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Years pass when no man can conquer and bestride "The Old Hag of the Alps"-the Matterhorn. Humpbacked, she towers, and her hump is a jagged ridge from which many have slithered down to death. About her hungry lightning tongues lick often, winds howl, and evil legends cluster grim and hoar. Sometimes, when a climbing-hatchet slips and sickening pebbles roll, it seems that the Hag chuckles...
...Yellow specks dotted the Hag's snow-flesh, last week, crawled and hacked their way upward from Zermatt. Wise tourists, bedded at luxurious Gornergrat, rose early and viewed the dawn-pink Alpine panorama on which the Matterhorn looms as but one of many peaks. From Gornergrat the yellow specks could not be seen-yet one of them was Prince Chichibu of Japan, second son of the Mikado, indefatigable Alpinist (TIME, Sept. 6 et ante...
...this route, His Highness was informed, seven Italian guides and a priest ascended the Matterhorn in honor of a Catholic "Holy Year" (1901), Pious, they planted a cross and celebrated Mass on the Hag's topmost excrescence (14,780 feet). Intrigued, Prince Chichibu snap-shotted the spot on which was performed this (to him) heathen act of faith...
...real .significance of the move is the struggle of the Chicago Board of Trade for existence. The wheat market is moving from Chicago into Canada, despite the unusual Chicago activity this year. The cereal and meat business is already hag-ridden by Government interference and agricultural cooperation. The waning business on the Chicago Board in cereals and provisions may thus be supplemented by the newly undertaken business in cotton...
...Persee was never in better voice and his solos were evenly given-the tower scene, "Do Not Forget Me," being imperatively demanded. Miss Leighton's Azucena, the old witch hag who deals in flames and torture, was a rugged picture that one cannot easily forget. Her music was superbly rendered. Mr. Wolff filled the role of Fernando. Mr. Wooley made his reappearance in Rinz...