The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-05-11
WILL SEARCH FOR
LOST EXPLORERS
RUSSIA TO SEND THREE YES
SELLS TO ARCTIC REGION IN EF-
FORT TO LOCATE sEOoFF.

st. Petersburg, May 9.-The gov
ernment has decided to send the
steamers Hertha and Andromeda anC
the Tatiana to search for the Arctic
explorer, Lieut. Sedoff, who started
for the North Pole two years ago
supposedly attempting the use OF
polar bears as draught animals.
The relief expedition will be com
manded by Capt Isslianof 1t will first
proceed to the Pankratieff Islands on
the coast of Nova Zembla, and il
Lieut.. Sedoff should not be there, the
Hertha will take the stores from the
Tatiana and fifty Siberian dogs and
go to Franz Josef land, while the
Andromeda cruises northward along
the coast of Nova Zembla to Cape
Galania, the Tatiana meanwhile re
turning to Archangel.
In case of need the Hertha will
winter at Franz Josefland, making
expeditions by sledge and in a hydro,
aeroplane.
If these efforts prove fruitless, a
store will be erected and the Hertha
will return in the fall of 1915 to Arch
angel.
An expedition is also being sent to
the Karische coast to search for Cap
tain Brussiloff and Russanoff, who are
also missing.
Contents of Tostoy's Library.
NJ Bulgakoff, formerly secretary of
Count Tolstoy, who has been lectur-
ing on the contents of the great writ
er's library, says it numbered 10000
volumes in thirty-two languages. The
Russian section comprised 3,5O5
works, the English 3,415, the French
1,G45 and the German COZ.
Among the manuscripts found by
NJ. Bulgakoff after Count Tolstoy's
death was the scenario of play en-
titled Peter Mytar." The chief char
acter is a man who has devoted his
life solely to the acquisition of wealth.
He has performed no good works.
He falls seriously i'll and one night
in a dream sees himself being weighed
in the scales on the day of judgment.
The scales are TUNED in his favor by
an old beggar man who lays in them
a loaf which Peter Mytar threw at his
head to get rid of him Peter awakens
and recoyers.
He becomes as openhanded as he
was close-fsted before, although his
wife and others endeavor to persuade
him that his lavish generosity only eX-
cites envy and jealousy among the Re
cipients. Eventually he allows himself
to be sold into servitude. A friend
discovers his whereabouts and then
lie "hies away or disappears"
May "Snk" a Sea.
The scientific world in Russia has
for some time been occupied with the
sinking of the Caspian sea. The sur
face of the Caspian, which lies TWEEN
Iy seven yards below sea level, has
since June, 1910, become continually
lower.
The shrinkage is now even begin
ming to be inconyenient for naviga-
tion, as steamers in many places can
not reach the landing stages. Tech
nical Investigations have failed to find
convincing explanation, though Prof
Shokaliski, commissioned by the gov
ernment to study the subject, has as
certained that the amount OF water
contributed by the rivers flowing into
the Caspian-especially the Volga-
has considerably diminished. Ii is
therefore, possible that the river
water flowing into the sea is not suf-
fcient to make good the loss caused
by evaporation.
Children Morphine Fiends.
Or. Starckolitzky, who has been
lecturing before the Medical Society
at Blagovestchensk on the spread OF
the morphia habit in the Amur terri
tory, said children were addicted TO
it before reaching their teens.
In one prison statistics showed that
of every 1000 prisoners about 300
were morphia victims
The same proportion was found
among hospital patients.
\ large number of morphia clubs
existed at Blagovestchensk and it was
a common sight to see morphia mani
acs making injections in the open