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The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-03-03

ance IN Ills enterprise. II regard this deep,
soft snOw," he wrote last winter. mot as
the bette noir but as the perfection of roads,"
But the inland ice may not extend to the
northern coast. General Greedy is of the
opinion that the ice cap does not extend
above the 81st or S2nd parallels. In this
case Peary will not be able to reach the
north coast by the inland route for without
sedging he cannot carry his provisions If
the ice cap ends south of the north terminus
he will try to follow its edge to the east
coast. Whether or not he succeeds it may
be said that the scheme of reaching the
north coast which he originated has COM
mended itself to some of the most compe-
tent authorities.
In their little cabin the party are now
spending about one hundred and twenty
days of darkness or twilight. If no calam-
ity has befallen them it is believed they are
living in comparative comfort. Their sci
entific observations. skeer or snOwshOe
practice, and other duties occupy much Of
their time. They will hail with joy the
rising sun which will usher in their season
of hard work.
About May 1. if all goes we'll, the sledges
will start. Mrs. Peary and the cOlOred
servant Henson will be left at the house.
Four and perhaps five men will man the
sledges and one crew will return in thirty
or forty days. 1t may be that only two
men, the strongest of the lot, will form the
advance party. 1t is hoped that the leader
himself will be one of them. The accident
by which Mr.. Peary broke his leg on the
journey north last summer was most de-
plOrable; but there is no reason to believe
that it long disabled him or will retard or
thwart bis chief purpose.
In letter he wrote from his present
camp to the writer of this article, he said:
| The accident will interfere with my proposed
work of survey this fall but it will not interfere
with the principal objects Of the expedition,
| namely, the determination of the northern ter
minus and the study of the Whale Sound natives.
Whether or not Peary is completely sue
cessful he can hardly fail to achieve inter.
esting results. and if he is able to make a
long sledge journey he will probably add
considerably to our knowledge of Green
lands geography. He will very likely be
able to learn the extent of the great fiords
which penetrate far into the land from the
west coast and of whose inner limits we
have little knowledge. He may give us
better idea than we now possess of the
Humboldt glacier, which is believed to be
the largest in the arctic regions; and if he
reaches the north end of the great island he
will have solved one of the most important
and interesting problems that can now re.
ward the quest of arctic travellers.
Philadelphia will send an expedition to
bring the party home next summer. We
may hope they will all return safely and
with record of good work done.-The
Chautauquan for March.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-03-03
Peary's Artic Expedition.

In small frame house on the south side
of Mccormick Bay, an indentation on the
west coast of Greenland. eight hundred and
ffty.twO statute miles from the north pole,
r. E. Peary. C.E,, U.S.N., his wife, and
five stalwart young men are passing the
winter night. Behind the house basaltic
cliffs rise steeply to a height of two thou
sand two hundred feet. and when members
of the party clambered to the top in July
last they found Peary's own prophecies
realized. The inland ice, presenting a
smooth. gently rolling, marble surface,
without crevasse or gully, extended in.
land as far as the eye could reach. IL long
for the time" wrote Peary to his mother,
''when I shall be stretching out across it on
my way to the northern terminus"
The purpose of this little expedition is
two. fold: First, to use the inland ice as a
highway on which to reach and map the
still unattained north coast of Greenland;
and second, to make scientific study of
the Arctic Highbinders. about one hundred
and fifty in number. who are the most
northern inhabitants of the world.
The second purpose may not be difficult
of achievement. The handful of people are
scattered along over hundred miles of the
coast. north and south of Peary's camp.
Within few miles of his house are two
settlements of EskimOs. When travelling
along the coast is practicable the natives
often visit one another's villages The
Peary party will likely see most of them
and its leader hopes to take many photo
graphs and to make as thorough study of
this isolated people as Lieutenant Holm
made of the east coast natives few years
ago.
Peary's foremost aim however is to add
to the maps surveyed coast line of north
Greenland. If he succeeds, the mystery of
Greenland's northern limits, which Peter
mann thought might extend to or beyond
the pole. will be solved. If he succeeds.
and if Ryder. now on the east coast, makes
his proposed survey of the shore line be-
tween GO and 700 north latitude. the out
lines of the great island practically will be
revealed. Peary is striving for a prize
worth winning. Can he succeed?
He has found the inland ice cap above
his camp favorable, as far as can be seen,
for his sledge journey. With single COM
rade, in 1886 Peary made sledge journey
of two hundred miles on the inland ice in
north latitude $50 80. From his own ex-
perience and the records of Arctic sledge
travel he believes snOwshOe party on the
inland ice can make eighteen to twenty
miles day. From the known trend of the
west and east coasts he infers that the
northern terminus of Greenland is not
north of the S5th parallel. and that the ice
cap is practically co extensive with the
land. If this is so round trip of about
thirteen hundred miles will take him to the
northern terminus and back to his camp.
At the rate of eighteen miles day the
journey would require seventy-twO days.
Starting with two sledges, only one of them
would make the entire journey, the other
establishing depots of supplies at nunataks,
or points Of land above the ice level. Deep,
soft snow seems to have no terrors for
Peary. Snowshoes are of the first import
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-03-03
THE OCEAN TRAMP.

THE OCEAN TRAMP.
Seven men from all the world back to docks
Rolling down the Ratclife road drunk and
raising Can
Give the girls another drink fore sign
We that took the Bolivar out across the Bay.
We put out from Sunderland loaded down with
rails;
We put back to Sunderland cause our cargo
shifted
We put out from Sunderland. met the winter
Seven days and seven nights to the Start we
drifted,
All the Goals adrift a.deck. half the rails be.
Leaking like lobster pot. steering like a
Out we took the Bolivar. out across the
One By one the Lights came up' "inked and let us
Mile by mile waddled on. coal and fo'csle
short
Met blow that laid us down. heard bulkhead
Left the Wolf behind us with twofoot list to
port.
Trailing like wounded duck working out
Changing like smithy shop after every roll:
Just funnel and mast lurching through
the spray.
Bay!
Felt her hog and felt her sag. better when she'd
Wondered every time she raced if she'd stand
the shock;
Heard the seas like drunken men pounding at her
Hoped the Lord 'ud keep His thumb on the
plummerblock.
Banged against the iron decks. bilges choked
Flayed and frozen foot and hand, sick of
heart and soul:
Last prayed she'd buck herself into
HI! we cursed the Bolivar knocking round
the Bay!
oh! her flung to the sky. groaning to be still,
Up and down and back we went, never time for
breath;
Then the money paid at Lloyd's caught her in the
And the stars ran round and round dancin' at
our DEATH
Aching for an hours sleep, doing off be.
Heard the rotten rivets draw when she took
Watched the compass chase it's tail like a
cat at play:
That was on the Bolivar. south across the
Bay.
Once we saw between the squalls. lyn head to
Mad with work and weariness. wishin they was
Some damned liners lights go by like grand
eCheered her from the Bolivar, swamping in the
sea.
Then a grayback cleared out. then the
skipper laughed
'Boys. the wheel has gone to hell, rig the
winches aft
Yoke the kicking tiller head get her under
wayv'
So we steered her. pully haul, out across the
Bay!
Just pack o. rotten plates puttied up with
tar,
In we came, an time enough cross Bilbao
Bar.
Overloaded. undermined, meant to found
we
Euchred God Almghty's storm. bluffed the
eternal sea.
Seven men from all the world, back to towr
again.
Rolling down the Ratcliffe road. drunk anG
raising Cain;
Seven men from out of hell Amt the owners
gay,
Cause we took the Bolivar safe across thu
Bay? -Rudyard Kpling.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-03-03

1t is the man at the ''little end of the
horn" who does the work that blares out
elsewhere to the admiration Of the crowd
Puck.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-09
roILEp AGAIN.
The Compliments of victim to Num-
Der Of Public Nuisanees.

anu (otI pititlchtH oI u ttcltfn To n NUM-
her Of Public NuisaBees.
The gentleman vino endeavorcd to punch
out one OF our eyes with his umbrella I'm
der his arm at right angles with his body
is respectfully inloTnt,! that he was foiled
in his nefarlous purpose. ana that up to
the present moment we hBye two eyes,
each in its normal condition. though no
thanks to him.
we have only TO sly to the young woman
In the big hat that, in spite Of her discour
aging headgear and her persistent restless
ness, we did occasionally obtain a glimpse
of the stage. We trust, however, she will
not take her failurr to heart but rise to
renewed effort in u new AND bigger hat. re
enforced by more strenuous Efforts to solve
the problem Of perpetual motion
The Young man who left the car door
open TO give the zero weather an opportu
nifty to enter may be Interested to know
that his thoughtlulness did not engender
the pneumonia IN our lungs. that, in fact
save for a continual sneezng, an inAamed
throat and touch Of Che pleurisy his at
tentions were without result.
The person who threw that banana skin
on the sidewalk in expectation that we
should be brought low is Informed that
we saw 1t IN time ami escaped II may
somewhat diminish the poignancy of his
disappointment to know that an elderly
woman fell victim tnd received injuries
which are likely To prove fatal
TO the young woman in whose favor w.
relinquished our seat in the horse car, and
who forgot TO return thanks, we owe an
abject apology, We had supposed she was
lady, or we should not have been so pre-.
sumptuous.
We beg To disabuse the mind of that lady
whom we met while endeavoring to enter
a store of the idea that swinging doors are
designed as auxiliaries in committing
mayhem. They are sometimes made to
serve that purpose, but they were not made
especially with that view in the minds of
their promoters.
We sincerely hope that the lady behind
us at the op-ra succeeded in cooling her
self with the Tan which she piled so busily
At all evenss we can congratulate her
upon her splendid success in keeping the
back of our neck cool Ourphysician thinks
that in course of time we may be able TO
turn our head without having to turn our
entire body.
The gentleman whom we meet daily, and
who persists in passing to the left is in
formed that two persons moving in oppo
site directions can each pass to the right
paradoxical as it may seem to him
We owe an apology to the gentleman
who sat behind us In the steam car this
morning and perused our paper over our
shoulder. 1t was Il paper three days old
We trust that our carelessncss in uninten
tionally misleading him led to no unpleas
ant consequences.
The gentleman whose pleasure it is to
tread on our heels is evidently misin
formed. We have no chilblains, and in
fact our heels are tough and calous; there.
fore we feel that we should be guilty of
deception If we allowed him to continue
Boston Transcript
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-09

Many small amenities which the unac-
customed regard as among the fads of
fashionable life, and altogether whimsical,
unnecessary and absurd, will really be
found established upon reason if once
looked into with any scrunty.
When the loud speaking woman is
stamped as vulgar, for example, it is not
only because the association connects her
loud voice with the fish women of Billings
gate, but because the loud voice is unsuited
to dwelling rooms, hurts the ears of the
hearers, allows every one to know all the
speakers business and often that of other
people, and betrays, if not "A coarse nature,
at least an unframed and uncultivated
manner, while, bad as it is within doors, it
acts greatly worse part without, where
it attracts attention and invites insult; but
without and within it is unwomanly, and
IL being generally admitted that the part
of refinement, good breeding and good feel
ing is to excite us little remark as possible
upon the street, the loud tone is then at
once recognized us n vulgarity.
As much contempt is showered upon the
system of visiting cards as upon anything
else in the line of social niceties, but when
it is remembered that the card represents
the individual, as the bank bin represents
the gold coin, it will be seen that the card
is sent out on an embassy, and plays usr-
full part in social diplomacy, Bit of paste
board as it is, it pays compliments, ac
knowledges attentions serves in place of
its owner, invites, declines, apologies and
does the work Of factotum so well that,
like beauty, it has its own excuse for be.
ing. And if we looked into the matter
still more at length, without doubt we
would find that in almost every instance
the thing criticised is valuable usage
Harper's Bazaar.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-09
single orator.


The United States is the first nation in
the worlds history to have three cities Of
over GOO, 900 each.
A huge elm tree is the center. Of II rail
road station in Soho, w. Va We roof is
shaped like an umbrella.
There were two ties in York county,
Neb., as the result of the late election, and
lots were drawn to decide the result.
One hundred thousand dollars will be
put into seeds and $725, 900 in experimental
agricultural stations this year.
The men outnumber the women in Chi
cago, the excess of males over twenty-one
years of age being nearly $1,000
Recent improvements in electric motors
would seem to indicate that the days Of
horse railroads are drawing to close.
A white swan, which measured seven
feet from tip to tip of wings was shot re-
Gently on Long lake, near Bedding, Mich.
Perhaps you wouldn't have so much
trouble with your tongue in company if
you would talk more with God when alone
Recent English reports say that the
steam freight market is very low ard that
heavy losses are being suffered by share
holders.
The first German court of justice has
held "A session in Heligoland. The calendar
was a blank. The clerk registered the
fact that the court met and adjourned
and all was over
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-09
DISTRICT CONFERENCE.
Second Round of Quarterly Meetings.

South ClarksviI'e and Bethlehem,
al Bethlehem, Jan. 8, 10.
Clarksville Station, Jan. II.
Big Rock circuit, lat Indian Mound,
Jan %, a.
Palmyra circuit, at Ebenezer, Jan.
27, %.
Montgomery circuit, at Central
Oh pei, Jan. 30, 81.
State Line circuit, at Reams Chap
el, Feb. g., T.
Ashland CITY circuit, at Sycamore,
Feb, 10, IA
Pieasan, Vi-w and Mallory Chap
ell, at Pleasant View, Feb 20, 81.
Asbury circuit, at Mount Carlel,
Feb y, %.
Cedar Hill circuit, at Porter
Chapel, Mar. 5, 6.
tdletsvilie aud Adj ms Station, at
Adams Sta ion, Mar. II, IL.
Red River cir nit, at Martins
Chapel, Mar 49, 20.
Springfield Station, Mar. 81.
Antiorh circuit, April 2, 3
New Providence and Bethel, April
9. TO-
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-09

Most ugly girls have something pretty
about them, and the few who know that
they cannot claim even this limited cndow
ment become pathetic to men of a generous
mind, exciting pity, and we all know what
pity is akin to under favorable conditions
i recall n maiden of this stamp who Sc
cured handsome and devoted husband by
her very hopelessuesS OF winning his prefer
ence by the tender humility Of her worship
OF himself Living in the same house, the
constant appeal to his chiyaIry became
more powerful at last than all the varied
charms of other women he might have
won.
Ugly girls, however, generally carry their
consolation with them in blessed uncon
seriousness of their want of good looks
Have we not all seen them stand before n
mirror noting the effect of a color or Il new
fashion with an undisguiscd expression
of admiration on their faces2-very much
like the ugly young man who ties his
cravat and smiles ut his image in the glass
with the comforting mental comment
Not handsome, but fascinatingW
The statement that ugly girls are gen
orally left to run to waste as unappro
priated blessings is not supported by evi
dencc. Who has not met wives us ugly AS
any old maid in his list of acquaintanceS2
1t is safe to make the broad generalization
that an ugly girl all other things being
equal, is likely to have fewer offers than a
pretty girl, but quite rs likely to receive
the one offer which Will make her happy
wife, 1t may he doubted whether a plu
rality of lovers is An uunIiXed advantage to
n girl; one good lover, the elect man, ut
traCted to her hy affinity in its highest
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-09
ODDS AND ENDS.

Argentine has locust plague.
France has the largest sailing vessel.
A million dollars covereth a multitude OF
ans,
The queen Of Denmark is seventy-four
years old.
Great Britain used 100000 barrels of our
apples last year
Cure stiff neck with plaster of mus
tard or warm molasses.
Abundance of soda and hot water is one
Of the best cleaning mixtures.
Seven-cghths of the bread baked i'll Lon
don is made Of foreign wheat.
The numby of swine in the United
States on Jan. /, 1891, were 50,OOOOOO.
1t was in such little thing as the break
ing of bread that Christ revealed himself.
Coffee cake should be wrapped while
warm in napkin and there remain until
cut
The reports from the phosphate diggings
in Florida show the industry to be unprofit-
able.
No uarent in these civilized days should
punish child by any form of personal as
Sault.
A republic is an aristocracy of orators,
interrupted mt times by the monarchy OF
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-09

wide, cavity s inches deep, and
3G by % inches in extent A
fire was built upon the altar,
and it was burned hard. Upon the rim
and in the cayitywere four bushels of
valuable relics in stone, copper, silver,
terra Gotta, mica, bone and shell. Con-
splcuous among the objects were three
ettigies carved from stone and one in
bone. They were perfect hkenesses of a
southern parrot, woodpecker, beaver
ana q lizard. The legs, wings, beak,
mouths and eyes were carefully cut.
In l547, in the first volume of the
Smithsonian, Squire and Davis describe
similar effigies. Squire and Davis find
has heen disputed, but now that Mr..
Moorehead has unearthed the same
class of carvings, Squire and Davis
work stands substantiated.
Walrus teeth made into enormous
ornaments, sheets of mica cut into but
terfly wings, and hundreds of bear and
panther tus6s We're in the altar. Most
OF the things were sadly affected by
heat.
The aborigines had put hot charcoal
over the deposit. Copper ornaments to
the number of several hundred and
uOAeH silver SpOOl-shapeu wrist bangles
had been partially melted by the intense
heat. Many Of them adhered to each
other Twenty beautiful stone and terra
Gotta rings, as symmetrical as a modern
bracelet or napkin ring, lay in heavy
bed of charcoal. Fortunately, the heat
had spared them. Copper plates Is by
20 inches, thousands of copper beads
and an innumerable quantity of shell
beads were in the mass.
1t is thought that this mound was the
depository of all the distinguished dead
of the mound builders. No dozen
mounds in the Ohio valley can compare
with 1t in Importance. Upwards of one
hundred skeletons and forty-one boxes
Of relics have been exhumed, and yet
the structure is not all explored.
Professor Putnam, under whom Mr..
Moorehead works, will have the me t
extensive exhibit in Chicago during tie
worlds fair ever held in America. The
earthwork surrounding the mounds is
being surveyed by Clinton Cowen, pre-
paraiory to making paper mache
model.
The party leaves in three or four
weeks for Arizona and New Mexico to
explore the cliff-dwellers' country
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-09
Tho Mntinco Girl at ncr Rcst.

The matinee girl is the joy Of the theat.
rical managers heart. In no city in the
world is she so numerous and exact.
ing as in New York, She brings many
thousands of dollars each year to the
strong boxes Of the theaters, She is a pa,
tient student Of the drama and is quick to
recognize good play She does not go to
the thcater to rave over the leading man,
as is the general opinion. Only foolish
girls do that and they are not so numer-
Gus now as they were. Time was when the
matinee girl was supposed to deluge hand
some actors with daintily scented notes,
but that was largely stage fiction. OF
course some actors do receive letters from
stage struck young women, but the New
York girl is becoming more discreet now
She goes to the matinee to be amused.
She buys the best seats. She wears the
most stunning clothes. She uibbles at
candy and crlticises audibly as the play
proceeds. She can tell when the leading
man is at his best in a love scene and she
is fair enough to women on the stage to
applaud when they are dressed well or do
bit of first rate acting. She l'as seen so
many good plays and SO much good acting
that she cannot be made to sit through
poor play She goes to study as well as to
be amused. Foster Coates in New York
Mail and Express,
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-09


Most women are fond of fancy work, but
not every farmers busy wife can find time
to make dainty home decorations; and, if
they would not have their homes quite
bare of those little touches of beauty so
dear to the feminine heart, it becomes
necessary for farmers wives more than
others to devise ways of producing effect
at small cost of time and labor.
Usually it is well to make articles at once
useful and ornamental and of materials
that will retain their beauty during their
period of usefulness, leaving the frail
perishable finery to such as have unlimited
time and means at their disposal Many
persons have made beautiful bedspreads of
bleached muslin squares outlined with en-
broidery cotton, and very pretty they are,
but they required more time than | could
well devote to that purpose, Besides,
bleached muslin would not be sufficiently
durable ON bed in such constant and
often rough use as the one for which |
wanted cover, it being mothers bed"
and the refuge of the wee ones when tired
or cross.
| therefore made good sized sheet of
good quality, unbleached muslin, faced it
on the right side with a broad band Of
turkey req CallcO, IeaUnef SJlJcneu down
with medium coarse white crochet cotton.
then stamped large, bold design in the
center, and trailing one in each corner,
and with No. 10 red floss proceeded to out
line the pattern in plain, running stitch.
When done it was much prettier than
thought it would be. 1t mad Il sort of bro
caded effect, as though the pattern were
woven in, The work required less than
one-third the time and only about two
thirds as much floss and will wear much
better than if done in the outline stitch
American Agriculturist,