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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1938
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ADVENTURERS* CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF!
“Whale Overturns Boat?*-
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter
H ello everybody:
Stick close, boys and gals. We’ve got to make a long trip
today, and we don’t want anybody to be lost, strayed or stolen.
We’re popping off for the South Seas. Down there where they do
say, the gals wear grass skirts, and men dive down into the water
and choke sharks to death.
There’ll be some sharks in this story, too. It comes from an old
salt who sailed the briny deep in the days when they had iron men and
wooden ships. He’s Alfred Stuart, of Jersey City. A1 is up in the seven
ties now, but he recalls mighty well the adventure he had almost half
a century ago. I get a big kick out of these yams from the old timers.
Some day I’m going to slip over to Jersey City and just sit down with
Al Stuart and swap adventures with him.
He shipped on a whaler out of New Bedford, Mass., with a crew
of mostly Portuguese sailors, a tough-egg captain, and West Indians as
officers. Everybody was a partner on the trip, because the crew re
ceived a share of the profits, and were all pretty tickled when they
picked up several small whales.
The captain was out for big game, though, and he sailed round
and round in the whaling zone, looking for more prizes. It’s a long
way from New Bedford to the South Seas, and the captain didn’t
want to start back without picking up everything they could find.
They Harpooned a Big Bull Whale.
He was so insistent about it that once he gave the first mate a raking
over the coals for not sticking with a whale after nightfall. Al had
harpooned a fairly good sized catch, but when it get dark, they had just
“flagged” the whale and rowed their dory back to the ship. The cap
tain had bawled out the mate before the whole crew.
“Very well, sir,” the mate said. “It won’t happen again.”
Well, it wasn’t long after that, they spotted a great bull whale, one
day about dusk. Here was a beauty, and the boat was lowered to go
Men Went Hurtling Through the Air.
after him. Al was up in the bow, and as they approached the great sea-
monster, he made a ten strike with his harpoon.
The big steel prong struck deep into the whale’s back; then a second
was hurled into almost the same place, just ahead of the “hump.” Then
the fireworks started. That whale was what Al calls a “runner,” not
a fighter. He started off like an express train for points distant.
They gave him practically all the line they had, and he just
jerked that little boat around the South Seas like a wrecking car towing
a baby carriage. The dory bobbed around like a cork, .and plowed
through the waves so fast that the spray nearly swamped it. After
several hours, the whale slowed down a bit. They took in the slack line.
The mate got out the bomb gun and took a pot shot at Mr. Whale, and
was getting ready to let him have another, when the big boy decided to dive.
Down he went; straight down, with everybody hoping he’d
change his mind before he pulled the little boat under. Down,
down. The line was almost at its limit. Everybody was stand
ing tense.
Smashed the Boat to Bits.
A Portuguese sailor stood by with an ax to - cut the line when it
became taut. With a few more feet of its seventy-five fathoms to go,
the line slackened.
“Watch him now,” yelled the mate. “He’s coming up!”
There was nothing they could watch for. It was now dark as pitch,
and there floated that little band of whalers trying to penetrate the inky
night, straining their eyes for a sight of the whale.
Then, suddenly, bang! Crash! Their little craft was thrown
completely out of the water. Men went hurtling through the
air. The whale had come up directly beneath the boat and tossed
it up as though it had been a toothpick. It cracked in two, almost
amidships, and the pieces whirled in the fierce eddies as the
whale thrashed about.
The men managed to reach the stern half of the boat and to hang
on for their lives, fearing all the while that the whale might crash it
to tinder by another slap of his immense tail. And then, another, even
more terrifying menace faced them. There was a swish in the water
nearby.
Sharks Were All Around Them.
“Sharks,” shouted the mate. “Everybody tread water!” Everybody
started pumping his legs up and down like a reserve football player
warming up. And they treaded water for hours.
In the gloom of the night, they could hear the soft swish of water and
faintly see the sinister dorsal fins as sharks nosed close to them. More
and more of them. Exhausted men desperately kicking out at unseen
dangers. It seemed the sea was literally alive with sharks.
Slowly the dawn broke over the eastern clouds. And there, not
fifty yards away was the whale floating on the surface. He was dead.
But around him the water was seething with the fins of sharks, making
a meal of the great hulk.
“That’s a big piece of luck for us,” was the mate’s com
ment. “It it hadn’t been tor that whale near us, we’d all have
been shark meat long before this.”
The ship finally picked up the boat’s crew, but it was almost nooi.
before they did it, and most of the men were half dead from exhaustion.
You can’t stay in the water and keep on kicking for eight or ten hours,
even in the South Seas, without feeling it right down to the bones.
They towed that whale in, and it yielded 120 barrels of oil, and that’s
some whale. Incidentally, Al Stuart got two of that monster’s teeth,
and ne says they’re eight and three-fourths inches long and weigh two
and three-quarter pounds. How would those babies be for a watch charm?
Copyright.—WNU Service.
Statuary Hall in Capitol
Statuary hall in the United States
capitol was formerly the house of
representatives chamber, and was
dedicated in 1864 as a National Stat
uary hall to which each state might
send statues of two distinguished
deceased citizens. Due to over
crowding, it was necessary to re
distribute one of the statues from
each state, and a resolution was
passed to this effect in the second
session of the Seventy-seventh con
gress on February 21, 1933.
Elephants Destructive
Elephants can often be a decided
pest and damage in their native
Africa. A herd can often lay waste
a banana plantation in a single
night, trampling underfoot what
they do not eat. Whenever a tele
graph line is erected the straight,
smooth poles seem to be irresisti
ble to them; the elephant seems to
think it was put up just to rub him
self against, and when one pole goes
down why there is another one just
down the line a bit.
Flood Damage Runs Into Millions
Raging flood waters caused by torrential rains which swept Los Angeles and other southern California
communities wrought damage running into many millions of dollars and cost the lives of scores. Photograph
shows automobiles washed off the road by flood waters on Victory boulevard in Hollywood.
Pig Derby in Photo Finish
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“Mid-West,” a promising young porker piloted by Miss Dorothy Ehr-
hardt of Chicago, is shown winning by a snout againit “East,” a rival
pig piloted by Miss Frances Bright of Princeton, N. J., in a novel “Ham
Sweepstakes” held recently at Pinehurst, N. C.
FIGHTS SOVIETS
Alexander Kerensky, who was
premier of the Russian provisional
government after the fall of the
Czarist regime, shown soon after
his arrival in the United States re
cently. Kerensky, who has been liv
ing in Paris and is in this country
for a lecture tour, prophesied that
the Stalin regime will crumble in
“maybe one, two years.”
Air Defenses Interest King George
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King George VI, making a surprise visit to the Woolwich arsenal on the outskirts of London, inspects a new
317 anti-aircraft gun. It was the first visit of his majesty to an arsenal since he ascended the throne last year.
The monarch was pleased with the progress of the empire’s rearmament program as it was revealed in his
tour of the arsenal. As Britain begins its conferences with Italy designed to appease Europe, Prime Minis
ter Chamberlain announced that the rearmament program will be expanded rather than curtailed.
VISION RESTORED
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Fr. Antonio Santandrau, eighty-
four, pastor of a church in San
Francisco, Calif., whose sight was
restored by an unusual feat of sur
gery. Blind in one eye and threat
ened with loss of sight in the other,
the cleric underwent an operation
in which a disc one-sixth of a milli
meter in diameter was removed
from his eye and replaced by a
disc o? the exact size from the cor
nea of a dead man.
Zog’s Sisters Visit U. S.
The Princesses Ruhie, Myzejen and Maxhide, left to right, sisters of
King Zog of Albania, who are intent on becoming acquainted with Ameri
can manners and customs in anticipation of the wedding early in May
of the Albanian king with Countess Geraldine Apponyi, whose mother
was Gladys Virginia Stewart of New York.
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
CUNDAY I
KHOOL LrCSSOn
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST,
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
© Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for March 20
KEEPING THE BODY STRONG
LESSON TEXT—Mark 6:53-56; Judg. 13:
12-14; I Cor. 3:16, 17; Bom. 12:1, 2.
GOLDEN TEXT—Now therefore beware,
1 pray thee, and drink not vAne nor strong
drink, and eat not any unclean thing.—Judg.
13:4.
PRIMARY TOPIC—The Body God Gave
Us.
JUNIOR TOPIC—For Jesus' Sake.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—
What Liquor, Drugs, and Tobacco Do to
Health.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—
How Intemperance Affects Health.
The universe of God is perfectly
organized in every respect. Beings
that function in the spirit realm are
spirit beings, not subject to the lim
itations of the physical world. We
who dwell and serve in the phys
ical world are equipped with phys
ical bodies which are ideal instru
ments for our present existence.
With all their shortcomings and
frailties, our bodies are indeed mar
velous machines, intricate and deli
cate, yet unbelievably hardy and
durable. They are a gift from God,
and it is our express responsibility
to glorify God in our bodies (I Cor.
6:20).
I. How to Have a Strang Body.
It is obvious that not every one
has equal physical strength and
health. In some measure this is by
divine providence ot at least by
God’s permissive will, and those of
us who find ourselves thus limited
do well to count on His grace for
patience to use what we have for
His glory. But not one of us wants
to yield hopelessly to our inability.
Rather we will do our best to over
come it. We want to know
1. How to cure weakness (Mark
6:53-56).
God alone can heal the sick. Even
in our day when science has made
such strides in the healing art, we
note that the most successful rem
edy or system of treatment is the
one that clears the way for what
men call nature, but r.*q know to be
God, to work. Jesn* healed the
multitudes in the land of Gennes-
aret; He heals in America.
2. How to prevent weakness
(Judg. 13:12-14).
The mother of Samson, who was
to be a Nazarite, was to drink no
wine and to observe careful dietary
regulations before he was born.
Note also that if it is bad for a
man to have such poisons in his
veins before he is bom, surely if is
poor judgment to put them in after
he comes to the age where he con
trols his own life. We need to
watch our diets, and we have much
valuable help on that point. We
also need to give serious attention
to the use of narcotics. It may
surprise some to know that the
term narcotics includes not only
drugs and alcoholic beverages, but
also tobacco, and such common
things as tea and coffee.
Other abuse of the body, such as
overwork, neglect of rest, etc., may
well be mentioned. The besetting
sin of some Christian workers is the
destruction of their bodies, the very
temple of the Holy Ghost, by over
work.
U. How to Use a Strong Body.
Unfortunate as it is to observe
that some who would serve the Lord
have to struggle with the weakness
of the body, it is far sadder to
note that all too often those who
have strong bodies forget to use
that strength for God. Our Scrip
ture portions give us two excellent
guiding principles. Our bodies
should be
1. Kept for God (I Cor. 3:16, 17).
These verses refer to the body of
the Christian, for only of him can it
be said that his body is the temple
of the Holy Ghost.
The Holy Spirit is a person, the
third person of the blessed Trinity.
He comes to dwell within the soul
of the Christian immediately upon
his being regenerated, thus making
his body the temple of the Holy
Ghost. A clear grasp of that truth
solves the problem of what we
should do with and for our bodies.
We must keep them well and clean.
We dare not defile them in any way.
The body of the Christian is kept
for God.
2. Yielded to God (Rom. 12:1, 2),
It is a high and noble sacrifice to
die for Christ.
But our call just now is to be a
“living sacrifice.” There are times
when that may seem harder than to
be a martyr. We do know that
it is not always easy to live through
the drab, difficult, and sometimes
dreadful days, with a clear and
shining testimony for Christ. But
it can be done and is always to
His glory. It is by the transform
ing grace of God that we are en
abled to live such a life.
T HIS issue contains the sec
ond of a series of articles
entitled “What to Eat and
Why,” written by the noted food
authority, C. Houston Goudiss.
In these articles, which ap
pear weekly in this newspaper,
Mr. Goudiss discusses in a clear,
interesting and understandable
manner the everyday problems
of food as related to the building
and maintaining of health in
children, young people and
adults, as well.
Mr. Goudiss, author, lecturer
and radio speaker, is known
throughout the country as the
man who knows food “from soil
to serving, from table to tissue.”
The homemaker will want to
clip and save each one of these
articles for the valuable infor
mation tb«/ is contained therein.
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SOIL and
CLIMAim
The soil and climate of this part
of the country are an open hook
to the seed experts who breed
and select pedigreed Ferry’s
Seeds. In their experimental
gardens, they have perfected
seed varieties that are at their
best under these conditions.
You’ll find these seed varie
ties in the familiar red-and-sil-
ver Ferry’s Seeds store display.
The unique Ferry-Morse Seed-
Breeding Institute has spent
years to bring them to perfection.
Select your seeds from the
Ferry’s Seeds display—all have
been tested this year for ger
mination— and further tested
for truenetM to type. 5c a
packet and up. 1938 novelties
too. Ferry-Morse Seed Co.,
Detroit, San Francisco.
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Meditation
It is the mark of a superior man
that, left to himself, he is able
endlessly to amuse, interest and en
tertain himself out of his personal
stock of meditations, ideas, criti
cisms, memories, philosophy, hu
mor and what not.—George Nathan.
Like Unto Him
“There should be no greater com
fort lo Christian persons than to be
made like unto Christ by suffering
patiently adversities, troubles, and
sickness.
FERRY’S SEEDS
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Truth ss a Sunbeam
Truth is as impossible to be
soiled by any outward touch as
the sunbeam.—Milton.
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