The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-03-05
Or. AANSEN AND THE NORTH POLE,
Sin Arp Thinks It 10 Good to Discuss Some
thing Besldes Politics--He Is Much Interest,"
cd in Scientific Discoveries.

Everybody is thinking about the
north pole and DR.. Manson now. 1t ~
glorious to have something to distract
6nr attention from politics. And there
are the cathode, rays that have come
iust in time to help out. 1t Is awful to
have to read politics day after day and
To ponder over tho ways OF parties ana
partisans A quail day for thirty
days Is nothing to be compared to 1T.
Lot us have any sort OF u recess now.
Wo wouldn't mind q big fire or o small
carthouake-a quake that would shake
the windows in tho big house at Wash
ington and upset few desks and
tables and roll the drunken member
from Alabama of the sofa. l wish
somc Guy Fawkos would come along
and scare tf en- all so bad that they
would go home and ncvor go back any
more The pceplo are tired and dis
heartrned. There are few good public
servants there, but they are lost and
helpless. The majority would see the
country 20 to the devil before they
would get out OF the line Of their party.
The currency and the tariff are not
party questions, but tho parties have
made them so. This has been said
before, but it Is worth saying again.
There is no moral principle that gov
erns o professional politician. Look
at Blackbu and Hunter-what an
expense to the State will the taxpay-
ers have to meet just to crafty tho
greed or the selfish ambition OF two
men. Kentucky has hundreds Of men
just us able and well qualified as they
are. Then why don't they withdraw
and stop all their wrangle. Why don't
the members make them withdraw.
The answer is that this ID poltics-im-
pure and complex politics. Surely tho
common people are fools or they would
send better men to Congress and TO the
Legislature.
But was thinking about DR.. Nansen
and the north pole. Can 1t be possible
that he has found it-found the cno OF
the earth tho very tip end OF the
WAS there Inch pin in it and WAS the
axle CREASED or WAS the journal hot
and did the sparks NY and 80 forth. II
the doctor hasn't found anything but
an open polar sea and fcw walruses
and seals and no big, awful suck-hulc
at the center that had liked to have
pulled his vessel in them, he may 20
back and try it again. The world
won't be satisfied with that and it
won't believe him. Why, ohm Cleves
Symlnes found u theoretical hole up
there that was 1000 miles in diameter
and q vessel could sail in and around
just as easy as sailing on the ocean.
Symmcs hole was talked about when
was Il boy and it has had believers ever
since. Then Jules Verne came along and
made Il journey up there and found the
Identical pole and put u flag on it, and
the one he raised is flying there yet
And last, but not least, MIR. Fairmar
has found manuscript left by one OF
Sir John Franklin's men in an Eskimo
hut and it tells the whole story, how
he and An Eskimo and six dogs were
cut OH from the vessel and took shell
ter in Il cave OF ice and lived on wal
rus and bear meat, and after somo
days determined To explore the Cayo
and kept on and on and on, by the light
of their blubber-lamp, until they had
travelled $50 miles, and at last came to
the opening on the other side, which
is TO say tho inside Of Symmes's hole,
and found Il land and people and fine
cities and fruits and flowers, and lakes
and rivers, and the whole was lighted
up by the aurora borcalis. MIR. Fair
man calls it the third world and makes
very fascinating story Of it. II il
was true | would believe it, and an
inclined to believe it anyhow. 1t ha,
charming love story mixed up with
~, anu l ttth HOl SCI WV oiu w cuJOS
them. l'vo always huG an idea that
the Creator put the aurora borcalis up
there for some other purpose besides
IN occasional illumination OF our
northern horizon. Maybe it is big
electric arch light for those people in
the hole, who never see the sun.
Verify, we are on the eve Of great
things, but we don't know what the
are. DR.. Nanscn can't put us off with
Ice and watcr--our own Elisha Kent
Kane done better than that and SO did
Greedy, for they saw hOcSs OF acQuatic
birds coming from that way. Nevcrthc-
less we will wait and nee. Maybe he
has found hOlc-an open iunnol-and
will 60 through and come out Ut tho |
other end.
And now we read that DR.. Plonge0n, !
who has been nine years in Yucatan, |
has At last unravcled all the mysterics !
OF the hieroglyphics that are ckiscled |
on the ancient ruins in that country |
ana declares the ruins to bc at least |
ten thousand years old, and these |
temples were built long before the |
hood and the letters that make up the
alphabet are OF Egyptian origin He
ana his wife have been photographing
them and have written a volume that
will soon be published i'm Paris, q
'ooho oH"I nc says Will enllBhten the |
scientific and religious world and re-
move all doubts about the origin ofmun
ana his progress down the corridors OF
time. We read some OF his communi-
cations In The Review Of Reviews last
summer and wonderiul--that is all we ,
can 40 nowadays-just wait and won
Ger. Not long ago had a nice letter
from Mr.. Oliver, the American consul |
at Merida asking me to come over |
Shere and examine these wonderful |
runs and write them up and ofYcrins
his assistance, and have mind to 20,
Merida is city OF $4,000 inhabi,ants.
and 1t is only ashort sail from Havana
The only thing that makes me hcsi-
tate is what DR.. Plongeon writes about
the snakes and centipeds and other
noxous reptiles and insocts that haunt
the ruins. After living seventy years
and escaping the dangers OF war and
pcst lence, don't want to be bitten by
snake and die in strange land.
am like the old man OF ninety years
who took the measles and said he |
never was SO ashamed OF anything In |
bis life. and it would disgrace tho |
FAMILY il he died OF tho measles.