The Ketchikan miner., 1908-08-01

Ileutenant dnackIetun, Witn Union Jack in his pocket, is trying to get to the South Pole. and Captain Peary with the Stars and Stripes concealed about his person, is trying to get to the North Pole. It will be very funny if they find that after all there are no. Poles. We do not mean poles sticking out of the ice. for everyone knows that there is nothing of the kind. But what if it should prove that Captain Symmes was right after all. and all this great mass of ice, over which explorers climb with such difficulty, is only the crown of curve, which extends inward towards the centre of the earth? If Captain Symmes should be right, then these explorers instead of ultimately coming to a point from which every direction will be north or south, as the case may be, would after time get inside Mother Earth and discover many str apge and wonderful things. You don't have to believe in Symmes' the ory of a hollow sphere if you don't. want to. You can believe it if you like. and it will puzzle any one to prove that you are wrong. The opin- ion of this paper on all subjects relat- ing to the Poles, and it is given. with some certainty, is that it does not know anything at all about them.
 AS was to have to have been expect ed, the coming of.a general election for delegate in Alaska has brought the usual campaign liar. How many there are of him is only to be guessed at so far, but that he is in sufficient numb for all practical purposes in cidental to his calling is very evident.
 He commenced his operations early in the campaign, here in Ketchikan,
 here he credited the entire vote of this section to his employer. and followed it up with rousing and en- thusiastic meetings all along the line, as far as Fairbanks, by which time he had succeeded in arousing an in- tensity of feeling and enthusiasm for his particular candidate which, to an ordinary reader of the press dispatch es, would indicate a support greater than the entire voting population,
 without respect of party, creed, or in- dividual views and opinions. Another of him., in bringing out new candi- date, sends out dispatch to the press crediting him with enthusiastic sup port from at least ninety per cent. of the entire population of the district in-which the centre of the campaign liar appears to be principally located at the present time. This campaign lie is supplemented by later dis patch, detailing the triumphant visit of his particular candidate to one of the outlying creeks, where he was greeted by the shrill welcome of steam whistles, showing that the people were wild for him, and where, ind ing DO building large enough to hold them, he was obliged to hold an out door meeting. Next comes a more modest and better authenticated re- port of ''nhe greatest political rally ever held in Fairbanks, and of the reception rendered still a third candi- date ''unpreceented in the history of the Panama valley" This report de- clares that this last candidate viii carry the Panama country by "a sweep ing majority, and that his election is assured" This would seem to dis pose of three of the candidates now before the people, leaving three others still at the mercy of the campaign liar, or at least, to be disposed of prior to the election by one or more of him. The patient reader is cheer fully accorded the privilege of paying his money, and taking his choice.