| Show POLAR exploration so long as the polar sea remains locked to the outer world so long lone will there be a disposition among the more imore venturesome tur tar esome of the scientific elements to keep knocking at the doors even though as is most frequently the case they falter and taint upon the threshold one expedition has been no more I 1 successful from a practical point of view than any other since none has penetrated beyond the great crystal barrier intervening between the known and the unknown world the only success achieved being the penetration as far toward the pole as nature and providence nce would permit some going further than others but all ah coming to a halt within what they claim would be a plain view of an open circumpolar circum polar tea were it not for the vision being cut off by solid walls of so far able and impenetrable lee ice perhaps that is true perhaps not the shape of the earth and its rapid rotary motion on its axis favor the latter conclusion since it is well known that the tendency of a globular body in rapid motion is to cause a movement toward and impingement of particles upon that portion of the sphere described by the term equatorial periphery this in the case of our planet is ot course the equator or imaginary line around its exterior equidistant equi distant from the poles at all points this would mean that water would forsake the poles and seek the equator which is the fact it is also true that the gravitation is not sufficiently C powerful because the rotary y motion is not sufficiently rapid to cause the waters of the north and south to rush in a body to the centre but it is a reasonable conclusion that there is less at the source of the moving mass than at the place where lt it congregates or near there and therefore that there is as much land as water perhaps more of the former than the latter in both the arctic and antarctic regions some enthusiastic and we doubt not imaginative explorers have returned from voyages filled with hope and exultation ul not that the barrier had been actually passed but because of their alleged entrance into the outer limits of the northern zone one especially an advocate of the symmes hole theory had found foun a land rua luxuriant uku ant in y vegetation ke tation wealthy in minerals and V populated Is by y a hardy and gigantic race 0 of people eo le aspea speaking ng pure hebrew cattle e an and in fact all our domestic animals were there in abundance aoun soun dance ciance only much larger and stronger gold and silver nestled in gorges and crevices not in meagre and scattering quantities but abundantly tons tens of it being in sight and so soon on the writer of this was not jules verne as the reader may suppose but he makes statements statement utterly at vari ancel ance with th scientific facts and recorded achievements with an audacity rivaling that of the famed frenchman no souvenirs irs ot of the discovered utopia were brought back of course and this act or rather this omission alone would place it and all similar statements among the literature of the day but notwithstanding dangers defeats hardships death and famine all probable and most of them sure at the quest of the extreme northern limit of our abiding place it not preparation for othlar other ventures goes on constantly As suggested before just so long as there is on tile the earths surface shut out from the contact of man pat lust so long will he persevere and fight against taie itself to overcome them the intervening ter impediments the balloon plan of passing the arctic sentinels is now being revived it has been talked of a number of times and we believe tried on one or two occasions but not as thoroughly as supporters of the scheme desired our dispatches recently contained the stat statement ement that sl a circular was received at the navy navi department part ment from a chicago man announcing ao noun cing he had bad solved the problem of a aerial eri al navigation and is about to build a great air ship which will start out june 1st ast next year on a voyage of discovery to the pole he estimates that a months time will suffice for the voyage allowing ten days or two weeks for scientific observation of arctic phenomena the ship will carry persons and travel at a speed of seventy miles an hour the inventor says he will carry with him representatives of the press and scientists the essential feature of the discovery consists of a great cylinder built of thin plates of steel to which the passenger car is attached for a force instead of gas as a partial vacuum is used and eight exhausting screw propellers driven by electric secondary batteries propel the craft this has the smack of the young man who invented the flying machine about it and may amount to just as much or it may be launched upon the world as was the keeley motor metor to be seen but not handled and again by a remote possibility it may prove a success but we doubt it the undiscovered country is hedged about by forces of nature above as well as upon the earth and though the balloon may move through the air currents of the lae temperate zone in a triumphal flight against the law of gravitation and in various va rious directions the inventor would doubtless be startled if he should be so fortunate as to reach the polar walls at all to find that when he mounted high enough to strike an air current it would be one moving in t the li e direction of the water beneath so southward nth ward yet it is almost certain that that is exactly what would happen and that no artificial force he could apply would prevent his being swept homeward much more rapidly than lie he went away |
