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The arbitration treaties failed In the
Senate as or .* i call)' drafted
The Mil jiaoaed the house granting
Aseor^jt ritisetiahtp to Porto Ri< ana
hermarj Nagel urged enactment of
oral piecer-tiaa hai before foreign ra
hUuo committee.
Senate democratic members of
finance eotn*:ttee decided to stand by
hoiw steel tar.IT retision bill
Senator Kenyon denounced meth
ods aitleged to hare been used in
eiertioa of Senator Stephenson of Wis
Srnaior Perry announced tbal no
•w-.d mah* a tii!fwn to senate In
rwgnfin- t«. UiMMppi W»1»ur«'s
(rmiii that fee rulfn
The bouse unanimously passed the
MtlctiM for ieventigmtion of th*
alk|rd sh.pp.ng trust by tbe mer
cbut airair committee.
The garden seed approprin
tic* .8 the agricultural bill «a* de
pK-.wd ts debut* in the bou-e hr
“gruff by opponents of the Itnr
Representative Barnett declared
that tf battleship appropriations were
restored to the democratic program
<j» public building bill must also be.
The Soot hern Pacific and Pacific
Mai! representative* urged the plac
ing of Panama canal rates in the
bands of the Interstate l oaiaerce
The boose r***rd » MU gran’tig to
the president power io set aside the
lose eititenship now imposed on
de*r<n from 'hr military service in
time of pence.
Governor CUrtrift of Florida nt
swrgtades investigation In the hoose
laid committee he desired Repr- -ent
wine (lark'* position in ter'r tcrty
be brought out
Senator Bristow introduced a r*so
h'.ius railing for an investigation to
determine whether postmaster* were
i» tsg coerced in the interest of any
presidential candidate.
Keprc-eentatlte Seller urged before
the territories committee that the
noc err meet build and operate rail
roads throughout soul tiere*t Alaska
and engage in the coal business.
The bill imposing heavy fines and
taxes on and prohibiting the import
and export of elute phosphorus
matches was favorably reported by
ways and menus committee cf the
General
CafUA Hubert F. Scott i» reported
to U» nartet the loath pole
A rweivership i* Mkrt for the
a.«»« City. Meric* A < 'neat mi’.
A repubUcaa ;,r«-f*T«»tia! fwimary
In u* Fifth Missouri district revolted
to a Kaow rK rk«rf.
At least four »et> killed and two
•cure it; ired Is hr wiwh of a Wa
hawk Jtmlted trait ia Indian*
la a Mu letter to Frank A. Vunary,
fninatl ttutetni narott the uuti
irr«oM. that be la an artful dodper
Georg* H Perkins visited Mr.
Hu»r.ei: at sagamore, carryuig a
I--r^ tram JUupr Ilium.
Itrl UbIm) coarirted of bat ins
attack** a laut'.l girl. was wo <e need
u> life imprisonment at Newton, la.
The acuate |a*wd the arbitration
tranG*n>. bat iacurjwrate* an atuend
Imw which require* further action.
Senator HrSe'.oo * hill for pr.-*tden
la. i-rotrraac* primaries In the D»s
lort vt t oinahu an Adverse !r re
port** Iruat the »--aat* taaalro- on
the AMlrict.
Ylirna'r suffrage trill he submitted
to Ohio nmra at a nejmrate measure
when the rothaa* draft of the const!
tsuos la voted Upon
PW cattMruw of the P H Gilpin
hu*m Handle factor* a: GraetMotra.
Fa were k-JSOd an* one iaj wed *.en
the bailor eaploded and w rerk* d the
plant "
The near terntii nary and nil!
tarj bills. *hrh are to be discussed
by the mchetag this wwwiori bare
bn CMoptetrl) a rafted and sub
autfd to (be federal council
Secretary Wileun laoued a formal
pus or hay in the natural state
f*«ii be wtsed until the department
COS lb*«-w*-rate the recent pur* food
order* relating IO thane produ<ia
tirali. «cw>r* from Iniiatk to New
(urban* an* tram Kaaaas City to New
lurk, are la Washington to confer
wtth «fhc*al* of the department of
^rtroltaro ac the recent ruling* re
latinc to Mtlphanac of oats and slop
Major Grhtcri Arthur Murray U. S.
A- nrnimnlHTUT d*e neater;, division,
has been ordered from WaFbingtoa
to at* piaitwn at Swn Franciacu.
The house unaalmoaaly passed a
mots:Maw oillaf for aa investigation
of the alloded “afcipping truM” by the
committee ua awrebaa! marine and
with th* interstate
min* ion alledlac the
Topeka A Santa Me and
mg east of
Crawford introduced a bill
tSt.dM for interim tkm
tbo coot of Hring prole
killed and eleven
train mm* sreek
«Kb a freight train
jppiSJps fVsJT
L. C. Ohsenreiter, the Dubuque, la.,
I business man who is on a twenty-day
fast, passed the fifteenth day.
The president sent to the senate the
nomination of Ricard Sloan to be
l:nited States district judge for Ari
zona.
California is to be a battle ground
between Taft and Roosevelt,
i There ir a prospect that Omaha may
become an arch Catholic diocese.
In an address at Chicago Secretary
Stimson declared himself for Taft.
William Haskins, a well known
horseman, is dead at Oskaloosa. la.
The Massachusetts house defeated
■ the bill to abolish capital punishment.
Both houses of congress interested
themselves in the Lawrence strike
sitoation.
A hot fight is expected in congress
over the sugar tariff and income tax
1 bill.
The home rule bill is not to be in
! traduced into the bouse of commons
j t*etore Raster.
Senator Norris Brown led off in ad
vocacy of the ratification ot the arbi
tration treaties.
Hugh Webster or Ames won the an
nual contest of the Iowa state oratori
cal association.
There was a mutiny of soldiers at
| Peking, and the city was given over
to pillage and bunting.
The belief at Tokio is that interna
tional interference is necessary to re
store order in China.
v»iu ui v. uiout'i awot'cii aic
resurrected in an attempt to allow the i
inconsistency of his position.
President Madero will attempt to
! placate Mexican insurrectos by mak
ing changes in the cabinet.
Theodore Roosevelt contends his
Columbus speech was simply a plea
fdr more power for the people.
Directors of the l.ake Shore &
Michigan Southern Railroad company
declared an extra dividend of 6 per
cent.
A draft of a uniform drainage and
; levee law was completed by a commit
tee of the National Drainage congress
in session at St. Louis.
Thirty-one cities in Prussia, includ
ing Berlin and other large centers,
have been affected by the strike of
: :h*.0O» men's tailors.
California wine producers protested
' to the judiciary committee against the I
j bill to prohibit liquor shipments from ,
wet into dry states.
Congress passed the bill authorizing
■ that a commission of ensign be given
to midshipmen upon graduation from
j the naval academy. ,
Rattlesnake venom has been used j
j successfully as a cure for tuberculo- !
| sis. according to a report to the Mary
land state board of health.
No decision of the question of Pana
ma canal tolls was reached at the
■ meeting of the bouse committee on j
interstate and foreign commerce.
A meeting of labor leaders, which, j
according to reports from Chicago j
| early in February was to have been
j held at Kansas City, has been post
poned indefinitely.
Chairman Adamson of the house I
I commerce committee introduced a
‘ill providing for a physical valuation j
of all of the common carriers of the |
i I'ni'.ed States hr the Intel j»taJe Com- j
j merce commission.
The department of justice has or
dered the United States marshal in
| -astern Oklahoma to enforce the fed
| eral prohibition law in the old Indian
j erritory the same as prior to state
! hoed.
Where a father has lost control of
j his children through a divorce suit,
lie may not claim the right to attend
; *he fna- ral of one of them, according
j o a decision handed down in the su
j preme court of Iowa.
Cairman Sulzer of the foreign af
! fairs committee, after a talk with
i President Taft and officials of the
state department said that he was op
,« red to any intervention whatever in
Mexico by United States troops.
Public buildings committee will
i give hearings *» fore subcommittee on
! one public building bill for each con
' gee? - man. but an appropriation bill
I f jr buildings probably will not be
I brought lorward this season.
Orders have been issued requiring
| all flags of the United States, all uni
ons of the national tn-ign and all
union ack.- to contain forty-eight
stars because of the admission on
February 14 of Arizona as a state.
The national Roosevelt headquar
i t< rs made public a statement disput
ing the claim of the national Taft bu
reau that President Taft, in his candi
dacy for the renoniinaticn. has the
support of Governor Hooper of Ten
nessee, Governor Oddie of Nevada
and Governor Deneen of Illinois.
Person*'.
Roosevelt headquarters have been
opened in Washington.
Five men who refused to reveal
their identity made a call on Roose
velt.
Governor Aldrich of Nebraska, says
official* who falter in duty perform
ance must retire.
Speaker Champ Clark was the re j
cipient of tributes and congratulations
on his *i*ty-second birthday.
Senator Hitchcock discussed what
(he said was the unlawful acquirement
of the Panama canal zone.
Woodrow Wilson is in favor of a
I presidential preference primary.
Santiago Iglesias. president of the
American Federation of Labor in
Porto Rico, sailed for New York.
Students of London have started a
counter demonstration to suffragettes.
Chairman McKinley, of the Taft
headquarters, issued an optimistic
statement.
Colonel Roosevelt justifies his pres
ent stand when letters written in the
past are brought before him.
A favorable report was made by the
senate judiciary committee on the
nomination of Chancellor PitCey.
President Taft has taken the initia
tive In calling a conference of busi
ness to consider national questions.
Oklahoma sent a split delegation to
the Baltimore convention equally di
vided between Wilson and Clark.
Representative Clark, of Florida,
failed la an effort to abolish the office
of solicitor of the agriculture depart
ment.
August Belmont has again made his
appearance la politics after several
yuan, when be was nominated at Min
tote. N. Y- as a delegate of the demo
cratic state convention from Nassau
i county
SOUTH POLE RACE
The Norwegian Explorer Tells of His
Antarctic Dash.
GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF THE TRIP
Captain Amundsen’s Own Narrative of
His Attainment of the South
Pole December 14, 17,
1911.
(By Roald Amundsen. Copyright
1912, by The N. Y. Times Co. All
rights reserved.)
Hobart, Tasmania, March 8.—At 2
a. m. on the 10th day of February,
1911. we commenced to work our way
toward the south, front that day to
the 11th of April, establishing three
depots, which in all contained a
quantity of provisions of about 3,000
kilos, including 1.1U0 kilos of seal
meat, were cached in 80 degrees, 700
kilos in 81 degrees and 800 kilos in 82
degrees south latitude.
As no land marks were to be seen
these depots were marked with flags,
seven kilometers on each side in the
easterly anil westerly directions.
The ground and the state of the
barrier were of the best and special
ly well adapted to driving with dogs.
On February 15, we had thus travel
ed about 100 kilometers. The weight
of the sledges was 300 kilos, and the
number of dogs was six for each
sledge. The surface of the barrier
was smooth and fine with no sastrugi.
The crevices were very local and were
found dangerous in only two places.
For the rest long, smooth undla
uons.
The weather was excellent, calm
or a light breeze. The lowest tem
perature on these depot trips was
minus 45 Celsius or centigrade, (49
degrees below zero, fahrenheit.! On
the 4th of March, on our return from
the first trip beginning on the loth
of February, we found out that the
Fram. had already left us. With
pride and delight we heard that her
smart captain had succeeded in
sailing her furthest south and
there hoisting the colors of his coun
try. a glorious moment, for him and
his comrades, the furthest north and
the furthest south, good old Fram
the highest south latitude attained
was TS degrees 41 minutes.
Winter on the Ice Barrier.
Before the arrival of winter we
had 6,000 kilos of seal meat in the
depots, enough for ourselves ami
110 dogs. Eight dog houses, a com
bination of tents and snow huts
were built.
Having cared for the dogs the turn
came to use our solid little hut. It
was almost entirely covered with
snow by the middle of April. First
we had to get light and air. The
I.ux lamp, which had a power 200
standard candles, gave ns a bril
liant light and kept the temperature
up ’o 20 degrees celsius (68 degrees
Fahrenheit t throughout the winter,
our excellent ventilation system gave
us all the air we wanted.
In‘direct communication with the
hut and dog houses on the Barrier
were workshops, packing, rooms, cel
lars for provisions, coal, wood and
oil, a plain bath, a steam bath, and
observatory. Titus we had everything
within doors if the weather should
be too cold an.i stormy.
The sun left us on the 22nd of
April and did not return until four
mon'hs later. The winter was spent
in changing our whole outfit, which
on the depot trips was found to be
too clumsv and solid for the smooth
surface of the Barrier. Besides this,
as much scientific work as possible
was done, and some astonishing
meteorological observations were
taken.
Open Water all Winter.
There was very little snow, and
there was open water close by
throughout the winter. For the same
reason higher temperature had been
expected, but it remained very low.
In five months there were observed
temperatures between minus 50 and
60 degrees Celsius, (58 and 76 de
grees below zero Fahrenheit! the
lowest temperature on the 13th of
August, being minus 59 degrees
celsius. It was then calm. On the
1st of August the temperature was
minus 58 degrees celsius, and there
were six meters of wind.
The mean temperature for the year
was minus 26 degrees celsius. (14.8
below zero fahrenheit.)
I had expected hurricane after hur
ricane, but I observed only two mode
rate seorms and many excellent
auroras, in all directions.
The sanitary conditions were of the
best all the winter and when the sun
returned on the 24th or August he
met the men sound in mind and body
ready to set about the task that had
to l>e solved.
Already the day before we had
brought our sledges to the starting
place for our march toward the south.
Only In the beginning of Septembef
did the temperature rise to such an
extent that there was any question of
setting out.
First Start for the Pole.
On the 8th of September eight men,
with seven sledges, ninety dogs and
provisions for four months started.
The ground was perfect. The tem
perature was not bad. The next day
it appeared that we had started too
early, as the temperature of the fol
lowing days fell and was kept steady
between minus' 50 and 60 Celsius (58
degrees and 76 degrees) below zero
fahrenheit. Personally we did not
suffer at all from this cold. Our good
furs protected us. But with our dogs
it was a different matter. It could
easily be seen that they shrunk from
day to day, and we understood pretty
soon that they could not stand the
long run to our depot at 80 degrees
south.
We agreed on returning and to wait
for the arrival of spring. The provis
ions were cached and off w« went for
the hut. With the exception of the
loss of a few dogs and a couple of
frozen heels everything was all right.
Only in the middle of October spring
came in earnest. Seals and birds ap
peared. The temperature was steady
between 20 and 30 Celsius (6S degrees
and 86 degrees fahrenheit).
The original plan that all of us
should go toward the south had been
changed. Five men had to do this
work, while the other three were to
start for the east and visit King Ed
ward VII land. This last mentioned
trip was not Included in our pro
gram, but owing to the fact that the
English had not reached it, at least
this summer, as was their intention,
we agreed that the best thing to do
was also to make this trip.
On Ocober 20, the southern party
started, five men, four sledges, fifty
two dogs, and provisions for four
months, everything- in excellent
order.
The Journey to the Pole.
We had made up oar minds to take
the first part of the trip as early as
possible in order to give ourselves
and the dogs a rational training, and
on the 23rd we made our depot in SO
degrees south. We went right ahead.
In spite of the dense fog an error
of two to three kilomeeers happened
once in a while, but w'e were caught
by the flagmarks, and found these on
our way without difficulty.
Having rested and ted the dogs on
all the seal meat they were able to
eat, we started again on the 26th.
with the temperature steadily between
minus 20 and 30 Celsius t4 degrees
and 22 dgrees belowe zro, fahrenheit).
From the start it was the intention
not to drive more than 30 kilometers
a day. but it appeared that this was
too little for our strong, willing ani
mals. At 80 degrees south we began
to build snow cairns of a man's height,
in order to have marks on our re
turn trip. On the 31st we reached
the depot at SI degrees, and stopped
there one day and fed the dogs on as
much pemmican as they wanted.
We reached the depot at 82 degrees
on the 5th of November, where the
<logs for the last time got all they
wanted to eat. On the Sth, southward
again, with a daily march of 50 kilo
meters.
In order to light our heavy sledges
we established depots at each degree
of south latitude.
Like a Pleasure Trip.
The trip from 82 to S3 degrees be
came a pleasure trip, excellent ground,
fine sledging, and an even tempera
ture. Everything went like a dance.
On the 9th. we sighted South Vic
toria land and the continuation of the
; mountain range w hich Sir Ernest
Shackelton mentioned in his chart as
running toward the southeast from
1 the Beardmore glacier, and on the
same day we reached S3 degrees and
established here depot No. 4. On the
11th we made an interesting discovery
that the Ross barrier terminated in
a bight toward the southeast at 86
! degrees south latitude and 163 degrees
i west longitude, formed between the
| southeast mountain range running
l from South Victoria land and a range
j on the opposite side running in a
southwesterly direction, probably a
continuation of King Edward VII
land.
On the 13th we reached 84 degrees
where we established a depot, on the
16th we were at 85 degrees, where
also, we made a depot.
From our winter quarters, “Fram
heim," 78 degrees 38 minutes south
latitude, we had been marching due
south. On the 17th of November, at
; 85 degrees, we arrived at a place
where the land and barrier were con
I nected. This was done without any
| great difficulty. The barrier here
; rises in undultations to about 300
feet. Some few big crevices indicated
the limited boundary.
Here we made our head depot, tak
ing provisions for sixty days on
sledges, and leaving thirty days' pro
visions on the spot.
The land under which we lay and
which we had to attack kto'.ted quite
imposing. The nearest summits along
the barrier had a height from 2,000 to
10,000 feet but several others further
south were 15,000 feet or more.
The next day we began the climb.
The first part of it was an easy task,
light stops and well filled mountain
sides. It did not take a long time
for our willing dogs worked their way
up. Further up, we met with some
small but very steep glaciers. Here
we had to harness twenty dogs to
each sledge and take the four stedge6
j in two turns. In some places it was
so steep that it was difficult enough
j to-use our skis.
Some big crevices forced us from
! time to time to make detours. The
1 first day we climbed 2.000 feet, the
next day mostly up some small glac
I iers, camping at a height of 4,500 feet.
, The third day we were obliged to
: go down on a mighty glacier, "Axel
Heiberg’s Glacier," which divided the
coast mountains and the mountains
further south.
The next day began the longest part
l of our climb. Many detours had to
j be made in order to avoid broad
! cracks and crevices. These were ap
! parently mostly filled up, as the
glaciers in all probability had long
ago stopped moving, but we had to be
very careful, never knowing for cer
tain how thick was the lawer that
covered them.
Our camp that night lay in very
picturesque surroundings at a heighth
of 5,000 feet. The glacier here was
narrowed in between the two 15,000
‘ feet high mountains, the "Fridtjof
Nansen" and the “Don Pedro Christo
i pherson." From the bottom of the
glacier rose mount "Ole Englstad"—
: a big snow cone 13.500 feet high.
The glacier was very much broken
j in this comparatively narrow pass.
The mighty crevices seemed to stop
us front going further, but it was not
so serious as it appeared. Our dogs,
l which up to this time had covert'd a
I distance of about 7,000 kilometers, the
1 last few days very hard work, ran
this day 35 kilometers, the ascent be
• ing 5,600 feet, an almost incredible
record.
It took us only four days from the
barrier to get up on the vast inland
plateau. We camped that night at a
height of 10,600 feet. Here we had
to kill twenty-four of our brave com
panions and keep eighteen, six for
each of our three sledges.
We stopped here four days on ac
count of bad weather. Tired of this
we set out on the 2Sth of Nevember.
On the 26th in a furious blizzard and
in a dense snow drift absolutely noth
■ ing was to be seen, but we felt that
; contrary to expectations we were go
ing fast down hill. The hypsometer
gave us a fall of 800 feet.
The next day was similar. The
j weather cleared a little at dinner
I time and exposed to our view a mighty
mountain range to the east, and not
far off. only for a moment, and then
1 it disappeared in the dense snow
drift. On the 29:h it calmed down
and the sun shone, though it was not
■ the only pleasant surprise he gave,
j In our course stretched a big glacier
| running toward the south. At its
| eastern end was the mountain range
going in a southeasterly direction. Of
the western part of it no view was to
j be had. it being hidden in the dense
fog. At the foot of this glacier, the
•'Devil's Glacier." a depot for six days
i w as established, at S6.21 degrees
south latitude. The hypsometer in
dicated S,000 feet above sea level.
On November 30 we began to climb
the glacier. The lower part of i' was
very much broken and dangerous.
Moreover, the snow bridges very often
. burst. From our camp that night we
had a splendid view over the mountain
to the east. There was "Helnier Han
sen’s Summit," the most remarkable
of them all. It was 12,000 feet high
. and covered with such broken glaciers
that in all probabilities no foothohf
was to be found. "Oscar Wistings,"
"Sverre Hassels," and "Olav Hjan
; lands" mountains also lay here,
i beautifully illuminated in the rays of
' the bright sun.
In the distance, and or.iy alternate
ly to be viewed in the fog. appeared
from time to time “Mount Nielsen."
j with its summits and peaks about
15.000 feet high.
We only saw the nearest surround
ings. It took us three days to sur
mount the Devil's glacier, always in
misty weather.
On the 1st of December we left
this broken glacier, with holes and
crevices without number, with its
height of 9,100 feet. Before us, look
ing in the mis; and snowdrift, like a
frozen sea. appeared a light, sloping
ice plateau filled with sma!! bum
! mocks.
The walk over this frozen sea was
I not pleasant. The ground under us
was quite hollow, and It sounded as
i though we were walking on the bot
l toms of empty barrels. As it was, a
; man fell through, then a couple of
1 dogs. We could not use our skis on
! this polished ice. Sledges had the
| best of it.
The place got the name the "Devil’s
| Dancing Room." This part of our
J march was the most unpleasant. On
; December 6 wc got our greatest height,
; accord;ng to the h> pso'.ueter and ane
• roid—10,750 feet at 87 degrees 40
! minutes south.
i On December 8 we came out of the
bad weather. Once again the sun
smiled down on us. Once again we
could get an observation. Dead
reckoning and observation were *»
actly alike, 88 degrees, 88 minutes,
16.6 seconds south.
Before us lay an absolutely plain
plateau, only here and there marked
with a tiny sastrugi.
In the afternoon we passed 88 de
grees 23 minutes. (Shackeleon's fur
therest south was 88 degrees, 23
minutes.) We camped and establish
ed our last depot, depot No. 10. From
80 degrees 25 minutes the plateau be
gan to slope down very gently and
smoothly toward the other side.
On the 9th of December we reached
88 degrees 39 minutes, on December
10, 8S degrees 56 minutes, December
11, 89 degrees 15 minutes, December
12, 89 degrees 30 minutes, Decernoer
13, 89 degrees 45 minutes.
Up to this time the ODservations
and dead reckoning agreed remarkably
well, and we made out that we rught
to be at the pole on December 14 in
the afternoon.
That day was a beautiful one, a
light breeze from southeast, the tem
perature minus 23 Celsius (9.4 degrees
below zero, fahrenheit), and the
ground and sledging were perfect.
The day went along as usual, and
at 3 p. m. we made a halt.
According to our reckoning we had
reached our destination. All of us gath
ered around the colors, a beautiful silk
flag, all hands taking hold of it
and planting it.
The vast plateau on which the pole
is standing got the name of the “King
Haakon VII Plateau.” It is a vast
plain, alike in all directions, mile after
mile during the night we circled
around the camp.
In the fine weather we spent the
following day taking" a series of ob
servations from 6 a. m. to 7 p. m.
The result gave us S9 degrees 55
minutes.
In order to observe the pole as close
as possible we traveled as near south
as possible, the remaining 9 kilo
meters.
On December 16 there we camped.
It was an excellent opportunity.
There was a brilliane sun. Four ol
us took observations every hour oi
the day's twenty-four hours. The
exact result will be the matter of a
professional private report.
This much is certain, that we ob
served the pole as close as it is in
human power to do it with the instru
ments we had, a sextant and artificial
horizon.
On December 17 everything was in
order on the spot.
We fastened to the ground a little
tent we had brought along, a Norwe
gian flag and the Fram pendant on
the top of it.
The Norwegian home at the South
pole was called "PoRteim."
The distance from our winter quar
ters to the pole was about 1.400 kilo
meters. The average march a day
was 25 kilometers.
We started on the return trip on
the 17th of December. Unusually
favorable weather made our way
home considerably easier than the
journey to the pole. We arrived at
our winter quarters. •'Framhcim1' on
the 25th of January, 1912, with two
sledges and 11 dogs, all well.
The daily average speed on the re
turn trip was 36 kilometers, the low
est temperature was minus 31 Celsius,
(23.S degrees below zero Fahrenheit.!
The highest minus 5 eelsius. (23 de
grees above zero Fahrenheit).
Among the results are the determi
nation of the extent and character
of the Ross Barrier, and the dis
covery of the connection of South
Victoria land and probably King Ed
ward VII land, with their continua
tion in the mighty mountains running
toward the southeast which were ob
served as far as 88 degrees south,
but which in all probability continue
across the antarctic continent.
The entire length of the newly dis
covered mountains is about 850 kilo
meters. They have been named
■ Queen Maud's Range."
The expedition to King Edward VII
land under the command of Lieut |
Prestud has given excellent results.
Scott's discoveries have been con
firmed. and the survey cf the hay of
Whales and of the Barrier Dome by
the Prestud party are of great inter
est.
A good geological collection from
King Edward VII and South Victoria
land is being brought home.
The Fram arrived at the Bay of
Whales on the ninth of January. She
had been delayed by the "roaring
forties" on account cf the easterly
winds.
On January 16th the Japanese ex
pedition arrived at the Bay of
Whales and landed on the Barrier
near our winter quarters. We left
the Bay of Whales on January 20:h.
It was a long voyage with contrary
winds. All are well.
RAOLD AMUNDSEN.
On the Firing Line.
"Son. 1 hear you have joined th*
boy scout movement,"
"Yes. dad.”
“Well, s pose you scout ahead now
and see what sort of humor your
mother is in."
Peking, the only capital in the
world without a street car system,
soon is to have an electric line.
Being Pressed.
“I like to examine the dictionary
during spare moments. You find
many unexpected things in it.” '
"Yes: I’ve no'iced that. I some
times find queer-looking feminine ap
parel in ours.’’
Great Progress.
“Developed your gold mine anv as
fet?”
"Yes, indeed. I started with desk
room, and now I have a fine suite of
offices.”
A Full Line.
March is busy showing weather
With much glee.
Has arranged the styles together,
As you see.
Enow in winter, heat in summer.
Rain in fall.
March has samples, like a drummer.
Of them all.
Paris bakers have formed a syn
dicate to maintain a laboratory in
which all their flour is scientifically
tested.
There are no blizzards in the
Yukon Valley in winter, and there is
little wind. Snow about two feet
deep covers everything from early
October till spring.
This Slim Craze.
"Kips and curves have had to go.”
"Yes; modern woman is almost
back to the original rib.”
An Educated Bird.
"Polly want a cracker?”
"Xaw; gimme two cards.”
The Political Situation.
Are the times uplifting?
Here we go.
Whither are we drifting?
1 dunno.
A storage battery illuminated elec
tric sign has been iavented to be
worn on the arm of a person selling
refreshments in theaters or other
public places.
In northern chili there has been
discovered an extensive deposit of
high grade tungsten ore.
All of Berlin's sewage is pumped
out of the city to disposal farms
which have a total area of about 40,
000 acres.
Peril of th’ Unmusical Voice.
A Dakota parrot called help for a
dying woman. If its calls had ceased
she might have recovered.
Via the High School World: If
sugar runs would the cake-walk?
(Hey, teacher! Make that horrid
boy stop throwing spit-balls at me.l
The Making of Many Books.
The overproduction of books con
tinues to increase. During 1900 in
this country there were printed more
than 1,400 novels, only about thirty
of which were successes financially
and a still smaller proportion being
really worth while. In England last
year there were issued a total of
10,914 volumes, a new record. It is
not likely that more than 10 per
cent really merited publication.
The cost of Italy’s Tripoli expedi
tion is estimated at S2.390.000 a day. <
Accordion Plaited Skirts.
Plaited and accordion plaited skirts
loom large on the horizon of fashion,
sometimes in a front panel, some
times in a deep ruffle, but a!ways
with the plaits held in at the bot
tom by a band of ribbon or by bid
Jen catches.
Open Business Secret.
When ice in the Hudson breaks
5407,000,000 worth of ice will go cut
to sea because the ice trust has u« ;
dace to put it.
The Kinds of Lies.
A Chicago university professor, af
ter exhaustive research, has discov
ered there are ten different kinds of
lies. Under his classification there
ire the fantasy or fairy tale lie, the
rain glorious or boasting lie, the de
fensive lie. the heroic lie, the white
>r permissible lie, the society lie, the
business lie, the art lie, and the
idulterative lie.
Figs are Ted to horses in Turkey,
lates are given them in Arabia and
mrrants in Egypt
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NOT SO FAMILIAR.
Carrye—Do you love art for art's
sake?
Daisy—I beg your pardon, but his
came is Arthur.
Perversity of Nature.
His father was busy and had cau
tioned him not to ask foolish ques
tions. so he said to the boy when he
came into the room:
As long as this isn't a fool question,
what is it?”
And this is what the boy propound
ed: •
"When you've a sore throat, dad,
and it hurts you to swallow, why do
you want to swallow all the time?*’
When a woman says she believes
every word her husband tells her. it’s
dollars to doughnuts that the honey
moon is still in its infancy.
Lapland is a great country for small
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