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Show f TERRIBLE DEATH 05 WHALER Nmvs of Hla Drowning Whila Making a Strike Shows Industry Is ' Not DeaA The whailwg tnriuKtiy ipua which I, th prosperity of a few New Englaw l ports was once founded Is snpjmaed to have pasted awsj. No more does e tha odor of whaJe oil give peculiar flarur to an entire towoshlp- No long-e long-e ex are pompous red angular mansions e pointed out as "whale fjrtuns." The a day Is gnne when sailors In from y three-year voyages spent their shsres , In a week or two and blithely sign.! ( on again for other such terms of danger dan-ger and toll. Yet whale are atlll pursued and H the pursuit is not aii by steamers - with outfits of harpoon guns, patent trytngout vats and safety devices for the boat crews. Word has come in a roundabout way to provlneetown, wbleb Is on the tip of Cape Cod, that the male of a whaler, hailing from that port, had been drowned while making a strlko. He had "flung the iron." had seen "her Blnk to the hitches." and then had been drawn overboard In a twist of the lino. In th" cxclteriiMit of the cast lie had mad" a fatal step into the eoll, be-n caucht slid in the twinkling of an eye, whipped from the boat. He w;i never M'i'ii ai:ain. It Is a frightful way to .lie, yet we know from the storb-s they told an i the ohMTvatious they liiart" that t In-old In-old time whalers beheld in-rit and honor In such a way to rti a'h. Th"j alrt they preferred to He Ilk" men In tie moment of triumph an i hlgf UrMon than slowly and weakly uol a bed athor and. nlnre we remember them to have been men. every Imb of them, their preference commands respect. |