Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 48, Number 1, Jasper, Dubois County, 15 September 1905 — Page 3

THE ROMANCE OF A POLE-HUNTER The Lorvg Wooing of Anthony Fiala Is Soon to End.

BACK FROM THE NORTH TO CLAIM A BRIDE

Wooed for Eight Years, a Pretty Southern Maid Will Wed an Ardent Lover Her Word Given as He Sailed Northward Two Years Ago.

I.ut in nut he sent tin e, rctsry William 8 Champ from Tioidjh rn on the .'anni i- nijui l. ii ( ha:; p n I n - d without Udiagi Tili year, just Mm u- i!p' I. M: Y.i. v fit' iW'i cxped nous Onf a-. i n n:iittin!eil ly Mi. Cfcam on the TOfTS Mofl the other bp Ur. Oliver l. nnlSt of Jobjpi ( kins uuiv, rsiiy. on the Belgics. On August 7 am.- u nicsxane from Shan MM Island from Or Faig. slating ne :n ! f und no traces f Fiala Four days laier came word f r mi Champ Hi sad found Fiala. and all were well. OM of the Norwegians had died of i mural 000001, hat wan all. It v.aa a long at ua.t for t j girl. I' was not the wait of suh'. who at. n ach her sweet h -at t by mail or tele xtuph. It was n it Um wait of s girl whos, affianced might boon the other lid Ol tin- n!o!jvainl yer able to com munuatc with h r lr two years sh" i.! knew whether h" was alive or le..,:. whether he was arhiev:ng the

ante, i ! par ll wis daomet to pas- another uimei in the An tic without any hope of re u . .-'Olnl iO) nelda fcint'h'd in eve Ü i n it was plain tha' no help o uni e -i unnl ai.otiifr MJW i; u at mmm tfcote wa on g!r. wno had hope. And whin Spring, came again, llu re w- on- rn who had mair up his mind to obej io tn ! iter ihe par; in In j um n of vV II am Zicglcr. even than do rn d to d 'at I "DOBl 'nie Im : w, li nn Fiala. Prim; him I a 1 lead. a1 .fr Clump kn w whit tit recant, and he n solved io do It, While Fiala 8 men werf fd tor hope, tie Terra Nova van mukin.' It t wav northward almost ly in h- .Sin- siilcJ frm Iromsoe. Norway, on June b! I Sne i n oiintTf d tr n -n. u-ly thi-k n-e all UM vay. She OMMMtefOd lerils that would have driven hack almost anyone save an American. I'm .. Troiueof sh-- shaped hor course direr: for the Ice 8 Ida, wklcb six

A' 1. .. II LLEB 5 IIHLD OUT

Tr ; MS t at Ü Mn -

o tfes f r. D iKbt i ratnhoa x hec a MUM i i i MfMBi vina artlt. an

. t "i; : t. l.m t.a

rt .it.

ever faUla ae ot a i

at un, . airilowa.

thf iMtniiiK

in. in

,v, n

Xtmn Boom tith duiioi winter there will he hoIi !h- It u inarriaue ilia' . imax to one of the pn t it's th.s Ira net of romances

in man a yar.

Ii wiil I a union of the north and south of that north represented l the fnuen Ice fields surrounding the Bui I h pole, and of this aunny MUthlaad Anthony Fiala. the hero of tkfl Zi Spedition in M&rcta of the inde. la the L ioot'lhis romaii"'. and Miss Claire ! . ar, a younn la ly proinin- tit in

i'.le sociei; is tne neroitn-. uiej orr of their courtship is an inier-

oad

uM.

ütr r

...i lei n a

. tons eiiKaKem

engagement . cn an i e . en a

r sooing, i-aN a Special writer to . u York World V wnsei.-h' rears at Anthony Fiala u a youin; ij it, Brat met m, porjrear lie i nember of gallsal troop c, of lwi. then. He had gone as part Mfori of the governor of New totheexiHisiti.il. at Nashvill?. tin Vi ;k day. past 1 y ebnnce, he was lin ed to Miss I'uryear a mst at ivernor's rooeption. oiirse tht trooper did Jost what mht to have done lie fell in (OVO her. They corresponded after h-i-hvile for good, but that was ' e took jrotMl Fiala la k to TUUMM and he made !oId what his heart ha I hid b n him. i." said the young nirl. thinking. Urst . it was final. men who are fit to brave the terf the nrctlC don t Elve up nt ona '. and a hundred times more not Itbony Fiala He went away uned. Again and auain he i.egged

srd, slwayi northward. " was . Injom 'ion. as he Intra) d man in Um otinnand oi the i ; i the beat ihip that ever ground w a tliroiiKh Arctic ice. iia nroMised

lie sailed from Ken York In alsj a ltd ill'- BMBbtn oi his party. ThcotlerofReer wrh bin roro: u 8 Tbfoi, of Philadelpbln; Charles L. Beits, of Kvatisvllle. Ind.; William J Peter, of the geological survey, second in com mand; Pranris Long, of the weath'-r burena. the meteorologist of the expedition; Dr. (; w siiorkiev oi Cnmden, Me.; J. Collm Vauixh. of Fön st HIU N. J.; Charles B Relllta, f St bonis,

b.fe is

its alafca

IHE RUSE OF

MELEK HANUM

JENKINS

.lohn Vedoe, of Boat on; Stuart, of Brooklyn, am court, of Milford. Ma. v. boa b s .bed there party o! women to see rnotber, one ur two rela gjrl from Km b nie. stu ai last.

Bj nt H. H,

s .i I him Ires

a I off-and

ttle hit the

inn yoi

she

w hisplank dm to

Norway. "I 1s ill marry ou" "When I find tin- jiole," answered Fiala, "111 be back." Hut nobody know thai either had promised the other It wasoul v. hen th l-ri'I dU.ai' h i aif on Atinusl 11

that Nim Pi WM to ma rr i tpiorer w h her Wooe,:

ing

ard a word from

told her sot rel -h ntrepid JTOttng arctic eonld conn- i si k to IM and his pi .mi- I yean dm n had 11 For two years month she had not

him. Her la

,i r -

'i'

.tn- "

-nding bis r

!.en out of

am going after the pole " h wrote K1, ami it waSAl a joke, either, .eigler was then fli'ini: out bis

i ah

ed in s pu mber, O little band passed

mails for almost -j months. BlUofl cost tZSO.Qfm The Mkittf everything possible eeution of the s.arch for the thing that science or om

far I ' r :

-V - V I -' F mM

1 ? ;fi? i

ZWjr-tiPu i By waiaw p

Wa Ha? Jtm''' iV o I

til.,.. rwrje

ARWLL

r. fot.nc on June 19. Thu she slipped

alonu '-as-v. ard until June 17. when

.eav ea

lie .ok i't nai.d 4Cd welcc.aai sl to bis hMMtj sbe replied ty monOayliOr bkM JIM s-.wing berseif a mo l eat woman. nrt over Jr- v ith hr to:.x As the night sdvatued. Suleiman teU into a sentimeriial mood and rehearsed with much self -pity his trials with his first wife. "i assure you Hanum, h'- Mid "the was unite impossible to live wtib. 0 . ai . aiit:o .i with )ou ! Aill always i' r b r w Isla her 1 was f oread to be rough. Allah! bow sbe bored me! talk. tail;, talk! Truly it is said that one word provoketh another, and often I answered her sharply, but I could never put her down It is goo 4 ail vice to a woman: Open your eyes, but not your mouth.' " Andsohemsun-der-d on about his a : troubles llelek said nothing, but he felt her IjMnalh M powerfully that he gre e-Min nt in abuse of his poor first wife, all the tinie assuring her of his devotion t', Mil amiable woman at his side

With the passi expansive and t he would never light. As he had her. no, with er bride how he h

me repRBL e stpvgcl g TO REACH CVUZtrtOH

fere? me ewie Arretter

to caw meevi?.

nlory of be; nz the firs? to s t foot

i he .-pot that has hen men s ambition !or a century, or whether his bMMi

wer, tiot whitening on some

AN LFFENDI could not get with Lis wife No unusual will say. but uncomfortable, sa. Melek Hanum bad .ractive wLen he married her

now he hated her and could scarcely restrain his trritabili y wher. in her presence He declared to bis neighbor. Mehmet the grocer, ths- she was a shrew, scoldina continually and never giving

: ' s pea Mehmet trie i hi - irritation, but in vaic an.l be MOko the fa' al words of di

vorce, and Melek Hanum was led wetplaf ' kef father s house. For a month Suleiman was gay in ki frc-edoni. and declared himself the nai -

.en to be r "f ""a i ia k-

t.ii- tn- ti M n.oi :. !..-

less house w as lone ly. and him. and tr tst

ec ltd wife He

tongue;

it in r ago.

1 1 ' ; MmK v. '-,:

't relief evTKdlflon sir.m I '

8 le waited for its return.

No news. A second wen' out and came bSH k w it hunt finding a trace Of the man the loved or his ship A third went lion ,n ai d i ai ly four months ago she wa 'ed aL'ain. Arn then the clorknis news, alive

she t , pan to th. fkx On

Cn Ten a No . a But ii: s was On July 29 she

her way through

l SB, four weeks later, struck open water, only for a brief spelL aain bit the tea.

champ had experienced navigators with him and they were agreed tha tkej could never nach Fiala. Some en doubted that they could gt bOOk tkenssolvM until i ext year. K. p on. ord. red Champ qu.cly.

otite men set ineir ia es

MM rit"-r in om tar away In r message

on nt

woi .

Norwav

to Fishi'a

'Returned. goo.; n- . intbony." A third Tnv -e, i, nt wha: n record It was ih.-r. sc. t I came kno She admn'e.l that I he wife of this mat eked his life in sear

ar dlspatehand tln-n in s iTOtbe-r.

ÜU III' resoitue 1 -till 10 the north. Or. Jul 18 the

head com-

;raw in h.s

ills' ;C wax in I that M iv n to th

wh - 1 of

th.

I'p In Norway, meanwhile, the fOttttg man was re eiviiu the conpratula'i 'ns . f MM wko know what It means to brave the terrible rigOCS of two Arr'u wint.rs Tkooffk he hsd lost his ship and had Called to reach the pole, of Oven the farthest n rth. he had com? book w ith an honorable lecord. ovotf l.nly kn" that f the :!R men. a'l but one were safe and sound. Tne dend man did no? MMBMnh to anythlt.u thai h mipht not have died of In 111 OVO Ifuue II was a record far s-ir-na.,lU tha- "f th- other ZiegW expedit kom. Fiala spoke 'modeotly of whst had hapx ned durum the past two yers. Mjdai nothinu for himself, though li SMS largt due to him lhat he had broi.cht his men bsoBl all ncht

Fiala dkln'1 have much to say of what h had been through but others ! told of it Th- men were in fairly good ikane, but some were so weak

that th' never coubl nave wittisnxvi n I bird winter in the Arctic It was the terrible w inter of Ii".? in I 1V4 that was a.ainst them When storms and grinding lee rtMMOi 'he Stanek America bk" a pasnh aid box his shin that had weathered many ar.

first expedition under

m In his nnest to attain the farthest

bfftt When young Fiala applied for a allot he was accepted Mr Hegte fbOJM hat the romafl man had already sn enviable war record In H wtu n h" OrssM to Porto Rico with troop C. and as also an accomidlshed artist, pfeo t'rnpher ami stenographer Si the t "ing man got one of the coveted I'lces. Two years later he came hack. The expedition had been a faimre Th re had leen dissension among the OflkOM of the America, which finally stirred up a spirit of mutiny even In th men. Mttie wno aceoMttllakod; the Mekortagi which had btn bred in Ihe Arctic were kept up when the expedition arrived bark in New York. Mr. Biegler was disgusted. He spoke nu eonrempi for the men who had wasted money In no uncertain words. Mut ; ' i i' t was not one of then. Ho I work and when it CSM I i r- onking powder millionaire i or a man to lead a MO-

Kvelvn R Bald- an d.c N Siberian ininies. ten tons of n winter before Fiala did noi civs sin the farthest horse food. l tons of dog food 100 Bp H" saved V. tons of provis -

pounds ot tobacto. 1 .2ul poun.'.s of gun(otton (,000 rounds of ammunition f r ; nflis and shotguns, ;:! slOdgM of 0M tial design two specially balk obosmi is not Ioiil; made to take apart in sciions tor transport on the sledees tons of the MMl skilfully prepared mi en irated food of all kinds, and so on' . ItbOOl limit Fiala tK)k If MM with him. two of j incrii Norwegians Inured to Am tic OOld, The America sailed from Vromsoe. '

TltmdjkOM Norway. n June N rsfor Fianr Josef Ijind. where Flf.'a Intended to spend the winter, disp, ing thence doi; sledges with small i.nr iM fnrtlir-r north The hist heard fr -M

hihi 101 tons r mal. Wim n ne uep eö o" the ice for forth t 1.S". Thn he led his men out on th" ice fields The last wreckage of their ship ifcMP onroi in the fearful sn rrn of Januarv j; l!o4 His ship gone. Fiala did not give up his Morel Btf the pcle F'ar-liej-went out east, we t and north. tryi.it: to force a pas-age north. Th St was impassable ice ev. rywhrre. and mock Opal water which forbtdr oth'-r SttempM Then the proisims be Sfl to fait H meant a fone l march south or death for everybody. It was a long, painful and terrible lOOrPtf 0t fo"- aPd -ledc b. the POUtbwnrd ITItltottot the party

the enhes at Cape M ir

, ,. i tt,.. ,..ii,ie bromrht ihi teat lie, l

Mill liliui'- " 9tm.m TS

( ail- lunon an" !- "

m . - I... ..Ik. r .1... , -

ncv. s o nis ri-'ii'' mi "f in October l'", ; when n wlialins ves sei brOVgkl Ihe news that the America had failed to make Franz Josef Land, hut would try again ihe following npfiuf. liegler aiKrOattad the report.

men were diStfibOtOd at tnese tni" p1ar j and eked out the pfUllBtOM thai fOSrOd bj eatihln-: befit nnd walrus, or. which they subsisted i tv body hopofol w 1 1 vi aotuma of 1 1 I wfei n no rtttef ohip

ieach " Island. Tuen they knew the) had won. There they foaod six ii' utk rs of the oxpedltion wklck lau . r sieht had left there Th- a Champ knew tl.at his miss. on was suc fnl, for the six told him VhOSW headquaften were at Cap1 Dillon, and i Uai Ftala and th" rest f his men were alive and well there. (Jul went the sledges. They ! or, JoyfOl new s to Fiala a : s, I.. .,; u.i w ntii.g' Fi a: tnem where the rest of his party were at Cape Plonk and on July : thse wore found, tOO, Some of th RJH :i were mere skeletons, worn down by the hardships they hid endured lor two years but no one was in such a bad way that god food and phM ty of rest would not bring him a nun: I all l iht . On August 1 all the parties wte BBlherpd togetfcee and the start Midi for Norway, whete everyS :y atriveo safe and well on jPQgtsSl 1 '. It took six daya' hard work to ge; in of the ire-nark the rest of the sail to Norway was easy The sturdy - hi' had rescued the men was unhn med. Miss Piiryear. the girl who kM wait ed. has been teaching school in Ten nssee for the past five years She n . tiikincly handsome, talented and cultured st,P moves in the lies- Na-n-villc society Maj John Keid. of Vir ginia. is her grandfather; the family i wall known throughout Uath Teunepee and Virginia. Mis.- I'uryear was too node.-i to say SOT tking to a i-orrespondrwt OJkOOfi h-r romance. W- will be married In the winter," was ail that she would vorn hsafe.

How Crocodiles Are Ciuch In some parts of India the nativeu dig a crocodile pit which they cover with sticks ami leaves The pit surrounds a little islaid or a mound rf earth and Is close o s stream where crocodiles abound On this mound trey fa-ten a youft goat, end Its bteatlngS through the r.lght attract the crocodiles who break the frail floor of sticks with their hesvy bodies ard fall Into the pit prepared for them. Alcohol Root of Many Diseases. prof stadeiman. principal rhysiclaa of the great ho-pitai at Krledrlchshain, a suburb of Berlin, in his latOOl r-ort siilmtM that betwien oataoarteT and one-third of ihe rg ncn in the j. n .C d'nfrtn B Ii :a

he r

tob; Mebnnt. the grocer, of his jnten1: a;td a-ked th- serv ice- i,f Mehn. t s wife. Nahs-li. in procuring him s suital le one. Wbeo Mehmet told Kasketl Baww tks WM sad for her friend Melek. who was pining in her father s small and crow ded bouse. "Metok is a good woman. Mashallab! St.- was hide, i an a'.-- 1". true to her

husband, and a sweet crea-ure

M'hmet Eff-ndi shook bis r, .roelv and continued to

eoff e with noisy lips V. sell Hanum fotu.d Suleiman ungrr tu! and went sofsr as to get.' rail th. ii 1 ait. ' rr. y- 3rs -h ha.- kept his bouse piea .tins in repair, and has ( , x, .!!nt meals for him. 1 mse'f rar, teil of her MP IMM BolMM ard rich pfl M rves. And she hss given him no trouble, always going carefully Teile! sad looking at no man Men do

know when tney nav a goii n.

eii talked to the women oi me orhood when they sat on the inllside on Fri.'.ay afternoon, and

Mehmet ttdd his frien.i at the eOBkN kooaa Of BUllMOwa desire for a new w .te. Much sympathy was excited for Melek. end finally the neighbors deter : a trick on Sub Iman if the could Win M k's consent and cooperation Hair a dozen of the neighborhood ,-n Melek Hanum, and while the air wa' pungent with the smoke of t b. r cigarettes, proposed their plan to her. Pbe was to be passed off to Suleiman as a new wife, and when he found himself remarried to her- "Eh Allah know -what will hapien. but it may be for the beat." Melek was excited and by turns t oy and eager, but was fir.a!l won over. S r.eiman was told that a suitable wife md for him. one with whom M would be very happy a widow, so there gj al be no grand wedding. On the morning of a day three MOBti frer the divorce, the civ il marriage wa

;g hour he grew nwire ld his w ife tales that have confessed InT) I '. Mebk he had -ary to be loyal to le! triumph he told his ad deceived the other

woman as often as he could. He had made eyes at the ir.man's wife and had one day kissed the housemaid of the pa.-ha who lived in the great house; he had lifted the veil of the girl w ho came to draw water at the fountain He re counted his unfaithfulness with pride. "For. Hanum Effendl. such a woman could expect nothing else from her husband. She wa not so bad looking." he redacted, "but as our pro verb runs. Wltkoat she Is a doll, within a devil ' " Poor Melek was as still as any doll now. scarce daring to breathe, for fear of pouring out sol m and grief. At length S'lb .roan noticed her silence, and felt a sudden strong desire to plump r n ature to whom he had been unbosoming himself. "Hanum " 1" "I know you ar as beautiful as you are sweet, toyo'i I will ever be a true and loving husband; but let me see your face, light bat oaoo the cwidle snd let me see the countenance of her w hom I - w ear to cherish as : he a;ple of my eye " Melek could endure no more; she hastily strack s match and lit it to th candle, revealing to the amazed Suleiman the woebegone face of the wife ho had been abusing Suleiman was filled with horror at his root) y The pale, tear-stained face of kifl wife cut hin. to the heart; ha thought with distress of all he had said to her. In the candle light she looked pretty and lovable, ar.d he had hurt her. He fell upon his kt.' ' .- a: ! k. -sol hT feet, pressing them to his breast, he hogged her in piercing tones to forgiv

: tao future. He

called himself a brute, and her his angel

returned to Lim. In short, he made his peat with the pai lent wife, who was all too ready to iis en to his pleading. Beth Suleiman Effendi and Melek Hanum learned lessons from this experience, and after it understood eaeh others needs and peculiarities better than before. Remorse kept the husband true to hi wife, and the sharp experience curbed her somewhat restive

age in karktonj Melek is : S . r.cfi Id Rep'

' r angel."

Naht -

and with man the room where she was firaoosd

celebrated. A proxy for the groom de , inrautousiv;

clared 1 is willingness to take tne worn- , .. ihink g w

on; a proxy for the bride oeciareu ner willingness to become his wife Mehmet snd Ali the shoemaker, w.te witnesses, snd Fikret. the inman. read a prayer from the Koran. Neither Suleiman nor Melk were present In the afiernoem Nahseli Hanum and

two oth r neighbors ( her husband s bouse girtles placed her in she was to await him

in a shiny white dress, with a gayly painted handkerchief I ied over h r hair and was heavily perfumed with rose oil Sh" wa- very nervous and a little in cllr.ed to be tearful, but Nahseli Hanum bade her take hMrt. for all would be w Suleiman dined with bis friends at II Oi lock Turkish, and at two o'clock, when darkn.-s had settled down upor. the evening he wss told he could go in t0 his bride But she had itnp -. d a curious condition; tor a whole night he must not light the candle. When Sb'inan's neighbors had left hor lat.phing in their skeVM at the j . !. teres1 thedark room. A strong i I n .-e and a shimmer of white ;. bjm c itn wi'a a Pi Ketek sa-. ci I ac3 ..ak.ng

DATES SOON FORGOTTEN. Bliosil by thi ftonbloe cf Two Kern Trying to Becall Year of Pa:: -American. Tru sure it was 1900." said th emal!' r of the two men. They were leaving a IfMMM StreM office building at the lose of a parching day. relates the New York San. "I'm sure of it. because we were llvinc on tatcn Island and we asked some Buffalo relative of my wife to stav with us in the spring hoping that-" Well. 1 know it was 1W2." said the other, with heat The St Louis fait was last sumr.ier nd that happened just two years after the Pan-American " "Henshaw knows everythine" said the 1MB man. "an I he s probably ia his office now Let's ask him." They stepped through a marble hallway and said: "Out. ten." to the elovafor man Against a background of law books Henshaw looked leirned enough His an.-wer to their r -fin wa prompt The Fan-American exposition." hs dee lared. "took place in 18W." Th" man wh thought it was HNX

wn almost satisna. nut me o. ih-i

What makes

Henshaw ro

1902

you think it was Is?" "It took place in ! '

peated. WkerwagOl th two seekers aftei truth withdrew from the legal prea et." Having reached the corner, thea turned in and asked the barkeep er heard of It W hat le It going to be. gentlemen?" "Tw.. mint Juleps and sn almanac." said the 1102 man. The alamnac cann first They consulted It together. " Pan-American -no 'Worlds fait no. 'Exposition' nothing doing " "Ixik up 'President of tlc I'nlted Ststes." " said the other In a burst of Inspiration "See when McKinley died " They consulted the Index and thes the page. 441 "Nineteen bund:."'! and one" they exclaimed through a hedge of mint. Honor Jap Soldrs At the Shokocsha festival, which held in Japan every May. the names of j all soldiers who fell In baMle the prev ion- j ir arc officially print' 1. Tkl eoldli . to disease an I not tkus honored.