>unt of old by

taken i

SHIPS SDNK BY WHALES WHEN LEVIATHANS HUNT THEIR HUNTERS THERE IS TROUBLE.

Tara of 111* Making *f ih* Ann Al.x.nd*r br a Mail<Ua*d Wkala — Tb* Bhlp Ku.i of Naatack*! Mat a lUmllar Tala — A Flgbliag Wbal* a Uaagaroui Fa*. Nothing definite hu been learned of the ulnklng of the bark Kathleen bj a whale, reported last week. Capt. Thomaa H. Jenkins, her master, only cabled to her owner. William R. Wing of New Bedford, as follows: • Kathleen sunk by whale. Captain and wife and officers saved. Nine men missing.'' The disaster occurred on the 17th of March off the coast of Brasil. This tells all that Is known of the miihap. Sc rarely have whalemen had such an experience that old sailors find material In plenty to discuss the report. But two like occurrences are known

lucky ship and made many a good voyage. She was cruising In the South Atlantic and It is presumed that she must have been on the River . La Plata grounds when sunk. The cable comes from Pernambuco, Brazil, and whether Capt. Jenkins and his craw were picked up and taken to Pernambuco by a vessel, or reached that port in boats of his own. is not known. The nine men missing were undoubtedly in one of the stanch w haleboats, and it Is possible that they may have reached land, but have not been able to communicate the fact as did Capt.

Jeoltins.

Cases of whalers rushing head on are very rare. One Instance which will be remembered by some of the older whalemen was in 1851. when the ship Ann Alexander was sunk In the Pacific Ocean by a maddened whale. In the Whaleman's Shipping List of Nof. i. 1851. is a very full account that occurrence. The 'fttory. told Capt. John S. Deblola. follows: The ship Ann Alexander sailed from New Bedford. June 1. 1850. for a cruise In the south Pacific. Having i 50 barrels of sperm oil In the itlc Capt. Deblols proceeded on the voyage to the Pacific. On the

*0th on t

o'clock in the morning whales were discovered, and at noon of the same aklng fast to one. lade fast to the whale, which ran with the boat for some time, and then suddenly turning about rushed at the boat with open rs crushing Uie little craft ipto Inters. Capt. Deblols rescued the

boat's crew.

Later the waist boat was lowered from the ship and another ittack made upon the lexlAthan. The mate again in charge of the attacking boat experienced another smasb-up, for In the battle the whale again turned on the boat's crew and crushed the second boat The crew was saved and all hands returned to the ship, which proceeded after the whale. The ship passed on by him, and immediately after it -was discovered that the whale was making for the ship. As he came ui> near her. they hauled on the wind and suffered the monster to pass her. After he had fairly passed they kept off to overtake and attack him again. When the ship had reached within 50 rods of him the crew discovered that the whale had settled down deep I low the surface of the water, and it was near sundown it was decided .give up the pursuit. The ship w moving about five knots and while Capt. Deblols stood at Uie rail he suddenly saw the whale pushing at the

ship at the rate of 15 knots. In an instant the monster t ship with tremendous violet Ing her from stem to stern, ered under the shock as If

struck upon a rock. The whale struck tiVshlp about two feet from the keel, abreast the foremast, knocking a great hole entirely through her bottom, through which the water rushed In. The anchors and cables were thrown overboard, as she bad a large quantity of pig Iron aboard. . The ship sank rapidly, all effort to keep her afloat proving futile. Capt. Deblols ordered all bands to take to the boats -and was-the last to leave the ship, doing so by jumping from the vessel into the sea and swimming to the nearest boat. The ship was. on her beam ends, her topgallant yards under water. They bung around in the vicinity of the Ann Alexander all that night, and the next day the captain horded his vessel, and cutting away the masts she righted, when they succeeded in getting stores frtvm her hold with which to supply their boat*, should it become necessary to make a boat voyage to land. On Aug. 22 ship Nantucket, Capt. Gthbs, cruising that vicinitydiscovered the imperilled sailors, and taking them in charge landed them at Palyta.'Sept. 15. The Ann Alexander waa hopelessly wrecked and left to her fate on

Aug. 23. .

-Fire months after this disaster this

«t,uck . -kik,. but k b,o. .. MOON NOT DEAD WORLD.

the animal's tall . - . .

Jaws c splinte

(truck the- ot nlhcfc acc ICC, Shak- and

She ljuir- '

as If she had

In the boat the crew was obliged to cut from him. In the meantime, the captain's and second mate's boats had fastened to another whale, and the mate, heading the ship for the other boats, set about overhauling bis host preparatory to lowering again. While doing this be aaw a large aperm whale break water about 20 rods from the ship. Tbs whale disappeared, but Immediately came up about a ship's

for the

ately came

:Dgth off. and made directly to essel, going at a velocity of i

three miles an 1 advancing at i

• and the 1

1 the boy at the helm to put It

up. when the wl

hard'

accelerated with his bead

chains.

'hale with greatly ■truck the ship

bead Just forward oUpe foieThe ship brought up sudden-

like the

vessel, scraping her keel as she went, came up on the leeward side, and lay apparently stunned for a moment. The

to settle at the head with

the whale 100 yards off thrashing the water violently with his tail and openand closing his Jaws with great

ing at

fury.

While the

get ting the ve < cry i

he is.

mate was thinking of ' two extra boats clear, as had begun to settle rapid-

1}. the cry was started by a sailor: “Here he la. he is making for us again!" The whale came down for the ship with twice his ordinary

it a

rod in

with twice his ordlm

width, made with his tall, which continually thrashed from ride to side, marked his coming. The whale crashed Into the bows of the Essex, ■taring them completely In directly under the cathead. The whale after the second assault passed under the ship and out of sight to the leeward. The crew were In -a fix. in mid-ocean, a thousand miles from the nearest land and nothing tmt the frail whaleboats to save them. The lashings of the spare boat were cut and she was launched with the ship falling on her beam ends. The ship hung for three days. Provisions were taken from her and the whaleboats strengthened. The boats started for the coast of Chile or Peru, and after a bard time they landed at Dudes island. Unable to find subsistence there they again surfed. Dec. 27. after leaving thfee of their number, of their own desire, and commenced to make the perilous voyage to the Island of Juan Fercadex. Many of the boat's crew died, and tire recital VUtes that the flesh of a dead comrade was eaten by members of the mate's boat. On Feb. 17 the surviving crew of the mate's boat were picked np by the brig Indian. Capt. Pollard and Charles Ramidale. the sole survivors of the captain's boat, were picked up Feb. 28 by a Nantucket whaler, and the third boat was never heard from.

—New London Day.

NEW THEORY GIVES IT WATER. AIR AND VEGETATION.

Aatranstaar, That Oar Llv* asd ^tctlva — Wbat Ilia I Tall — Krldanc* a

t or Art It* Val

; at first or 1

Undoubtedly one of the worst things a young man has to contend 'against in the New York of today is mammon wershlp. “It is perfectly rotten." said a young fellow recently in the vernacular of his kind. “A man must have money or he is a falli

it somebi

iow.

not be too long about It.

criterion of

is the

Ing co fellow

only

counU without It. and it m

1 he has been

lure: he

for It Noth-

mind. the living up to any sUndard. an honorable career In one's profession. are all very well in their way if a chap is content to plod along with-

out being'

much thought of. bu* the

Avortf does not consider such things of mbch account They do not mean

that is i^ally the only having, apparently. It is stultifying, of course. I know

Prof. W. H. Pickering, brother of rof. E. C. Pickering, director of the arvard observatory and one of the :-at known of American astronomers. Glares that the belief held by scientists that the moon is a. dead, cold world is without foundation. Oa the contrary, the earth's satellite. Prof. Pickering says, is a very live and active one. Not only Is It probable that the moon has an atmosphere with moisture and carbonic acid, but there Is reason to assert that It has volcanoes, now active, and possibly vegetation. All this is very unorthodox and Is vigorously combatted by other and equally eminent astronomers. The controversy Is attracting a good deal of attention Just now. Observations ai the Harvard station at Arequipa. Peru, are the basis for Prof. Pickering's conclusions. Textbooks on astronomy mention as one ot the proofs tbkt the moon has no atmosphere the fact that It has no twilight. All the shadows the textbooks say. are perfectly black. The lunar craters, as the sun rises upon them, pass from the densest darkness to the broadest daylight Instantaneously. * But Prof. Pickering says that

In the clear atmosphi when the moon Is

quarter, a twilight appearance may nearly always be detected as a faint glow prolonging the cusps. This observation would Indicate an atmosphere as dense at the surface of the moon as the atmosphere of the earth

at an alitude of 40 miles.

Photographs taken at Arequipa. of Jpplter Just before and Just after occuldklon by the moon, apparently show* a slight flattening of the disk, s£sq an Indication of a lunar atmosphere. From the figures given by Prof. Pickering, this observation would give an atmosphere equal to that of the earth at an attitude of 45 miles. This, of course, is a very thin atmosphere, but It is more than most arstronomers are willing to allow the

earth's fair neighbor. f is. however, on the evidences present activity oD volcanoes

the moon that Prof. Pickering mall

rests his case. After a carel ping of the details presented

lunar crater Plato the professor concludes that this portion of the moon's surface is subject to frequent and continual change and that it is In a state of volcanic activity "more active than any area of similar size upon the surface of the earth." Prof. Pickering finds no evidences of lava, but he does find something anslogoui to snow clouds caused presumably by the . jape of steam and carbonic acid. That the latter gas and moisture exist in but small quantities be admits, but th2 fact that they exist at all has never been generally admitted by as-

tronomers.

Allowing the presence of water. Piof. Pickering has little difficulty In explaining certain peculiar appearances on the moon as caused by rome form of vegetation. These appearances are the so-called variable spots. These markings, which are associated with certain craters, are darkest Just after full moon when the sun Is In the lunar xenlth, and are invisible when the sun is lowest. Hence they cannot be due to shadows. Nor can they be small bodies of water, for they are sometimes

on hillsides. - The oh planaUon is that they

.• 11 * the p

reful mi ed by t

s on alaly

of the Ann Alexander's harpoons found In him and Ms bead had sustained serious injuries, pieces of the ship's Umbers being imbedded In it. The whale yielded 70 to SO barrels of

the only «

known* case of a

•d to the

of * Nantucket, commands George PoBard. Jr. She Nestucket Aug. 12. 111*, on the Pacific ocean. On

Ing of Nov. ». UlS. in latitude of 0.40

il» waeL 1

• ship Essex id br «Apt

> sailed from

r a crnlpe

and all three

’!♦. The mate's boat

thing wortb having, apparently. all very stultifying, of course. I that I am deteriorating mflfalTy; that 1 no longer feel any enthusiasm for

things that I

sed to admire, and tl l Is warped by /the gn I see on every side, i

that

greed

for gain which I see on eveiT side, and

which is the dominant spirit

people I know. I despise myself for It, and 1 despise the world I lire In. But what Is a fellow to do?"—New York

A newspaper man of this town who toils all day Saturday and unUl late Sunday morning, and who lives a considerable distance from town, felt too tired Sunday morning to take the long Journey home and went to a proml-

hotel. Having a clear conscience and good health, he slept the deep, sound, sweet Slfeep that was coming to him. Along about 3 o'clock he awoke lazily and heard a conversation at his door, which startled him. "I tell you," said an agitated voice, tried four times to waken him and he never answered/ I "tell you I lieve the man's dead, and We had b<

break to the door."

Then came the nolae of forcing a lock, and the newspaper man realized the situation and yelled: “If you come to here disturbing my sleep—you—#ouH find the Uvest deed

(an you et*er saw.”

He was allowed to sleep.—Wheeling

In the surface called rlUs. These rills are always wider at one end than the other and the wide end always terminates In a pear-shaped craterleL Further one end la always higher than the other and It Is the wide end which U the higher. This means that the lunar rivers look their rise in lakes and flowed forth Into deserts, gradually becoming smaller and eventually disappearing. The origin of these lakes Prof. Pickering attributes to hot springs and geysers formed by volcanic activity. O. T. H.

c activity.

A JAPANESE INCENSE PARTY.

>n to a *pt it

Kllqni

Carcmonr.

If you ever*tecelve an Invitatli Japanese incense party accepl

promptly and thankfully. It has no counterpart In our own social system, and Is as merry and pleasant an affair as can be imagined. The people of the Mikado s land have trained the nostrils for generations the same as we have trained the eye and car. and they display a skill which at times Is startling to a westerner. There Is an odd etiquette to be followed la these social affairs. For the 24 hours preceding the party, each guest must avoid

the use of anything which can

duce any odor

i proeented

c of moisture In tl , Prof. Pickering

mly adequate ex■y *re raajlyi vsgehas demonstrated tore In the moon's

whatever.

odorous foods, and even spices must be avoided. Theseprevent the user from smelling accurately and also interfere with the other members of the party. When you dress be careful to put on no garment that has been kept in the neighborhood of camphor wood, tobacco. bouquets, dried blossoms, or scented face powder. When you reach the bouse of your host enter it as softly as you can. and as slowly as possible. This is to prevent making a draught by the movemnt of your own body. Be equally leisurely in opening and closing doors, as a quick movement induces a sudden rush of air. In the drawing room the hostess burns a series of Incenses usually four or five In number. Each guest Is allowed to take three sniffs of e«Ch Incense, and must Jot down its name and number upon a card. Each of the four or five Incenses is burned two or three times so that the number of cards will vary from eight to 15. At the end the cards •re laid out on toe table and the hostreads the names of the incenses ‘employed.-which are checked off upon thp cards. The guest who has guessed the largest number receives a pretty prize, which is sometimes a silver bronze incense-burner, statuette, carving. Among the Japanese the average woman guesses correctly about ■lx times in tec. while with American women the ratio is three to teo. Occasionally. however. American women display a natural talent in this line, and make records of eight ten. There is a large Jap* in New York, and among the wives of the leading merchants are quite common.

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there can be no other valid objection to the plant life theory. The variability of theae spots in such cases as when they cover the entire floor of one of the larger “seas" is sometimes so conspicuous as to be visible to the naked eye. It may be seen by comparing from night to night during the progress ot a lunation the relative brightness of the which the old astronomers Jlgnl-

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Prof, Pickering. Although he claims that water exists on the moon, the Harvard astronomer denies that the ''aeai" were ever covered by that element at all. "It does not seem at al probable.” aays he. “that the moon was ever a world teeming with antinal and vegetable life, like our -owfi planet, as It Is sometime* pictured to ns. but rather that It was. even in Its palmiest days, a comparatively dry and barren waste. For various reasons It U Improbable that the modn ever possessed a very

« ago be married “a s of bsr own of over

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It would be i

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U without success. The frijich with low pow ers seen cate water action, under iil| look more Uke the action melting or partially melting

era asd earUer formed surface^, ^ water“where on the moon did It appear? This query Prof. Pickering answer* » pointing to the dsep cracks

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