Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-10-11
AT THE NORTH POLE.
THERE WE WILL FIpD THE FoOM-
 TAIN OF PERPETUAL YOUTH.

the advantages to accrue to tho world from polar exploration, and while there is general agreement among scientific men that the information to be gained by it is of sufficient value to warrant the expense and loss of life incident to it am not aware that any direct eeo- homie results have ever been claimed for it. Certain ideas have, however, recent ly occurred to me, which point to very great economic advantages to be attain ed not only by polar exploration, but by literally reaching tho pole, adyan- tages so great that almost any expend- itnre of lifo and treasure will be war. ranted l am sure that when these ad- vantages have been pointed out men and money will be forthcoming without stint not only to reach the pole, but to make the path to it easy and plain to tread.
 Before going any further I wish to say that have no ax to grind. l have no desire to command an expedition or to accompany ono. My sole object in publishing these matters is to aid my fellow mon.
 All of us have read accounts of the search made by the Spaniards centuries ago for the fountain of perpetual youth, for those waters which would obliterate wrinkles and restore gray hair to it's original hue, give back elasticity to the limbs and fire to the eye Those hardy explorers pursued their search in the wrong quarter of the globe.
 We all know that if we travel areHnd the earth i'll the direction in which the sun apparently moves on returning to tho place of departure we find that we have saved day; that we are a day younger than our friends who have re- mained at home. To go around the earth on the forty fifth parallel of lati- tude requires about 50 days Therefore it is possible in that latitude to save one day in 50, but as we go northward the circumference of the earth diminish es, and it is possible, other things being equal, to make the journey in less time, but with each circuit of the globe, what ever the length of the journey, a day is saved. Near the pole, where the cir cumferenee of the earth becomes a mere trifie, perhaps q quarter of q mile, per haps 100 yards, a day may be saved in five minutes, i'll one minute. Sixty days may be saved in an hour, a year of life in q day A forenoon jaunt around the pole will do all that the fountain of eternal youth of the old Spanish explor- CTS WAS expected to accomplish.
 But this result, the restoration oi youth to the aged, is but one of the useful purposes to which the pole can be put Not only tho aged, but unmar. ried ladies who have passed the first bloom of youth and have thus ceased te attract may here restore their comeli ness, recover their blooming cheeks and rounded forms, and thus prepare for a second campaign against mon hearts
 But this is not all. It is sometimes an advantage to grow old, and by talk. ing the opposite course around the pole we may add years to our lives in hours. The fashionable woman is encumbered by young children. She sends them tc the pole, and they grow up with exceed ing rapidity. For all hour they are trundled against the sun in baby car. riages, the next hour they spend upon their feet and before tho day is passed they are grown to mems and women E estate, and tho mother is free of their charge.
 The course of frue love does not al ways run smooth, and many young man and woman pledged to one moth- CT, arc prevented lly cruel parents from being joined because of their extreme youth. A trip 10 the pole will quickly remove this difficulty
 So 1 might go on and instance hun dreds of different conditions which might be Eemedied were the pole easy of access. Many of them readily occur to our readers, and we shall not Burden them with any further information.
 Now let us picture what the results will be of this discovery. It goes with out saying that the north pole will i'm mediately become resort second to mono upon the globe There will be n real estate boom i'll that region beside which those of southern California, Florida and of the soathe.n Appala- chians will be fiat, tame and insipid. Tho prices of town lots will not rise They will shoot upward In that wilder. ness of ice and snow there will be built within fabulously short time a city Of transients the like of which the world has never seen a city of hotels, apart ment and boarding houses of enormous proportions. When we reflect that every body who has reached the age of 50 and who can raise the necessary funds for the journey will go there to take n walk, not to mention the spinsters, the signing lovers and the superfuous chil- dren, one can easily imagine what an enormous business the pole will do. Imagine the lines of steamships which will be supported by this travel; imag- inc the value of the wheeled chair priv ilegesi imagine, if you can, the profits of the man who gets possession of cir ole around the pole having radius of half mile and charges admission to this race course against time.
 In conclusion, do not think that exaggerate when I say that the eonsid- erations here set forth make tho search for the pole the most important by far of all the questions which are now agitating civilized man. Henry Gan nett ill New York Sun.