Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-07
N infant swaying on its feet
and then plunging into It's
first tottering steps with q
gurgle of exhilaration, reveals


~ first tottering steps with
H gurgle of exhilaration, reveals
to us an interesting moment
In evolution. We are caught back to
the shadowy starting point OF our lit
tie history. and behold with modern
eyes that Incompatible act of defiance,
that sublime and earliest experiment,
which first set humanity on Its legs
and enabled a philosophic poet aeons
later, to make the boast that man be- |
gins W ere nature ends.
To come upon a new piece OF walk
ing ground Is one of the Joys Of life,
and the Joy is one that burns for COM
monalty. To share the discovery
with the fraternity Of pedestrians Is to
take the walk over again, and this Is
what would do with particular walk
in Cornwall. Cornwall is full Of good
walks, for 1t has more field paths than
any part of England have yet ex-
plored, but 1t is for me the walking
ground par excellence of these beauti-
full islands on account Of its cliffs. To
walk along these cliffs. no matter
what the weather may be. is to drink
deep of the wine of life. II Is to feel
the goodness and wholesomeness of
existence. to realize the grandeur Of
the earth and the splendor of the sea,
to draw into ones being the energy
and rejoicing strength of vital power,
and to exclaim with the poet,
frances of thought and mountings Of
the mind come fast upon me-" II the
spirit of exhilaration has built any
where a habitation, surely It is upon
the granite cliffs Of the Duchy.
Thousands of people in the course
of the summer make the excursion
from Penzance to Lands End. They
arrive in motor cars, motor buses, car
riaRes and char-a-bancs: they eat q
very good luncheon at the Lands End
Hotel, go down to the rocks at the
base of the cliffs, see the head Of DR..
Syntax, contemplate the LOngships
Lighthouse and then return to Pen
xance with the dull conviction that
they have seen all that Is to be seen
at the Lands End. And only ten min
utes' walk from the hotel, across
field path delicious to 60 upon. is such
cln scenery as dwarfs to silly In
significance the leoge OF rocks known
as Lands End. Only ten minutes
walk, But It takes the trained eye OF
a walker to see the possibilities OF
that path. He who took me on this
walk had me out of bed at six o'clock
on a wet morning and hurried me into
a train which began the days service
at our waystde station. We reached
penxance at half past seven, and
drove in a carriage to the Lands End
where we took our breakfast and made
light of the weather. Before many
neonle were In their baths We were
crossing the field path. our backs te
wesley's narrow neck Of land. and
we're soon climbing the coast guards
path to the misty top Of our first cliff
ON either side was spread charming
mosaic of flowers. The blue of in
Vulnerable scyllas. the rich yellow Of
buttercup and bird's-foot trefail. thu
delicate beauty of sea pinks, the
feathery Wilderness Of stitchwort, thu
little bells of stonecrups growing II
,suonxe-like heaps. tho occasional req
,.plendor Of campions-all these ant
many more in a flowing carpet Of daz
fling daisies, with bushes Of the neve
hloomless furze and broken clumps o
heather and ling on every side. mad
our winding and ascending path wa,
Of euchantment As 1t 10 impossibl
20 number the flowers Of this lowell
Mace. 30 1t is impossible to exaggel
ate their matchless delight; that gilt
tering carpet, wet with sea mist an
aiming In the eye Of a watery sur
must be seen to be imagined: neithe
the pomp Of rhetoric nor the cunning
of metaphor can fash its pleasure
upon the inward eye. Perhaps one
wiser to leave out all the rarer flow
ers. to say nothing at all Of the clasl
of color, and merely to declare that 4
the dip of the land the earth is whit
with daisies, and on the headland
gentle glory Of pinks.
.Up this path we made our way unit
we came to the clif top. And Their
my companion turned to observe Il
my face the effect 1t made upon m
mind. Long has he loved It, often ha
Ihe scaled its most dangerous peak
and descended to Chamber over 1t
rocks and explore its echoing caves
but always II Is with fresh delight an
4 new intaking Of enthusiasm. Tn
9uils wheeled over our heads. ban
of fog came toward US out OF q bus
sea, the waves Numbered and roare
and Kissed on the piled rocks far b.
low q, and there. stretching away 1