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A PITCHED BATTLE
BY GEOUGE LC. COOIVIELf
"There is some man aboard ef this , vis end the Chill's chief mate were
ship who is afraid of a whale," said I alone free to carry on the fight,
the captain of the Magnet, sharply, I We pulled up on the port side of the
One afteenoon, when three of our boats I now motionless animel, while 'he
liad coin° alongside, with nothing to Chili's boat took the starboard.
show for several hours of hard pull- It was very creditable strategy, and
ing; "and he'd better be in purgatory calculated to confuse the enemy, like
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than here!" he added, with a menacing' some of Napoleon's operations against
look at znates and boat -steers. Iles Austrians; but, unfortunately, it
We had net with one or two mis- 1 wns less successful than the geheral-
haps from whales during the voyage, 1 ship of the great Coriscan
and he was apprehensive that sushi Mr. Garvie stood with poised lance
accident might inspire in his eubordin- at the bows.
•ates a feeling detrimental to success. I ' La) me on," he said to Littlefield,
But the remark was unjust; for no i who now had taken the steering -oar,
one had as yet shown the white "alit Pll have bin spouting blood in
feather, three minutes!"
Our lookouts, the next morning, had But just then the creature made a
just reached their stations when they quick movement, sewed around, flukes
leased a large sperm -whale, and at toward us, and, catching sight of the
the Same time reported a ship beyond: °Llier boat, whica had approached on
him. It being calm, neither vessel!
ensly at her.
the opposite side of himrushed furi-
eould approach any nearer to the
game, and three of the Magnet's four
boats were immediately lowered, the
stranger sending off a like number.
As the chase was to be onty for a the ir oderate'swell. Then seeing the
single whale, our captain did not take grim pursuer cle 40 upon them, all
part in It, nor did the master of the ba ncl plunged overboard to right or
other vessel. .. teft, while the boat was reduced to
We were somewhat nearer to the a shapeless mass between the huge,
prey than were our rivals, and pulled uglY jaws.
smartly to prevent all danger of their We, however, had meanwhile Ina -
interference. 1''CI e our somewhat meagre oppor-
In attempting to back water, her
user got panic-atre:ken and confused,
some of them "cellibing" their oars in
"Somebody afraid of a whale I" mut- tunity, for Mr. Galeria finding that he
tered Mr. Garvin, our chief mate, as could not go near enough to use his
he stood at the steering -oar of his lance, had caught up one of Little -
boat. field's harpoons, and, by a tremendous -
And it was plain that the captain's i ly powerful dart, fastened to the com-
remark of the day before had left al mon adversary as he swung around to
soreness upon a mind sensitive in am. attack the Chili's boat.
'matters involving professional honorel The whale started off from th
We were going upon the animal
flue y, 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 Book Islander who head-
ed our boat. "Quick, now! Give it to
him!"
It was a long throw, yet Littlefield's
iron was imbedded in the blubber, and
disappeared with the monster, as,
with flukes in the sir, the old sperm
turned head downward and rushed to
wreck he had made, taking us in tow,
but 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 ihisehief. Yonder comes
the captain—a man," he added, "that
isn't afraid of a whale!"
A moment more, and he exelaimed:
"Hullo! Hullo! There he stews
again! Round with the boat, Little-
field! Pull, men, .pull!"
Littlefield pushed his steering -oar
hard •a -starboard, and around we
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DAME RACHEL E. CROWDY
Ohief of the department of Bedell questions and opium traffic of League
aTatione. During the war she was principal commandant of the V.A.Des.
of
The whale turned inetantly and
came at us with a rush. It was singu-
lar that he had not once struck ou
with his flukes since demolishing the
Chili's first boat.
But we were now all ready for pull-
ing ahead—there was no "sterning"—
and this gave us a great advantage.
The oars- bent smartly with the strain
we put upon them, and in a minute
or two we were in safety.
The monster stopped, began spout-
ing blood, went into his flurry and
was soon dead.
Our ship had lost two boats, and the
Chili two, but we had conquered at
last The yield of oil—one hundred
and sateen barrels—was divided be-
tween the Chili and Magnet.
I may add that, -during the voyage,
our captain never again made use of
the expression which had once so
touched thesensitiveness of the mates
"There is some man aboard of this
ship who is afraid of a whale."
Excited.
Priend—"Were you excited on your
wedding day?"
Grooni--"Excited? Say, I gaye the
bride ten dollars and tried to kiss the I
minister."
ent, shooting away from the danger.'
thedepths below, leaving a swirl in; But soon the whale once more came
the place he had ocupied. to a stop and lay sullenly
He had not, however, descended The captain was now close to us.
more than fifty fathoms when the bar "What's the matter, Mr. Garvis" he
poon drew out, and sve hauled it on cried. "Can't you kile that whale? Is [Fight It Out Before Marriage and You Won't Quarrel After.
A Japanese Garden.
A quaint, small, formal garden,
With a crooked, shallow streara,
And pond where lotus blossoms
In snowy splendor gleam;
Where little hills are bulided
To get a view without,
With stepping stones in pathways,
And bowiders strewn about.
Where stiff, dwarf trees are standing
In great pots, row on row;
Where peonies and iris,
And saver moonflowers grow;
There, neer the great bronze lantern,
A bird pool, crystal -clear,
And yonder, gates °of bamboo
Close in its bit of cheer.
—Janet Germ.
Domestic Science.
"Goodness, Jane, what -a kitchen!"
exclaimed Berg. Brown. "Every pot,
pan, and dish is, dirty, the table in a f
perfect litter. and—Why, it will take u
you all eight to clear things up! What, t
have you been doing?"
"Sure, mum," explained Jane,"th-e
young ladies has just been showing
me how they bile a pertater at•their
cookery school!"
UQUET OF .GARDENS:
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'Tore in that about a garden which.
Invitee trio:Wallin, and- the friondabip
of a garden 18 4 precious thing. Masa
doe e It matter where the garden ie or
what it holdse-if there be flowers and
treea•in it and if someone cares for Itl
-.Oa bite Island of Guerusey, where
spa,aa enough from, the front doorstep
rmaonrk: pofroquftiasino t stone cottage's fame one
to the sidowalka for thinnbnall gar.
dens. Nowhere, think, are flowers
another along the made, there is just
la such a small area.
Gray walls are 'lolly embroidered
with phlox and cinnamon pink, and
geraniums call gayly from the win-
dows,
In the Spectater (No, 477) Joseph
Addison tells es of his gard-en. "I am
do far from being fond of any particle
ler Flower, by reason of Its Rarity,
that if I meet with any one in a Meld
which plousee me, I give it a place in
my Garden. 13y this Means, when a
Stranger walks with me, he is sur-
prised to see several large Spots of
Ground covered with ten thousand dif-
ferent Colors, and has often singled
out Flowers that he might have met
with under a common Hedge, in a
Field, or in a Meadow, as some of the
greatest Beauties. of the Piece."
There is a garden desoribed by
Compton Mackenzie in "The Passion-
ate Elopement." It belongs to an inn
which he named - the Basket of Roses,
adding it "was the fairest, dearest inn
down all that billowy London road."
Continuing, he says: "What a garden
there was at the back of this glorious
inn,. The bovvIing-green surrounded
by four grey Ivens was the finests ever
known, and ae for the borders., deep
borders twelve feet wide, -they were
full of every sweet flower. There were
Columbines and Canterbury Bells and
Blue Belle of Coventry and Lilies and
Candy Goldilocks with Penny flowers
or White Sattin and Pair Maids of
London Pride."
France and. Pair Maids of Kent an -d
A Bahama Garden.
As a child when I spent summers
at my grandmother's- in BiSchigans, 1 re -
I
call how I directed my small trains
down the lanes between. the sweet peas I
that filled the air with unforgettable , N
fragranoe, Zinnias, forget-me-nots and.
marigolds raised their bright feces ,1 t
rem the beds ,and holly hocks stood
oder the windows, What a eontraset! in
o the garden of my home in the Bo
ernes from whence I had come!
.There I bad been accustomed to the
tea roses that seemed always asbloss
sera We had banks of oleander on
one aide and 'ewe of red, pink, sal,.
Mon, yellow and white hibiscus. Alt
enormous bougaluvillea gave a masa
of purple as it lounged at the foot of
the coconut tree. In another part of
the garden Bermuda Inters peeped out
from among varecolorea mean and
()Wadi= plants. Pink Coraleae yellow
honeysuokle and nieht-blooming cereus
covered tile stone walls, felling far
over into the street.
In far Jepan, if we 'keen to Lafoaalo
Hearn in his "Glimpses of Unfamiliar
Japan," are garden() the like of wile%
are found leeller° else. "There are
miniature hills, with old trees upon
them; and there are long slopes of
green, shadowed by flowering shrubs,
like river banke; and there are green.
knolls lik-e islets, All these -verdant
elevations rise from spaces of pale yel-
low sand, smooth as a surface of eilk
I
beautiful are the tremuloue shadows
and miming the curves and meander -
Inge of a river coulee. . . . Softly
of leaves on the gunned. sand; and the
scent of flowers eornes thinly sweet
with every waft of tepid air; and there
is humming of bees." •
It would take a person like A. A,
Milne to transport a "japanese gar-
den" so that it is "sitting on an old
English refectory table In the dining
.room." But you must read how he
does this in "If I May." He describes
there, tea, hie staff -0(11i garclene-"three
feet eight inches by nine inches." He
says the 'vulgar speak of R as a win-
dow -box." Further: "The wall around
the daffodil garden is bright blue, and
the result of all these yellow heads on
their long green necks waving above
the blue walls of any garden is that we
are always making excuses to each
other for going up and down stairs and
the bell in the -drawing-room Is never
rung." •
In Vienna, the gardens are almost
all roses, The standard roses are
everywhere to be seen and the ram,
ers are lovely, But I know of a gar
den where there are also larpspue
petuneas and canterbury bells; and
shat 'a garden does Goldsworthy
eo'wes Dickinson. tell us of in his "Leb
f h a:amen. A frag•
ment of the tale reads: "A rose in a
°dant garden, the shadow of trees
n the turf, almond blossom, scent ol
Me . . ."
A PLMN TALK TO LOVERS
board. The boats of the shi Mil' he going to smash up a'l the
the vessel in sight—had by this time ,we've got? If he'll on4 keep still a What sort of an understanding marriage all about a man's financial
should a man and woman have about ' status, yet the majority of -me
n never
practical things before they get mar -I discuss business or money matters
Med? The fullest possible understand- i with their flaneees.
et 1 which each trusts the other to do the i tier after marriage and what his gen-
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t- ing, I should say. And it shouldn't be 1 A woman has a right to know what
any "gentlemau's agreement," in I attitude a man expects to take towards
Nil fair and honorable thing and his or I eral ideal of a husband is: There are
Ig d' her part towards making the marriage l‘i..iiitehleatnedasderwaliaosasaullied•olionvdo;t1.aietiro do
oivaelsl
, Duster." in an with a
writes "A Wein
in their power to make them happy.
An en -gaged couple should get down There are other huabands who ar
arrived near us, and their men, like! niinute, I'll try my hand on him l"
ourselves were keeping a sharp look-
,
out for the reappearance of the whale,
when, alit of a sudden, he breached
right among them.
In a moment, one of the Chill's
boats were pulled directly upon him;
find, with the feeling that we were
beaten, we saw the harpooner send
teeth his irons in quick succession into
the dark and glistening back
He stepped from stern to bo
grasped a lance, and ordered his boa
steerer to lay him en.
We saw the head of the boat almo
touch the . creature's side; saw t
lance poised; but before a stroke cou
be fairly delivered, the animal swun
around as if on a pivot. Water fie
oars splashed.
"Stern, stern, stern!" was the cap -
"Beaten!" said Mr. Garvis."They' tain's cry.
But it was too late.
"Jump, men! Jump t—junip!" and
over they all went, the boat being
crushed like an egg.
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 attempt.
The boat of our third mate was now ."It is madness," he said,'to fight
got him after all! That's too bad!"
But, as be uttered the -words, there
was a sharp crash of cedar boards
from the direction of the successful.
boat. She was thrown, completely
directly in front of the leviathan, and
as if thoroughly aroused; he made
swiftly toward her, showing the great
Cavity of his wide-open mouth.
with such a whale!"
And the Magnet's captain was of
the same opinion, as we picked him up.
ButMr. Garvis had not yet had
The crew "sterned" with all their enough of the fray.
might, but in vain; then leaped, helter- "I will 'stern' on to him," he said,
ekelter overboard, while the crackling "so as to be all ready to pull when he
behind them told of the fate of the sews around."
I The captain at first objected, bu
boat.f this time it was evident to all of filially gave his consent; and, togethe
us 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 brothercaplain, in order
and there eves no thought of retreat: I that we might not have more Men
"We'll go right on to him," said Mr. I than necessary. We then backed care-
Gareria, as the whale again lay still fully -toward the i'hale.
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y geta ease, we have The mate stood at the stern, clutch -
him yet! You know, men, we have ing the pole of the lance. Our faces
heard that somebody among us is I were now toward the enemy, so that
afra:d of a whale!" ' I we could see the danger.
Our second mate and the third mate .It was like the moment before bat -
of the rthere ship, having picked le tie. Suddenly down came the sharp
the two wrecked crews, were now se weapon, at an inclination of about
encumbered with men that they could forty-five degrees --•just one heavy
do nothing further; so that Mr. Gar.. thrust.
to brass tacks and find out what each
is 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 hus-
bands and wives are. apt to forget the
promises they make in their courting
days.
Wives Who Are Slaves.
No sane person would enter into a
business partners* without finding
out definitely beforehand wbnt his or
her status was to be in the new firm,
what percentage of the profits he or
she was to receive, and how much the
other party was putting in and how
el much he or she expected to get out of
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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 who takes all and
gives nothing, and who co/udders that
her part of the partnership consists
in her doing the spending while he
does the earning, Or the woman dis-
covers that she has ,simply sold herself
into slavery, and that she is not only
i a silent partner, but a penniless one,
'as the 'senior member of tho erns
pockets all the profits.
A woman has a right to know before
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glum and selfish, -and who treat their
wives as they would not dare to treat
any other woman in tbe world. Cer-
tainly a woman has a right to know
which one of these she Is getting as a
life partner.
A matt has an equal right to know
the kind of a wife a woman is going
to make. Re has a right to know
Whether she is going to make a real
home for him or not; whether he is
gomug to come home at night to find
-a .tidy, cheerful woman. waiting Inc
himewith a hot dinner on the table, or
whether he will come back to a clerk
house and wait for a woman to come
10 from a ee.
A. man bas a right to know before
marriage a woman's financial view
and whether she will keep within lie
allowance or not. He has a right t
know whether he is going to have t
live with a motheren-Ieev, and how
many of his .wife's relatives will camp
in the epare bedroom. He has a right
to know whether a woman believes
that a husband should be the head of
the household or a combination door-
mat and cash register for the con-
venience of herself and, tbe children.
There are a lot of problems that en-
gaged couples should settle before
marriage, instead of fighting over them
afterward.
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Attempted Murder.
seems to me I must police my place
o save my grounds from bloodshed m
and disgrace, e
I never dreanaed that such a steno g
could -start, eh
That even birds have murder in their
Why Blue -Eyed Babies?
Babies born with blue eyes, as the
ajority are, usually acquire ,, difier-
nt color of eye before they have
rown up. What is the valise of this
ange?
2'he color of the eyes is determined
y a circular curtain around the pupil
the eye called the iris, Seen under
powerful microscope the human iris
pears in be made upof a. loose .mesh-
zk of . cells shaped ,Irregularly like
e branches of a tree. Scattered
roagetout them are minute particles -
a blackish substance called melanin.
Next to the eye itself, at the back of
o iris, is a double layer of 'tells ar-
'aged regularly like the bricks of a.
use. These also contain melanin,
d this coloring prevents light pass -
into the eye' except.' hrough the
pil, -contracts or dilates ac
ding to the eye is exposed to bright.
dim light. Any other light is eb-
bed by the sleek pigment in the iris
n the case of most infanta the layer
he back of the iris ls !Med with pig-
nt, but the mesh -work contains very
of the melanin granules. Light
etra.tes the mesiework, but a great
1 of it is reflected by the dark layer
he back of the iris and consequent-
ly the light returns to an observes un-
absorbed. The eyes then appear to
have a, blue tint.
Thus blue eyes are not caused by any
blue pigment. But the amount and •
die on of the melanin in the
lework o fthe iris determines the
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heart, f b
Aud last evening came the sounds of ' of
Strife— a
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'Twee gathering dusk. The cries I
plainly heard!
Thought I, some cat has pounced upon
a bird.
And out I went to rescue if I could,
The 'matins on their porches frighten-
ed stood
And screamed for help, The wrens
were twittering near,
The very air was charged with 'bitter
fear.
And then nearby a cruel sight I saw,
A vicious, bold defiance of all law,
A murder taking place upon my
grounds! •
My lovely' peace disturbed by angry
sounds.
A fledging martin, still too weak to fly,
!Assaulted by a sparrow passing by.
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Never such hatred have I seen in man.
The sparrow pecked, as only eparrows
can.
The baby martin struggled, but in vain,
His bitter foeman struck and struck
a I threw my hat and stopped the cruel prec
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blue
Just in the nick of time to save a life,
neer
Ise variety of light-colored eye and
55 mu to appear light blue, grey -
or dark blue. As life advatmes,
e and more pigment tends to be
sited ha -the iris, and so an infant's
gradually become darker—one of
ire's conjuring tricks,
depo
I picked the martin up and seals- saw eys
His little head pecked open, red and Nati
raw,
And then thought I, how poor are cul-
tured words! A.
Despite all preaching birds will still 111.8t
be lairds. see
Though wide the world, the sparrow
would not give
A baby martin room enough to live,
—Edgar A. Quest.
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Frank Reply,
young lawyer had just opened his
office eat' called in a friend to
t.
After a few minutes he asked: "Welt,
how do you like it, as a whole?"
Much to his surprise- a frank answer
came forth: "As a whole it is line; but
as an office, not so geed,"
This Makes it Even.
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