The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-08-06
By THE SAD SEA WAVES.
SOME THOUGHTS SttI ESTED BY
THE PRESENCE GOT DERS.'
The Failure of "A W Ould. BE Poet TO ~
chieve Fame--IIoW Bread Cast pom
the Waters i Gathered. &c.
Editorial correspondence.


Editorial Correspondence.
Aye the sea The sea what is the spell
which the spirit OF the wild sea throws over
those who lingcr its bosom, or wander,
tempest tossed on its limitleSs spaces =.
G.. w. BENJANIN.
MoREHEAD CITY, y. G. Writing last
week Of the attractions and pleasures Of
Morehead | made my letter too long to
speak Of the people who are here. Usually
the visitors to our places Of summer resort
are North Carolinians. This is especially
50 Of our sea side resorts. For several
years past this has been changing until
now at Morehead u majority Of the guests
who are spending the summer are resi-
dents of other States. pon my arrival,
knowing 50 many North Carolina people
and familiar with nearly all North Caro-
lima names, | was struck with the large
number of visitors from abroad and the
comparatively small number Of North Car
olina families who are spending as much
month at this resort ''Why is this2"
is question | always ask myself when
there is any change in the existing order
of things. There is no sea side resort
nearer the people of Tennessee than More
head and desiring to secure the pleasures
and benefits OF sea breeze and surf bath
ing, it is natural that they should take the
direct route to the most widely known
resort of the kind in the Mother State
When, some years ago, the papers were
filled with jeremiads and lamentations
about the tax paid by the Eastern people
to build the Western North Carolina Rail
road, few people thought that the build
ing of that road would help the Eastern
section directly by causing Tennessccans
to spend their summers at Eastern resorts
and spend their money among Eastern
people. The talk was spending every
thing to help the Vest We were build
ing more wisely than we knew and the
money sent to tunnel the mountains by
the tax payers of Carteret county Is re-
turning after many days in shape, than
which it would not take on a better form.
Not only do these people beyond the Blue
Ridge spend their money IN Eastern North
Carolina, but they do what is infinitely
better: they spend their time with us, learn
our people and their customs, note the
products of our fields and the character
of our business and become acquainted
and maze friends among US, the value Of
which friendship and subsequent associa-
ton is not to be reckoned by dollars and
cents.
The formation of friendships at More
head between North Carolina young men
and Tennessee and Georgia young women
iulSllI DIluS IiCdItf anu utdItI IcldUlOIS
to exist between these States, the sons of
which stood side by side in war and since
then have joined hand to hand and heart
to heart in the advocacy of political meas
ures and the election of Il National Demo
cratic Administration. Now, wouldn't
this be a happy coming together? North
Carolina can furnish the trysting place
can a more suitable spot be imagined than
the long piers extending out into the
sound, the lamps from the hotel sending
a glimmering sheen of light over the rip
pling waves that roll underneath, and the
stars overhead keeping a silent vigil
think not. If there is a public place bet
ter fitted for counting couples | wot not
whore it is. Several young men, who are
vet young enough to indulge III this youth
ful sport with all the ardor OF a politician
hunting votes chat IS the strongest com
parson the English language atfords)
tell me ii at1iGtest confidence that If YOU
can't maze a girl love you seated on the
steps that descend to the water at the end
Of the wharf q call it a wharf because
have TUX out poetic license, there IS
no use trying it at all.
Some nights ago an amateur poet who
went to Morehead for inspiration, hoping
that us the breezes famed his brow the
divine atfiatus would come down upon
him, was strolling alone on the long walk
that leads to the aforesaid steps | have
been describing, watching out for some in
cdent from real life from which he might
compose ''An Idyl of Summer, that
should at once give him rank with Tenny
son and Longfellow Just before he reached
the trysting place he caught sight with
the poets eye in a wild frenzy rolling"
of courting couple sitting there in the
starlight, and not desiring to intrude at
h bod 70
while the scene was fresh in his mind to
describe it both faithfully and beautifully
Catching up his pen wrote in words that
brcathe:"
Tis the place and all around it as of old the
music sounds,
Beating is the tluttering heart as at every
glance it bounds:
20, my darling. mine forever, whispered he
..r 50 soft and low,
Tell me-tell me hat you love me ere |
have to GO
And then he stopped. He dipped his pen
in the ink, he knotted his brow, he quoted
all the poetry he knew, but not another
two lines could he get to rhyme and he
gave up IL despair of ever becoming a poet
and resolved to devote his life to raising
cabbage, a business for which he is better
! adapted and which pays larger income
than writing poetry. But these four lines
will give lin reputation-the same kind
of reputation of the man Charles Lamb
tells about who was chiefly noted because
''he had written a book which nobody
read
But, seriously, | am glad because | love
North Carolina and its history and its peo-
pie and have faith in its future progress
to see the tide of travel turning towards
North Carolina. | don't care what indu-
ces people from other States to come among
u.s. | am glad to see them They do us
good-we do them good. They, especially
if their home is III the North have an op-
| portunity to see US as we are-poor and
not as prosperous as we should be; hope
| full and making energetic strides towards
larger measure of prosperity; advancing
rapidly in many ways, which | need not
enumerate here-the CHRONICLE tells about
them weekly; in thorough accord with the
| other States of the Union and as sincerely
devoted to 1.-The old flag and the Union
as Massachusetts-the things people
learn who come into North Carolina But
/ they learn one thing that is better than
all these: that we have people who in cul
ture, in common sense, in devotion to
right; il word in every element that goes
to make a yirtuous and sturdy people are
not whit behind the people of any other
/ commonwealth.
| That is what they learn. Now what do
| North Carolinians learn from these visi
/ tors? Simply what all men who travel find