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landlord of the hotel, "Knut Kukue," 

 being one of the characters in the story. 

 Passing through the Geiranger Fyord 

 where the mountains are fully 50C0 feet 

 high, there are hundreds of cascades 

 from a single point of view, also the 

 series of falls called the seven sisters. 

 Sailing northward and crossing overland 

 to the waters of the Molde Fyord. Molde 

 is reached, the first real village since 

 leaving Bergen. I^eaving Molde, the 

 traveler drives through the famous Roms- 

 dal, where the wonderful mountains called 

 the Witches' Pinnacles and the Romsdal- 

 horn are seen. From this they sail to the 

 ancient city of Trondhyem. Here a pic- 

 ture of the market square was shown, 

 with the store of an Apotheke in the 

 foreground. Trondhyem is the real start- 

 ing point for the North Cape, and the 

 journey takes about eight days. Leaving 

 Trondhyem, the voyager skirts the coast 

 amid wild scenery, visits the famous 

 island of Torghaiten (the hat), and finally 

 crosses the Arctic Circle entering the 

 Raftsund Fyord, passing the Lofoden 

 Islands, where the great fishing industry 

 of Norway is carried on, they reach 

 Tromso where they visit a Laplanders' 

 encampment. Leaving Tromso and con- 

 tinuing to skirt the coast for about seven- 

 ty-five miles, they visit a whaling station, 

 and finally reach Hammerfest the most 

 northern town in the world. Leaving 

 Hammerfest and passing eastward 

 through the Mager's Sound, they arrive 

 at the base of the famous "Bird Rock." 

 The ship's cannon is fired and instantly 

 millions of birds fly forth screaming ; so 

 thick are they that the sky is fairly dark- 

 ened. Leaving Bird Rock the voyage is 

 continued until the vessel is anchored at 

 the base of the North Cape, the very end 

 of Europe. The passengers climb the 

 cape, and await the hour of midnight, 

 and at that hour, amid a death-like still- 

 ness that is apalling, the gun of the ship 

 a thousand feet below is heard, and lo ! 

 they behold — 



The Midnight Sun. 



A SOBER TALK ABOUT KOLA— WHAT 



THE LATEST RESEARCHES DEM= 



ONSTRATE. 



It is incontestable that kola has not en- 

 tirely fulfilled all the claims that have 

 been made on its behalf as a heart, nerve 

 and muscle stimulant. Introduced with 

 rather florid statements of the wonders 

 which it accomplishes among the African 

 denizens of this habitat, and the capacity 

 for endurance and exertion which it im- 

 parts, investigators in Europe and Amer- 

 ica have found that, apart from its utility 

 as an invigorant in convalescence and 

 nervous debility, it performs no prodigies 

 and works no wonders. It is a good ser- 

 viceable stimulant, and is widely pre- 

 scribed. But it is no therapeutic thau- 

 maturgist. 



In this respect the drug has fared very 

 much as has coca. Coca is supposed to 

 be not only the solace and comfort, but 

 the magical restorative and conjurer of 

 fatigue, among the natives of Peru, Chili, 

 and Bolivia. It strengthens their limbs 

 and girds their loins with preterhuman 

 power. It is food, drink and stimulant 

 combined. Carefully, exhaustively tested 

 in America, coca yields no such results. 

 It, too, is serviceable as a tonic or stimu- 

 lant, but it has wrought nothing miracu- 

 lous. Nor will it do to attribute the med- 

 iocre results to tbe use of the dried leaf, 

 deteriorated by long storage and transpor- 

 tation. Preparation of fresh cocoa leaves 

 have been manufactured in South Amer- 

 ica and exported into the United States. 

 And the result ? Very much the same as 

 that achieved with preparations of dried 

 coca — serviceable, but not at all remark 

 able, save in those high-strung, imagina- 

 tive patients whose prompt reaction to 

 stimulants savors more of suggestion 

 than medication. 



The disappointment which in some in- 

 stances has followed the administration 

 of kola — the absence of marvelous results 



