Show WALTER WAI ELLMAN PAILS TAILS AGAIN Once more Walter Waiter has gone sone up toward the North pole looked out over 01 the sea of ot ice and the region of or cold and has started home with failure written all over him How Bo long he will bo be able to con capitalists into providing outfits for him cannot now be told But Dut there thero is not one chance in ten thousand that he lie will willever willever ever seriously attack the problem of oC polar search One of or the most biting blUng things ever said of an adventurer adventurer adventurer ad ad- into tho time north was said fald of or cIlmon after his fir first t fiasco In this enterprise His farthest north was the summer quarters of the Scan Scandinavian fisherman Wellman Tellman Is a n good deal eal of or a puzzle In 1802 1892 ho he beguiled James W. W V Scott then chief owner of oC the Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago Herald Into sending him down Into the West Yest Indies with a monument to mark marl the first actual landing place of Columbus on American soil lIe He selected Cat Island ISland and there on one hot afternoon unveiled an and dedicated lie tho monument And the affair was forgotten 0 forever I I Besides scholars do not at all agree with him hum as to time the I point on eu which Columbus first trod tho the soil son of the time Y Western West West- st I era ern hemisphere Time and again since then ho has hns secured financial assistance In iii fitting out a a. vessel with which ho promised to hunt for tor the North polo pole pol In each instance he lie has received plenty of or advertising all over the time world and then has abandoned the enterprise on time the slimmest sort of or pretext Ills last venture was with a balloon lIe Ho Is Isi i always going to make malc a dash for tho the pole polo And it ft en ended e Just as tIme the others have The Time best exploited fakir In Christendom orn Is coming back to AmericaNo America No o man has an any business searching for the North orUl pole unless ho lie realizes the serIousness of tho the project ItIs It ItIs Itis Is not a n re region lon to be bo dealt with Jauntily There Itero is tho ho everlasting o cold cold cold-cold cold of or such a degree and persistence I that only the natures can bear beat it and live IIvo There Is no imo use getting gay s-ay with a a. frigid climate There Thero Is no imo use di dashing at it TIme The project Is too big too difficult too perilous No Xo man will wll ever reach tho the polo pole with Wellman an tactics The They aro are not heroic enough h They ate are not tho the out outgrowth of a a. sufficiently serious appreciation appreciation of or what the lie undertaking taking means Wellman Is a good correspondent for fOl newspapers newspapers- and that Is his limit He lie Is 15 a n capital gatherer o of news at Washington He lie enjoys the confidence ence of or man many men prominent in iii politics and amid commercial a affairs rs That Is his work Hunting the time North orth pole is not nis work lIeIs lIeis lie lieIs Is not tough lough enough He lie cant can't stand pain Iain ant and privation discomfort and toll loll He lie has no great resources of that sublime courage with which tho the explorer must arm him him- self solf Ho lIo has no imo business beyond the tho reach of ot a l bathtub and a ballet ballel a a. good dinner and the ability to let go goof goof o of or an anything unpleasant ant lie He isn't game |