The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-03-20
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
TIRED OFPOLITiCAL DISCUSSION
AND BRANCHES OFF.
Tie Talks of Nanson and the Pole and
the New Photographic Method.

tract our attention from politics. And
there are the cathode rays that have
come just in time TO help ont Itis
awful to have TO read politics day af.
ter day aud 10 ponder over the WAYS of
parties aud partisans. A quail a day
for thirty days is nothing 10 be com.
pared TO It. Let us have any sort Of
recess now. We wouldent mind a big
fire OF a small earthquake quake
that would shake tho windows In the
big house at Washington and upset a
few desks and tables and roll the
drunken member from Alabama of
the sofa. wish some Guy Fawkes
would come along and scare them all
so bad that they would 90 home and
never go back any more. Thepeoplea are
tiredand disheartened. There are few
good public servants there, but they are
lost and helpless The majority would
see the country 90 to the devil before
they would get ont of the line Of their
party. The currency and the tariff
are not party questions, but the par.
ties have made them so. This has
been said before but II is worth saying
again. There is no moral principle
that governs q professional politician.
Lock at Blackburn and Hunter-wbat
an expense to the state will the tag.
payers have to meet just 10 CRAFTY The
greed or the selfish ambition Of two
men. Kentucky has hundreds Of men
just as able and we'll qualified as they
are. Then why doL't they Withdraw
and stop all their wraDgle. Why don't
the members make them Withdraw
The answer is that this is politics
impure and complex politics. Surely
the common people are fools or thew
would send better men to congress-
and to the legislature.
But was thinking about Dr. Nan
sen and the north pole. Can it be
possible that he has found it-found
the end OF the earth-the very tin end
of the spindle that the earth turns on
and was there a Inch pin in il. and
was the axle CREASED, or was the journal
hot, and did the sparks fly and SO
forth. If the doctor hasent found any
thing but an open polar sea and a few
walruses ard seals, and no big. awful
suck hole at the center, that had liked
to have pulled his vessel in them. he
may 60 back and try it again.. The
world won't be satisfied with that and II
won't believe HIM. Why, John Cleves
Symmes found a theoretical hole mn
there that was 1000 miles in diameter
and vessel could sail in and around
Just as easy as sailing on the ocean.
Symmes' hole was talked about when
| was a boy and it has had believers
ever since. Then Jules Verne came
along and made a journey up there on
paper and found the identical Mole
and put a flag on it, and the one he
raised is flying there yet. And last.
but not least, Mr.. Fairman has found
a manuscript left by one of Sir John
Franklin's men in an Eskimo hut and
1t tells the whole story, how he and an
Eskimo and six dogs we're cut off from
the vessel and took shelter in a cave
of ice and lived on walrus and bear
meat, and after some days determined
to. explore the cave and kept on and
on and on, by the light of their
blubber-lamp, until they bad travelled
80 miles, and at last came to the
opening on the other side, which is TO
say the inside of Symmes's hole. and
found a land and people and fine
cities and fruits and flowers, and lakes
and rivers, and the whole was lighted
up by the aurora borealis. Mr.. Fair
man calls it the third world and makes
a very fascinating story of it. If it
was true 1 would believe it, and I am
inclined to believe it anyhow. It has
a charming love story mixed no with
it, and am not yet too old to eniov
them. I've always had an idea that
the ,reator put the aurora borealis up
thee for some other purpose besides
an occasional illumination of our
northern horizon. Maybe it is big
electric arc 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 they
are. DR.. hansen can't put us off with
ice and water-our own Elisha Kent
Kane done better than that and so did
Greedy, for they saw focks of aquatic
birds coming from that way. Never
theless we will wait and see. Maybe
he has found a hole-an open funnel
and will go through and come out at
the other end.
And now we read that DR.. Plongeon,
who has been nine years in Yucatan,
has at last unraveled all the mysteries
Of the hieroglyphics that are chiseled
on the ancient ruins in chat country
and declares the ruins to be at least
ten thousand years old, and these TEN.
pies were built long before the food
and the letters that make up the alpha
bet are of Egyptian origin. He and
bis wife have been hotographing them
! and bava wpiffnn q vOlr1v,a tboA will L.,