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.
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at 6 p. m., during the months of Jan
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WHITE WA'ER Hi THE OCEAN.
Maaralar Fkntanoi Wit a 4 sit
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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.
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Notice is hereby given to all persons
whom it niav concern that Robert J.
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Enos P. Tucker, deceased, has tiled bia
account and report in the above entitled
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Umatilla county, Oregon, as the place,
where anv and all objections and excep
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