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Pictures in the Alexander Museum.
In the afternoon we went to the
Alexander museum, a very beautiful
building between two gardens, which
was once the palace of the Grand
Duke Michael Palovitch, and made by
Alexander 111. into a national museum
of arts.
The pictures are all of the modern
Russian school, some of them very
fine, and among them many by Vere
schagin—scenes of the war of ISI2
with Napoleon and a number of his
small oriental paintings.
Aft'er looking at them we walked to
the Alexander Memorial church, built
over the spot where he fell, which is
preserved under a canopy of bronze,
the rough paving stones upon which
his blood was spilled looking very
pathetic among so much gold and
mosaic.
The church, which cost 30,000,00
rubles, is most gorgeous in color, the
interior being entirely of mosaic, and
In the sanctuary, into which I was al
lowed only to look, the silver cande
labra and the icons are most costly.—
St. Petersburg Letter to Vogue.
Poor Relations.
"If the people who are perfectly
well able would take care of their poor
relatives," said the curate at Trinity,
"the church wouldn't have so much
care on its shoulders. Did you see
that woman who just went out? She
is starving—actually starving. The
doctor told her that the partial loss of
her eyesight is due to the lack of
food. Well, her husband is a wealthy
Englishman, so wealthy that I am go
ing to see a lawyer about writing him
a letter that will bring him to his
senses, I hope. He is a member of a
prominent family that would hate
such exposure as I shall threaten it
with unless they take care of this
wife of his. And did you see the poor
wretch who is waiting outside in the
anteroom for me to give him money
for a bite to eat? His brother is a
wealthy broker at No. 61 Wall street."
—New York Press.
Like Weeds in a Night.
"Of course children outgrow most
youthful vocations," said the observer.
"Little girls grow too tall for cash
girls, little boys spring up out of the
size of bell hops in a night or two, it
looks like, but the most pathetic
specimen of sudden and untimely out
growing is the flower boy who sells
roses in the downtown Italian cafes,
who one season stands hardly higher
than the table, looking at you so wist
fully out of big, sad Italian eyes that
the money comes out of your pocket
of itself, and the next season towers
over you like a football player, all the
sympathy you felt for the infant
flower seller crushed by his gigantic
size."
Devices for a Sore Foot.
The sufferer from enlarged joints,
better known as a bunion, usually is
in great discomfort in hot weather.
There is a device that will give relief
by protecting the bunion from rub
bing of shoe.
This is a simple piece of leather cut
and bent in such a way that it fits
smoothly over the portion ofj foot
where the bunion is. The casing is
lined with soft felt and an opening is
provided for the enlarged joint, while
the surrounding leather holds off the
shoe. The protector is so shaped that
there can be no rubbing from a bad
fit.
Feeding English School Children.
For a year or more the Nottingham
school authorities have provided
meals for pupils whose parents were
too poor to feed them sufficiently.
About 500 children, representing some
200 families, are now being fed. Ar
rangements are made with several
restaurants to supply breakfasts, din
ners, or both, to children showing
proper vouchers. Each month approx
imately 15,000 meals about equally
divided between breakfasts and din
ners are supplied, costing roundly
$650 —about four cents a meal.
One at Last for Old Diog.
"If Diogenes is still hunting for an
honest man I think I could give him
nn address that might be worth look
ing up," said one woman to another
while waiting for a car. "I was riding
tip Center street the other day and I
saw an inconspicuous brass sign at
the entrance of a big loft building,
which said: 'M. Negevetovitch, Manu
facturer of Russian Antiques.' lie's
the only man I ever heard of who was
In the antique manufacturing business
who was honest enough to say so on
his sign."—New York Sun.
THRILLING STORY
OF DASH TO POLE
COMMANDER PEARY'S PERSONAL
NARRATIVE; RIFE WITH DRA
MATIC INTEREST.
SLEDGES AND CAMPS WERE
ENDANGERED BY ICE FLOES
Five eMn, Caught in Terrible Bliz
zard, Missing Several Days and
All but Given Up—Other
Particulars.
Published by arrangement with the
New York Times on behalf of Com
mander Peary. Notice to publishers.
The following account by Commander
Peary of his successful voyage to the
North Pole was issued on September
0, 1909, by the New York Times Co.
at the request of Commander Peary
for his protection, as a book duly copy
righted and exposed for sale before any
part of it was reproduced by any news
paper in the United States or Europe,
in order to obtain the full protection
of the copyright laws. The reproduc
tion of this account in any form, with
out permission, is forbidden.
The penalties for violation of this
form of copyright Include imprison
ment for any person aiding or abet
ting such violation. —Cuyright, 1909,
by the New York Times Co.
By Robert E. Peary, Commander
U. S. N.
PART H.
Battle Harbor, Labrador, via Mar
coni Wireless to Cape Ray, N. F., Sept.
9.—The steamer Roosevelt, bearing the
North Polar expedition of the Peary
Arctic club, parted company with the
Erk and steamed out of Etah Ford late
in the afternoon of August IS, 1908, set
ting the ufcual course for Cape Sabine.
The weather was dirty, with fresh
southerly winds. We had on board
22 Eskimo men, 17 women and ten
children, 226 dogs and some 40 odd
■walrus.
We encountered the ice a short dis
tance from the mouth of the harbor,
but it was not closely packed and was
negotiated by the Roosevelt without
serious trouble. As we neared Cape Sa
bine the weather cleared somewhat
and we passed close by Three Voort
Island and Cape Sabine, easily mak
ing out with the naked eye the house
at Hayes Harbor occupied by me in
the winter of 1902-03.
Meet Thick Weather and Ice.
From Cape Sabine north there was
so much water that we thought of set
ting the lug sail before the southerly
wind; but a little later a piece of ice
to the northward stopped this. There
was clean, open water to Cape Albert,
and from there scattered ice to a point
about abreast of Victoria Head, thick
weather and dense ice bringing us some
ten or fifteen miles away.
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Robert E. Peary.
From here we drifted somewhat, and
then got a slant to the northward out
of the current. We worked a little
further north, and stopped again for
some hours, then we again worked
westward by northward till we reached
a series of iakes. coming to a stop a few
miles south of the Windward's winter
quarters at Cape Durville.
From here, after some days, we
slowly worked a way northeastward,
through fog and broken ice of medium
thickness throughout the night and
the forenoon of the next day, only
emerging into open water and clear
weather off Cape Fraser. From this
poit we had a clear run through the
middle of Robeson channel, uninter
rupted by either ice or fog to Lady
Franklin bay. Here we encountered
ice and fog, and while working along
in search of a practicable opening, we
were forced across to the coast at
Thank God Harbor.
The fog lifted there and enabled us
to make out our whereabouts and we
steamed north through series of lakes
past Cape Lupton, and thence south
ward toward Cape Union. A few miles
off that cape wc were stopped by im
practicable ice, and we drifted back
south to Cape Union, where we
stopped again.
We lay for some time in a lake of
water, and then, to prevent being
drifted south again, took refuge under
•;he north shore of Lincoln bay. in
nearly the identical place where we
had our unpleasant experience three
years before. Here we remained for
several days during a r'.'rlod of con
stunt and at times violent northeast
erly winds.
CAMERON. COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1909.
Twice Forced Aground.
Twice we were forced aground by
the heavy ice; we had our port quar
ter rail broken, and a hole stove in the
bulwarks; ami twice we pushed out in
an attempt to get north, but we wore
forced back each time to our pre
carious shelter.
Finally, on September 2, we
squeezed around Cape Union and
made fast in a shallow niche in the
ice; but after some hours we made an
other short run to Black Cape and
hung to a grounded bit of ice. At last,
a little after midnight of September 5,
we passed through extremely heavy
running ice, into a stream of open
water, rounded Cape Itawson, and
passed Cape Sheridan.
Within a quarter of an hour of the
same time we arrived three years be
fore —7 a. m„ September s—we reach
ed the open water extending beyond
Cape Sheridan. We steamed tip to
the end of it, and it appeared practi
cble a! fust to reach Porter bay, near
Cape Joseph Henley, which had for
merly been my winter quarters.
But the outlook being unsatisfac
tory, I went back and put the Roose
velt into the only opening in the floe,
being barred close to the mouth of the
Sheridan river, a little north of our
position three years previous.
The season was further advanced
than in 1005; there was more snow on
the ground and the new ice inside the
floe bergs was much thicker. The
work of discharging the ship was com
menced at once and rushed to com
pletion.
The supplies and equipment were
sledded across ice and sea and de
posited on shore. A house and work
shop were built of boards, covered
with and filled with stores, and the
ship was snug for winter, in shoal
water, where she touched bottom at
low tide.
Call Settlement Hubbardville.
This settlement on the stormy
shores of the Arctic ocean was chris
tened Hubbardville. Hunting parties
were sent out on September 10 and a
bear was brought in on the 12th and
some deer later.
On September 15 full work of trans
porting supplies to Cape Columbia was
inaugurated. Prof. Marvin, with Dr.
Goodsall and Borup and the Eskimos,
took 16 sled-loads of supplies to Cape
Belknap and on the 27th the same
party started with loads to Porter bay.
The work of hunting and transporting
supplies was prosecuted continuously
by the members of the party, and the
Eskimos until November 5, when the
supplies of the spring sled trip had
been removed from winter quarters
and deposited in various places from
Cape Colan to Cape Ccrlumbia.
Ice Lists the poosevelt.
In the latter part of September the
movement of the ice subjected the
ship to a pressure which listed her to
port some eigiit or ten degrees and
she didn't recover till the following
spring.
On October 1 I went on a hunt with
Eskimos across the field and Parr bay,
and the peninsula; made the circuit of
Clements-Markham inlet, and return
ed to the ship on the seventh day with
15 musk oxen, a bear and a deer.
Later in October 1 repeated the trip,
obtaining tive musk oxen, and other
hunting parties brought in some 40
deer.
Prof. MacMiilan went to Columbia
in November and obtained a month of
tidai observations, returning in De
cember. In the December moon Borup
moved the liecla depot to Cape Colan;
Bartlett made a. hunting trip overland
to Lake Hazen, and Hansen went to
Clements-Markham inlet. In the Jan
uary moon Marven crossed Robeson
channel and went to Cape Bryant for
tidal and meteorological observations.
Bartlett crossed the channel and made
the circuit of Newman bay and ex
plored the peninsula. After he re
turned Qoodsell went to Markhain in
let and Borup toward Lake Hazen, in
the interior, on hunting trips.
Parties Leave Roosevelt.
In the February moon Bartlett went
to Cape Hecla and Goodsell moved
some more supplies from Hecla to
Cape Colan, and Borup went to Mark
ham inlet on a hunting trip. On Feb
ruary 1, liartlett left the Roosevelt
with the division for Cape Columbia
and Parr bay. Goodsell, Borup, Mac-
Miilan and Hansen followed on succes
sive days with their provisions. Mar
ven returned from Bryants on Febru
ary 17 and left for Cape Columbia Feb
ruary 21. I brought up the rear Feb
ruary 22.
The total of all divisions leaving
the Roosevelt were seven members of
the party, 59 Eskimos, 140 dogs and
23 sledges. By February 27 such of
the Cape Colan depot as was needed
had been brought up to Cape Colum
bia. the dogs were rested and double
rationed and harnessed, and the
sledges and other gear overhauled.
Four months of northerly winds dur
ing the fall and winter instead of
southerly ones, as during the previous
season, led me to expect less open
weather than before, but a great deal
of rough ice and I was prepared to
hew a road through the jagged ice, for
the first hundred miles or so, and then
cross the big lead.
On the last day of February, Bart
lett. with his pioneer division, accom
plished this, and his divison got away
due north over the ice on March 1,
The remainder of the party got away
on Bartlett's trail, and I followed an
hour later. The party now com
prised seven members of expedition,
17 Eskimos, 133 dogs and 10 sledges.
One Eskimo and seven dogs had gone
to Pierce. A strong easterly wind,
drifting snow, and temperature in
minus marked our departure from the
camp at Cape Columbia, which 1 had
christened Crane City.
Rough ice in the first march dam
aged several sledg- sand smashed two
beyond repair, the team going back to
Columbia for other sledges in reserve
there. We camped ten miles from
Crane City. The easterly winds and
low temperature continued. On the
second march we passed the British
record made by Markham in May,
1876 —82:20 —and were stopped by
open water, which had been formed
by the wind after Bartlett passed.
In this march we negotiated the
lead and reached Bartlett's third
camp. liorup had gone back from
here, but missed his way, owing to
the faulting of tiie trial by the move
ment of the ice. Marvin came back
also for more fuel. The wind con
tinued forming opeu water all about
us.
At the end of the fourth march we
came upon Bartlett, who had stopped
by a wide lake of open water. We re
mained here from March 4 to March
11. At noon of March 5, the sun, red
and shaped like a football by excessed
reflections, just raised itself above the
horizon for a few minutes and then
disappeared. It was the first time I
had seen it since October 10.
I now began to feel a good deal of
anxiety because there were no signs
of Marvin and Borup, who should
have been there for two days. Be
sides, they had the alcohol und oil
which were indispensable for two.
We concluded that they had either
lost their trail or were Imprisoned on
an island by open water, probably the
latter. Fortunately, on March 11, the
lead was practicable, and leaving a
note for Marvin and Borup to push on
after us by forced marches, we pro
ceeded northwest. The sounding of
the lead gave 110 fathoms.
During this march we crossed the
84th parallel and traversed a succes
sion of Just frozen leads from a few
hundred yards to a mile in width.
This march was really simple.
On the 14th we got free of the leads
and came on decent going. While we
were making camp a courier from
Marvin came and informed us he was
on the march in the rear. The temper
ature was 59 below zero.
The following morning, March 15, I
sent Hansen with his division north
to pioneer a trail for five marches, and
I)r. Goodsell, according to the pro
gram, started back to Cape Columbia.
At night, Marvin and Borup came
spinning in with their men and dogs,
steaming in the bitter air like a squad
ron of battleships. Their arrival re
lieved me of anxiety as to our oil sup
ply.
In the morning I discovered that
McMillan's foot was badly frostbitten.
The mishap occurred two or three
days before but McMillan had said
nothing about it in the hope that it
would come out all right. A glance
at the injury showed me that the only
thing was to send him back to Cape
Columbia at once. The arrival of Mar
vin and Borup enabled me to spare
sufficient men and dogs togo back
with him. This early loss of McMil
lan was seriously disappointing to nie.
He had a sledge all the way from
Cape Columbia, and with his enthusi
asm and the physique of the trained
athlete, I had confidence in him for
at least the 86tli parallel, but there
was no alternative.
The best sledges and dogs were se
lected and the sledge loads brought up
to the standard. The sounding gave a
depth of 325 fathoms. We were over
the continual shelf, and, as I had sur
mised, the successive leads crossed in
the fifth and sixth ma-c.hes composed
the big lead and marked the continual
shelf. On leaving the camp, the expe
dition comprised 10 men, 12 sledges
and 100 dogs.
The next march was satisfactory as
regards distance and character of go
ing. In the latter part there were pro
nounced movements in the ice, and au
dible. Some leads were crossed, in
one of which Borup and his team took
a bath, and we were finally stopped
by an impracticable lead opening in
front of us. We camped in a temper
ature of 50 below. At the end of two
short marches we came upon Hansen
and his party in camp mending their
sledges. We devoted the remainder of
the day to overhauling and mending
sledges and breaking.up our damaged
one for material.
The next morning I put Marvin in
the lead to pioneer the trail, with in
struction to make two forced marches
to bring up our average, which had
been cut down by the last two short
ones.
Marvin carried out his instructions
implicitly. A certain amount of
young ice assisted in this. At the end
of the tenth march, latitude Br>:'2o,
Borup turned back In command of the
second supporting party, having trav
eled a distance equivalent to Nansen's
distance from this far to his farthest
north. I was sorry to lose this young
Yale runner, with his enthusiasm and
his pluck; he had led his heavy sledge
over the floes in a way that com
manded everyone's admiration, and
would have made his father's eyes
glisten.
From this- point the expedition com
prised 20 men, ten sledges and 70 dogs.
It was necessary for Marvin to take
sledge from here, and 1 put Bartlett
and his division in advance to pioneer
the trail.
The continual daylight enabled ;.ie
to make a moderation here that
brought my advance and main parties
closer together and reduced the likeli
hood of their being separated by the
open leads.
After Bartlett left camp with Hen
derson and their division Marvin and
1 remained with our division 24 hours
and then followed. When we reached
Bartlett's camp he broke out and
went on and we turned in. By this
arrangement the advance party was
traveling while the main party- was
asleep, and vice versa, and I was in
toir-h with my advance party every
24 hours.
1 had no reason to complain of the
going for the next two marches, though
for a less experienced party, less
adaptable sledges or less perfect equip
ment it would have been an impossi
bility.
1 At* our position at the end of the sec
ond march, Marvin obtained a satisfac
| tory sight for latitude and ciear
weather, which placed us at 85:48.
This result agreed very satisfac
tory with the dead reckoning cf
Marvin, Bartlett and myself. Up to
this time the slight altitude of the sun
had made it not worth while to waste
time in observation.
On the next -two marches, the go
ing improved, and we covered good
distances. In one other march a lead
delayed us a few hours. We finally
crossed on the ice cakes. The next
day Bartlett let himself out and evi
dently for a record, and reeled off 20
miles. Here Marvin observed another
satisfactory sight on latitude which
gave the position as 86:38, or beyond
the farthest north of Nansen and
Abruzzi and showed that we had cov
ered fifty minutes of latitude in three
marches. In these three marches we
had passed the Norwegian record of
80:14 by Nansen and the Italian
record of 86:34 by Cagni. From this
point Marvin turned back in command
in the third supporting party. My last
words to him were, "Be careful of
the leads, my boy."
The party from this point comprised
nine men, seven sledges and 60 dogs.
The condition at this camp and the ap
parently unbroken expanse of fairly
level Ice in every direction, reminded
me of Cagni's description of his farth
est north, but I was not deceived by the
apparently favorable notes, for avail
able condition never continued for any
length of time in the Arctic region. The
north march was over good going, but
for the first time since leaving land
we experienced that condition, frequent
over these ice fields, of a hazy atmos
phere in which the light is equal every
where. All relief is destroyed and it
is impossible to see for any distance.
We were obliged in this march to
make a detour for an open lead. In
the next march we encountered the
heaviest and deepest snow of the
journey, through a thick, smothering
mantle. Lying in the depressions of
heavy rubber ice I came upon Bart
lett and his party fagged out and tem
porarily discouraged by the heart rack
ing of making a road.
I knew what was the matter with
them. They were simply spoiled by
the good going on the previous days.
I rallied them a bit, lightened their
sleds, and they were encouraged again.
During the next march we traveled
through a thick drifting over the ice
before a biting air from the northeast.
At the end of the march we came upon
the captain camped beside a wide open
'lead with a dense black water sky
northwest north and northeast. We
built our igloos and turned in, but he
fore 1 had fallen asleep I was aroused
out by a movement of the ice and found
a startling condition of affairs; a rap
idly widening road of black water ran
but a few feet from our igloos.
One of the teams of dogs had es
caped by only a few feet from being
dragged by the movement of the ice
into the water. Another team had an
equally narrow escape from being
crushed by the ice blocks piled over
them. The ice on the north side of
the lead was moving around eastward,
in the open water, and the side of the
igloos threatened to follow suit.
Kicking out the door of the igloos I
called to the captain's men to pack
their sledges and be ready for a quick
dash when a favorable chance arrived.
We hurried our things on our sledges,
hitched the dogs, and moved onto a
large floe west of us. Then, leaving
one man to look out for the dogs and
sleds, we hurried over to assist the
captain's party to join us.
A corner of their raft impigned on
the ice on our side. For the rest of
the night and during the next day the
ice floes suffered the torment of the
damned, surging together, opening out,
groaning and grinding, while the open
water belched black smoke like a
prairie fire.
The motion ceased, the open water
closed, the atmosphere to north was
cleared and we rushed across before
the ice should open again.
A succession of laterally open leads
were crossed and after them some
heavy old ice; and then we came to a
layer of young 1 * ice, some of which
buckled under our sledges, and this
gave us a straightway of six miles to
the north. Then caine more heavy old
floes, covered with hard snow. This
was a good long march.
The next march was also a long one.
It was Bartlett's last hike. He let
himself out over a series of large
old floes, steadily increasing in diame
ter, and covered with hard snow.
During the last few miles I walked
beside him or in advance. He was
very solemn, and anxious togo
further, but the program was for him
togo back from here in command of
the fourth supporting party, and there
were no supplies for an increase in
the main party.
In this march we encountered a
high wind for the first time since the
three days after we left Cape Colum
bia. It was dead on our faces, bitter
and insistent, but 1 had no reason to
complain; it was better than an east
erly or southerly wind, either of which
would have set us adrift in open
water, while this was closing up every
lead in the open. This furnished an
other advantage of my supporting par
ties. True, by so doing it was press
ing to the south the ice over which
we traveled and so robbing us of a
hundred miles of advantage.
Robbed of Distance by Wind.
We surmised we were on or near
the 88th parallel unless the north
wind had lost us several miles. The
wind blew all night and all the next
rip.y. At his camp, in tlie morning,
Bartlett started to walk six miles tj
the north to make sure of reaching
the SSth parallel. While he was gone
I selected the 40 best dogs in the out
fit and had them doubled, and I picked
out five of the best sledges and as
signed them expressly to the captain's
1 party. I broke up the seventh for ma
i terial with which to repair the others,
and set the Eskimos at their work.
Bartlett returned in time to take a
satisfactory observation for latitude
in clear weather, and obtained our
position 87.48, and that showed con
tinued north wind had robbed us of
a number of miles of hard-earned dis
tance.
Bartlett Takes Observations.
Bartlett took the observations here,
as had Marvin five camps back,
partly to save my eyes, but largely
to give an independent record and de
termination of our advance.
The observations completed, about
two copies were made, one for him
and the other for me, Bartlett start
ed on the back trail in command of
my fourth supporting party, with two
Eskimos, one sled and 18 dogs.
When he left I felt for a moment
pangs of regret as he disappeared in
the distance, but it was only momen
tary. My work was still ahead, not
in the rear. Bartlett had done good
■work and had been a great help to me.
Circumstances had thrust the brunt of
the pioneering upon him instead of
dividing it among several as I had
planned.
Bettered Italian Record.
He had reason to take pride in the
fact that he had bettered the Italian
record by a degree and a quarter and
had covered a distance equal to the
entire distance of the Italian expedi
tion from Franz Josef's Land to
Cagni's farthest north. I had given
Bartlett this position and post of
honor in command of my fourth and
last supporting party, and for two
reasons—first, because of his magnifi
cent handling of the Roosevelt; sec
ond, because he had cheerfully stood
between me and many trifling annoy
ances on the expedition.
Then there was a third reason. It
seemed to me appropriate in view of
the magnificent British record of Arc
tic work, covering three centuries,
that it should be a British subject who
could boast of having been, next.to an
American, nearest to the pole.
ROBERT E. PEARY.
PERRY NOT FORGOTTEN
HIS GREAT BATTLE ON LAKE
ERIE COMMEMMORATED.
Oliver Hazard Perry, an American
Youngster, Defeated the English
Fleet 96 Years Ago.
Cleveland, O. —Exactly 06 years
ago on September 10 an Ameri
can youngster, Oliver Hazard Perry
by name, took a wallop at "Ma" Eng
land that she has never since forgot
ten. The episode transpired out on
Lake Erie. Our coasts and borders
were at stake. You can never tell.
Had the battle gone against him,
Clevelanders might be mailing their
letters to-day with stamps bearing the
portrait of Edward VII. England
wanted to drive our ships from the
Great Lakes. It took a Yankee kid
lieutenant to compel her pompous offi
cers to hand over their swords. Hu
man blood literally dyed the water
red. It was a desperate struggle, one
|of the greatest fights in history. It
[ saved a nation's honor and made a
people's hero.
A great sheet of leaping fire burst
ing from the very crest of waves on
the waters of Lake Erie furnished a
spectacular finale to Cleveland's cele
bration of Perry day. The burning of
temporary crib No. 2, four miles out
in the lake, fascinated tens of thou
sands of people at night.
The immense hulk containing more
than 3,000,000 feet of lumber, satur
ated with barrels upon barrels of oil
and ifrar gasoline, was destroyed to
the water's edge while 5,000 people,
in boats of every kind and class,
shouted themselves hoarse. From all
along the shore spectators who could
not crowd onto a boat watched the
wonderful illumination.
The crib, where during the con
struction of Cleveland's great water
works tunnel men sacrificed their
lives to the dangers of the undertak
ing, was a complete wreck within two
hours after Vice Mayor Lapp touched
it with a flaming torch.
The structure had been carefully
packed with oil waste by the men su
pervising its demolition. Within half
a,minute from the time the torch was
applied the flames had licked their
way to the very top of the pile.
Within three minutes the crib was
a crackling furnace of blistering white
heat. The effect was as if the cupolas
of 100 steel mills had been combined
into one and transplanted onto the
green waters. The heat could be felt
over the water for a distance of more
than 1,000 feet. Tugs and motor boats
cruised around the great bonfire and
then with the steamers Eastland and
Lakeside, crowded to their utmost ca
pacity, formed a naval parade about
the roaring pile.
Light Your Way.
Don't make light of life, but put
light enough into it to enable you to
see good roads to the end.—Ex
change.
Strange Provision of Nature.
Dumas: Most men die without cre
ating. Not one has died without de
-Bt.."<oying.
Likeness.
The thing that makes a man like a
tirl is for her to convince him he
does.
German Proverb.
Time, wind, women and fortune aro
trer changing.
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Th« Talisman.
A good hejrt overcomes evil fOJ?
tune. —Don Quixote.