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1T0CHA DICK" WHALE tOU YEARS ME HO DEFIANCE TO WHALING VESSELS. Thrtlllag Tate mt WfcU Wk togfct. hat Was Xat CWI Tbmc B m-t B ptito4 Mi Ma Ha Killl Vatll a Last Tar Oat mm. . ' 1 Cbarrtcat. WS, bf CWIe B. Uiria. ,Bw3 tha rears !S40 and ! vfcaliag veneto of such nations as punned be leUthan ot tha drrp for bis eommcrci! value encountered no last than flva whalai Ui became famous as terrors of the sea, They wr "Mocha Dirk," "Spotted Tom,--Shy Jck,M "Ugly Jim" and "Fighting Joe." Theas names were of eourss gireo them by the sailors, but they came to bs known to whalers of all nation. You may -Chink it curious that ona whala oould t identified from another of the same sis ami species, but it was no more difScult than to identify particular bona in a 4ro of several hundred. In other words, -ajaca leriathaa baa soma peculiar mark or -characteristic of his own, and if sighted , wo or three times can be identified forever -afterward. "Mocha Dick" headed the list of terron i the start and kept his place for nine- i long years. Ko whale was so fiercely hunted, and none ever created so much -jUtt-TB? among the banters. What I ara Lo(ns to telt yau is partly a matter of pub lished record in England, Scotland and America,, and was partly glaaved from Vantacketand New Bedford whalen who - battled with the cachelot time after time, to suffer defeat on each occasion. On the 6th day of July, IMO, the English rhaKng brig Desmond, being then 215 enlles due west of the port of Valparaiso, Chili, sighted lone whale which breached hln fall length above the surface about two Bailee away. Tbe boats were lowered, but before they were within halt a mile of the whale be slewed around bead on to them aad 4vanoed to meet them. lie struck ana boat with his head and drove her un der stern first and then chewed her up. fie then sounded and was lost te sight for Sftees minutes. When he came up tt was to lift the other boat thirty feet high em bis head, and of course she was com spletely shattered. Oan and planks were 4fround fine by hi teeth as he wallowed -about, and two men were drowned before Che whale finally went slowly otT to the anrth. This was "Mocha Dick's" Intro elaotioa to the blubber hunters. lie was tthe largest whale any one aboard the brig Tsad ever seen, and across bis head was a car abont eight feet long, which showed almost white on the gray-black back ground. It was by this scar he was ever afterward identified. The next craft to encounter "Mocha Dick" was the Russian bark Sarcpta. This was on the 30th of August, almost rtwo months later, and she was fully 600 rattUeetothe south ot the spot where he was first seen. Bhe lowered two boats for lone whale and killed him! The bark was three miles away, and beating down 'to the whale under light breeze, when "Mocha Dick suddenly shot out of water between the vessel and the boats. Sch was his Impetus that nearly his full length maid be traced before he fell with a crash which could have been heard for miles around. As soon as oe had righted him elf be made straight for the boats. One of them passed around the dead whale be fore be got up, but the other was caught by the sweep ot his jaw as he came on ad knocked to pieces. He then took up ' his position beside the dead whale and ro Jstained quiet for half an hour, during which Interval the other boat pulled off to .the bark. Three men had been lost, and a fourth "had both arms broken, while the sailors bad been given such a fright that they - wild not be Induced to attack. The vessel bang about the spot for three hours, hop dag the fierce leviathan would take him- elf off, but finally had to sail away and leave him In possession. The dead whale was taken possession of two days later by ' the whaling ship John Uruce, of Nantucket, but it was no longer guarded. The next authentia record of "Mocha Dick" was furnished by the Bristol 'Whaler John Day, in May ot the year fol- lowing. She was then to the east of the Falkland Islands, and was trying out blub ber as she drifted with a light breeze. At S o'clock in the afternoon a gigantic whale breached within 800 feet ot her, shooting his full length out of water, and raising uch a sea by his fall that the ship rolled as if la a gale. The whale then swam slow ly about, and as soon as the men caught eight ot his head they identified biia as "Mocha Dick." His actions were menac ing, but the captain at once decided to at lack him. . Three boats wcro lowered, and as the whale mode off to windward the adrst mate put a harpoon into him. This was the first Iron "Mocha Dick" had ever felt. He sounded at once and ran for three miles, and when he came up tt was to slue around and head for the bout. Iris action was so unexpected and his speed so great, that be caught the boat unprepared ami tan right over it. As it went under he stopped short and 'turned as on a pivot, beating the water all the time with flukes which measured -twenty-four feet across. Nothing was leit -of the boat but splinters, and two of her crew were killed or drowned. The other two boats advanced to the attack, but be fore they were near enough to dart, the whale settled away like a lump of lead. One of the boats got hold of the floating line, but bad scarcely secured it when the tricky fighter came up under the other and sent it skyward with the bottom knocked -out. He then pivoted and thrashed the .-surface as before, and another man was lost and two others severely injured. The crew had had enough of "Mocha Dick," and while he hauled off and lay waiting for another attack the remaining 1oat was hauled up and the ship sneaked away. The English captain had vowed ' that if he ever encountered that w'hale he would kill him or lose his whole outfit of uen and boats, but an hour's fighting satis SeA him that he had undertaken too big a dob. . The particulars of the several encounters . vrecorded above were soon known to all whalers. Some captains decided to let "Mocha Dick" severely alone, while others were ambitious to secure the credit of kill ing him. However, he disappeared after he fight with the John Day, and was not eea again for seventeen months. It had come to be generally believed that he had 4ied of old age or been killed in a fight with another whalo, when he suddenly tamed up in the Pacific ocean off the east coast of Japan. Here occurred the battle of his life. A wasting craft had been blown off the coast fcy a heavy gale and was making her way jack. It was about an hour after day Sight, when a big whale was seen to breach about two miles away. It was passed over aw a trifling Incident, but ten or fifteen ninutes iater the leviathan was discovered -rushing down in the wake of the craft nth ail the steam be could put on. He was so close aboard and the sight of him threw the natives into such terror that no effort was made to escape him. He struck the craft on her stern and wrecked her in an instant, and pieces ot the wreckage were carried away in his ' jaws as he nerved to port and swam slowly away. As the cargo of the coaster was of lumber, the men soon knocked together a raft. The craft did not go down,but sank until her . -docks were awash, and the men had not yet put off on their raft, when three whal ing vessels appeared in sight all at once. These proved to be the Glasgow whalar Crieff, the New Bedford whaler Yankee and the English whaler Dudley. All had heard of "Mocha Dick," but all thought him dead. By 6 o'clock the three halm wre np and had heaai the stftry, but "Moeha Dkk" had dlsapptarnl aa bwir lf.,r. It was erf" to WBarata and sran-h for him. and that if he were found alt tar ship should lake part la the attack and share is the credit of rid ding the deep of such a terror. They did tot bare to bunt for the fellow, however. While the captains wer planning he ud deniy showed np about a mile to wind ward. Aft his bmiI fiwfcUw h earn to tbeaurfaee under such headway that ha anmed to stand upright on the tip of hie Sake before he fell orer an his side with a crash like the full of creat building. He wallowed about for a time, and then slued around head to the whalen and re mained perfectly quiet. He seemed to be asking what they were going to do about it, and the qnry was answered by tha fall of a boat from each vessel. These bad oaly pulled away when three more wen ewered to support them. Lots had been cast as to which boat should hav tha firat show, and tbe honor had fallea to the Yankee. Her boat took a circuit to approach the whale from behind, while the other two lay on their oan to wait The whale seemed for a time to be asleep, but all of a sudden settled away so quick that every one was dumfounded. He was about to try his eld dodge of coming np under a boat, and each one of them was pulled away from the spot and a sharp watch kept for signs of his breaching. It was twenty minutes before "Mocha Dick" showed up again. He had hoped to eatch a boat, but all were too lively for him, and while be lay wallowing In the seas his fall had created the mate of the Yankee put a harpoon Into him. The old fighter humped up as tbe iron went In, and for five minutes seemed to have been struck dead. Then be made a rush for the Scotchman's boat, ran right over it, and slued about for tbe Englishman. It was onlling away from him when be rushed again, caught It with a swing of bis lonr under jaw, and the onlookers beheld a spectacle none of them ever forgot. The whale lifted bis great bead clear outoi water with the beat in his mouth, and at one bite made matchwood of it and pulp of two of tbe crew who had been unable to tumble out The crew of the two boat were now floating on the oan, and the whale pivoted and lashed the sea with hit Dukes to destroy them. In this manner be killed two men, but one of the reserve boats came up In gallant style and rescued the othen. The Yankee's boat was the only one fast to tbe whale, and after vainly trying to seize or smash it "Mocha Dick" suddenly started for tbe wreck of tbe coaster, which was floating two miles away. He made a straight coarse, and the three captains were agreed that bis speed, when fairly un der way, was not less than thirty miles aa hour. As he struck the wreck he bore It down, and it rose behind h'.M bottom side Dp. To prevent a collision the boat bad to cut ber line, and the whale soon sounded and was lost to sight. Tbe boat started bock, but had not yet reached the ships when tbe flghtirg leviathan breached un der the 1kw of the Scotchman and carried away jibboom and bowsprit with a smash. He bad planned to come up under the ship, but bad missed It As he fell upon his side and rolled over on an even keel, so to speak, he made a rush for the Yankee' boat. Ha was so close on that all the crew went over board, and he picked the light craft up and chewed it as a horse does his oats. Had it been calm "Mocha Dick" might have sunk the Beet Luckily the breeze kept growing stronger, and as soon as the men from tbe Yankee's boat could be picked up the three crafts set all sail and beat an inglorious retreat, leaving tne whale hunting about for more victims. From first to last "Mocha Dick" bad nine teen harpoons put into him. He stove fourteen boats and caused the death ot over thirty men. He stove three whaling vessels so badly that they were nearly lost and he attacked and sunk a French mer chantman and an Australian trader. H was encountered ia every ocean and on every known reeding ground, lie was killed off tbe Brazilian banks In August, 1859, by a Swedish whaler, which gathered him in with scarcely any trouble, but it has always been believed that peor old "Mocha Dick" was dying of old age. lie measured 110 feet long; his girth was 5? feet; his jaw was 85 feet 6 inches long. Eight of his teeth were broken off and all others badly worn down. His big head was a mass of scars, and he had apparently lost the sight ot bis right eye. Aa Elephant's Palate. Sir Samuel W., Baker, In "His Wild Beasts and Their Ways," tells an anec dote humorously illustrative of the whims of a tame elephant, belonging to the police of Dhubrl. This elephant was fed with rice aud plantains. The stems of the plantains were split and cut into transverse sections, two feet in leugth. Three-quarters of a pound of rice were placed within each tube of plantain stem. One dBy, while the ele phant was being fed, a lady offered the animal a small sweet biscuit It was taken in the trunk, and almost immediately thrown on the ground. The mahout or driver, thinking that the elephant bad behaved rudely, picked up the biscuit and Inserted it in a parcel of rice within a plantain stem. This was placed in the elephant's mouth, and at tbe very first crunch it showed its disgust by spiuing out the whole mess. The small biscuit had disgusted the animal, and for several minutes it tried by its Inserted trunk to rake out every atom from its tongue and throat. Autographs That Are Scarce. It Is said by a Chicago dealer that an autograph letter from Andrew Johnson will bring a higher price than one from any other of our presidents. Johnson did not learn to write until he was married. and he never used the pen down to the day of his death when he could avoid doing so. Consequently he wrote very few letters, and any autograph dealer will pay fifty dollars for a genuin" Andrew Johnson without a moment's hesitation. Lincoln's autograph letters are less valuable than Johnson s; they stand about on a par with Washington's, but a great deal depends upon the subject and character of tbe let ter. Collector. Mirrors. The first mirrors of which there is any record were in use among the Israelites In the time of Moses, and were made of brass. When the Spaniards first landed in South America tbey found mirrors of polished black stone in use among the natives. The first mirror of solid silver was made by Pasi teles in the time of Julius Caesar. In the Fifteenth century the first glnss mir rors were made in Germany by a blowpipe, and were convex. The first manufactory of glass miners for sale was established in Venice early in the Sixteenth century. New York Sua. A Coj's Sense of Smell. Half the head of a horse or adult dog Is nose. It is probable therefore that the dog's mind is based essentially on impres sions of smell. He perceives the erafty Ulysses through all disguises that hide him from huumn detectien, sniffs him and is satisfied. The stories of the faithful dog crawling to his master's picture and licking the boots of it show a lamentable want of imagination even of common ob servation. London Globe. Removes Finger Marks. Borax should be used to remove finger marks from a hard wood door. Ammonia will take off the varuush or stain. New Y'orkJourcsL A Slander on the Sex, ' Yon can't argue with a woman; the best thing you can do is to let her argue with you. Elmira Gazette. OUW JIMS. A riala Tata af tll-a Taat Umt raw Fat-BliaU. always spoke of them as "Our Jlina" They were two of the bmt mea ia earn and "brt" meant a good dl In those daya When tbe Orange gtrlch mea earn ever to jump our claim it was ear two Jims who rallied as todrivethem off, leav ing six dea4 mn to be buried ia tbe even ing. When the toughs and rotrgtu of Old Man's hill laid elaim to our diggings aod appeared two to one to drive us off, it was Our Jims again who led the van and to- fabled as to win the victory. Jim who? Jim what? I do not know. No one hut themselves knew. Now sad then some miner gave his full name, but we had bo use for it We were Jim and Bill and Pete to each other, and that alone. Oar Jims were not quarrelsome mea Big reen and brave men never are. Tbey tented together and were "pards," and bow It came abont that tbey fell out none of ns ever learned. One morning, when they had been tentmates for many months, one Jim packed up and left camp. He bail Dotbina to say nothing beyond the state ment that "Me and Jim is out." The Jim who remained made no statement what ever. Among ourselves we shmi tnere nau been a hot word dropped and picked up just when both men were out f sorts. It was bard work, that bnnting for gold. We worked likeslavesand lived far werse. and tentmates quarreled very often. In a day or two we saw that tbe Jim ho remained was troubled in his mind. He had been too proud to hold out his, hand and ask the other Jim to stay, but now it was hurting him. He grew sullen and morose, and uow and then he paused In in work aud looked np tbe tmlrwith u longing look in his eyes a longing to sen the other Jim returning to camp. Five or six days had passed when a Chinaman came Into camp with a note for Jim. It was written wltb a blackened suck on a piece of brown paper, and read: JiM-It's a case of smallpox, and I won't ask jrou to come. It's Just to say I'm sorry w fell out and to bid you good by. Jim. It took three or four of us bait an hour to make.out the badly written and mis-, spelled message, and when we had finished Our Jim will k mi away to bis tent and began to pick up. Tbe snowclouds were bank ing up in the west, and it was plain that a bad storm was at hand, ike otuer Jim was twenty-eight miles away, sick and alone in a rude cabin at the abandoned diggings of Crazy Woman's orcek. The trail led over the mountain and through valleys thick with scrub and rough with bowlders, and tha Chinaman was com pletely broken down when he reached us. "You won't start with that storm com ing onr" we said to Jim as he came out of his tent with a pack on his back. "Jim wants me goodbyl" he replied, and in five minutes he was out of sight. An hour later we were all driven to shelter, and for three days and night there was never a break In the storm. There wasn't a tent on the diggings in sight when the fourth morning came every one snowed out of sight. If we hadn't been snowed under we should have been frozen to death by the cutting winds. Jim couldn't have made those twenty-eight miles in less than a day with no snow un der his feet. We knew that be must have perished in that storm before midnight. It was a long three weeks before tbe snow went off, and then two of us went up the trail All day long we looked for the dead body of tbe Jim who had started out before the storm, but we did not discover It An hour before dark we came to the abandoned diggings and caught sight of the single shanty left standing. We should find the other Jim In there dead. Step by step we advance, dreading to look in, and yet feeling that we must. The door was fast, but the fierce gusts had torn loose some ot the light boards at a corner, and we had a view ot the interior. Lying on a blanket on tbe earth, with another partly covering them, and lying face to face with an arm over each other, were two dead men Our Jims. The one who had sent the Chinaman might have been raving in delirium when the other reached him through that awful storm, but he heard his voice and knew it. The one who fought his way over that snowbound trail, stumbling, falling, praying buoyed up by the hope he would not be too late, could do nothing after his Journey was ended nothing but to lie down and die beside his partner. M. Quad. A Boy's Charity. One night not long ago General Swayne, of New York, was going up town on a Fourth avenue car. Ho tucked his crutches under his arm to investigate his pockets and found that he had no money. "I suppose I shall have to get off," he said to the conductor. The conductor said he supposed he would. Then up spoko a voice from the bottom of the car. It belonged to a small, one legged newsboy, who had to depend oa crutches as General Swayne did. "There's a pair of us," said the boy. "I'll lend you a nickel to pay for your ride." The oiler touched the general's heart, for it was plain that a desire to spare his pride had led the boy to call it a loan. He said to himself that some time he would pay the five cents back with interest He asked the boy s address. The lad gave it, but told him it diun t matter. hen Mrs. Swayne, at her husband s re quest, drove to the address of the boy who had pitied ber husband she found that he was dead. The debt could not be paid to him, but he bad left a mother and some little brothers, who have profited by their brother's loan. Boston Transcript She node on the Rear Platform. The car was so crowded that one woman was obliged to stand on the rear platform, although it was storming. One man stand ing inside elbowed his way out to make room for her. She thanked him and stepped just inside the door, where it was a trifle more comfortable. Then the well dressed American hog saw his chance. He hadn't done anything to show that he had recently escaped from a cattle car for perhaps ben minutes. He had been content to stand on the platform be fore, but he was not now. He pushed into the car after the woman in spite of the half uttered protest of the man who had come outside to make room for her. There was not room for both. He saw that and she saw it His elbow struck her in the chest and she sat down in the lap of another woman near the door. She man aged to get up and apologize to the womau, but she couldn't remain standing where she was, and he was standing where she had stood a moment before. She did the only thing possible under the circum stances went out on the platform and overheard the following conversation be tween two mea who had seen the whole prosecding: "It seems to make him a bit proud and overbearing, doesn't it?" "What?" "The arrangement that let him into Ger many." "Oh, he couldn't get in under that sys tem." "Why not?" "He couldn't stand Jerry Rusk's Inspec tion." It was on a North State street car at 6 o'clock Wednesday night. Any of the other passengers who see this will recog nize it, but the one who Is barred from Germany will wonder who is meant They always do. Chicago Tribune. A Young Man's Sad Fate. First Little Boy I'm awful glad I ain't a young man. Second Little Boy Why Is you? First Little Boy 'Cause a young mai can't have any fun on the ice. The girls is always wantin his help. Good News. ME TOUNG FOLKS' CORNER. CHOICE SCRAPS TOR YOUNQ OF READING PEOPLE, A Highland Boy Remark of Creat Man Undr Strang Circum tanca -Doctor Archla--Brothln Dlr Llttl Sunshina. A Hlghlanl Bey, Waiter vai a little Highland boy; that is. he lived among the Highlands of Scotland. There was no chimney to the poor little house where be lived, for none of the people near Walter's house had chimneys fifty years ago. "It is cold here," said Walter's mother, "and we have no peat. What shall we do?" "Don'.t trouble yourself about it, mother," answered Walter. "Neighbor Campbell has a fine lot of peat. It has not been long ont of the boa. He will surely lend us some. I will go for it." So tdie boy threw his bright plaid over himself, and hurried to the neighbor's. He soon returned with the peat. This is used by the Irish and Scqtch as coal or wood is used by us. After this peat is prepared for burning it is called turf. Walter built the lire under a hole in the roof, through which the smoke could escape. His mother, who was sick in the bed, had fallen asleep while he had been gone; so, not wishing to awaken her, he threw back the blanket, which was the only door to the hovel, and ran out-doers to play. In about an hour his father came into the house. The wife was still asleep. "I'm sorry that fire is built under the opening of tha ropf," he said to himself. "There's a storm coming, and the rain wilt fall on the fire nnd put it out. The fire should have been buflt in another part of the room. It won't hurt the smoke to go around the room before it fiflds a chance to get out. But I'll not move the fire now, for fear the noise will waken wife." The Scotch chd not seem to think the smolte would do them harm as it filled their rooms, nor did they seem to care if it covered their floors and ceiling and walls with soot. Walter's father took a stick and wrote this in the soot on the wall: "Walter, when it begins to rain, put the fire in another part of the room, so it will not go out, and make the house tpo cold for your mother. I must go to my work." "The little boy reached the house just in time to move the fire before the storm came. Harper's Young People. Remark of Craat Men Under Strange Circumstances. . The battle of the Nile was fought August 1, 1798, between the French and English fleets. Sir Horatio Nel son was in command of the latter, and as the engagement was about to begin he exclaimed, "Victory or West- nnat-AM A ViKatH" A rsul irifrktir if wan W,hen Charles IX. of Sweden, at the age of nineteen'yaars, foueht and de feated a large body oi Russians at Narva in 1700, Peter ths great, who led his army, had several horses shot tinder him, and while exchanging a dead steed for a more useful one after a repetition of the occurrences, he re marked, "These people seem disposed to give me exercise." And events proved the truth of the prophecy. The mace is an emblem of author ity and use in our Congress as well as in the English Parliament, and though it is merely a symbol, it commands respect; but it was never so insulted as when Oliver Cromwell stalked into the Enclish House to disperse the members and dissolve the parliament. The mace lav in its regular place, and when Cromwell saw it, he must have sneered at the peity symbol, for he called one of his soldiers, ana ordered, "Take away that bauble." So, as the mace was carried out, the doors were locked and Parliament effectual ly dissolved. The message of Commodore Perry is better known. The battle of Lake Erie had taken place, and the British Heet were defeated. Then tne com modore sent to General Haorison, (rrn.ndfa.thpr of t-ho nresent liresinent. his famous dispatches, "we nave met the eneniv, and they are ours." It was but a little longer than Ca;sar's, "I came. I saw, I conquered. An English General, however, made tbe record for brevity w hen, after he had conquered trie province of Scinde in India, he sent a punning despatch m the one word. Feccavi, which, as our young Latin students know, means, "I have sinned." Harper's Young People. A Marine Paradox. Many of you have stood on the beach nt the seaside, .md watched the seas rollina in heavy breakers after a storm, curling and crashing iuto volumes of foam and broken water, with such force as to send them sweeping up ajniost to your feet. It is through such waves that men who follow the sea must at times pass in reaching the shore; but not through one or 'two on a smootn, ouick- shelving beach, but through thirty or forty, perhaps, covering a .mile of treacherous shoals, and at places surging between jagged reefs and huge boulders. With intense interest we read of dreadful shipwrecks almost every week. The survivors tell how.the big ship labored and strugcled througl monster billows and shrieking wind, under black Hying clouds and amid lagged streaks of lightning, until, niastless. and helpless, she lay Tex hausted in the trough of the sea, n'n'd passively received the crashing deluge ol merciless waves until sue sank Thev tell how' they, poor puny human beings, clung to ht'lm and pumps till the great ship's struggles were over, and it became evident that she could carry them no longer; then how they hastily threw n cask of water and a few provisions into some remaining boat, and at a favorable moment launched upon the angry waters in a cratt so trail that it seem ed as if all on board were doomed to instant destruction. Here always comes the strangest rmrt of their narrative. Read all such accounts carefully, and you will lind that in nearly every case where such a little boat is saiely launched irom an abandoned ship, it floats and drift for days and even weeks on the open ocean, livinc through the dreadful tempest which wrecked the big ship, sailing buoyantly through calm er seas, and finally bringing the sur. vrvor wftnin iisht of other hip or lands. 6t. Nicholas. Doctor Arohlo. Archie's father was a nhvsician. aad as Afchie was allowed the run of the office he often heard lota of talk pars ing between tbe doctor ana nut pa tients. One day a lady called tosee Archie father, and as the doctor was not in she sat down in the office to wait for him. Archie passed ti open door, and attracted by tha lady's smile he walked in. I'm Doctor Arehie!"heannonnced, 'Oh, are you?" said thelady, bright ly. "Tli en perhaps you can examine my lungs, and 1 snail not nave to ware for your papa." "Oh yes, ciied Archie, "loan 'xam- ine lungs! Yo jus' t.aice off your cloak, an' see if I can't!" The lady laughed, and entering into the spirit of tbe play laid aside her fur wr.-tu. Archie pressed his ear against the ady's hack precisely as he had seen his fai her do. After a minute np came the little face flushed and eager. i CHir lungs elearin up, he said;. 'Your lungs elearin' up a good deal! But you : don't breave very well; I shall have to dfv you somefin for that. Let me feel your pulse," Archie went on, reaching out his small fingers for her wrist. He took a toy watch from his pocket, and looked at it teadilv for a few seconds. "Your pttse is up to free hundred an' ten!" helsaid, at last. "I'm 'fraid you're doin' to be sick. Papa's dot his fer- mometer, I dess; but I can tell what your temp'rature is I tink it's 'bout four below zero!" "O papa," cried Archie, "Ive 'xam- ined her lungs, an' saved you lots of ouble! It a awful hard to i amino tings, isn t it. A Strange Castaway, The passengers upon one of the Hudson River ferry-hoats a few days ago witnessed a rather unique incident shortly after the boat left her slip. Whirling along upon the out-going tide came a piece of rotten ice about the size of a barrel head, and lying in the center of it was something that looked like an old gray muff. As the boat drew near, the bit of gray sud denly became upright, and was seen to be a lit" le and niucn ingntenea rabbit. His journey had been a long one, for his attenuated body showed that some time had passed since he had last eaten, while parts of his fur were frozen as stiff as the legendary poker. sitting on his haunches, with one ear drooping in a mildy pathetic way, his black eyes gazed appealingly up ward at the row ot faces which lined the rail, and some twenty-five sympa thetic females remarked "Poor thing!" m chorus. If he had any hopes of rescue, the unfortunate nttia antmai was doomed to bitter disappointment, lor the boat swept on, and after plunging wildly about in it wake, the craft which bore the tiny voyager continued its whirling course toward the open sea. New i. ork Commercial Advertiser. Comparative Safety of Lartfe and Small Boats at Sea. I have said that the little loat usually brings its occupants safely within sight of a ship or land. It you are ever so cast away, choose that you may sight a snip rather tnan and. Only too often the fierce storm is weathered, and the hopeful crew sail over hundreds of miles of sunny seas, almost as if on a pleasure-trip, uniu me giau Bignt oi lauu greets meir eyes, and their trouDies seem put a dream of the past, when suddenly they are plunged through a mass of white and broken water, and amid the roar of crashing waves the littlo boat is lifted and twisted and flung about till dashed into fragments upon jagged rookspwhile those survivors of teinblejstorm and shipwreck, of un counted miles of open ocean are thrown upon the sunny beach which gladdened their hearts, cruelly batter ed or perhaps even lifeless! Almost always, too, this is due to their not knowing how to handle their boat at this crowning, critical moment when but a few hundred yards remain of a thousand-mile journey from ship to shore. St. Nicholas. Little Sunshine. Good morning, Dolk Did you sleep well?" Patty climbed down from her little bed and peeped out of the window. "Dear me, she said, "I guess this will be a good day for sun shine. I suppose you think from this that the sun was shining andthelittlebirds singing. But you are wrong. Mhe sky was covered with dark clouds and the rain was pouring. Not a bird could be heard and the flowers were hanging dow-n their heads. What did Patty mean by its being a good day for sun shine. Last night, grandma had said to her: "There is no sunshine so bright as a cheery little face. One little child can fill the whole house with sunshine on the darkest day." "I m going to try it to-day, said Patty. After she was dressed and had said her prayers, she weot down stairs. bhe had a sweet smile for every one, and tried all dayto be kind and lov ing. That night, grandma said, "I think God is very good to give us such a dear little Sunshine." Would not every little boy and girl like such a sweet name? Christian Observer. Brothers In Distress. Little Roland Q , an orphan who had been accustomed during the life of 'his parents to generous nurture and even to indulgence, went after thei-death to live with an uncle, who believed in severe treatment . of chil dren. The boy was put at once upon a plain diet of oatmeal, bread and buKer, a little meat and a carefully regulated allowance of fruit. This thf1 poor boy regarded as next door to starvation; and he ate" so little that it was remarked in his pres ence that he was growing thin. One day his uncle took him out to walk in the suburb where he lived. While they were walking they met a friend of the uncle s who was accom panied by a large greyhound. The boy had never seen a dogofthis sort before, and was greatly aston ished by his thinness. Heiooked very sympathet ically at the animal. "Ah," said the dog's owner to Ro land, "you think he's pretty thin, don t your "Y-yes;" said the boy; "does he live with his uncle?" 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