The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-09

wind, such grooming, creaklng, up
rooted trees, such thunder and light
ming, you never could see out of the
tropics! The whole station at which /
had arrived was swept away in that
storm with it's restaurant and all Its
outlying. buildings and sheds, and a
huge brick house near us was cut in
two as"neatly as II 1t had been a cake,
while the darkness of the sky and the
roar of that wind was something APP
palling. Its effect was felt all the way
up the Atlantic coast. Cape Hatteras
has an evil reputation among lands
think 1t overrated. Some OF the gales
off the English coast and the irish
coast are very terrible, and ships go
scudding out into an angry sea to
shore to split them into kindling. 1t
was sailor on one OF these who said
to another: Don't yoh pity the poor
folks ashore?" in big storm; for,
and every sail furled. a sailor will run
through almost any storm without
rear. The dangers of the sea they do
not seem to feel at all; perhaps be-
SO many storms and been In so much
hot water that they know how to prop
erly estimate them as well as come
out with clean, fine record. The cap
tain OF one Atlantic liner has Just re-
tired to his comfortable home in Eng
land after making his one hundred and
tenth voyage. And some OF the small
er craft have men in command who
all over the world for thirty or forty
years. rising gradually from the posi-
ton of able-bodied seaman to captain
of the Nancy Brett or the II Ri d'Italia
Unser Fritz. One sees these ships
loading with pine and tar and turpen-
tine and cotton in Savannah, Charles
ton, Mobile. New Orleans; one sees
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their cargoes OF silks. oils. fruits.
wines or fertilizers, hemp, wool. sugar,
at New York. Philadelphia. Baltimore.
Norfolk.
The unknown. trackless sea is full
of these commercial fleets sailing
along invisible routes to all the ports
and lands of the earth as securely and
certainly as we walk to the post Office
and send off or get a package. and
aginative meditation of the poetry
that underlies all prosy occupations
The world is full of romance, even in
everyday situations. and commerce is
not all buying and selling by any
country, where the kindness Of our
people materially lightens. sweetens
and brightens many business trans
action that would in Europe be Just
that and no more.
Harvest Festivals.
This Is not only the season of storms.
but that of abundant and golden har-
vests s BY the viii and the, providence
or God there Is harvest all the year
round somewhere. Like the goodness
OF God. the sun never sets on harvest
IN some country, with all its blessings,
though it"upsets our ideas OF things
IN such different guise-a midsummer
Christmas. for instance, as hot as pos
sible, with hot turkey and hot plates.
not soup. side dishes and plum pudding.
a a, perfect penaGe; and not bucket
or snow In all the land, as Is the case
IN Australia. The Chileans. people of
the. Argentine Republic and the AUS
tralians, also the New Zealanders, har-
vest their ro crops IN the month of Jan
Spain, Greece and Italy. harvest time
is June, and that seems almost as
queer to American travellers In those
@ SGnntre we t, To have wsv the year ending
weather and open-air life. seems most
unnatural. India takes February and
March to harvest in, save in Northern
india, where II falls in April or May,
as 1t does among the Japanese, Chi
nese, Algerians and Moroccans. Rus
sia and Austria do their harvesting
In July. the hottest month for it of all.
one would think, II orc did not know
that harvest times are always equally
hot everywhere, even in Siberia, Where
the crop Is planted and gathered with
In SIX weeks, While thew can get the
precious vertical rays OF the sun that
alone make 1t possible to have one at
an Vegetation there Is matter of
repression and suppression, till the
right moment comes when In riding
through the country Baron S. says that
ne has often heard the buds cracking
open on every side, with such sud
denness and violence that they sound
ed like pistol shots.
Canada and Holland, England and
Germany harvest in August, and then
turn all their attention to caring for
the cattle that will need to be stabbed,
Watered and ,fed for many months
me two extremes are represented by
Persia, Egypt and Syria, which har-
Vest in April, and Wales, Scotland,
Northern Scandinavia. which harvest
In September, and Northern Russia,
Sweden and Norway, which do not har-
vest TIL October, In them all there
Is beautiful harvest festival. called
by different names and celebrated
at different seasons with differ
ent religious rites. and yet all express
Ing the same thing--the unaffected.
sincere gratitude of the most and tho
least spiritual minded beings for the
noble generosity and unfailing kind
ness of God to the children of men
for corn and wine and oil and grain.
Man and beast alilta rejoice in 1t,
though not with equal Intelligence,
and sometimes the balance Is not mi
favor of man. In gratitude, for the
beast has not the noble faculty of
speech. and cannot giSe thanks and a
1.-THE and the gleanings to the poor,
and ~ as ,nan that receives all. this