Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-10-10
AT THE NORTH POLE.
THERE WE WILL FIND THE FOUN'
TAIN OF PERPETUAL YOUTH.
Those Who Want to BE Made Young az
Well as Those Who Would Quickly Grow
Older Can Be ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Views
of Well Known Geographer.

There has been much discussion OF
the advantages to accrue to the world
from polar exploration, and while there
is o general agreement among scientific
men that the information to be gained
by ID is Of sufficient value to warrant
tho expense and loss Of life incident to
1t am not aware that any direct eco
nomic results have ever been claimed for
it. Certain ideas have, however, recent
" occurred to me, which point to very
great economic advantages to be attain
ed not only by polar exploration, but
by literally reaching the pole, advan-
tages SO great that almost any expend-
iture of life and treasure will be war
ranted. / am sure that when these adj
vantageS have been pointed out men and
money will DO 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 AK to grind. have
no desire to command an expedition or
to accompany one. My sole object in
publishing these matters is to aid my
fellow men.
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 IL
the wrong quarter Of the globe
We all know that it we Gravel around
the earth III tho direction il which tie
sun apparently moves on returning to
tho place Of departure we find that
we have saved a day; that we are Il d.
Younger than our friends who have re
manned at home To 20 around the
earrh on thY forty-hf,a parallel Of latl-
tudo requires about so days. Therefore
it is possible in that latitude 10 save
one day in 60, but as we 90 northward
the circumference Of tho earth d. nlst-
es, aud it is possible, other tn. IS being
equal, to make tho journey il less time,
but with eacf ,cut ri the globe, What
ever the LEM Of the Journey, il day is
saved Near the pole, whore the cir
conference Of the earth becomes q mere
triflo, perhaps quarter OF nnlc, per
haps 100 yards a day may be saved III
five minutes, III one minute. Sixty days
may be SAVED in IN hour, a year Of life
in o day. A forenoon Jauut around the
polo will do all that the fountain OF
eternal youth Of the old Spanish oXplor-
,,..,,,f,+nI 70 art.prtr,li III
But this result, the restoration OF
youth to the aged, is but one of tba
useful purposes to which the pole can
DO put. Not only the aged, but unmar
ried ladies who have passed the first
bloom Of youth and have thus ceased to
attract may hero restore their comeli-
ness, recover their blooming checks and
rounded forms, and thus prepare for .
second campaign against mems hearts.
But this is not all 1t is sometimes
an advantage to grow old, and by TAX
ing the opposite course around the pole
we may add years to our lives in hours.
The fashionable woman is encountered
by young children. She sends them to
the pole, and they grow up with exceed
ing rapidity. For an hour they are
trrlndlod against the sun i'll baby car
riages, the next hour they spend upon
their feet, and before tho day is passed
they arc grown to mems and women S
estate. and tho mother is free of their
charge.
The course of true love does not al
ways run smooth, and many young
man and woman pledged to one anoth-
er, arc prevented by cruel parents from
being joined because Of their extreme
youth. A trip to tho pole will quickly
remove this difficulty
SO might go on and instance hun
dreds of different conditions which
might be remedied 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. 1t goes with
out saying that the north pole will i'm
mediately become a resort second to
mono upon the globe. There will be a
real estate boom in that region beside
which those of southern California,
Florida and of the southern Appala-
chians will be fiat, tame and insipid.
The prices Of town lots will not rise.
They will shoot upward. In that wilder
ness of ice aud sn,.w there will be built
within fabulously short time city of
transients the like of which the world
has never seen 4 city of hotels, apart
ment and boarding houses of enormous
proportions When we reflect that every
body who has reached the age Of 60 and
who can raise the necessary funds for
the journey will go there to take a
walk not to mention the spinsters, the
fighing lovers and the superfuous chill
fren, one can easily imagine what an
enormous business the pole will do
Imagine the lines of steamships which
will be supported by this travel mag
Inc the value of the wheeled chair priv
ileges; imagine, if you can, the profits
of the man who gets possession of cir
Gle around the pole having radius of
half a mile and charges admission to
this race course against time.
n, I do not tbiply tbaf T