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HOW ZEPPELIN PLANS TO TRY TO REACH THE NORTH POLE BY AIRSHIP f M v t o r vrtnr 3 A a * * .f 3 o f the t f S s H o w s ñartton o f ship frhieh 54/«/* Afomhh/fn w/,,eA support Ms A ,r*P ,p J iñ c o y n ttr w S ir pryjtt/rs^ Jbsern* sus,y « / » fe fi e s .UiSPjlk ST o ta s / l / s //y s aca , yj Jthjm/rr/ur»s 3 OSt S í Ò 4" y # r S S f l& t ¿ppm, p irn — C 'fpm f plenos 'r o é freo! Sepp', fervoré boot es 20 P /nr g Wtfh eng, n s HE Kaiser and Count Zeppelin have Joined forces for the dis covery of the north pole by airship. The expedition Is to be made with the aid of the most powerful Zeppelin vessel yet constructed. A series of preliminary flights through the polar latitudes will be carried out from Cross Bay on the Island of Spitsbergen during the arctic summer of 1910. Announce ments to this effect have thrilled and electrified Germany with patriotic excitement, writes a Berlin correspondent In the Philadelphia Ledger. The Fatherland cherishes the confident hope that the laurels of the arctic, for which gallant men of all nations have struggled and died, will finally fall to the conqueror of the air. The Kaiser takes an intense per sonal interest in aerological research, a branch of science in which great things are expected from the Zeppelin-Hergesell expedition. The expedition is to be conducted under the personal supervision of Count Zeppelin and his meteorological expert, Prof, von Hergesell, the cele brated Strasburg aerologist. The Count' has been rebuffed so long by heart less fate and Prof, von Hergesell is so conservative a scientist that they disclaim any official intention of attempting to find the pole. They aver that their expedition is designed exclusively to "investigate the unknown regions of the arctic" and to make a series of scientific explorations and measurements in the polar latitudes. That is a sufficiently ample program, however, to comprehend the finding of the pole— which everybody in the know understands full well is the real obejctive of the expedition. The S00-mtle route from Cross Bay over Spitzbergen to the pole Is easily within the radius o f action of Zeppelin's airships. Zeppelin II. accom plished a considerably greater task in its famous Whitsuntide voyage across Germany six weeks ago. The reaching of the pole will depend wholly upon rancor Pvm /9‘f'CO / ro m e o fo rS m is oonm unies, jos conte bol noon c o r. Stern boot esr ontb enf/ns eiKTii T itle I PE A S A N T A N D lln rd en . Many as have been the disastrous failures among marriages between rich American girls and European men of title, none has been a c c o mpanled by more mental and physical m i s e r y than that of Elea nor Patterson, of Chicago, and Count Gixycki, of Russian Poland. The shat tered romance be gan six years ago. Eleanor Patterson was the educated a n d sweet-faced daughter of Robert W. Patterson, pub lisher of the Chica go Tribune, and a sister of Joseph Me- dlll Patterson, a young millionaire COUNTESS GIZYCK widely known for his socialistic views. In 1903 she was in St. Petersburg on a visit to her un cle, Robert S. McCormick, then ambas sador from the United States to Rus sia. There she met Count Glzyckl, a man twice her age, with a reputation as spendthrift and rake. The following year Count Glzyckl came to Washington and renewed his acquaintance with Miss Patterson. His wooing was fast and furious and the girl was carried away by his polished manner and the glitter of his title. Despite all objection. In two weeks she married him. Her mother settled $20,- 000 a year upon her and she and the count went to Vienna. Then the trou ble began. The count's extravagance and gambling habits at the Austrian capital plunged hint deeper in debt than before, and because of his dissi pations he became the mock of Eu rope. In March, 1908, came the crisis. The countess taxed her husband with his w ild habits and the nobleman knocked her down with his fist. They separat ed and she went to London with her baby, the Countess Felicia, beginning an action for divorce in Paris, a suit which ultimately she won. In April. 1908, In connection with her suit, sne crossed from London to Paris, leav ing the baby countess in charge of a nurse just outside the British capital. In the hope of stopping the suit for divorce and of forcing more money from his wife, the count made a rush trip to England, stole the baby and carried her to Vienna, where he se creted her in one of his castles Just outside the city. The countess was frantic over the loss of the child and employed detectives by the score to trace the baby. Once Felicia was lo cated the authorities interposed so many harriers against the mother that the count had ample time to carry tne little countess to a castle near St. Pe- tersbu rg. Meanwhile Joseph Medlll McCormick and another member of the Patterson and McCormick families were bringing «v e ry Influence to bear on the courts o f France and Russia to recover Fe licia legally. It was not until a secret compact, which never has been clearly explained, was entered Into with the Czar, mainly through the work of for mer Ambassador McCormick, that an imperial decree compelled the count to give up the custody of the girl. After recovering her daughter the countess hurried to Cherbourg and sailed for New York City. From New York the party hurried on to Chicago, where tne Countess Gixycki and the little Coun tess Felicia w ill reside in future, pleased to have escaped from the tolls o f a nobleman lost to all ssnss of de cency. T H E DIAM OND. M o n s te r S to n e Poun<l b y A n t o in e nil A b n m l o u e d I'r im p e c t . tiirl F in d s n F o r- j u VVÖVV the strength of the wind. As Zeppelin's ships, however, have amply demon strated their ability to resist the wind, the Zeppelin-Hergesell expedition will proceed under Incomparably more favorable conditions than any of their predecessors in search of the pole. Andree, for example, was com pelled to adhere to certain wind directions. He was driven from his course and undoubtedly drowned. The new expedition w ill certainly have to reckon with storms in the arctic regions, but climatic perils will not threaten It in summer. The snow danger is also unimportant, but the rays of the sun will provide difficulties, for the sun is constantly in the heavens and in the pure atmosphere throws off rays of stupendous degree. In the unexplored polar districts landings from airships will be possible only on ice floes, which are, however, admir ably suited for the purpose. The reascent from these floes Is purely a bal loon engineering problem. Fog, that arch enemy of the aeronaut .in all latitudes, is a frequent phenomenon in the polar regions in the summer. Nansen, during his three years' voyage in the Fram, found an average of twenty foggy days in July and sixteen in August. On the other hand, the polar fog is never so thick, but it leaves the surface of the ice visible from an airship, and Is therefore an obstacle that causes Count Zeppelin and Prof. Hrgesell few qualms. A technical difficulty of considerably greater seriousness lies in the fact that the ordinary astronomical equipment, to speak only of the magnet in the mariner's compass, becomes absolutely useless in the neighborhood of the pole This will make it necessary, as Wellman discovered, for the airship voyage to be carried out only a short distance above the ground, so that some sort of control may be kept by simple observation of the direction and speed of the flight. ONCE MORE A F A IL U R E ! A n oth er A m e rica n *n&né ANY' native and foreign critics of American civilization have deplored the spendthrift tendencies of a certain class of Am er ican women, with little dwelling on the reverse side of the picture— the quiet, unostentatious giving M i mm away of millions of dollars annually by philanthropically-incllned members of the sex. Foremost among the gifts made by women in the United States is the endowment of Leland Stanford, Jr., University with $30,000,000 by Mrs. Leland Stanford. This Institution was started in 1885, In mem ory of the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Stanford, by Mr. Stanford. His will gave the university $2,500,000, and the $30,000,000 gift of his widow disposed of nearly the whole residue of the estate. Mrs. Russell Sage probably Is the most prominent of living women philanthropists. She Is disposing of the $65,000,000 that her husband acquired In fifty years at the rate o f about $8,000,000 a year. The Russell Sage Foun- MRS- S tanford . datlon, with an endowment of $10,000,000, Is the largest single charity in the world. It Is Insured an annual Income of about $400,000. Its work, In the words of Mrs. Sage's deed of gift, w ill be "to eradicate as far as possible the causes of poverty and Ignorance, rather than to relieve the sufferings of those who nre poor and Ignorant.” Miss Helen Gould's gifts likewise have been widely dis tributed. She has spent more than $10,000,000 of the fortune left her by Jay Gould, her father. Perhaps no methods of moneymaking have been more widely con demned than those of Jay Gould, hut his daughter has shown how great blessings can come from the wise use of money. She has endowed schools and churches and has given largely for relief and aid work among the sol diers and sailors of the United States army and navy. Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont, the first w ife of William K. Vanderbilt, gave $100,000 to the Nassau Hospital at Mineóla, L. I. She has been actively interested in diet kitchens for the poor of New York. Mrs. Belmont m r s . sage . Intends, it is said, to spend part of her fortune in advancing the cause o f woman suffrage, to which she recently became a convert. Her daughter, the Duchess of Marlborough, form erly Consuelo Y’ anderbilt, Is also known for her philanthropies among the London poor. Miss Giulia Moroslnl, daughter and heiress of the fa mous banker who passed away about a year ago. spends large sums in aiding children In New York, especially at Christmas time. She gives largely also to charitable institutions. Mrs. Harold F. McCormick of Chicago, formerly Miss Edith Rockefeller, had much to do with the direction of the chnrltable work done by her father, John D. Rockefeller, before she was married, and is said to spend largely, though quietly, now In aid of many charities. m iss ooru>. There are countless others, less conspicuous than those named, whose spirit of giving is manifested in widely varying forms, all testifying to the American woman's appreciation of the fact that money is most profitably spent when used for the benefit of others. iM In Let me give you the actual episode of Antoine. Antoine was so humble a peasant that when he left Vlerzon and took up prospecting In South Africa, nobody asked what his other name was, Franklin Clarktns says In Every body's. Having no capital save his muscles, lie asked leave to dig, on shares, a clalon on the Vaal R iver with which one prospector after another had become discouraged. Antoine got a Kaffir boy to help. The yield was pitiful. He asked the boy to stop work ing the center and try the side. When the boy did not understand Antoine Impatiently drove his own pick In the place designated. “ Suddenly (says one who knew him on that day) he was spellbound at sight of a large stone—a diamond. For some moments he could not move and could not speak. He feared It was an Illusion, like the mirage of water which appears to men long athirst. He expected It to vanish If he winked an eyelash. Collecting his energies, he darted forward and clutched the stone. Such was the tumult within him that for two days he was unable to eat or do anything but laugh and c r y !” Now, back home In Vlerzon, where he had been a peasant, he sits, as you may see. In comfort and content, with a glass replica of the diamond on the tii> of his weather vane, for the stone Itself weighed 288 carats In the rough, 120 carats when cut and those who purchased It paid hundreds of thou sands of dollars to possess It. MOST R A R E OF AUTOGRAPHS. That o f Thoinan l.yncli, Jr., Sljfiier o f Declaration, of (irea l Value. "W hat is the most expensive auto graph you ever sold?' inquired the re porter. "That of Thomas Lynch, Jr.,” an swered the dealer. The reporter look ed perfectly blank. "N ever heard of him," he confessed. "W ell, he was a signer of the Dec laration of Indej>endence. He signed it as proxy for his father, who was III at the time. Soon after he went to sea and was never heard of aagln. Now. autographs of Declaration sign ers are much sought by collectors. None approach, in rarity those of Thomas Lynch, Jr. In fact, so far as I know, there is only one In existence. "This Is affixed to an autograph let ter address by Lynch to George Wash ington, which lends it additional value It was owned at one time by Jared Sparks, president of Harvard College. Subsequently It passed to Thomas Ad dis Emmet, from whom I bought It for the sum of $4,000. I sold It to Au gustin Daly, who was a keen auto j graph collector, for $4,500. Later. Em met repented of letting the autograph go from his possession, and secured it from Daly for $5,250, presenting It af terward to the Lenox library, New York, where it now Is.” clals to prevent the secret leaking. It was only by accident it became public. S t o r y t o t h e E f f e c t T h a t t h e S t a n The story, which comes from Bayonne, Is that the chemists and Standard Oil dar d Oil C o m p a n y W i l l I l l t u l C ow . The Standard Oil Company has de officials were so elated by the discov cided to drive the cow and the dairy ery that they made eight pounds of man out of business, says the New the butter and put It In a box to be Y'ork Press. Its skilled chemists have shipped to John D. Rockefeller. When discovered a process whereby they ! it came to making out the express slip, can make gilt-edge butter as a by the term ‘Petroleum Butter" was used. product of crude petroleum. I f re That led to Inquiries which finally I I o * t to Make a Farmer. that the ports are true, plans have been pre elicited the Information The foundation-stone of a nation’s pared and contracts •mon will be let Rockefeller corporation Is going Into for putting up a big buttermaking the buttermaking business Nor did It success Is revealed in an article !n plant as a new departure of the Stand end with that. Assertion also was All Ireland Review. A friend of the ard Oil works In the Constable Hook made that the chemists, In the steps author was in Denmark, and was as leading tip to the petroleum butter j tonished at the amount of wealth got section of Bayonne. It was thought the lim it had been j discovery, also have perfected a cheap | out of so poor a country by dairies reached In the hy-produet business process by which they can convert the and by farailng. "N o doubt." said he to a well-edu when delicate perfumes were extract kerosene into sweet mllV, with a larger ed from kerosene. Until recently no i percentage of butter fat than cow's cated Dane, "the children are instruct one had an Idea the Standard Oil had j milk possesses. By running the petrol ed in the schools as to dairying and designs against the butter and the eum milk through separators of high , farming.” ‘ They are not,” said the Dane, "but oleomargarine industries It Is pre speed all the butter fat. or cream, is Thar leaves the tanks of they are taught the old Danish poems dicted confidently that within a year extracted That makes the only butter on sale In the Am eri the separators filled with rich and | fsagas) In the schools. can market w ill bear the Standard wholesome selfpas'eurlzed buttermilk. good Danes of the children, and then Oil label, and that petroleum butter If that Is true, the butter, cream, sweet they become good farmers." alto will be an active and aggressive milk, buttermilk and cottage cheese Men are usually willing to arbitrate competitor with creamery butter for markets *oon will he dominated by the only when the chances are they would Standard Oil. supremacy In thi foreign markets. bo whipped In a fight. When your ship finally comas In Since the new process was dlaeov- j ths cargo w ill be more valuable for ered every precaution possible has | Real poverty may bring leas misery Your neighbors are very sure to yea r long wait. been taken by the Standard Oil affl- _ than marrying for money. ceme down to your expectations. DO YOU B E L IE V E THISP SEED OF TH E V IO L E f. F l o w e r 11 l o o m * T w l o e i n H um a n K ip lo alv e u t e n s i o n —• Pod. The common wild violet affords one of the most remarkable illustrations of the care and apparent forethought of nature in preserving a species, a w riter in the St. Louis Globe-Demo crat says. As everybody knows, the violet grows in the shade, in pastures, woods and fields where the grass is abundant and long. It comes up early in the spring and flowers at a time when the grass is most abundant and succulent. Of course, it is liable to be cut down by the scythe, but much more likely it is to be bitten off by grazing animals. The violets that come In the spring either do iu>t seed at all or very spar ingly. But In the late fall the plant bears another crop of blossoms that are never seen save by the profession al botanist. They are very small, ut terly Insignificant In appearance, and grow either just at or below the sur face of the ground. These are the flowers which produce the seeds for the next season. The flowers on long stems blooming in spring are only for show; the hidden flowers are for use and the number of seeds they bear may be Judged from the ease with which a wild violet bed spreads. When the s^eds are ripe the pod ex plodes, scattering them to a consider able distance, often to ten or twelve feet from the parent plant, so that in spite of its boastful modesty the vio let not only takes care of Itself, but becomes a troublesome aggressor. Doctor— Have you a last wish? Pa tient— Yes. 1 wish 1 had some other doctor.— Life. "D id your new chauffeur turn out ttil right?" "N o; that's why he's In the hospital."— Puck. "W alter, has this steak been cook ed?" “ Y’ es, sir, by electricity.” "W ell, take It back and give It another shock.” "W h y did you tip that boy so hand somely for handing you your coat?" "Did you see the coat he gave me?"— Tatler. "When she hit him with the golf ball, did It knock him senseless?" “ I guess so. I understand they are soon to marry.” Pat— An’ phwat the devil Is a cha- fln'-dlsh? Mike— Whist! Ut's a frylu - pan that’s got luto society.— Boston Transcript. "Our train hit a bear on the way down.” "W as the bear on the track?" "No; the train had to go Into the woods after him.” Bacon— I understand some of your hens h.ive stopped laying? Egbert— Two of them have. "W hat's the cause?" "Automobile.” Little Ella— I am never going to Hol land, when I grow up. Governess— Why not? "'C ause our geography says It’s a low lying country." ¡key— Vat Is a promoter? Father of Ike— A promoter Is von who vill sup ply der ocean If some von else vill fur nish der ships.— Princeton Tiger. Mother (a t lunch)— Y’ es, darling, these little sardines are sometimes eaten by the larger fish. Mabel (aged 5 )— But, mamma, how do they get the cans open? Teacher— Now, boys, here's a little example In mental arithmetic. IIow old would a person be who was born In 1875? Pupil— Please, teacher, was It a man or a woman? She (to future son-tn-law)— I may tell you that, though my daughter Is well educated, sho can not cook, lie — That doesn't matter much, so long as she doesn't try.— Philadelphia Inquir er. Police Justice— Have you any way of making a living? Vagrant— I hev, y'r Honor. I kin make brooms. Po lice Justice— Y'ou can? Where did you learn that trade? Y'agrant— I decline t answer, y’r Honor. “ They onn’t drive my w ife into any of these new-fangled, slim Jane styles nf dressing." "Independent, ell/ ’ "W ell, It ain’t so much that. She's thirty-eight inches nrouml the wulst.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mrs. Gudethyng— Why did you have to leave the army? Wayward Cuffdrop __Well, you see, I was In the hospital most of the time; the food was too rich for me. I was used to living In a boarding house.— New York Globe. Mrs. Hlghsome—-Why did you leave your last place? Applicant (fo r posi tion as c o o k )—To tell ye the honest truth, ma’am, the mussus discharged me. Mrs. Hlghsome— Then you didn't leave of your own accord. I'll taka you! " I see that Jane Bleeker always takes Charlie Bralnard with her when she drives her new motor car. I thought she favored Clarence Green.” "Yes, put poor Clarence Isn't any good at pumping up tires."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. "D id you have a pleasant time at the picnic, Ronald? I trust that you remembered to fletcherlze, and masti cated each mouthful 100 times. “ Yes'm. an' while I was chewin' my flrHt Idte the other boys et up all the grub.” — Life. Visitor— Who is that crazy man yell ing and struggling so? Hospital At tendant— He isn’t crazy. That's Dr. Satire, the celebrated surgeon. They brought him here yesterday, and the doctors have Just ordered an opera tion.— Puck. Irate Tailor (who has called fre quently to collect, without success) — Mv dear sir, I wish you'd make some definite arrangement with me, then. The man— Why. surely— let's s e e - well, suppose you call every Monday, — Bohemian. "Ma, what are the folks in our church gettln' up a subscription fer?" "T o send our minister on a vacation to Europe this summer.” "W on't them tie no church services while he's gone?" “ No, dear.” “ Ma, I got $1.23 In my hank—can I give that? Cleveland leader. Germany has become the greatest producer of cocoa butter In the world, turning out about 7.900 tons a year. The best Turkish tobacco la grown In the low mountainous region border ing the south shore of the Black Sea. The entire fire department of Frank- fort-on-the-Main, Germany, Is to be • hanged from horse to motor traction. To prevent fraud in weighing, the government la having self-registering scales built for use In customs ware houses. The paper on which the Bank of En- land notes are printed has been made by a secret process In the same mill since 1719. A resident of New Jersey has pat ented a tapering stiletto on which there Is a sliding gauge to regulate the size of the holes It may make, to save an embroidery worker from car rying a Ret of tools of different sizes. Contrary to the general impression that the country furnished by birth a much larger percentage ot ading men in all walks of life than the city, Dr. Frederick Adams Woods arrives at the conclusion that It Is the urban popular tlon which takes the lead In this re spect. He bases Ills results on the birthplace statistic« given In a well- known volume containing brief biog raphies of notable Americans. Tak ing the total urban and non-urban pop ulations, he finds that the town shows a notably higher percentage of produc tiveness In the way of talent. This he regards as consistent with the laws of heredity, since talent of all kinds tends to seek the cities, and should be expected, generally, to reproduce Its kind. On of the most Interesting achieve ments of Lieutenant Shackleton's polar expedition was the ascent of Mount Erebus, the most southerly of nil known volcanoes, by a party led by Professor David. The highest peak hits an elevation of 13,120 feet. An old crater, filled with feldspar crystals, pumice and sulphur, was found at the height of 11,000 feet. The active crater at the summit Is half a mile In diam eter, and 800 feet deep. It was eject ing steam and sulphurous gases to a height of 2,000 feet when the party visited It. The ascent was made in March, 1908; In June the volcano was very active, and photographs of the eruption were made by moonlight. The neighboring volcano, Mount Ter ror, was Inactive. Of course the ocean Is not as old as the earth, because It could not l>e formed until the surface of the globe had sufficiently cooled to retain the water upon It, but It seems chimerical to try to measure the age of the sea. Nevertheless Professor Joly has under taken the task, basing his estimate upon the amount of sodium It con tains to that annually contributed by the washings from the continents. He thus reaches the conclusion that the ocean has been In existence between 80,000,000 and 170.000,000 years. This does not seem a very definite determin ation, but then. In geology, estimates of time In years are extremely d if Nervous Passenger (on lake steamer) ficult because of the uncertainty of the — It must lie terrible to think of an elements of the calculation. The most accident happening to the hunt while that can be said of such results Is that you nre away down there In that hole. »hey are probable. Stoker — It's Jlst the other way, ma'am. I f the liont sinks l won’ t have to go F p to Hate. through more’ll about half as much Drummer— So the coal oil got near water as you will 'fore I git to the tsit- the butter and flavored It, eh? I sup tom o' the Inke pose you’ll lose It? "W ell, Bobby, how do you like Storekeeper Jason—Oh. no. stranger church?" asked his father, as they I've JJust put a sign over It, "T r y the New Petroleum Butter,” and It Is go walked homeward from the sanctuary, to which Bobby had Juat paid his first ing like hot cakes. visit. "It's fine!’’ ejaculated the young man; “ how much did you get, I’ p r h t i p « t h e l l n p p l e a t . Minister -I made seven heart* hap father?” " I I o w much did I get? Why, what do you mean? How much what?" py to-day. t asked the astonished parent at thi* Parishioner— How was that* evident Irreverence. “Why, don’t y u Mlniater -Married three couples remember when the funny old man Parishioner—That only makes six. Minister - Well, you don't think 1 liasaed the money around? I got only ten cent*."— Llpplucvtt'a. did It for nothing?— Life.