THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBUW3.
Amusing Her
i
ltd ri!i an -imii
"What do you do with' all that
fruit you're farrylns home?" Inquir
ed the proprietor of the ilnar stand.
"I ate you with a (rule about every
Mher day."
"I keep pigs," ropllcl the regular
customer. ' I find It hard work some
times to tempt their appetites, but
they generally like a littlo fresh,
fruit. The raspberries that I tried
them on yesterday seemed to please
them, so I thought I'd take 'em some
more. Raspberries are fattening,
too, and give the pork a nice flavor.
Tou take a hog that's been fed on
raspberries "
"Oh. cut It out," said the clgar
tand man. "But, honest, how
lrg a family have you got?"
"Myself and the madam," replied
the regular customer. "She's pre
serving. When it comes to putting
up fruit that's where the lady
shines."
"She puts up the fruit and you
put up the money." suggested the
Cigar stand man.
"That's the Idea," said the regular
customer. "I furnish the fruit and
the glass Jars and the rubber bands
and the sugar and pay the gas Mils
and she does nil the ret. It's divi
sion of labor. Fine business."
"I don't believe It pays to put up
fruit," said the cigar stand man. "We
find It ch.ap r to buy what preserves
ice ned. Just abui.t as pood, too."
"You must be crazy," said the reg
ular customer. "Cheaper! Say, all
these berries cost me Is 10 cents a
box, buying them down on the street.
It doesn't take me more than hour
or so to go there and get 'em either
and the walking's good exercise.
There's a little outlay for Jars, of
course, but If you can manage to
keep them they'll do to use again.
The sugar's a trifle. I can buy quite
a sack of It for a five-dollar bill."
"Well." said the cigar stand man,
"If you figure that up and your time
and your wife's time, how do you
stand then?"
"My wife's time really doesn't
oount," said the regular customer.
"When she's busy preserving, which
Is most of the summer and fall, she
can always make a little time by
ust throwing a snack of some sort
on the table for dinner instead of
putting In an hour or so cooking a
meal. Think of having all kinds of
Jams and Jellies and preserves down
cellar all the year around. No ben
xoate of soda and glucose dope, but
the pure article made from the real
?rult that you've selected yourself.
Plums, cherles, strawberries, black
berries, raspberries, grapes, peaches
all kinds. Any time thet you want
1 pie there's the filling right on
band or it would be on hand If we
kept It."
"Eat It up abo-t as fast as you
make It, eh?"
"Give It c ay a little faster than
e make It," corrected the regular
nstomer. "That's the great trouble.
7ou see, my wife Is of a liberal dls
osltlon, and she's proud of the Jel
les she makes, so we don't get so
Tiuch of a show a. It ourselves. If
. ou came to the house, for Instance,
ou'd get some raspberry preserves
or supper. You'd naturally say that
t was the best that you ever tasted
.-hen the lady told you that she'd
lake It herself. Then she gets all
welled up over It and Insists on your
'd'clng home a Jar to ;our wife. If
,'s a relation that comes she'll get a
alf dozen Jars out, just as like as
ot. If the milkman makes some
emark about the Jelly looking good
nough to eat when lie pokes his
ead In tho kitchen he. gets a Jar
s well. If anybody gets sick It's a
ar for them."
"What do you do It for, then?"
'sked the cigar-stand man.
"A woman has got to amuse her
lf some way," said the regular eus
imer. "Putting up preserves Is
bout as harmless and cheap as any."
Chicago Daily News.
Deaths of Presidents.
Washington's death was due to
-cute laryngitis; Adams, Madison
nd Monroe, practically to old age;
'Person, chronic diarrhoea; John
'ulncy Adams, paralysis; Jackson,
"opsy; Van Buren, catarrhal affee
ons of the throat and lungs; Wm.
"enry Harrison, pleurisy; Tyler,
use of death not given by blogra
jers; Polk, cholera; Taylor, cholera
orbus, combined with a severe
Id; Fillmore, paralysis; Pierce,
"opsy; Buchanan, rheumatic gout;
Incoln, Garfield and McICInley, as
slnated; Johnson, paralysis;
ant, cancer at the root of the
ague; Hayes, neuralgia of the
art; Arthur, heart trouble, and
njamin Harrison, pneumonia.
A Ida a Iliver to Lift.
The difficulty a diver experiences
lifting weights beneath tho water
partly overcome by a new Italian
ventlon, which has been formally
opted by that government. The
ifhanlsm Is a diving suit, the artl-
lal arms of which are worked
im the inside by the wearer. The
erage thus obtained enables the
76r to lift objects heavier than he
(jU otherwi.ie hnndle. In addition
this Improvement over the old
ethod a high-power electric light
at will pi nftlrate the vnter for
me'dWtance Is placed In the hel-.
et.
Where People I.lvo lying.
Turkey holds tho record for the
inber of aged persons in propor
t.n to the ;o;iulution.
LINCOLN HEADJON NEW GENT
How the Designer Selected the Model
Photograph for the Face on
the Coin.
New York. N. Y. Victor D. Hren
ner of this city Is the designer of the
Lincoln head, which appears on the
new cent. Issued by the government
from the Philadelphia mint. Although
Rusaian by birth, Mr. Brenner has
found his oportunity In this count! y
while yet a young man, and he re
sents any designation other than, that
of a thoroughly loyal American.
With the approach of the centen
nial of Lincoln's birth, Mr. Brenner,
long a student of the anti-slavery
Bas Relief Design for Lincoln Penny.
movement, and an admirer of Its ulti
mate exponent began looking for a
model on which to exercise his plastic
art. His search was rewarded In a
photograph which he found In posses
sion of Prof. Charles Eliot Norton.
His first study was expressed In a
plaque, his second in a medal and his
third, which pleased him best, in the
design which will appear on the coin.
Each study Idealized somewhat the
preceding one, while preserving the
essentials of strength and simple earn
estness which characterized Lincoln's
countenance.
"'If you look carefully at the caln,"
Mr. Brenner said, "you will see that
I have made him smiling. I wanted
to show the sunshine as well as the
goodness of his life. My Intention
has been to present a situation In
which Lincoln might have appeared
at his best. Finally I Imagined him
as talking to a child. That Is the face
on the coin. A man or woman Is nat'
ural when speaking to a child. Wheri
adults converse they are usualy or)
guard, but In talking to children faces
relax and are at their best. I am glad
the head appears on the cent. th6
piece of money most familiar to thu
masses. It was Lincoln who said that
God must love the common people be
cause he had made so many of them.
I had rather have the head on the
cent than on the $10 gold-piece."
The Indian head, in use for more
than a generation on the cent and now
discontinued, shares the fate of Its
predecessor, the eagle, for the reason
that It Is easily counterfeited. Early
In the present year the government
decided on a change, but even then it
proposed to place the head of Lin
coln on a silver coin, probably the
half-dollar. Mr. Brenner submitted
his designs at Washington. The head
was then assigned to the cent.
WEDS; BRIDE IS INSANE.
An Oregon Rancher's Pitiful Mistake
in Marriage.
Rcseburg, Ore. One week after
her wedding day Mrs. Ole Peterson,
of Deer Creek, was committed to the
insane asylum by County Judge Wona
cost at l.er own request.
"I am insane," she said. "Take me
to the asylum where I can do no
harm."
Peterson met the woman for the
first time at Cottage Grove, where he
had gone on n business trip. Her fa
ther, he said, urged him to marry her
and Peterson, a lonely rancher, was
glad to do so, as ho was favorably Im
pressed with her.
As soon as tho couple arrived at
Peterson's ranch, however, the woman
manifested violent insanity, and after
living In terror for a few days, Peter
son waa forced in self-protection to
appeal to the authorltes to arrest her.
RADIUM SUPPLY FOR ALL TIME.
Rich Strike Has Been Made by Dr.
Wilkins In California.
Kennetta, Cal. Dr. S. Wilkins, who
has Just arrived here, said enough
pitchblende has been discovered on
the McCloud Hiver, north of this place
to supply the world with radium for
all time.
Dr. Wilkins had In his possession
fine specimens of the precious stuiT,
and so Impressed were some business
men with his story that they decided
to send an expert to visit the newly
discovered ledge. It Is twenty miles
up the McCloud River from the con
fluence of that stream with -the Pitt
River.
DENTAL WORK 3,000 YEARS OLD.
False Tooth In Jaw Taken From
Etruscan Tomb Seen in Berlin.
Berlin. A Jdece of dental work 3,
000 years old was exhibited at the
International Dentnl Congress In this
city. It is a human Jaw taken from
an Etruscan tomb and has a calf's
tooth held in place by gold fittings.
Tho workieain.hip is excellent and
Beemlngly us fresh as though done,
yesterday. The exhibit Is the proper
ty of Dr. Guerlnl, of Maples.
Emperor Williair.'n exhibit Includes
t Roman forceps and other dental tools
I of tho eeouiid century.
WRECKED
IN SOUTH PACIFIC
Delirious After Day in Open
Boat Shipwrecked Woman
Kills Four Children
MOTHER ENDS OWN LIFE AT SEA
Five Survivors cf Bark Errol Tell In
coherent Tales of Fearful Suffering
Family Sees Captain Perish
w Drifts for Two Weeks.
Victoria, B. C. Two weeks at sea
In an open boat without food or drink,
five of the crew of the Norwegian
bark Errol, which was wrecked on
Middleton reef In the South Pacific
on June 8. were resrued by the
steamer Tafu and landed at Sydney,
Australia, according to despatches re
ceived by the Makura. of the Canadi
an-Australian line.
There would have been ten survi
vors, but Mrs. Anderson, wife of the
captain of the bark, thought she over
heard her famishing companions bar
gaining among themselves as to which
one of the children should he eaten
first, and threw them one by one Into
the sea from a coral reef on which
the castaways h.-id landed for rest
After watching them drown she threw
herself after them before the men In
the boat knew wh'st she was about.
Few more tragic tales of the sea
have ever been received In this port
than the account of the wreck of the
Krrol. Meagre particulars had been
received by cable of the disaster, but
to-day's despatches toll a touchfng
story of how Mrs. Anderson and her
children saw Captain Anderson drown
before their eyes, together with the
second mate and several seamen,
when the hark went down.
The oldest of Mrs. Anderson's chil
dren was eight, the youngest a babo
of eleven months. Their sufferings
before the mother, probably In a de
lirium, killed them, are admitted by
the five survivors to have been Inde
scribable. When the Tafu picked up the five
survivors they were at death's door,
and even when the Makura left Syd
ney It was not certain, that the reason
of one or more of them might not be
lost as a result of their dreadful pri
vations. The survivors brought to Sydney,
too weak aid emaciated to speak,
were all that remained of twenty-two
persons on the Erroll. The bark
struck the reef on June 18 and for
two weeks they were without food
and water. There had been a cache
of provisions and a lifeboat maintained
from 1S70 to 1892 for shipwrecked sea
men, but the cache was never re
splenished and the lifeboat was gone.
Had the boat been there the loss of
life might have been avoided, as the
party would have been able to reach
Norfolk Island.
In Sydney It was found difficult to
get definite or coherent statements
from the survivors of the party. They
were tmable to sper.k plainly. The
most they could do was to tell piece
meal some of the most dreadful th!ng3
Impressed on their minds.
NOT ACCORDING TO SCIENCE.
Astronomer Condemns Assertions of
Possible Comrr.unicaticn.
Williams Iiay, Wis. Communica
tion with other planets is by no means
likely, according to a resolution unan
imously ndopted by the Astronomical
and Astrophysicnl Po.-iety of Ameri
ca, in session at the Yerkes Observa
tory, on Lake Geneva. The resolution
says:
"As the public, through misrepre
sentation of the views of certain as
tronomers, hns formed the impression
that communication with other plan
ets Is at present possible, the Astro
nomical and Astrophysical Society of
America desires to express its belief
that all such proposals fall outside
the range of sober, contemporary sci
ence." WILD BEASTS KILL ELOPERS.
Mexican Had Carried Off Two Girls
and Their Father's Money.
Tuxtla, Gutierrez, Mexico. Slsto
Gonzales, well known In this section,
has eloped with two daughters of Jose
Flores, a wealthy haciendado, Induc
ing the girls to steal a large sum of
money belonging to their father. How
he Induced two Bisters to elope with
him Is a mystery.
The father, accompanied by several
policemen, hurried on the trail of 'he
trio. Quite a distance from this place,
near Villa Flores, they found the
bodies of the young man and of both
girls horribly mangled by wild beasts
and scarcely recognlzablo except for
their clothes. A purse containing all
the money stolen was found in a near
by tree.
RECORD CATCH OF MULLET.
600,000 Pounds Landed by Fishing
, Fleet In Search of Menhaden.
Beaufort, N. C. A catch of mullet
aggregating half a million pounds,
said to be tho largest ever landed on
the Atlantic Coast, was made off this.
port by deep-sea fishermen.
Tho fishermen went to sea early In
search of menhaden, but their boats
ran Into schools of mullets miles long,
and each vessel was loaded to tho
gunwales with them.
The catch wa3 brought to market
here and the" entire working forca
Is preparing the flnh for shipment
I,,,.: u UUliH
Coire Vsirrvi!le Jckelst Which Age
Cannot Wither.
Vaudeville Is known as the "laugh
trust." but not for th.i reason oho
might think. It gets the phrase be
cause there are a certain deflnlrt
number of devices in its category v!
acts that control the laughs of Its
audiences. The same old things are
always good for a laugh In vaudeville.
According to the Bohemian, a new
device, a new bit of "business," a new
Joke are all regarded as dangerous
by the performers. The following ta
ble details some of the times at which
a vaudeville audience regularly
laughs:
When a comedian walks with a
mincing step and speaks Id a falsetto
voice.
When a German comedian opens his
coat and discloses a green waistcoat
Wfcen a comedy acrobat falls down
repeatedly.
When a performer asks the orches
tra leader If he Is a married man.
When a black face comedian says
something about chicken.
When a performer starts to rise
from a chair and the drummer pulls
a resined piece of cord so that the
performer thinks his clothes have
ripped.
When the drummer suddenly beats
the drum during a comedians sons
and the latter stops and looks in hla
direction.
When a tramp comedian turn3
around and discloses a purple patch
or several pearl buttons or a target
sewed on the seat of his trousers.
When the funny member of the
troupe of Instrumentalists interrupts
the nrogress of a melody b) sounding
a discordant note on his trombone.
When a clown of a team of acro
bats poises himself to do a presumably
difficult feat and suddenly changes
his mind and walks away without do
ing it.
How It Came True.
"You can't make me oelieve," Un
cle Abner Jarvis was saying, "that
there isn't something in fortune-telling."
His auditors were grouped
round the stove In the corner grocery-
store. "Ever have any experience
with It?" asked one of them.
"That's what I was going to tell
you" resumed Uncle Abner. "Once
when I was at the- county fair I saw
a little tent with a sign on the out
side of It that said Madame Some-body-or-other
would tell your fortune
for twentyflve cents. I stepped Inside,
Just for fun.
"A woman with a thick veil over
her face was sitting In a chair on a
raised platform. I gave her a quar
ter, and she looked at my hand. One
of the things she told me was that I
was going to have a large party at
my house In less than a month, and
that it would be followed by a calam
ity.
"I laughed at that. Thinks I to
myself, 'We hain't had any parties of
any kind to our house for two years.
and I don't reckon we'll have one
quite as soon as that.'
"But It did come true. In about two
weeks my wife's Aunt Jane came to
visit us, and if you think she ain't
a large party you ought to see her.
She weighs two hundred and eighty-
seven pounds."
"But how about the calamity?" in
quired the man who was sitting on
the nail keg, after a long pause.
"Well," said Uncle Abner, slowly,
"she broke down our npare bed the
first night she slept in it."
A Poor Salesman.
Carey Johnson Ludlam, the South
ern philologist, in tho course of a
lecture on "Neologisms," In Charles
ton, said:
"Another neologism Is 'salesman
ship.' The advertising columns of
the magazines have for several
months abounded in this word.
Schools of 'salesmanship,' books on
'salesmanship,' secrets of 'salesman
ship' why, one reads of nothing else."
The r.gcd rcholar smiled.
"And speaking of schools of sales
manship," he said, "I hope that the
salesman who accosted me on my
way here this evening will take In one
of them tn eight or nine years'
course. I'm sure he needs It.
"This salesman, a shabby young
man. laid his hand on my arm and
said:
" 'Say, friend, lenime sell ye a box
of this here patent cement'
"I shook off his filthy paw.
"'Cement!' I sneered, annoyed at
bis familiarity, 'what do I want with
cement?'
" 'Why,' crl :d the man In apparent
surprise, 'ain't ye broke? Ye look
if" '
Fool Treatment for Burns.
Whenever a burn or scald happens,
some busy, well-intentioned butter-iu
pours over a smear of "carron oil" or
buries the wound in a grave of wheat
flour, Just about tho worst thing pos
sible, because flour In twenty-four
hours will be fermenting with yeast
or deadly Inflammatory germs, and It
Is simply hell for sartln on patient
and doctor clennlng this sticky mess
off a big, wet, shrieking scald. Truth
to tell, In big scalds this cannot be
dono, and such poor scalded devils
have to be kept for days in a bathtub
of antiseptic, even-tempered water.
Piteous.
Vacuum Refric'rators.
Tho bottle that keej.s Its contents
hot or cold for hours was no catch
penny invention. The glass vacuum
Jacket was first devised by Lord De
war In 18!)j for his experiments In
ll'l'.efylng air and gas. The same
vacuum principle, if applied to large
o,' mnnll refrigerators, especially In
tin tropics, would be a great bless-
Un;.: liut. oh you Refrigerator Trust!
The Zoological Press Bulletin
of the Division of Zoology, Penn
sylvania Department of Agricul
ture. Timely Topics of Plants and
Pests Discussed Weekly. By II. A.
Surface, Stale Zoologist.
BARK BEETLES IN TREES.
Specimen twigs of fruit trees
reached the Division of Zoology of
the Department of Agriculture,
Harrisburg, from Cambridge
Springs, Pa., which the sender
supposed were infested with San
Jose scale. State Zoologist Surface,
in acknowledging their receipt,
gave the following information as
to the cause of their badly-appearing
condition:
"We find that the pear twigs are
inlested with scolytids or bark bee
tles, which are boring in the dead
wood beneath the bark. They have
not caused the death of these twigs,
but they are there because the twigs
are dead and afford favorable places
for the beetles to live. It is proba
ble that the pear twigs died by
blight, and that the beetles came
later. There is nothing ;o do but
to cut out the dead and dying parts
and burn them promptly. For all
cases of blight cut out and bum the
blighted pirts."
THIS INSECT BEFRIENDS THE FRUIT
GROWER.
An insect, slightly resembling
the dragon fly, was received at the
Division of Zoology of the Pennsyl
vania Department of Agriculture
by Stite Zoologist Surface, accom
panied by a letter having the name
attached of a prominent Luzerne
county physician, who wrote: "The
enclosed specimen is highly destruc
tive to my maple shade trees.
Kindly inform me what to do."
The specimen proved to be a
Thalessa, which State Zoologist
Surface pronounced "a destroyer of
other insects, and, especially, of
some of the worst enemies of trees. "
In this respect it is like the lady
bug, which feeds upon the San Jose
scale. The Thalessa has long au
tennae and a tail composed of three
black hairs, like those of a horse's
tail, each about three iucbes long.
These form a long tube which it
inserts iu the holes made in trees
by borers, and having encountered
a borer it deposits its eggs in or
near it. These eggs develop larvae
which feed upon the borer and de
stroy ic. Owners of fruit and shade
trees, instead of destroying the
Thalessa, should protect and pre
serve this useful iusect.
DENTISTRY AS APPLIED TO TREES.
State Zoologist Surface fcund a
letter in the mail sent to the Divis
ion of Zoology of the Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture, asking
how to prevent decay in a tree from
making further progress. The writ
er said: "We have a cherry tree
whose trunk has rotted considera
bly. What can be done to save the
tree ? Is it a good plan to cut out
the dead part and fill up the hole
with cement ?"
Professor Surface replied: "The
proper treatment for the cavity of
your cherry tree is to clean this
out, removing the decayed wood;
then wash or spray the interior with
an antiseptic, such as a two per
cent, solution of formalin, or a very
dilute solution of mercury bi-chlor-ide,
which is corrosive sublimate;
then paint it with ordinary paint of
any kind, and finally fill the cavity
with any kind of cement, or use
one part of Portland cement with
abojt four or five parts of sand.
"This is practically nothing else
than the principle of modern dent
istry applied to the preservation of
the tree. The dentist cleans out
the cavity of a decaying tooth, ap
plies an antiseptic to prevent fur
ther decay, and fills the tooth with
some substance that by preservation
will prevent the possibility of fur
ther decay. We are coming to see
that the treatment ot all living
things for ills and afflictions is based
upon the same fundamental biolog
ical principle."
THE APPLE TREE LEAF-HOPPER.
A large nursery has been having
serious trouble this year with leaf
hoppers, and the proprietors wrote
to State Zoologist Surface for infor
mation, their letter having been
worded as follows:
"We are being troubled more
and more each year with what we
have always called the 'Leaf Hop
per,' that comes on our young ap
ple trees in the nursery. It is a
very small, green fly, and when
you walk between the rows of trees
the flies will come out in clouds.
They suck the juices from the
leaves and curl them. Can you give
the correct uame of the insects and
the methods to use in order to keep
them in check ?"
Professor Surface wrote in reply:
"The insects which you describe
as injuring your apple trees by
sucking the juices from the leaves
and curling them, are doubtless tbe
Apple-tree Leaf-IIonner. These.
as you recognize, are suctorial in
sects, and, consequently, are nat t,,
be killed by arsenical prisons. Tq,
destroy them use contact appJi.
tions, such as oil emulsions or soai
solutions or decoctions. I think
they are killed by ten per cent ker
oscne emulsion, or by a solution of
whale oil soap, using one pound in
six gallons of water.
"The young ones, as you have,
doubtless observed, are windless
but run quickly,. In this action!
they differ from the plant lice. The
old ones will jump and fly before
the spray liquid, and unless a Urge
volume of spray is used it may not
strike them, but if a cluster of u-.
zlcs is used in throwing the spray
they will be hit and brought to the
ground, where they will try to rub
the spray liquid from their win;.
If this be not very strong, they
may succeed in freeing themselves
from it and return to the leaves.
However, if it be strong enough it
will kill them; but sometimes, to
get rid of such pests, very stroug
sprays are needed.
"If the liquid of the first spray
should not be strong enough to
kill them, it is a good plan to havir
at hand a solution of double
strength, and go over the grend
(but not the leaves) with thi
strong solution, doing this after the
Hoppers are down on the ground.
This will kill them before they re
turn to the leaves. I think that a
much stronger solution than one
pound of whale oil soap to six -if.
Ions of water, or a kerosene envi
sion of greater strength than tea
per cent, is liable to injure apple
fcliage, and thus I would not rec
ommend stronger applications than
I have mentioned, especially after
the pests are on the ground."
Automatic Guns Cannot be Used.
Superior Court Maktt an Important Deciiios
The hunting season is not far
away and sportsmen will be inter
ested ;n a decision of the Superior
court in regard to the use of auto
matic guns.
In another county a man was
arrested for using an automatic gun
which had been prohibited by an
act of the legislature of 1907. The
common pleas judge who heard the
case, decided that the act was un
constitutional as it discriminated
against the makers of automatic
guns.
The case was carried to the Sri-
perior court, and that tribunal de
cided that the act was not uncon
stitutional, and that the law pro
hibiting hunting with an automatic
gun was a good one, and should be
enforced.
The automatic gun is one thit
cocks itself by the recoil or "kick,"
thus requiring only the continual
pulling of the trigger to keep up a
steady fire.
Plan for Big Power Dam.
Charters permitting the erection
of a large power dam in the .js
quehauna River near Towauda are
understood to be ready to be pb ce l
in Governor Stuart's hands ior la
signature. They have been ap
proved by the State Water Com
mission and Secretary of State Mc
Afee, after several weeks' exami
nation, and M. K. Lilley, of To
wanda, states that the dam will
certainly be built.
The project was planned by
Meikleham & Dinsmore, New York
bankers and brokers, and when it
is completed there will be a lake of
1800 acres surface near Towandi.
Nearly all the land rights have
been secured, and an engineeriuj
corps is now at work surveying.
The dam is expected to be com
pleted in three years and to furnish
power for Towauda, Athens, Sayre
and a number of others.
England After South Pole.
The report that Commander
Peary and Captain Bartlett hive
decided on an expedition to the
south pole has created a great stir
in geographical circles in London-
Although Captain Robert F.
Scott's expedition was decided up
on before the arrival of the news of
Peary's exploits, it admittedly w
pressed forward with the intention
to forestall a possible American
expedition and because of quick
ened interest in polar exploration
evidenced by the projected Cerium
and Belgian expeditious to thu
antarctic.
Lieutenant Earnest II. Shackle
ton was approached to join Captain
Scott, but his engagements pre
vented him from going.
Captain Scott's expedition sm'.I
depeuds upon the raising of tlw
$200,000 required. A considerable
portion of this already has been
promised, and the report that
Commander Peary is going for the
south pole will hasten the sub
scription of the remainder. The
government will undoubtedly assist
the enterprise financially.
A fine new line of Wedding in
vitations just received at this office-