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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-08-29

purely scientific ana culndinated. in the
dash for the north POLE" In 1897.
with the aid of sledges. Parry reached
50 degrees IS minutes. Nearly 30
years later Markham raised this rec
ord to 83 degrees 20 minutes. In 1883,
as member Of the Greedy expedition.
Lieut.. Lockwood succeeded at SO de-
grces "a minutes in coming within
$50 miles of the pole. The year 1895
marked the attainment of sc degrees
IA minutes by hansen. who had
adopted the drift" method OF attack.
The Abruzzi expedition came In 1900.
when Cagni raised the figures to So
degrees SO minutes.
"Farthest north" is now 200 miles
from the POLE. It was attained by
Commander Robert e. Peary In his
last expedition of 1866. Leaving civ
ilization in the Roosevelt, Peary spent
three weeks In boring through the mar.
row ice-swept channel between Green
land and America, only to have his
ship driven ashore into winter quar-
tiers at Cape Sheridan. In subse-
quent sledge trip over the ice, the ex-
plorer was cut off from his support
ing parties. The final dash, with eight
mon and six teams of dogs, enabled
him to reach 81 degrees 6 minutes.
where the condition Of the Ice and
lack of food compelled immediate re-
turn.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-08-29

- EARY'S new expedition to the
north pole opens up an inter
esting field of thought, writes
Edmund Noble In the Boston
Sunday Herald. 1t emphasizes
some of the inconsistencies Of
human achievement. This Is an age
Of scientific marvels. Man has har.
messed nature to do his bidding, and Is
daily discovering new forces or new
ways Of utilizing them. After pene-
trating to the depths Of the sea, he is
already aspiring to the dominion of
the air. He weighs planets and suns
In his balances, and writes down their
composition In the unerring formulate
Of the chemical laboratory. His tele-
scopes and prisms fetch exact infor.
nation from the very confines Of the
universe" He has not yet completed
the survey Of his own planet. The
night skies have become to him as
an open book, yet there are worlds
at his very elbow which the most re-
cent geographical science Is compelled
to class as unknown"
This delay In mapping the earth
Is less surprising when it Is remem-
bered that geographical science could
begin only at late stage In the evo-
luton Of man. For its very POSSIBLE
ity, systematic exploration of the
planet needed highly civilized peo-
piles, good at conquering, as well as in
trade and travel. The earliest pro-
moters of geographical knowledge
were thus peoples like the Babyloni-
ans, Assyrians. Egyptians. Phoeni-
clans and Greeks. None of them knew
the shape of the planet on which they
lived; many of them believed it to be
a fiat plane, diversified by hills and
valleys; some pictured the territory
Of their known world" as surrounded
at distance by a wide river called
ocean.
Five hundred years B. G. this nu-
cleus Of culture, from which modern
civilization was to come forth, COM
prised patch of territory considera-
bly, smaller than the United States,
reaching from the confines of the Per-
cldu Ou tuc cast " Spain anu
the coast of Africa on the west, the
whole bounded to the north by the
"Hyperboreans." The subsequent ex-
pansion of these limits up to the be-
ginning of the Christian era was main
ly the work Of the Greeks. the Cartha-
ginians and the Latins. The known
world" Of the Roman empire reached
) from Britain to India and China. Ger
many had then come into view. and
Scandinavia was outlined. The north
ern fringe of Africa had widened
somewhat, but the ancients continued
to style northern Asia as "Schythian."
by 1000 A. d. Iceland and Greenland
were talked about; Russia" had TAX
en- the place of "Sarmatia;" Mongolia
and Manchuria found mention on the
maps; and there were recorded land
falls" on the coasts of North America.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-08-29

the $4,000 pocketful when the first
steamships arrive from Nome.
Later vessels arriving from Valdez
will bring the first dust from the new
gold finds In the upper Copper river
country, says the Seattle Times, and
by fall 1t Is estimated between $780,
100000 and 100000 will be added
to this years Seattle gold receipts
from the north.
Eleven years ago July II there
landed from the old steamer Portland
at Seattle dock less than 100 rough
coated, bearded miners from the Klon-
dixie and in the "outfit" there wSs more
than million dollars in the yellow
dust The man with the big poke was
in command of the squad of lucky
ones who came down the Portland's
gangplank and quietly chased away in
carriages to the fashionable downtown
cafes to order great thick beefsteaks
and all the trimmings.
TITS little early yet for the big in
flux or miners from the north, bring
ing the gold from the gulches Just as
they found It," said Jack Burton at
the Diller hotel. Burton arrived on
the steamship Jefferson. which brought
upward of million dollars in gold
from the north.
1--WE had three men aboard that
knew brought more than 100000
each, but the money was in drafts and
currency. The purser's strong box
carried more gold than half a dozen
men could carry, and in the mail ship
ments, under the protection of Uncle
Sam, there was enough to pay the
salary of John d. Rockefeller for q
year or more"
Old-time Alaskans say that the day
of the individual miners poke Is about
gone. Time was, they say. when all
the gold that came out of the Yukon
valley was brought to Seattle in the
leather bags of the miners and sold to
the melting shops. Then a United
States assay Office was established
and the miners found It necessary to
"mush" up the hill to Ninth avenue.
But even these improvements over the
old-time way of handling the golden
product of the creeks and gulches Of
Circle, Birch and Eldorado we're forced
to the background when the miners
began shipping their gold to Seattle
by mail.
When the first steamers reach here
from Nome 1t is expected that the
price of ice cream and watermelons
will be doomed considerably. This ID
the statement of old-time "sour
doughs." who assert, backed by evt
dence, that men who have lived al
winter on bacon and beans in the
north have laundering for Ice cream
and watermelons that nothing else car
satisfy.
Next to the Ice cream and water
melons the miners demand fresh
green vegetables. young onions pre-
ferred. and then later on perhaps they
become learned In the mysteries q
caulifiower au gratin. Rich and juicy
beefsteaks stand at the top of the list
and clam chowder Is not far behind.
BY the time the men from the
glacier-bound gulches become acclir
mated they turn from these enjoy
ments, carefully examine their bank
accounts and then buy ticket on :
railroad to visit "ths old folks ~
home
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-08-29
BRINGING GOLD FROM KLoNDIKE.
Estimated That More Than $50, 0oo, 900
Will Be Sent to Seattle.

Gold from the candle-lit clefts Of
placer mines In the Tananna and
Nazina districts, from Gold Bar creek
In the Klondike and from the thou.
sands OF lays" on winter diggings
In the Nome district, dug out by hand
and cleaned up at tho end Of the
sluice boxes in the good old-fashioned
Sour dough" way, was not brought to
Seattle last spring, but Is coming by
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-08-29
Wall street and soda.

We were Ginning with our friend,
the professional mixer Of new soda
drinks" for Wall street men who take
to the soft stun when times are hard,
when a portly gentleman with side
whiskers and gnerous girth came In.
Il wish you to mix me q Metropoli-
tan Life barnyard." he pulled. 1t was
swallowed In a jiffy, and out he sailed.
what In thunder Is a metropolitan
Life barnyardf' i asked. NJ,
The professor" grinned-
"Plain soda, with egg and a straw.
served in a tall glass;" he said.--New
York Globe.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-08-29

bles, bearing down sensations, etc.,.
On June goth. 1907, four and one-half
years later. she said: II haven't had
kidney trouble since. repeat my
testimony"
Sold by all dealers, 80 cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-08-29

100000 square miles. Up to the
present, and in spite of several recent
expeditions, navigators are much far
Their from the south than from the
north pole. In 1912 Ross reached rs
degrees 10 minutes, one Of the latest
records is that OF Borchgrevink, who
in 1899, gained Is degrees so minutes
by using sledges In dash over the
ice.
The romance of polar exploration
Of its perils and its heroism-centers
in the north. The arctic pole Is much
nearer to civilization thar the antarct-
ic, has a closer connection with the
great continents, and Is or ought to be
somewhat in the line of the worlds
travel. The movement northward be-
gan with the discovery Of Greenland
by Gunbiorn at the beginning Of the
tenth century, and with the planting
of colonies on its shores by Eric the
Red in 9S5. Nearly ten centuries
thereafter were spent by explorers,
first from the Asiatic, then from the
American side, in discovering and de-
fining the contours Of the Arctic
coasts. Both mercantile and scientific
aims were in evidence. On the one
hand was the search for the northwest
passage by Davis, Frobisher. Hudson
and Baffin; on the other the no less
eager pursuit of the northeast passage
by Barentz, Chancellor and others. In
1850-54 Mcclure successfully accom-
plished the northwest passage, and
gained the reward Of $4,000 which
had been offered by the British parlia-
ment in 1853. BY. an equally success
full feat in 1S7s-79, Baron Nordensk-
jold, the Swedish scientist, made the
northeast passage in the Vega by pass
ing from Norway along the Asiatic
coast into the Pacific ocean.
FRANkLIN's FATAL JOURNEY.
One Of the Most Terrible Episodes Of
Arctic Exploration.
nNE Of &he most terrible episodes of
~ Arctic exploration was the loss Of
Sir John Franklin and his crew OF
129 men. He began his voyage in
May. 1S45. A year later his vessels.
the Erebus and Terror, became Ice
bound near King William Land. After
the death of their commander in
June, 1847, the crew made vain eff
fort to fight their way over the ice to
Great Fish river. Many expeditions
were sent out, both by land and sea,
to search for the missing, but they
succeeded only in finding three graves
Of men who. had died at an early stage
and had been buried In Beechey
island. In 1854 Rae met young Es-
kimo who told him that four years
previously 40 white men had been
seen dragging boat to the south on
the west shore Of King William Land,
and that few months later he had
found the bodies of 80 of these men.
In 1s5s-s9 McClintock discovered in
King William land a human skeleton
lying on its face, and his companion,
Hobson, found a record Of the Frank
lin expedition, stating its history be-
tween 1916 and 1s4S. Further
searches were continued up to 1879,
in which year Lieut.. r. schwatka of
the United states army. discovered
several graves ana skeletons.
The northward movement. after ~.
hausting mercantile. exploratory and
humanitarian 'motiveb. finally became
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-08-29
EXPEDITIONS TO POLES.


Last Portions Of Planets Surface TO
Be- Reached.
THE last portions of the planets sur
! face to be reached and explored
are the poles, both of them more or
less ice-bound. The south pole, espe-
cially remote from the great centers
of civilization, has never attracted
more than scientific interest. The first
work done in the geography Of the ant
arctics was done by the discovery Of
the South Shetland islands In 1915 by
Capt. Smith. Various lands" have
since been revealed-among them En-.
derby Land and Graham Land by Bis
coe in 1881, WITHSTAND in 1910, by
Wilkes, and Victoria Land by Sir
James Ross, two years later-but 1t
is not yet definitely known whether
these are mere islands or parts of a
continent. Extensive land areas
around the south pole are meanwhile
suggested by the slope OF the ocean
floor and by the character of the ant
arctic icebergs. The coasts are fronted
with glaciers, which project for long
distances into the sea, showing that II
an antarctic continent exists 1t must
be covered everywhere by immense
sheets of ice. Ross passed an ice
front 200 feet high and $50 miles long;
he saw great mountain ranges on Vic
toria Land, including two volcanic
peaks whose height he estimated at
from 1000 to $4,000 feet. One of these
was in eruption, pouring forth its lava
upon the surrounding snow. The sup
posed antarctic continent, II one ex-
lists, has been estimated at nearly
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-08-29

ney troubles. Is that
relief lasting? Let
Mrs. James M. Long.
OF 113 N. Augusta
st., Staunton, Va,
tell you. On January
31st, 1903. Mrs. Long
wrote: "Doan's Kid
ney Pills have cured
me" (of pain In the
back urinary trou.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-08-29
Her Idea and His.

Miss Kunning-Every woman should
work hard for husband
Mr.. Marryat-Thats what I say. but
my wife's so lazy
Miss Kunning-You misunderstood
me. I mean she should work hard TO
get husband. but after she gets him
she shouldn't work at all.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-08-29
Il Sounds SO.

do people have to sue to get into
society IN London?"
For gracious sake, no! What put
that into. your head?"
Il heard that there they have orsl
to carry their case to court"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-08-29

plorer. This immense continent Arst
fed the demand for slaves. then salts
fed the greed for TERRITORY. Unlike
China, 1t was not coveted too late to
be partitioned. and to-day, outside Mo-
rocco and Abyssinin there is not a
square mile Of its area which Is not
claimed and owned by one or other
Of the European powers. sl 4.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-08-29

Kitty-Isn't she the most contrary
thing?
Betty--Why 30?
Ktty-She's been coaxing and coaS
ing me to go to her picnic. and I won't
do II.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-08-29

Smokers have to call for Lewis Single
Binder cigar to get it. Your dealer o.
Lewis Factory, Peoria. Ill.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-08-29

Better a tramp in the woods than .
hobo In the woodshed.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-08-29
DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA.
Great Continent Has Only Recent!
Been Opened Up.
AREA STILL UNEMPLOYED. !.
Vast Extent Of Unknown Territory II

A ERICA is another great continent
"A with which the world made late
acquaintance. Egypt. the shepherd
kings" the Nile. the pyramids, make
up it's classic period. Modern Africa
began for geography when. about $50
A. D.. Hanno, the Carthaginian, sailed
down its west coast as far al Sierra
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-08-29

utterly untraveled. There are still
patches Of North America which need
description, and vast areas OF South
America on which the zeal of the ex-
plorer is yet to cast light.
AREA STILL UNEMPLOYED.
Vast Extent of Unknown Territory In
Northern Asia.
THE great territory of northern Asia,
i out Of which Chinghis Khan
emerged with his Tartar-Mongols in
the thirteenth century to be the terror
Of Europe, has resisted the 'geograph-
ical investigator longest of all. From
Marco Polo to Prjevalsky and Sven
Hedin, a succession of explorers has
been at work In this still mysterious
section of the earth's surface, rem
dered all the more inaccessible by
strange languages, stranger customs,
and rooted distrust of the foreigner"
1t was the Russians who were first
showed the way from Europe to the
Pacific, for after Yermak had reached
Sibir in 1879, the successive stages of
their advance could not but end in the
regions of the Amur, the Sea Of Ok
hotsk Kamschatka and Behring
straits. Central and southern Asia
have been actively explored for two
centuries past, yet there are still un-
known areas Of considerable extent in
Burma, Thibet and China.
Australia, now the home of q civ
ilized people living below the equator,
is Of peculiar interest to Americans.
Prior to the sixteenth century this i'm
mense continent, with its population
of over 100000. was totally unknown
to the world. The Spanish, following
in the wake Of Magellan. were the
first to sight It; the Dutch explored its
coast lines, and after the voyage of
Capt. Cook in the latter end Of the
eighteenth century, the English took
up the work of colonizing and explor-
Ing what was originally called New
Holland" Even in 1900 1t was an un-
known waste, peopled by savages in
teresting to the anthropologist and
supporting fora and fauna of consider
able value for the purposes of descrip-
tive natural history. But by and by
settlers appeared, and few populous
cities and towns sprang up. Thanks
to the efforts of men like Wentworth,
Evans, Sturt Burke, Willis, Warbur-
ton, Forest and Giles. large part of
the interior has been explored.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-08-29
THE TIME TEST.
That 10 What Proves True Merit.

Doan's Kidney Pills bring the quick.
est Of relief from backache and kid
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-08-29
CONTINENTS ARE BEING MAPPED
Marvellous Results Achieved BY Sys-
tematic Exploration
Tremendous Tracts Haze Been Opened Up in the Last
One Hundred Years-Northern Asia Still Field
for the Ventureson1e Now Undertaking One
of the Greatest Feats.

then blank on the maps, and Alaska
utterly untraveled. There are still
patches of North America which need
description, and vast areas of South
America on which the zeal of the ex-
plorer is yet to cast light.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-05-28
Two Coal Boats Will Arrive Some
Time Next Week.
And There will be a Rush of
Business on Docks From
That Time on.

Agent John w, Gibson of the
Northwestern Fuel company has
received bills of laden of two
coal boats for this port which are
expected to arrive here the early
part Of next week. One of the
boats is a new one and this will
be her first trip to the head of
the lakes. Mr.. Gibson is author
ity for the statement that bust
ness on the local dock will be as
brisk this season as it was last
and that as much, if not more,
coal will be handled.
There has been a temporary
slackness of business on the dock
during the past week and the
company has taken advantage
of it to do a lot of necessary re-
pairing on the main line shaft.
While the repairing was being
done some of the men have only
been working half time. AS
soon as this is done the docks
will be in shape to run steadily
all summer
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-05-28
A COSTLY NAP.
SIumber That Led to the Death OF
King Charles |.

Slumber That Led to the Deatn OF
King Charles !.
In the middle of HOlbOrn once stood
an inn, the George and Blue Boar, and
there took place an incident which en-
tirely changed the whole tale Of Eng
lands history.
AS twilight. was. falling in. October,
1913. very tired post boy mounted
on sweating horse pulled up outside
the old inn. The lad knew nothing OF
the importance of the letters which lay
in his post bag His orders were TO
convey them to point on the Great
North road. where he would be met by
other messengers.
But Cromwell's spies had followed
him from the south coast, for Eng
lands liberty depended upon his dls-
patches miscarrying. = The.:.boy had
some supper and afterward fell asleep.
his head pillowed on his post bag.
While he slept Cromwell's men took
the bag and found in it letter from
King Charles 1. to the Scottish gener-
ais arranging for his rescue, an imme-
date advance on London and the ar
rest and execution of Cromwell and his
friends. That same evening Cromwell
had the fatal letter and determined on
Charles death.-Iondon Tit-Bits.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-05-28
Examination

The State Civil Service Commits
Sion will hold competitive examina-
ton Saturday, June 18th, 1903. for
the position OF book-keeper, A
vacancy now exists in the State
Trtasurer's office which is to be
filled as a result of this examination.
Salary 81, 10000 per year. People
desiring to become applicants for
this position are requested to write
to the State Civil Service Commits
sion at once for applications.
The duties of the position consist
in writing all drafts, keeping a re-
cord of all drafts and wars ts and
giving daily balances of drafts and
warraE Us issued.
The necessary qualifications are
good penmanship, rapidity and ac-
cnracy in writing and recording
warrants add drafts and :rapidity
and accuracy in adding columns of
figures. Ages preferred, % to 40
years.
Persons receiving this notice are
requested to give the matter pub
llc,ty. f. E. Doty,
Sec'y and Chief Examinsr, Madison,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-05-28

J. Fl. Ruhmann, of Cornucopia,
was in the city the first of the week.
Both mills at Cornucopia will start
their season S run next Monday.
Theodore Ernst OF Bayfield, tran
sacted business in the city Tuesday.
P. J. Peterson of Bayf was in
the city the first of the week.
Newell Upham of Dellwood, was
in the city the first of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fleith have moved
to Cornucopia where they will live
during the summer.
Will Pallage arrived here yester-
day afternoon. Will has been serv-
ing in the United States navy but
has been sick in the hospital for the
past month. He returned home to
recuperdte.
The M. E. Ladies Aid society met
at the church parlors yesterday af-
ternoon.
Mrs. F. A. Bell left Saturday for
Grand Marias, Mimi, to visit with
friends. She also expects to take a
timber claim before returning.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-05-28
SOME ). GOOD POINTS
About Making Split Log Road
Drags
It is a Cool Thing to Have
for Use on Dirt
Roads.

Don't make the drag too heavy.
1t should be light enough for
one man to lift and for two
horses to pull with ease. 1t
should be made with a 8 to IL
inch log, z or 8 feet long, split in
half and securely braced SO one
faces is 30 to IS inches behind
the other. Cedar, elm, walnut
and maple logs make good drags
In making a plank drag use 2 or
3 planks braced along the back
with piece of 2 X 4.
The road should be we'll
crowned before dragging, If
badly rutted it is we'll to drag
once or twice when the road is
slushy. Afterward it should be
dragged when the road is moist
but not sticky. Don't drag
when the road is nearly dried
out. Drag the dirt toward the
center little at the time. The
drag is not meant to displace the
road machine. Many make the
mistake by trying to make the
road in one trial. 1t is essent-
ial for dragging success that
only light coating be smeared
on the surface each time.
If the drag is properly and
conscientiously used it will keep
the dirt roads in smooth and
hard condition at less expense
than any other tool yet discover
ed. Don't despise the drag be-
cause it is simple and cheap.
The universal success which has
met it's use is we'll worth in
vestigating, Send to the High
way Division, Madison, for a
copy of the road pamphlet No.
2 and learn more about it.