Show HERO FROM THE TE ftp NORTH RTH POLE r Fells els of Sp gS en Weeks wih with a Corpse f fOr r Company WITH LU Left lf iii hI R a luC hIilei froll trotti I ill or his Special Correspondence H as during th the month of oC Septem her ber U 1529 that the remnant ot of the Wi Will Willman man polar reached trao having been brought here b the Nor steamer CaDelo Those rhoa who ho sow Mr lr WimAn whoa when ho he started SlY say that they could hll hardly recognize In tho ho thin pale cripple on on the strong man who lef left here one year ur ago Thi This shows that list pOlar expeditions are not pleasure trios by l any means This expeditIon ell did tt hot he have a vessel cuel of af their own 19 as Dr had but bul were ct car ned Into the polar ice Ico by n a hired steamer steam r which returned when the ex cx was landed There were four Cour and four In 10 th tile company compan and wih with dO and s the they penetrated os as far north as 09 possible dung the Iho summer of 1893 and RI as the ho lun sun disappeared und and tall faU net t In I it be Caine necessary to 10 arrange fur tor imitable places to winter and to provide fod food for or Ih do dogs which consisted mainly of at walrus The tour four Norwegians wih with part vort ot of the dos dogs penetrated d abut about sixty rU toIlet tarther north than the lie balance and buit built a very en small hut hul In which to winter and nd ere In procuring In an abundance of dog too food which hl h was S Iton stored on lOP Ion of oC th hut hut In the he In lenG tenso and cold ot of the tho arctic Winter two mel members r of this company deide decIded to retrace their steps to head quartets le The cUU cause Q or of lila move I cannot learn but It wa Au perhaps on IC no count of at some bome The Jour Journey journey ney was mode and now only two mel inca were leC left nt at tho ho front Doth Both of men were from but only on one to tel the horrors ot of that winter r A tre Iliac after they were left Aon alone on one of them tok took nick alck and the care of him and Ih the dogs and guarding against tram from jolar ola bt bears and many other dul now do de upon one man and like 1 a bor born hero be dil dut Abul About Christmas the sick man s seemed med to improve slightly and there thoro appeared hops hopes of his rO rOer er cry but after January first he rapidly and finally died As Ac I nol now si sit chatting wih with Mr BJor BJorvick vick the In fri Lie hIt comfortable home surrounded by his faithful wire wife anti and eight brIght and lovIng children he attempts to relate to me hilt hin feelings nt at the lose 1019 of his nob companion In that hat deathlike oppressive dark neSA and consuming cold lie Ho falls to find words to 10 fully express his emotion but taking one ot of hIs little ones upon hIs knee ho he san anys that hat not even Een lie tho loss of such audi n 0 treasUre could equal the lie loti ioe lie hO felt In being bereft of hiS beloved companion lie III could not to reo mo mown the tho body from the hut hul for it 1 would woul 1 ot at once olice have hIo been torn to pieces fl anti devoured b by wild beasts anti thue It tell fell to his lot to spend even en weeks by the tho Bid aide ot of the co corpse Now Nol that h waA alone he was unable to keep warm and therefore had to bring In two ot of the tho dOlls dogs to keep keell him warm when asleen and for tor company wIlon awake Ivery very now and then polar bears would 1 to 10 get lit itt the food for tor the dogs dOls and being belnA short of ammunition he dared not nol fire more than one shot at each bear Mr this fa failed to kill he would attack Mr Ir Drum with his knife and fight It out h hand 1 to hand hond to n a finIsh Mr Ir Bjorvick says the polar bear In his natural haunts Is liB as whIte a as the tho snow and thus Ihus h lie Is Isa a to move upon his prey unnoticed I had photographed n a polar bear lii In tho Zoo In Copenhagen nha en and remembered that the point of his no nose was alt dUlk daik md and I made mention of this tact Mr Rays that Is true ant the War r knows It and In order that the tho point ot of lila nose nOM shall not nol betray him him when whon he is 19 sneaking upon his hia pre prey ho holds hold one paw flaw In front of at his no nose C In earlY sprIng the tho balance ot of the expedition arrived and the dead dood man woo sao buried n a large lats mound or of rock be beIng belag lag Ing heaped over his last resting place Anti And thus thul ends the tho story ot of another lher life lite contributed to th the ment of dice The expedition then p proceeded northward and hall had reached somewhere where ricer n the parallel when the accident In WhIch Well Wellman man WAS disabled nineteen dogs killed dad a large laree quantity ot of lost Besides th this a number numbu of valuable eel entitle instruments Instrument and a con cott boat WOre were demolished The boat no doubt would have been n ot of value alue to 10 the he expedition It was as con constructed b by the Swedish government for tor Prof Andre anti left at nn an place where It could be found In ca ease It Wile was by reason or of accident to the balloon or oth nl Wellmnn Wellman conclude 1 that thal Andre would never have hao any ony Use US Cor or It and therefore took It along This Thle peculiar behavior of the Ic ice which brought th the carper career ot of time ex exp expedition p to 10 so 0 Gudd n a termination Is Isono isone ono one or of the greatest dangers to be met metIn metin In the rc regIons lons There seems to tobe be 00 no warning but suddenly and so ae companied b by a 0 frightful nol noise the he I great crent mass of lc Ice gives way ot at some somo beIng forced uP some sometimes I times down and often oUen both bOlh There in III majestic and In these mighty forces In nature ot at the eIght and of oC which man stands aghast and disarmed Mr Ir remarked that If he ever eer entertained a 0 doubt ot of the existence ot of n a Creator or of ills HIli protecting care the same ham hll been n forever removed by what h ho has haa d during durin this one r year r In he polar regions I well velt remember tho ho first time I met Mr Ir a 0 few days dllY after atter th the expedition reached ruchell hero hert We had never neer seen n each other before Ills 1119 wife met m me nt at the door and In lIed me In On th the carpet lay a man apparently Ills wife Gently pronounced his name nt at the tho sound of at whIch he sprang prang to his feet and ond seeIng m me grabbed me with both bolh hIS hands lie scorned like port human and part animal with a wild willi unnatural look lonk In hue eves Ills His condition bore elcI evidence nce ot of the Ito ho had endured No Nohe Now he r seems m to be again lie is 18 outspoken In his hie ot of Dr Willman and hi his treatment or of the men inert under his hilt command The expedition j I und Under Understand r stand was fitted out by the New Nest York herald J 1 M Truman Norway Norna DeeP |