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WHAT IS. ANI Startling Theory of a Ph?la?elp) Two years ago last Tuesday Andree I left Spitzbergen in search of the North j Pole. Since then nothing definite lias been heard of him. That he is dead is the generally accepted belief, but as to the manner of his death uo two scientists agree. A curious mystery attaches itself to his disappearance. Andree, when last seen., was travelling northward at the rate of thirty miles an hour, which sbpuld have brought him to the Pole i in less than two days. Since that day j he has made no sign, and his friends believe that with his ingenuity and the means at hand he should have found some way of communicating with the outside world. Instead he has disappeared as completely as though he had been swallowed up. A well-known electrical authority, Newton Harrison, editor of the Elec trical Age, of New York, has recently come forward with a theory that the explorer met his death in a very sud den and awful manner hy being liter ally swallowed up by the earth. Mr. Harrison's researches have led him to believe that a danger more to be dreaded than the ice and cold awaits the intrepid explorer in the form of an immense volcano situated at or near the Pole. ' There is much scientific evidence to prove that a: each of the earth's axes there is an enormous opening extend ing to the interior of the earth which, menaces the life of anyone who ap proaches them. Andree, wi:th his balloon, may have been swept into this opening or burn ed tc death by a breath from the heated interior of the globe. The . man who. advances this explanation is not given to spinning fantastic theo ries. He has been known for years as a writer entitled to all respect on sci entific subjects; he is a man of schol arship, and his opinions and theories are the result of careful scientific in vestigation. One day last week, when M?. Harrison was visited by a Sunday Times reporter, he discussed his theory in great detail, quoting many well known scientific authorities in corroboration. The theory suggested by Mr.. Harri son is briefly that the earth is, to be gin with, morely a great molten body covered by the thin ernst of earth on which we live. This interior heat, it must be supposed, is the result of some sort of combustion, a burning up of various gases and molten solids. It is, of course, inconceivable that this combustion eau go on unless it is fed by oxygen- and it seems equally clear that this vast supply of oxygen must come from outside space. The line of ^ reasoning" is clear enough to this point, when the question naturally arises, how does this supply reach the inte rior of the earth? The various volcanoes of the world axe as so many pin points as compared with the entire surface of the earth, and the enormous fire which has been burning for thousands of centuries. It is inconceivable that such a fire c'ould be maintained with such diminu tive drafts and fines. All this points inevitably to the conclusion that there must be somewhere an enormous vent or opening to the centre of the world. If there were such an opening it would naturally be at the poles, where there :s so much less motion than on the revolving surfaces of the globe. The earth, moreover, in cooling fron a liquid to a molten and finally a solid body, would also be more likely tc have such an opening at these point: than at any other. A perfectly cleai line of reasoning is thus established to explain saeh a formation. The theory of this eart\ chimney ii not entirely new to science. It wai first 'advanced by a scientist namec Sims some seventy-five years ago This theoretical opening has eve: since gone by the name of Sims's hole A number of scientists have sine* written upon the possibility of its ox istence, and an immense amount o evidence has been collected. Mr Harrison has collected this and ar ranged it in a very attractive and con viucing manner. He meets al] objec tions to the theory in discussing i with an array or scientific facts ao< quotations from world famous scienti fie men which goes far to silence cri ti cism. He argues, for example, that it i entirely conceivable that a hole man miles in diameter could be in open tion without its making a disturbanc of any kind to the rest of the work The mooia, for example, which is much smaller body than the earth, hs a number of large craters, which woul serve for a flue or chimney for such purpose. The Arctic floor, as far i it is known, shows many signs of gre; volcanic disturbances in the past agi of the world and the great ice ficl< probably hide much more evidence i this kind from our view. The crust of the earth, as all tl world knows, is a mere shell as coi pared with its diameter. The ha surface, in other words, is but fif miles in depth, or about one hundn )REE'S FATE? New York Scientist. kia Times. ? and sixtieth of the diameter. An j orange has a thicker skin than the i planet upoD which we live. It would be an easy matter, therefore, for this great mass of molten earth in its effort to get a breath, as it were, of oxygen, to burst a hole through this delicate shell of hardened eartt. The earth in rotating has a centiifugal motion which would tend to make the crust at the poles thinner and weaker than anywhere else. It may be seen, therefore, that the earth in cooling may have kept this vent constantly open', and if at any time it became closed up it would be possible for the great interior force to open another vent at the same place. It will occur tp everyone that since the world contains such an immense body of molten matter protected by so thin a sheet it is curious that it does not at times break through, devastat ing enormous sections of the earth's surface. The theory of the existence of these great polar chimneys makes the present stable condition of the earth seem the more conceivable. Instead of the earth being capped with eternal fields of ice, it seems probable, therefore, that they are the immense safety valves of the earth. What then is the condition of the poles of the earth? Even if it be proven that these world chimneys exist, the effect on the polar regions still remains a mystery. Mr. Harri son believes that this escaping heat may have served to transform the polar section for a considerable area into land capable of sustaining some form of vegetation, and even of sup porting animal life. This section, if it exists, would be circular in form and surrounded by a sea formed from the water from melted icebergs. The open polar sea. of which there has been so much speculation, can be readily accounted for on this theory. The opening into the earth itself may, besides, be surrounded with geysers and similar formations, j The theory which Sims urged was that the opening was a veritable fun ned through which poured enormous volumes of oxygen, forming a huge vortex which swept everything in its path inward to the very depths of the earth. If this theory be true a vast funnel of air several miles in extent is constantly sweeping down, sucked in by the internal fires of the earth, which no humuu force could contend with. It will be remembered that Mr. Har rison points out that Andree had made several plans for sending word as* soon as possible to the outside world, v All the explorers who have gone before have either made their way out or got some word to civiliza tion.in less time than has elapsed siooe Andree disappeared. The friends of this explorer, therefore, argue that he must have met with some very sudden fate to be silenced I so quickly and completely as he has. It will be remembered that the ex plorer took with him, in addition to his ordinary outfit, a generous supply of food tied to the rigging of his bal loon, which would support him even in case he lost the car of his balloon, until he might reach some civilized point. He was known, besides, to be very resourceful. vVhen he started for the Pole he was travelling, as stated, at a speed which would carry him there in less than two days. Foi many days after? his departure thc same wind continued, so that he would j presumably have been swept over the I Pole and quickly on past the more I dangerous regions on the other side j towards civilization. In thc light ol j these facts, Mr. Harrison's theorj I seems the more probable, j If the Harrison-Sims theory be true j Andree was swept on to his awful fat( I and perished miserably in little mon than a day after his departure. Hi: balloon, with its freight. ' was swep swiftly down into this great crater a? a fiy might he drawn into a grca chimney. There seems to be no othe theory which accounts for Andree' complete disappearance. It is probable that this crater couh not be saen, or at least that the dan ger could not. be realized until th balloon was within the clutches of thi awful mael.-trorn, and then it woul be swept onward and downward irre sistibly. - ?beut one month ago my child which is fifteen months old. had a attack of diarrhoea accompanied b vomiting. I gave it such remedies a are usually given in such eases, but a nothing gave relief, we sent for a phj sician and it was under his care for week. At this time the child ha been sick for about teu days and ws having about twenty-five operador of the bowels every twelve hours, an we were convinced that unless it soo obtained relief it would not liv? Chamberlain.'s Colic, Cholera ai: Diarrhoea Remedy was recommends and I decidrd to try it. I soon noti ed a change for the better; by i continued use a complete cure wi brought about and it is now perfect healthy.-C. L. Boggs, Stumptow Gilmer Co., W. Va. For sale by Hi; Orr Drug Co. W. G. T. IT. DEPARTMENT. Conducted hy the Indies of the W. C. T. U. of Anderson, S. C. The following, taken from a Nat. Temp. Tract, gives the ingredients of what some of the stuff that, men pour down their throats and soak into their stomachs arc made of: "Bourbon or rye whiskey is manu factured with high wines, commonly called fusil-oil whiskey, made to-day and drank three days after; contains also oil of bourbon, vinegar, syrup, water, French coloring, bluestone, and other poisonous chemicals. Cost from 95 cents to $1.00 a gallon; retails from $5.00 to $6.00. Stock ale or porter is diluted with strychnine; oil of vitriol and aquafor tis to make it keep. Lager beer is made out of a little malt, plenty of water, some inferior hops, resin, tar, saleratus soda, with four different kinds of chemicals to make it keep after brewing." Is there any wonder that those who drink this poisonous swill become disproportioned in body, red nosed, flush faced, and fired with the flames of lust and hell? No wonder that the statistics say that a large proportion of the idiots, or "natural focls" born into the world are the children of drunken fathers. It is stated that, in Norway, in ten years of free liquor trafile, insanity increased fifty per cent, and the percentage of idiots born increased one hundred and fifty per cent. Oh the awful shame and sor row, caused by this monstrous liquor business. It is the curse of creation. It subsists wholly on debased man hood, defrauded childhood, wronged and ruined womanhood and is the avowed enemy of God and all that is pure. The saloon is the hot-bed that hatches the vulture of lust, licen tiousness and harlotry-the dark lake whose waters open thc flood-gates of hell, and pour out bums, bloodshed, brothels, broken marriage vows, blast ed homes and hearts. When will we awake as a nation, as a church, as a people? Let us turn upon this mon strous evil and pour God's eternal truth aud tremendous artillery upon it until it is forever driven from our midst, and back into hell, from whence" it came. Last Romp With the Tiger. I am not proud of my history, as it touches the drink habit. I tell it with a blush of shame and because I think God wants me to tell ii. He has blessed it in the past to the sal vation of many who were under the paw of the tiger. I hope and pray he will bless it to-night. There seems to be in the minds of some the belief that a boy will be better fitted for afterlife by "seeing the elephant," 'sowing wild oats," "painting the town red." The young man of to-day who will make the best man of to morrow is the young man who never will see the inside of a gin mill, or cross the threshhold of a house of ill repute. It is a lie born of thc devil that he will bc better for "sowing wild oats." ? had sold forty-four cars of goods n Little Rock. Ark., iu three days, for which I was getting $10 per car commission, so you can see I was making a good salary. I was not a tarved-out drunkard. As to making money. I made more than I do now. had a nice home, with every com fort, but at times I would get OB a 'whiz." 1 was then having prosper ous times. There are two things a man who drinks rum cannot stand. One is prosperity; the other is adver sity. If adversity comes, he drowns is sorrow. If prosperity conies, he celebrates. So I began a celebration. When I arrived in Kansas City, Mo., my next point, I was still celebrating. hit the trade a little the first day or two, after that I never brought out my sample case, but went right on cele brating. I kept this up until my roll," as well as my expense money, as all gone. Then I took my watch, present from Bishop John I'. New man, and that "went into soak." H had been the Bishop's own watch, would have gone up all the saine. Then 1 took thc coat from my back and a diamond pin, and they "wenl to soak" with the watch. With mj money gone, my watch and coat "ir soak," I was wandering the streets ol ansas City without a cent, beggint 10 cents from the passers-by on tin street to get'a drink. When I had money, everybody els< ad money. When I was "busted,' erybody else was "busted." Whet had money, they met nie with smiles When my money was gone, no mon smiles for mc. When I had money was "Williams, have something join us!" "No, I thank you." "Oh take a soda, a seltzer, a lemonade, gar, join us." When my mono, was gone, it was, "You old bum, yo' here airain?" '"Give me drink.' No, you are pickled in whiskey now ou are soaked. Your skin is fille th red liquor. ?? o down to th barf and jump off and say, "Her oes nothing." "Williams, if 1 ha dog and he would run wi;h you. would kill thc dog. If you will tak this drink and stay out of here. T wi "ive you a drink." They would pour the drii they had let me pou<- it, J wou taken a drink, but a9 it wa.? wet my whistle a little and, wit they call down South, "Nigger key." Yes, they want thc old bum the way to make room for the man. As you have given th< lege of license, they will att getting the old bum out of th and at the same time make rc your boys to line up. Father just push the button, they will rest. Broken in pocketbook, cree spirit, I was met by a Cherol dian, a Mason brother, a drinkir to whom I had sold goods in ' Territory. He got my watch, and coat out of "soak," had me ed, procured me clean linen, as not had a shave or clean shirt fe three weeks. I could not gi1 money to a barber or laundry every nerve in me crying foi He also got me a sober necktie. I had on a drunk necktie, and not know it. Everything about gets drunk, his legs, his mout hat, his coat. "Man in Sin is in darknes under the ruler of the darkness,1 is Satan." It is doubly so with ? under the paw of the tiger, led the devil. While hell joins ii chorus, and there goes up a sh( laughter from mocking devils. This mason friend took me t train, and bought me a ticket to Smith, Ark., where I lived. H me in charge of the Pullman coi tor with $10 in my pocket. So I arrived at Fort Smith, I wai celebrating, because I had drank man whiskey all the way down Kansas City. For five days nights I kept up this celebratii Fort Smith, with my son trying t me home. I can see him as I ta j you, sitting at a table half as then wake up and say. "Papa, p come home. 3Iamma has been ca for you all day. She is so sic! won't leave you, papa. I will with you on the floor of this sa Please, Pa, come home with i The boy finally grew discouraged, went out and got two Knights Ten friends of mine, members of my ( mandery. They came into the ss and took mc and put me in a cab took me home. A Knight Ten can do about as he pleases wi brother Knight, drunk or sober. When I arri /cd home I fount wife in bed, suffering from ner prostration, brought on by my absence. I stepped up to the bec of my wife. She would rise u; bed and say, "Where's papa; wk* papa," and then fall back exhauE Friends, I am at war with at ness that makes such a scene as possible. I am fighting for the tection of my home, and, while \ protecting my own home, I am ting in a few licks fon'our own h( I would expect God to paralyze arm and voice if I did not raise t ^against this foul destroyer. When my wife came to herself handed me this Bible and s "Papa, read it, for it is our only ho] and I put a lot of it on the insid me. That is a good place to 1 your Bible. I found that God He was more willing to give the I Spirit to those who ask, than we to give good things to our child So, on my knees, with God's B before me, I got the "Calvary Cu: Jesus, the friend of the lost, threw His anns around me and sa me, and thc best of itali is 1 am sa up to date. We have told you of last romp with the tiger. The n romp we have, will be with the Hoi the tribe of Judah on thc play grou of the skies. For several years 31 r. Williams been "on the road" for Christ, sell . the good news of salvation to ''whe ever will," without money and wi out price. Ile is even more succe ful in this than in his former busine and is known throughout the land "The Drummer Evangelist." A ? church league or society, wishing : secure his services for evangelis and temperance meetings, should ; dress him as follows : Evangelist W. H. Williams. : ; Myrtle Ave., liridgeport, Conn. The Best Remedy for Flux. , Mr. .lohu Mathias, a well kuo [ .stock dealer of Pulaski, Ky., say 5 "After suffering for over a week wi i flux, and my physician having fail to relieve me, 1 was advised to < , Chamberlain s Colic, Cholera and I ', arrhoeaRemedy, and have the pleasi of stating that thc half of one bot i cured me." For sale by Hill C . Drug Co. - mm -?*> m- - - An Ohio Judge has decided tl: ? one cannot be prosecuted for forginj ; document unless a revenue stamp . afiixed to it. a Kodol Dyspepsia Cure cures dyspe y sia because its ingredients are su LI that it can't help doing so. "'Thepu . lie can rely upon it as a master reu dy for all disorders arising from ii . perfect digestion." JamesM.Thoi d as, M. D.. in Amerioan Journal e Health. N. V. Kvans I 'ha rm .icy. e - " I expect ? will be frightful d tanned," she said. "Tm going to t I seashore.'* . "I was frightfully tann :c yesterday.' broke in her small brot II er. ;1 was out in the woolshed wi father.'' Philosophy ol' the Heathens. "As I. understand it." said the heathen, '"you propose to civilize me.' "Exactly so." "You mean to get me out of the habits of idleness and teach me how to work." "That is the idea." "And then lead me to simplify my methods and invent things to make my work lighter." "Yes." "And next I will become ambitious to get rich, so that I will not have to work at all." "Very likely. "Well, what's the use of taking such a rouud-about way of gettiag just where I started? I don't have to work how."-Exchange. - It is related of General Nathan Bedford Forrest that on one occasion a loquacious widow asked him why his beard was still black while his hair was turning gray. G?n?ral Forrest answered that he could give no expia tion unless that "he had used his brain a little hTuTe than his jaw." It was this very quality that made Gen eral Forrest one of the greatest sol diers of his time, the soldier of whom General Sherman said. 'After all, I think Forrest was the most remarka ble man our civil war produced on either side. In the first place, he was uneducated, while Jackson and Sheri dan and other brilliant leaders were soldiers by profession. He seemed always to know what I was doing or intended to do, while I am free to con fess I could never tell or form any ?iatisfactory idea of what he was try ing to accomplish." - Speaking of these shn.-t rushes forward a queer thing happened at Guiguinto, where perhaps half of the soldiers in one regiment found hens. Before there was time to kill the'fowl orders came to go forward. A little further out the regiment lay down un der fire for some minutes. Then the order came to charge. Up and for ward with a yell rushed the soldiers, but over the cheering rose another sound. Tbree or four hundred hens, objecting to being carried with head down with feet tied to the strap of a haversack, set up a frantic squawking such a- was probably never heard along a line of charging military be fore. Thc Kev. W. B. Costley, of Stock bridge, Ga., while attending to his pastoral duties at Ellenwood, that State, was attacked by cholera morbus. 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