Show liO OR RESERVED FOR There is a popular belief In the extreme extreme ex ex- northwest that the north pole will be discovered by a and not by any scientific polar expedition This belief is based on the conviction that a gold stampede will eventually be started toward north latitude 90 degrees and that will rush in where arctic explorers have feared to trea tread l. l So completely unknown to fame is this newcomer in the race forthe forthe for forthe the pole that to the majority of people the name suggests nothing but cereal breakfast food Gilbert Parker the novelist who finds his most congenial theme in French-Canadian French life has made his readers familiar with March t Marche e I the cry with which drivers of dog teams urge forward their panting ani anI- mals French-Canadian French trappers were among tho the earliest white men In the far northwest and American prospect prospect- I ors on the Yukon soon learned to goad their dogs on with the same cry without with out however understanding the French which in their mouths was rapidly corrupted to to this day an Alaska dog drivers driver's equivalent for Gee up Dog drivers generally run with the team and therefore from on Mush has come the noun used all allover allover allover over Alaska and the Yukon territory to designate a The Is generally prospector and all rolled into one and Alaska Alas Alas- I ka trails are such uncertain quantities that he has frequently to make his own I precedents over newly frozen sea and trackless snow The achieves most of his stampeding to new gold fields during the arctic winter Finter for then the sea becomes a a highway and mighty rivers need no bridging Sun bridging Sun Sunset set Magazine |