The Anaconda standard., 1895-12-15


Rises. q z
said another.
You do not look at all antique at
this time," remarked.
II flatter myself not. We've been,
doing the circuit" said she. '
What is that if you please"
asked. sN =.
MY friend has just arrived" ex-i
planned Fitch. t-s
"Wm you come and take a walk with
me?" said the prettiest of the 'bevy:
/ gave her my arm with a little thrill
of regret that 1 had not known her
before. and we walked toward the
Pole rrt.
II was 4s years old when we got
here" she frankly explained. Il ran
as hard as I could the first day. and
went around the pole with the sun 73O
times. / was dreadfully tired that
night, but 1 knew 1 had got ahead of
the cruel tyrant OF the skies by about
two years. How much better you look.
said my friends the next morning.
These elderly people here, walking the
same way we are" she continued, ARE
growing younger all the while. OF
course they are just as many days
younger as they are able to keep ahead
of the sun. That scrawny-looking old
ruin over there In a poke bonnet lthey
revert to the costume of the states
been here only a few days; she Will be
a blooming girl of Is or 20 summers
before the sun rises next spring. You
notice she carries a. parrot on her ing
er? PoGly grows young, too"
'fWhy are some of the people going
the other way?" l asked. 81.
"Only the babes," she answered.
''Kids are always a nuisance when
they are young; so the mothers, or the
nurses. take all the young things. al
six weeks old and draw them rapidly
round the pole on these cradle sleds,--
against the sun, of course BY this lex-
pedfenIt, infants Six iweelks old get TO be
six years old I'm about a month. or
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." rstta
After we had walked for an hour. and
] was begfnntng to get an idea of my
new surroundings. she suddenly cried:
DO you see that scythe banging up
on the N. P.? That's a symbol. indf-s
eating that old Time hasn't any fur
hher use for 1t. Now / must ask you to
excuse me. Il have walked altogether
too far in this direction already; but
the presence of a stranger was exhil-
Aralting, and walked on. Now / must
run around the pole so times in the
other direction, for / am failing into a
/ saw Colonel Fitch at a. little dis
trance. and / Thought I would ask him
who put up the pole; but he cut me off
with. How do you like urIfghts?"
"WondeTtfulr / responded. Did I
understand you to stay that your light
and heat are obtained without fuea?'
Great Scott. / should hope sol'' he
exclaimed Fuel is antiquated. We
draw our electricity from the inorganic
universe direct releasing II without
the aid Of combustion. This planet is
AN immense storage battery, and the
Aurora Borealis Us all the while being
emptied into II through the magnetic
pole. l intercept this electric torrent
by the simple contrtvau'ce. and get all
the power we want for Eight, heat.
transportation, and other dynamics."
''Ssr," said /, gaspbng for breath. 'I
suppose you gear the Arctic Circle to
the inner ftange OF the armament by
cogsl You are making fun of me. This
tapping the Aurora Borealis Is ridicu-
Ious and impossible"
Certainly" ne calmly observed
that's what Vt rs All great inventions
are ridiculous and impossible. That's
the peculSarity of them. Look at Ed
sons phonograph. for instance. and the
klnetosoope."
"who put up that poie?" I asked.
breaking away from his theme In des-
peration.
"Oh, yes" he said. IT meant to tell
you. The old Norwegian put it up.
Come and look at it."
The pole was about two feet through.
and we approached and inspected II.
The electric lamps made II look like
a colossal candelabrum.
Letters on H." said. What a lot
of queer characters cut In the barkr
Very old wood" he explained. 1T
does look like bark. IL IL undoubtedly
mnny thousand years old. and stands
nearly in the middle Of the ship,-it is
1 the mizzen mast"
',what ship are you talking about.
| Colonel?"
The Om-Slaga. an old Norwegian
bark that drifted here at the beginning
OF the great northern ice age"
How do you know" said, looking
at him incredulously.
This writing here Is the song OF An
| Initiation" he replied. II will give
you the substance of it after dinner"
"Dinner!" / echoed. What on earth
OR rather, what on ice-do you eat
here?"
Anything we prefer. We make all
sorts of food containing the Chemical
elements. salts, etc. around the ar1ma-
/ ture of the dynamo. We can turn out
Ortoians. serrapln and champagne, at
/ the same price as water and cabbage"
| l was surprised into a long whistle:
| but he hurried me awag-''to see our
old friends" as he phrased a.. He led
me two or three hundred feet, L should
tiank. then at his rorrarraa nd spr,,a xxrs, rlr-