Milford chronicle., 1903-07-24
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sea and It's moving panorama of white
sails nrush ttame for The rreucheI
I'll this season. vhen the mulutudes ur,
leaving the heated cities for seashort
ana lake The -ezt is Psalm civ. %
"Th,re 40 tte shjns."
always feel sorry for one VINO has
uot been mllaliad to s'cqp by the low
rsaauiue song q the soa FeniEore
Gd5aer loped to write about the Eioua-
aus and woods ANA streams ana wa
t-fals and uve-s, 70 whose aeag iicss
ue towns sud tie does caae down to
drinks But there is he.ut too. in
re sand dunes AND tho scah.aen ana
he hrH5 oApanse 81 tie mighty deep
which So en lo1e also.
Fa-cH3aa- is the -easlore on nc
e.Huc of ITS endless variety. THE
aeeaas boauty is newer twice tile saue
Sometimes its colors are white foam
ara I.it green or dark emerald or
lue or Giuk. Sometimes lis surface
IL covered with broad highways of
-.ld. when Me light OF the rIslu- SUN
aas it, or with tAGt other highway of
8ver when. m .he midnight hour tha
fu>h ot tine uooa is reflected upon it.
Sometimes the sea vs. 81 do nothing bus
Smile Like golden haired baby, its
.lceks are dimpl,d ana wrukieJ MS
tauugl il is uriug hard to keep back
hearty largA il viii look as uaru-
loss d, some innoeeut lake cudd.si mp
d. tile huge lap of 81 crooked backed
mountain. Then the sea ruls, as
White doves OF peace, VIII hover over
I'll. Then tle hahermaus boat win be-
eume the cradle in which tho tired
merchant viii have the many cares of
the store gently rocked out OF his over
burdeuad rmd as he anXiously
watches tile line which catches the
golden prize Of health as well as the
huuy treasures.
Soua5ims the sea becomes MS wrath
ful is tae Wild beasts in the Spanish
arena stung with sharp darts before
which the attendants wave the red gar
uau;s. II ra-rs. ltplNnrrs. 1t ldshes
itself into fury until at last ii is Grim
sOnad with its own blood. The blazing
phosph SCIENCES make it look like the
river Nile struck with the Mosaic rod
in the famous Egyptian plague. The
spasho-e Il mouotouous place to pass
tGe summerf II is uniuteroStins ouly
to those whose love q: nature is so un-
developed that they cannot under
stand the language of the sea.
The Kumru snip.
But aftae Ell. one of the most absorb .
iuz diversions Of the summer tourists
Twins br THE seashor is 10 watch the I
passing of the ships For over a quar- +,
Ter ot century my privilege was to |
spend every summer by the Atlantic /
coast. My fathers country home WAS /.
near the end of Long Island at q small /
town called East Hampton There. F..
upon the sand dunes I used TO lie hour (
fter Luu.. watching the great steam |
ars and the sailing craft heading to- I
ward .w York NurroWS or starting
upon their long trips 10 the distant har- !
bors of the world ! used go wat h 4
them just as the nsllm!st did when ha /
cried ont iu the words of my text /
"There 10 tile ships" How like those |
voyages are with their unknown iuci- (
dents their Gains aud their storms. /
their successes and alas, their wrecks, |
To human lives! Who can tell as he (
looks at an infant calmly sleeping in /
its cradle whether the voyage Of its life /
viii be Ike the ship skillfully steered
safe into haruor or Ike the ship care
lessly uavigatcl that strikes the sunbon .
rock or bv collision with another ship /
is shattered ANA sunk into the depths
af the seaf 1t us see this morning
what those points Of resemblance are
het Kind of 81 ship each human being
aght ia be what kind of cargo he
& carrying ana toward what kind Of
'1ry he should be heading. The ships
.-Le slips There 20 the ships There
20 the ships.
Every human vessel should be dis
iuguished Ly some flag. Coin. down
10 New Terb harbor and examining the
roG viii find the maine OF
sach vessel clearly marked upon the
,tern. cCu viii also find the name oe
he O. y ia which that vessel is regis
er5d SUch names as these can be
-e01 John Milton Of Glasgow, the
Aurauia Of Liverpool the Paris of New
fork. And if upon the high seas two
hips approach each other. one captain
viii put the trumpet 10 his lips and
all: "Ship ahoy. Ship ahoy. What
hip is thatf" Then the other captain
vii call back: "The T1ensinSton Of
.ntwerp, bound for New York. What
hip is thats' The meaning Of all
his? Simply that when a ship is reg
stored in "A certain country that gov
ument pledges itself to protect that
hip. A British ship is under British
rejection. French ship is under
rench projections; a German ship is
nder German protection; an American
biz is under American protection.
therefore,. if "a nation dares 70 molcst
ly foreign saip upon the high seas,