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Show THE SEMI-WEEKL- K. T. MAIM. Y Tale of Suffering Amid Antarctic Ice HTD. rabitakMW UTAH LOGAN. CAMTFI'RE STO'RIES Chile has Just ordered two new Look out for trouble. C. E. Borchgrevink, Who Reached the Southern Point Ever Gained, Ut-tleshi- ps. Most Extreme Re- lates His Experiences. London school board children used over 4,000,000 exercise and copy books last year. The Venezuelans are at It again. The South American martial spirit never rises but it revolutes. The Chinese court has been rehabilitated by making the clothes of the common people a little shorter. Andrew Carnegie has succeeded in boosting his library record up to ight endowments in a single day. thirty-e- C. E. Borchgrevink, who commanded the British antarctic expedition of which penetrated to latitude 78.50, the most extreme southern point ever gained by explorers, is in New York city, busy with plans for another expedition in search of the south pole. In speaking of the perils encountered in his recent expedition he gives the following graphic account of the hardships undergone by the ex1898-190- 0, plorers: "In the antarctic there is no mammal within the coast line and the traveler must entirely depend upon what he brings with him in the form of pre- welcome. I myself devoured fourteen of these eggs the first day, notwithstanding the fact tha. they were twice the size of an ordinary ducks egg. "I shall not forget the moment when it was announced to me that the penguins had laid their first eggs. I told the doctor, who generally looked after the menu, that we should have eggs the next morning. He, however, implored me not to eat the eggs nor to let sny of the members eat them Just then. He was making a study of us and Tales Thai Will Recall Memories of the Tast. 'Reminiscences The Old Teen The white dawn glimmered and he said, Tl day! The tost was reddening and he sighed, "Farewell. The herald dead. uncame forth and he waa Ufa wo !i: all hie veins, but yestermorn. And ruddy Lea'lh seemed laughing on hie lip: Now he la dust, and will not breath again! Give h'.n a place to lay hie regal head. Give hl(. a tomb beside hie brother gone. Give him a tablet for hie deeds and name. Hear the new voice that claims the vacant throne. Take the new hand outstretched to meet thy kis. But give the past tl all thou const thy tears! J. Pierpont Morgan has made a little served food, and preserved food loan of 112,500,000 to Chile. Later he packed in tins, is at best, in my opinion, unfavorable. may decide to buy the whole country. "The antarctic night, which lasts for seventy-on- e days at Cape Adair, Ten thousand students in Russia are giving the college yell for liberty. Is longer than the night at the same latitude in the north. Uke an evil, For 'rah-'ra- h effects it is hard to beat. sneaking spirit the antarctic night wraps the traveler in its black, cold Things must be getting desperate No one who has not faced these clasp. In Colombia, for the government is winters realizes what midnight to going spring a curfew law on the a depressing effect fully the lack of sunlight revolutionists. has upon the human mind. The awful monotony, the roaring silence are matn It is reported that Sir Thomas is going to marry an American ters for realization rather than deCovered by snow in a hut girl has found something over here scription. fifteen by fifteen, we ten pioneers In that he can lift. the antarctic continent spent many Mohamed Dudu has been proclaimed trying days. The antarctic gales had laid a white blotting paper over that Sultan of Wadal, Africa, lie is a lineal descendant of the famous Dudu, little black spot which we formed on Lip-to- my huckleberry, Du. It is figured out that the winter cost New York 17,000,000, and as it was not counted a luxury the New Yorkers are growling about it. The death of so many prominent artists within the past few weeks has not reduced the number of traveling minstrel companies. burnt-cor-k The Richmond Dispatch is anxious about the proper way to pronounce Those who have it appendicitis." pronounce it the worst ever. When a shaft is sunk in Colorado now the sinker has a double chance of success, as he is likely to strikq either a precious mineral or a flow of oil. - -- - Bearing in mind that a cow once Jumped over the moon it would be well to equip one's air ship with a cowcatcher for such another contingency. Minister Yu contends that female offenders should be tried by juries of women. If Wu has his way good looking women will do well to keep out of the dock. A Tennessee judge has declined a after holding public office for forty years. It cant be possible, however, that he la quitting because he needs rest. The new president of the Western Union Telegraph Company started as a messenger boy. Ills case seems to upset the theory that a messenger boy never gets there. This is the season when the woman who hesitates whether to invest her capital in her Easter offering or her Easter bonnet is lost in the abyss of the millinery shop. There appears to be no good reason why William Waldorf Astor should not gratify his ambition to become a member of the British parliament, llo undoubtedly has the price. Lost shot of the Civil Nan I alone, sire, am the rear guard of the grand army!" exclaimed Marshal Ney, as be fired tbe last shot at the Cossacks on the banks of the Beresino. This melancholy feature of Napoleon's will disastrous Russian campaign doubtless be recalled by a few survivors of tbe last battle of the civil war when they hear of the death of Gen. Egbert Brown. When a line of Confederate cavalry was slowly retiring from the field on in Texas, at the time, tapping us for blood, mak- the plains of Braxos Santiago had met blue and the where tbe gray ing microscopical investigations' there- in last encounter the for time, deadly of, taking our pulse by the pulaometer in his and, and was afraid that eggs, the very a soldier turned words saddle, of the great the after repeating tmng we required, would upset our French marshal, he threw his gun to health and thus spoil his valuable inhis shoulder and fired. It proved to be vestigations. last shot of the last battle and It those vast, vast white fields. It was an enthusiasm which I ap- tbe shot of tbe long was "It was difficult to do any work at preciated as highly as he himself ap- war. certainly the last as a matter favorFortunately, the wooden table which we used in preciated the eggs the next morning. able to the truth of history, tbe man common. There wc were, glaring at "The best food supplies which the who achieved distinction In connection each other with eyes at once vacant antarctic traveler has are the seals with this memorable event is a perfectand Intense. In a way we hated each and the fish. The fish constitute one reliable man. His name Is S. H. other. We were sick of each others of the most remarkable discoveries we ly Barton. He was a captain in tbe Concompany. When anyone opened his made, as more than eleven varieties of federate army and he was held in high mouth we knew exactly what he was them are absolutely new to science. esteem by his superiors and dearly loved by his brave Texans, whose danICELOCKED IN THE ANTARCTIC. gers and privations he shared on the march and in the trenches where balls fell like hall. Promotion sought him many times after the smoke of battle had cleared from a red field and soldiers were talking of his dauntless courage, but he preferred to serve with the comrades of his boyhood. There are men still living who can hear witness to the fact that Captain Barton fired the last shot at Brazos enough, Santiago, and, strangely among these is an old soldier by the name of Ney, who claims he is a descendant of the famous French marshal, who fired the last Bhot at the Cossacks. A reliable citizen of Del Rio, In disgoing to say. The music box which The seal flesh is coarse, but I ate it we took along got us into trouble very raw and occasionally drank the blood cussing this matter, said: "Capt. Bar-tis sure that he fired the last shot early in the antarctic night. One of from the hole made by the seal knife. the members set it to playing a tune It is very oily, especially after passing at the close of the last battle of the tvil war, and I believe him, for he Is which another one hated and the row through the layer of blubber, which which they Btartcd became general. Is often more than three inches thick, "The penguins, especially those but I regard It as a great remedy which Inhabit the continent in great against ' disease. numbers, remind one of a human comThe fish were delicious. Strange to In endless strings they say, we never caught any by bait, but munity. walked after each other. With their always got them by means of the black backs they looked at a distance Norwegian pi Ik, an application like a on the snow like a comical lilipuila'i funeral procession. When they discovered us they came to us, not knowing the blood thirst of civilization. They walkea around us, evidently taking down their zoological notes about us and taking us for a new sort of penguin. They came back to their nesting places at the cape, where their old nests, consisting of small pebbles, were still lying about from the previous year, although somewhat disturbed by the heavy gales. "On warm days the male bird stood bright little fish, of tin, to which two erect in his nest, his beak toward the hooks have ho n fastened at the nose. zenith, uttering a series of hoarse Wo molded this arp'iance in wooden Capt. nnrton. carved shapes in v.hich we poured screams, the female listening attentruthful man, and he would a perfectly melted tin. to a line, This, tively to his antarctic love song. They was moved rapidly up and down in not misrepresent a matter of that kind had a busy time and n in the least, not even to have his fame in both of which occupations the water. over forty pages of history." "All fish are I and curious, presume spread they were studied most attentively by of tlie last battle, which The story that the antarctic h is even more my bachelor staff. on was the 13th of May,l8G5, fought so tnau the arctic, n.t having Been so We ate the penguins from the time was war ended and peace dethe after they first came. They were, however. many wonders of men's handiwork, clared, has escaped the attention that rio we hooked these fish easily. One of the leaps caught us many as fifty it merits, for it was an affair of no little importance. in an hour. Gen. Egbert Brown, who recently I have often hci n asked why died at West Plains, Mo., was In comwomen should not Join in arctic exof the federal troops in southern mand plorations, to cheer the members Texas, and be was doubtless well InThe formed during the long dark months. concerning the termination of plan would, of rourse, be impracticahostilities. Gen. J. E. Slaughter, who ble, because women ar lacking in the commanded the Confederate troops ennecessary physical strength and would camped at Brazos Santiago, had heard become a burden instead of a help rumors of the surrender of the armies to the explorer. All the same. I may commanded by Lee, Johnson and other say that the absence of them to a generals, but he had received no offgreat degree accounts for the melanicial notice of these facts from the war choly which often takes hold of memGen. Brown, under a department. bers of polar expeditions. informed the Confederof truce, flag ates of the state of affairs about WashPremium on th liable. ington and Richmond, at the same time inviting them to come In and lay The Western Algiers Railway Company has decided to uffT a premium down their arms as the war was cerof 120 on the birlli of every mild betainly over. Gen. Slaughter refused to act In an to its The longing emp'oyes. employe of such Importance until he was affair with more than three children is to receive an extra alluwance of flO a better Informed. Thereupon, Colonel called them ptarmigan and managed Barret, at the head of a considerable a to eat them with better relish. They child year. force, was dispatched to break up tbe were fresh food, 'at least. Then the Wise Is he who I. no ah where his rebel camp. A hot uattle ensued and, eggs, wliiih were laid in the begln-vin- g knowledge tnds and l.i.i ignorance be- - curiously enough, most of the fighting of November, were, of course. or fa.-ien-ed love-maki- The only objection that the Bavarians have to the American locomotives is what they call its outlandish whistle. Perhaps they think that a voice sweet and low is a fine thing In a locomotive. He needn't travel far that Iowa Trappist monk who, after twenty-fiv- e years seclusion, renounces his vows to see the world. In the human nature of the first village he will find the world in miniature. A Boston man has died of brought on by playing Bostonians who have been used to the quiet, studious life should be more careful about indulging in these riotous and violent practices. over-exerti- ping-pon- g. It Is boasted by a Burlington editor man of that town uses tobacco in any form. And it is feared that this may lead to such a state of asceticism that the Burlington editors will even refuso to drink. that not a newspaper As soon as the news got abroad that Samuel Denton, a handsome New York newspaper canvasser, was jailed for ninety days for kissing a pretty little housemaid, every old maid in the city bell. began to answer her own dv ng fi.-- i was done on the old field of Palo Alto, where Gen. Taylor achieved a victory over the Mexicans nearly twenty years ' before. The French soldiers encamped on the southern Bhore of the Rio Grande were In sympathy with the and they kept Gen. southerners, Slaughter and CoL Rip Ford posted as to the movements of the federal troops. Several spirited encounters occurred and the loss sustained by some of the negro regiments must have been severe. While the battle raged the Confederates were frequently informed by some bold cavalryman in blue that the war was over. One daring fellow shouted: Lee surrendered a month ago. The war is ended. Why dont you go home?" When the engagement was hottest, Gen. Slaughter received dispatches and the French sent him a bundle of newspapers. Fully satisfied that the cause for which they were fighting was forever lost, he ordered the firing to cease. At that particular moment neither side could have claimed an advantage over the other, but both armies began to retire from the field at the same time. A Capt S. A. Barton, in command of the rear guard, waa slowly riding away, a stray bullet struck & young man at his side and he fell from his saddle. That was certainly the last man killed in the long war. Capt. Barton was unable to tell his name, but he has it in a notebook which he I will publish some day. thought that was hard luck," says the old soldier. The young man had served four years and never got a scratch. The last bullet that came our way killed him. Prompted more by a spite at fate rather than bitterness toward the enemy, I turned In my saddle and fired toward a dark bule line which I hope was out of range. That was certainly the last shot of the great war." Who fired the first one? Indian Bon of E. (he Revolution-Charle- s an Eastport photographer, has presented to the Brown, Maine Historical Society finely colored photographs of large size of Capt. Sofiel Selmore and his wife, Mary, In full tribal dress. Capt. Sofiel la a Abnakl. has never learned to speak the English language with facility, is a devoted Christian, and has for many years been the chief of the PasBamaquoddy Indians, living in their principal village at Pleasant Point, in the town of Perry, Me. He la a man of fine presence, and lead his people in tribal matters with great dignity and wisdom. He is beld in the highest esteem by his white neighbors. He was born In Perry, July 10, 1803, and is year. consequently in bis ninety-eight- h Capt. Sofiel Is a member of the Maine Society of Sons of the American Revolution. He Is a son of Capt. Selmore Soetomah, who with others of his tribe served under Capt. John Allen in service on tbe eastern frontier, and waa living as late as 1860, being then 103 years old. He was the leader of a band of fifty Indians who captured an armed nrltish schooner In Passamaquoddy Bay during the Revolution and delivered lier to Col. Allen. Capt Sofiel follows the Indian custom of making the Christian name of his father his own surname. full-blood- ed M(cluitt A Regiment. il veterans oPthe 58th The Massachusetts Regiment Association observed the anniversary of Washington's birthday by a reunion and dinner at Boston. Comrade Joseph B. Read of Soutb Hanson read a very interesting and carefully prepared paper covering the the during regiment's experience civil war, from the time that It left Readvllle in 1864 until its return to the same camp July 16, 1865, 15 months later. The regiment, he stated, was recruited by Col. S. T. Richmond, but he could not be mustered in because the regiment was not complete, so that it left Readvllle under command of Maj. Wbiton, and It was never completed. Camp was broken April 28, and tbe regiment started for Virginia, arriving at Washington on tbe 30th, when it went Into camp outside of that city. The regiment arrived at Bull Run battlefield during a terrific thunder storm. Tbe 58th was assigned to the 2d division, first brigade, under Gen. Burnside, and waa the last regiment to cross the Rappahannock river when the bridge was destroyed. gray-haire- It The German Army. Is proposed to stimulate promo- tion in the German army by reducing the period of service required to authorise the retirement of an officer from forty years to thirty-seve- n years, and a hill for this purpose has been presented to the secretary of the military authorities. The retiring allowance is to be Increased so as to make the smull i miioB granted three-fiftof the full pay. hs |