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Show MR. WELLMAN'S "SUCCESS." Mr. Walter AVcllmau has again announced an-nounced that ho abandons for tho year liis alleged attempt to reach tho North Pole by balloon. Jt is curious to see, however, that he wires a success. His telegram recites succinctly that he sturt-cd, sturt-cd, encountered a storm, managed to 'save everything," and concludes, "ship a success. " It is not easy to sco the foundation for this hilarious telegraphing. Mr. Wcllman h;s given out for a year or two past (we think this is the third year of his supposed efforts in this direction) that he had everything arranged ar-ranged for 'a definite aud successful casting off of his balloon, in a search for the North Pole. Every time, however, how-ever, something intervenes, and it does not go. Still, his cheerfulness is in no way dashed or daunted by that, and ho announces every time that- now he has got things just, as he wants litem, everything every-thing is lovcJy, nnd some other time lie will surely go out and find tho North Pole.' We admiro his hopefulness, and trust lhat Mr. "Wcllman 's backers may continue con-tinue to supply It i iii with the funds lhat he requires to make his annual bluffs. They are a humorous diversion from the ordinary humdrum of life, and any season sea-son that thoy would bo wanting would ! be so much dulled by that want. Mr. Wcllman is lucky, indeed, in having a backing that stays by him so well. This backing no doubt understands fully by the experience of tho past that the only way to do anything at all is to stick to it. And this is especially true in Arctic explorations. So wc trust that Mr. Wcllman will never lack the necessary neces-sary money to go to Spitzbergen every summer, have his little fling, send his little Iclcgrams, and then come quietly and safeb" home. |