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f EFFORT. Tis not enough to tane th lyre And wait for harmonies to com. God endeth not celestrial ftr W hen human heart are cold and numb. Tis not enough to calmly wait , That quickening dew should on us fall. To vaguely long for what la great While still pursuing what Is small. . Tls not enough with tears of woe To weep for all the world's distress. The drops that from Inaction flow Nor us, nor other lives, will bless. 'Tls not enough the love to take , That other hearts on ours outpour; The soul Is only kept awake By giving something from Its store. . Tls not enough with drooping wing And aimless feet to walk this earth; Effort alone con blessing bring And crown the soul with -sov'relgn ! worth. Tnter Ocean. A PESKY WHALE. HEKE'S whales an whales," said ' the captain, sud denly. "Some of em is pehky crit ters, an' some ain't bo pesky." Smoke went. up i a clouds, and there was silence for five minutes. "Reckon you've got something' on your mind, cap," snid the doctor. ."Oh, uolhin' very partickler," said the captain, Vbut when whales was intro duced it' reminded me. I had old Liz up lk'hring sea wny two years ago-r-old irii.n.lMl,h .T. liarker AO we'd 1ad a pretty good seuaon, Seirfember we put . around for "the Horn, and, ,n things happened, didn't see another whole till we struck into the Forties. ' Thn, sir,, 'bout 11 o'clock one fine morn in', we do in' about six knots, wo raised a whale that wax a whale," . "Hig, I bet," said the doctor. ; "No, not so terrible big," said the cap- ,tain, "but peaky, - I was standin' about 'midsliijjs wlien one of 'the men sings out: 'Hi, Cap, look at w -blow. Nunr 'nough, half a mile-oftand dead abeam to starboard, he wns blowiuV lie sent up a good spout and then seemed to kinder settle himself, like lie was nap- pin', showin' a good bit of his length. I hove old Liz to, and we put over n couple of boats. Kowin in the small boatwari a Dutchman named Frank. I mention, him, 'cause he comes into the . yarn pretty 'prominent." Frank was a good Sailor, but one of them fellers that lias ibnsiiHBs and kept his hatch iit Vd clone. Well, as it turned out, the la. boat Jicked the big one and got ! whnclc at the whale. They put a fpoon into.hfm just over his port fin Al down he went. : , 1 "I stood a-whtchin' things through a a$. 1 waited an' waited for the boat start oil. in .tow, but mho' didn't do Jthiu' but set st SI, which was puzzlin'. Libout five minutes somethin' big an' k broke water 'tween us and the i joat. an' tliera was old blower, not , Jnore'n 21)0 yards from the place he went flown. Ho wnin't up long, but enough to git his benrln's, I guess, for down he ipvent again, air I could see the bow mm gettin' reudy to give him all the 7 he'd luk(!. Tlien the boat started, Nd a bit nn' come dead for the ship - 10-mile din. I never see a boat , i,'..-.;?J We waiBte 'ymr an-.w)ien ' he got within a quarter of a mile I thinks to myself; 'Thisisgittin' blamed nterestln -1 womlerin that whale go- in' to sheer off or is he goln to give us a rani? That ljont, sir, traveled for us us true as n ha ir, an' I could see the men in her irittin' excited. On she come, throwin' spray like a liner, and I eal Uilated if slio held her course she'd hit . us so near 'midships it wouldn't lie worth men.surin' the difference. Then j, . . .... i . i . i nee mo man in tne uow iua a pnnu for the rope with the liatchet, but he was nervous like, an' missed it, for the ...Ik. .A . 4.i..a. 4 noiinluMittfl nil' Itn 1ra!n . his balance, uloug with it. The rest of : the men wurn't loug deeidin' what they'd do. It was go Werlxmrd or git smashed to flinders, and when they got llljf' VERY PAKTICULAH." within SO'yard of u they all went over but Frank, , ' ,;; "Mump, you idiot,' yells 1 Mo you njit to gitj stove V Alebl he didn't J ;ir, but reckon it wouldn't make no .liilt T-fiice, for as I'm Hvin', Doe, that Dutchman ly himself outon his Mum mick in the bottom of the boat, grubbed a foot cleat witn uowi nanus aim luing on "or deiir iife. Well, old whale kept mi-! m on. 1 could see the liout go down I. (tie by ths head as she got close to , an' I jiioV the rope was wrapin' the k-l. We was all holdin' breath rti'iitin' to sen Frank splutter his r;iiiiH agniiiKt the ship's side, when the loat went liose down, stern up and un der the water with ft kerehug. ; Shu inisM il reacliin' us by about five yard. "All hands aboard ship leant over to , (see Frank and the splinters come up, for the boat would sure fetch again the keel and go to kimllin" wood. We waited nil, waited nn waited, but. by gum, there v-eicn't no splinters an' there wern't no Frank. All of a sudden one of the men sings out: 'Uy the holy poker, look J 1 wh(pied 'round and there IK) f athoms off our port, was the HUM vboMieat, full o' water to the gunnel, an' Frank utandin' up In her, wolst deep, holdin on. to a rowlock for dear life. So help me, Doc, that boat vnn towcl clean under old Liz, the , Dutchman in her. an come up (toundou the othi-r side, t Yes. ir! nnoVr in hin o sHeV n a i,i nun i.M.i.i., in iiwia mi. ..ft ti i.Mau Vila " v whistle an' the Dutchman in her. That I whale was a scien tist, sir. He calkilated all right to lose the boat; but, bless you, it's a bigger job than anyone wanted to tackle to stave that craft, an' an for floatin, she was boxed at each end an' couldn't sink. But that ain't the end of the story. We remembered the fel-1 lers that jumped an' we seen the big boat would pick 'em up before we could put another over, so we turned to look at Frank again. There weren't any thin' left ia the boat to bail with an he couldn't do nothin' but wait on the pleasure of that whale. He traveled i away from the ship as fast as he come at it, an he must 'a' gone a third of a mile before the boat slacked. Then we seen her slow down nn' come to a dead stop. 'Line's busted,' says I; 'man a boat an fetch in the Dutchman.' I hadn't no more'n spoke the words when a big wave seemed to rise up near the boat an' old whale blowed 30 foot high. Then he got old Liz in range. Up his tail goes an' he under the water again. I could see t rank wade forrard in the boat an' try to pay out line, but it was jammed, an' before he could make it loose the boat gave a jerk 'round, al most a-throwin' him out, an' come at us again. What I'm sayin's truth, Doc, that boat struck another bee line for us. I suppose, more properly speakm , the whale did. Gosh! How she did come kitin'! Frank quit foolin' with the line an' just hung on. I reckoned the boat was movin' faster'n ever, only she didn't throw so much water, 'cause she set down almost to her rowlocks. We stood speechless while she was driv in' for us, When she got within 100 yards the mate took a big breath and let fly: ,' . -"': ' " 'Jump, you Dutch lubber, or you re a dead man.' ' "But he didn't jump, an' I could see him gittin' ready for another dive under old Liz. "I grabbed up a bucket, climbed on the rail ' an' when the boat come near "JUMP, YOU IDIOT." enough I let drive at Frank, hopin' to knock him overboard if I hit him. He seen it comin', dodged, an just as the boat went tail up again yelled: "I can't swiml' "Down went the boat like a soundin' lend, an' this time we all slid over to utarboard'to see her come-up. Seven or eight seconds passed, maybe, an' then about 15 fathoms off our beam up come the boat, bottom Up! 'Oh, Lord!' groaned the cook, 'he's a goner!' Hut he wnrn't. No, sir. Tho boat hadn't traveled 20 yeard afore she l ighted, an' we seen Frank's head bob 'lip over the gunnel, well, old whale didn t run so far this time, for he broke water a few hundred fathom off.. In about a minute he sent up a stream of blood. I seen then t Hut the harpoon was a good throw, an' he wasn't goin' to fight long. "I sent the second boat out after him, but they didu't git far 'fore down goes whale for tho third tune, an in a sec ond the little boat l"'vr:1 rgr..in an' we knew he waseomir' ti:. There warn't no way to make t... I'titchnuui jump, an' there warn't no way to stop the whale, so we just waited again while the little boat made tracks for us like she was golu'' to ram. Just when I reck oned by the line out that the whale was pnssin' under us there was a tremen' dous bang an' every mother's son was throwed flat. Old Liz rolled to star board an' then hack to port an' lay rockin' while we got up. ileckon you guess what happened. Doc? That whale miscalkilated. lie laid his course fine as silk, but his elevation was off couple o' points. lie didn't fetch deep enough, on hit old Liz a w;elt tha'd like to rip the keel off her. That set tled the business, too. We looked over the rail an' seen some bloody water, then a flipper and soon a big black body floated up alongside.' There was our whale, sir, dead as a hunk o' salt pork, with the top o' his head half tore off. Ho was a blue whale, Doc, and he measured close to C2 feet. What be come o' the Dutchman ? Why, the boat slowed down when the whale rammed us an' the other boat took him off, Hurt? No. He went to work cuttin up that whale along with the rest of 'em.' I did hear afterward that he was gruniblin' 'cause 'twas his bucket throwed at him an' it warn't picked up, Hight lively whale, warn t it. Doc?" "Kight lively," repeated the, doctor, absently. Brooklyn hagle. h, lie imvi1 vim... .v. vimwii J " jln movement for the purification of jwlities," said the spokeswoman of the delegation of high browed, lean waisted Jynidies and gentlemen. "Well, my friends," said the practical Statesman, "I don't know but politics is In need of a good deal of purification tight now." I "Ah! We thought you would see " "Yes. It is getting so mixed up with reform and economy and one thing and another here lately that there is hardly any of the good, old-fashioned, pure pol ities at all any more." Cincinnati En quirer. Early Closing. We, the undersigned, hereby agree to close our respective places of business at 6 p. m., during the months of Jan uary and February, and at 7 p. m. dur ing the month of March, 1904 : Athena Mercantile Co. Taylor & Jarman. M, J. Bagley. Dell Bros. Ed MiltlUiUiO, Cli'ofcs J; WwrUUiigtou, WHITE WA'ER Hi THE OCEAN. Maaralar Fkntanoi Wit a 4 sit . Store laterwOa la tfc Tra ' ' leal Regloas. - Of the many sights witnessed in the; oceans of the g-lobe, one of the noit curious and most weird is that de-, scribed bv sailors as "the milkv ea."( ships being surrounded for . several hours by water that appears to be a snowy whiteness. Compiled from ex periences recorded during the last 70 years, an interesting account of the phenomenon is given on the North At lantic and Mediterranean Pilot Chart., The spectacle is restricted to the dark-; ness of night and rare ocean-ions, and, while it is limited mainly to the warm-i er waters of the tropical belt, it ap pears to be more common in the In dian ocean than in the Atlantic and Pacific. From the white water the light is so strong that ordinary news-, paper print can be read on beard ship. but the scene all around is of an awe inspiring description. The horizon is blotted out. sea and sky seem to be come one in a sort of universal lumi nous fog, which, like a London fog. robs the observer of the sense of dis tance and direction, the deck being lit p with a ghastly, shadowless light. Last June oft the west coost of South America a bucket of the white water emptied hack into the sea resembled molten lead. This curious sight has interested scientific investigators, Dar--win among them; but while it is, no doubt, related to the many phosphor escent displays common at sea, there is no difficult explanation forthcom ing of this particular manifestation or of the singular atmospheric effects re sulting from it. KINGS OF FOREIGN BLOOD. Fen European Countries Can Boast ... of Balers Who Are Reallr Natives. It is strange how little really native blood the royal families of Europe hare In their veins. The king of Greece is cenerallr called a Dane, being second son of the King of Denmark, but as the king of Denmark was a prince of Schles-wig-Holatetn, the Danish and Grecian reigning houses are both of German ex traction, says London Black and White. Germany, has, Indeed, supplied most of the royal houses of Europe, xne czar Is, of course, a lineal descendant of Peter the Great, but nearly all his In tervening ancestors have been German, as in the middle of the eighteenth cen tury a prince of Oldenburg Inherited the Russian crowns and transmitted them to the subseauent czars. The king of Sweden 1b French, ana or aulte humble extraction that is, hum ble for a monarch though his grana father, Bernadotte, was one of Napo leon's most famous generals. The Spanish crown Is filled by a prince who can boast at least of a fair percentage of real Spanish blood., and Italy's king, too, descended from tne old kings of Sardinia one of the Ital ian states. The royal house of Hapsburg has given many emperors to Austria, which is one of the few countries where the king Is really a native of the country he reigns over. Hovel Method of Ioalter tit Certeh- 1ns ht Game Flh la Bast rn Stream. , Poachers in the Adirondack and ohter wild sections of New York ere taking trout by means of a hook tied to the end of a stick. The poacher lies down upon a log or stump above some deep pool in a trout stream and brings the stick close alongside the fish, work ing It ever and ever so carefully lest the mh should be fi-Xiuned away. When the pole U only a hair's breadth from the side of the trout the fisher gives a, jerk, and, nine times out of ten, hooks the fUh. The method is specially de structive to good .sport, for the reason that it enables the poacher to take the wary old trout thatare shy of the hook. Closely allied, is the method ot stur geon catching w hich is practiced in the Detroit river and some of the streams running into Lake. Superior, says the New York Times. The sturgeon has a way whenlt runsupatreamin spawn ing season of rubbing agains.tvery bit of wood that may be fixed inthwater. The fisherman goes out in a boat or takes hl place at a bridge with a pole, on the end of which are tied three hooks pointing in three different direc tions from a common center. The end of the pole he plants on the bottom of the stream, while the other he holds in his hand. When he feels the movement of the sturgeon he jerk. The sturgeon is hooked and a grand flirht begin. IT'S JUST A COUCH that gets your lungs sore and weak and paves the way for pneumonia or eon sumption, or both. Acker's English Remedy will stop the cough in a day and heal your lungs. It will cure con sumption, asthma, bronchitis, and all throat and lung troubles. Positively guaranteed and your money refunded if vou are, not satisfied. Write to us for tree sample. W. H. Hooker & U Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by McBride & Co. ".,'- Notice of Final Account. In the Countv Court of : the State Of Oretron for the County ot umatina. In the matter ot the estate of Enoe P. Tucker, deceased: Notice is hereby given to all persons whom it niav concern that Robert J. Hoddy, administrator of the estate of Enos P. Tucker, deceased, has tiled bia account and report in the above entitled court: and that the countv court by or iter hua annointed Saturday, the 2(th day of December, 1903, aa the time and the county court house in renaieton, Umatilla county, Oregon, as the place, where anv and all objections and excep tions to the same will be heard, and the settlement thereof ho made. " The first nublieation ot this notice ia on Friday, Nov. 27, 11)03, and will appear for four consecutive weeks m the Athesa i'REas Robert J. Boddy, Dated Nov. 27. 1903. Administrator, K'lmiHi" Vttnr ltowvls With sSweurewfc Cnmly Cruh.irti-;, chvo constipation forever, t-cSac. 1(0 .t'.tuii.drugsifctsrvluuduioiifjf- mm 11 asaaaaaaBMSft... 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