THE FALL OF A
Tlv PrUKTr T
Glorious in all his splendid majesty,
the great sun issued forth of 'his
chamber, and ail the wild sea basked
in his beams with a million, million
smiles. Save the sea and the sun and
the sky, there was nought apparently
existing it might well have been the
birthday of Light. The one prevail
ing characteristic of the scene to a
human eye, had one been there to see,
was peace perfect, stainless peace.
Yet beneath that sea oC smiling, p. acid
beauty a war of unending ferocity
was being waged, truceiess, merciless;
for unto the 'victors belonged the
spoils, and without them they must
perish there was none other fcod to
be gotten.
But besides all this ruthless war
fare, carried on inevitably, because
without it all must, .die .of hunger,
there were other causes of conflict,
matters of high policy and more in
tricate motive than just the blind, all
compelling pressure of hunger. The
glowing surface of that morning sea
was suddenly disturbed simultaneous
ly at many points, and lile ascending
incense the bushy breathings of some
scores of whales became visible. Per
fectly at their ease, since their in
stincts assured them that from this
silent sea their only enemy was ab
sent, they lay in unstudied grace
about the sparkling waters, the cows
and youngsters frlvoling happily to
gether in perfect freedom from care.
Hither they had come from one of
their richest feeding grounds, where
all had laid in a stock of energy suf
ficient to carry them half around the
globe without weariness. So they
were fat with a great richness, strong
with incalculable strength, and be
cause of these things they were now
about to settle a most momentous
Question.
Apart from the main gathering of
females and calves by the space of
about a mile lay five individuals, who
from their enormous superiority in
size, no less than the staid gravity
of their demeanor, were evidently the
adult males of the school. They lay
almost motionless in the figure of a
baseless triangle, whereof the ap?x
was a magnificent bull over 70 feet
in length, with a back like some keel
less fchip, bottom up. and a head hue
and square a3 a railway car. He it
was who first broke the stillness that
reigned.
Slowly raising his awful front with
its down-hanging 20-foot lower 3a w
exposing two gleaming rows of curved
teeth, he said:
"Cnildren, ye have chosen the time
and the place for your impeachment
of my over-lordship, and I am ready.
Well I wot that ye do but as our
changeless laws decree; that the choice
of your actions rest not with your
selves; that although ye feel loiV.
of yourselves and t.er irons of ruling
all your fellows, it is but under Var,
compelling pressure of our hereditary
instincts. Yet remember, I pray you.
before ye combine to drive me from
axons ye, for how many generations
I have led the school, how wisely I
have chosen our paths, so that we aru
still an unbroken family, as we have
been for more than a hundred sea
sons. And if ye must bring your
powers to test now, remember, too.
that I am no weakling, no dotard
weary of rule, but mightiest among
all our people, conquerer in more than
a thousand battles, wise with the ac
cumulated knowledge of a hundred
generations of monarchy. Certainly
the day of my displacement must
come; who should know that better
than I? But methinks it has not yet
dawned, and I would not have ye
lightly pit your immature strength
against mine, courting inevitable de
struction. Ponder well my words, for
I have spoken."
A solemn hush ensued, just empha
sized by the slumbrous sound of ho
sparkling wavelets lapping those
mighty forms as they lay all motion
less end apparently inert. Yet it had
been easy to see that along each bastion-like
flank the rolling tendons,
each one a cable in itself, were teuso
and ready for instantaneous action,
that the great muscle mounds were
hardened around the gigantic masses
of bone, and that the flukes, each some
hundred feet in p.rea. did not yield to
the heaving bosom of the swell, but
showed an almost imperceptible vi
bration as of a fucus frond in a tide
rip. After a perfect silence of fome
15 minutes an answer came from the
youngest of the group, who lay re
mote from the chief:
"We have heard, O king, the words
of wisdom and our hearts rejoice.
Truly. we have been of the fortunate
in this goodly realm, and ingrates in
deed should we be had our training;
under so terrible a champion been
wasted upon U3. But therefore it fr,
that we would forestall the tlume
that should overtake us did we wait
until thy force had waned and that
all-conquering might had dwindled
into dotage ere we essayed to put thy
teaching into practice. Since thy dep
3
SEA MONARCH.
"Rr-r r
osition from this proud place must be,
to whose forces couldst thou more
honorably yield than to ours, the
young warriors, who have learned of
thee all we know, and who will carry
on the magnificent traditions thou hast
handed down to us in a manner worthy
of our splendid sire. And if we be
slain, as well may be, remembering
with whom we do battle, the greater
our glory, the greater tnino also."
A deep murmur like the bursting of
a tiual wave against the sea-worn
lava rocks of Ascension marked the
satisfaction of the group at this expo
sition of their views, and as if actu
ated by one set of nerves the colos
sal four swung round shoulder to
shoulder, and faced the ocean mon
arch. Moving not by a barnacle's
breadth, he answered, "It is well
spoken, oh, my children; ye are wiser
than I. And bo the issue what it will,
all shall know that the royal race
still holds. As in the days when our
fathers met and slew the slimy dragons
of the pit, and unscarred by fathom
long claws or ten-ply coats of mail
dashed them in pieces and chased
them from the blue deep they re
foulde, so today when the world has
grown old, and our ancient heritage
has sorely shrunken, our warfare shall
be the mightiest among created
things."
Hardly had the leviathan uttered
the last word when, with a roar like
Niagara bursting its bonds in spring,
he hurled his vast bulk headlong upon
the close-gathered band of his huge
offspring. His body was like a bent
bow, and its recoil tore the amazed
sea into deep whirls and eddies as if
an island had foundered. Full upon
the foremost one he fell, and deep an
swered unto deep with the impact.
That awful blow dashed its recipient
far into the soundless depths, where
the champion sped swiftly forward on
his course, unable to turn until his
impetus was somewhat spent. Before
he could again face his foes, the throe
were upon him, smiting him with ti
tanic fluke strokes, circling beneath
him with intent to catch the down
hanging shaft of his lower jaw, rising
swiftly, end on, beneath the broad
spread of his belly, leaping high into
the bright air, and falling heavily up
on his wide back.
The tormented sea foamed and
hissed in angry protest, screaming sea
birds circled around the conflict, rav
ening sharks gathered from unknown
distances, scenting blood, and all the
countless tribes of ocean waited
aghast. But after the first red fury
had parsed came the wariness, came
the fruitage of all those years of train
ing, all the accumulated instincts of
ages to supplement blind brutal force
with deep-laid schemes of attack and
defence. As yet the, three survivors
were but slightly injured, for they
had so divided their attack, even in
that first great onset, that the oH
warrior could not safely single out
cue for destruction. Now the young
est, the spokesman, glided to the
front of his brethren and faced his
waiting sire:
"What! so scon weary? Thou art
older than we thought. Truly, this
battle hath been delayed too long. We
looked for a fight that should be re
membered for many generations, and
behoi " Out cf the corner of his
eye he caw the foam circles rise as the
ast tail of the chief curved inward
for the spring, and he, the tcorner,
launched himself backwards a nua
drcd fathoms at a bound. After him,
leaping like any salmon in a spate,
came the terrible oldwarrier. the smit
ten waves boiling around him 33 he
dashed them aside in his tremendous
pursuit. But heroin the pursued had
the advantage, for it is a peculiarity
of the sperm whale that, while he
cannot see before him, his best arc of
vision is right astern. So that the
pursuer must needs be guided by
eound and the feel of the water, and
ie very vigor of his chase was telling
far mors upon his vast bulk than up
on the lither form of his flying ene
my. In this matter the monarch's wis
dom was of no avail, for experience
could not tell him how advancing age
handicaps the strongest, and he won
dered to find a numbness creeping
along his spine to feel that he was
growing weary. And suddenly, with
an ce'-like movement, the pursued
one deccribed. a circle beneath the
water, rising swiftly, as a dolphin
springs towards his pursuer, and dash
ing at the dangling, gleaming jaw.
These two great jaws met in clashing
contest, breaking off a dozen or so of
the huge teeth and ripping eight or
ten feet of the gristly muscle from
the throat of the aggressor. But hard
ly hnd they swung clear of each other
than the other two were fresh upon
the scene, and while the youngest one
rested, they effectually combined to
prevent their fast-weakening foe from
rising to breathe. No need now for
them to do more, for the late mor
mons expenditure of force had co
drained his vast body of its prime ne
cessity that the issue of the fight was
but a question of minutes.
Yet he still fought gallantly, though
with lungs utterly empty all the
rushing torrent of hia blood growing
fetid for lack of vitalizing air. At
last, with a roar as of a cyclone
tnrough his head, he turned on his
side and yielded to his triumphant
conquerors, who drew off and allowed
him to rise limply to the now quiet
sea surface. For more than an hour
he lay there prone, enduring all the
agony of his overthrow, and seeing
for before him the long, lonely vista
of his solitary wanderings, a lona
whale driven from his own, and nev
ermore to rule again.
Meanwhile, the three had departed
in search of their brother, smitten so
sorely early in the fight that he had
not since joined them. When they
found that which had been he, it was
the centre of an innumerable host of
hungry things that fled to air or sea
depths at their approach. A glance
revealed the manner of his end a
broken back while already, such had
been the energy of the sea people, the
great framework of his ribs was parlly
laid bare. They made no regrets for
the doing of useless things finds Tio
place in their scheme of things. Then
the younger said: "So the question
of overlordship lies between us three,
and I am unwilling that it should
await settlement. I claim the leader
ship and am prepared here and now
to maintain my right." This bold as
sertion had its effect upon the two
hearers, who, after a long pause, re
plied: "We accept, O king, fully and
freely, until the next battle day ar
rives, when the succession must be
maintained by thee in ancient form."
So the matter was settled and proud
ly, the young monarch set off to re
join the waiting school. Into their
midst he glided with an air of con
scious majesty, pausing in the centre
to receive the homage and affection
ate caresses cf the harem. No ques
tions were asked as to the wherea
bouts of the deposed sovereign, nor as
to what had become of the missing
member of the brotherhood. These are
things that do not disturb the whale
people, who in truth have a sufficiency
of other matters to occupy their
thoughts besides those inevitable
changes that belong to the settled or
der of things. The recognition com
plete, the new leader glided out from
the midst of his people, and pointing
his massive front to the westward
moved off at a stately pace, on a
straight course for th3 coast of Japan.
Long, long lay the defeated one,
no-.ioniess and ak-.no. His e:ertio:u
had been so tremendous that every
vast muscle band seemed strained be
yond recovery, while the torrent of
his blood, befouled by his long en
forced stay beneath the sea, did not
readily regain its normally healthful
flow. But cn the second day he
roused himself, and his mighty head
swept the unbroken circle of the hori
zon to satisfy himself that he was in
deed at last a lone whab. Ending
his earnest scrutiny, he milled round
to the southward, and with set pur
pose and steady fluke beat started for
the Aucklands. On his journey he
passed many a school or smaller
"pod" of his kind, but in some mys
terious manner the seal of his lone
liness was set upon him, so that he
was shunned by all. In 10 days he
reached his objective, 10 days of fast
ing, and impelled by fierce hunger
he ventured in closely to the cliffs,
where great shoals of fish, many seals,
with an occasional porpoise, came gai
ly careering down the wide gaping
tunnel of his throat into the inner
darkness of dissolution. It was good
to be here, pleacant to feel once mora
that unquestioned superiority over all
things, and swiitly the remembrance
of his fall faded from the monster's
mind. By day he wandered lazily, en
joying the constant easy procession
of living food down his ever-opened
gudet; by night he wallowed sleepily
in the surf-torn margin of those jagged
reefs.
And thus he ea--ac to enjoy the new
phase of existence, until one day he
rose slowly from a favorite reef patch
to feel a sharp pang shoot through
his wide flank. Startled into sudden,
violent activity, he plunged madly
around in the confined area of the
cove wherein he lay, in the vain en
deavor to rid himself of the smart.
But he had been taken at a disadvan
tage, for in such shallow waters there
was no room to manoeuvre his vast
buiK, and his wary assailants felt
that in spite of his undoubted vigor
and ferocity he would be an easy
prey. But suddenly he headed in
stinctively for the open sea at such
tremendous speed that the two boat3
attached to him were but as chips
behind. He reached the harbor's
mouth, and bending swiftly sought
the depths. Unfortunately for him
a large pinnacle of rock rose sheer
from the sea bed some hundred fath
oms below, and from this he hurled
himself headlong with such fearful
force that his massive neck was brok
en. And next day a weary company of
men were toiling painfully to strip
from his body its great accumulation
of valuable oil. and his long career
was ended. Xew York Evening Post
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Sirs. Winlow's Soothing Syrup forcViMrsi
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What has the weather done that it should
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Automobiling may be dangerous, but it
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Is lepidly assuming precedence as n Sum
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You can come pretty near judging peo
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Putxam Fadeless Dtes do not rtain the
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