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THE AMEHIUAS Bl-:t: KEEI'BII. 



Uectm'jti' 



commauct. ilie tneu scattered, autl it 

 was three mouths before the bark start- 

 ed out for another cruise. She had lost 

 prestige, but she was still looked upon 

 as a lucky craft aud there was uo lack 

 of applicants when she was ready tor 

 eea. On this, which proved to be her 

 last cruise, she was commanded by (Jap- 

 tain Thorndvke, who was a whaler of 

 15 years' experience and had command- 

 ed some of the best vessels in the fleet 

 On leaving Bristol he told the owners 

 he would come back with a hold full of 

 oil or not at all 



We in the Nancy Lee had meanwhile 

 transshipped 1,400 barrels of oil aud 

 worked our way down to Cape Horn 

 and 200 miles south of it We were 

 cruising f li.st aud west, taking a whale 

 occasionally, when the Rainbow came 

 down ou us tor the third time. Tins 

 was some uiue or ten mcurhs after her 

 last adventure, aud she had made the 

 trip from Bristol without sightmg a 

 spout She came down to us at 10 

 o'clock oiie morning, remaiued hove to 

 until 'i in the afternoon aud then head- 

 ed away to the east 



We came about, and two days later 

 sighted the Hauibow again Neither 

 cratt had sigiueri a spout, but at 2 

 o'clock in the afternoon, as they lay 

 within a quarter of a mile of each other. 

 a wbale broke water within a cable s 

 length of the bark. He was so close to 

 her that we liad no show aud did not 

 lower. It was a lone whale aud a big 

 one, and we uo sooner had him under 

 our glasses thau we saw that he was a 

 fighter There were half a dozen scars 

 ou his head, aud the way he rolled about 

 showed his temper As he was l)ead on 

 to OS he must have seen both ships and 

 the two boats lowered for him, but he 

 made uo move until the mate s boi ' 

 was close r.pon hiui aud ready for a 

 dart She had made a half circle to get 

 out of his line of visiou and approach 

 him broad.side on. l)ut he heard the ap- 

 proach and indulged in a strange ma- 

 neuver 



Pew men ever saw a whale back wa- 

 ter, and the^-p are plenty of whalers that 

 contend that he catmot This whale, 

 however, ba<"ked a distance of 100 teet, 

 and with ama/iug swiftness, too, and 

 striking th" boat with his flukes he 

 killed four men and reduced her to 

 matchwood. Then he started straight 



for the K.iiMxivv. aud his ru.sh was that 

 of an avalaiH lie Every man of us had 

 our eyes ou him when he struck her on 

 the port bow. and we plainly heard the 

 crash of plai-ks and timbers After the 

 shock he started otf and settled down 

 and was seen uo more, but in ten min- 

 utes the KaiiiiidW was at the bottom of 

 the sea No a man saved even an extra 

 jacket There was scarce time for them 

 to lower their boats when the bark 

 pitched forward aud went to her grave. 

 We. of course, took them aboard, and 

 after a few weeks they were landed at 

 Bahia. 



Publicity. 



Merely tn stock a store and open it is 

 not sufficient in these days of keen busi- 

 ness rivalry. The mercLaut, in order to 

 succeed, luust make known his advan- 

 tages through the newspapers th u 

 reach the ptcple not only of this city, 

 but of the '^urrouuding towns as well. 

 This is now calltd "publicity," but it 

 cau be quite as well recognized uuder 

 the good old name of advertising.— 

 Scrantou Truth. 



The Boss. 



In a harsh, resonant voice the Locs 

 was shoutiug his orders over our heads 

 to the fill theruiost portion of thework,s. 

 His shcrt, thickset, n. uscular figure 

 seemed rci:)ted to the ma.sonry on which 

 he stood. The mingled shrewdness aud 

 brute strength of his hard face maiked 

 him as a product cf natural selection 

 for the plnce that he filled. His restless 

 gray eyes ^\ere everywhere at once, and 

 his whole persouality was teuse witli a 

 compeilinu physical energy. If the wnrk 

 slackened in any portion of the rums, 

 his voice took on a vibrant quality as he 

 raised it to the shout of "Now, hoys, 

 at it there!" Aud then a lash of sfiug- 

 iug caths. Vou could feel a quickeuiug 

 cf muscular force amoug the men, like 

 the show of eager industry in a section 

 of a schcolrccni that has fallen sudden- 

 ly uuder tl e muster's questioning eye. 

 —"The Wo'keis," Ly Walter A. Wyck- 

 off, in Sctibuer's. 



Conducive to Length of l>ay8. 



Loucevity must be a very healthy 

 profession, to jnd.ie from the number cf 

 people who have followed it for 100 

 years or more — Boston Transcript. 



