The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-14
ANOTHER FEATURE OF TT.

ANOTHER FEATURE OF TT.
 While the polar talk is going on. We had almost forgotten one important feature of the business; we refer to the opinion handed out by more than one alleged scientest that the original Garden of Eden was situated just where the North Pole is. If the report coming from pr. Cook Is true. the place lacks very much of being an Edenic spot at the present. We can hardly imagine Adam and Eve going about with nothing on them but few fig leaves in such climate as we ars told prevails at the Pole, to say noth- ing of the improbability of having a vegetable and fruit garden there. az we'll as the difficulty that any sort of animal life would encounter in such climate. A locality where there's nothing to be found but ice and snow would haldiy strike an intelligent human being as the garden spot of earth.
 And so 1t is that the common and matter of-fact human will want to know how it came about that there has been such a change from a condi- tion of etherial mildness and vernal temperature to a condition of frigidity that can hardly be imagined by those whose lots have been cast in the tenn perate regions of earth. How does it come about, they will want to know. that the place where Adam and Eve wandered about in state of nature. where they cultivated the flowers and the hg-trees and such. should now be nothing but a mass of snow and Ice of unknown depth and apparently of eternal age?
 These would be tanglesome ques- tions for an ordinary individual to answer, but your genuine scientist is not to be caught in any such trap as that. One at least of them explains 1t by saying that when our first pa- rents made their unfortunate slip and were driven from their pleasant abode the Almighty, in order to show the ex- tent of His displeasure, and to forever set the seal of His disapprobation on the spot where they had disobeyed. sent them far away and gave the earth a twist, and changed the poles of the earth in such way as to put the once delectable Garden where the North Pole is now located. We sup pose He did it gradually and allowed Adam and Eve to make their way, as the climate changed. to a place where life could exist.
 This seems some like straining point to establish a theory, but if the claim is made that the Pole occupies the site of the Garden, about which so much has been written. 1t is neces. sary to make the explanation it the conditions. and they have done 1t in about the only way that was open to them. Looking at it, then, from this point of view. 1t brings us back to the original proposition that there may he something worth looking for at the Pole. When travel becomes easy .and there is no difficulty about reaching the spot, an expedition should be organized and fitted out to go there and bore down and see what can be found. It would be quite interesting, would 1t not, to find some relic or memento left by the first settlers: We do not expect anything of the sort, but while they are about 1t, they may as well make a complete job of 1t. The one disturbing thought about this view is the opinion put forth that the Pole is situated on vast sea of ice, which Is continually drifting, and if that is so, the drift may have car ried the Garden off and lost 1t. That would complicate matters worse than ever, but still we think 1t worth bor- ing or digging for.