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NOTICE it hereby given that the umler- pied ha« been appointed by the County Jart of Yamhill C .«y. State of Oregon, de executor of ti»v »ast will and testament r G. W. Goucher, late of said county, de bated. and that be has qualified as such lecutor. Therefore, all persons having claims gainst the estate of said decedent are ere*A» required to present them to me at IT office in MeMinville. in said county, nth proper vouchers therefor, within six months from the date of this notice. Dated April 20. lxftt. E. E. GOUCHER. R amsky A F kxtox . Executor. ; Attys for said Estate. We Treaell—Vou Pr act lea. In oilier word«, we will teach you I "(INK. and start won in buaineaa, ■t which you can rapi*ilr gather in thed.’llnra. We can and will.il you plea««,teach re«..IAUhj« to earn from to SIO a day at tha alert, and more aa you r° on. Both aeiea, all er«*. 1» any part of America, you can ton menca at homo, ffirinf all you time, or «pare toomenra onl». to lhe work. What we offer if new and it haa bean proved over and ovee a<nin,tha» mr '• "*• •rory worker Easy to learn. Moepecial abill ty renuir*^ iaanaaMhl« in- duatry onlynec- eeaary for euro, lor<« Buceeee We etart you, tawithtar ee aaythinr rhia to one of tho rr*«‘ _________ atridea forward enrtchea all workam II »a ............ «■n*:.'^>- advertisers on KtsvtlMH« srere sstan I" ctoayo, sell «ml It «n hl. « WHRSÂtsæîu-Â s» The fever for exploration is begin ning to burn again in men’s breasts. The records of northern exploration show that human effort in this direc tion undergoes regular variations through cycles of years with periods of ' maximum and minimum intensity like the spots on the sun and certain epi demics. There is reason to believe that the werld is entering upon one of those maximum periods of north pole enthu siasm. Lieutenant l’eary scarcely re turned from tlie northernmost joint of ’ Greenland, is preparing actively to set out with another expedition in a few weeks. Nansen, the Norwegian ex . plorer, tlie man who first crossed Greenland from east to west, has al ready sailed for the Bering sea, whence . lie will launch forth on a perilous jour ney through the ice. Lieutenant Mel ville,the explorer,who found the liodies of I)e Long and his comrades, has a pet scheme for tryiug to reach the north pole by the way of Franz Josef Land and is anxious to put it into execution. Besides these there are several other • polar expeditions planning in several other parts of the world. The close of tlie nineteenth century, therefore, will witness a plucky race for ' the pole with brave fellows in the run • ning. It must be confessed tliat the picture ’ one sees in looking backward since men first turned the prows of their ships to wards tlie pole is not u pleasant or a re assuring one. Disaster and death, suf fering and horror—that seems to have beeu the wretched story year after year, generation after generation, and little to show for it. Two hundred and eighty-six years ago that vnliaut Dutch navigator, Henry Hudson, readied 83 degrees, 23 minutes north latitude, in his clumsy wooden sailing vessel. The best Lieutenant Peary could do last year with all his science and fine equipments, was to reach 82 degrees, 34 minutes, and tlia best that has ever been done, the great record among all polar explorers, is 83 degrees, 44 min utes, made by twoefllcersof the Greely expedition in 1882. That means that modern civilization has been able, in nearly 300 years, to gain only 200 miles on the record of Hudsou, made three ceuturies ago. At that rate, allowing an advance of one degree a century, tlie north pole would be discovered ubout tlie jiear 2000 A. D. Fortunately there is good reason to think that the tragic and unsatisfactory story of tlie past will not be forever re peated. Arctic explorers, like other men, learn from the mistakes of their predecessors, although it must be ad mitted they learn slowly. There is a general disposition today among those who can speak authoratlvely, to admit that for two hundred years or more searchers for the pole have been work ing on a false scent. They have made little progress because they have insist ed on violating or disregarding one of nature's simplest laws. Curiously enough during tlie same long period tlie men who huve beeu laboring to solve the problem Of aerial navigation have been suffering from tho same mis take. Inventors of flying machine« have been deluded by the idea that a body lighter than air could bo driven through it. Searchers for the north pole have been deluded by the idea tliat a body lighter thau the ice could resist tlie pressure of the ice and bo driven through it. In the one case balloons have proved unmanageable and been torn to pieces, in the other, ships have floundered helplessly in the terrible ice-floes and been crushed to pieces. It has taken two centuries of failure and disaster, with the loss of thousands of lives, hundreds of ships and inestimab'e wealth to make men learn nature’s lesson that in order to navigate air or ice, bodies must be heavier notjlighter than air or ice. A glance over the records sine« 1818, when the British parliament began to offer large rewards for discoveries, will show that nine-tenths of ail the trouble and loss of life in all the polar expedi tions lias been caused by this strange mania to drive a lighter body through a heavier one, a ship which floats in water through mountains of congealed water. As well try to cut a diamond with a piece of glass. Lieutenant Mel ville, U. 8. N., who has made a deep study of this subject, says; "The won derful potency of these floes is incredi ble anil can only I* calculated in mil lions of tons. I therefore consider it impossible to construct a floating body which will be able to resist the tre- rnendons strain of lhe polar ice packs. I do not. thiDk such a vessel could with stand the pressure even though it were built solid.” One bus not to look far for proofs of these statements, woeful proofs! In 1829 Captain John Ross started north ward on the Victory. The Victory was crushed in the ice. In 1846 Sir John Franklin led the Erebus aud the Ter ror within the arctic circle and both stayed there, ground to atoms. Then came the Pioneer,the Intrepid,the Res olute and a score of others (it is curious to note what awe-inspiring names they all bear), and the ice crushed them one after the other. Dr. Kane sailed in 1853 on the Advance which also became the prey of the hungry ice packs and ad vanced no further. The Polaris with Captain Hall and party, was ground to pieces in 1872. One year before that the German ship, Hansa, with Dr. Peter man and his party was crushed in the ice. In 1873 the men of the Payer ex pedition sent by Austria, who discover- june 22,1893. VOL. V. NO. 21 ed Franz Josef land, were obliged to have overlooked the deeper current« leave their ship, the Tegethofi,shattered which carry the icebergs. The fact in the ice. Iu 1879 the lllfated Jean tliat he will be obliged to remain a pris THE ANCIENT SCANDINAVIAN SEA nette began her voyage with Lieuten oner in the ice during all these years ROVERS. ant De Long in command, but the ice even should ills theory prove correct, pack’s pitiless grip caught and ebrushd does not disturb him in the least. A h her too, bringing death upon many to tlie danger from the crushing |>ower Bog« Once Bays Yield Relics of tlie Day men. These are but a few of the ships of the ice-floes, Nansen declares that of Hustings Horn—Gilt Beaks and Uor- which have started out gallantly on his ship has been built on a I'ew plan geous Prows of the Old Vikings. polar expeditious, only to be broken with shelving sides on such a model into splinters in the great ice-floes. As and with such powerful bracing that it 4 As a model of a viking ship has found for the ordlnory whaling aud fishing will be absolutely impossible to crush The only Pure Cream of Tartar Powder.—No Ammonia; No Alum. its way across the Atlantic on its way vessels which have met with a similar her. The worst that can happen will to the World's fair, aud as the size of Used in Millions of Homes—40 Years the Standard. fate, the list would be endless, and all be to lift her bodily out of the ice and thut ship is supposed wrongly, to be squeeze it as it were up on the surface from man’s stubborn refusal to recog nize a principle which seems as simple of the ice. He says that it is a matter that of those used by tho Norsemen In war time the vikings often tarred riors in the prow and stern, besides as that two and twe make four. An of indifference to him and is just as when they crossed the Atlantic and their vessels, which after a tim. became throe or four men at each oar and a discovered the New World in the year egg pounded by a hammer gets well pleased to let the ship wait in one 985, and on their subsequent voyages, of a grayish color, in order to deceive warrior on each side to protect the row position as another. broken. the enemy, and old sails were used to ers Ho the Long Serpent had in al) “What do you thiuk of Nansen’s I thought an account of their ships, make them appear as merchantmen. Now a different theory seems to have probability a crew of between seven from the time of the Romans, when gained among Arctic explorers and al plan?” I asked General Greely recently They took great pride in the appear and eight hundred men. the vikings loom on the history of the though they apply this theory in differ in Washington. ance of their ships. The commander The foregoing account warrants the “I regard it as an illogical scheme of world, to that of their mighty invasions was the most conspicuous Jurlng the conclusion that the ship that is coining ent ways, yet they are in the main of the ninth, tenth aud eleventh cen agreed tliat the best and most feasible self-destruction,” was the emphatic turies, might prove interesting, the fight, dressed in full war dress, clad of to us represents one of the smallest plan of approaching the north pole is auswer. ten with a golden helmet. Their used by the vikings. It is a buza, or a "And what about Peary’s expedi more so as the models ef the caravels standards or pennuut« were ofteu gold fifteen or sixteen seater, and the com to advauce on land and not on water. that came with Columbus are with us, Land will not break up aud float away; tion?” embroidered, and Hew at tlie masthead. parison between such a ship and one of “Oh, Peary may make the farther- writes Paul du Chailiu in the New land colltalus some form of unimal life Beautiful sails were highly praised. the superb dragons or skeld would be York Sun. to sustain the explorers; land will not north this time; possibly he may reacli They were made of coarse woollen gen- equivalent to comparing a fishing First let me say that the graves aud grind ships to pieces, and allows a sure the 85th parallel. For the present the ally, or of hemp, striped, of different smack witli one of our great clipper antiquities found on the islands of th« method of retreat snd (communication record of my officers. Lockwood and ships. Baltic and in the present Scandinavia colors, red, white, blue and green being with supplies cached in the rearer with Brainard, must stand first.” the most common colors. Sails are But this in no way detracts from the tell us that from very ancient times, It is interesting to uote that a British Esquimaux settlements. In other welds little viking ship’s beautiful propor sometimes mentioned as being as white the accepted idea is to move northward expedition will soon set sail and en long before our era, the people led a as the new fallen snow, or as being tions, which even today match our seafaring life. In hundreds of mounds with dogs aud sledges, leaving provis deavor to reach the pole by way of newest models. Its shape bring, for are the remains of burned ships which painted and embroidered. ions at proper Intervals for the return Franz Josef landjthe leader holds views The size and power of a ship-of-war cibly to our mind the decadence of have been used as pyres for the burial voyage,eating the dogs when no longer similar to those of Lieutenant Melville. was always recognized by the number ship building from the time that the required and then having got within This expedition is not a national effort. of warriors; while tens of thousands of of her benches—that is, of the oars by power of the viking was at its height, graves, with their weapons, bear wit say five degrees or three hundred miles It is plauned and equipped by private which she was propelled. So vessels to the period when the caravels that of the pole, pushing on in a party of enterprise aud private money, in order ness of the warlike qualities of these are often mentioned as being fifteen, brought Columbus to the New World seafaring tribes, so dreaded by the Ro two or three determiued men, each to follow up the line in which private twenty, twenty-five, thirty seaters, and were built. carrying or dragging provisions for two exertions have already done more for mans. They show besides that u larg« so on. The length of a ship is never Let me add that nowhere in the saga population inhabited the country. or three months. A pound of pemmi- polar exploration than many govern- given, and only in one instance, that of literature do we find that the most The number of graves seen far exceed can food is enough to nourish a man for ment expeditions have acheived. Its a ship called the Long Serpent, is it powerful ships were used as burial twenty-four hours. This pemm'can leader, Frederiek G. Jackson, is a busi those left behind by the Romans, and partially mentioned. ships. food, the staple diet, is dry-pounded ness man, possessed of leisure and suffi nowhere else is there seen in Europe, From the Nydam boat and the Gok- perhaps in the world, such a multitude GEMS IN THE DIRT. meat pressed with currants, sugar and cient means, and experienced in travel stad ship we And that ships described in all parts of the world. Of the same of graves of the same type—witnesses as fourteen or sixteen seaters were A grease. Treasure Trova Exhibit from lhe But suppose the land stops? Then age as Dr. Nansen, and like him, mar •f a senfaring and military people. about seventy-five or seventy-six feet South African Mines. These graves tell what the maritime what? Lieutenant l’eary in his recent ried, be is as typical an Englishman long. Among the fragments of oars of power was with which Rome was used expedition found that Greenland wan as the latter is a Norseman. Pluck and the Gokstad boat, onejperfect oar was Three giant Zulus from South Africa cut in two by a strip of water at Lat. 82 “go” are his in a very large measure; to cope. fifteen feet in length, about four feet spend twenty-four hours eacli day in From the fragments left of those degrees 34 minutes. Hew is it jiossibie experience in difficult ice work he can longer than that of the Nydam, the side a circular high board fence Just burned ships we cannot possibly get a to know how much farther the land on not lay claim to, but he knows more vessel being wider and higher. The south of the Sixty-fourth street en the other side of that strip of water will about the Arctic region^ than many a knowledge of their shape, but engraved V spaces between the oars is about trance at Jackson Park, says the Chi upon rocks are seen numerous ancient extend? Of course there is'no way of famous explorer did ou their first set three feet two inches. The rowing cago THfiune. Around the homely en Mr. Jackson lias made a illustrations which give us an idea of benches occupy about forty-six feet, closure Columbian guards are con answering this question except that ting-out. the shape of some of tlieir vessels. judging by the usual formation of pen summer cruise to the far’noi,!:, and Fortunately three ships of these tlie prow and stern the remaining stantly patrolling, the watch beir.g insulas and island groups there is rea under the tuition of a canny Peterhead changed every four hours. About the Norsemen, one of which has been found thirty feet. son to think that land extends far to whaler he has picked up many From these two vessels we can ap fence runs an electric wire so arranged wards the north pole and tliat the Arc wrinkles that will help him in time of in a bog and two in mounds, show* to proximate the distance between each that a touch will sound a loud alarm tic circle is dotted with islands of need. He is a keen sportsman rather us their naval architecture. rower’s benchjin the larger ships men gong. Peering through the little open Through the literature of the vikings greater or less extent. These islands, than a man of science, but his ten com tioned in the sagas, and perhaps the ing which leads into the interior there we find that they bad different appel it is believed, have much to do witli panions will be chosen for their ability length of tlie oars (used to propel them. is nothing insight but a row of dirty holding the ice floes firmly together in to make all necessary scientific observa lations for their ships. The most pow Only in one instance is the length of brown bags and a pile of common look erful ships of war they bad were called the northernmost Arctic regions; iu- tions and collections. If his plans pan the oars mentioned.in the sagas, that of ing rocks. need, it is thought by tlie best authori out as lie hopes, Jackson will be the dreski (dragons), skeld, snekhjas, the the ship Ellidi, which were twenty-six Yet this same rough board fence en dreski being the most formidable of all. ties tliat the arctic sea Is a solid mass of most eager in the race to the pole, and feet in length, and the Ellidi was not a circles what may yet prove to be rarer ice above the 85th parallel of latitude. it will not (be his fault if the Union Those less powerful went under the large ship. and more valuable than all the wealth name of skuta, buza, karki. The gen Tlie once-eutertaiued theory of.an open Jack is not the first flag planted on If we take the exact measurements of the Indies. The coarse bags which polar sea and an “ice barrier” which that much coveted site. He intends to eral name given to their big ships of of the Gokstad ship and the Nydam are so closely watched are full of dia war was that of langskip, "long ships. ” could be penetrated ba.« been generally leave England (about the middle of boat for the length of larger ships, we mond bearing earth from the rich fields Tlie first authentic description we abandoned. July, or perhaps as late as tlie first of would find that a twenty-five seater of Kimberly, South Africa. Elsewhere have of tlie ship of the Norsemen is While it is thus believed that the August. would be one hundred and ten feet, in the buildings of the exposition are that given by Tacitus in' the first cen Aretic sea above the 85th parallel is a His plan of attaok is approved by the a thirty seater one hundred and twen many magnificent displays of gems, tury. He writes: solid mass of ice, it is not believed (he Arctic admirals of the British navy. It “Hence the states of the Sueones (the ty-five and a thirty seater about one but notone of them is so closely watch ice is stationary. On the contrary, a is to approach by Franz Josef land, hundred and forty-two feet. ed as this great pile of dirt, for it is pos steady movement to the southward is which may in favorable years be com Syiar of the sagas) situated in the But these rules cannot be applied to sible that when it is sifted and searched ocean itself, are not only powerful on known to exist, only this movement is paratively easily reached. On landing find out the length of the large ships— there may be brought to light dia doubtless slower above the 85th parallel a depot would be formed and stores laid lynd but have also mighty fleets. The the same proportions cannot have been monds of greater size and purity, than it is below it, and tlie moving up as a base for retreat, and then by shape of their ships is different, in that maintained. If there "was forty-six feet while it is certain that gems aggregat mass there is probably absolutely com sledging northward along the land ice, having a prow on each end they are al space for the benches of a fifteen seater— ing in value many thousand dollars pact and free from open air spaces. the coast would be delineated and map ways ready for running on to the of the Gokstad type—and thirty for may be found. The consequences ef this condition, if ped, as far as it extends, other depots beach. They (are not worked by sails, prow and stem, a far greater space The exhibit is that of the Do Beers such exists, must be that explorers will established, and if the surface proves nor are their oars fasteued to the sides must be allowed for bigger ships; a Consolidated Mining eompany of South in regular order, but let loose, so they be able to advance over this solid sur suitable, and if Franz Josef laud proves ship rowed by twenty-six or thirty feet Africa. The ore has been sent all the face, taking sledges fbr supplies with as is probable, not to have a great can be shifted here or there as circum oars required a much larger space be way from the mines at Kimberly in much less difficulty than has beeu ex northerly extent, an advance may be stances may require.” tween the rowers. At least a space of charge of J. Cundill, special agent of So we see that.in the time of Tacitus perienced heretofore in lower latitudes. made on the sea-ice, carrying boats for eight or ten feet must have been left be the De Beers company, for exhibit at the Norsemen were already powerful The ice will be more even and compact, crossing open water. tween the oar tholes or benches of a the fair. at sea. The ships seen by Tacitus were its movement will be very much less It seems very probable that in this thirty-five seater. We read that the With Mr. Cundill are the three South abrupt and there will be no danger of way the highest latitude of earlier ex those used by the Norsemen to ascend ship Long Serpent, a thirty-four seater, African natives, black as blackest paint those dangerous and treacherous break- plorers may be passed; and in Franz- rivers and row along the shores full of had sixteen fighting men between the and each of them several inches over iug-up periods which have caused fre Josef life is more tolerable than in per shoals off the coast of the present Bel benches. Sixteen (fighting men with six feet in height. The interesting quent disaster«. Few people believe haps any other place in the same lati gium and Holland, a country over bows, shields, swords or slings must names of these Zulus are Mr. Kum- now in the paloerystic sea once so tude. Leigh Smith, the most success which he was governor. have elbow room to fight. Ho making miel, Mr. Koobice and the others so The Gokstad skip which has served much discussed. ful Arctic yachtsman, spent lhe winter the space eight feet between the oar unpronouncable that it has been short as a model for the viking ship that has Lieutenant Peary proposes to put of 1881-2 in a blit built on an island in tholes the Long Serpent must have ened to George. The Zulus sleep in a this theory to the teat in the expedi the south of Franz-Josef land after his come to us, is the most perfect speci- been of a length of 272 feet—and cer tent among the sacks of diamonds. tion which will set out under his com ship was wrecked, and without winter men yet discovered, and consequently tainly the space for and aft must have They think Chicago is a decided failure mand in a few weeks. He will push clothing, and he found bears and wal of great value. It may belong to the been double that of the Gokstad ship. and heartily wish they were at home. along the inland ice cap which rises to rus plentiful enough to keep himself eighth or ninth century, On the deck Then we have a ship of 330 feet in They are extremely tony in their way the height of 6,000 or 8,000 feet through and his party supplied ,v!th fresh meat is the mortuary chamber. The length length. and yesterday objected vigorously to of the ship is about seventy-five feet, the whole interior of Greenland. Hav all the time. When Knut (Canute) the Great sail dragging a cart full of ore up to the its broadest part fifteen feet; from the ing reached the opeu water which sep Mr. Jackson intends to hire or pur ed from Denmark to invade England mining building, such work, accord arates the Greenland, as now designa chase a steam whaler to convey him number of holes seen, which are about we read in his pages: “Knut left the ing to their standard, being only fit for ted from the land above, he will crose to Franz-Josef land, and for navigation eighteen inches below the gunwales, for country with a (great host and exceed convicts. over this, climb again to the heights of he has secured the services of Mr. oar tholes are not used in the ship, w« ingly ship; he had himself a dragon so In the In «insure are stored 1,250 sacks inland ice and advance onee mere as Crowther, Leigh Smith’s ice-master. find that this vessel Carried sixteen large that it bad sixty benches; on it of diamond ore, 900 of which are pul benches and thirty-two oars. The far as possible tb the northward, 'possi After establishing winter quarters he were heads ornamented with gold, verized. The rock when left six months bly as far as the land stretches. Having will make some preliminary trips to length of the mound was 150 feet in Hakonjari had another with forty exposed to the weather crumbles end found that limit the party will either test his sledges and complete the sur diameter; height above the soil, 15 feet; benches, which also had gilt ; heads« powders and becomes ready for wash return content with such a discovery or vey of the southern part of the land, re above the sea, 18 feet. The good pres and the sails of both were striped with ing, that in the 900 sacks having al will push out over the solid ice in a serving the great northward march for ervation of the ship is due to the blue, green and red.’’ We may say ready gone through this process. It is dash for the pole itself. Provisions will the spring of 1894. He is pushing for mound being made of blue clay, the de without exaggeration,that if the Loug impossible to make an accurate esti be left at intervals along the land and ward his preparations quietly and cay of part of its gunwales being caused Serpent had sixteen men between each mate of the number of diamonds that such an arrangement made with the quickly, and as he does not ask for by ;the loose earth composing the up bench, Knut’s great ship must have will lie found, but Mr. Cundill guessed relieving ship as te prevent any misun public money he does not feel it neces per part of the mound, through which had at least twenty-five, which made a it at several thousands of carats. Al derstanding In this present expedi sary to publish any of the details of his the water filtered. crew of 1,500, and the length of the ready in handling the ore he found a Found with the Gokstad ship were tion Lieutenant Peary will sadly miss intended mode of life. It is difficult to diamond as large as a coffee boas, ship must have been over 400 feet. many fragments of wood carving be gallant Captain Pike, who commanded forecast the result of his expedition. In the two sailing ships found, the which seem to prove the assertion that the Kite last year, and whose recent From the little we know of Franz-Jo longing to the vessel, showing how ex greatest breadth of beam is about one- this is the richestore found in South death will be much regretted. sef land it appears that with a favora quisitely beautiful must hav« been the fifth of their length, so that a ship ISO Africa. The same theory as this in its main ble season much good work could be little craft. From the inclosure to the Mining feet long had a width of about forty All the ships are of oak. The timbers points has been advanced by Lieuten done, and there is more satisfaction in Building, a distance of 500 yards, a feet. ant Melville, alsp of the United States contemplating an expedition in which overlap each other and are riveted, or On tlie top of eacli mast of the war wire ore carrier runs. On this will be navy, who, however, disagrees with pluck and endurance count, than the what is called kiinker built. From the vessels was a crow’s nest. It was large run iron buckets, which will take the Lieutenont Peary as to the advisability mere passive submission to the laws of vikings’ laws we learn that a ship that enough to hold a certain number of ore up to the mining building. In of advancing toward the north along physical geography on which Nansen had to be baled three times in two warriors, who threw stones and shot the south end of the mining building the ice-cap of Greenland. Lieutenant depends. In two years he hopes to days was reckoned to be unseaworthy. upon the enemy. the De Beers company has an exhibit, Strange as it may seem to us, iron Melville argues that the proper land prove that Franz-Josef land is or is not The war ships' crews varied in num and the carrier will deliver the ore by clad or battering ram vessels were used for an advanee to the pole is Franz a practicable road to the pole. ber, according to the power of the com the bucketful there, where It will be Josef laud whose northern border has! Besides, some great scientific discov by the vikings. In the 10th century mander. Many are mentioned as hav crushed and the diamonds washed never been determined and which as ery may be made. What is known af Liot, “the pale,” had fifteen ships and ing a crew of 245 men. The most val out exactly as In actual work in Cape known is uninhabited by human be- ter all about the flattening of the earth a dreki covered withdron above the iant were stationed at the prow and Colony. The ore is crushed to a regu ngs. Franz Josef land, as the map at the poles? What of the magnetic sea. It sailed through every ship. He stern, but the Long Serpent and many lation size, somewhat larger than the ishows, lies to the north "of Nova Zem- conditions which prevail there? There called it the Jarnbarbl. The different other powerful ships of war bad much largest of the diamonds, and then pass bla, its southern limit being cut by the may be forms of life hitherto undis parts of the ship were the lypting, an larger crews. ed into a sort of a cradle, where all dirt eightieth parallel of latitude. Lieuten covered, for explorers have not yet elevated place where the commander The divisions between the rowers’ is washed away and the rongli dia stood and steered and from which he ant Melville proposes to advance with reached a point so far north but that benches were ealleil room«. These monds picked out. The machinery to dogs and sleighs in a similar way to they fonnd life around them and saw could survey the whole scene of battle; were subdivided into half-rooms, In do this Is expected to start up the first that adopted by Lieutenant Peary, and birds flying still farther to the north. the stafn (prow), rausn (forecastle), which many of the .combatants were of the week. he has planned two lines of retreat, one There was a time when intelligent fyrir-rum (foreroom;, so named on ac stationed, hence the fighting strength As is the case of most exhibits, all by Spitzenberg island and the other by men believed that the north pole was count of its being before the mast, and of a ship, a' well as its size,(was known this valuable rock is held in bond by Nova Zetnbla. marked by a great opening into the the krappazum, the third room from by the numlierof its rooms. In the the United Stale« custom house, ami Meanwhile Nansen,the intrepid Nor-■ bowels of the earth. Such an idea the stern. expeditions, when the men were land a careful watch Is kept by their officials The war ships were always painted wegian explorer, ia on his way to the would be laughed at today. ed to fight, we always find that one- over the piece of ground whei ■r^t h with ml, purple, blue or gilded; some Bering's«», through which he will >a«« third of them remained on Ismrd to stored. When the diamond was s mun.l When a man persists in drinking are mentioned as being white and red into the terrible ice-floe« which lie to . the other dav it was Immediately taken guard the ship. like a fish* he shouldn’t complain if he above the water line. Some wer? the north of Siberia. He calculates of by the representative of The Ix>ng Serpent had thirty-four finds his reputation growing scaly. sheathed with gold above the water that the westward drift of the ice-floes Ham who was on hand at the rooms, ns I have said before: eight at the rate of a mile or two a day will I It seem funny that a young fellow line. The English chronicles verify fighting men were In each half room, time. This espionage will prevent the of diamonds found in th« ore. in the course ef twe or three years, take i should be livelier when there are no the truthfulness of the sagas—they or sixteen in each room, thus making sale When the exposition closes the ma- mention that Harold Haarfager gave 544 men in th« rooms. Then thirty I «hinery, Zulus and whatever diamonds his ship within a few miles of the north i bounds to bis conduct to .F.tlielspn a ship sheathed with gold are mentioned in the fereroom, then I have been found will all lie «ent back pole. He has studied the polar current i Prevent «nd cure ConstipaUoo sod Sick- above the water line. making 574. We have also the war- ’to Hoti th Africa. at the surfac« very carefully, but may I Headache. Small Bile Brane. D’PRICE'S Baking Powder a