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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1909-12-31, Page 2CHEAT AND SWINDLE; ETC. Names Applied by Danish Experts to Explorer Cook. Findings of the Committee That Examined His Data, Copenhagen Newspapers Want Soft Place to Fall On, Copenhagen, Deo. 27.—The cormittee appointed by the t)ntversity of Copen- bagen to examine the Polar records of Dr. Cook has issued the following re- port: linnet, the report of the expedition sent to the university by Dr. Cook is the same as that printed in the newspapers during the months of September and Oc- tober last. "Second. the copy of Cook's note- books does not contain any original as- tronomical observations whatsoever, but only results. . "Third, the documents presented are inexcusably lacking in information which would prove that the 'astronomical ob- servations' therein referred to were real - I made; and also contain no details re- ion the practical work of the expedi- ion and the sledge journey which would 1enable the committee to deteruune their reliability. "The committee therefore is of the opinion that the material translated for examination contains no proof that Dr. Cook reached the Pole." The report is signed by all six mem- bers of the committee, wiio were assisted in their inquiry by Ruud Rasmussen, the explorer, who has hitherto championed Cook. The University Council issued this statement: "The documents handed the university for examination do not contain observa- tions and information which can be re- garded as proof that Dr. Cook reached the _North Pole on his recent expedition. CALL HIM MAMAS. This city and the various towns in the provinces are greatly excited over the Cook fiasco. The attitude of sinrrie faith in C'ook's claims has sud turned to one of wrathful indlgn If the so-called explorer ;iv ere in hagen to -day he WO ception di eidedly aceorde 0 non. en - surely get a re - se of the one hs ago, and •aching if ant of tae u . versity ch pro- nounced Cep a ars in present- ing tine report to aniversity, said: 'ill; was an offence to submit such papers to scientific men. Of course, the university erred in honoring Dr. Cook, and there was no excuse for men of science erring in such a matter." The disgust of .Knud Rasmussen, the Danish explorer, is in proportion to his former championship. He says: "Cook is an indent cheat. No school. boy could marinnsuch foolish calculations as he did. He has killed himself." Commodore Gustav Holm, the Arctic explorer and a member of the commit- tee, said: "Cook's papers convict him of being a swindler. We examined his observations first, and agreed unani- mously that they were worthless." It is stated that the Senate of the university contemplates depriving Cook of the degree it conferred on him, but has not reached a definite decision yet. It is declared that the Crown Prince, who was completely won by Cook's claim, is angry with the Danish scien- tists and the Greenland ndniinletration for misleading liim, but the King, who was inclined to be skeptical throughout, and refused to decorate Cook, is rather rimmed at the hoax Cook perpetrated. NEWSPAPERS ANNOYED. Copenhagen, Dec. 27.—The morning papers generally find comfort for the Cook affair in the thought that the only fault that may be charged against the Danes is that they accepted the explor- er's word as that of a gentleman. The Politiken says: 'Frankly, we re- gret only that the honorary degree was bestowed upon this man by the Univer- siity of Capenhagen. But one member of the university eorincil advised against the action taken." The Koebenhaven says: "Cook's abasing of our university is iris greatest shine. Fortunately the university it- self tells the world of its mistake." Other papers recall that all the Scan- dinavian explorers who were acquainted with Cook supported Min, and that un. der the circumstanees any other city would have (,riven the explorer a similar reception. They intimate that at the time other cities envied Copenhagen its opportunity to first welcome and honor Minister Egan said that the finding of the University of Copenhagen was, of course, final, unless the matter should again be opened by the presentation of the material said to have been left at • Binh. EGAN ON COOK. New York. Dee. 27. --The Iadies of Denmark will never believe that Dr. Cook was wrong, and my daughter, who is with me, will weep when she hears ^le respond," said Dr, Maurice F. Egan,. S. Minister to Denmark, whom the Danes now partly blame for his strong partisanship of Dr. Cook, which'Ied them to recognize the American explorer on tie arrival in Copenhagen a.s the discov- erer of the North Pole. Dr. Egan reached here to -day on the steamship Wear 11., and will remain during'tlie bondaye, Wm,Murray was elected President. of the Toronto Railwaymen's Union George Neilson, who shot Esther Hazel, was declared insane by a Toronto Ses- siots jury, The General Conference of the Meth- odist Church will meet in Victoria, B. C.,, in August of next year. The Coroner's jury inquiring at Toron- to into the death of Chriato Vassl held the Canada Foundry Company respon- sible, The King has approved the selection of Herbert Gladstone, the present Home Secretary, as Governor-General of South. Africa. Ottawa detectives are investigating the stories of the rough usage of ex - Mayor Geo. pox, of Ottawa, which, it is alleged, led to his illness and death on Saturday morning last. At Bucharest, Roumania, as Premier Bratiano was about to enter his real donee on Tuesday afternoon after at- tending Parliament, a discharged rail. Neff employee fired at him three tunes with a revolver. The Premier was wound- ed, but it is believed not seriously, Mrs. T. H. Jessop, of Haileybury, has been arrested charged with perjury and conspiracy in connection with affairs of the Elkhart Mining Company, Mrs. Jes- sop, who is a well known business wo- man, is out on $1,000 bail, but will come up for trial to -morrow. Chief Naval Engineer Roggensaek, of the cruiser Danzig, who had been con- victed of financial irrep itarities, com- mitted suicide by shooting at nis home at Biel. He had been sentenced to three months' imprisonment and dismissed from the service. From April 1 to November 30 the total number of immigrants arriving in Cana- da was 150,256, as compared with 116,- 596 for the correspan=ing period last year, an increase of 2-+,000. The immi- gration via ocean ports was 78,268, an increase of 6,000, and from the United States 71,988, an increase of 68,000. Max Ileeneig, a fanner fourteen miles northwest of Hanley. Sask., was found dead about 200 yards from his shaek with a rope halter tied around his neck. The body was found in a kneeling positio and the ease look like sui- cide; was "married, and ayes two chi troops we ed by the Nicaraguan, revolutionis s o Tuesday in a fierce battle at Rama, lasting several hours, according to adyiees received here this afternoon. General Estrada, fn nerearel nf- the revs.' entry aeniyyy reported to here b successful all along theline. Geo. Kelsey, carpenter. of Csantatiogue, was acquitted by Police Magistrate Farrell at Kingston of the charge of as- saulting Kathleen Stanford, a ten -year- old girl, on the evening of Nov. 25, on Wellington street. It was proved that Kelsey was working in Gananoque that day. Two little boys under nine years of age appeared in a Montreal court on Tuesday on a charge of stealing toys and small articles from various stores. Their story was pathetic. One of the boys stated that his mother had sent him cut to steal. and had taught him- how to do it. In his home over $100 worth of goods were found, Young Englishmen who have recently settled in ibe west are returning to the old land to vote, and to work for their parties in the great campaign now in progress, and many are having the whole or part of their transportation paid by the organizations. Fire in the Central Hospital for the Insane at Jacksonville, Ill., destroyed the north wing of the building, threw the 1,500 inmates into a panic, and was responsible for the escape of a number, who are.ntill at large. It is also possible that some of the patients perished in the flames. The British Columbia Provincial Gov- ernment has declined to advance .$75,000 for the installation of an electric light plant and equipment at Prince Rupert. The Government agreed to give favor- able consideration to an application for a site at Prince Rupert for municipal buildings. Toronto is to pay Messrs. Gooderham & Worts $400 per acre for land in Ash - bridge's Marsh covered with water and $2,500 per acre for made land. The wa- ter lots contain a fraction over eight acres, and the total price the city is to pay therefor is $11,146.20. This was ex- propriated by the city in connection with the straightening of the Don River. �-0 FENIAN DEAD. John M. Fogarty, Who Led Skirmish at Ridgeway, Ont. Buffalo despatch: One of the leading spirits of the Fenian Brotherhood has passed away in John M. Fogarty, who died at his home on Plymouth avenue on Monday afternoon after a short ill - nesse 'Mr. Fogarty was about 67 years old. Shortly after his return from the civil war, Mr. Fogarty identified himself pro- minently with the Fenian* wnieh were then strongly organizing in Black Rock. Under General O'Neil, he led Company A across the river into Canada on May 81, 1886, 'and in the battle of Padgeway on June 2nd, he led the skirmish line. He was believed to be the last survivor of the raid in 33uffalo. Later, Mr. Fogarty went on the pollee force, and later became a mail carrier, D'e continued to carry the mails for 27 years. IN MANITO A. Mayors Chosen in Sevei a' Towns of the Province. A Winnipe despatch: The municipal elections wee held in Manitoba to- day. The following are elected as Mayors :—Portage la Prairie, Ald. Woods; Carberry, 5. M, McRae; Bran- don, A. L, Adolph; Gimli, J. Si •urrd son; RappiaArtit3-, A. F. Lepage; Vir- den, 5. li;, Mullins; Deloraiue, 5. Od- die; Souris A. 5. Hughes; Shoal Lake, A., S. Arnold; Killarney, Dr. McKee; • Boissevain, C. J, Campbell; Plum Coulee, G. Wiebe: Gretna, Dr. MoKenty;; Pilot Mound, Dr. R. D. Ferguson; Selkirk, 5. W. Simpson. The liquor men failed to carry the appeal against local option in Tre- herne. • The local option by-law was car- ried in eighteen municipalities, and defeated in twenty, as follows: Car- ried—Arthur, Brenda, Birtle, Carman, Cypress South, Grandview, Norfolk South:,' Lane'ford, Oakland, Portage la Prairie, Zitoland, Shellmouth, Sif- ton, Springfield, Shoal Lake town, Shoal Lake municipality, Thompson, Wallace, • Defeated—Blanchard, Boissevain, Cypress North, Daly, Dauphin, Delor- aine, El,orn, Gilbery Plains, Grand- view town, Hamiota, Melita, Mini- tones, Oak Lake, Rapid City, Roblin, Strat a ire, Stonewall, Victoria, e ir- den, Whi'.emouth. CARED c -stILK AND CREAM ON THE FARM. (By Edgar L. Vincent.) It is 'a real art to take care of milk as it should be done. in the first place, think for a moment that mirlk is not a liquialglike water. Water is slow to take odor Irom things that are aroumi it. Milk quiekly reaches out and brings in front -ear and near all that may be there in t_ he way of bad smells and rarely lets go of them. Often we think that by running milk through an aerator we can eid.ft or any such offensive odor. But if we ever get rid of bad tastes and smells it must be before they erre get into our milk. Bearing this in mind, we see how ne- cessar- it is to feed only such things assha?1 give to the milk cow's produce the r r .• sweetest of flavor. We all bat an effect it has upon milk .'3. atir4enes,eat.leeks in the spring o#'Iirie year, or by. any Means to get hold of an onion. Everything that would in any snoh way give an unpleasant odor to milk must be avoided. DON'T LEAVE MILK IN THE STABLE. t And then, how few of us realize the danger of leaving milk in the stauble sifter it has been drawn+ Moat farmers are ''quite eareless in this respect, "My stable is cleaned out every day before I milk," they say. "I brush my cows before I begin milking. Surely I do not need to be lectured on this point." All true, and yet, who ever saw a stable in which the air was perfectly pure? There will a1 - ways be some particles of duet floating about in the air. These will surely make their way into the milk pail or can if it be standing in the barn. For that son, it is best to get up the moment a cow is finished and take the milk out of the stable for straining. Every pos- sible source of infection must be guard- ed against, and this is one of then. .Again, how is it with the pails, ears and other tannins we use around our dai- ries? Are they kept • as clean as they might be? Most farmers would feel in- dignant if they were to be told that they are eareless about washing milk things, They think they are as neat i as can be, and are not patient with the one wbo tries to tell them how they might improve their ways. At the risk of incurring displeasure may we not say after all that we all might be more careful then we are? First, then, no rusty pail, pen or can should ever be used for milk, We cannot get such a utensil really clean. The rusty places are dangerous places, do the best we can. So let's get new, whole cans the moment our old owes show signs of breaking away. The same with pails and pans. WASHING THE CANS AND PAILS. And then, think of this. The moment hot water touches nnilk it curdles it and makes it hard to get off the side of the can or pails. But by taking cool water ati particles may be rinsed off, and if this be followed by sentcting hot water we may be sure of getting clean things, !particularly if we turn bhe melding water out and rinse with cold. Sunshine will finish the good job we have done; and for that reason, we will do well to turn our tin things all up out of doors where the light and fresh air may get in and around them every day. What a sweet, indeseribable smell there is about a can thus cleansed] It is a. joy to the good butter -maker, for theft she knows her work has not been in vain. Again, if milk be set at home for the home dairy, in open pans as some do even to -day, tba room should be a.s far retnoved ns pose<ible from the smells of the household, A 'tinning on purpose for that is a splendid thing, Cream, taken from milk either with a separator or liy the old-faehuoned way of setting, never lain safely be exposed to the air, If It is, no o310 may knew what odors it may not have absorbed.. It is fine to have n, vessel of some kind' so eioseiy covered that it will be practically sir tight. Only when afiore cream is add- ed ought Ocie vessel to be opened before ver 11 i fty Years of emar ab e Grows The Romantic Story of a Canadian Enterprise Which Now Encircles the Globe. Long before the Canadian Pec•ifi ]Railway stretched its • line Of stee across the continent --while the India and the buffalo disputed the possession of the Prairie Provinces—while steam 1 rn boats were still a novelty, and electric city almost unknown—there nvas es tablished in a very modest way, in oti little town on the St. Lawrence, an en terprise which has since girdled th• earth, It Was not heralded in the pubil press or cried from the -housetops, foi it was not the manner of those times to take felli pages in the newspapers or stretch great signs across the land- scape. Yet the prodnet of this enter- prise was known and appreciated by •almost everybody in the Canada of fifty years ego. Our grandfathers looked upon the founder of this cuter - prise as a public benefactor, and al- ways gave a 'place in their homes' to the fruits of his judgment and perspi- cacity. The story of this discovery is the story of a most unusual seareh for knowledge, end its equally unusual re- ward. Nearly one hundred years ago ,7osiali Morse graduated from one of the best medical colleges in the U''nited States, He had heard a great deny about :r re- medy devisee] bysome wandering In- dian tribes, which they were said to he using evith remarkable succcess in curing most of their common ailments. Though somewhat sleeptical about it, he decided, before taking up a regular practice, to visit the Indians and inves- tigate, probably in the hope of adven- ture as well as of getting sense vale - able information. He found a race of Indians very dif- ferent from their degenerate descend- ants, who now hang around white set- tlements. Littre and active. with keen and intelligent. if needuented, nnincls, they lived close to Nature, and drew from her strength and wisdom, Dr. Morse soon discovered that the reports of their remedy had not been exaggerated—but he did not so quickly discover the secret of its ingredient> or of the method of compounding them. It took hien many moons to gain the complete confidence of the Indians and to overcome their inbred reticenee and love of secrecy. But finally, after he bad Iived milting them for :two or three years as an Indian, they revealed the whole secret to him. Returning to civilization, Dr. 1lorse took up regular practice. using. 1vl+er- ever ii: applied. this Indian specific. which he prepared himself from roots rb and hes. At first he used it in li- quid form, hut afterward, for coneeni- renee, he reduced it to pills, which soon became known well and favorably throughout that part of the country as "Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills." When he retired from practice Dr. Morse sold the secret to Comstock Brothers, of New 'Stork city, and in 18.57 W. H. Comstock, the present pr•o- pnriuletor, became sole owner of the for- ra, He established laboratories in Brock- ville, Ont„ and in Morristown, N. Y., se. supply Canada and the United States,. Ho prepared the pills himself and then, with a horse and wagon, he covered - the Canada of that time, from Montreal to Sarnia, and the Maritime Provinces as well, placing the pills in practically e every cross-roads store. The half century that has elapsed c since has witnessed an enormous • growth in the enterprise thus modestly launched. To -day Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills are on sale not only through- out Canada and the United States, but the world over. From the Iaboratories at Broekville, Canada; Morristown, IL S, A. Sydney, Australia; Wellington, New' Zealand, and from the branch in England, they go to seaports' through- out the world, From seaport and rail- way station, the burros in Mexico and South America, the llamas in Peru, Ecuador, Thibet, and Northern China, the eainels in Asia, Egypt and Western Australia, the bullock wagons in South Africa, and the sampans on the rivers of China, carry them to the uttermost parts of the earth. To guard the absolute purity of Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills • every ingre- dient is prepared in the Comstock labor- atories. The different roots and herbs are brought there in the crude state, ground, prepared and compounded under the personal supervision of the Com - stork chemists, Nothing is prepared outside by the wrappers and boxes, so that there can be no question of the purity of Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills. This camnot be said of half a dozen pro- prietary remedies in America. The Pure Food Lows of Canada, Aus- tralia and the United States, wisely adopted for the protection of the public, did not necessitate a single change in any ingredient or in the formula of Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills. As a matter of fact, though thorough tests have been made every few years by chemists and physicians, to see if the formula eauld be improved, it stands to -day exactly the same as when Dr. Morse brought it from the Indian en- campments nearly a century ago. The price. originally two York shillings (25e.), is still the same, for though the cost of the crude drugs has advanced a great deal, improvements in laboratory methods have cut down the expense of making sufficiently to compensate for this. To -day W. H. Comstock, the man who introduced Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills in young Canada fifty years ago, alert and active, though well past the allotted "three score and ten." sits at his desk at the head office at Brockville, keeps his fingers on the pulse of his world-wide organization, and has as keen a personal interest in the testimonials received from the entre of the earth as when, in the old days, he got an occasional letter from some one who had been helped by Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills, churning time, Then the new creams should be quickly stirred in with tine other, and the cover tightly replaced. HANDLING WITH THE HANDS. One thing more. Do we think how careless we are about touching butter, cream or milk with bare hands? "Why, I always wash my hands before 1 do any- thing about this work. I don't need any advice on that point." And yet, because milk, cream and better are so much like a sponge, it is exceedingly difficult to wash the hands so clean that they will not by contact carry somethingwe do not want to the fin- ished prouct. For that reason, he chary Trow you take your finger to run around the edge of the can or pan or any other vessel upon which cream has risen when you wish to separate the eream from the milk. Look out how you take your hand to get the last particles of eream from the pail when you empty it into the churn. V'%en working butter do it with a good wooden ladle, which has been washed as clean as the mountain dew. But how shall we do these things? Take aknife when you rain round the edge of the risen creams. After you have poured all the cream you can get out of e pail, take a little cold water in the ii, carefully rinse it around and pour tth whole out. Usuallyvery little a twill remain after thaeinem PURE WATER. May I not add one caution more? That is in regard to the water used around the dairy things. We cannot be too careful here. On few farms is the water really above reproach for the het - portant work of making butter, Water out of dug welts is almost universally liable to criticism. Is that from your well perfectly pure? When you smell of it, is there no unpleasant odor? Doea it taste perfectly sweet and clean If so. you are wonderfully blessed, I hope there will come a day when every Tarnier tvi11 have a well drilled right down to the heart of the rock. That is the only way to be really sure that we have pure water. Dug wells are almost universally unclean. They are little more than reser- voirs for water that comes in from doubtful sources. Work hard, then, to have pure water for all dairy work. It is absoletely necessary to the making of strictly first-class butter. 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