The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-04

ter and the easy somnolence of the
summer months!
A fierce contrast, you say, and yet it
is not overdrawn. Manteo, Rugged by
the gulf stream, swept by the winds
that come painting across these thou
sand miles of open sea, is the place of
eternal spring-spring without its
spring that is sometimes
cold and sometimes hot-but always
with the joyful tang of life in its
breath. No wonder it is happy and
a contented people. The great sea
roars or smiles but ever brings us
treasures with the prodigality of the
gods. To look upon it is to know the
truth of infinity, to watch its moods
to catch the sense of change, to APP
prehend the mystery of dreams that
lies in omnipotent action, to get an
impulse to live-and to live large.
That last is what has bit most into
the soul of Dare county. 1t is con
tent with a sufficient force that
moves outward from the centre. The
poetry of the place is so perVaslVe
that every one who goes there wants
to stay and many debut with the
people the poetry has sunk SUD
beyond the senses into the
This is abundantly proven
by the educational impulse: when
thrift and happiness take hold on edu-
cation, the moving cause lies deeper
than the self-interest that would
benefit the offspring of a race mate
rally. 1t is bedded in the soul with
moral and spiritual tendrils. There is
only one school district in Dare that
has not a local tax and the mon
ey comes from the people who fish it
with their Drawn from the sea-and
it comes willingly, this progress from
the inside.
Therefore Dare county rose up as
one man to welcome the Governor of
the golden tongue and the superinten-
dent of the perennial enthusiasm, them
and their company of teachers who
had come to make a campaign that
had nothing to do save to add the
of good cheer to peo-
pie who had already heard the call.
Some went to the mainland the 9TH
ers to the banks. Governor Aycock
went by boat and land to Cape Hat
teras, to Chicamicomico, to Stumpy
Point to Manteo. He spoke to peo-
pie who came in fresh attire rowing
across the inlets. sailing in Whitley
from the mainland or the banks. TheT
and then they turned loose the hos
ptality that catches its note of free
dom from the wealth of the waters.
But one cannot for long get away
from the charm of this county of the
sea- 1t is the garden spot of the
world kept by nature remote and diff
fcult by tempestuous barriers as
though she were guarding her treas
ure for the faithful few Cut away
from the mainland by the creeks and
inletS. set far out upon d half drowned
its remOteness diScourages
by land; while guarding the
open sea, there sweeps around Cape
Hatteras the northward current of the
Gulf stream that. meeting with the
blasts roaring down from the north
makes of the ocean one mighty, mer-
CHESS grinding whirlpool of death to
those that come upon her in her tor
ment. There is no easy road TO
Dare county harbor Those who come
in from the sea must catch her as she
smiles in the sun or stay away lor
their lives. The fact is one that the
people would change it they could
but in it lies half the charm and
perhaps. more than half the happiness
of the place. Rude as are the blows
of the sea, they have kept Dare coun-
ty so far unspoiled.
Every year Cape Hatteras sees it's
scores of storms which take thelf
greedy toll of helpless lives-storms IN
which the Life Station Guards may
not trust their boats. against when
the warning light ship is worthless
TO guard Once in the conflict OF sea
and wind the ship in storm is past
human aid. The light ship, steamlnS
slowly up and down letting out her
steel anchor chains constantly less she
be sucked down in the giant quaS-
mire of the sands sees her go by ike
a ghost in the spray, and hears the
scream of her dispairing siren az
she disappears towards the Cape; ths
Life Savers see her come staggerlrS
through the gloom, watch for feM
pitying minutes the crazy pltchlng v,
her masts, see for an instant the {eu
flare of a rocket and hear some WFcl :
amid the riot of the winds and waves
the faint grind of splitting tlmreIn'
And the next day, while the ,i sur
shines, the happy water is srliii,iS
with the half-guilty look of bos VIZ
would try to persuade that always he
had been good.
And across the sounds there are
floating idly the white sails Oh the
boats with their church-goine crews
And bells are ringing and Da.e couilc
w safe and sound and gosIplng OF
the storm, is smiling too WIN Tue
peace of those who live wei the uaS
and fear not the morrow.
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