The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-07-21
VOL. XxIx.-NO. 80.

cannot be seen elsewhere. They consist
of foundation of boulders, surmounted by
alternating tiers of turf and whale verte-
bre; the whole becomes overgrown with
grass, forming continuous mound, through
which project the white glistening spines
OF the vertebre. ,a4l #ta at3A Sd
This unique bit of mural architecture
protects small area of meadow land and
few dwarfed vegetables from the encroach-
ment of their foeks. Continuing my
course to the end of the ford, and seeing
church steeple in the distance, curiosity
led me in that direction Near the church
was school building which would dispar-
age many school house in the great Re-
public of free schools, good frame strue-
ture with slate roofs and other modern
features after the Danish models. A score
of boys in homespun were gamboling in the
play ground When approached to enter
there was lull in their merry calculations
In foreign tongue, and they all lifted their
caps and bowed polite salutation. One
hardly expects politeness from exuberant
youth just let free from the exactions of
school work, especially one whose ideas of
juvenile etiquette have been acquired in
country where an excess of liberty SO fire.
quently degenerates into impudence and
irreVerence; SO this inbred act of courtesy
on the part of these Morse lads led me to
reflect on the likelihood of meeting with
similar courtesy, under similar circum-
stancs, in the "land of the free, or whether
one would not be more likely to be greeted
with soto voce witticism or open insolence,
punetuated with stones. i.a f
was met at the door by the teacher,
Dane, who kindly extended his hand and
saluted mesin his native language. He
quickly divined.my mission and motioned
me to seat at his desk, on which lay, be-
sides the various auxiliaries of pedagogy,
well blaekened clay pipe. Conversation
was impossible, but when ordinary speech
is suspended natural language asserts its
universalintelligibility. The teachers face
and manner were full of kindness and .
hospitality; nor were his hands lacking in
those qualities, for no sooner was | seated
in his chair than he plunged one of them
to the bottom of his coat pocket, bringing
therefrom cigar which he most graciously
pressed me to accept. He next motioned
me to look around the room, which l did,
and finding maps of the grand divisions,
| drew his attention to that part of North
America and located the place whenre had
come, which seemed to astonish him greatly
At the conclusion of our dumb, but not
uninteresting colloquy, he bade me cor
dial farewell, and returned to the steamer.
As our little craft emerged from these grim
jaws Of rock into the free waters of the
Northern Ocean, l looked back upon the
imposing aspect with something Of regret
lest l should fail to find in the far-away
Iceland, or even, indeed in the whole world,
any scene to compare in sublimity and
awful grandeur with this farewell climax
of Farose scenery-this dark and yawning
chasm, lonely and still, except as its cavern
GUS walls echo with the bark of the seal
and the scream of the sea fowl, and fanked
by icy canyons tossing their graceful wells
of spray over the profound abyss