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lamps, and the brews of tea or cocoa
were limited, since fuel had to be car
ried.
The sledges were hauled by the men.
This was found most arduOus.
After getting to the height of 1900 feet
on the glacier, Capt. Scott and his men,
in the teeth of driving blizzard, crossed
the 180th meridian at the point furthest
south yet reached in the history of the
world. Then the compass was pointing
exactly the wrong way.
But the weather now became so severe
that the party was obliged to stop, and
the captain picked out two Of his strong
est men, any they proceeded alone on
their journey. For nine days they kept
up, making latitude n degrees Sc minutes
south and longitude 146 degrees 80 min
utes east, to the summit Of Victoria
Land, which they ascertained to be a
plain of uniform height, 5000 feet above
sea level.
The geologist of the party made some
important discoveries in the way of fossil
plant life and pebbles, which serve to
show that at some past time the climatic
conditions of this great mass of land were
considerably more temperate than at
present. These are probably the only fos-
sils yet found in the Antarctica continent.
They were found on a sandstone ledge
in a carbonized band, apparently carried
there by torrential streams. Undoubted
glacier marks were found at considerable
height, and moraines were found on Cape
Royds< at a height Of 1,500 feet.
When Capt Scott returned to the ship,
after an absence of eighty days, he found
work going on, the crew attempting to
free the ship from ice by saving. She
was seventeen miles from open water
and in ice eight feet thick. The best cut
made was forty feet in four hours; and as
Yfc
frozen again, so that at last the work had
to be abandoned as useless.
Meantime, another expedition had set
out under Lieut.. Royds and Mr.. Biernac
chi. They wished to ascertain the ex-
tent Of the ice sheet and to see If any
land were in sight. The meteorological
conditions prevailing over the ice sheet
were to be ascertained and magnetic OBJ
servations taken at place free from
rock masses
Their efforts were crowned with great
success. They suffered severely from
frostbite and from a shortage Of food.
which eventually compelled them to turn
back
1t was necessary to carry light loads,
but their appetites increased. and in the
end they suffered from hunger to such an
extent that they could think of nothing
else. One of the men describes his long
ing for glass of beer. They dreamed
horrible Nightmares Of food being tanta-
lizingly near, of splendid banquets ready
for the eating.
Observations were taken which win be
found most valuable in determining the
position of the south magnetic pole. and
there viii be increasingly less risk of
sailors getting out of their course owing
to some inaecuracy in their eompasses.
The Ice plain was found to be afioat, no
land was to be seen and the party were
at length forced to return on account Of
the need for procuring food. In all they
Travelled 155 miles, finding perfectly level
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surface, without undulations Of any kind.
OF the animal life in the Antarctic not
much information is given. The penguin.
the petrol and the seal seem to constitute
the fauna of the ice.
DR.. Hodson has brought back a number
of specimens of a ten-legged spider. Eight
is the usual number of legs allotted to
this insect.
When it came to a matter Of requiring
them for food seals were not by any
means abundant. Four kinds were met
with, that known as WeddePs being the
best eating. The Antarctic fur is not of
the marketable kind.
biologists have for some time been puz-
zled to account for the scars. old and
recent, so frequently found on the smaller
seals. The Discovery expedition is able
to throw a light on the matter.
When a large sea leopard, a variety Of
seal, was cut open the remains of an ordi-
nary seal were found in the animals
stomach. AS he possesses an unusually
fierce set of teeth, it is supposed that the
sea leopard is in the habit Of acting the
cannibal toward his smaller brethren.
The skua gulls are the Scavengers Of the
frigid regions. They are not timid and
will come up in numbers as soon as
seal has been killed and StraightWay be-
gin feeding on the carcass
The penguins seem to have provided the
explorers with a certain amount of amuSe-
ment They used to prod the emperor
penguin Ga great fellow, standing three
feet and weighing sixty or seventy
pounds) with the end Of a ski stick, when
he would give it tremendous smacks
which made the hand tingle, at the same
time emitting curious cultural cries.
The adelies, a smaller kind are most
inquisitive customers, always coming to
see what is going on. scrambling along the
ice on their bellies. using the fippers like
canoe paddles. The penguin dives and
steeplechases and jumps straight out OF
the water on to the ice, falls fat and
goes through the funniest maneuvers.
Large numbers Of penguins march along
like regiments in Indian file. wheel and
turn and generally act as though on pa
rade.
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EOR ExIVTPLE- YOU'D ROYAL
! YOUR -ER, -MADA1xE2.

had no fear whatsoever of her accom-
plishnents as a caterer. Many a time I
have attended her little parties and had
to make my way through the aisles of
the supper room knee deep in bodies of
those who had eaten not wisely, but too
well, OF her dainties; but upon my diges-
tion they were powerless to act since I
never once swallowed a single mOrsel of
the concoctions under which her table
groaned
1 had heard her quoted frequently as
saying that her main purpose in giving
her famous spreads was ito kill time"
I always took particular pains to thwart
her in this possibly commendable pur
pose. In spite of this the distinguished
lady never showed the slightest resent
ment, and often after a conspicuous fail
ure to lure me from my caution would
laugh merrily and say, ''Never mind,
dear old Daddy, I'll do you YETI
"A great many people, madam" said !,
"are doing time for less crimes"
"You think I am a wicked woman,
eh?'' she replied.
Yes" said l. II am convinced Of it,"
t'Well, maybe am she retorted, 'but
I'll tell you one never committed, Fa-
ther Time. 1 never induced my husband
to cook a Welsh rabbit made on a chatting
dish after midnight the way those New
York women do
1 have always held this fact as a miti-
eating circumstance in my subsequent re-
hections upon the infamous quality Of
Lucretia Borgla's career.
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copyright. 1904, by w. R. Hearst.)

copyright. 1904, by w. R. Hearst.)
A SERIES of articles giving sound
~ and practical advice to boys on
- how to develop their bodies in
a sensible manner without overtraining
will appeal to every one having the
real good of the growing youngsters
at heart.
1t is said that only Is per cent of the
young men born in our great cities sue
ceed in business. AS a rule the country
lads become the strong, resourceful
men in after life, and much of this is
due to the fact that they have ten
times better chance of physical de-
velOpment and exercise than the city
boy, in spite of our numerous gym
nasia with their complicated and So
called developing apparatus
Nothing is better for a boy than ex-
ercise in the proper way. A sensible
way of living is the foundation of all
physical development Give a boy
plenty of good food and plenty of Sleep
but do not experiment with him on
the basis of mere muscular develop
ment. He is a child of nature and
should follow his bent
The children of today are under too
many restrictions, too much discipline.
The child of the rich is under the eye
of the autocratic nurse; the poor boy is
under the discipline of the imperious
and eXacting employer; as to oppor-
tunities for rational exercise they are
all growing UP under unnatural re-
Straint. The nurse tells the rich child
what he shall eat, and for this reason
many OF the young millionaireS are
starving for want of proper, wholesome
food. There are now so many absurd
theoretical notions concerning the rel
ative value of different food products
that the children who have apparently
the most care are really the ones that
are most neglected. The poor boy who
eats everything he can get is always
more than match for the machine-fed
weakling.
Too much cannot be said against the
growing use of cigarettes among our
city boys. There is never any excuse
for this hurtful habit. Tobacco in any
form is injurioues to the brain and
nerves of the growing youth, besides
being harmful to his digestion. his
throat and his lungs. If he must smoke
when he comes to the years of dis
pretion he may then be able to decide
pm his own account If 1t is worth while
to try.
OF liquor the same thing and more
may be said of its detrimental infiu-
ences. 1t has never been of any essen
tial benefit to healthy person, though
1t may be used to great advantage In
cases Of sickness when prescribed by a
physician.
There is in fact no degree of moral or
physical degeneration that cannot be
reached by persistent indulgence in
the habit. Not only does II dull the in
fsilect, weaken the will. lower self
respect and degrade the moral respon-
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Queen EHza6eth's Caution.

TN ALL the estimates Of that marvellous
L woman's character I have nowhere
seen illusions made to Queen Eliza
beth 8 remarkable caution as a business
woman. This Is all the more surprising
because Of the fact that she possessed the
commercial instinct to a degree that was
positively keen. None of the transactions
made by her stewards in the name Of
royalty but was carefully gone over at
the end Of certain stated, frequently re-
curing periods. and great was the woe
of this or that man who would dare at
tempt to deceive her majesty.
Her investments, too, were made with
scrupulous care, and an eye mainly-nay
almost eXclusiveiy-to future profit, and
I shall not soon forget her reply to Ra-
leigh upon his return from America in
response to a suggestion of his that her
majesty should embark in certain Of his
enterprises. The knight had painted the
new land in glowing colors, had become
enthusiastic over its availability for villa
plots, corner lots and opera house sites;
the magnitude of the tobacco crop and the
possibilities for the capture and distribu-
tion Of the many varieties of game to be
found in the land Of his dreams
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a UCKLAND. New Zealand, May 21.
L n The antarctic exploring ship Dis
covery arrived at Lyttleton on Good
Friday, after an absence of over two
years. During the last year some anX-
iety was felt about her, and after lit
tie delay two relief ships were fitted
out at great expense.
These vessels, the Morning and the
Terra Nova, found the Discovery on
Jan. firmly imbedded in the ice. Ex-
plosives were used to free her and ice
saving was tried, with no result. Then
the relief ships tried butting the ice.
The way of it was thus: The ship
had to make way astern 500 or 400
yards. Then she would come up at full
speed-which with the Terra Nova is
eight knots-and butt at the ice.
The Discovery, it must be remem-
bered, had been no less than seventeen
miles from the open sea, so that there
was a big mass of solid ice to get
through before reaching her.
The results of the butting were va
rious with the Terra Nova. Sometimes
half a ships length would break away,
at other times not three yards.
Some days intervened before the ex-
pertinent was made again, and the
operation was helped by four men at
the wheel rolling the ship as she came
on. Then the poor little Morning tried.
but, as the Discovery's men say, "she
cannot butt a match box"
But at last only a quarter Of a mile
was left, and by sheer determination
the captain got her through. The Dis
covery's men, who were watching from
the hill, declare that her last shot was
a fine sight. She broke the ice like
paper.
OF the work done during the year,
the reports have a good deal to say.
For the first few weeks the crew
caught enough fish to supply them,
but as the winter began to close in
rapidly they occupied themselves with
catching seals and gulls for winter
food
When April showed no chance of
breaking up the ice, preparations were
mad to insure a certain amount Of
comfort during the long months to
come. The ship was dismantled, and
the serious work of exploring began.
The longest tour was that under
taken by Capt. Scott, who led his party
to the southernmost land yet touched.
They hdd the most severe weather to
contend with, almost lost several lives
by men stepping over precipice into
soft snow, and finally were brought to
a standstill-by a terrible blizzard.
The driving snow which fell cut into
the flesh where it touched When the
men ceased walking the contraction Of
the skin caused it to split and gave
severe pain.
They had taken light folding tents of
silk six feet in diameter. in and out Of
which they crawled by means of hole
which, when they were in, was kept
closed. They warmed themselves and
cooked their food by means Of Primus
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Why, your majesty" he cried. waxing
eloquent over the prospect, "the Klondike
is lead sixpence alongside of Virginia
We can form twenty companies that will
pay enormous dividends-land companies.
mineral water companies, tobacco trusts.
market garden companies. Why, the can
vas back ducks alone would pay 10 per
cent per annum on a capitalization OF
$4,000, 600"
1t sounds promising" said the queen.
with steely glitter in her eye And
What would you have me do, Sir Walter?'
Take block Of 10000 shares in each
company" replied the knight
Done" said the queen, ION one con-
dition-that if 1 take block of vour
STOCKS and they don't pay dividends
WIChln a year your head shall pay the
dividend on the stock of my blocks at
circumstances that Raleigh never rafarraC1
to the subject again. ~
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serves. A boy does not vault by rule
nor turn somersau1ts by music but If
LETT to himself he will get as much free
and healthful exercise as an unhaIt-
cred colt in pasture. He is a colt, only
in another sense, and should kick.
Jump, gallop and roll in his own way.
we have recognized the Importance
or physical development, but we should
De careful and not overdo the thing.
Ihere is too much entertaining. Our
pnySlcal instructors are not satisfied
with going ahead gently, but spur their
pupils to make absurd records, as If
each or their subjects were destined
Tor a circus or race track
Health is not benefited by the mere
development Of muscle. The integrity
or the vital organs constitutes real
health. A man. with big biceps may
nave weak heart. He may be able to
lift hundreds of pounds and still have
poor lungs.
As a rule the school hours are too
long. A child cannot keep his atten-
ton riYeted on mental work for more
than three hours continuously; any
thlng over that is usually wasted, and
more would be gained by giving our
boys more opportunities in the open
air
1t has been said, and with some JUS
uhcation, that our city children are
under a disadvantage physically as
compared with the children of the
country, but they do not use even the
opportunities which are open to them.
If every boy would make it a rule to
run around three or four city squares
every morning he would not need
gymnasium.
Our gymnastic teachers are too prone
to forget that the harmonious develop
ment Of the body is the main thing.
Many strong body has been ruined by
overtraining in an effort to do better
than some one else.
The interest in athletics is often 60
ing too far and in the wrong direction.
Boys will conceal their physical de-
fects for the sake of gaining a place in
the boat crews or football teams of our
schools and colleges. and even those
who are physically fit break down be-
cause of overtraining. In old college
days the ambition of the student was
TO graduate at the head Of his class,
but now he vents his best energies in
OVERRIDING result in athletes getting
stale before they are forty They burn
their fire with the blower up.
A person has only so much fuel to
consume, and if he uses it UP before he
IS forty he cannot have it at eighty,
and it is one of the grandest argu-
ments against overtraining that the
man who lives normally, quietly. and
takes his exercise for health and moth
ing more, always lives the longest, a
fact which should be borne in mind by
the Well-meaning people who are doing
their best to bring up boys to the old
ideal of "a sound mind in a sound
body"
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BODIES OF THOSE WHO HAD
EATEN NOT A1SELY BUT TOO VEL

M OTE-In response to number of
somewhat caustic letters from
A~N members of the fair sex intimat-
ing that Father Times memoirs seem to
concern themselves wholly with men, and
with women only as incidents to mems
lives, in vindication of the aged author 1
propose devoting the whole of this weeks
selections to the ladies. And what is
more fitting indeed than that In this most
beautiful month of the year, and at a
time when nature is in her smartest mood
and clad in her loveliest raiment, a day
should be devoted entirely to the daintiest
OF the Lords creations-woman?
Clubs and associations of all kinds have
their ladies' days. Certainly there is every
reason in the world why we should be
running alongside of them. if not even
to the front of them, in the matter of
gallantry. Hence it is that, without
apology, content only with this foreword
of explanation, L print the following ex-
tracts from Father Times apparently in
eXhaustible manuscript; all of which has
to do with certain immorteIles of the his
tor1c past Editor.
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own way. True exercise is not mat
ter of so many motions of particular
muscles, so many exercises with a
weight and so much running on level
floor.
By all means let the boys get out in
the open air and they will find some
more legitimate way Of amusing them
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Anecdote of Du Rnyyu.

HE efforts Of recent dramatic a,,tbors-
Il TO place Mime. Du Barry upon a ped
eStaI cannot in the nature of things
pe successful. There was little ahoUt
TINS woman who for many years held
france Writhing under her thumb to elicit
oiie % high admiration, although, on the
oIher hand, considering her nIebaiaD
origin, she does not deserve anv greater
amount of blame than has been visited
upon her. ''0u
She was of obvious and far from pa-
trlclan extraction and should be regarded
rather as an opportunist than a CON
sclously bad woman. She was not without
VIII OF a certain sort, as an instance of
winch recall an occasion when L hap
pened to be present at a levee at which
she received the British ambassador.
After the compliments of the moment
had~ been passed the Du Barry, drawing
herself UP to her real height, was pleased
graclously to observe that she could not
put congratulate the British upon the su-
perior descriptive quality of their vernac-
ular over that of the French.
For example, your royal-ah-your-
er-madame? asked the ambassador, Wis
IDLY embarrassed by his attempt to give
the lady her proper status in his ad-
dress.
"Well, they call me Nine. Du Barry in
France; but in English 1 am not that.
I have already done Barry, and should
therefore be called Nine. Did Barry; but
there is no French equivalent thereof"
Very clever" laughed the ambassa-
dor
THAT is. unless my present intention
causes change" continued the woman.
when, in view of my occupation, 1 should
be called Nine. Du Louis"
This anecdote was cut from the "Mem-
oirs Of Nine. Du Compass" by order Of
Louis XIV, who very wisely insisted upon
seeing proofs of all the press agent work
that went out from his court
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DR.. GEO. F. SHRADY.

sibhity of the individual, but there
is hardly a chronic or incurable disease
of after life that does not owe its
beginning to this abuse of alcohol.
In the matter of exercise am strong
ly opposed to all machine methods. Let
our boys have plenty of exercise, but
give them freedom to have 1t in their
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-22
Meeting With Carrie Nation.

IN EELING that my education would
II hardly be considered complete until
l had met and spoken to this dis
tinguished reformer, l stopped on my way
through Kansas one afternoon to call
upon Mrs. Carrie Nation. She was busily
engaged in the preparation of one of her
famous lectures on intemperance at the
moment of my arrival, and 1 was com
PEELED to wait quite an hour before the
lady put in an appearance. Weary with
waiting, I ventured to sit down in the
parlor, leaning my scythe against the
piano and placing my hour glass on the
center table. sE EEIf 5
1 had recently filed the latter with
some new sand, red in color, that ran
more freely through the glass, and thus
enabled me to get through my work with
greater expedition. The last grain Of
sand was passing from the upper to the
lower receptacle of the glass as Mrs. Ma
tion finally appeared.
She stood a moment in the door way
and eyed me as 1 rose, expecting q
friendly greeting, but as my hand went
the glass on the table. A loud cry OF
wrath came from her lips in place OF
the words of welcome had expected. My
hostess rushed to the woodshed, and be-
fore 1 was aware of her intention re-
turned like a whirlwind, axe in hand,
and in moment my treasured measure
had been smashed to bits.
"Look not upon the glass when it is
red, young mani" she roared as she did
this.
But I said nothing. I picked up my
scythe and passed sadly out of the house
without a word.
The only things that occurred to me
to say at that bitter moment were not fit
to be uttered in the presence of ladies'.
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The Oldest Woman in the World.
THAVE frequently been asked. writes
il Father Time, why no mention has
ever been made of the oldest woman
in the world. Generations have inter-
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LUcretia Borgfa's Retoyt.
r HAPPENED to know the famous Lu-
| cretia Borgia well, and in view Of the
fact that never ate any food that 1
did not prepare myself, was among the
few persons Of her acquaintances who
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SPENDING THE WINTER OF NIGHT
IN THE ANTARCTIC OCEAN


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The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-05-26
ADVERTISING RATES.
Swindlers Dupe
HOme-S Seekers.

Warning has been sent out by
the Government Reclamation Ser
vice against swindlers who are
working in various Western States
Offering to place h~ome-seekers on
irrigable lands being reclaimed by
the government.
BY means of advertisements,
cleverly worded, In which they
claim to secure inside informa-
ton regarding the plans OF the
engineers, and by a display of al
legged copies of government maps
and surveys, the swindlers have
been successful in duping many
nnsuspecting home seekers. For
a consideration of $50 to 500 these
swindlers guarantee to locate set
tiers upon the best irrigable lands
Under government works.
1t should be clearly understood
that these sharpers have no inside
Information. Their maps are mere
township plats, rough or drafts,
such as can be obtained from the
Land Office. They have no data
other than any intending settler
can obtain upon request from the
department.
The lands under these govern
ment projects are withdrawn from
all entry, excepting homestead, be-
fore any actual work of construc-
ton is ordered, and the Secretary
of Interior is by law required to
outline the size of location of each
farm. Until the plans r complet-
ed for construction, and a contract
has been left for the works, it is
impossible to state with any degree
of accuracy what the cost of water
will be, or what land will be ir.
figated.
Settlers who make filings, based
on information from swindlers,
will not only lose the money they
paid out, but are liable to find later
that the lands are not included in
the government property system,
and thus will have exhausted their
homestead entries upon worthless
land. When the proper time
comes for throwing open to home
stead entry the lands under these
great irrigation projects, the Sec
rotary of the Interior viii give due
notice through the public press.
Until such announcement is made
Il will not be safe for settlers to To-
cate upon these lands.