The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-18
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The Moon Island.


 There is part of the globe where none dwells but Coda part of the globe larger than the three continents combined. Its name is Ocean.
 Even at the time of Olympus, with it's many gods. here there was but one. and today but one reigns here. No churches. mosques, nor pagodas are here; no ca fhedrals. nor minarets, nor teocallis loom resounds; no call of the mnezzin Is heard: and still this God is omnipresent. He divides his realm witli no other. Moses. Confucius. Mahomet nor the evangelists knowledge him. Men of all languages and of all races recognize him as their God. He is Lord over the waters.
 The earth is changeable; the ocean is eternally the same.
 on the ocean. man Is always in the hands of God. Between the bed of the sea and the alr there is only transparent leaf-the water. Here man is constantly rocked by hand, a breath; hand which holds him above. and a breath which can plunge him into the depths.
 Under the ocean there is no hell; this is the exclusive prerogative of the land
 The men sailing on the ocean are happy when they behold a dark spot in the ho-
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 When they quickly. pass each other they offer mutual salutatfons. It is pos sible that their relauons at home on the land hate each other
 And those who love each other. how great must their love be. when on the high seasi
 s.Tf had remained painter, I should have been tempted to paint picture. a companion to that gigantic painting, Re stirrection, which Palma Giovino painted for the Doge's palace. But my painting would have been the resurrection on the ocean, where at the sound of the arch angels trumpet. the millions and millions whose grave is the sea would issue forth, aAc r.f flu of sunken ships: the winged people and the winged ships would rise toward Heaven together. Am not very foolish my beloved one?'
 In the helmsman's cabin of the ship there were two persons. The man held The wheel the woman sat at his feet: her head rested on his knees, and. holdine his left hand between her hands. she stroked her chin and her red rosy cheeks with it, and sometimes she secretly pressed a kiss upon it. Her eyes wandered over the boundless sky. which. that day. was 6 picture of dazzling splendor. To the ocean 1t is immaterial whether 1t is spring or autumn. If 1t so desires. it will eel citrate q May festival even in November The wind does not blow sharply; the ship goes with the wind; the person sitting Bn 1t does not feel it as he does on the solid earth. The waves are only rock ing the ship. The padrone. the helmsman and the sailor all sleep under the rool o,n which Is formed of extended sails. The ship goes westward with the east wind.
 Do you see how fortunate it was that the war party in Rome was victorious The new government has laid an em- bargo on all ships in the haven for the great sea expedition: no other choice was left us but to charter a sailing vessel. and in it our voyage will be prolonged. We don't even know whither we are go- ing"
 T go wherever you take me" whis- pered the woman. looking at him with her large, dark eyes.
 And I will conduct you whither you r command me-"
 Did you not say. when you came to take leave of me. I am going home to my little moon island, for there Is dam ger there'?'