The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-10-21

" created. There was a light luminous
fog, which revealed just enough to ex-
cite the imagination, and refined every
outline and softened every color. Mr..
King and Irene left the carriage to fol-
low the road, and wandered along the
sea path. What softness and tender
ness of color in the gray rocks, with the
browns and reds of the vines and lien
cns They went out on the iron fishing
stands, and looked into the shallow
water. The rocks under water took on
the most exquisite shades-purple and
malachite and brown; the Darnacles
chung TO them; the long sea-weeds. in
half dozen varieties, some In vivid
colors, swept over them, flowing with
the restless tide. like the long locks OF Il
drowned woman's hair. King, who
had dabbled little in natural history,
took great delight in pointing out to
Irene this varied and beautiful life of
the sea; and the girl felt new interest
i'm science for it was all pure science,
and she opened her heart to it, not
knowing that love can go in by the
door of science rs well as by any other
opening. Was Irene really enraptured
by the dear little barnacles and the eX-
luste sea-weeds? / have seen girl all
of ilutter with pleasure in a laboratory
when young chemist was showing her
the retorts and the crooked tubes and
the glass wool and the freaks of color
which the alkalles played with the acids.
God has made them so, these women,
and let lis be thankful for it.
What charm there was about every
thing! Occasionally the mist became
SO thin that long line of coast and a
great breadth Of sen were visible, with
the white sails drifting.
There's nothing like it," said King
there's nothing like this island. 1t
seems as if the creator had determined
to show man, once for all, landscape
perfectly refined, YOU might almost say
with the beauty of high-breeding, re-
find in outline, color, everything soft
encd into loyeliness, and yet touched
with the wild quality of picturesque
ness.
Its just II dream at this moment, -"
murnured Irene. They were standing
ON promontory of rock. "Sce those
figures of people there through the mist
-silhouettes only. And look at that
el-there-no-it has gone.
As she was speaking, Il sail-yessel be-
gan TO loom up large in the mysterious
haze But was it not the ghost OF n
ship? For IN instant it was coming,
coming; it was distinct; and when it
was plainly in sight it faded away, like
dissolving view, and was gone. The
appearance WAS unreal. What made 1t
more spectral was the bell on the reefs,
swinging in its triangle, always sound
ing, and the momentary scream OF the
fog-whistle. 1t was like an enchanted
coast Regaining the carriage they
drove out to the end, AgassiZ's Point,
where, when the mist lifted, they saw
the sea all round dotted with sails. the
Irregular coasts and islands with head
lands and lighthouses, all the picture
still. land and water in summer
swoon.
Late that afternoon all the party were
out upon the cliff path in front of the
cottages. There is no more lovely sea
stroll in the world, the way winding
over the cliff edge 10y the turquoise sea,
where the turf, close cut and green as
Erin, set with flower beds and dotted
with noble trees, slopes down, broad
pleasure park from the stately and pic
turesque villas. But it was social
mistake to 90 there on Sunday. Per-
haps it is not the height of good form to
walk there any day. but Mr.. King did
not know that the fashion had changed
and that on Sunday this lovely promen-
AIDE belongs TO the buffers and upper
maids, especially TO the buffers, who
made il respendent on Sunday after
moons when the weather is good. As
the weather had thickened in the late
afternoon. our party walked in dumb
show, listening to the soft swish of the
waves on the rocks below, and watching
the figures of other promenaders, who
were good enough ladies and gentlem en-
i'll the friendly mist,
Our visitors thought. Newport the
most beautiful and finished Watering
place in America. Nature was in the
lovclest mood when it was created, and
art has generally followed her sugges-
tons of beauty and refinement. They
did not agree with the cynic who said
that Newport ought 10 be walled in. and
have gate with an inscription. None
but millionaires allowed here" It is
very easy to get out of the artificial
nature has made after artistic designs
which artists are satisfied with. A
favorite drive of our friends was to the
Second Beach and the Purgatory Rocks
overlooking it. The photographers and
the water-color artists have exaggerated
the Purgatory chasm into a Colorado
canon, but anybody can find 1T by help
of guide. The rock of this locality is
n curious study. 1t is an agglomerate
made of pebbles and cement, the peb-
bles being elongated as if by pressure.
This rock is sometimes found in de-
tached fragments having the form of
tree trunks. Wherever it is fractured,
the fracture is a clean cut, rs if made by
saw, and through both pebbles and
cement. and the ends present the APP
pcarance of composite cake filled with
almonds and cut with knife. The
landscape is beautiful. Charles Dudley
Warner, IN HarperS Magazine.
A discovery of high interest from
historical. architectural, archaeological
and other points of view has just been