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your Presents Cremo Cigar BANDS and Old Virginia Cheroot WRAPPERS may be assorted i 9tt. flACWMS . 4000 BANDS CHUDi StT SO BANDS, I 4 4 4 RACE TO Another week or ten days and the race for the polp will bi'cin u h a race between mn as the worli hue nwver seen. Emerging; from hLs wirttor raarlers at" Cape Sabine, Greenland. miies south of the pole, Lieutenant Hobert E. Pearly will nifh riorthar-i it fast as hi doss can run. Eight fcumired miles ea?t of him Evelyn B. SliiiuVi'iii wiO han "-''" ''rtL-r in tke vicinity of Prince Kudolph Land, will Eimultaneously p(f:rt. It will be n rw between m-n who formerly nerved loether; a race for a goal fnr whieh e have striven and laid rioi n th ir tirwt during 3F0 yearf; a raxe asahist lb cwlft return of the actie winter, in tha northernmost climate of which no anan may hope to live. "None but a pitiable comparison could I made of theoe racing: polar exp? ntlOM. Upon the went Ih Peary, nix tlma defeated, and his rpirit now far aaore willing than hi flesh la strong. Khas made discovery of the pole h'n '8 alng-ln aim. He hac suffered ter ribly. His wife has his promts' that, BT he fail this time, he will never try sgubi. His !ast dash for his life's ga! win be made with but two companions, an: Esquimaux and his colore?-'ser--vaat. Mat Henson, who has followed Mm with the fidelity of Ruth. Every thing Is against him. The chances that they wll lever retura are remote, fnr the people who know Peary well enonch know that where where he htm pushed on against obstacle and remained out until the last ounce of tremrth and the last bit of human odurance were exhausted on former rmfo, he will go still further on this, (he but time. On the east is Baldwin. He is ' yonag. He has been once with Peary and once with Wellman up In the north and hi appetite for the work has been whetted keen. Where Peary has a par ty of three, Baldwin has forty-two; whore Peary ha twenty dogs, Baldwin has 4M dags and fifteen Wberla n po ol where Peary has such rude foods OS tb Esquimaux life at Port Sabine Bill lis Baldwin ha tabloid meat otaos to the value of tM.BM. Not even di kiss; cm Id have entered the race ttk s more completo equipment than BsJfwM's, nor a king humble sabjoct Jtta less of these things and mors need jf thsam tlms Psary. And so they will rsss tks forty-two against ths throe, , Cs OS hocfcsa by cool NifTMo, sod Cat otfcor by s spirit pisteg hoc AM ksMs of oM west iU tks east ty Cst tks tarBo, mrs w mt CtBsrtai tsomy to flgM ths gmtt lo. q It rtory whs has bswss H th X :-V't.: "CmKtmV hs wrot, -is - C J"CCJ CMfS of th North, hot vf -313Cr' tt5 s ftxsv ttsss with TAGS from "STAR.- "HORSE SHOE." "STANDARD NAVY." i mui, rlPErv HEID9IECK." "NOBBY SPUN ROLL." "SICKLE.." "BRANDY WINE,." "CROSS BOW," "OLD PEACH "TENNESSEE CROSSTIE." "NEPTUNE." "OLE VAROINY." and omece, m securing thoso prssonts. ONE TAG baiaf oqual to 7 MAN 'ti. CLUtH fjl tour Gang sink. UOO BANDS w-rt.i400BABl 'CH II 1. fwflvrs a rom moo SMi, 000 BAN i spoon in lBANOS l TCAjPOOXJ SMI ittf j OOHNBt 500 BANDS NLTT SET MO BANDS 1090 BANC ifiraOBANM Cremo cigar Bands .nd Qld WRITE YOUR NAyr AMn Annnrtt " - conlkinias BANDS or WRAPPERS, and xpraaa arpld. B tin to hit roBrlv markaaV. aa that It arlll sat ha - ("' r-auaeta FaUaai ATtnut, St. LuU. Mo. . THE POLE no grain of sand, no tree, no rock. There is nothing but the infinite ex panse of the frozen plain, the Infinite dome of the cold blue sky, and the cold. white sun." Tet over 600 miles of this awful des er.t Peary himself will go racing wilhin a few days to win the north pale and the fame which, like the golden pot at the rainbow's end, awaits men (hrre. Within a few days of Peary's start, PHibly imnn the same day or within the same week, Baldwin finest of all polar expeditions will leave its winter quarters on Prince Rudolph Land and go north over the Ice with many flying sledges and cracking whips. The first of April is the starting time set by both explorers. Each expects to return to a base of supplies by the last of July. Each believes he will win the pole. Peary will go straight up from the point at which he has winter ed, and expect to return to the same point. Baldwin will rush up from his winter camp and swing around in a seml-cirrle, starting north of Norway and returning by way of the Greenland coast. Will these men win the pole? Fix hundred miles Is not such a very great distance. Peary Is making hi seventh attempt, and he doubtless has an ex perience which will make him a more dangerous competitor for the honor than even Baldwin, with the Ziegler million behind him, could desire. There are many with confidence In his plan or flying light and living the life of an Ksquimau hunter, and he has the Peary Arctic society behind him, a proof of more confidence In him than his countrymen have ever expressed In all the years he has been working. Cfood luck Is a big factor. Both Bald win and Peary are risking much upon It. The arctic sea baa many expanses of open water and some very rugged ice country, and to And anything like a direct route through the Iceberg and open water would be more good luck than any explorer has ever had. Then there I the possibility of acci dent, of death to the men or dogs, of illness, of the lo of supplies, and of freeslng feet. or hand. But human life I a little thing in th march upon th great Ice, and men throw them selves away upon It a stoically as ever a Christian knight hurtsd himself upon ths sharp points of a bsBthss mac. No other whits mas ha Hvsd la ths arctic ooontry so moch as Robert T. Peary. Thsrs bars bora arcUs x ptoror svsr sum th tost lHh s ptorer Soros ths Ms la IM, out saver aaothor on Is ssjtmt hi psrsbstssB ths CS toool TSAYJ WA'CH smt toeo bands BANDS cam (in est lifftw 1 irj. '-1 aOOO BANDS ,-400 BANDS SAVfLLINO BA4 MS Cemb1MKM M00 BANDS HOO BANDS The abovA represent the presents to be given w nuiv ..... mrmi- a WTO U UISIOV I BBCAUf forward tham by riUt.rd mail. r ur mcttu i. ....r. a mm f uhi vr wnppiri for calalov) t C. Hr. Irm, American pole from a northern base of supplies Peary ha not worked without re sult. The world know that Green land I not single Island of unknown extent toward the north, as had been supposed, but that It la an archipelago with a north shore at 83 degrees &0 minutes north, where Peary discovered its insularity and at the same time raeched the larthest north ever attain ed on the western hemisphere. He has been rewarded and given medals by th scientific world lor these feats, but they have cost him dear. At 45 he is an old man by his own testimony, for be says of hl work of 1900: "Preliv good considering I am an old man." He has had a broken leg. and he has lost seven of his ten toes by freezing. He was once a man of more than six feet. of great physical strength, and with out a bodily flaw. Now he lives five years In one as the life of a man Is counted, and the country no man was created to inhabit has dealt htm some leadly blows. Peary Is of French-Anglo-Saxon ori gin and a native of Pennsylvania. His ancestor were hardy lumbermen of the Maine woods and mountains to become a. surveyor. He was a lover of the out door life, a naturalist and an explorer. He became attached to the United States geodetic survey and went to Nicaragua on the canal survey, built a pier in quite a brilliant way on the Florida coast after engineers had said it could not be done, and had other wise distinguished himself In the gov ernment service. In a book store he found a book on arctic travels. The story first .ugiistid to him the field in which he was to devote tHe rest of hi life. In 18 he secured leave from the navy department and made his first trip to Greenland. It was but a recon naissance, but Peary went Into the Interior of Greenland 100 miles and was the first white man to see the great desert of Ice and snow. Two year later Nansen crossed Greenland, the first Caucasian to make the jour ney .and Peary saw another reap the fame which should have been his own. In 11 he got away with his first com pletely organised and really earnest ex pedition to And th north pole. He took with him hi wife, and she ha ever since then, been s helpmeet indeed, upon one occasion securing In this country by her own effort an expedi tion for the relief of her husband, who was unable to get out of Oreenland and was without supplies with which to prosecuts his work. Peary' march across Oreenland, a fast famous Is th hiatory of Arctic exploration, was mad In MM. U want north again In IM, and also In UN and IsfT. HI last departure was jao Is UM, sad front UMs trip be has nsrsr ratarnoi. Ms sssins to ba ll that this Is ths last opportunity to h gtrsn to htsrn, aad this spring hs itir Ms third sttsamst apes ths pot "SPEAR HEAD." "DRUMMOND" NATURAL LEAF." "GOOD "J. T.." "OLD HONESTY." "MASTER WORKMAN." "JOLLY TAR." AND HONEY." "RAZOR." E. MCE. CRmiVItLK i lurr TRADE MARK STICKERS from "FIVE BROTHERS" PlpoSmofctaf TWO CREMO CIGAR BANDS NowsStMartnM iso mm ' rtAZO 'JttfiSry,1 . m I atom J SATtTY Bijflu wg iTHC! IW IANN . Cahbit'itoQ BANDS HAP! IN MA.'-A . f M iflt1 t-4 down 30 JO C-!t 4000 ftAmj BMW BANDS. illiicfrnftrkno rtvrLr Prt Virginia cheroot Wrappers OUR NEW ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, of rtitnli far 1903 Includaa many artlclaa nat ahowa abavo. It contains the mm attracttva Hat af prasanta t?f orrarad for banda and wrappers, and will ba aant by mall mm racalpt of aaatasa two caata. Our offar af praaatUa far band and wrapper will tapir Novsmbo aoin. ivoz. Cigar Company, Peary has not only given his life, but what money he had to his work. His friends and sympathizers have assisted him. He has suffered the loss of a ship with all on board. Companions have deserted him, and he has suffered, physically, as only an explorer is called upon to suffer. Upon one occasion the discovery of a herd of musk oxen sav ed him and his negro, Henson, from starvation. Coming upon the animals, the men were so exhausted by starva tion that they were unable to see to shoot, and it has alwayB been a source of wonder ot Peary how they killed the game they did. for the rifles shook like a ship's mast in their hands and their eyes were blurred with the hor rors they had suffered. Peary says: "I am after the pele be cause it Is the pole; because It has a value as a test of Intelligence, persist ence, endurance, determined will and perhaps, courage, qualities character istic of the highest type of manhood; because I am confident that it can be reached, and because I regard It as a great prise which It i peculiarly fit and appropriate that an American should win." Huch Is Robert K. Peary, who races with Baldwin this spring. He has et his face to the north end said "I w!H." and not even an ice field 300 feet thick or a temperature 80 degrees below xero can turn him, though In the end they may beat him down. Evelyn B. Baldwin Is a Mlnxourian n years of age. His third trip Into the arctic country, and the first under hi own leadership, hus bi-.en blessed with that first of the IndlyprnxabScs-raoney. William Zelr, New York million aire. Is backing him to the extent of 11.000,000, and Baldwin went up to his winter quarter on Prince Rudolph Land last summer with the finest polar expedition ever fganlzed In any coun try. His men are chosen from among hundreds of applicant. They are ath letes, every man of them, without physical defect; they are specialist In something needful to the cause. Their equipment is everything money could buy and experience could advise being taken. Baldwin even took to the scene of his winter camp collapsible frame house In which to spend the severe arctic winter. This winter camp I about at the eightieth parallel of lat itude. Three hundred and sixty miles northwest of II I the point reached In IMS by the Italian, Abruxzl, beyond which no man ba sever gone. Fifty miles southeast of the farthest north of the Italian I the farthest north of Nansen. Baldwin did what no other arctic ex plorer did before him. He established a colony on th very northernmost point of land known on th eastern hsmisphsr, and h has spent ths win ter thsrs. If his , plans carried th wlntsr was spent in somfort, rotting ths aKpsslttoa front thsir labor of so las' uLstfarTand sasMts It ts hs ins or TWO OLD VIRGINIA CHEROOT SMENB rhmu' - v - - A 00 BANDS" TOOL SET S00 BAN Lxosc SOOBANC foaTfliNCxi t KdS SO BANDS fx mart s ft. sso SANDS rcou-iRrvci-.f PkOOF I t-J40 Wi '-S raooo BANnsVT.---.- -ivm rs acM JOOO OANSS for and fit this spring, when It will make its dash for the pole. Baldwin ascribes the failure of all other expeditions to attempting too roucn wun too little. Where other ex plorers have used ten or twenty men Baldwin takes forty-two; where other have tired fifty and a hundred dogs, Baldwin takes 420; where others have left all the sledging to the dogs, car. rying dog food that made dead weight. Baldwin takes fifteen Siberian ponies, hardy enough to subsist on dried fish hearts when there is no hay. to haul heavy burdens on sledge, and finally to serve as food for the dogs, having taker, this food into the far north on Its own feet. This spares the dogs. Sparing the dogs is everything with Baldwin.' Where other have fixed sev enty and seventy-five pounds as the I burden a dog should pull, Baldwin re duces it to fifty and fifty-five pounds. He thinks some of his predecessors havi- failed more because of their over burdened dogs collapsing than because of anything else. POSTAL CURRENCY. In Washington ba been started a movement to discontinue the use of postage stamps for comm'erclal pur poses by substituting a kind of postal currency. The plan proposed Is that the government, through the postoffice department. Issue a stamp to be used for sending through the malls--as frac tional currency these stamps to be of seven denominations, vlx: one cent, two cents, three cents, five cents, ten cents, twenty cent and fifty cents; these seven stamps can be used to make any amount to one dollar or less, stump to be Issued to every postoffice and sold on demand to any person the same as the ordinary postage stamps. To send them through the malls In payment of merchandise or otherwise, the sender would be required to pur chase of the postmaster a stub or sheet of paper about the size of a money order blank, provided with space for affixing seven stamps. This stub would be sold at two cents and would be postmarked by the postmas ter who Issues It; the purchaser affixes the stamp, r,o signing or anything of the kind being necessary, encloses the stub, with the stamps affixed, , to any person he desires. The receiver pre sent the stub at the postoffice and receives In exchange cash at face value of the stamp. However, the redemp tion of these stamps will only be made at what Is known as a presidential or office of the first, second or third class. This limit th redemption to about flv thousand offices, and serves all practical purposes. The stamp sent to purchase goods or pay smsll demands go to ths largs office and art sent from th smsllsr ones. The stubs or stamps will b cashed without identi fication, and In money aad not ex chsnfss for postsg stamp, Ths mar chant wsald than got oaah far Ms LUCK," DO swanwi A Bin mil I SArt HBO BUBSf goods and would not have t assume t the risk as at present In disposing of his stamps at a discount or hcephig the mon hand to be stuck together or of having denominations that cannot be used, and which the government will not redeem. SOLDIERS' CLOTHING IN ALASKA The American soldier In Alaska would hardly be recognized by his comrades of the army who are stationed in less rigorous climes. The military occupa tion of Alaska presented a net prob lem as to the best style of clothing to protect the men in garrison or on the trail from the extreme cold, says the Youth's Companion. , The fur and other heaw Hothi, furnished to troops at the mns mt. ern posts of the state was Inadequate for the purpose, and a supply Uat of extra heavy clothing was made up for AiiuiKan service. The cost of this ex tra supply was about thirty dollars for each man. Based upon experience, ths the Alaskan soldier this year constat of a double-breasted canvas Maakt lined peajacket, blue In color, with trousers of the same canvas, aiso with a blanket lining. A muskrat cap of -improved pattern ftnlshe the costume, the ear-flaps In front hein .n . to cover the cheek bone, and a small detachable fur strap serving to defend the bridge and end of the noss from frost. The lower corners of the flap lap over and faaten by means of a snap so as to cover the chin. For field or trail purposes a garment called a "parka." made of Mac cloth, having a hood trimmed with woffakm and a lining at the cuff of the nam fur has been specially manufactured for these, our northernmost soldiers. Hereafter the muskrat mitten fur nlshed will have the lining sewed In only at the cuffs. The object of this precaution Is. a the Washlttu. explains, to enable the wearer to tarn out the lining and dry it whoa It bo come damp through perspiration. which frequently happens. The regulation heavy woolen under wear worn by other troops having been found by experience too light for pro per protection In Alarka, heavy fleoce lined garments have been Issued. A It I often difficult to communi cate with ths post In Alaska, It has been deemed advisable to keep at least on year1 clothing tupplle ahead of requirement. In addition to thl a rs. erv depot has been established at Fort fit. Michaels, and Is kept wall locked. Mmlle. Adel Hugo, daughter of Vb tor Hugo, who centenary has Jas been observed, I atni living In Paris, but th plsoe is kept secret, asrhb th wish of th family. W eall It "bard cash," bat H hm't so hard sat that It bmIU stray.