The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-06

| or profit; another source or gain IS the
 lobster fishery, which is carried on
 here very extensively: large quantities of these. delicious crustacea are sent
 from here to all parts of Germany.
 Soon after coming to anchor We went ashore in a small shallop. and were
 much interested in this funny" place.
 The whole "Unterland" swarmed with
 tourists, walking, bathing and enjoy ing themselves in all possible ways.
 Decorum and propriety reigned here,
 for Heigoland, small as 1t Is. Is as well policed as the great city of Berlin. and
 this latter is by far the best governed city In the world. Fishermen were go- ing hither and thither in their queer garb. their squat wives and children shaped like the very fishes their hus- bands and fathers catch, were to be seen literally everywhere. and 1t seemed to us as if we had of a sudden entered another planet. Such boats, so queerly constructed, with such pecu- liar paddles and great lee-boards, and at the same time such fine sea boats! Their singular appearance made me actually laugh aloud. used to think the typical Nantucket fisherman sin gular sort of creature; short, corpulent and podgy shaped. and having the ap- pearance of u perfect porgie or pump kin-seed fish out of his watery element
 but they are lords of creation, rather Carlyle's "daudaical" dudes when brough into comparison with these men fish or fishermen of Heligoland. A few narrow streets run through the "Un- terland" and probably a thousand peo- pie live here, and doubtless think there is no place like home," and they love their homes, and when the storms howl around their houses they are per fectly content, and nothing could in- city folks over the water.
 Their houses are patterns of neat ness with their prettily painted doors | and window frames, with white cur tains at the windows, while geraniums | and other bright flowers are exposed to view on the window sills. Their little front yards filled with those old-fash- toned flowers with which we were fa- miliar in our boyhood days, such as hollyhocks, rockets, tiger lilies, sweet peas and princess feathers, gave a very pretty and home-like effect.
 To reach the "Oberland" one must ascend one hundred and ninety wooden steps, an easy flight, where he finds a plateau planted with potatoes, through which runs "Kartoffel Alice" (Potato lane) Some four or five hundred sheep and goats are pastured on the "Oberland," and quite respectable sized town 1t is, taking all things into consideration.
 The views from "Sathurn" or "SouthH Horn" at sunrise and at sun- set is something which one will re- member whole lifetime. There is a fine lighthouse here which deserves repays the attempt.
 A couple of days spent at the very comfortable Hotel Stadt Vein" in the "Oberland" is a delightful ex- perience, and if one has the leisure it is well worth while to come over from the continent to enjoy it here. The "Oberland" being the highest part of the island, is the pleasantest and at the same time the healthiest part to spend ones time in.
 Io An, American young lady four months since came from Dresden with her fiancee to this island, and
 "In this remote and hoarse resounding
 place,
 (Which pillows wash and craggy cliffs
 embrace"
 were married in the little Lutheran church, and here apart from the world they spent their honeymoon, and To! what a delightful spot they chose to spend that happy occasion.
 A pleasant trip is often taken around the island; small boat for a moderate amount takes a party of five persons distance of three miles, which entirely circumnavigates the whole island, tru- ly a miniature mcrocosm and worthy of minute description by some mod ern Dean Swift. Many of its singular rocks are named with fanciful names, such as Nun, Pastor, Monk, &c., and occasionally in summer these rocks and grottoes are brilliantly illumina- ted, when boats are let, in which visi- tors are rowed a little distance out in the sea to view the beautiful scene.
 Some forty to sixty miles northeast ! of Heligoland are the Frisian Islands of "Sylt," Wyk and Fohr, favorite bathing places to which thousands re- sort in summer; very singular islands and very singular names Sylt is forty 1 square miles in area and twenty-three 1 miles long and very narrow. Sylt is the largest German island in the North 1 Sea. Y
 But our time will not allow us to lin- ger in this wonderland more than two days, so we will at last bid adieu to its l boats and it's fishermen and its little l scrap of rock and earth. When the 1 Cobra" again sailed we took passage for Hamburg, crossing first to Cuxha- ven, a. pretty little town on the main- land with five thousand inhabitants, seventy-fve miles from Hamburg by l railroad Here is pretty chateau built nearly six hundred years ago; it is one of the oldest secular structures in northern Germany. Before reach ing Cuxhaven we passed the little isle of Neuwercke with its famous light house, originally erected as far back as the year 129O as 8 castle for protection against pirates. This is a very we'll known lighthouse, and many O mari- ner on the North Sea nightly looks anxiously for its welcome gleam over kI, z, rx,o +o,,-