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Xl-krXAW AMD HER BABY USSWK t fi. "A VT XI V
-r IEUT. BO B BUT E. FF,.RY'S lat
JN est dash to the pole ended nt 84
' degrees 17 minutes north latitude
343 miles from the pole. At this point
be was compelled to turn back, not be
cause of physical exhaustion or luck of
supplies, but beeuuse the ice cup wan
impassable for men on foot, in sledges,
or in IxnitH.
While Lieut. Penry did not equnl the
Duke d'Abruzzl's record of 811.33, and
X-maeti's mark of 8(1.14, he set u new
Anierleuu record. Heretofore the bish
est American record was that of Lock
wood, of the Greoly expedition, who
reached 83.24 degrees north latitude, in
1882.
At 87.47 north latitude Fenry found the
ice cup broken by immense ridge dilli-
cult to surmount Great fissures opened
in the Ice in every direction. Dense fogs
made traveling nlmoHt Impossible.
The north imle his goal, and possession
for the United Stntes of the far-off limits
of the world his ambition, Peary lnuiieh
ed the little bund of which he was the
loader upon its plunge into the frozen
land of mystery in 1808. Hope was
strong within his breast, and his plans,
maturing through the years he had spent
in the region for which he was bound in
his previous Ineffectual dashes north
ward, seemed to provide for every contin
gency that might arise.
It wdas not to be a quick rush through
tne ice-oouud region. Rather wns It to
bo a siege. Penry wns convinced that the
only wny in which he might accomplish
his greut aim would lie to go forward
prepared to remain for several years if
necessary, fortifying each step In advance
of the main body of his expedition so he
wight safely fall back a fraction of the
way if compelled to do so and still be
ready at the instant conditions changed to
push on once more. Belief expeditions
were arranged to go up after him each
year, ready to take him back to civiliza
tion If he had gained what he sought, or
to return without him if he still hud his
tusk before him.
Privations of the sort that rlrl
bravest men from their appointed mis
sions confronted the daring explorer in
the four years that lie spent in the frozen
fastnesses of the North, cut off from all
civilization, his friends and supporters
in doubt most of the time whether he
still lived.
Lieut. Penry made his first exploration
of the North in 1SSH, when, having been
granted leave of absence by the Navy
Department, he penetrated far into
Greenland and reached nn elevation on
the Greenland ice never before attained
by u white mnn. lie also reaehed--the
hrst of his race to accomplish as much
the interior plateau of unchanging urctic
mow,
In 18!)1 he made his second venture, ac
companied by Mrs. Penry and a .mull
party. His hope wns to discover the
northern limits of Greenland and seek to
push on to the Kle if possible. Before
he was well on the way his leg was brok
en in nn accident to his ship in the ice
floes. It was the following spring be
fore he could renew his journey, ami then
he set out with one companion und his
logs and sledges. July 4 he reached his
goal, the northern end of Greenland, uud
there he ran up the American flag. A
hay stretched before him, and this water
he named Independence Bay in honor of
the day. Across the bay was land, visi
ble, but not attainable. He returned
home.
His next expedition wns begun in 1803.
after he had overcome the most trying
obstacles in the matter of gathering sulli-
N the James River some miles be
low - Richmond Is a plantation
manor bouse that was built in
lUUO. About the middle of the hist cen
tury the owner of the estate wns a
"w idow, Mrs. Margaret Ritchie, who hud
two twin daughters, Barbara and Eliza
beth. Mrs. Ritchie was very wealthy and
very ambitious. She took her daughters
to Europe with a view to their marry
ing noblemen.
A German baron proposed for Bur
b'rn and wns uccepted by the mother,
"Wiio did not consult her daughter in the
uiutter, intending, If necessary, to en
force obedience. The mother did not
"iw thnt Barbara had a love affair
lth a lieutenant in the United States
nrmy, Theodore Benton, a line young
fellow, but without a cent in the world
xeept his pay.
Had she been aware of this attach
ment she would not have brought her
daughter back to America, which she
did, thinking It proper that the baron
hould come for her nt her own home.
Soon after her return Barbara met
'Lieut Benton at one of the houses fac
''ng the capltol over which soon was to
!float the Confederate nag. Already
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MAP OF THE REGION TRAVEHSED BY PEAKY.
The mnp shows the route taken by the explorer. Following la au explanation of the
letters in tlie map: an, Nniiseii'fl farthest north; uo other Arctic explorer nun reached
tlds point, hb, Latitude reuched by Luckwond and llrulnurd. ccv Aretlc circle. A,
Wlntle Sound, where Peary's Kskliuo attendants were taken aboard. K, Suerrnrd Un
born fjord, Peary's base of supplies. C, Depot at northern terminus of luud.
cient funds to moke the Journey a possi
bility at all. Matt Heuson, the black
body servant, was with him this time
und was his constant companion in all the
arduous struggles that followed. His
ship, the Falcon, returning after landing
bim on the northern shores, was lost, and
dissensions arising among his followers
he was left with only Henson und an
other companion, Hugh J. Lee.
In 1895 lie set out with his two compan
there were miitterlngs of the great
struggle to come. Benton was a North
ern man. and both knew that this
would be an additional reason why Mrs.
Ritchie would never consent to their
innrrlnire.
Barbnra told her lover of the contract
her mother hud entered into in her be
half abroad.
Benton urged her to marry him nt
once without her mother's consent, but
she dared not Soou after, while Benton
and Barbara were still in Richmond,
came the news of the tiring on Fort
Sumter. Benton hastened to And Bar
bara, told her thnt he must at once
make his wny north and again urged
her to marry him.
She consented, a clergyman was call
ed, and the two were made man and
wife.
Benton reached Washington safely,
n.irbnrn went home to her mother and
broke the news of her marriage.
The next summer those ut the Ultcnie
niniitntlon listened every day for a
week to the distant boom of cannon in
the bnttles about Richmond.
Ti.nn n sound, like a storm that had
come, roared from the top of Malvern
hill but a short distance away. iven
!... Iinri eoniP and with It only the
crocking of rifles on the picket line
when a young oracer roue up io uir
,-..-fin nnnoiinced himself as Llept
Benton and, upon being told that the
family were there, acmuuueu w
wife.
iu nit ship "Windward."
ions to cross the great ice cap. Lee fell
ill and was left behind. Peary and Hen-
iou reached a latitude of 81 degrees 47
minutes, ten miles further north than the
explorer had gone before, and tlen, ac
tually starving, were forced to turn back.
They picked up Lee and beat their way
back to where they had started from. It
was after all these disappointments and
privations that Lieut. Peary decided on
this last expedition.
Mrs. Ritchie came into the drawing-
room and received him with a haughty
manner by no means softened by the
fact that he was an Invader of her State
and her plantation. She told him that
Barbarn was ill and that she did not
wish to see him. When the war ended
she would .apply for an annulment of
the marriage. Benton flatly refused to
believe the statement Since he was
with an army, Mrs. Ritchie could not
have him rejected. She therefore resort
ed to strategy.
"If my daughter comes Into this room
and confirms what I have 6a id, will you
believe her?"
"I will"
Half an hour later a young girl stood
upon the threshold, pale apparently
with Illness. Benton seeing what ap
peared to be the shadow of his wife
stepped forward. The girl motioned
hiin back.
"Theodore," she said, "I did wrong In
marrying you without my mother's con
sent. Go away. 1 wish never to aec
you again."
Benton staggered from the house,
mounted his horse and rode away.
Two years later Grant laid a pontoon
bridge across the James, advanced to
Petersburg and besieged the ' place.
During the passage of the Vnlon troops
across the river an officer rode up to
the Ritchie plantation, and without dis
mounting handed a negro a note ad
dressed to Mrs. Theodore Benton. It
read:
"Are yon of the Mine mind as In the
ummer of 1S2? If so, I will po away.
and when you wish an annulment of
our marriage I will not oppose It.
"THEODORE."
In a few moments Barbara appeared
at the door, and between hysterical
tears and laughter held out her arm.
Biuton sprang from big horse to her
embrace.
The first piece of news the husband
received was that Mrs. Kltchle bnd
died; the second was an explanation of
the renunciation which had occurred
when Benton had been there liefore.
Mrs. Kltchle was a woman who, when
her mlud was made up, would stop nt
no means which she regarded legiti
mate to accomplish her object. She con
sidered that her daughter had been
stolen from her. Therefore Bhe had a
right to rejiossess herself of her own
property. She would not lie. She had
nsked Benton. "If my daughter comes
into this room and confirms what I
have said, will you believe her?" Then
she ordered Elizabeth to Itorsonnte her
sister. Elizabeth, without strength of
character to resist her mother, had
done as she wns told. Barbara, on the
arrival of her husband, had been locked
In her room and had not known of the
outrage that had been committed until
after her mother's death, when her sis
ter confessed and begged forgiveness.
Barbara, when she learned how she
had been misrepresented to her hus
band, was in agony. She hnd resolved
to go north lu search of him when the
Vnlon troops uppenred.
Benton sent a note to his command
ing officer announcing thnt he hud
found a loving wife, and asking thnt a
leave be granted. It was given, and
thnt night the wedding was celebrated,
not by the attendance of the neighbor
ing planters, but by the rejoicings of
the negroes for whom with their new
rnnster the day of Jubilee had at lust
come.
HOUSEHOLD ADORNMENTS.
Number of Odd Thine Put to Prac
tical Use
It is astonishing what a great num
ber of strange household and garden
adornments are scattered up and
down the country, from gateways
made of sharks' Jaws to the great
numbers of figureheads of wrecked
ships to be seen everywhere in the gar
dens of the Scilly islands and else
where. In a Sussex village is part of a gar
den paling made wholly out of the
swords of ewordflshes. The lady Who
owns the garden got the fttrcuiw pal
lug from her brother, who had orig
inally sported It In the tropica. Near
Leeds, la a u wiser bouse made wholly
of buttons of every Imaginable kind,
and in the same county is a room, the
walls of which ore adorned entirely by
the ribbons of cigars, nearly 20,000 of
these being represented. From garret
to basement the large house of a
Leeds mineral water manufacturer U
a glgautlc scrnpbook, every notable
theatrical poster of the lust twenty
years being pasted on the walls, says
the Loudon Express.
A north county banker living near
Wakefield has a greut dining room, the
whole of the walls of which are the
wooden and Irou doors of eminent cas
tles and historic buildings, and at Lis
curd, In Cheshire, is a room that con
tains hundreds of picture frames made
of every imaginable substance, from
leather to tigers' bones, one frame be
ing placed within another according to
size, so that the whole surface is cov
ered with frames.
In Liverpool Is a room that of
dentist whose grandfather occupied
the sume premises thut contains many
mirrors and pictures, the frames of
which are made entirely of sharks'
teeth. Near Birmingham a manufac
turer has a study that is lined, even
to the roof, with nothing but chains
of various thicknesses and padlocks
of different sizes.
N0N0GENARIAN WHO HAS
CARVED HIS OWN TOMBSTONE.
ll ugh Hewitt, a monogenarlan in'
mate of the State soldiers' Home at
Lafayette. Ind., has
carved his own
tombstone and
constructed a cof-
. VS 1 I-'
nn to -hold bis re
mains. The shaft
the tombstone is
z feet high and
two feet square.
'V l J 1 ana Dears
the fob
epitaph,
oy De
lowing
composed
a. y.'.ldi
11 L Gil LltHliT. Witt:
A bachelor lies beneath this sod
Who disobeyed the laws of GOD;
Advice to others thus I give
Don't live a "bach," as I did live.
Dewltt'a name does not appear on
the stone. A plain mound of eartn lies
at the foot of the simple monument
and beneath the mound is a grave
constructed on original principles. It
is of the ordinary size, and at the sur
face resembles any grave. Below, bow
ever, for a distance of three feet from
the bottom, It is walled In with brick
and cement and the bottom Is cement
ed. Two stone slabs fit over the top
of the wall, leaving a cavity for the
coffin, as Dewitt says he wants "room
to turn around In" and wanja no dirt
about the coffin.
Could Not Teach Him More.
Blnks You're putting the boy, Din-
ny, early to work. ,
Jinks Yes, he's a clever lad, for he's
learnt everything the teacher knows.
"He has?"
"He has that The teacher said, "I
can't hammer anything more Into that
head of hla. "Detroit News-Tribune,
Any chronic borrower soon begins to
wonder why every ne he knows la
broksj.
IHimillllHHUIHHI
FAVORITES
tMIIH4tHIIMtlHIIIKT
LITTLE BREECHES.
t don't go much on religion,
I never ain't lis J no show;
But Pv g, a middliu' tight grip, ,lr
On the handful o' things I know.
I don't pan out ou the prophets.
And free-will, and that sort of thing
But I b'lieve in (rod and the angels
Ever since one uiht last spring.
I come Into town with some turnips.
And my little Gahe came aloug
No four-yenr-old In the county
Could iH-at him for pretty and strong.
Peart and chippy, and asy.
Alw ays ready to swear and fight
And I'd la rut him to chaw terbacker
Jest to keep hu milk-teeth white.
The snow mine down like a blanket
As I paKtted by Tasgart's More:
I went in for a jug of molasses
And left the team at the door.
They scared at something and started-
1 beard one little sou it U,
And hell-to-illt over the prairie
Went team. Utile Breeches, and all.
HelMopHt oTer the prairie!
I was almost froie with skeor;
But we rousted up some torches.
And searched for em far and near.
At last we struck horses and wagou,
fcnowed under a soft white mound.
Vpset dead beat but of little Gab
No hide nor hair was found.
And here all hope soured on mt
tf my fellow-critter's akl
I Jest flopied down on my marrow-bones,
Crotch-deep in the suow and prayed.
By this, the torches was played out
And me and Isrul Pan-
Went off for Borne wood to a shccpfold
That he said was somewhur thar.
We found it at last and a little shed
Where they shut up the lambs at nlg.it.
We looked in and seen them huddled thar,
Bo warm, and sleepy, and white,
And thar sot Little Breeches and chirped.
As peart as ever you see,
"I want a chaw of terbacker.
And that's what tho matter qf me,"
How did ha git tbarr Angels.
H could never have walked lu that
tonn,
Thoy Jest stooped down and toted hint
To whar it was safe and warm.
And I think that saving a little child,
' And fotcUug him to his own,
Is a durned sight better business
Than loafing around the Throng
--John II ay,.
HUDSON BAY RAILWAY.
Dream of Canadians Now Likely
to
Become a Reality.
The statement a few days ago that
the Canadian goverpmimt haa equipped
a party which will begin at once the
exploration of the vast wilderness ly
ing north of the Great Lakes seems to
Indicate that the project for a Hu
son Bay railway, which has been a
dream for many years, may become a
reality In the near future. Little la
known of the character of the coun
try between the lukes und James'
buy, but what 1ms been beurd from
hunters and Indian guides lends to the
belief that the section is wealthy, with
deposits of coal and ore, with great
forests, and with land suitable for agri
culture. The task of surveying these exten
slve trticts will be a stupendous one,
and the Canadian government does not
expect that the labors of the survey
lug party will be completed within
two years.
Although Canadians realized the
wealth of the Hudson Bay country, and
talked about a railroud for It for more
than twenty years, tbey finally were
forced to stand aside and watch Amer
ican Capital do the business. The first
step waa taken something over a year
ago, when a road was built north from
Sault Ste. Marie into the forests) In
the Moose River country, chiefly to
carry pulp to the mills at the "Soo
While It Is by no means certain that
this road will ever get aa far north as
James' Bay, It la beaded that way
From the "Boo" to Moose Factory,
the southernmost point of James' Bay,
la a distance of about 500 miles. The
Moose river, from Its headwaters at
Brunswick Post seventy miles north
of the Canadian Pacific line. Is 420
miles long, and the road would follow
Its course for the most part, not much
allowance being made for deviations,
The upper stretches of the river run
for considerable distance through
muskeg, or swampy land, and for a
long stretch the surrounding country,
though heavily timbered, U compara
tively leveL
It would not offer any more dif
ficult problems of engineering In rail
road building than have been solved
satisfactorily In the pineries and
awamp lands In northern Minnesota
and Wisconsin.
It la not certain that the stories of
the vast mineral wealth of the Moose
river country are Justified, for little
prospecting haa been done. But aside
from the timber, a rich farming coun
try undoubtedly could be opened along
the valley of that river by a railroad.
Men who have traveled through froni
the American line to James' Bay re
port abundant evidence of the rich fer
tility of the soil.
With a railroad, that section, now a
desolate waste, would become one of
the richest agricultural sections of Can
a da. The argument made against Its
agricultural development la that short
seasons would make diversified agricul
ture Impossible and that grain would
not thrive.
Those familiar with the country,
however, report that the season along
the Moose river Is not so much shorter
than that of Manlttla. one of tha
greatest wheat bvlts of the world. Fif
ty miles south of James' Bay the cli
mate la not affected by the changes of
the sea. Every Hudson Bay post haa
Its garden patch, where all kinds of
vegetable are raised.
The development of these rich farm
ing lands would. It Is thought be a big
Investment for any road. The Moos
river drops 1,(HH) feet In 4J5 miles, and,
being a constant succession of rapiila,
offers wonderful opportunities for man.
ufacnirlng through the development ot
Its water power.
WAS A FAMOUS FIGHTER.
Portrait of Gen. Clark Hang la tk
War ItopartnianU
In the ollico of the Sccretnry of War
there bangs a tine oil portrait of Gen.
George lingers Chirk, which Is of Inter
est Just at the present timer as It la this
Gen. Clark who figures prominently la
a popular novel and play. Moreover,
the painting attracts nddltlonnl Interest
from the fact that la origin and how
It reached Its present place are ques
tions which no uue now lu the War De
partment seema to Iks able to answer.
The mrtralt shows the General In tha
old buff and blue uniform of our fore
fathers' times, says a writer lu the
Cleveland Plain Dealer. Ilia face la
rather of the puritanical type, with u
high forehead, close-set lips and a firm
and rather sharp chin.
Gen. Clark was torn In Albemarla
County, Virginia, In 173U, but spent tha
greater part of hla life lu Kentucky ami
Indiana. In 1778 he raised a small vol
unteer force In Virginia, crossed the
Ohio, reduced nearly all tho British
posts between tho Mississippi and th
great lakea and arrested the Incursion
of the Western Indians. Hi marches
through 'the pathlesa wilderness were So
rapid that he generally took the enemy
by surprise, his prudence so groat that
he rarely lost n man, and his during ha
never been surpassed. In attacking Vn
ecunea In February, 177U. he was five
days In wading his army across the val
ley of tho Wuhash, Hooded with melted
snows for a breadth of six miles, gener
ally walKt deep and sometimes np to tho
shoulders an exploit that paralleled
Hannlbal'a crossing of the Tbrnsymcn
marsh.
Gen. Clark waa variously employed
by the State of Virginia and the United
States up to 178(1 In maintaining pos
session of the western country and sup
pressing Indian hostilities. He died lu
1818 near Louisville. Ky. 1
Tills conquest and armed occupaMQat
of 0) iiorthwest territory by Gen.
Clark was made the ground on which,
the Count de Ywgenne and the Ameri
can commissioner obtained for the;
United State, by tiie treaty of 1783 &
boundary on the line of the great lakes"
Instead of the Ohio IUver. 1
THEY OWN 700,000 ACRES,
And Over 30,000 Head of Cattle Roaaa
on Their Lands. (
It requlrea uo small degree of finan
cial genius and administrative ability
to annilre nnd maintain a tract of land
n 7IKIIMK) n rr.. I..
tent On this areit
from 3o,0ix) to 40,
) head of entile
are constantly
rimming nnd futten-
i II If fop riifii.lfuft
R .'. JJ-" h Land aud cattle
i -V -
i are
li'jsXiyHi it .... ....
"V uu iiv iim
fa-
metis Turkey Track
Cattle Company,
which operate in
u. a. i-ackaho. Nonora, Mexico,
and in Arizona. Its member ure Bur
dett Aden Packard and W. C. Greene.
Packard Is a native of Portvllle, N. Y.
At 2.1 he located In Pennsylvania and
went Into the oil busness, renin Inlng
until 1882, when he located In Arlxona,
settling at Tombstone. There he took
up milling, and later weut lutu tho
cattle business.
All Sirloin.
nolman F. Day's "Pine Tree Bal
lads" tella In verse a number of storlea
that actually happened "down In
Maine," and are remembered there to
day by old narrators. One relates to
Barney McGauldrlc, a landlord of that
State, at whose bousa famous men lik
ed to stay, that they might enjoy a
merry Joke.
Barney waa always loyal to hla
friends. At one time a new meat deal
er came to town, aud tried to secur
the landlord's trade.
"I have alwaya bought meat of Jed
Haskell," aaid Barney, "and I guess
I won't chajige."
"But." said the other, "old Haskell
doesn't know bis business. He doetu't
even know how to cut meat"
"Well." drawled Barney, "I've al
ways found that be knows enough
about It to cut sirloin steak clear to the
horn, and that' good enough for me."
Blindness Is Increasing.
The proportion of sightless to seeing
persons has been watched with especial
interest in Great Britain aud the lat
est statistics Indicate that It has fallen
In a half century from about 1,020 In
tho million to some 870, or more than
14 per cent This decline has been so
timed as to sho
that it Is the result of better condition
of living, Improved surgery and doubt
less a decrease in tha ratio of perllou
to non-perllou employments for the
masses of the people.
A woman gives birth to n j
with care and devotion, raises him to
year, and makea a man of him. After
twenty-nve or thirty year of her inn...
ence be marries, and In six month, tho.
are aaylng his wife "made" him.
It la as hard for a new hnshnnrl n
live up to expectation aa It is for h.
chief mourner at a funeral