Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-09-26
THE RESTLESS SEA.

THE RESTLESS SEA. NJ
One of the bright boys who readssS|
these notes wants us to write somethxhejS
about the ocean, the wonderful wastesa
of waters Of which he has read, butN1S5
has never seen. He has found out that
the sea covers large part Of the facds
of the earth and has history all it{st
own. The ocean is many sided, itss
moods mysterious, its power almostls
Unreasonable. Ones first impressionl
of it is that Of its illimitable expanse3
that sense Of infnity of space which,
comes to us as we gaze at the stars int
q blue black sky on winters night,I1
a sense that here Is something whichn
neither the changing seasons nor theas
lapse and wear and tear Of time CAM
ever affect, and with it all an over.
powering sense Of the utter insigntfi- ID
canoe of man. It has q language Of itsM
own, an incompatible music, giving ash
it is touched by the zephyr OF the TENN
pest winds harmonies which run frou{
the lullaby of summer sea to the all
CRY diapason of storm swept watera#
Its restless bosom ever heaves eveneii
the calmest weather, the crested waveGS
as they break on quiet shores tellinBM
of storms and great winds which Tonga
since died away, the tireless swell beAy
ing the stored energy Of the winds &h
all ATTITUDES. The murmur Of the sea-
is music to all land jewellers, whether1s
it be the monotonous roll of breakerBNg
al, re
tains of green water on beetling cliffs,t;
and one born to the music and moodsil
Of the ocean is ever their slave, more sol
than is the Arab in love with the dess
ert or the hoodlum with the slums OF,
the great city. It possesses wonder-a
full color scheme-blue as the heavensE
Of June day when it smiles upon It'll
grim, gray and gloomy when shroudedt
with cloud rack and tempest, green OF.
richest emerald as fair winds feck its|S
surface with whitecaps, black as night
when it shrinks from the impact Of tha
typhoon or the cyclone. It has, moreSs
over, a wonderful life Of Its own, ALT
the myriad life of the great deep-thel
bird life which on tireless wings ever
batross, Mother Carey's chickens ands
the uncounted millions Of sea birdsI
which live on 1t and in it and from It'll
And then the life of the water itself
the uncanny monsters of the deep, the
fish in endless type, some in such vasS
schools as to be unbelievable. Them
the shell life-the mollusk in inflnite
va intu WIFI, f,o lr11o t1Ya
their kind which are at home on botgs
land and sea. Then there is the deS@gI
sea life-the queer things which live.
in the ever dark and fathomless abyss
! Of the deep sea. While the land iS
most prolific Of life, 1t Is not more so
than the sea. The harvest Of the se8s
Is as much a harvest as is the ingathf
ering Of the crops of the land. Millions
Of money and vast armies Of men are
associated with the fish harvest-the.
salmon Of the Pacific, the cod Of the
Banks, the herring Of the North sea
the seals Of Newfoundland and Labr1R
dor and Alaskan peninsula and TIL
oysters and Holsters Of the Atlantis
coast. For centuries the ocean sep
arated the peoples of the earth, formaN
the dividing lines between nations, bS&
gat peculiar peoples and many tongues,
but in these latter days man has mas
tered it, and now the high seas have
become the worlds great highway Of
commerce and communication. Every
man and woman should see the ocean
before they die, for not to have seen IL
in some Of the phases referred to Is tko
have missed the greatest sight in the
| whole world.
A "BRoTHER TO THE OK"
AS compared with the wage received
by his class in all other countries TIL
wage Of the American laborer is on a
high plane. The most common unskilled
laborers-the diggers Of dirt, the shovel
brigade-are nowhere being paid less
than s1.75 per day, many Of them
working only eight hours and many
getting SO. While few of the things