Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-06
BETTER THAN sYMMEs, HOLE.


at the North Pole-The Genuine free of
Life Gro,cing There
A Paterson, N. j., man named Alexander
Shelton is probably the sublimest theorist of
this or any other age. He has doubtless
read the bible good deal, and pondered
deeply upon its histories, prophecies and
mysteries. He has also read the narratives
of the unsuccessful explorers of the Arctic
seas in search of the North pole. He has
endeavored to account for the fact of the
failure of human enterprise, skill and daring
in this direction. There is no more infalli-
BILE guide to any point on the earths surface
than there is to the pole. Why cannot man
follow it? Alexander Shelton has fathomed
the reason. as he thinks. The Skeltonian
discovery is that the North pole is the veri-
table geographical site of the Garden of
Eden, and the present location of Paradise
| a very pleasant hot weather theory, to say the
least of it. Now how does Shelton fix the
cradle of the human race at the pole!
| Very simply indeed. 1t is as easy as rolling
| off log, in the peoples parlance of to-day.
| There was an act of disobediencs in the gar
den, which damned the world, and a fratri-
eide near there which stained the earth with
the first human blood. The people went
on from bad to worse until there was only
one family left that was fit to propagate and
transmit the human race. Skeleton finds il
in harmony with other acts of the Creator
that he should wish to hide this accused
region of the earth forever from human
ken. Then the world suddenly whirled sc
degrees out of the original position, the poles
coming in a line with the equator, the ole
equatorial regions of course, being thrown
| into northern ATTITUDES and containing the
new poles. Thus Eden was caught i'll The
''thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice,
which environ the North pole, and is LOCKED
up from human research forever. The ICE
at the former pole melted, making the fort,
days and forty night rain and the flood
The ark f1oated on the waters, and drift
ed into nearly the same relativ
geographical position, and Noah dl'
not knowa revolution had taken place whlc
had swept the old ground from under hin
far to the north. In such huriy-burly til
tropical animals were caught in the ice ant
frozen up, as their bodies are still found en-
bedded in natures preserves OF the north
So man came to be bolted and barred from
Eden and totally unable to tell where it ha
gone out of his sight and knowledge. Thi
new theory of the gospel, according to Skel
ton, accounts for it in manner. The par
ticulars are generally unimportant, but tn
conclusion is that the failuse of so man
s.Arctic explorers to reach the north pole
attributable to something more subtle tina
common notural causes Shelton suppose
the original stree of life still to exist there
probably the pole ITSELF also, that ''the chez
, ubim's flaming sword turning every way
guard the tree of life is the cutting, piercin
cold of that latitude, which, taken in col
nection with the aurora borelis ;
il flashes and darts in the norther
armament makes the figuratiye language
/. scripture plain to our understanding"
' the Shelton theory of the sequestration
the Garden of Eden in the frozen regions
the North is accepted, it is hard to say VIII
effect it would have upon the daring navig
J, tors of the future. But it is very Doubt
y if it would cool the ardor of polar expet
8 tons. Man is contrary and persistent al
q self-asserting as was the mother of mankil
herself. He would be likely to contrive son
!, way to avoid the flaming sword of the cher
BIN and slip into paradise somehow on t
: ice. At any rate, Skeletons theory will n
. deter present preparations for penetrati
|, the mysteries of the Arctic seas. The Al
J. tic navigators are all anxious to push beyol
the ice barriers into that salubrious china
q peopled with a race of beings unlike any
present known, who, it has been limited, N
. inhabit the islands of the open sea viii
l. shimmers in the mystical moonlight arou
u the pole.