The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-05

north pole gives the whole thing away. If you hadn't called my attention to that I might have bought the book, but I won't never buy a book with a map that shows where the north pole is when nobody knows for sure. It's too suspicious"
 EIiph' Hewitt took the hook fin his hand and held 1t close to his eyes as he walked to the lamp and looked at it still more closely. Then he took out his pocket knife and gently scratched the black dot from the face of the map. s., l.. said. "pained and surprised when you smoke as you did For one minute my faith in this book wavered, but l said to myself, No! Jarby and Goss, of New York, publishers of this admirable work would not put in pole where none had been discovered. They aim, I said, to keep this book up to the very latest moment, adding new mat ter at enormous expense from week to week. but 1t is not like them to stick in a north pole before it is dis covered. If they have'done it my con science will not allow me to sell this hook any longer. l will give up my life work But, no! They would not tamper with the north pole! So I looked closer. I took it to the light. My heart began to beat again. l was not mistaken in Jarby and Goss. It was not north pole' U was al ny speck.
 Then 1t aint got no north pole marked on 1t at all, now" said Mir. Smith.
 Absolutely none! agreed Eliph Hewitt We send out this book without any north pole marked on 1t, and any time the north pole Is discoV- cred the purchaser of this volume can mark it in where it ought to be"
 Well, if it ain't got no north pole marked on 1t I don't know as l want A copy," said Mir Smith. "A map of them polar regions that don't show no north pole cant be much account as a work of reference. It ain't what I would call a complete work of rel erence. S'pose I should want to go to the north pole. and l should take down this here book and go to look up where the north pole was, and there wasn | no north pole in 1t, what good would this book do me S'pose l should want to branch out in the ice business and go and stake out a claim for ice around the north pole
 The portieres at the door leading fn- to the dining room were pushed quick ly open and stout woman, with a rocy face, stood between them.
 william Smith" she exclaimed anrrily. "I won't have it! I won't have YOU goin' off to that north pole and leavin' me and all these poor children here to look after your busi- ness. I won't have. it. and you needn't talk about goin. for you can't go. And don't you set there and let that man talk you into 1t. either. If he wants to go and get froze, let him. but re | member you've got me and the chli' dren, and that all the ice business you need you've got right here at home
 NOW. Sally" said MT. Smith meek 1v "I didn't say I was going. I jus | said what if I wanted to go. I wal just thinking of you and the childrer all the time and looking ahead to set 1 that you would always be properly pro vided for. I'm an ice man, and the 1c' l. business is my business, and the wa! | the winters are getting warmer ever! wear there is no telling where I'll hav to go to get ice some of these days And if I've got to go to the north pol | to get 1t. I don't want, to take n chances of getting lost and never see ing YOU ard the childreh again and I say if, Sally-if I go hunting for the north pole I want to knoV | where 1t Is before I start. I don't ain to 20 this year, but I don't want t go thousands of miles looking for
 north pole and not find 1t when I ge to it.
 "Foolishness" exclaimed Mrs. smiti
 shortly. You don't want to go to tn north pole. William Smith, and any body that does is foolish What al these Pearys and Nansens and the res look to find when they get there T more than I can make out. call 1t
 waste of money"
 Sally" said the ice man, with tn
 tone of a man who Is in all thing woman's superior, "all the matter wit
 vou Is you don't understand what 70 are talking about A man like MT
 Pearv don't waste time looking for
 north pole unless there Is some sens
 in 1t. No man with good sense is go
 ing to go up there into them pola
 regions just for a pleasure trip.
 ain't attractive enough in the climat
 If he wanted to he could stay right 2
 home and get chilblains and have hi
 ears froze and starve, and not nav
 the expense of a polar voyage. If
 man wants to eat candles for regula
 diet he don't have to travel to do il
 Them men that go hunting the mort
 Dole have reasons, and you needn't tr
 to tell me they haln't l guess I'm
 good American. and I can reason thini
 out as well as any other American
 and if stands to reason that them me
 wouldn't be so crazy to get a look [
 the north pole If there wasn't none
 in it." ] aoorrfuIiv 'T vsn,,idn't -iVA e"@ ~A"i