The Press., 1886-11-11
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 Let us for moment look back across the bleak waste of years and see what won derful progress has been made in the dis, covery of the pole. We may then ask Onr- selves who will be first to tack his location notice on the gnawed and season cracked surface of the pole itself, and what will he do with it after he has so filed upon it. sF
 Iceland, Ipresnme, was discovered about 960 A. D., or 1,026 years ago, but the stampede to Iceland has always been under control, and you can get corner lots in the most desirable cities of Iceland and wear Q | long, rickety name with links in it like 3 rosewood sausage, to-day at low price. Naddodr, 2 Norwegian viking, discovered Iceland A. D. 86O, but he did not live to meet Lieutenant Greeley, or any of our most celebrated northern tourists. Why Naddodr yearned to go North and discover colder country than his own, why he should seek to wet his feet and get icicles down his back in order to bring to light more snow banks and chilblalns, | cannot at this time understand. Why should 8 robust viking roam around in the cold try ing to nose out moro frost bitten Esqui- maux, when he could remain at home and vike?
 But I leave this to the thinking mind Let the thinking mind grapple with it It has no charms for me. Moreover, Ihaven't that kind of 8 mind.
 Octher, another Norwegian gentleman, sailed around North Cape and crossed the Arctic circle in 800 A. D., but he crossed it in the night and didn't notice it at the time. fl4 go
 Two or three years after, Erik the Red took 8 large snoW-shovel and discovered the east coast of Greenland Erik the Red, was a Northman, and he dourished along about the ninth century and before the war. I He sailed around in that country for sever al years, drinking bay rum and bears oil and having 8 good time. He wore fur underclothes all the time, winter and sum- mer, and evaded the poll tax for long time. Erik also established a settlement on the southeast coast of Greenland in ! about latitude sixty degrees north. These people remained here for some time, sup sisting on shrimp salad, sea-moss farina, and neat's-foot-oil. But finally they be- came so bored with the quiet country life and the backward springs that they re- moved from there to land that is fairer I than day, to use the words of another. They removed; during the holidays, leaving the axle grease and all they held dear, iI- cluding their remains. 7ssa l read varying and disconnected accounts of people who have been up that way, ae- quired large red chilblain, made anss sob servation, and died Representa H8s from almost every quarter of the glgbs have been to the far North, eaten their little hunch of jerked polar beer, and then the polar bear has eaten his little hnnch of jerked lexplorer, and so the good work went on. The polar bear, with his wonderful reten- tive faculties, has succeeded in retaining his great secret regarding the pole, togeth- CT with the men who came out there to find out about it. So up to 1880 large number of nameless explorers went to this celebrated watering place, shot afeW penn mican, ate 8 jerked whale, shuddered a couple of times, and died. It has been the history of Arctic exploration from the earliest ages Men have taken their lives and few doughnuts in their hands, wan dered away into the uncertain light of the q North, made a. few observations-toe each other regarding the backward spFing-and then cached their skeletons forever.
 In 1880 two Italians named Lem took g load of sun-kissed bananas and made g voyage tothe extreme North, but the his. torlan says that the accounts are so con hicting, andyas the stories told by the two brothers did not agree and neither evel told it the same on two separate occasions
 the history of their voyage is not used very much. e1aAsfaF 5,sss.
 Years rolled on. Boys continued to ge to school and see in their geographies en
 ticing pictures of men in expensive fu1 clothing running sharp iron spears anG long, dangerous stab knives into ferocioui white bears and sporting around on large cakes of cold ice and having good time
 These inspired the growing youth to ris' up and do likewise. So every nation 'neatl , the sun has contributed it's assortments O
 choice white skeletons and second hand
 clothes to the remorseless maw of the hun
 gry and ravenous North
 And still the great pole continued tC lsqueak on through days that were si, Imonths long and nig hts that made break fast seem almost useless.
 In 1477 Columbus went up that way bu a did not succeed in starving to death. H D ggtsa bird's-eye view cf . large deposite < dark blue ice, got hungry and came home During the fifteenth and sixteenth cen 8 tnries, the northern natiOnsl of Europe, ant especially the Dutch, kept the discover.
 business red-hot, but they did not get an,
 fragments of the true poles The maritim
 nations of Europe, together with other for eign powers, dynhsties and humsn beings
 for some time had spells of wishing the DO
 lar seas and neglecting to come back. I
 was the custom then, as it is now, to g
 twenty rods further than any other ma1
 had ever been, eat a deYiled boot leg, cur : up, and perish. Thousands of the bes
 and brightest minds of all ages have yield , ed to this wild desire to live on sperm oil : pain killer and jerked walrus, keep littl , blue diary for thirteen weeks, and then feet ' it to tall, white bear with red gums.