a good deal of time in this region, and finally abandoned their dogs and one sledge, took to their boat, crossed Well's Gate to North Kent, up into Norfolk Inlet, then back along the north coast of Colin Archer Peninsula to Cape Vera, where they obtained fresh eider duck eggs. Here they cut the remaining sledge off, that is shortened it. as it was awkward to transport, with the boat, and near here they killed a wal rus. From Cape Vera they went on down into the southwest angle of Jones Sound, where they killed a seal; thence east along the south coast of the sound, killing three bears at the point noted on the map, to the penin sula known as Cape Sparbo on the map, about midway on the south side of Jones Sound. Here they killed some musk-oxen and, continuing east, killed four more at the place indi cated on the chart, and were, finally stopped by the pack ice at the mouth of Jones Sound. From here they turned back to Cape Sparbo, where they wintered and killed many musk oxen. After the sun returned in 1909 they started, pushing their sledge, across Jones Sound to Cape Tennyson; thence along the coast to Clarence Head; (passing inside of two small islands not shown on the chart, but drawn on it by the boys), where they killed a bear; thence across the broad bight in the coast to Cadogan Fiord; thence around Cape Isabella and up to Com mander Peary’s old house in Payer Harbor near Cape Sabine, where they found a seal cached for them by Pan ikpah, I-took-a-shoo's father. From here they crossed Smith Sound on the ice, arriving at. Anoratok. (Signed) R. E. PEARY, U. S. N. ROBERT A. BARTLETT, Master S. S. Roosevelt. D. B. M'MILLAN, GEORGE BORUP, MATTHEW A. HENSON. (8490 D) Suggestion as to Clothing. Clothing ought to be made with the soft ancient Egyptian or modern Chi nese buttons. Maybe removable ones are better still. If it were not for buttons most laundering could be done by machinery.—New York Press. Salt Whale. Already quite a trade is done with Japan in canned and salted whale meat. It is said to be more tender than beef and to taste like it.—Na tional Food Magazine. Words of Wisdom. The old Congressional Globe, the predecessor of the present Congres sional Record, in Which proceedings of congress were published up to some time in the ’70s, by the old lira of Gales & Seaton, bore for its motto, “The world is governed too much.”— Square Deal. If We Could Get There Pirst. We give it as our deliberate opinion that the best thing next to b. pretty girl is an empty seat. — Chicago Record Herald. Damage Done by Brown Rat. The brown or Norway rat is re garded by the United States depart ment of agriculture as “the worst mammal pest in the United States, the losses from its depredations amount ing to many millions of dollars year ly." Peculiar Florida River. The St. John's river in Florida ts the only navigable river in the coun try that flows in a generally north erly direction into an ocean. Sinful. Charity may coves a multitude of sins; but when you see a beggar buy liquor with the money you gave him in response to a piteous appeal for “something to get a meal with," you are convinced that charity is incap able of covering itself, among the oth ers.—Salt Lake Tribune. In Price, Not Size. He looked in a store window, and 6aw “Hats reduced.” “Heavens!” said he to himself. “What was their orig inal size?”—Lippincott’s. - *. Sad. Two little girls were out walking when they passed the big brick build ing of an orphan asylum. “That, Min nie," said Rosy, anxious to impart her knowledge to her younger sister, “is where the little orphans live. Mr, ar.d Mrs. Orphan are both dead.” A Foolish Notion. » Most of the men who think the world is against them are so insignifi cant that the world has never noticed them. Filling the Bill. . Being in want of a steady, reliable servant a lawyer advertised as fol lows: "Wanted—A girl with simple tastes; must not be extravagant; no flashy clothes; not flighty; mustn't gad about or exchange remarks with any casual pedestrian." Some friend sent him a baby. Kepler Ahead of Newton. The theory of gravitation was ad vanced by Kepler in 1617, 70 years before Newton announced his dis covery. STANCHION-MANGER FOR CALF FEEDING System Gives Utmost Satisfaction and Permits Youngsters to Be Fed Individually ~ By J. B. Monston. _LJ_4_ View Snowing Stanchions. A form of combined stanchion and manger for calf feeding is illustrated In a bulletin published by the Michi gan Experiment station and is recom mended as being very convenient. The principle on which the stanchion is built is not claimed to be new; the use dates back a number of decades, but the especial application and ad justment of the one hereafter describ ed presents some new teatures. This particular model Is produced as the result of three years’ trial, having un dergone several changes since the first one was installed. This appli ance can be adjusted so as to accum modate the calf lrom birth up to 12 months of age. The calves are con fined in the stanchions at feeding time only. After the calf has been secured the miik bucket is placed in the manger; when the milk is con sumed the bucket is removed and en silage and meal supplied, followed by hay. By using this stanchion method of feeding the maximum number or calves can be kept in a minimum amount of space in a clean, healthy, thrifty condition, providing they are given access to the outdoor yardage The average size of the four calf pens in the dairy barn, including manger space is 15 feet three inches by 12 feet 3 inches. Each pen accommo dates eight calves up to five or six months of age. The average size of two pens in the grade herd barn ac commodating six calves each, is 9 feet View Showing Manger. 9 inches by 14 feet 10 inches, and three occupied by five each are 10% feet by 11 feet 9 inches. Of course, in all cases except one, the calves have access to yardage at will. Referring to the illustration for de tailed description, the bottom of the manger, 18 inches wide, consisting of 2-inch hemlock, is 6 inches above the floor. As the front of the manger is built on rather than against the bottom it leaves the inside bottom measurement of the manger 16 inches. The side of the manger over which the calf's neck is placed in feeding is 8 inches above the bottom, one-half of this distance being taken up by a 2x4, the balance by the bottom frame work of the stanchion resting on it. The top part of the manger over which the calf feeds is 15 inches above the floor and should not be made higher, as even this Is ratner high for the new born calf. The young est calves can feed over this, nut should not be left fastened during the day, as they could not lie down com fortably. The side of the manger next the feed alley is practically 2 leet high and 2% feet above the floor; the slope given to this part of the man ger is a very decided advantage, espe cially in placing and removing buck ets while the calf is fastened in the stanchion; even more slope than that indicated would be well. The manger is partitioned off every two feet; this should db the minimum width, for while it is ample room for the youna calves, even more room would be de sit-able for the roughage of the older ones. The manger partitions extend upward as tar as the curved line shown in the illustration, but this is the most lauity feature of the fixture, as it is possible for one calf to reacn over and suck another one's ears it the mual and ensilage is not promptly supplied after the milk is consumed, though this rarely happens. A more perfect manger division will be mane by hoarding up from the manger to the dotted line shown between A B The front or stanchion part of the fix ture is 3 feet 6l/2 inches high and slopes away from the manger to in crease its capacity and give the calf the benefit of a little more spread in throwing the head up to remove it from the open stanchion. The stan chions are made of well-seasoned 1 inch elm and no breaks have occurred thus far. The youngest calves do no: require more than 5 inches space for the neck when confined. The stan chion frames are bored with a num ber of holes so that the movable up right pieces can be shifted according to the size of the calf. As calves ap proach the yearling stage and their horns interfere with the working of the stanchion the movable piece may be removed and the animal allowed to go free while feeding. This system has given the utmost satisfaction, permit ting calves to be fed individually ac cording to their needs and entirely preventing the many bad habits so frequently acquired by the pail fed calf. CROSS-CUT SAW SUPPORT ! Pieces of Lisrht Timber- Attached to It Make It Possible for One Man to Oper ate. Two pieces of lath or other light strip of wood bored together as shown at 3 in the accompanying iilustra tion, will stiffen a cross-cut saw so that one man will be able to saw with it without difficulty. The strips ot wood tend to control the wabble of Strengthening Saw. the free end. A piece of stove wire 1 twisted around the saw and a strip at 2 will aid in keeping it in place. A wire twisted about the laths at 3 will help to maintain the strength. Keeping Cabbages. Early in December turn each head over to the north and bank the soil over the stem and base of the head, leaving merely the top exposed. Some make the mistake of turning the heads south anti the heads will be certain to get damaged, for the stem and base of the head are the most tender parts, and these will be to the north, while the morning sun will strike the open head to the south when frozen and damage it, says Progressive Farmer. Any plants that are not well headed- will head during the winter if the leaves are well tucked around when buried. If you grow late cabbages as I have sug gested, you will get something far ahead of the coliards. and if you grow collards they will be a great deal bet ter for blanching in the earth. DISEASE GERMS FROM COWS MUk Contaminated In Various Ways From Tlijie It Leaves Cow Until It Reaches Table. There are a hundred and one places where milk can be contaminated from the time it is drawn from the udder till it reaches the table in the form of sweet milk, cream, or butter. First, a great deal of bacteria, impurities and disease germs get into the milk at the barn or lot in which the cows are kept. Second, a great many more of these owe their existence in milk to the attendant and the place in which the milk is kept. The moment the cow shows signs of being ill, or when even a slight eruption is noticeable, a person may contract disease by partaking of her milk. Impure water is another way in which milk is contaminated. If the cow is compelled to drink out of a mud hole, filled with disease germs, she cannot help but drink a large number of those germs into her sys tem, some of them being sure to reach the milk. Milking the cow Into an open pail when the barn is filled with dust, and from which there hangs an untold number of dirty cobwebs, or milking her in an offensively smelling lot. where the filth is ankle deep, or milk ing a cow where udder, flanks and legs are covered with dirt and filth— in such cases it is impossible to avoid contamination of the milk. We believe that more disease germs are given the human family through milk than are given in any other agency; and we also believe that less attention is paid to the care of milk than to any other food consumed upon the table. Danger of Barbed Wire. Barbed wire is all right for stock cattle and makes a cheap fence for it. but it is hard to construct such a fence to turn hogs and, owing to its dangerous characteristics, it is out of the question for horses, and even for milch cows. ANOTHER WOMAN CURED By Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Gardiner, Maine.—“ I have been a great sufferer from organic troubles ana a severe iemaie weakness. The doctor said I would have to go to the hospital for an operation, bnt I could not bear to think of it. I de cided to try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Veg etable Compound and Sanative W ash —and was entirely ... ■ i lutiu alter tnree months’ use of them.”—Mrs. S. A. Williams, R. F. D. No. 14, Box 39, Gardiner, Me. No woman should submit to a surgi cal operation, wliich may mean death, until she has given Lydia E. Pinkham s Vegetable Compound, made exclusive ly from roots aud herbs, a fair trial. This famous medicine for women has for thirty years proved to be the most valuable tonic and renewer of the female organism. Women resid ing in almost every city and town in the United States bear willing testi mony to the wonderful virtue of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. It cures female ills, and creates radi ant, buoyant female health. If you are ill, for your own sake as well as those you love, give it a trial. Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass invites all sick women to write her for advice. Her advice is free, and always helpful. P03R BOY. “Dear me! Why Co you cry so bit terly?” “I’m eryin’ ’cause I’m so wicked dat I’m goin’ ter play hookey, instead cf goin’ ter school, boo hoo!” The Soft Answer. At a dinner in liar Harbor a Boston woman praised the wit of the late Ed ward Everett Hale. “Walking on the outskirts of Boston one day,” she said, “he and I inadvert- * ently entered a field that had a ‘No Trespassing’ sign nailed to a tree. "Soon a farmer appeared. “ ‘Trespassers in this field are prose cuted,’ he said in a grim tone. “Dr. Hale smiled blandly. “ ‘But we are not trespassers, my good man,' he said “ ‘What are you then?’ asked the amazed farmer. “ ‘We’re Unitarians,' said Dr. Hale.” —Washington Star. Expensive Silence. Little four-year-o d Alice was lying on the floor whining and crying stead ily one afternoon, until, her father’s patience exhausted, he called out to her: “Oh, stop, Alice, and I’ll give you a penny.” Alice stopped only long enough to answer: "I can't stop for less than a nickel! Boohoo! Boohoo!” Tuberculosis Among Soldiers. For 1,000 active troops in the armies Df the great world powers, the follow ing figures show the percentage of cases of pulmonary tuberculosis: United States, 4.72; Great Britain and colonies. 2.4; France. 5.3; Germany, 1.5; Austria, 1.0, and Russia, 2.7. A Frencch Scholar. As William bent over her fair face he whispered: "Darling, if I should ask you in French if I might kiss you, what would you answer?" She, calling up her scanty knowl edge of the French language, ex claimed, "Billet doux.”—Tit-Bits. A Ready Explanation. “What is the reason you were so late in discovering the north pole?” “Well,” answered the explorer, “you see they have such long nights in the arctic regions that 1 overslept.” The angels are always waiting to open the windows of heaven over the head of the man who will bring the last tithe into the storehouse. A BANKER’S NERVE Broken by Coffee and Restored by Postum. A banker needs perfect control of tbe nerves, and a clear, quick, accu rate brain. A prominent banker of Chattanooga tells how he keeps him self in condition: “Up to 17 years of age I was not allowed to drink coffee, but as soon as I got out in the world I began to uses it and grew very fond of it. For some years I noticed no bad effects from its use, but in time it began to affect me unfavorably. My hands trembled, tho muscles of my face twitched, my men tal processes seemed slow and in other ways my system got out of order. These conditions grow so bad at last that I had to give up coffee altogether. “My attention having been drawn to Postum, I began its use on leaving off the coffee, and It gives me pleasure to testify to its value. I find it a delicious beverage; like it just as well as I did coffee, and during the years that I have used Postum 1 have been free from the distressing symptoms that ac companied the use of coffee. The'nerv ousness has entirely disappeared, and I am as steady of hand as a boy of 25, though I am more than 92 years old. I owe all this to Postum.” “There’s a Reason.” Read the little book, “The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. Grocers sell. Ever read tbe above letter? .V new one appeavj from time to time. They are Kcnnine, true, uctl fall of Itumaa Interest,