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Due Consideration.
Tho Midwest Llfo of Lincoln has In-
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Easterdav. actuarv. nnd J. H. Moclcott.
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Mrs. Tolly, a widow woman of Sow-
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A locnl flro department has been or-
A. II. Tlco, ji former merchant of
Dr. Itoso, n Kearney dentist,
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It Is reported that tho poatmastor at
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Sixteen thousand dollars worth of
horses woro sold at Grand Island at
tho last horse sale, one team of Del
i;lun marcs' breaking tho slnglo team
record bringing $1,GG0.
Tho program for tho spring meet
Ing of tho Dixon and Dakota County
Medical association has been ar
ranged. It will bo held In Emerson on
March 22.
Noel Moats residing southeast of
Sutton was drugged and robbed of a
gold watch and $30 In money, and n
check for $100. Tho gentleman lives
alono and was In a semi-conscious
condition when found.
Michael Tholss and Fred Doan,
neighbors In Kolth county quarreled
about tho ownership of a harvostor,
during which Thelss was shot, not
dangerously, however.
Tho waterworks system of "Weston
has not been accepted on ucconnt of
several defects In the tank and leak
ago of pipes, though In nn emergency
the system can bo used.
Tho Otoe County Farmers' Protec
tive association met and re-elected
tho old officers and made their an
nual report. This organization has
beon In existence In tho county for
tho last ten years.
The quarantlno placed on tho In
mates of the Girls' Reform school at
Geneva on acount of several cases of
scarlet fever, before tho holldayB, will
bo raised In a few days, no new cases
appearing.
Governor Shallonberger Issued a
requisition on tho governor of Cali
fornia for tho return to Kearney
county, Nebraska, of Bert Taylor, ac
cused of murdering his sister-in-law
at MIndcn last spring.
At tho regular meeting of tho county
commissioners of Cass county, Dr. M.
M. Butler was appointed a county
physician. Tho expenses of the county
for the coming year was placed at
$09,059, of which $30,000 was for
brldgoo and $25,000 for roads.
Dan B. Todd, manager of tho York
Ice company, had his leg broken and
almost torn from its sockot whllo
working at tho Ico house. Ho fell onto
tho chuto up which thoy pull the Ico
Into the house, and his feet caught In
the chain.
I!
Dr. B. II. Burd of Nelson was run
down by a freight train at tho cross
ing of the highway a milo north of tho
town. Tho buggy was demolished and
tho doctor seriously injured, but not
beyond recovery.
Tho State Banking board, composed
of tho auditor, state treasuror and at
torney general, met and reappointed
the old officers, examiners and clerk.
as follows: Secretary, 13. Royse; chief
clerk. N. R. Perslnger; exnminors, E.
E Smmott, C. II. Beaumont, C. W. Ir
win, E. S. Mickey and E. II. Mullow
ney.
York merchnnts state that tho uso
of automobiles by farmers has holped
business In York for tho reason that
the farmers living a distance from
York having autos who formerly
traded at their nonrest town now como
tc York, and the incroaso In business
from York county farmors owning an
tomobilos nnd living a dlstnneo is
unite noticeable.
In a decision of widespread Import
anco to tolephono Intorests throughout
Nebraska, District .ludgo Corcoran of
York hold Invalid that section of a
contract entered into by various inde
nendont companies by which they
agreed not to exchange toll business
with tho Nobraska Telopnone com
pany. Tho ruling was mado in tho suit
instituted by tho independent compau
ies of Grand Island, Hastings, Sholton
Keneaaw, York and other cities.
As a fitting close to his long perlotl
of nubile service as county commis
sloner, malo friends and neighbors of
T. A. McKay of Hamilton county, 10
tho number of twenty or more called
at. his homo and presented him with
an easy chair.
Captain Frazlcr of Madison, met
with a largo body of tho citizens of
Geneva to seo what could bo done to
reorganize company G of tho Nobraska.
National Guard. Aftor a number of
speeches It was decided to appoint a
citizens' committee In reorganization
of tho company, and putting It upon a.
good working basis,
WALTER
VZLLMAN
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TIME Year cf 19D9. V
it
SCENE Subway ctatlon of -a-
tho Chicago and North Pole J
Consolidated lines, located 215 ft
feet beneath the ethereal sta- $
tion of the Fort Wayne, Duluth
and Polar Aerial Transportation $
Company. 1
CAST Airship chauffeurc, $
cubway motormen, pasccngcrc,
aerocabmcn, automatic news.
boyG, polar bears, Eoklmoo, it
wireless telephone linemen, etc. $
AI30-A-R-R-D." yelled
d A B tnu phonographic train
crier. "Train on the third
level leaves in Ilvo ininlts
for tho pole. Only one
stop between Medlclno
Hat and Arctic Circle city.
Eskimos, polar bears and
hunters in the second story of tho
third car forwa-r-r-d. Aw-1-1
abo-a-r-r-d."
Gee, but I wus glad to get Into
tho polar bear section and away
from that nutomntlc Instrument for rendering
Bane persons mentally Incompetent. I had
been reading a copy or tho North Pole Friday
night Post when, with n noise like all the air
coming out of a balloon nil at once, tho C. & N.
1 train started.
It was nil strange to me, of the year 1909.
must have slept an awful long llmo to wake
up hero In tho yenr of yes, tho date lino on
tho publication I was scanning said February
199!). It was printed in white ink and the
words were all spelled phonetically.
Medlclno Hat," yelled a volco In my ear a
minute or two aftor tho train had started. I
looked quickly around, ready to punch tho
udo brakeman who had given vent to those
niBping notes. As I did so I bumped my nose
against the well, it looked like a phonograph
sticking out from the wall of tho
car. Then it dawned upon me. It
wasn't the brakeman nt all. In fact,
looking around I could seo no em
ployes. As wo reached the chunk of
darkness, which 1 tools to be the al
leged Medicine Hat, tho qoach door
opened without any human assistance,
a man at my side punched a button
and promptly disappeared through a
chuto which appeared at his feel.
Two minutes for liquid air re
freshments," came tho same rasping.
phonographic voice through tho In
strument at my right. I hunted for
the button my disappearing friend had
used to disappear by nnd In an In
stant I was looking down Medlclno
Hat's main street. I didn't try to
puzzle out that phenomenon. I didn't
caro If I ever saw the polo, If It had
to bo seen vln tho cold, clnmmy sub,.
way route.
Nearly every place of business on
tho main street was Inbeled "prlvato
weather bureau. 1 glanced upward to
seo if It looked llko rain. Far to the
south I spied what looked Btrangely
llko the pictures I scanned In 1909
when I used to read about Count
Zeppelin and Ills airship. As the big bird llko
machlno camo closer, I managed to read tho
sign on the side. It road:
ROUTE NO. 31.
Fort Wayne, Duluth anil Polar Aerial Trans
portation Company.
Thnt waB protty near tho last straw. I
wanted to look at something ancient. I
couldn't stand this much longer. It was get
ting on my nerves theso nliead-of-tho-mlnuto
contrivances. Tho airship '.'row nearer. 1
could seo a roof garden party of young peoplo
sitting among tho palms on tho domo of tho
big machine. Around them wore electric boat
ers, which radiated heat cloar to tho earth.
Carelessly one young ui'nn emptied tho con
tents of his glass over ills shoulder In my di
rection. I tried to dodgo tho cloudburst of amber
beverage, but. alas, too late. It caught mo
squarely In tho face and
1 WOKE UP!
And still when ono cornea to think it over,
considering tho progress which the year 190S
saw In tho way of airship navigation and polar
efforts, that dream Is within tfio rcnlni of pos
sibilities of tho twentieth century. Less than
GO years ago tho man who talked of saying
"howdy" to a friend 1,500 miles awny would
bo deported. To-day tho tolephono cnrrlos
ono'B words as clearly as If Bpoken to parties
In tho same room.
So If an Amorlcan should fall asleep In the
year 1909 and awake 90 years hence, the things
U,i .
which would greet his cyea would make him
tho envy of Rip Van Winkle.
Discovery of the norm pele will doubtless be
mado within the lifetimes of many citizens of
to-day. Anyhow that Is what tho scientist.'! de
clare. Thoy hay tho more discovery of tho
pole Ik simple. It Is the conquering of the de
tails which must bo surmounted thnt. require
tho thought and effortB.
Most novel of all plans to plant tho American
ling or for thnt matter any othor country's
Hag on top of tho pole, Is that which some
lime ago was proposed by Evelyn Briggs Bald
win, who Is now working out details of bin
scheme.
This Intrepid explorer uima to llont to the
polo and tako plenty of time getting there. He
laid out tho plan In detail before the Harvard
union at Cambridge, Mass., some time ago and
while some blase persons were Kltopticnl, oth
ers said thry liked tho plan.
Hoio's the way Mr. Baldwin would do it"
'"Give me a cargo of logs, another of casks
partly filled with emergency mipplles and a
nlnglo vessel, specifically constructed, and I
can go from Bearing strait to tho pole right
across tho Arctic ocean. Scatter the logn, port
able houses and casks upon a group of heavy
ico Hoes, surrounding tho ship, shifting the sup
plies If necessary by windlasses, motors or
dogs, and we'll Biicceed. A single crew can
haiullo the three cargoes. Had tho Joannotto
expedition adopted tills plan It would have
won. In support of my plan Rear Admiral Mel
vlllo stated to mo that a small house erected
on the Ico at tho beginning of the drift of tho
Jeannotte having blown away boforo It had
beon fastened down, was found two years later
less than two miles from the ship, thus proving
that tho ship and Ico proceed Just as a balloon
moves with tho ntmosphero In which It lloats.
With portable studios and laboratories, our ar
tists nnd scientists may work with tranquillity.
With balloons we will view a wldo stretch of
territory and as did the Baldwln-Zolglor expe
dition frequently, dispatch messengers home
wurd. With our logs as fuel we'll barbecue tho
walrus seul and polar bear. With tho casks
emptied we'll form a ilotllla filled with dupli
cates of our collections."
That'H tho way Mr. Baldwin would do It.
With your foot planted on tho homo hearth
stone, tho domicile good and warm, plenty to
eat for each meal and no worries, It looks easy,
doo;u't It? But the obstacles which any ex-
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pcdltlon must Lice
nre known o 'y
to tho man who
Imu mado su!i
attempts before.
That has bn
tho great trouble
with polar expe
ditions, It is said.
Thoy are too oft
en planned with
the conveniences
of a great cliy
within reach of
tho hand.
Perhaps the
most cane 1 ola'1
expedition wiiVh
a 11 y o n e h a J
sprung lor jcais
has bet n IK.' t f
Walter WYlI.nat
COMMODORE.
tho newspaper man, who two
years ago was assigned by
his puper to find tho north
polo. The assignment was
given him when politics,
which ho had been covering,
had sort of died down In
Washington.
So Mr Wellniau went way up north, far
awny from Sweden, and after spondlng a long
time In the construction of his aorlal polo
finder, ho set sail In his airship In a Biiowstorm.
Tho snow was thick high up In that cold cli
mate and It got into tho pilot's oyes. Conse
quently the expedition was nbandoncd for tho
time.
Next June, howover, Mr. Weliman will again
set sail for tho polo with tho assuranco that
his innchlno will perform at least part of tho
Journey satisfactorily. On ethereal subjects
Weliman has become an expert. Ho has nlso
had real polar experience. Mr. Wollnian not
long ago declared that his airship Is, for his
own purpose of finding tho polo, more olllciont
than that of Count Zeppelin, which can sail
all day long without dropping to earth for
moro gasoline.
Commodore Peary Is to-day scrutinizing arc
tic regions for signs of the location of tho polo.
Ho will go as far north as Is possible on his
polar ship Theodore Roosevelt, and dogs and
sledges will tako him tho rost of tho distance.
It will bo Rovnral yoars, probably, boforo the
real fruits of this expedition become known to
nowspnpor readers of Amorlca.
Many lives have beon loat In tho quest for
tho polo. That and tho south polo, located
somowhoro In tho Antarctic, arc tho only un
discovered purtB of this wldo world, and tho na
tion which plants Its ling on eltlior of tho
poles will bo lucky, for then It will own tho end
of the earth.
TFv'
Tho most novel nnd perhaps tho
most Innanu project which wub evor
sprung f' finding tho polo wn that
or Capt. Bowtfur, a Chlcagoan, who wna
a martyr lo his srhenie. He, too,
was firm In his boiler that ho could
find the polo In ills especinl, prlvato
way. Ho aimed to roll to tho polo lu
a round ball with small holes nt each
end. Ho got ns far as South Havon,
Mich., which la a sttmmor resort. Ho
1 cached South Haven In tho wlntor
and ho was found frozen on tho beach.
Tho wind and waves carried Capt.
Bowser 75 miles across Lnke Michigan
from Chicago, but the Indlcntlona
woro that his death occurred half way
across tho lako. Inside of IiIb round
shell he lay upon a hoard around
which the object revolved, It bolng
hollow.
Bowsor received a Christian burial,
which Is less than lots of unfortunnto explor
ers have received for their offorts.
Tho north polo Is a peculiar tiling. It Bhlfts
about from day to day and not over a year ago
a Swedish scientist nllowed to oscapo Ills sys
tem tho assertion that tho polo was moving
towards Slborln, Of course ir tho north polo
keeps on moving llko that, how can It ex
pect to bo discovered? ask skeptical porsona.
Tho reason tho north polo Is said to bo play
Ing hide and seek is said to bo this:
Tho earth rovolvos on Its axis from west to
east. Ilenco centrifugal forces tend to pull
tho regions of tho equator outward, tlum giv
ing tho tendency to tlatten at tho poloB. Thia
flattening process la Irregular and na a conso
quenco the "top" and "bottom" of the earth
tend to flit about from place to place.
Try this scheme with a rubber ball. Soft
rubber la beat; It shows tho flattening bettor
than hard rubber. Push a nail through tho
ball, making it an axis, and then tie strings to
each end of tho nail. Hold the strings In your
right hand nnd twirl them over your head.
During tliu twirling yon notlco that tho ball
becomes (latter at each end and bulges slightly
on the sides. That's why tho poles are shift
lug. The earth moves ut a rate of 19 miles a
mlnuto around lis axis. ICach day in revolv
ing It hns a Journey or 25,000 miles, Its cir
cumference, to accomplish. It moves about 20
times as faBt ns tho Chicago-New York 18-hour
special. Is It any wonder It Is flattening?
Tho dream abovo, which transplanted a citi
zen of tho United States of tho yenr 1009 to
tho year 1099, honco furnishes an ordinary ox
nmplfl of thiuga which may transpire whoa
Peary, Baldwin or Wollnian discover the north
polo. Nobody has yet tried to discover tho
polo by tho BUbway route, but Nomubody will,
tiomu day, and soon aftor thqy'll convict him
of insanity. .. ,