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Show THE WELLMAN PLAY, When Mr. Wellman started on his alleged al-leged effort to cross tho ocean to Eu rope iu a balloon, it was shrewdly ob served that probably the Dext thing heard from him would be a cloud of voluble excuses why he did not succeed in tho trip. It wag naturally supposed that he would drift along tho New Kng land coast, reach Nova Scotia, or New Brunswick, or possibly New Foundland. and there be "rescued" so as to avoid the real start across the ocean It seems, however, that Mr. Wellman took another turn altogether, and skirted the south coast of the country, apparently headed for South America. He does not seem to have got very far out of the sight of land or away from the regular course of shipping, so that whenever he wanted to ho could hail a vessel and be taken in and brought home. There is no surprise in tho Wellman failure. There is no surprise in the volubility of the excuses of why it was a failure. The only surprise is that the "rescue" should be in a direction altogether al-together unexpected. Wellman is n great fnker so far as ballooning is concerned. He had better rpiit it and stick to the political arena, where his .judgment wns often remarkably remark-ably accurate nnd sound |