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said jJouae, Jsud- HARPOONING A WHALE.BY THEIR DEEDS. spaded, hatchets, knives and boat hooks, all sharpened to the finest edge the ship's grindstone can give them, fill the boat. If the whale gets at It and hurls it Into the air, the men find themselves In murderous company when the weapons come raining down on them.

The harpoon line goes hissing out—« serpent of rope far more dangerous than any cobra, for let but kink in the least and catch n man and he will fly overboard with it and out of sight ns If he were a mere splinter of wood.

So there are enough sporting chances In the whale to excite and content the most exacting of sportsmen. And the size of the trophy If he "bags" a whale certainly leaves nothing to be desired. —Washington Star.

Evolution of the Potato.

PEARLS OF THOUGHT.t next week, Jennie?

denly. He was sitting os< near, fcfer os he dared when he asked the

Suddenly Jennie glggleiffln » aamdst unaccountable way.

“Do you want a birthday prfesent, Jonas?” she askod, with a fit of Ikugh- ter that bordered on hysterics. ,

Jonas looked at her with some* surprise, but when he answered h îr he was In desperate earnest.

"I want a wife!” he said,, boldly/, and then blushed as red a» a poppy.

“That's what I mean!" said J.lennie, still hovering on hysterics. *T«o you want a wife for a btrthday'prosent?”

Jonas caught his breath and looked at her sharply. Had she turnet? mind reader, or was it only a chance question?

Every noble work Is at first Impossible.—Carlyle.

There Is no gathering the rose without being prlckod by the thorns.—Pll*

A tattered beggar la the street Bang alwaya some old croonlog hymn,

And bald to those whom be might meet Hla hat with ragged, greasy trim.

Two mea— two mighty men—oamo t»y— Two houored leaders of the town;

Came, too, a dame of repute high —Each passed the beggar with a frown.

But still the beggar sang away,With awkward music in each wool;

And through the bnlanae of that day The three that chanting echo beard.

They heard, and held the fading stralna As memories of things that bless,

And ad Jed to their other gains The golden one of kindliness.

Mow, by some careless prank of f »to.Those four m»t on the Way of Death,

And journeyed to the Joyous (late Where but the perfect enfereth.

The warder halted them, and told How aU who entered roust be known

By goodly deeds—by deeds of gold—By li.-lpfu! actions all their own..

The honored men explained that they Had given of their earthly wealth

To help their fallows on the way To knowledge, |>oseefulncss, and health.

The woman told of visits made,The sulTerlng end poor to greet—

All three told how the world had laid Its laureled tributes at their feet.

Toil may go In,” the warder smiled, Althoogtryour fame we did not know,

A eup of water to a child Is more than all tho passing show.

The beggar turned to take hla way With humbled mien aud drooping head.

The warder called to bint to stay,“Come In! We’ve heard you slug!’’ he aald.

—W. D. Nesblt, in Chicago Tribune.

One of the Oldest Forms of Big: Game Hunting.*

Some of the Many and Varied Uses Which

It is Serving.

PLENTY OF DANGER IN THE WORK. pay.The feet of love la not feeling, but

obedience.—William Bernard Ulla- thorne.

No man can produce great things who Is not thoroughly sincere In dealing with himself.—Lowell.

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who can suit his temper to hla circumstances.—Hume.

One can go through his work well or shirk It. One can consider his neighbor or neglect him. One can repress tho fever-flt of impatience or give It wild way. And the perpetual presence of such a choice leaves no hour without guidance.—George S. Merrlam.

Teachers are the allies of legislators: they have agency In the prosecution of crime; they aid in regulating the atmosphere, whose incessant action and pressure cause the life-blood to circulate, and to return pure and healthful to the heart of the nation.—Mrs. Sigourney.

Live for something. Do good and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the storm of time can never destroy. Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of thousands you come in contact with year by year; you will never be forgotten. —Chalmers.

To men addicted to delights, business Is an interruption; to such as are cold to delights, it is entertainment. For which reason It was said to one who commended a dull man for his application: "No thanks to him; If he had no business he would have nothing to do.”—Steele.

The emotion accompanying every generous act adds an atom to the fabric of the ideal man. As no cruel thing can be done without character being thrust a degree back toward barbarism, so no kind thing can be done without character being moved a degree forward toward perfection.— Herbert Spencer.

boat has been toweil for many miles. It does not require very much time to tow a mile when a sixty-foot whale Is doing the towing.

As long ns the whale runs in a fairly straight course the l>ont will hang to him like a terrier. He may champ and bite and hammer the ocean Into acres of froth with head and flukes and tail nud never shake it off. Ills only chance for retaliation is to run deep or to

O many American whalers are going to seek the big "fish” In Ratlin Bay waters this season that the Canadian Government

has decided to charter a sealing steamer to cruise there to prevent the Yankees from "violating Canadian customs laws." It looks as if the “prostrated American industry” were about to awaken to something akin to rigor.

Years of more or less desultory whal-

S O-DAY Germany fairly rivals Ireland with Its potato crop and outdoes most other countries. Fully an eighth of the

arable land of the empire Is planted to this nutritious vegetable. Half the large yield Is used directly as human food; a considerable other portion Is given over to fattening stock. There still remains an enormous surplus after that, however, and It Is the success with which the Germans have met In turning this surplus into manufactured products that is most remarkable.

Among these manufactured products are starch, glucose, potato flour, dextrin and starch-sugar, each of which appears prominently on the list of German exports, all together contributing large sums every year to the profits of German manufacturers and exporters. But the alcohol which the Germans make from the potato Is the most valuable and wonderful product of all. This ns a light producer fairly rivals the electric current, It is said.

The apparatus for its practical use Includes lamps, chandeliers, street and corner lights, In which alcoholic vapor Is burned like gas In a hooded flame, covered by a Welsbach mantle. So used, potato alcohol is described as burniug with an incandescent flame equaling the electric light In brilliancy. Indeed, we are officially told now by our Consul-General at Berlin that potato alcohol is competing with gas and electricity with Increasing success every year.

In the problems of beat and power production, too, the lowly potato has been brought into use, and the alcohol from It has been applied to warming and cooking stoves, to steam locomobiles, to threshing, grinding, fuel-cut-

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The annual demnud for railway tics Is 400 to each mile of track and the average life of a tie is seven years. It Is an unusual acre of forest that has 300 trees that will make three ties each, and it takes fifty years to grow a tree that will make three ties. Therefore, twenty-five acres of forest are necessary for every mile of track. Electric railways Included, there are in the United States about 230,000 miles of road.

But Jennie was desperately In earnest, as well a3 Jonas. She had to fulfill her part toward securing tho combination wife and present.

"May Gardner or Balt e Green would marry you, I am sure. , They arc both nice girls, and you're bound to like them.” She blurted out the words In the moet astonishing way. and.' then finished;by bursting Into a fit of trying.

"But I don’t want Saille Gr« »en or May Gardner! I want you, or nubody, for my wife!" Jonas said bravely;.

The sight of her tears had made* him bold, and he was holding her hands now in the tenderest fashion.

And before 12 o’clock she was his promised wife, and when he left her there was only one cloud upon i her happiness. ‘‘The girls will be awfully mad." she said over and over, “but, anyhow, I have kept my promise—I am going to give Jonas a wife fur his |

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Snakes and Tcads. , -An obscure naturalist is C. F. Miller

A Folding Four-Armed Anchor.

A new Improvement In anchors Is shown herewith. It Is the Invention of Henry James Brooke, a retired engineer of the Danish navy, and now residing at Svendborg, In that couutrjt

Certainly Jonas must have a birthday present! Now the question Is, what shall it be?" said black-eyed May “Just think! He’ll be 35 years old, and has never had one, except when ho was a little boy, almost too young to remember!” she added, sympathetically.

"Did he say that?” asked Jennie Deering, with a curious blush.

"Yes, he lold Uncle John so,” said Mary, quickly, "and, when Uncle repeated R to me, I Just decided that he should have a present this year, sure."

"Let’s send him something that Is useful! An old bachelor needs so many things that he would never think of buying himself. Wo could send him a clock," said Jennie, but again May frowned upon the tcnsiblo suggestion.

No, indeed! That won't do. Jonas has no end of clocks and needs^po more. Let's give him something that he would never dream of getting for himself.

"Oh, girls!" broke In Saille Green, with a ringing laugh. “I'vo though of the very thing! Let’s give Jonas a wife for his birthday present! He has everything else that he needs, and you know he is altogether too timid to ever secure a wife without some assistance!

"Won’t he resent It?” asked the girls, timidly, hut May checked them imperiously.

Certainly not, if she is the right one! What man would? The only thing is to see that she is in every way worthy of him, for Jonosjs really a splendid fellow, even If he" is bashful. Jonas shall have a wife for bis birthday, that much is settled! Now. who shall she be, and how will we present her?"

Tljo three girls sat for a moment In silence; then suddenly May was struck with a bright Idea. The other girls stared at her In breathless amazement when she told them what It was.

Why, May Gardner, you must bo crazy!” they cried simultaneously.

"Not a bit of It," said May stoutly. Now, see hero, girls, be sensible.‘Hero

we are, -getting older and older every day, and not a man In the village that Is marriageable except Jonas. Now, we all like him, you know we do; but, If we wait for him to propose, we’ll all die old maids, and that would be awful. All Jonas needs is a little encouragement, and no one wifi ever know that we used our influence for each other!"

And, Anally, her reasoning prevailed, possibly by the aid of a tender sentiment existing toward Jonas in tho hearts of both the blushing maidens.

"I say, Jonas, you’d oughter be thinkin' of marryln’,” said “Uncle John" Gardner, shortly after the Important agreement between the three young ladies.

I s’posc so,” said Jonas, absently, with a little blush.

" 'Pears to me you’d better be lookin’ around,” continued tho old farmer, as Indifferently as possible. “Your 35th birthday is cornin’ and you’ve be'n half your life without a- wife. Must be sort o' desolate fer ye, I'm thinkin’.”

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Milling” Is the act of turning suddenly and so bringing the boat within reach of flukes or jaws.

The position of the bow oarsman Is no joy in a Nantucket sleigh ride. The

ing have given the sea giants a chance to recuperate, ami that they were not guilty of race suicide 'daring their time of rest Is proved by/the fact that whales arc plentiful in^all the Again.

For a rich American, j eager to try real sport, there is n great chance now. 'Whaling, one of the oldest forms of big game hunting known, is the one field which lias not been fittingly exploited by the amateur sportsman. In a time when lion and tiger shooting «re mere routine sporting affairs to hundreds of wealthy men, the whale should appeal with grout force*.

To the man who ban exhausted even the delight of the sixty-mlle-an-hour •automobile, there an unlimited field. The chances nrç that if he once gets mi opportunity to taste the unbridled and terrific pleasure of a "Nantucket sleigh ride” lie wifi view Ills auto machine as a tame thing ever afterward.

The Nantucket sleigh ride is so common an experience with whalers that they are prone to speak of It In disappointingly matter-of-fact language. But, for all that, there Isn’t an old wibnlcr of them ail whose nostrils will •not dilate with zest when he thinks upon It. And the landsman who ever

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"What happened then?’*"Well, I immediately called up thé

manager of my servant’s agency. Had some little trouble in getting her, It is true, but I got her.

“What did she say?”“Told me to call up a lady In Plain-

field, who had a cook who was going to leave. I did so.

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the cook was there all right, and that she was a good cook. So then I called my wife up again.

“Twenty-five cents more."Yes. Tcld her about the lady who

had the cook in Plainfield, and ad- viseJ her to rail her up and talk about it. She did so.”

“How much?”"Oh. about fifty cents. Well, sir

wifi you believe it, she engaged that cook over the telephone.

"Did the cook come?""Nc. Fact is. she didn’t show up,

and my wife came to town herself today and got another. But that isn’t the point. What 1 wanted to show was what can be dono with a telephone.”

"As near as I can make out, the telephone cost you a couple cf dollars, and took up time enough to disturb your whole day. Why, If you hadn’t had a telephone in the first place you wouldn’t have known your cook left, and any way It didn’t make any difference, because, alter all, your wife had to come in and attend to the matter personally.”

"By Jove! You’re right. I’ll have that Instrument taken out of.my house at once."—New York Life.

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Mr. Miller has had his The ride begins after the whale lias ( been harpooned and when the liont- Jicnder considers It time to draw up

I alongside and begin lancing. The first lliing (bat is done Is to haul iu upon the harpoon Hue until tlic boat Is brought ns close to the running whale ns is consistent with the extremely delicate margin (lint the whaler allows for safety. "Hafety” to file whaler really means to remain just nhout an inch or two beyond the reach ■ot the vast flukes with which the big Least Is beating the sen.

Having hauled as far up on the ' whale as possible, the boat-header readies over the bows and lifts the line out of the cliockg. Swiftly he brings it around tb? outside of the boat and passes it to the lmw oarsman, who has faced around on bis thwart so that ho looks forward.

He at once lays hack on the line nud bolds fast with all his might. And immediately the lioat dragged like A railroad ear by that mighty living locomotive, begins to run parallel with the side of the whale and just a few feet away from him, being prevented from running right on top of him by the oblique strain of the fine.

Now, if the harpoon Is well forward lu tbe whale, the bont bangs In a precarious but sufficient arc of safety, for the swinging tall hammers the ocean behind it and the wildly sweeping jaw unnvailingly searches the sen In front.

The boat-header braces himself In the bows until he is baaed firmly ns the stem-post ami logins to poise his long, keen, razor-edged killing lance

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chauffeur iu a racing automobile is In a paradise of case compared with him.

He must keep the boat in position by his unaided strength. From the time he gets tbe Hue until the ride is ended he drives '.uto a smothering sheet of flying spray. When the sea Is high every billow is hit by the boat with a smash that wrenches his arms. The strain on the wet line cuts and bums bis hands. And if he lets a foot of it slip he is disgraced. Once he is in it, he. is in it for good, with no chance of help or relief till the wild adventure is done.

Often the l»oat Is hauled so close on a harpooned whak* that the hnrpooner leans over aud steadies himself bjr resting one hand on the butt of the harpoon that is sticking in the great sea mammal, while wMth the other he drives the killing lance. Again and again the long weapon is burled deep In the blnck sides, uutil suddenly thick, black-rcd clots of blood well from the wound, showing that the fife” lias been reached.Then It is "back,” sometimes for dear

fife. A whale may take his death so quietly, so passively, that It Is pitiable to see so mighty a swimmer killed thus easily by man. Or he may fight till the lioat seems only a black atom in the sudden uproar that smites the ocean and sends tons of water rising till they

It Is described as an automatolc stock- less four-armed anchor, in w’hlch one pair of arms Is rigidly fastened to tbe shank, while the other pair Is arranged so ns to be capable cf moving up the lower part of the slmnk, which Is formed like a screw with a great pitch.

ting and other agricultural and mechanical appliances. The advantages said to be fourni In Its use are Immediate readiness for operation; dispensing with coal, water nud firemen; freedom from odors and danger of fire, and greater economy of maintenance. Possibly there is sonie exaggeration In these claims. But figures given plainly show that the potato, ns cultivated In Germany, has produced a real competitor for at least benzine and petroleum for motor purposes.—Providence Journal.

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A SIMPLE SPRAY.Two Jett of Water Which Break Each

Other Up.

An improved nozzle for making a spray Is shown herewith, which, while it Is applicable to a number of different purposes, is mainly intended for use about plants where it Is necessary to cool water In quantities for condensing purposes. In this nozzle the centra! portion is in the form of an inverted hollow Cone having two holes through the sides set at such an angle with each other that water passing through them from the lower side forms two streams, which strike ench other and are thus

Alphonse and Gaston.

A witty passage at arms was overheard at the banquet of the Jefferson Memorial association at the Hotel Barton between two gentleman equally prominent in the affaira of the nation—Senator George F. Hoar of Massachusetts and ex-Post- master-General Charles Emory Smith. The gentlemen were approaching the entrance of the banquet hall, and the senator courteously stepped to one side with a pleasant “After you, Mr. Smith.”

The former cabinet officer waa equally galant. “After you, my dear senator.

"No, Mr. Smith,” returned the veteran statesman from Massachusetts, "I insist that you go first. The ‘x’s’ always go before the ‘y’s’.M—Washington Times.

• • Yellow Back Hero Alive.“Deadwood Dick," the famous hero

of yellow back novels, has come out of the obscurity of eighteen years’ peaceful work on a railroad and is about to accept a position as guard in the expresssays tho Chicago Tribune.

This will bring him back, under different conditions, to the life in which he was prominent during border days.

To most of the people who read the “Deadwood Dick” stories the chief character la be Keyed either to have been a myth or to have been dead for years. He has been quietly working for the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad for the last eighteen

taking a week or so off now and then to go prospecting for gold.

He wifi never wear buckskin and high boots again, and he never will ride the pony express across the prairies, stopping now and then to rescue a maiden in peril. Now he wears overalls and handles freight.

He does not care to talk about the old days.

"No man likes to talk of bloodshed,’* he said, “who has been around where that blood was shed. But if any outlaws try to hold up the train I am guarding, they will get a taste of what some others got twenty-five years

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À FOLDING FOUB-ABMED ANCHOR.cars of transcontinental trains.

The length of the screwed part of the shank and the pitch are arranged In such a manner that the movable pair of arms wifi shift from a cross position when resting on the fixed pair of arms, to a parallel position after having made one-fourth of a revolution In moving and round the sides of a tank or (ool- to the extremity of the screwed part ing.pond, with a number of such noz- of the shank. The advantage of this zles* screwed Into them* at suitable disarrangement Is that the anchor Is ca-j tances, a very large quantity of water pable of lying flat down on the deck j can be effectually cooled In a very and of automatically assuming the small araa with a head only of from cross position when heaved overboard, so that at least two flukes must take

"That’s so," said Jonas, a little mournfully. "There ain't much fun a- settin' alone o' evenin’s, but I’m used to It," he added, despondently.

Pshaw! There ain’t no sech thing as gittln’ used tew It! It ain’t nat’ral! said Uncle John, stoutly.

"What’ll I do?" asked Jonas, sheep-

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here to marry you—sort of a birthday present to yourself, don’t you know. The old man chuckled as he glanced slyly at tonas.

“They wouldn’t have me," aald Jonas, with a decided shake of his head.

"There’s three of ’em that would’’— began the old farmer, but checked himself abruptly. He had come very near betraying hls pretty niece’s secret. “Just you ask 'em,” he finished abruptly, but with an encouraging smile.

"Which one’ll I ask?” queried Jonas.“Ask ’em all!” said the old farmer,

with a roar of laughter. He had evidently thought of something that waa exceedingly funny.

“John Gardner, be you out of your head?” said Jonas, half angrily.

But tbe farmer’s words burned in hls brain long after he had parted with his friend and neighbor.

And that evening he put on hls best suit and went over to call on Jennie Deering.

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said the rural looking visitor briskly, entering the sanctum. ’Tve brought you in some nice spring poultry, which

rRejected For Stammering.

As stammering is a cause of rejection for military service its frequency is shown by the statistics of the examination of recruits in different nations. Tbe number rejected as stammerers is 7.50 per thousand examined iu France. 3.23 in Switzerland, 2.87 in England, 2.2 in Austria, .80 in Italy and but .10 in Russia.

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“Get out! Get out! Take It away!” exclaimed the busy editor, savagely.

I don’t want it! Haven’t any room for it.”

The rural-appearing visitor hurried out, looking scared. The society re- porter got hls breath and gasped:

“Wh-wh-wh-what’s this? No room for spring poultry?”

“Poultry! Great heavens!” and the editor got up and tore hls hair. *T thought he said poetry.”—New York Times.

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Longevity In P*rU.

There are at tbe present time five men In Paris over 100 years of age. It Is noteworthy that none of these Me- thusalehs Is married. There are «"*31 nonagenarians, elghty-flve of whom arc within a few months of completing tlielr century of fife. Uf octogenarians there are no fewer than 10,617.

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berlain was a pupil at Miss Pace's school, In Camberwell Grovo. The venerable lady has just passed away gt the age of 86. A year or two back he called on hls old schoolmistress— a compliment greatly appreciated by her.

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r':live to ten feet. An installation of fifty nozzles at an English furnace cools 50,000 gallons per hour of blast furnace tuyere water coming from four fur-

Kllkcnny Castle Is one of the oldest naces. The water simply flows bj Inhabited houses in the world, many of ] gravitation from the troughs round the the rooms being much as they were 800 ' furnaces to the nozzles, no pumping

' being required.

The Benefits.Opdyke—What’s the use of arguing

with a woman? You can never convince her.

Depeyster—True. But think of the pleasure It gives the woman.—Tews and Country,

THE TRY WORKS ON A WHALER.

An Ancient Irish Castle.seem high enough to wash the sky.The danger from a fighting whale Is

not only lu the whale Itself. The boat is a perfect man-trap of keen deadlytools. Lances and harpoons, cutting

waiting for the opportunity to thrust R into tbe whale’s fife. Sometimes the opportunity comes within a minute after hauling up on the big “fish.Sometimes it does not come until the

An hoar before midnight they were sitting alone In the kitchen, for the old folk« had gone to bed in a most accommodating manner.

The congested counties of Irelandare all on the west coast years ago. ^

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