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The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-02-18
GENERAL NEWS.

Theodore Roosevelt Jr is improving
rapidly and can now partakc Of solid
food
The work OF rcinterring the bodie, Of
Confederate soldiers in Washington l.
completed.
4 decree has been entered for the sale OF
n small tract of land at llarper's Ferry,
W Va ON which the John BrownfOrt Is
located
The selection Of Booker r. Washington
as commencement day orator for the
University Of Nebraska. next June. has
been announced
The airship VI Santos-Dumont while
he was making an ascension near Monaco
fell into the Mediterranean sea, but the
aerOnaut was rescued.
An army board has recommended 33
medals Of honor and J6 certificates OF
merit to officers and soldiers who fought
in Cuba. the Philippines and China.
Jeffries and FitzsimmOns have been
matched for a worlds heavy weight
championship fight about May II, before
the club offering the biggest money.
Commander Booth Tucker. of the Saliva
ton army. took the oath of Allegiance as
a citizen Of the United States in New
York. He said his ancestors were Viz
ginians.
Representative BurlestOn. OF Texas,
stated to the House Committee on Agli-
culture that DAG, 900 bales OF Texas COZ.
ton. valued at $4,000, 900, were de-
stroyed last year by the Mexican weeyil.
Seven men were killed and fourteen
seriously injured by bOwlder, weighing
fifteen tons. which crashed in the cabOOse
OF a work train on the ChOctaw, Okla
homa and Gulf Railroad, near Little
Rock.
For using an old United States flag az
a bag in his business of collecting rags,
Never Ratzman was fined 500 in the
Municipal Court. of Boston, the charges
being "cOntemptuous use OF the United
States flag.
When you want physic that is mild
and is gentle, easy to take and pleasan I
in effect use Chamberlain Stomach and
I 10, rro hlata Drico D5 cputs Sam nile
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-02-18

\ SURGICAL operation has been
performed on Gen. Funston. No
doubt Aguinaldo's ire was excited
because he was not the operator.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-02-18

Mr.. Nixon, Tammany 5 new leader,
will engage in the oil business. He
soon discovered that the running
gear of Tammany needed grease.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-02-18

If A Chinaman does not liquidate
all of his Indebtedness at the end OF
each year, it is said of him The has
lost his face. If an American
does not pay his debts he loses his
credit.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-02-18
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
All druggists refund the money il il tails
to cure +. w. Groves signature is on
ca h box 25c.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-02-18

AGFoRGErOwN man with hare lip is
teaching a young parrot 10 talk.-Nash-
ington Post
And soon a new language may be
introduced into the college curric-
ulum.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-02-18

SHOULD New York city ever become
an all-tunnel metropolis, would it
not be a city OF Castles in the ARR"
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-02-18

when the roses come again we'll
bask in the warm sunshine, and
thank kind Providence that the ice
has all been housed.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-02-18

The Expectation department OF
the Cubans is at present in quite
buoyant condition.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-02-18

EX- PRESIDENT LEyELANDis shoot
ing ducks in Virginia. Mr.. Cleveland
is evidently partial to the Southern
shotgun policy.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-02-18

This signature is on every box Of the genuine
Laxative BromO-Q uinine Tablets
the remedy that cares q cold I'm one day
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-02-18
CT o A K 6

We carry price will sell them We need the money you ueed
one Tan Coat ST. 80 s. 80
OneT ar Coat 14. 80. 81 30.
Tan G. ength $1,000 now 500
4 few Tan and Black Coats 1913 now So
4 few Tana and lack Coats, - and Sl.f1,n0w "
4 few Tan md Black Goats $1050, now $4I5
1 hissea
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-02-18

ENTER ping-pong. Exit golf; exit
tiddledywinks.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-02-18
stops the Cough and works Of the Cola

Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets cure
a cold in one day No Cure, no Pay
Price 20 sents.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-02-18

Lowest prices amedio r like quality
pieces 94 yda ridiculous price but true
Eoulard yds (sghty soie
Coo; Of these at 29c per yd
the ridiculous price OF l2sc
lot a silk Tanets Silks s7sc these go at 39c
oO peau de Sor % 2 and w some h
soled price These not Tadetena but all silk
sold and ODE these AT
pieces fine silk. formerly =. now 49c
Black a silk Iaea our 1O special no" 'Sc
piece Black Taneta, 79c bargain, 624c
piece BackAr Silk (mournng 81 now he
niece nteet)B TaHeta, 81 -. S9c
pieces Embro ideredS Null, always lOc now 2Jc
, pieces triped Grenadine 4Sc. DE. All for cash
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-02-18

When you want physic that is mild
and is gentle, easy to take and pleasan I
in effect use Chamberlain Stomach and
Liver Tablets. Price, - cents Sample
free. Every box guaranteed. For sale
by NJ. NJ. Lewis.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-02-18
CAPES.

ranging from 9Sc to S2 Hall price buys any o THESE
(hidens Coats at onehah price
ranging from 81 30 to S2 81 takes any one Oh these
Cash only
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-02-18

Theodore Roosevelt Jr is improving
rapidly and can now partakc Of solid
food.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-19
gSEEKlNG THE SOUTH POLE.

The two most important exploring
expeditions which have ever been fit
ted out for the South Polar seas will
start from EnglaI d and Germany this
month-the Englit h in the Discovery
and the German in the Gauss. both OF
them new ships especially constructed
for an Antarctic exploration and
equipped with everything needful for
the most complete and varied scien-
tifc observation, even including a cap
tive balloon and an electrical plant
The two vessels are about the same
EiZe-l70 feet in length and 35 ftct in
breadth and have displacements of
about 1900 tons. They are strongly
built of oak and sheathed with green
heart The bows are steel-plated. and
made with a great sheer. so that they
will tend to ride ~ on the ice ana
break ii with their weight. They are
rigged for sailing, but carry auxiliary
steam engines of about 400 horse
power and the screws and rudders are
SO arranged that they can be hoisted
out of the water i'm case of danger
from ice. The living rooms in both
vessels are amidships, the stoke hole
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-19
SOME BIRD SINGERS.
CHEEKY Notes of song-sparrow, Robin
and Gay BobOIink.

Chcery Notes of Song-Sparrow, Robin
and Gay BoboIink.
The song-sparrow' sweet treble is
the FIRST full bird music to greet the
ear in our early spring walks. Both he
and his songs are so well known that
little need be said of them. Few birds
nave so extensive q repertoire none is
more common, more lovable, more
vivacious. modest yet irrepressibly
happy. Heard after the long winter
silence, his dainty pure aria touches
the heart like the smile of baby lips,
and when he awakens in the beauty of
moonlit night, he will sing himself
to sleep again with joyous lullaby.
The song-sparrow has a cousin called
the grass finch or vesper sparrow. He
is almost as common, and delights in
singing in the twilight morning and
evening. The robins CHEEKY morning
strain, his frank satisfaction with him
self, his almost aggressive neighbor-
illness, make him a bird TO be missed
above most others. Certain individuals
have something of the delicious tonal
quality of their famed gray-brown
cousins; but as singers they are eX-
celled in their own style of music. An
other bird, too, the meadow lark, is a
great favorite with almost everybody.
His two or three common notes, which
he almost but not quite whistles, are
inexpressibly sweet. but l have never
heard the sustained song of from ten
to twenty notes which good author
titles in some sections report. In the
June fields with the meadow lark
(Which is not a true lark at alb is
bird of the same family, which, in its
peculiar mode and tonal color. has no
peer or even second. The bobollnk we
call him. South he is the reed bird
and rice bird, so Protean are his ways
and dress. He is the true trOubadour
among BIRDS in summer the most
rotously gay, the most madly merry
of feathered minstrels. Gaily dressed
in black and white, with a dash of
yellow on the nape of the necks, col
onies of them swarm in the tall grass,
or rock and sway on the tops of tall
weed-stalks, or wheel in horizontal
fights above the meadows fiinging
bursting bubbles of tinkling melody
TO their sombre mates. The bobolink's
is one of the witching, haunting
songs-its tone a mystery of sound 1t
has in it the bubbling of brooks; the
naturalization of metallic plates; the
resonant purity of Xylophone taps. And
II you have ever heard it, you can
imagine the delight that once came TO
me, when awakened in the first flush
of the morning in southern hunting
camp, by a chorus of hundred such
songsters, northward bound on FASH
ing wings.-Outing.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-19

and engine room being placed right
aft, while the whole lower hold is util-
lied as coal bunker Captain Scott
commands the English expedition ana
Or. Won Drygalski the German.
II is expected that the commanders
of the two expeditions will work to-
gether and follow a system suggested
by Sir Clements Markham. president of
the Royal Geographical Society, which
divides the region into four quadrants
two on the Australasian side and two
on the Cape Horn and Cape of Good
Hope side. The first quadrant from 80
degrees east to 1870 degrees, he names
Nictoria the second from 1870 degrees
to 80 degrees west in which the only
known land is Peter Island is called
the Ross Quadrant; the third. from 80
degrees west to the meridian Of Green
wich, is Weddell and the fourth, eX-
tending from the Greenwich meridian
to 80 degrees east, about which the
least is known is called the Enderby
Quadrant. The English expedition
Will confine its operations to the Vic
toria and Ross Quadrants, the Ger
mans taking Weddell and Enderby.
The great unknown region comprised
in these four quadrants covers millions
of square miles, extending over prac-
tiCally thirty degrees of latitude. 1t
is continually modifying the atmos-
phere of the whole southern hemi-
sphere and yet we know almost moth
ing about its meteorology. Ii is one
OF the most interesting volcanic re-
gions on the face of the globe; recent
volcanic rocks are present everywhere
and active volcanoes are quite numer-
Gus, and we are entirely ignorant of
its geology. II is one of the two great
world centers OF magnetic phenomena,
and yet we know scarcely anything
regarding the magnetic conditions
which prevail. not even with any GER
tainty where the southern magnetic
pole is located. Ii is by all odds the
grandest field for ice study now exist
ent, and yet no one has studied the ice
there The mysterious ice barrier ris-
ing out of 250 fathoms of water and
stretching its perpendicular face for
hundreds of miles through the frozen
seas like a gigantic wall-perhaps the
sea face of the greatest glacier in the
world; perhaps the edge OF an enor-
NOUS island of ice anchored over the
pole; perhaps, indeed something still
more remarkable than either of these
is certainly one of the greatest nat
ural curiosities in the world rr~''
The region has "a fauna and fora Of
its own apparently very similar.to that
of the Arctic world. The few fossils
which have been picked Up, Indicate
.tt y
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-19
FOR A NEGRO BUILDING.
Opportunity at st. Louis for an ETec
tive Exhibit.

Opportunity at ST. Louis for AN ETec
tive Exhibit.
The suggestion of negro building al
the St Louis exposition is one of emf.
nent appropriateness. The exposition
itself will be the first of its scope com
pairing with the Chicago worlds fair
1t will commemorate the purchase O.
territory including states which were
the distinctive home of the American
negro And while the matter of geog
raphy is purely incidental. and Will,
the exposition will not belong TO thu
north or south. the East or West, ther,
is something in the situation which
makes it peculiarly the first chance the
negro has had to show what he has
done during the past third of cen
tury. lie has made marvellous advances
in that short space OF time. He should
be judged not by the heights to which
he has climbed, hut by the depths from
which he started. The showing that he
could make at this time would be one
of not merely great chronological inter.
est, but of special value in relation Il
NHt oOlullOH VI llt IdCt pIODlell. / 1T
problem is one which is unique in his
tory, and anything which throws light
upon it is to be encouraged. There is
a special fitness in the suggestion that
all the work in connection with the
building should be done by negroes anc
that the entire management of the ne.
gro exhibit be placed in charge OF
members of that race. A building de.
signed by negro architects, erected by
negro workmen and containing a com.
prehensive and intelligent exposition
of the life of the race in America would
be in many respects one of the most
interesting features of the entire fair
There is plenty of talent and materia
to be used for such a display, and thf
task would be taken up with an enthu
siasm which would give a tremendous
impetus to negro progress. This in it.
self would be one of the most import
ant considerations. 1t would have ar
influence which would be felt many
years after the exposition was mem
ory, possibly the greatest which has
ever been eXerted upon the negro race
in this country City journal
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-19

by three degrees, he found the sea
open and only three icebergs visible.
Many minor expeditions followed
these, and number Of new islands
were discovered and named Amons
these minor expeditions may be men
toned those Of Lieut.. Wilkes Of the
United States navy, and a French ex-
petition in charge of NJ. D'Urville.
The next expedition OF leading i'm
portance was that Of Sir James Clark
Res. 1903. and. indeed. the only one
up TO the two which will start this
month, with anything like q satisfac-
tory equipment, which has ever at
tackled the Antarctic seas. This was
a purely scientific expedition. its chief
purpose being to study the magnetic
elements in the southern hemisph ere,
and to locate the south magnetic pole,
which Gauss had placed at about 146
degrees east longitude and sc degrees
south latitude. CAS- determined by the
Borchgrevink expedition. the south
magnetic pole is 73 degrees 90 minutes
south latitude and lac degrees east
longitude) Sir Joseph Hooker, the
famous botanist then plain Dr. Hook
er, accompanied the expedition. It's
ships were the Erebus and Terror. Vic.
toria Land was discovered and named;
Mounts Erebus and Terror. the former
an active volcano, 12,4OO feet in height
were discovered. The ice barrier from
$50 to 200 feet in height. was followed
for $50 miles. but no opening could be
found. Ross subsequently reached Is
degrees 9 minutes and 30 seconds
south latitude in longitude 161 degrees
&c minutes west Since this expedi-
tion until the voyages of the Be!gica
1883. and the Southern Cross. 1898.
1900. the Southern Arctic was left al.
most exclusively to sealers. Borch'
erevink, of the latter expedition
reached south latitude of rs degree'
80 minutes, exceeding Ross by about
40 minutes.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-19

that there was a time when IL was
crowded with plants and animals The
life of the Antarctic seas Is very vari I'd
and numerous. The tropical oceans
which now separate the two poles
seem TO present an effectual barrier
to any communication. and il is a mat
ter Of much interest to discover what
the Arctic and Antarctic identity of
lie forms is due to. Various specula-
tions have been put forward; one OF
these is that deep, cold currents ira
verse the warmer waters of the ocean
and form hidden roadways, as it were,
by which the two polar faunas are
connected. Another theory is that
there was originally uniform fauna
throughout all the seas Of the globe,
which is now surviving only at the
poles having been superseded in the
warmer regions of the ocean by newly
developed forms
The North POKE. chiefly for geograph-
ical reasons. has been much more sue
uessfully and continuously attacked
than it's southern counterpart. The
cause of this is plainly shown by the
two diagrammatic maps.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-19
SOME "EASY SURE THINGS" "
1t Is safe to Bet Against the Following
Propositions.

1t Is safe to Bet Against the Following
Propositions.
There are many things which at first
thought appear to be easy enough OF
accomplishment that it is pretty safe
to bet a man he cannot do. Most peo-
pie know that the human hands are
not strong enough to break new laid
egg if the hands are claspeu and the
egg laid endwise between the palms.
1t is said that the pressure required
to break an egg in this manner
amounts to tons. Among other safe
bets is a wager that man cannot rise
from a chair without bending forward
or putting his feet under the chair or
outside of it, Many man will back
himself to give another start of 80
yards in a dash of 100, provided the
man having the start hops all the way.
But no runner however swift, can give
that amount of start to an ordinary
man. For the first five yards they go
at practically the same pace. There
fore the runner, to go 50 yards while
the hopper goes As, would have to
run more ludn lMlC6 as ldSlt anu II
would be a weak man who could not
hop 45 yards at a pace equal to 20 sec
onds for 100 yards, and that would
mean that the runner, in order to win,
would have to beat all previous rec
Ords. If man boasts that his pen
knife is particularly sharp, ask him
to cut, with one stroke OF the blade,
one of those yellow ribbons. mostly of
silk, which comes around bundles of
cigars. In 999 cases out Of 1000 the
knife is not sharp enough to do this.
1t will cut through all the ribbon ex-
cept the last strand, and that will pull
out long, and the more he tries to cut
it the longer it will pull out, 1t is safe
TO bet any one except a blind man that
he cannot stand without support of
sny kind for five minutes at a stretch,
if he is thoroughly blindfolded, with
out moving his feet II he does not
move his feet he is pretty sure t0
topple over in about a minute.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-19
Hates visiting Cards.

If you want to insult a visiting
countryman ask him to send up his
card to the person upon whom he de-
sires to call. His antipathy to cards
must have been born of experience
with bunco steerers and gold bricks.
Here is typical denizen of the fields
and woods come to New York to see
n friend living in a big apartment
house fifth floor. To the bellboy:
Mr.. Franklin live yere?" Yes. 3"
Tell i'm l want to see him" Give
me your card, please" Card? Who
said anything bout card? Jes tell Mr.
Franklin l want to see i'm What
name shall | sa:?" Name? What
business you got asking me my name?
| tell you l want to see Mr.. Franklin;
he's expectin me and | don't want
none Of your blame foolishness." The
elevator ascends and descends, the boy
returning with this message: Mr.
FRANKLIN says what is your business:
he is very much engaged just now. He
wants to know who you are" "You
jes tell Mr.. Franklin he can go to -!
He invited me to eat dinner with him,
and now pretends he don't know me
That's New York all over" He goes
away in huff. and it takes Franklin
week to make peace.-New York
Press.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-19

Notwithstanding the many geograph
ical difficulties, that an enormous re-
gion of this sort. full of fresh material
for the explorer and scientist, should
still, at the beginning of the twentieth
century, be practically untouched, es-
pecially in view of the great activity
there has been during recent years in
North Polar explorations, expedition
after expedition going out every year
nine, foreiIstance, being planned for
1901. But, apart from the purely geo
graphical reasons, in the absence OF
@osely . spToqnd!pg populations and
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-19

immense fields of ice, which extended;
unbroken. for miles. Whales, blue,
brown, and white petrels, and a few
sooty albatrosses were the only ami
mails seen. The Russian expedition,
commanded by F. G.. Won Bellinghau-
sen, lSl9-2I, reached SO degrees SO
minutes in longitude 92 degrees 10
minutes, James Weddell. in 1923,
sailed with two vessels on a sealing
expedition. He reached a south lati-
tude OF "a degrees Is minutes in longi-
tude 81 degrees 16 minutes west. AT
this high latitude, exceeding Cooks
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-19

large land masses, the climate a1d
temperature conditions of the Ant
arctic render it the most inhospitable
and dangerous region on the globe;
much more so than the Arctic.
The weird and fantastic quality of
the whole region is well described by
Honryk Arctowski, a member of the
Belgica expedition. He says
The silence which broods at times
over this unknown world is singularly
impressive. but occasionally noun
tain of ice collapses with a laundering
crash. One could hardly believe ones
eyes when these changes in the fairy
like scenes occurred were it not for the
duh rumblng growl of the disrupted
glaciers In fact, this realm of eternal
ice is so different from anything one
has seen that it appears another world
altogether. In sober truth, | do not
believe that in any fable the human
imagination has described what we
bave seen here" In view of the great
interest which attaches to the eXpedi-
ton of 1901, and the very radical
NhohSto " hiIn tApiOl dllOllb may
bring about in Antarctic geography, it
will be of interest perhaps to go over
briefly the history of the region and
our present knowledge regarding it.
When the belief in the roundness of
the earth began to gain ground the old
geographers decided that an antarctic
continent would be necessary to pre-
serve the symmetry of the earth. Ac-
cording to Pomponius Mela, between
the real world" which he knew and
his hypothetical Antarctica there lay
an intensely torrid zone, scorched by
the sun and enveloped in mist, over
which it was impossible for man to
sail And he accounted for the volume
of the Nile by supposing it to rise in
this southern continent, pass under the
waters of the torrid zone, and again
come to the surface in South Africa
AS commerce was gradually extended
in all directions these fantastic notions
were one by one dispelled, and al
though during the middle ages the idea
of an antipodes, or antichthone, as it
was also called, was considered hereti-
cal and rejected by the church, geog
raphy was being gradually perfected
on the basis of Ptolemy's great work.
Through the perseverance of Prince
Henry the Navigator, who sent out
vessel after vessel, the southern limit
of Africa was fixed, and it was clear
ly shown that whatever land lay to
the south had no connection with it.
An antarctic continent appeared on
Schoner's globes in 1915.
Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch eX-
plorers worked away at the islands just
south of the known continents, and
many of them were named as portions
of a great antarctic land. Cook. in his
second voyage, 1772-5, sailed around
the globe between 40 degrees and 60
degrees south latitude discovered the
great ice barrier and finally settled
the much discussed question of land
connection between the continents and
Antarctica. Cook reached a south lat
itude of II degrees 10 minutes. the
highest then attained Here he found