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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.