, O fast does the world d move nowadays that un / less one stops to reflect a bit there seems noth ing unusual in the fact ILi t? that Harry Whitney, the IV ■ New Haven sportsman, W should have gone hunting X. Jr to the place which not many years ago marked the northern most limit of polar exploration. For nearly a year he lived by choice al most in the shadow of that Cape Sa bine, where the men of the Greely expedition starved to death in 1883. Many times he passed on his expedi tion after game the wreck of the steamship Polari of the Kali expedi tion of 1871. The adventures Mr. Whitney had as a sportsman in this far north • where men before him had met death as explorers he has set down in his book, "Hunting With the Eskimos," which has just been published, says a writer in the Montreal Herald. Though the author seems to consider himself primarily a sportsman and the love of hunting strange game was what kept him through all the Arctic night living with the Eskimos and as an Eskimo, his book is inter esting not as a sportsman's tale, but as a record of crowded adventure and as a portrayal of Eskimo types. Since Mr. Whitney went as far north as Etah with the Peary expedi tion of 1908 and returned to civiliza tion on the Peary relief ship Jeanie after having been the first white man to greet the returning pole finder up under the shadow of the north, his book comes as a sort of epilogue to Peary's narrative of his achievement. ! As an amateur Arctic explorer this New Haven sportsman has at least one valuable qualification, the gift of direct and simple narrative. In company with two other sports men the author went north on the Peary expedition's tender Erik, which followed the Roosevelt on its last and successful dash through the ice fields. His intention and that of his friends was merely to make the voyage to Etah on the Greenland coast, get a little incidental hunting and then to return to the world when the Erik put back and the Roosevelt continued on her way northward to Cape Sheridan. Captivated by the Arctic. Rut once at Etah, away down under the foot of the mountains with the Greenland ice cap sparkling from the summit of the range, Whitney caught the fever of the north. Though he had not come prepared to isolate him self for a year and endure the hard ships of the Arctic night. Whitney broached his determination to stick it out with the Eskimos at Etah to Com mander Peary before the Roosevelt left for the north on August IS. and Peary made him an allowance of stores sufficient to keep him until the return of the expedition's tender in tho following August should offer passage home. So it was that with a .shack built for him by the carpenter and the bos'n of the Erik at Etah and th«- two mem bers of the Roosevelt's crew left to guard a cache of provisions at An nootok. forty miles away, a hla sole white companions in the laud of nil Mice, Mr Whitney raw the Krlk steam away for the south on August 21. Then he r.-aliieed that he"was ma rooned In the most desolate region of the earth. among a race who spoke a strange tongue. Ther • was no • scape for nearly a year." Even tlx- Eskimo companions left t<> the sportsman were not many Peary had laken the pick of the tribe north with him on the Roosevelt, men, worn •n and children, and the Eskimos who remain- I began early the gulling task of storing II;. community larder against descending night. Whitney threw his let In with them absolutely Lived the Life of an Eskimo. He straightway became an Eskimo la his mod of life tar as he could, and before he got away from the lee bound toast of Smith HuittHl, Whitney had reason to count among hla best friends the slmpl. n. tinted foils who pa*« a* savages The beginning of the Ar*Mo night found Whitney and the Eskimo muntiy an •tlc.i in Annootui which is tl.. I.'-I I. ttlelH. HI ot 11,. Arctic highland. r« The man who had come to in., ei,uniry m hunt «{te«dliy disco,, t. that nee. >uy u,rK> I htiu to do lit(I• e|». The dose, inting night i„«nd m* » kliuoa Uv.rishlv ,M I>* IN ih% iof laying up a H«r# *s>tu < ii,„ »inter * hllM-y had «Uh»r to 1.. tin «; „„ in bis l» i«d ai J i kino t»<, sfeask at Annootok or to join the Eskimos in perilous expeditions over the ice on foot up and down the coast. Meat was the quest, meat which would yield light and lire and sustenance during the long months of darkness. Some of the women had outfitted the white stranger among them with a complete suit of furs, and though he donned them early in October for weeks and months thereafter he was at hand grips with the cold hour upon hour. The author said that during the course of a bear hunt in which he joined with the Eskimos and which carried the sledge party far north into Kane Basin, his thermometer, which was only designed to register fifty de grees below zero, dropped to that point and stayed there for days on end. Whitney's feet were frozen re peatedly, his face cracked and frosted and the hours he spent in his sleeping bag of heavy skins were of misery only a shade less acute than when ho was exposed to tho cutting blasts on the march. The Awfui Arctic Night. Of the darkness Whitney writes this in his book: "No words can adequately describe the awful pall of the Arctic night. It Is unreal and terrible. Even the moonlight is unnatural, casting upon the snow and ice, the wind swept rocks, and the people themselves a shade bf ghastly indefinable greenish yellow. "Shifting shadows flit among mov ing ice masses like wraiths of depart ed spirits. A deathlike silence pre vails, to be broken only by the start ling and unexpected cracking of a glacier with a sound of mighty thun derclap or the smashing together of great ice floes with a report like heavy cannon. The author had many occasions to witness the peculiar neurotic reac tion caused by the darkness and the silence upon his Eskimo companions. Time and again one of them went "problokto," that Is a sort of insane frenzy would seize an Individual, cause him to strip off his clothes and run naked over the Ice and snow un til he was captured and overpowered by his companions. The fits came on without warning, were violent and left the victim weak and depressed for hours after. The terror of these sudden gusts of madness sank in upon the marooned white hunter. He would be called out of his sleeping bag by cries from the igloos, rush out into the sickly moon light to see some naked, raving figure skimming over the white snow field shrieking to the stars. All the world seemed fairy. The silence, the flickering of the aurora, ihe showers of meteors which fre fluently streaked the sky like fire flakes from flights or rockets, these were the conditions which fostered madness. Yet In picturing the terror iif the long night Whitney takes oc ension to marvel at the tremendous optimism of the little people who live In this desolate land, Eskimo Optimism, "Eskimos are optimists," he Bays. Pi ssimlßts have no place In the \rctlc or any other far wilderness, I ior that matter, where today's dan ' uers and difficulties are real and *uf lleient unto themselves Doing his best with today and providing so far I .is circumstances will permit for the ! future, the Eskimo gives no other thought to tomorrow than a buoyant :• liancn that It will take care of It xelf. Just as yesterday did "A pessimist who constantly wor ties about the morrow would posl tlvely hypnotise himself to death In these lands In a very short time Pas rtlmlsm has been the real cause of many insanities among Arctic e* ptorers." Th.. blUiartts came continually to .implicate the life that the white ' stranger had to lead during the dark n*s» Som» of the most vivid pas ■age*, in hlji book are those which de I'let the raging of the storms which swept down from the north, carrying mow as hard as shot, destroying and obliterating everything In their paa ' .age. Koi days on end Whltn«y did not ''ate to leave his H a. k at Annootok go nn> Vard> to th« uearest igloo is-'i'tmi of Ihe blinding fury of the i lempvnt lie would have been lo»t i do*, a steps beyond his own tunn«l -niram •> Yet so protista* is then» . d if leo-l among the Ksfclnios thai be . twee a lb* ragtoga ut tbe slsrw they meal and Whitney '"-"fnpaniid t'»l! ■m many of these knots Ufce «Mcssiuo wbeo * early of which CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1910. the author was a member was out after walrus in the middle of Smith Sound, they barely escaped death on a detached Ice floe. Finding them selves separated from the pack and drifting downward toward the open water, which would have meant slow starvation, the members of the hunt ing expedition frantically explored the boundaries of their temporary prison for a loophole of escape. Finally one of the Eskimos discovered where by utilizing small ice pans as ferries the party could escape to the solid pack. That was one of the many close calls that Whitney experienced. Eskimo Endurance. The author never ceased to marvel at the endurance of his friends the savages. Life with them is so stern a matter of nip and tuck that the Es kimos seem to have been hardened in to almost superhuman strength and stamina. Their pursuit of game is never ending, and at times the life of a whole colony will depend on the success of one hunting expedition. Whitney saw his Eskimo com panions take chances with death which were nothing short of sheer madness; he found them ready togo without sleep for three days on end, eager to be on the move as long as their legs would support them. "They cannot lean on others for support," Whitney comments, "and none among them is so poor that charity comes his way. lie must work if he is to live, and no man in the world works so hard as the Eskimo or enjoys so little of life's comforts and luxuries." With the return of the sun Whit ney and a party of Eskimos crossed the ice of Smith Sound over to Elles mere Land, where the author sought the single reward of all that winter's isolation, musk ox. With a hunter's pride he devotes several chapters of his book to the narration of this suc cessful musk ox hunt. Ho knocked down more of the beasts than he could bring back to Greenland with him and the trophies in heads and hides that he secured amply rewarded his months of waiting. Says Little About Cook. Whitney tells only in the baldest outline of the return of Doctor Cook to Anootok, reciting how three men, gaunt as skeletons and dirty almost beyond human semblance, came in over the ice of Smith Sound pulling their single sledge behind them. On the subject of what Doctor Cook may have told him as to his pole finding the New Haven sportsman pursues his consistent policy of silence. He simply says that the Bushwlck ex plorer stayed a few days in Anootok and then started southward for a Dan ish settlement. On August 16, within a few days of a year after Mr. Whitney had been marooned among the Eskimos, the Roosevelt bearing the Peary party re turned from the north and the New Haven man took ship on her for civil ization. He transferred to the Jeanie, which was met coming up at North Star Bay, and after some desultory hunting along the coast of Baffin's Land, during which time the author secured some coveted polar bear, the return to the world was completed. When Tennyson Slipped In the Mud. It had been a stormy evening and the night was of pitchy darkness when I started out, against invitations to remain, togo to the Albion. Tenny son insisted on showing me a nearer way, but in the darkness got off his bearings. Bidding me walk close be hind him, we went forward through the mud, when suddenly I found my self precipitated si* or seven feet downward. Sitting in the mud, I called on ihe poet to pause, but it was too late; he was speedily seated beside me. This was seeing the laur eate of Kngland In a new light, or, rather, hearing him under a novel darkness. Covered with mud. groping about, ho inii>roved the odd occasion with such an innocent run of witti cisms and anecdotes that 1 had to conclude that he had reached a <'ondi tlon which had discovered In him un expected resources. Ills «leep bass voice came through the congenial darkness like mirthful thunder, while he groped until he found a path. "This should have happened after dinner!" he exclaimed; "do not mention this to the temperance folk,"—M I). Con way's Autobiography. "Personal Item" Didn't Pay. "I have a personal Item." A reporter looked up from his type writer at the baggage burdened wom an vsho rushed up the stairs to deposit a small (jleeo of new*. "Hurry"' *!»<• demanded. "Sly train In about to leave. Got a pencil " "Heady," said the reported "I'm going to Omaha to spend a week with my sister." "Well, your name, please." "Mrs George Mel* of Highland I'ark much obliged," and the worn an darted out of thu door with her luggage "I'leuae don't publish that Item about me," said a feminine vole* over th» lt> glnt« rand leader telephone t«ti minutes later "Who's talking, please*" "I'm Mr* M«*ls. I gsve you a per sonal awhile mu, ami If I hadn't done It wouldti t have mls»4Nt my train ' An Amtrlcan OucHes* 1 hi- Iho hess I teens**, a* *|| the world know*. »a» an American a daughter of the enormously rtrk rtin gut family '1 hi ilin h< m was once taking pari In moiimi stoat' ur theatricals si Hagas whin a Net* York girl said to Iff ""Is she a reel <*eiesgr • \f. i, tn, il< at «»m» mother, a Kllckorbw k*r *ns»> »»d Vas. real# hat Hi a* ki«.t m»4*> NEW AND TERRIBLE WEAPON OF WARFARE Krupps, the famous German gun-makers, have Juat Invented a remarkable weapon known aa the bomb-gun This fires a large, very brittle bomb containing 160 pounds of explosives. Each bomb, as it bursts, fills the air with poisonous gases, which, it is said, no human being can withstand. The effective range is not more than 400 yards. HEALING BY MUSIC Dyspeptic Eats to Tune of "Old Oaken Bucket." Another Sufferer In Hospital Re lieved of Pain by Btrain "Last Rose of Summer" In Musical Tests on Sick. Philadelphia.—The newest science, ■which is also one of the oldest, is the science of healing by music. Tests are being made in the Samaritan hos pital under the supervision of the Rev. Dr. Russell Conwell, its presi dent, famous for his eloquence on the lecture platform. ' Nurses who aided in making obser vations unite in testifying to the bene ficial effect of certain musical airs upon the temperature and pulsations of patients and the evil and depress ing influence of other tunes. They found that "I Know My Re deemer I.iveth" brought patients out of trances of anaesthesia, with none of the nausea and feverish symptoms that usually attend an awakening. They found that fever was abated and restlessness reduced by "Flow Gently, Sweet Afton;" that "Dixie" calmed a patient who had delirium, and that "Juanita" and"The Last Rose of Summer" sent pain-racked Invalids into soothing healing sleep. The following is a partial list of well known hymns and musical se lections reported to have been found helpful to sick and well persons alike: "The Old Oaken Bucket," "Flow Gently, Sweet Afton," "Listen to the Mocking Bird," "Dixie," "Juan ita," "The Last Rose of Summer," "My Old Kentucky Home," "Old Folks at Home." "My Maryland," "Yankee Doodle," "America," "Auld Lang Syne." "All Hall the Power of Jesus' Name," "Rock of Ages," "Nearer, My SQUIRRELS HURT THE CROPS Maine Farmers Turn Upon Little Pets of Law and Want "Pesky Things" Exterminated. Lewlston, Me. —The State of Maine Is overrun with gray squirrels, ac cording to reports received at the office of the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and Game. Thousands of dollars worth of damage has been done to the crops and In some places whole cornfields have been completely destroyed. Farmers are flooding the office of Chairman Flrackett of the Fish and Game Commission with pe tltions asking for protectlos. Two years ago a Btate law was passed making it illegal to hunt and kill gray squirrels. As a result the squirrels have multiplied rapidly and have become tamo and destructive. Until the special law was passed gray squirrels were classed as "game ani mals" and each fall were hunted by tlx gunners. The farmers who two years ago petitioned the legislature to pass a law to protect tho "little pets" now have their dander up and declare they want every one of the "pesky things" killed off In some Instances the farmers have defied the law and with loaded guns have watched their cornfields frotu early day until late at night. The Commissioners of Inland Fish cries and Came have promised to do everything In their power to have the law repealed at the next session of the legislature. CITY TO CLEANSE CHILDREN Another Duty Is Assumed by London County Council—To Wash Pu pil's Dirty Fscss. London The l.ondou county eoun ell Is preparing to increass the multi tude of motherly duties already a* suiued. To this end It Is making ar rangement* for thu municipal wash ing of all < hllilr<m wfto goto school eltll dirty faces ami necks As It can not undertake all this laundering proc r-. Itself, tlx members are arranging it rms with most of the liOAdotl bor i>ugll councils to di-all the children and send th-m hack to school purified, and, in '**« of such necessity. In clothes <hut hMVe bed* baked or boll • 4 Th« borough of K>-ii"in|toa as a r> <u|i Ik preparing to sp ltd t«v«r»| ■hiwands of rounds on mere public ( *the In i'hsttibcrwodl, however, the :,m 14* a ha» Wen In prsitl** for •ome time and the room II of that I ur ,o t, i.i in' to i l.l! I i" th« Mid u «• tn if i •>->n#W l"i lauiol lag j i,| t. .thing uq IMI little t'U tier- God, to Thee," "Shall We Gather at the River," "I Know That My Re deemer Llveth." The following were found to be In jurious: "Dead March" from "Saul," "Home Sweet Home," "Do They Think of Me at Home?" "Old Cabin Home," "Old Black Joe," "Star Span gled Banner," "Abide With Me," "Am I a Soldier of the Cross?" "Must Josus Bear the Cross Alone?" "Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken," "Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me," and "Stand Up for Jesus." The hymn, "The Hour of Trial," was found to be one of the most de pressing in the list. In one experiment, nineteen pa tients were brought into one ward suffering from all kinds of disenses. Several wero under the effects of morphine or other anaesthetics. A soloist sang, "I Know That My Re deemer Liveth." The effect on the patients was soothing and pleasant, although no special note was made of the effect on the heart pction. Those patients under the Influence of morphine began to awaken, without fear or wandering of the mind One patient, a dyspeptic unable to take food, was found to be so far in fluenced by the playing of"The Old Oaken Bucket" that ishe was able to eat. Another, partly insane, became calm and reasonable while the organ played "Dixie." Atom May Bs Electricity. Philadelphia.—Speaking at a meet ing of the American Philosophical so ciety, Prof. Earnest Fox Nicholas, president of Dartmouth college, took for his subject "Modern Physics." He advanced the theory that be cause matter has never been freed from electricty, the atom may be an electrical structure and nothing more. In other words, matter and electric ity in the last analysis may be the same. ANATOMY OF Miss Moses, a Nurse, Has Every In ternal Organ on Side Opposite to Usual Location. Philadelphia.—The mixed anatomy of Alexander Jordan, whose heart, spleen, liver and stomach are reversed, according to the standard set In the construction, is paralleled In the case of Miss Anna A. Moses, a trained nurse of Osterburg, Iledford county, Pa. Miss Moses not only possesses all of tho transpositions boasted by Jordan, but was treated for appendi citis six years ago by applications on the left side of her abdomen. She presents a complete case of "situs Inversus," every organ of her body being on the side opposite to where It Is usually found. Miss Moses writes with her right hand, but says in learning to do so in childhood, before her mixed anatomy was known, she seemed to be conquer ing a protesting tendency to lefthand edness which would be the effect of an Inherited right handedness from both of her parents. She discovered that her heart was on the right side, or rather the wrong side, while studying to bo a trained nurse, in IK'.iS, but did not suspect that the reversal was complete, and, as she suffered not even tho slightest Illness, was not exumlned by a phy sician until 1904. Then she began to feel pains In thu lower part of her abdomen on tho left GEMS WORTH OVER MILLION Mere Bagatelle to South African Vis itor Who Wanted No Protection— Hostsss Worried. Kdg<*water Park, N J General and Mrs K. Kurd Grubb emitted a nigh of relief when Mrs John Joel of South Africa left their residence aud took with her a necklace valued at more than a million'dollars. This necklace has canned the Grubhs tell sleepless nights because to Mrs Joel the g«in was of so little talue that she refused to place It 111 s safe deposit vault or sllow her brother In law, G«nerst Grubb, to no tlfy the polite thai the Jewel wss In I tie house Mrs Joel Is Ihe sister of Mrs Grubb. and Is the wife of one of the lor wet partners of African diamond king liaiitey it* rnato ||«r husband K trustee of Ihe Ik licers turn ■ and i» reputed lo be worth more i jiD • i>< handled mtllh n dollars t je **' l »se f»m* wurth uors MONKEY MADE LOVE TO GIRL She Boxes His Ears When He Tries to Kiss Her —Simian Bites Her and Lands in Jail. Paris. —As 20 work girls came out of a dressmaker's Bhop In the Rue Holleau at midday an arm encircled the waist of one of them. The girl protested indignantly. The too-gallant Intruder was well dressed in a frock coat, gray trousers, top hat, patent leather boots and wore smart gray suede gloves. But he was a hideous little person. The girls began making fun of him, when suddenly he caught hold of one and put his face close to hers. She boxed his ears, and he dropped on all fours and bit her leg. There was a panic. The girls rush ed off shrieking, and two policemen arrested the aggressor. The creature was a chimpanzee—the pet of an ex plorer living near at hand. He was captured after a struggle, and carried off by hie master's cook, who went to fetch him at the police station, where he had spent the night. An amusing item of the story Is that the police magistrate got very angry with the monkey when he was first brought in because he refused to answer any questions and turned his back on the official table. Ship's Cats Disappear. San Francisco. —A mysterious hoo doo has descended upon the liners of the Pacific Mail Steamship company that ply between the Central Ameri can port of Ancon and this city. The ships' cats refuse to remain on board and the crews are beginning to shiver. On the last trips the cats disappeared from the San Jose, Pennsylvania and Peru. All the cats have been posted as missing at about the same place— Just as the vessels were passing along Lower California. The sailors are be coming greatly alarmed and fear that some tragedy awaits the boats. Many of them declare they will not ship again. side, and visited Dr. Mervyn R. Tay lor, at 1706 Race street. Miss Moses laughed gayly when the physician be came perplexed in sounding her heart with his stothoscope. An examlna i tion convinced Dr. Taylor that all of J her organs wero reversed. ' FIND LOVE AT FIRST TOUCH Sightless Teacher and Pupil's Ro mance to Result In Wedding— Character Attracted. New York. —The same hands that guided hid own over raised letters In a Brooklyn library will soon bo the hand of William Gooshaw's wife, It was said the other day apropos of the romance of two sightless lovers. Miss Beryl Clarke, with big brown eyes that don't In the least betray I blindness, admits tho truth of the j statement, and that It was love from the first meeting. Miss Clarke Is In charge of the school for the blind at tho Pacific branch of the Brooklyn circulating library, and she will wed William N. Oooshaw Thanksgiving day. While the pupil pored over books | with raised letters the teacher sat at 1 his elbow, and Dan Cupid succeeded l ln clasping tho hands of tho two. "1 i win attracted to Mr. Gooshaw," she said, "by his personality, bis charcter and intellect. These are far more im i portant than looks." i than one million five hundred thou sand dollars General Grubb stood guard at night over the jewels. Sending Idlers West. New York Jobs for tdl« Americans , are being sought by the Bowery mis sion in a cam pal gn begun thu other day The mission hopes to send men to the west, where labor Is needed, and will appeal to the railroads to transport thein at low rates. Pour I hundred unfortunate* had a five din rier at the mUsloii at tho celebration of Its foundation, and letters from I'resldi'iit Taft, Governor White aud ! Mayor Gay nor were read. ferret Shut as a Hen This'. VYlusted. ("n*»n A parrot owned by I Otlo 1' H. hu.id. rot SaudUNeltf •« i*p*d the other « i enlug and dew to j lit. h'-uhoiiae of ,S li liuow, one of rtibiH'ldt-r'M ii.-Mlihor-* It talked la i > H*» fet us, a hleli bet an* alarmed at Ita Knot* heard Ms *ulee, and ink it, .in, ». it iltU > , M.'i* robbing II r If ire.aht his gua into > 111 t«fC ! ii> *UUUwIJvf geV» J tv I 4 M vt||
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