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O OMEWHEREon maps scientists
i can point you the precise spot-
there is a place on this old earth
where man, so far as records show, has
never trod.
It is a land of mystery. The great
Sphinx cf ice has never divulged its secret.
What exists there no mortal can say yet
it has been the theme of romance for ages.
The North Pole! Lure of the ages I '
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known than the fascinating Mountains t -; ; My: r Ifoonfoh& r
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of the Moon!
In her search for knowledge Science , "; ; "
has explored the planets; by means of the . j
telescope and spectroscope tt has analyzed g f-
the minerals on Jutiter. inspected the veee- (?
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ration on Mars and classified lichen growths
on the moon. Yet, on their own earth,
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scientists have paused before one mystery.
They have halted befbre the insuperable ob-
have acknowledged their defeat before the 1, ,
Mvsterv A mvsterv of the shrine I ' Kv
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0 glorious Aurora, the uninvaded Land . , X'
. .of.Atf northern Lords. ... M . : i,;, t('J wJ?cl'-' v'
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reach the vole bv Sir Hueh Wiilouvhbi , Km 1 1
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tnere nave vcen scores 17 cxycuiuuni g
otf succeeded. Arid still more are
Peary, who reached the point "nearest the i t , S. ..fc' , , ,
po' last summer, will again start on his I' V 'fj .U' t V "f iV-lV-1 W V.? - '
quest; Walter Wellman, convinced of the Au it ;V . S i ' I H ' ' WV I'T'
of Jftftf, orn maning preparations for a
trip by airship. Along the way before these
doughty explorers stand the ghosts, of 400
who have died; in their ears whisper the
warnings of those who failed during four
centuries".
What is the fascination that draws men
northward, what the incentive that induces
them to brave appalling perils t
In the days of Spain's supremacy, when h ,.t -'; I
Qhina ana Asia, pioneers, led by Willough- ' ji
by, sailed north in a search for a "new pas- si '
save j to ine cast. ineyrauea: many ih,"f
were last. ' Then there were expeditions k :
of rescue. But now, when commercialism f!',;f,V
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?rj f to flutter above the magic, mys
terious, magnetic center of the north!
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thrilling adventures, the sensational ex !.
pertences undergone by those who, tn tnesa, :
later years, seek the pole for the mere gloryt ,
of conquest, should read Robert E. Peary s
simple but intensely dramatic recitalk
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are found in the word picture of one daring
dash into the frozen North, , ' i
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A land that la lonelier than ruin:
A ea that la itrangar than death:
Far flalda that a rotw caver blew In,
Wan waite where the wlnda lack breath t
Waite endlese and boundleai and flowerlea ' -
But of maiah-bloeaoma frultlesa a free:
Whore earth Ilea exhauated. MWWirlMi..W'.t
To nrlve wltli the aes. Swlnburna.
The pale unrlpenad beautlea ol the North. Addiaom
Waft a altfb from Indua to tbvpoia.-Popt
OBERT E. PEAEY attained a .poinii
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"nearest tho polo" on April. 21, 1908 ,
fassing ti)e point where the flag of
taly was planted by the duke d'Abmi-. 1
ni in 1900. The duke's party attained a lati
tude ot S decrees 33 minutes, or at cut 23?
statute miles from the pole, bettering Nansea
by 19 miles.
. " Peary attained a latitude of -7 drsrrccs 6
minutes north, about ISO soa miLa from t?)
' coveted poaL - But Peary ia not satL.'..."! nn I
V wilLnot be until ho actually stands on. tLo r. yj-
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