Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-18
TnE MIDNIGHT SUN
Waterbury Msn Describes Interestingly
 visit to 'Land of Midnight Sum-

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 at the North Cape was charming and
 beautiful and delightful. This bleak
 and desolate and solitary and unin.
 habited and lonely and dreary and gloomy and dismal place seemed even
 to smile in the rays of the sun. The
 color of the sea was a deep green
 and so clear that the sandy bottom
 could be seen at very great depth
 thought to myself and soliloquized:
 Since 1t is so easy for the sun to send
 his rays through the crystal of the
 fountain to the very pebbles in It's
 bed, of themselves, they disclose not
 only the beautiful but the foul that
 harbOrs therein not only the
 sparkles that the falling drops strike | from its rough sides, not only the pearly bubbles that merely rise, glisten for moment, then break again the surface: not only the fish that bask in the light, but black and lOathsOme creeping things, which seek to hide and bury themselves be-
 low and cannot, for the light pursues them. Since, soliloquized, it is so easy for the rays of the sun to pene- trate to all these things, and to such depth, how much easier is it for the bOundless, universal and infinite Knowledge of an omniscient being to know all things, to see into the low est depth of the spirit, the mind, the soul the heart. the conscience of poor, weak. miserable. corrupt, de- prayed, vicious and yitiated man. But my soliloquy interrupts my de- scription.
 The rocks which, at great dis tance, looked abrupt. now appeared to fall into the sea at an angle of from 30 to 40 degrees.
 A great many gulls and other sea- birds were flying oyer our heads. We entered small fjord on the west, leaving to the northward another which lay opposite the entrance. and, when We arrived at the head of this fjOrd, We landed.
 When we were safe on terra firma, l saw thick green grass through which were interspersed dandelions and buttercups. The dwarf birch and the willow seemed to be plentii- ful.
 Springs and streams of water ap- peared to be abundant and seemed to spring out and burst forth and bubble up and shoot forward
 From their fountains.
 In the mountains,
 From their rills and their gills:
 Through moss and through brake,
 They run and they creep
 For while, till they sleep,
 In their own little lake"
 And the rays of the sun poured warmly on the plane and made it the greenest little spot found anywhere so far north. The ascent of eminence was so steep that I was obliged to stop several times to take breath be- fore l reached the summit. From the place on which stood, could see our boat as a mere speck in the distance. The walking was pretty fair.-although there was neither road nor path---because the soil was hard and stony: we walked by and crossed over several little streams and patches of snow-the remains of snow drifts-and many small ponds still covered with floating ice.
 After walk of many miles. stood for the first time of my life l on the extreme point of the north | Cape, the most northern point of land in Europe, in latitude | 71 degrees 10 minutes. | nearly ten hundred feet above the | level of the sea; no one can conceive | what an ecstatic thrill of joy and | pleasure went through me; for I had dreamt of this in my childhood | days. had thought of it in my boy hood days and 1 had accomplished 1t In my manhood.
 The North Cape Is a bold and , high and a rocky promontory, a huge mass of rock rising darkly and ma and grandly and stately. but gloomily and sadly from the Arctic ocean.
 Away. far away beyond, was that country, protected by which forbids all ap- proach and which illustrates the att lempts of all those who have en- ieavored to solve its inexplicable- ness and to reach the North Pole: be- hind me was Europe with its sunny with it's cold and dreary win iers and with its variable climate; be- hind me. also, was Africa with it's burning sands. with its arid and iesolate deserts and with its malarial and paludal morassses: on my right was Asia. the land of the rising sun. lately. the Japanese nation proved herself by her army. by her navy. by her battles. by her victor les and by the general management ,f her soldiers and sailors to be one ,f the foremost nations on the face ,f the earth: on my left was America. Y he land Of the setting sun. the land ,f my birth. my native land. which the sunny climes of southern Europe. the cold and dreary winters ,f northern Europe. the ever variable md changeable climate of eastern md western Europe. which contains he burning sands, the arid and deserts of Africa. with It's and paludal swamps. which llso contains the grandest. the most glorious and the most excellent gov .rnment ever conceived and begot- en and organized by the mind and .nergy of man.
 Wherever 1 looked. [ beheld the -isibIe creation. gloomy. dismal and grand. indeed. but desolste