The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-01-01

LAs9eeEant G0ekwGOd's sDiAxy.
WAsHMeToE, D. O, Bee. 26.-The
NatiOaal Republican. printed to-day
some extracts from the diary
Of Lieut. lockwood, Of the Greuly
Arctic Colony, describing the
manner in which the starving party
spent ChrIssmss q Cape Sabine, In the
Arctic region. Lieut.. Lockwood kept .
diary In short hand, which has been
transcribed By member OF the family,
and he appears 70 have made Q full
record Of everything Of importance
which happened In the daily lite Of the
party. Tbs extracts, which tie Re-
publican viii print relate how e
Christmas drew near, the officers
and men Joined In e talk Of
| time when they should reach the clziliz.
ed world, and heR they made prepare
lions for . feast in the approaching
Christmas, by setting apart small por-
tione Of their daily rations. On Decem-
Der 81 Lieutenant Lockwood writes
"BY great effort wa able TO save one
once OF my bread and about two ounces
1 OF butter for Christmas. ] ahall make
| vigorous efforts 90 abstain from eating
It before then" BE adds he put il IN
charge OF B1ndefbeck as an additional
safeguard. December % he writes
I'VE look forward % to-mor.
row; and Christmas, and i offered
to give any one . roast turkey on reach.
ing home for single dog biscuit now
but found no takers" He says on the
next day: saved nearly ali nay hard
bread for Christmas, though needed
Il" and then to make the Christmas
dinner grandeE, he made q Tremendous
| effort and went without his own rum In
order to have il for Christmas to add "a
the punch on Christmas eye. he ad-
ded TO his scanty savings tor the next
days feast half his bread and his piece
Of lemon.
The entry for Christmas day lie a. fol.
lows: December 25-Bar0meter 1898;
thermometer 1914. Christmas. We have
| all been talking and waiting anx.
| iousiy for the hour, and now il IL hear,
consisted of thin soup Of peas and car
rOts, with little blubbeE ana . spoonful
| of potatoes. This We had at O'Clock.
Cloud berries were served out two cans
TO each ness at p. N. Long lighted
/ up for the event of the day. Dinner
| consisted of fine rich stew of all
seal meat with onions, little blubbeF,
potatoes and bread crumbs, and
sfter this We had, in the course Of an
hour or so, fine, nice stew, with rsiSins
and q little biubber and milk. These
were pretty much the same as onThanks-
giving, but the cooks made agreat deal
on that day and meats seemed better.
The cooks are now preparing sumo fln0
chocolate, and that will be followed by
| punch of one gill of rum to each man.
The party have been in fine spirits to-
day. Three cheers were given after
breakfast for Lieutenant Greedy, Corpo-
raj Ellison, Rice and the
two cooks 1t was agreed
that we should give each OF two
Esquimaux so cents from each member
OF the expedition, to be kept for next
Christmas. KislInRbury was kind
enough to make for each of the party q
cigarette. Many of NJ are now out of
tabacco entirely. On the bay after
Christ he writes Is follows:
Yesterday has passed, but find my
notes OF yesterday very imperfect. The
day was q great success. We all had
enough or nearly enough. had eight
ounces extra, and had saved up one
ounce of butter besides the rum of the
sunday before. 1t was agreed early in
the morning that nothing should be said
to mar the pleasure of the day, and
many kindly thoughts were expressed
for those at home, and OIL how often
we spoke of what was going on at our
several homes. After dinner We had
songs in all languages, including French,
German, Danish and English. The
punch was extremely fine. We had
chocolate about z O'Clock, and by this
time most of us were too tul for
utterance, and the conversation
gradually slsckened of and with
the songs the day ended. To-
day we have all been feeling extremely
well. All day 1t wac nice and warm and
comfortable In the extreme. Some of
US ate too much yesterday, but only SO
much as to feel little uncomfortable at
times, but we all slept we'll. Our talk
this morning was of home and our fam
lilies.
Ihave extended a general invitation
to all the members OF the expedition TO
visit my fathers house. I spoke this
morning of the reunions of my family
and how enjoyable thav are. MY re-
marks about my father brought tears,
the first time have shed tears since
have been in this country"