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TUESDAY, SEPT. 26, 1922.
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TRANGE WONDER OF NORTH
EPORTED BY EXPLORER.
1 OWERS AMONG ICE. l
VICK, Labrador.—Arctic
& white with geese that thc’
. - .quarc miles—appears as if
“h snow are reported by
[ \facMillan, Arctic explorer,
_ling back to civilization in
o Looner Bowdoin, after be
in the ice for 274 days.
Rq 1. is an isolated trading
. coast of Labrador. Mac
]_7 cssage was carried from
% urier 150 miles to Battle
E nd relayed by cable from
arv. .nd. off the northwestern
‘cwioundland, where the
l expected about Sept. 13.
reads:
o old boat seems to feel
. motion. No wonder. From
E. 1921, to Aug. 1, this year we
» . in solid in a good harbor
Er { Trinity Islands. I nam
“ the vessel, and the place
k. alled in for the winter an(l‘
Eiior st areas. These locations
A vn as Bowdoin Harbor on
g f the tuture. |
Where Winter Was Spent. ‘
A e a quick run last summer
e Arctic Circle without encoun
bing gle pan of ice. The shores
\ peninsuia were blocked
" ice, forty feet thick, andd
k sct no nearer than thirty
b, We had to retreat southward,
¢ {ort was by no means wast-
Wwe discovered two new islands.
ttempting the passage north
. herween Spicer Islands the Bow
. ran aground, and for a little while
, in bad pickle. But we work
d succeeded in getting the
{ before we were hung up
th w water.
Ao speeded the vessel southward,
. ...in we encountered difficulties.
. were forced by strong tides and
digious ice lelds on to shoal ground.
sempting passage east of Spicer
.nd we reached a point 150 miles
+h of the arctic circle. From this
1t to Fury and Hecla Strait, my
octive, would only have been a
blve hour run under favorable con
.one. But the tides were too strong,
| the ice barrier was impenetrable.
in the Bowdoin went aground.
Sails Sixty Miles on “Land.”
‘\We laid our course southeastward
| mazde some important discoveries
the purpose of tartography. Ac
dine to the maps we carried we
uld have struck land on this course,
ve failed to do so. We sailed over
rea indicated as land on all the
.t and most authoritative maps,
ndeed, fifteen miles into a hypo
tical interior.
More strong tide rips and shallow
ter forced us to retreat again. We
mated that, according to the maps
our possession, we must have sail
in the Bowdoin over sixty miles oi
4+ this juncture we sighted big
d< oi walrus, bevond question the
remnant of the great walrus herds
h md in the north today.
Finally we made a harbor called
Dorchester. It was named 291
r< ago by an explorer named Fox.
¢ we found a large settlement of
The Eskimos asserted that there
. safe winter quarters along
¢ coast, and strongly advised us
4 p plans for the establishment
ter quarters near the magnetic
th nole, which I was reluctant to
Take Eskimo’s Advice.
We selected the harbor I have
ned Bowdoin after the most pains
ne examination of every bay and
bt 2long the coast. On November
: vere settled for the winter.
We were not idle at Bowdoin Har- |
. Under the superintendency oi'
bic-<or Goddard, of Dartmouth col
md Carnegie institute, we l)uilti
nagnetic observation of terrestrial
gretism. We took mctcorological‘
ervations throughout the year. The
est temperature recorded was 60
recs helow zero, Fahrenheit. For
‘ nths we took tidal ol)sorva-(
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\ ver, my men with dog teams
| ¢ more than two thousand
| s, going north to Cape Dorches
i th and east to Lake Harbor
| ird to Amadjaak Lake, a body
i L which had never hitherto
i T\\ xplored by white men.
| und the land very different
! current delineations on the
1 St ps. Nearly all points are in
fect, astronomically.
“ ters of Chorbak inlet reach
iy t 0 I'ox channel. We discovered
uncharted lakes, the breed
place for innumerable ducks, geese,
| : shore birds. Here also lay
I it » undiscovered home of the
! E v goose and the blue goose:
I L SKT gave us vivid descriptions
! of about 625 square miles,
t it vith geese that the land ap
! s it were covered with snow.
1 ) recorded fifty species of
I have a good collection of
g md eggs. Professor Robin
| fine botanical collection of
i ring arctic plants. We are
| & collection of rocks for the
| department at Washing
‘ , luly we began to think of
‘ ice was breaking. On the
o August the Bowdoin was
ud a fine run through Hud-
Fortunately we escaped a
E tween the 14th and 16th of
_ We had good weather
abrador coast, which was
| ice as far south as 57
de.
: F/’\RLOADS OF HU
MAN HAIR IN ONE TRAIN
E E, Wash.—A unique make
press train was rushed to
3 b over one of the northern
i week, There were 20 cars
I manufactured silk, four
man Chinese hair and one
; thwest and Alaska furs.
; icts had arrived on incom
rs and were turned over to
; ipanies for rapid transit to
the Atlantic coast.
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COL. CLARK’S NAME
THE CONVENTION HAS NO AU
THORITY TO MAKE NOMI
NATION, HE DECLARES.
Declaring that the state convention
at Macon on October 4th has no pow
er or authority to nominate anyone
for the office of state pension commis
sioner, Col. John M. Clark, appointed
by Governor Hardwick to fill the un
expired term of the late J. W. Lind
sey, has issued a statement refusing
to allow his name to be presented to
the convention.
While making no direct statement
to that effect Colonel Clark has indi
cated that he will be a candidate for
the office in the general election in
November. His statement follows:
“My position as to the Macon con
vention is that I deny the authority
of that convention to nominate except
as to those offices and reigning body,
but the creature of the law-making
power of the party, meeting under cer
tain prescribed rules; that it cannot
legally nominate except as to those
offices and candidates that were voted
for in the primary; that the executive
‘committee having ruled the office of
commissioner of pensions from the
ticket this vacancy cannot be filled by
a convention acting under the author
ity of the democratic executive com
mittee, but must be filled at the gen
eral election.
“In view of this contention I will
not allow my name to be presented
before the Macon convention, but will
urge my ‘friends to impress upon the
convention the importance of protect
ing the party, as it did in the case of
Judge Gilbert, appointed under exactly
similar circumstances, against any ar
bitrary action that will violate party
law, and endanger party integrity.”
Colonel Clark, a well known Con
federate veteran, entered the Confed
erate army when 17 years of age, with
Cobb’s Legion. He won the rank of
first lieutenant and after recovering
‘from an attack of penumonia joined
the Richmond Hussars, where he serv
‘ed until named aide-de-camp to Pres
ident Jefferson Davis, remaining in this
capacity until the surrender at Appo
mattox.
At Age of Ninety-Six
He Becomes a Citizen
Has No Use for Prohibition But Be
lieves in Temperance.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Looking like
a man many years his junior and with
a complexion that indicated the best
of health Dr. James Rosedale Wade
Ward, a retired physician and lecturer,
who is 96 years of age, was sworn in
as a naturalized citizen of the Unit
ed States in the federal court.
The venerable physician walked
firmly to the front rail of the court
when his name was called, and stood
in military attitude before Judge Man
ton, while the oath was administered.
“It was just procrastination,” ex
plained the nonogenarian when he was
asked later why he had delayed until
5o late in life to become an American
citizen. “‘I have been traveling all my
life and only recently I decided to set
‘tle down.”
. “But I have no use for prohibition
and perhaps as a citizen my views will
carry more weight. I believe in tem
gera'l‘lce and I smoke 60 cigarettes a
ay.
As he uttered this remark, standing
in the corridor of the federal building,
he lighted a cigarette.
Dr. Ward was born in Jerusalem,
in 1826, when his father, Walden
Charles Wade Ward, was British con
sul there. He will be 97 years old next
August. His mother was a first cousin
of Marshal Bernadotte, the field mar
shal in Napoleon’s army, who later be
came king of Sweden.
Dead Girl in Mirror
Months After Funeral
Image Began to Grow and Now Has
Reached Almost to Life Size.
A photographic likeness of a color
ed girl who has been dead nine months
has appeared on a mirror in the dead
girl’'s home, near Campti, La., accord
ing to a statement by C. M. Cunning
ham, a former state senator.
The gril was a member of the Tri
chel family, who lived about four
miles from Campti. The body was
laid in front of the mirror with a large
bouquet in the girl’s hands. The next
day she was buried, and the room has
been occupied by a sister since that
time.
About a month ago the sister was
terrified ‘at the sudden appearance in
the mirror of an image of her sister
as she lay dead. The likeness grew
larger and clearer for several weeks,
and now is almost life size. The girl,
the bouquet and the boards on which
she lay are seen distinctly.
It is the accepted theory that the
likeness is caused by the sunlight, but
efforts to erase it have been futile. The
icture cannot be rubbed or washed
?rom the mirror, although attempts
were made on the back and front of
the glass. g
What the world needs to learn is
that work is a blessing and not a
CONTRACTOR TEARING DOWN
DWELLING WHERE “RAVEN”
WAS WRITTEN.
Columbia university points with
pride to a unique’ possession—"“Poe
Raven Mantel” in Carpenter library,
says the New York World.
It is a matter of record thaws Edgar
Allen Poe and his wife, Virginia,
boarded at the farm house of Patrick
Brennan, on the line of the present
West Eighty-fourth street, between
Amsterdam avenue and the Boulevard,
during the summers of 1843 and 1844.
“It was a lone house high upon a
bluff and commanding a grand view
of the river.” Mrs. Poe was already
suffering from the illness of which she
died in 1847; and Poe, very poor, was
working upon a history of American
literature, which was never finished.
A part of it appeared serially in Go
dey’s Lady’s Book, in 1846, and was
published Tlater (1850) as the Literati.
Prof. James A. Harrison, in his life
of Edgar Allen Poe, says:
“Of the genesis and evolution of the
poem, until it appeared in print, little
or nothing is known. It is one of Poe’s
surprises, and we cannot trace its
growth as we can ‘The Bells, or
‘Lenore,” from the germs to the per
fect lower. * * * Ags the poem appear
ed January 29, 1845, it is evident it
must have been composed some weeks
before, which would place its compo
sition somewhere within the year
1844.” |
In book form “The Raven” and oth
er poems were published by Wiley
& Putnam in 1845. |
As stated in Prof. Woodberry's
“Life of Poe”—and a matter of record
—Poe moved to Fordham in 1846.
This of course disposes of the state
ment sometimes made by a former}
tenant of the Fordham cottage that
“The Raven” was written there. }
Landlady First to Hear Raven.
Patrick Brennan was the father of
the late Deputy Commissioner Thom
as S. Breunan, of the department of
charities and correction. The late Jas.
R. O’Beirne, a brother-in-law of the
commissioner, once said of the origin
of the poem:
“Mrs. Brennan was noted for her
kind heartedness and sympathetic na
ture, and once I heard her say that
Poe read ‘The Raven’' for her one eve
ning before he sent it to the Mirror.
“Above the door opening into the
hallway there stood the ‘pallid bust of
Pallas.’ It was a little plaster cast, and
occupied a shelf nailed to. the door
casing. Immediately behind the bust
and occupying the space between the
top case and the ceiling a number of
little panes of smoky glass took the
place of the partition. * * *
“Mrs. Brennan was never vexed
with Poe except on one occasion,
when he scratched his name on the
mantelpiece in his room. On the day
in question Poc was leaning against
the mantelpiece, apparently in medi
tation. Without thinking, he traced
his name on the black mantel, and
when Mrs. Brennan called his atten
tion to what he was doing he smiled
and asked her pardon.
“In July, 1888, William Hemstreet,
of Brooklyn, visited the house, then
just on the verge of being demolished,
with a party and pried away the man
telpiece, which he had purchased from
the contractor. He carried it for sev
eral blocks to an express office and
had it taken to his home in Brooklyn,
where it stood upon the hearth for
vears and was admired by visitors
from many states.”
In December, 1907, feeling that more
Americans should have the opportuni
tv of seeing the mantelpiece, Mr.
Hemstreet published an offer to do
nate the mantel “to any public insti
tution that will competently preserve
it.” Columbia university was the first
of scores to apply for it, and “after
some correspondence and a personal
examination of the documents affirm
ing the genuiness of the relic and the
conveyance to Mr. Hemstreet, on be
half of President Butler, of the as
surance that it would be appropriately
placed and sedulously cared for, the
decision was made in favor of the uni
versity in January.”
The mantel was duly received and
set up temporarily for inspection. La
ter it was fastened permanently into
the north wall of Carpenter library,
where it is seen daily by the students
in English literature who use the
books there, and by visitors who come
expressly to look at it. On top of it
rests an engraving of the Brennan
home from which it was taken, a
painting of Poe cottage in Fordham,
and an old clock.
Poe carved his name on the mantel
piece, and a little square which has
been filled in and painted over on the
top of the mantel marks the site of
the carving. The whole mantelpiece is
about four feet high and six wide. It
is made of wood, painted black, and
the sheli on top stands out as a ledge
over the hearth. A frame is carved
around the fireplace proper, which has
been filled to make it solid.
PROPOSAL TO RESTORE
LINCOLN'S HOME TOWN
Bill Offered to Reconstruct Salem,
Near Springfield, Il
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Federal
control and restoration of Old Salem,
111.. a few miles from the state capitol
at Springfield, is provided for in a bill
introduced by Representative Guy L
Shaw, of Illinois, a measure which
would restore the town to its archi
tecture as it was in the days when
Abraham Lincoln hgld wrestling
matches in the village-streets.
The Shaw bill. directs that the gov
ernment shall restore the old mill, the
tavern, the village store, the log hous
es, just as they were when Lincoln
was a young surveyor and the village
storekeeper. :
Little is known of what first attract
ed Lincoln to Old Salem, but the story
is told that while he was a young
man Lincoln was boating on the San
gamon river to learn it it was navi
gable. Something on land attracted his
attention. He climbed the bluff and
came upon the village of Old Salem.
So charmed was he with the surround
ings that he decided to locate there.
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A total of 27275000 tire casing
were manufactured in 1921
e i e
A reduction in British insurance
THE DAWSON NEWS
Senate Page Prays for
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‘Mrs. Harding's Recovery
Presents Printed Copy of 121st Psalm
To Doorman at White House.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Richard
L.. Riedel, 15-year-old page at the sen
ate, who knew the president when he
was in the senate, went to the white
house executive offices tonight and de
livered to the doorman a printed copy
of the ]2lst Psalm, encased in a gilt
frame, with the following note:
“My Dear Mr. President: I believe
God 1s going to let Mrs. Harding live.
My mother and I are praying for her
recovery. I am givmg you the 121st
Psalm. My dear father, who was a
Methodist minister, repeated it just
before God called him suddenly; just
before he dropped dead in the harness,
as he wished.
“This Psalm has sustained us in
many trials, and I know it will sus
tain you now.
“The Senate Page, Who l.oves You
and Mrs. Harding.” .
“1 will lift up mine cyes unto the
hills from whence cometh my help,”
the psalm reads. “My help cometh
irom the Lord, which made heaven
and earth.,”
Firearms Production
Shows Big Increase
The production of firearms at pri
vate plants in the United States show
ed a decrease of more than 58 per
cent in the year 1921 as compared
with 1919, according to a report today
by the census bureau. The total value
of the output of the 25 establishments
operating in 1919 was $30,181,220
against a value of $12,510,302 for the
18 plants operating last year.
The girl who wins in a beauty con
test lives in a home where thereafter
mother washes the dishes.
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SHIPS RACED TO BEAT
THE NEW TARIFF BILL
¥ As the result of foreign ships rac
ing to American ports in the past few
days in an effort to beat the signing
of the new tariff bill, Boston ware
houses are now jammed with wool.
The amount now in bond here is es
timated at 65,000,000 to 70,000,000. Ibs.
Druggist Says Ladies are Using
Recipe of Sage Tea and
Sulphur.
Hair that loses its color and lustre,
or when it fades, turns gray, dull ‘and
lifeless, is caused by a lack of sulphur
in the hair. Our grandmother made up
a mixture of Sage Tea and Sulphur to
keep her locks dark and beautiful, and
thousands of women and men who value
that even color, that beautiful dark
shade of hair which is so attractive,
use only this old-time recipe.
Nowadays we get this famous mix
ture improved by the addition of other
ingredients by asking at any drug stere
for a bottle of “Wyeth’s Sage and
Sulphur Compound” which darkens the
hair so naturally, so evenly, that no
body can possibly tell it has been
applied. You just dampen a sponge or
soft brush with it and draw this through
your hair, taking one small strand at a
time. By morning the gray hair dis
appears; but what delights the ladies
with Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Com
pound is that, besides beautifully dark
ening the hair after a few applications,
it also brings back the gloss and lustre
and gives it an appearance of abundance.
Y WOMAN’S
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Since being renovated and artistically arranged
in a complete separate shoppe to itself takes pardonable
pride in presenting to the ladies of Terell and surround
ing counties the most up-to-date line of Ready-to-Wear
ever shown in Dawson.
The Newest Things
in autumn dresses, coats, sweaters, blouses, suits, etc.
In The New
Fall wool dresses you will find Poiret twill, twill cord
serge, tricotine, tricosham—plainly tailored—conservative
styles—with contrasting colored embroidery, regular and
long waisted styles—with panels of flat braid or self
material.
The New
Fall silk dresses featuring the smartly draped skirts self
trimmed—Russian embroidery—metal, bead and silk
girdles—cabachons—touches of bead embroidery—long
waist and regular —circular skirts-—-uneven hems—big
sleeves—slashed—button trimmed—contrasting lining.
Every New Style
Thought of the famous Parisian and American artists, and
at prices to suit every lady. Come see —be fitted and
enjoy the good feeling of being well dressed for any
occaslon.
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Better Banking Service f
etter Banking Service for Farmers
The Federal Reserve Banking System, with com
bined resources of a thousand million dollars, has been
established by Act of Congress to stand back of the
farming and business interests of the country.
We are members of this system which enables ve,
better than ever before, to supply our farmers with |
the credit and currency they need for producing crops i
and to protect them against disorganized markets. :
If you are not linked up with this system as one ofg
our depositors come in and let us tell you how it; ®
helps you. ]
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