Bema Haan fcate, Pa., January 6, 1911. —— AN ARCTIC TRAGEDY. Heroic Self Sacrifice In the Cause of Science. Surely the darkest side of arctic ex- ploration was never more poignantly exhibited than it Ix in Lieutenant A. Trolle's account in Travel and Expiorn tion of the death of Myllux Erichsen and Hagen and Brogluud, mening. or the Danish expedition to northeast Greeninnd. ‘The indomitable energy ol these men. their self sacrifice mn the cause of science, are on the highest plave of heroism. “For thirty days these men walked on with ouly vine sledge and four Keeble A500 miles, or tive milex a : | MILITARY ACCURACY. | @xactness In Keeping Tab on the She Lets the Rain Do All the Family dogs, covering a distance or | day. | would be glad to enter either of them. ! Movements of Soldiers, fice follows with an accuracy greater than that displayed by our own war department the movements of its of- ficers. The following is an interesting case in point: was once with a scouting party in Ari- gona. After two weeks in the desert his squad came to the railway near a small station. Within ten minutes a telegram from Washington was brought to him by the station agent. It asked if the officer wished to be transferred to one of the new artillery regiments then forming. He answered by telegraph that he Every morning they must have had | Then with his squad he set off again only one wish, one craving—the crav. | across the desert. ing for sleep, steep und rest forever. | It was six days later when they And yet they crept out of their worn | again struck the -railway, this time sleeping bags and faced a new day, | eighty miles from the point at which because they would continue till they | they had previously crossed it, but the ceached a place where there was some | officer's reply from the war depart- probability of our tinding their bodies | ment was awaiting him. It bad been and Hagen's tine map sketches. | telegraphed to every station within “Ten wiles from the depot, on Lam- | 200 miles. bert Land, Mylius Erichsen and Ha- | A more striking instance of accuracy gen died. Only Bronlund reached the | occurred after the same officer's trans- depot. ienving his dead comrades be- | fer to the east. He was traveling find and. creeping along on his wound- | home on leave, and, as the regulations ed feet alone in the dim moonlight. | require, he had notified the department When be arrived at the depot he [of the day. hour and probable route placed Hagen's sketches and his own | of his journey. last report so that the search party could not fail to find them and then, wrapping himself up in his furs, lay down and died.” How the Ingenious Little Builders Con- struct Their Houses. ‘When the beavers’ dams are come pleted, the animals separate into small <ompanies to build cabins or houses for themselves. These are constructed upon piles along the borders of the pond. They are of an oval shape, re- sembling a beehive. and they vary from five feet to ten feet in diameter, After he had been on the train for eight hours at a small station the porter entered with a tele- gram, asking if any one of his name was present. On opening the tele- gram the officer found that it ordered him to detached duty. Exactness of detail could not be car- ried much further. The war depart- ment knew the whereabouts of an in- significant second lieutenant even when he was traveling on leave of ab- sence.—New York Herald. A SNAKE STORY. according to the number of families _they are to accommodate, These dwellings are never less than | two stories high. generally three, and | sometimes they contain four apart- t ments. The walls of these are from | two feet to three feet thick. formed of the same materials as the dams. On the inside they are made smooth, but left rough without, being rendered im- | Ppenetrable to rain. The lower story is about two feet hizh, the second is formed by a floor of sticks covered with mud, and the upper part terminates with an arched woof. Through each floor there is na passage, ard the uppermost floor is ailways above the level of the water. Each of these huts has two doors, one | on the land side te admit of thelr go- dng out and seeking provisions that way. another under the water and be- low where it freezes to preserve their <ommunieation with the pond.—Eng- 1ish Magazine. Three of a Kind. Duprez, the great but ill favored French tenor, was once walking from the Grand Opera House in Paris with the baritone Baroilhet, who was not an Apollo either. They happened to meet Perrot, the dancer, a1 man of very great ability, but short and thin and =0 ugly that 2a wanager once said he! could never engage Perrot unless for the Jardin des Plantes (zoological gar- alens), as be engaged no monkeys. Perrot told them the story. and when Duprez laughed at him Perrot said: “Why. surely you need not laugh. If I am ugly 1 am certainly not so ngly as either of you." “You monkey,” said Duprez, “this «difference shall soon be settled.” And, “seeing a stranger pass who appeared to bea gentieman, “Monsieur.” said he, will you be so good as to arbitrate in a little difference of opinion be- tween us? “With pleasure,” said the stranger, =if 1 can.” “Well,” said Duprez. “just look at ws and say whom you consider to be the ugliest of the three.” The gentleman looked for some time from one to the other and then said, “Gentlemen, 1 give it up; | cannot poscibly decide,” and went away roar- fing with laughter. What He Wanted. Young Mr. Charies was plainly em- barrassed, aud Miss Smith knew what was coming, or thought she did. “Er—Miss Smith,” he sald feverishly, “‘could l—er—see your father for a mo- Change | The Groom—Great heavens, who od this coming up? The Bride—Why, that is Aunt Maria! The Groom— | ‘Well, have I got to embrace that old fairy? The Bride—Sh! It was she that sent us the handsome silver serv- | jce. She's worth thousands. The Groom (kissing her rapturously)—My ' darling aunt!—London Answers. —— | in the party. The Reptiles Were Frozen Stiff, but That Didn't Harm Them. + A naturalist once told how in a thicket on a mountain side he saw a man kill a rattlesnake. He beat the © LUCKY SWISS HOUSEWIFE. | —. We hear much of the perfection of | Swiss methods of laundering are orig- | military organization abroud, but it Is { doubtful whether any foreign war of- | A young army officer who has seen service in this country and in the east — a ———— tm ROYAL TYPEWRITERS. 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Occasionally the good housewife, | protected under the family umbrella | held over her head by one of her youngsters, who is allowed to enjoy | the drips from that same umbrella, takes a look at her wash and encour- | ages it with a gentle poke with her husband's best cane. But the rest of | the day she enjoys to the full in her snug chalet, while the elements do her: work. In fact, with her conscience at rest that her day's tasks will be done, | she can spend her time gossiping with her neighbor, whose conscience is also at peace. po On the next day the wash goes through a process of bluing and starch- | | ing—all in that same basin—and fin- ally. when the sun shines, it is laid out on the wonderful green grass of | | the Swiss matten and is there bleach: i ed to a snowy whileness. If the gla- ! clers and the landslides were to ac- life out of it with a club and contin- | ued the pounding till it was mangled beyond recognition. When the nat- uralist remonstrated the man said, | “Boss, you can’t kill a rattlesnake too | dead.” On one occasion a boat bound for the United States from Rio de Janeiro touched at Pernambuco, where the mate drove a bargain with a snake dealer for a half dozen reptiles of vari- ous sizes. The mate had them in a cage on deck and charged a sailor with the duty of washing it out with sea wa- | ter every evening. All went well as long as the weather was mild, but on the night before the gulf stream was crossed the sailor left a quantity of water in the cage, and about thirty hours from port a biting gale struck the ship. All hands were busy with the storm, and the snakes were forgotten. the mate thought of them and went to look after their condition he found them frozen stiff and apparently as dead as the proverbial doornail. The dealer for whom the mate had | brought them came on board the fol- { lowing day. He professed great dis- When | appointment over the loss of his in- | tended purchase, but offered to take ' the snakes away as a kindness to the | mate. He gathered them in his arms like so much firewood and carried them home. But a rival dealer after- ward told the officer that plenty of warm water had resuscitated the snakes and that they had been sold to various museums not a bit the worse { for their “death” by freezing.—Har- per's Weekly. The Ambulant Barber. Paris, like Peking, has its ambulant barber. Armed with a little box, con- taining the necessary apparatus, razor, badger brush, soap, scissors and servi- ette, he exercises his calling on the banks of the Seine. All the bargees, navvies and quay laborers are his cli- ents. “Figaro” seats his patient on the pavement, covers his knees with a newspaper and for a sou shaves, cuts his hair and gives a human appear: ance to the tramps and others who intrust themselves to his care. Odds and Ends. 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