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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (April 14, 1910)
- : 1 i r-iBr JULE5 VerIie. Am CHAPTKIt XlI.r-(Contlnueil.) All, except Untteras; nrid why could Gils oxtruordinnry man not sleep like tho others? He grew more and more excited, and It wns not tho thought of returning that eo affected him. Whatever might be tho causo, he could not sleep; yet thta first night at tho pole was clear and calm. The Isle was absolutoly uninhabited not a bird, nor an animal, nor a fish. Next morning, when Altamont and the others awoke, Hatteras was gone. Feeling urieasy at his absence, they hurried out of the grotto In search of him. There he was standing on a rock, gazing fixedly at tho top of the mountain. His Instruments were in his hand. Presently Hatteras said, In a hurried, agitated manner, as If he could scarce ly command himself. "Friends, listen to mo. Wo have done much already, but much yet re mains to be done." "We are close to the pole, hut wo aro not on It." "We are still 45 minutes, latitude from the unknown point," resumed Hatteras, with Increased animation, "and to that point I shall go." "But It Is on the summit of the volcano," said the doctor. "I shall go." The tone of absolute determination In which Hatteras pronounced these words It Is Impossible to describe. His friends were stupefied, and gazed In terror at the blazing mountain. "Very well," he said, finally, "since you are bent on It, we'll go, too." CHAPTER XIII. It was about 8 o'clock when they commenced theIr difficult ascent; the eky was splendid, and the thermometer stood at 52 degrees. Hatteras and his dog went first, closely followed by the others. But as they got higher, the ascent became more and more difficult, for the flanks- of the mountain were almost perpendicular, and It required the Ut most care to keep from falling. Clouds of ashes whirled round them repeated ly, and torrents of lava barred their passage. Hatteras, however, climbed up the steepest ascents with surprising agil ity, disdaining the help of his staff. He arrived before long at a circular rock, a sort of plateau about ten feet wide. A river of boiling lava sur rounded It, except In one part, where It forked away to a higher rock, leav ing a narrow passage, through which .Hatteras fearlessly passed. Jere he stopped, and his compan ions TTi&Daged .to rejoin him. He seem d to be measuring with his eye the -distance he had yet to get over. Hori zontally, he was not more than 200 ryards from the top of the crater, but wertlcally he had nearly three times Itbat distance to traverse. "Hatteras," Bald the doctor, "it Is enough; we cannot go further!" "Stop, then," he replied, in a trangely altered voice; "I am going higher." He had hardly uttered the words be fore Hatteras, by a superhuman effort, prang over the boiling lava, and was beyond the reach of his companions. A cry of horror burst from every Up, for they thought the poor captain must have perished In that fiery gulf; but there he was safe, on the other side, accompanied by his faithful Dukei who would not leave him. He speedily disappeared behind a curtain of smoke, and they heard his voice growing fainter In the distance, houtlng: "To, the north! to the north; to the top of Mount Hatteras! Remember, Mount Hatteras!" All pursuit of him was out of the Question. At Intervals, however, a glimpse of him could be caught through the clouds of smoke and showers of ashes. Hatteras did not even turn once to look back, but marched straight on, carrying his country's flag attached to bis staff. At last he reached the summit of the mountain, the mouth of the crater. Here the doctor hoped the Infatuated man would stop, at any rate, and would, perhaps, recover his senses, and expose himself to no more danger than he descent Involved. Once more he shouted: "Hatteras! Hatteras!" There was such a pathos of entrea ty In hla tone that Altamont felt moved to his Inmost soul. "I'll save him yet!" ho exclaimed; end before Clawbonny could hinder him, he had cleared with a bound the torrent of Are, and was out of sight among the rocks. Meantime, Hatteras had mounted a rock which overhung tho crater, and stood waving his flag amidst showers of stones which rained down on him. Duke was by his side; but tho poor beast was growing dizzy In such close proximity to the abyss. Hatteras balanced his staff with one hand, and with tho other sought to find the precise mathematical point where all the meridians of the globe meet, the point on which It was his sublime pur pose to plant his foot. All at once the rock gave way, and he disappeared. A cry of horror broke from his companions, and rang to the top of tho mountain. Clawbonny thought his friend had perished, and lay burled forever In tho depths of tho volcano. A second only a Becond, though it seemed an ago elapsed, and there was Altamont and the dog hold Ing the Ill-fated Hatteras! Man and dog had caught him at the very mo ment when ho disappeared In the abyss. Hatteras was saved! Saved In spite of himself; and half an hour later he lay unconscious In the arms of his de spairing companions, When he came to himself, tho doc tor looked at him in speechless an guish, for there was no trlance of rec ognition In his eye. It was tho eye of a blind man, who gazes without seo Ing. "Good heavens!" exclaimed Johnson, "ho Is blind!" "No!" replied Clawbonny, "no! My poor friends, wo have only saved tho body of Hatteras; his soul Is left bo hind on tho top of tho volcano. His reason Is gone!" Threo hours after tho whole party were back onco more In tho grotto. "Well, friends," said the doctor, "wo cannot Btay longer In this Island; tho sea Is open, and we have enough pro visions. Wo ought to start at onco, and get back without the least delay to Fort Providence, where wo must win ter." The day passed in profound dejec tion. The insanity of tho captain was a bad omen, and when they began to talk over the return voyage, their hearts failed them for fear. They missed the Intrepid spirit of their leader. Next morning they made all ready to sail, and brought the tent and all Its belongings on board. But before leaving these rocks, never to return, the doctor, carrying out tho Intentions of Hatteras, had a calm erected on the very spot -where the poor fellow had Jumped ashore. It was mado of great blocks placed ono on tho top of the other, so as to be a land mark perfectly visible while tho erup tions ot the. volcano left It undisturb ed. On ono of the side stones, Bell chiseled the simple Inscription: JOHN HATTERAS. The duplicate of the document at testing the discovery of the north pole was Inclosed in a tinned Iron cylinder, and deposited In the cairn, to remain a silent witness among those desert rocks. This done, tho four men and the cap tain, a poor body without a sout, set out on the return voyage. On the 15th they sighted Altamont harbor, but as the sea was open all along tho coast, they determined to go round to Victoria bay by water, in stead of crossing New America in the sledge. As the sloop made Victoria bay they all hastened to Fort Providence. But what a scene of devastation met their eyes! Doctor's house, stores, powder magazine, fortifications, all had melted away, and the provisions had been ran sacked by devouring animals. After a thorough search, a few cases of pemmlcan were found scattered here and there, and two barrels of preserv ed meat, altogether enough for six weeks, and a good supply of powder. It was soon collected and brought on board. At last, after thirty days tolerably quick sailing, and after battling for forty-eight hours against the increas ing drift Ice, and risking the frail sloop a hundred times, the navigators saw themselves blocked In on all sides. Altamont make a reckoning with scrupulous precision, and found they were in 77 degrees 15 minutes latitude and 85 degrees 2 minutes longitude. "This is our exact position, then," said tho doctor. "We are In South Lincoln, Just at Cape Eden, and are entering Jones sound. With a little more good luck we should have found open water right to Bafflns bay. "I suppose, then," said Altamont, "our only course Is to leave the sloop, and get by sledge to the east coast of Lincoln." The rest agreed. The little vessel was unloaded and the sledge put together again. At last, on the 24th, they set foot on North Devon. It was not till the 30th of August that they emerged from those wild mountains Into a plain, which seemed to have been upturned and convulsed by volcanic action at some distant pe riod. Altamont, who had displayed great unselfishness and devotion to the oth ers, roused his sinking e'nergics, and determined to go out ar I find food for his comrades. He had been absent about an hour, and only once during that time had they heard the report of his gun; and now he was coming back empty-handed, but running as If terrified. "Down there, under the snow!" cried Altamont, speaking as If scared, and pointing in a particular direction. "What?" "A whole party of men!" "Alive?" "Dead frozen and even " He did not finish the sentence, but a look of unspeakable horror came over his face. The doctor and the others wero so roused by this Incident that they man aged to get up and drag themselves after Altamont towards tho place he Indicated. They soon arrived at a narrow part at the bottom of a ravine, and what a spectacle met their gaze! Dead bodies, already stiff, lay half burled in a wind ing sheet of snow. It was evident this ravine had been but recently tho scene of a fearful struggle, that the poor wretches had been feeding on human flesh, perhaps while still warm. And among them tho doctor recognized Shandon, Pen and others of the Ill-fated crew of tho Forward! "Como away! come away!" cried the doctor, dragging his companions from tho scene. Horror gave them momen tary strength, and they resumed their march without stopping a minute lon ger. Even the men themselves wero never able to give any detailed narrative of tho events which occurred during tho next week. However, on tho 9th of September) by superhuman exertions, they arrived at last at Cape Horaburg, the extreme point of North Devon. They were on the short of Bafflns bay, now half frozen over; that la to say, on the road to Europe, and three mllea off the waves were daahln noiselessly or. tho sharp edges ,of the tco-fleld. Here they must wait their chanco of a whaler appearing; and for how long? But heaven pitied the poor fellows, for tho very noxt day Altamont per ceived a sail on tho horizon. Just then a happy Inspiration camo to the doctor. His fertile genius, which has served him many a ttmo In such good stead, supplied him with ono last Idea. A floe, driven by tho current, struck against tho ico-nold, arid Clawbonny exclaimed, pointing to It: "This floe!" His companions could not under stand what he meant. "Let us embark on it! lot us embark en It!" Bell, assisted by Altamont, hurried to tho sledge, and brought back one of tho poles, which ho stuck fast on tho ice like a mast, and fastened it with ropes. Tho tent was torn up to fur nish a sail, and as sopn ns the frail craft was ready tho poor follows Jump ed upon It, and sailed out to tho opon sea. Two hours later tho survivors of tho Forward were picked up by tho Hans Christian, a Danish whalor, on her way to Davis straits. Ton days aftorward, Clawbonny, Johnson, Bell, Altamont and Captain Hatteras landed at Korsam, In Zea land, an Island belonging to Denmark. They took the steamer to Kiel, and from there proceeded by Altona and Hamburg to London, where thoy ar rived on tho 13th of tho same month, scarcely recovered after their long suf ferings. The first care of Clawbonny was to request the Royal Geographical Society to receive a communication from him. Ono can Imagine the astonishment of the learned assembly and tho enthusi astic applause when ho read Hatteras' document Tho doctor and his companions had the honor of being presented to tho queen by the lord chancellor, and thoy were feted and "lionized" In all quar ters. The government confirmed tho namee of "Queen's Island," "Mount Hatteraa" and "Altamont Harbor." Tho Insanity of Capt Hatteras was of a mild typo, and ho lived quietly at Sten cottage, a private asylum near Liverpool, whero tho doctor himself had placed him. He never spoke, and understood nothing that was said to him; reason and speech had fled to gether. Tho only tlo that connected him with the outside world was his friendship for Duke, who was allowed to romaln with him. For a considerable tlmo the captain had been In the habit of walking In the garden for hours, accompanied by his faithful dog, who watched him with sad, wistful eyes, but his promenade was always In one direction In a par ticular part of the garden. When he got to the end of this path he would stop and begin to walk backwards. If anyone stopped him he would point with his finger towards a certain part of the sky, but let anyone attempt to turn him round, and ho became angry, while Duke, as If sharing his master's sentiments, would bark furiously. The doctor, who often visited his af flicted friend, noticed this strange pro ceeding one day, and sOon understood the reason for it Ho saw how It was that he paced so constantly In a given direction, as If under the Influence of some magnetic force. This was the secret: John Hatteras invariably walked towards tho north, (Tho end.) Unexpectedly Trne. The clever young man was wander ing up and down the platform of tho railway station, Intent on finding an empty carriage In tho express, which was almost due to start, says a writer In Tlt-Blts. But In vain. Assuming an official air, he stalked up to the last carriage, and cried In a stento rian voice: "All change here! This carriage isn't going!" There were exclamations low but deep from tho occupants of the crowd ed compartment; but, nevertheless, they hurried out of the carriage and packed themselves away in other parts of the train. The smile on the face of the young man was childlike as he settled himself comfortably. "Ah," he murmured, "it's a grand thing for me that I was born clever! I wish they'd hurry up and start." By and by the station-master put his head in the window, and said: "I suppose you are the smart young man who told the people this carriage wasn't going?" "Yes," said the clever one, and ho smiled, "Well," said tho station-master, with a grin, "It isn't. The porter heard you telling the people, and do ho uncoupled it He thought you wero a director!" Klilfrrnm Crlmlnnl Code. Procrastination is tho thief of time. Curiosity is the porch climber of Boclety. The past is tho hold-up man of am bition. Good-fellowship is the firebug of so briety. Conscience is the sneak thief of con tentment. The bore Is tho pickpocket of pa tience. The college boy is tho checkkiter of humor. The firecracker is tho pirate of peace. The welsh rabbit is tho ghoul of sleep. Hard luck is tho shoplifter of hope. Bad cooking la the sandbagger of civility. Puck. Tbe Sluatnnir. What is known as the California horuo or mustang is in his ancestry and essential qualities an Arab. Wire Ilnlrplua. The wlro hairpin was first mado in 1645 in England. Prior to that wood en ikewftra were uw "WHERB THEY WERE BORN. Nat Goodwin is ft Doston man. Robort Edeson camo to Hfo in DnUi oioro. Baron Max Hoffmann was born near Cracow, Poland. Robort Mantell Is a canny Scot, hav ing boon born In Ayrshire Far away Portland, Ore, was tho blrthplaco of Dlancho Bates. Don't start, but tho blrthplaco of John Mason was Orange, N. J. Otis Harlan first saw tho light of day in Muskingum County, Ohio. Graco Hazard was born in St. Louis, but her parents nro Now England Yan koes. Elsio Janls was born in Columbus, Ohio, and still calls that placo her homo. Clara Morris spent hor childhood In Cleveland, but was born In Toronto, Cannda. Isabell D'Armond was born in St. Louis. Her father was a surgeon and practiced for years in tho Mound City. Miss Gertrude Hoffmann Is a San Francisco girl. Her father Is ono of tho constructors in tho Scott ship building works. Llttlo Mile. Dazle, tho dancing star of vaudeville, came Into tho world In St. Louis in the Peterkin family. Sho was "raised" in Detroit. Jefferson Do Angells and Edna Wal lace Hopper and William A. Brady and James J. Corbott all wero horn and raised in San Francisco. THINGS WORTH KNOWING. Tho first horso railroad was built In 1820. Coal was first used as an illumlnant In 1826. Tho velocipede was invontod by Drals in 1817. Tho only self-supporting territory of tho United States is Alaska. The Chilean government has under contract 698 miles of railroads at an estimated cost of $24,207,660. A chimney of concrete block was re cently built In Germany without the use of scaffolding, which represents a great economy In the cost. Billiards and pool on shipboard are now possible through tho recent in vention of a self-leveling table which accommodates' Itself to every move ment of tho vessel. Levantlno newspapers report that Turkey has granted a conditional con cession to an American syndlcato for a 1,343-mile railroad through Asia Minor. Our oil exports to China Increased from 23,000,000 gallons in 1899 to 87, 000,000 in 1909 and nearly 104,000,000 In 1903, having thus quadrupled In ten years. Thirteen grams of radium chloride have been produced at the imperial Austrian radium factory, located at St. Joachimsthal. It is estimated that this mineral has a value of $45,000 to $50,000 a gram, or more than $500,000 for the entire amount. Puro metallic radium is never seen. FASHION HINTS THE SALVATI0H AMY AMD WHAT IX HAS' AOCOMPIISHO, Long lines and extreme simplicity piake this charming gown of chiffon vel ret. A heavy silk mesh insertion four caches wide, is the only trimming used. Ammon, lu his studies of tho people of tho small cities of Carlsruho and Freiburg, proves that city-born people diminish in the course of ono and two generations from 100 per cent to 29 per cent, and 15 per cent. Ho believes that families that move from tho coun try to tho cities on an average almost dlo out in tho course ot two genera tions. It is assorted that one-half of the Inhabitants of tho Gorman cities are immigrants from tho country, and tho conclusion from this fact is that tho cities must renew themselves com pletely in the courso of two genera tions. Now York Press. A Wood Oueti, "Does your father know you smoke, llttlo boy?" asked tho inquisitive "I guess not," replied tho bad boy. "He doesn't lock up his cigars."- De troit Free Prees. Jury Fury, I hold It a fact That hell hath no fury That's like to a man Who's drawn on a Jury. Buffalo News. THE ARMY ON THE MARCH. Tho Salvation Army was born in 18CG. It hna soruothlng to show fa tho elevation of the downtrouiion. uuo oi ww, .,. ,,,; "The Salvation Army Hag ! flying in flfty-llvo countries, it has no Us, than 7 500 soclotlea and, excepting in heathen countries, is solf-supportltf The Salvationists hold ncrvices in thlrty-two languages and nro led by 15, 000 officers asslstod by 50,000 local ofllconi, xnon and women, who earn their livlne hv the sweat of their brows and give tUolr tlmo and money and work to tho cause In its advocacy twenty-llvo nowBpnperB aro published In . innnnces. Thoro arc 17,000 bandsmen who play sacred music without nay In Great Britain these bands march 54,000 miles a week to attract men and women to tho cross. Over 200,000 hungry and wretched creator aro fed by Its instrumentality. No man, woman or child who has Win on tho highways of life and very Blippory those highways nro and reach out a hand and says: 'I want to got up again and want to lend an honttt, industrious life,' to every such person thoro should go out another basj to lift him up. Wo have many other branches of work. In all we tan 120 different departments or plans for benefiting people, and tho number b increasing constantly. "Now. what are you doing to lift up tho peoplo who nro downt tit poor tho drunkard, the sinful, tho hungry, and tho poor lassies who bin gono over tho line and who aro In tho worst hell thlB sido of the rlrer! What aro you doing for them all? Do you think it la my special work; that you have no part in it? Will you help mo? Will you help tho Silra tlon Army? Will you help with your sympathy and prayor7 You mayuj: .... . i - .1 n,l..lnm t n iimlntnln ' Whni n nlfifnl rr.vtl wo nave our yiiuruucn uuu tnooiw.. ..... tion vour city would bo in If you did not hnvo. When you have done ill this thero will bo something left for tho Salvntlon Army. The Salratlcs Army Is no longer nn experiment. It has passod out of the area of speculs- ii in tlon. It Is an accompusuea iacu SAVES TRAINER'S LIFE. At New York the sharp tcoth and tlawB of Clayton, a leopard, nearly cost the life of Mrs. Paulino Husscllc, his trainer, but tho length and strength of his tall saved her. Clayton would not perform. Mrs. Russello prodded him with an iron bar and called to hir assistant for aid. In tho Instant of turning her head to cnfl, the leopard leaped. Ho bore tho woman to tho ground and Btood over her, growling and lashing his tall. It was then that tho quick-witted assistant, reaching in to tho cage, grabbed Clayton's tall, took a double hitch around tho bars of tho cage with It, and rescued Mrs. Rub Hello. NIGHT TOILERS IN BANKS. Some Money Ilrponltorlc Work Cler ical Koruea Coiitlmioualy, Four big bankB in the Wall street district rcscmblo tho great gold mlnos of the West In ono striking feature, Harper's Weekly say3. They havo three eight-hour shifts of tollers, and the work never stops. One set takes up the routlno where the other leaves off. All night long, Sundays and holi days, a staff of men in each of theso banks Is busy opening thousands of letters, sorting and listing Innumera ble checks and drafts that represent fnbulous sums of money and getting them ready for tho day forco, which Is tho only one the public comes In con tact with or ever hears about. If this work was not carried on incessantly tho banks would soon ho overwhelmed with a mountainous accumulation of detail l-wo shifts tho "scouting force, thoy call themselves work bctweea I In tho nttornoon and 9 tho next act itig. Each bank has a big drawer h tho general postofflco. Meisenfii clear this of Its lettors every board night long. Threo thousand Utters t day is tho avorngo mall of one of then largo banks. Two-thirds of It corneili during tho night. Theso letten, U tho case of ono of the biggest of that banks, contain from 35,000 to 0,W checks and draf In. At timet these b closures represent ns much as M 000,000. Rnrely docs tho total fall It low $20,000,000. . Tho letters aro opened as Jut thoy nro recoived. tho checks are cokV ed and tho totals verified with til footings of tho lists. Tho letters m then stamped, which shows that thtf havo been "proved in," ns the msd call It. After that they are turcti over to tho clerks, who Bend oat til formnl ncnowlcdgmcnta of tbe reafr tancos thev contnln. The raito checks aro assorted according to li numbers of tho books In which nro to bo entered and othcrwlie; til sight drafts nro grouped accordiar a tho routes of tho bank's messenii and all Is mado ready for turnlnf til night's accumulation over to tbe W forco, so It may bo handled by It expeditiously as possible, ' Each of theso shifts of night w crs at tho banks consists of ff twolvo to twenty nen. Some bun get along with but ono extra Kt clerkB at night. Theso como on ew nt midnight and leavo nt 8 a. m. TU plan of working all night long der to keep up with the tremens nmount of business that comes to l mall waa inaugurated about Are J ago. Tho first bank that tried Ilfow that bo much valuable daytime , saved that ono institution after j otner took it up, until now there w four thnt have theso throe elgM-w shlftB of clerks, and sevoral more"1, work only a part of tho night . Unfilled. '1 . . ,,-..,.tlrtH w - " " i powers?" ,J Pa Oh, any of tho South Aoenc republlcB. Puck, ODD METHOD OF BOOKKEEPING. - i im mr.3 vrlth. A method of hnnkluuml discovered a short tlmo ago by a New Orleans busIneBH man JbO obliged to spend a few days in nn out-of-the-wav entmtrv nlnr.l. T& was postonico. country store, lull nnrl fill nlnn nt n finalnnoa nn possessed, but tho proprietor and hotel manager could not vr .b mo junto no was presented with tho bill shown in tho ( bu m mo oea means jiut what It Implies, and tho four line drawn through tho two ones following, moans that tho, pied seven times. Tho dollar sign and threo ones doslgnat v. mis pnvuogo was ?3.uu, Tho figure drawn as Boated at mnolra -1 11 A. A. L m . iuiiuwjuk bhow mat vwemy-iour meais wore eaten at i o.vv. x'opuiar Mechanics, w. tbeP- 00 rawing; ine r tbftt