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Novel Attempt to Reach
Explorer Will Erect Trolley ts Carry
His Supplies
To the nprth polo with the aid of
windmill and trolley line Is the latest
In Arctic exploration, and the plnn In
only Just disclosed by tho return of
the steamer OJoa to Hammerfect, Nor
way, after nn unsuccessful search for
the Abnizzl cxpcritlon, which it miss
ed. The originator of this novel ex
pedition is Lieut. Dauendahl, the Gor
man explorer, and on account of tho
secrecy maintained ho reached the
arctlce before his plan for renehlng
tho farthest north becimo know.i to
tho world. With the stoiy of tho
methods to be employed the mystery
of tho absence of dogs in the expedi
tion Is cleared
Llout Baucndahl, who is of some
note in Germany aB an explorer, left
Hamburg with seven men on a llttlo
fishing steamer, the Matador, in Au
gust last The objects of the expodl
tlon an attempt to reach the nortli
pole and an Incidental search for An
dreo were known, together with tho
fact that It carried provisions for two
years. Dut Just how ho was to reach
the pole, or make any progress at all
through the arctic Ice In his puny one
engine vessel, Lieut. Dauendahl kept
to himself while still In Kurope, There
were many who doubted the sincerity
of tho expedition, and laughed at the
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Gave $10,000 to Eloping Couple.
W. C. McDonald, a wealthy ranch
man, whose cattle feed on a thousand
hills, and whose great stone, house Is
locatod twenty-five mlloa from Chey
enne, Wyo., followed hard and fnt
on special trains last week to Inter
cept his daughter Anna, who had
eloped with Walter Hartwoll, a drug
clerk nt Van Tassels., the little town
near McDonald's ranch. The old man
had two big revolvers strapped to his
waist, and ho told every conductor
and brakemau and engineer nnd fire
man of each and every train on which
he rodo of the many things ho was
going to do to Walter when he caught
him.
FLORA OF CHAUCER.
(llvri
KxprtMilon to Subjective l'leaiure
In Outer World.
Just BOO years ago In a llttlo house
within tho garden of St. Mary's chapel,
-.Westminster, and the sire of English
poetry, Oct. 25, 1400, was a day on
which a great light passed beyond tho
kon of men. Darkened for a time, Its
radiance has brightened and duffuscd
itself down the centuries until now It
Is tho guiding star of all who seek to
know our mother tongue. Chaueer'n
verse marks an epoch In the English
language and literature, but strongly
as It appeals to the bookman, to the
antiquary, and to tho thoughtful ob
server of those earlier conditions of
social llfo, its study Is from a less sa
lient point of view of almost equal
worth. Among tho many critical
aualyses which this anniversary calls
forth, a word may well be given to
Chaucer's poetry In l(s relation to tho
flora of England. Not only Is living
therein tho charm of English fields,
the song of lark, the fluttering leaves
ami breath of meadow aweot, but
Chuucer, first, In some degree, give
expression to thut subjective pleasure
In tho outer world so distinctively nn
size of tho vo.wl as it pasted out to
sea, referring to It Hnicnatlcally as
"llHUciidaht'A Ice onisher."
Hut with the return of the OJoa light
was cast on tho plnn to he pursued,
and the story shows lluuendahl Is
nearly ils daring anr startling as the
Intrepid aeronaut for whom he. Is to
search. The OJo.i fell n with tho
Matador nt Cape South, and on a visit
to Dauendahl by Captain Hngeiup the.
former rotated liow lie expects to
reach tin pole.
Ills plan Is to steam his vessel to
the edge of the Ice Held, at about tho
elghty-llrst parallel of latitude, where
ho will disembark tils forty water
tight supply chests, each weighing 300
pounds. Theroiipou Dauendahl and an
assistant will push ahead, drugging a
windmill on a sledge. To the windmill
will be attached a tout cable, which
will pay out ns tho sledge advances.
Who nthe length of the cable has been
run out the windmill will be fixed on
the highest ground nvallable und set
In motion. The notion will turn a
windlass, winding In the, cable, to
which the supply chests have been at
tached by the party remaining behind.
When al lthc chests huve been brought
u pin this manner Dauendahl will
again push ahead with the windmill,
But when the old man reached Om
aha his anger had cooled, and lie fell
on the hotel clerk's neck nnd said:
"Say, pard, I was mad. Yes, I was.
And I was a-going to fill that ten
derfoot full of plaintive holes. Yes, I
were. Dut, say, pard, It' all over
now. I jest want my little Anna. I'm
n poor old lone fool dad, and I wants
my little girl, and I want to tnke her
back home with me, and If she wants
to bring that plll-mlxln' dude back
with her, why, all right. I guess I
can stand It If sho can. And, say, 1'vo
changed my mind about a-shootln' of
him. Yes, I have, pard. Instead of
that I'm a-goln' to glvo 'em 110,000 for
a weddln' picsent. And there's more
element In modern life, but hitherto
unrecognized In literature and almost
unknown to Individual emotion. Tho
Intellectual enjoyment of nature Is
largely tho outcome, the fine efflores
cence, of scientific Btudy. Slight trace
of Its existence Is seen In the older
classics. In Its more subtle phases,
even In Chaucer, the force Is but nas
cent. The opening words of the "Can
terbury Tales" tell how under the
quickening Influences of spring,
"longen folk to go on pilgrimages," an
Impulse which was chiefly a physical
exhilaration. Chaucer wbb himself a
typical Englishman, with the love of
outdoor life permeating his whole be
ing, but the poet's fancy touched to
finer Issues that recipient tempera
ment. His pages bubble over In glad
ness ns
"The smalo foules maken melodle."
and oven, when approaching old age,
he Bat down to write his mnrveloua
'tales, llko his own Perkln Rovelour,
"Oalllard he wus as goldfinch in the
shaw."
From tho Modern Culture Magazine.
Tho traveling man wants full fare
at hotols, but ho doesn't object to
hulf faro on the railroads,
North Pole
and tho performance will be repeated
until the polo Is reached. The num
ber of chosUt to bo dragged at one haul
will depend upon the strength of the
wind.
The chests were carefully construct
ed In Germany for the purpose. They
arc shaped like the pulkha, a sledgo
used In Lapland, and fitted out with
low runners to facilitate their move
ment over tho Ice.
Where a space of water too targe to
pans mound Is encountered the chests
will be taslied together to form a raft,
on which ttio whole party will ero.
When tho Ice Is too broken or uneven
to drag the chests by the windmill
method, ttie trolley feature of the plan
will be put Into use. The cable will
be strung on bamboo tripods brought
along for the purpose. The chests will
be hung to the trolley cable by means
of hooks, and pulled along by the
members of the expedition, who will
remove each Impeding tripod aa they
leach it. utter having Axed another Just
behind the traveling chests. Dauen
dahl calculated his company, split up
into parties of two along the line of
the trolley, can erect and take It down
as the chests are moved forward with
out great delay and without bringing
the cases to the ground.
The explorer hopes with ten hours
of work a day to make two 01 three
miles each twenty-four hours, and in
thla way cover the COO miles from his
starting point to the pole in a year,
allowing 100 days for delays due to
storms, intense cold, etc. He figures
he has Just enough provisions for the
Journey to and from the pole.
where that came from, pard. Just so's
I get my little Annie, pard. I won't
have to look at him, anyhow, and If
the Injuns don't steal him he can roost
around the ranch and get bis three
square meals u clay all of his sweet
life. All I wants Is my little girl, pard,
that's all."
And at last accounts the telegraph
wires In every direction from Omaha
were, bending almost to the ground
under the weight of messaged which
said: "Anua, come home and bo for
given. Ten thousand dollars for yer
wedding present. I won't kick no
more on the dude. Anna, come back
to yer Poor Ole Dad."
SSNSN
Inconstant n Ktau.
We are, for this most part, incon
stant as Esau full of good resolves
today, and tomorrow throwing them
to the winds; today proud of tho ar
duousnesa of our calling, and girding
ourselves to self-control and self-denial,
tomorrow sinking back to soft
ness and self-Indulgence. Not once, as
Esau, hilt again and again, we barter
peace of conscience, ami fellowship
with God, and the hope of holiness,
for what is, in simple fact, no more
than a bowl of pottage. Marcus Dods.
Sliort-Srtce Comrrlpt Armj.
The compulsory service act is ex
pected to become a law in Chile in a
few days. Dy this act the distinction
between the regular army nnd tho
national guard is abolished and n short
service conscript army established,
with permanent Instructors. About
30,000 men will be under arms at all
times. All young Chileans will be li
able for service from nine months to
one year at tho ago of 20, thereafter
passing into tho reserve Robert H.
Reid in Chicago Record.
Envy Is tho acknowledgment of tho
good fortune of others.
RUSSIA OF TODAY.
The Drpmilnr I'oTrljr of ttir niiulan
Feople.
Poverty and Illiteracy naturally go
hHnd in hand. In no other great
country of the world Is poverty uni
versal, monotonous, hopeless poverty
the national characteristic of tho
people. The only parallels I know are
in some of the Dalkan states. At al
most any point In rural Russia you
might think yourself In tho Interior of
Servla or Dulgarla, except that even In
these countries the poor peasant Is
not quite so poor, and his bearing is
more independent, ling trnlu jour
neys In Russia are depressing experi
ences. Once past the limits of the
towns, every village Is the same a
wide street or two not really streets,
of course, but deep dust or mud, ac
cording to the season, and from a
score to u couple of hundred gray, one
story wooden houses, usually dilapi
dated, and a church. Ilussja Is still
first and foremost nn agricultural
country, she produces Including (Po
land) two thousand million bushels of
grain, and grain products form more
than half her total exports to Kurope;
therefore, nt the right seaton, (here
aro great stretches of waving fields
and later, the huge mounds of straw,
whence the grain has been threshed.
Hut It Is in her mot fertile districts
that tho worst families occur, for fa
minea little one every year, a big
one every seven years has now be
come a regular occurrence. And the
country, as one files across It, leaves
the general Impression of Indigence.
In sharp and painful contrast with
western Europe, there are virtually no
fat stackyards, no eosey farm house,
nn chateau of tho local lauds owner, no
squire's hall pitiful assemblages of
men and women Just on the hither side
of the starvation line. And, from all
one learns, disease Is rife. Whole vil
lages, I was told by men who knew
them well, are poisoned with syphilis,
and the authorities, gravely alarmed
at this terrlbio state of things, have
appointed of late, several commis
sions of inquiry to devise remedial
measures. Drunkenness, too. Is a na
tional vice, the peasant having his
regular bout whenever he Inu saved
up a small sum. From "Russia of
Today." by Henry Norman in the Oc
tober Scrlbner's.
FAMILY OF DESTINY.
VUltor tu Contra tlo to Hie apulrou'
lllrtliptare.
Visitors to Corsica always go to see
the house where Napoleon was born.
A sojourn in this Napoleonic mansion
sets the Imagination working when
one remembers the children that were
born therein. There was Josoph, the
eldest son; Napoleon, the second; Lu
clen, Louis, Jerome, Caroline, KIIsp.
Pauline nil the children of an ob
scutr notary, and In tho course of time
(and not so long, either) they wore
crown torn from the heads of kings,
wore thorn defiantly, too. In the sight
of the whole world, and caused them
selves to be embraced as brother by
emperors and kings, and great nations
fell at their feet nnd delivered the
land and people to a band of Corsican
adventurers. Napoleon, as emperor of
France; Joseph, king of Spain; Louis,
king of Holland; Jerome, king of
Westphalia; Pauline and Ellse, Prin
cesses of Italy; Caroline, queen of
Naples all of these remarkable peo
ple were born and educated in this
modest house up a back street by n
woman unknown to fame. Letltia
Ramollno, who nt the age of fourteen,
married a man equally obscure. There
is scarcely a talc in the famed "Ara
bian Nights" that sounds more fabu
lous. There Is plenty of food for re
flection In a vlbit to tho Casa Buona
parte. ,-
A Happy Old Ago la llurmah.
When Durman parents are past their
prlmo their children pray them to
"nobosat," which means that they
should be at the children's charge for
the remainder of their live, as the
children had first been at their
parents'. The turning point is not
marked by any formality, but a child
approaching parents on a solemn oc
casion adopts the gestures of venera
tion. The aged are riot Idle; they pre
serve a great elasticity- of mind and
interest In things; they study their re
ligious book and occupy themselves
with their grandchildren. When they
are too old to go on pilgrimages with
the others they keep the hoime and tell
their beads alone. The old people
wear plainer clothes than the young
and, according to old Burmese fashion,
less of it. The human dignity of the
aged Is of a kind that apparel ran not
add to. Steeped In the spirit of Budd
hism the aged never yield to anger.
Wanting neither for necessities nor
honor, the pathos of their serene old
ago Is purely that of years. A peace
ful end Is their lot. Ferrer's Book on
the Chinese.
Tha "I'rutrttaot Pop."
Pope Clement XIV. has been called
the "Protestant Pope," because he Is
sued a bull In 1773 suppressing the or
der of Jesuits. This society was es
tablished by Ignatius de Loyalo In 1537
to establish the power of the Pope.
Protestants, kings and national blsh-.
ops were to be regarded as enemies,
and It became the most Influential so
ciety In the church. In 1C56, when the
Jesuits were In the height of their
power, Pascal published a book against
them, and from that time their Influ
ence declined, until France, Portugal,
Spain and other countries of Europe
demanded that the Pope abolish tho
order, which was afterward restored by
Plus VII., In 1815.
The man with the hoe Is entitled
to a it rub stake.
Woman
Puncher n
Dag punching as n system of physi
cal training has become one of the
most popular exercises adopted by all
who wish to develop the muscles of
tho body. For this purpose It Is ac
cepted by all directors of physical cul
ture as one of the best measures of
development and there Is hardly one
gymnasium or school of physical cul
ture In tho country where the punch
ing bag Is not In use. Bag punching
Is nn exercise which gives full play to
every muscle In the human Itody and
It not only develops the body, (but
quickens the eye. To bring the vari
ous muscles Into piny there Is no exor
cise more adapted than bag punching.
The arms, wrists, heud, neck, should
ers, body and limbs are brought luto
piny and In this manner every portion
of the body gets nn equal amount of
exerclre. Moderation Is one of the
chief points nf success while training
the body. Too much work is worse
than none nl nil. One of tho first lea
hons Is to find out how much the body
can stand without tiring. -As soon as
tho body become tired tho exerclso
should stop. Kach day will And one
able to do more, and this gradual In
crease Is whnt makes the exercise
show Itself In the wnnted Improve
ment gained. Among the thousands
who have taken up bag punching ns a
model of exercise, there are now num
bered many of the gentler sex, and
they are using It now ns a builder up
of the system. A muscular woman U
not always beautiful In a ball room
dress, but physical exerclso can bo
taken without development of the
muscles to a degree of coarseness. A
routine of dally exercUo will do a
great deal towards making beauty
show Itself where other sy terns would
fall absolutely.
Some excellent advice Is given to
women by Miss Helle (Ionian, who
now holds the chnmplouship of tho
Dig Their Own Graves
Plenty of men In eastern Pennsyl
vania have their graves dug and walled
up all ready for occupancy. They visit
their graves once a week and take good
care of the turf and the flowers. They
have the satisfaction of knowing that
when denth does come tho burial lot
won't be disfigured by earth thrown on
the grasB from the newly ting grave.
The earth to till the.e ready-made
graves Is brought In wagons. Somo
men want such earth brought from a
particular spot near their home. Kld
erlv women also have their graves
prepared In advance In uccordancc
with their ideas. One old lady has her
grave walled up with stones taken
from r.n ancient bako-oven In which
her grandmother baked the best cus
tards she ever ate In her HJc. She says
she know. It Is only a notion, wit sue
wnnts It that way. An old sexton of
Lehigh county has charged the young
minister of the church with one sacred
duty, as he calls It. The preacher must
see tn It personally that he Is burled
without a coffin. He wnnts his body
wrapped In a sheet and lowered Into a
grave eight feet deep nnd then covered
with yellow Band from a near-by hill
where he played when a boy. The floor
of the grave Is to be of the sanin sand
a foot thick. He snys the brave sol-dlej-
boys were burled In their blankets
and a sheet is good enough for him.
Many girls and young men chooso
their graves, but If they marry, then
the conditions change and their fu
neral arrangements arc reconsidered.
?C2Nothing
During a visit to the south of Eng
land a gentleman was met with who
i elated a unique and most interesting
experience in dietetics. It was that
for the last three years he had lived
nn one meal a day, and that meal was
composed chiefly of apples! Further
astonishment waB evoked by his re
ply to my question as to what he
drank when he stated that the Juice
of the apples supplied him with all
THE MODEL KITCHEN.
A Oood Kange I Una or the Important
Thing.
Although the kitchen plays such nn
Important part In our dally life, it is
often, even In large establishments,
the room which Is most neglected.
The model kitchen should have the
walls tiled, but if this is not possible,
have a high dado of oilcloth with a
pretty varnished paper above, repre
senting tiles; blue and white always
looks cool and clean. Linoleum or
cork carpet Is the liest covering for the
floor, and this must be a good one,
as it will get hard wear. A most Im
portant thing is the range. A gas
stove is a most useful article, and
saves both time and trouble. A good
roomy dresser with cupboards under
neath and drawers for holding clothes,
etc., should occupy one side of the
kitchen. A good clock should be tn
the kitchen, also a Bin to for writing
down orders, plenty of hooks for hang
ing up things, and If there Is no,slt
tlng room for the maids several easy
MISS GORDON GIVES
ADVICE OM THE
EXERCISE VSj-Vv
world for lady bag punchers. Mlsa
Gordon Is still young In years and Is
one of the most physically perfect
specimens of women In the country.
She was not always thus, but early In
llfo began to build up the body by
taking dally exercise. A lover of out
door sports, nhe took aptly to It and
nt once began to show Improvement.
One of her chief methods was tho
use of tho punching bag, nud she soon
mastered the art completely and won
renown for her cleverness. Sho wna
the first woman to master tho art of
bag punching, nnd has Invented the
majority of tho blows she iuicb.( and
which have been adopted by men and
women alike. Miss Gordon has uecn
seen In nearly every city In this
country, and has recently returned
from u trip through England. Germany
and France, in nil her travels, both j
In this country and abroad, sho haa
at times met In open competition, .
members of both sexes and has never
onrc failed to come off with dying col
ors. She bus met many who claimed
to be champions of the art, and has
signally defeated them fir every In
stance, and now stands ready to de
fend her title against nny lady, bag
puncher In tho world. A great deal
of amusement can be gotten out of
bag punching and many of tho taps
iihed are real pretty to look at, aa well
as belug wonderfully clover. Single
and double taps, elbow and back arm
movements aie executed with wonder
ful skill and Judgment. Tho head la
brought Into play and oven tho shoul
ders are used. Continual shifting of
the feet and legs with great qulcknea
Is another marked feature of tho art
and one which must be perfected as
well as the use of the hands. Miss
Gordon Indorses bag punching ns an
excellent exercise for building up tho
system and one which cun be adopted
ns one of the chief exercises for wo
men. In the lower valley of Berks county a
hermit In the Oley hills owns a far
away corner In an obscure cemetery,
where he wishes to be burled cntlroly
separated from nny other grave. The
hermit's plot will not be encroached
upon In a hundred years. Ho sayu ho
wants no company, even In death, nnd
hl.s gravestone is to be Inscribed "Here
Lies Nobody." An aged church organ
ist died last year. Ills last request
was that ho should be burled on a hill
In a certain cemetery and th&t an
Aeolian harp should Imj orected over
his grave. He left $300 to tho grave
yard tnutces to pay tho expense of
keeping such n wind Instrument In
good repair, so that he could havo
music whenever there was a breeze.
Near tho borders of Schuylkill county
n well-to-do farmer has his gravo dug
and In the side near the bottom la an
opening four feet long and Iwo feet
vide a sort nf crypt. At. his death his,
favorite bulldog Is to be killed and
burled In tho crypt nnd his own coffin.
Is then to be lowered by tho side of
his dog He never had n wife and says
his dog Is his best friend, Ho Is so
well off nud has so much Influenco that
the church trustees will not refuse a
cemetery burial to the dog. An eccen
tric old stage driver has his ?rave du'j
and tho bottom of It so bricked that
the head of the coffin will bo two feet,
higher than the foot. The old man
Buffers from asthma and cannot lie
down to steep, but has to bo reclining.
He wants to have his head elevated
even In death New York Sufy .
But Apples 2C2
the moisture or drink he needed, Bays
Chambers' Journal. This, ho claimed,
was of the purest kind, being In reality
water distilled by nature nnd flavored
with the pleasant aroma of tho apple.
He partook of his one meal about 3
o'clock In the afternoon, eating what
he felt satisfied him, the meal occupy
ing him from twenty minutes to half
an hour. He looked the plcturo of
healthful manhood and is engaged In
dally literary work.
chairs will be necessary; a table cover
to put on In the afternoon, and a shelf
or small table for holding books,
newspupers, workboxes, writing ma
terials, etc.
Mel a Tcrrlbla Death.
Despondency over the fact that ha
had sold out his business to h'la part
ner at a low price and could not buy
It back lnducedCnrl Kruger, a flower
gardener of San Francisco, Cal., to
cast himself from the Interior of the
dome of the city hall to the marble
floor, 80 feet below. He was picked up
with both legs broken and skull frac
tured, and lived only a few faoura, fwo
men on the floor below narrowly es
caped tleath, as Kruger'a leg struck one
of them as the body fell with a third.
UIITcrenrs lleUrceii Uevlt nail Saint
The dlfTeience between a devil and
a Balnt 1b easily expressed. The for
mer linowa how to do right, and yet
does wrong; tho latter knows how to
do wrong, and yet does right Donaltt
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