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Show THE CAROL AS A TOURIST ATTRACTION Though tho exposition celebrating the completion of the Panama canal will be held at San Francisco, and will undoubtedly attract largo numbers num-bers of visitors, it Is tho canal Itself that the people of this country, as well as the world at large, want most to see Expositions may come and expositions exposi-tions may go, but an enterprise like tho Panama canal Is brought to accomplishment ac-complishment onlv once In a century. When It Is completed, It will take rank well up among both the ancient end modern wonders of tho world. The American people In particular delight In anything that is the biggest big-gest of its kind. Superlatives have for them a novor-endlng fascination. At the canal everything that will meet their gaze will bo unable to be expressed except in terms of widest, longest, deepest, heavlst, highest and costliest. There nrc the locks, tho lock gates, the excavntlons, the fills, the methods of transportation and the lighting nlong the way they will all be ot never-before proportions. Even In Its incomplete state, its wonder qualities arc manifesting their attraction to sightseers. Central American Am-erican steamship lines are finding themselves taxed to their capacity to take caro of the tourist travel thither. its bigness will typify to the thousands thou-sands who go now and the hundreds of thousunds who will go later the bigness of Its aspirations, and the bigness big-ness of Its futures. No American citizen will be able to view It without a swell ot pride in his country and a glow of increased patriotism. Klamath Pioneer. |