Show LIKE A LION A CAPTAINS STORY OF A WHALE it biow but ita was some i thine awful it wa feet it length annl iia l a queer head tried to alio schooner no said captain J A of south portland wo ter tho eoa but we had experience with n chalo and I 1 dont believe anybody over biad the like be fore ive been at sea man and boy tince I 1 was 9 old and I 1 never saw the like of the mihale we encountered 1 never saw n whale that blow but the one wo luet but it aavo a r ir that was awful it 0 adeil lilo iho lions in central park new aorl said mits houston who wag ono of the baity that had the strange encounter it certainly was more like the doai of a lion ihan anything I 1 can think of eaid captain crosman the schooner grace webster captain crossman was on glicr way from new york to portland with tons of coal besides the captain and crew mrs crossman her daughter and houston were on board the schooner was about ten miles cal wood island and making good headway under full eail the mate merrill crossman at the when there was a commotion ahead and the great head shot up into the air and was on a devol with the deck ono of the crew first sighted the creature and called captain crossman Cros and in a moment all on board but the man at the wheel were looking at the strange sight they saw lefore thera an enormous bead one mass of great bunches through which the wicked looking eyes of the creature gleamed they expected the whale it cubb would blow but it did not theo or after once a narrow thread of what looked like steam shot up but not a drop of water was sent into the air As they looked at be creature it roared savagely and hen drew close un 0 o the tide of the schooner giving them ample time to observe ho hi id and all aggee that it was very broad that it laic pd almost to a point and that it was not very thick through the th ceet pirt tho creature was blout 7 to 80 fet ii leng li and had a very broad tail very different from that of an ordinary chalo jn fact nt ho lime there were terrp or conr in sight and they bad no difficulty in noting tha points of difference between them and tho stran ger the great creature went down head first and then mado a series of attempts to strike the fido of the Ec hooner with its tail it din bot succeed and swam around them roaring loudly in evident auger it went down and dundei the schooner captain brosi mail who had watched tor this movement gave orders to be ready to lower the boat fearing that the up under them and break them in two it was very fortunato that they were not forced to lower their boat as it proved later to bo leaking and J not have carried half their number safely to land for more than an hour linued acio batio perform anco standing on its head with its tail waving in the air most of the time it seemed bant on hitting the schooner and it took tho best of good seamanship to prevent an encounter at get tired what had been ann ainsil fur alio captain crossman is of tho opinion that this strange whale must have been mistaken for n sea serpent many times scon but a short distance off the head would look more like that of n great serpent than of n whale tho creature while making its long and repeated attempts to hit r continued its roaring when above water it would scrape against the side of the schooner and then would draw off seem to bo calculating the distance and then strike tho fcc hooner was kept i off ut tho right moment and the arca ture missed the vessel every time it wai an odd experience and for a time othere wag something closely resembling ca panic the women being badly fright ened mim houston said that the sight of that great mass standing almost upright in was not to be forgotten captain crossman Cros is uncertain whether the whale is a natural fighter or whether it was frightened when it came up out of the water and as result of its confusion made the repeated attempts to sink one of the crew hit it with a bolt and many times captain crossman Cros said ho could have hit it with a board from the deck ho did not venture to do anything to further arouse its anger and jet it go in peace portland me press J A factory atiat john I 1 ran across my old friend jim biddie of the of philadelphia yesterday and wo fell a talking about john wanamaker paid jim A good many years ago I 1 wan clerk in a in chest lint street at i salary of 75 a month one day a dray was driven up to ho door and tho driver coming into the attore handed no an order for two bolts of cloth it was signed john wana maker john was a struggling beginner then and the aliouse decided that it did not know him well enough to sell him the cloth on toiuo so I 1 was to fiend word that we could not deliver the without abo money new york sprees effect pi a barce comedy johnny called his mother quit using that bad language why replied 1 bo boy shakespeare taid what I 1 just did well rc plied the mother growing infuriated yon should quit going with him hes co compau iou tor you louisville post |