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believed to have been. only the whaler
Navard was ever found.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, who was In
charge of the expedition; Bert Mcconnell
and several others are safe ashore at
Point Barrow, Alaska's farthest north.
Supposedly on account Of a quarrel be-
tween Stefansson and Bartlett, they left
the ship shortly before she was carried
into the outside ice.
Twenty-Five Men with Bartlett.
According to stefansson's letter, dated
October 30, from Point Barrow, telling Of
the Karluk being locked in ice. Capt.
Bartlett had on board with him twenty
five persons, including Henry Beauchat,
Bjarne Mameme, Alister Forbes Mckay,
George Malloch, William Laird Mckay,
James Murray and five Eskimos.
The news that the Karluk had disap-
peared in the ice pack has been brought
here by Capt. Louis l.. Lane, of the
Polar Bear who arrived here yesterday.
Capt. Lane, with Eben Draper, son of
the former governor of Massachusetts,:
Dunbar Lockwood, and Will Z. Rudson
mushed from the Arctic shore to Valdez
on Prince William Sound, using the
Yukon part of the way. They came to
Seattle on the steamship Northwestern.
mo one can say certainly that the
Karluk is lost. but considering the his
tory of the Arctic the presumption Is so
strong as to amount almost to a GER
tainty," said Capt. Lane. IN all the years
OF Arctic whaling the Navard is the only
ship that survived being carried away in
the ice. And at that the Navard was not
caught in what. is known as the outside
flow Her crew left her in two parties
and both companies lost men. The few
who stuck to the ship were saved. But
of more than a hundred other ships lost
in the same way nothing has ever been
seen and none of their crews has ever
been picked up.
Seen in "Outside Flow"
THE Karluk. which was some dis
tance of shore when the arctic hurri-
cane came up last September dragged
anchor N the big blow and drifted out
of sight into the outside ice. There, in
the opinion of every whaler and of ma
tives on the arctic coast, she will meet
her end. Others who knew the treach-
cry of the outside flow kept their
ships close to the lee Of the land and
safely in winter quarters now.
Charlie, an Eskimo boy who was
going down to Point Barrow to meet
Stefansson, saw the smoke of the ves-
sci eleven days after she had driven
into the pack. He estimated that she
was then about thirty-five miles on
shore. He made up his mind that he
never would see that ship again and
returned to Herschel Island In the Mac
kenzie Bay. Menswho have done their
northing for fifty years say 1t would
nave been impossible for Capt. Bart
lett's ship to push her way out"
According to men Of the arctic there
is a mystery in the separation OF stef-
ansson and Capt. Bartlett Lane says
Stefansson's avowed reason for leaving
the boat was to hunt. But those who
have been along that shore by boat and
on foot say there 10 no hunting there, and
that no one ,knows this better than stei-
ansscn. Those members OF the expedi-
ton who had been his best friends left
the boat with stefansson. While nothing
definite Is known. the impression among
explorers Is that stefansson and Bartlett
quarreled.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-20
HOSPITAL SHIP TO go TO AID
OF "TARsp SICK IN MEXICO

Secretary Daniels yesterday announced
he was sending the hospital ship SoIace
to Mexican waters, IN order that the
sick on board the battleships there may
he placed in more comfortable. quarters
than are available on board the other
vessels. The Solace has just returned
from the Mediterranean cruise.
The Connecticut and the Kansas are
now on their way from Guantanamo for
Vera Cruz, where they will relieve the
New Hampshire and the Louisiana. The
Michigan, which was to have been re-
lieved by the Ohio, will have to remain
in Mexican waters for some time. be-
cause of the outbreak of smallpox on the
Ohio.
1t was said at the Department of State
yesterday that there was no new devel-
opment in the Mexican situation. Moth
ing has been heard, either at the State
Department or the Navy Department, OF
reports that fighting has been renewed
at TampiCo.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-20
CAsHEs IN HIS WEASEL.
PhiIadelphian Sets Legal Machinery
Into Motion to Get 81.

Philadelphia, Dec. 19.-The entire legal
machinery of city hall had to be called
into consultation today when Samuel
R. spangle. of South Colorado street, ap-
peared in the Office Of the city treasurer
carrying a dead weasel and demanding a
bounty for killing it.
After much red tape the hunter was
given an order on the city treasurer for
50 and the weasel turned over to County
Commissioner Frank German, who re-
marked as he telephoned to the bureau
of health, that he was glad the animal
was not a polecat.
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SCHMIDT WOULD DIE ON CROSS.
witness Declares Confessed slayer
Is Insane.

New York. Dec. 19.-Since his arrest
for the murder of Anna Aumuller, Hans
Schmidt, who insists that he offered up
his sweetheart as sacrifice because he
was commanded to do SO by the voice
of God" has written a history OF his
life. He is said to have underscored sec
tions of his autobiography tending to
show that he is insane.
Schmidt prepared the biographical
sketch at the request of DIR. Percy L.
Lichtenstein, one of the physicians of
the Tombs who. as a witness for the de-
fense. expressed a belief today that the
discredited priest is insane.
DR.. Lichtenstein said that the prisoner
had lkened himself to Christ, and de-
cIared that he wanted to be crucified-
Lewis Ham. once an organist at the
Church Of st. Boniface, who has been
described as Schmidt's closest friend,
said he often attended dances with
Schmidt, and that occasionally they went
10 vaudeville shows.
II now is considered certain that the
defendant will be permitted to go on the
witness stand
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Magistrate Murphy on the application of
Deputy Police Commissioner Newburger.
who alleged that the show was in viola
tion OF the penal laws concerning the pro-
lection OF public morals.
A complaint against the show was dis
missed last Tuesday by Magistrate
Teneyck- Several leading suffragists
testified that the play was educational.
Representatives of the American Vigil
ance Society and the Florence Critten-
den Mission claimed that the play would
have harmful effect upon the young.
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ARCTIC PARTY
BELEVED1OS7
Capt. Bartlett and Twenty
FIVE on Karluk Caught in
Grinding Ice.
.STEFANSSON NOT ABOARD
Explorer. from the Far North Fear
Peary's North Pole Navigator
viii Not Return.

Seattle, Wash, Dec. H.-The Canadian
exploring vessel Karluk. with Capt Rob
ert Bartlett. Peary's north pole naviga-
SHARED in the grinding ice that Is ever
drifting into the unknown region. the
Karluk, il is believed. is wandering
through the ancient graveyard OF the
north, and, 1t is feared. never VIII be
seen. again. She is provsioned for three
years and has on board the largest SCI
entific stan ever taken on an arctic ex-
petition
OF mere than 100 ships caught In what
men of the north call the Death Lane OF
the Arctic" as Capt. Bartletts vessel Is
The Washington herald., 1913-12-20
WOMAN ACQUITTED OF MURDER
Mrs. Sing Held Not Guilty. of sIay.
ing Chinese Husband.

Chicago, Dec. 1.-Mrs. Alice Davis Sing,
white woman, walked out of court a
free woman this afternoon.
Her trial for the murder of Charlie
Sing, her husband, a wealthy Chinese
restauranteur, came to a sudden end
when the court directed the jury to bring
in a verdict Of not guilty.
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WATCH COMPANY LOSES SUIT.
Court of Appeals Decides Retailer
Can Cut Prices.

New York. Dec. 1s.-Lower prices for
watches may result from decision In
the Federal court here today. The United
States Circuit Court of Appeals decided
that the waltham Watch Company, OF
Waltham, Mass, could not force Charles
A. Keene, a New York jeweler, to stop
selling watches at a price less than that
set by the manufacturers for domestic
trade.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-20
AUSTRIAN ENVOY RETURNS.
Ambassador Damba Say. Wilson Ha,
Free Rein negarding Mexico.

New York. Dec. 1s.-His ExceIlency c.
Damba, Austrian Ambassador to the
United States. who has been spending
q vacation m vIenns. arrived today on
the Lusitania. He said he thought that
President Wilson had sufficient power on
land and sea to do whatever he thought.
was right in the Mexican situation. He
also said that he doubted whether such
a thing as constitutional election would
be possible in Mexico.
He said he was very much interested
in emigration from his country here.
and that he thought the steamship agents
there exaggerated the chances of for
eigner in this country, when trying TO
induce peasants to emigrate.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-20

Panama, Dec. 19.-Miss Elaine Gold
woman swimmer of America, is elated
over the success of her latest feat.
She has just ended her swim of the
Panama Canal, having completed the
last lap, from Mirahores locks to Bal
boa. a distance of five and seven
tenths miles. in two hours and five
minutes. Col Goethals refused to per-
init Miss Golding to swim through
Culebra Cut, as he considered this part
of the course too dangerous.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-20
WHITE SLAVE FILM STOPPED
New York Police Locking for the
Producer.

New York. Dec. 1s.-The motion picture
play, THE Inside OF the White Slave
Traffic" at the Park Theater was
stopped tonight by the police. his ac-
tion followed the issuance OF a warrant
for the arrest OF Samuel London, the
producer. The warrant was issued by
The Washington herald., 1913-12-20
FORMER PAPAL DELEGATE Ill

Rome, Dec 19-Cardinal MartinellI.
former papal delegate to the United
States. and prefect of the Sacred Con-
gregationof Rites, is i'll.
He took a turn for the worse today.
He is sixty-five years old.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-20

As universal danger signal a Denver
firm has designed and copyrighted signs
bearing human hand. across the palm
of which appear the words Safety
First" !.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-20
GERMAN ARMY OFFICER JAILED
Severe Punishment for Lieutenant
Who Caused AIsace Trouble.

Berlin, Dec. 1a.-Lieut. Baron Won
Foerstner, the German army officer whose
actions started the trouble between the
military authorities and the citizenry of
Alsace was court-martialed today and
sentenced to forty-three days imprison-
ment
The specific charge against him was
slashing a crippled shoemaker with his
sword.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-20

Sapoleon's name is still one that fires
the French heart. His tomb attracts
larger crowds than any other show place
in Paris
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TRANsFER FISH 10 poToMAC
sPortsmen seine Canal Prior ts
Drawing on of Water.

stseiai TO Tue Washington Herald.
Haserstown. Md, Dec. 19-Frank
Adams and a party of sportsmen are
seining the pools in the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal at Dillinger's Whitewater and
transferring the bass and other valuable
fish they catch to the Potomac River.
Seining parties arel doing the same
thing at various places along the canal
BY this means many bass that Otherwise
would perish when the water has been
drawn from the canal at the close OF
navigation, are saved.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-20
BURN VICTIM IN HIS HOME.
Robbers shoot wealthy Farmer an.
Set Fire To House.

Harrisburg. Pa. Dec. 1s.-with a bullet
hole under his left arm. and his legs
burned to crisp. the body Of John e.
Bush was found lying in burning farm
house near Ingienook today.
Robbery is believed to have been the
motive. as a large sum Of money the
aged farmer had hidden in his house is
missing.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-20

Iron ore mined In 1872 in the United
States amounted to 55.l50,17 long tons.
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Guatemala has now an intercontinental
line from the Caribbean sea to the Pa
c.fic. This is. with the exception of the
Panama railroad, which is about forty
miles long. and the Tehuantepec line.
which is 1S6 miles long, the shortest of
all the roads which connect the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans. Its total mileage is
less than 30 and it runs from Puerto
Barri ) on the Caribbean sea to Guate-
maa City on the top of the pass.
thence on over the mountains and thence
to San Jose de Guatemala, the port on
the Pacific. The distance from Barrios
to the capital is 1913 miles, and from here
To San Jose it is just under seventy five
miles.
Regular trains are running over both
these roads. and when Secretary Knox
was here he crossed the continent that
way. He was taken from one ocean to
the other on special cars with pilot en-
gines running along in front to forestall
any danger of accident, and-the unkind
say-to be sure that no dynamite mines
had been planted to blow up the train.
The road was decorated for the occasion
and was lined with palm branches. flags
and school children professions from one
end to the other There were bands at all
of the stations and when the cars passed
along the shores of Lake Amititlan a fleet
of canoes manned by Indians Went
through certain maneuvers in his honor
The road from Guatemala City To the
Atlantic is now largely owned by Minor
c. Keith and other capitalists. supposed
to be associated with the United Fruit
Company. and l am told that they have
made arrangements to acquire the other
roads of Guatemala. This is the Guate-
mala road, which was formerly called the
Northern railway. Its first section was
laid out and built by an American engi-
neer named Miller. 1t was begun in 1884
as a government project. and 1t was then
provided that every Guatemalan should
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Boys | can't speak. but | can vote,
and that's all they want al WeStmin-
ster.'' He made his appearance at West
minister the next day. and he has been
voting steadily ever since.
bury shows what happens to member
who displays any independence. Ians-
bury is a sound liberal. although Il little
erratic. He represented the London con-
stituency of Bow and Bromley, and when
he was making his campaign at the gen
cral election Lloyd George. the chan
cellor of the cXchequcr. went down into
the constituency aud spoke for him.. re-
ferring to him as my friend, I.ansbulI.
I.ansbury Is an ardent woman suffragist.
party on this question. although he was
sound on most of its other measures. He
also declared his opposition TO the sitting
of debate and the rule of the caucus, and
he determined to test the feeling of his
constituents. He resigned his seat and
ran for recollection. Not single liberal
member of parliament went down to help
him. and the local liberal organization
a lesson to Lanshury and all other
offenders against party discipline OF
course, LansburY was beaten.
As corolary to this state of affairs IN
parliament. the standard of ability in the
house of commons has declined. Many
independent men have dropped out OF
public life altogether. one of these Is
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NATIVES ALONG GUATEMALA RAILROAD

Caribbean and the capital 1t is 1oo miles
inland, lying al the foot If the mountains
and only 600 feet above the sea. During
the next ninety miles we went upward
over go feet. and here at Guatemala
City we are just about a mile high.
The scenes on the Guatemalan rail-
road are interesting. The passengers
consist of Indians. half-breeds, or ladi-
nos, and whites. who are few and far
between. The cars are first and second
class, and we had at the end of the
train little parlor car. the extra charge
for which was about Sos per day.
spent part of the journey in the sec
ond-class car. The seats were mucn
like those of a street car, consisting OF
long benches running under the win
dows and n back-to-back bench in the
center. Here most of the passengers
were Indians negroes. They We're
dress a in cotton, and the Indians had
high straw hats with crowns shaped
like a sugar loaf. There were many
bareheaded Indian women. Both men
and women were smoking cigars or
cigarettes. Their baggage was hung up
on hooks over their heads. An Indian
newsboy in his shirt sleeves passed
through the car. selling candy and beer
At one of the stations company OF
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Joking With Royalty.

THOMAS CARLYLE observed tha,
kings are ii to joke WI" but there
have nevertheless been plenty OF jokers
SO audacious as to Josh" royalty with
impunity. Indeed. there have been rulers
with a well developed sense ot humor.
such as Charles III. capable of enjoying a
sally at their expense.
1t is related that one day when Charles
was inspecting a warship al Chatham he
asked killigrew: Don't you think that
/ should have made good shipwright?"
Charles was proud of his reputed skill in
naval architecture, and. no doubt by
this query sought compliment. Blu.
killigrew. who was nothing OF a courtier,
replied instead:
II have always thought that Your
majesty would do better at any trade
than your own.
A lively example OF French retort to
royalty is afforded by the story OF Mar
shall Bassompierre and Louis Kill The
marshal had given his ma jesty an ac-
count of his embassy to Spain setting
forth the manner i'm which he had en-
tered the Spanish capital mounted on
mule. AN ass seated on a MULE eN-
claimed Louis with a laugh Yes. SIR
replied the marshal, land the joke of IL
was | represented your
Good old Queen Bess, it appears, had
a pretty Wit, which she was by no means
loath to exercise upon her subjects. In
one verbal duel at least, Elizabeth got
the worst of 1t. Observing in the gar
dens a courtier to whom she had PROM
Used promotion that had not materialized.
her majesty thrust her head out of the
window and called to him:
What does man think of. Sir Ed
ward. when he thinks of nothing?"
"Of a woman's promise your maiestyr'
was Edwards response.
Among the neatest of retorts to royalty
whereof we have record was that al
legged to have been made to the Prince
of Wales, afterward King William ".
by the secretary of the admiralty
William had been bantering the secre-
tary for some time at table. When I
am king" said he, you shall not be
secretary to the admiralty What do you
say to that?"
God save the king" rejoined the witty
secretary.
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dant. and Nature has on her seven-league
boots Palm trees "a hundred feet high
wall the railway. and the vegetation is
the most luXuriant to be found in the
tropics. After a few miles OF such
scenery you enter the great banana
estates, and the ears fan the leaves of
banana plants from thirty to forty feet
high. many of them loaded with fruit.
There is perhaps forty miles of such rid
ing, and then you come to the mountains.
where the vegetation is dryer and
many herds of cattle are feeding upon it.
The scenery now suddenly changes. 1t
is almost like crossing from the valley
of the Nile into the desert. In the valley
the rainfall is over 100 inches per year.
On the highlands there is almost no rain,
and as You ascend the mountains You pass
through a region like the desert lands
of New Mexico or Arizona. The ground is
dry and cacti abound. The trees are sill
yer gray. There does not seem to be
enough moisture to color the leaves. The
only green spots are along the beds of
the streams We can still sec the Mota-
qua river, but beyond it's banks is the
desert. In it's upper course the river looks
not unlike the Jordan. and the vegeta-
ton is no more luXuriant than that which
lines the famed river of Palestine.
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in harness" Local men of wealth, as a
rule, are not sufficiently broken to reins.
and the result is that the central office
sends down IL candidate who is quite I'M
known to the voters, but whose reiia bil-
ity as a voting machine is warranted. AS
each party does the same thing, the vot-
ers have no personal choice and cast their
ballots on strict party lines. Thus an
automatic majority is maintained at
Westminster.
All this is killing the public interest in
parliament and is also preventing the dis
covery of new talent. Although the pres
ent liberal government has been in power
for seven years, it has produced few new
men. The composition of the cabinet Is
practically the same as 1t was at the be-
ginning. There have been changes of
posts, of course, but they have simply
been exchanges, and the cabinet as a
whole is the same.
On the whole, too, the liberal group OF
oligarchs is no more really democratic
than the tory group. With one or two
exceptions they belong to the same social
class. meet daily in the same clubs and
drawing rooms and have the same ideas
and ideals Lord Crewe, the present sec
rotary of state for India, is as great an
aristocrat as Lord Lansdowne, who was
the last tory foreign minister.
Sir Edward Grey. the liberal foreign
minister, is as highly connected as Mr..
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WAGNER'S DUCKING
SAVED PRIMA DONNA

KING LOUIS of Bavaria insisted
upon being the patron OF Richard
Wagner. the composer. Some of the
manifestation of kindness in which the
king INDUCED We're not gratifying TO
Wagner. When the king shut himself
up with Wagner at Hohenschwangen. re-
fusing to see his ministers. when he or
dered midnight performances of the Wag
merriam works at the Theater Royal for
himself alone, Wagner, who had an ear
for the murmurs of the multitude, must
have unused uncomfortably on the fate
which is apt to overtake royal favorites
n times OF popular commotion.
Baron Won PiretZchner, the premier and
minister of the kings household. once
wrote to him peremptoriy: Il must see
he king this afternoon, so arrange the
matter without fail" but Wagner had
no more power to arrange an audience
with the king than he had to bestow a
lock of the monarchs hair.
An eminent musician, now residing in
Germany, tells of little adventure,
which, il is thought, has never been pub
lshed, which once cost Wagner bad
ducking. and might have had still worse
results The incident illustrates the pre-
carious footing on which favorites stand
with sovereign highly sensitive as to
his dignity.
A water-party by moonlight had been
organized on the lake near King Louis
summer palace, and a celebrated prima
donna had been invited to sing some OF
the duets from Tristan and Isolde" with
the king Wagner. in his fancy dress.
and a page who sculled, completed the
quartet in the royal boat
1t was all very poetical, and the lady,
carried away by the romance of the oc-
casion, made so bold as to administer
gentle caress to the king, who resented
this breach of etiquette by push which
sent the singer overheard.
Wagner plunged in after the soprano,
whose tuneful voice was being raised in
rare form. and succeeded in rescuing her.
But 1t was a doleful party that pres
entity stepped on shore-Isolde sobbing
and wringing her clothes. the meister-
singer creaking in his shoes. Tristan muir
muring as he stalked away with an in
jured air, and the page, no doubt, laugh
ing In his sleeve. after the manner of
his irreverent kind.
Wagner used to say that the king had
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the policy Of the ruling class in England
10 "co-opt ability whenever il could
be found and the co-opted members have
soon been absorbed and their humble
origin forgotten.
The same process is going on now and
Is fastened by the decay Of democracy
1t is no longer possible for an able man
to make a reputation I'm the house o"
commons as tribune Of the people
His best periods are cut short by the
guillotine. and, no matter how enthusiasts
tically he begins, he must soon lose al
hope when he sees his efforts brought 10
naught by the power of the party ma
chine A parliament of Tom Taylors.
who can vote but not talk, Is the IDEAL
of the successful English politician today.
Copyright. 1913. hy Curtis Brown
always given him more than he should
have dreamed of asking: but that he had
been cured OF proffering requests by the
significant tone I'm which his majestr
said 'Neln." the first time he was asked
for something which II did not suit him
TO grant.