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Show The Scott Disaster "The five heroes of the triumphant but fatal dash to the Pole are entitled to equal honors, but there are two who must ever bo invested with peculiar interest to a world which appreciates appreci-ates the spirit of manhood at its best. One was Oates. of the Inniskilling Dragoons. The famous fa-mous regiment has won glory on ninny fields, but never higher than that of this solitary member in the Great Lone Land. There was hot-blooded valor enough in the charge at Balknlnvn. But even that must give place to the courage of the man who, sick and helpless and unwilling to be a burden to his thrpe comrades who were fighting fight-ing for their lives, simply said: 'I am going outside for a while.' and went into the darkness of tho polar tempest. "The othor was Scott himself. There has never, we think, been anything quite like his writincr of that, sinmle. lucid, convincing and ingenuously pathetic morituri salutamus. There are few men temperamentally capable of thus writing, with death impatiently fluttering tho tent flap. But ho wrote as calmly and as collectedly col-lectedly as though he were back in London drafting draft-ing tho story for tho Geographical Society- And there could be no man possessed of a nobler spirit than that which moved him to give his last thoughts and his most earnest words to the welfare wel-fare of his surviving comrades. For himself and the few who perished with him there was no repining." New York Tribune. |