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The cumulative effect of advertising is to make an established business. Good will" is as valuable an asset as the goods in your stock perhaps more valuable. Be so well known that when people think of your kind of goods they will think of you. Advertising will do it. The moral: Advertise in the Gold Leaf. :TO THE- "Old Reliacble' WIRE HENDERSON, ST. FOR" PIDCE LOST. OF It W. Jones Corn Whiskies, E 0. B. Clarksville, Virginia. and Make Our 100 proof. 1 gallon of Whiskey and jug, $2.15 2 gallons of Whiskey and jug, 4.30 3 gallons of Whiskey and jug, 6.50 4 gallons of Whiskey and jug, 8.60 1 gallon 4 years old Whiskey, 2.50 1 gallon 8 years old Whiskey, 3.00 4 qts of 1 0 years old Whiskey, 4.00 1 -2 gallon of Whiskey and jug, 1 25 $1.65 3.30 5.00 6.60 7.50 1.10 Inl 0., OOO' Own Whiskies. tmiMm Alleges Cooli Did Jot Reach North Pole. PROOF OF STATEMENT. Witnesses Quoted Are Cook's Eskimo Boys. GATIVES UU6H AT CLAIM. Point Out limit of Explorer's Jour ney on Carefully Prepared Map. New York. October 12. The follow log statement of Commander Robert E. Pettry. which he submit ted. to gether, with the accompanying map. to the Peary Arctic Club Id support of bis contention that Dr. Cook did not .reach Hie Nortl" Pole, is now made public for tbe first time. The state meat &ud map have been copyrighted by the Peary Arctic Club. (Entered accortMng to- Act of congress. In the year 1909. by the Peary Arctic Club, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. IX O.) INTRODUCTION BY PEAKY. Some of my reasons for saying that Dr. Cook did not go to the North Pole will be understood by those who read the following statements of the two Eskimo boys who went with him; and who told me and others of my party where he did go. Several Eskimos who started with Dr. Cook from An oratok In February, 1908. were at Etah when 1 arrived there in August. 1903. They told me that Dr. Cook had with him. after they left, two Eskimo boys or young men. two sledges and some twenty dogs. The boys were 1-took-a-shoo and Ah-pe-lah. 1 had known them from their childhood. One was about eighteen and the other about nineteen years of age. On my return from Cape Sheridan and at the very first settlement I touched (Nerke. near .Cape Chaloni in August. 1909. and nine days before reaching .Etah. the Eskimos told me. in a general way. where Dr. Cook had been; that he had wintered in Joues Sound and that be bad told the white men at Etah that he had been a loua way north, but that the boys who were with him. I-took-a-sboo and Ah-pe-lah, said that this was not so. The Eski mos laughed at Dr. Cook's story. On reaching Etah, I talked with the Eski mos there and with the two bo;,s and asked them to describe Dr. Cook's Jour ney to members of. my party and my self. This they did in the manner stated below. (Signed) K. K. Peary. SIGNED STATEMENT OF PEARY, DARTETT. MbMlLLAN. BORDP AND HJBNSOIN REGARD TO TESTIMONY OF COOK'S TWO ESKIMO BOYS. The two Eskimo boys, htqok-a-shoo and Ah-pf-lah. wup awompjuiled Dr. Cook while inj waa away, froin Anoratok- in 1908 and 1909. were questioned separately And "Independently, and were corroborated by Patpah. the father of oner of them l-ujok-a-sbooi. who was. personally familiar with the first third and the last third of their Journey,, and: who said that t he route for the remaining third, as shown by them, .was as described to him by his son after his return with Dr. Cook. Notes of their statements were taken by several of us, and no one of us has any doubt that they told the truth. r ,Tber testimony was unshaken by cross-examination. w2a--"corroborated by other men in the tribe, and was elicited neither by threats nor prom ises, the two boys and their father talking of their Journey and their ex periences in the same way that they would talk of any bunting trip. To go more into details: One of the boys was called in, and, with a chart on the table before him, was asked to show where he had gone with Dr. Cook. This he did, pointing out witL bis finger on the' map, but not making any marks upon it. As he went out. the other boy came In and was asked to show where be had gone with Dr. Cook. This be did. also without making any marks, and Indicated the same route and the same details as did the first boy. When he was through. Panikpah. the father of 1-took-a-shoo. a very in telligent man. who was in the parry of Eskimos that came back from Dr. Cook from the northern end of Nan sen's Strait, who is familiar as a hunt er with the Joues Sound rejjion. and who has been in Commander Peary's various expeditions for some fifteen years, came In and indicated the samr iocalltles and details as the two boys. Then the first boy was brought In again, and with a pencil lie traced on the map their- route, members of our party writing upon the chart where, according to the boy's statement, they had killed deer, bear, some of then dogs, seal, walrus and musk-oxen. The -second boy was then called in and the two went orer the chart to gether, the second boy suggesting some changes as noted hereafter. Finally, Panikpah, the father, was again called in to Terify details of the portions of the route with which he was personally familiar. 1 The bnlk of the boys testimony was not taken by Commander Peary, nor In his presence, a fact that obviates any possible claim that they .were awed by him. Certain questions on Independent lines from the direct narrative of the r.nfeiTTr boys were suggested by Com mander Peary to some of oh. and were put by us to the Eskimo boys. Still later. Commander Peary asked the Eskimo boys two or three casual questions on minor points that had occurred to him. During the taking of this testimony. It developed that 1 Dr. Cook bad told these boys, as be told Mr. Wbltaej I and Billy Pritchard. the cabin boy. that thev must not tell Commander 11 or any of us anvthinir about their Journey, and the boys stated , Dr. Cook bad threatened them if they : should tell anything. The narrative of these Eskimos Is ' as follows: They, with Dr. Coot Francke and nine other Eskimos, left Anoratok, crossed Smith's Sound to Cape Sabine, slept in Commander Peary's old bouse In Payer Harbor, then went through Rice Strait to Buchanan Bay. After a few marches Francke and three Eski mos returned to Anoratok. Dr. Cook, with the others, then pro ceeded up Flagler Bay. a branch of Buchanan Bay, and crossed Ellesmerc Land through the valley pass at the head of Flagler Bay. indicated by Com mander Peary in 1808. and utilized by Srerdrup in 1899. to tne head of Sver drop's "Bay Fiord" on the west side .of Ellesmere Land. y -Their route hen lay out through thia fiord, thence north through Sverdrup's "Heoerka Soand" and Nanseu Strait. Oa their way they" killed musk-oxen and bear, and made caches, arriving eventually rt a point on the west side of Nanseu Strait (shore of Axel He! berg Laud f Sverdrnpi, south of Cap Thomas Hubbard. .A cache was formed here and th four Eskimos did not go beyond this point. Two others. Koolootingwab and Inugbito. went ou one more marcb with Dr. Cook and the two boys, help ed to build the snow, igloo, theu re- turned without sleeping. (These two Eskimos brought back s tpr igcr iisr no- 6(90 v : J l fours, corhect coFYwim jjMmwiti ' ACTUAL KOVTAr JmWmWmW&-0 r The accompanying map is reproduced exactly from the original submitted by fnim.iider Peary with his official statement by which he hopes to prove that Dr. Frederick A. Cook iu-v-r nsirluil the north pole. The map pur ports to have been traced out In the presence of the two Eskimos who were with Dr. Cook and, according to Peary, is based upon their actual statements as to Cook's entire journey. The dotted lines In the small map in tn upper left baud corner Is the route which Dr. Cook says he took on his jiunuy to and from the pole after leaving Cape Thomas Hubbard. The Irregular line extending uortheast rroin isachsen Ijxnd Is the edge of tbe land let, beyond which. Peary declares, Dr. Cook did not venture. letter from Dr. Cook to Francke, dat ed' the 17th of March. The two men rejoined tbe other four men who had been left behind, and the six returned to Anoratok. arriving May 7tb. This information was obtained not from the two Eskimo boys, but from the six men who returned and from Francke himself, 'and was known to us in the summer of 1908. when the Rooaevtlt first arrived at Etah. Tbe information is inserted here as supplementary to the narrative of tbe two boys.) After sleeping at the camp where the Inst two Eskimos turned back. Dr. Cook and the two boys went In a northerly" or northwesterly direction with two sledges and twenty odd dogs, one more march, when tbey encoun tered rough ice and a lead of open wa ter. Tbey did not enter this rough ice. nor cross. the lead, bat turned west ward or southwestward a short dis tance and returned to, Helberg Land at a point west of wbrr? they bad left tbe cache and where the four men had turned back. Here tbey remained four or fire sleeps, and during that time 1-took-a- sboo went back to the cache and got bis gun whk-b be bad left there, and a few items of supplies. When asked why only a few supplies were taken from the cache, tbe boys replied that only a small amount of provisions bad been used la the few days since they left tbe cache, and that their stedge stilt had all they could carry, so ttuit they could not take more. After bei.ig informed of the boys narrallve thus far, Commander Peary suggested a series of questions to be put to the boys Id regard to this trip from the land uut and back to it. These questions and answers were as follows: Did they cross many open leads or much open water during this time? Ans. .None. Did tbey make any caches out on tbe ice? Ans. No. Did tbey Kill any bear or seal while out ou tbe Ice north of Cape Thomas Hubbard? Ans. No. Did tbey kill or lose any of their dogs while out on the Ice? Ans. No. With how many sledges did thr start? Ans. Two. How many dogs did they have? Ans. Did not remember exactly, but some thing over twenty. How many sledges did they hare when they got back to land? Ans. Two. Did they nave any provisions left on , their sledges when they came back to land? Ans. Yes: the sledges still had about all they could carry, so they were able to take but a few things from tbe cache. From here they then went southwest along tbe northwest coast of Helberg Land to a point indicated on tbe map (Sverdrup's Cape Northwest). . From here they went west across the ice, which was level and covered toy -t?mg Willi snow, ouerlng pood going, to a low Island which they bad seen from Xie shore of Helberg Land at Cape Northwest, tin this island they camp eu for one sleep. Tlit- size jiiul position of I hi inland, as drawn in the first boy. wax criti cised by tbf second boy as bHng too large and to far to the west, the sec ond boy calling tbe attention of the first to the fact that the position of the Islaod was more nearly in line with the point where tbey had left Helberg Lc od (Cape Northwest and the channel between Amuud Ringnes Land and Hi let Ringnes Land. This criticism and correction was ac cepted by the first boy. who started t: change the position of tbe island, bi:; was stopped, as Commander Peary had given instructions that no changes or erasures were to be made tn the route as drawn by tbe Eskimos on tbe chart. From this island they cxukl se pr lands beyond (Sverdrup's Eiief Um? nes and Amund Riugr.es l-niu -. From the islaud they Journeyed ti. ward tbe left hand one of these two lands (Amund Ringnes Land'. pas:;iti? a small island which they did not visit Arriving at the shore of Around Rlcgnes Land, the Eskimos killed a deer as indicated on tbe chart. Don't saSer with Ppwuta. Strain, Brnin or Pain, bat ue BLOODI.NE EHEGHATIC LIX1MEXT and you wiQ be relieved in a minute. 23c and 50c a bottle, The Bloodine Co, Inc.. Boston, Msm. Sold by W. W. Parker, Special Agent. The above Italicised portion of tbe statement of tbe Eskimo boys covers ?he period of time in which Dr. Ccok claim to have gone to the Pol and back, atd the entire time during which. be viu!U imssibly nave made any at- tenu is tu go to It. The- answers of the Eskimo boys to Commander lory's series of inde pendent question, showing that they killed no game, made no caches, lost no dogs, and returned to the land with loaded sledges, makes their attainment of tbe Pole on tbe trip North of Cap Thomas Hubbard a physical an math ematical impossibility, as It would de mand tbe subsistence of three men and over twenty dogs during a Jour ney of teu hundred and forty geograph ical miles ou less than two sledge loads of supplies. if It is suggested that perhaps Dr. Cook got mixed and that he reached the Pole, or thought ho did. between the time of leaving the northwest coast of Helberg Land at Cape Northwest. and bis arrival at iUngnea Land, where they killed tbe deer, we must then add to tbe date of Dr. Cook's letter of m March17th, at or near cape Thomas Hubbard, tbe subsequent four or fire sleeps at that point, and the number of days required to march from Caps Thomas Hubbard to Cape Northwest (a distance of some sixty nautical miles). whlci would advance his data of departure from the land to at least tbe 25th of Marcb. and be pre pared to accept tbe claim that Dr. Cook went from Cape Northwest (about latitude eighty and a half de grees Northi to the Pole, a distance of five hundred and seventy geographical miles. In twenty-sereo days. After killing the der t'jey Ibeti UST cl!ed south along ttie eat side of Ring nes Land to tbe point indicated on the chart, where they k!Jied another deer. They then vivnt e&l across the south part of Crown Prince Gustav Sea to tbe south end of Helberg Land, then down through Norwegian Bay. where they secured some bear, but not until after they bad killed some of their dogs, to the east side of Graham Is land; then eastward to the little bay marked "Eld's Fiord" on Bverdrop's chart: then southwest to Hell's Gate and Simmon's Peninsula. Here for the first time daring the entire Journey, except as already noted off Cape Thomas U. Hubbard, tbey encountered open water. On this point the boys were clear, emphatic, and un shakable. They spent a good deal of time n this region, and finally aban doned their dogs and one sledge, took to their boat crossed Hell's Gate to North Kent, sp into Norfolk Inlet, then back along tha north coast of Colin Archer Peninsula to Cape Vera, where tbey obtained fresh eider dock tfgs. tier they cat the remalalaf sledge off. that la ahortened JCas R was awkward to transport with the boat. and near here they killed a walrus. The statement ifi regard to the fresh eider dwelt cjfis trmlta tbe approxi mate determination of the date at this time aa about the first of July. (This statement also serves. If indeed any thing mors than the Inherent straight. forwardness and detail of their narra tive were needed, to substantiate tba accuracy and truthfulness of tbe boys statement. This locality of Cape Vera is mentioned lu Sverdrup's narrative as tba place where during, bis stay in that region he obtained . eider docks From Cap Vera tbey went on dons into tba southwest angle of Jones-' 8oand, where tbey killed a seal; these east along the south coast of lb Sound, killing three bears at the point noted ou tba map. to tba peninsula known aa Cape Sperbo on tne map. about midway on tne south side of Jones Sound. Here tbey killed some -musk-oxen and. continuing east, killed four more at tbe place Indicated on the chart, and were finally Mopped by the pack ice at the mouth of Jones Sound. From here ihey turned back to Cape Spurbo. where ihey wintered and killed many tnusk-oxeo. After the sun returned In 1UU9 tbey started, pushing their sledge, across Jones Sound to Cape Teuuyson; tbenc along the coast to Clarence Jlead (pass ing Inside or two small Islands not shown on tbe chart, but drawn on It by tbe boys), where they killed a bear: thence across the broad bight in tbe coast to Cadogao Fiord: thence around Cape Isabella and up to Commander Peary's old bouse in Payer Harbor near Cape Sabine, where tbey found a seal cached for them by Panikpah. I-took-a-sboo's fat her. Fmm here., i ilty crossed Smith Sound on the Ke. ar riving st Anoratok. (Signed i U. E. PtARy. U. K.. N. Robert A. Hartlett. Msster S.S. Rwwlt. D. II. McUiujut. GronpE BoRirr. Matthew A. Ucnsov. Klndhasrtsdneaa. The glngham-ahirted boy had made s break to pass the ticket-seller at the cirens entrance, but that gentleman had caught him and rudely thrust him back. "Poor little devil." said a seedy looking man in the crowd. "If I had the money I'd buy him a ticket my self." The crowd looked sympathetic, but said nothing, while the boy sobbed as If his heart would dissolve. "I've only got a nickel. litUe feller," went on the seady looking one. "an that won't do you no good. Say," he continued, turning suddenly to the crowd, "let's do one good act in our lives. Let's buy him a ticket" It looked for a minute aa if a col lection was to be started, but a benevolent-looking old gentleman nipped It In the bud by slipping a half-dollar into the hand of the boy, who prompt ly disappeared into the tent "I thank you a thousand times for that kind act, sir," said the seedy looking man. "You seem to take quite an Interest In the little fellow," remarked the benevolent one. "Well. I should think I ought to." answered the seedy-looking man, proudly. "That's the only son I got!" Ate Eggs 100 Years Old. At the banquet given in Ban Fran cisco recently to celebrate the estab lishment of a Chinese Chamber of Commerce priceless Chinese delica cies were served. Among the guests were fifty Americans. Although chop sticks wera used, all of the speech making waa in English. Some of the Items In the dinner, that cost $25 a plate, were aa follows: Slow fungus, which retails at $40 a pound and la one of the rarest Chin es delicacies; sharks' fins, birds' nests, preserved eggs, one hundred years old; melon seeds, which tbe white guests could not eat with chop k ticks; brains of yellow fish and water Uiy seeds with ducks. In all there were seventeen courses. A Mild fUbwke. When one woman rebukes another, he cynical bystander thinks It well to have his ear -open. She was a wo man whose clothes were better than her manners, says the Washington Star. She walked into the railway car. tilted her hear superciliously, sniffed once or twice, and asked, in a loud voice: "Is this the smoking car?" "No, ma'am," answered a demure young woman in the first seat "I think you'll find it three cars for ward." The Milky Wsy. The reason that the stars in tbe Milky Way seem so c!os together Is because we look at them edgewise. Tbey are really not closer together than in other parte of the heavens, but there- are, indeed, billions of them, and most of theu ar supposed to be surrounded by planets. Their color depends on their degree of heat Very hot stars are blue, but there are also red and green and pale yellow ones. The real color of our sun. they tell us. Is blue, its red end yellow hue being due to our atmosphere. Woman's High Position. Miss Helen Sumner is the only woman regularly employed by the United States labor bureau to col lect Information on the subject of women In Industry. She is a gradu ate of Wellesley college of tbe class of 1898 and recently took ber degree of Ph. D, at the University of Wis consin, the subject of ber thesis be ing the labor movement in tbe United States between 1837 and 1827. Miss Sumner has Just finished a report on equal suffrage in Colorado. The Possibilities. A lady fell Into a ri.er. A boy on tbe bank dived in and succeeded In rescuing ber. Tbe lady's ho band was effusive in nis thanks, and pre sented the boy with a dollar! The bystanders showed their astonishment at his niggardliness. "Oh, don't blame the gentleman. said the boy. "Maybe, if I hadn't saved her, he'd bave made It a five spot!" Ninety Miles of Bookshelves. Tbe new New York Public library contains three hundred rooms, covers nine acres of space, one acre more than the Congressional Library at Washington, and has the largest read-lnf-room in tbe world. A little mat ter of seven or eight millions is ex pected to be the cost price. II II - .J r
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