Show the arctic riddle kiddle tho the mystery or of the north polo liko like th abo 0 riddle of the sphinx costs coats the lives of 0 tholo who try and fail to guess it tho icebergs that tower in ia tho thoo frozen waters are but so many monts to the universal death that everywhere reigns tile the news from san francisco that tho exploring vessel jeannotte jeannette sent bent on a tour of investigation by tho the now york jgerald JT 17 erald will never be heart heard from again meets tho the report of lieutenant in search of relics of sir john franklin Iran ilin that tho the exact fato of that eminent but ill tilted fated explorer will never bo known known it II was thirty five years it july sine since big ships veto tor for tho the lost last timo time seen in ia baffino Baff ins ky three years afterward england sent the first expedition in U march of lini him and his big men and biaco that timo moro thin than twenty moro MOPO hive LAY e sailed little by little and piece by b Y riece picco they hoy have brought home the relics and mementoes which havo hato gad dally told tho story of the tato fate that overtook them in th atland of al ico ice for many years yeara there wore were floating about beliefs that he bo and lis bis men were still olive and might one hy bo found aarin this tradition was fos to borod by lidy lady franklins devotion to her bus husbands bands memory an and 1 I lot her heroin measures for discovering the searel looked locked up horo in tho dreary drear arctic archo wastes iier her boreave bereavement meat infected tho the sympathies of tho the civilized world and nd tho the cras cremades sides which were and led sometimes by english pluck often by american enterprise havo bavo at last brought back tho the tidings that nothing moro more can over ever be known IQ in kt skeletons tons of some of tho men were discovered in 1859 1830 a paper found is ia a cairn where it had bad been placed by one of franklins officers briefly saying 11 sir john franklin died on tho bilth of june 1847 11 blotted out the figu figures ires which the imagination fancied it saw still moving in that northern twilight and nearly destroyed lidy lady franklins grief stricken mind then halt half a dozen spoons inwrought t with sir john franklins orest crest wore were in ia 1872 given by a nativo native to captain barry am aa american explorer with tho the statement that he bo had bad taken them from a cairn miles distant where books and other relies relics still remained captain carry barry with lieutenant were two years ago sent out by tho the enterprise of now new york merchants and landed at tho the lead bead of repulse day cay thence going and returning they made a sledge journey of miles traveling over ice and allows snow and what was still moro more difficult over broken and jagged clay stone with marsh es intervening and covered with patches of brown and green moss witti purple flowers peeping through the crevices of the abo stones on this journey thoy they lived and preserved their health by eating tho the food which I 1 4 A i ca abounded tjabring ills tho winter the was heij HB ij ti from 60 50 to GO CO degrees below zero and at abono ono time lime tell fell to tile they Y found no cairn fie aa was told to captain bury barry but bat they skeletons a ships s bout boat or rather c r be b prow r 0 w s and nd s alera blera i e r a p poet with a tow few to th dickered or eghi boards still copt holding together 0 t h gilt t n nivy s y bu buttons L t a n e copper per and iron bolts shot cartridges powder emus barrels brokon medicine mo dicino sod and wine bottles axes anil and a few drw barcol staves tho rig rigid id climate chimato bad preserved ved ir for 0 th thirty lirt y years pieces of 0 n datty a blus 1 Z sloth W anich ic h were scattered along the shores of t tho bo inlets with t the h 0 exception of a scrap of 0 paper raer makol koil with an aa index finger pointing southerly Bont horly no writing 0 of tiny any sort was found and so eo after af tor addario an end dario n ring great hardships ant oo no act great soffe ria t the it a orpo returned baill it leaving nv dg to tho the and the eternal cold the remain gLO franklin find and hu his crow beyond tho fact that they abandoned th their air Teg tho erebus and terror and attempted to drag their bolt boats verland overland 0 in tho hopes of launch launching ilg them in tho the open water again nothing is yet yek nothing probably ever will bo definitely definitely defini tel Y known of their struggle ruggle Bt and their end degrott fre press |