PROFESSOR DAVID'S RETURN.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 496, 1 May 1909, Page 7

PROFESSOR DAVID'S RETURN.

FROM TtfE LONE WHITE ROAD. (Bt.a Gnu. Gbamtate.) . Professor David moves about Isis-oH hauntt v Sydnoy University,like a man-in a droam. Not tho Arctic solitudes nor the frozen calm of tho South appear os a dream that-is past, but the bustling streets of men and women, S?W,..»d nul S balls aro the droara. His intense blito oyca and frosh com plosion : ... .of tho Viking typo; hair and choeks are .'..arbiter,,- ,Mon get brown under a tropical sun, and tend to bccomo whito. like tho bears, in tho polar belt. 'Lieutenant Sbackloton must bo an ideal Awdor, says tho Professor, when a man of •J"? Js content to bo under his authority ■ L fln^" lo IT ' lo ' o trip. Shacldoton was 33 first started out, and is now 35; he ' wo b'rthdaya :in Antarctica.; Of: the mtoen .mon composing tho cKpcdition, one >iw, a cook. Tho other fourteen took it in ; mm to bo mesamen and. nightwatchmnn. ~ ! Onco a, fortnight it foil .to their .lot■.to ! wa«h up and keep tho but tidy. Tho. niglil- , watching was the worst duty. To keop the 'yesflightand ace,that the ponies did wot get froren ssomod such a ,ternblo task when all one s cororadcs w«ro -asleep. . Professor T-'clooTrxvl tho diverting antics of Qoan, ■ • W P°ny: Lieutenant ShackJeton .gave each .. . ; lemW tho party a, pony," and Professor - ■ jayid .cabled his.after a Ghineco philosopher-. ; Juan was a .naughty pony, /and usod to -pull 4 his halter during tho night watches/until !tract,.wiili' s.skp'.W agsiast . v.- over tho ioe, whon . a ..pieco-of slack roctt was encountered, Qnan used to r stop and wavo bis hoof, as if'to say, "This . in your line." "I .know it sounds, a taß; yajn'," smiled-the.; Professor, . . but it's true." i ■ ■ Mystwy of the Magnetic Pole. ■ , > .TJ I ®, Magnetic Polo ,is -surrounded' by a • ".one- goes around -it. the compass Boedlo points towards it all tho time. At the -Magnetic Pole, where tho British flag ' rii 3 Pelted, tho ought to have pointed ♦hrteHsr-downwards (it is bolanwl: lika a , ... board on, a. soe-saw), 'but would not do so, ' tj? 0; Glancing weight , not being ~ Centrifugal forco. is much- lese at • tno rotes than anywhero eJso. • When the v f?, y ,S ot! other side of tho Magnetic row, thoy , wore, , m ; tho paradoxical position .?f ln S_south with a needlo pointing to tlio north, Why tho Magnetic Pole does not coincide, wrth_tho_ Geographical Polo, was not •j ?w [??! U P-. .Tho Magnetic Polo is determined by the compass. Tho Geographical Pole is the pofnt where the drift's minor axis ,:- .. .tommatos, a9d is situated about 1200 mites . from the Magnetic Polo. No one knows what raagnotisnj w. Wo only know that tho oarth is a hugo magnetic ball. R was discovered :•.7. wo expedition, that:tho Magnetic Polo is Bliitwng to tho north-west. • ■ A:;:;-v*.-! - - "• Theory of Pol?r Calm Exploded, '^? r «. nncj ,morG domonstratotL ntw Da ? ld ' at dentists should only talk of theories. Evolution, though-wo may bdieve in it, is bnt a theory. Species, if taken from mi artificial oiivireiunoni, alwavs nf V £L? T £ at ? K ' 1 ? r(lor ' line m 1 h ° ,ast lme of 4)10 first '<T» +),« w? W P r<)l,a,[l lv oorrect. an £?£ crcated tho Heaven. Art J md Who 1133 th ° son of ' • V s tho wn °f God?" So htrnly convinced were theorists that there law ; of lobr cairn ,s a < well-known phrase, Our encounter with terrific blizzards dislaW -' Anothftr theory wo op a CaMot iu '° body is below 94 degrees ShacJJetOff couia have reached the but at Z:ri c \tr' j , ° tw °. Th, 9 Sftows the &joat scW-rcstraint of. the- man + tllan Kw ' dn ™g ex- £ 0t w:i ? 'n which ho rebnMiiislied his dearest Some of 11.-o rXn't C K- l? rr3 rcao . hc ? 83 (lc S lce3 ' aDd ' dott nvnch; lower somn nf «« reached Cb w ] tbormomoters do not re gisW below 93, owmg to the prevmurfv Zetisfcit^r 7 t +° t a 111:111 wu »!d ceaso to oxist-at a iower.-tomperaturo. Tetrahodral Thoory Confirmed, '■ : however, vwo havo Thra » tho tWr that lts mTns s n fw Gidwl ,S' 5-otrabedral j /° SIX: eontments, countong gaps ssai " dnrelft*oJl mg T' 7 °' yeaw ' of Fnlly m <sn, of atWdttt phwimw arr tt»^ff orl Moh trt P - '">d> for'them of the thrco wh M*' as sns «ngmg and acting. He , C ? mM The Professor in a Sydney shop. ssssasai roXrx a %Tr cnr^ in Professor Dawd S-minT^" 00 105I 05 " 14 ® 0