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Show NEW ENGLAND'S ANNUAL TRIBUTE . One would think the men of New England would cease to smile after awhile. . In the last few months on that coast fifty-four vessels have been lost, and with them eighty-five lives. This Is tjie dreary tribute trib-ute that New England has been paying to the stormy seas that beat upon her cliffs yearly, for now almost three hundred years, sometimes greater, sometimes less, but as regular as the coming of the years. Most of the sacrifices have been in her1 fishing fish-ing fleets. Every year as the fleets come in there are silent watchers on the shore wondering who will be missing from the crews, what homes will be. bereft, be-reft, and that strain has been upon those people now for almost three hundred years, v "For men must toil and women inust weep." It is a fearful royalty that old ocean exacts in royal, patient Jives, and with all men's inventions against 'accidents and catastrophes the number does not seem to diminish. "Man marks the earth with ruin his control stops with the chore," , , They go away and never return while onthe shore, "hearts break, yet brokenly live on," and this has been New England's record from the first. Surely they are a strong people, else all their hearts would break. , ' . r 7 ' |