The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-04-07
ARCTIC EHpLOn ALTON.
pu-Inu ts0S Much Progress WA
"sdc Towards Finding the
North Pole.

Nortn fOic.
Ice conditions In the arctic waters
north of Europe have very rarely been
80 favorable for navigation as they
were last summer. IL fortunately hap
pencd that a number of exploring par
ties were in that region, and the result
Is a record of unusual achievement,
The prevailing west drift usually packs
the ice solidly against the cas-, coast of
Spitzbergen, and IL was only about ~
wears ago that the world learned at last
something of the nature and contour
Of that coast, For three centuries
whalegs and sealers had frequented
those waters. but they rarely got with.
in sight Of east Spitzbergen. II was not
until Nordenskiold led the Swedish cS-
petition OF ls6s tn those arctic islands
place on the maps of the indefinite
dotted line which merely demonstrated
that little or nothing was known about
EAST Spizbergen.
This wear the sea to the east and
lorth was clear OF any ice formidable
enough tn prove barrier, The south
md west shores Of the archipelago are
always ice free in Summer. Here
was an unequaled opportunity, and no
earlier explorers have ever made such
-ocord in Spitlbergeu waters ~ that
If the Swedish expedition last summer
commanded by Prof. ~ e., Nathorst.
First. his steamer. the Antarctic,
stopped for Is days at Bear island.
where minute survey of this we'll
SHOWN resort Of arctic whalcrs Was
made. Then the expedition made its
way to the King Charles islands, of
northeast Spitzbergen, the reports OF
which were thought 20 be a whalrrS
yarn till the journeys OF Johu~cn and
Nilsen in 1872 placed them on the maps.
\ large part OF their coasts are stu
shown in dotted Ines. but the next
maps will represent them as they really
are. for Prof. NathorSt has made sur
vey OF the three Island, and has mapped
them on the large scale % Is miles 10
the inch.
Then the Antarctic steamed about
hundred miles further north 10 White
island. which will no longer he marked
existence doubtful far Nathorst
found il TO be very substantial bit OF
arctic land. and determined it, geo.
logical features. IN" Antarctic finally
carried out two undertaking. never be-
fo.-c accomplished. and they will be re-
garded as most remarkable in view of
the usual ice conditions She fret cir
cumnayigatcd Northeast land. one ~
the largest islands OF the Spinhcrgrn
group. passing unimpcdsh through
Hiniopen strait, which j. usually
chokcd with ice; and then she sailed
completely around the cut 81 Spitlbrr-
gen group, a feat that may not oc per-
formed again for many Ncar>.
The German geological eNgediiiou on
the steamer Hclgolaud also spent some
time on the King Charles Islands and
circumnavigated Northeast lnnd; and
the German warship Olga h rird long
stretches Of coasts aud pushed into
many a bay while investigating tho
fisheries prospects in Sp.'lbrIgca wa
tiers.
Our countryman SIR, ". N'liman,
lad the advantage of the same favor
able conditions m biz journey 10 Franz
Josef Land. Iii, ship, III. Fr.dDut
landed him on the Tar northern arrhI-
pelago on july - with month "fs7W-
mer still before him. Nj J1cksous
Ninter home, Harmsworth House, at
cane Flora, was taken down packed on
the steamer and conveyed further
northeast to Cape 1cgcthuA. where Z
was regretted. when ID, FrldUof
started home IL was Ncllmau purpose
TO leave three men al this camp ~
charge of a large part Of h,> supplies
while he with eight men pu'1cd on
about 100 miles further north 90 Cap"
F1igcly. some $50 nautical miles from
the north pole. Here he proposed TO
qpe nd the winter. and a. soon a. The san
appears next spring 10 start on he Jdur-
ney TO the pole. which he hopes to rcoch
in 50 day.
IL all goes well there may according
is be race for that elusive goa ihis
spring between Pcary and Wellnan.
concerning the fortunes OF Mr.. Pcdry :
ENTERPRISE. il j. known only that he was
a, the entrance TO Smith sound on Nu-
pust 10 last. that he had transferred his
stores from the auxiliary steamer Hope
IN his explorlng vessel Windward, that
he had on board 90 dogs and all IN" Es-
kimoS he needed, and was about 10
star, for Peary channel, on the norm
coast of Greenland, expecting 10 WIN
ter in that neighborhood. II good luck
attended him his winter camp Is about
a hundred miles nearer the pole than
the spot where Wellman hoped to "ln-
ter. Capt. Sverdrup, bound for the re-
zion of Pearys proposed camp on the
Fran. was at Upernivik on August T.
about 700 miles south Of Peary's pos +
,iop on the 18th of the month";. 4.
Sun.
The Deacon's Remedy.
81 tells YOU what said the old coli
ored deacon, 'de only way dey'll ever
bring dem dar Phi.istines cross de wa
ter ter dey senses is ter take en- "ay
l.,,, ,xi1 do la ~ hone oil