THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 20. ; 1807.
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One of tKc Finest ' of the Stately Homes ' of England, to Become a Hive of Industry for the Disabled Children of Povertv Rooms in Which Monarchs Have Been Entertained
5 an to harm. The deal wti mid and
r. Pearson took hold of tha Cripples1
ONDON Trentham HalL tha fam-
oua aeat In Staffordshire of tha
Duks and Duchaaa of Suther
land, la undergoing converaton
Into a factory for crippled
workers. Built from tba . design - of
Barry at a coat of 1750,000 in tho
daya when labor and material eoat lasa
than half what they do now, Ita walla
N adorned with a wealth of plcturaa by
tha old masters, rich in statuary, en-
oioaea oy oeautirui gardens and con
servatories, set in the midst of a mag
nificent park, Trentham Hall haa been
for generation one of the flrat of Eng
land m ahow-places.
Now a wondrous transformation la to
take place In it The halls In which
monarcha haVe been entertained will
soon resound with the din of Industry.
The rooms In which the titled favorites
of fortune were wont to gather will be
filled with the victims of misfortune
from their birth, engaged in overcom
ing life's handicap by tha arts of cun
ning craftmanshlp. It la like a fairy
tale made real a socialist dream re
alised. It la all part and parcel of a scheme
by which the Duohess of Sutherland's
pet charity the Cripples' guild, haa
been turned Into a publlo company
which will pay dividends to its share
holders while providing a generous sur
plus for the disabled workers. It is a
recognition of . the principle that the
fihllanthropy that saves Is the philan
hropy that' pays.- The duchesa will
continue the presiding genius of the
whole bualneaa.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland
have many Interest in that Motion of
England known aa "the Potterlen." Thia
comprlaea the counties of Staffordshire
and Worcesterahlre but the firat named
la the very center, not alone of the dis
trict but of the Intereats of the Suther
land. They hare estates there, they
take aome of their tltlea from tberfc.
The Lady Bountiful.
For the past decade the duchess has
been thev "Lady Bountlfu" to the poor
of the Pottery country. For seven
yaara ahe haa especially looked after
tha crippled children, many of whom
are now grown up.
These cripples ahe gathered Into a
guild. Workshops were established In
which the crlpplea were taught various
trades so that they might succeed in
earning their own living.
The Guild waa aupported almost ex
clunlvely by the duchess. Of late the
guild hss grown so large that It was
almost Imposalble for the duchess to
devote the time necessary to properly
conduct Ita affairs.- In the town of
Hanley In Staffordshire the guild haa
a great factory In which aome 340 crip
ples of both sexes are dally employed.
There la a staff of Instructors and a
business staff.
But the duchess, aa the president,
had to personally look after all the
burlness. The demand for the goods
manufactured by the crlpplea waa ho
great that the duchess was eonn .adrift
on the deep, and to her unknown, wat
ers of the trade world. The duchess
Is a arrest society leader. She la also
successful In many other roles. But
she Is not a business woman. Her lit
tle home charity had grown to be
quite an Industry. It was crushing her.
Her social and public duties are many.
Her Ignorance of business matters
brought the affairs of the guild Into a
hopeless tangle. Apparently aa a work
ing concern it was paying big profits.
Tet It was a continual drag on the
duchess' purse. Both demanda on time
and money kept Increasing and the
durheaa waa on the verge of despair
when on the Riviera she met England's
greatest hustler, C. Arthur Pearson, the
editor and owner of the "Dally Express"
and a large number of other British
dallies and publications.
Are Old Friends.
The duchess and Mr. Pearson are old
friends. To blm aa a business man she
confided her troubles. Mr. Pearson was
interested. One of the greatest charts
tlea in England, the children's fresh-air
fund, is his. The duchess promised her
. a I it I .
DO strangera with a taate for mod
ern dramaturgy ever tell it to
you Instead of employing tho
Long-Lost Soliloquy T
Here ia my freshest experience:
I was standing in the back of the front
of the New York theatre pondering on
the "advancement" of Klaw A Er
langer's advanced vaudeville when a
total .and I have no doubt tactful)
stranger remarked:
"This is the worst orchestra In New
York."
Answer: "You haven't traveled
much."
Neat answer? rather? yea? But It
only Just now occurred to me, on the
way home. Cab wit, as the hall room
boys wouid say. But it happened to me
in the subway. What I really answered
at the New York was, "Shake hands,"
whereupon the stranger gave his en
thusiastic glove to mine and, to be
thoroughly sincere and accurate, I have
not seen him since.
When that orchestra at the New York
theatre Is permitted to play simultane
ously in seven bunches of regular
keys, not to forget occasional incur
elona into the Chinese and enharmonic
scales, while innocent women and chil
dren and brave men get It full In their
Trentham Hall, magnificent palace that will become a hospital;
the kind-hearted Duchess of Southerland and a group of crippled chll-
K. .V,aa; bu.S t ' Prom by. the ldy. ge.ero8lly.
ADVANCED VAUDEVILLE IN NEW YORK--
Ashton Stevens Gives His First Impressions as Dramatic Critic
as a foil and as penetrating. It went
atralght through that orchestra and
home to ua, and with the last syllable
Intact. Truly they do know four or
five thlnts about enunciation in Lon
don. Little wonder the English lyric
writer ia as happy, even If not as pros
perous, aa Wallace Irwin, the poet
caser of the Rockies. What se says
goes.
So after all. Miss Hetty had no great
difficulty in singing a new song with
every new coat-and. And they ranged
from pentail to white serge, from
lounge jacket to frock, from black
Chesterfield to a green cutaway that
would find its affinity In Wilson M li
ner's emerald anklets.
A Real Old Hornpipe.
But the sallorboy suit brought the
song that killed the sallorboy who had
three girls in a single port and sang,
"I'm Going Away." And not only sang,
but danced a reel old hornpipe that
made sailors of us all. I defy any gen
tleman in the audience to remember
suspenders while Miss Hetty is execut
ing the yo-ho-pull-'em-up movement
Her voice may not be specialized for
lullabys, but she dances like bubbles
- auditory nerves, I take it upon myself at the brim
to protest. Why, In the whole augA
merited band there Isn t enough music
to fill a bagpipe. It is worse than the
ululatlons of Johhny Ray, the Welsh
stage Irishman with the face of his
native rarebit
Not a Gun Fired.
Small wonder the college bred stal
lions tried to eat the lady's hay from
under her very millinery. No surprise
at all when not a gun was fired at Mr.
Nat Keefe's bronchial yodellng; for Mr.
Keefe (I assure you his "Mister" Is in
the playbill) preferred the accompani
ment of Mr. Tony Pearl's Eyetallan
harp, and' we preferred it, too.
But there was no alternative for
Miss Hetty Klnur. straight from Merrie
England, with a Gladstone full of new
ditties and eight boxes of London tailor
ing. She had to take that orchestra, an
orchestra which, with nothing short of
satanic Ingenuity, contrived to evade
the pitch ty every conceivable hemi-
The "special engagement of the dis
tinguished commedlenne Hope Booth"
ought to read "the special engagement
of the distinguished George Him Co-
a nenl.ql HTehroiv
impersonator. I am fonfliient that Mr
ban's "The Little Blonde Lady.'" For Winter wlll aree Kith me when I say
mm. wi. im.-KH Unction. lift IS
I shall continue our dignity and con
servatism at the old stand.
A Chance for Melons.
If they had a greater garlic belt at
tho New York I am sure the orchestra
would receive melons. A well-mu-nltloned
garlic belt would not In kind
ness listen to the accompaniment that
is misfitted to the ltallanate singing of
the Romany Operatic Troupe, and there
is always the, additional prospect of
some projected souvenir of the gallery's
dlsesteem carromlng from the ear the
lnHUer thinks he hears with to the
bump of unmuslc on the papier mache
tenor.
"Every little bit added to what
you've got makes a little bit more,"
warbles Mr. R. Q. Knowles, the monol
cglst, appropos of ladles that paint and
pad.
He is ever so Intimate. Sometimes his
intimacy fairly slaps you on the back,
which is rather annoying if you happen
to be a tendor and sedentary soul. But
he is grammatical, even eplgrammatlcal
and a grammatical monologist should
be encouraged.
He Is really advanced vaudeville
when he can talk for ten minutes with
out once saying, "Between you and I."
and then not turn a hair when some up
stairs wag shouts "Author!"
Mr. Julian Rose also monologued.
Irtir'ner ti,a r . HM . T. , 1 ; t. t .
specialty, substltled, "Levlnsky at the cation of the gallant little company of Discovery during the long dark months Taking Observations.
wcnuinjr. ne is not
FIRST NEWSPAPER OF THE ANTARCTIC Cap
tain and" Crew all Helped Write and Illustrate the Magazine
L
IEUTENANT SHACKLETON, who exceedingly pleasant to look back upon." moment or two your face Is enveloped
I. commander nt an ndttIon to the suggestion of Sir Clements in the loose covering of the tent door,
is commander of an expedition to Maknam andnr. Scott Keltie and oth- you are In complete darkness, partially
the south Polar seas, edited the er friends closely connected with the ex- suffocated, but through your furs you
South Polar Times, a monthly pedltion, the "South Polar Times'' has feel you are progressing inch by inch
been Dermanent v reproduced By Messrs. iuwara me maiue. si moi . y
magazine which was written and
Smith. Elder, under the superintendence light of the lantern, but the writhing
illustrated by the members of the Dis- or Reginald Smith of that house, and gasping must be continued until
covery expedition during the winters of and the two handsome volumes remain you can lie alongside. Instead of on top
1902-3. and produced on the typewriter V.TX ent' doing T " " "
w.o d.i.j, 0 o.co.u ....o anrt ,h6 enthus asm or all on noara ino
here Indeed the skltdoodle is the thine.
It is called a satire. It holds up to
rldlculb and eggs the modern dramatic
critic tho pompous, frivollng. blaek-
fuarding critic that "signs his name."
f this critic had his way Drew would
bo driving a car, Hackett polishing win
dows, and the survivals on the stage
receiving never more than three dollars"
a month. "A critic," we are told, by
George. 'Ms a man that tells the audi
ence whether they liked the perform
ance." But that is merely mlfl and
funny. This critic prognosticates and
prints his prognostications the day af
ter the premiere.
The Typist's Plot.
The new typist hardly has entered
the sanctum and been kissed by the
ury extra ory orut. such a sour
ness! He was the only human that har
monized with that abysmal band.
seml-demltone. The wandering wood- critic, and by him invited to wine and
wind and the indeterminate fiddles as
saulted her in the right ear, the blar
ing brass In the left, while the per
cussion department volleyed and thun
dered just where her hair ways shortest
at tne necx.
Here was a duel between a lone
woman In trousers and ordnance.
What criminal odds! And all England's
ear to the cable, listening for the out
come! Routed the Artillery.
There was the situation. Miss Hetty
Kin stood in her rent's evenina wear.
perspiring excitedly at the temples, but
otherwise Impertubabl. Not a lash
did she bat at the prelude. As it closed
she opened an aluminum throat and
routed the artillery with the first dis
charge. She did it She literally soaped
the viols, and nepoered the brass, and
boiled the kettledrum, and slit the
dine and drive tonight, dear, before this
critic-coward Is dictating and "signing"
a "roast" of a certain piece written by
a woman who has betted that he will
give It a "good notice."
"Ah. but If I had written It?" Is tho
languishing query of Httle Dolly, the
new typist.
And Just to show her that he la not
only Just, but Versatile as well, the
critcuss dictates a panegyric for the
same piece.
"Sign it." she coaxe-
"Oh, not on your life." or words to
that effect he answers, discovering
Dolly to be the gambling playwriter.
But Dolly already has possession of
the ensianatured ''roast" and threatens
to publish it in the Evening Journal
Moved By the Spirit.
From the Home Magazine.
"Who's there?" shouted the occupant
of a hotel bedroom, aa he heard a noise
in the corner of his room.
There was no answer, and the queer
noise stopped.
"Anybody there?"
No answer.
"It must have been a spirit," he Said
to himself. "I must be a medium. I
win try." (Aloud.) "ir there is a spirit
in me room 11 will signiry tne same b
saying 'aye' no, that's not what
mean. If there is a spirit in the room
u win piease rap tnree times.
Three very dls
in
explorers then held fast in the Antarctic
Ice.
In a preface, Captain 8cott, the dis
tinguished commander of the third fa
mous voyage, explains the origin and
Idea of the volumes.
The Idea and the Enterprise.
' "In March, 1902," he writes, "we were
busily preparing for our first Antarctic
winter as we watched the sun sinking
towards Its long rest. We knew that
daylight would shortly disappear for
four whole months, and our thoughts
turned naturally to the long dark period
before us and th means by which we
could lighten its monotony. And so It
hf the Antjirrtlo winter
Many of the personal Jokes and sa
tires are, of course, mysterious to out
siders and land-lubbers, but the clever
caricatures and sketches some of
which reveal the spirit and beauty of
the Polar scenes by Dr. Wilson and
others, are delightfully interesting to
everyone, while the comic verse, the
seamen's yarns, tho record of adven
tures, the vivid descriptions of life on
board ship amid a world of Ice, and the
articles of serious scientific Interest aro
all full of entertainment.
Naturally, to the public the personal
experiences of the explorers fire most
noteworthy, and Captain Scott's real
istic description of the discomforts and
difficulties of getting to bed during a
sledge Journey Is typical.
y was in this month that we met in coun- Getting Into Bed.
ell around the wardroom table to dis- ,.a.,. , ,
11 enaa tho ttmt Antflr.tff Tnlirnal- then 1 liree flir-Clail
rhree VerV distinct ran wer mciw wo uuiuiciieu u, fusji-nicu n
the direction of the bureau general lines, and appointed Mr. Shackle
Is 1 : th? 8D?rlt of mv sTste'r?" ,on an edltor to Kulde lts destiny. Ou
fo answer sister; journal, we decided, should give lnstruc
spirit of my mother-ln-
No answer.
"Is it the
law?"
Three very distinct raps.
"Are you happy?"
Nine raps.
"Do you want anything?"
A succession of very loud raps.
"Will you give me any communication
if I get up?"
No answer.
"Shall I hear from you tomorrow ?"
Raps are very loud In the direction of
the door.
"Shall I ever see you?"
He waited lon for his answer, but
none came, and he turned over and fell
asleep.
Next morning no round the "Bpirit
On board ship there was always hard
work to do. for in the Aotarctio regions
domestic economy Is not so easy as In
a London flat, and even to obtain water
for drinking and cooking involved hours
of desperate atruggllngs with hooks and
chains to drag up an ice floe to the
melting-pot. Then for the officers
there were experiments and observa
tions always on hand, for they took
their duties seriously, and scientific re
search was one of the chief objects of
this voyage. "Observations" sounds
mysterious to the landsman, and one
of the poets on the Discovery professes
to share this perplexity as to their ob
ject: "An observation! What Is that?" I
think I hear you say,
"A scientific function that is practised
every day?"
Not only every day, I fear, far oftener
than that,
A useless entertainment and it fairly
knocks me flat.
To astertaln the object of thia Miotic
game,
Of taking observations la my everlast
ing game.
To
at tha
four hours before the first curtain has of his mother-in-law had carried off his
lifted on "The Little Blonde Lady."
So what can tha crtticule do but
- There Is no escape from such satire.
The modern critic .("Mr. Hammer,"
watch and purse.
raincoat
his trousers and his
The Servant Problem.
Snare. Truly they do make band-proof George calls him) bad better change
throata' In foggy London, : , his liver and take. up aome honorable
T t
cuss the first Antarctic Journal: then 1 lm "l"lu "
and there we christened it. suggested its possible absorb the floor space or a
c- tent, and consequently it Is necessary ror
,' them to be stowed one at a time. The
lion as well as amusement; we looked first man can get into his sleeping bag
to our sclentinc experts to write lumi- Inside the tent with assistance rrom one
nously on their special subjects and to 0f the others, and except when he cup
record fhe scientific events of general sizes the lantern and a quarter of an
Interest; while for lighter matter we hour passes In finding, relighting and
agreed that the cloak of anonymity fixing it. no great delay takes place,
should encourage the indulgence of any it iH a moot point whether the second
shy vein, of sentiment and humor that should put on his sleeping bag Inside or
might exist among us. Above all, th outside the tent; in either case It is a
'South Polar Times," as we had deter- considerable time before he can be
mined to call it, was to be open to all: placed gasping and exhausted in a head
the men as well as the officers were to and feet position alongside the first,
be Invited to contribute to its pages. "When this is accomplished there is
just sufficient space left for the thirl
"Certainly the 'South Polar Times' man to lie In, and if you are that un
fulfilled its Durnose In interesting and fortunate individual, you must perforce
amusing the members of our small col- pet into your bag by yourself, outside, wrha't' matteW it tn ato'vnna w
ony, which indeed was all we aeked of Having at length accomplished thia feat wnal iufla thara h? 7 - T
It. I can see again a row of heada bent and toggled the bag to the blouse, llko 0(, -lch wv "the r moving TW'a
over a fresh monthly number to scan the competition in a sack race, you tn- Vr .? fjzL t n.i-- ,?J
the latest efforts of.our artists, and I continently lose your balance, fall flat. Barometer? are futllJ T thilr nredlrtlnn.
can hear the hearty laughter at the sal- and are powerless to right youraelf , ""0mvnu in Jt Predictions
lies of our humorists and the general without getting out of the bag and go- WAlu'tha l.ni?r of th Wftntw ma
,hn alv alln.lni. tnttnA ita lnr through tha whole oneratinn a tain nature or in weataer W4 may
be aroused from slumber
deadest-of the nlaht
To take an observation, gives UB all a
morbid blight;''
How in the name of all that's blank.
can temperatures down her t
Concern those- scientific men at home
fromyear to year? - -
To us alone they matter, for It's old
enough; alas! -To
frees tha tail and fingers -Off a
monkey made of brass.
Mrs.
rom Ally Sloper.
way
thlm proud
If rom
k.iiv i in nniLr er , i i nim iiruun kuuiui .uim.iam ul hid ,ui a. i-aiirtui vi. jvu. l.omauv--. w v u 11 v
Now. don't for a. week Imarine that emrjlovMent such aa washlnsr French soovyneer nosfeyards from me darter the page t hap should reveal his work, tent entrance with caution till a final
Hetty King" la a vocal heavyweight, manuscripts or teaching the art of act- Maggie tha fourths this month, be- and the shy author desirous that his spring again landa-you rm your back.
6h:aaa small aa a messenger boy. But ing by the picture postcard system, gorry! She sinds me wan every tolms pages shoulr be turned quickly. Iwas but this time with your legs Inside tha
bar voles bas no adlposa. It la as lean But,'of course, Mr. William Winter and aha changes tor place, all .very simple and primitive, yet It Is tent. You then start to wriggle; In a
enarr wnen some iv allusion lounu ua intt m run mi ma wnun uucnuunumn. . . . 4
borne. Memory recalls, also, tne and on tne next occasion you are more Th, unRhtnometer r think the sad fate
I author .expectant of the turn of careful of your balance approach tha : ' V d"d b" fall M" ? a 1
To be stowed inside a locker, but we've
got tio .sun at all.
debating club .was
started.
oa
fulld. He visited tha potteries and saw
he wok; went- Into the fullest details
witn tne start as wen as with the crip,
pled workera themselves, and when ha
reported to the duchess he declared that
the only way out of the difficulty was
to make the guild a regular business
concern.
And so was entrusted to Mr. Pearson
the work of converting a ehartty Into a
public company. The name was changed
from "The Potteries Guild of Handi
crafts" to "The Duchess of Suther
land Cripples' Guild, Limited." The
capital was placed at $26,009 tn 4.900
ordinary shares and. 100 deferred shares
of 5 each. The (Vdlnary shares will
receive a fixed dividend of IS per cent
per annum, and the deferred sharehold
ers will receive the remainder of tha
profits. The deferred shareholders have
agreed to apply such profits to the .
training school and the charitable work
of the guild. As experts who have
looked Into the matter have figured It
out that, run as a business concern, the
profits of the guild should be fully 20
per cent there promises to be a hand-
some surplus for the charitable branch .
n f Ik, umla.lalrln.
Directors of Company.
The directors of the company ara tha
Duchesi of Suthnrland, chairman; C.
Arthur Pearson, 8. J. Waring and J. F.
Campbell. Mr Waring Is head of tha
Important firm of Wa rings. Limited, and
also Waring A Gillow. These Arms
have Immense stores In London and .
elsewhere devoted to house furnishing
and hardware generally. Mr. Waring Is
also a partner of Mr. 8elfridge of Chi
cago In the coming huae department
store which Is soon to startle Kngland.
Mr. Campbell Is head of the celebrated
chlnaware firm of Minton's.
The capital of the company waa all
subscribed within a few minutes. With
such a unique company and a duchess
as chairman, a hundred times the
amount wanted could have been se
cured. To further insure the success of tha
scheme the Duke of Sutherland trans
ferred Trentham Hall and the magnifi
cent estate surrounding it to the com
pany, free pi rent. It detracts nothing
from the Tnunlficence of the gift that
Trentham Hall has been for the last
three years abandoned as a ducal resi
dence because of the pollution of tha
river Trent, which runs through tha
grounds, by the many factories on Its
banks. The duke went to law over tha
contamination of the river and was
beaten. Still It was open to him to sell
the property for manufacturing pur
poses and it would have brought him In
a lot of money. But he has preferred
to take the more generous course. And
so It comes about that It Is-to be
turned into a factory for crippled work
ers. One of the apartments has been
specially fitted up for the exclustve use
of the duchess in her capacity as chair
man of the company.
The beauties of Trentham have been
Immortalized in Ixrd Beaconsfleld'S
novel, "Lothair," where under the name
of Brentham it is described as "an Ital
ian palace of freestone, vast, ornate and
In scrupulous condition."
board the Discovery, and In the even
ings many subjects were discussed with
great earnestness, among them being
sucn prooiems an wornnnn nignm.
"Conscription." "The Commerce of the
British Empire," "Sledge Traveling."
"The Habits of Penguins," and "ICS
Navigation."
Conversation and Candor. ;
But the debating club was not the
only opportunity for discussion.
"We were most fully employed during
'the morte salson.' " explains "Hero No.
2." in an Imaginary conversation with
his lady love, "in a species of most en
tertaining arguments, and in exploding
one another's pet theories. Weird the
ories' and 'new and brilliant Ideas' were
especially prolific amongst ua. There ,
Is something in the keen strong, non
mlasmlc air of the Antarctic which,
seems to foster these uncanny things, .
and they frequently required all our re
sources to grapple with them. We did
not even get tired of one another, nor .
become sicklied o'er with the pale cast
of thought, nor get depressed and grow
long hair; quite different to what we
ought to have done. I am afraid, out of
harmony with some former expeditions,
nrwl m.tat iinuaual Wa trcti aecuntninen
to the vagnries of our friends, and ac- ,:
quired an extreme delicacy of touch in .
dealing with one another's feelings. .
T ittia flaws In one'a character, and .
idiosyncrasies hitherto successfully
smothered, were calmly unearthed and
gently revealed In a moat beneficial " '
manner."
Among the many interesting events
recorded In the month's diary for tha ,
"South Polar Times" are the following: ,
"Great Penguin chase by Dr. K. 'Skelly
and Boatswain.
"Dr. Koettlltz discovers Bacteria in a
seal's Intestines."
"Concert and Theatrlcala." - -
"Vlnka. the wife of Wolf, of four pups. ,
"Muggins landed a ten-ieggea sea
spider." In an "editorial" for -August. HOI.
there is the following interesting note: :
"Without doubt the principal event of '
the month has been the sun's return.
Though day light has been well assured -:
for the past three weeks, it waa not
until a few days ago that wa aaw the t
true sunlight shining on the peaks of -the
western mountatrvs and brightening
the smoky pall that hangs over Erebus. '
It was on the 22d that we saw the sun
Itself and there were many of us out
to catch the first glimpse, for the day
was beautifully fine and very clear, t
hear that a dinner Is to be given in i,
honor of King Sol. One of tha best
fnieriuinint'iiiB wmi hiw mvi
In the Royal Terror theatre waa tha ,
Dlshcover Minstrels' show; It went off
without a hitch, and reflects great
credit on the manager and troupe for
the excellent way in which it was car
ried out. It must have required a good
deal of resolution on the part of thosa 1
who attended the rehearsals during tha '.
three weeks of stormy weather, when
the journey from the ship to the hut
was often done in the face of a blizzard
and the temperature well down In the '
minus thirties.''
The Southern Sledge Journey. .
Though the light social aide ot.ths
expedition takes up most space- In the
"South Polar Times," there ara many
articles of serious interest, and among .r
them a detailed account of : tha famous
sledge journey to the south. It was a
daring enterprise, . and the travelers
suffered great hardships. Relying on,,
their sledge dogs to carry the, baggage,
they were disappointed and Endangered
by the inability of the animals to do
their work. Day- by day they dropped .
down to die. or were so exhausted that
the explorers had to stop their journey
until tha poor beasts recovered a little.
It was discovered thaf the' stock fish
upon which they were fed rastalntd,
and poisoned them, but aS.1t was the
only food available there was no
remedy! Lieutenant Shackle ton and his .
companions were themselves In a con
dition of semi-starvation before tha end
of the Journey, and the intense cold, th
fatigue of dragging sledges over soft
snow, the constant stumbling into ice
cracks, and the thousand and one hard
ships of traveling over the lonely Ice
fields exhausted thera -to the last !
gree of human strength. .-
From this brief account af the con
tents of the "South Polar Times, and ;
from the Illustrations reproduced on
this page. t will be f"JuJL
interest Is be Journal edited by Lieu
tenant Bhackieton, who 1 fiown his
way again to tha unknown south.
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