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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-04

In the immediate vicinity there were
some turf and moss, but everywhere
else within few hundred feet Of the
sea the land rose abruptly in steep
slopes of barren rock
To the westward across Smith
sound in a blue haze were seen Cape
Sabine, Bache peninsula and some of
the land beyond which We hoped to
cross in our prospective venture.
The construction of a winter house
and workshop called for immediate at
tention after the wind subsidized. Men,
women and children offered strong
hands to gather the stones strewn
along the shore.
When the cargo is packed in this
manner the things can be quickly
tossed on deck and transported to
floating ice or land. Later it is posi-
BILE, with packing boxes of uniform
size as building material, to erect eff
cient shelter wherein the calamities
of arctic disaster can be avoided.
Building Winter Quarters.
This precaution against ultimate mis-.
hap now served a very useful purpose.
Inclosing a space 10 by 16 feet, the
cases were quickly piled in. The walls
were held together by strips of wood
or the joints sealed with pasted paper
with the addition of a few long boards.
A really good roof was made by
using the covers of the boxes as shin
giles. A blanket of turf over this con-
fined the heat and permitted at the
same time healthful circulation of air.
We slept under our own roof at the
end of the .irst day, and our new house
had the very great advantage of con-
tanning within it's walls all our posses
sions within easy reach at all times.
AS the winter advano with it's
stormy ferocity and frightful darkness
&c was not necessary to venture out
and dig up supplies from great depths
of snowdrift. Meat and blubber were
stored in large quantities about the
Ramp.
Much Work In Sight.
But our expedition was in need of
skins and furs. Furthermore, as men
engaged for the northern venture would
be away during the spring months, the
best hunting season of the year, it was
necessary to make provision for house
needs later. There was therefore much
work before us, for we had not only to
prepare our equipment, but to provide
for the families of the workers.
In the polar cycle of the seasons
there are peculiar conditions which ap-
ply to circumstances and movements.
AS the word seasons is ordinarily I'M
derstood there are but two, a winter
season and a summer season. winter
season of nine months and a summer
of three months.
But for more convenient division of
the yearly periods it is best to retain
the usual cycle of four seasons. Eslxi-
mos call the winter oolziah, which also
means year, and the summer onsah.
Days are sleeps" The months are
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-04

and provide for the strain of adaptable
tty and endurance, the possibilities %
our sled factory were very good.
For dog harness the Eskimo pattern
was adopted, but canine economy is
such that when rations are reduced to
workable limits the leather strips dis
appear as food. To overcome this dis
aster the shoulder straps were made
Of folds of strong canvas, while the
traces were cut from cotton log line
A boat is an important adjunct to
every sledge expedition which hopes
to venture far from its base of oper-
alton. It Is matter Of necessity even
when following the new coast line, as
Is shown by the mishap of Myths
Erickson, for If he had had a boat he
would himself have returned to tell
the story of the Danish expedition to
East Greenland
Need for a boat comes with the
changed conditions of the advancing
reason. Things must be carried for.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-04
SCENE AT THE NORTH POLE,

49,
now soon be limited to a few open
| spaces near prominent headlands.
The scene of the real hunt changed
from the sea to the land. We had as
yet no caribou meat. The little auks
gathered in nets during the summer
and elder. duck bagged later dtsap-
peared fast when used as steady diet
| We must procure hare, ptarmigan and
reindeer, for we had not vet learned
| TO eat with a relish the fshy, hver-fike
substance which is Characteristic OF
all marine mammals.
Guns and ammunition were distrib-
uted, and when the winds were easy
enough to allow one to venture out
every man sought the neighhoring
| hills. Francke also took his exercise
with gun on his shoulder.
The combined results gave long
line of ptarmigan, two reindeer and
sixteen hares. As snow covered the
upper slopes the game was forced
down near the sea. where we could
still hope to hunt in the feeble light of
the early part OF the night.
No Anxiety For Winter.
With larder fairly stocked and
we were spared the usual anxiety of
winter without winter supplies, and
Francke was just the man to use this
game to good effect, for he had
way of preparing our primitive pro-
visions that made our dinners seem
equal to a Holland House spread.
In the middle of October foxsk1ns
were prime, and then new steel traps
many caches. By this time the Eski-
mos had all abandoned their sealskin
tents and were snugly settled In their
winter igloos. The ground was COW
cred with snow. and the sea was near
Iy frozen over everywhere.
Everybody was busy preparing Ior
the coming cold and night. The tenn
perature was about 20 degrees below
zero. Severe storms were becoming
less frequent, and the air, though
colder, was less humid and less dlsa-
greeable. An ice fort was formed, ana
the winter s1edging was begun by
short excursions to bait the fox traps
and gather he foxes.
All these pursuits, with the work Of
building and repairing sleds, making
dog harness and shaping new winter
clothing, kept up a lively interest
while the great crust which was to
hold down the unruly deep for SO
mauv months thickened and closed.
Last Glimpse of the Dying Day.
During the last days of brief sun
shine the weather cleared, and at
noon on Oct. "a everybody sought the
freedom of the open for last glimpse
Of the dying day. There was charm
OF color and glitter, but no one SEEM
ed quite happy as the sun sank under
the southern ice, for it was not to rise
again for 11S days.
The Eskimos took this as a signal to
enter a trance of sadness, in whic
the bereavement Of each family and
the discomforts of the year are enact
ed in dramatic chants or dances.
But to us the sunset of 1907 was in
spiration for the final work in direct
ing the shaping of the outfit with
which to begin the conquest of the
pole at sunrise of 1908. Most expedi
lions have had the advantage of the
liberal hand of government or of an
ample private fund. We were denied
both favors.
But we were not incumbered with
q cargo Of insists devised by home
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THE MIDNIGHT SUN IN THE ARCTIC.

under the ice at midnight for a few
moments.
The Arctic Night.
These moments increase rapidly, yet
one hardly appreciates that the sun is
departing until day and night are of
equal length, for the night remains
light, though not cheerful. Then the
day rapidly shortens and darkens, and
the sun sinks until at least there is
but mere glimmer of the glory of
day.
Winter is limited to the long night
and spring applies to the days of the
rising sun, period corresponding to
the autumn days Of the setting sun.
At Annootok the midnight sun is first
seen over the sea horizon on Aprfl %,
1t dips in the sea on Aug 10. It thu
encircles the horizon, giving summar
and continuous day for 11S days. II
sets at midday on Oct. "a and is ah
sent period of prolonged night cor
responding to the day and rises on
Feb. 20.
Harvesting Food and Fuel.
Then follow the eye opening days Of
spring. In the fall, when the harmon.
izing influence OF the sun is withdrawn
there begins a battle of the elements
which continues its smoky agitation
until stilled by the hopeless frost of
early night.
AT this time, though field work was
painful, the needs of our venture forced
us to persistent action in the chase of
walrus, SEAL narwhal and white whale
We harvested food and fuel.
Before winter ice spread over the
hunting grounds ptarmigan, hare and
reindeer were sought to supply the ta-
BILE during the long night with delica-
cies, while bear and fox pleased the
palates of the EskimoS and their peIts
clothed all.
Many long journeys were made to Sc
cure an important supply of grass to
pad boots and mittens and also to Sc
cure moss, which serves as wick fcr
the Eskimo lamp. The months of Sep
TENDER and October were indeed iru-
portant periods of anxious seeking fp.'
reserve supplies.
Aid From the Eskimos.
There was a complex activity sud-
denly stimulated along the Greenland
coast which did not require general SUI
pervisien. The Eskimos knew what
was required without a word from us
and knew better than we did where to
find the things worth while. An out
line of. the polar campaign was sent
from village to village, with a few
general instructions.
Each local group of natives was to
fill an important duty and bring to-
gether the tremendous amount of ma
terial required for our house and sled
equipment. Each Eskimo village has.
as rule, certain game advantages.
In some places foxes and hares were
abundant Their skins were in great
demand for coats and stockings, and
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wv YITH a basty farewell to Mr..
MJ Bradley and the officers and
w encouraged with cheer


from I'll on board, we left
the motherly yacht for our new home
and mission. The yacht stood off to
avoid drifting ice and await the re-
turn Of the motorboat
When we were set ashore we sat
down and watched with saddened eyes
the departure of our friends and the
severing of the bond which had held
us to the known world of life and
happiness
The village of Annootok is placed in
N small bay just inside of Cape IBgle-
field. Its population changes much
from year to year, according to the
known luck of the chase or the ambi-
ton of the men to obtain new bear
skin trousers.
Scattered about it were twelve seal
skin tents, which served as a summer
shelter for an equal number of vigor
GUS families. In other places nearer
the sea were seven stone igloos. Upon
these the work of reconstruction for
winter shelter had already begun.
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One sees nothing Of the narwhal and
very little Of the kayak, for dashing
seas wash over the little craft, but the
double bladed paddles seesaw with the
regularity of pendulum.
Homecoming takes many hours and
engenders prodigious amount Of hard
work, but there is energy to spare, for
wealth of meat and fat is the Gull
mination Of all Eskimo ambition
Seven Of these ponderous animals
were brought In during five days.
making a heap OF more than 10000
pounds of food and fuel. Then the
narwhals suddenly disappeared, and
we saw no more of them.
Three white whales were also obtain
ed in similar way at Etah at about
the same time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-04
Fading Sun Warns Elk
plorer of Coming Long
Arctic Winter Prepar-
ing Sled and Boat ~
FOURTH ARTICLEl

dreamers, nor was the project handi-
capped by the usual army of novices,
for white men at best must be regard
ed as amateurs compared with the ex-
pert efficiency of the Eskimo in his
own environment. Our food supply
contained only the prime factors of
primitive nourishment Special foods
and laboratory connections did not fill
an important space in our larder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-04
The Conquest of the Pole
BY DIR. FREDERICK A. COOK

Copyright. 1909, by the New York
HeralA Company. REGISTERED I'm
Canada In Accordance With Copy
risht Act. Copyright In Mex
leo Under Laws of the Republic
Of Mexico. All Rights Reserved
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forms now came up with such
force and frequency that it was
~ not safe to venture out in kay
axis. A few walruses were cap
tured from boats; then sea hunting was
confined to the quest Of seal through
the young ice.
A similar quest was being followed
at every village from Annootok to
Cape York. But all sea activity would
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-11-11
Heart toHeart
Talks.
JOHN CALVIN.
By EDWIN A. NYE.

JOHN CALVIN.
Geneva, the city of his activities, has
been celebrating the four hundredth
anniversary Of the birth of John Cal
win.
why, John Calvin burned Servetus
at the stake" says some one. why
should anybody make fuss over his
memory"
Which Indictment is good
Nevertheless the hard headed theo-
logan of the reformation was a con-
siderable force for righteousness in
his day. He had great brain and
viii like hardened steel
Bigoted? Intolerant?
Yes, he was both, but he lived in the
age Of bigotry and intolerance, as well
as superstition and wide ignorance.
He lived a number of years before
our fathers burned the witches in
Massachusetts.
Calvin literally crushed the people
of Geneva into a decency to which
they had been unaccustomed He
went too far in his crushing, but so
did Savonarola in Florence. So did
Cromwell in crushing the mobs of
London.
There is one great redeeming fea-
ture in John Calvin
Behind his convictions was his lifel
Call him narrow minded. even cruel.
You must concede he had always the
courage Of his convictions. 1t was the
robust intensity of his beliefs linked
to the power of his life that caused
him to be great.
Most of us moderns are weak in this
very thing.
We do not more than half believe
what we believe, and many of us are
not quite sure that we really believe
anything worth while. We believe, or
affect to believe, in the beliefs that are
| most current
Calvin staked his whole life on his
beliefs. Running counter to the doc
trines of his time, he put himself back
Of his creed and powerfully compelled
his world to accept his thinking. And
thousands after 400 years still accept
that teaching.
! 1t is easy to criticise.
| Persons who have no abiding faith
in much of anything and who, If they
did profess a creed. would scarce en-
dure the sacrifice of an hours pleasure
for the sake Of it point TO Calvin as
a narrow bigot
Well
The stern old Genevan certainly did
lack sweetness in what Mr.. Arnold
eulogized as the doctrine of sweetness
and light.
But it does not lie in the mouth Of
religious mugwumps to ridicule mar
of power and right motive who, what
ever his failings. was no insiDid critic
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-11-11
BIG MEN SPEAK
ON WATERWAY.

At Fort Wayne yesterday resolu-
tions were passed making the Chi
cago- Toledo canal. which goes
through Gary and Hammond. a cam
paign issue. Congressman E. d.
Crumpacker and Senator Beveridge
were speakers. Senator Beveridge
said:
The enormous and increasing
products Of American farms, factor
les. mines and mills literally choke
our railways in their effort 10 reach
the markets of the nation and the
these human necessities, theletao
world and the people who produce
all these human necessities. the peo-
pie who are waiting and asking for
these necessities, alike are demand
ing relief.
The only relief in sight is that
of water sportation The rail
ways should be relieved of all heav-
Ter and bulkier freight. Thus the
railways themselves would be aided
and all the people benefited.
Il earnestly favor the immediate
survey OF this route by the govern
ment, and shall do my best TO per-
suade congress to authorize and or
der this preliminary work. upon
which all our future constructive
work must depend"
Congressman E. d. Crumpacker.
while expressing himself as favoring
the Fort Wayne project. expressed
doubt as to its early completion, and
asserted that business methods. not
blind enthusiasm, should rule the
action of members Of congress. He
took issue with H r. Probasco as
to the duties of a member of con-
gress, expressing the belief that such
priects all this canal should be first
investigated so as to make congress
sional support purely a matter Of
merits and not of response to de-
mands from constituents.
Il know the merits of the Missis-
sippi deep waterway plan. and IA
vor the project unqualifiedly." said
Crumpacker Il know of the Fort
Wayne plan and of others that are
meritorious. and 1 favor them. But
tell you that scores of communi-
ties will take advantage of the Mis-
sissippi river agitation to try to OBJ
tain appropriations for streams tina
never could be made nayigable anC
for canal plans that would not hell
settle the question OF transporta
ton"
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AND STILL THEY COME.

the growing
by
reading million dollar plants employing
a
AS
Hardly
OF 500
cities residents employed mills
and homes?
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BUSINESS MEN TO BE ENCOURAGED

that within payroll
o city.
which
prospect
n store or he
con
employed
early spring indication points to the fact that the
OF
will their
there
for he tier
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this Is MY 47TH BIRTHDAY"
bishop BrattOu.

Ri Rev Theodore Du Bose Brat
ton. Protestant Episcopal bishop of
Mississippi. was born In Winnsboro,
S. c.. Nov IL 1862, and was educated
at the University of the South. He
was ordained a priest of the Episcopal
church in 1883 by Bishop Capers. After
eleven years of active work in the min
istry he became rector OF ST. Mary
school at Raleigh. continuing there
until 1908 when he became bishop Of
Mississippi He was consecrated by
Bishops Weed, Dudley, Nelson. Beck
with, Gailor and Johnston. Since his
conservation Bishop Bratton has re-
sided in the city of Jackson, where he
has taken an active interest in educa-
tional and public affairs in addition to
his work as a churchmen. He is the
author of several books dealing with
relious and educational problems.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-11-11
WE WILL HAVE TO GROW.

That Hammond Chicago will
before perusaI of
5000 Bend says
In the elections last Tuesday
the
republicans and the
to
position
amonk diana
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This DATE IN HISTORY"
November II.

/ 620-Pilgrims elected John Carver
governor of the new colony.
1794-Marquis de Lafayette escaped
from prison at Olmutz
1S09-Charles Wheeler Denison au-
thor. born in New London. Conn.
Died there. Nov. a. 1881.
1S54-William Y. Atkinson, thirty-sev-
enth governor of Georgia, born.
Died, Aug. s, 1889.
Decentralization Territory admitted
to statehood by proclamation of
the president
1SS9-John A Logan, jr.. killed in bat
tie in the Philippines.
1905-Rt Rev Thomas F. Davies
Protestant Episcopal bishop of
Michigan, died in Detroit. Born at
Fairfield, Conn. Aug. 81, 1881.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-11-11
PROGRESS OF REGION GREAT ON BOTH SIDES.


thriving
We will
on
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-11-11
UP AND DOWN IN
I-N=D-I- A-N-A
HOTEL GUESTS FRIGHTENED.

HOTEL GUESTS FRIGHTENED.
Guests at the Hotel Lahr at Lafay-
cite were frightened so that a panic
was narrowly averted Tuesday night
when fire broke out in the Milwaukee
Block on Columbia street, cutting the
portion occupied by the Duffy Means
Candy company entailing a loss of
more than $4,000.
BANKS INDICATE PROSPERITY.
A condition Of unprecented prosper
ity is indicated for Indiana by the
annual financial report Of Lawrence A.
Wiles state bank examiner Of the au-
ditor of states department. The re-
port as compiled by Wiles does not
include the national banks of the
state. but from data compiled by the
United States treasury d apartment.
Wiles had tabuIated the complete data
for the entire state. SO far as the re-
ports go in the Office OF the auditor
of state. the condition Of prosperity
is unprecented, says Wiles.
SAFETY BOX HOLD FORTUNE.
| BY an order Of Judge Ross. safety
! deposit box at the Fletcher National
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-11-11
NOT AN ELEvATING SPECTACLE.

Since the death of subject hypnozed by travelling
exhibition hardly ensatonay
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-11-11
DOES IT PAY TO RISK HIS LIFE?

parents
this
in
RISK TO THE
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-11-11
AFTER HEAVY FUGITIVE.

Thomas Hamilton, 35 years old. a
white miner having wife and child.
quarreled with negro from New Al
bany in Vincennes Tuesday evening
and as a result was shot in the abdo-
men. Hamilton is dying at the home
of his father-in-law. Thomas Hefty.
The negro fed but will likely be cap
tured as he weighs 200 pounds, is 6
feet tall and every nearby town has
been notified
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he spend They arts
denquent-For
restviIe IN. y
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THINGS AND FILINGS

afraid.
WHAT hol What has become of
Walter Wellman?
AND Burlington had to get in the
game, little as it is.
BE sure you haven't the hookworm
tbs an awful affection.
-
1T is never very complimentary to
man if people can tease him.
THE man who does the best his
circumstances permit. is doing nobly
TO take a chance when you don't
have to do so, is to run needless risks.
SOME cities in Indiana propose to
be bad and to be glad of it at the same
time.
NOWADAYS men are the weaker
sex. In other words they are afraid
to get married
BIG show of falling stars in the
heavens at present. They are a week
late, however.
THE early winter grub season is
now officially closed with the entry of
the wooden back wheat cake.
IF Gary gets the Lincoln League
convention in February we hope the
Crolius disturbance will be over by
that time.
THIS is the night that the politi-
clans remove their hands from each
others hair and get together-in
Hammond.
LOTS of men were never known to
say bad word about anyone In fact
they never talk about anyone but
themselves.
sacrificed to football, it is about time
for some of us to sit up and take q
little notice
A BOY doesn't care about being
president of the U. S. these days, he
would rather be president of the Nat
ional League.
SOME men are called philanthrop
lists because of all the good things
they could do for their fellow mel
which they never do.
a.
WOULD you give up somethini
now, Mr. Whiting Councilman, tina
your children might be able to prof
by fifty years hence?
FATHER having paid his election
bets, can now turn his attention t
the glad task of getting a strangl
hold on a 20 pound turkey
--4A-
HONESTLY we heard of an Eas
Chicago man the other day who didn
. know that an election had been hel
and a new mayor elected!
SO Indiana Harbor is to have a hi
e steel plant, too? Gee, but it must b
e getting crowded up in the northwes
\ corner. = Indianapolis News. Ma
t faint nuther
/ MR. GEIST will one of these day
|. be like Alexander and go aroun
J. weeping because there are no nor
\ worlds for him to conquer in th
d shape Of gas plants.
t GEORGE ABE says that he hs
e more money than he can spend. Pc
haps it would be nice for George t
start paper in Kentland, then /
wouldn't have so much.
|, THEY are now suggesting GaynC
q as candidate for president on IL
: democratic ticket in 1912 Trying
) shove our own Tom Marshall aside
Well we cant stand for that.
> THERE is only one thing about
: if doctors continue to increase the
charges as a medical journal say
they will, we shall be compelled
enjoy better health right along.
u OTHER cities on the Fort WayI
sr deep water way are up and doing
boom the project. Hammond which
Of to be on the route, is doing nothin
IS The TIMES advocated this project
I'd year ago and published a map of Il
te proposed canal That is as far
OF Hammond got
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COMMUNICATIONS.


the
all
auuoa Il taken old nAsEe
tn the of
to pr0uO
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TO TRIP wHITECAPPERs.

The trials of Jacob Kirk and David
Fox of Columbus, who are charged
with whitecapping Thomas Van Fest,
South Bethany blacksmith, in June,
1907. have been set in the Bartholomew
circuit court for Dec. 20. At a former
trial the defendants were convicted
but later were granted new hearings.
Since the granting Of the new trials
the cases have been continued six
times