Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-12-23

The dream OF every genius who
owns thermometer and trunk is
to discover the place where all the
ice is made and the world turns round.
Some believe the North Pole is an
open bay, where you can fish all the
year; others that it is a solid cap of
ice and black night
Against this is the belief of a great
opening at the pole hollow cham
Der connected with the center of the
earth, wherein an enchanting twi-
light prevails. with fruit and flowers
on every hand
Warm vapOr from the interior ere
ate tempreture of paradise. neither
too hot nor too cold
Like Mrs. Browning's poetry, the
pole is believed to be tapestried with
beauty, wonderous gardens. palm
\raes 500 feet high, with wild roses
terfuming the air and nightingales as
Pa eAo iOoolClo, SillSluS " NelId
eolian strains
1t is supposed that this music be-
pgs to the alleged music of the
heres.
Whether this is true no one knows
!. brother-in-aw of Herodotus de-
flares that if the focusing of all the
hoises Of the earth were blended one
would have one ecstasy Of melody.
At the tropical pole everything is
softened and tempered by the delici
gous live-giving haze distilled from
the vapors of the volcanoes and ma.
chinery of the earth's center.
To learn the exact truth in regarding
these and other things, Mr. Pelletier of
Buffalo proposes to make a personal
visit to the North Pole and bring
back nothing but cold facts and photo
graphs
simplicity and little baggage" will
be his motto.
Only three civilized mon will com
pose his party.
He disagrees with nearly every Arc
tic expert and has original ideas of
his own, which he intends to keep on
ice until needed.
He prefers an all-sea route, ami
says.
zone may say that travel over thc
i.@aoes is aot tae same As era}el IN
land.
That is true. for the latter is IN
finitely more difficult aud qHitc as
dangerous.
Z have tried both, and prefer
the seatempered foe country dessi-
tute as it is of any fuel supply.
Then again. the general impression
is that the nearer one approaches The
snole the colder it becomes. That is
but half truth"
School Biographies and returned
explorers with their frost-bitten feet
in a sling say that one must live on
tallow candles and blubber to keep
warm in the Arctic.
Mr.. Pelletier' who has seen whiskey
freeze at Klondike political conven-
[tions, says vegetables will keep you
warmer than beefsteaks, and he adds
During the several years I spent
In the north, and during which l trav-
|eled greater distances than any other
man save one-the United States mail
|carrier-I never once tasted meat of
|any kind.
Il "And yet the cold did not bother me.
] do not remember having been frost
Bitten
Ne also condemns the use of frra..
rays they sweat man to death and
re useless except to sell; that ari.
pals wear fur only to sleep in, at Tie
Expense of comfort and speed when
travelling; that big polar bears are
hilures as pedestrians.
h The Buffalo explorer is against the
1nstom of travelling with big dog
rains, and killing one dog to feed an
ther.
Mr.. Pelletier purposes to take only
We dogs that he has known for years
nd that carried him thousands of
Niles over the hummocks of the Yu-
bn, which, by the way he considers
rough travelling as any around the
9rth Pole.
LAS to his men, he says:
E3T shall take with me but two men,
e Norseman, from Nansen's own
y, Bergen, by the way.
iHe traces his ancestry back
ough the centuries of the Vikings
pld, and from long experience on
rtail with him know that he has
we Same mettle in him.
&OliVer Lawson (Olaf Larsen) is