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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1926-07-15, Page 6A PITCHED BATTLE BY GEORGE It. COOME.: "There is some man aboard of this via and the Chili's chief mate were ship who is afraid of a whale," said alone free to carry on the 'fight. the "captain of the Magnet, sharply, We pulled up on the port ride of the one afternoon, when three of our boatel now motionless .animal, while he had come alongside, with nothing to Chili's boat took the starboard. show for, severalhours-of hard pull- It was very creditable strategy, and ing; `Sand he'd better be in purgatory calculated to 'confuse the ,enemy, !itis• than here!" he added, with a menacing look at mates and boat-steerers. We had met with one or two rats - haps front whales during the voyage, and he was apprehensive that such accident might inspire in his subordin- ates a feeling detrimental to success. But the remark was unjust; for no ono had as yet shown the white feather, Our lookouts, the next morning, had just reached their stations when they some of Napoleon's operations against the Austrians; but, unfortunately, it was legs successful than the general- ship of the great Corisean. Garvis stood with poised lance at the bows, Lai' me on," he said to Littlefield, who now had taken the steering -oar, "ami I'll have him spouting blood in three minutes!" But just then the creature made a quick movement, slewed around, flukes raised a large sperm.whale, and at' toward us,and, catching sight of the the same time reported a ship beyond other boat, which had approached on him. It being calm, neither vessel the cpposite side of him rushed frtri- could!misty at her, approach 'any nearer.to the game, and threeof the Magnet's four boats were'firnuiediately lowered, the stranger sending off a like number. As the chase was to be only for a single whale, our captain did not take part in it, nor did the master of the other vessel. We were somewhat nearer to the prey than were our rivals, and pulled smartly to prevent all danger of their interference. ' "Somebody afraid of a whale!" mut- In attempting to back water, her mer got panic-stesoken and confused, some of them "ceilbblilp" their oars in the moderate swell. Then seeing the grins pursuer ale 11.1 upon them, all hands plunged overboard to right or Left, while the boat was reduced to a shapeless mass between the huge, ugly jaws. We, however, had meanwhile im- prcted our som_wht•,c meagre oppor- tunity, for Mr. Garvis, finding that he tered Mr.. Garvin, our chief mate, as could not go near enough to use his: ho stood at the steering -oar of his 1 lance, had caught up one of Little- boat.fields harpoons, and; by a tremendous - And it was plain that the captain's l ly powerful dart, fastened to the cont remark of the day before had left a mon adversary as he swung around to soreness upon a mind sensitive in all attack the Chili's boat. matters involving professional honor, The whale started off from the We were going upon the animal` wreck he had made, taking us In tow, finely, but were hardly near enough for a fair dart, when he humped his huge back, upon the very point of sounding. 'Try him, Littlefield, try him!" said the mate, hurriedly, to the short, square -built Block Islander who head- ed our boat. "Quick, now! Give it to him!" t was a long throw, yet Litt:efie:Ale iron was imbedded in the blubber, and Reid! Pull, men, pull!" disappeared with the monster, as, Littlefield pushed his steering -oar with flukes In the air, the old sperm hard a -starboard, and around we turned' head downward and rushed to went, shooting away from the danger. the depths below, leaving a swirl in But soon the whale once more came the place he had occupied, to a stop and lay sullenly sti:I, He had not, however, descended The captain was now close to us. ut had run only a short distance when this iron like our first one, came out. He now stopped short. "Either tired, said the mate, "or hatching more mischief. Yonder conies the captain—a man," he added, "that isn't afraid of a whale!" A moment more, and he exclaimed: "Hullo! Hullo! There he stews again! Round with the boat, .Little - more than fifty fathoms when the har- poon drew out, and we hauled it on board. The boats of the ship Chili— the vessel in sight—had by this time arrived near us, and their men, like ourselves, were keeping a sharp :ook- out for the reappearance of the whale, when, all of a sudden, he broached right among them. In a moment, one of the Chili'e touch the creature's Bode; saw the boats were pulled directly upon hint; lance poised; but before a strolte could and, with the feeling that we were he fairly delivered, the animal swung beaten, we saw the harpooner send around as if on a pivot. Water flew, both his irons in quick succession into oars splashed. the dark and glistening back, "Stern, stern, stern!" was the cap - "Beaten 1" said Mr. Garvis, "They've tam's cry. got him after all! That's too bad!" But it was too late, But, as he uttered the words, there "Jump, men! Junipl—jump!" and was a sharp crash of cedar boards over they all went, the boat being from the direction of the successful crushed like an egg. boat, She was thrown completely ' The captain of the Chili at this mo - out of water, stove along the entire Ment arrived in person, forbidding his length, and turned bottom up. officers to make any further attem t The boat of our third nate was now - "It is madness," he said, `to fight What's the matter, Mr. Garvis" he cried, "Can't you kill that whale? Is he going to smash up all the boats we've got? If he'lI only keep still a minute, I'!! try my hand on him!' ppe rem stern to bow, grasped a lance, and ordered his boat- steerer to lay him on. We saw the head of the boat almost DAME'RACHEL E. C'ROWDY • Chief of the department of social questions and opium traffic o4.1,eague of Nations,. During the war she was prinoipal commandantof the ar.A.D.'s. • The whale turned Instantly • and A a nese Garden. came et,us with a rush, It was singu- lar"A ua ut small formal garden, that 'he'had not once. struck out q i ' with, his flukes since demolishingthe With _a crooked, aliallow stream, Chili's drat boat. And pond "where bine blossoms . In snowy splendor gleam; But we were now alt ready for pull Where little. hills are,buildod ing ahead—there was no "stealing"— To get a view without, ' and this gave us a great uric antag'e, With stepping stones in pathways, The oars bent smartly with the strain And bovvldota atrewm about. we put upon them, and in .a minute or two we were in safety. 9Ulaere stiff, dwarf trees are standing The monster stopped, began spout- In groat pots, row Un row ing blood, went into his flurry and Where peonies` and iris, was soon dead. And silver moonilowers grow; Our ship had lost twoboats, and the There, near` the great bronze lantern, Chili' two, but we had conquered at A bird poolga, crystal clear, last.. The yield of oil—one hundred And yonder, tes of bamboo and siteen barrels—was divided .be Close !a its bit of cheer. tween the Chili and Magnet; —Janet Gargan. 1 may add that, during the voyage, -_; our captain never again made use of the expression which •had once so Domestic Science. touched the sensitiveness of the mate; "There is some man aboard of this "some Mrs. Brown. what a Evpot, t, ship who is afraid of a whale." panandd dish :dity,"Every snot, ._..._-� pan, and is dirty, the table Ina f Excited, perfect litter, and—Why, it will take you all night to clear things up! What t Friend—"Were you excited on your ,have you been doing?" wedding day?" "Sure, mum," explained Jane, "the, Groom—"Excited? Say, I gave the young ladies hes just been showing bride ten dollars and tried to kiss the ire how they bile a portater et their . minister." rookery schooI!" N BOUQUET OF GARDENS There ie that about a garden.whlah Invites friendship: a -ids the frienclehip of a garden leprecioue'thing>. 'What- clobe It manor where the garden 18 or' whet It holds—•if there -be flowers and troes+in 1t=and if so:neffee earee forltl On„the Island, of Guornsey,,where teuksiof iipniv't;,stena cottdgos face one snottier aleMg,th,e reader.thermos just, .epace,onouglt:from the front doorstep teethe sidewalks for thumbnail gar- dens. Ndfvlleee !I • think, • are 'Iiewors, more "profuse' in such a small area, May •-wales- ars' richly' ,embroidered with”ph1o>S -and cinnamon pink, and geraniums; calf gayly 'from the win - In the ,Spectator (Noe 477) Joseph Addison tette us of;hie .garden. "I am 0e tar 'trom being toed of any particu- lae Floater, by reason of its Rarity, •that, if ,Tmeet with anyone, in a Field 'which pleases me, I give It a place in my Garden,' Be taste :Means, when 'Stranger walks with me, 'hes is eu prised to Bee several large Spate o Ground coveted with ten theusand d1f ferent Colors, and• has often Singled out rlowera that he might have . me with; under a •common Hedge,' In Field, or In a Meadow ae some -of th greatest Beauties' of the Place." There is a garden, described' b Cotnpton'l,Tackeezie"in :"The Passion-. ate Elopement." It belongs to an ! whieb he named the Basket of Roses adding it "was�the fairest, dearest In down all that .billowy London road: Conttinulue, he says: "What a garden there was at the back of this glorid inn. The bowling -green aurrouude by four grey walls was the finests eve kpown, and as for the borders. dee borders twelve feet wide, they wer full of every sweet flower. There war Odlumbines and Canterbury, Belle and Blue Bells of Coventry and Lilies and Candy Goldilocks with •Penny flowers or White Sattin and Fair . Maids of. France and Fair Maids of hent and London Pride A Bahama Garden. As :a chlld when I spent summers at my grandmother's in Michigan, I re pall how I directed my small trains down the lanes between the sweet peas that; filled the air with unforgettable fragrance. Zinnias, forgebme-lints and marigolds raisod their: bright faces ram the beds ,and holly hoelrs stood under the windows. What a contrast o -the garden of my Monte In rhe Ba- hamas from whence I had Gomel Attempted Murder.. t seems to me I' must 'pollee my DIaC To save my grounds from bloodshed and disgrace; I never dreamed that suck a scene could start, That even bird;: haveemurder in their Heart,. And last evening-oamo the sounds of strife— • I hurried out in time to save a life, Therese had, beetp,'aocuetemed'to the tea ''rotes ''that seemed atiwaYis' :a-hloa-. eom. We. iiad banks of oleander on one side •and rows' of; sads.'•pink, sal - Mon, yellow :and white hlbiseus: An enormouscbougalnvillea gave`:amass of purple as et lounged at the foot of. the coconut tree.' In another part of Om garden Bermuda Iiltes peeped ort from among vara -colored' Croton' and caladium planta. ' Plnk" Coralea, yellow honeysuckle and uight•jilooming: porous covered the stone walla, a tailing far over into the street.. ; In far Japan, if wee listen to'Lafcadio Hearn lnlhis "Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan," are gardens'the like of which arefound•- nowhere.: else, "Thera; are miniature hills, with old trees upon them; and there are long slopes' of asleep, shadowed. byd flowering shrubs, like river banks; and there are green knolls like islets. All those verdant al elevations rlse from spaces of pale yet - r• low sand, smooth aya surface of sills 1 and miming the curves and meander- • Tugs of • a river course.: . Softly beautiful are the tremulous• shadows t . oP leaves On the sunned sand; and the a -seep: ofa dowers ,cones thinly ;' -sweet s with" every waft of tepid alt; and there ie humming -,of bees. y It would take a ,person. like A. , Milne to transport a "Japanese gar. nn den" so that 11 is "sitting on an old , En'gtish refectory table in the dining n room." -But you must read how be, ' does, this.lu`"If I May," Hedescrib@s. there,'too, his daffodil garden -"three•, us feet; eight inches by nine Inches." He d ':says the 'vulgar speak of it as a win- e dow-box. Further: "The wall around p the daffodil garden is bright blue, and. e the resalt of all these yellow heads on e their long green necks waving above. the blue walls of my garden is that we are always making excuses to each other foregoing up and down stairs and the held In the' drawing -room is never rung," a. In' Vienna, the'gardens aro" almost all roses. The standard roses • are everpwitehe to be seen and the ram,- - lees ,are lovely. But I know of a iar- den where there are also, larpspur, petunias and oanterbury bells; and wbat a garden ' does Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinon tell.us,of,in his "Let- ters from John Chinaman!" A Prag• ment of the tale reads: "A rose in a moonlit, garden, the shadow of trees on the tiuf, almond btoesom scent of pine., A PLAIN TALK TO LOVERS Fight It Out Before IVlarriage and You Wcm't Quarrel After, - What sort of an understanding marriage all about a man's itnanclal should a man and woman have about; status, yet the majority of men never discuse business or money matters with their fiancees,• A woman has a right to ltnow what attitude a ratan expects to take. towards 'her after marriage add what his gen- eral ideal of a husband- is. There are husbands who surround their' wives with tendoruess and love; who do all In their power to make them happy. There are other husbands who aro T glum and selfish, and who treat their wives as they would not dare to treat any other Woman in the world. Cer. a woman has a right to know which one of these she is getting es'a life _partner, A man has an equal right td know the kind of a wife a'womariele going to make. He has a right to, know whether slie is going to Ihaise d real bonze for him or not; whether he Is going to come home at night to flat. •a tidy, cheerful woman waiting rota him, with a hot dinner on the table, or 1 whether he will come back to a cleric house and wait for a woman to come in from a matinee. ' A man has a right to know before marriage a woman's financial views and whether she will keep within her allowance ole not. He has a right to know whether he 1e going to have to live with a mother-in-law, and bow many of his wife's relatives. will camp in the spare bedroom. • He baa a right to know whether a woman" believes that a husband should be the head of the household or a cembination-_door- mat and cash' register for the con- venience of herself and the children. There are a lot of problems that en- gaged couples should settle before marriage,lastead of fighting over them prar.tical things before they get mar- ried? The fullest poesible understand - Ing, i should say. And It shouldn't be env "gentleman's agreement," in which 'each trusts the other to do the fair and honorable thing and his or her part towards making the marriage a Success, writes "A Wooten with a Duster." An engaged couple should get down to brass tacks anti find out what each ie going to demand of the other, and what each expects to give to the other. If this agreement could be put into the form of a binding contract it .would be all the better,. for hue - bands and wives are apt to forget the promises they make in their' courting p ' days. directly in front of the Ieviethan, and with such a whale!" as if thoroughly aroused, he made And the Magnet's captain was of swiftly toward her, showing the great the same opinion, as we picked him up., cavity of his wide-open mouth. But Mr. Garvis had not yet 'had The crew "sterned with all their enough of the fray. might, but in vain; then Ieaped, helter- "I will 'stern' on to him," he said akester overboard, while the crackling "so as to be all ready to put: when he; behind then told of the fate of the stews around," boat. The captain at first objected, but By this time it was evident to all of finally gave his consent; and, together ns that we had undertaken a big job. with his crew, he was put on board the But the ire of the whalemen was up, boat of his brother captain, in order and there was no thought 01 retreat, that we might not have more men "We'll go right on to hint," said Mr. than necessary. We then backed care- Garvis, as the whale again lay still. fully,toward the whale. "If I can only get a lance, we'll have The mate stood at the stern, clutch hien yet! You know, men, we have i ing the pale of the lance. Our faces heard that somebody among us le , were now toward the enemy, so that. afra,d of a whale!" we could see the clanger. Our secondmate o and the third stat. It "MIS like the. moment before bat - of the ether ship,' having picked •so tle. Suddenly down came the sharp the ewe wrecked crews, were !cow se weapon, at an inclination of about encumbered with men that they could forty-five degrees—just ono heavy d o nothing further; so that Mr. Gar- thrust. Wlves Who Are Slaves. No sane person would enter into a business partnership without finding out definitely beforehand what his or her statue was to be in the new firm; what percentage of the prodte be or she' Was to receive, and how much' the other party was putting in and bow much he or she expected to get out of it. Yet every day men and women rush blindly into a life partnership to- gether. Often the man finds that he is married to a woman wlio takes all and gives nothing, and who considers that her part of the partnership consists in her doing the spending `while' he cites the earning. Or the woman dis- covers that she has -simply sold herself into slavery, and that she Is not only a silent partner, but a penniless one, as the senior member .03 the firm Pockets all the profits. .Why Blue -Eyed Babies? e Babies with bl ' uo e bs "as abs Y . majority are, usually ecqulre a=differ- ent color of eye before they have . grown up, What is the cause of this - Change? ' The color'of the eyes le determined by a. circular" curtain around' the pupil of the eye called the iris. Seen under a powerful microscope the human iris appears to be .made up of a, 1pdse mesh- work of cells shaped irregularly like the branches -of a tree. :)Scattered throughoutthem are minute particles of a blackish substance called melanin. Next to.the bye itself, at the back of the iris, is a double layer of cells ar- ranged regularly like the bricks of a house. These also contain melanin, and this coloring prevents light pestl- ing -into the eye except }trough the pupil, which .contracts 00 dilates ac- cording to the *eye is exposed. to bright or dint light, ,Any .other light is ab- sorbed by the dark pigment' in the iris. In the case of most lufjtute the layer at the back of the iris le filled with pigs "'mane but the mesh -worn contains very few of the melanin granules.. :Light penetrates the. mesh -work; but a great deal of It is refected by the dark layer at the back' of the iris and consequent- ly -the light returns' to' an 'observes un- absorbed, The eyes then appear to havea,.blue. tint,. Thus blue eyes are not caused by any blue pigment. But ,the amount and distribution of the melanin in then mesh -work o'the iris determines the precise variety of light-colored eye and. causes them to appear light blue, gray - blue or dark blue. AB lire'advatrocs,. more and more pigment tends to be deposited in the iris, and so au infant's eys: -gradually. become: darker—one of 'Twee' gathering dual. The cries I plainly heard! Thought I, some cat has ,pounced upon a bird. And• out I went to rescue if I could, Tbe'martins on their porches frighten• eid stood And screamed -for help. The wrens were twittering near, he very air was charged with bitter tear: -tainly A woman has a right, to know before aft©rwaree. And then nearby a cruel sight. I eats, A viciotis, bold defiance of all law, A. murder taking place upon env • grounds!. My lovely peace disturbed, by. angry sounds. A fledging martin, still too weak to fly, Asaasslted by a sparrow passing by, Never such hatred have I seen in man. The sparrow peeked, as only sparrows can. The baby martin struggled, but In vain, :His bitter foeenan struck and struck again, I threw my hat and stopped the cruel strife Suet in the nick of timeo save . t •tae -a life. e I picked the martin up and sadly saw I•Iis little :head pecked .open, red and raw,, And then thought I, how poor are cul- tured e'orde! Despite all preaching birds will still be birds, Though wide the world, the sparrow would not give A batty martin room enough to live. Nature's conjuring tricks: - Frank Reply. A young lawyer had"•just opened his first office and called in a friend to see it. Aftera few minutes he asked: "Wee, how do you like it, as. a whole?" '• ' Much to his surprise a frank answer came forth; "As a whole 11 us Rum but --Edgar A. Gueet. as an office, not so good." ' . REG'LAR FELLERS—By Gene Byrnes, LARRV PAH) FIFTY DOLLARS TO A dAPANESE'10 811,16o, ZtP, BANC7-- AN` US'' &OT "GAS U,4NUEROUS CROOK DOWN ON, NIS 8ACK Fop A RCN/ OF CAW 1 ANYONE W-kosI'e gOT FtF DOLLS -To SP RE! This Makes it Even, WELL `MEN! / GaPPOSE THE FELLER-efOUR. UNCLE'S SCRAP.PINVaneRAP statf' ,SCo 15A 1926' It The sell S ni cafe. Inc DEADLY POISONS DG US GOOD truasio acid 15. ane of the .most''! pllpverfuh of • poisons. A', whiff ' or so wfll,iuduee` fainting,; ,whlle`a larger' quaittity;grov 1 fatal In n Pew aeepnds, anyono lnholing the gas failing as it 1 struck .by llghinfug; Yet when the acid Is • dlesolved in water, and given in medicinal doses, It allays Pain and is useful in cases of sickness, while externally It forms 44-_ yaluabie Potion in certain skin dlsor- • dei s. Mercury 1n the form of perchloride of mercury Is a Towered:;irritant which may oauso death, "How powerful 1t Ike.. maybe isidgasi by. Ike fact'that thee medical dose ie about one twentieth oe a, grain. As a dressing, It is applied !n 'a solution of Mr. ;part to one'thous• and of water or even *salter., .. ¢ •Tr a, Phosphorus, which in. combination with other subatances is prescribed as a nerve tonic, could-ltill easily 11 it were given in a pure state. Even in. mild medicinal doses, it has been known. to cause unpleasant symptoms. The fumes, of ph•osphorus,destroy the jaw bone, a Mamie whioh was. Com- mon in the old 'days when, pure phoss- phorus.was used in certain manuface tura. Arsenic is a poison which has figured inmany murder cases, .It is neverthe• leas, very useful is certain eases of fever and neuralgia, and as a tonic. -' The newspapers often report the , death of ai.person who has taken car= ;belie acid. Yet carbolic acid in a dir• •luted form is an exceedingly poWerftlt antiseptic and, in the earlier days ot. modern surgery, when operatione were petfermed in a cloud -Of :'steam im? ,pregnated with carbolic acid, was the mean's of saving hundreds 'catlins': ' Opfum •aleo has been used in 'cases. o4 suicide, - yet there Is .probably no ;i ;rttg more valuable to the physician- ;than opiuip and its .derivatives. ' e e o * In doses of about one hundredth of rip grain, doctors constantly use as at. tonio.the ,powerful 'poison, strychnine,. derived from the seeds of a tree which grows in the East Indies. To the eye surgeon belladonna is ex- tremely useful. But, the drug's coin mon name, the deadly Nightshade, is ` sufficfeut indication of 'its poisonous= . nature. ,: - Foxglove is another powerful poison, but a drug made from it is a valuable heart tonic. No -chemist would ,of course, supply to the casual purchaser any of these' or other dangerous dregs. The only way they can be ohtalped le an a doc- tor's prescription and Ina limited nntii "- ber of" doses. In the event of a physician preserib ing a larger dose than usual, the chane - let invariably refers the prescription back to him, so that -he may confirm or change it.—R. do C. Where the Gold 0o,s. In Spite of the tact that the value of the gold taken out of the earth has for many years past averaged over $800,000,000, there; is hardly enough;,,,.,, ot the metal to meet the world's re- quirements, and a gold famine seems possible, The yearly wastage of gold is tea rine, For instance, more than 1.00,000 ounces of flue gold are yearly turn"d into gold leaf, and great quantities are 7 used for gilding buttons and the lila,'. More than. $100,000,000 worth is use? up every year in making articles nl °tenement — neoklaces, bracelets, watches, and the like. Nearly an this le lost, for :it is estimpted that not more than one -fortieth ofit ever re- turns tothe hands of the refiners. Again, great quantities of gold most- ly .in the shape of -coin, lie buried in India, Chine, and:' other countries. In the Presidency of Bombay alone it is estimated that 12,000,000 sovereigns lie hoarded.` In many oases - 1114 hoarder dies without revealing his hidingplace, and sq this: gold, too,ie lost almost be- yond hope of recovery. Gold is the most widely .distributed of all pret"ious metals. You find 11 in every country; it exists in soot, ashes, in growing -trees, in •the.,.. beds of streams, and in many different sorts of roes and soil. It has been discovers ed in meteoric dust. There are coati,- beds of seashore sand,in A.merlca,.Ne, Zealand, and elsewhere, which contain gold, and in the aggregate the queuitl• ties are huge., But "actually the pro- portion Is so small that it dops•not pay to extraet it. There is else some gold 111 Solution in •sea. water .and e few years ago a company wag actually torened for the Purpose of extracting it„ andworks were started on the south coast of Ee What Did She Mean? He is still wondering whet she Meant, if antythisig. -.:_ When she carte along be was et one end of e. line the'otherend being fat out in the lake. ' "Fishing, l gee,' she said. "Yee," replied the young man, 'Anel then he -added, jocularly, "Fidh reeds tlee brain," Strolling along ,the girl calci b ui;k-_, over her sfhoi !dei : "',hope you'll have a Legge catch." — sb [-oat at Work, "And do you eves' lose yourself in your work?" - _. „Yes." - "What is your Worlt? "Exploring central. Africa."