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h HA1-K SOON TO BE VANISHING
MYSTERY OF GREAT WATERS
(Seward Gateway.)
Whep Jhe, galf whale is harpooned,;
ihet mother will “stick around” and'
herpelf falls, victim to the deadly har-.
poon gun, but even in its dying
struggles the calf will try to-snuggle'
up -at its mother’s neck to find out j.
what all this , terrible , business is •
abqul. And, furthermore, the seas
will soon he.swept clean of whales if'
they go on harpooning them at the,
oresent sate, because the decrease in
catch from year to year, is becoming
so noticeable that whalermen are be
einning. to. cast about for some other j
occupation. The Fort Hobron fleet of
three ve.ssels took in255 whaler dur- j
ing the season., which, added to the |
165 taken from the Aleutian waters, j
bripgs the total up to 420 whales ‘
takgn this, year by the North Amer-1
icaip. .Pacific Whaling Company with,
its fleet of seven boats.
These facts were learped from sail-.
>rs, on the whaler Abmfieen, Captain !
Alfred Peterson, which made a brief i
stay in the port of Seward on Sunday !
at .the Standard OH dock for refuel- J
ing, and which gave way fo the Moran |
of the same fleet, which also came in [
for oil and then departed southward.'
The Tauganek,.of the Hobroji fleet J
west out direct from the whaling
grounds. The .other ...four whaling j
schooners from the Akutan station i
were in here about a week ago.
The .Aberdeen took 99 whales,, the j
Moran got 80, and the Tauganek:
ca light TO.
Nobody knows how long the life:
spen of a whale is. the sailors say,.and j
unless acalf is at, least 50 feet long j
they don’t like to shoot the harpoon
into it. Of, course, if the .calf is still
suckling, the mother is right there,
and if they harpoon the mother the
■alf sticks aroundi in bewilderment
until they have to ;take. him- in too,
because he would die anyway'. Moth- ;
er and calf still, keep company! even
if the calf ha.. Ugen weaned and;' is .
foraging,.for himself.
Whales are-sort. <>f cl.,nm#hv,, m<> 1
maintain the, traditions of tneir,-,.vari
ous tribe.-. the sailors say. The 1
“humps” and the “fin-backs” herd by J
theptselvesv as do the “sperms” argl 1
the, “rights" and “blues.” For the. 1
first time in the history of the North.!,
they say, they got a couple of. Cali
fornia grays,
It’s not so bad- being a gunner on
these wbaler,s, .For, every hump or
fin-back and. sperm ,the gunner gets a
bonus of $10 in addition to his reg
ular wages and board. He gets $30 if
he jharpopps. a . blue and $45 if hd
fixes the.line jn a right, because a
good, fat .right wilj render .put 200
barrels of oik mejnbersj of the
erejv who tlrawf down .$65 a, month
and found get a bonus of $2 for every
hump, fin-back or sperm; $4 for a
blue, and $6 for a right. The sperm
is the only member of the family
that has teeth, some of which are as
big as a five-gallon jug. They feed on
the bottom of the ocean. The right
has a funny snoot, apd the experi
enced whaler cap. tell j.ust what kind
of a whale he is after from the wgy
he conducts himself on the surface,
some of them chasing schools of
shrimu along the surface^ and others
sounding and coming back to blow.
The California .grays hang around
Southern California aiyi very rarely
invade Northern waters.
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THK LOOKING GLASS j
Have mercy on the-looking glass;:' j
It has to watgh folks, standing
there,
Color their lips jind powder their
uoges,
And put on rougg and lx their hair.j
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I should think it’d soon get tired. .
Of hanging there upon the wall,.
And being scowled at. glared at af
ways,
For n ogood reason at all
Some folks respeet. a .person’s feel:;
ings.
Others don’t carer .what they do J
Do your tricks, befpre .the, glass, ^ ;
It’s one thing thaf/won’t tell on you.
—Albert Johnson, Kansas.
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The Dispute.
Joseph F. Nickerson, the refriuera- j
Lion .authority of Chicago, was talk
ing in New York about a scientists’)
ifspute.
‘These two great, scientists,” he
laid, “have got angry and allowed:
jersonalities. to-creep in.. Too bad,
oo bad, though it certainly makes
heir dispute more amusing at that.
“It reminds me of the fat conductor
ind tne cranky passenger.
•‘Now, then,’ the fat conductor ;i
,-elled, ‘you got to do one of three
hin'Bs stn^ do if quick.-—show-, .your ,
icket, pay your fare, or get off.’
“Rveryhodj in the. car laughed, and]
he cranky passenger brought out his!
ick>t-.. Then he tapped the cqndue- j
or’s oig--.tomRch^vith. his knuckles j
tnd yelled back:
“ ‘And you’ve got to <lo one of j 1
hree thin"? ;uick, ton—.valk niote.j ,
at less, or bust.’ ’
The- Charitable Man.
The late Chauncey. M. Depew, wasj
eproving a young critic, one day fori
i harsh criticism.. .
“I’d like to see more of the Kin .
Cincaid spirit in. your woork, my.j
>oy,” the great man said.
“Kin Kincaid, you know, was noted;
or his charity and loving kindness-j
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“Well, the bad man of the village
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Let Dowii,^ ^ >
“Bandmaster Barnacle got. back
good and hard at the admiral whq in- 1
suited him and his band at Malta,”
said Representative Rowbottom of '
Indiana in a discussion .of the silly
court-martial case which, has been,1
amusing the world at the expense of ;
the British navy.
“The way that admiral was. let
down reminds me of the porter in 1
the railway statiqo.
“A quietly dressed young woman ,
arrived in New York one afternoon. 1
and gave her porter a dime. The1'
porter threw it on the gjound.in his,'
mad rage.
“The young woman, bent down and!<
picked the dime up. Then she ex
plained gently that it was thev only
money she had with her, and in part
ing with it for a tip she had,. con
demned herself to walk two- miles
and a half to her flat, .instead, of rid
ing in the bus.
“Her modest, gentle explanation !
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Henry Martella returned today
from a trip to Ganes, and will leave,
tomor-ow morning for a trip ta Mc
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