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Story of a Whale Cow Thai
Was a Veritable Demon
of Destruction.
A FEARFUL REVENGE.
Her Calf Was Killed by Accident
and It Goaded Her to
Madness.
Oiilj two Out of a Flotilla of Fifty-two
Boat* Kscaped Her Ailark-The Marvel
ous Spee<l Slie Maile From Point to
I'olnt—She Finally lCncapeil Without a
Scratch.
A widely-known and feared devilfish
has. its headquarters' in the Northern
Pacific, mostly along the American
coast, especially affecting the Gulf of
California. This huge creature ia a
mammal, one of the great whale family,
really a rorqual of medium size and
moderate yield of oil. It is a peculiar
characteristic of this animal that it
seems ever on the alert, scarcely ex
posing for one moment its broad back
above the sea surface when rising to
spout, and generally traveling, unlike
all its congeners, not upon, but a few
feet below, the water. A standing or
der, among the whalers is never by any
chance to injure a calf while the moth
er lives, since such an act exposes all
and sundry near the spot to imminent
and violent death. Neglect of this
most necessary precaution, or more
probably accident, once brought about
a calamity that befell a fleet of thir
teen American whaling ships.
One bright morning, the whole flo
tilla of fifty-two boats, four from
each ship, had been lowered and were
making their way as rapidly as possi
ble keeping a bright lookout for
"fish." Spreading out fan wise, they
were getting more anil more scattered,
when about near the center of the fleet
some one suddenly "struck" and got
fast to a fish. Hut hardly had the in
timation been given when something
very like panic seized upon the crowd.
In a moment or two the reason was
apparent. From some cause, never def
initely known, a liarpooner had in
striking a large cow whale trans
fixed her calf at her side with his har
poon, killing it immediately. The
mother, having quietly satisfied herself
that her offspring was really dead,
turned upon her aggressors like a veri
table demon of destruction, and, while
carefully avoiding exposure of her body
to attack, simply spread devastation
among the flotilla. Whenever she rose
to the surface, it was but for a second,
to emit an expiration like the hiss of
a lifting safety valve, and almost al
ways to destroy a boat or complete the
destruction of one already hopelessly
damaged.
Every blow was dealt with accuracy
and an appearance of premeditation
that filled the superstitious Portuguese,
who formed a good half of the crews,
with dismay—the more so, that many
of them could not guess at the original
cause of what was really going on. The
speed of the monster was so great that
her almost simultaneous appearance at
points widely separated made her seem
übiquitous; and as she gave no chance
whatever for a blow, it certainly looked
as if all the boats would be destroyed
seriatim. Not content with dealing one
tremendous blow at a boat and reduc
ing it at once to a bundle of loose
boards, she renewed her attentions
again and again to the wreckage,
as if determined that the destruc
tion should be complete. Utter
demoralization had seized even the
veterans, and escape was the only
thought governing all action. But
the distance to the shore was great,
and the persistence and vigor of the
furious leviathan, so far from diminish
ing, seemed to increase as the terrible
work went on. At last two boats did
succeed in reaching the beach at a
point where it sloped very gradually.
The crews had hardly leaped over
board, to run to their craft up high and
dry, when close behind them in the
shallows foamed and rolled their re
lentless enemy, just too late to reach
them. Out of a large number of well
equipped boats that left the ships that
morning, only these two escaped un
damaged. Most of the men were badly
injured, and six, one of whom was the
unhappy origin of the whole trouble,
were killed outright. The triumphant
avenger of her slain offspring disap
peared as silently as she had carried
on her deadly warfare.
Unfriendly Plnntn.
Fancy two plants being so unfriendly
that the mere neighborhood of one is.
death to the other. Yet this is th©
case with two well-known English
plants. These are the thistle and the
rape. If a field is infested with thistles
which come up year after year and ruin
crops, all you have to do is to sow the
rape. The thistle will be absolutely
annihilated. ,
A Rnaalan IJUcovery.
General Vennkoff, a Russian, has
discovered a magnetic pole of the earth,
or something like it, at Kotchetowka,
in the government of Koursk. The
magnetic needle freely suspended be
comes vertical there; but at sixty feet
from the center it inclines one degree
from the verticsfl.
Would be Popular Here.
In the island of New Britain a man
must not speak to his mother-in-law.
Not only is speech forbidden to hi?
relative, but she must be avoided, and
If by chance the lady is met the son-in
law wins', hide himself or cov«r his
'act.
WENT LOOKING FOR LADUKE
4A Incident in Fotudmn When I lie I«ofj
. o, Driver* Had ISeen l*ai<l OIT.
3When the freshets swell the Adiron
dack rivers they carry northward mil
lions of feet of lumber in the shape of
thirteen-foot logs, freshly cut and
! dothed in bark at the outset, splinter
ed and stripped for the most part when
they reach the sorting boom of some
mill town in the St. Lawrence Valley.
Often for miles one can scarcely see the
surface of the river, nothing but a
Btretch of restless, fidgeting nudging
logs. That is the "big drive," and the
men who wait on the caprices of these
logs from the mountain slope to mill
pond are the "river drivers."
Some fifty of theue river drivers were
paid off in Potsdarii village on a Satur
day night. Within two hours the
■whole gang were drunk and happy,
■with that comprehensive happiness
that comes to an Irishman in the first
stages of intoxication.
Then it was that Jerom.; Petrie, a
ratlike little Canadian shoemaker, con
trived to trip i)ig Mike Donovan he
swung, a trillo unsteadily, around a
corner. Mike hung 011 to the next man
and the whole line went down. A howl
j of rage burst frorti the crowd behind.
' In a flash the merry stage of intoxica
| tion had given away to the furious and
; Jerome was running for his life. He
: made for his own home, and the torrent
! of raging, red-shirted lumbermen pour
| ed into the narrow, dingy streets of
j the Canadian quarter. Then one
yelled:
"Let's clean out tiie whole Canuck
nest."
With a yell the Rang surged forward
against the neareyt. shanty. There
was a shattering of windowpanes, and
the crazy door, hastily barricaded with
household furniture, was giving at the
hinges, when Antoine Laduke came
around the corner. He was a Canadian
blacksmith, only Ave feet four in his
stockings, but with muscles that stood
out like twisted cables on arm and
thigh and shoulder. As he caught the
meaning of the tumult he stooped, lift
ed from the neglected sidewalk a huge,
flat slab of red sandstone and broke
into a trot. He went through that
howling mass like a cyclone through
the woods. When he had mowed one
swath he turned to repeat the pro
cess, but there was no need.
Next day Potsdarj was full of shaggy
men in red shirts with their heads tied
up, looking for Antoine Laduke, in
sincere desire to "treat" him as long as
he would be treated or the remnant of
their pay held out.
The Drift of » Derelict.
In St. Nicholas there is an article on
"Battling with Wrecks and Derelicts,"
written by Gustav Kobbe. Mr. ICobbe
says: If a derelict is full of lumber, she
is like a rock. If water-log; ed. these
silent free-booters cannot be sunk un
less broken in such a manner that the
cargo is released. Fire has been found
! effective ift destroying derelicts. It was
successful in all but four cases in 45.
One of the failures was with the "Fan
nie E. Wolston," an American schoon
er, one of the most remarkable dere
licts of which we have record. She
j was abandoned October 15th, 1891, be
l tween the capes of Virginia and Hat
teras. She drifted about half way
across the Atlantic (the Hydrographlc
Office received numerous reports of
her), her course veering to the south,
until she was about opposite Madeira.
There she zigzagged until February, j
1 803. Then she drifted south until j
May of that year. From May until |
early in 1594 she was drifting towards
the Bahamas. February Ist she was
about north of Nassau. On the pilot
chart for June, 1894, she is located on
the eastern border of the Gulf Stream
and southeast of Cape Hatteras. In
June, 1894, she had been a derelict 950
days, and had drifted over 7,000 miles,
the longest track of the kind 011 record,
to find herself within a few miles, com
paratively speaking, of the point at
which she was abandoned.
l.amot I'minoii in lliv World.
The largest cannon in the world was
taken by the British when India was
conquered. The cannon was cast
about the year 1500, and was the work
of a chief named Cliuleby Koom.v Khan
of Alimednugger. The inside of the gun
is fitted up with seats, and is a favorite
place for British officers togo for a
quiet noon-day smoke.
VnrniMli Tlint Wi-nr*.
Tiie Persians in 51C B. C. invented a
; transparent glass varnish, which they
Ilaid over sculptured rocks to preserve
them from bad weather. The coating
j has lasted to our day, while the rocks
i beneath are honeycombed.
Uneer liiMurnnce Claim.
{ A Yarmouth man was smoking a
pipe when a spark dropped Into the
tuck of his trousers and burned a hole.
He made a claim for loss under his fire
insurance policy and the company paid
the damage.
The Shovel Fifth.
i The shovel fish is so called because it
< uses its nose to turn over the mud at
j the bottom of the sea in quest of the
j worms and small shellfish 011 which it
j feeds.
Only n Pew Left.
There arc only 3,842 left of the Ainu
|of Japan—the true aborigines'of that
j country. Nearly all of them live on
I the northern island of Yezzo.
U'atliine Mnile E««>.
j Washing is dono in Japan by get
itlng Into a boat and letting the gar
nente to be washed drag after the boat
jy a lose string
A iSLIiE UMBRELLA.
"Colonel, why did you never marry?"
If a cyclone had struck the sharp-fea
tured mini who aat with his feet elevat
ed upon the iron railing of the veranda,
it could not have caused him to start
up more quickly.
"Harry, what made yon ask me that
question?"
"Why, nil men mar; ( \: that, i.s, men
of means or—anyhow tlicv should mar
ry."
"But you are not 'married."
"And for a good reflaou; I am not
ahle."
"Hut you could Mijipor, a very com
fortable household if you were not—
well. what yo i are," -aid the
Colonel, as he nun oil away.
"Ah! Hold on, (. j'ioik!! Do not leave
me in that —he's
The other, paying; no attention to his
words, went down the broad xteps and
walked away into the moonlight.
"I know what lis means; he might
just as well fold m< in so many words
—spendthrift! Hajig it all! Ah, well!
Life is too short to fret over mistakes
gone anil done for. lCdlt'.i Lisle is a—
here shi mes now."
Was it «.!c* tap-tap of tiny feet or the
frou-frou of snow;- SK.rts that made
Harry Lancaster's heart throb tumul
tuously. Rising, 'ie tossed his cigar
away, lifted his l»it and offered the
charming creature in white a chair.
"Do not disturb yourself, Mr. Lancas
ter; I merely for a brief walk up
and down th» vc ■ da."
"If you will no. lost here for a few
moments, will you permit mo to offer
you my arm for tfce stroll?"
She laid her dainty hand upon his
arm. and the pair .roiled slowly to the
farther end of the "randa; they turn
ed to retrace the!; steps when (Cditli
said:
"Was not that a Hretly? Over there
among the bushes to the left? See,
there it is again ;nd such a glowing
one, too!"
"It may be a fi;eily, but it is my
opinion that Co!. Drake, of the Regu
lars, is smoking a cigar out there
among the showdowns," said llarry.
"Is that charming old bear here?"
she suddenly asked, allowing her hand
to slip from the otter's arm.
"He came this alternoon."
"And as 1 was net down to tea, I did
not meet him."
"You seem to b<- jcquainted with the
Colonel, Miss Lisle,"
"Fairly; but rea.'lj i ought not to
have spoken so shockingly a ban: a very
fine gentleman. lie i.s quite engaging—
but I detest that absurd idea about his
strange umbrella."
"Umbrella? What umbrella, may I
ask?" inquired Harry, puzzled at her i
remark.
"Col. Drake possesses a blue, old
fashioned umbrella which is suppos
ed to be a very potent love-charm or
something like that. Plainly, so it is
told, when he invites a lady to share its
shelter against the rain, her heart is
won forever. Strange, i; it not?"
"Absurd! Have you ever'
"No, not yet."
"I should not like you to accept its '
shelterever—thot:g!i I do not believe .1: '
such silliness," softly said Harry.
If she understood his meaning she
was coy of acknowledgment, for, lifting
her hand to his arm again, the i»air re
sumed the stroll.
The next morning Harry Lancaster's
heart sank when he looked from the
window and tlic leaden clouds
scurring along the darkened sky.
When he entered the'dining-room he
saw that Miss (.isle's chair was va
cant. Ah! t!:- Colonel's chair, too,
was vacant' Over his coffee Harry
made the resolve to make a Ureal; be
fore night. He would ask her for that
dainty white hand.
After breakfasting i. wont 10 the
smoking-room and seated himself near
a window-overlooking the white stretch
of sand, the curlins waves and l'oam
capped billows beyond.
Ah! A couple approached from the
beach. The gentleman carried a blue
umbrella!
It w-as the Colonel's blue umbrella; it
was the Colonel, but —who was the
lady?
"Miss Lisle, by heavens! Pshaw! I'm
a fool to think there is anything
strange about this. What do I care
about the blue umbrella and its potent
love charm?"
Two hours afterwards, Kdith Lisle
blushed as Harry Lancaster asked her
a question. She recovered quickly and
said softly:
"Mr. Lancaster, the potency of the
blue umbrella is not a fiction. He is a
charming gentleman, and—always did
like soldiers. I-—1 thank you, and well
—I simply said yes under the blue um
brella, and I hope we shall - remain
friends."
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■
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HUGHESVILLE.
Our Declaration of War
Has been in effect for a number of
years and our
Bombardment of High Prices
Has created havoc of late in the sale of
MOWING MACHINES, DRILLS, HARROWS,
PLOWS, LUMBER WAGONS, BUGGIES,
and ROAD WAGONS
all at the lowest cash price.
I PHOSPHATE, ThiJty tons of different grades will be
sold at a low figure.
W.E. MILLER, Sullivan County, Pa.
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flsk no Questions
Why We Sell So Cheap.
All We Ask You
is to eome and examine our large Kail and Winter stock of Clothing, Shoes
and Ladies' Coats and Capes, and convince yourself about our prices being
the lowest in thif> section.
Thousands of people have been convinced that we are the lowest priced
store and we surely appreciate your trade. We are always studying about
giving the best eoode at the lowest prices. Read and see for yourself.
ileus black suits at 2.70. Youth's suits at 2.50. Children's suits
well made, at 1.25. Overcoats in black and blue, best ever offered, at 5.00
Children's overcoats at J.25. Knee pants, 35c, arc strictly all wool.
Top undershirts at wholesale prices. Heavy cotton undershirts
at 25c.
LADIES' COATS AND CAPES
at prices when you see them you will surely buy them. Shoes (or
ladies. Shoes for men. Shoes for misses and children, ai special
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