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Evening star., 1894-03-10
Hudson Bay Slcdge.

down. We do not know of any consistency
OF snow or slush that 1t will not pass over
Moreover, our sledges are boats as well
sleds. They may be facetiously but not in
north pole" Ordinarily loads are lashed
upon sledges in skins, tents or tarpaulin
loads must go in the boats, for fear OF
wettinE and spelling the provisions. This
takes time and labor. When the summer
Is we'll advanced the pack is full of ice
openings or leads of water, and ferriages
are frequently necessary. We shall not find
II necessary to unpack our sledges for this
purpose nor to transfer their loads to the
boats. Again. in midsummer the surface
OF the foes is covered with sush and with
beautiful lakes of fresh water from few
inches to foot or more in depth. Straight
through these lakes Parry marched with
MS boats, but with his SledgeS he had to
make long detours in order to avoid wet
ting the food with which they We're laden.
Ready for Ice, Slush or Water.
Our sledges are boats all the time, and
no transformation scene shifting is neces-
sary to convert them from one into the
other. Our provisions, fuel and general
supplies We pack in light but wonderfully
strong cases of aluminium, made to fit
the sledges and dashed thereto. These
cases are water tight and are made large
enough to give a displacement sufficient
to float the sledge and in its entire load in
" ater. loaded sledge will weigh about
SIX nuHureu POUNDS at the beginning or our
journey; the contents of the cans meas
ure about fifteen cubic feet, equivalent to
nearly a thousand pounds of sea water.
When fully loaded the sedges will be
only two-thirds submerged in water and
will be non-sfnkable. Our precious stores
of food and fuel are, therefore secure from
loss or injury and we believe we can
modestly say our sledges are the best and
most perfectly adaptable to the
for which they are intended that were ever
employed in arctic exploration.
WALTER WELLMAN.
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Sayer's SleGge Packed fO4 Ir-.Ve..
Ice, weiGhing untold millions of tons. coming
Down with the wind and the current-Great
expanSes ot ice large enough to cover states
OF our MON. and with more behind-pro-
uuce the force that is wellnigh infinite
ANY one can understand what the result is.
Whatever lies between the contending
Iorces Is ground into powder. The surface
OF the sea, instead of being covered with
smooth. level ice. resem bles a stone-yard,
except that the masses thrown up and toss
eu ShOut amid this late autumn or early
winter pressure are larger than the heav-
ieSt pieces Of stone used by the builder
BetWeen these Upneaved masses many OF
them rising like houses from the level of
the SEA. VIII be deep pockets filed with
orffted Snow
IraEel oVe- such a road as this is not i'm
possible. but it is exceedingly difficult If
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graphs.

They are much like a set of college
students and they exchange with one an
other. The result is that Washington is
a city of photographers. We have some
of the best artists in the United States
here, and c. NJ Bell, who died a short
time ago, took many photographs of
the famous men of today any pho
tographer in the United States. He had
n gallery on the road to the Capitol and
for the past twenty years he has pho
tographed the leading men of the coun-
try His chief operator. Mr.. Dodge still
presijes over the gallery. He is bright
young man of forty, who is much noted for
his artistic ability a poser His long,
slender fingers have grasred the heads of
the prettiest of our society women and the
most famous of our statesmen for the last
fifteen years. and his stories as TO how
these great people look and act before the
camera very interesting. 1 chatted
with him for an hour yesterday. Said he:
The biggest men of the United States are
by no means nervous when in front of the
camera. They are generally plain practical.
common-sense people. They come into the
gallery pose for their pictures and leave,
and we have much more trouble with the
little five-cent fellows than with them. l
have posed President Cleveland a number
of times. If everybody acted as well as he
does could always take good pictures.
He has no suggestions to make, leaves him
self almost entirely in the hands Of The op-
orator and Is what we call very good
subject. Some of the pictures which have
been sold of him throughout the United
States have been taken here. His pictures
have had a great sale and there is a good
demand for them still"
Evening star., 1894-03-10
HE HAD HIS WAY.
Portuguese Statesman Who Did As
He Pleased and Was Happy.

He Pleased and Was Happy.
From the New Sun.
Antonio Viscount de Soto Major, Portu-
guese ambassador to Sweden for more than
a generation, died at his post in Stockholm
three weeks ago. Like many other success
full diplomatists, he owed his high appoint
ment to his ability to make his colleagues
at home uncomfortable. Although of very
old family and of remarkable intelligence
and refinement, he had the reckless dash of
a cowboy and was a constant terror to his
political friends in Lisbon.
Soto Major entered political life in the
fifties. after he had squandered great sums
of money in Paris and had tried vainly to
make a living by editing the Lisbon Tribune.
He became known soon as the readest and
most forcible speaker in the chamber of
deputies, where he eventually led the oppo-
sltion parties. One day he denounced the
finance minister spendthrift. The Ii
nance minister answered that such
proach did not come well from man who
had squandered a whole fortune.
THAT is falSe!" exclaimed Soto Major. II
suuandered three fortunes. But was squan-
derng my own, while the finance minister
is squandering other peoples money
The cause for his removal to the other end
of Europe was given by the viscount soon
afterward. The government deputies inter-
rupted repeatedly a speech which he made
against the cabinet and the president of the
chamber ordered him to leave the speakers
tribune. Soto Major left the house, but re-
turned soon with pistol case in his hand
He ascended the speakers tribune, took two
pistols from the case and laid one at his
right hand, the other at his left.
This pistol he said. laying his hand on
one of them. .'is for you, Mr.. President, if
you again call me to order. And this he
added, pattinS the other, ''iS for the next
deputy who interrupts me-" The speech that
followed this declaration was delivered to
silent house. A few weeks later, however,
Soto Major was gazetted for the Stockholn-
embassy, and so vivid was the recollection
of his last notable appearance in the cham
Der of deputies that there was never any de-
mand for his recall to Lisbon.
In Stockholm the old viscount was a great
favorite His cleverness, generosity and gal
lantry to women were proverbial in the dip
lomatic corps of the Swedish capital. After
the fire of his impulses began TO burn low
he became a noteworthy figure at all charity
festivals. Every child knew the history of
the wiry ,white-bearded little man in clothes
of old-fashioned elegance. His odd jewelry,
his wonderful store of craVatS ana his
habits of medieval courtesy rendered him
the most attractive curiosity of Swedish
court life. To the last he was the ideal
spendthrift. Only a few months ago n
woman with whom he was talking at a ball
dropped her cab fare from her glove The
viscount at once drew a $40 bank note from
his pocket and lighted it as to help her
find the lost JU-cent piece.
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An Odd Cure for FafnrfnR.

from the London Globe.
In the current number Of the Law Times
some interesting stories are told OF the
late Baron Parke, afterward Lord wens-
leydale. His love of the law is illustrated
by the anecdote OF his apologizing TO a
hostess for his late arrival at a party, on
the ground that he could not tear himself
away from a beautiful demurrer" His
passion for fresh air was such that on buy
ing a handsomely furnished house his first
order. IL is said, was that all the bed posts
should be sawed down, and the next that
all the bed curtains should be burned. At
Exeter he insisted ventilation in a
wholesale way, which wrought havoc with
counsel and jures.
The best story Of Baron Parlxe is per-
haps that which tells how once. when sum-
moned TO advise the lords. he was seized
with a fainting fit in the middle of his ar
gument. Various remedies were applied
without avail. At last a happy thought
occurred TO one of his brethren, who well
knew his peculiar temperament He
rushed into the library. seized a large
musty volume Of old statutes. rushed back
and held il TO the nostrils of the patient.
The effect was marvellous. He at once
opened his eyes. gave them rub. and 10
a few seconds was as well as ever.
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the galleries. Senator Voorhees, keeps his
eyes upon them while he is making his
speech Senator German. looking as though he
had come out of a band box, perceptibly
poses great part of each session, and
Senator Matt Ransom of North Carolina
would go into a tit if his cuffs did not go
at least an inch below his sleeves. When
Senator ingalls, was in Congress he spent
much time in arranging the red hanlker-
chief which always peeped out of mis- left
coat pocket, and old Senator Morrill,,
though he has written book on the vanity
of statesmen, is proud of his position as
the oldest man in the Senate. Senator
Wolcott has the distinction Of wearing
more new clothes than any man in the
chamber and it used to make Vice Presi-
den Morton angry to have it insinuated
that his wig was not made of natural hair.
Our public men of today are very par,fc-
ular as to what the newspapers say about
them. The most of them keep scrap books
in which they paste all clippings concerning
themselves, and the volumes of this kind
which belong to President Cleveland would
make a library. A curious evidence of the
vanity of great men is found in their pho
tographs. The most extensively photo
graphed man today is the Emperor of
Germany. He has his pictures taken every
week, and you could paper room with
his likenesses which the camera has taken
from his boyhood up to the present time.
Next to him, perhaps, comes Bismarck,
and after Bismarck, Gladstone. AS to
American statesmen, nearly every member
of Congress has his photograph on sale at
one or another of the galleries here. He
reaps no profits through the sales but
they are usually sold with his consent
congressman buy a great many photo
graphs.
Evening star., 1894-03-10
Onc of Our Aluminium siedgcs.

Wherever the southern border of the pack
u there our real journey begins AT once
We start for the north. The kagnSvaid
Jarl is not Immediately to leave us, how
ever Her orders will be to remain in ice
harbor at the edge of the pack or cruising
near by for week or ten days. This pre-
caution is taken in view of the possibility
OF change of plan on our part. Often the
path quickly changes its aspect IN this re-
gion- Where yesterday was solid ice,
heaped up in hummOcks and irregular
masses. today may be leads or canals of
water. with the detached masses-Some as
big the worlds fair grounds, others the
size of townships or even countias-drifting
IN one direction or another, but most like
ly to the west and south toward the great
Greenland current which sweeps out of
the Arctic ocean. Such an occurrence as
this, within a few days after the COM
nencement Of our journey. might make
a change of plan desirable. We could press
on, hoping soon to pass beyond the region
of detached masses and get upon the main
Ice solid pack, We could fall back
upon our waiting steamer and in her. per-
haps. press through the broken ice to the
main pack. Our course in such an emer-
cency viii he governed by circumstances.
The point is that one alternative is pro-
vide1 for by the presence near by of our
Steamer.
But the chances are very strong that we
shall find the pack solid and inmovabe.
In four seasons out of five. as nearly as the
writer could learn from the Norwegian
hunting vessel captains with whom he talk
the most part. intact during the month of
May. Nor is there a strong current to the
north of SpitzberSen. Hunting ships caught
IN the ice have drifted first in one direction
end then another. Sir Edward Parrys
ship. the Hecla, !rifted about, to all the
points Of the compass, for three weeks in
May. 1S2I. Later in the summer. perhaps.
the current moves sluggishly to the west,
but in May. a rule. it has neither pro-
nOUnced direction nor any considerable
force
4 Rough Road to Travel
Our expectation is that We shall find the
pack. when we first enter it. rough road
TO travel. All our calculations are based
upon the worst that is possible, and not
the best. Any change whatever will be in
our favor. When this great pack comes
down from the north in the late autumn
and drives against the land or the shoal, 1t
Is as IL irresistible force we're in col
hSiOn with an immOyable body. The land,
OF course is fixed, and the vast fields OF
Evening star., 1894-03-10
HIS PISTOL PLAY FELL FLAT.
An Election Day Episode in the New
Town Of Valentine.

From the New York Sun.
when 1 was stationed at old Fort Kear-
ney," said the colon=l. II became ac-
quainted with two Englishmen in Kearney.
Both were cockneys, and had great times
mixing up their his. One was a real estate
agent, the other livery stable keeper. The
real estate man added n sort OF banking
business to his other work. and gave him
self the airs and swing Of gentleman-I
mean in the English sense. The hveryman
was a big-iisted brawler and n bully. He
was always getting into tights, AMI almost
always he got the best Of his antagonist
In some indeiinable way the impression got
around Valentine .hat .he banker Was a
coward. No one had ever seen him put to
the touch, and he was a peaceable man
who was never in any of the numerous
rows which made quiet almost unknown
in Valentine.
Both these Englishmen went into the
Both were republicans, und usually both
worked very hard for the success of the
ticket. But it happened that one fall they
split. The liveryman was for ;he regular
ticket, but the banker boltad. Zach pulled
every wire he knew aow - pull, and the
fight was hot Things got lively that
the talk dnftei from the chances Of the
candidates to the prospects, of a personal
encounter between the two Englishmen
The liveryman boasted that IL he caught
the banker he'd "ammer' ell nour of i'm
Perhaps il suited the BANKERS purpose to
avoid the big-fsted liveryman, who was
certainly more than mis- equal physically:
perhaps it was just accident; but at any
rate they did no. meet unIil the morning
of election day. The voting was brisk
and the polling place was crowded The
liveryman and the banker were hustling for
votes as nard as they could, but IL was not
until about 10 O'Clock that they met face TO
face.
THE instant that they met hush fell
over the room. 1t WAS as il every man was
holding his breath. Only few couli see
what was going on. The Others seemed TO
act from sympathy. AS the Englishmen
faced each other, without word the
hveryman drew from his pocket a
at the banker The muzzle was so close
to the bankers nose that IL would have
made him cross-eyed to look at IT,
The bankers gaze was directly into the
eyes of the liveryman. Every bit OF color
had left his face 1t was as still. as death
nearest the Englishmen Seemed rars.yzed.
Not one lifted hand to grab the revolver.
For an instant IL was a ;RbleaI. Then, in
a clear, distinct voice, with .he cockney
accent more than ever pronounced the
banker said:
You damned miserable coward. you
daren't shoot
1T was the cutting OF the string that
held the puppets. In a fraction of a sec
ond, before the liveryman could move "a
muscle, before he could fairly realize what
the banker had said to him, a dozen men
had grabbed for his revolver In was
snatched out Of his hand and he was
banker took one of his frien Is by the arm
and went out for drink. while the men
who stayed in the polling rlacc revised
their opinion of his nerve"
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that Gen. Grant once stood in his gallery
when plate of glass heavy enough to
have killed horse fell out of the skylight
and was shattered In pieces at his feet
Grant did not move muscle, but Edwin
NJ. Stanton, who had come down With
Grant to see the picture taken, grew as
white as sheet. He grabbed Brady by
the arm and said: Don't say a word about
this or the newspapers will say that il was
plan TO assassfnate Grant" Brady took
the last picture of Gen. Jackson. 1t was
at the Hermitage. He has taken pictures
of Albert Gallatin. and just before John
z. Calhoun died he was photographed by
Brady. Brady told me that he called upon
Calhoun in his rooms near the Capitol He
was surprised to find that Calhoun knew
quite as much about the science of pho
Biography as he did. He took President
Lincoln just before he was elected to the
presidency. Lincoln's collar was large
and his long neck looked scraggy Brady
went up to him and pulled up his shirt
collar, and Abraham Lincoln said: "Ah
1 see! You want to shorten my neck"
Evening star., 1894-03-10
TORQUATO TASSO'S LOVE.
A story Which Has Been Kept Secret
for More Than Three Centuries.

From the Berlner Boersen-COurier.
The following communication has been
sent to us concerning our notice of THE
Dialogue of Love-" the hitherto unpublished
work of Torquato Tasso:
1.-The volume has been published by Roux
in Turin. The manuscript was discovered
at the sale of one of the largest private
libraries of old Bologna. and was written,
undoubtedly, in iJI2 or 1913. 1t contains Il
description of Tasso's love for 14ucretia, the
Duchess of Ur5inO and clears fully the
mystery which before concealed the motive
of his sudden departure CT fight frCm the
den return.
THE dialogue is carried on by two friends.
Valerie and Camille. Valerie loves a lady
of the court, Lucretia, hut cannot reach his
what he al t. obtain the favos of Dina
Isabella. Camille then gives mis- experience.
He says that -. first neither requests nor
prayers nor threats Helped lis suit, Then
he resorte ! TO ircS.-y. lie climbed through
her bed .oom window one night threw ma
self at her feet ild thre ltcnai 10 Kill ftm-
self instantly t. sne did no. .sraat him her
favor She yialle1, at frs from fear, later
from love- The days i'tsSed il LnGIlln,ed
happiness until isabeil1's mother discoNer
cd that the young woman WIS untathful
t. her husband. The mother tried to Iart
the tcvers but when she saw that the
she relented and even encouraged their mu
tual attachment. But lsabelia'S mother
was not the only one who knew of the of
fair. 1sabella's confessor learned all, and
he sought to punish the crime which the
mother had overlooked. lie refused to give
Isabella absolutfon until her lover should
leave the court. And Camille left. With
loves longing and loves sickness in his
heart he remained for months and years
far from the court. isabella's picture was
ever before him; Isabelll's face haunted his
dreams; and suddenly he appeared again at
court. Isabella received him with all her
former love. For what is the happiness of
heaven? asks Camille, compared with the
happiness of love%
with this plot is mingled good advice of
all sorts for lovers and those who wish to
be lovers-advice which will be accepted as
thankfully today by the public it was by
Valerie, who, in observing it, eventually
reached his goal.
THAT TOrquato Tasso himself was Camil-
10 and the Duchess of Urbino was Isabella
is virtually beyond all doubt. The fact is
evident in the many minute details which
mark the plot of this fiery work.
Evening star., 1894-03-10

What other Presidents have you taken?"
"Quite a number" was the reply. Il
have made a number of pictures of Presi-
dent Hayes He was pleasant man to
meet and common in his ways. He never
notified us that he was coming, but would
walk into the gallery and say, I want my
photograph taken He was as clay in the
hands of the potter and allowed US to pose
him AS we wished. President Hayes had a
face with full beard, and this kind of
face always gives a good likeness. He or
dered many pictures and both his and Mrs
Hayes pictures sold we'll Mrs. Hayes as
next to Mrs. Cleveland, the best selling
subject we have ever had"
Tell me something about Mrs. Cleve-
land as poser.
TT is not difficult to take Mrs. Cleve-
lands photograph. She submits herself to
the photographer and allows him to choose
her poses. l remember the first time she
Evening star., 1894-03-10

But the reader may be interested in
knowing to some extent what our plans
are and what the details of our equip
ment. that he may the better form his
own idea of the amount OF success which
We are likely TO meet. At any rate, IL will
afford an opportunity to contrast our plans
with our performances. Just where We
shall encounter the southern edge Of the
ice pack is unknown. Sometimes in early
summer, the pack hangs down upon the land
In latitude so degrees, some fifteen or twen-
ty miles from our headquarters. In other
seasons it lies considerably to the north. at
81 1-2 degrees. 81 degrees or even higher.
On the I4th of May, 1906 Scoresby, the
famous Scotch whaler. sailed along the edge
Of the pack to the north of Spitzberger TIL
he had reached latitude 81 IL degreesS and
at that point the ice was still .rending to
the northeast. II Scoresby had been after
the pole he might have sailed on to latitude
81 or possibly So; but he was after whales.
and he then turned back.
Should We be so fortunate as to have n
season like that of 1906 1t will be much in
our favor; for in that case our steamer will
take us from fifty to one hundred miles on
our journey-a tremendous help in a coun-
try where every mile of advance costs SO
much effort, But these favorable seasons
DO not occur very OFTEN, ana we expect 10
be compelled to leave the steamer and take
TO the pack at or very near the land, or
about the S0th parallel Seven hundred
statute miles of unknown deserts Of ice Will
lie between US and the pole
At the Edge of the Dreadful Pack.
The edge of the ice pack may be as calm
rs a May morning; il may be furious with
the rage of the surf and turbulent with
rolling and tossing masses of ice. II the
weather be fine We shall have little din
Guilty in disembarking with our outtit; if 1T
Is stormy We must do one of TWO things -
run our steamer within the edge of loose
ice till We reach water that IS protected
from the swell of the ocean by the outer
barrier, or await more propitiOus moment.
Probably the former alternative viii be
chosen, because the Ragnsvald Jarl Is built
Tor just such work this, and it Is nearly
always easy to run far enough within the
pack TO find a harbor behind the reef of ice
which is left seward. In storms many 4
ship has been deliberately run within the
edge OF the pack to find there safe refuge.
Evening star., 1894-03-10
BEFORE THE CAMERA
How Statesmen, Generals and Judges
Are Photographed.
The VANITY OF PUBLIC MEN
President Cleveland in the Photo
graph Gallery.
TALKS WITH PHOTOGRAPHERS
TALKS WITH PHOTOGRAPHERS
Written for The Evening Star.

ANlTY OF VANI-
ties, all is vanity"
saith the preacher.
The prophet of the
Bible could not look
down from the press
galleries of Congress
W j t h o u t repeating
this sentence. Half
of the public men of
today are packed full
of self-conceit. A ba-
ker's dozen Of the
Senators do little
y,xarn shaw -AeA Co.,
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mum sledges weigh only twenty-six pounds
each and could carry 1000 or 800 pounds.
PAYERS sledge weighed $50 pounds. The
ightest sledge used by the English weighed
115 pounds and the heaviest $50. Lieut..
Peary's sledge, with capacity of 1000
pounds. weighs forty-eight pounds We do
not see how one of our sleds can break
Evening star., 1894-03-10
A Had Break.


How did you lose your fiance?"
"Oh, 1 saw papa on the street and said
There goes poor papa"
What should you have said?'
Il suppose l ought to have said: There
goes rich papa"
Evening star., 1894-03-10

~ "A LII L LIZ MtBhE
than rwo months We
expect to begin our
journey over the ice
toward the pole. Bet
ter than any theories
which we may have
as 20 the methods
which We shall adopt
Will be the result of
actual efforts in the
field, and of these We
hope to write for pub
lication in The Star
a few mo1ths hence.