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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS. COLBORNE. ONT., THURSDAY, SEPT. 15, 1921. 1 EARTH'S UNKNOWN CORNERS BECKON ADVENTURES LURE EXPLORERS OF TO-DAY. Sir Ernest Shackleton's Proposed Voyage of Discovery Attracts Keen Interest. Dr. H. R. Mill, writing in the London Times on Shackleton's adventure, "That the romance of exploration is not dead is perhaps the most delightful of Sir Ernest Shackleton's discoveries, and the very programme of his new expedition in the Quest is aglow with the true fire which drove the explorers of old without the aid of steam into the furthest and coldest recesses of the ocean To any one who knows the difficulty of sighting a small oceanic island, not to speak of the risks of landing upon it, the program might seem extravagant. Sir Ernest Shackleton has, however, spent twenty years in the performance of almost impossibe programs, and those who know him believe that he can occomp-lish this too. "An oceanographical cruise of 30,-000 miles in a 200-ton craft cannot 'fail to be as full of excitement as of discomfort, for every island to be touched at is a focus of historic interest to British sailors and men of science, from the voyage of the Paramour Pink with the astronomer Hal-ley in the seventeenth century, through that of the Resolution with Cook in ^he eighteenth, the Beagle with Darwin and the Challenger in the nine- teenth, down to Shackleton's own epic ; by Brothers, romantic shipowners, of the Endurance in the twentieth. j who preferred geographical discovery . . . I to financial gain, and who secured ex- Central Core of the Adventure. | navaJ Qf hjgh attainments as "Here only one part of the new ex- shippers for their ventures, pedition's route will be referred to, and that is the central core of the adventure, the exploration of the Ender-by Quadrant of the Antarctic Area. P,erh»P?. n.MB1t00A^' arctl° v,oyage The late Sir Clements Markham hit of a11 hlstory m 1830-31, effecting a upon the happy expedient of dividing c°mPlet° circumnavigation close to the polar cap of the southern hemis- the Antarctic circle and a great part phere into the four quadrants defined <* the way on the poleward side of it. by the meridan of Greenwich and its Along the western half of the Enderby continuation of 180 deg. crossed by j Quadrant his track still marks he the meridans of 90 deg. E. and W. To boundary between the known and the these he gave appropriate names, and j unk"°J™- In hls hn%> the ™a' of u»" the most appropriate is that of the \ fer 200 tons accompanied by the cut-Enderby Quadrant, between the meri-; ter Lively of about 50 tons, he fought -- | for months against the furious bliz-penetrate the the southward, and at the of the season, when navigation dian of Greenwich and 90 deg. _., though foreign purists prefer to call it f ds in the effort the African Quadrant, as it lies to the , aeajy ,lce. south of that continent. It so happens that, the two remaining quadrants are well known: in the Victoria (or Australian) Quadrant, to the east, Amundsen and Scott reached the Pole itself --the latter following in the footsteps of Shackleton, who had come within 100 miles of the goal some years earlier, while in the Weddell (or American) Quadrant, on the west, Bruce, Filchner and Shackleton had traced new land to nearly "8 deg. S. "Between these two known quadrants that of Enderby interposes a sector of unprobed possibilities, for no vessel has yet succeeded in getting as far as the seventy-second parallel of latitude within it. The great expeditions have for the most part passed it by. Cook, in his hunt for the tem-porate southern continent that haunted the minds of the theorists of his century, first crossed the circle at one point, and Bellingshausen succeeded in crossing it at three points nearly fifty years later, but the great British, American and French expeditions of 1840 all kept far to the north. It was a field of fame for the small sealing vessels sent out in the '30s of the last tury by the London firm of Ender- Surnames and Their Origin HIGGINS (Variations--O'Higgin, MacHiggin, Hig-ginson, Huggins, McHiggan, Mc-Guigan. (Racial Origin--Irish. ^Source--A given name. While the family names Higgins and jHigginson often come from "Hick" or j"Hiccon," old English nicknames for iRlchard, it is safe to say that in the [majority of cases in this country such names are Celtic. So far as O'Higgin fond MacHiggin or McHiggin are concerned there is no reasonable doubt that they are Irish. ' The Irish Higgins, like the English, 'comes from a given name, but not the 'same one. ' The mistake is often made of con-'sfusing this name with the name of keegan, that is, in assuming that it '■comes from the same given name, JEoghan, through the use of the prefix .'"mac." The argument being that there Is little real difference between Mac-Kegan and MacHiggin. This argument, however, loses sight of the fact that both of these forms are but Eng-'lish corruptions of the Irish BECK nations -- Beckett, Becker, ctal Origin--Anglo-Saxon, alsi jrce -- Geographical, also oi While the family names of Beck, Beckett, Becker and Beckman have ; will be become confused through changes in 1 tarian point of ng, so that the tracing of volves the tracing of the other, there are really two sources of the name, different in racial origin and in meaning. It is safe to assert, however, that if you spell your name, Beck, or Beckett, it probably comes from England, and if it is Becker or Beckman, it originated in Germany. Beck was simply a very old English word for brook. It has become a family name in the same manner that Brooks has. It probably made its first appearance in some such form as "Thomas Ate Beck," or "Thomas at the Beck." It is easy to see how such descriptive phrases early became family names1, for they possible and with half his ighted black cliffs and hills projecting through the snow in 66 deg. 80 min. S. and 50 deg. E.; but just as he felt Confident of making a landing a terrific storm swept down from the land and drove him helpless to the northward for 150 miles before he could regain control of his ship. "In 1833 Kemp, with another of En-derby's little ships, coming from the eastward, made the most southerly passage yet accomplished along the western half of the Enderby Quadrant, and in 60 deg. E. reported land on the Antarctic circle. No one has seen these lands since. The Challenger in 1874, like the Pagoda, in 1845, made a gallant push into the unknown, but retired in a sorely battered condition. "The Quest is a tough little vessel, and once among the ice her small size and great strength will give her special advantages in working her way, so that she may be confidently expected to push further within the veil than any of her predecessors. She will have the vast advantage of modern sounding gear so that she can feel out the contour of the ocean floor and so get evidence of the poximity of land which was not available to Biscoe and Kemp. Her wireless equipment should enable her chronometers to be rated while at sea, and so her longitudes ought to be far more precise than those of earlier expeditions. She will be the first to carry a staff of scientific specialists into the wide stretch of unexplored waters between the tracks of the Challenger and Scotia and south of that of the Valdivia. It is not likely that the Enderby Quad-y other part of the Antarctic orth exploring from a utili-but the human race has a right to unveil the whole face of the earth, and the world will be morally richer if Rowett and Shackleton complete what Enderby and Biscoe began." SUMMER HEAT HARD ON BABY which are traceable definitely to dif- ly applicable to father, son and grand-ferent sources both by means of spell- j son, through succeeding generations ing and the historical-genealogical re-; while the family continued to live in oords in the Irish language. j the same place. Beck is also an Anglo- Saxon word; all of which points to a very early use of it as a family name, even if unconsciously. Beckett means a little brook, or a brooklet. Becker, however, is of German origin, being the word for baker, though this is1 betrayed by the vowel "e" rather than the ending "er" which was almost as common a method of denoting occupation in old England as in Germany. The same holds true of Beckman, which, of course, is a short-Way, ened form of Beckmann. The Irish form of the "O'h-Uigin," or "MacUigan," the "h" being a necessary insertion after "O" to make it pronounceable. The family or clan name comes from the given name of "Uigin," which means "knowledge." The form Higginson would appear to be English, but there are many cases on record where it is simply an Anglicized version of the Irish family name. In Ireland this family name is l in Westmeath and Gal- o season of the year is so danger-to the life of little ones as is the The excessive heat throws the little stomach out of order so quickly that unless prompt aid is at . hand the baby may be beyond ali as natural-; human heip before the mother realizes he is ill. Summer is the season when diarrhoea, cholera infantum, dysentery and colic are most prevalent. Any one of these troubles may prove deadly if not properly treated. During the fSOnmier the mother's best friend is Baby's Own Tablets. 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