The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1888-05-26

shoreward a breeze from the ocean
as exhilerating as it was novel.
After slowing away a meal
which included all the delieacies
of the season, we went down and
took long gaze at the bounding
pillows, and then in order that we
might be fresh for the mornings
sightseeing, rolled off to our
downy couch.
Bright and early" that poetieal
period of awakening has never
been great favorite with us; but
as we turned over the next morn
ing and listened to the roar of the
sea strangely mingling with the
chatter of the dishes in the dining
room our spirits arose at once and
I'VE could but do likewise. OF
course breakfast Was mere for
mality-but pleasant one, and
we missed our opportunity of at
tending early church in order to
see it out. Later on we again
missed the portion of our party
attending church, but fell in with
another portion on their way to
see large ocean steamer which
lay anchored at the other side of
the island.
We have examined these mon
ster vessles before, but suppose
they must always remain a curios-
| ity, at least until we have had an
Opportunity to cross the briny in
in one of them as we hope to some
day. With the comforts and lux
uries which these vessles afford, it
hioes not seem strange that so
many nowadays enter simply for
pleasure upon a voyage which
some ten or twenty years ago was
regarded as one solely of peril.
We cannot begin to describe the
numerous partH VII - : 10 l->ela
up'an ocean steamer. Our nauticai
vocabulary is small, anR7~1thing
else that we have handy will an
swer this purpose.
Leaving the vessel in charge of
the very polite captain and his
probably efficient crew we took
our way back to the beech, and
looming a single but quite roomy
garment known as bathing suit
took turn at surf bathing.
To those who like water at all
there is no sport to compare with a
dip in the rolling surf, where wave
after wave chase each other up the
beach, some looking as high as
mountains while others are simply
slight swells or rifles. As you
make your way out it is necessary
to watch for the breakers, and as
they rush upon you to leap into
them; this, if properly done will
throw you upon the crest and as
the wave passes under you come
down again where you first stood,
If not executed in the proper style
/ this movement is likely to prove
a most undignifeld failure,-the
the wave catches you up and after
spinning you over and over for a
short space of periods filings you
down in its wake Just in time for
another wave to do likewise, and
so on ad iI!tinitlan until you catch
on to the proper hop or your
friends come to you relief, as in
the case of our young friend Page
of the BdteSvilIo Pilot.
We jumped until tired, rode in
on a wave and rested, and then
jumped some more; we swallowed
salt water, turned somersaults and
otherwise enjoyed ourselves to our
hearts content.
After a grand dinner of some
six courses, all of which coursed
gally to our interior, we went up
into the observatory, some two
hundred feet high, and took look
at the beautiful city of Galveston
as well as the vastly deep.
Galveston has no big factories
to smoke her up and her sandy
ground makes no dust, so it need
not surprise anyone when we say
that out of the fifty-two large cit.
les we have visited none have the
neat, elegant and absolutely clean
appearance of this one. Stretched
ant nc n man before us IL is indeef