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ton for her mistress never waned. Mrs.
Chedsoye was just as beautiful In disha-
cup, and as she turned to replace 1t upon
the tray. dropped it with clatter, a
startled cry coming from her lips.
'Madamew
Fortunes bed!''
It had not been slept in. The steamer
cloak lay across the counterpart exactly
where Celeste herself had laid 1t the night
before. Mrs. Chedsoye sprang out of her
bed and ran barefoot to the other. For
tune had not been in the room since din
ner time.
(To be continued tomorrow
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mental mass twice greater in elevation
than any other continent and having the
highest tableland in the world. He
found coal and other fossil remains,
which prove that the south pole once had
a mild climate He and his associates
dragged many valuable bio. ,gical speci-
mems for 500 miles, at an imminent risk
Of their lives. and yet do not refer to 1t
excert incidentally. He proved what
Wilkes had asserted before him. that
there is an antarctic continent much
larger than all Europe.
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May Appoint Cyrus E. Woods.

Cyrus E. Woods OF Pittsburgh. Pa.
probably will be appointed United States
minister to Portugal, to succeed Edwin
V. Morgan, transferred to the embassy
at Rio de Janeiro. Mr.. Woods is chief
counsel of the Pittsburgh Coal Company.
He is a graduate of Lafayette College
and has served two terms in the Pennsyl-
vania senate.
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CHAPTER XVII.
Mrs. Chedsoye Has Her Doubts

Mrs. Chedsoye retired to her room
early that memorable December night.
Her brother could await the return OF
Horace. She hadn't the least doubt as
10 the result: a green young man pitted
against q seasoned veterans duplicity.
She wished Jones no harm physically:
In fact, she had put down the law against
IT, Still, much depended upon chance.
But for all her confidence of the outcome,
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The expedition of Sir Ernest Shack
Teton. which promises to go down In
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While England has claimed a sort Of
pre-empted right in antarctic matters, as
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Shackleton'S Work tory as
~. - xr,.,l of the n
1uV1C0tAV1A W WAAOe. Yalua

A4A1S0s
from a scientific standpoint that has
ever been made. went far toward
proving the authenticity OF the reports
Of Wilkes and placing 1t in it's true
light. Sir Ernest unhesitatingly ac-
cords Wilkes Just credit for the real
discovery Of the preliminary proof Of
the existence of south polar CONT
mont Another English author. DR.. Hugh
Robert Mills. says that considering the
deplorable conditions against which he
had to contend. both in the seas with
out and the men within his ships.
wilkes voyage was one Of the finest
pieces Of determined effort on record:
Wilkes, Capt. Ross was a great ex-
plorer. 1t was he who located both
the north and the south magnetic
poles.
OF an article like this. to tell the his
tory of antarctic exploration. The
whole scientific world gives to Sir
Ernest Shackleton just credit for his
trip into the mysteries Of the antarctic
continent. Not only did he make mag.
nificent contributions to geographical
knowledge, but he carried with him
scientific aids who gathered data OF
inestimable value in the study OF all
Of the natural sciences; .,.., ,,,
edge were most important. For instance.
he discovered in the heart of the ant
arctic little rotifers and waterbears. the
former worms and the latter cousins OF
the snider. which possessed the most re-
markable heat and cold resisting quail
ties imaginable. They were frozen in the
Ice subjected to almost b. fling heat.
dried as dry as finder and frozen, thawed
and dried all over again many times and
for many weeks, and yet they seemed
to suffer no Ill effects whatever from the
treatment.
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the area Of which is nearly twice that
OF Europe. Commanding the United
States exploring expedition" under or
ders from the government to penetrate
within the antarctic region" he sailed
from Sydney, Australia, December 26.
1889. His squadron consisted OF four
small sailing vessels. none of which
was suitable for ice work, and two Of
which were forced to return. The
other two sailed along the antarctic
coast for some fifteen hundred miles.
A little later Capt James Ross head
ed an expedition QUILTED by the Eng
lish government. When he got into
the antarctic region and discovered
that Wilkes had preceded him he was
so furiously angry that he sought in
every possible way to discredit the
work OF the American explorer. He
ref'sed to recognize the work OF
Wilkes. even eliminating from his
charts the information gathered by
Wilkes. He insisted that the accounts
Of the American explorer were errone-
Gus and untrustworthy. It has been
only within the past decade that the
efforts Of Ross to belittle the work of
Wilkes have been shown up In their
true co1ors. It is rather gratifying to
! American pride to feel that much of
| the credit which Is now being given to
| the American explorer comes from
English sources.
| The expedition Of Sir Ernest Shack
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SEEKING THE SOUTH POLE.
BY Frederic J. Haskin.

The scientific world is expecting to hear
within a month or two that the south
pole has been discovered. II the plans
Of Capt Robert Scott OF the British
navy and those Of Road Amundsen of
Norway did not go awry after they left
communication with the outside world
they have, before now. concluded a great
international race to the south pole.
Scott probably had the better Of his Nor
wegian competitor In the matter Of equip
ment and also In the fact that his main
route to the pole, except the last hum
dred miles, lay over the same ground ira
versed by Sir Ernest Shackleton In his
famous expedition which almost reached
the goal three years ago. Scott him
self has been over the larger part Of the
territory to be traversed. having headed
the expedition sent out under English
auspices ten years ago.
On the other hand. Amundson has had
a most distinguished career in polar ex-
ploration work. He had been mate on
| the Belgica in her famous antarctic voy-
age, and in 1901 planned an expedition
| to the area Of the north magnetic pole
in order to relocate 1t. and with the
secondary purpose OF negotiating the
northwest passage by water for the first
| time in the history Of the world. The
expedition left Christiania in June, 1903,
| with six men. aboard the small sealing
sloop Gjoa. the cabin of which measured
| only nine by six feet. During the win
| ter Of 1905 the sloop was caught In the
| ice of King Point, but In July Of the
next year she got free. and after much
! difficulty reached Boring strait August
80. thus establishing the record of beins
/ tho first vessel to pass from ocean to
ocean north Of Patagonia.
4 Capt. Scott set sail on his south polar
trip from London June 1. 1910. on the
| specially constructed ice-resisting steamer
| Terra Nova. II
Wanted the Pole was his ex-
for Christmas Gift. pectatlon that
able to reach the pole In time to make
1t his Christmas present for 1911. His
plan was to reach his goal December %
| 1911. The two explorers were travelling
on converging lines to the pole. travelling
in a general direction south from New
Zealand. 1t is moro than probable that
| at this present moment one or the other
is bending his energy to get back Ia
] civilization and announce his triumph
over the antarctic continent. 1t is even
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The expedition also found many speci-
mems of the great emperor penguin.
which attains q
Family Takes Turns weight Of ninety
in Matching Egg. male penguin
laws only one egg season. and that dur
ing the dark antarctic night. The whole
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Capt. Scott set sail on his south polar
trip from London June I. 1910. on the
specially constructed ice-resisting steamer
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American Triumphs
in the Antarctic.

quadrants, each of which bears an Eng
ish name. the fact remains that Amer
lean explorers have made records in the
antarctic world which, considering the
difficulties under which they labored,
perhaps excel those Of any other nation
going into that region. The earliest
American to visit these ports was Ma
thaniel b. Palmer. a sealer of Stoning-
ton. Conn. While Palmer. In little
sailing vessel. was making many dis
coveries and gathering much valuable
material, as an incidental result OF his
sealing operations, the Russian govern
ment sent out an expedition under Bel
lingshausen, While on his expedition
Palmer met Bellingshausen and told him
about his work. Bellingshausen used
Palmers data. and Is to this day, &C
cording to many authorities, given much
credit which belongs to Palmer.
Another instance OF the same Kind
occurred in the case OF Lieut. Charles
Wilkes Of the United States Navy. who
first discovered the antarctic continent
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possible that both have attained the goal
Of their ambitions and are racing back
to civilization from the long-sought spot.
Another expedition, under the German
nag. Is headed by Lieut.. F'ilchner. He
left few months ago to approach the
pole from the direction Of Cape Horn.
using the same route that was proposed
for the American expedition which was
planned by the National Geographical
Society and the Peary Arctic Club. Ad-
miral Peary always has believed that the
best approach to the south pole was to
be found In this direction. Fflchner's
prime object. he declared, was to de-
termine whether the east and west polar
regions are connected or divided. He
carried with him a large number Of
scientists. including botanists, biologists.
meterologtsts, biologists. etc. He ex-
pected to be gone three years, and has
taken no part In the international race
to the pole. His achievements as an
explorer have been in the top-of-the-
world region of Tibet. A friend described
him as pessimist in preparation and
an optimist in action. He took with him
sledges and ponies from Greenland, and
dogs from central Asia. Before he left
he spent quite a while in the arctic re-
gions. studying polar conditions. He esti-
mated that his work would cost from a
quarter to half q million dollars.
While England has claimod a aort NJ
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-06
Ice IN TIE CANAL ZONE.

Many persons mentally picture the
tropics as a region OF terrific heat
where ice is unknown. The is errone-
ous,- for many large ice plants are
located between the tropics Of Cancer
and Capricorn.
The report from the commissary
department of the Panama Railroad
Company Canal Zone, recently made
mention Of the large business that
had been done at the company's ice
making and cold storage plant. The
present capacity is 100 ions day and
the daily output average is over nine
ty tons. In 1911, 33,267 tons Of ice
We're produced, valued at $2OG,1SS.
The cold storage plant also was en-
Iarged by converting an old ice stor-
age room into roolers and adding
three new cold storage rooms, making
the total cold storage space 1920
cubic feet. In the year a 900 ton com.
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in the House in his eloquent diauibe
against the idle rich.
THE idle rich woman" he said,
"will not consent to grow Old Hence,
as her natural charms disappear, ar
Official charms replace them,
Owe read in the papers Of this or
that function, that Mrs. Van Guelder's
dress was by Joaquin and Mrs. Cash's
cloak was by Callot Soeurs, but why
shouldn't every old lady's catalogue
of charms be complete-liEe this
And Representative Fowler laughed
and quoted from an imaginary society
column,
mrs. A. B. GoId-Bonds looked love.
ly IN a cloth-of-gold dinner gown by
Worth, Her hair was triumph of
Willie Clarkson, the famous Wardour.
street wig-maker Her singularly pure
and brilliant complexion was by the
Oriental Beauty Company. Her teeth
were by DR.. Pull" =
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-06
THE funeral OF THE Maine
Impressive Scene at Sea as the Wrecked
Battle ship Was Sent to its Last
Resting Place

HAVANA, March 16.-The manned
hulk of the battleship Maine, once the
pride of the American Navy, was sunk
at $3.50 o'clock this afternoon in the
deepest part of the Florida straits.
She went down with the national flag
floating from her masts.
AS the sea closed over her, national
salutes doomed from the guns of the
warships that formed her funeral cor
tege and the mournful strains OF
taps" we're sounded by the buglers
AS she sank she left floating upon the
waters the splendid pail of roses in
which she had been enshrouded in
preparation for her burial
A great hollow square of vessels
ranging in size from $4,000 ton fight
ing machines to gasolene fishing
smacks, took up positions late this
afternoon in the sluggish waters OF
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DRAWING TIE LINE.

81 lunched with William Dean
Howells in his apartment IN Half
Moon street while I was in London
last month" said a Chicago essayist.
MI Howells was as boyish and as
gay IS ever. He was as hard as ever
on the snOb
"Ie told me snob story he had
heard in Wales. He said that a Lon
don tailor made his pile and retired
ITO a Welsh castle, where he set up
as a squire.
But the tailor had hardly got es.
tablshed as a squire when a London
halter retired and set up in a neigh
boring castle as a squire also It was
disgusting,
"A friend apropos of the eX-hatterts
coming, said to the eX-tailor:
will you call on him?'
Not l. was the reply. One must
draw the line somewhere
{" And s1' said the friend, you
draw it round the neck, eh?"
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FAMINE SUFFERERS g.
We complain of the high cost OF
living, we Americans, but we eat.
Living is high, but we eat. We cut
off a luxury here and there, we cur
tail our supplies Of necessities, if the
prices mount too high for us, but we
eat. Not so six millions Of Chinese.
They do not eat. They starve, for
there Is in their land nothing to eat.
It is stripped bare by men and women
and little children TO whom a slice of
bread would be a feast, in whom a
handful of herbs sustains life for
twenty-four hours, Now the bread and
the herbs and the clay which stay the
pangs Of hunger in leu Of something
bet zone, and the Chinese starca
They die u Their caves and Their
bh5veis and by the waysdes, and their
skeletons make evil sights for the re
lief workers who deny thema elves
when a little child reaches out for
their morsel of food.
So China appea's to the world, es-
pecially to America, Send us quickly
of your substance" say the yellow
skinned sisters and brothers, lest the
curse Of Cain be placed on you" Cain
was condemned for Staying his brother
in hot blood. How much greater is the
guilt Of Tie world if six millions Of
Chinese are left to die by the gnawing
fortunes of starvation?
To the p.tiful tales which have come
recently from the valley Of the Yang
tzekiang tales which should have re-
sounded loudly in our ears and should
have touched our 'pocketbook nerve,
but which have been drowned in the
booming Of the guns which proclaimed
the establishment of a republic in Chi
na-response has been made in the
formation of China famine relief
committee, cooperating with the Red
Cross" It's headquarters are in New
York, and it's treasurer is Jacob II
Schiff. 1t announces to the world, and
to America in particular, that SIS do
mated now will save a whole family
from starvation.
This is one of the greatest famines
of modern times. More than a million
families, about six millions of souls
are without food or means of support
AS president of the American Red
Cross President Taft has issued q
proclamation asking the people of the
United States to help the people OF
China. He has Joined with other Off
GERS of the Red Cross in requesting
the citizens committee engaged in
soliciting funds to make known the
facts. The men at the head of the
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the Gulf of Mexico, just outside the
Cuban sea limit Within the square,
moving slowly up and down on the
breast of a land running swell, was
an oblong object completely covered
with a magnificent new American
flag. On top of this rested 1900 beauti
full roses which glowed in the after
noon sunlight in Kaleidoscope magni
license. A mast was held in position
by a steel hawser that stretched from
it to the big ocean tug Osceola of the
United States Navy.
The Vessel and Her Dead.
Underneath the flag was all thai
was left of the old battleship Maine
the destruction of which on a warn
February night in the harbor of this
city changed the map of the Western
Hemisphere and removed from it fol
all time the standard of Spain The
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-06
ANCIENT METHODS



DR.. Frank n. Meyer, plant hunter
for the Department Of Agriculture, he's
recently made an interesting study of
cold storage methods of ancient times.
He finds that the Chinese had a meth
cd Of keeping grapes from one year
to another-an idea certainly unknown
to ourselves-by storing them in deep,
dugout cellars, where they were kept
cold by placing baskets Of broken ice
among the baskets of fruit.
1t has been shown that the Chinese
were familiar with principles and
practice of cod storage many cen
turtles, and probably thousands Of
years ago. 1t is a common practice
of fruit merchants in China to keel
perishable fruits in fresh condition
by the use of large and very thicE
earthen jars.
A quantity Of broken ice IS placed
in the bottom of each jar, and upor
this is placed woven wicker baske
IN which the fruit is kept The iai
is closed with a wooden cover, which
often has a strip of felt around it, t.
make the insulation as complete as
possible. 1t is claimed to be remark
able how this simple device will an
swer the purpose.
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A NOVEL CATALOGUE.

Congressman Fowler Of Illinois, at
a dinner in Washington, elaborated
some of the points that he had made
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RELIEF WORKERS IN REAR.
six millions of men, women and chill
dren asking for food.
The American relief committee call
ed recently upon the churches in this
country to take up offerings on Sun,
day, March 10, for the famine suffer
ers and asked theater managers to
give benefits on or about that date for
The same purpose. Already thousands
of dollars have been forwarded to Chi
ma without charge, with the assist
ance of our federal government, but
many thousands more are needed.
Part Of the relief funds will be en-
ployed to give employment to men in
the erection of higher bikes and so
prevent if possible further incursiors
by the sea,
IL does not take long TO make up g
relief train and load it with supplies.
Run it across the continent and ships
will be found to transport it across the
ocean. Four dollars to save a human
life Why, that is only the price of
two theater tickets to see a musical
comedy in some of our largest cities,
Surely saving the life of g baby is
worth more than that
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Uttered TO RECEIVE SUPPLIES
iChincse government are doing what
tEey can to relieve the situation, but
Jhey can meet only a fraction of the
need.
Save that the Chinese in their igno,
rance Of proper engineering methods
have not done all that might have
been done to avert the terrible floods
which brought on the famine, the fault
lis not with them Last summer the
worst Hoods in forty years in China
destroyed the crops in an area of So
Geo miles of farming country, thickly
populated. To some the waters
brought merc.fully speedy death, for
they did not live to know the suffer
IN. which has afflicted the survivors.
IS result Of the inundatiOn, there
viii be no crops until May. Surely
t will not be held to the discredit of
innocent children. appealing for food
that their ancestors and their parents
knew so little of the proper methods
Of building bikes that they let in the
destructive waters. Criticism of the
Chinese government, corrupt and igno-
rant is just, perhaps, but the voice
of criticism is silenced by the cry Of
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-03-02
PERSONAL

Mrs. James Healey Of Moosup was
a recent Norwich visitor
William Ormsbee of Norwich was
a recent guest Of his parents in Day
vile.
Mrs. I. Greenwood OF New York is
visiting Mrs, Makolosi of Franklin
street.
Miss Marion Pray Of Ballouville is
visiting Miss Nellie Nichols Of West
Thames street.
Mrs. Frederick Kaulbaek of Maiden,
Mass, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Frank
Church, of Pearl street.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Stanton of EkonE
have been visiting their children in
Norwich, Lyme and Mantle.
Mrs. Stell Etheridge of Massapeag
entertained a party from Norwich at
lunch and cards Thursday afternoon.
Jacob X. Jennes of Waterbury has
returned home after a visit to his
mother, who lives at 40 Summit street
and who has been seriously i'll.
There is local interest in this Gem
trail Village item: Miss Josephine
Armstrong, assistant principal at our
local high school, continues Ia a feeble
condition at her home in PaWtucket,
her many friends will regret to hear
and will probably not return to her
school work during the present term
at least,
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dent for Palmer Brothers, Charles AL
len of Laurel Hill, Norman Allen Of
Montvile, being employed by Palmer
Brothers, and Henry Allen Of Baltic.
The deceased were Samuel. Minnie and
Edith Allen.
He also leaves four nephews, DR.. ].
H. Allen of this city, Fitch l.. Allen Of
Norwich Town, Warren Allen of Led
yard and Waiter L. Allen of Brooklyn.
Miss Nellie Cookery.
At 4.30 o'clock Friday afternoon the
death of Miss Nellie Cookery occurred
at her home. No. 46 Franklin street,
from valvular heart trouble. She had
been in poor health for a long time
and had been confined to her bed for
four or five months, but the end was
not expected so soon.
Miss Cookery was born in this city,
in the Cookery homestead, the daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. John Cookery, and
spent all her life there. She was born
in May, 1857 Her mother died many
years ago, and following her mother s
death she cared for her fathers home
until his death in March, 1904. She
was a kind, sympathetic and charitable
woman, possessing many friends, and
her taking away brings sorrow to a
large number.
The is survived by brother John
J. Cookery, superintendent Of the ,ateT
department, and a sister, Mrs. Alexan-
der Carberry, of this city. There are
two nephews and two nieces.