THE PATTON COURIER Seeks More Laurels Washington.—One of the veteran explorers and geologists of the geolog- ical survey, Frank C. Schrader—the man who pushed up through the heart of unknown Alaska a quarter of a century ago and was at Nome when the big gold strike was getting under way—is preparing to go out into the field for further research this year, at €he age of sixty-eight. Montana min- Ing districts will likely claim his at- €ention this summer, The West is fu- miliar ground to him, for his duties have called him to Idaho, Nevada, Utah and California. Mr. Schrader has been in the gov- ernment service since 1891, having been born in Sterling, Ill, October 6, 1860. He is one of the oldest eri- ployees in the Interior department. North of the Arctic circle has been the theater of his operations in the \ NEW BUREAU CHIEF bE a Ed Nils A. Olsen, who has been ap- pointed chief of the bureau of agricul- Cural economics of the Departmeni of Agriculture succeeding Lloyd 8S. Ten- . resigned. SUCH IS LIFE heyday of his explorations. He and his party outfitted at Bergman, Alas- ka, in 1901 and crossed the Arctic di- vide, the Endicott mountains, over which Capt. George H. Wilkins and his pilot, Ben Eielson, flew many times to and from Point Barrow. Trip to Nome. Down the Anaktuvuk river, that flows toward the North pole, and then down the Colville river to the Arctic ocean they went, having packed their canoes over the mountains. They worked their way along the barren coast of the Polar ocean and traveled with Eskimos to Point Barrow. A whaleboat was secured at Point Barrow, and then south and west Mr. Schrader and his party went to Cape Lisburne and then through the fa- mous Northwest passage by collier to Nome, In that memorable trip, which opened up interior Alaska to science and the better use of mankind, Mr. Schrader and his party encountered many types of landscape. On the En- dicott plateau they found valleys 3,000 feet deep, and adjoining this plateau they traversed gently rolling country along the Anaktuvuk plateau. Then came the coastal plain, 100 miles to the Arctic ocean, featuring soft rocks and silt, with beds of coal running through them and creeping willows on the shore of the Arctic ocean. In 1896. on a trip down the Yukon river below the mouth of the Tanana river, in a great bank of silt, Mr. Schrader found the remains of a great mastodon with 11-foot tusks. As he was then traveling in a rowboat the tusk was too weighty to be trans- ported, so he sawed off a piece, and this is now reposing on the mantle- piece of his home. The point where the mastodon was found was not far from the site of the present town of Fairbanks, but there was no town there in those days. Gold Strike at Nome. In the fall of 1899 Mr. Schrader came down the Yukon river and stopped at St. Michaels, and heard that there had been a gold strike at Nome. In that community accommo- dations were at a premium and the six or eight in the Schrader party hired one room in a hotel and slept on the floor, The gold diggings were along the beach and at Anvil Creek and the prospectors were living in tents on the beach. Some of the miners kept their gold in old washtubs, covered with canvas, buried in the ground beneath their tents, Nuggets worth $7 to $8 were given away by the miners to the gov- ernment men, Some of the inhabitants of Nome be- lieved the gold was washed up the sea from its depths, as the beach gets and small pieces of geld, but Mr. Schrader was able to inform them that the churning of the waves uncov- ered the gold on the beach itself. siedosteioodmtedotodsotntodsetutosrotodostetsodedodserornione NEW JOCKEY GENIUS PS itedrtrtetiiirtettiditededetetrio todo aleodeatretafoatostontooteeteatietretoatoatiotiedsatontoeoaeotseleotielecs 'a*% oat tata ote A new riding hero Is pasking in the full warmth of the turf spotlight to- day. George Shreiner, lad of seven- teen years who is under contract to ride for Maxey Hirsch, is the latest lad to come to the fore as a jockey genuis. The photograph shows a closeup of Shreiner’s hands which A Good Reason have a firm grip on the reins. - @ Western Newspaper Union IN THE MUD AGAIN, ARE 1 “TOLD You THE NEXT TIME ID would be found sparkling with nug- | of the train's fall. Where Crack Train Met Disaster The derailed “Southerner,” crack passenger train of the Missouri Pacifie after it had fallen from the trestle near Iola, Kan. injuring 60 of the pas- sengers, some fatally, The ralls on the trestle were torn up by the force LEADS ORCHESTRA IN ANOTHER TOWN Inventor Uses Radio to Direct Players. Berlin.—Conducting an orchestra hundreds of miles away has become possible with a special type of piano for which thé inventor, Dr. Erich Fischer, has taken out patents in all countries. Skeptics were in the majority when the papers announced that Doctor Fischer would proceed to Goettingen with several soloists and from there conduct the orchestra of the High School of Music playing in Berlin. To every one’s surprise, however, the experiment turned out a complete success, the orchestra in Berlin play- ing and the soloists in Goettingen singing with the same precision and accuracy as though all were as- sembled in a common hall with eyes glued to the conductor’s baton. The technique of this scheme, prom- ising to become an incalculable time and money-saving expedient, is a simple one. Doctor Fischer seated though himself at a piano which, By Charles Sughroe soundless for the human ear, accu- rately records and transmits to a highly sensitive microphone inside not only single tones, cords and tempi, but also diminuendoes and crescendos, all of which were prempt- ly wirelessed to the orchestra in Ber- lin, Here each player was equipped with a headphone, the various groups of in- struments, as strings, wood-winds, brass, etc, each being installed in separate rooms. The tones of this scattered orches- tra were collected in a common re- ceiver from where they were flashed by wire back to Goettingen and there released through the medium of sev- eral very elaborate and powerful loud speakers, Expert engineers estimated that the time that elapsed between the conduc- tor’s cues at Goettingen and the re- turn of the full orchestral reproduec- tion from Berlin was less than the in- terval between .a conductor's signals and his orchestra’s response in the same hall Never Fails Recklessness is almost always fol towed by a reckoning.—Boston Tran: script. YOU “THINK SOF ANY VES SIR! THE DOCTOR SAID NOT MUCH TO SEE E. Berry Wall, who was known in his youth as “king of the dudes,” strolled one spring morning on the Monte Carlo terrace with his chow dog and a New York friend. “The way the women are dressing this year is awful,” said the New Yorker. “Such thin, transparent fab- rics! Such short skirts! Look, there's the young Countess Caraway, sitting by the Beriloz bust. Now Wall, hon- est—isn't that gown of her's awful?” “l don’t know whether It's awful or not.” And Mr. Wall chuckled and tugged at his obstinate chow dog's leasb, “I can't see it when she’s sit- fing down.”—Pittshurgh Telegraph. = VERSE Poet—I1 seldom .descend to the mere- ly lyrical—l write blank verse. Editor—Yes, I'd call it that, toe— blankety, blank verse. Sacrifices Though hard is the official grind, Which sets our hearts athrob, Somewhere, somehow, we always find Some one to take the job, But Not to Him The argument had been all on Mrs. Brown's side for the most of the night, and Brown was distinctly fed up. “You seem to think a cold in the head means nothing to a woman,” stormed his wife. “l don’t know of anything more annoying.” Her husband peered over the news- paper he had been endeavoring to read. “No?” he countered, with a rare flash of spirit. “How about the lock- Jaw?” AN, Medieval Versus Modern Student Life NANDA By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Dean of Men, University of Illinois. AANA Porson ROBERT F. SEYBOLT of the University of Illinois has Just made a translation of a series of school dialogues written by one Peter Schade, professor of Greek in the University of Leipzig in 1517. These paragraphs are not intended as a review of the book but simply to show how little the point of view of the modérn student has changed from that held by students four hundred years ago. They employed the same €ricks in Leipzig in the early Six- €eenth century as are employed today —they had much the same round of Amusements, the same critical atti- fude toward their teachers and the courses of study they were required to pursue, and got into scholastic and moral difficulties similar to those the modern Middle West student of today encounters. Translated into present day vernacular the students at Leip- zig in 1500 might very well have been walking up John street at the Uni- versity of Illinois, or in front of the Union building at Ann Arbor dis- cussing the latest show at the Orphe- um or picking to pieces the last lec- ture in Latin 13. “What are you going to do tonight?” one undergraduate asks another. “Oh! go to a show, I suppose.” “Anything new in town?” “Same old stuff we've been used to all year—dancing, a performing bear, you know the kind, You'd better come and go along.” “I'd like to but I'm broke.” “Oh! we can beat our way in. 1 know the door man, and he'll let us by.” . These aren't the exact words, but put into Twentieth century language the meaning is the same. Pleasure and pull were as much in the young fellow’s mind then as now. There was discussion on the food they were getting, which was evi- dently considerably more meager then than now, for the medieval student had little ready money to spend on anything and depended largely on chance or charity for something to eat. There was discussion of the | = Delves Into Past - Washingten.—When an American comes down to the Caribbean and be- gins industriously digging along a coast where pirates once flourished, what is he probally looking for? If you answer “buried treasure” you agree with what the people of Santo Domingo thought when Herbert Kreig- er of the United States National mu- seum landed at their island with a request to dig among the shell heaps left there by prehistoric cave men. Mr. Kreiger had credentials. He is a straightforward person. But—he had a strong chest with his baggage! The Santo Dominicans remembered that a few years ago a pot of Haitian gold was found on the governors estate, and they watched the digging American, The strong chest which Mr. Kreiger carefully loaded with bits of broken crockery of prehistoric In- landlady who was not always to the liking of her lodgers, and there was as much interest in the _hristmas holiday as there is today among those undergraduates who, no matter how long the vacation may be, always make a strenuous effort to have it lenger. “This fs the day when the commit. tee on discipline meets,” one boy says to another as they are walking along the street. “What do they do?” the other in quires, being newly arrived and not familiar with college customs. “They bring you to trial for violat- ing some of the college regulations and fire you if you are guilty.” “How can they know what we do; they surely are not so wise.” “Oh! they have spies who follow ‘1s around, see what we do, and then re- port to the faculty.” The statement probably had as much basis of truth then as it has today, or had when | was in college and heard the same things said. No undergraduate has ever given a pro- fessor credit for intelligence enough to know what was going on in under- graduate life unless some one told him We.don’t change much. (©, 1928, Western Newanapar Union.) dians was examined incredulously When the visitor sailed for the States with no doubloons and with a perfect: ly satisfied expression on his face, they were still puzzled. In his report of the expedition, which Mr, Kreiger has just presented to the Smithsonian institution, he says that the caves of Samana bay yielded some thirty kinds of shells. These represent the remains of seafood din- ners eaten by innumerable cave dwell- ers who occupied the island before modern inhabitants came. Mr, Kreig- er also collected bones of birds and animals cast into the refuse heaps of the cave dwellings, and brought back specimens to show the kind of animal life that abounded in this tropical island before Columbus’ time. The task of piecing together the civilization of the prehistoric Indians was made more difficult by the fact dodo dB BB be BB Bod Bd ded deo % Army Wives to Cook i 3 on Electric Ranges J} 3 Washington.—Maj. Gen. B. & “mn Cheatham, quartermaster # % general of the army, has just og % bought 1,900 electric ranges to *% % replace worn-out gas, wood and i coal ranges in officers’ quar- 3 % ters at army posts throughout 2 % the country, * + Madison Barracks and Fort & Totten, New York, and Fort * Hancock, New Jersey, are 2 among the posts where army % housewives are to have resplen- % dent new electrical cooking equipment. The electric ranges % are of the most modern, up-to date type and are provided with an automatic heat regulator. oF oe oF. Seolerfeses! este sfestostoofonfeoferteodestentengesthee oe ’ Seodedeadededemtortenteitesdetitertedtiots de ft i eofeodesferfeodendonfesfeofesforteodee foods fortes food fo fede 3 oo ‘Early Use of Dynamite Dynamite was manufactured in the United States in 1867. (¢ had been used as early as 1865, having been imported. A factory for its manufac fure was establisked In Stockho'm tr 1861, | that fertilizer concerns havc removed | large quantities of the shell heaps in collecting bat guano and limestone | phosphate from the caves, “The region is of special interest to | anthropologists,” Mr, Kreiger reports, | “because of the presence of many | heretofore unexplored aboriginal vil- | lage sites and cave habitations.” | i FOR TENNIS COURT | | | An exceptionally wil smart tennis outfit, The felt hat is | of navy blue with a white band. The i | | attractive navy and blue and white striped card- | igan of chiffon velvet has large patch pockets; and the: frock sparrow Chirese damask, is of +-hite | ‘had told Mr. K., i lets born Or a Thunderstorm “That y nice,” in referring to trip- recently at hi Mr. is re very persons s home. { K,, in turn, beamed in a friendly man- { ner, and elated at his being father to three new sons. “It was quite a son-shower,” he said. —Indianapolis News, NOT SECOND-HAND MAN Little Girl (reading Bible) —Mother, who was Moses? Mother (thoughtlessly) — Why, Moses | who? Rough on Reggle “Let me collect my thoughts,” said he. Then came a rather lengthy lull, “I fear,” the girl said finally, “You find collections pretty dull.” From Chagrin Binks—Why are you so sure Julie wasn't kissed when they turned out the lights? Jinks—Because she was the only girl who was blushing when they were turned on again! Her Happy Privilege Nitt—I used to be on my girl's mind all the time, but— Witt—But what? “But she changed her :mind’— Judge. In Command The Groom—l understand your daughter has gone out in service, The Butler—You have been misin- formed, my man. She has accepted | the management and control of a pri | vate household. Lucky Devils Aunt Jane—Well, Ethel, 1 you've .landed a man at last, Angler's Daughter—Yes, auntie, but you ought to see the ones that got away.—Boston Transcript. see PEXEL the new sure way to make your jelly turn out like this. Nop no more of this YOU probably know what it means to have jelly that will not set. In the old days no one could be sure of results. But there’s no risk now—Pexel al- ways makes jelly jell as soon as it is cold. Pexel is tasteless, colorless, odorless—a 100% pure-fruit product that provides only necessary elements for jelling. Makes continued boiling un- necessary. 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