The Newtown bee., 1898-03-04

wandering and abandoned monster?
Who that has studied the exquisite
form Of the dainty STOW fake and wor-
dered at its finest delicacy can conceive
of the wondrous power with which it
forces it's way into a sailors eyes and
nose and mouth, cutting off his senses
ond leaving him halt man in his con-
fiict for breath and vision and life? Who
even that sits down on the sandy beach
in the soft summer time and notes be-
tween his thoughts the oceans gentle
ripple or the roll of its white-crested blue
wave can understand how, enticed by
wind and weather it will fall like
Adam from this high estate, and be-
come like some OF his heirs, brutal, reck-
less and dealer out of death. One re-
members 1.-The delicious smell of the sea
air, the murmur of the waves" the rush
of the ocean over the pebbles on the
beach. How is it row? Is it's green wave
as opallne, is its rise and fall as fair, is
the sound of its motion as grateful as
when the day was golden and the bells
/ were swinging at the harbCr buoy? Still
| it is by contrast, painful and in some re-
spects overpowering though it be, that
we rise to true conception of the mai
esty of nature. Even Ruskin with his
phenomenal powers of description, fails
| when he attempts to describe the STERN
st sea. It is beyond words. 1t is ''vast-
ness and velocity and madness" ali in
| one. Huge catar acts in the air tumbliDg
| down upon you and abySses below just
| as huge, seething and boiling to throw
you forward and upward. It is energy
unmeasured, force outrunning all dyna-
| mics and namometers-power fierce,
| ungovernable and full Of despair. The
highest wave is probably not imore than
! so feet in altitude, although the depres-
sion out of which it comes would make it
appear more than that. But nearer the
| shore or where the water shadows, where
| the wind can push itself under the wave,
| sheets of water and foam are thrown 200
feet into the air. At Dunnet Head in
Scotland, during northwest gales, the
windows OF the lighthouse at height of
upwards of 300 feet above high water
mark sra said to be broken sometimes BY
stones swept up the cliffs by the sheets of
sea water which then deluge the build
idg. Thomas Stever IN found powders
weighing IL tons washed up at hight
of nearly 60 feet above the sea. He like
wise records the moving of so ton block
| of stone by the sea waves amorg the IL
lads of the Hebrides.
So we get some idea of the power of a
winter storm on the Atlantic.
| WHAT WONDER THAT THE SHIPS GO DOWN
under the fearful strain! What wonder
that they are driven by the Unreasonable
frenzy of the sea on the sunken lodges
and fierce powders of st ore! What won
der that the sea compels itself to give up
it's dead!
Is there then law by which the sea
gives up its dead. l answer, certainly.
If we knew all the force of the elements
we could predict the size Of evey storm.
The nsyigators have numbers for the
the tempest at sea, No. II is the highest.
A friend of mine in crossing the Atlantic
nearly eighty times has twice seen and
been In storm whose mark was No. g..
So the seaman begins to have science.
He reduces the rage of the elements to
mathematics. He takes the NUM- rails
to sea with him. IL we know all
the figures we can name all
the results. So we come to learn that
the sea does not give up It's dead without
cause. That cause is found in the or
erturning OF the oceanic matter. It is
the motion and the commotion which r.
fuses to let the bodies lie still. The lift
| ing power of the salt in solution will not
allow anything to stay below over which
lit can have power. And when these
drowned seamen come up from their