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Exeter Advocate, 1904-1-14, Page 7Veiel4114EAteleeetedele<41141064<eieeeeleeetieeleeecodelleeeeSelee4EEE4e4feeqesellefeetteP OMAN'S LOVE A A OR, A BROTHER'S PROMS/a t leefeteieeobleleeeer3enleereeAlleoAls14030eketer*e4Dete4eilveleeteereteteaV CIIA,PTER VI. People called Lee Orttege King a lucky man: E3e hinieeef, when be eould bo eot to talk, declared thet Luck consisted in knowing' when to take Time by the forelock end hoee to t-wist the thin grey west>. "Do nowt' was 'hie favorite maxim. It actuated his life and all Ms actions, wether it wee a question of smash- ing a ra.v•a,1 s line of steamolupe, or so sinail a, matter as ordering his winter supply of household coal. His second favorite anaxim was "TO - morrow went out when the 'Pole - graph came in." There was swelling new in his creed, which was the old one of 'eTime is nioney." Oaly-he lived up to it, and so came in reseed � f all competitors in whatsoever field, vitsit to the Palen in. Biomes, buser lasted exactly thirty-five utes . Hector took him through Bravo's room in Charford Street, along the (iorriklor where the ten kept conetant guard, and into the great White Hall, The Orange Xing said noth- ing. He shrugged Ms shoulders in a. cureously en -English way when he caught s est of the silver throne : that was the only sign of surprise lie allowed himself to express, Don Augustin, an Ms court dress, awaited them here. In spite of Hec- tor's warnings, :Bravo, it was evi- ileat, was intent on ceremony and formality. But, somehow, Smith's unruffled cam and cold oye wrought their effect; aye with a sigh of re- signation Don Augustin opened the door leadeng into the boudoir and waved an invitation to enter. Maddalena was awaiting them. It was a curious partie carree : Bravo, old and grey, with the vein- kled sad face of divappointed • age; Smite, quiet, keen, not fifty, clean &seven but for a heavy iron -grey moustache and the tinieet of tufts on the lower lip; Grant, tall, fair, with a fresh young face, and a Vik- • ing's heed of crinkly gold hair; and the Queen, radiant and richly young, with the bloom, of a newly -opened rose. Mr. Smith spoke a single sentence of hurried compliinent. Efe knew something of the sort was expected of him, and he got throil.elb it as quickly as possible. This was the ono moment when it could be said that he was not altogether at his ease. Maddalena blushed and bow - "I suppose I may side those papers now," he said; leaking- towards Hector. ' A casket Itty ou the table. Medea- lene moved towards- it, -axed opened it with a little gold key that hung at her chatelaine. "I have spent ael the 'day in set-. I- ing them In order," elle sae,. e•So $ to save your time." • "Thank you. May 1 eit ?" Don Augustie looked horrified, but Maddalena waved hoe hand to a 'chair. The Orange King sat down,. and for ten minutes read document after document, paying no attention to the others, who awaited eagerly the result of his strutiny. "That's all rigere," be said short- ly, -wheal; he had finisbed. "Now, the next thing is to assign to me the promised monopoly of the orange trade. „I' am going to sink half a --- million in this veil:tern If the af- fair cones to nothing, I am the enly one:who loses anything If it comes off all right, I meet see that I don't lose. My': experience is that kings base short memories." He spoke a little bitterly; for it 'eves ' only a couple .of years before that a eacceseful annexation of territory on the Congo brought to a 'certain grasping.monarch much solid reven- ue, and to Thomas Smith, who had provided- the major part of the cap- s -Rae . noting*, 'absolutely nothing, ,except a Star and a Ribbon, both of which he had returned. "Sir re began •Don Veligustin, aflame With anger, his hand on his teastingefork • &Word. "With you, madaxa, it is, of bourse different," went on Mr. Smith, tar- heeding.the ietenruption."Still-" Maddalena smiled. "Our agreem.ent shall be in writing, air. I should prefer it so, Will you write the paper ? 1 Will eigii it," Don Augustin led. the way, resent- , fully, to an escritoire. For a COUPIO Of minutes Mr. Smith wrote. /heel ite rose and reed, the following : " 'We, Maeclieleria, Queen of 'the Este of Palms, hereby agree and promise to grant and deliver, duly signed and sealed, to Thomas Smith, of Orange *louse, Duke Street, Liv- • erpool, a charter of monopoly of • the orange trade of the Isle of .L -alms, for the term of ninety-nine (99) years, in coneicleratioh of ser- vices rendeeee and to be reudered; and we further agree and pnonelse that such eherter shell he granted and deliveted witbin eix monthsi of the date a our coronation," "I think that is sufficient for any slide of the transaction. A.s a •mate ter oe fact, until you are x•ecognised by the Powers, this agreement is not worth the paper it's written on. But that comes later. I have also written an undertaking on my part to Balance thie enterprise in consid- eration of receiving the monopoly." Don Augustin took both papers with ehaking hands -poor old man! What a moment it was for hen -and having read them. passed them to Maddalena. Without reading either ehe placed tbem on the table. "Don Augustine" she said, • "you advisc Inc to sign this document !" "Yes, •madam," ited her chamber- lain bowed, Then elector had his breath taken away by the same question being put to hint. The blood surged in his ea.rs, mid with 'dim eyes he saw the face of the Queen, smiling yet wistful. In a voice he did not re- cognise for his own, he replied: "Yee, madam." So the Queen took her first official document and signed it clearly and boldly -"Maddalena R." The Orange King sigend the second paper, and an exchange was made. "1 'don't want to interfere in any plans you may have made, madam," he said; "but to a certain extent, the mail who pays the piper has the right to call the tune. I would suggest, therefore, that Mr, Grant go out to Paine Island as soon as it is conveneent. He can prospect, see what the state of afters is like, how much the Palmettos are to be relied upon, and arrange for your going there as soon as posseble. I shall be glod to see you ruling over the island, madam. Anything will be better than Ilienaniolan misrule. It cote nee quite £15,000 a year." "We had deoided that Mr. Grant should go out soon," said Don ...Augustin. - "Good," said Mr. Smith, "I go _back to Liverpool to -night. To -mor- row I shall write Mr. Grant and tell him when he ought --when I think he ought to start. Advices from my agents in Palmetto will await me. If their report is favorable, I shall at once place orders for ammunition and guns. It will be a provisional order only, until Mr. Grant reports fully as to the necessary quantities. One Of my steamers will take the armaments from England to• 'Ant- Werp, where they will be tra,nshipped for the island; and, another steamer I shall place at your disposal as soon as it is advisable for you •to leave England." Then with a swift turn to Greet, "Is there anythiing else you think it n.ecessare to dise cuss now ?" "There is • so meets that -there is nothing," said Hector, "Then," sa,id Mr. Smith, rising froin his chair and buttoning his overcoat, "I shall be going. With your permission, madame" he added, remembering • the courtesy due to Maddalena. ' "Sere" she said, "I thank you. And I hope to make you believe that ie kinge have short memories, queens have long ones." , "ileadain,", he replied, "may your hope be realieed. I can wise you nothieg better -nothing better for myself, either," he added, with a laugh that tried to be eyeical. Don Auguetin opened the door of the noeclair, to escort the Otemge Xing through the maze. Hector was about , to follow, but a sign from These are Causes of Kidney Disease . Ailment Whioh Is Most Dreaded on A000unt of Ito Frightfully • Pasnful and Fatal Developments1 lexposure to cold coal dampness. Cold settling on the kidneys, strain- ing of the kidneys, loins or back, over eating • or extessive use of al- cohol, blows or injuries to the back, result of malaria or other fevers. Liver disorders are also a frequent cause of kidney disease, and this helps to account for the extraordine ary suecess of D. Chase's Kidney -Liv - Pills as a eine for complicated and chronic disease of the kidneys. Since the kicineye are • the chief means of removing the poisonous im- purities from the system they must be kept healthy and fixative, When from any of the above causes the Icidneye become deratiged the Met symptom ia ugually backache. Thera is the tiine to begin the use of Dr. Chase's Kidney-Livee Pills, • The very tbotaeht of the usual de- velopment of kidney' disease is enough warning to anyone to take iprompt action and there is the testi-, teeny ot thottetteds to point you to Dr, Chase's Kidnee-LiVer Pills as most effeetiVe tretstinent, rr. winiont Holditch, Port Rob - fission, Ont., statute "I was for Sever - years a groat sufferer h•oan kidney trouble, from Wbich dread disease am now, happily, free. I had all the usual symptoms in an aggravat- ed degree, • and at times was com- pletely • incapacitated with pales in the back, biliousness and headache. I had little or no appetite; insomnia resulted, and my condition Wes real- ly wretched, I became emaciated Mad grew clesposident and hopeless of relief, as I had taken treatment front doctors to no avail. "Finally, on the advice of a friend, I began' using Dr. Chase's Kidney - Liver Pills, and, after using a few boxes, I was again elebying health a,hd vigor, as the worst symptoms had entirely passed away, When I think of any present good'health, in coMparison With nay illint`abla 0011- dition of three years ago, I would riot go batik to nay former state for clny amount of nione:y, 1 may be considered enthusiastic over Dr, Obase'S Xiiiney-Liver Pills, hut, con- sidering the benefit, •derived from these, I have every reason to be." ' Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills, •one pill a, doee, 25c. a box, at all deal - ere, ov EdManSon, Dates t1 Co, To - roast°. ri10 protect you against jini tatione the portrait and signature of Dr, A, W, Chase, the female receipt book author, are en every hoe. t Maddalena bele him. The che1xise:1 leee, and the x1i1lLoxisiuie pessed out ona the door closed. Heotor turned Wee fa,ced. the Queee There wee silence for a moment. "What do you think Of the Orme; King ?" said be, "%Ida* 1" she cried : "I do • no think, I feel, I feel, Anil I Iowa now that Shall S'it tile throe of my fathers." "1 thoegbt he would inlpreee yo in that way." "There is euch ari air Of COM C,01 iildtiriee, of assured success, abou "That's half the battle in thee world," said I:Tecter. "Give people the iraps•eseion that yozere going to, win and you renaove half the Pro- bable obstacles. They few, 'It won't be good to rub against that Man. Better to be oat his side than against brim.' Yes, Thomas Smith le a grea character.'' "1 shall know how to rawar'd him. ,ween I come to eay own.," said Maddalena. "0, there's the monopoly," laugh- ed Hector. n,othing,'' said sib e, "that's all to 1113r advantage. Do you know, I have been wondering during these lae't days how I am ever te reward yon and Don Augus- tin euflicieatev." "Wait until the Work is done dear lady." "0, but I can't help thinkilig and planning." • "I don't think we shell want any reward. Is that ungra,eious ? 'What I mean is that to Don Augustin it will be enough to see his beloved mistress on the throne of eer fath- ers, to see the people of his deal island freed from tyranny and lia,PPY melee' your rulo, to die among the green of the palms he loves so well." eel yourself ?" ' "17— Therp will be some ex- citement, a trifle of fighting, a trifle of plotting and planning. Let ine have ley share in thee% and let me see you crowned in the Catbedral of Palm Oity-surely •that is reward great enough for 111Q," - Yet as he spoke he knew that- he was keeping back soniewha.t of his .desire. For even as he looked at 'her a Gertain strange tremor, a di- vine eliudder rau through him, stir- ring hint Spring stirs the sap m . Frowhere he sat in shadow he looked at her. Was ever woman so witching as this ? She 'was • in the ripening prime of youth, and the mere body of her, rounded and sup- ple, seemed the sweet composite of all Joyous neaidenboode A smile lin- gered, about the pomegranates of her parted, lips -a =file that was, he whispered, a butterfly, one of her kind, pure thoughts made visible. The light touched her hair. A. crown W01.11d soonresit on that most queen- ly heed., yet what bauble of geld and jewels could ever match her 'beauty half so well as that present dark glory? He had 'dallied with the daring thought before this hour. But it was always half dreamfully : she was the princess in a poem, and in poems all things are possible, none more possible than the impossible.: And this was no poem -this was Life, where things are often inspos- sible. • S till-- 0 I but he loved her, he loved her. The tell revelation Shone swift, upon him, as the sun smites the sea at dawn. He walked in the mildst of the great epiphany. It was Spring, and all about hen leagues of daffodils shook golden lances; the green hies flamed emerald; the sea was eilver at white heat; and every thicket was like Iris heart, a nest of singing birds, every bird singing the self -same Song of "I love her, I love her." • Her voice broke in on his moment. Y "ou n do et hope for much." , He laughed, bewildered yet happy. "Ab. I may not tell you all I hope; .but, as the old Scots saying goee, 'She that bodes a silk goon may get the sleeve tete " Don ,Alugustin rammed. lee leolred keenly at Maddalena and then at Hector. Sonee suspicion- was in his mend, arid for a rooreent a dark shadow weinIded his brow. But 'the euspicion and the shadow passed. "Your etr. Smith is a terrible man, a machine," he cried. "Ali ! if I had only met him years age, in- stead of trusiting to your politioians -they are not statesmen. He set- tles the fate -of a nation 'with the swiftness and precision of the guillo- tele." "}Ie is a business men -the busi- ness man of the future," seed Hec- tor, glad of relief from , Ms Maid dream. "We are beginnhig to feel the neceseity for such men in our government. Our Secretary for the Colonie.s is a business man. Tile makieg of steel screws and the sell- ing of them was rio bad prepartetion for empire-Litaileting." " "That will be our 'difficulty when we forma Cabinet en Palmetto," said Bravo. "We are not a businese peoPle. We are poets and 'dreamers, we are fighters and lovers—" • "One or two of Smith's heads of deeartments might be induced to take portfolios," laughed Hector. "Smith himself would make no bad Royal Chancellor.'' "Ah 1" sighed Bravo. "All that is on the knees of the gods; and, meanwhile, there is the ousting of XlisPendola. Mr. Smith has great, -faith you." "Tha,t is hopeful," rejoined Hoc - tor, "I, too," said Maddalena. "Then I am fully armed," elector auswered, all his heart thaelcing her from his eyes-. Ilo sees that you are enthusias- tic, " geld Bravo ' cl enthusiasm wins more btittles thee the ewor'cl.." levo 'nights leter electoe received ut the fallowing clracterietic note ;-- "Orange Ilesuse, Duke Street, Liverptiol. "Dear Sir, --You lead beam' steel; for I'almetth Friday. Our boat, the s. Jebba, leaves the Mersey at 5 p, on thee day. I shall ex - poet to Inc yeti on board about 6 P, ate ' Yours trnly, THOMAS lectettar siought Dots Aeguetin at olinsoies, but not finding bina there ook hie way to Charfor,d Street., e He let eimself quietly bY Mewls , the lalehehey Bravo hed given Male The old man's rooms Were , empty, Expeeting, therefore, to find tem, with the Queen, Hector went along the ,eecret passage into the Whiteetre tapped at the door t e hoeuire or. seewas is° • , ewer, so' Ilec;tor opened the door was ein- al e Plail:tilt't;clette9tito*nciel lbourort11:eeditlia°sNsi'llIcillfs°11VIIb. adcJolcyna heti ittet left it. lee had haodly ene tested before elle returned, "Mr. Clratris," she cried, in delight- ed Sin•Prise. "Yoa are welcome deed." "The lomiblest of your servants,' maclatu," he eased., bowleg low, She gave lent ber hand, and he stooped to kiss it, but she withdrew it hast.tly. "No, no, thet is for the Queen. For your friend„ your Euglish shake of the hand is better." And again she extended her hand frankly, while that wonderful rippl- ing 'smile irradiated her featuees. "You bring me news ?" "We axe beginning. Look." And 'Hector gave her the Orange King's laconic ineesege, As she read it she sighed . joyous-. '`Mr. Smith does not i'va,,ete le. words," she cried. 'You go to- knoreolv 9" ''Suirely-etneless you have other commands." . "1? What. have I to do with it, my feiend ? You are doing ell theee, things for inc-you and Don Augue- t.(4.;;; the last occasion Maddalena bad said, ',Don Augustin and you.e elector' wondeteel if the transposition were intentional, and if it were whether it was due to his sudden ilnportance in the scheme of affairs or to the .begennleig• of something deeper. He rooked o11 her with all 'a lover's earnestnese, Laud for a moment he faaseied that in her smile he could read etnnething of b.apPe augury. But he put the theme be - hied him, for Your true lover is ever pthez3. thefirstto discount alluring pros - "Yes," he said, "I sheet go to- morrow.'' "0 ! how I creel I were a man; !" elie cried. "Then I could come, too -come and see my own land, ray own people." • "Your day, is not far ofil," Hector answered. "I haw been making a little calculation. ankl I find that, if all things go smoothly, it is pos- sible for you to be crowned on the fla'st day, of the New Year, the new century. Six months is surely a little' time to wait." • ' "It does not seem long to you who are doing something.. But when all one's' doing ie just wtsitting, a day is, a year -a week ein eternity. Why, in six months I may be dead!" Like a flash the vision came, and like a flash it was gone and for- gotten. Ele laugbed iightler, and set it 'down, inwardly, to his "con- foundedly vivid imagination." "You tenet not say things like • that," he answered -her. "If you are not hopeful and fearlese how can we have hIgle hearts ?" • "0 1 • 'do not think that I sbell fail you in hope," she assured him. • "Yet has not one of youe poets said, 'Hope thou slot mucheand fear thou not at ale '? Hope has been my focie all these years,' and I thinkthere is, sufticient left to carry .me on to the end." "Es,pecially," mid Hector, "sinee the enjd is • so near. To besure, nothing actual, nothing tangible, is 'done yet --beyond enlisting the syne-' pa.thy of the Orange King." "And that was year doing." "It was nothing -but the work somas so Straightforward-. so simple, that I am all confidence." "Your departure for Palmetto is sudden, and Don Augustin arid I did not think itwould comp so quickly, yet we have .been making prepara- tions. Far into the night we wrote. See 9" • Srosn, 'and taking from the es- critoire a bundle of papers,handed them to Elector. • "These -a,re for you." "And they are—?" "Introductions to the leaders in .Palmetto, lists- of all our chief' friends, particulars of where you may fine them and how you are to make yourself known t� them. Then, there is ae open letter .or com- mission • appointing you my repro-. sentative in the island, authorizing you- to do' in my nine° What you deem best for the cense, and cora- mending our friends to obey your orders in all things as though .the orders were our own." Hector knew • from Bravo that some such commIssion would be giv- en to him, but he did not surmise that the fulness • and power Of it would he se great as this. He WaS tou,ehed by the extravagance of cot- fidenee, and he Cottlil not help show- ing it in his fate. "I am overpowered by your 'Majes- ty's trust in me." . "Is it not deserved ? Can, I ido less than acknowledge in the only way yet possible to me all that you have doze, all that, you are under- ta,king, all that you are risking ? It Is little mere than a week since lean ".A.tageetin brought you to 1110, and' 'This is your saviour. tbia is the saviour of Pallnetto.' Since that night how meck has. happened : you have abandoned a career in NVilldell you might have attained, who _knows what eminence; you have-" "Pray, pray," interrupted 'Hector, la, "No, you must hat me speak. You te baVe saerificee time and moise.y to i11 find tee mean5 of doing me and any coun.tey the greatest serVice we bi needed;• and now you ara going to lo - increase the debt h reeking your Pr life and meaning all peril s fler My es eatlee and my (tomalley's'. Alit my coale Iti ittlienotit is 'little for 'all this." th ' (T6 ee Continued.) is •. -...,Yereenee al a on tv Dimon 25 , a eh CATARRH CUBE C. th toti o citm by tift:Cittto the deenet tea eleorneendraBill3ewnef: "\!1;i passages, stopa droppingn Iti the denat and pennanandy tbres tre6. CAantaartrhdaerund., oldrabrE:czarml, .Btlohager Matilothe Co,, Toronto and Buffalo, • ' ".•..7 BIRD CALLS ILS SIGNALS. Used by Picturesque lilaced.osiian Mountaineers. To-doy I am sitting by a camp file far away in the elacedonian mousse tame, with forty or fifty wild -look- ing men sprawling about in all serte of attitudes, revolvers in belts band- oliers round girths (they don't, wear them across the chest as we do), rides always near teeir hands, writes A. G. Hales, in the :London News. They never part with their guns, On tbe inerch they carry teem, 111 tliCir hands; when they rest, as they are resting now, they lay the gen so that tbe muzzle leans upon the thigh, where they can grip it as they leap to their feet at the flrst signal of danger, for the insurgent eevet" knows the moment when hp may have to daels off to cover and commence shooting for his life. When they sleep they cuddle the rifle, the be- loved "mistake," in their arms, the butt between the knees, tile barrel ageenst the cilieek. When they wake, the eirst thing they do is to shoot eack the bolt, jolt out the cartridg- es and clean the gun, and when it is cleaned they take it across to the officer in command, for him to in- s p ec ot li Ngerrt, street dandy is more vain of his linen than these fellows are of their pushkas. EVOry noW and then a 'bird's call comes whist- ling through the forest. A moment and the call is answered from point to point all round the camp. As the sound dies away a sentry on duty in Camp lifts his hand to his mouth, arid the bird's • call goes sailing through the trees again. The "birds" that are calling to oue an - ether so blithely are the pickets on duty. t Last night they called to a different tune. I was lying awake trying to think out some work, for, tired as I was, I could not sleep. The sentry who was on duty was leaning lazily up egainst a big hazel tree, and as I looked at him I said to myself: "You beggar, you're having a sleep," and had half-cleternsined to patch a. tPianoeweewasnge.ahe t wlelitlelCtdo that .hin deceived inc in mm a manner that ade me gla,d I had not done any cone hl A shrill, keen bird call rips through the eight air. The sentry I had thought asleep bounds from the haz- el trunk and sends another, high and sbrill in answer, and up from his couch on the hard earth leaps Yan- kee, like some great lion startled in his lair, his rifle in one hand, his long, broad 'Turkish blade in the other. 'Up leap the mountain men and rally round him. The insurgent banner flutters out on the night air, the old warlock who holds it will not quit it with life. Dry earth is heap- ed upon the camp fires, and they shudder out into blackness. We wait and my blood is singing in my ears. Tben sentries come in on swift, sil- ent feet. I note they all point in one direction. Yankoff la,ugbs. The Turk is trying to surround hire -- him, the man Who has surrounded them a hundred times, and foiled their plans as many times as he has hairs upon his head. TO TRY COTTON RAISING. Paraguayans Say Their Countil May Get Rich by It. The news that the price of cotton has advanced and that the cotton menufacturers of the world are pos- sibly facing the prospect • of a dearth of raw material seems to have excited the people of Paraguay. Cotton grows wild iri that country, and the cultivated product, though different from ours, has a long and fine staple. As in Peru, the plant is a small tree rather than a little bush, and It lives and, prodeces for several years. European • manufacturers have repprted good results from its use. The Paraguayans, • however, have never given much attention to its cultivation. •The newspapers of Asuncion have suddenly awakened to the opportuni- ties presented, and have risen to the occasion. They are offering many suggestions to the Government and assert that cotton will yet place Paraguay on the high road to pros- PeTrilite3Y% ask the Government to em- ploy the services of men of science, like Dr. 'Bertoni, to prepare pam- phlets for distribution in the. cotton trade of Great 13ritain. France and Germany, descriptive of the nature and qualities of Paraguayan cotton and the facilities for producing large supplies of it. They ask that Dr. Berton', Mr, , Anisits and other ex- perts be engaged to raake a survey of the lands adapted for cotton cul- tivation in the republic; also that the Government print a,nd distribute among the farmers of the lowlands the best information as to the me- thods of cotton raising. "We ,may in a short time export $100,000,000 worth of cotton in a year," announces • the enthusiastic Paraguay-Runcleehate a German weekly published at Asuncion. I -IOW BIRDS SPEAK. Everyone who has kept and studied any kinds 01 birds most have no- ced how very human they often are their feelings Mid the manifesta.- on thereof. GetserallY, however, rds have to depend on the eigu- swung° of wings and tail for ex- essing their emotions, their fea,- ares not being of the attest mobile nee mid thus the significtaelce of eir gestures may be lost ttilless one Well acquainted with them, There ,e, however, a few species which proste,h es, in that their faces ange color under the influence of O feeling of the anoment-in other ords, they blase. Aerl these, as II be soon in the segtiel are alWays rde of clittra,cter, presetting marked peoultaeitaes an their habits. This is well seen in the Most inveteeete bhecllyebe_coca. laricone birde, the cornmeal tur • t 1 SEA MONS'I'EalS XIATTleg DE.A,TH. ll'9'.terkealaendand 1c Cetacean to Decith. • One of the rarest !le well as one of the most thrilling speotacleS eller • belleid by a hurenn being wee wit- nessed off the eoast ef Alaska by Dr. aad L.. Webster Pox 01 Philtidelpilia, • who have just return- ed from the Klondike. In a sea lashed by wetly big flee they saw a, thrasher shark arid swerdfle,h ate task a whale, end in a long and ter-. rifle battle slowly hack the greet cetacean to death. Not only Dr. and eirs. Fox, but en entire shipioed of passengers „ were spectittors at this comlaat. So furious was the attack and so agile, des,pite their size, the warring fishes, that to the witnesses it first ap- peared to be a battle between Pre' historic mous:lees • int. FOX'S STORY. "The fight took ,place on a Satur- 'day aftereoon. Aue,. 29, shortly lee - fore we enteredJuneau," said Dr. Fox, • 'We Were, 011 th e s teenier Cottage City, (3apte Wallace. travel- ing northward through that wonder - ell inland sea which stretcees 1.000 steles from Vancouver to Skaguay. "At 2 o'clock we were leaving Admiralty island. The shel- tered sound at this point is the play and feeding gi•ouuds for count- less whales, and on this memorable afternoon we had been -running thz•ough a school scattered on either hand, blowing and diving and sleep- ing on the surface. • "Someone on board shouted that a thrasher was attacking a whale. The ship's speed was slackened, and as •the eager passertgers crowded to the rail it gave a list to port. Man has never witnessed a more fearful conflict than that witiols occurred the ee:et half hour. LEAPED Ieee:e1 BetOOK TROUT. • fis;;Thytefthittaistlieist. iisn isthroll_poesttnPeeocentenr_ terpart of a shark., its main weapo.0 of offense, instead of its mouth, is its tail, the tips of which are • as hard as bone. • "Before the startled whale coukl get into motion the long, black, flail like thil we had seen poise and' strike repeated the blow three or four times in quick seccession. The report of every blow came to us Across the water as though a lean had slapped his thigh with his palm in our midst, ""S.reat...n the whale dove, and it \Vila plainly his intention to sweep the enemy from his hold by a rush. Bat neither fleIx remained under water long. With a leap like that of a, monster brook trout tbe whale cleared the surface, and for an in- stant farmed a huge arch. He was free of the water from his bead to the tip of his tail. Asi he dropped in again he began to squirm and struggle and churn with bis tail, un- til the sea seemed to boil for the - space of an acre or mere. SWORDFISH JOINS IN FIGHT. • -*Notwithstanding that up to this time we had noticed only the whale and the thrasber shark,- it quickly became apparent that a third corn- betere was in the field. This come batant we soon learned 1PaS a sword fish, the thresher's inevitable hunt- ing companion. '"ehe swordfish growe to a length of. twelve and fifteen feet, with a sword three or four feet long, but small as he is in comparison to the whale, he is capable of doing terri- ble ea:caution with his weapon. 'It is an established fact that a large swordfish can ram through eight inches of oak.. • "When t,he combat had continued for fifteen nen.utes the shark accom- plished what aPpeared to be his ob- iectiee point. He obtained a grin with his teeth upon the whale's jaw and as he clumg there deli -coved blow after blow upon his monster enemy's quivering side. "The swordfish did not leap fully coat of the water, as did the other two, but it was plain front the be- havior of the whale, when he dove for a respite from the tit -rasher, that he was being given ail uncomfortable time below. • DEATH OF THE WHALE. "And so the light raged. The whale, driven from the depths by the water, and then. falling- back, would dash back and forth until fintdly, the water was dyed red all ab6`litt. "Aeach ctoevuisive leap toward , the ond of the fight the wliale semn- ed to grow • weaker, while the thrasher and the swordfish main, - tailed their strength. There was only one way for the battle to ter- aninate, and so in the end the whale lay still upon, the serface. Tee was. ::es;c1W • "When all was over our ehip gath- ered way and proceeded to the , Klondike." THE SOLDIERS' IDLE TIME, Military life is • necessarily made up largely of loafing, says London Truth. You cannot keep a man continuously at drilling, marching or any other branch of meitary train- ing for eight hours a clay and five or six days a week. You have to in - Vent a. great many ether Jobe for hine even to make a preen -tee of keeping hint occupied. But these jobs are nearly all "loafing" jobs, and when. it is, all done the soldier has a great many more idle hours on his hands per diem then any other man in the sane rank of 1uf I 41 not know wheteer it is possiffie arrive at any remedy for this; bet, if it io, the direction in which I. should look for the remedy would be, t� make every eoldier work et male.; otlier trade for a certaie number of hours each day. The number of hours might he sh o r ter in the so fla- mer, whoa there is more opportunity for training' mad military exerelee, and tenger in the .winter. If this . were prectictible, no doubt it Would mete an calor nio s diee real ee to tixl value of the sraldiee aux- a citizen Velma he leaves the ranks ' .