Show THE SCIENTIST there are now expeditions from four nations engaged in arctic exploration and the relatives and friends of john M the scientist eclen tiet of the first peary expedition of whom the world read an lost in ia a crevasse believe that be may be still in the laud odthe of the li living and Is liable to again mingle witti his bid acquaint acquaintances arces ina in a more sunny sundy clime than man exists where he be was last seen there is in only a supposition that he is dead but that to Is brought very clute to a certainty irom from the tact fact that he disappeared I in the frozen regions in a locality where the hope of pro longing hit in fur a low lew days without fco being brought in from afar cosay to say nothing of manntai maintal ing an e existence il 1 tor for many mon montrele thele very slight batitis but it is difficult alt for people to give up bole ba e for a relative whose li it sa as is sur eur ra n untied by uncertainty and it if is IH i till alive ano of his hill friends to see him bim again may be gratified the fiory or nis ais life up to the time lime when he be separated from froin ois companions in the north is quite interesting inte he was waa a direct descend nt at of one or of the officers cors of the old swiss guard f parts his father was wag a wealthy merchant merc mere nant of 0 and died while the son was yet in his bis in fancy mrs mra Ver hoeft was a talented lady and gave much care to the training 0 of tit r BOD he is daiil to buve pot be omed idled early in life of a desire dt kireto to engage in ID arctic ex exploration A cor gorrea remi of the buston buaton transcript says in a sketch of ilis HIM cirker he early learned to read tor for himself and delighted in books of travel telling telli his young schoolmates that he meant to go to the north pole he was born with a purpose porpoise in life find and early began to dolly deny himself any taste or pleasure that would conf conflict ilot with ith it he never ate but two meals a day and that of the plainest and most nutritious kind of food he would never wear an overcoat in the chevery th very every coldest weather sleeping at night under but one cover he devoted himself to a rigid course ot of training in the gymnasium strengthening every every muscle and joint of i his body he ro rode a all the way from louisville ky to now new haven conn on his bicycle when he entered yale ool college the first attempt at that time to travel on one all his feats of strength and daring as jumping from roof to roof on a sleety mornin morning in january were but tests of his hia skill skill he was a strong manly brave youth he dared to live alone as he had often done while yet a boy absenting himself for periods period of time testing his strength of endurance in walking in rough places until at last he had required acquired the strength to walk sixty miles a day continuously verb of ff was waa accepted as a a member of the peary expedition and it is said contributed a large sum of money to NY word ward it he was well equipped for the work and was said by bleul peary to have been a faithful and conscientious the theory of his friends la is that when the relief party tok charge of the expedition he was waa averse to return Ingi bome without having accomplished the object for which be set out and barted started oft off alone determined to make an effort to ta breauh the north pole himself and unaided even if this theory toe be correct the chances now are that if jho bo is ever again seen it will be only the mortal tabernacle from which the spirit cirit has loog long since taken its flight |