The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-05

hannv childhood. until at last it opens
vide into fuIl-orbed sight and flashes
round the earth the glorious message that
another day of light and beauty IS fully
born. The shadows Of purple mist slowly
fall apart from the mountains on either
hand until they stand in all the peerless
loneliness of their nudity dressed. Beau
tiful they we're when their misty robes
were on but, as old Herrick sang OF his
lady love. beauty's self they were when all
their robes were gone.
Crossing the straits to Victoria we feel
the breath OF the sea upon our cneek
blowing in from the great ocean, OF winch
Barry Cornwall so eloquently sings;
ssThe sea, the sea, the open sea;
The blue, the fresh the ever free
II plays with the clouds, 1t mocks the sAies'
Or like q Graded creature lies,
And death whenever he comes 10 me,
May he come on the wide. unbounded sea.
This is instinct with all the enthusiasm
of lifelong deep-water sailor, but as
matter of fact the poet hated the sea SO
cordially that he never would cross even
the English channel. Fortunately lot the
prosperity of trans-oceanic pleasure travei
there are a great many people who, WINE
they cannot sing as eloauently In praise Oh
the open sea as Barry Cornwall. ENJOY
il vast deal more than he did; Tor otner-
wise the Empress OF India and the En-
press of Japan would not today be plying
between Liverpool and Victoria, b. u. via
India, China and Japan.
Victoria, from the middle OF June to the
middle of September, is the finest stop
ping-place on the Pacific coast for the
traveller who sincerely seeks rest and rec
reation. Its hotels are excellent and the
charges reasonable; the air is bracing, the
scenery fine and the roads, built by the
government, you can drive on for twenty
five miles in any direction with comfort
and safety, and visit TO Esquimalt har-
bor to Cadboro beach or Telegraph
bay is a delightful experience. The road
sides are lined with rich variety OF native
wild flowers, and foreign plants and shrubs
that have become naturalized, like the
English daisy and the Scotch broom. The
gardens of the cottages are full of the old
fashioned English flowers. if beauty can
ever be said to be old or new, like the holly
hook. the columbine and the climbing
white rose that covers the cottage front
with a curtain of lovely blossoms. In this
perpetuation in a foreign land of the old
home flowers of English fields and gar
uens we see uOtHiuS Dub ohc Vi WY oSSs
and gentlest traits of the Anglo-Saxon
stock; the domestic patriotism and love
of the motherland that is exhibited by
people to whose language We go to lind
such words as heart, home. hope and hea
ven. There are scenes in Victoria that need
only the English. skylark carolling to the
sun to make you believe that you
saw meadow in village of the mother
land. Victoria has population of about
5000, and is growing place; it has an
excellent population of intelligent, orderly
and industrious inhabitants; they take
life more easily and therefore more wisely
than do their American cousins. The
business hours begin about 8 a. m, and by
D. m. everybody is ready to ride to the
beautiful Beacon Hill park. to row or sail
in the harbor or take long drive upon
the charming woodland suburban roads.
Nobody will question that atrue English
man has taught the world on many a well
fought field that in victory or defeat he
knows how to die, and here in Victoria he
teaches Us that he knows equally well how
to live. Flourishing and prosperous as is
Victoria today she would double her popu-
lation in ten years if British Columbia was
under the Stars and Stripes.
The steamboat service from Seattle to
Victoria is excellent. The City of King
ston makes connection at Port Townsend
with the City of Seattle for Fairhaven and
Whatcom, while the Sehome and the
0lympian represent the Union Pacific on
the same route. The day trip on the Gin