! THE POEM THAT WILL LIVE. fWiiiimi n did a little wrlttn Thmt the race Is mill reciting. Illtan, too, did some Imlltinr Km we do not think ot sllghttnr. Ctaaccr did a little singing. Bpenser's phrases tlll lire ringing. Byron's stuff some praise Is bringing. Wordsworth's flights continue winning. ' nnems IcefD on Colnr. Shelley's work still life Is showing, Kaats's numbers still are flowing, Tranyson we still are knowing. Wbca these fade as docs the ember AU the world will still remember Thirty days hath September, AyrO, June and November. afcLandburgti Wilson, in the New York GranMer anil tie Bear. bt Man Well Perhaps it was the Teddy Bear which suggested the tale. Baby Har riot had left It lying forlornly on the goor, whence it looked up with an ex pression so woe-begono, and withal ho loeicrous, that grandfather laughed owtrlght as he stooped to pick up his mine majesty. At any rate, when, a tittle later, Sam and Bob demanded a otory. he settled himself comfortably to the big chair before the fireplace, and with a twinkle in his eye, began:-- "When I was a lad of fourteen, the country wasn't as much settled as It to now. Our nearest neighbor lived a tile and a half away, and, in order to reach his clearing, we had to follow a wlmllng road through the woods. On either side the beaten path the un derbrush rose in thick profusion; and, though there were various trails lead ing in different directions, it was well lor one to keep closely to the main load, since nothing was easier than lor the unwary or unacquainted to Jose himself in the forest, where he night wander until he was overcome by exhaustion or hunger. "One fine spring day father had keen ploughing the clearing at the light of our dwelling, and the rich loam shone brightly under the warm says of the sun. The spirit of spring was In the air. The birds sang in the thickets, and the scent of blossoming trees was everywhere. The bells tinkled cheerfully as the cows moved along the hillside back of the house. It wss one of those days that make me glad to be alive. Towards night, however, it grew warmer, until the heat became almost oppressive. I suppose it was more noticeable, com ing at such an unusual time of year. "About six o'clock father, finding that he had to have for the next day's work a tool which he had lent to his neighbor, Mr. Flemming, sent me over to get it. My younger brother and Mr sister begged to go with me; and w aet off through the woods, promis ing to return in good season. We lit tle knew what was to befall us before wa reached home. "We found the Flemmlngs glad to Bee us. Mr. Flemming inquired about father's ploughing, and gave us var ious Items of news, for he had been to the Cross Roads the day before. Two Flemming proudly displayed a knife which he had bought of a ped lar. It was a beautiful knife with three blades and a buckhorn handle. I can see it yet, and can yet feel the eavtous pang that smote my soul. The girls discussed with animation the merits of their respective patchwork, Mary Flemming expressing a prefer ence for the log-cabin, and Sister Lucy favoring the sunrise pattern. Mrs. jncmmlng insisted on our trying some at her caraway cakes and currant wine; though, to tell the truth, we Seeded no urging, the merits of Mrs. flemmlng's caraway cookies and cur rant wine being well known. "As I said before, the afternoon had grown very sultry, and suddenly, as I was sipping my second glass of cur rant wine, clap! came a reverberating peal of thunder. I hurried to the door to find the sky ominously black and toe clouds piled high In the west Al ready a few big raindrops were falling and the wind was rising. "'We must go right home!' I ex aiaimed, turning to the children; but, en as I spoke, the storm was upon wa, and the rain fell in a blinding aheat, hiding the woods. "By the time it bad slackened some what It was already dark. The Flem sings urged us to remain for the Jght, but, afraid that mother would worry, I declined. I took the lighted lantern which Mr. Flemming made ready; and with a big umbrella in one and, and the children on either side, started on the homeward Journey. "Thus fortified, we progressed with out mishap for the first half-mile. The aaln fell fitfully, Lucy was well wrapped In Mary Flemmlng's water proof, and the lantern gave a cheerful Igfct "Unfortunately, the calm was of .short duration. The wind quickened, and over our heads the branches t writhed dismally. Vivid flashes of "gntnlng made the darkness of the woods more awful.. The rain fell In torrents, and suddenly there came a furious gust . The light of the lantern Cared, flickered, glimmered faintly, then disappeared, leaving ua in total eWkness, relieved only now and then ay the glare of the lightning. "Lacy began to cry, and I consoled star aa well aa I could, raining my voic that It might be heard above the atom. Afraid ot losing our way, we .waited for each new flash, making our Way forward by it gleam, a till carry, lag tba dilapidated umbrella and the g steles lantern. It waa stow work, at wo cheered ourselvaa with ta thought that each step waa bringing us a little nearer home. "All at once there came a blinding flash. I felt Lucy clutch my arm con vulsively, with a little gasp. She watt evidently too frightened to cry out. "There In the road before us, not five feet away, sat a great bear, erect on his haunches, calmly surveying our trembling trio. The apparition was almost instantaneous. There followed a terrific clap of thunder, then total darkness. We clung to each other in silence, but new horrors awaited us. There, to the right in the shadows, ap peared a gleaming pair of eyes, shin ing dlrefully from the thicket. I turned to the left, only to see the gruesome phenomenon repeated. "In front of us the bear! To the right and left, unknown terrors! The perils of the forest wera less to be feared. Better to die of starvation than to be Ignomlniously eaten by a bear or devoured by two unknown, un namable monsters. "Dropping Mr. Flemmlng's lantern, and abandoning the umbrella to the winds of heaven, I grasped the chil dren and dashed wildly into the thick et On and on we fled, struggling through underbrush, stumbling over vines, colliding with trees, not daring to glance behind us lest we see those gleaming orbs in close pursuit. On . and on, till, gasping and breathless, we found ourselves, miraculously as It seemed, In an open space. In a tumult of joy I recognized our own clearing. We had come out of the woods into the field which father bad been plough ing. "On we struggled, the light of home before our eyes, and the light ot hope In our hearts. The rain-soaked soil gathered in clods on our shoes, Imped ing our progress, while our drenched garments clung tightly to our shiver ing forms. "At last the house was reached, and we burst ra on our astonished par ents, muddy, wet, and draggled. Moth er raised her hands in bewilderment, and father let fall to the hearth the pipe he was smoking. They had sup posed us safe and dry at the Flem mlngs. "Breathlessly, we told our story, while mother bustled about the kitch en bringing dry clothing and prepar ing steaming bowls of ginger tea. Father was rathed sceptical concern ing our narrative, being inclined to regard the bear as a hallucination on our part, but we knew better. That bear was real and big. And, as for those balls of fire in the thicket, the testimony of three we felt should be sufficient. "This testimony was shortly cor roborated in a most startling manner. The fury of the storm had abated, the rain had ceased, the sky was celar, and the moon had appeared, silvering the clearing with its mellow light. The shadows of the trees were etched sharply on the glistening soil. I was standing at the window, admiring the teauty of the night, when there came the sound of wheels, and I saw a light gig stopping in front of the house. Two men alighted, and came quickly up the path. As father opened the door in response to a loud knock,' be was accosted by a portly individual. '"Good evening, sir, I'm sorry to disturb you at such an hour, but we stopped to inquire if you know any thing of the whereabouts of one yellow bear and two deer?' "Seeing father's astonished look, he hastened to explain. "They're a part of Fielding Brothers' Great Show, the beat of its kind, which is to exhibit at Shelby the fifteenth.' The portly Individual's voice had assumed an orn torlcal tone. 'Back here, a mile or two, the horses got scared at the storm and bolted. The cages were overturned, and the animals escaped; but we think they must be arouud here somewhere.' "'They are,' piped up Lucy: 'the bear is standing In the road a mile back, and the deer are each side of him in the woods. "At the ludicrous image conjured up by Lucy's words, father burst into a hearty laugh, then he hastened to narrate to the visitors our harrowing experiences. . "After questioning us minutely, they departed in search of their missing menagerie; but, before they went the fat gentleman bestowed upon each of three blissful children a ticket to 'Fielding Brothers' Great Show, the best of its kind.' "They succeeded in locating the lost animals, for we afterward saw them in their cages at Shelby, but that," said grandfather, observing the eagerness on the faces of his listen ers, "that children, as Kipling would say, Is another story." Christian Reg ister. Getting Even. "Nearly every portrait you've got In here has Just one eye," the woman remarked, looking around at the por traits In the studio. "How's that?" "Well, you see," explained the por trait artist, "when I do portraits aa orders I have to give them two eyes. When I do them Just for pleasure I gqt even by giving them just one. New York Times. A 8ad 8tory. "Haven't you a home?" asked the sympathetic citizen. "Yep," answered Plodding Pete. "I had a nice home; but de first t'ing I knew it had a woodpile and a garden and a pump. And den It got so much Ilka a steady pob flat I resigned." Washington Star. Sanitary conditions la Berlin have so Improved to 30 yeara that (he av erage life of a ciUxsn to now ulbe yeara wager Otan It waa then. It is bow H. The- I Tramp Has a jf Cy Jack F the tramp were auddenly to pass away from the United States, widespread misery for many families would follow. The tramp enables thousands of men to earn honest livings, educate their children and bring them up God-fearing and Industrious. I know. At one time my father was a constable and hunted tramps for a living. The community paid him so muoh per head for all the tramps he could catch, and also, I believe, he rot mileage fees. Ways and means were alwaya a press ing problem In our household, and the amount of meat on the table, the new pair ot shoes, the day's outing or the textbook for school was dependent upon my father's luck In the chase. Well I remember the suppressed eagerness and the suspense with which I waited to learn each morning what the results of the past night's toil had been; how many tramps he had gathered in and what the chances were of convicting them. But lt'a all in the game. The hobo defies society and society's watchdogs make a living out ot him. Some hoboes like to be caught by the watchdogs especially in winter time. Of course, such hobos select communities where the jails are "good," where no work is performed and the food is substantial. Also there have been and most probably still are constables who divide their fees with the hoboe they arrest. 8uch a constable does not have to hunt He whistles and the game comes right up to his hand. It Is surprising the amount ot money that Is made out of stone-broke tramps. All through the South are convict camps and plantations where the time of convicted hobos Is bought by the farmers and where hobos simply have to work. Then there are places like the quarries of Rutland, Vt, where the hobo Is exploited, the unearned energy In his body, which he has accum ulated by slamming gates, being extracted for the benefit of that particular community. Tramps pass the word along, and I first beard of those quarries when I waa In Indiana. By the time I got Into New Hampshire I was pretty well keyed up over those quarries, and I fought shy of railroad cops, "bulls" and constables as I never had before. Chicago Tribune. M Husbands They Are Mot to Asylums By Gabrlelle Stewart Mulliner AM extremely sorry to notice the tenor of the reports from the International Council of Women in Toronto. I do not think that the report of the speeches is representative of the thought of the majority of the women in attendance or represented by delegates. The statement made, as reported, by Mrs. Symes Thompson, that half the women in asylums and graves were there because of their husbands, certainly gives a wrong impressing ot the attitude of the International w I Council of Women toward lire, Ul course me vast, majomj of women are happily married, and devotedly attached to their husbands, and content with the lot in which they find themselves, no matter whether it be rich or poor. Women are going to their graves from bad health because the entire civi lisation needs to learn better the laws of life. It is not men alone, but all nprHonR who are resnonsible for conditions under which women live. They a-n tn nsvlnmu not because of their do not know how to attune themselves to life. They must learn not to be self centred, but to make of their lives a mosaic, and have many Interests, so that they oan be well balanced, and keep an interest In life even If one Interest proves disappointing. But are there no men In asylums, or do the death not ices contain no names of men? There is vice, there are bad habits, there is inattention, and there Is cruelty, against which women have to battle. But we are all human beings, i- . . ra unc-oia unit nlnntv nt ns ar mora or less whitewashed vuij n iv n w " . i i - j devils. But it takes two to make a divorce action, and three to carry a case through New York courts, so 1 lor one resent we insinuation mai an women are suffering unhappiness because some of them do. Let those of us who are happily married come to the rescue of the hus bands who are proving themselves nature s noDiemen. MUM Hard for Youth to Meet Hice Girls By Dr. N. I Clllman of New York ESIRABLE society is vnnnir mnn What, UAUSSSS ff f ftevsf w 1 "X stand with the modern lit Her ideal Is the sporty spendthrift who lavishes his hard X JL earned dollars upon ... fop the economical, I i and appends such epithets as "stingy miser" to his name. ?a..T A good many women do not use discretion in the choice of a life-companion. Mere appearances are usually victorious. Phvslcn.1 henntv. stvllsh amiarel. distinguished deportment a knowledge of the arts of flattery and dancing are the The plain, sincere, home-loving young Then too, with but few exceptions, domestic and maternal responsibilities. lne the art of external adornment. Ot French to the practical young man who Give ua some more girls with a of lawn tennis and basket-ball, and "E. the waning of marriages. m ...Gas as a Motor... W By Joe Mitchell Chappie e? CCORDINO to expert government reports on fuel, the gas engine is capable of generating from two and a half to three times as much powur from a given amount ot coai as mo ... An.a T. onnnnmlfoa in nnnthpr WAV fljflo) bV mak ztlctLIU OUBius. t - . ing it possible to obtain power with a low-grade coal value less under steam boilers. Fuel with so high a percentage of impurity that It could not hitherto be used in factories can now be made to generate sufficient power, by means ot gas engine, to do tne j-..i-- ii.- ii... wiu quire uouoie uu (juuuuijr ui6u-t,ivo ww. -o cota has thus been made to give out as much gas engine force as the best Wist Virginia and bituminous coal used under steam boilers. Some sort of coal Is Indigenous to almost all. parts of America, but the fact that in the average steam engine only five percent of the coal energy la transformed Into actual working power made low-grade coal of little commer- . . . ... .L. 0 . i . ),. a a AnirtnA whloh InrrAflsAi tha fifflcienCT YaiUO UUUI tuu pviievuuu ui v of fuel by almost twelve percent placed beside some swirt running iuwu w mimo factories sought the vicinity of the great coal fields, but today, with the gen Sating power of the gas engine, It Is a matter of little Importance so far as pofm u ooooemea Traere piaui is Real Value London ( I MM Slandered Blame lor Wives in and Graves husbands, but because they themselves inaccessible to a good many worthy chance does the thrifty young man young woman out for a good time? her caprices. She has no earthly use home - loving species. She scoffs at him only keys that will open society's door, man usually lacks these keys.' tha modern woman Is unfit to assume Too much time is wasted in study what use is a smattering of music or prefers a digestible meal? knowledge of domestic economy In lieu D." will have no cause for bemoaning MM same worn mai oiuerwiee wumu r nnni Tha HimHo nol nt North Da. B1" "o' Time was when the big mills had to bo hum. FOR CENTURIES RECORD OF RJWON HAD Greatest Tragedies of '.he Far North Were the Loss ot Capt John Franklin and All His Men In 1845 and the Disaster to the De Long Expedition, In Which Twenty Out of Thirty-three Men Perished. PEARY MOST PERSISTENT OF ALL LATTER-DAY EXPLORERS. Andrti Tried It In a Balloon and Was Northwest Paeeage Made by For more than 300 years explorers have been trying to penetrate tbe froz en north to ; find tbe pole and the fabled Northwest Passage to tbe Far Bast. From first to last, until Dr. Cook reached the goal, their attempts have been fruitless, and tbe records of their voyages have all been alike in tales of freezing weather, fields of Impenetrable ice, days of suffering and often tbe silence of unsolved trag edy. . Modern Bclence contributed little to the progress of discovery In the Far North. Explorers of the twentieth century scarcely went further than the men of the seventeenth century. Norse men were the first to touch Greenland and Iceland, many centuries ago, but authenticated records of northern dis covery begin soon after the discovery of America. 1527 First polar expedition Bent out by Honry VIII. of England, for "dls coverie even to the North Pole, two falre ships well manned and victualled, having in them divers cunning men to seek strange regions." One ship was lost north of Newfoundland, the other returned to England. 1596 First crossing the eightieth de gree of north latitude by a Dutch ex pedition under William Barentz, look ing for the Northwest Passage. The Bhlps reached 80 degrees 11 minutes north latitude. This Is the first expedi ilon that left definite records of its ex periences. 1906 The record farthest north, un til Cook's feat, made by Commander Peary reaching 87 degrees 6 minutes, an advance of only 480 miles In 300 years. Tragedies of the North Pole. Sir John Franklin and all his men in two ships of an English expedition were lost In 1848. Capt. De Long and an American expedition were nearly all lost in 1881. Nineteen out of twenty four men in IJettt. Greely's party per ished in 1884. Prof. Andree started for the Pole in a balloon in 1897 and never was heard of again. Positions of expeditions around the Pole are usually given in degrees and minutes of north latitude. A degree of latitude at the Pole is 69.4 statute miles, and a minute, which is a sixtieth part of a degree, is approximately 11-7 miles. Most modern expeditions reach 80 degrees north with relatively small dif ficulty. That is 694 miles from the Pole. The struggle has been to cover the intervening region of ice, snow and barren islands. Peary in 1906 got within 203 miles of the goal. Nansen of Norway in 1895, the Duke of the Abruzzi in 1900, and Anthony Fiala of Brooklyn In 1903, all reached points about 250 miles from the Pole before being obliged to turn back. Three Routes Often Tried. There have been three often tried routes to the Pole. The most favored has been up through the channel be tween the east coast of America and the west coast of Greenland. The sec ond lies long the eastern side of Greenland, with Spltzenberg as a base. The least used Is the Pacific ocean route through Behring Straits and pushing north from the Siberian coast. Likewise there are there modern methods of confiucting expeditions. The one most often used Is to push as far North as possible through the ice in a Btrong ship and then with a well equipped sledge outfit dash across the Ice on foot. This was the method of Commander Peary in the past and the one he is now using. Dr. Nansen gave a striking example of another plan. He had constructed an exceptionally strong vessel, the Fram, which he allowed to be frozen In the Ice at a chosen Bpot, expecting that the Arctic currents would carry him to the pole. The currents, how ever, drifted him off to one side. Andree's Trial by Balloon Failed. . The most modern of the schemes is to sail through the air. Prof. Andree tried it first in 1897. With an ordinary balloon for airship had not then been devised he set out from Tromsoe, Norway, hoping to be blown to the pole by favorable winds. But the bal loon and Us daring passenger were lost somewhere in the trackless Arctic re gion. Wellman is experimenting with a dirigible balloon in Northern Nor way. Count Zeppolln and others have planned to use airships. Early expeditions lo the Far North were not directed toward the North Pole. The object of navigators was to find the fabled Northwest Passage that would give a short cut to India and the Far East. That was even the aim of the voyages of Co'.umbus. Henry Hudson, whose discovery of the Hud son river is to be celebrated this month,, was one of the earliest and most persistent seekers for the North west Passage. In the year 1607 he pushed his way past" SO degrees and set the mark for the f irthest north of that day. A few years later he pene trated Hudson bay. There ha was set adrift In a small boat by mutineers and ended bis life in the frozen regions, the first noted victim of Arctic exploration. ARCTIC EXPLO- BEEN MARKED BY FAILURE. Never Heard of After He Had Started Capt. Amundsen In 1904-08. English Government Offered Rewards The English government in 1743 pro claimed an award of $160,000 for the discovery ot the Northwest Passage. In 1776 an act of Parliament offered a reward of $25,000 to any captain who should first penetrate to within one degree of the Pole. Additional awards were added later for explorers who should attain lesser latitudes from 81 degrees upward. After the outburst ot voyages in tht early part of the seventeenth century there was a lapse of nearly 200 yean before hardy explorers plunged again into the frozen north. The English have the credit for the revival of ex ploration. They started out two ex peditions In 1818, still searching for Northern Passages across the top ol the world. Peary and Ross took two ships westward under orders to make the northwest passage along the up per part of the American continent Buchan and Franklin took two other ships to the northeast to attempt the Polar passage, by way of Spitzenberg. Both expeditions got a short distance past tbe 80th parallel on their way North, but did not succeed in reaching the Pacific. In 1827 this same energetic Capt Parry started out on a voyage toward the Pole using for the first time the plan of the dash across the Ice on sledges. All previous explorers had stuck to their ships. Parry went up to Spitzenberg in a vessel. There he mounted two twenty-foot boats on runners and loaded a number of dog sledges and supplies. With these he set out over the Ice and traveled 290 miles, only to be blown back nearly half the distance gained by the southerly drift of the ice. His farthest north was 82 degrees, 45 minutes, which set a record for the time. Franklin and His Men Lost. MfiYt. In order of time comes the Eng lish expedition of Sir John Franklin, the greatest tragedy of the Arctic, one that aroused the Interest and sym pathy of the civilized world. Franklin sailed in 1845 with two ships, tne isre bus and Terror, containing 134 officers and men. They went up the west coast of Greenland and were last seen in Baffin's Bay, latitude 74 degrees, 48 minutes. After three years of complete silence search was begun. In the ensuing six years fifteen expeditions of various kinds set out from England and Am erica to hunt for Franklin and his men but all in vain. In 1859 skeletons and relics of disaster were found along the coast of ing William's Land, far to the westward. In a pile of rocks was this record of the voyage, the only word from the dead: "April 25, 1848, H. M. ships Terror and Erebus were deserted on April 22 five leagues N. N. W. of this, having been beset since Sept. 12, 1846. The officers and crew consisting of 105 souls under the command of Capt. F. R. M. Crozier landed here in latitude 69 de grees 37 minutes 42 seconds N., longi tude 98 degrees 41 minutes W. Sir John Franklin died on June 11, 1847, and the total loss by deaths in the expedi tion has been to this date nine officers and fifteen men." De Long's Attempt Fatal. The next thrilling tragedy was the loss of the American expedition under Commander -De Long in the steamer Jeannette in 1881. The party went up the Pacific coast through Behring Strait and attempted to push their way through the Ice toward the Pole. The ship was crushed and sank off the north coast o? Siberia. The men put off In threo boats. One commanded by Lieut. Chli- was never heard of. The Becond, una r Engineer G. W. Melville, reached lar. I safely, and with the aid of natives searched for the others. Commanr' De Long and his party of the thin" beat were discovered by a relief expe ':timi In miserable huts on the Siberian shore at the mouth of the Lena river. Only two of this party survived, and they were in the last stages of starvation. In all twenty out of the thirty-three men in the expedi tion were lost. Soon afterward another expedition under Lieut Greely started up the Greenland route. It had a horrible experience fdom cold and starvation. When rescuers reached them in 18S4 in their last amp on a desert island north of Greenland only nineteen men wore left alive out of the twenty-four that started out. Peary Made Many Trials. The most persistent explorer of re cent years ha3 been Commander Robert E. Peary, of the United States navy. His first experience was in 1886, when he did some Greenland exploration. Ever since then he has been working at the polar problem, making half a dozen voyages under auspices of geo graphical and scientific societies. Each time he succeeded in forcing further north, peaching 84 degrees 17 minutes In 1901T and then the record, 87 de grees 6 m'.nutes, in 1906. His dashes over the Ice were made after careful calculations of natural conditions and baman endurance. t ' - i )
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