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

ton. What makes man grow old?"
"Ths fight of years, of course"
"AUl what measures the flight OF
The procession of days" I answered
Correct. Now, If you can prevent the
fight of days the flight of years will be
impossible, won't it2'
doubtedly-but-"
"Undoubtedlyl Very well. All you've
got to do is to prevent the procession of
days. isn't it? That is, If we could go fast
enough to keep directly under the sun all
the way round the earth each twenty
four hours, no day would ever mature;
there would be no day for us
Yes" l answered, without venturing
more.
in this latitude, and the shortest way a
man can go 1t takes him about sixty days
to go around it; he only saves one day in
sixty, DO you follow me?"
Il do"
IF an Eskimo could go straight round
it in the latitude of Labrador he would
make it in about twenty days, and would
gain one day in every twenty"
A Nova Zemblan would make it in ten
daysg that is, every time he went round
il would give him one day longer to live.
Il do answered again. for I had nov
grown quite serious.
Very well; now if man should go
so far north as to be able to go around
the earth with the sun once every day
what would happen|'
mo days would pass l said.
Exactly! Now suppose he should go
still further north so that he could go
twice around the earth-or the North
Pole-while the sun was going round
once; what would happen in that case?
Grow younger all the while, wouldn't her
Il grope" l said The way grows dark
I see what you are driving at. But, Capt
Fitch, l have known figures to lie; does
He laughed. Come and see," he said,
rising from the chair. Il am going to
start back to-day. for 1 promised to get
there by Christmas
How i ever came to agree to a proposal
that seemed at first so preposterous is
difficult TO explain; but the fact is that
] followed him out to the gate with my
straw hat and buster on, and started
upon the uncanny excursion.
You can toS up when you get there, :"
he said.
Before we reached the Arctic circle it
began to grow dark and cold, and we eX-
changed the attire of low ATTITUDES for
/ the conventional fur bags of the Eskimo,
which we found very snug and comfort
! able. At the Point Barrow hut latitude
20 degrees), where Fitch had sometimes
made his headquarters, he found an ac-
quaintance-an Eskimo. After greeting
+ him heartily, he said to me: This is my
man Su-kuok. In knowledge of the re-
glon we We're going through he is king
/ Of the north. Let's go right aboard, Su,"
! All ready answered the native.
We walked down to the shore of the
Arctic ocean. There the Eskimo cast
y OF at once moved lever at his side,
and the little boat wheeled round and
set her nose from the land Noting the
/ absence of sails and oars, l asked what
made us move.
/ Electric engine said Fitch. 1T is
. tucked away down in the bow 1 had been
i 10 Washington for q patent when l met
you. ] don't have to burn coal. i obtain
my electricity ia inexhaustible quantities
from the original fountain. The universe
is fun Of unappropriated power"
SO We forged ahead. We spent the
first four days lodging icebergs. Al
length ] noticed an angry shore ahead
against which the waters dashed ana
roared. ] was terrified 20 observe that
our speed was in no wise diminished At
this point the fee met the water IN q
I very gentle slope and while ! was con-
sdering what we should DO next, the re-
T mAlkahle craft. seeming 20 catch hold OF
I che Icy shore as 10 with claws. climbed
F 10 the TON Ike an oNergrown goat We
go uot pause on gaining the summit of
The fee field. but rushed uu with "a speed
/ which was even increased, and 4 now Ob.
] served that we were on wheels. our
2 progress was the more surprising because