The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-17

VIII It Be the Missing Link, Arti-
fetal Diamond, Gold From Baser Met
MS, A Century Span of Life, Commun
ication With the Planets or the Dead,
Perpetual Motion, Rain-Making, the
Super Man or Artificial Propagation of
she species?-The Progress of Science
Toward AL of These Goals, ANY Of
Whose Winners VIII Gain Immortality.
What nextg
Thus asks an amazed world scarcely
vet aroused to realization of the fact
that the two problems which have
most plagued the human mind for these
centuries past-the problem of man
fight and that of polar exploration
have been solved. Now that these
goals have been won, many others
which man has striven for in vain loom
up through brighter sky, cleared of
the mist in which yesterday they ap-
peared as but hazy chimeras, cloudy
visions of overzealous minds.
The conquest of the south pole is the
great feat which, is the logical order of
events, we shall expect next, and with
in this present year our young British
cousin, Lieut. Shaekleton, has made
new world record for the nearest ap-
proaeh to the very bottom of this old
spinning top on which we whirl about.
He returns from the opposite end of
the sphere to receive upon his broad
bow the laurels for having penetrated
100 miles farther than the previous
record and within but Ill miles of the
southernmost goal--as near as Hart
ford is to New York, and ninety-two
miles nearer to his goal than Peary
was to his when he made his last
known Ffarthest NORTH Lieut.. Shack
Teton, who served his apprenticeship
under Capt Scott in 1901, as DR.. Cook
served his under Peary nearly a decade
before. sailed August 7, 1907, from
Torauay in the Nimrod, forty-year
sealer which pulled him out of New
Zealand a year ago last New Year
aav. To save his coal he had a steam
c
and he bore with him portable house,
q team of Manchurian ponies to help
his dogs with is Norway sledges; also
an automobile with a chauffeur, which
he used to lay his depots along the
sea ice. And year and nine days
after his start from New Zealand-or
an January 8 of the present year-he
planted upon his "farthest south - a
Union Jack that he had received from
the Queen s own hands.
The finding of the "missing link, -
midway between man-like ape and ape
like man, is perhaps the next great
feat which is to elevate the finder
unto the topmost pinnacle of fame,
there to share the same lofty pedestal
with Harvey and Newton, Archimedes
and Pythagoras 1t was just fifty
wears ago that Darwin gave to the
world his "'Origin of the Species,
and ever since then naturaists have
sought this ape man, so badly needed
to fill the gap in the chain of evolution
stretching from the most 1nfinltesimai
nrotoplasmie form to the most enlight-
ened specimen of the homo sapiens.
Only a half dozen years after the
Darwinian theory had thus been launch
ed to startle the world, the skull OF the
real missing link was believed to have
been found in a cave in the Neander
valley. near Dusseldorf. The creature
10 which this Uranium had belonged was
named "Neanderthal man. and even
today naturalists are publishing por-
traits as reservations of the monster 8
head. Next, in 1871, there was dis
covered in Brux, Bohemia, another
primitive skull believed to have be.
ioneed to the mueh-sought creature
but an ax found with it was
declared to belong TO a period
roo modern for that hideous crea
ure Then. in 1856, another such
Uranium was found in a cavern at Spy
Belgium. and for time we heard Of
the smau of Spy heralded to the
world as the real missing link. More
o,rtlv Doctor Eugene Dubois, &