The Baltimore County union., 1872-08-17

meath il is a graveled walk extending for miles
along the margin of the waters, and below the
walk is the beach. On the beach lies our boat (;
that is our bathing house before you is the tub,
and you are welcome to wash and be clean.
From the piazza, which runs round Inc mouse
on three sides, and where we mostly hve' tnere is
an cyer.shifting scene ofbeauty. Inc trees ABOUT
us have been popuous with Dlrds, anu our 'norn-
inc concert is OF bird song and ocean roie. Of
the sea will not trust myself to speak. 1t has
been very wonderful this summer, and none OF
the Oldest fishermen have ever seen or can ac-
count for the wonderful variety and beauty and
sudden changes in its coioring At night we are
often treated to the brilliant phosphorescence
of the surf and it was curious in bathing one
night, to find my body glitter with the water
drops.
We have fishing feet and yacht squadron
in the ofiing, and on Sundays they are all riding
quietly at anchor mile away. Mostly the rest
OF the week they are gone. The restless yachts
are in and out, and the shores re-echo with tneir
signal guns and the waters are dotted VITO tner
swift beauty the sober fishermen steal away
with the Sunday midnight and run in again only
on Saturday. Smaller craft, and row boats keep
the bay busy while stray steamers ever and anon
| look in upon US, or wandering yacht, ana Oh
beyond tine light we see the great ships that 90
down into the deep-sometimes hundred and
cannot do good glass does.
1t is not easy doing anything here but enjoy
| Just what God puts before you. Doing IS out oi
The Question forget-we eat and sleep, plenty
of both we bathe and row. The latter is good
exercise and to man whose muscles for the large
part of year only drive quill, (?) the handling
| OF an oar is benediction. 1t brings to light
again forgotten sensations, it opens too long un'
| used air cells and gives stretch to habby sinew
| alo N
much more poetical than wood-sawing, but there
are attendant exhilarants-the dance OF the waves,
| the forcing yourself against them, the snuff OF
the water, the change of position and OF scene,
the strange feeling of present superiority over
| element that if it wills may any time master you
these and other emotions take il out of the linn
| bo of work, transfgure it as play. As for bath
| ing, it is deliciously safe no undertow. The
water is all day long thronged with women and
children. There's deal OF humbug abou, surf
bathing. We have surf enough here for health
and safety, sometimes more than any one can
| stand-and we are relieved from the fears aud
horrors Of other morenoted places. Our summer
| population is not far from two thousand. no.
| tice some Baltimore names at the hotels and meet
| some Baltimore faces and a most involuntary i'm
merson as my boat landed the other day, was
under the eyes, not at the hands, of one of the
leading Baptist clergy Of that city.
AS for fsh-tlink of hani of one hundred
and twelve barrels of mackerel, of ;od fifty
pounds, and halibut one hundred and thirty
seven We see little of the butcher All is fish
that comes to our net.
Don't feel bad about all this. Virtue has its
own reward, and to run the Union when the
thermometer runs the nineties, is it not more vir-
tuous than to laze away the days so utterly as
to have only energy enough TO sign your letter
| with a single W?