The Sunday Oregonian., June 13, 1909, SECTION SIX, Page 5, Image 49

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I MAVT3 a horrible fear In my mind."
said the Hotel Clerk of the St.
Reckless. "Something: seems to tell
m that before lone I shall burst from
my shell and ro finning."
"Wot do you think about fishln'?" asked
the House retectlve.
"Well, not such a fabulous much," ad
mitted the Hotel Clerk. "Any time I
should feel called upon to put what I
know upon the subject Into book form.
It would not be what you'd call a large
book. Of course, there are a few salient
and essential facts regarding old Mr. and
Mrs. KJsh and their large and interesting
family that are very familiar to me. For
example, take the mackerel. I know the
mackerel's a salt water fish because he
tastes that way for breakfast. The sar
dine of commere Is a small but pleas
ing creature which has no head and
doesn't need one, because lie resides In a
can of oil, except when he's a mustard
sardine. In which caae he's still headless,
but has a different native element to
wim around In. The Kinnan haddie has
no Interior department, but lives all
flattened out like a buckwheat cake. As
a steady and consistent layer, the lady
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If dcitte backed clear off the nest, while her
husband, when cooked for the table, gives
a spirited Imitation of a fine-tooth comb
with some waterproofing around It."
"But that, I.arry, is neither here nor
there. It's neither hence nor whence.
It's not even hither or whither. The main
point is. that Summer has come. As the
lover of nature would say, the fish bite
freely and the woods are full of jays;
or as the keeper of the Summer hotel puts
It. the jays bite freely and the woods are
full of fish; which is very different when
you come to figure It out. Summer has
come and I know that I'm due. Every
Summer I very carefully make up my
mind that this Is the Summer when I
positively will not go fishing, after which
I very carefully up and go. I can't seem
to help It. All of a sudden some morn
ing I am seized with the desire to snatch
some Inoffensive fluke or law-abiding
moss bunker out of his native fluid and
carry htm around with me in the hot sun
until he begins to smell In such a way as
to Invite adverse critilsm."
"1 think It must be the call of the wild
stirring within my veins. Nearly every
body. If you'll notice closely, suffers from
an attack of that call-of-the-wild disease
ahout once a year. Some men satisfy it
by going Into the North woods, having
visions of bringing down a bull moose
John Bull to Probe Polar Secrets in Three Vessels
Nimrod Will See "Losf Islands in Antarctic, While Two Other Expeditions Will Voyage to Frozen North
After Glory.
V
rICTORIA, B. C, June 5. (Special.)
The quest of Mikkelson and If
flngwell for a mysterious continent
supposed by many scientists to exist in
the Beaufort division of the Arctic sea.
is paralleled by another similar expedi
tion whose goal is not very far removed
from the Southern Pole, upon which
Captain J. K. ravls has just been
riespatched from Sydney. N. S. W.. via
the south island of the New Zealand
group. The latest Antarctic, expedition
Is in continuation of that despatched two
years or more ago from Littleton, N Z.,
under Lieutenant Shackleton. with whom,
on the steamer Nimrod, Captain Davis
went as chief officer. The orders then,
as are Captain Davis instructions now.
were to locate the phantom group of
which Emerald. Nimrod and Dougherty
islands are supposedly the chief, tout upon
none of which human foot has ever been
I sec; to effect a landing and plant upon
' each a British flag, taking formal pos
reeslon In the name of Ilia Majesty, King
Kdward VIL
After leaving Sydney the Nimrod is
expected to proceed on a south southeast
couree until reaching the latitude of
Masquarie Island. When this island
has been arrived at, the run being ex
pected to oocupy 10 or 13 days, a party
is to be landed for the collection of speci
mena, both geological and zoological.
om there the NtmrodTs orders are to
proceed to the latitude and longitude of
Emerald Island, the actual existence of
which is very doubtful, as, although It
was reported and charted as long ago as
Its alleged location was passed over
by the Vnltod States Exploratory Expe
dition in 1S4rt or ISil. without any indica
tion of land presenting itself. If found,
a careful Inspection will be' made of the
Island and a rough map prepared.
The Nimrod will next make search for
the Nimrod group of islands, to ascer
tain whether or not they also exist in
tact. Captain llelnri.h Eilbech. in
bringing the ship Nimrod from Port
Jack.on to Rio Janeiro 1n 182.3, placed this
Kroup of islands on the chart, naming
'h'm for his ship; but in spite of subse
quent search, they have never since been
seen. Dougherty Island will next be
sought. The Discovery, In making her
voyage honm after the last expedition
to the Antarctic, sailed over the precise
position given in the charts as that of
Dougherty Island, but saw no sign of
nearby land. This island was supposed
to have been seen by Captain Dougherty
cm May S. 1M1, and by another merchant
"captain in 1S50. but the fact that it has
rot been seen on other occasions renders
the fact of its existence extremely ques
tionable. Many Mistakes Made.
Lieutenant Shackleton. who has aban
doned his Antarctic Investigations for
the present at least and who is now
going to London, explains that the lati
tude and longitude given by mariners of
the early days were not even approxi
mately correct on all occasions, and as
a result many Ishuids, although once re
ported, are not found when search is
made for them: In some cases It was ac
cepted as a fact that such islands did not
exist, until. Bfter a great lapse of time,
they were rediscovered.
ji an Instance he mentioned Bouvet
Island It was zealously searched for by
two or three well-equipped expeditions
without success, and yet 100 years later
in 1S?2. the inland was definitely located.
It Is thoupht by some that what the dis
coverers of tne supposed islands for
hich search is now to be made in real
ity saw were gigantic icebergs. The
cruise In quest of the doubtful Islands
will occupy from eight to ten weeks, and
the Nimrod will then proceed to Rio
Janeiro for coal and supplies. Thence
he will sail direct to Falmouth for or
ders. It has also been decided to make a
thorough study of deep-sea currents and
at noon each day after the departure
from Sydney until the completion of the
voyage, papers giving the ships position
were to be placed In specially constructed
bottles and thrown overboard. With
rv each bottle was a request that the find
er. forward them, with particulars as to
where round, to Lieutenant Shackleton.
There will be no attempt on the part of
the Nlm rod's company to reach the
with a set of antlers on his head like a
mission hat-rack. Only they never do.
They don't bring down anything except
the secret scorn of the guide who gets
four dollars a day to go along with them
and keep them from hurting themselves.
Some men can satisfy the strange - love
of danger which seems to lurk In every
human breast by taking a ride on the
hazardous Erie or the perilous B. & O.
Some get married, some get divorced, and
then marry over again. Some climb the
Andes Mountains and some talk back to
a policeman. But as for me. I go fishing.'"
"I can always tell, Larry, when I'm
about ready to go on my annual fishing
excursion. It comes along shortly after
I've . decided never to go fishing again
as long as I live. Why Is it, anyway,
that as scon as a man makes "up his
mind he won't do a thing, he begins pre
paring the plans and specifications to do
it? It's a question that's never been sat
isfactorily answered. IPossfbly to look
at me you wouldn't think it, but I know
a great number of valuable things. Of
course, there are some things that no
body on earth knows how a Chink laun
dryman keeps his books and what's the
reason a dentist always has a canary
bird in his office and why one year the
show girls will lean so far over when
they walk that you'd think they were
getting ready to steal second, and the
next year they'll all be reared way back,
with the chin in the air, like they were
waiting for their base on balls. One
year they're emphatically to South Bend,
Ind., and the next year it's Straight
Edge. Minn., for theirs.
"Those are some of the things that no
body knows the right answer to. And
It's the same way with this determined
resolution proposition. A man decides to
swear off. He wakes up some tired
morning following a busy evening with
a taste in his mouth like a felt insole
and a feeling that a swarm of bees have
hived in the back part of his head and
are now trying to elect a queen by the
Australian ballot system. So he says to
himself never again for mine. Well,
for awhile it's a very pleasant Jaunt.
The red-faced party with the spicy
breath, who's sitting to the left of him
on the front seat, remarks that it's been
a long dry spell, and he says right off
that he never minded a little dust In his
throat. The person with the prematurely
gray hair, on the right, complains be
cause the conveyance travels so slow, and
; our swear-ofting hero replies that per-
Southern Pole or to solve any of the
multifarious problems of science inciden
tal to the great mystery whose solution
has tempted so many courageous ex
plorers Into the wastes of the Arctic or
the Antarctic, and but comparatively
lttle attention will be paid to the study
of geological conditions or of fauna and
flora, the chief purpose of the expedition
being strictly geographical.
Arctic Expedition, Too.
Almost contemporaneous with the de
parture of the Nimrod from the frozen
seas of the farthest south will be that
of Professor Leffingwell. second In com
mand on the ill-fated Mikkelson expedi
tion to the Arctic with the reconstructed
schooner Duchess of Bedford, wrecked
and abandoned off Banks Island, her
seams having opened after she had
been crushed in the ice pack, and all hope
of saving the stout little vessel bavins-
been made an end of. Mikkelson is now
engaged in a new scientific expedition in
the vicinity of the Greenland coast and
Leffingwell proposes to take up his in
complete work in the latitude of the
Beaufort Sea. with what is perhaps the
smallest vessel in which men have ever
entrusted their lives in far Northern
waters.
This little craft, a sloop scarcely as
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sonally he never cared much for Joy-
riding anyway. He's happy and com-
large as the ordinary harbor cruising
yacht, and christened the Argo, has been
built during the past few months at Bal
lard, a suburb of Seattle, and Is now
complete end outfitted for two years'
cruising. She will be shipped from Seat
tle to Nome by one of the steamers ply
ing to that Alaskan port during the pres
ent month, LefTlngwell having 'with him
four of a crew, his mate and one other
of tlie men having accompanied the
Duchess of Bedford's party and. with
their leaders, escaped death In the de
struction of that schooner, and with them
wrought heroically in the salvation of
her stores and scientific equipment.
A part of the latter has been cached in
the nearest mainland to the scene of tha
Bedford's loss and will be utilized in the
forthcoming explorations and investiga
tions, which are to be almost altogether
geological, the soundings and other ex
aminations during the previous trip hav
ing convinced the explorers of the actual
termination of the continental shelf and
the consequent improbability if not Im
possibility of the previously accepted the
ory that there is a new continent or a
continuation of that of North America
in or north of the Beaufort Sea.
Still another voyage of Arctic discov
ery in which Western America and the
world at large have a lively interest Is
REMARKABLE PHOTOGRAPHS OF TWO NEW
. fortable. His eye Is clear and keen and
he's so full of high moral resolves and
planned by Captain Raoul Amundsen,
who was the first and only person to
navigate the great Northwest Passage of
romantic mystery making the hazardous
voyage from the Atlantic to the Pacific
in a small sloop Borne three or four years
ago. Amundsen is now scheduled" to
leave Point Barrow, the northernmost
inhabited post in Alaska, some time in
July, 110, his vessel being the famous
Fram, Nansen's. ship, with which he will
work his way a little northwest of north,
getting his vessel into the ice with which
she Is now so thoroughly acquainted,
and permitting her to drift for four or
five years.
A buoy set adrift where Captain
Amundsen proposes to enter the ice was
found not long ago near Spitsbergen,
from which it is adduced that it had
drifted in a course which must have
taken it very close to the North Pole it
self. It is with faith that the currents
are reliable that Amundsen has planned
his coming voyage of extrema danger,
the hope being bright that with but com
paratively little effort the Fram rind her
company will also be carried close to the
l'ole and Its conquest crown the splendid
achievements in exploration and science
to the credit of the intrepid commander
of the expedition.
The Fly Wipes Its Feet.
Give the devil his due. The fly may
carry all sorts of germs on his feet, but
did you ever see how he tries to get them
oft? No other living thing wipes its feet
as much as the fly. The boy who is
taught to swat the fly doesn't wipe his
feet as often in ten years as the fly will
wipe his in Ave minutes. Exchan ge.
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PULL INTO
NEATHE MOUTH
OF" Ai POPULAR.
conscious rectitudes that he can feel 'em
slosh, around inside if he moves sud
denly. . ,
"But the thought that he promised
himself that he'd never again dally with
The Useful Office of Despised Tobacco
One Defender Asserts It Is One of the Best Germ-Destroyers in the World.
BY W. V. LANCE.
m w AS much Interested in your rece
ent j
ent I
I editorial in which you compliment
the Presbyterians for their acumen
in following; their Methodist brethern
in tabooing tobacco, "even though a
little late." Excepting the top and bot
tom of your editorial, the question of
tobacco, onions and the public breath,
occupied your attention. I would wa
ger a stinkadora to a ladyfinger that
your writer does not use tobacco. Users
of that wonderful weed, do not, as a
rule, gret tangled up in such spasms.
The tangent upon which the critic flew,
was, and is commonly known as the
exception to the rule. The decent use
of tobacco far out-reaches the misuse.
It is becoming more universally used
every day; It is only a question of
time until the use will become quite
as general among women as it is
now among men.
The great American "injun" first used
tobacco. What was the significance of
tobacco among the originators? Was
It to make a stlnkin' breath? No. It
was an emblem of peace, a token of
friendship. It meant the tomahawk
was buried. It was the pipe of peace.
Nations never have fought over to
bacco. People do not kill each other
on account of tobacco. It is still a
mark; of peace and friendship. Why
YORK SKYSCRAPERS.
-TALLEST JS TJfT
the materials commonly used for dairy
ing purposes keeps 'bobbing up.. In his
mind. And the next thing, the shades of
evening are drawing nigh and he's
climbing off the water wagon to light toe
lamps!
"And so some day In June, when the
wild rose blooms and all nature is glad
glad probably because a person answer
ing to my general description is about to
make an imported, double-headed hot
house Bermuda ass of himself I also '
climb down off the H30 chariot of my
high resolve and go on the annual fish
ing trip.
"First, though. It becomes Incumbent
upon me to buy the necessary supplies.
I have been reliably informed, Larry,
that our forefathers used to catch nine
pound trout with a bent pin and a ravel
ing from the old rag carpet, but I am
here in the flesh to inform you that such
cannot be done any more; anyhow, not in
this section of the temperate zone, if it is
a temperate zone, which I sometimes
doubt.
"The proprietor of the sporting goods
shop establishment knows you won't be
back again for a long time. If ever, so
without due loss of time he proceeds to
extract from you all that the traffic will
stand. While one' fair-haired young
clerklette is emptying out a showcase on
your account and wrapping It up, and
another wtth lily-white hands and a
quick, darting eye, is helping, the boss to
figure up the second page of your bill,
you may gather the courage to remark
that there has possibly been a mistake
somewhere you are not starting a notion
Btore, you are merely going fishing. But
they only tell you. with pitying glances,
that to fish properly you need a proper
equipment, and then . they unload the
contents of another counter upon you
and you stagger away under a burden
that no humane man would put on any
horse smaller than a Percheron.
"You have to get up very early to start
for the place where an unprotected fish
was reported to have been detected at
large some time ago. Personally, I was
never fond of this extremely early rielng
thing. It's all right for milk men and
poets and parties who expect to be
hanged shortly; but I don't care for the
way the hour of 4 A- M. tastes and
smells to t layman. Also you have a
kind of a large, hollow feeling Inside- of
you, like a rotunda. All the time you are
climbing . into your old clothes the con
, viction is growing upon you that you are
single out tobacco, when there is wine,
sensuality and catarrh extant every
where? Which is the most harmless
and the least offensive? Tobacco
leaves, a product of nature, a normal
product, if you please, has no record
of which it need be particularly
ashamed. The growth of the consump
tion indicates it is still the "favorite"
against the field of all other habits
combined. You are trying to "kill a
flea with a sledgehammer." The flea
is so small that he gets in one of the
pores in the hammer's skin and you
can t hurt him.
The physical risk you say is an open
question to users of tobacco. The mor
al risk is certain and great. Every
where the air is polluted and danger
ous with its deadly poison. You say
some writers believe that tobacco stim
ulates the Intellect, and that they are de
ceived. The true intellect is not con
cerned about the effects of tobacco. It
it not studying these trifles. Whenever
the intellect, or intelligent man, stops to
plow around in such whimsical questions,
he is no longer exercising his true intel
lect. He has stopped to rest and is
wasting his time over quibbles. Man's
intellect tells him. intuitively, whether or
not tobacco Is what he wants. When he
has had enough the same intellect ad
vises him of that fact. Newspapers can
not take the place of intellect. You roast
22S S71 MADSOtJUSS,
not going to shine extensively at this
pursuit. But it is now too late to retreat
with honor.
"Going to the fishing place the train
is almost always crowded and somebody
pokes you among your most cherished
features with a jointed rod. and you sit
down on a pocketful of unattached lime
rick hooks and are severely bitten. Still
you are not d&unted: .Nor do you flinch
at buying bait for it's weight in paper
money from a man who would be holding
up paycars except he can make more in
his present line of business. You are
committed to the venture and you resolve
to go through with it or bust a surcingle.
"So you hire a rowboat weighing soon
pounds, and pull out into the stream near
the mouth of a popular sewer and moor
just over a cat cemetery. However, you
don't notice this until you pull up your
anchor and find you have been interfer
ing with a funeral.
"Then, mayhap, you go out further
where the surface of the stream doesn't
look quite so much like a chowder. And
pretty soon the June-tide sunshine, bright
and pure, focuses it's attentions on the
back of your neak and your ears begin
to turn red and light up, all rosy and
opaque, like a memorial window, and
your nose begins to pucker ,and peel In
such a way as to show the material un
derneath, and your palms develop a col
lection of water blisters that make you
think you're holding a handful of ripe
Japanese persimmons in each hand-
"But what's the use, Larry? If you've
ever been fishing; you know what it Is
yourself how, while all around you old
veteran fishermen, Germans mostly, who
come out on the water because they
want a quiet place to color a meerschaum
pipe without unseemly interruption, are '
hauling them in every few minutes, you
achieve a total catch that you could put
in your eye without seriouiy interfering
with the vision; and how at even-tide
when the sun, grown weary of cooking
the tender exposed portions of your per
son, is sinking languidly to rest in the
gold and purple west, you return home,
filled with the great longing to renew
relations once more with the comforts of
an effete civilization, such as bathtubs
and a white table cloth and a nat
(waiter who knows what's good on thi
bill-of-fare, besides fish."
"Well, you say it's the call of the wild."
said the House Detective, "but would it
hurt your feelin's if I wuz to name it the
call of the foolish?"
"Not in the least," said the Hotel Clerk.
"Coming from you I'd regard it as being
in the nature of expert testimony."
a man for his habits, yet without habits
there could be no man fit to live here.
Jesus' managed to slip in a few years be
fore they caught him. No ordinary indi
vidual can expect to live in either ex
treme. Therefore, don't single out poor
tobacco and make it the scapegoat for
much viler habits.
As to the physical risk, let me mention
a matter which created . a sensation in
Germany some years ago. When the
microbe was the "Man of the Hour," the
German scientists
were first to take up
laboratory tests. They had a large room
full of billions of different kinds of mi
crobes. They had every sort of a microbe
then known to science. For some un
known reason the propagation was unsuc
cessful for a long time. Finally, the
"head mogul" ordered that all who en
tered the microbe incubator should leave
their tobacco outside. In a short time the
microbes began to multiply so rapidly
that they got old and gray-haired before
the professors had a chance to get them
under the glaps. It was only a small
matter of arriving at the solution of the
trouble; the fumes of tobacco killed them
off by the billions. In the presence of tho
poisonous nicotine, microbes fell dead at
tbe first whiff.
You who berate the consumptive for ex
pectorating on the streets. His decora
tion on the sidewalk is full of deadly
germs. These dry up and fly into the
air to be breathed by innocent people. Tet
I am convinced, from long observation
and study of microbes, both wet and dry,
that when the consumptive has dropped
a hundred million germs on the sidewalk,
the sun dries the puddle and the live
germs float into the air, that the next
fellow who passes with a dirty pipe in his
mouth, promptly kills the whole caboodle
at one puff. The poisonous tobaco fume?,
as discovered in the laboratories of Ger
many, deal out death to the myriads of
germs flying around your streets. You
also admit that the whole Nation should
take energetic steps to abate the "white
plague." Well, how can you reach it any
more effectively than by tilling the at
mosphere with tobacco smoke? Who
isn't willing to trade off consumption for
a stlnkin breath? Which would you
rather have? It is a scientific fact that
microbes and germs cannot live in the
presence of tobacco fumea. Why not do
away with other methods? The mortality
tables of the country show that the work
ers in the Sputhern tobacco fields and
factories are more healthy than factory
and field hands anywhere else. When one
gets into a room, or car, with a fellow
coughing off the remnant counter. a
cigar-smoke cloud about four feet in cir
cumference isn't a bad thing.
A man who never used filthy tobacco,
explained the destruction of the German
microbes afjter this manner: He said
that it was considered an honor among
Microbians to be examined in the inter
est of science." On account of the multi
tudes some partiality was necessarily
shown by the professors. They couldn't
attend to thom all. As 'the hide was the
thing." as Shakespeare says, many of the
microbes had to be sent to the barber
shop to get shaved before they could be
properly examined. After standing around
on eight hundred thousand legs for fifteen
or twenty minutes, a microbe loses his
patience. He Is very sensitive. Thus,
well-meaning partiality, "in the interest
of science," rsulted in a feud among th
"many who were there" and the "few who
were chosen." War followed, in which
billions were slain. Jealousy, another bad
habit you neglected to mention. gft the
better of these little microbes and whole-,
sale death and ruin followed. The joke
of the- whole business, so my friend told
me. was that the foolish professors at
tributed the immediate death of these
billions to the fumes of tobacco.
Tobacco smoke and juice, by being ap
plied to the rose bushes, are playing an
important part in your coming Rose Fes
tival. How? Killing bugs. After you take
the rose to the exposition let smoking
visitors keep the bugs off. You have
merely chastened My, Lady Nicotine.
Salem, Or.
Prayer for a Minister's Wife.
Atchison Globe.
All the other sisters in a church go to
the minister for consolation, advice and
prayer. We wonder If a minister's; wife
ver &ak her husband to pray for her.