The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-05-24
Studies In Astronomy.
A Study of the important Plan
cts as We Journey Onward,
il, Making Our
TRIP AROUND THE SUN
NORTH POLE NOT
AS CHiRTED.
An Interesting Problem rs to
Where IL VIII be Found,

Washington ID C.,-Speciai: II sc is
uI.,,r stato of affairs VIII ch yuI have
~ tlx,m iato CO .Slltration IN lite cuur. e
O. your - ,cu atoms rs ~ the results OF
the p,e cut activity among North Pol
| hunters.
Suppose thai Explorer Baldwin, nv the
Id OF iii- astrunulnic ius'I unpnIS. ac-
nlatciy determine tn p'i't of th NJ tn
Pole az IA Certain day. Surprc 'i!aI lie
plants his ilat directly ia is centre Mex
s,ppos, that explorer w li,nan arv 8
upon tie scene OF ac ion sr.u, mnt S
later. and that he m lakes equally acculaie
obs rrations. Will he locate the Pole at
the exact point whGle Baldwin found il?
We arr presuming rentun.hcr, tliaI both
observations are absolutely correct.
As Il matter of fact. Weliuau would
place his dug some diStarc" flom Bid
wins How ia e? Perhaps siHvy feet
parh us more. \ Nv, we have B ,dwIa'S
| North Poe over here aad Weiman'S
| Nortn Pole over tn r. BItN observations
| aIc absolutely accurate. Are there tw,
| North Poles? What does all Or th;a mcan?
| Il mean simply this:
| If the trua North Pole were a little
black b. / up,n the glazed whce su,'a e.
O. the a tic Ocaan it would be ps?peuil-
| x
f.; ion, within a circle of about sixty
feet in diameter, A point which is the
| Norih Pols to DAY Will not be the North
| Pole tomorrow. Moreover, 10 Que can
predict where this nomadS pole will be
the next minute, tlie next year. The
| Artic explorer may place his tent some.
where within this SiNy-foOt ci'c!r ard
place his finger over what he suppDSes 10
| be this little point winch has attract d
.iarinT uen from all corners of the earth.
Like some liyiug thing. it Will be crawl
ing away from him all The while
It's Spsed IS worse tEEui snaUi-hke. 1t
naS never been observed tO travel further
Lat four feet in "a week. Sometimes il
mas required m ne than IN lntiI tucDver
yard. In SIX months IL has described
anivreguar Semi-circ!e of more tlau sixty
feet in diameter. III Il man S;!ou d come
into pos, >sipn of II pisre OF POiar pro
perty anl it should Nn stipulated in the
deed that the exact point OF the Pie
ShOu,d serve rs a corner stone he Woiid
have teep NOV NJ his f., c,,S abIu, tn
avoid pOSSl0lr prosecution tor trrspaSs. II
Uncle Sam markcs the north pole with a
mOnume Mt lie must heels m)uut it on
IulneTS and Keep il on the move. n per-
manpnt stone covering the entire race
Of the restless Pole would have 10 Dt us
big around rs a circus ring.
POLES MIGRATION READ FROM STARS.
| have just had an interview with
man who has devoted all of th3 past
eight years 10 tracking the North Pole.
He was measuring itS movements Oil the
verv day | talked to hm 1t must not
he inferred that | i)urnpyed to the ArIic
reg;Ou to tud han. H. is able to keep
careful tally Oh the POl-s III ,vnment
while comfortably en;cMS"i Wihhiu one
OF those !. hiVe-dum-d Moorish temples
upon Gerogetown Heights which are in
d;cated to the SiIht-Iavenous pilgrim rs
the Naval Observatory bdi!dnsS He
traces these eccentric movements while
reclining comfortably upon Il couch, his
eye Eyed Oh a telescope. To watch tie
movements, OF the NnyLh Pute throusa ii
spy glass mNunhd il Washington
su .geStS IL gre,i; feat q. optics ~ b, sure.
Bat this savaut dorsn't foun' his lenses
lIpoa The Pole ibs5.f. II points them at
the stars From them ne gets the record
of ihe migratiUg path when hcis tr.r;ing .
Tie astronomer who, is doing al ~ Ih:S
wo X is pcof George a. Hui, of lhe
\ wal Observatory sti!f.
The auhenti; North Poe is not ac-
c)rding to hlu the North Pole which
man piuis upon his charts. About May
], 1885, The au'hcntic pole crOsS'd the
siXty-sOot circle cDntipiic its last dec 4d,,
of wanderings ard passed within about
| q iooJ Of the chi!tei plie. Since then
il i'a% been con tent with wiadiny itself
about in IL suri of irregular s3i;ai, sweep
log furtIrr ouf rom the cuarted pol",
| thu, iul thur and fu; ther IN, then out
again and so OIL. SWetpih" about in curves
the "he. The pe;iOl in which it
cGm.ipG&'3 its ir"as:H'ar CirciiL ab )lJ III.
ciartei poe is an3uo I2) Ia :, o. fOur-
teen moIthS, agpr TX inataiy. If it is
thirty feet on the otjier side seven ~ )ntiIs
'lay it W Ii probably reach thin ty feet
the other side S, ven months hence. Then
! By se> Ell months ardin il W:jl probably
1--WE wenty feet oh this side, swintir g
| back 10 ten feet Oh the Other siaD s>vrn
months still later. FnaIiy, re@urning IL
tie sa!ua Interval, it. Will marry touch tie
cDarted p lie. Thus will IL compute it's
inward spiral. Having done So il will
| commsIcc upon an out ward coil.
EAETII's rlvOTs ARE LOOSE.
Take an ordinary school globe, mount
| Ell up II Z pivot extending up though its
centre penetrating its south anI re .ching
| to its nOrth p0te. G!Ge Il pencil 70 the
| north poia Of tbs gloJ; 81 tlat H. protru-
de5 IN liae wiEh the pivot, FIX pad of
paper at right aaglcS to the pencil and
tonchi:g it's point Spin the globe arou 10 /.
so long a. tie pivot of the globe is nOE
logged The lead traces Il small dot upon
tlIs pIpcc . e:iI!"o the p vo5an tn pen =
eli trAcas IN irreGi.ar, Snlke-!jke coil =.
THIS is what Old Earth wou!d do If "A CO.
lnS,dl pencil were att,c'ied 90 the North
Pole aGd allowed 10 viiieiIS record upon
Il fixed Shec' OF whice sky. Thus you see
the tLnnhin with hnr il Ihat hnr Iiu.A. or