Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-08-31

| steam IS up. Tho hour OF IL ap-
proaches All are on the qui UiUe for
the midnight sum Twenty of us are
at the PROV with our watches out.
The old orb is radiant. The captain
calls out. "Five minutes of l2l" Will
the orb disappoint us There is a
heavy cloud above in the zenith, but
it is lined With silver, and a mackerel
line Of cirrus clouds lies just above his
majesty. Like king Of day he is
enthroned without observation be.
tween the long line of clouds, sitting
on pearl and amber orange and gold,
all the hues of the prism intensified
with soft, weird radiance by the strug.
gle between sunrise and sunset.
A minute to l2l He still remains
round and radiant. Twelvel Hurrah
Hurrah ! 1t is done, and the cheers 20
up from this solitude, arousing its
echoes The rim OF the horizon, far
of to the north where the pole is sup.
posed TO be, is sivered with a pale,
weired beauty. 1t grows pink and
this Arctic desolation is made a living
splendor
Self Withdrawn into a wondrous depth,
Far sinking into splendor without end
This is the wondrous phenomenon
which we have come so far to witness.
The captain is on the bridge. "H fat
aceCmph" ] sing out to him from be.
low,
"Givc it to me in good English,
Meister Cox"
say, ave are all happy, The great
transaction is done"
Prepare to fish," is the practical
response and emphatic order Of the
captain.
The lines are out, the captain lead.
ing with two Goldfish. / soon follow,
and the sailors arc busy. Mirth goes
around at each success. My wife,
good fisherman generally, tugs away
at her long line until, like tho gentle
admiral, she suddenly "goes below"
Ny courier, Rene, the Dane, catches a
monster, all golden as the sun itself.
| TCheers Then u Scotchman gets in
hideous hog fish acknowledgements.
[Laughter.1 Our stowardess, Julia,
hauls in a monster Renewed cheers
and laughter. And so we keep it up
till 2 in the golden morning. when to
sleep we go, covering the port holes so
as to pretend it is night.
We had made many sacrifices to sec
this remarkable performance of our
luminary. Not that either Of us was
over anxious to find land where sun.
set did not occur We had hoped that
there was no realm in this or the iu.
ture existence where "Sunset" might
not come But | may be allowed to
remark that ! have borne the sobri.
quet of Sunset for 80 many years, and
it has sounded with such sweet sibila.
tion, that had como TO believe that
had sort OF fee simple in this fairy
land, with its gorgeous palaces and
cloud-capped towers.
And must now be enchanted ? Do
live and is sunset no more ? Do | sec
country where the sun is going, 60.
ing down amid mise en- scene equal,
if not superior TO that Ohio evening
years ago, which l tried to portray
with my poor pon-and yet it does
not 90 down? Was it not enough
that for ten long days, or day, there
was no night for us, and that the sun,
by gliding and glowing in the North
without respite, had disturbed our
customary experiences The reaction
might be too sudden. The failure of
our old orb to set might-well, there
is no telling the cataleptic and other
dire consequences But hero was the
patent iaot2 Here were clouds and
lights, all tho hues of the prism in
splendid display, and yet no sunset
after all The unsctting and the un.
settable sun Midnight and yet light
all aglow No gas, no candles, no
stars, no moon-only the fiery orb and
his trailing clouds Of glory"
But is not the sun allsuilicient with
out other fres2 II he stays up and
sets not, what more can the human
heart desire2 What wonder that the
Oriental mind clothed the sun with the
majesty of divinity, and that the Magi
saluted his coming with worship, as
the source of lifc2 What wonder that
his beams evoked music from Memnon2
Is he not the creator of health and the
great beueiactor2 And we have found
a land where he will not and does not
set
The sensation was as new as IL was
humlliating to my amour propre. |
recalled the words Of Yankee char
acter
"It's reilly affectin' to think how lit
tic these ere folks is missed that's 80
much sot by. There amt nobody, Of
they's ever so important, but what the
world gets to goin' on without EN-,
pretty much as il did with EN-, though
there's some little furry at first"
How much can be done, after ali, in
nature and in Science, Art and Gov.
ernment, without u.s. Governments
will run, men and women dance, trade
proceed, without sunset Here in
this land of the frigid zone, for ten
days and more we had seen boats in
full rig and sail mountains of lofty
altitude musical with losses, glaciers
miles in length moving on their quiet
and steady way, men hauling in fish
by the millions, whales disporting, aud
a steamer pushing its mazy way
through deep waters shut in by vol.
canic walls from angry seas-and yet
no sunset New York and America
callous 10 the fact and moving on rest
lessly, with alienation Of lights aud
shades, love and bate, good and bad,
day and night, thinking Of everything,