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B. IOVERIN HARROWS 11:31.1 )rdcr Avoid DelayS. WILL BE SENT FOR KAUFMAN’S SPACE l'ulrss "win-rd. Furnished at floawfi able Rates. AUCTION BILLS ' Mununcml BLANK NOTES CULTIVATOHS. COLLARDS’ no Implements Box 37, Farmersville, Ont. AN D «3.1.1:!me «Mr .ll BETHUEL LOV'ERIN, D" ” Good: Sold on commission U ofi'vr the tollowing at Special Prices , ‘ {IGDGruy Cotton 4, 5 and 7; ccuts...{]0 White Cumbric 6. 8 and 10 cents. Clwck Shin-Hugs 10, 12; and 15 cents. mucutmn Yarn, Carpvt Warp cheupm All kinds of Builders Hardware at the very closest prices. llyuvy purchases at Low prices enable us to MIL-r Special Inducements to Close Buyers. Inspection muted. NEW STOCK WALL PAPER: A. PARISH 'I'HIS ORIGINAL I)()(_‘le."1I“.NfiT IS IN VERX POOR CONDITION it 'I‘IIFJ I”;\RMP3RSV’IIJIJIC ‘RE'PORTER. Or by the Day. AUGTIONEER Rear of You”. IJL‘BNUEI) FOR THE S(K)N, udmlulu'cnca of an on the Pacific. Life on board a whelahip to yar- ego mm a mixture of mg, times at! hard work. Sometimes we would go t'or weeks yith only ordiuery routine of working ship, mending and making ails, tuning rigging &e. The mutâ€" heede were constantly moaned from daylight till unmet, being relieved every two boom. The crews varied in number. A tiye-bout ship required thirty hands to man the boats. be- sides ship-keepd‘s, consisting of the cooper, carpenter, steward, cook, and tour or tlve other hands. The butl' crews consisted of the cumin and mates as headsmen with tie respec- tive boatstecrcrs end (but men to each boat, the bout steerer pulling the how our and the captain steering the ‘hout till the whab Wes harpooned. } which was done by the bonteteerer at ithe command of the officer. They then changed places, and the officer Innced and killed the whale, the boat- steeror steering the boat. The kill- ing of the whale was sometimes a lengthy job, especially with Sperm wholes, which could stay under water nearly an hour. The right, or train- oil, whale could stay down only twentv minutes without breathing. Each bout carried about 8,000 feet of whale-line, about :3; inch in thickness, but wry strong, soft and flexible, Utillt'tl with great care in two tubs, pusst-«l round it loggerâ€"head in the shun. then along the centre of the hunt. lit-tween. the eursmen through a hwh-zl umtult in the how and fastened to the lurpoon which rested in u re- ccptnc'lu tittoul tor it. When the otlioorjuclgml the bout near enough, ill! gun- thc signal in the hontstoeror to .. “stand up," who, tirst peaking his: our. \wuht grasp the harpuon n’n’ti write it into the Inonstvr’s side. "Sirru n! 3" shouts the officer, and Equivli :14‘ thought the motion of the i hunt is reversed and the whale starts ioti' away from his (enemies, thougtl: smut-times he seems scarcely to notice ltlu- :utuuk and has like :i log, m, per- haps. just settles himsclt in the Water; otlm- times the whole will start of :u 1 an almost incredible speed, so rapidy im‘u-t-«l, that they have been known to run nut the whole line lmliu'e a «1m: would lK‘ ilililt'llt‘tl or an extra turn “this“ round the logger-howl. I, re- mmubor once in the N. l’ucilit' nt- tucking (mo, of these lnzyonos and grtting a ducking. The captain hml changed plums with his bontsteeror and was getting out his lame to kill the monster when he very quickly rose right under the bout. lilting;r it, on- tiwiy out of the \vutvr :uul tipping: us all moi: It was done in “‘n Sl‘t'tiilll lit-time :my one could imagine what. was up? and illcl‘t‘ \ro \V'Ol't: the whale and his enemies, hunt and (-ontt-nls, ”ll of njutuhlc. Luckily his lordship In “10 Licpult' Officer IIU arm lay pl-rl'cclly still. As I broke wan-r, l l'numl myself in (-lnse proximity m the whale, so clone, in fact, that as I struck out I kicked against him, at the same time I hoard‘ our midship mnsman, a huge (Iapc Verde Negro, vu‘linu‘ “ Oh! gully, oh! golly," and w. lingr“ ()h3 golly, uh! Making: (“Tr my hlmuldo old 32 How in the act- of iuu mmmmr' a back. SL1 :mfle (Continual from last week.) vhl‘lflllldt‘i‘ I 'saw the 't m jump'ing ofi'the 8anng as it, may seem. it is ueverlheleentxue, that within two hours the old fellows; wool was changed to I. snowy lmo with the frivht, and no remained as long on I new him. One of the boats picked us up and carried us wu board. The other gave chm to no whale and sue-ceded in killing hm without further trouble. lie w ‘4. fine {at fellow and made nearly L" a hble. ot'oil. “ Cutting-in ” the wh- y no it is called, is a. big, dirty job «‘1' hard work. When brought alougs‘ a litie secured by the fiukos (or, u .r landemen would call it, the tail) wu h uheavy chain ptpsed through A hawee hole in the ow to the whal- luse. Heavy tackle secured to we main lower mast-head are than low- ered over the side-and e boat-steelm- attaches a strap round one of the flu s. The head is the first part attended in 2 it' a. sperm whale. this is a peculiar (q:- oration. Fancy a skull the shape 01‘ 9. duek‘shead, u, 8, or 10 feet long. 4 or 6 feet wide at the junction wfihthe spine, then imhg'me a. huge mass of blubber or fat trom four to six feet in diameter on top of that, and then you will have some idea. of it. Right in the centre is found a. quantity of pum spermucetti in a semi-liquid state, so much so, that it is often pailed (ml. After the “head-matter " is talc-u care of, the capstan is to Work heaving away and the ubber H peeled off the carcass in “blank-t pieces," about two or three feet Wye and ten feet long, in thickness vat ;. ing from 8 to 20 inqhes. Wh t hoisted high enough u hole is u. through :tt.the lower end and anotl ; ;‘ strap and tackle" attached below in first out 011’, and so one blanket-pit after another is hoisted in till the c; e: as is stripped to the flakes, when is cut loose and the “trying-out" co, went-es. ’Ehis is done as follows ' The blanket meees are lowered don: the main hatehw'uywto ' ”thomblulfl» room, cut up in “ horse-pieces,” ab! 6 inches wl‘ J and 20 to ‘24 incl long, From the bluhber room th‘ are taken to the mincing tubs wln they are sliced u ) about :1 inch thit and thence to t e boil -â€"~two hi: kettles holding three or four bl: each. When sufficiently rendered is is run into large copper coolers a from thence into 'zlsks. ltdoesn't t1: long after once emu-ted to render ( the oil, and the scraps or refuse Hem as fuel for the furnaces. This diagxam will give our readt some idet of the term ot a Egon“ whale, and HUIVC g) explain than n" ac tel 119 The Scott Act cmnpaign is hen: ctiwly pushed in Kingston, Fun: unac and Hastings. In Hastings 11w. >etitions have been fylcd‘and VOUH; rill mku place in June. ’I Aâ€"Mass of blubber. Hâ€"Flukes, or tail. Uâ€"Hn. 1)-â€"-â€"Skull. (wooâ€"~Blankct pieces. “.7011“th in uur Mart.) Emn‘ NOTIRH