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9 fiVS3r 9 it O Jehii-Wfokly Bandoh Recofder, December Sfr, H9l& i--Tm STEFANSSON'S BATTLEWITH ICE Member of Expedition Telis of Fight With Floes, NO WORD FROM THE LEADER Karluk, Bearing Discoverer, Beyond Telegraphic Communication Fears For Safety of Party Entertained by Scientists Thrilling Story of Hard ships In the Far North. Boat tie, Wtiah. John Munro, with the Stefansson exploration party, in n letter Just received here, describes the voyage of the Karluk from Port Clarence until the party became lco- bound for the first time forty miles from Point Harrow, the extreme north ern edge of Alaska. The letter In dat ed I'olnt Marrow, Aug, 15. The Karluk now Im beyond telegraph Ic communleatloii. The whip had to wult at Port Olarenee twelve UayH for Plioto by American Press Association. VILIIJAI.MUlt HTBFANSSON. the arrival of the gasoline schooner. Mary Sachs, which carried Stefansson. and the Alaska, another schooner. Captain Uurtlett, who was anxious to press on, waited till the Sachs caught up to her, took off one of the party and set off at full speed. After that day, July 20, the two ships parted company, and when Mr. Munro wrote nothing bad been seen of file Sachs. The following day some yery bad weather was struck, so se vere that In thlrty-slx hours the Knr Juk logged eighteen miles- Some of the time, although she v. as steaming at full speed, the wind and sea were driving her backward. When the weather moderated a little Captain Uurtlett reached the laud, and on the evening of July 30 Point Hope was reached. On Aug. 10 the Karluk left Point Hope and with a fair wind made good time until the evening when Ice was sighted between ley capo and Capo Holcher. The vessel steamed along side the ice to the latter point, but found it Impossible to get through. She steamed alongside the Ice all night, and next morning. Aug. 2. turn ed and, seeing an opening, made a dash for It. "Unfortunately." writes Mr Munro, "the ice closed In on us about forty miles from Point Harrow after us fighting our way that far." On Aug. it, upon llndlng that there were nn signs of getting out at nil, Htofnnsson decided to walk to Point Harrow, accompanied by Dr. McKay. Tho day Mr. Munro wrote his letter, Aug. G, the Karluk was still held In the grip of the Ice. The temperature then was til degrees below zero, with a strong wind blowing on shoru. Finally the Karluk reached Point Dnrrow and then proceeded, being re ported oh" Kinsman Island on tttg. H. Fears may lie held in certain circles for the safety of the party, but tho ship is now beyond telegraphic com munication, and malls arrive very slowly If the Karluk had been jam med to pieces In the Ice some of tho members of tin party probably would have been saved, marine men point out, and had she foundered the Mary Sachs would doubtless have reported tho news before this. NEEDLE IN STOMACH. X Ray Shows Presence, but Girl'Can't Remember Swallowing It. Baltimore. With a large ncedlo lodged in her stomach Miss Fannie Ru bin, a salesgirl, lies at St. Joseph's hospital in a serious condition. Sho was taken there sintering license pain and unable to retain food. The girl has no recollection of hav ing swallowed the needle. As sho grow weaker and the pains became keener tho X ray was resorted to. This showed a large needle lodged dl ngonnlly Burgeons ujp powerless to relieve her xcopt to deaden the pain with opiates. NAVYP TO MAKE UNIFORMS. Daniels Plans to Establish Tailoring Outfit s3 Charleston Yard. Washington. In line with bis policy of utilizing nary stations and yards In the south, where largo expenditures have been made for buildings. Secre tary Daniels hns decided to establish at the Charleston navy yard a manu facturing plant for the production of sneh parts of marine nud naval mllltln uniforms that can be economically made there. The secretary has made a thorough Investigation of the cost of making such articles on contract or in the open market and finds that tho government can effect a large saving by doing the work itself. Labor con dltlons and the proximity to southern cotton mills promise more tbnn ordl nary economy In a plant at Charleston, and the money Is available to Install the machinery required. The plan accords with the secretary's determination to nsk congress for as little money as possible for buildings at nnvy yards and shore stations. Mr. Daniels said that the new shops nt Charleston would not curtail operations In the shops at New York or Phlladcl phla. SLOT MACHINES REMAIN. Can't Provent Sale of Stamps nt More Than Their Value. Washington. The postofllce depart ment luis no authority to discontinue the sale of postage stamps through slot machines maintained in hotel lobbies, drug stores, newsstands or other places of business. This wos the decision reached by the postmaster general lift or receiving complaints against the sale of stamps In this manner. The machines sell four one-cent or two two-cent stamps for n nickel, mak ing n profit to the merchant of n cent on each transaction. Many indignant citizens wrote to the postoulce depart ment denouncing this as extortion. Third Assistant Postmaster General Dockery said t?iat while there Is a law prohibiting the sale of stamps at more than their face value It applies only to postmasters and their en ployees. and the government has no Jurisdiction over stamp vending ma chines located elsewhero than on post olllco premises. BOY, AGED THREE, SEASONED SMOKER Began Habit When One Yen Old, Parents Assert. Watcrbury, Conn. Physicians are nuzzled over the case of John Llppke, Jr., sou of Mr. and Mrs. John Llppke, who nt threo yours old. smokes dally threo cigars. Tho child, according to his parents, has been smoking since ho was a year old. and all attempts to break him of the habit have failed. The physicians declare they have nev er heard of a parallel case. Consump tion or mote than 1,000 cigars a year Is not his only accomplishment, for In addition this Infant relishes a pipe and cigarettes. The boy's father is a machinist In one of tho locul factories and uu In veterate smoker. About two years ago, nccordlug to Mrs. Llppke, her baby found u lighted cigar on a tablo and picked It up. Ho placed It be tween what few teeth ho had and puff ed vigorously, ns ho had seen his father do many times. Ills mother took tho weed nway from him, but tlie baby cried so hard that sho Anally gavo It back to blm. After that, ac cording to the parents, the boy , had to have his smoke every day. In addition to an occasional cigarette and a pull at a pipe. ICven In the case of a boy lifted) years old, physicians declare, the hab it would have a serious effect on his health, yet this child of three seems to thrive on tho weed. CANARY BY PARCEL POST. Against Rules Wee Songster Taken Safely to Destination. Seattle. Local postnl employees were treated to n surprise recently at llndlng lu the parcel post mall, mark ed "fragile," a canary. The tiny songster was sent from Mount Vernon by parcel post and spe cial delivery for a resident of Capitol hill and gave no sign of not enjoying its imprisonment lu Uncle Sam's mall until "preparations were niado for sending It on the last leg of Its Jour ney Then It had the tlutters so badly that the parcel jost clerk was about ready to hurl himself through the win dow until he peered through tho nlr hQle, of the container to find that ho had a woe canary Although the sending of live birds through the parcel post is not permit ted, the canary was safely delivered to Its new owner thj next day. Birdshot Kills a Bear. Owosso. Mlch.-O. D Bell and Cal- vln Huntley nre Imck.from Roscommon .county with n 150 pound bear which they killed with bird shot Tho men vvero huntliyt small game and came on the bear unexpectedly Roth opened tire as the benr, ohnncid Hell retreat ed .behind a tree, wlif'etirjon the bear urned liu attention to Rentier, He; was but a few feet away when one of the birdshot penetrated tho bear's eyw to the brAln,pnd t dropped, deff, 1 NATIONS' EYES ON LEWIS AERO GUN American's Invention Promises to Revolutionize War. FIRES 500 SHOTS A MINUTE 8o Light That a Man Can Transport It Easily Needs No Water Cooling'. Army Officer's Graphic Story of Re cent Testa of Wonderful Weapon at Bisley, England. That the general adoption of tho Lewis automatic machine gun will revolutionize warfare, sending tho present day rifles and Maxims to tho Junk heap nnd rendering current mill tary tactics antiquated at one stroke, Is tho opinion of a high nrmy officer who was present at the recent trlols nt'RIsIey, England, of a new gun In vented by Colonel Isaac N. Lewis, for merly of tho OnIt(Hl States. Tho army officer, who stipulated thnt his name should not be mentioned for fenr of n reprimand by his govern ment, drew a vivid lIcturo for the Now York Times' London correspon dent of the war of tho future, if fhat ono desire of all war offices n porta blc automatic machine gun. not de pendent on water for cooling should prove no mere toy, bift able to stand up tinder nctual service conditions. Squadrons of cavalry going Into ac tion tinned with machine guns Instead of fhe lance, saber or carbines regl tncnts of Infantry carrying machine guns, each soldier having n "potential deadllness of tyo or more companies armed with mere rifles; flocks of swift. light armored aeroplanes, each mount ing one oT two machine guns, swoop ing down on the enemy with a deadly hull of (Ire, were'Romo of the military novelties thnt ho prophesied for" the not dlstnnt future If the Lewis gun., which "wns highly successful In tho preliminary tests, could stand tho. grueling fit nctual service. Equal to a Regiment. 'Tor the first time a machine gun. capable of firing ROD to 800 rounds a minute. Is to be carried by an. Infan tryman." says the officer. "No horses or mules are needed, ns, with the Max im. This gun weighs ejily twenty-six nnd a half pounds, or less than half a soldier's normal edulnrannt Think what that means! One Infantryman. can carry n gun. nnd his comrade can carry the ammunition. Every compa ny of 180 men could carry soyenty-flro guns. A single company would, nave a destructive power equal to a whole regiment nt present 'My opinion Is that the new gun Is bqund to displace Maxim's, for It takes five mules and ton men for every Maxim as against no mules nnd two. men for the Lewis gun. Another thing Is thnt It will do away with tho neces sity of having cavalry escort for wag on trains. A machine gun could be mounted on every wagon." Tho scene which the' correspondent witnessed nt tho nisley tests was a tremendously Impressive one. Tho now weapon, which to a layman look ed more like nu overgrown ritlo than a machine gun, wau mounted on a small Iron tripod on tho 200 yard range. The Inventor, Colonel Lewis, was 'visibly nervous ns bo gavo final Instructions to the civilian operatorfl while grouped behind in an Interested and silent semicircle stood Major Gen eral Vondonoph, master general of ordnance; Major General Allenby, In spector of cavalry, and many other high English nrmy officers, representa tives of tho admiralty, military men from South Africa, Now Zealand und Australia; tho Bulgarian minister. Colonel Squler, the American military attache, the Belgian. Austrian and Jnpaneso attaches and representatives of nearly all the other foreign govern ments. Soma idea of the Interest aroused may "bo gained from tho fact that a Russian colonel, who was present had been ordered from Sebastopol to Eng land on two hours' notice by the Rus sian minister of war. After several thousand rounds bad been tired in what seemed only a few moments, tho whole company of n hun dred went to Inspect the riddled target Other tests wero made at the G00 yard range, then the officers present had nn opportunity to fire the gun themselves from tho U00 ynrd range. Fired From Altitude of 600 Feet. Then the. word passed thnt nn aero plane wns coming. The company has tened to the watch tower In time to sen a heavy lumbering ark of a bi plane climb slowly Into tho cold gray sky against the brisk and treacherous head wind. In a special scat fastened under the pilot seat sat an officer with a maehluo gun mounted before blm. As the blplano swung toward tho target at an altitude of G00 feet he tired the whole magazine of forty- seven rounds in less tbanjlvg minutes, scoring a high percentage o'f hits. liven to the laymen the demonstration was Impressive. I offered the Invention free of charge to the United States govern ment," Colonel Lewis said, "but It would not touch It nt the time. "Already' tho gun has been subjected to preliminary official firing trials In Russia. Ilelglttin, Italy, Austria and Sweden, nnd lOnnw under full official trials by itMpeclol board of officers In the United Spates. As a result, of tho t&sts trial orders have already been liced by several kQvernmtnti.H fa ! If-'i fiodi to tao Ttn Special Prices! 35, to, 50 Per Cent Off on all Holiday Goods. From Now to Jan- 1914 y it i This means that ' ' " dollars Is Worth Your While? i We begin taking an inventory of our goods on January 1st, consequently make this liberal offer in order to reduce this stock. We also have the leading lines of Pianos and Grapaphones which we art? selling on easy term. Be Sure and Get the . Right Place BANDON DRUG COMPANY STUDENTS BURN HISTORIES. Indignant Georgians Destroy Copies . as Band Plays "Dixie." Waleska, Gn. With the b'and play ing "Dixie" the students of ltelnlmrdt college, numbering nearly -100, gather ed on the campus and made a boutlre of exry copy of a history of the Unit ed States whiell had been prescribed lu the curriculum. The book was pre pared by a northern historian, and the students allege that the writer Is un fair to the south and unduly partial to the north, especially In dealing with the-civil war. In the ljistory Harriet Heecher Stowe is praised and Jefferson Davis Is de clared to hate been n man of small mental enllber and also a traitor. The Tiha meter of Hume of the leading south ern generals also Is attacked. It is al leged that there are, even Insinuations, against General Jtobert B. Lee. lieluhaiiU college is under the aus pices of the Southern Methodist church. It is coeducational nnd Is the largest educational Institution lu north Georgia Has all her teeth at 72. r Michigan Woman's Set Parfect.but For ."Three Small Fillings. Buttle Creek, Mich,. A, woman seven ty-two years old with all her own teeth and oufy three tiny illllugs Is the dis covery nulde ut an Institution here. The woman Is Miss Helen Simons, a Lansing schoolteacher. A physician made the. discovery n few days ago when bo whb .lecturing. lie took oc casion to state that few people over fifty had nil their own teeth. lie then asked nil In the audience who were over fifty and retained nil their own teeth to raise their right hands. Miss Simons was the only one. The incident was so unusual that she was, examined by a number of den tists. They pronounced her teeth un usually good. The threo small tllllugs In her teeth were put In more as n pre ventlve than because her y teeth were decayed. She says they were slightly discolored, and, although there was' no sign of decay, site took the dentist's ndvlco nnd had them filled. Miss Si mons Is fhe daughter of Anson Simons, one of the pioneer settlers of Lansljiu. She Is also a sister of tho late B. V, Simons of that city. TRADES BABE FOR CHICKS. 1 1 1 Woman Gives; Up Her Infant Far Six Hens and a Rooster. Kansas City, .Mo. How a mother traded n year old girl for six hens nnd a rooster because she had been desert ed by her husband and could dot sup port It has come to light through the death of Mra. Millie Karnes after be ing burned nt her home, 2518 McGee street Seven months ligo. according to ,a story told the Juvenile court otllcers. Mrs. Karnes took the baby to a Kan sas City woman nnd asked that she care for It When she left the child sho wus given tho poultry. The court otllcers biillove the baby has a good home and will leave It with the foster parents. Frank, tho nine-year-old son of Mrs. ICurnea,t8 allllcted with blp trouble and has been taken to Mercy hospital by the courttjlcers. Helping Things Along. Mrs. fJrnbshaw-Wbat'fl (hat you're blowing on your bugle, dear? nobbl&-The call to nnns. mn. Sis ter's yount? m&h has her under the mistletoe - you save from 35c to 50c on every worth of these goods you buy. With every dollars cash purchase, or every dollar paid on account, a ticket on our new $80.00 White Rotary Sewing Machine which we Will Give Away January 10th to thex person holding the lucky number. Bandon Hardware Company Hear Professor Reddie Elocutionist, Teacher, State Lecturer - w e At Grand Theatre Wednesday, Dec. Thirty-First 0 o o o 0 . o o o Proceeds go to the Bandon Pub- , lie Library. e - O O e ; l I Subscribe for The Recorder an.d get the news while it is nws. J o c 6