Show MATTHEW DALTONS DA TONS C ART ARTO O It may be In In connection I with Dr Cooks polar explorations exploration to speak again of the chart drawn by our Mormon MonDon friend Mr Matthew Dalton of Willard Utah It will not be easy to convince Mr Dalton I that Dr Cook has bas found the north pole and there are a good many other people who share snare his skepticism in the matter Part of then them with the Dalton reason part pert from other ot er causes Mr Ir Dalton has naB Issued a little book r with Illustrating Charts barta and clearly sets forth his Idea According Ac to this the work It 11 is his belief bolter that this world in or on p which we live is but one of three globes Efi If It you take three spheres two of them three Inches in diameter and one une six inches spike spik them on an axis with the large Marge one in the middle you will have roughly a representation of the Dalton DaUen 1 theory He believes that at the poles the convexity of the earths surface slopes elopes away reverses into a concave and so 80 forms the neck or spindle which gives passage e from our earth to the globe to the north So that the exact polar north would be buried burled far beneath r the earth or ice surface and Impossible ble of reaching re by any traveler And Ind nd l he lie believes thie very reverently that in that northern and smaller maU r globe lobe wait the Children of Promise e who will wUi some someday someday someday day come back to this globe and pos poe possess seas sess it Prior to Dr Cooks journey it t is certain certain certain tain that no one has haa gained pined a position po to controvert the Dalton theory Nan Nansen Nansen Nanson sen son went into the ice in the Fram and allowed himself to be carried in the I peek pack across the top of the world and down into the northern Atlantic He M w as do most men that there is a constant movement of the ice lee fields I a from the waters above Behring straits through the region re ion of perpetual frigidIty frigid frigidity frigidity ity and down past put Greenland where the warmer wanner winds melt the masses and make icebergs that dot and endanger the seas Ras until they are reduced again apin apinto to water and start for their journey around Cape Horn and Good Hope to tobe tobe tobe be again apin transformed into ice for the journey across C the pole And Nansen Nan en go 80 over the pole His own tracing of hi h his course coarse shows that he waa was diverted around it We Ya are an by no DO means lIS indorsing Mr theory the We are simply pty men mentioning meny y boning It And we weare are not yet quite sure that even Dr Cook has disproved it |