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snow mountain came into view. For
weeks the dazzling white picture
that seemed to hang in the clouds
was always before him. His progress
was slow, for new tribes never seen
before were unfriendly and the ad-
vance had to be cautiously made. He
could buy no supplies from them
and they deserted their little villages
when his vessel came in sight and
shot arrows at his party from the
high grass The Dutch explorers
are all instructed not to shed blood
if self-defense does not require it.
Though Lorentz scarcely saw the ma
tives, he found abundant evidence
that they had not emerged from the
primitive stone age. They have no
weapons or vessels made of bronze
or other metals, though numerous
arrowheads and utensils of stone
were found.
If Lorentz had been able to make
these natives helpful it is likely that
he would have climbed the mountain.
But his progress was so slow that he
reached only the lower mountains
between him and the peak when the
impending exhaustion of his supplies
1@I f0 hoa aly q
has returned to Holland with the
story of his journey and his picture
of the mountain. He will go back to
New Guinea as soon as possible.
equipped to reach the mountain and
to push still further into the un.
known interior.
1t remains to be shown whether
there are glaciers as we'll as snow on
the peak and whether it is perpetu-
ally covered with this crown Of
white. The highest point in British
New Guinea, Mount Victoria, is only
about 1900 feet lower than Wilhel-
nina Peak and is covered with grass
at its top. German New Guinea has
mountains as high or higher than the
Dutch summit, but as yet we have no
reason to believe that any of them
has perpetual snow cap. 1t seems
more probable that this mountain.
a few degrees from the equator and
moderately high as big mountains go,
is covered with snow only at inter-
vals.-New York Sun.
HOW MONSTERS FIGHT.
The Cottage City, Captain Wallace,
was on her way from Vancouver to
Skaguay some years ago, when, leav-
ing the Admiralty Islands, a we'll
known feeding ground for whales,
| fearful conflict was seen to be in pro-
gress. The Cottage City slowed down
and the passengers saw thrasher
| shark attacking whale.
The thrasher's main weapon OF Of
fense is it's tail, the tips of which are
as hard as bone. Before the startled
| whale got into fighting trim the long
black, f1ail-like tail of the thrasher
would poise and strike in quick sue
cession The report of every blow
sounded as if man had slapped his
thigh with his palm.
The whale dived and leaped. AS
! he dropped he began to squirm and
! struggle and churn with his tail. 1t
| quickly became apparent that a third
combatant was in the field. This
combatant was swordfish, the
thrashers inevitable hunting COM
| panion. When the combat had con-
tinued for fifteen minutes the shark
nit his tooth
the whales jaw, and as he clung
there delivered blow after blow upon
his monster enemy's quivering side.
! The swordfish did not leap fully out
of the water, as did the other two,
but it was plain from the behavior OF
the whale, when he dived for re-
spite from the thrasher, that he was
being given an uncomfortable time
below And so the fight ragged The
whale, driven from the depths by the
swordfsh, would leap clear OF the
water and then, falling back, would
dash back and forth until finally the
water was dyed red all about. At
each convulsive leap the whale
seemed to grow weaker, while the
| thrasher and the swordfish main
| tanned their strength. There was
only one way for the battle to termin-
| ate. In thirty minutes the whale lay
| still upon the surface, dead-B. e.,
| in the New York Press.
ENGINEER SAVES WILD TRAIN.
After running wild for several
miles at high speed with an engine
| out of control by the blowing out of a
stud in its boiler, the Chicago and
! Northwestern fast mail train No. 10
was barely saved from destruction
| near Boone, Iowa, by the resourceful-
| ness of Louis Shull, the engineer.
Shull was driven from his seat by
the scalding vapor and boiling water.
| Dazed for the moment, and knowing
it was impossible to reach the throt-
tie and bring the flying train to a
stop, the engineer climbed out on to
| the fender and drew himself over
| the coal to the express car beyond.
The express messenger, fearing rob-
bers, refused him admission. Shull
hammered at the door, and 1t was
suddenly opened by the messenger,
who pointed two revolvers at the
engineers head.
When Shull finally staggered in
, bleeding and half-dead he had just
! enough strength left to reach up and
pull the rope connecting the air
brake. The train came to sto'
soon afterward.
The Song Cure.
That the exercise given to the