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great eastern precipice. We had TO
brace ourselves desperately to keep
from being swept bodily from the
mountain.
No words can describe the terrible
ma jesty of that storm. The terrific
buttresses of the mountain produced a
booming roar continuous in its in
tensity.
The hurricane struck the western
face of the peak with awful force and
was flung up over the summit ridge
with ever-increasing velocity. In the
great void beneath the eastern preci-
pices no doubt the wind was whirling
in mighty gusts and eddies, while
every craig was vibrating like the
strings of giant harp.
The clouds Swirled around and over
and past us, driving their icy needles
through our thick clothing and chill
ing the blood in our veins. There
was nothing we could see but clouds.
and we sensed the desperate turmoil
about us only by the tear of the wind
against our bodies and it's boom upon
the cliffs.
Holding the position we had gained
by supreme effort and standing close
together, we hurriedly discussed the
situation. To persist was suicide.
There was no shelter either on the
first or the main summit. If a man
were TO survive the night he must
do it in the teeth of the hurricane
with no protection.
Even If one could avoid being actu-
ally blown from the mountain, he
must inevitably perish from the in
tense cold that was sure to prevail
during the long hours of darkness. 1t
would take the storm hours to sub
ed n IL OBJ
And. if anything, it was still on the
| increase. A fire could never be started
| in such gale. and even If it could our
| illumination could not be seen through
that tumultuous rush of clouds.
If we had had ourselves alone TO
think of, we might have been justified
in taking such risks as we were will
ing to assume. But there were others
TO consider. There was but one thing
to do. We must go back.
Turning cautiously, lest the wind
catch us again and throw US over the
eastern brink, we worked slowly back
to the point of boulders. We were still
reluctant to return, but we knew it
must be done. Carefully we won our
way downward, but we found no re-
lief from the storm. We had the ad-
vantage now, however. of not having
to stop for breath and there was no
longer the exhaustion due to climbing
efforts. When we reached the saddle
the gale was still so fierce that the
boom of the wind around the lava cliffs
was like the roar of mighty water
fall.
We were hours in working our way
down the great lava backbone and in
getting to camp. We found the other
men there with a roaring fire in the
shelter of timbered ridge. Looking
back to the mountain, there was moth
ing to be seen but the battling clouds.
At camp the wind was mercilessly
whipping the treetops.
Late in the evening the clouds
cleared for time and the upper part
of the peak stood clear and cold in the
frosty air. But by the time darkness
fell, low, dense clouds were again rush
ing up the western face and over the
summit ridge with the speed of an eX-
press train.
In the morning the wind had
died, but the mountain stood out white
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of Brushes With Death Heights the Pacific Northwest

placed the unconscious woman upon
him. and he clasped his arms around
her to hold her firmly in place.
/ then strapped their ankles tightly
together and tied a short rope just
above their feet. A strap was fas-
tened about each of Loomis' arms at
the shoulder and a man detailed TO
come slightly behind on either side to
act as a sort of guy to keep the tobog
gan in the proper course. Another
man was sent few yards ahead to
scout for icy places beneath the snow.
We were then ready.
X \: r
TAKING hold OF the rope, l started
down the great slope, dragging the
man and woman after me. The day
had been a reasonably warm one for
that altitude, and the snow was quite
soft on top, although. as ! have said
before, there were occasional patches
of ice just beneath the surface. Had
the snow been hard on top what we
did would have been impossible.
We were soon whiZzing down the
mountainside. The rocks on either
hand few by, and a glance now and
then backward at the point of the
first summit showed it shooting higher
and higher into the air. Had not our
situation been so serious, 1t would
have been exhilarating, this flying
dash down the long slope of a great
Western snow peak, but II was a race
against night, with a human life as
the prize.
/ was under much apprehension as
10 how it might be faring with poor
Loomis, but we were making speed,
and speed just then was very essen
tiaI. so we dared not stop to find out.
We had soon found that there were
sufficient men to control the strange
toboggan and 10 keep it from gaining
dangerous speed. When we found
this out we no longer put a check upon
the rate at which we were capable of
going We exerted ourselves TO the
limit Of our capacity.
Down and down we plunged. The
inhospitable summit rose farther and
farther behind, the timbered foothills
We rushed in a few minutes over a
distance that had groNnd from us in
terminable hours OF toll on the ascent
In the very nature of things, such
vigorous measures must soon bring re
suits. The work was exciting but
short. How long it took us l do not
know. Our ascent was measured in
hours: the descent was measured in
minutes.
Presently, to our unspeakable relief,
the saddle appeared close at hand.
| This was made apparent by the lessen
| ing of the slope and a consequent
| lessening of our speed. Ere long, in
stead Of having to check the toboggan.
! began TO have to pull. Then came a
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average of 266 persons die of tubercu-
losis every day. There are really
more than that, for we have only the
registration area from which to COM
pute, and there is no way of telling
how many additional deaths take
place outside the registration area, nor
how many are never registered.
The discoverer Of the new treatment
is now about As years old. He has
studied medicine, but had given it up
for the law, because of his horror of
yivisection experiments. About 16
years ago he visited a friend who was
dying of consumption in a hospital,
and was SO profoundly impressed by
the sight of the other consumpttves
in the ward, all of them doomed, that
he thereupon set to work to discover
the poison of tuberculosis.
tuberculosis is caused by a germ or
bacillus which gives out violent poi
son or toxin. No man had been able
to isolate the poison. The toxins of
many other diseases-diphtheria and
lockjaw, for instance-had been found,
isolated, cultivated in glass tubes; but
the germ of tuberculosis. cultivated
outside the body, made no toxin. In
the body it was deadly; outside the
body quite harmless.
X y
THIS last fact had a new mea ming
for Spahlinger: he reasoned that
the tuberculosis germs gave out tkeir
toxins in the body for some definite
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Queer Lead Mine.

a UNIQUE and profitable lead
mine" is being worked in an
abandoned cornfield long used as a
target range by a Western trapshoot
ing club. according to Popular
Mechanics. over the traps from
which clay pigeons are flung an al
most steady hail of shot has been
poured for years by sportsmen in
practice and contests. The pros
pectors" are recIaiming tons of this
lead with a sluicing machine of the
type that has panned many millions
of dollars worth of gold from thn
streams of the Pacific Coast. Since
most of the metal pellets lie within
six inches OF the surface of the
ground, pay dirt" was struck imme-
diately with the first shovelful of soil
lifted. It is estimated that approx
nateIy 80 tons of lead shot are scat
tered within the limits of the range.
and a value of So 900 accordingly has
been placed on the mining rights.
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tne Spanllnger method
~ seems, at the present
moment, the most hope
full and promising"
This IS the report made by the
medical committee of the House of
Commons. which has just returned
from a trip to Switzerland, where il
made an official investigation for the
English Parliament of DIR. Henry
Spahlinger's serum treatment for the
cure Of the white plague" The
members are so enthusiastic about
the practicability of the thing that
they have recommended raising $780,
600 to aid this Swiss scientist. whose
system of treatment has a record ap-
parently of curing so per cent of all
cases to which 1t is applied.
DR.. Spahlinger is in financial diff
culties. He has steadfastly refused to
reveal the formula of his serum to any
commercial companies-thoughr recent
ly he was offered $4,000, ,000-becsuse
he fears that the process would be ex-
plotted, made unavailable to the poor,
and impaired by business haste. So
he keeps his secret, though all his
own money and the fortune of his
family have been sunk in 1t, and his
house is about to be sold over his head
for debt
Perhaps the money may be raised
in time to save the little laboratory in
Geneva where this seemingly revolu-
tionary work Is being carried on.
The appreciate the Importance of
this discovery, If it be as real as it
appears, we have only to reflect that
in the United States alone on an
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the peril and romance of noun
tain climbing so wildly called to
public attention by this Summers
expedition TO Mount Logan is graph
ically set forth here by c. f. Rusk,
who has faced death many times i'll
scaling mountains of the great Pa
cifiC Northwest.
Over steep, ice-coated surfaces
where a misstep means almost in
stant destruction and where a blast
of wind may cost a man his footing
and send him over d precipice Mr.
Rusk has made his way, gathering
the experiences and impressions
which he recounts in this and two
subsequent articles
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Plenty of Room.

THERE is still quite a bit Of room
in the world The whole popu
lation OF the world might be dropped
into Lake Ontario and each person
would have no less than 90 square
feet to himself in which to float or
swim-or sink. Even then the sur
face would rise only half an inch. So
says A. $. Eve, a Canadian pro
fessor of physics, and he has the FIG
ures to prove it.
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Buchanan and possibly one or two
whom do not now recall remained to
help Loomis and me. Loomis once
more lay down in the snow, again we
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But the chill of night was coming on
apace, and we must get down.
The others had been started on the
descent, but Goddard. White, Devine
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'THE WIND CAUGHT Us WITH
INDESCRIBABLE FURY; WE
HAD TO BRACE OURSELVES
DESPERATELY TO KEEP FROM
BEING HURLED OVER THE
GREAT EASTERN PRECIPICE-
SWEPT BODILY FROM THE
MOUNTAIN
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P Parliament's Medical Committee
Backs Plan to Cure White Plague
BY GASTON GAUTIER.

F. all known methods OF
combating tuberculosis,
the Spahlinger method
~ seems, at the present
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BY &. +. RUSk.

N6 CUNT HOOD had been illumi
Nh mated and ! wanted to illumi-
V nate Mount Adams, in the
4 State of Washington. | had
Evening star., 1925-04-16

Pizarro, conqueror of Peru, which she
will present to the city. The statue
was executed for the San Francisco,
Calf, Exposition, and will be cast in
bronze in the United States before
its presentation.
The mayor of Trujillo and other
local authorities welcomed Mrs. Rum
Sey and large party of her friends,
among them the Duchess OF Suther-
land. Thomas Hitchcock, jr., and Mrs.
Martha Hyde, and the Duke and
Duchess of Alba.
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gave it's Endorsement TO the schools
and reelected to the board Of directors
five men and elected two new women
who were favorable 10 the present pol
icy Of the schools.
The charges that evolution is being
taught came UP when the report Of
Graceland College at Lamont, Iowa
was submitted for approval After
some debate the Endorsement OF the
school was given.
Evening star., 1925-04-16

distillers the same as Canadian resi-
dents, became effective yesterday.
interpretations of the new act,
which places supervision of the pur
chases of liquor made by individuals
under the liquor board, allow citizens
of the United States to purchase any
quantity they. deSire-not from the
government liquor stores, but from
brewers or distillers' licensed by the
Dominion government.
Evening star., 1925-04-16

Police said Dafuno confessed to the
slayings. alleging that Mrs. Stabo for
merly had been in love with him, but
that recently, following his return
from Italy with a wife. she had
threatened to kill him. Meeting the
couple on the street last night, Da-
funo told police, Mrs. Stabo insulted
him and threatened his life. Dafuno
drew a revolver, he said, and fired
five times. The victims died almost
instantly.
Evening star., 1925-04-16
AMERICANS CAN BUY
SASKATCHEWAN LIQUOR
New Law, Now in Effect, Puts
United States Citizens on Par
With Canadians.
Rv the Associated Press.

bV IIIt IAssUCIH Itu fftss
REGINA, Saskatchewan. April 16.-
Saskatchewan's new liquor act, which
automatically repeals the Saskatche-
wan temperance act and enables citi-
zens of the United States to purchase
liquor from authorized brewers and
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u. S. WOMAN SEEKS SITE
FOR PlZARRO'S STATUE
Mrs. Mary H. Rumsey to Present
Shrine to General to City
of Trujillo.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MADRID, April 16.-Mrs. Mary
Hartman RumSey of New York,
widow of Charles Cary Rumsey,
sculptor and international polo player,
visited Trujillo yesterday to select the
site for a monument for Francisco
Evening star., 1925-04-16

The first woman in the Cnited
States to become a county clerk was
Mrs. Annie White Baxter of Car
thage, Mo, who was elected to the
office in 1890.
Evening star., 1925-04-16
MORM0NS BLOCK FIGHT
ON DARWIN IN SCHOOLS
Chur { Conference Ignores Plea
to Oppose Teaching of
Evolution.
By the Associated Press.

INDEPENDENCE. Mo, April 16-
Charges that evolution was being
taught in their schools were ignored
by the conference of the reorganized
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints Yesterday, when the conference
Evening star., 1925-04-16

Queen Mary was one of the first
women in England to introduce va
cuum cleaners and electric cooking,
cleaning and washing devices into her
homes.
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MAN AND WIFE KILLED
IN QUARREL IN STREET
Assailant, Captured, Says Woman
Was Jealous of Him, and
Threatened Life.
Nv The Assnciated pr,ss

- N''S -hSSotidIeu TESS.
JEANNGTTE, Pa. April 16.--A
quarrel last night resulted in the
death of George Stabo. AZ. and his
wife, Rose, SO, and the arrest of Tony
Dafuno, 2S, who is held for ques-
tioning.
Evening star., 1925-04-16

Mrs. George Howard, mayor of
Marble Falls. Tex, is one of the few
woman municipal executives in the
Southwest.
Evening star., 1925-04-16

Believe it or not. A San Francisco
man wants a divorce from his wife
because she refuses to talk.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-02-05
Kansas Potato Growers
Are Treating More SEED

In the Kaw valley of Kansas, seed
potato treatment for control of tuber-
borne diseases has been found to bring
increased yield.
When agricultural extension workers
began demonstrating approved meth
DDS of treating the seed in the potato
growing communities, very few farm
ers In this section used this proven
tive measure. Method demonstrations
were followed by the growing of test
plots in which treated and untreated
seed was planted by farmers under
the direction Of extension workers
These test plots gave such farmers
and their neighbors an opportunity to
compare the results from the use of
treated and untreated seed. The num-
Der Of Kaw valley acres on which
treated seed potatoes were planted
has increased each year, according
to reports to the United States De
partment of Agriculture, from practi-
cally none in 1918 to more than 5000
acres in 1924.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-02-05
FARM NOTES
.@=-4@aRkE.7Es7-fE

Is the tractor radiator drained?
Publicity never made COW give
more milk.
Be sure that the poultry breeding
house is clean and sanitary.
Cover crops are safe fertility and
provide humus, so why not grow
them?
Save and apply to fields, especially
on thin spots, as much stable manure
as is possible.
Finding four-leaf clovers may be
lucky, but planting the three-leaf kind
is more profitable.
The registered live stock business IS
as sound and practical as the growing
of a crop from improved seed.
waste leaves from vegetables should
he thrown into the chicken yard, if
the chickens are kept in the pen all
tho time. Greens of most any
kind are enjoyed by the poultry and
# is claimed add to the egg produc-
ton. Much can be grown IN the base
ment.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-02-05
Scientists Finds Goiter
il Minnesota Chickens

Two cases Of that rarest of poultry
diseases, goiter, have recently been
diagnosed by DIR. H. G III. Kernkamp,
assistant professor of veterinary med
icine, University of Minnesota. Both
were in White Orpington hens which
came from the same farm in Ramsey
county.
In one Of the specimens the thyroid
gland had become so enlarged that 1t
pressed against the trachea and in
ferior larynx and caused the former to
become flattened The heart had also
become slightly displaced by the
growth and the lungs were pressed
against the walls of the thorax.
Records of the veterinary medicine
division at university farm show that
Of 2,4O9 autopsies on poultry sent IN
from all parts of Minnesota for inves-
tigation and study the last six years,
these two cases were the only ones
Of goiter observed in birds. Carpen-
ter veterinary scientist of California,
did not find single case Of goiter in;
1000 autopsies on chickens.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-02-05
Crop Production Behind
Increase in Population

Crop production in the United States
is not keeping pace with the annual
Increase in population, according to
figures just released by the United
States Department of Agriculture.
Total crop production has increased
ID per cent during the past twelve
years, but production per capita has
decreased about per cent.
The mass of crop production in
1924 as measured by an index number
Is 113 per cent Of the average for the
6ve-year period 1904, and In 1923
the figure was 10 per cent. The In
dex Of crop production per capita in
1924 Is 95 per cent of the average
for the five-year period, and in 1923
the index figure was "a per cent.
There was a decrease Of about one
fifth Of / per cent in acreage of crops
from 1923 to 1924 but production in
this period increased 1 per cent. The
trend Of crop production per capita
has been tagging since about 1915,
with the exception of 1920. the de-
partment says.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-02-05
Thorough Study of Oil
Emulsion as Insecticide

A thorough study of oil emulsions
for use as insecticides has been be-
gun by the bureau of entomology Of
the United States Department Of Agri-
culture during the past year, and inn
portant progress has been made, es-
pecially toward increasing the stabil-
ity Of emulsions in hard water and
lime-sulphur solutions. The investi-
cation of miscellaneous insecticides
has been continued at the laboratories
in Washington and at the nearby field
station at Silver Spring, Md, and co
operative tests on commercial scale
are made by the Washington labor
atories and various field stations on
new. or improved preparations. What
appears to be new contact insecti-
eide which will in many instances be
a suitable substitute for nicotine at a
lower cost has been developed by
two offices Of the bureau cooperative
". This insecticide mixes well with
oil emulsions and, it is believed, win
make an excellent spray for the de-
Iayed dormant treatment for the
simultaneous control of the San Jose
scale and apple aphids.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-02-05
Secret Of Storing Ice
for Use During Summer

When putting up Ice it is important
that it be well stored in the ice house.
Put the cakes or pieces as closely to-
gether as possible, and fill in the
cracks and holes between pieces of
ice. The whole secret of storing ice
is to prevent any circulation OF air
between the cakes.
Leave about one foot or more Of
space between the wall and the pile
of ice. This space should be filled
with sawdust, shayings, or chopped
straw which prevents the rapid melt
ing Of the ice, and also prevents the
water from keeping the ice house wall
wet, SO that it decays rapidly. There
must be passageway between the
pile Of ice and the roof to where the
air is to pass through freely.
AS electric power Is becoming more
common in country districts there Is
greatly increasing interest in the use
of artificial ice and electric refrigerat-
ing units, which are great deal more
convenient, and in the long run prob
ably as economical as natural stored
Ice
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-02-05
LAYING HENS NEED
PLENTY OF WATER

The laying hen needs an abundant
supply of fresh water at all times. An
egg is 65 per cent water, which means
that If the water supply is insufficient
the production is limited.
According to G. Lampman Of the
Wisconsin College Of Agriculture
flock OF 100 hens of average weight
will drink approximately 20 pounds Of
water per day when laying, which Is
over a quarter of a pound OF water
apiece.
Water should be supplied to the
hens In the early morning when feed
ing the flock. During the winter the
water should be heated until luke
warm or urtiI the chill is taken off.
Then at noon the water should be
heated up again by adding boiling wa
ter. Hens, like dairy cows, will not
drink enough water for efficient pro-
duction when the water is ice cold
The water should be given in an
open vessel on a platform which Is
above the litter. This platform should
NOT De near Tile uOOI VI NA-ANN"o 80
drafts are to be avoided. The water
in the dishes can be emptied out at
night after the hens have gone to the
rooSt.
There are some hen drinking foun-
tains on the market which are good
for the winter watering. The water Is
kept warm by the ''thermos" principle.
These have only small opening which
makes them hard to clean. Another
fountain that is being made by a Wis
consin manufacturing concern Is so
constructed that it can be heated by
either kerosene or electricity. The oil
lamp is a dangerous method TO use
md should be avoided, warns the
poultryman.
All drinking vessels should be kept
clean to avoid colds and epidemics in
the flock, especially during the Win
ter. A good method to follow is to