The Syracuse Journal, Volume 6, Number 3, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 15 May 1913 — Page 9

THE SYRACUSE JOURNAL

NOBEL PRIZES. Works That Win Them and the Way the Awards Are Made, The Swedish scientist Alfred B. Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, died in 1896, bequeathing his fortune, estimated at $9,000,000, to the founding of a fund the interest of which should yearly be distributed to those who had mostly contributed to “the good of humanity.” The interest is divided in five equal shares, given away: “One to the person who in the domain of physics has made the most important discovery or invention, one to the person who has made the most important chemical discovery or invention, one to the person who has made the most Important discovery in the domain of medicine or physiology, one to the person who in literature has provided the most excellent work of an idealistic tendency and one to the person who has worked most or best for the fraternization of nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the calling in and propagating of peace congresses." The prizes for physics and chemistry are awarded by the Swedish Academy of Science, that for physiological or medical work by the Caroline institute (the faculty of medicine in Stockholm), that for literature by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, and the peace prize is awarded by a committee of five persons elected by the Norwegian storthing. In accordance with these statutes the awarders of the prizes (the four above named institutions) elect fifteen deputies for two consecutive years, the Academy of Science electing six and the other prize awarders three each. These deputies elect for two consecutive years four members of the board of directors of the Nobel institute. » which board, exclusively consisting of Swedes, must re'side in Stockholm. A fifth member, the president of the board, is nominated by the government. The board of directors has in its care the funds of the institution and hands yearly over to the awarders of the prizes the amount to be given away. The value of each prize is on an average $40,006. The distribution of the prizes takes place every year on Dec. 10. the anniversary of Mr. Nobel’s death.—Philadelphia Press. AULD FOOLS’ GAMBOL The Custom From Which All Fools’ Day Takes Its Name. Most people call April 1 all fools’ day. whereas it should be auld—i. e.. old fools’ day. The appellation probably takes its origin from the following superstition: In druidical times, between 10 and 12 o’clock on the night of April 1, it was customary for all those young women who dared to venture into a sacred grove and to take their stand one behind the other. At the hooting of an owl they commenced slowly running round and round, to the accompaniment of such words as these: Ban-man, ban-man. From berg, bach and ley. Leap high, leap low. Come and run with me. Thereupon, side by side with those of the girls destined to be married within the coming year, the phantom of a ban. or white man, appeared, and if any of the girls were’ going to die within the year a black man was seen. Once while this ceremony was in progress the spirit of a very old, tottering white man put in an appearance and exhibited such emphatic attention to the girl he ran with that the other performers were much amused. The object of their amusement was subsequently chaffed to such an extent by every one in the village that she fled from the neighborhood, marrying before the year was out a strange chieftain old enough to be her grandfather. After this event the ceremony was Ironically styled the “auld fools’ gambol.”—London Answers. Dead Sea Stillness. The Dead sea is a vast lake about nine hours’ ride from Jerusalem. The waters of the lake, save for an almost imperceptible ripple, are quite still and tolerably transparent, but salt and “bitter beyond bitterness” and so buoyant that one can float upon them like a cork, and to swim it is only necessary to move the hands. The surrounding scenery is dreary in the extreme and in parts singularly grand. But the stillness is oppressive and depressing, for there is no sound of animal life or song of bird ever heard on the lonely shores of the famous lake. Shelley and the Kiss. The supreme laureate of the kiss is Shelley. The word is seldom absent from his shorter lyrics. Here is one stanza laden with kisses: q See the mountains kiss high heaven And the waves clasp one another. No sister flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother. And the sunlight clasps the earth. And the. moonbeams kiss the sea. What are all those klssings worth If thou kiss not me? I As She Saw It. The handsome hospital nurse who married an old wealthy man the other slay was very happy in her reply to a friend who asked why she wedded such a fossil. “I thought I might as well be engaged in nursing one old man as a dozen.” —London Tit-Bits. An Opportuniat. “Pa, what is an opportunist?" “An opportunist, my boy. is a man who has done something worth while that everybody else Imagines he could have done Just as well if he hadn’t been otherwise engaged when chance came along.”—Detroit Free Press.

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Vol. VI No. 3

LOST EXPLORERS. Pathos and Tragedy Fill the Pages of Their Diaries. SOME FAMOUS LAST RECORDS. The Journals of Captain Scott, De Long, Livingstone, Franklin and Others Are Mute Testimonials of Their Heroic Sacrifices For Science. A peculiar and pathetic interest at taches to the last records of lost ex-F' ' piorers, dying alone and unaided amid ley wildernesses or in the steaming depths of tropical jungles. The diary kept by the gallant Captain Scott teems with tragic touches, but it also has its beautiful and its • heroic side. No more splendid instance of magnificent self sacrifice has been recorded than the action of the disabled Captain Oates in seeking voluntary death in the blizzard so as not to be a burden on his surviving compqnions. The world is richer in the possession of facts such as these, which is why the last diaries of men dying in similar circumstances have always been ardently sought and carefully treasured. It was, for example, In order to try to recover the papers belonging to the lost arctic explorer Mylius Erlchsen that Captain Mikkelsen recently spent two awful years among the icy solitudes of northeast Greenland. He failed in his quest, and he and his solitary companion came near to losing their own lives. These journals of poor Erichsen, if they are ever found, will doubtless tell a similarly stirring story to that left behind by Scott. Until then there is only one record that closely parallels it, and that is the diary left by the American, De Long, who, with other survivors from the arctic exploring ship Jeannette, perished amid the frozen wastes of northeastern Siberia in the winter of 18S1. De Long’s diary, which was recovered and has been published, might almost be a duplicate in parts of that kept by poor Scott. Only in De Long’s case the tragedy was even more appalling than in Scott’s, for his party consisted of no fewer than thirteen men, and these all died from starvation and exposure. The last entry reads as follows: “One hundred and fortieth day—Boyd and Gortz died during%the night. Mr. Collins dying.” The gallant De Long was then left with but one companion. Dr. Ambler, the medical officer to the expedition,, for the deaths of the other men had been previously recorded, and doubtless the two last of the survivors died that day or the next. At all events, the journal £nded abruptly at this point. By fax the most dreadful tragedy of arctic exploration was the loss of the Franklin expedition, when the ill fated officers and meh of the two exploring ships, Erebus and Terror, 130 In all, perished. Curiously enough, though many relics of the ill fated commander Sir John franklin were recovered by search parties and are now preserved In the museum attached to the Greenwich hospital, none of his diaries or personal papers were ever found. One single written record of the lost expedition remains to us. It is in the form of a sheet torn from a small pocket diary, and these are the words It contains: “April 25, 1848.—Terror and Erebus were abandoned. Sir John Franklin died on June 11, 1847, and the total loss by deaths up to this date nine officers and fifteen men.” This precious scrap of paper was discovered in a cairn on King William’s Island in the year 1858. There was no signature, but the handwriting was afterward identified as that of Captain Fitzjames, one of Sir John’s officers. In the tragic history of exploration no briefer record than this exists of d disaster so appalling in its magnitude, although Burke and Wills, who first crossed Australia, left behind them only a few tattered leaves from an old pocketbook to tell the story of how they and their companions had lain down in the desert to die. Os all the many valuable and interesting documents left behind by lost explorers, however, none can vie in importance with the last journals of David Livingstone, who died, worn out by hunger and privation, at Ilala, in central Africa, May 1, 1873. These were brought down to the coast, together with his body, by his faithful black “boys” and were published in December, 1874. They told of vast and farreaching discoveries and explorations undertaken under almost inconceivable condl ( lions of hardship and privation. In fact, Livingstone literally laid dowf his life for his country since to his pioneer enterprise is largely due the fact that so great a part of Africa is today colored red upon the map.—London Answers. _____ Where the Benefit Wat. Widow’s Daughter—Mamma, why did you tell Mrs. Lamode that I am only eighteen when I am really twentyfour? Widow—Because eighteen is six years under twenty-four, my dear. Daughter—Yes, I know, but surely I don’t need the benefit of those six years at my age, do I? Widow—Not at all, my child, but I do. There are proper dignity and proportion to b# observed in the performancs of every act of life.—Marcus Aurelius.