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Show THE LESSENING NUMBER OF SAILORS. The Argonaut deplores the faet that while California Cali-fornia has an ocean front of Hunt nubs and needs sailors to hold its place in the risinc commerce of the Pacific Ocean, "'spendinkr trreat sums for the education educa-tion of our youth for makme no provision for stimu- lating taste for the sea-faring life or in training oung men to it. That is true, and so unfortunate that California ought toffer bounties for men that fitted out their little craft and put in the season in fishing on the Californian and northern coast. That is the great nursery for seamen. That is why New England has always been ready to man any ships needed for ordi-narv ordi-narv sca-gomg propositions. It is true that in the navies of the earth and on the big steamers, sails have practically been done away with, and the old methods of navigation have all gone with the sails. There is no more mounting of shrouds, reefing and unlimbering sails, the old contests between man and w inds have been pretty nearly done away with. An ordinary steamship will give more for a good fireman than a good sailor, but still there ought to be traiued men so accustomed to ships that the terrors of the sea -will be taken away from them, and they ought to have cultivated in them a love for the "life on the ocean wave and a home on the rolling deep." |