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was issued today. and in assigning posi-
tons comeliness will be considered as a
factor.
According to the directors of the lab
oratory mentality and physical beauty
are closely related. Experimental as
much of the investigation OF the child
study department has been, the research
has yielded data from which the direct
Ors have deduced a new axiom. DR.
Charles G. krauSkOpf, assistant director.
who Is recognized as an authority at the
board rooms. phrased IL this way:
The healthy person develops symmet-
riCaily. Beauty and brains go together.
In the test specimens it is found that
prOpOrtiOned body
Physical Beauty Test.
Having reduced the matter Of physical
beauty and its value in the school room
from an abstract question TO a concrete
proposition, the examiners VIII sort ont
the candidates for positions into three
classes, according to physical projections
or infcriorities.
The candidates who fall into the first
class will be given the advantage over
those less fortunately endowed. In pre-
vious years d dearth OF applicants has
forced the authorities 10 override the
classification 10 a great extent and Ia
assign positions regardless Of markings
on the beauty test With $50 applicants
for places, however, this year a new
rule is 20 be followed, and the preference
will be given to teachers OF the more
ornamental type.
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# steam whaler, cropping in the fog;
as it was, the perplexed souls on
the bark didn't have such an ex-
rresslve way OF describing the true
violence of that sound in the midnight
sea-tor It truly was as loud as a
very large whistle on a big steam
Whaler.
In those days whale ships used to
gam" (talk with each other more
than they do now; so the story OF
the strange scream in the deep sea
Oft the bark's bows spread through
the North Pacific fleet.
A Whistling Thing"
She was not to remain the sole
heroine. A New Bedford ship heard
It two months later, off the Kadiak
Island cruising grounds. Again it was
thick night and again nothing could
be seen; but the lookout said that. but
for the whistling scream. he would
have sworn that the ship had almost
driven her stem on a whale sleeping
on the surface. He had seen a black
bulk wallow in the gloom. 1t being
an established fact, however, that
whales do not whistle, the forecastle
and cabin councils both decided, in
separate session, that the ship had
been near thing" And as thing
the whistling monster passed along in
the canning Of the ships.
AS thing" it whistled in the ears
OF more than one crew after that at
night, for years enough to bring the
tory into the sixties; and men began
to look bored when the drift of story
IN the ships veered to a whistle.
Then all at once the whistling thing
became freshened topic; but it was a
thing" no longer. It was a right
whale. and mighty big one, and a
fighting whale at that.
The name of the ship that thus
solved the mystery Of what it was that
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Turkish DerSiOr of
LUoR1dn'S Creation

Here is the legend told among the
Turkish peasants, explaining the
origin Of women.
Allah made First Man. then dis
covered that he was incomplete.
L must make Woman" said Allah.
So he sent for the Archangel Michael,
and said to him:
Il find that Man is incomplete. Go
you to Paradise, take from Man one rib,
and from that l shall make Woman"
So Michael hurried to Paradise and
found First Man asleep, and took d
rib from him. Then he set out on
his return to Heaven. But on the wav
he met the Devil who said:
What have you there, Michael?"
"a bone" he answered, from which
Allah shall fashion Woman"
Let me look at it." said the Devil.
But Michael would not, whereupon
the Devil tried to take it, and the two
fought for possession of First Mans
rib. Finally, the Devil broke away
and ran with the rib in his hand.
Michael gave chase, and they ran
around the world several times.
Then the Devil saw hole in a rock
and he Owed in. But the hole was too
small, and he stuck fast inside, leav-
ing only his tail outside. Michael
pulled the Devils tail to get him out,
and the Devil yelled inside, but he
couldn't get out And, although Mi
chael tugged for several days, he could
not pull out the Devil, nor could he
reach in and get the rib SO he pulled
out knife, cut off the Devils tail and
hurried on to Heaven.
what have you there" cried Allah.
Then Michael told his story, and Al
lab was very angry. But he made
the best of it, and fashioned Woman
out of the Devils tail instead of First
MINIS rih
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Whlstled, only to raise a still more
absorbing mystery of why it whistled,
has gone down in the deep of time
as the ship herself has gone down in
the deep Of water The old whaler
on the hill of junk leans to the opin-
ion that it was the George and Susan
Of New Bedford He may have been
impelled by local pride, for a Rhode
Island man felt sure that it was the
bark DrOmio, that left her bones that
same year in the South Seas
At any rate, one of these whalers
lowered in 1861 for big bull whale
that was sporting off the weather
quarter. He was wary and he evaded
the first mates boat and then the
second mate, and it was not until
third boat with the old man himself
in it had been put over that he was
cornered. And then, before a harpoon
could be thrown, he charged, driving
a wall of water ahead of him.
His Wild Trail.
When the water subsidized there was
no right whale in sight-but something
was there to show where he had been:
the captains boat stove, with her crew
hanging to oars crossed over the shat
tered gunwales; few splinters float
ing OH the sea where the first mates
boat had been; and the second mates
busy picking up its crew.
The crew Of the annihilated boat
aid that the whale had preached and
hurled himself bodily on top Of them,
leaving them barely the opportunity
of rolling out over the side; the
first mates crew told how the whale
had come up under them and thrown
them into the air, just missing them
with his slapping tail afterward.
But those were only ordinary de-
tails of whaling; the novel part of
both stories was that the big whale
f0d Viii tied ferociously a. he went
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Of the British, although his exploits
on that memorable night have never
been celebrated in song and story.
Captain Joshua Whitney was another
Revolutionary soldier, and Samuel
Whitney was at Valley Forge with
Washington That he rescued the
commander-in chiefs horse from the
mire and received the personal thanks
ways liked to repeat to his children.
He was also in the Concord fight"
John Whitney, of Harvard received
from the citizens of Bolton, Westches-
ter, in consideration for engaging in
the Continental service for three years
for us, eighteen calves of middling
size"
What Peter the Great did TO make
Russia dominant, Eli Whitney's in
vention Of the cotton gin has more
than eQualed in its relation to the
power and progress of the United
States" was Macaulay's tribute to one
of the distinguished members of the
family
A famous geologist was Josiah
Whitney, in whose honor the highest
peak IN the United States is named
Mt. Whitney.
The Whitney coat of arms regis
tered in the College of Arms is a
cross cheeky or and gules. Crest, a
bulls head couped, sable, armed ar
bent, point gules One Whitney
shield displays sixteen quarterings
another sixty-four
The legend which explains the crest
is that Sir Randolph de Whitney ac-
"ompanied Richard Occur de Lion tc
he Crusades and was distinguished
Or his great strength and courage
Reing attacked by the brother Of
Saladin, whom he had twice defeated
and two Saracens, he was defending
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off, loudly enough to deafen them.
In the subsequent canning, the
crew Of that whale ship was SO CALLED
by other crews that the whistling
whale became a sore point; and they
were inclined to be sulky in company,
until in 1862 they were saved from
further ridicule by a New Bedford
bark (the Osceola, thinks the old
whaler) at the expense at a net cost
to her OF her cut-Water, part Of her
copper sheathing, and $500 feet of
whale line with two harpoons.
A Sea Surprise.
1t was her waist boat that struck
the whale. Hardly had the iron en-
tered him, before the harpooner near
ly fell out of the bow with amaze
ment; for, as the iron buried itself, the
whale whistled tremendously, so that
all the sea seemed to echo. The men
on the ship mile and a half away
jumped at the sound. It seemed to
fill heaven and earth. They had no
time to wonder, however, for the next
moment the waistboat was seen soar
ing gracefully into the air and all
il"AiNo 1OWSlON away, NCCA W SCI IlAIO
the fight. The starboard boat came
up first, and banged another harpoon
into him. Again came that vast, bel
lowing viii tie, and crash! went the
bottom Of the BOAT, knocked COM
0letelv out by one blow Of he fuke
The old man, frantic for battle, ram
med his ship into the thick of it. He
stopped to pick up the two swimming
crews and then steered down headlong
for the whale, which was rolling over
and over i'll the lines and beating the
sea till it looked like a hundred-acre
farm covered with snow.
Suddenly the whale ceased his tur.
mol, and i'll moment he came a-boil-
ing, straight at the ship. He struck
her on the bow. It would have been
straight on, and then there would have
been no more ship, had the helnsman
not thrown her head up just in the
nick Of time AS it was the whale swept
by with the ships cut-water orna-
mentlng his head, for he had smashed
1t off. He turned and dived under the
hip, towing the mile of line and the
other miscellaneous rattle behind him.
\ terrifying sound Of ripping and a
tearing along the keel told how the
corner sheathing was going with him.
He might have added insult to in
Jury by whietling once more, but he
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Now they had their Whistling
Whale. Before dark the ship was
down on them, and he was fast
to the side. But what made him
whistle?
The whale couldn't tell, nor could
anybody else. He looked just like any
other whale
Some time in the night, one of the
men who were cutting him in, was
crawling around on his head. Sud
denly he slipped and went straight
into his blow hole, which, as it hap
pened, had been enlarged sufficiently
for such an occurrence by the work
OF the cutting-in spades.
Help me OUT" he cried. I'm hurt
bad"
They hauled him on deck and found
that something had cut his right foot.
through sea boots and socks, to the
bone
When the head was cut away and
hoisted to scoop out the spermaceti.
they discovered what had cut the
mans foot. Then, also, was discovered
what had made the whale the Whist
ling Whale Of the North Pacific
Deep in the blowhole and running
transversely through it, was a har-
pcon blade 1t made the same ar
rangement on a gigantic scale, as a
penny whistle
The old rusty blade was marked
with the initials of the whaling ship
Central America, that had made her
last cruise in those waters fifteen
years before,
And you can find the recerd of the
capture Of the Whistling Whale in
the log of the ship Milton, that tells
II her TS65-TS6O cruise.
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JdPcAAS0C 41dA O1GooAAAS AS4AS HASNs
In Japan woman's age may be told
by the way she arranges her hair. The
style of couture also announces
whether she is married or single
The hair of maiden of eighteen is
dressed in the butterfly" style-that
is, with many loops and bowknots.
Between twenty and twenty-five, the
triple couture is worn; this consists
of three loops only.
After twenty-eight when a Japanese
woman is no longer considered young.
there is only one more couture for
her. That is a plain style, without
elaborate loopings and weavihgs
The more respectable the family,
the smaller the form of couture The
geisha always adopts an elaborate
style of hairdressing.
After a girl is married, she wears
her hair in fashion quite different
from any of the preceding. The most
beautiful and the most elaborate OF
all is the brides couture. called hama
vome, literally "flower-wife. The ar
p, ''rro'''n'7t Is > ri1''e of o-7ceful loao-
ings and weavings, held in place with
curious combs and shot through with
ms OF gold, silver and tortolseshell
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The first thing that happened was
that the whole sea world was stunned
with a whistle like the screech Of an
express train taking a tunnel The
next moment the whale was in the air,
bolt upright, and when he came down
the boat sheered out from under him
by a paddles breadth. The second
boat threw harpoon and fastened
The third boat was fast almost in the
same instant.
Off they went, splurging through
the ocean, and leaving the fourth boat
and the ship far behind Fiercely the
great tail swept from side TO side,
seeking blindly for the foe. But the
first boat was in the hands Of a sea-
terror. His men hauled in hand over
hand, and at last berthed the craft
close to the big bulls side, lying so
we'll forward of his tail that it beat
the sea unavailingly behind them
while the big head was so far in
front that all its mad driving to and
fro could not reach them
Caught at Last.
The first mate went to the bows,
leaned away out, gripped the halt Of
the harpoon to steady himself, and
drove the razor-edged killing lance
with all his might.
Another mile Of race, the crew hold
ing fast for their lives, and the other
boats towing in a string behind, all
shouting "Hurrah!"
Then it was Hold on line, there!
Heave on a turn!" and up went the
red Aag'-the clotted smoking blood
fountain to tell that the big whales
life had been found by the questing
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knight" He held one manor by the
,ervice Of zone foot soldier, with
bow and arrow" in time Of war.
Thomas Whitney, for his val0r at
Agincourt, received valuable grants Of
land. He also held a curious tenure
4 manor, i'll return for which he was
to render a cross-bow every St
Johns Day.
Clifford Castle, famous as the birth
place of fair RosamOnd-rO. of the
worlds part Of the Whitney estate.
Two members of the Whitney fam
lily suffered from being born too late.
and were condemned for doing what.
III earlier times, would have gained for
them only praise. They were cap
tain" James Whitney, the gentleman
hlghwayman, and a prototype Of
Captain Tom Faggus in Lorna
Doone," and Captain Thomas Whit
ney. The latter started out with the
best OF intentions, and was comman-
der of the ship Encounter, the largest
Of Sir Walter Raleigh's fleet. which
went i'll search of Ell Dorado. Dis
gusted with the failure of this expe-
dltiOn, Whitney turned pirate
The Puritan emigrant was John
Whitney, relative of the Robert
Whitney who married Anne, daugh-
ter of Sir Thomas Lucy, who prose-
cuted Shakespeare for poachng and
was lampooned by him in revenge as
Justice Shallow" Robert and Anne
had twelve children.
John Whitney, the settler, came
over in 1856 in the ship Elizabeth and
Ann" He brought his wife Elinor
and five sons. They settled in Water
town, Mass. Thirty years later came
Henry Whitney, who settled in Con
necticut.
The Whitneys of Colonial times
were persons Of importance, and to
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himself as we'll as he could. when a
bull, feeding near the scene, attracted
by the red dress Of the Saracens, at
tackled them and they fled. Attribu-
ting his deliverance to the protection
of the Virgin, he built a chapel in
England, to which he gave the name
Our Lady of Palestine Oratory."
The walls still stand on grounds ad-
joining the family estate
The motto used by some branches
of the family is "Magnanimiter cru
Gem sustine "-"Nobly Bear Cor Sus-
tain) the Cross"
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Buffalo Bill and
His Little CdDfiUe

Buffalo Bill was looking at the
illustrations in a novel and came
across one which showed man on
horseback with a child in front OF
him
That's a pretty picture" said he.
1T reminds me of something that
happened to me years and years ago.
We were having a scrimmage with
lnjuns, and was chasing a particu-
lar one who'd been trying his best
to get me- I was following him
around among the rocks and the
mesquite and sage brush, when nv
horse nearly stepped on a little In
Jun boy about five or six years old.
Il reached down and picked him
up and set him in front Of me. He
had an empty cartridge shell i'll his
mouth, trying to blow it. and he look
ed at me very gravely. and then slow
~ took the shell out of his mouth
and handed it to me He thought l
was goin' to kill him, and he was irwin
to buy me off by offering me the only
thing he had
Il forgot all about the Iniun I was
chasing, and he got away chat time.
| took the boy back to camp with me.
and afterwards we save him to the
lnjuns, and he found his mother all
right again It's queer, isn't it, how
you remember things sometimes?
hadn't thought about that for wears
till this picture here reminded me of
it."
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didn't. He dived and disappeared.
That marked the beginning of the
famous career of the Whistling
Whale of the North Pacific.
"a hundred-barral fish at least" re-
ported the crew that had been so
signally licked; and at once the old
lions Of New England's fleet burned
with desire to get fastened to that
big fish and catch him, whistle and all.
Once or twice he was heard to
whistle near whale ships in the night.
At least once he was lowered for by
a Nantucket brig, and before the boat
was near him, he promptly became the
hunter himself and chased it with
tremendous swings of his tremendous
tail.
The Canny Harpooner.
The boat escaped only because the
Portuguese harpooner knew that the
tip Of the right whales upper Jaw is
as sensitive as a lady's little finger,
and he prodded the mountainous face
with his lance, thus turning him often
enough to give the boat a chance to
dodge him.
That time the whale whistled right
in the faces of the boats crew.
1t is said that the captain of that
ship went into port and gave his men
q chance to desert, which they did
eagerly. He knew that they wouldn't
be good for much more North Pacific
whaling. and they thought SO, too.
But, of course. a whale can't
whistle. That is a well-known ZOO
logical fact. Whalers who hadn't
seen the WhiStling Whale pointed this
out carefully and kindly to whalers
who had enjoyed the privilege. AS
a result, certain whalers refused to
gam other whalers thereafter
Now It was a good thing for all
concerned that the ship Milton sailed
away under Captain Grant from New
Bedford on August IS, 1865, for a
cruise on the Kadiak grounds.
One day in the following year she
lowered for big right whale. The
first boat away TANNED" it into the
old bull to the bitches. In a moment
she had another iron in him. Then
there were ructions.
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FHE earliest mention Of the
name Whitney is in Domes-
l. day Book, in 1886. It was
spelled Witenie

spelled W1tenie.
The family came from the town Of
Whitney, on the River Wye, which is
the boundary between England and
Wales. In the appearance Of the
river IS suggestion Of the derivation
OF the name from the AnglO-SaxOn
hwlt, white, and ey, water-white
water
The name has been spelled in a
variety Of ways-Witteney, Witeney,
Wytene, Wyteneye, Whiteneye, Why
teneye, Whitnee and Hwitenes. 1t
was at first written with de, "of Whit
ney," meaning one of the town Of
Whitney. The last to use this form
was Robert de Whiteneye.
He was one OF the small, but
chosen retinue of English mobiles, -
who accompanied the Duke Of Clar-
ence, son of Edward Ill, when he
went to Milan to claim his bride, VIC
lanta, daughter of Prince Galeasius.
50 magnificent was the reception
given to the English duke and so
prod1gal the feasting that the mobiles
returned to England, so it is recorded.
with impaired digestion"
hrOugh manuscripts III the British
Museum, the Whitney family can
prove relationship with Alfred. Ed
mund Ironsides, William the Con
queror, the Plantagenets, Henry II.
and Henry Ill, to say nothing Of
members of the royal houses of Scot
land, France and Spain, with whom
these were allied.
The grant of a "free warren" in
Hereford County was made by Ed
ward l. TO Eustachius de Wytenev.
our dearly beloved and faithful
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many were granted prominent seats
in the meeting house-the fore seat"
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II wv LICIS was whale
IN oncet, said the little brown
l. Whaler, leaning against a
pile Of ship breakers Junk
the end Of old Union street, where
sew Bedford meets old New Bedford
nd man can still smell sparm,"
now there was a whale oncet-but
what's the use? You don't want
true story; It's easier to make you
landsmen believe a condemned old lie.
because a fellow can dress a lie up
SO as to make it go down smooth"
Then the old whaler ceased, spat,
putted his pipe modify and waited
coquettishly to be coaxed.
Just before he Civil War, Cape Cod
began to hum with a story. The man
who told it first, achieved a reputa-
ton as something rich and strange in
the line Of liar But another whaling
ship came in and the crew repeated it.
And then another and another.
hey were simple men, these story
teIlers of the whale ships; and they
had the New England art of narrative.
The first thing that was heard Of
strange dOings in the North Pacific
Ocean was one night in about 1855,
when a Sag Harbor bark was hailed
IN the night by a terrific scream al
most off her bows.
All hands tumbled on deck and the
"Old man" himself fna11v 0Ot into tbe
forechains to peer out into the thick
night; but nothing more was heard
and nothing was seen. And the Sag
Harbor bark forged slowly on, with
the scream eChoing in the ears of the
crew and echoing, a fruitful topic for
speculation and argument, for the rest
Of the cruise.
4 it hadn't been in the ffties. but
later, the scream would have been
dismissed as that of the whistle
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in some cases. This was considered
mark of distinction.
One of the heroes Of the Revolution
was General Josiah Whitney, and
Abraham Whitney helped Paul Re
we're spread the news of the landing
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Susceptible men who sit close to
retty women are liable to catch the
matrimonial fever.
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LEFT-HANDED PHILOSOPHY

Cup" is the first syllable of so
folks ability.
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II UerGciOuS Tale From
the UaSty Deep Related
by 0LittLe BrOWn Sailor.
BY JULIUS MULLER.

"a TOW there was a whale
IN oncet, said the little brown
l. = whaler, leaning against
pile of ship breakers Junk