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Library LARGEST CIRCULATION ANY PAPER IN THE COUNTY. SUBSCRIPTION 11M r PRESS CAROL. N O 2 I AN $1 PER YEAR PLUME 27. HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1396. HUHBEH8. State Hi WW 'rffri 4 ii mm - l lis a a THE NORTH POLE IS FOUND. DR. FRIDTZ NANSEX THE DISCOVERER. Reported to Hare Successfully Planted the Norwegian Col ors it the Upper Pole. GREAT SENSATION IN SCIENCE. A Chain of nounUlns Reported to b the p0eThe Details of the Trip Through the Frigid Zone. - St. Petkhsbuko, Feb. 13. A tele graphic dispatch received here today from Irkutsk, Siberia, says that a Si lurian trader " named Kouchnareff, Who is the agent of Dr. Fridtjof Nan sen, the Norwegian explorer, who mailed in the Fram, June 21, 1803, for the Arctic regions, has received infor mation to the effect that Dr. Nansen lies reached the north pole, has found land there and is now returning to wards civilization. In April last the Figaro, of Paris, circulated a rumor that Dr. Nansen had found the north pole, and that it js situated on a chain of mountains. It was then added that he had planted the Norwegian Hag there. The story was generally regarded as being with out foundation. , On September 17, of last year, ad vices were received in London 'froui the Danish trading station of Ang magsalik, on the east coast of Green land, that a ship supposed to be Dr. Nansen's Fram, had been sighted at the end of July, stuck fast in an ice drift. . Finally, on December G. a dispatch 1 from Christiana,1 Norway, stated that Dr. Nansen's wife received a letter by carrier pigeon reporting that the expe dition was doing well. As no carrier pigeons were taken north by the Tan sen party, this report was evidently inaccurate, but it was published for what it was worth. , x Dr. Fridtjof Nausen. is a distin guished scientist of Norway and an enthusiastic believer in the possibility of iinding the north pole. He is about ;" years of age. He entered the uni versity of Christiana in 1880. t wo years later went on a sealing trip to Den' mark straits oh the east coast of Greenland in the Viking. Later, in 18:2, Nansen was appointed curator of the museum at Bergen, which position he retained until 1888, when-he led a small expedition of six men to Green land, crossing the southern part of tliat portion of tlie globe. It was probably during this trip that-Nansen conceived the plan of making an at tempt to reach the north pole in a ves sel constructed specially for such an undertaking. In any case, after his return to Norway, Nansen took the preliminary steps toward fitting out his expedition and the Fram was planned and constructed. She is gen erally classed as a three-masted sailing schooner, but she had IGO-horse power steam engine in addition to her sails. ' Her displacement was 800 tons and her sides were so constructed as to force all ice meeting the vessel to pass underneath her, thus preventing ' pinching' and "screwing." . The Norwegian parliament allowed Nanen about $52,000 to lit out his craft, and, iu addition, he was assisted in his work by many private subscrip tious. including one . of $5,000 from King)ear. The Fram was launched October 2i, 18U2, at Laurwik, near ..Christiana. ' A Norwegian paper describing the tittin ; out of the Fram said: Bread is the'principal. nourishment of Nansen and his ieople. The bread is a kind of biscuit, large and round, white and very compact. The ration of each man is to consist of, four biscuits a day. This, at least, was given out when the expedition, hft Norway. Silk it used as the most suitable ma terial for tents, as it 'shuts out the fold letter than anything else. Tlit cabin of Nansen's ship, the Fram (Forward,) is heated by means of an Euglish petroleum stove which consumed three litres of petroleum Ierday. As the explorer has taken along with him a sufficient supply of this fuel to last him eight or nine year, there will be no lack of heating material. The library of th expedi tion consists of 1,000 books, half of which are scientific works and the other half novels, poetry, etc The crew numbers twelve men, and all occupy the cabin, which measures only thirteen square feet. There they dwell, eat and work. The suits they wear cannot be penetrated by water. The expedition sailed from Christi ana June 24, 1803, the doctor's plan being to make for the new Siberian islands and head north until the Fram, by being embedded in the ice, would be compelled to sail along the west coast of any land which might be found. On August 23, 1895, Dr. Nansen sent a dispatch from Vardo, reporting that pn the 2nd of that month he was about to sail into the Kara sea, and that the Fram had behaved splendid ly up to that stage of the journey, es pecially in forcing her way through the ice. ' A London dispatch, dated March 4, of last year, announces that a letter dated Kjollenfdord, February 24, had reached ,Hammerfest, Norway, an nouncing that a telegraph inspector at a station in the mountains between Lebesy ami Langfjord had seen a bal loon moving in a southerly direction, and Relieved that it was possibly car rying dispatches from Dr. Nansen, but until the foregoing dispatch no furtfter news of the balloon of Dr. Nansen had been receivea. Dr. Nansen's companions were: Capt. Otto Sverdrup, shipmaster; Si gurd Scott Hansen, lieutenant in the Norwegian navy and director of the astronomic meteorology and magnet observations; . Henrik Blessing, sur geon and botanist1, Theo. C. Jacobsen, mate; Peder Hendriksen, harpooner; Anton Amundsen, chief engineer; Lars Peterson, second engineer; Hjal mar Johnnesen; officer in the Norwe gian army, fireman; Bernard Nordahl, officer in the Norwegian army, fire- man; Bernard-, Nordahl, electrician; Ivan Mogatad, carpenter, and Adolph Juell, steward. . .. ' V Dr. Nansen, according to lieutenant David L. Brainerd, U. S. A., who ac companied the Greeley expedition as assistance officer, bases his theory of the current which he relied on to carry him through the Arctic regions on the fact that the trend of the Jeannette was gradually in the direction of the pole and that pieces of drift wood, etc., have been found on the ieast and west coast of Greenland and along the east coast of Ellsmere and Grinnell land which from their appearance and character seem to indicate that they had drifted from the Siberian coasts. Other articles, sucn as a large stopper or plug for a powder horn, a coasting stick, a. cane,' etc., evidently the work of Alaskan Indians have also beeu found in the same. places. The Lawyer and the Bible. "I was trying a case at Geneva once before Judge Wilson," said Lawyer Pat Me Hugh, to the Chicago Inter- Ocean. "The law jer on the other side, w ?o was a great talker, strongly warn ed the jury) of the danger of receiving hearsay evidence, which he described as often misleading and unreliable, saying that, no matter how honest witnesses were or intended to be, there was always a chance of their haviug misunderstood a man's meaning and language. . For example he quoted or pretended j to quot copiously ' from the Scriptures, giving the four evan gelists' accounts of the crucifixion, which he described in detail. At leugth the judge said: "Will you be kind enough to give the references?' I " 41 ain quoting from the Holy Bi ble,1 said the lawyer. 'Yes, yes,' said the judge, "that's all right; but we waut your references, page, chapter and verse, if you please. And I rejeted the demauJ. The lawyer turned upou the judge una uiy uel what was intended to be a look of withering pity and contempt, and said: f " 'May it please th court, I aiu ad dressing t He jury. If I were uddrt s iug the court or counsel I tuiUi it necessary to give references for wlut I quote; but 1 am addressing religiou and God-fearing meu. who read iheir Bibles with care' and dvo?i t. and who know exactly where to find the quotations I give without havirg to le helped outjby chapter atnd veri-o as if they were nufnlightened infidels. i'he judce aud myself hung our heads under this scathing lebuke, and the jury wer so tickled with this flat tery of their Scriptural lore that the J j.wyer won the case. OUR WASHINGTON LETTER. A Few Dispertinent And Impertinent R- mark on the Situation or Soot Other Atlon. From Oar Regular Con eepondeni. Washington, Feb. 17th, 1896. The Reed tariff bill is apparently as dead as a last year's bird nest, and it was killed by republican senators at that. The scheme of the high tariflf republi can senators was to take up the coin age substitute for the tariff bill, which was reported to the Senate from the. Finance committee, vote that substi-! tnte down with the aid of anti-silver democrats, and then with the aid, of; Populists to pass the tariff bill with out amendment. Bat it struck a snag, in the shape of a republican revolt as soon as the very first move to carry it but was made," and the revolt was led by the Chairman' of the Republican National CommitteeCarter, of Mon- tana who, with three other silver re publican Senators voted against tak ing up the tariff bill. The high tariff: republicans are now engaged in trying' to beg or bulldoze the revolting silver republicans into line and carrying out the decree of the republican caucas by voting to pass the Reed tariff bill with out amendment, but there are no indi cations of their succeeding. r The vote in the House 215 to 90 j against the free coinage substitute for the House bond bill makes it certain that whether the Senate passes the free coinage substitute or not, free coinag is as dead for this session as the Reed tariff bill, and 'that brings for-j ward the question, what is this Conl gress going to do anyway? It looks now as though the republicans would spend the time not devoted to passing the regular appropriation bills in man ouvres for or against the various presi-; dential candidates, and that the fina result of the session would be the ap propriation bills. Representative Talbert, of S. C, who made a little "break" several week ago on the secession question, turned the tables very nicely - on Representa tive Hardy, ol Jn v wholtried to goad him into saying something more about secession by abiising South Carolina. After Mr. Hardy had used up his stock of epithets, covering Soutn Carolinians from John C. Calhoun to the present Congressional delegation Mr. Talbert effectually squelched him by remarking that he was glad that Canada had been heard from Hardy was born in Canada, and did not serve in the Union army. Later Mr! Talbert! took occasion to say that he had noticed that those who had taken no part in the war were loudest in their proclamation of patriotism and their denuueiatiops of those who had fought against the Union, and amid , the laughter of the House he quoted the expression that "those" who. are invincible in time of peace are gener ally invisible in time of war." Secretary Herbert gave the House Committee on Naval -affairs the bene fit of the knowledge he has acquired during his long selr vice on that com mittee and since he became Secretary of the Navy, at the last meeting of the committee. He stated without qualification - that the United States can today beat the world in the build ing of warships so far as efficiency goes, although it has not quite dis tanced all countries in the race to lower the price of construction, but he believe it will in the near future. Already we are building warships cheaper, than either France or Ger many has been able to do, and almost as cheap as Great Britain does. Mr. Herbert told the committee that in addition to the specific recommenda tions in his annual report, he was in favor ofany and all proper method of strengtheningour navy. ' While it is generally recognized that Senator Quay's candidacy for the re publican presidential nomination was announced solely for trading purjoses, someofjthe frit nds of the other can didates are' afraid of him. They know his -ability :v a jiolitic! schemer arid they are afraid that h? may be able to sneak that nomination for himself. A republican who has before given me correct information concerning moves made by Quay says of his latest: "Quay is trying to briug Reed to terms. He is for Red and has so de c la red himself to Reed, but for once he found oit that he committed biid self too soon, for when he wished Reed to give him certain promises the Maine man utilized his Yankee can ning by adroitly dodging. Then it was that Quay determined to become a candidate himself. With Pennsyl vania's vote behind him he will com pel Reed to voluntarily make him all and more promises than would have at first satisfied him. or he will make a dicker with some other candidate, and- Tom Piatt is in the same boat with Quay.n .UN SPAIN. We Received a Lfr Frm Our Special Correspondent in Spain. (From our Spec ial Correponde it.) ' GraXada, Spain, Feb. 1st, 1890. The one great charm of travel in Spain is the absence of fellow tourists. The Necar of romance' and advent ture" has not all be-in drained by curious Americans and discontented English and one finds the people as musical, picturesque and unclean as could be wished. The local color and life hav' withstood the comparatively little invasion of travel, and though Granada with its incomparable AI hambra has been the goal of more curiosity and sight seeing than other Spanish-cities it retains many of its purely characteristic and delightful features. One of these is the grypsy camp in the outskirts of the city, i We drove there late one jifternoon and saw the gypsy ft)his nati ye lair. Cervantes fdone describes these people as, "Just as God. made theuji and oftentimes worse. Education ias never laid her rule or ferule on them; honesty and morality have passed them in despair, and if. the proverb affirming the proximity of cleanliness and godliness is true the gipsies are' "way off." It has been enough for them that- they live and they have never asked those enigmatical questions " whence, why and whither. Their houses are caves and we. were allowed to go through one. The first room was the kitchen and the last and choicest one the abode of the pigs. There were many of these compartments about the size of a steamer state room, and as one groped his way by the aid of a small candle into the depths of-tba. hili tLe smell became painfully ' prominent. The pigs, though, like the gipsies, were contented and the fact of being kept in the parlor or spare room added no arrogance to their amiable manners. Evidences of certain luxurious tastes were to be seen in the cave such as a piece of carpet before each bed on the earth floor, and a stovepipe running up from the kitchen fire place. Indeed artistic taste was also manifest for hanging over the bed in one of the rooms was a highly colored advertise ment of a German beer. - When we left the cave we were told that we could see the real and genuine gipsy dance for the modest sum of seven dollars, but we declined. Our interpreters after a consultation with the gipsies told us that our economy would be ..respected and the dance given for five dollars. As we drove regretfully away we were again in formed that though it was a great sacrifice and altogether unparalleled in the annals of history we might see it 'for three dollars. We accepted this ' proposition though it developed that we rt-ally paid four dollars, the last one being iu redemption oif a counterfen dwllar that had been substituted lor the good one we had given. The com was probably a product of gipsy inge nuity and so far as I know, the trans action may be one of their establishes ways of making an honest dolHr, so i to speak. The dance however, was qite worth the experience. Ac j companied by our two ude? mid two policemen who, it was explained were necessary for our safety and, who only added to our general feeling of inse curity, ove went up a dark alley, a darker flight of tep and into a tiny room where the orchestra aud dancers wei ' assembled. The orchestra con sisted of three meu who played the guitar, mandoline and tambourine. The dancers were four ugly women and a pretty one all gorgeously arrayed in bright calicoes aud with artificial flowers in their course dark hair. The services bpeued with a frightful song that nearly deafeued the audience, which on account of the size of the room was within two feet of the slug- ers. Then the women danced togeth er, an active, spri ted dance such as Kiralfy labors in vain to get. This was followed by a ort of (Ja,e du rtntre. There were fervent! graceful figures danced by the women and then lone, "La Hata" by the tambourine player and the pretty girl which was quite the prettiest of all, and would compare favorably with the best dances on the American stage, Dur ing the performance I wondered that some enterprising American had not imported them all to America and made his fortune by putting them! on the stage. Ode does not find such abandon, animation aud natural grace in the dancers who ! learn on chalked squares while they count one, two, three, one, two, three. The pretty woman bad & four, mouths old baby In the room, and the little creature! ac tually wavd its arms when the mother danced as though already interested in its future employment. The father had been sent as a soldier to Cuba,' the mother cheerfully explained and the cares of maternity and widowhood sat lightly on her mind. It was only another demonstration that women don't always weep while their hus bands war, and her devotion to the tambourine player led me to think she might be preparing for the future "If the worst should come to the worst" in Cuba, We escapetr from this place with our lives and we were not robbed; the j lat ter because we decided to give them all we had and save them the exertion of taking it. As we drove away I looked among the children for some of those that common report says the gipsies steal, but I saw none, and judging from the number that have been sent in the natural and approved way to the camp, I see no reason for thinking that the gipsies find it difficult to resist the temptation of stealing others. I should be glad to think they ex perienced the same lack of temptation about more portable and desirable articles, with all their depravity though they are an Interesting picturesque people. STATE NEWS. t Fayette ville is contemplating, on electric lights. The penitentiary , was offered 3,100 acres of the farm near Wadesbero, but it leases only 2,200. Senator Jeter C. Pritchard Is now at his home in Uarshall. He is at his home this time to defend several par ties in murder cases. James James, a convict from one of the Western counties, has been par doned out of the penitentiary. The reason is that lie is a consumptive. , Governor Carr has pardoned Alice Traves, colored, and Win. Webster out of the penitentiary. They were from Guilford county and both were consumptives. ! There was a serious cutting affair in Gaston county last week in which Charlie Ramsey, cut a man named Passourin the abdomen, across the breast and on the 4. a?. I The Florence Mb , Forest City, C, are to be enlarged. An addition will be built in which will probably be placed about 1,000 spindles and 100 looms. Textile Excelsior. Au executive reward of i0 was paid tor t!is iurest of Newton Mace, who murdered United States Deputy Mar shal Whitt in Madison county and who after the first capture escaped from jail. The trustees of the University yes terday settled the Jraterutty matter by a compromise;,- though the freshman iiv claim victory. Freshmen wil ;tn? jermitied r join fraternities In October of the secoud -"ywir. - Last week two white men "Bloom' Baker, and one Rose, and a negro at tacked and killed an Indian named Ned Will not two or three miles from Wnittier, N. C. The men escaped but later the negro was caught. A reward of $2000 has been offered for Baker and Rose. There is an opening here lor a can ning factory, and we hope some of our citizens will organize a company and get ready for business by the time the corn, tomatoes, berries and peach es can be grown. Let us have the fac tory. It can be made to pay hand somely. Mt. Airy News. " For the description of all important cities, time of all traines, population of all Railway tat ions, etc., etc, we the ! Rand-McNaliy Railway Guide. I
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