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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-20

Straits Of Magellan, and through this
pushed into a. new world of ice, visiting
2 hundred islands and several hundrea
miles OF land upon which no other hug
man eye had ever rested. I
Upon this. land We're found great cities
Or weird creatures and a profusion OF
curious other-World life. After passing
through this unknown land our little
party entered upon an equally unknown
sea.
This sea forged it's ice manacles
about us and for an entire year we were
prisoners in an ~impregnable fortress of
ice. we We're The football of Fat at
the mercy of every wind which drove
us 10 ana fro over a mysterious ocean.
For the first time in the history of
man We passed through an antarctic
,Wlnter-a continuous night of ,inky
'biackness which lasted seventy seem
iingly endless days.
=, During this eternity of gloom the
Belgica was the only speck of human
life within the antarctic and sub-an-
tarctlc regions-an area equal to the
combined spread of Europe and Asia.
: Our one years Imprisonment would
nave heightened into many years-and
thoubtless our corpses would today re-
pose in the frozen silence of some ice
pack-ht we not, by almost SUPER
human efforts extricated our ship from
the ice by digging a. great Ina more
than two thousand feet long and sufi-
GENTLY wide to allow the passage of
the ship.
ALMOST UNKNOWN.
But it was not only in the South
Polar regions that we made. interesting
discoveries We had an opportunity to
study that strange race. of giants in
habiting the southern-nlost portions of
the Southern Hemisphere-the Fuegians.
These people, called Onas by their
.neighbors, have hitherto resisted all the
efforts of civilization. They have per-
.sistently withstood all attempts of white
men to enter into relations Of friend
ship. AS a consequence they remain to-
day more unknown than the pigmies of
Africa.
The home of the giants is on the main
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A PERFECT RACE GROWING EXTINCT.

that is his .province;' his wWes-for
polygamy is practised among them
carry 1t into camp. In moving the
ture and also the small children. .,,-
sixteen hundred, but this number is
constantly diminishing. Many natives
nave been killed by white men who have
esented the sheep raids in which these
tribes indulge. Without firearms the
physical power of the giant race AslOf
no avail. The twang of the bow is not
SO deadly as the crack of the Winches-
ter. Doubtless 1t will not be many ear
before the Ona and other tribes in these
southern attitudes become extinctsostdc
After remaining for some days among
these giant tribes we pushed on toward
the south pole. We sounded the waters
between Cape Horn and the Shetland
Islands-an undertaking never at
tempted before. Dur ~soundingse0 ften
went down two miles; and, in theimost
tempestuous seas on the globe, the diff
culties of our ask may be imagined.
1t was performed successfully-ndt phe
least of the triumphs Of the Belgian
expedition. .mtat.1
Passing all the known land south, of
the Horn, we discovered, after enter
ing the ice belt, a vast continent which
has been alluded to by no previous
navigators or g~eographers. Part of this
new country we named Danceland, 'iaf-
ter Lieut.. Emile Dance. our magnet
clan, and one of our newly discovered
islands we christened Brooklyn, which
name l had the privilege of giving.
The new land we found is doubtless
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-20
STRIKES IN

Col. Carroll Davidson Wright of Mas.
~sachusetts, who has been United States
commissioner of labor since 1885, figures
that 60 per cent of strikes succeed and
about 60 per cent of lockouts fail. Lock-
outs seldom occur nowadays. Mills SIM
ply close for repairs" Up to 1881 strikes
and lockouts to the number of ,491 had
occurred in the United States. of which
316 We're successful, $50 failed. n 154
were compromised. Of 4SS the results are
unrecorded. From 1881 to 1890, inclusive,
there were no less than 7,14O strikes, in
volving nearly 2,5cO.0eO persons. Col.
Wright calculates that'the strikes from
1881 to 1886 cost nearly So. 900. 900. The
loss in wages was. owe ISL. 900. 900. and to
employers $50, 000. 600. The number OF
strikers was ]. 1928. 203. and the loss in days
was ASH 615.-Kansas City Journal.
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lists had become interested in his
scheme and had appointed "a commits
sion to determine it's p~ractieability.~
Thoroughly sanguine hat this COM
mission would ,krOnOuce in his favor,
the captain expressed every confidence
that he would be called upon within a
few months to organize an expedition
to start next spring.
In this event he proposes to take with
him a corps of engineers, surveyors,
electricians and scientists. Wherein his
party will differ from previous polar ex-
petitions is that it will include a num-
Der of Italian laborers and-most i'm
portant of ala gan of skilled Ameri-
can fcemen-hardy experts with the ice
plough and axe.
1t is proposed to travel overland to
some point in Alaska where a vessel de-
signed for Arctic waters will sail with
the expedition to a point already
selected by Captain Launnette-a point
as far north as it is safe to navigate.
Thence, during the short summer, the
expedition will be rushed over the Dor
der of the region of perpetual ice, where
the main base of supplies will be estab-
lished.
Then the icemen and aborers will
unpack their tools and set to work at
the tunnel o to the North Pole.
1t will have a ice floor. ice walls and
an ice roof. According to Captain
Launnette's plans, it's interior width
and height will be eleven and eight feet
respectively.
The walls will be six feet thick, built
of bricks two feet long, one foot six
inches wide and one foot thick. In
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-20
FINDS WEALTH A HINDRANCE,

Rev. Arson Phelps Stokes. the young
millionaire who recently entered the min
istry, preached his first sermon in st.
Paul's Protestant Episcopal church, in
New Haven, Conn.,, on Sept. 16. A little
before the service he said to a Yale pro-
fessor: Il almost wish 1 was a poor man.
The money that I have inherited is an in
cumbrance to me-. People will never for
get that 1 am wealthy, and that in spite
of all l can do my advent to the PRIEST
hood has been sensational. Could I have,
become a minister without attracting all
this attention l could have one more
good. 1t is discouraging to me, because
in my audiences l shall not be able to
know whether the people are Worship
ers or are there out of curiosity. And
what can a rich man do? If he helps the
people of Galveston he will be immedi-
ately advertised in all the papers. But I
am going ahead and live down my repu-
tatiOn as a rich man. 1 want to be a hum
BILE preacher of the word of God, and T
hope. somehow to make the people for
get that 1 have been called a millionaire.
~-Argonaut.
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ALASkA'S WEALTH
NOT HALF TOLD.

long and two miles wide. Fourteen
square miles of strawberries! And they
Big Stone a strawberry bed seven miles
are beauties. Nothing finer is grown in
this country outside a hothouse. Uncle
Samoan produce no nearer approach
to the English, strawberry, whose haunt
ing fragrance is equalled by no other
fruit :
Raspberries and blackberries. too,
reach a high pitch of cultivation in
Alaska, which is popularity supposed to
grow nothing more nourishing han
glaciers.
Oats spilled by mules as they feed
grow wild higher than a mans head.
and would yield, it. is estimated, 200
bushels to the acre. Alaskan tomatoes
are described as big as a mans shat.
All maniYer of fruit and vegetables be-
longing to temperate climates thrive
.~amazingly and under proper cultivation
there is no eeason why Alaska should
lot become .Uneles Sans kitchen gar
den.
AS for game, big and little, feathered.
finny and 1urred, it is o. unmatched rich
ness, but bids fair to be e%xtinguisneas nv
commercial greed and recklessness. Deer
exist no longer, and the moose and the
sea otter are lowering on the verge of
humiliation. -
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CURIOUS THINGS
INVENTED BY. Man

The United States is a nation of in
ventors. .
Dear sir or madam, it was never more
SO mar 1t is today. If you have the
sllShtest doubt that the spirit of the de-
visor of the wooden nutmeg and the
password ham still survives at the end
OF the century take a look at the Official
Gazette of the United States Patent
Office. There is no more interesting
reading. -z~
Here, for instance, is the aromatic
toothpick. 1t looks like a fountainpen-
but 1t isn't. Cunningly concealed in he
quill is a fountain meant to conceal q
quantity OF pertaining or medicinal sub
stance, which is released by pressure
upon the point of the pick.
Thus, If one wishes a delicate aroma to
be diffused about his presence when he
picks his teeth on the sidewalk in front
OF a $5-a-day hotel after he has eaten a
70 cent dinner on a side street he has
only to load his engine with the proper
ammunition and prod away.
Conversely, if you have a friend or
relative who needs medical treatment
and refuses to take it, all you have to
DO Is to insert the medicine in the quill
and present him with half a dozen picks;
AN IL dOoOID Tie meaning -1ul0 without
knowing anything about it.
But that's nothing. In these DAVIS Of
everybody smoking and nobody carries
matches. When a mar wants to light a
cigar he asks on an average three per-
sons OF his acquaintance for the loan of
match. In doing SO he walks about $50
feet for each match secured,
A CIGAR LIGHTER.
Suppose that he smokes twenty-four ci-
CARS a day; hat will be 5000 feet, or
about .two-thirds of a mile, walked daily,
at a great cost of his employers time
and his own energy. To remedy this con-
dition of affairs a clever Bostonian, has
devised a cigar whose tip contains a
fractional igniter-that is to say, a cap
OF phosphorus and other stuffs similar
to that used in making matches.
With the self-lighting cigar all you
have to do is to elevate one foot by plac-
ing it on a chair or otherwise, draw the
cigar from an inside pocket, where it has
lain hid from friends, n scratch the
business end briskly against the base of
your trousers. Thereupon the cigar
lights of it's own accord and continues
to burn fiercely to the end.
You might think the PHOSPHORUS
would Interfere with the delicate aroma
of your Partaga or Henry Clay, but the
inventor says it won't. Some people are
too particular anyhow.
Trains frequently run avsLy. They are
not going to do so any more, if an in
ventor from Duluth, the zenith city of
the unsalted seas, has his way about it.
He has devised a rail-griping train an
Choir, with a groove to pass over the
fiange of the rail and bite the rail when
the ancho is under strain.
Use this device and absent-minded
cars left unhitched will no longer wan
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OF game, which make long marches
necessary. The Ona men are certainly
me greatest erOss-country> runners on
h American continent. ,t,,.,.s =
the only weapon which these giants
use effectively is the bow and arrow.
Thu bow is made of the. wood Of the an
arctic beech, scraped into shape by the
edge of a she'll The string is composed
Of the camel species--which resembles a
cross between a goat and an antelope.
The tips of their arrows are composed
of glasss--This glass they do not make
themselves.s. 1t is picked up from
Wrecksge found about the barren shores.
F A Who're Ona family participates in
the sports of the chase. They march
for days over wind-swept- plains,
through, icy streams, into regions SEEM
ingly deserted by animal. life. The
women and children travel in one
group, the men in another. Sick and
helpless persons are left behind to
starYe or support life as best they can.
When a herd of guanaco is found the
men creep on their hands and feet,
prey they rise, throw aside their robes
to initiate When close to their
prey they rise, THROW aside their robes
and spring k upon the
killing some with their bows, others by
means of knife and club. Sometimes
they secure an entire herd. Then be-
gins an orgie of gluttony which knows
~ uIu IHelI lie Is Ilduc up OIL
short feasts and long famines.
THEIR STRANGE LIFE.
Their mentality is Of low order. They
are i~mprovident and . unprogressive.
Their houses consist of punches of
branches with skins thrown over them
to afford a partial protection from
storms. Their children are above to
&C almost naked in the bleak cline even
though there are warm skins with which
to protect them.
In physical Development the women are
fit matches for the men. They bear
with them the brunt of the long chase,
and are like American Indian squaws,
the hewerS of wood and drawers of
water. The Ona man kills the game
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Reindeer have made themselves thor
oughly at home in Alaska-that marvel
GUS country whose richness in animal
life and agricultural possibilities is not
wet half suspected by the majority of
Americans.
The pilgrim fathers of the family
We're imported from Lapland in the early
stages of the Klondike craze toibeswork-
ed and eaten 'iby the starving miners.
They luckily escaped being eaten, and
were later reinforced by 700 reindeer doe
imported by the "governnenta from ISL
IBERIA. - 3, t@"A ID b&E s.fzi2RM ts
From the mixed herd Off ,O~0O1lieadyror
a little more, they have nh hitfp He'd fitb
5000, and und Uncle i'SaHn b fhytbtec-
tion.they promise to play an ihal5o rtant
part in the future Of ALASKA and add
greatly to it's wealth. The twenty-five
Lapianders who came over" With the
fist consignment aer on their way home
with about $700 each, saved out of. their
earnings as reindeer drivers and mail
carriers. fa% "R ~. -
But Alaska needed no importations to
add to it's destinations. Gold? OF course
everybody knows about that, but every
body doesn't know hat gold is one of
the least interesting Things about the
country that Unclre San, was shrewd
enough to buy from Russia.
Take Strawberries. Alaska has near
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-20

land of TERRA del .Fuego. Their island
is nearly rs large as the state of New
York. 1t has great prairies, mountain
forests, unknown Ike n hunting
grounds, which the island jewellers have
kept through ages exclusively for them
selves, resisting up to within recent
years all efforts of the invader.
Gradually, however, the onward
march of civilization has made its con-
quests. White sheep farmers have over
come by trade where they could not sue
coed by force. The mas are at length
yielding to the subtle influence of the
luxuries and comforts of civilization.
The mining n of the "paleface" is
crowding the dusky race back into the
forest-covered lowlands and the ice
capped highlands. of the interior, where
they must either freeze or starve, at
the mercy of the Caucasian invader.
There is perhaps no race in the world
with a more perfect physical develop
ment than the Ona men. Their average
height is about six feet, while a few at
tain six feet six inches. This wonderful
development has arisen through the eX-
igencies of their life and the distribution
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-20

der off by themselves or kick holes in
their stables to ket out.
In the early days of r~ailroading, when
bad boys used to tie strings to the
smokestacks and lead the engines off
into the woods to play with, this nven-
ton would have been invaluable.
FOR THE BICYCLE.
Now, there's bicycling. Everybody
knows that bicycling is capable of i'm
provement. When you ride a wheel the
wine is always against you, the sun is
always hot, springs are infrequent n
glasses of beer are smaller than in the
good old days of our fathers.
Wherefore, a man from Cleveland has
patented an umbrella support. 1t can be
fix to any bicycle. Curving grace
fully from the handle bars up over the
thing, it holds above the seat an UNI
brella, which can be extended at will to
ward off rain or sun.
The umbrella is not devised for the
scorcher. The scorcher's nose pro-
trudes ten inches beyond his front wheel
and the umbrella would be SO far behind
him that it would shade the track where
his hated rival was coming in hot pur-
suit.
However, there are bicyclists who do
not scorch, and the inventor has doubt
less considered their comfort rather
than that of the t~wenty-mile an hour
men.
You've heard of the Elmira Reforma-
tory of New York state, of "Paddler'
Brockway, gentle-souled man, and the
pain it has given him to intiict pain. Mr..
Brockway and his admirers and imita-
tors will be pleased to learn that Edmund
and Ulysses A. De Moulin have invented
what they, with singular blindness to
their own interests, feebly call an Uni
tiating Device"
1t is the intent of Messrs. De Moulin
that their machine shall usefully serve
all the college secret fraternities in the
United States.
A SPANKING MACHINE.
When a candidate has been blind
folded and impressed with the dignity of
the occasion he is placed upon a low
platform. assume an inviting attitude
by STOPPING over and grasping two ham
dies which arise about -four inches from
the platform. Then his tormentors
stand back at a good distance, turn the
button. and the merciless electric cur
rent does the rest.
In the machine as actually invented
there is a flap-tlapper attached to the
spanker. This is intended to make a
tremendous racket, which induces the
initiated to think that he is being hurt
more than he is. Blu in the wider use
of this machine by the Brockways of
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Shrouded in icy mystery, the south
polar regions have remained, since the
earliest times, an enigma to man.
For three hundred years the glacial
lands under h pale ray of the Polar
Star have been gradually made to yield
their ice strongholds to the daring as
saults of the explorer, while the. portion
Of. the globe Illuminated by the Southern
Cross has been left almos unvisited.
Up to the time Of the Belgian expe-
dition no mortal being had sojourned
an entire season in the south Polar
sea i consider, therefore, that in
penetrating through the first antarctic
night the little band of explorers of
which l had the honor to be one has
marked an era in the records of polar
research. Their work is the stepping
stone to new ventures.
In the end of 1897 nineteen men in
trusted their lives to the little Belgica-
an auxiliary bark of $50 tons-and with
her attacked h previously unpene-
trated barriers of ice which hedged in
the region south of Cape Horn.
They discovered a new and beautiful
highway, in size comparable to the
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NEW SCHEME TO =.
REACH THE POLE
Through a tunnel of ice blocks.

Through a tunnel of ice blocks. So.
Rapid transit to the North Pole by
tunnel is the astonishing project OF
Captain Louis Launnette, formerly OF
.plorer of repute.
Not a1tunnel bored through the earth,
but a TUNE built Of ice, in a region
where ice never melts, and is therefore
the best n cheapest, for building ma
terials. !
ice is a first-c1ass building ma.
terial is proved by the Esquimaux when
they construct their domed winter
dwellings, and their white imitators OF
ST. Petersburg, Montreal and Toronto,
Who rear gorgeous palaces of the same
substance. q
Captain Launette's idea is thac by
building a tunnel of closely cemented
lee blocks and lighting it with :electrid-
ity he would establish a route to cthR
pole perfectly protected from the ED.
ments and available for travel at, all
times, with bases of supply at conyene
lent intervals, an of dogs fde
traction and constant communicated
throughout it's entire length. :, B
The irablen of such a tunnal d
s~elf-evident. Its practicability is art
other question: Emanating from art
other mind such a proposition mfgh4
be received with ain indulgent smilG.
But Captain Launette'S reputation conf
mands respectful attention for his uttef
ances. +
NO WILD DREAM. e
He is no dreamer, butts practical ma1
q man Of action. After leaving TIE
French navy he entered the service d
Lord Dunraven, who ,intruste- him
with important nautical and scientific
work.. Z
More recently he journeyed to North
ern Alaska and engaged in exploration
and prospecting over-a wide area within
the polar zone. !
1t was during this experience that he
conceived the idea of reaching the
North Pole by means of an ice tunnel,
and while on a visit to America re-
gently he divulged his plans to a re-
porter of this newspaper. :.
He that the Prince az
Monaco. the French Geographical So
ciety and a group of European capital
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part of a great South Polar continent.
we charted five hundred miles of This
territory. 1t is burieds>even in midsum-
mer, under a tremendous mass of ever
We strove to follow this unknown
mainland southwark, but the pack ice
forced up away. Tate. in February we
entered the main body of the sea,sice,
penetrating thisrfor tai distance Of .nine-
t the ICE 4 az, and for for Il hitffteen months M
As idle Al. a, al painted ship
Upcn'a painted ocean. =
We read II re-read all our books,
and told and re-toid oil our tales. For
seventy days we were fenveloped in
worse thar Egyptian darkness. Our
future was inyolyed, in terrifying I'M
certainty. At any moment our ship
frail compared o "the mountains of ice
surrounding us-Amight be crushed.
At times all was 'monotony. Days
passed NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. The ship
was as silent within as the wastes of
ice without. The long black night and
the isolation preyed OF us mentally and
physically. We became actually green
ish in complexion and our hearts grew
unreliable in action. For monthg We
had nothing to tell us when night .endN
In January, finding that a gap had
been formed in the ice aabou two
thousand feet away from the ship, we
decided to- cut a channel to this. open
water. We blew up portions Of the' ice
with tonite, which explosive, HOWEVER,
proved a failure in that low temAsARa-
ture. Then we sawed out great bldcks
of ice, accomplishing a little each daN.
We worked eight hours a day, all
hands, and by February had pushed our
canal to within a hundred feet Of our
ship. On March IA we were once mdfeIfn
open water-freed from the ice chains
which had bound us for more thaniia
year. 10 iw
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ploughing up and shaping these bricks
the skill of the American icemen will
be called. into play. They will be ce-
mented with a compound of salt, and
in that climate the result will be as
durable as the best building stone.
The tunnel will be built in the form
of an arch,| and each keystDne will be
ice, Hke the rest. -" ~
.btAs ethe builders advance the electri-
Clans Will otadaow.j installing clamps at
frequent intervals. Ct The wire will be
aid under icf along the side of the
At suirabfef points provision will be
made for food "depots, repair shops,
telephone stations; dog kennels and the
the. like. ..aEy. a.
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the future one can easily point out GER
tain improvements, as thus:
!. Quadruple the electric power.
z. Remove the flap-flapper, as the
groans of the victim will make quite
noise enough.
}. Increase the height of the spank
~ing-paddle.
This machine will fill a long-felt want
n felt, however, by those upon whom
1t is tried.