Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1900-06-07
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and other swellings are quickly warranted.
Price rs and so cts at DR. Waters. a4m
for friends to leave the boat and after
last repetition of narrowing paintings,
The immense steel floating hotel moves
slowly from the pier and then with in
creasng speed sails down the bay and
out to sea. We had beautiful starting
weather, but fine weather will not pre-
vent sea sickness in the predisposed, tor
we were not out of sight Of the Goddess
of Liberty In New York harbor before
some of the passengers were reclining
on steamer chairs and sucking lemons.
After having crossed the Atlantic Blk
times, confess to preference for Ger
man manned boats. The service on
deck, in cabin and at the table Is the
best have found. It is prompt, intel
lipent and cheerful without obsequious'
ness, and without the perpetual sugges.
ton Of tips or extra pay, although no
doubt they know that will come. But
prefer these boats mainly on account
of feeling of greater security, which
one always experiences in the presence
Of perfect order and rigid discipline In
the crews which man the great passen-
ger ships of the German liners the Ger.
man Empire has educated race OF sea-
men that is second numerically to that
of England alone, and perhaps not sec.
| ond in the skill, courage and seaworthi'
ness of the individual sail. 1t must be
remembered that these trained men OF
the merchant marine belong to the re-
serve force Of the German navy and can
be called on at any moment to man the
war ships that the German Kaiser is so
industriously building. 1t should be
remembered by our countrynen and
our Statesmen that within The last year
the United States has sent an army OF
seventy thousand men over u sea route
of 1000 miles and that England has
traversed the same distance with more
than 100000, and $4,000 horses. We
are no longer the isolated people sea
grit as by fire we once were and we have
not an overwhelming navy like that OF
England to protect US. Count Won
Moltke said he had drawn dozen sue
cessful plans for the invasion of Eng
land, but had never been able to plan
successful retreat after he had landed
an overwhelming German army. Would
he find the same difficulty with the
United States? He, or rather his sue
cessor certainly will if our sea power
keeps pace with our wonderful material
development and our widening interests
abroad.
We are now in site of Cherbourg with
its great walled artificial harbor and CO.
lossal statue of the Great Napoleon as
tride big bronze stallion, his arm ex-
tended pointing to the magnificent wal
stretching far out in the sea and in
scribed below in excellent French
though he spoke an Italian patols, VI
will reproduce at Cherbourg the mar
wells of Egypt"
| shall take the train for Paris to-
morrow and in my next letter Will
tackle the exposition. The subject has
already been much be written and
would despair of writing anything
worth printing were it not for the fact
that it is a physical impossibility scen'
ti6cally proved that no two eyes ever
see the same object. If this is true Of
the physical sight how profoundly true
it is of the psychical insight.