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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1927-12-01, Page 6ROMANCE QUITS THE SEA N.(�i (C' LD -BLOODED BUSINESS the Days When .Seafaring Meant' tJnceitainty, Ro neaaa 1-leid Sway on the Sa:ven Sea:4a But To-dtty the Sea CaptainsCarry on Their Business in Just. as Unromantic A'Manner as. Do Our • Captains of industry By CAPTAIN DINCrLE, No tad Writer .of Sea; .Stories Some time ago Ruilyard Kipling re' the long passage monotony, Often a marked that romance had fled the sea ship anchored and let her people when steam came ie.. Ever.since that stretch 'their logs ashore. The is remark was tirade stories have been lands had half a dozen callers 111 a.. written to prove Kipling In prior, But year,- Bat steamers don't do things was he? pile may still- see a knight thatway, Unless a steamer is sent In armor osi a "movie" lot or in a cit•- by the goeornment-to find out fE the ens parade; but that doesn't bring: people are still attire, ' or a cruising hack the age or steel -clad .knight ors tourist steamer makes a curiosity call rantty, joustings and fayre layde$. No the islanders see nothing but rolling More can a few scattered tales of true sea •year -au, year out. The death by sea happenings,' full of roananee still, 'sa!l -robbed more than the sea of.ro- bring baelc•that . romance that 'once mance. clothed ships and the seilorinen who •Not 'often ' with' the modern sea manned them In the old days• firer, man' or boy have such an ex- Chiefly, the death .or sea romance pertenee as happened to the writer In began—it was a lingering death—withahis first ship. It called minutiae: if the coming, of certainty. sIn the 'Sos, yen like. Adventure it cortatidy was, when I ..rst west to sea, the lad who judged hy any boy's -standard, • went off around the world in a sailing A big rigger, a -steel. four -masted • ship would be • away anywhere from barque, carrying 0,000' tests Or cargoone- to three years he would see when loaded; fie frail craft, but 0 new places. that were only names; to the', vessel; built as they bulit ships on the ' stay-at-homes; he would' bring home Clyde ,•''in those glamorous eighties, a cocoanut in the husk, a bit,ofcoral, Her lower verde 'alone, • of stere, a shell or a,, parrot, and be euro• of a; vielghed'seveu•tons apiece, and .there wonder-eyedwelcome. 1010 folks were three of• them There were six would be looking for him for weeks 'steel topsail yards and six topgaltatit bemire he _arrived, only knowing titer^ Yards, •a all of ste'ee. • Three royal yards his Ship had sailed for Home; perhaps of pine besidee the lofty utusts them - it had been'speoken by a swltter ship selves, towering 209 Pastia the sir: itlso ltomewarda bound, I •Now everybody, knows all about And those lofty spats, clothed with those strange, far -away places. .A' heavy canvas, the canvas fall of wind. cruising. steamer, vast and swift and That ship; loaded to her marine, would steady, will carry a wan clel]t around carry full sell In good stiff breeze, - "the world f:(: three menthe. for 4,1)00. She was built to carry it. Site had The pale clerk may aitch a deck chair back/stays. enough. When not loaded and watch coolies trotting coal aboard ..she needed watching, eaaryinB that hear their; monotonous chant,. smell gess of sat[; but she •sailed fast, and _:their romantic smell, and, see more, "any sailor .knows the thrill of svatch- with no more effgi't than hp uses to lug a great square-rigger roam get his living in the office, than ourthrough bright sparkling seas 'under young seafarers otthe '80s saw In ten alt the she dare 50117. --years of fierce voyaging. 'This was the ship's , third voyage, Everybody knows what a coroaruit She was built to make a last stand. Is like. Stores are full of fruits that against steam. She could carry sail are commonplaces' now, _but which 'and carry cargo and, given the wind, were strange tropical luxuries then, was fast enough to compete with the Shops are fuIt of Curios Teem the Bast, seven -knot tramp's that swarmed the the South, the frozen North, " kfovfes" seas on the long passages. --She -had show pictures'or'savage lands, even to carry her full load to pay, and on. of the Intimacies of. whaling And this voyage she lacked a fetf hundred swordflshing. The ahals frill of planes, tone. droning, like bees, taking -tlte young She had edged In near the Anted - eyes upward from the rolling, matter can coast. Tee weather iyas line aid of -feet sea into the atiii-to-oe-mastered sae was well up. to her schedule' for air. time. The skipper diseided to put in - Romance packed up and starter' toto a little port lit .Renauras, and take leave the sea. when•-ntacitiuery. .brought l rota lot' of logwood to fill her up. 'r'ust certainty—certainty or ' arrival,- or was a ettre� cargo at the time. p - "'schedule. When a sailing :strip `int- So Watch her, in sight of land, tin- - tallied her 'wings for .sea. her Brew der a dazsitiig• bine sky and en a sea tramped around the capstan or ptllnp• all crisp wavelets and glittering • ed up and down on the windlass, inch tiprayrs. ing her heavy cable 111, helping the "W o Il be la before dark, mister. Now a steamer takes tilt her berth labor with a shanty: You: can open the . hatches," the old at a. wharf, Her cargo is there ready:' man tells the mate, and man follow It has been packed for shipping -ac - "Ole Sally Brown's a bright mulatto; Chips availed the decks, rolling tar, cording to the best Modern usage: • Way, hey, roll and go! panting es he.knoeics, out wedges, lift- and ft comes aboard with a rattle and Oh, she drinks rum and chews to-ing the' hatch 'eoi•em], placing them crash, or perhaps .with lees notice becco; I cewefutty right aIle up on the deck, on electric and hydraulic hoists; the Spend my money`,no Bally Brown." ab that iia bad luck 'nay come inzfon great arc lighte make night into day the ship,- and the work never stops until the lint now Sally Brown's gone out or There are twelve hofs in the ship ship Is loaded: ' business, Machinery snatches.„ the--appeentdsee, learning the businese = The Master and the agent are fever• itnoltor front the mud. You press a of going to pee. Halt are on watch, ishly busy, both impatient to get Not button and up _she 110001hoylahly, ship to sea again: 'No fair -w1nil s And sailing! A smart ahlpmashalf att leisure' and sante are tee curiously, regarding the new `land; wait far] either, Just 1111 iter up rintod knew where to find winds. In seeking nome aro already too seasoned to let's got She 'nay be a regular cargo them he night salt his ship over track- bother with the new landle their liner, touching at two ports like a loss 'wastes and perhaps eight solos watch below. Twp• lade take a look trolley car 011. a eouutry'•nn< if she's ' tiny gem Of an island neeer seen ex- and crawl -into their bunks tor a a tramp steamer she'Il come nearer to Copt by lush .a wandering ship, . Is- snooze: Andthe ship roars through foilowin;. the 001 sailing ship routes; lands that sighted a ship anal 0 year the leaping 'seas, leanittg over to. the but everything la for progress, die. or two years! Time to speak to' thefresh half gate that is just what she patch and profits, and even tramp 4. folks, 'toe. A bout out; A bucket of wants te snake her show witat,she.can steamer's ars being provided with car - fruit tor Sense' hardteck, A dozen do. She's legging sixteen knots, and goes by "feeders," entailer eteamere ehtcl[ens for an axe, A rarvan paddle the Old Man smiles, rubbing Itis plyIng aroundacpaata and islands col- or a shell neeltlace for an aged shirt, bandy, - Meting the Scattered fieigbts for the And no hurry. Perhaps tiro ship needs Then, out of the clear sky, without bigger tramp to toad at Iter chief port, water. Then nut boats, out casksand.i warning, comes a squall. Just a blast Cargoes are the same, yes; but some - a day ashore for all hands liliitt>; fresh of fiercer wind, that dies into the how different. The enteltage and the water, cutting , wood for the galley strength of the gale fit five minutes. handling makes A. ditfereece. Also stove, Then away, again. lBut in that five minutes what has Trap-, the method of getting them. • Every Iandreil was an event; some -pined? She goes over. The did Man The crews have changed, too. That thing unexpected was to be expected. ! !mine at first. She goes farther aver. was Inevittable. See the crew or a big That was in sailing.' `Aeteamor may !Doubt comes into his teas. He starts deep -water square rigger going to sea and often does go from port to port to shout to order the starboard mates On the night tide. Up at Paddy's on a stiitedule as rigid as many a pas- to let go all light sails. Goose, with a fiddle end tete girls, A. esuger. train, Her master may' and) It le too late then. Site goes over room thick with smoke and the seek often does see her. clear of the land still. farther, water pa'in's over the six of beer and' rum; - thick with lusty and not bother himself about her pro- foot•ratls, 2nd. down the open hatches. voices, too, and shrill laughter. There green rgain until the landfall 1s mane.+ The yards will not coma,down now; are bright eyes even through, the. Na has other things to attend to, 01 she teaits too much. And now tete murky smoke, And joviaUiy and course, bill things, any secretary or! ghastly trait cannot be blinked. She's song; bullnose 11100 coned Imitate, His navi-'threats turtle. gation is 1n the hands of :two naviga- ting oneera, Unless he wants to, he need not stick his head. outside be- tween land and lanrl, A. 'lightship le 3dt.ntitletl, entered in the log' and the (011790 oha.nged. IY fog - Coutes, radio bearings will give the poeltion precise ly .No room for romance nor Unte TAM :00 to te Doctor. :h. MERCY OR MURDER? The Recent English .Case of a Father ,Drowning 1- is. lopeles. y Afflicted Daughter Hits Again Raised the. cry That Doctors Should Be Given Authority) to Administer "Easy Death" to Suffer- ers. Here is a Sane," Clear-. Out Answer Ily WENDELL 0, ' PIfiLLIps, 02,D, (Reprinted from New Ye,•lc "Herald Tritnine") The fee paid by the tante to a pub; lag years of the war lie "lived to bo lic executioner each time he throw's fifty-four years old; the fatal switch is 9190. Those whom , His Is only one of many examples he sends into another world have, et-" which could .be given of 01011 and wo- tor a careful review" of their lives; meat who deemed' hopelessly deforin.' been condemned as enemies to so- ed at birth or shortly after, and, yet ciety, who have forfeited the right to who groin up, not only to enjoy life live, Their death" has been decreed themselves but to play a :worth -while by the combined efforts of judge, jury, part in theilives of others: Steinmetz, prosecuting attorney, pollee, and electricalwizard, was a lluucliliack; other officers of the law, usually with Helen Keller was deaf, blind, dumb the backing of public opinion: The and with very little sense of smell oe executioner's part Is little more than taste. automatic. In all these persons, of course, the Yet in the eyes of most people the mind and eharaotox were and are now eaiecutioner- to a narked titan. He mai, • The ce seen1S a bit differen; Walks alone, . b'ormerly it was even wren the neantt boa'ii child 'is a: hope•t customary for him tq wear a maser, less idiot or a monstrosity. each wee the hatred -foe' him anti Ole In the Hippocratic Oath: taken': by calling, '' all doetots when they -receive their There is m.aIl of us—at least in all medical degrees, they •sweex always Christian' and 'Je Kish Peoples -we deep, to• preserve- human life to the best of instinettve revolt:against the taping their ability, But the question has of ,life, even unborn 110e, No normal been raised by -some physicians, "Is a pereon wants it to"be his hisisd that sn°astrousity human life?'' Masi$y' Quenches' the spork for` any other doctors; when they aro present at tidi human being... We shrink Etom the birth of one of ,'these horrible mise Mata that does it, takes of nature, will simply- allow it SUPPOSE NE OIDN T WANT TO GO? This Is wiry public opinion wl1La1-: to die by taking no precautions to see When Olga, a ten year -ped leopard, went' sick, the trainer, Olga Celeste,bundledthat it ilv — barrow andastonishedO,'t Lob the big cat' into a wheal- ways, I believe, be against legalizing es an easy matter, since Los:Angeles by wheeling it through streets to the veterinarian's.' "easy, death," or euthanasia. This is ?host monstrosities live -only a short o gh the th@: taking oY efts, as a merciful act time anyway, lads who could not swim! And on a "(Set aboard men! ,This from o?te:to whom .it ttas,become an A Casa of this kind which caused a floating hatch .sever to which they mate The ing is ready. Men.t c the London }�s� �n Raps lalaupportable burgan because of im meat furor twelve years ago was that were oth -- they Yn b ttx Paper pe L�� s of g S ley survived ,allrituals ling over the rail. Girls shrieking "So curable' disease'• oresuffering, or from aby John I3olhinger, born in the thirty -Six hours of scorching daytitho longi" the ties, rppe0 and. mono one to whom it will never give an 'German-Amerlean I3osl>ital In Chi - Baldwin sun and shill nightime dews until The night sviellows the shf i' n ll �� ag a conecious setiafaetion; as in the case ;e-o.Dr. LI. J. Hetselden; head of the picked up by a 1 and sic `,, of monstrosities or ho aloes idi t tarE, refused to perfnronge a oration. grubby little sugar will be seen no more tor a year The , I ondon--"Wire are the men in the p o e' whish would have a?olon e p tramp steamer, s lirlp must itve.' They cariuot live Recently au English jury acquitted D g d and -post Cab1net`Who wt'eeked the Geneva dig= q ably saved !e life, His stand.wag AB, in those days, Hart. of the boat. alone, and there 070 other ships, Albert. Davies, a twenty -eight-year-old armament conference?" asks rho y taken with the consent: of rho child's nog$ of going to sea! B.et the modern ship? She lies the Gaze shipyard' laborer• -and terais parents and -at But the busines-of- going teases.; to- quietly at a lighted 'dock. Her crew to edrtortiaIIy.' who had confessed to drowninglife be aid nothing to hinder Winston'ChprchIll (Chancellor of three -Year-old dao Itter inorder any other eras physician from s rise left claw is aim of cold calculation. Once it 'are like any other. body of employed the Exchequer),it e , g dor to The baby was arae teed lett scope for a man's immagivation men' Rarely does a Haan hove 10 be goes on to say', and her:guftering, The child had beenheada y on the lett • might have saved £o0;A00000'in re- tubercular from birth a doctor had side from manyoth was deaf and imagination and romance! There was sought Out on sailing day. It's too i a d suffered fres romance even In cargoes. The sante easy to all the place or the nrodern light if he had supported a. pol- despaired of her lite auif death; was 'In am many other deformities. steamboat hand, And crews are ern icy of lianitatfon, In spite of the break- considered a matter of onlyfew eases like 'ththialami the in ma agno cargoes as steamers car'rytThe Lot T11e life is different. So is down. The question ArOses, says the days. Within the last a' a to nrany person juetiRett in making no. oh, how different! A sleepy estuary; whether year the little effort to prelan life. But es a tropic stat and lush jungle; .wild the age, One popular souvenir large- paper, he took this line, girl lead suffered severely /WM many of scenic ly favored by wiudiammer sailors en - It ()Boleros that the breakdown was other diseases, death" publicity that f3 given an tiasy beasties slaking their thirst front tiro not due to Right Zion. W. C. Bridge- river within sight 0 iters :ship. And leaving a foreign port for home was canoes, neat -sailed sampans or junks a pair of fancy garters, usually Oily :man, PhstLord of the Admiralty, and or catamarans, fiber -fastened, built of things with some bold motto 0n the asks how NIP, Churchill came to ebe n otibro Lucicl or the Admirltl its. woods carrying e clasp. There ty spokesman s a ryinQ out' w D was still. some whir oven bags. or spices, or sugar, of hied of mystery: some romance about a girl's Bridgeman agreed to the United parndiee shins. Thou &way, to eat- gaiter. And ,lack was as romantic States' ciatni or parity, other little anchorage, Where perhaps about a garter as any plumed knight The sante deadlock will be repeat - a native go -down held copra, rattans, of old, ed in 1931, when the naval tenter - coffee, medicinal roots, a cargo et'e4.lt Where e is the mystery of a garter erret5 ye—assembles tntder another ing with glamor, .taken aboard to a Pow? A garter holds no more ewe- goverment," says the paper, "No' crooning song with a crazy wiurh and 1517 or Power to intrigue than a shoe, thing willor can bo done untit tete eallorly tackles hung from.alcut.' Why should a sailor take home gar- .government at least makes up its mind regarding the ianportanne of a disarmament agreement and until it contrives to put back into their prop- er place its iusurgeltt technical ad- 1Naers." • ,3 In five minutesshe lies ort her side, In Amaterday there lived a maid, In two mora'°her salts split with the And else was mistress -of her trade; pressure of wind and water. She I'll go no more a -roving with you, fair rolls right over, and slowly gees down maid! with all stall set. Arid boats and life Might igltt as well'be home in tire. And the last Cali to seat The mate store- hatch 'covers' float, and the perhaps.pokiug his head in the door, hen coops. And bits of dotsam. But •giving a nod to the landlord. $onao t�ut of the crew? bold lad Milting the mate to drink There Ara islands In the 000011 such 10igliteen molt end boys -went with with them; the mate's disappearance as• Ascension, Sb, llotana, Tristan da the ship, and. the klcipper'e wire, and and the ,laughter, ' Not -nice Maitre: Cunha, whero in the_ days of eellieg. his yotutg 3o711: The ,shipper shot him ifaid about the mate by the girls. The v001013 a• strip :made i 'yea.rly .call, a self when he learned he alone, .uf his last dyink all around, 0n the hones;. a friendly call juf,t to signs? -and ask httle'fioiily wits sated, And.. 'o' the good/stiff one if the laildlordel,a good' after the !Slanders weltare to ` -land 1twelre lads, lemming .ties lifisinese'of •sco5t,• ' books, perhaps, :or cigthini o1 "ex i going, to• eeti,..only two Were saved, ,Then the dark of the plerhead. Cites cheese; salt Reef .and pork ter .tle,a They. wore the two. Vvho. sere In their saying goad -bye to their sailors Miss. Potatoes and fish eoultry -6r truer, bunks. They;were flung out through Mg them noisily. Luckylaieuds, then.- The big clippers the door and, by a cif miracle, hurled ' `Don't • 3 gi t gay With no firemen, or frigate built passenger sailinn clear of trio entangling r ing rg^'that ahlps' in the i0astere and Australian killed most of .those who nems lost. tttt(tes sighted tete Islands to give Two, of whom the writer was cite, and their passengers ,a welcome break in the only twb of those twelve lusty S'MA°I °iE Z POP ---By Payne terse for his girl? She doesn't care whoa sees them. She wants wrist watches or . diamond rings. Anti at these days of steam and steamer wages she can almost depend on get- ting them, if her man is the right sort and still ltolde on to that other kind or Canarl romance, which unlike the romance a has taken the plate of Great or the sea, can never fade and die.- Britain as the best trade customer of N.Y, CIerald Tribunethe United States, the Dominion`s purchases having increased *06,19x, 343 In the first eight' months- of 1027 A elan cat• ered a chemist's very over the like period in 1026. Canada hurriedly and asked for a dozen gain- is proepering, and Its bnsinesfl was a the pills, "Do you want them put in a great factor in keeping the industries box, sir,'' asked tate assistant, as he o Ithe United States on a sound basis was countle g them out. "Olt, no, cer- when other markets were quiet The tainiy not ` replied the customer, "T prosperity of one nation helps the was thinkiug of reliant' them home," prosperity or iia ar}aigliliors, In Old Quebec "What drys think T amY"- with AN OUT DOOR OVEN wink at a naw sailor just home, hang. Like a senile tom another t .land—is thle 1 of g[fm so ing back until the big ship ,moves, dutdoor oven `is siill used in many rural s D f),d Qu$Uee Where the • e, sections. ••• : 1,'Sornr Y-Au6NS RE TC ON7AGIoUS -Y .S :A./r,r�: 10\.1 N &T Ea -r V4I�o I-.Au6f( - -tjo1 e.,S-t ouoa1 r NOT Go rWCLosd.T© EA/ c.le,7 The jury's decision was not only ap- • "easy" and far. less justified, almost plaided• by the court, but almost or- always foilovr, There was such an dered by the presiding judge, who epidemic of deaths -In 1920, following said In his charge to the jury: • the Itysteeical trial and.acquittal i11 a "23ad this poor child been an ant- Paris court et-Ml`!o.'Stanielawa.Mune mat Instead of a human being, 80 far aka, a Polish actreee, iho shot and from there being anything blaute- killed her fiance, dying 01 cancer, to ss orthy i1i the man's -action in putting eud his agony, an end to Ito sufferings; Ste �ektiaiiy Ad few days later a Parisian seam would have been liable to Punishment stye 0 killed her sietor tinder Mintier 10 he had not dohs 10 Davies, if he otroutitstanoes, In. the same Merritt tlid take the life 01 the otitld, did so Dr. Blazer, of Colorado,. cltlorotorm ed his terribly crippled daughter, Near the sante time, Lieutenant Col. one!' William Dunn, killed his invalid father raid• mother and then ccntsuit- ted shields, It is easy to See the effect that such a suggestion, oft .recurring. would have on excitable temperaments. While it has never been proposed that' any one but a physician or committee of physicians should: be given feta le• gal authority to take a useless or pain- tul Iiia, other people, tai less able Ic judge the Medical aepeets of, the rase ate ;rpt to dash in and take. the ro• ep0neibility, deeming the disease 01 the sufferer "Incurable." But "incurable" is a word that even the medical profession is belaig. fre- quently famed to discard. P01' nanny years sufferers from hydrophobia were regarded as doetnerl, and their death was sometimes hastened by bleeding, to' end` "their own $l1 tiring and clanger to, pricers• lE the killing front the motive of love and pity for the child's sufferings." The reasons for acquittal here were perfectly obvioue, though the tochni- cal legal excuse was that the prose• cation had not proved the child to be actually alive when;ubntergect In the bathtub. The trial has raised once More, a question 'which Itas been agitated for hundreds' of years, but is 'perhaps more serious to -day, because of the .oltargo leveled against our civilization Mitt weere using our setentiilc know- ledge to keep alive the fit at the ex- pellee of the unfit. • Once more the cry goes tip that lags should be passed giving ((0010rs the power, within their discretion, to adintuletei• the "easy death" Sneh laves have actually Ween framed, and favored by a number or doctors, hi New York, Iowa, Ohio, Ihlhtoie and many other states, but invariably they have been defeated by publie of suc11 people had baea made legal, opinion, even though public opinion sehettco snigttt net have lied the same has always been in favor of releasing stimulus todtr I}` ,rover c • rt ale. Gaut special individuals who have pleaded 1°�' this as.an excuse tor what is, under a another disease,,which formerly are celreidog tate law, lnrinter. ed incurable, which ive aro learning What the luatigators of aucli n lab, to conquer: do not seem to realize Is that most WhThoat the Iaws of sconomh:a sours Unites doctors. do not with to have ilmte1 on point to the control of popttlte them the responsibility nr betnq Pm: tiara as desirable, and such control resenting attorney, judge,.tory and has long been. preetteed fu stet rn executioner, all in 0110'. oonutries fry "expoaiuir girl babies, It Suppose such, a last had been . in is contrary to the lassie'p'ihu ipios or ecisteuco Sn Spain when the Marquis '100 g ro civilleatlon, and is, i believe, de Vfilaltlbal' was born. When this too great a oi' emtsihllity to put on pitifully malformed bit of hnlnaaity any aha ratan or small group of men. same into the world even his parents wanted him 'to cite.' He had no feet; it seemed improbable that he would ever walk. Ile Yate no toll, to his skull;the` slightest pressure on the soft gale would pave toutheti his brain. Though it probably could not have been fore- told' at birth, he could not grow any teeth Life seemed to bold for hint nothing but holplesuess and 1015017. To 11111 hint would he a kindness. Since this was forbidden by both Olritrgli, and State, ltia. eaeents. made. . a'47ove41a, 1'egginq Mitt, Recd to. take 1 GLUt D TO.His 51 aT lsaslt;the aselesri;,It51Yering little life, - "The Mucilage maker woe held But, their prayers'ware not answered: up -in his office today and robbed." The •Marquis, . de Villalobar • lived. "Wee he, scared?,. "fpm• -Witted to hts.teat, he sale." • Lofty -four years later, fitted with ar- tificial.feet and an 'artificial top teazle shall, he was one 0E tete most striking figures in Washington society and diplomatic lite, Minister front Spain to the United States From title 'poste he was, transferred to the ministry at L'ibson and later was Spa'tisla Ana- bassador to Be)gittie during . the try - ,A Horse Laugh - rnr l I 1 rt ffiS111.11111111110INIS illig sit y r t c' 11111 11 111IAIr1111 i Y1l K. t i ;The Sydney Coal -'Feld Submarine mining istile outstand- ing feature of tete Sydney roee-teid, Nova Scotia, anti 'workings have been carried seaward to distances varying from one to two arta a halt utiles. While the seaward cytout sof the ' seams is unknown. there aro no indi- cations of flattening or rising tendon - cies, and ft is probable that the littiits or mining rvil be determined by econo• nine factors rather than by exltailo- / tion, ,_....--4,_,_.., Yukon's Tourist Attractions Yukon hap .peen known In the past almost entirely es a mining country, but the tourist 'teit\file:is assuming a • prominent place among the commer- cial assets of the Territory. The uniqule natural attractions, magneii: cent scenery, bracing nttneeiibere, 000 - themes daylight ,dns'htg t.he-summer, season; and improved facilities for the tourist are the reasons for the rapid growth to the...munber of visitors. .' Art--"t'd like' you to paint a pow _trait at ray late uncle," Ari.lel.--"I,1i'inge,, him in."' Arteeet said my late imelo,'' Artist -•--"Tiring hies in when he gets` sone then' • l .e ..u1 '