Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-01-28

century held all the song lovers OF Brl.
tain cnslaved, once carried the Knot, "
that Is, the head pad, Of q Convent Car
den porter, and got his start as a singer
IN the former foul dens within the sound
OF Bow bells.
When your tourist fancy leads you
into Scotland, 20 further. II Is but
little sea.iaunt from Aberdeen. Peter
head OF Wick to the Shetland Islands.
Their people are very hospi,able,
possessing many pleasant ancient Gus.
toms, and there Is no end TO modern
historic and pagan monuments OF strange
and curious interest. Not the least oi
your pleasures there will be witnessing
"A drive o. ca'ing whales" which you
are almost certain TO do, II your visit to
the Islands happen in May OF June.
The Pcterhead and otncr whaling
ships formerly completed their crews ut
Lerwiclk, and these times were always
periods OF great activity. OF late years
Shetland's interest in whaling has been
principally confined to driving the mon
sters ashore. Tnis exciting work Is often
tremendously profitable. In 1915 a great
shoal Of 1870 Gazing" whales were
driven ashore In Ouendale Bay. the
souiheasternmost bay Of Shetland, lay
ing between Sumberg and litiul Heads;
and in June, two years ago, a shoal OF
several hundred was successfully landed
on the east coast.
Until quite recently these shore wha-
lers were lily requited for their captures.
The financially omnivoTous landlord
called the laird" here, true TO his
octopus instincts, claimed the right, up
10 1850, TO tax the poor Shetlanders one
half Ut The entire proceeds OF all whales
driven into shoal water opposite, or upon
the shores OF, their domains, "a sort oi
riparian RICH, on the Almighty for what
was sent to save men from starvation on
account OF rents and other burdens i'm.
posed by the laird himself" an old
Shetlander explained to me.
As the value OF the blubber will aver.
age $50 per ton. the laird" often thus
secured from $1,000 TO 5000 as hi,
right In single catch. From 1899 to
1883 the "lairds" were considerable
enough TO rob the whalers OF but one.
third. In September OF that year the
claim was resisted in the courts, the
whalers won their cause, and the "iairds''
have since been compelled to content
themselves with the meager enjoyment
OF witnessing, rather than prohting by
the hazardous work.
When drove OF Gazing" whales
appear on the coast, the news spreads
like oil drops on marble. As the whole
town OF ST. Ives, Cornwall, goes mad
when a shoal Of pitchers is sighted, Sc
does every live Shetlander, desert every
other vocation, even TO a wedding, Il
ion in the drive" A rush Is made b,
| the men for the boats. while women and
| children wildly collect guns, ammunition
harpoons. scythes, lances, knives AM
even bags OF stone, indeed anything
portable which may assist in the hoped
Tor destruction.
The whalers make all haste ant
splendid cunning in getting between III,
whales and the open sea. Their flee
| OF all manner of craft then gradual,
closes In upon the pack" or drove.
directing by the splendid maneuvcrs o
| the different boats the course Of tn,
whales TO shallow bay So eXper, ar,
these Shetland whalers in driving that
shoal OF whales is seldom lost. II time /,
| given for forming the drive well out
side the drove" II the whales one,
enter the chosen bay, their pursuer
i
conflict begins.
Finding the water becoming shallow
the terrified whales endeavur to max,
Tor the open sea, but are met at ever,
point by perfect wall Of boats, alto
| gether filed with hundreds and some
times thousands Of men seemingly dies
perate in their efforts at capture, aud III,
bowling, shouting, screaming, lashing o
the water, discharging OF firearms
one.lhrowing, and rushing TO aud fr,
Of the equally desperate whales, form a
exciting a scene as one ever witnessed
outside a genuine field of battle. DC
casionally lew break through the lin,
and escape. As a rule the school |
doomed. Once driven into shoa waite
where they Can only founder IN might,
struggles, or high and dry on land
wherr they often toss themselves in lh.i
mad Efforts to escape, their buichery
which is always savage and sc,ienin
sight, procee with wonderful dispatch
In their bloody work the hardy an,
powerful Shetland women take a gleeiu
and almost lrenzied part.
The dripping thing they call rivel
the Manzanares, at Madrid, Spain, come
down from the cold, gray heights to III
north, and winds half way around lii
city from the northwest to the southwest
What water flows through 1t. breaks /
sandy shadows, forming innumerabl
Islands, and curiously bounded strips {
land, all accessible at most seasons b
any barefoot boy or girl, and 1t is not
odd fact that though there are two va,
and pretentious bridges across 1t, til
Puente de Segovia, nearly 700 feet lon
with nine arches, designed by the arch
tect Herrera, and the puente de Toledo
nearly 100 in length, crowned by tn
statutes of San lsidro and his holy vii,
its sole use TO the city OF Madrid is tina
of an endlessly used and al,suilicier
wash.tub.
Ten thousand women soak and splas
and souse and beat the linen Of Madri
within its scant waters every day, No
an article OF clothing Is elsewher
washed. No other than these Manzai
ares lavanderas are permitted to labo
! as laundresses, and for three miles y