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lin expedition, stating it's history be-
tween 1845 and 1848. Further
searches were continued up to 1879,
in which year Lieut.. F. Schwatka of
the United States army, discovered
several graves and skeletons.
The northward movement, after eX.
hausting mercantile, exploratory and
humanitarian motives, finally became
purely scientific and eliminated in the
dash for the north pole" In 1927,
with the aid of sledges, Parry reached
80 degrees As minutes. Nearly so
years later Markham raised this rec
ord to SO degrees 20 minutes. In 1888.
as member of the Greedy expedition,
Lieut.. Lockwood succeeded at SO de-
grees "a minutes in coming within
$50 miles of the pole. The year 1895
marked the attainment of sc degrees
ii minutes by Nansen, who had
adopted the drift" method of attack.
The Abruzzi expedition came in 1900,
when Cagni raised the figures to SO
degrees 33 minutes.
"Farthest north is now 200 miles
from the pole. 1t 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 a subse-
quent sledge trip over the ice, the ex.
plorer was cut off from his support.
ing parties. The final dash, with eight
men and six teams of dogs, enabled
him to reach 81 degrees 6 minutes.
where the condition of the ice ard
lack of food compelled immediate re-
turn
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~ 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-
beTed that geographical science could
begin only at late stage in the evo-
luton of man. For it's very possibil-
ity, systematic exploration of the
planet needed highly civilized peo-
pies, good at conquering, as well as in
trade and travel The earliest pro-
motors 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 a patch of territory considera-
bly, smaller than the United States,
reaching from the confines of the Per-
sian empire on the east to Spain and
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-
Sini&ns and the Latins The known
world" of the Roman empire reached
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SELF DELUSION
Many People Deceived by Coffee.

We like to defend our indulgencies
and habits even though we may be
convinced of their actual harmful
ness.
A man can convince himself that
whisky is good for him on a cold morn
ing, or beer on a hot summer day
when he wants the whisky or beer.
It's the same with coffee. Thousands
of people suffer headaches and nerv-
BUSINESS year after year but try to
persuade themselves the cause is not
coffee-because they like coffee.
while yet a child I commenced us
ing coffee and continued it," writes a
Wis. man, until was regular COT
fee fend. I drank it every morning
and in consequence had binding
headache nearly every afternoon.
my folks thought it was coffee that
allied me, but / liked it and would not
admit it was the cause of my trouble,
SO I stuck to coffee and the headaches
stuck to me.
FINALLY, the folks stopped buying
coffee and brought home .ome Postum.
They made it right directions on
pkg and told me to see what differ
ence it would make with my head, and
during the first week on Postum my
old affection did not bother me once.
From that day to this we have used
nothing but Postum in place of COT
fee-headaches are thing of the past
and the whole family is in fine health"
Postum looks good, smells good,
tastes good, is good, and does good TO
the whole body" There's Reason"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Well
ville," in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest.
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CAUGHT on the Rebound.

John, DEAR" said Mrs. Skimpem, al
she poured the coffee at the breakfast
table, eff l remember rightly, you
have often said you disliked to see
woman constantly getting herself into
print
That's right" rejoined Skimpem.
"You consider it indicate and un
womanly, don't your
II certainly do
"And you don't think sensible man
would allow his wife to do anything
like that?"
Most assuredly not"
well, John, I'm glad you have such
radical views on the subject, because
they justify me in asking you for 8
new silk dress"
"W-what?"
"You heard what l said, John. Fol
the last five years I've had nothing
but bargain counter calico, and Tn
tired of getting into print"
And what could poor John do?
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DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA.
Great Continent Has Only Recently
Been Opened Up.

Great Continent Has Only Recently
Been Opened Up.
A ERICA is another great continent
n 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 450
A. D., Hanno, the Carthaginian, sailed
down it's west coast as far as Sierra
Leone, and the knowledge of it was
advanced further stage when in the
fifteenth century Portuguese explor-
ers, including Vasco da Cana, rounded
the cape. In Africa, exploration has
followed the flow of the great rivers,
and will ever be associated with such
names as Livingstone, Mungo Park,
Bruce, Baker, Stanley, Spoke,
Schweinfurt, Du Chaillu, Serpa Pinto,
Wissmann and Donaldson. The Niger
had it's course determined in the early
part of the nineteenth century. ITO
day." says geographical expert, "the
Nile has been scientifically explored
for it's entire length of 3,400 miles: the
Niger, with the exception of a small
portion of it's middle course, for $500
miles; the Zambesi for 1900 miles;
and the Congo, which in volume is ex-
ceeded only by the Amazon, for near
ly 5000 miles In Africa, where vast
areas are still dark" for geography,
the politician has sometimes followed,
has now and then accompanied the ex-
plorer. This immense continent first
fed the demand for slaves, then salts
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dered al The more inaccessible by
strange languages, stranger customs,
and rooted distrust of the foreigner"
It 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 I'M
known areas of considerable extent in
Burma, Thibet and China
Australia, now the home of a 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 it 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 a few populous
cities and towns sprang up. Thanks
to the efforts of men like Wentworth,
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CONTINENTS ARE BEING MAPPED
Marvellous Results Achieved by Sys-
ten1atic Exploration
Tremendous Tracts Have Been Opened Up in the Last
One Hundred Years-Northern Asia Still Field
for the Ventureson1e Now Undertaking One
of TIE Greatest Feats.

Africa and Siberia. Columbus reached
San Salvador in 1892, and his sue
ceeding voyages revealed Jamaica,
Trinidad and the Orinoco. Amerigo
Vespucci coasted down the continent
of South America in 1901, and Magel-
Ian discovered Patagonia and Terre
del Fuego in 1920. Mexico was added
to the map in 1913 by Grijalva and
California visited in 1882 by Cortez.
For 300 years thereafter the work of
exploring the Americas proceeded by
leaps and bounds, yet in 1900 more
than half of their territories remain
geograp hically unknown. The whole
region west of the Mississippi was
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.
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EXPEDITIONS TO POLES.

Last Portions of Planets Surface to
Be Reached.
THE last portions of the planets sur
1 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 1916 by
Capt Smith. Various lands" have
since been evealed-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 it
is not yet definitely known whether
these are mere islands or parts of
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 if
an antarctic continent exists it 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, If one ex-
lists, has been estimated at nearly
100000 square miles. Up to the
present, and in spite of severahrecent
expeditions, navigators are much far
Their from the south than from the
north pole. In 1912 Ross reached 70
degrees 10 minutes, one of the latest
records is that of Borchgrevink, who
in 1899, gained IS degrees so minutes
by using sledges in a dash over the
ice.
The romance of polar exploration
of it's perils and it's heroism-centers
in the north. The arctic pole is much
nearer to civilization than the antarct
&c, mas CLOSET COuuSCC1Ou Will tuS
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 it's 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-
filming 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, FTobisher, Hudson
and Eafin; on the other the no less
eager pursuit of the northeast passage
by Barentz, Chancellor and others. In
1S50-54 Mcclure successfully accom-
plished the northwest passage, and
gained the reward of $4,000 which
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The OLd-Time Boy.

The boy of today who complains of
anything should be made to read the
rules and regulations laid down for
boys in old colonial days. He had to
stand up at the table. He must go to
bed at candlelight. He must not sit
down in the presence of a visitor. He
must not shout. He must not run
without cause. He must not throw
stones at animals or birds. He must
not idle on the street, and if he had
been found trying to stand on his
head he would have gone to Jail for a
week
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when some one tunbled to what he
was doing.
About this time the tall marshal
came along and said: "Mr. Man, you
will confer a favor upon the Glidden
tourists who are touring 1000 miles
in competition for the Glidden and
Hover trophies in the 1908 tour of the
American Automobile association If
you in your capacity as rubbish gath
erer would allow the paper to remain
where it has been deposited until the
last automobile has proceeded through
this municipality. l hope that you will
have no supersensitiveness regarding
this request, for it is essential that
this trail remain lest the automobiles
might make a detour about this city
and eventually become lost in an
thropomorphic ability.
I'm only doing my duty" respond
ed Mr.. Observation-Disclosures Record.
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YOUNG MEN HAVE NO CHANCE.
Striking Difference Between British
and American Practice.

While age is no bar to the service
of a British prime minister, neither
does youth disqualify from cabinet Of
fee. In both respects the British
practice differs strikingly from the
American. No American has held the
presidency above the age of o.. the
minimum age of a member of the Uni
ted States cabinet is not on record.
The reorganization of the British
ministry invites attention to this diff
ference Five members are in their
thirties. Lord Lucas, one of the I'M
der secretaries, is 80, Winston Spencer
Churchill 33, f. d. Ackland 81, c. F.
Masterman 50, and Walter Runciman
3S. Gladstone, Salisbury, Rosebery,
Peel, Fox, all entered the cabinet be-
fore they were 40. Palmerston was
secretary of state for war at 20, and
William Pitt made a record by being
prime minister at "a.
Contrast this with the Roosevelt
cabinet, in which the youngest mem
Der, Mr.. Garfield, was appointed at
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Africa az Known in 1900.

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.
1t took 500 or 900 years more to
trace out the general features of the
seas, islands and continents. The
chief steps in this advance. which in
cluded the brilliant exploit of Magel-
Ian, whose ship, the Victoria, first cir
COMMUNICATED the globe. were the dis
covery of the Americas and of Aus
tralia, and the partial exploration of
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Dentists VIII Rejoice.

Comment is being made in the pub
lie press on the fact that in recent
photographs of public persons most of
them are represented with their
mouths open and quantities of teeth
showing. AS it happens in most Of
the cases referred to the effect is very
good, but it will not do for the public
generally to have itself so photo
graphed.
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AREA STILL UNEMPLOYED.
Vast Extent of Unknown Territory i
Northern Asia.

THE great territory of northern Asia,
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, succession of explorers has
been at work in this still mysterious
section of the earth's surface, rem
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Equally Unpleasant.

A Pennsylvania man while eating
pie swallowed his knife. This wasn't
good form, but it may be some COM
fort to the victim to realize that swal-
lowing a fork would be equally un-
pleasant,
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fed the greed fer territory. Unlike
China, it was not coveted too late to
be partitioned, and to-day, outside Mo-
rocco and Abyssiria, there is not a
square mile of it's area which is not
claimed and owned by one or other
of the European powers.
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We want your CREAM ship us to-day
MILTON DAIRY CO., st. Paul, MINI.
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A PIav on Words.

Scott--They dramatic everything
nowadays. I'll bet they'll soon be
dramatizing the ad. columns.
Mott-Well, why not; aren't the ad.
columns just the place for striking
situations?
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Mrs windows Soothing syrup.
For children teething, softens the gums, reouces IN
aaumation allays pain, cures WIND conc.
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A talking machine is all right If 1t
does not talk machine politics.
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FRANKLIN's FATAL JOURNEY.
One of 1he Most Terrible Episodes CT
Arctic Exploration.

HANhLlNS FAI Al JOURNEY.
One of che Most Terrible Episodes ct
Arctic Exploration.
.nNE Of the 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, 1845. 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 a vain et-
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 Els,
kimo who told him that four years
previously 40 white men had been
seen dragging a 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 1883 McClintock discovered in
King William land human skeleton
lying on its face, and his companion,
Hobson, found a record of the Frank
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WE PAY HIGH PRICE FOR CREAM.
The Crescent Creamery Co., st. Paul.
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Those Tired, Aching Feet of Yours
need Aliens Eoot-EaSe. 25c at your Druggist S
Write a.. 8. Olmsted. LIE Roy, N. T.. for sample.
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It's sometimes easier to catch on
than It is to let go.
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TELL US YOUR ROOF TROUBLES.
Our preserver stops all leaks permanent
". Marie Paint CO., Minneapolis, Mimi.
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WE PAY TOP PRICES FOR CREAM
Miller & Holmes. st. Paul. Minnesota
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Goodness thinks no Ill where no Ill
seems.-Milton.
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WE SELL GUNS AND TRAPS CHEAP
Buy furs and hides, or tan them for robes q
rugs. N. w. Hide & Fur Co., Minneapolis.
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Regions 1900

Evans, Sturt, Burke, Willis, Warbur-
ton, Forest and Giles, large part of
the interior has been explored.
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Better a tramp in the woods than a
hobo in the woodshed.
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If you are unable to hold your TEN
per get a strong man to hold you.
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What is CastOria.

AsT0RH is harmless substitute for Castor OIL Paregoric Drops
Soothing ps pleasant Tt neither Opium Morphine
other Narcotic substance It's it's guarantee destroys aays
EeVeshness Drhea and Wind Collie relieves Teg Troubles
Constipation Fcy Food regulates Stomach
and Bowels giving healthy and natural Sleep The drens PanaceThe
Mothers Friend
The Kind You Have Always Bought and which has been for
80 years. has borne the signature of Ca Fletcher and has been made under
his personal supervision since It's infancy. Allow deceive you this
All Coun limitations and that e with
and endnger the health Infants an Children Experience against Experiment.
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Don't waste other peoples time
while you are wasting your own.
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Kitty-Isn't she the most contrary
thing?
Betty-Why so?
Kitty-She's been coaxing and coax.
ing me to go to her picnic, and I won't
do it.
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Habit has more force in forming our
characters than opinions have.-R.
Hall
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had been offered by the British parlia-
ment in 1868. BY an equally success.
full feat in 1888, Baron Nordensk-
jold, the Swedish scientist, made the
northeast passage in the Vega by pass,
ing from Norway along the Asiatio
coast into the Pacific ocean.