The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-15

take all the young things at six weeks
old and draw them rapidly round tho
Pole on these cradle sleds-against the
sun of course. BY this expedient, infants
six weeks old get to be six years old in
about month. OF course the mothers
and nurses grow rather faded in this
operation but they take measures TO
make themselves young again when the
babies have been properly matured."
After we had walked for an hour, and
was beginning to get quite an idea of
my new surroundings, she suddenly cried
do YOU see that scythe hanging up on
the ~. T. That symbol, indicating that
OLD Time hasn't any further use for IL
Now / must ask you to excuse me.
have walked altogether too far in this
direction already; but the presence of a
stranger was eXhilarating, and / walked
on. Now l must run aroung the Pole
fifty times in the other direction, for l
am falling into state of ridiculous jul
1 saw Col. Fitch at a little distance.
and ! thought / would ask him who put
up the Pole; but he cut me off with
How do you like our lights?
''Wonderful!' l responded. Did I I'M
derstand you to say that your light and
heat are obtained without fuel?7
Great Scott! should hope sou he
exclaimed. Fuel is antiquated. We draw
our electricity from the inorganic uni
verse direct releasing it without the aid
of combustion. This planet is an immense
storage battery, and the aurora borealis
is all the while being emptied into il
through the magnetic pole. / intercept
this electric torrent by simple contriv-
ance, and get all the power we want for
light, heat, transportation and other dy-
namics.'
Sir" said I, gasping for breath, 81
suppose you gear the Arctic circle to the
inner fiange of the armament by cogs,
lou are making fun of me- This tapping
| the aurora borealis is ridiulous and inn
| possible"
Certainly" he calmly observed, that's
what it is. All great inventions are ridicu-
lous and impossible. That's the peculiar
n of
/ graph. for instance, and the kineto-
"Who put up that pole?" asked, break
! ing away from his theme to desperation
20, yes" he said. Il meant to tell you
/ look at it,
The pole was about two feet through
| and we approached and inspected it The
electric lamps made it look like a colos-
/ sal candelabrum.
/ Letters on it," said What a lot Of
/ queer characters cut in the bark!''
/ Very old wood" he explained. "Ii
! does look like bark 1t is undoubtedly
nearly in the middle of the ship-it is the
! miZzen mast"
What ship are you talking about
/ colonel?"
1.-The Om-Slaga, an old Norwegian bark
/ that drifted here at the beginning of the
| great northern ice age"
How do you know?" l said. looking AT
/ him incredulously.
This writing here is the song of An.
Inhalation" he replied IT will give Won
/ the substance of 1t after dinner"
! 'Dinneri" I echoed. What on Sar+b
/ or, rather, what on ice-do you eat
i here?'
Anything we prefer We make all
/ sorts Of food containing the chemical e.
ements, salts, etc, around the armature
+ of the dynamo. We can turn out orto-
/ lans. terrapin and champagne. at the
/ same price as water and cabbage"
! was surprised into a long whistle: brt
he hurried me aWay-"to see our did
/ friends" as he phrased It, He led me
I two or three hundred feet I should think
+ then at his command some Workmen
/ who addressed him as General" ala
away q huge block Of ice, disclosing the
end of a tunnel. At the end of The mas
sage we came upon what looked Ike n
section of ship; and in its deck sure
enough. the mast was firmly fastened
This" he said, leading me around
the mast 70 the other side lis the pail
ley; and here. on digging around, we
found the crew.
Alive. General?" ! asked
ooh. no." he said; frozen solid We
them3 These little drawers here were
+ the cooks-where he kept his pepper.
san ana other seasonings We keep lhe
crew IN them now"
Before ] could express my amazernent
he drew out one OF the tiny drawers AMI
SCI IL on a rude slab that had served u "a
. table. II contained what J first thoughf
was doil, dressed Ia The eiderdoWn hood