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a rer os Sg ic Fight Party Apparently Wandered Without Any Definite Goal in Mind--Andree Praises Comrades Stockholm, Sweden--Salomon Aug- ust Androe's own story of his expedi- tion's attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon 33 years ago was told on Sept. 19th by the Swedish Govern- ment, In a digest based om Andree's ry. 'The wavering flight of. the baloon northward from Danes' Island, Spitz- bergen, its descent on the ice, and the ~ vain gtruggle southward of its three occupants across the cruel, jagged ice flelds were thrillingly revealed, end- ing in the last optimistic entry almost three months after the start, when certain doom faced the Argonauts: "With such comrades, ons should be able to get through under any cir- cumstances." rime So wrote Andree" on Oct. 2, 1897, pencilling an unwitting valedictory to his two companions. Nils Strind- berg and Kngt Fraenkel. Tge diary began' on July 11, the date of the start, and ended with a fitting fare- well on Oct. 2. Tire expedition prob- ably perished not long afterwards. Andree, the oldest of the three men who dropped from the skiel to the ragged ice fields of the Arctic, reveal- ed in the diary the courage of the lit- tle party as they fought their way back toward safy Andree stood up under the terrible hardships with | the strength of a man many years his junior and he constantly: spurred the hopes of his two companions, Nils Strindberg and Knut Fraenkel, with words of courage when necessary or with jokes. Continue Scientific Researches The diary did not :eveal the actual cause of the descent of the balloon | on the ice, although it 'mentioned that Andree opened the {wo valves of the big bag to permit a safe landing on July 14. The men were confident when they started their long home- ward trek over ice and Arctic waters that they would reaca safey, but they were forced by weather conditions | when they reached White Island to prepare a camp fcr the Winter months. They killed polar bears and seals for food Fraenkel was chief cook-- and tliey made a "home" at the camp in which they finaly died of exhaus- tion and cold. ndree enjoyed in-| tensely "the dolicious polar bear meat; and pancakes" which Fraenkel, who! was suffering from stomach and tooth! trouble, prepared. Jul pe ps most amazing of all es indicative of the courage of the! three men who attempted the first aerial exploration in the Arctic was that they continued their scientific work almost until death closed their icy camp on the little island north- east of Northeastland. Andres wrote of how they collected 20 samples of soil, ice and Arctic plants and made many observations which they were confident would. be of great historical and scientific value. Destination Never Definite Their exact destinatio was never definite on the journey of several' mil's a day toward civ ation, "I am a bit doubtful regarding the actual goal of our ice wanderings," wrote Andree on July 22. They had first honed to reach Spitzbergen. On July 20, they decided instead to proceed to Franz Josef Land, but were forced to make a camp for Win- ter on White Island. They sighted White I:land on September 17, after five days of increasing cold and storms. Andree called it "New Ice- land." Later, on October 2, have a desperate against the storms which crashed over the barren island, destroying -yart of their cherished provisions. The communique, giving the story of Andrec"s diary, covered the 142 pages of the little book found on the explorer's body by the expedition of Dr. Gunnar Horn, a Norwegian scien- tist, who visited White Island August 6, last. The first notation in the diary was on July 11, 1897, the day the big balloon with its double-decker basket departed from Danes Island for the North Pole flight. The last motation was on October 2, when An- dree was still confident that the party would get hrough to safety Funder any circumstances." The diary did not give satisfactory details of various happenings on the polar expedition, and it failed to clear up many circumstances of the flight which will be revealed only by min- ute study of all documents zvailable, the Government experts announced. Tried to Hide Suffering The diary indicated, however, the 'manner in which each man had tried fo hide his suffering and continue mouthward. They told anecdotes , When forced to rest after a particul @rly dificult march of perhaps less {than a mile, and made a brave effort #0 maintain courage." : | On the fourth day of August, when ey gave up hope of reaching Franz .| Joset Land, Land, they wero at 82.17 . rth, 29.43 east. With desperate bourage and great endurance they had progressed about 40 miles in 12 days. The shortage of food, which.became - their most serious problem within the mext few days, forced them to hunt and seals. Andree, in one. en- try in the diary, observed humorously that Fraenkel was "chief cook" and wommented on the delicious food he prepared in the midst of barren 'wastes. Later. as they approached nearer they were to and losing fight use their canvas boat, but their hope of reaching Sezen Island was frustra- ted by the shifting ice. On September 12, just two months after their departure from Danes Is- land, a period of cold and storms set in, adding greatly to their suffering. The next day the weather was worse and their progress delayed. After several days In which the storms in- creased steadily they were forced to decide on their next move and agreed to prepare for a Winter on the ice. Sighted White island They trudged on through the storm until Sept. 17, when they sighted White Island. Andree, 'with hope that they could safely pass the Winter there, called its white-blanketed surface "New Ice- land." Despite their. hunting, the supplies were dangerously low again, They established their camp and then start- | ed hunting with the guns they had carried "ffom the balloon wreckage. Their success was great and three days later they had a large supply of polar bear and seal meat and other provisions--enough, they estimated, to last until April of 1898, when they might hope to continue southward again In the Springtime thaw. Apparently Andree wa¥ well pleas- ed with their circumstances. He was a veteran who could stand hardships and his two companions were young and strong. Andree him.elf was only 43 years old. They started work on thelr camp, building a hut which the called their home for the Winter. They could escape the storms and cold Inside their "home and the confidence of the leader of the expelition appeared great as they settled down for the Winter. = He continued his efforts to keep up morale and tc find humor in their experiences. Lost Provisions and Equipment So it went for a week, then a few more days in which they must have held much hope that they would yet return alive to thelr homes in Sweden, Andree was working on the 14-page book, entitled "Ice Observations," which he had compiled during thelr overland march. On October 2nd a storm struck the island. It was more violent than the storms through which they passed successfully in September and prob- ably marked the real setting in of Winter in the Arctic. The little camp suffered much damage under the force of the wind and the men made a valiant effort to save their "home." Despite their struggle, part of their provisions were swept away and some of their equipment--with which they might have improved their situation --was carried away or destroyed. They were weakeaed by their hard- ships and Strindberg and Fraenkel, at least, were ill. The havoc of the storm was a heavy blow to thelr hopes, Andree wrote again | his diary. To Fraenkel and Strindberg he | made cheerful remarks as he inscrib- that night in | ed on Page 142 of his diary: "With such comrades, one should be able to get through under any cir- | cumstances." Spain Raises Tax On U.S. Cigarettes Madrid.--Cigaretts imported from the United States now cost in Spain about three times their price at home. They used to cost only twice as much, The price was tilted as a result of the new Spanish tariff and the continued depression of the peseta. The new tariff does not list tobacco, but the government tobacco monopoly has a little private tariff of its own, which it has revised upward, A PLLA Beware--Poison! To avoid mistakes with poison, in the dark or through . carelessness, when it must be kept in the house, push two stout, sharp-point-pins cross- wise through the cork of the bottle. The pricking points warn even the most careless of danger, When poison has accidentally been swallowed, mix 2 teaspoons of mustard in a cup of warm water and swallow it. A doctor should, of course, be called. "Say, Pa, what do you call a person that reads heads?" . " dig my boy" >'... " Then Ma must be one of those She felt my head this afternoon and sald right away, 'you've been swimming'." ---------- Prescotont, first electric tug to Growth of the Boy To ~ Revealed by World Survey Membership Now Nearly 2,000,000, Forigthres Countries in All Being A world membership of nearly 2, 000,000 with organizations in forty- two countries comprises according to recent ilations of the Int - tional Scouting Bureau of London, made public by Dr. James BH. West, Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America. The report of the Internationa' Bureau also an- notifices the admittance of the Boy Scout® of the Republic of Guatemala into the international organization, effective Nov. 22. This will bring the nations listed to forty-three. The figures of the report show that the Boy Scouts of America have the lar- gest enrollment of 'any nation. The new Guatemala Scout organiza- (Boy Scouts Guatemaltecos) have as their president, Dr. Lazaro Chacon, president of Guatemala,~and as Chief Scout, Charles Cipriani, Records of the Boy Scouts of America show that at the close of the year 1929 there was a total of 842,548 Scouts and leaders enrolled, an increase of 22,757 over the pre- vious year. Great Britain, with a total mem- bership of 654,130 at the close of 1929, was the second largest of the Scout organizations, followed by Ja- pan with a total membership of 49, 611. A Young 8cout Marksman Alfred R. King Jr., 15-year-old Boy Scout of Wichita Falls, Texas, is king of American trap-shooters. The Texas boy made trap-shooting history when In a shootoff with three vet- < Scouts Represented twenty-four out of twenty-five targets to win. the Grand American Handicap. In the matches held at Dayton, Ohio, this shoot-off was necessitated when King broke 997 of 1,000 targets to tie Dan Casey of Toledo; J. L. Scott of Kansas City and 8. L. Crampton of Dayton. Scout King was wildly ac- claimed by 10,000 spectators of the contest when he cracked his last tar- get. The new grand champion has shot at but 1,500 registered targets. He began trap-shooting a year ago and had never won a trophy of any sort until his recent victory. His unerring marksmanship in using the same gun with whicl. his rather won the doubles championship In 1922 brought him out at the head of a field of 966 experienced trap-shooters. Scouts Aid With Harves: Boy .Scouts of France to the num- ber of 4,000 renderad conspicuous service to thelr nation this Summer by alding in the harvesting of crops. Faced with the prospect of having tHeir large crops destroyed unless they could be quickly harvested, French farmers appealed to the Chief Scout of France and as a result the Scouts volunteered their services. There are three different organiza- tions of Boy Scouts in France and all of them this year report increased memberships. In the United States, Boy Scouts of Dodge City, Kan., dur- ing the drought removed more than 10,000 fish from water holes in small streams that were fast drying wp and, as a community good turn, transplant- ed the fish to other and larger erans, all much older, he scored streams. Sea-Sickness Is Eminent Physicians and Sum geons Say Ship's Doctor ~ "Knows Best" "Drink whisky", "Don't drink whisky", "Smoke strong cigars", "Don't smoke at all", "Eat five good hearty meals a day", "Restrict youre self to very light meals", "Get plenty of exercise", * around and 'take things easy", "Eat all your meals in the dining saloon", "Take your meals on the deck if you feel squeamish", and a dozen other remedies for sea sickness were discussed recently by 100 of Great Britain's foremost physk cians and surgeons before they sailed for home on the Canadian Pacifie liner Duchess of Richmond. The diversity , of opinion was so great that before the liner sailed the medical party had divded itself into two schools of thought. One Irish surgeon told interviewers that a simi lar discussion had taken place when they departed from England. "If that subject had been on the agenda at the British Medical Association meets ing we attended in Winnipeg the dis cussion would still be going on," he said, "and not one of us could have offered a constructive suggestion." "Sea-sickness is a mental condb tion," a Harley street physician sald, "it you make up your mind that you are not going to be ill you won't bel® Which sentiment might have got by had not a colleague chipped in with the remark, "Then you must have made up your mind to be sick on the way to Canada, doctor." descended upon the group. By the time the last whistle blew, five minutes before the Duchess ol Richmond east off her hawsers, one lusion was reached and the 104 Canada Adds 378,400 HP. According to the Dominion Water Power and Reclamation Service of Canada, the total number of hydro- electric installations in the Pominion is -now 2,727,600 horsepower, an in- crease of 378,400 horsepower during 1929. be built in Canada, 1s launched at Lauzon, Que., a spot already famous in annals of Canadian shipbuilding. | An insect sting or bite on the upper lip is sald to be much more Sesges soiene hurricane stricken oity, p - safety, they had an opporturity t0 ous than one on the lower lip. . Milky Way Merely Star Clouds : ] Not Stars, Astronomer Holds Probabilities that elsewhere in space there are stellar universes like ours are increased by a new interpretation at Harvard of the shape of the Milky Way. The idea is proposed by Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of Harvard Observa- tory. "It promises to help clear up a mystery which has puzzled astrono- mers. This mystery is that our sun seems to belong to an organization of stars immensely larger than any other star group. Such oversize is inconsistent with other modern discoveries that, even out of the limi* of telescopic vision, everything 1s made of much the same substance as the earth ,and that the same physical laws prevail, If this is true what accounts for the swollen size and shape of our section? The solution is new evidence that there is no such unique grouping of stars near earth, They have only seemed so massed because of compara- tive nearness and our incomplete an- alysis, Now our stellar system is being sep- arated into sections by information obtained from thousands of star photo- graphs. So it beging to appear that our "galaxy," the Milky Way, as astrono- mers call the celestial organization surrounding us, which is so wide that light takes about 250,000 years to cross it, instead of being a somewhat con- tinuous stream of stars, is a group of star clouds, each one from 5,000 to 40,000 light years in diameter. The sun is a member of one of these clouds which probably is 6,000 to 8,000 light years across. These individual star clouds have about the same sizes as galaxies ob- served elsewhere in the universe ,thus conforming to conditions visible else- where. There is a further conformity in the new evidence. If.our Milky Way is a' group of star clouds instead of one single system, then in size it"is much like other families of star clouds which can be seen at vast distances. Qur own home star cloud may be whirling, Dr. Shapley says, about a center located in the constellation Carina. Our domestics group is far from a crowded area in the Milky Way wiiere star clouds se'm to gather the thickest in the direction of the con- stellation Sagittarius. That, area ap- pears to be a massive center of some kind. - Musical Wife--"It's strange, but when I play the piano I always feel extraordinarily melancholy." Hus- band--"So do I, dearest." cs cc A certain lift-hoy in one of the big stores hated to be asked ne8dless questions. One day a rather fussy old lady entered the lift. "Don't you ever feel sick going up and down in this lift all day?" she asked. "Yes, ma'am." "The motion of going up?" "No, ma'am." "Is it the stopping that does it?" "No, ma'am." "Then what iis it?" "Answering questions, ma'am," } ¢ Mr. Slowit: "I-er-er-am going to tell you something that er-er-will no doubt surprise you. I-er-er-think----" Miss Knutting: "Well, that is a sur- prise. Funny I never noticed it be- ing?" | ward through Europe, reaching Brit Butterflies Also Go South During the Winter doctors agreed as one man what thes course weculd be if overtaken by the malady. Collectively they agreed that the proper practice would be to call "Most people know that locusts migrate, but few realize that similar, movements take place among éther insects, particularly dragon flies, but- terflies, and moths," said Mr. €. B. Williams, speaking on the migration of Lepidotera. servers have seen hundreds of thous- ands of butterflies moving steadily in one direction, sometimes for hours on end, sometimes even for days or weeks. "The monarch or milkweed butter fly of North America is found during the summer throughout the greater part of the Continent. In the au tumn they collect together in great' bands, and fly a thousand or so miles south, where they winter. In the spring they fly north, laying eggs as they go. In Europe, North Africa,' and Western Asia the greatest mi- grant is the Painted Lady butterfly, | which in the spring crosses the Sa-, hara and Egyptian deserts from some unknown sources, crosses the Med terranean, flies more or less north-, ish shores in early June. Some-/ times individual stragglers are seen within a few degrees of the Arctic circle. "In the trepics ob. . -- ©, A Greengrocer's Window "The whole distance of these flights "Oranges gleaming in tawny splénd- is between 2,000 and 3,000 miles, but our, | it is not possible to say with certain- Lemons and: limes of the palest gold, ty if any one individual buterfly cov- Grapes with the bloom on them soft ers the whole distance or if it is cov- and tender, | ered by two successive generations, rolted. o "Turnips like chaplets glowing, Carrots rose-flushed as the skies of pearls a- os in An oid Negro was very late for his work, and when his boss reprimanded him he said, "Well, sir, it was like dis. When Ah looked into de glass dis morning I couldn't see myself there, 80 Ah thought Ah must hab gone to work. It was two hours later dat Ah discovered de glass had dropped out ob de frame." " Sung 'in their mantles of purple for the butterflies lay eggs as they 0 at e'en, | ! - . "Butterflies appear to have an urge to fly continuously in a fixed direction, | and to maintain it in spite of dis- turbances due to wind and obstacles in their path. They have even been recorded as flying through railway tunnels." s--p------ "Play Only" School in the ship's doctor. "He knows more about it than we do!" Fox Food Left High And Dry on Shoals Pilot Whales Stranded While Chasing Small Fish Near P.E.I. Coast Fox farmers of the Summerside and Borden districts of Prince Edward Island have received an extremely use- ful visitation from the sea. On the afternoon of Friday, August 15, no less than 72 pilot whales, or blackfish, were stranded on the shoals between Seven-Mile Bay and Barleton Head, near Borden. News of the stranding spread throughout the district, and' crowds hurried to the beach where the big mammals were caught by the ebh tide and unable to escape. The work of despatchjng began. Some of the carcasses were hauled on shore by horse or motor, while others were tow. fore. How long have you been think- in the extreme north of Iceland or|e. to Summerside by steamers requi- sitioned for the task. All the following day fox men of Summerside and surrounding settle ments were busy capturing the strand. ed whales and preparing them for cold storage. 'In Norway, whales of this type are used extensively for fox food. In at least one instance, the captors were treated to an unpleasant surprise by their haul, for an express wagon was completely demolished by a whale coming back to consciousness on the way to a ranch. The 'weather was fine at the time the animals came in, and the assump- tion is that they were following small. er fish. They have been seen around the Prince Edward Island shore om During the recent summer holiday, London County Council schools were all opened as "play centres," games and toys being provided to amuse the children and keep them off the streets in wet weather. Modern Relief Methods REE TR Loading 5,000 pounds of surgical dressings, antltoxins and anaesthetics aboard United States naval aeroplane for delivery in Santa Domingo to Nx ' a ' I i} thus Dybowslkd. # A movement is on among sclent- ists to simplify thelr cumbersome ; technical terms. It is under the lead: ership of a group of Cornell profes- sors. Many scientific terma used to- day are almost too long and too un- wieldy to be pronounced by the in- vestigators themselves. In. some cages, scientists giving public lectures have contented themselves by display- ing the names of specimens on a sorgen, thus avoiding the problem. One name against which a protest 1s ralsed is: Cullumanobumbus silant- * jeivi semenoir tianshanskyl Shorikov. It 1s long enough and big enough to . be the name for a dinosaur. Instead, | these five words constitute the name | of a small, humble member of the bumble bee family. Even blologists he A oor) on. ) Other specimens have as long and as hard names. For instance, the name of a certaln very small fish is, Mi- crostomaticolchthyoharus bashford deanii Nicholls and Oriscom. A small crustacean bears this unwieldly series of names: Brachyuro or- matogammarusgrewinglli © mnemono- Use of Cumbersome Terms : Is Deplored by Scientists Humble Bumble Bee Has Technical Name Composed of Five Words--Small Fish Equally Burdened Part of the use of these terms is due to the fact that when a discovery is made, the discoverer is allowed to glvé his own name to the find, Hence, a biologist, for example, discovering insects adds his name to the rest of his description. Professor James G. Needham of Cornéll University, pro- testing against this practice, says that the cystom has multiplied "beyond féason" the volume of scientific terms. The Cornell University professors say that the advance of sclence is hindered by the existence of this un- wieldly and cumbersome "lingo." An investigation is proposed to develsm a new plan for creating names, Wong ing on these three suggestions: First, that a name should be a name and no} a definition; second, it should be a memorial Inscription, and , that it should not be a treatise on relationships. chasing fish, and, were stranded in such the same mane ner near Summerside, and at Picton, Nova Scotia. SHARK-LIKE MOUTHS The pilot whale, or blackfish, ranges in size from eight to forty feet im length, and weighs from 500 to 3,500 pounds. They have a large square nose and very small eyes, and a mouth shaped like that of a shark with two rows of very sharp teeth. Ry Bank of England notes are regard. ed as sight notes of a commercial company and not as British Govern ment notes in France; it is, therefore, not a criminal offence to.forge them in that country. 'mr -------- A man was given a carpet to beat, and on bringing it back to the lady of the house, she reproachfully said, "Those holes were not there when [ gave you the carpet." "Well, ma'am,* he replied, "if they weren't there, where were they?" ------r es Hubby--"Here is ten dollars, dear} Don't you think I deserve a little ap. plause for giving it to you without be-} ing asked for it?" Wife--"Applausef, Why, darling, I think you deserve am encore!" ---------------- An old woman was always ailing, = Her various diseases were to her the most interesting topic in the World, and apparently she thought they iP A. A, Michel is among those who find the present scientific terms in need of change. The fa- mous Chicago scientist Tn a recent terested others also, for she talked of nothing else. One day a visitor found her ung a hearty meal and, naturally, asked her how she was, Shq Bone of Contention And stlence n indeed, a few years ago a number address found himself bothered by the sighed and answered: --"I feel very pronunciation of the name of a cer- well, ma'am, but I always feel bad tain star and on he spur of the mom- when I feel well, because I know 1 ent substituted another name am going to feel worre afterwards." 2 a Rr 3