The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-11-22
AT THE NORTH POLE.
THERE WE WILL FIND THE FOUN.
TAIN OF PERPETUAL YOUTH.


Older Can 10 Accommodated-TheV 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 Il 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 eco
nomic results have ever been claimed for
it. Certain ideas have, however, recent
ly occurred to me, which point to very
great economic advantages to he 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. 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 wish to
say that have no az to grind. l 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 its
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 it we travel around
the earth in the direction in which the
sun apparently moves on returning to
the place OF departure we find that
we have saved day. that we are a day
younger than our friends who have re-
manned at home. TO go around the
earth OH the forty ffti parallel of lati-
tude requires about 90 days. Therefore
it is possible III that latitude to save
one day in GO, but as we go nOrthward
the circumference Of the earth diminish
es, and it is possible, other things being
equal, to make the journey i'll less time,
but with each circuit of the globe, what
ever the length of the journey, {. day is
saved Near the pole, where the Gil
cumfercnce of the earth ,Ccomes q mere
tlifie, perhaps i; quarter OF Il mile, per-
haps 100 yards, Il day may be saved i'll
1.vo minutes, in one minute. Sixty days
may be saved III all hour, II year OF life
III Il day. A forenoon jaunt around the
pole will Go all that the fountain Of
eternal youth CT the old Spanish explor-
CTS was expected to accomplish.
But this result, the restoration G.
youth to tie aged, is but one Of the
Ilsefll purposes to which the pole can
bo pnt. Not only tle aged, but ruElar-
Iicd Ladies Who have passed tnC first
Lloom Of youth ard have thus ceased to
attract El;ly here restore their comoli-
ness, recover their bloom ing checks ard
rounded forms, and thus prepare for {,
second campaign against mems hearts.
But this j.; not all. 1t is some INES
ali advantage TO grow old, and - tax
ing the opposite course around Tic pole
We may add years to our lives III hours.
The fashionable woman is encuLlbere
by Young children. She sends tlrcm 10
the pole, aud they grow up with exceed
ing rapidly. For an hour they are
trundlcd against the sun in baby car
riages, the next hour they spend upon
their feet, and before the day is passed
they are grown to mems and woIlen' s
estate. and the mother is free of their
charge.
The course Of truo love does not al
ways run smooth, and man: q young
man and woman pledged to one anoth-
CT, arc prevented by cruel parents from
being joined because of their extreme
youth. A trip to the pole will quickly
remove this difficulty.
So might go OH and instance hun
dreds of different conditions which
might be relnedied 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 u resort second to
none upon the globe. There will DO q
real estate boom in that region beside
which those OF southern California.
Florida and of the southern Appala-
chi&ns will be fat, tame and insipid.
The prices Of town lots will not rise.
They will shoot upward. In tnat wilder
ness Of ice and SHOW there will be built
within fabulously short time IA city Of
tranSientS the like Of which the world
has never seen q city Of hotels, apart
ment and boarding houses of enormous
proportions. When we reflect that every
body who has reached the age Of GO and
who can raise the necessary funds for
the journey will go there to take a
walk, not to mention the spinsters, the
signing lovers and the superfiuous chill
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; mag
inc the value of the wheeled chair priv
ileges; imagine, if you can. the profits
Of the man who gets possession Of a Cir.
Gle around the pole having radius :
half a mile and charges admission to
this race course against time.
In conclusion, I do not think that
exaggerate when say that the consid-
erations here set forth make the search
for the pole the most important by far
of all the questions which are now
agitating civilized man.-Henry Gan
nett in New York Sun.
There are no known pretenders to
Asiatic or African thrones, titles or au
thority for the very simple reason that
in those continents it has been for long