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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1927-11-10, Page 6o A Man Bulk Water Snider !1 J III c, n eh-’ .mo I I urned JIK th :nli they Arc- shes the Greely ;t resulted its that of $cue ships J fl 1 but ause IOW , on of 1' a ci Once Lost Explorers in I expedition to trace the fate of Frank- Bn. ~ ‘ " from found Lan ed, tale; had Sir were served tie re? for Hi! expediti in as g Frankll fought their way against iee and gules to reach and save a party of be­ leaguered m» n. Scott's Party Perished. A tale of high heroism this, yet the same can be said of almost every lost Schwatka traveled 3,200 miles Hudson’s Bay into the Arctic, skeletons where the nd r of white ome over hn Fix n*d, he ms on King ships, with >n wl e ice Un Lx the of seii aw a s »f will iSi—al .tastrnplu more r William destroy* kimo From An Australian Good English A Requirement Bones of Many Heroes in Polar Regions Have Reveal­ ed Tragedies Dyott to .Seek Fawcett, Reported Alive in Jungle. f Far into the fastness of tho jungle south of the Amazon River an expedi­ tion expects to- penetrate within the next few months in Foprch ef Colonel P. II. Fawcett, the British explorer, who had long been misiiag in that region, but who recently was reported to have contentedly retfl-'d down in the wilderness with his son.. The ex-; pedition is to be headed by Command­ er George Miller Dyott, whose party expedition in the history of explora- met with thrilling adventures on its tion. trip along the River of Doubt Brazil not long ago. It was only fifteen years qgo Ifi that tho Antarctic was being combed Hidden amid £()r traces of Captain Robert Falcon tho matter undergrowth are rumcred Scott, the British explorer, who had to be, the ruins of a lost civilization, attacked the great ice barrier behind and search for these, which Colonel which lies the South Pole. Fawcett was seeking ............. Roald when he lost' Amundsen was in he region at the touch with the world, will be pursued same time and won the race, leavipg ’ - . Near the river, *a record that with four men he hadby the Dyott party. Near acccr.ling lode. Are we time of a ingstone, Darkest Africa and refused to come base, out when found by Stanley? Or will. Blizzards swept down on another tragedy be written down on , men and the goiug was rough. the long list of missing explorers? man Evans flropped and died of a Numerous search parties have sought concussion, to find adventurers who disappeared; expedition after expedition has dared the ice packs of the Polar Sea or the bitter wastes of the Antarctic on the trail of gallant wanderers. Into snow field and jungle explorers have passed from the range of civilized contacts and many of them never have amazing, when the record is review- j _____ _____ ___ ed, is the fact that so many of the i fmal’camp" was made, pioneers should have s—coofled utuhixig <-v getting out of the wilderness in which ' to move 0Uk For four days the storm they hazarded their lives in behalf i ragedf and when it blew itself out the of trade routes, extension of frontiers, bodies of Scott, Wilson and Bowers treasure oi’ in the service of science j jay under the white mound of their ; tent. Eight months later the search- J ers found them. They found also the i journal of Scott, the last to die. It J said: “After all, Ave have given our i lives for our country. * * * We have J actually made the longest journey on s have been the first i The most exciting rescue of a lost the river,• a record that with four men to tradition, is a rich gold ’ arrived at the South Pole on Dec. 16, ’ 1911. Scott and his four companions course of doubled on their trail back toward the ’ Already ten mem- who vanished for years in bers Of the party had returned to the to hear in the ease similar to that of Liv-. main food depot. Scott’s Sea- Cap­ frost- The food ran out. tain Titus Oates, desperately bitten and knovring that he was doom­ ed, refused to let the party delay to help him along. If they halted, they , would all perish. “I'm going outside ( and may be gone some time,” he said • calmly and stepped out of the tent in- . to a howling blizzard. . It was the last been hoard from since.-” Most, e-^er 6een of Eleven miles from the depot the _________c __ ____ Again a bliz- pioneers should have succeeded in ■ zard rose, making it hopeless to try and geography.. A little group of the port of thirty years ago loon with three men drive northward on the wind in one of the most daring........ .............. attempts made to discover the Pole. ’ recOrd ' and we ___ “For a moment between two hills we i Englishmen at the j South’Pole.’ perceive a gray speck over the sea, ; ____w very, very far away, and then it final-' expiorer jS that of David Livingstone ly disappears,” wrote jm^eyewitneess . by Henry Stanley. . For years Liv- I ingstone had not been heard from. I He was somewhere in the heart of | Africa, ranging its dark interior and i searching for the headwaters of the I Nile. More than one expedition had gone after him and failed in its quest when James Gordon Benett of the New York Herald commissioned Stan­ ley to lead a search. Africa was a mystery to the white man in 1870 and the situation seemed hopeless. . At the head of a small band of armed natives Stanley penetrated the con­ tinent. The Finding of ’ Livingstone. Wild shouts and cries greeted him at Tanganyika when he marched in under the American flag—the first caravan to reach the village in years. A black man in a white shirt spoke to him in broken English. “Good morning, sir. I am the ser­ vant of Dr. Livingstone.” “Is he here?” burst from Stanley A The caravan swept on to the mar­ ket place. There sat an elderly i na flannel blouse. . Stanley, the cuer, raised his helmet. “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” “Yes,” said Dr.. Livingstone, bowing. Drawing room manners come to Darkest Africa and a classic of exploration had' been achieved. Livingstone would not leave the land in which he had been roving for five years, lost to the world. The fol­ lowing year he fell ill and was carried to a native village. There he was found one morning at 4 o’clock, kneel­ ing by his beside with the candle still burning. . David Livingstone, the5 de­ voted explorer, who had traveled 29,000 miles in Africa alone and had opened a territory of a million square miles to the white man, had held to the trail to the last. stood on the shores Virgo, Spitsbergen, and watched a Lal- to the cominencempJt of an expedi­ tion unique in history.. Salomon Auguste Andree, the Swedish engin­ eer, and his companions, Strindberg and Fraenkel, were off by air for the top of the world. - hast Word of Andree. A single carrier pigeon, shot down by the crew of a whaler, got through a. message from Andree dated two days later. The Arctic holds the lev.ct o£ the fate of the fliers just as it holds the bones of the men of the Erebus and the Terror, the ships of Sir John Franklin's expedition of 1S45, for which a search of more than twenty-five years was made. By the time all hope for the missing men had been given up the polar regions 'had been covered and mapped, providing the groundwork of information fol­ lowed by all explorers since. The British Government £980,000 spent in vain efforts to rescue Franklin; the Hudson's Bay Company financed a year's expedltiion; a quar­ ter of a million dollars was expended by private individuals in this coun­ try. The whole world waited, year on year, for news of the expedition, no one of whose 134 members escaped from the grip of the Arctic. Here was the grimmest tragedy in the history of exploration—a story of ships and men crushed by the forces of nature. S^pwly it became possible to piece together the terrible chronicle of the Arctic’s victory over the adventurers. Eskimos told of seeing two ships locked in the ice for years. One of them sank and the other was driven on the shore and broken up. Their stronghold was gone and the men of the Franklin expedition were left to fight their way as best they could out of the frozen wilderness. Their bones were found in ship’s boats, In tattered tents, on lonely peninsula. Tales of the strange white men who wandered over the vast fields of ice passed from Eskimo to Eskimo. Dr. John Rae, pressing into the Arctic in 1853, was told of a camp of horror Where thirty bodies wore found and the contents of the kettles spoke of the last resort of the desperate. Clues to Franklin. Spoons, buttons, medals, watches — mute relics of the expedition—were in many an Eskimo hut. Sir John Ross, leading a rescue party in his own yacht, found three graves on Beechey Island #and the first real clues to the fate of Franklin’s men— a camp site and 600 empty meat tins. Henry Grinnell, a New York mer­ chant, fitted out two expeditions and shut them north to 'join the search. Lady Franklin equipped five separate parties. At last, ten years after .the hunt be­ gan, Captain McClintock, in one of Lady Franklin’s ships, came on a figment of a record In a charm, It told of the death of Sir John Frank­ lin in June, 1847, and of the desertion of the ships In a last attempt 'to reach the mainland. The paper, dated April, 1848, listed the dddths so far as nine officers and fifteen men. One hundred and ten men were yet to die on the ide, In 1878 the Schwatka party from the United States went out as the last man res- also had Byrd sees in the airplane, he says, an instrument ....of peace. A flying ‘olive-branch, in fact ____ ..'■....■ ■ ■ V “I’ve decided; to put a check on your allowance.” “Thanks, old thing. Make it blank, will you?” Failure to Use It Means Dis­ qualification From University THE “SEA FLEA,” A HYDRO-AREOPLANE Crossed from France to England in 20 minutes. Draws- only three inches of water and weighs -2,600 pounds. It is- clqdmedt such a craft could, if built for the trip, cross the Atlantic with 100 passengers in-40 hours. Marcelin Berthelot contributions were of range and far-reaching than 1,200 treatises On Oct. 25 the world joined France in observing the centenary of the birth of Marcelin°Berthelot, chemist, philosopher and patriot. One of the pioneers of modern thermo-chemistry, agricultural chemistry and synthetic chemistry, his discoveries gave the evolution of science a new purpose and direction. Berthelot’s extraordinary effect. More stand to'his credit,, an indication of his enormous industry and of a spirit I encyclopedic in its scope. Many of these are now classics in the litera­ ture of chemistry. Despite the syn­ theses that had been effected before Berthelot's day, ’no less a chemist than Berzelius despaired of assemb­ ling molecules into organic com­ pounds similar to those of nature. "Organic” meant something intimate­ ly associated with life, and between the living organism and inert matter a chasm yawned that science saw lit­ tle hope of bridging, Berthelot’s bril­ liant syntheses ofalcohols, organic acids, benzene, ethylene, acetylene— syntheses of the very atoms of which organic nature was composed—start­ led chemistry* with their new possi­ bilities. If the chemist now wields a power over matter that seems little short of miraculous, it js partly be­ cause of Berthelot’s work. More than a mere experimenter, Berthelot realized the vast potentiali­ ties of his discoveries. “The domain in which chemical synthesis exercises its creative power is greater than that of nature herself,” he said. As he synthesized atoms, sd he synthe­ sized his conception of life and the universe' into a whole that saw in an amoeba and in a star two manifesta­ tions of tfite same matter. Interests Diversified. To the true research scientist, the class to wfiich Berthelot-^belongs, a discovery is but a key which will-un­ lock a new door in the unexplored house of science, ^an inspiration a3 well as an achievement. When he synthesized formic acid the inertia of his atoms struck him. At once his inquisitiveness‘was aroused. Out of the studies then begun came new dis­ coveries and theories that gave ther­ mo-chemistry a surer foundation. While Crookes painted his ..gloomy picture of a too fecund world starving because of its inability to feed its ever-increasing offspring, Berthelot saw the possibilities of fixing atmos­ pheric nitrogen and ’establishing a huge fertilizer industry and making two blades grow where buttons grew before. His quick imagination even conceived it possible to dispense with agriculture and with the slaughter­ house. Had he not himself succeeded in building up organic compounds? Might not some chemist of the future produce food out of nothing but the gases of the atmosphere? flfhus or­ iginated the conception of "meal pel­ lets,” since widely exploited. The German invasion of 1870 re­ vealed this extraordinary man in a new light. Besieged Paris made him President of the Scientific Committee of National Defense. In that capacity Jie tirelessly devoted himself to the task of defeating the enemy, to plac­ ing Paris in communication with the-. outer world, and to conducting re­ searches that laid the basis for the discovery of smokeless powder and the now accepted theory ol’ the action of explosives. Although he had no taste tor politics—the bickerings of ! the Chamber frankly bored him—he ' nevertheless served his country as I Minister of Public Instruction and ; Minister of Foreign Affairs. When he j celebrated his scientific, jubilee a | medal was presented to him that i bears on one face the inscription: ; Pour la Patrie et la Verite" In these I simple words France fittingly sum- med up a great investigator’s devo- I tion to his native land and to science. | --------- Gabby Gertie “Maybe you saw some curves and cut s^me corners, but it's not bo sharp to mow down a cop.” \ --------„ Foreign and Domestic Com- of our neighbor reports that the past month Australia pur- the largest ainount of radio Australian Goes Ahead Although Canada has been the leading customer of the U.S., the Bur- eu of merce during chased receiving sets, with 48,543 worthy Can­ ada being second with $38,390 and Ar­ gentina third with $33,684. Australia was also responsible for $25,519, the largest amount’ of money expended by a single country for radio tubes during the month.. Argentina and New Zealand were second and third, with 16,124 and $12,247, respectively. Argentina bought receiving set components to the extent of 57,242, Canada $32,709 and Australia $30,270. Receiving set accessories found a ready market in Canada, which pur­ chased $71,546 worth. Australia, with $27,434 worth, Was the next figure. . The total value of the different classifications was as follows: Re­ ceiving sets, $185,079; tubes, $86,190; receiving set components, $167,768, and receiving set accessories, $159,- 966. Radio apparatus to the amoUht of $3,402 was shipped to Alaska. Porto Rico received $5,751 worth Hawaii $2,873. and X • A Canadian judge, in a suit the recent Dempsey-Tunney ; has demanded proof in court that the bout actually took place. He evi­ dently was there. ; over affair, September is a glorious month in Australia, The orange blossoms scent the air; the wistaria and spirea begin their short Hyes; the bdnksia and cloth of gold roses are in splen­ did bloom; pink ones also; but the dark crimson roses are laggards. I At the month’s end, it is haymak­ ing time!? . Purple-fringed violets, as I they are called—those which close atj midday-—and a small, flesh-colored 'orchid, as well as everlasting flowers —which are Australian daisies—dot the plains. . . . Next month, tho wild jasmine shrubs on the track to the springs will be covered^ with yellow and cream flowers; 'then all the garden will be a bright tangle of seedlings —phlox, verbena, sweet peas—all kind-s of annuals. There will be car­ nations of every shade; the black fence will be a sheet of lilac thum- bergia; a pomegranate, in bud now, will be hanging out balls of vivid j red; the yellow amaryllis lilies will j have poked their heads out of their gredn sheaves, and there will be snowy branches of deutzla. I could make a. calendar, only that I have begun in the middle. But in November the cool, soft shades have gone. All the flowers are fiery red or yellow—geraniums, hibiscus, gladi- olae, tiger lilies, begonias, allamandas and pomegranates. Yet there are al­ leviations. The passion fruit is ripe, and so are the Cape mulberries and flat-stoned peaches. . . . Then comes December, when thermometer ranges one hundred grees in the verandah; when grass is brown and scorched, creeks dry. . . . Hailstones make a clatter on roof, and lightning plays on the wet boards of the verandah. There is a sudden and delicious chill. The blan­ ket has first frozen and then burst, scattering great jagged pieces of ice. The old plum-tree, which never bore, lies prostrate, and the garden paths are "carpeted with vine and mulberry leaves, When it is over, the whole earth, with all upon it, lifts up its voice in rejoicing. Hailstones are gathered in buckets ,and wrapped in blankets to ice butter and drinks for the morrow. And oh, what a paradise the verandah is on that evening after the storm! The air is filled with the voices of beasts and insects which have drunk their fill. The curlews are walling in the scrub, and.the swamp pheasant makes his gurgling nolSe by the la­ goon. There is a delicious sense of moistness and refreshment in the at­ mosphere. The verbena throws off stronger perfume, and the datura at the end of the verandah is oppres­ sively odorous. I am lying in the hammock. Near my feet is a Slab wall, where the^stag-horn ferns shoot out their anglers, and from the top of which the frogs flop heavily upon the boards. . . . Close to my head a ghostly-looklng pillar of rinkasporum rears itself, a mass of white bloom. There is no moon, but the brilliance of the starlight causes every outline to stand forth clear against the hori­ zon. One star seems poised upon Mount MarroonF It is a pointer of the Southern Cross, and the Cross it­ self lies over the mountain, while nearer, in central heaven, there is | he admits knowing that the stowaway Orion’s belt turned upside down. I always used to wonder what it would look like in England. Someone is singing within, a plaintive English ballad, in which there is an allusion to Charles’s Wain and a winter even­ ing. The words suggest the^ Un­ known—the far-away. Ice, snow, the Great Bear, holly and mistletoe, and Christmas waits. What have these to do with this languorous southern night.—Mrs. Campbell Praed, in “My Australian Girlhood.” Honolulu, Hawaii.—Wqrld-wlde in- j terest is being taken, by educators in I the adoption of strict requirements by i the University of Hawaii, which make disqualification from the university I possible for continued use of poor i English.| Similar requirements have proved i successful in the public schools of the4* territory for the past two years, and Dr. David L. Crawford, president of the university, announced that begin­ ning with the fall semester, the uni­ versity will extend direction of spoken and written English to all branchos of study, making good Eng­ lish a requirement in all classes with a separate inclusive report upon which wil be based each studentt’s standing with respect to use of Eng­ lish. This report, prepared by • a special English co-ordinator, will be used to require the students who show mark­ ed deficiency in English to undertake special work without credit in Eng­ lish studies, and upon continued de-1 flciency may result in the student be­ ing dropped from the university. The action of the university, which raises standards of English to a higher level than ever before, is based on the theory that a propel' un­ derstanding of the English language is a fundamental basis of Americanthe ] learning, and that higher branches of d®’ study cannot be undertaken without t“° • a thorough command of the language, th0 according to Dr. Crawford. j Our Canadian universities should take note and pay more attention to Reading and wRiting than in the past. the They Go Anyway- Stowaways Are Not Deterred By Prospect of Punish­ ment A problem for many steamship cap­ tains Is that of, dealing with stow­ aways. On one vessel on a recent trip from New York to San Francisco and return ■yjirteen stowaways were unearthed. Eight were found on the way to San Francisco and five more on the return voyage. Formerly the stoWaway was thrash­ ed and put in irons. This custom has been- ''dona away with, although the irons are still used on occasions. In most oases the stowaways' know this when discovered they will be put to work. All stowaways, after dis­ covery, receive the same treatment. They are taken to 'the bridge, where they are 'searched. A _ records Is made of the dlsc.ovefry—time, date, place and- by whom. These facts are entered in the ship’s log. Some of the .men are signed on as regular sea­ men ; others , work to pay their pas­ sage; very rarely a stowaway is found who has sufficient money to pay for his transportation. One of the captain's1 first- queries ■is whether the stowaway has a friend in the crew. If so the seaman men­ tioned Is brought -to the bridge? If I “My husband and I are going to be divorced. We own our house jointly. How shall we divide it?” “Divide it equally, of course. You keep the in­ side and give him the outside.” intended boarding the ship and made no move to prevent it he is nearly always “loggod" or fined. It is not an especially difficult task to board a ship, on duty at the know the entire stowaway has slipped aboard easy for him to- And a place in which to hide. Leaving the ship presents more of a problem. The stowaway (presuming that he has been discov­ ered in the course of the voyage), is now known.' In any event he cannot unceremoniously leave by the gang­ way. Sometimes he tries -to slip through a porthole; sometimes he hides in one of the huge rope nets used to carry freight from ship to pier. Ip-The quartermaster gangway does not crew and after a it is —,----------v--------------- Pat was over in England working with his coat’ off. There were two Englishmen working on the same rail-, road, so they decided to have a joke on the Irishman. They painted a donkey’s head on the back of Pat’s coat and watched to see him put it- on. Pat, of course, saw the donkey’s head on the back of his coat, and, turning to the Englishmen, said, “Which of yez wiped yer face on me coat?” Called Boardto the Attention of the of Health Hopkins imparts her practic-Mrs. ability, psychology and knowledge of art to her associates. Her enthusiasm and working plhns are infections.— From a reprint from the 'American Business Magazine. Time for Caution “What's that plane doin’ steerin’ fer us?” inquired the mate of the Barend- reciht as he sighted Miss Ruth Elder’s machine. “Better change yer course a point,” declared the skipper. “Y’nevor kin tell about these women drivers!” Days That Are Gone Forever ARM, HALIFAXOLD FORT At NORTH WEST X, from mother?” ..Gepevleve — “Yob, my boy friend*” ,e Y-j.- millionaire Baby Gorilla 15 ( “At Home” A baby named Bamboo in the star boardler in the Philadelphia Zoo and a most notable emigrant from1 the African jungles. Since his ax’-1! rival late in the Summer he has had many distinguished visitors, among' whom have been Raymond L. Ditapifsi' of the New York Zoo, George Vier- ' heller of the St. Louis Zoo, Edward' Bean of the Chicago Zoo and Dr. Wil­ liam L. Mann of the National Zoo in Washington. Professor R, M. Yerkes, the Yale psychologist, is arranging a visit and Professor J. H. McGregor of Columbia University 'is coming to “shoot” fiOO feqt of film for -use in teaching -his clashes /The Evolution of Man.” Bamboo is not impressed with his own . importance nor aroused to en­ thusiasm by the ^attention that is' showered upon him. Although he ap­ pears to be a little more than a year old, he is not a very uprightly young­ ster, He does not “cut up” before company, or show the delight in liv­ ing that ought to be characteristic of his age. He appears to take the busi­ ness of life quite seriously and while one may be mistaken, his heavy de­ meanor seems to indicate the unhappi­ ness of an expatriated ape. The Philadelphia officials are very anxious about his health. He cost the Zoo $6,'C'OO, apd the purchase was a gamble. There is very little data that can be used as a guide in the raising of a gorilla infant. Bamboo’s diet is a constant experiment. His human nurse was drinking buttermilk when Bamboo was out of sorts, so he ■tried the liquid on the animal and found that he liked it. Now Bamboo gets a quart or but­ termilk every day and thrives on He takes a quart of /shakes in-addition, the best salad' ii tho market, an occasional egg, bo'ls' rice, and now and then a pruno*'f other delicacy which the keeper m- * have in his pocket. Bamboo eats about five times a day, or whenever his nurse thinks ! < is hungry. His nose is spread flat, : i that his brilliant black ,eyee seem L swim on the surface cf his face, mJ their luminous, changing light make; it easy to interpret the ar.'imalip longipgd,. mood's and appetites' The groilla, comes from that district of Africa where Carl Akeley spent his last days. Bamboo’s mcthei’ was probably killed 'by the poisoned arrow of a dwarf. Missionaries shipped the baby to Henry Bartels of New York, who says they received the animal as a gift from a witch doctor and brought^ it down to the coast for transportation to the United' States. Bamboo has a companion to beguile "him from dreaming too often of home. Lizzie, ar gay two-year-old chimpanzee, is his constant playmate. While she rocks in his arms and rolls on the floor like a child when the keeper plays his fingers upon her ribs, Bam­ boo, at the same gAnie, never permits himself more than a grin. The youngster has a jealous streak and must be fondled as much as Lizzie or he expresses his disapproval with grunts and tries to displace her in the keeper’s arms. Once when they were romping on the grass another female chimpanzee took a fancy to Bamboo. Lizzie refused to counten­ ance his flirting, but Bamboo cuffed her out 4f the way. * DEPENDENT ON KEEPER. - He is very much the baby,-too, and has grown so fond of James McCros­ san, his foster parent, keeper and nurse, that he is unhappy when he is out of sight. Bamboo has become so dependent upon McCrossan that the keeper lids been with him every day from 6 o’clock in the morning until from .9 to, 11 o’clock at night^ever since the gorilla arrived at the zoo. Bamboo will not go to bed' unless the keeper is there. When night falls and McCrossan is present he shuffles off to a corner with Lizzie, twirls a little straw into a heap and lies down, pull­ ing a blanket over himself. / The first toy Bamboo got was a “• small wooden-handled bell. When it rang as he struck the string from which ft was hanging he raced around trying to find the origin of the noise. Now. that he has a dun idea whence !be f-otind issue' his curi v>it> is not so acute. A toy drum gave him a thrill when he beat it, but it soon came apart when, he tried to discover the cause of the noise. His other tpys are a small rubber ball and a rag doll, which he handles as tiny chil­ dren do, and he uses a hard rubber bone as a te#,hing ring. ........—<5“—1 ------ malted mil- 'S I Takes ‘An Angry Welshman To Have His Own Way London—The question of golf has caused a among residents of Wales. The, golf club there bld play on Sunday, determined otherwise, and a week ago they had their way. They crowd­ ed the course so much that those golfers who did venture to Oppose their wishos found it impossible to carry on their game and were forced to abandon*the attempt. % The course is common land, and the' non-gojfers have warned the members of the chib- that if Sunday play Is permitted they will exercisg to the fjill their rights of pasturage on the land and crowd it on Sunday® with "all kinds- of beasts.” 1 The golfers1 have replied by taking legal action against several resident! for obstructing tfcem while attempt* ing t? play on Sunday. *. Sunday bitter quarrel Absrdovey, in declined to for- but non-golfers » I