The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-14

| tween Mount Carmel ana Acre, thht beach Is ton miles long. This beach Is even superior to that famous stretch of sea sand. And the boat sailing! that amusement here is simply glorious, the boats are quite large and unique in shape. fine sea boats. too. and manned by strong sons Of old Neptune. Az they sail along with their great red sails. rising and falling with the great waves. they present a sort of Gustaye Dorean effect very pretty. very unique. very different to anything l have ever before experienced.
 But the great charm over and above all Is the grand old ocean itself, which is so immense and SO fathomless that to my mind as I view It's boundless area, comes the solemn thoughts of something more boundless still, and more extensive yet. eternity Itself! "The league-long roller comes thun- dering on the beach" and If my reader would behold huge ocean waves with white piumes and snowy crests like Neptune's steeds then come and reciine on this hill of white sand. where l am now writing and you will behold old "oceanus" rearing himself in angry mood. and dashing and flashing the ebach with frothy turbulence. Were 1t not that the authorities have built many stone dykes Into the sea to break It's fury. in time the island would dis appear by action of the waves and storms. Our neighbor little Heligoland, (Holy-land) Is very fast wearing away, and ere many years will be fioated en- tirely out. The island of Bortrum Is eight miles west of us, and that island is but nine miles distant from that pe- culiar. which alone of nr
 of the world, can boast no mountain, no hill. not even a hlllock-Holland. After all we are not so very far from the outside world, for We have three mails arriving daily, and to-day I have received a letter from the West Indies only eighteen days old, and another from New Haven written but thirteen days since
 Small steamers run daily to Heligo- land, and the singular island of Sylt, to Hamburgh, to Bremenhaven and to Nordeich on the coast of North Ger many. thus making many delightful excursions for those who love to travel cn the sea. Very many steamers,i in fact countless steamers pass and repass, and ships come and ships go" up and down the coast from every quarter of the globe. Some thirty lines of steam ships have their headquarters at Ham, burg and Bremen, and 1t Is a delightful sight to my eyes to behold these fine l hn{r nIN toward their home port, as they pass Norderney from the United States, Eng land, east and west Africa, India. Aus tralia, Brazil, west coast of America, East and West Indies and the Mediter- ranean ports. Next to London, Ham, burg is the mercantile mistress of the seas love and glory in the sea. We'll I may. Give me a beautiful stretch of sea sand, with wide expanse of ocean view, plenty of huge ocean rollers !combing the beach, and trim, taut ships coming and going. some under full press of canvas and others under shortened sail, on their long errands to distant ports, and l desire no fairer | scene.
 I love the silent mountains with their wooded peaks, but there is a congenal feeling which I experience when be- holding the ocean, which fairly grasps and holds me in its embrace Much of my life have passed at sea far away from the distractions of land, and I love it as I do my own existence. The sea has been the theater of some of the most glorious deeds known in history, and many of the grandest heroes have had their home on the ocean wave
 When the almighty architect framed the globe on which we live He deemed it best to give three-quarters at least of its immense bulk to the element which we call water.
 When one has paid his tax at Nor derney he becomes, as 1t were, a citizen and takes an interest in the place and in its surroundings, especially in the sea bathing. The local authorities regulate everything, even the price of laundry work, price of milk, etc., etc., so they take full charge of the sea bathing. Men in uniform patrol the beach to see that no danger can come to the bathers, and should one swim out too far among the great breakers patrolman at once sounds horn loudly thus calling the bather back into a safe place. To bathe one must call at the bathing office and buy his tickets, say twelve for $2 and then proceed to the little office on the beach, where large ticket is secured marked with number (my number to- day was 803 at Il a. m., this signifying the number of male bathers up to that hour, and as women bathe by thou sands, probably 700 women had bathed | waters edge, where one of many at tendants conducts you to a pretty little house on four wheels and you are at once wheeled into two or three feet of water. When you have distobed, open | the door and step out the attendant stands by and actually delights in throwing (not pouring) a pail of water over your warm body, and unless you desire this cold baptism repeated, rush at once into the surf,. and if you do not enjoy the finest bath imaginable, why, then, the fault Is your own and can not be laid to the sea. When you come out the fiend filings bucket of water on your back with savage ferocity. actu- ally SlOdtS III oO IuO LuS SlluS HE sensations thus produced prevent the possibility of chill.
 Once in your house, ring the bell, and horse draws you far up on the beach. This, trundling along over the sands reminded me of that familiar sentence, in Arnold's Latin prose composition of my college days, "Omnia mea mecum porto," for considered my clothing at