Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-07-15

power in front Of you and you can to
. limited degree catch the inspira-
ton, that caused the lamsntsd Gar
field to ask to be taken and laid on q
bed where he could lie and die look
ing out upon the ocean.
The csaseless waves ct your feet are
backed BY . fores three thousand
miles straight ahead in the direction
in which you are locking and around
the globe to your right and left hand.
You realize all that Is you think, and
you exclaim: '.Mighty ocean,"
The Unsuitable greed of the ocean.
It is never Satisfied; it evaporates
enough of itself to float over CONT
nents and descend in tho folm of
rain and snow to pulvsrize the rocks
into sand and soil, and rush them
down into it's lower cavities and there
relay them for times of upheaval in
time to come. In time the greed Of
the ocean will have ground down tho
American continent and spread it in
layers ~ the American continent was
once before spread in layers Of diff
ferent colored rocks and different
kinds Of minerals in prehistoric times.
How sentimental we grow over the
spider setting its web to catch the
fly. bat We seldom stop to think of
the renaorseless preparation and work
that the ocean has going on every
minute Of time for readjustment Of all
physical nature.
When We die we are encased in
metallic cofins to last, and over our
graves are placed what ere believed
to be everlasting stone. Be not d. !
ceived, the stomach of the ocean
sooner or later Will receive US all and
re-adjust the material of our bodies
and our monuments with other ma
terialistic substances.
It is Gods law to do 80.
Time was when the Atlantic Was
the hill and mountain and plsip coun-
Try, With rivers running into the sea,
that wss where the land is, and then
was laid down the land and rocks |
that we live on: then vac laid down
the phosphate veins that arc being |
opened by Col. Kooreheaa and Ccl-
vim Crawford in Juriata county, and
time will come when all this land
will egain be laid down in tho Allan |
tic, and this globe will stift its pos
ition, and what is now the sea v Ii be. |
come the land, and where the land 10
will be the ocean. It is this mighty |
power of the sea that man justine
lively feels when he gazes upon the
ocean, and it instinctively makes him
sad, and he asks wt.t do the waves |
say that saddens my heart.
1H7 CITY EFHIND YoU.
But you get tired thinking and
feeling sad. Things Of time aud
sense impress themselves upon you
and Q noise comes in from behind,
and you turn and there close by Just |
across the board walk is Atlantic
City. There are no cities in the
world ike Washington aud Atlantic
City, and they two are not alike.
There arc cities and cities, but when
you have seen one, you Will fiud the
next one its duplicate-that the diff
ferencs is not worth mentioning, but
that is not the case With the two
cities mentioned.
You have never been TO q city ex-
actly Ike it. To be sure ii is II |
many p.rticu'ars Ike other cities of
1S, 900 people. It has a municipal !
With mayor and police,
and churches and storeo, aud
fire dope rtment, street railways, |
electric and gss lights, and banks |
and printing cfflcee, but there is no
work going on exc spting for the ben
eft and entert. nmsnt of people, who |
come to worship at the shrine Of the
oosau. The people who live there
are store-keepels, hotel end boarding
house kee ,ers and showmep, SER
wants and p, ,pIs Of leisrre, and ev.
eryone goes to
THE BOARD Walk
ON the front of the city in the face of
the ocean. 1t is the boardwalk that
keeT- up Atlantic City and cause1 it
to sIow larger and larger evel y year. |
P, opls 60 there n the winter, but
only people who are strong in their
homage to old ocean or who have
substantial interests there or who be-
lieve that sal. water arr in winter isl
good Tor them. The boerd we'k is q
great promenade pie q, fifty feet
wide and five miles long, and OF a
Summer day crowded with we'll
dressed pc opls Of e.! religions and
persuasiops, from the precise Dunk
er and Quaker p the flip and ribald
infdel. The lsnd side Of the bocrd-
walk Is fringed with stores Of all
kinds, in buildings that have q half
Turk ish style of archit actrre. Thes.
ters and play-houses of ell kinds
abound along the land side of the
walk, and here and there on the sea-
side . pier is projected into the
ocean to which visitors r-e admitted
for SO much q person. The piers are
covered and have cae;-s for the a.
commodation of patrons and SWEET
music is discoursad to the delight of
the visitor and loiterer. Fy +, pa,il-
ions are numerous on the seaside of
the walk where one may rest and
look upon the sights Of the ever
changing, sauntering