Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-07-11
THE INTEGRITY or NATIONS
countris. which Show Development =.

The reasoning and organizing principles
in nations retain them in existence Tar b.
yond the ordinary hazards Of time. Tho
Spanish nation and the Portuguese, with .
certain original spirit and passion for their
own country, have kept along and have
never devoured each other. Prussia, from
moderate beginnings, with thinking men in
control Of her, has become one of the great
states OF the earth France has never lost
anything which size did not win unfairly.
The English lost in the American colonies
much more than the French ever lost in
Louisiana and Canada, and yet have bad
the art to seek new places where they are
always in peril and sometimes seem to have
risked their troops and treasure in vain. At
this moment Burmah, their latest acquisi-
ton, is giving them trouble, and Egypt and
the ad jacent countries are bringing them
probably no present profit, but tina integrity
Of the British possessions is sufficiently well
maintained for the most Of their colonies TO
still rely upon the present power as they
would never do IL it showed effeteness.
Austria, after the hard knocks she received
from the French in several wars, Is, per-
haps, better concentrated and more Just
nation today than ever before, having i'm
bibed reason from necessity. The Hunzar-
ians have not lost their freedom, but are an
integral portion Of great empire which
can take care of them Italy has shown
that the genius she possessed In the fifteenth
century had substantial qualities on which
TO reproduce it, and she now mikes king
iom which is at least removed from the
hangers Of predatory invasion Russia,
which has had mighty part to play In the
general empire Of Christianity. and incl
ientally Of civilization, has sustained her
self and would be missed from tho world II
she should ever have to 60, which Is by no
means probable, as she has undertaken to
play in Europe and in Asia the role o.
North America: and her railroad system
and inland navigation, while they inspire
some jealousy in ad jacent powers, give the
promise o. popular development
Whenever the rude, intolerant natures OF
men shall submit to laws adapted to the
average good Of the whole, small countries
held together by some art or fact or sacri-
Zee. like Holland and Belgium and even
Denmark and Switzerland, find the prox-
unity OF great kingdoms no more prejudi-
.ial to them than that incites their good
behavior and adroitnesa Tho countries
which failed to mako an impression upon
the world, and the elements OF countries
which are forever in turmoil and amount
.nc to nothing have finally tried the United
States as new field for folly" Gath F" in
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Position of the Magnetic Pole.
At the Lotus club met Lieut. Frederick
Schwatka the Arctic explorer, who,
among his scalps Of victory, carries ono
.abslsd ''the longest sledgo journey on rec
,rd.r He made it in 1873, Isl miles, from
Hudson's bay to tho neighborhood Of the
magnetic poie. for the finding OF the re
mains of Sir John Franklin's expedition
asking him what no thought Of the future,
be said:
Most of the polar research OF the future
Is to be scientific mainly geography, metz
,ro,ogy, geology, ethnology, etc
Most Of the recent expeditions have, l
5hink, had too few Esquimaux and too
many white men The former are self-sup-
oorting latter a burden and frequently
dead weight The most successful OF the
international meteorological stations have
averaged six or seven whites only. The Ger
nan expedition at tho Cumberland strait
had five. The finest and most complete
,uroral observations were made by Sophus
rromholt, a Norwegian, with five men
The Finnish expedition, under Lemstrom,
had only four or five. In fact, Lemstrom
produced an artificial aurora by winding
electric wire around big hill and then
grounding it, He got magnificent dis
play. Tho hill seemed almost to be afro
and ths electric flames streamed apparently
10 the zenith
The most important expedition CT tho
future, ! think, viii be the one which do
tsr,nines anew tho position Of the nagne:,c
pole the point of vertical magnetic force.
went to point where the needle failed to
work at all and was lifeless as a nail had
no instruments to locate the exact pole.
When determined exactly, il it differs much
from tho location OF Sir John Ross in 1851,
| it will be very important in showing ths
secular variation, or movement OF the mag
aetic pole "-Crofut in Kansas City Jour
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