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The North Pole
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Earth Has Six, in Three
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Washington, D. C.—"The earth bas
at least six well-known poles. In three
groups of twins, only one of which tbs
Shenandoah or the l.os Angeles, If they
b. ize un air trail across the Arctic, will
piobably cross—the North pole. The
otl -rs of the polar family are the
'po- s of cold,' the Nouth pole and the
Not h and Nouth magnetic poles." says
a bin »-tin from the Washington head-
quar. rs of the National Geographic
society
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< u«ur vnildren, Mrs. James A. Putien, wife of om
or nteagos wheui klngs. hua Urv.loped one of thè tnoal BUiteMful goal milk farli» in thè Uniteti States. It is uear
hvtuurton, and coniprlae» teli aere*. There are about 50 goal« In tbe lienL all are arlstocrata. very temperamental.
ami bear sucli sllnutlve name- sa Marguerite. Evelyn. Jean. Doroihy. »ernie« und Gwendolyn. Mra patien la bere seen
»Hh some <>f ber floek.
Use Skjn Boats to
Flee Arctic Perils
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Coin* of Old Weuex
King* Found in Cave
London.—A collection of Sax­
on coins issued during the
reigns of five Wessex kings has
been discovered in a eav* wear
Peakland, Derbyshire, by Rev.
G. H. Wilson. Human and ani­
mal remains found In the outer
chambers of the cuve Indicate,
according to antiquarians, ths
cave was formerly the dwell-
Ing place of a personage, pos-
sibly of a Mercian ruler of
more than ■ thousand years
ago.
The coins so far Identified
date back to the time of Cen-
wui, a Mexican king who ruled
gbout the year 890. Articles of
personal adornment also were
fot nd.
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Mr. Wilson has advanced the
theory the Saxons of eastern
nnd middle England, retreating
before the victorious Danes,
took shelter In the Derbyshire
caves and that there many of
them
slaughtered
or
starved.
ugreed io act as guides, and managed
to lead the white men through the
tortuous Ice channels to the often seu.
Here they saw the Boxer was not fur
Winnipeg.—On* of the most amus­ off, and their troubles were over
ing tales of hardship anil adventure
As for the Kindersley, they lost
that baa come out of Ilie Far North In sight of her before they hud traveled
years—a tale of hopeleaa buttle« with n mile, und the shifting Ice floe was
Ice and sea. of u hair-breadth escape carrying her away Into the polar re­
from starvation In the wlidernea* be gions at the rate of about a mile and
low the pole—-wus told by CapL Gue
it hulf nn hour. Probably by the time
Foellmer nnd members of the crew of the crew was safely on Its way south
the ill-fut rd Hudson's Bay company's
the vessel wus crushed to matchwood
ship Lady Kindersley when they ar­ In the Ice floe, her rich cargo tiecom­
rived here after abandoning their ves- ing the prize of the Arctic seas.
eel to the engulfing ice floes off Point
Barrow.
“Well, if we bad Stayed with the Turk* to Give Acce*«
Kindersley another duy we wouldn't
to Sultan*» Library
have had a chnnce." Tlmt was the
Constantinople.—There Is soon to be
brief way In which Cnptuln Fndlmcr,
n big. gaunt Beaman, whose home 1« estubllidied here a national library of
the Arctic ocean, described the escape Turkey in which the ezlsting libraries
of the Kindersley's crew. Hl<«hlp. be of the university und the private ll­
added, probably Is nt the bottom ot brury of the former Sultan Abdul
th* northern sens now. with her mil- Humid will be united.
Plan Big Irish Fish Firm
Turkish experts
lion-dollar cargo of fum.
present
Dublin.—Capt. M. Brophtl of the
atiid)ing the methods of organization Irish Fisheries' association announces
Ship Abandoned.
Not until all h*pe of saving her had of the public libraries In European that American financiers have agreed
gone did Captain Foellmer reluctantly capitals. Manuscripts of great value to form a company with a capital of
the order to abandon his stout were collected in Constantinople In >5.000,000 to develop the Irish fishing
little ship—and then It was with faint the course of centuries, and It la hoped Industry.
hope of reaching shore. Many limes
the skipper and aallora of the Kinder*
ley had attempted to make their way
to shore across thé Ice rtmn after she
hod become wedged solidly In the slow­
ly moving acutn that covered the
northern sea. Each time they bad
failed, turned hack by yawning ere»-
Ices In the Ice nnd bewildered hy the
henvy fog which had settled down
upon the rarrounding whiteness. When
they started on tbelr lilial daab it was
not for shore, but for the open «ea. Canadian Police Discover wilds of northern British Columbia
where they knew, by wireless advices,
and southern Yukon commcnly .tor­
Savage Practice* of
that the United States steaiiishlp
tured nnd slew fellow tribesmen for
being friends and companions of in­
Boxer was stundia? <}’• »»mew here out
’ Indian*.
jurious spirits have long been com
in the fog.
Tanned about In their three little
Wrangell, Alaska.—Killing and tor­ mon among prospectors.
Killed for Witchcraft.
skin boats, not knowing when they turing members of the tribe having
Five months ugo Frank Bass, factor
would be crushed between the groan­ fulled to drive uway evil spirits that
ing hills of Ice on all sides of them, were causing hunger und disease, an for the Hudson's Bay company at Fort
Ihe sailors gradually made their way Indian In the Liard district of Can­ Liard, 1 ukon territory, reported to
northward, traveling so slowly that It ada, 500 miles east of here, bunged a < anndian authorities that Big Aleck,
seemed at times they would never dog dally until he hud put to death bis a Cree Indian living on the Mackenzie
river, had told him that nomad In­
reach safety. Blindly they stumbled whole Sled team.
on. carrying their bonts across the Ice.
This was one of the tales that tric­ dians from the Nelson river, in British
with only n vnfll* Idea of the Boxer's kled through to Wrungell by means of Columbia, hud murdered a boy ac­
position, gained by their wire less com­ gold prospectors after a party of Cuna- cused of witchcraft. The crime was
munication with her.
dlun royal mounted police pi Hissed placed at 40 miles south of Fort Liard.
Superintendent Knight of the royal
Guld«d by Eskimos.
through here recently bound for Van-
A mile away from the Kindersley couver, British Columbia, with five In­ police, stationed at Vancouver, sent a
the adventurers, almost exhausted, dians accused of torturing to death patrol to Investigate. The Liard dls-
The trict was reached after traveling hun­
came upon n friendly band of Kaki- Mocassin, a lad of seventeen
I moa who were bunting. They man­ l>oy wn* said to have been burled while dreds of miles on foot with puck dogs
nnd navigating the swift lower Liard
aged to make the natives understand he still breathed.
Big Aleck, when
’ their plight. The Eskimos willingly
Legends that the Indians of the river by canoe.
found, repudiated the story.
The
party of three policemen, commanded
by Inspector T. V. Sandys Wunsch,
camped near the suspected Indians.
Patiently studying the territory, the
Investigators came on a hole In which
they found the body of a boy with bls
hands tied behind him.
After" thut confessions from the In­
dians came easily. These were to the
effect that Edy, a squaw,, had sus-
pended Mocassin head downward from
a sapling to drive awny evil spirit*,
after Big Aleck had dreamed that the
Ind was n sorcerer. A girl, Lucy,
found Mocnssln hanging there and
begged that he be cut down. Lucy
snld that the hid was nllve when put
Into the hole, but other Indians as­
serted that he was killed first by hit­
ting thlm on the hend with n rock.
The police arrested Edy, her three
brothers. Dan. Jimmy and Clem, and
Big Aleck, and took them to Fort
Linrd. At a hearing there the in
spector, a magistrate, decided that the
prisoners should go to Vancouver for
trial.
The three policemen brought the
prisoners out to Wrangell, traveling
1,000 miles on foot nnd hy canoe.
No police had been In the Liard dis
trict since 1892.
Crew Abandon* Ship With
$1,000,000 Fur Cargo.
Hangs Dog Daily
to Oust Spirits
Japanese Dinlomat and Family
"Even Old Sol, when he returns to
the North has been unsuccessful In
breaking up the plant, though at the
summer solstice he pours out larger
amounts of his nt) s there than at
any other part of tbe earth’s surface
except at the correaj><>ndlng point in
the South. If he didn t have to keep
moving be soon would make the Arc­
tic Ice cap the hottest region on the
earth’s surface, but he -nly succeeds
in melting some of the a > -face ice. In
honor, or defiance, of lc« visit, day­
light lasts for six monihs, but hu­
midity. cloudiness and precipitation
mar the beauty of his r. ys on the
crystals of the snow palace
“When he leaves and nig u sets in.
fantastic lighting effects, which shame
those of New York’s Great White Way.
are brought Into play. The northern
part of the sky is illuminated hy an
arch of whitish, greenish, or rosy light
from which streamers of white or col­
ored light, go trailing across the heav­
ens. This effect is called the aurora
borealis.
“Though the North pole can never
leave its kingdom and has been rigidly
bound down by nature. It does man­
age to shift about in a circle 50 feci
in diameter. This restlessness causes
a corresponding variability in* terres­
trial latitudes.
One Caller in a Million Years.
“When Admiral Peary stood on the
top point of the earth, he was actual-
ly being turned around only once in 24
hours with the rotation of the earth,
As he simply lingered for a few hours
he made ouly a small part of a revo-
lutlon—a pace which is not conducive
to dizziness.
“The other monarch of the world’s
ice lands is the South pole, twin of
the North pole. Though there Is all
the distance in the world between
them, in the main the surroundings
ire duplicated. The arrangement of
lund and water in their respective
spheres of influence is somewhat dif-
ferent; the southern, a land sone sur-
rounded by a wide belt of open sea.
and the nortiierp. a vater body sur-
rounded by continental land masse*.
The southern monarch likes bls sum­
mers colder; In fact so cold are the
summers and so regular the winds
that there is practically no plant life
of even the most insignificant kind on
the Antarctic continent. He is also
less exclusive than his brother of the
North, having received two earthly
travelers within bis portals—Capt.
Roald Amundsen and Capt. Robert F.
Scott, but from the latter lie exacted
a death penalty.
“The North and South magnetic
poles, located more than a thousand
miles from the true North and South
poles toward Hudson bay and New
Zealand, are the elusive members of
the polar family. The North magnetic
pole makes the compass needle stand
up straight on Its point, and the South
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3,000 Crow* Chase
Eagle to It* Valhalla
Nevers, France.—The strange
sight of a huge eagle being pur­
sued by a flock of crows esti­
mated at some 3,000 caused the
townfolk to stretch their necks
here.
The eagle eventually sought
refuge at the Chateau de Oussy,
where keepers Immediately shot
It. whereupon tbe flock of crows
disbanded and disappeared. The
eagle measured more than eight
feet across the wing*
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H lilt itili*» itiUiUt!
magnetic pole makes it stand on Its
foot, and they both play tricks with
all sorts of metal Instruments by mag­
netizing or demagnetizing their parts.
Why Compass Swerves From North.
“When John Jones travels through
northern Wisconsin or Minnesota
woods solely with the aid of bls com­
pass, he cannot go directly north un­
less he travels just a little west of
the direction in which his compass
points, because of Its affinity for Ute
North magnetic pole.
"The explanation of the magnetic
poles Is that the earth Itself is a mag­
net, made so probably by the electric
currents passing around It in an east­
west direction.
“The poles of cold are the Ishmaels
and Hagars of the polar family—out­
casts, both erratic and disagreeable.
They reside in the places where the
cold Is most Intense, usually in the
interior of a continent. Though the
North pole has the coldest mean an­
nual temperature, there is a desert of
ice In the interior of Greenland, which
is the coldest part of the northern
hemisphere In July. Verkhoyansk, in
northeastern Siberia, on the fringe of
the Arctic circle is colder In January
than the North pole Itself. It even
boasts a record of 94 degrees Fahren­
heit below zero, but its mean tem­
perature for January is about minus
GO degrees Fahrenheit. During Febru­
ary Fort Conger, Grinnell land, on
Ellesmere Island In the Arctic, claims
the honor, with a mean temperature
for February of about minus 40 de­
gree! Fahrenheit"
Inez Harden of Merigold Is the Mis­
sissippi entry in the health contest
to be held in connection with the In­
ternational Live Stock exposition at
Chicago November 29 to December 6.
She won g>e first prize In her stat«
health contest, as did all the other
competitors in the Chicago contest
Water Found in Quartz
Ten Million Year* Old
Chicago.—Drops of water more than
10,000,090 years old, preserved in
quartz since an age before life be­
gan to appear on earth, will be ex­
hibited in the Field museum here.
The water was obtained in South
America by O. C. Farrington, head
of the museum's department of ge-
ology, who found it imprisoned tn
crystal quarts taken from rock for-
matiou at Bon Jesus dos Meiras,
Bahia. BraziL The estimate of its age
was based on the fact that the rock
formations of the archean age are as­
serted by some scientists to have ex­
isted 550,000.000 years ago. The wa-
ter is clear and sparkling In Its crys­
tai con tainer.
Bull Fighting Barred
Vienna.—Thirty Spanish toreadors
recently appeared before the Buda­
pest municipality In their picturesque
natioi.il costumes and were received
by the burgomaster. They appealed
for permission to hold bull fights, but
the burgomaster could hot make any
promise. It is improbable that the
prohibition will be removed.
BOOK DESCRIBING EARLY TRIP
OF AMERICA HAS BEEN FOUND
Father Hennepin at the time wat
ells of Hennepin’s and Du
a subject of Spain, although traveling
Lhut’s Adventures in 1680.
with
an expedition
financed by
J’lnneapolis, Minn.—A yellow, worm-
eat a old book. Father Louis Henne­
pin - <>wn account of how he and Du
Lhu. n 1680 discovered the fails of
St. Ai. hony, has been found in the
home of W. E. Hewitt, a Minneapolis
attorney. Tbe book was published >'n
London end dedicated to William IIL
Father Hennepin tells the story of
how, after Journeying from the mouth
of the Illinois river down the Missis­
sippi to the gulf of Mexico and back,
he and his companion were captured
by a oand of northern Minnesota In­
dians. They, were taken to tbe north
woods, where Father Hennepin became
ill.
He was placed in a tepee, into
w-hlch were rolled large round stones,
red hot. These heated the tepee, while
two Indians gave him a sort of “Swed­
ish massage.” The treatment was re­
peated until he recovered.
Accompanied by Du Lhut, he and
his party later started back to Canada.
discovering en route the falls of St.
Anthony. Near the falls they found
beaver skins hung up to scare away
evil spirits. Some of the party want-
ed to steal the hides, although Du Lhut
opposed this, knowing the ways of the
Indians better than they.
Despite his protest, the skins were
taken. Latef the whole party was
captured by the Indians, who wanted
to kill them. Friendly Indians Inter­
vened, however, and the white men
were allowed to proceed.
France. Upon his return to France,
because he took credit for discovery
of the mouth of the Mississippi, which
the French contended should go to La
Salle, be was exiled and proceeded to
England, where he wrote his book,
with WilUam HI. as his patron.
Isle Where Brutus
Plotted I* Air
Base
Rome.—A new project for an ex­
perimental air station and flying
school on the island of Nisida, in the
Bay of Naples, involves uniting the
Island to the mainland by a bridge
about three-flfths of a mile long.
To stop the alarming number of ac­
cidents to Italian airmen tbe govern­
ment has decided to build a large ex­
perimental station and research labora­
tories on the island.
Nisida, a small rocky Island, is the
Nesis of the ancients. In 44 B. C. It
afforded a refuge to Marcus Brutus,
who was visited there by Cicero. The
conspiracy against Caesar was initi­
ated there by Brutus and Cassius, and
there Brutus took leave of his wife
Portia on his departure for Greece
before the battle of Phillippl, the news
of which caused her to commit suicide
by swallowing burning coals. In the
Fifteenth century Queen Johanna II
had a villa on the island which was
converted into a fort to keep the fleet
of Louis df Anjou in check. The
island was formerly actively volcanic.
Fascisti of Milan Taking Oath of Allegiance
I’remler Mussolini addressing the
Fasclstl militia in the Piazza del Du-
Warsaw.—Rain and flood have re­
omo In Milan and calling for the oath
duced the harvest of grain in Poland
of al'egiance to the king.
this year, althbugh the sown area is
larger than it tvas last year.
Polish Harvest Failure
creiury ot Uie Japanese embassy, Mr. Y. Yatabe, and Mine.
Yatabe, with their three children, Reiko, Hiroko and Tashlhiko. They have
Just arrived in Washington.
“Tin most talked of merntier of the
family is the North pole. Enthroned
at the tup ut the earth where latitude
become» tto degrees and the meridians
of longitude converge, it Ims received
only ant visit in all time. Bear Ad-
udrai Robert E. Peary, with his re-
tlnue of Eskimo attendants. spent a
few hours in Its frigid presence and
took notes on Its refrigerating system.
"Belenfists tell us that this refrig-
erating plant, installed and operated
solely by nature, never falls to reg­
ister below the freezing point of fresh
water even during July, and that Its
mean tem|>erulure In winter Is about
that of some of tbe Montana cold
snaps.
HERE'S A HEALTH G’RL