Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-06-13
The NORTH POLE.
Tho Sp,cuIatIOns as 10 The P;Ozln
Regions Of The Earth.
4. our Globe ~ Kind Of - DsubIe-star,
Carving an Inh"bitsd world
on It's ttp.rg

great hole. They fancy that the earth
e inhabited inside with q race OF people,
said by some to be what is called the ten
tribes, as the statement Is made that
they jouneyed TO the north Tor many
DAYS and II seems impossible to many
10 account for them on the land that they
now live on.
We have some proof that all who went
on that march were OF the blood OF
Israel. 1t is hardly probable that they
had any Of the Gcntile element along
with them. Against the Gentle people
the children OF the blood have always
had to defend themselves, ever since the
lsraelites became a people. II they had
no Gentiles with them when they went
north, II is not likely that they have had
any war in the land they occupy, and II
this be so II is more than likely that they
are a numerous people. lilhcy arc in.
side the earth, think that their cry for q
long time has been: give us room that
we may dwell. | cannot believe that
they are In any such locality. There
Is no dispuling the fact that there was
such a migration, and since they we're
people born on this planet. his not likely
that they took wings and flew to another
planet or had balloons to sail away In.
II they crossed the water Ia those days
with their irail blrks, We can 70 as FAR
IN our steel and iron ships as they could.
lfthey i3urncyed by land. 30 can we,
THE Lord petmttng) Thus Ear aud 10
farther True. there is something III the
way 20 stop the traveller or explorer
the most natural barrier that could be.
From the 18Th to saith or north parallel
there Is a cold belt that only the braytst
and strongest Of men eau 20 through
and with what little provisions they can
take with them, when they come 10 open
water, which Is found 10 about 81
north, the explorers have had to fctu,
u they had had boats there and pro-
visions and continued thtir Journey on.
ward Tor S or o they would PROBABLY
have iuuni abOu, the same condition Of
things as exist al ~, vegetation ilJwets,
etc.
Who ever reaches as lar north as o..
should not SOP to look for the pole, Lor
Tor hole Nor should they think it
strange II they should find footprints.
Tor those who m tdc them are no far
away. They may he trying just as hard to
tnd their in,t brethren, tie tgo tubes,
who were lost ~ tucm when the LORD
piloted them 10 that land anu put up the
bars, or shut tue gate. by placing ,iat
cold belt, where the Inhabitants vi lhi,
earth found IT, Beyond any doubt the
seasons are changing. One proof Of
that Is that , u tue banks VI New Found.
land, the iceOefgs have become so IA.
merous as to make h necessary Tor ships
plying between Liverpool and New
Iorg TO enange tuur COURSE, Those
icebergs are on thcirway south, borne by
the strange current from the n.rh. The
same evidence Is found ON the shores Of
norm Greenland and IN the Spleen.
bergen In the ocean there Is a strong
current, net so easy 10 perceive IN the
water, but ships come IN contact with
large Il Tvs vi ice travelling az II ~
speea ana crushing everything In lneir
path. Some are oi immense siz: and
when they are broken loose from their
moorings they start south. The chaGg d
seasons nave brought II about on ld,u
raj PRINCIPLES
IN the tar north Is no longer q surmzs,
but TACT. The seasons are watmyr.
Some proof olit is that vegetation grows
now where twenty or thirty years ago
there was none OF that KIND growing.
the ice Is softer and caster broken loose
from places where the bergs have been
tor ages, and they are found gong south
with the current as never known before
until the last few years.
The ship may now be alloat that In
going north may find an open space W
passage through that cold belt tom "a
To S3J4' Of north latitude to where sue
space has been reported TO exist by
Lieutenant Lockwood OF the Greedy ex'
petition that had such a hard time get
ting back to America Lieutenant
Lockwood Ia his journey north from
where the Greedy expedition was camp
ing, kept close to The Greenland coas'
and when he resolved not to 10 ans
farther north, Il was ON account Of the
scarcity Of his provisions. Al s. ant
"a lie found tracks OF musk'oN, lON,
hairs and some vegetation, although u
had travelled over portion OF county
where there was no syn OF life u ans
kind. lie also saw dark objects farther
10 the nortn but whether Il was land ul
open water may be question II, o.
we have always supposed, II grew cOldel
as We neaTed the pole, It would be M
applicable that at go and 81 there Is u,
signs oil lite, while at IS there IS plenty
II rather indicates that the climate 4
milder nearer the pole and that il Is pos
sible for life to exist there.
II opposite to where Lieutenant Lock
wood, on the north coast Of Greenland
on the other side Of the pole, probabl
the same things exist, living animals an,
vegetation, the two points could not b
more than eight hundred miles apar
and this distance must be reducing std
lower, since the atmosphere is so clel
IN that climate that person cen Sc
objects very far off II we now imagin
people numbering five times as man
as the population Of the known world
they could not find standing roor
within nation VI seven hundred mile,
There are few historical facts tina
may give some light on the subject.
Seaweed and bits OF wood, both {
kinds not known to grow now on lhi
earth have been found floating or Ia
bedded in the ice going south in the cut
rent. A lew years ago there was al
animal found Undecided in the ic,
about the size of buffalo or musk'ol
We have no record at Is kind IN nHur.
history. Fowls are said 10 have bee
Killed in a locality ~ or So north lat
iude and they were said to have sui
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