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WHY PEOPLE GO TO CANADA Those who are wondering why the number of Americans going to Canada year by year Increases In the rates that it does, would not be so surprised were they to accompany one of the numerous excursions that are being run under the auspices of the Govern ment from several of the states, and remain with the settler until he gets onto the free homesteads, which, as stated by Speaker Champ Clark, in the U. S. senate the other day, comprises 160 acres of the most fertile soil and with remarkably easy settlement con ditions. Then watch the results, whether it be on this free homestead of 160 acres or on land which he may purchase at from $15. to $20. per acre, fully as good as the $100. and $150. per acre land of his native state, and which his means will not permit his purchasing. On the part of the mem bers of the U. S. Senate and Congress there is nothing but praise for Canada. Canadian laws and Canadian lands al though the reasonable desire is shown In their remarks, that they pass legis lation, (which is very praiseworthy) that, will make the land laws of the Unitted States much easier. Itjjte the success of the American settler in Canada that attracts others, and when experiences such as the fol lowing are related to the friend "back home" is it any wonder that increased Interest is aroused and a determina tion arrived at, to participate in the new-found way up in Canada that means wealth and health and all that accompanies it. William Johnston, who formerly lived at Alexandria, Minn., settled In the Alberg District near Battle River and in writing to one of the Canadian Government agents, located in the United States says: "We have had no failures of crops during our nine years in Canada. I threshed 1208 bushels of wheat and 1083 bushels of oats in 1911, off my 160 acres. This is a beautiful country. I keep six good work horses and milk seven cows, getting good prices for butter and eggs. We get our coal for $2.00 per ton at the mine, about one mile from the farm. Am about one and a half miles from a fine school. As for the cold weather it is much milder here than in Minnesota, where I lived for 21 years. Our well Is 35 feet deep and we have fine wa ter. Wild land is selling for $18. to $25. per acre. Improved farms are much higher. I am well satisfied with the country, and would not sell unless I got a big price, as we have all done well here." Good reasons to account for the number going to Canada. Filipinos Dislike Autos. The reckless and insolent automo bilist is hated the world over. In the Philippines, where most of the auto mobilists are foreigners, and where the natives have been used to loiter comfortably in the roads after the fashion of easy going southern coun tries, the automobiles have long been a grievance, and, failing to secure ef fective regulation, the Filipinos have adopted the practice of rolling big boulders into the roadway as a hint not to turn corners at a breakneck Weed. RASH ALL OVER BABY'S BODY Itched So He Could Not Sleep **On July 27,1909, we left Boston for ft trip to England and Ireland, taking baby with us. After being in Ireland a few days a nasty rash cache out all over his body. We took him to a doc tor who gave us medicine for him. The trouble started In the form of a rash and was all over baby's body, head and face, at different times. It Irritated, and he would scratch it with all his might. The consequence was tt developed into sores, and we were afraid it would leave nasty scars on his face. "When we reached England we took baby to another doctor, who said his condition was due to change of food climate, and gave more medicine. ^Kve rash got no better, and it used to itch and burn At night so bad that the child could not sleep. He was com pletely covered with it at different times. It was at this time that my mother advised us to try Cuticura Soap and Ointment. After using Cuti cura Soap and Cuticura Ointment for about nine months the places disap peared. There are not any scars, or other kind of disfigurement, and baby Is completely cured by the Cuticura Soap and Ointment. We have no fur ther trouble with baby's skin. Noth ing stopped the itching, and allowed baby to sleep but Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment." (Signed) Mrs. Margaret Gunn, 29 Burrell St., Rox bury, Mass., March 12, 1911. Although Cuticura Soap and Oint ment are sold everywhere, a sample of each, with 32-page book, will be mailed free on application to Cuti i," Dept. L, Boston. It must be some satisfaction to sail ore to know that buoys will be buoys. BEnt™ ILE9 CDRED IN 1 TO 14 DAYS Iruggtst will refund money It PAZO OIWT- 1 nils to cure any case of Itching, Blind, or Protruding Piles In to 14 0»J«. GOo. JSedin* .It's difficult for a man who Is broke (0 break into society. As we grow more sensible we refuse drug Mibutics a°d take Instead Nature's herb Sfcre, Garfield Tea. jBetter a strong prejudice than a V«ak conviction. "pink Eye" Epidemic In the Spring. Murine Eye Remedy (or Reliable EeU«t There are times when we should be thankful for wbat we tall to fet' MSCOnBEPORTS PENETRATE8 SOUTHERN HEMI SPHERE TO WITHIN THIRTY MILE8 OF THE POLE. HE ENCOUNTERS STORMS. Miraculously Escapes After TVyftig Experiences—Motor 8leds, Tele phone and Moving Pictures Were New Ideas. •pedal Cable to the New York Ttmea. Akaroa, New Zealand, April 2.— Lieutenant Pennell, commander of the Terra Nova, of th6 British Antarctic expedition of 1910, which arrived here yesterday, brought with him a long and intensely interesting account of the work and experiences of the ex pedition up to Jan. 30 last, written expressly for the New York Times by Capt. Robert F. Scott, the leader of the expedition. Captain Scott's story is as follows: Special notice: Capt. Robert F. Scott's narrative of his explorations in the Antarctic published below was is sued by New York Times company as a book, duly entered for copyright and publicly exposed for sale, the same being its first publication anywhere in the world. Its reproduction in this newspaper is of course duly authorized. Its reproduction elsewhere in the United States in any form except by permis sion of the Now York Times company is forbidden. Copyright 1912 by the New York Times company (all rights reserved). Copyrighted in the United Kingdom by the Central News, Ltd., London. Reg istered in the department of agricul ture, copyright branch, Dominion of Canada, by the Central News, Ltd., London. Macmurdo Sound, Oct. 30, 1911.— Shortly after the departure of depot laying party from Cape Evans on Jan. 25, 1911, the sea ice broke at South Cape and severed communication with the ship. The depot party, consisting of twelve men, eight ponies and two dog teams, occupied till Jan. 30 in establishing a base camp at the bar rier. seven miles east-southeast of Hut Point. Owing to the heavy weights Captain Robert Scott. to be transported the main part of the Bupplies were left at this camp. The party proceeded with single loads east-southeast twenty-seven miles to a spot named Corner Camp, before turning south to avoid the crevices of White island. The snow surface proved very soft, making terribly hard work for the ponies. A three days' blizzard at Cor ner Camp was a further severe trial to the animals, which were- not in good condition. On Feb. 8 we pro ceeded south, marching by night and reBting by day. The weather was ex ceplonally bad, but the surface im proved. The three weakest ponies were sent back, but these unfortunate ly were caught in another blizzard and two succumbed. With the re maining ponies and the dogs we reach ed latitude 79^4 degrees on the 16th, when I decided owing to the condition of the weather and the animals to make a depot there and return. We left more than a ton of stores at this point, which we named One-Ton Camp and which should be a great help to us this season. We then returned to our base camp with dog teams. Whilst cutting a corner of White island in a bad light, the whole of one dog team fell into a crevice. Mears, myself and the sledge were miraculously held up on a part of a bridge across the crevice along which we had been traveling and most of the iWa hung by their harness. With great difficulty and after three hours' work we extracted the animals, one of which was badly Injured by falling sixty feet, afterward dying. At the base camp I found every sin gle pony well, and visiting a hut I received news of the Terra Nova and Fram. On Feb. 24, with men on skits and a single pony. I started to take more stores to Corner Camp. On the out ward journey we passed returning ponies going well. Returning from Corner Camp, I was held up by a blizzard on the 28th. I found the storm had been phenomenal at this filace, raging for three days and caus ng enormous accumulation of snow. Shifts of wind had baffled all efforts to shelter the ponies with snow walls and the animals had suffered very badly, so I decided to retire to Hut Point without delay. Wilson and Mears, driving dog teams, reached Hut Point in safety. Oats, Gran and I remained to try and save the one pony which had been badly hit by the blizzard, while Bow ers, Cherry, Garad and Crean, with the four best ponies, set out to follow the dogs. Nearing Hut Point they found badly working cracks In the sea Ice, and hastily turned and marched for miles south. There at 2 a. m. on March 1 the tired condition of the ponies obliged the party to camp. At 4:30 the boys awakened by a noise found the ice broken around the camp and giving away with every swell. One pony had disappeared from the picketing line and was not seen again. Hastily pack ing their sledges, the party decided to try and work southwest over the pack ice. With infinite difficulty the sledges were dragged, the ponies jump ing from floe to floe towards the bar rier. About noon the party neared the bar rier, but found its ice wall unclimb able and the swell churning and threat ening heavy floes against it. In this dilemma Crean was allowed to attempt to obtain help. He traveled east over the moving pack to find a break in the ice wall and eventually hoisted himself to the barrier surface by wedging his ski stick in a crack. Ignorant of these events, after falj ing to save our sick pony, my own partv reached the barrier, where ice breaking uoUer forced us .to re treat hurriodly with the cwvest anx iety for our companions. My fears were confirmed when Wilson, who had traveled out over land, reported hav ing seen with glasses ponies adrift on sea ice. An hour later Crean and I set oft immediately to the west. Work ing around the bay we approached the barrieV edge, and at 6 p. m. by good fortune discovered the missing party on a pack which had been drifting slowly northwest and had temporarily stopped, owing to swell subsiding. With Alpine ropes the men were res cued with difficulty. Working on through the night we succeeded in saving the sledges and their loads, but could do nothing for the ponies, which were only thirty yards away. At 4 a. m. the pack be gan to move again. We left the ponies with full nose bags and rested till 8 a. m., when the pack was again stationary. We made desperate efforts to save them. Bowers and Oats risked a long detour over the pack and led the animals over many Jumps, while the remainder of us dug a trench to the lower part of the barrier. The edges of the floes were high above water and very uneven. Killer whales hung about within a few yards. The ponies failing at the jump were Irretrievably lost. One pony only won through. The pack was moving again as we left it and drifted clear to the north. On March 4 we ascended hills east of Castle Rock, and on the 5th the party with the two remaining ponies and the dog teams was safely housed at Hut Point. By this Incident we lost three of our strongest ponies. This was a severe blow to the expedi tion, but not enough to wreck its plans if the remaining animals could be pre served. The heavy swell which caused this disaster, broke more than ten miles of sea ice, large fragments from the barrier, and two miles of glacier tongue, a feature which had remained otherwise unchanged since discovery In 1902. The hut was found almost completely filled with hard snow, the windows broken and the door unhinged. With much labor we cleared and re paired it. It then afforded good shel ter. While forced to wait for the sea breeze to blow over we settled down to a very primitive life. With old tins and discarded fragments of metal we constructed an excellent blubber stove and several blubber lamps. We fed almost entirely on seal meat. Seals could only be obtained at a distance over hills and were sometimes scarce, but the supply never failed entirely, thanks to the ingenuity shown by my companions in improvising arrange ments with the slenderest resources. With splendid health we were quite comfortable and enjoyed the luxury of a box of old magazines. On March 15, the Western Geological party returned, bringing our tartal to sixteen persons. This party had spent six weeks, making a close survey of the dry valley, lower ferrar, and Koettlltz glacier regions, thus complet ing an important part of our plan for the geological survey for the coast. Preparing for the Winter. On March 17, Lieutenant Evans led a party to Corner Camp, completing the depot arrangements for the coming season. The temperature at the barrier had already fallen to minus 40 degrees. Throughout the month Ice continually formed over the sea but strong winds quickly drove it out. After March 25, the ice remained fast in the sheltered bays but continued to drive out of the sound. Huge land-ice falls on the southwest slopes of Mount Erebus pre vented any possibility of returning to Cape Evans by land, but with the freezing of the bay I decided to make an attempt to reach the station, partly by land and partly by sea ice. With eight companions I started on April 11, and, although caught by a storm on sea ice, we reached Cape Evans early on the 13th. We found the station, which had been left in Simpson's charge, in excellent order, and arrangements for comfort remark ably perfect. Numerous self-recording instruments were in full swing, and all records complete to date. All the news was good except the loss of one of the nine remaining ponies and one dog. During our absence there had been much wln|), the mean velocity for two months aelng twenty-four miles per hour. Fot nineteen per cent of the whole time, the wind had been over gale strength. All observations pointed to an exceptionally severe sea son. On April 17 I returned to Hut Point with a fresh sledge party carrying sup plies and stores. As It was impossible for animals to travel on the route tak en, I left Mears and five others In charge of those at Hut Point and again returned to Cape Evans on April 30. Sea ice continued to drive out of the Sound until the first week in May. It was not until May 13, three weeks aft er the sun had gone that the men and animals left Hut Point and safely re turned to the main station. The Sound froze solid in May and later In winter pack ice extended to an unapprehended distance northward. After the return of absentees we settled down very com fortably in our winter hut, its arrange ments for lighting, heating, cooking and ventilation proved eminently sat isfactory. A comfortable stable had been built for the ponies and some shelter Improvised for the dogs dur ing the four winter months. The temperature at the station was rarely below minus 40 degrees, at low est minus 50 degrees. The wind aver aged fifteen miles an hour, but some times blew hard with the temperature minus 30 degrees. Everyone was very fully occupied with station and scien tific work, exercising animals, etc. A series of lectures was organized and football was played to within a month of midwinter. Frequent visits were made to Cape Royds and Hut Point. The animals steadily Improved In con dition. On June 27, middle winter, Wilson, Bowers, Cherry and Gerrard started on sledge Journey to Cape Crozier to observe the incubation of Emperor Penguins at their rookery. Very heavy surface on the barrier forced the party to relay work during the main part and a fortnight was taken on the outward Journey. The temperature was seldom above minus 60 degrees and often below minus 70 degrees, the lowest observed with a sling thermometer being minus 77 de grees. Behind a land ridge on the slopes of Mount Terror the party spent three days in building a stone hut which they roofed with canvas from this camp. The men had great diffi culty In crossing the huge barrier pres sure ridges in the dim noon twilight to reach the rookery. They were suc cessful at a second attempt. They found comparatively few birds at the rookery, but these had began to lay at even this early date. Fortunately some eggs at different stages of de velopment were secured which should give considerable information concern ing the embryology of this Interesting bird. The same night a .violent gale com menced and the ridge proved Inade quate shelter from the hurricane gusts which whirled down on the hut! A tent and other carefully secured ar ticles were blown away, and after straining for fourteen hours the roof of the hut flew to ribbons. For thirty hours more the travelers were confined In their frozen sleeping beds, half burled beneath snow and rock debris. Forty-eight hours elapsed before the wind decreased, and they were able to get a meal. Searching for lost articles they were fortunate in finding the missing tent between some moralntc boulders, practically uninjured. The state of their equipment now forced them to turn homeward. On the return journey they were held for two days by another storm after which the tem perature fell and remained below minus 60 degrees. The party returned after five absences incasted in Ice and suf fering from want of sleep, but other wise well. Having regard to the darkness and extreme temperatures this first winter journey In the antarctic regions was a remarkable feat of endurance. It also shows the extraordinarily severe con ditions that obtain on the great snow plain barrier during the sunless sea son. Since the return of the sun in August considerable increase of wind has been recorded and temperatures have remained as moderate in spring as in winter. On September first, Mears and Mlminenter, with dog teams, made their headquarters at Hut Point the dogs leaving for that depot In SDlendid form. At Intervals since our arrival, however, some obscure dis ease has robbed us of four excellent dogs. In every case the dog attacked appeared vigorously healthy, but illed ia a. few hours, JUis thsugW, -ibe must be some minute bread worm en tering the brain. First Antarctic Telephone Lines. At the end of the month, telephone communication was established with Hut Point through fifteen miles of bare wire. This telephone has already proved extremely useful for reporting the number parties, pending changes of weather. Lieutenant Evans, Gran and Forde traveled to Corner Camp to rebuild cairns. They experienced tem peratures between minus 60 and 70. and Forde's hands were badly frost-bitten, but ate now recovering rapidly. With Bowes, Simpson and Petty Officer Evans, I traveled west on Sept. 16, ascending Ferrar Glacier. We found by stakes planted by Wright that the ice stream had moved thirty feet In seven months. Later, forty-flve miles northwest of our stations, wo found part of the glacier tongue broken in March with the forge depot left by ^Campbell intact. Owing to work at the station and the need of increasing exercise for the ponies we have been unable to under take further spring Journeys. The western geological party, consisting of Taylor, Debenham, Gran and Forde, delayed by Forde's accident, will leave In a few days for Granite Harbor. All plans and preparations for the southern Journey are now complete and despite the accident of last season we have great hope of success. The neces sity of getting the utmost out of our remaining ponies has decided me not to expose them to great cold. We shall therefore start later thaji originally in tended. The motor sledge party, consisting of Lieutenant Evans, Bay, Lashley, and Hooper, started five days ago, with two motor sledges, dragging fuel and for age. The motors experienced unex pected difficulty on sea ice where it was very thinly covered with snow, but were last seen going well on the surface of the barrier beyond the base camp of last season. They have, there fore, placed the possibilities of motor traction beyond question. The pony party, consisting of myself with Wil son, Oats, Bowers, Cherry, Garrard, Atkinson, Wright, Evans, Crean and Koehane, will start about November 1. Independently of the success of the motors, ponies will be worked with light loads In easy marches to Corner Camp with full loads and easy marches to One-Ton Camp and with such pres sure as necessary thereafter. Dog teams starting will rejoin us at One Ton Camp and help to advance loads. By these means we hope to get thirty units of food to the foot of Beardmore Glacier, a unit being a week's provi sion for four men. Then with three divisions of four men and twenty-one units of provisions, I hope to extend the advance to the required distance if the weather conditions are not whol ly unfavorable. Of the ten remaining ponies one is unreliable and one doubt ful, the remainder being in very fine form. Officers and men are in splen did health, and eager to go forward. Owing to my decision to postpone there is an obvious chance that the most advanced southerly party will be unable to catch the Terra Nova before she is forced to quit the Sound. Un der these conditions, having regard to important scientific work done and fa cilities offered for further work, I have decided to maintain the station for a second year. The majority of the shore party will probably remain, but details depend upon the date of our returning from our Journey on home news, and the extent of fresh transport provided. I shall greatly re gret the departure of any member, as we have lived In the happiest social accord. Ponting probably returns with a large batch of photographic material to which a second year might add lit tle of importance. Owing to Ponting, the photographic results of the ex pedition are a remarkable record of our Pole life. Plans arranged for the scientific work of the expedition have succeeded so far almost In their en tirety. November 24, latitude 81, 15 S: We left Hut Point on the eve of Novem ber 2, having decided to march by night and rest during the day to give the ponies the benefit of warmer day temperatures. We reached Corner Camp this morning. Traveling south for,.sixty miles we followed the tracks of the motors, then found the ma chines abandoned. The party had pro ceeded onward as directed, were de layed by a blizzard on the 8th, but reached One-Ton Camp on the morn ing of the 16th. The dog teams had caught us up some days earlier and the whole party proceeded in company. A day's rest was given the animals at One-Ton Camp, which we left on the 17th. Having regard to the weight of the loads, the heavy surfaces and limited number of animals, I decided to march fifteen miles only «very night. This distance has been* maintained eight nights and so far as we can foresee it should be continued. The ponies are going very steadily and keeping condition remarkably well. The first pony has been shot for ex pediency but could have traveled fur ther. The animals have ten pounds of oats and three pounds of oil cake daily. We are hopeful of getting the men's food supply to the Glacier, ac cording to program, without great dif ficulty, but should be a day or two later than anticipated. We found the motor party waiting at latitude 80%. Two of their number now leave us. The sole cause of the abandoning of the motor was the oy©r* heating of the air-cooled engines. Time did not permit of the defects being taken in hand. The system of propul sion of the motors proved entirely sat isfactory. The machines dragged heavy loads over the worst part of the bar rier service and crossed several crev ices. Considering inadequate trial, their success has been remarkable. With the experience now gained a re liable tractor could be constructed that would travel anywhere in this region and save the sacrifice of animals. We are building snow cairns at intervals of four miles to guide the homeward parties and leaving a week's provision at every degree of latitude to the Bar rier. The surface was extremely bad and trying to the ponies up to One Ton Camp, but has been comparatively good since. The greater number of the ponies have been dragging over 650 pounds. December 10, latitude 83 degrees 15 minutes: After the return of the mo tor party from latitude 81 degrees 15 minute3 we pushed steadily south, hopeful for better weather conditions. A second pony was destroyed at lati tude 82 degrees 10 minutes, a third at latitude 82 degrees 45 minutes, and two more at the 83d parallel. None of these animals were exhausted but were sacriiiced to lighten loads ana give food for dogs. As we proceeded the weather grew worse, snowstorms were frequent, the sky continually overcast and land very rarely visible* Under these circumstances it was most difficult to keep a straight course and maintain steady marches. The ponies continued to pull splendidly. The ex cellent condition they retained under severe work I attribute entirely to the management of Captain Oats. In spite of delays we reached lati tude 83 degrees 24 minutes within twelve miles of Mount Hope on Dec. 4 We could have reached the glacier with five ponies on the following day, but for tne intervention of a south erly gale which lasted four days, dur ing which we did not sight land, al though only a few miles away. The wind was very violent at times, a prodigious amount of snow fell, and we nad continually to dig out ponies and tents The temperature rose to plus 3 the snow melting on our equipment and completely soaking everything with water. No such prolonged storm has hitherto been recorded in these re gions in December. Hard Work In the Deep Snow. On the 9th. after the storm, eighteen Inches of wet snow covered the orig inally soft surface. We could not have advanced at all had not the leading Dony worn snowshoes. The men haul ed on skiis. It took fourteen hours without a meal to go eight miles. At the first halt, the ponies were destroy ed as we had no more forage for them Today we have come through the pass and descending on Beardmore glacier, but only with infinite difficul ties and after twelve hours' hard work. The soft snow brought by the, storm continued over the pass. Men on foot sank to their knees and sledges sank to their crossbars continually. The dogs have given some help, but could only be lightly laden on such a surface. I send this note by return ing teams. The party is very fit, but fce«9 up Ue beura -wWcfc.. jjrp '.£*3 have been worMa*. The already coat as Ave d*y« m»y ret delay ns farther, be a serious matter. Otherwise every thing has worked sis planned, ft hope to find better conditions as we advance up the glacier. We are neces sarily dependent on the weather and the season thus far has been very un promising. Dec. 21, Latitude 85 Degrees 7 Min utes South, Longitude 163 Degrees 4 Minutes Bast, Height About 6.800 Feet Four Miles South, /Thirty West or Mount Darwin.—Largely as a result of the storm reported In my last dis patch, the lower reaches of the glacier were filled with terribly soft snow. Men on foot sank to the knee at each step. It would have been quite im possible to advance had we not pulled on skils. As it was the runner sur face of the sledges proved Inadequate. They frequently sank to crossbars, re quiring to be oxtracted with standing pulls. For four days we struggled In this morass, scarcely advancing Ave miles a day. although working ten to twelve hours. It is difficult to pitch camp and load sledges on such sur face. On the fifth day the surface grew a little harder, and we were able to push on, still pulling on skiis. We did not come abreast of Cloudbreake* mountain until the 7th,-so that the snow cost us a week's advance. Since the 16th we have been able to make very good marches, working up from thirteen to twenty-three stat ute miles per day. By program I ar ranged to push on from the 85th par allel with eight men and twelve units of provisions, but I hoped to reserve a margin over this. As we stand we are only half a day's food short on program and should have a good chance of getting through. The weath er continues unsatisfactory. We had to march without sight of land on occasions. We are getting Intermit tent fog in this most creviced part of the glacier. Everybody Is In the best of health and spirits. It has been most difficult to select the returning party of four who car ries this note. Our position consti tutes our upper glacier depot. Com plete depots have been established on the homeward route. The track of the barrier Is well marked with snow cairns. The members going forward are Scott, Lieut. Evans, Wilson, Bow ers, Oats, Lashley, Petty Officer Evans and Crean. Jan. 3, 1912, Latitude 87 Minutes, 83 Degrees, Height 9,800 Feet.—After leaving the upper glacier depot, south of Mount Darwin, I steered southwest two days. This did not keep us clear of pressure ridges and crevices which occurred frequently at first and gave us trouble, but we rose rapidly In al titude. Probably the difficult places were more snow covered than further eastward. The advantage of this course was mainly felt on the third and fourth days, when, owing to our altitude, we got a splendid view of distribution of land masses fringing the Ice sheet and the arm of ice falls. Since leaving the depot our marches have averaged over fifteen statute miles a day. On Christmas day we were close up to the 86th parallel and the prospect of Christmas fare gave us an excellent march, seventeen miles, but the effort was not so hard the following day. The surface grew more difficult as we approach^ the 87th parallel. On New Year's eve In lati tude 86 degrees 56 minutes we depos ited there a unit procession and re built our sledges with new short run ners, which remarkable piece of work was performed by the seaman of the party tinder adverse conditions. Al though it cost us nearly a day's march, the change amply repaid us. We have been able to keep up our average and we are now within 150 .miles of the Pole. I am going forward with a party of Ave men, sending three back under Lieut. Evans. The names and descrip tions of the advance party are: Capt. Scott, R. N. Dr. Wilson, S. C. scien tific staff, Capt. Oats. Innlskilling dragoons. In charge of the ponies and mules Lieut. Bowers, Royal India marine, commissary officer. Petty Of ficer Evans, R. H„ In charge of sledges and equipment. The advance guard goes forward with a month's provisions and the prospects of success good, providing the weather holds and no unforeseen obstacles arise. It has been very dif ficult to choose the advance party, as everyone was lit and able to go for ward. Those who return are natural ly much disappointed. Everyone has worked his hardest. The weather on the plateau has been good as a whole. The sun has never deserted us, but the temperatures are low now, about minus 20 degrees, and the wind pretty constant however, we are excellently eauipped for such conditions and the wind undoubtedly improves the sur face and so far has worked out very satisfactorily. It is more than prob able that no further news will be re ceived from us this j'ear. Our return must necessarily be late. (Signed) Robert F. Scott. Lieut. Pennell expressed the utmost confidence in the ultimate success of Captf Scott and his party and declared that the scientific work being per formed by the expedition was of an extremely valuable character. In ad dition to the southern party, the Terra Nova was compelled, owing to the bad Ice conditions, to leave behind Lieut. Campbell's party, who were landed at Drygalsky Barrier and thence sledged into the Interior. Both parties, how ever, were fully prepared for this em ergency, says the commander of the Terra Nova, and no alarm need be felt for their safety. Tht two geolog ical expeditions of the west coast have produced good results, coal and fossils which latter had not been discovered before being found. The health of the members of the expedition is excel lent, the only exception being Capt. Evans, who is convalescing from scur vey. The Terra Nova returns south in November next. OXFORD THE WINNEB. In the Annual Race Over the Course at Putney, England. Putney, England. Oxford won with the greatest ease the sixty-ninth annual boat race between eight-oared crews representing the universities of Oxford and Cambridge over the usual course on the Thames from Putney to Mortlake. The Dark Blues finished six lengths ahead of their rivals. LaCrosse Boy a Prisoner. La Crosse, Wis. 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