,
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
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