Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 5, 1909, Page 9

PART 1WO EDITORIAL P GES1TO 12 THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. [WANTADS] e OMAHA SUNDA Y MORNING, DECEMBER 1909, COPY FIVE CENTS. Repeating a Liberal Offer With Women's Svits at $25.00 or More A $5.00 Silk Petticoat FREE ‘fhe unprecedented favor with which these offers are received tempts us to re peat it again tomorrow. Much more at- tractive than this, however, are the won- derful low prices of the suits themselves We bought a thousand suits in one trans- action and saved $10.00 each on them This saving, too, is yours. There are no apologies to make for any of the suits either. They are simply superb in style, material, tailoring and fit. Come Monday. We have every size and color. In all the city no other such a suit showing—Every- body can find just the style to their liking. $25.00 Suits $15.00 $29.50 Suits $19.50 $35.00 Suits $25.00 $40.00 Suits $29.50 The petticoats are in colors to match fhe suits, and the best $5.00 quality money can buy. Simplex Typewriters for Christmas The Simplex Typewriter is not a toy, but a practical and instructive ma’ chine that writes perfectly. Three sizes -§1.00, §2.00 and $3.00 Cinematographs or Moving Picture Machines, afford entertalnment for young and old; various sizes and atyles ..............81.00 to $35.00 echanical i ‘wonderful inven- tions; trains, trolleys, sutos, turnstile engines, mountain climbers, etc., op- erated by electricity, steam or wind- up. . 8ee them {noperation on 2d vor. VOL. XXXIX-—NO. 25. Specials in Fars River Mink Scarfs, blended, $5 $6.50 and 90 Isabella opossum shawl collars, tail trimmed, $10.00 t© $12.00 Black raccoon shawl collars §10,00 and at ... . $12.00 Mutfs $8.95 & $10 Low R. R. Rates to Omaha Corn Show. Come Union Pacific, 1¢ per mile; other roads, 114c per mile—A great national exposition that attracts many thousands of visitors to Omaha. Come and combine your holiday shopping with other pleasures. Come direct to Bennett's. We want you as our guests. Use the comforts, privileges and conveniences the store affords—rest rooms, check rooms, delivery of goods to trains, etc., etc., all free—Bennett's is Omaha's great Christmas store. Two blocks from corn show building. The Christmas Sale of Cut Glass The reputation for cut glass supremacy, which Bennett's has acquired, has been tre- mendously augmented in this holiday exhibit and sale. Preparations for this event have been systematically under way for months. Planning and searching with an eye single to make this year's sale our crowning achievement. Tomorrow the entire main alsle on the second floor will be literally a maze of scintillating cut glass. The most beautiful cuttings that American manufacturers have ever devised. The economies resulting from the “know how" in buying are yours. Stephens & Williams and Austrian Rock Crystal Glass TABLE 2— CUT GLASS Worth to szsfl $4.50, for .| - TABLE 4— CUT GLASS Worth to $500 $15, for Marcia Cutting— 98 Christmas Waists S ) Handsome plaids and Persian silks— New Comfortable Christmas Slipper advance 1910 mod- els, fuller sleeves with euff $10, $12 and $13.50 SHOP EARLY—17 More Shopping Days to Christmas. There isn't a slipper want we cannot supply, either in men's or women's styles. Slippers that are easy and affording comforting relax- ation. Immense Christmas stocks, We illustrate four leading styles. Opers s in twan, brown, | Men's Romeos, black and brown, elas- red and biack viel, jatent trimmed, tic sides, like cut four, flexible flexible soles, lake cut one— - #1.96, 91,80, $2.00 | Soles, pair ... $1.50 Women's Felt Jullets, red, brown, Men's Everett in brown and black viel and patent leather, [ gray, black, fur trimmed $1.25 Boudoir Slippers, black, red, brown, like cut two.. 1.00, $1.85, $1.50 Same style in alligator, 76c, ik g ol Cavalier Boot, like cut three, brown, | ™ sitk pon v red and black viel, patent trimmed, | Women's Felt Slippers at .9238 | ¥oot warmers No Uncertainty About Linens as Gifts Bennett's linens are dependable kinds. Fancy and staple lines im- ported by us specially to meet the holiday demand. Don't let the last few days catch you unprovided; make purchases now, assortments are best today. Fancy Linens We shall show tomorrow two lots of beautiful embroidered, drawn and hemstitched pieces such as shams, centers, scarfs and lunch cloths. They are all choice, new goods, and at a third under value. 76¢ pleces ...49¢ Table Linens We feature for Monday gift suggestions: Table Damask Sets—Cloth, 2x2% yards, and 1 dozen 20-inch nap- kins to match; handsome $7.50 Sets, at ... ...85.98 70-inch Satin Damask — Extra heavy and beautiful, all linen, worth $1.25 yard, for ..$1.00 24-inch napkins to match; $3.75 value, dozen ..........8$3.00 $1.50 pleces .. 98¢ Many Novelties in Imported Christmas Baskets haiiei “Yor Preasing Gitcs. THREE LINES UNDERPRICED MONDAY Sewing Stand — Satin|Work Basket—Covered | Scrap Baskets — New lined or plain, worth styles that are worth — assorted patterns, $6.85, for ..$4.85| worth $1.75 . .gsd $1.85, for ..$1.25 Be Early for Christmas Handkerchiefs You recall your resolution last year to buy earlier next time, don't you? Why wait and miss the choicest selec- tions when the lines are fresh and new and crisp. We are making it worth while tomorrow, with striking values in men’s and women’s handker- chiefs. R THESE AT TRE BOOTK | Women's linen, ombroldered corner, "l’llnnn hemstitched Handke) t Handkerchiefs at ............18%¢c t fiaavuiess ....8¢ | Women's floral linen Initial Hand- Initial $1.00 these Polyopticans or Buckeye Lanterns for gas, electricity or ofl, reproduce in colors postal cards or any pictures, at . ..$2.50 to $10.00 Trains, any motive power.. 980 Zeppelin Alrships, up from......500 Wright Acroplanes, up from..25c, 760 Electric Trolley, full equipment track, wire carts, etc...............54.98 Humpty Dumpty Cirous; most inter- esting and durable per_ set, according to size, 50c, $1.00, TABLE 1 CUT GLASS * Worth to slofl $2.50, for. .. TABLE 3— CUT GLASS Worth to 398 $7.50, for . . — Punch Bowls—14-inch with 12 sherbets to match, magnificent $90 set, for ..... $49.50 ‘Water Set—Jug tnd tumblers quisite cutting, $12 value 5-Pint Jug and Tumblers—br! cutting, $18 value ..... 13-inch Trays, Cleopatra c $18.00 wvalue........... Christmas Gifts In the Hardware Coffee Machines, Percolators and Chafing Dish form ome of the wtrongest holiday lines of the base- ment -ll:n, 'l.uu have wide assort- ments ench Tepres; the Dext known makes. Aa gits, there isn't & housekeeper who wonldn't de- light the possession of any one. Sternan Coffee M chines—For a dell; fous cup of coffee, an §8 machine g5 is yours for... Chafing Dishes, Ster- nan's make, ‘g4 50 up from excel- Bets, lent ~ 3-plece sta handle sets, worti Bennett's Big Grocery Tea Siftings, one day only, our quality, "Ib. Bennett's Breakfast Coffee, 2-1b can, 48c, and 60 stamps. Bennett's Challenge Coffee, Ib, 18c, and 10 stamps. Teas, assorted, 1b. 48c, and 50 stamps, Pure Pepper, %-lb. can, 10c, and § stamps. Diamond 8. Chill Sauce, bottle 15c, and 10 stamps, Hartley's Pure Marmalade, jar 20c, and 10 stamps. Mignonette Peas, 3 cans, 25c, and 10 stamps. Capitol Oats, wheat or pancake, PKg. 1c, and 10 stamp: Seeded Raisins, 1b. pkg. 12%0, and 10 and 5’ stamps. Cleaned Currants, 1b, 10c, stamps. / Eddy's Dome Mustard, jar 1230, and 10 stamps. Beauty Asparagus, can, 20c, and B stamps. Yanky Rose. Tollet Soap, 8 for 2o, and 20 etamps. Swansdown Codfish, 8 pkgs. 26c, and 10 stamps. Bennett's Capltol Mince Meat, 3 pkgs. 25c, and 10 stamps. Hartley's Pure Frult Jams, 25¢, and 10 stamps. Double green stamps on Butterine, Blue Borax Starch, pkg. 10c and bo, Waxer_free. PEANUT BUTTER SALE. Imperial Peanut Butter Monday only, Large Jar 30c, and 80 stamps. 16e .12¢ Celery Tray: Odds and Ends— 50 value, 76 pieces rich, sparkling and ab- solutely perfect-— closing at— utting, ot Footed Bowls, 10-inch Ber Half Price coee v Lneh Bev) ) Bennelt's, Greatest of All Holiday Book Stores Practically evepything in the book field of note has been covered by our Christmas preparations. Books that appeal to all tastes and temperaments, arranged for easy choosing. Walk in and look around. See the west's greatest exposition of gift books. Our lines of Christmas Calendars, Holly Seals, Labels, Tags, Tissue and Ribbon are now on sale. worth. §1.50— Magiuine Subscriptions s Club mates— Sub. n Magazine, Good Housekeeping: price, worth for .. 1.48 ..$35.00 ..$72.00 STANDARD Let your $72.00 " 1$36.00 it be one of these superh de 1$49.50 Luxe sets of world famous authors. Most (472,00 enduring gifts and a 1ifc long reminder of $30.00 the giver. The entire 1ine of forty authors 1.$100.00 on sale at one-fourth original prices. A few to illustratc can, ex- $e.98 §{yus|Garlana Crasts, $4.60 kinds, §2.75 Pooted Bowls, o-inch; Rhodla and Regent Cutfings, $i8 value..$10 Rock Orystal Water Set, ple and pear cutting, $26 sets 1380 Neppies, plain and handled, $L.50 VAlues, fOr...ccesessensess. 960 e kerchlefs, 6 in box for . nen hemstitched Our Books in holiday boxes, cholce Six C panion; Slim_Princess; Love of Arabella; An Infinite Varlety, and others. Elsle Dinsmore .. Five Little Peppers ... Hans Brinker Helen's Bables .. All % leather bound. Burns, 6 vols., ...... Balsac, 18 vois .. Balzac, 18. vols. Kliot, '8 vols. . Hogo, 10 vols. Mulbach, 18 vols. Smallett, 6 vols. Scott, 24 vols, ...... Bhakespeare, 20 vols. Poe, 10 vols. la box. of six for Handkerchief: 36.50 Nut Pick and Crack Sets, .uvuuay 480 Savory Roasters, all enameied, $2.25 Lisk Roasters uj $1.50 40 stamps wii 98¢ £oo ‘Bkates, B & By arney & Berry makes— Wi sizes and styles mow. Up from .. i 650 Linen lace edg Pocket Enives, sampie of three for all sizes, val Men's linen box of 8ix for Sample Handkerchi ¢ ‘embroldered, lace adge, Madeira and appenzelle embroldered, each on card, about ....,.% Regular Value .29% .a5¢ .25¢ ..260 nette Initial Handker- Mews linén Initial Handkerchiofs 100 THESE IN REGULAR DEPT. Women's embroidered edge Handker- chiefs at gt ro ' linen. $90.00 $49.00 ude, the uttermost horizon would bocomo‘w(nflm The great flelds of ‘ice extending {a bank of indigo rising vapourously to|out’ from land also are affected by ocean | meet a pale-purple sky, or it would pre- |currents, tides and the winds. This latter MIDNICHTS 1N 'THE ARCTIC o | sent a wall of orange, or, again, and most |body of shifting lce separated Into enor- Dr. Cook’s Account of His Christmas | frequently, an unlifting cloud of smoki- |mous floes, the low temperature instantly |Portion of the body—the waist line, wrists, in Santa Claus Land. ness. freezing the opening spaces of water be-|&nd below the knee, where foxtalls were g W goggles of amber colored glass had |tWeen, 1s carried by these disintegrating |Worn for greater protection—were marked little to do with forces until met by the resistless swing of | by rings of snow. The chronlc squint of pelled to accomplish some difficult feat. “The bridgroom-to-be, 'enamoured crea- ture, is sure to think her locks slightly | different from what they really are. | Either he thinks them raven hued when | they are really a medium brown or he thinks them fair as gold when they're | only a mud color. Then, with his flattery | weakness reached the stage where the body would not contain its molsture, but oozed it from every pore, to be instantly turned to frost. Before that the slightly warmer stances. All women are not beauties nor young. The majority need a few soft waves | near the face, and the wise woman who has seen her twenty-sixth birthday will in- sist that her hair be waved. “Waves are curious things. There are mechanical waves, such as one sees upon the women whose ideal heads adorn cheap FLUFFY, SHINING LOCKS Relief for Heads Made Top Heavy by Fashion. EN POMPADOUR WITHOUT THE RAT tions of Waves—Christmas Bride's Coiffure. “I've been spending two hours upon the hair of a Christmas bride. Her Intended old her that her locks were sun kissed, and now I've got to spend two hours a day upon them to keep them shining. It costs her a pretty penney and me any amount of anxlety. “I am giving the hair a new touch,” the hair specialist went on. “The socléty woman found herselt heavy laden this autumn, She had already a welght of puffs and braids upon her head; she had a rat, a set of combs and in soms | cases an actual chignon. Then, to all this, was added a heavy Russian turban or toque. The poor Woman, with all this on top of her head, found hersclf brain weary. And-of course she came to me for relief. “My pompadour treatment is the most successful thing ip vogue now. The rat i& -thrown away and the hair s treated untfl no rat is needed. Each Individual hair ls made to stand on end. The hairs are brought out scparately 'until they support themselves in such & way that they ) require no rat underneath. “The treatment s rather difficult and | 1 don't advise an amateur to attempt it WRhout a professional hair ‘dresser to help her the first time. The hair is taken down, shaken out and wet with gasolene. It drles quickly and can theny be put up. It will be found free from grease and quite without dust. “It I8 & very quick way of shampooing the hair. We call it the pompadous sham- Poo lu London. Of course it must mot be | dome at night. And by advice of an ear | specialist 1 always stop the ears of the patient with cotton. “1 use very little gasolene and I put it on a8 carefully as though I were dropping onion juice into a salad dressing. It takes | Just & few drops and that is all. “In the pompadous shampoo, while 1 am | making each individual hair stand on end, 1 am careful to include the cornmeal brush- ing. A coarse, cheap grade of cornmeal is | scattered through the hair, and the hair is | + then pinned in a tight little wad on top of the head and alloved to rest tive minutes. It is then taken down, shaken out and the meal 1s brushed out of it. It js ustonishing | to see how easlly the hair can be made flufly In this way. “The hair must get its soap and water shampoo once & month, and the soap must be washed out with a very cloudburst of hot water. The water should be as hot as is comfortal but it Is never a good 1-. to scald the scalp. comes the waving process for the Cassy, must be waved In most in- a sort of » Which, while worn plain in & | alters the structure of the hair. chromos. Then there are big, soft sugges- | tive waves which lle around the face and | soften it. These waves are of the youth-| ful sort, not stiff and set, not of the un- dulating order known as the Marcel. They are merely wave suggestions, sort of sub- consclous trend of the halr in the right di- rection. “To get this trend you must begin with the Marcel. The halr must have its ex- pensive waving at the halrdresser's place. Then you must go home and with a big comb go through the waves, lifting them and tossing them until you get just the right stage of abandon. “““Very hot towels are used for one of the new shampoos. Turkish towels are heated 50 hot that they can scarcely be borne in the hand. The head is rubbed with these. The sensation is pleasant and the towel rubbing in many cases Is a positively bene- ficlal head massage. 1 keep it up until the hair Is free from superflous ofl “There are women who look better with light hailr. These women cannot afford to become bleached blondes of the chemical variety, but they can have the hair treated | until it is a shade Mghter than it was| before, “IL take mouse brown hair and make it bloom by giving it the varlous shampoos of the season. The hot towel shampoo can be used almost dally to keep the hair flutty and the cornmeal shampoo Is good once a week. Soap and water is necessary once | and a while and there is the cologne sham- poo which calls for a spray of sweetly scented water with a thorough drying in| the sun afterward. With these shampoos| I keep the hair a few shades brighter than Dature made it. » “Truly I think nature intended hair to be bright, but the trouble is that women sleep In close rooms and they don't pay | enough attention to the ventilating of the | hair, This makes it heavy and darkens it. It keeps it from fluffiness and in time Nothing grays It as soon as neglect, I believe that the hair should be dressed twice a day. In the morning it can be flone low and In the evening it can be dréssed high. It one is going to be quite English | one can dress it low In the afternoon and | 80 high In the evening that it s topheavy. “English women are pullug the colffure forward until it almost rests upon the fore- | head. It is becoming If one understands waving the back and putting in the pins. But one must be pretty to wear the halr In such & strained manner. “We all know that the Madonna colffure | is here. The hair is parted and drawn down | and a few very natural looking waves are pinched into the sides 86 as to frame the face. But there are women who ppsitively cannot wear this kind of coiffure, and for these there must be the old-fashioned but ever-becoming pompadour. There is noth- ing that is quite as becoming as the raised and waved pompadour, all advice to the contrary notwithstanding. We find that & dosen women can wear the pompadour where ouly one can wear the parted hair, | Jet bls fresh in her ears, the bride-to-be comes to us and demands a miracle. “*“Tell me if my halr is jade color,’ de- manded & coming bride. ‘T was told last evening that the glow from the light glanced across it and made my locks a glorious jade. Please keep them jade col- ored.' “I might have told thé girl that she was sitting under a green globe, but T fore- bore. 1 did suggest that she wéar green 1908, the first full of hopeful anticipations, | 5 WL stones In her ears, and I told her to wear a knot of green satin in her hair and a touch of green velvet at her throat. These things help In the scheme of things when | Santa Claus land printed in entrancing | one is trylng to fool & man. “This girl was so determined to have jade hair that she came daily to have her hair brushed with powdered oatmeal, which seemed somehow to give it a green touch. ‘It 'meed look green only in the evening,’| sald she, ‘for I never see him any other time.” “W¢ have a bride whose halr looks black. k locks are awfully becoming to her, so we apply & very tiny touch of real hair dye each day. makes It stand out. The result is a head which needs no pompadour. But it takes a professional to apply the dye so that it does not show. Brunettes are difficult to keep groomed, but blondes can be quite reckless since their halr does not show with the distinctness of black halr. Most of our brides want to have the halr treated so that no false hair Is re- quired and we make it grow by clipping the ends and by singeing and by mas- saging the roots with olls and by venti- lating the halr. And we keep it flufty. In a short time the hair responds and the result is a nice head of halr which looks young and takes the wave easily. “Our Christmas bride pretty well in shape, but they are nervous. They know they have pretty hair, but they are afrald it will not stay pretty. ““I can't trust my eyes,' sald a Christ- mas bride. ‘When I look at my hair I can't belleve it is the same old hair. You have made It bright, glossy and so light that I do not need a pompadour. Do you think you can keep it this way until after the wedding? ‘And 1 assured her that I could. After the wedding she will probably let it go to ruln again and it will lle all dank and heavy upon her head. But that is her busi- ness and his, not ours are Just Out of Them. A Baltimore man and his wife while on an automoblle trip, stppped at a wayside hotel for & meal. The'lady gave her order | first. “What's your order, sir?’ asked the walter of the husband. The latter looked up from the newspaper he was reading and- replied, “Bring me a duplicate.” The waiter looked puszled, scratched his head and retifed for a conference. He re “It is the Christinas bride who causes us most anxiety. In every case we are :ul;n.l 'ilh, the ls‘m:c:mfllt “Sorry, sir, ut we're just o uplicates.” ' —Baiti- more Amerioan. s ’ It stiffens the hair and | |POLAR COLORS OF THE LONG DAY |Certain Events and Experiences in | | - the Quest for the Pole—Agony | of Travel on the Polar Sea. | | Two Christmases in the Arctic, 1M7 and the last one of distress approaching de spair, presented to Frederick A. Cook | sharp contrast to the childhood Ideals of | colors at this season of the year. His ex- | pertences on those two occasions from [the introduction and the conclusicn of Dr. | certain events in his quest for the pole, printed in the December | number of the Circle Magazine. The ar- | ticle Is an Interesting synopsis of the dasi | to and from the pole. | It may be recalled, as stated in earlier | accounts, that Dr. Cook established his | winter quarters at Annootok in Octobs | 1907, Christmas found him in the northern Eskimo village that year. Of that efent and the succesding experiences of his polar journey he writes in part, as follows: Cook's account of Eating was the chief form of entertain-| ment. Let no one suppose this indicates a low state of mind. No-greater compli- eating extra -rations in honor {casion. We invited three natives to join {us dinner, and one of them, unconsci- ously following the custom of the day—for these Eskimos have no knowledge Christmas—brought us twenty duck egi of an oc- a nolse like so many stones falling. If the Eskimo regards the date at all, It is as | Midnight of the Long Night, for immedi- |ately afterward the first brief gleam of eturning light heartens him wncke served up quite & banquet. consist- ing of roast Arctic hare, grystallized pota- toes, green peas, rice and milk, péaches and cake—the latter made by the aid of the elder duck eggs. Our guests were Puad- lung, Kudia snd Koolootungwah. We the spirit of the day govern us. dolng le: it any work, though the only gift which 1 Tecall was & copy of my Antarctie book for Francke. The temperature was minus thirty-four degrees below zero, the moon three-quarters full. And so passed that Christmas day. A lt- tle over two months later, on February 19, 1908 we began,our attack on the po Our journey took us through a valley Iyin between Grinnell Land north and Elles mere Land south, but there were none of the allurements of southern valleys. The temperature ran from 63 degrees to 53 de- grees below zero, Fahrenheit. The receding walls of this shallow valley glistened in frosty draperies and graduslly softened in @ deepening purple blur that merged with the lighter blue of the morning sky. As we advanced day after day into the bieak unknown, leaving far behind all alti- once mora, ment can be paid to the far north than by | | of which he threw upon the floor; they made | let | the wonderful color ef- | feéts. These glasses served admirably to re- |duce the frightful brilllancy of snow-re- flected light enabling me to see mueh fur- | ther and more clearly than with any other | device. Often through the night that or- | ange band brightened the northern horizon, glon is blue, in most exquisite shades, al- | ways changing with changes of the atmos- | phere. The way ahead lay now into violet ‘bul the predominant color of the polar re- | movement the new fice In the leads is| the polar ice cap and forced back upon | themselves and upon the land. In this | thrown up into high pressure ridges of great |blocks compacted together, hindering pro- |gress and leaving for a time that great |lead. The ice of the mid-polar basin pre- | |sents few pressure ridges and less of the |Irregularity of the land fice. It varies in | | thickness from ten to fifty feet, of which, | perhaps, twelve or fifteen Zeet is formed the eyes reduced the puplls to pinholes, and the steady blast of lcy particles forced bitter drops that congehled as soon as freed. The vapor of the breath dropped Into my beard and rose to the eyelashes, which became solid. It is to prevent this torture that the Eskimos pull all faclal hairs out by the roots, though they grow their hair 10ng %0 as to cover the face with it at times of extreme need. But our breath even floated before us and became & crystal then llac and then purple, the |beneath the surface within two years from | Mask, extending to the foxtalls worn about colors rising like an emanation from the |the initial freezing, the rest being formed | the hood to.shield the face. | frozen pack. Sometimes the sun sank into as three suns of prismatic hues, and then settle into the sea. Into the general, color scheme was sometimes propelled a low block line over a cloud; but this was “water sky,” indicating open water or very thin ice at no great distance. Sometimes the fitful haze which so fre- | quently obscured everything on the horizon would distort the face of the midnight |Bun. This phenomenon futerested me as Egreatly which 1’ observed. The |enormous golden disk would appear to |change its shape, becoming a huge crater |of flames. It would become oval, its brightness paled and Intersected with dark lines. ‘It would assume fantastic shapes. But quite the most remarkable phase of all, the exhibition invariably, ended in the likeness of some grotesque man or beast, Possibly some of this was due to imagin- |ation. Material objects were inverted as in a mirage, when mountains and strange |appearances and even the horizon danced before us as behind & veil. As we neared the pole my Eskimo companions imagined seals where seals cannot be. But I do not |recall having detected wha: my compan- ctually looked to see the Tigl Shu— | Blg Nall-rakishly pointing toward the in- visible Norta star There were deeper blues upon the horl- n as seen from the pove, and I b:lieved I approached over the final two de- |grees that vision reached farther before it failed in this baffling mystery. On the last eager stretch the entire golor scheme |ehunged, for, the frosty wyy became a golden plain (surrounded by sapphire walls, yunted in turn by a glittering filigree | but lcoking back over the track |the walls were flaming gold, the ley plain, !a suimmering sea of blue. All this, faney, is the magic of pearly as any ions a a Ifact and in | polar atmosphere. : The changing color effects constitute the sum iotal of pleasurable experiences in that far region. There was nothing el to stimulate thought or awaken wonder. All vise wus Ufe-sapping toll. I have Just referred to the streak of water sky. So, {even among the few beauties of the Arctie |menace stalked. That black band was re- flected by a great lead between the elghty- fourth and elghty-fitth parallels, which caused me at the time the greatest anxlety, We succeeded In crossing it on thin fce at & nasrow point, and I am inclined to think the lead extends entirely around the Polar sea ice. The polar ice is in constant mo- Uon, generally in response to prevallng the ind |in process of time upon the surface, The | | the ice at sea level. | | Above the eighty-secona parallel human | life is devold of pleasure and of mental |or spiritual exhilaration. Life consists of Incessant effort not to succumb to deatn, An ey wind blows always. We worked | without ceasing, during work hours, seven days in each week. There was no lunch- | eon, there was no diversion, there was only an endless round of dash, stop, chop, lift, | | push—dash, stop, chop, lft, push and on to Ithe next obftacle, perhaps twenty feet, | perhaps 0. At the end of each day, ex |cepting the few just hefore we reached the pole and on the entire return trip, when we used the silk tent, we bullt our | snow igloo, shuiting us from the starry world and from the deadly tempest. This |took us an hour. Once with.n we dis- |robed and slept, one man getting into his | | sleeping bag at a time for lack of rcom but my (wo Eskimos used one bag be- | tween them. Somehow we would get off | {our frozen boots and pants and thrust that portion of the body Into the sleeping bag, |a plece of bricklike pemmican between the teeth all the time. Tea Was an hour in the |making, and by it help we dislodged the from our head coverings, removed | fur coat and inner shirt, and then the bag closed over an unconsclous form—so’ un- conscious that more than one death by icequake or hurricane was barely escaped | Sometimes, it sleep 4ia not immediat.iy |eome, the grateful warmth of new con- |tact with my own skin thawed my frozen blood, and 1 would lie basking in dreams of home and the days that lay th southern below horizon | In the morning, with heads thrust from the bags, we reveled in a breakfast of two cups of tea, a biscult as big as a watch, a | fragment of frozen meat, and a half pound {of pemmican. Morning and night each man | drank about and oue-half quarts of | {water, bui nmie between. Breakfast over, | the frozen garments were donned, an open- | ing kicked in the side of the 1gloo, and we | Were agaln plunging onward Into (h: mad- |dening Influence of the monotonous glitter, | But above every other fecling, excepting |that of loneliness, was that of coldness. There was no escape from it. The very stars were points of down-hanging leicles. Cold and not heat became the terror of eternal punishment. The rays of the gun smote through closed eyelids with unbear- able pain, but their heat could scarcely be felt. It was mercifully impossible to per- spire, uptil towprd the last whep physical | riest elrcumstances clvilized man | never The unremitting agony of the daily purple haze, only to reappear immediately |upper layers of old ice are not salty, as u;‘ruulll"‘ was frequently increased tenfold by the terrifying storms that sweep the lcy plains. Blinding snow, ctting frost, and a blast that seems to plerce through every pore are the accompaniments. Kven the dogs In thelr weatherproof pelts howl and retel, and in more than one instance we dug them from the drift that hid them, a mass held compigtely by bonds of ice. The tomperature rises during such storms, but falls swiftly afterward. On April 21, 198, as stated in patches, we reached the pole. Two days later began the journey back to civilization. I can scarcely say if my elation had entirely passed, but I know my ambition, my Interest, my strength had. And if ever these were needed they were upon this race with the Arctic night. The night won. Christmas day, 18, found us far from our destination, in the unmer- can well my dis- imagine, I cannot Christmas. Certainly wretched 1 had ever to duplicate it derground and bones and waste in the elvilized food, and beer meat, use of primitive hausted Perhaps the strangest emotion I felt that day was a longing to go abroad in the land with a gun over my shoul We needed exercise, but for the t days before Christmas—as also after- dared not out Into the total darkuness. We were In the locality of beasts, and our hut was pussed and repassed at all times by b Our adver that winter were man spent Christmas, 1908, like cave within our earth cell, in the not light of musk ox fat fed to It Was not possible talk panions day, for the skimo knows nothing of such things and cannot comprehend the life ways They' celebrated the arri by eating bear meat for entertalned the welcome ory. Such, then, were my the pole country. B — Quick Action for Your Money—Yow get that by using The Bes adveriising columns, of a it passed, Our hut miserable the most and T hope mostly un- composed of stones and ends, was uncomfortable We were wholly without depending up musk and this we Ined by weapons, our ammunition conceive more was extrer ox sorely we venture dangerous ars res during So we men, lying inpleasant woes wick, to to com- and inte of white al of a change, guests men, ht and I mem- mid of Christmas days in