The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-01-06
A MONETARY TEACHER.

A MONETARY TEACHER.
Near the coast of Monterey there is a
deserted hut on a barren hillside, gray
with sage brush and yellow with long,
rain-washed burrows. Year after year
the tireless ocean wears nearer, and af-
ter q while the black and splintered
timbers will slip out of sight. hiding
their memories and their grief. AL
though the immediate vicinity is so des-
Olatc, yet the shorelines, extending norh
and south. sweep in placid, mellow
curves, growing fairer and more ethe-
real. until they pOise on the very edge
of disappearance-great clusters of
mingling color melting sweetly into the
sea and rising gently into the sky. AS
for the ocean, no fairer waters ever
cleaned across the Vesuvius bay; no
more perfect sunsets ever shone for
Turner.
This weather-beaten hut was, twenty
years ago, the home of old Gilbert
Mayne, and if you will examine the
southern slope of the adjacent ravine
you will doubtless discover traces of
the former garden, where cabbages and
tomatoes, long ago run wild, are strug-
Cling to hold their own with fernbrake
and blackberry vines. Gilbert fished
occasionally, in a curiously dingy boat,
and his brown-fsted lad Wilber pried
abalones off the rocks at low-tide, or
stood on the outer points of rock to fish
in the surf, throwing his heavily
weighted line far beyond the white
crest of the advancing wave, and some
times catching fish as fast as he could
draw them in. 1t was free, hearty
boyhood, which Influenced his whole
after life. He knew the rocks and the
waves, the forms of the clouds, the
signs of the weather, the plants which
cling to barren places, the flowers of
the deep and moist ravines, the bright
hued shells, and the strange sea crea-
lures. All this was, in its Way, educa-
ton, and a fit preparing for the world 8
work. Then, too, he studied at night,
under his fathers direction; for this
brown and grizzled old man was no
common, coarse fisherman, but one
whose proud life had been full of ro-
nance, mystery and adventure, and
who, sad for the loss of the one woman
he had loved, had hidden himself in
this lonely place, and covered his warm
heart with an affected cynicism. People
often do that; but they are seldom brave
enough to 60 apart and fight it out
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