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SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, APRIL 4, 1878.
The Springing Life.
Row fhdea the last long streak of inow,
Now bourgeon* every max* of quick
About th* flowering aquarea, aud thick
By aahan roota th* vlolata blow.
Now ring* the woodland loud and long.
The distance take* a lovelier hue.
And drown'd in yonder living blue
The lark become* a aightleea aong.
Now dance the lights on lawn and lea,
The flocks are whiter down th* vale.
And milkier every milky eail
On winding etream or distent eea.
Where now th* eee mew pipee. or dive*
In yonder greening gleam, and fly
The happy binU r that change their eky
To build and brood; that live their livoa
From land to land; and in my breast
Spring wakens, too; and my regret
become* an April violet,
And buds and blossoms like th* r*it.
Alfred Tennjion.
A.T LAST.
“She is a queer craft, truly, senor, anil,
what is more, she has at least one L>it of
queer history attached to her."
We were standing on tho Custom-house
quay at Port Mahon —he swarthy, hand
some, eager-e -ed and nervous of speech,
a typical representative of the rugged
ease-lov ’ig, idleness-oil ed, rabble which
throng,a every city of i.ie fcoi'.h of
JKir o.ie, and has sent its stragglers evea
uto the aruiv of bu*v workers which pop
ulates tho Balearic Tslsuds.
The subject of l>is catument, an old h ig
with high how and towering poop, elabor
ate with quaint carvings, to which some
tarnished remnant of its ane'ent gi'diug
clung, rode easily at anchor amid a fleet of
other smaller but similarly abandoned
craft in the neglected corner of tho har
bor to which all such merino veterans
were relegated until some eu.eiprisiog
speculator undertook to break ihern up.
“What is the history?” tasked.
“The senor would like to hear it?”
“I would, indeed.”
My new friend delibora'ely drew a leaf
of tobacco from h-s pocket, rolled it into
a cigar, which ho ignited trorn mine, blow
a oloud of pungent smoke out in the di
rection of the brig, and, seating hitnsc!?
on one of the stone mooring posts, with
his eyes fixed upon the vessel, said:
“Then you shall.”
This is his stoiy as closely as I cm
recollect it, word for word;
Fifteen years ago two people w o lov
ed one another more than well lived at
the farmhouse of the Finca Subernuy in
the Barranco (valley) de Algander.
One wa:, a girl ol the fa -ru, a creature
of a beauty as pure and sweet as our sum
mer sky; and a spi it as loving and wav
ward as the wind that blows from the
orango g-rdons of Alavor.
The other, a lad of twenty, half sailor,
half husbandman, but all tree lo or, bud
been anchored in the valley by the cable,
of his heart and in fier eyes forgotten to
long for the tree air and the.salt spay.
They were man and wife, of but a few
months’ standing-—man and vile who
went to labor, in the lime grove.- i fid
orange orcha -Is side by #id><, and to
whom, even with its weary work am;
common lare, ihe valley was a Pa-u
--dise.
In the third month of their marriage
a stranger appeared in the valley.
He was an Englishman, a traveler lor
pleasure, whose idle lounge brought him
to the farm. Thu place pleased him, the
people, as everywhere in the Islands,
were hospitable, and proud of the pres
ence of a guest; so he remained.
Days wore to weeks, weeks became
months, and still he lingered To day it
was an excursion among the sbeqherds of
the desolate heights that hem the valley
in; to-morrow a sturdy climb up the
MontedelTow, with its wind-wo'n con
vent ruins; again a long ride through
fields ofgohleq gsa’n and gardensof olives
I’ruit groves, and fertile fa -ms. Whatever
the amusement was he followed it up
earnestly, as his countryman always do.
At the end of his second month's slay
one of those excursions brought him down
the mountan side after nightfall, with a
wild gale blowing from the north, -weep
ing over the bare bill, witli a bitter
breath.
Ashe rode through! the darkness his
attention was attracted by a women's
shriek. It pierced 'be night, arid the
gale, sh arp arid clear, foil of wil l ap
peal foraici, and pushing towarl'it with
out h esitation. In' foUad hi usijlf bef ire
one of those high pyramidal structures of i
loose stories, in whicn the Balearic shop
herds shelter their sheep.
Afire was burning in the lee of this l
stall, and by its light he saw a woman
a girl, rather —struggling in the arms of
a burly, skin clad rudS in, while two otl.ei.i
looked on with savage laughs.
To ride one of these down, fell the other '
to tho earth, and with a fierce cut of
his whip across his face compel the third
to release his proy, was the work of as
little time as it Likes to tell it, and be
fore the shepherds had recovered from
their stupefaction, the creator of it had
cantered out of roach, of the volley of
stones they sent after them, clasping the
rescued girl to his breast.
Her story was soon told. She was
the young bride of tho farm, on her way
home from another hacienda had been
stepped by the half-savage shepherds, as
he hud seen; sb, tiding and talking they
came to the door of the house where he
was an honored guest arid she a drudge.
Great, as the social difference between
them was, her gratitude and his admira
tion bridged it over. They met often, he
always lottiiy kind, lavish, on his re
turn from ati occasional visit to town, with
trifling gifts; she ever humbly proud of
his notice truly grateful for his magnifi
cence.
The husband saw this, too, and saw it
with pride. Poor fool! he thought that
tho valley, where mon honored women
as their own mothers, wives and sisters,
was the world.
At lad the guest departed. Next day
a pedlar from Meroadel passed through
the vallev. It was afterward recollected
that he held some speech with her while
exhibiting his wares to the people of the
farm.
Many other things were recollected,
too, when, next nigut, her place at tho
table in tho great kitchen wus vacant; her
side of her husband’s bed was cold.
When the country all about was scoured
inly to discover two days later, that a
strangeraud a country girl had-met in the
market.place of Mercado], and had gone
togeiuer to I’ort Mahon.
Thither the husband folleowd them,
mad with outraged love for berom! deadly
hatred for her dcsl mycr.
He louii'l chon, not. They lnd gone
in tlie yacht, widen iiud broug the travel
er to ihe is and, and which hud lain wait
ing h-s pleasure, in the harbor. Whith
ci? To Punte, some said. To France
lie therefore went; by the first vessel that
sailed.
It would not profit to tell of the long,
iruillesS search, to tell how, following
them from place to place, alw .y too laic,
ho traversed all the Mediterranean coa.-.;.
until one day, hearing of him and that
ho was now traveling alone, lie knew-thut
the inevitable had come to pass, and that
she had been onst-aside lor a fresher lace,
a newer love.
Still searching, ho found her at last.
Found her in a slum, surrounded by
.hieves, by vagrants, by women who wine
only women in name, dead, with a breath
ing Labe on her rigid heart.
lie toqk the cbihl, and returning with
it to his uatii'fi place, put it among those
who would care-for it, and once more
turned his rcfii-n-*- fitce- toward hi. goal.
Uo carded-* ■ m knife now, and;bad a
lea.* ibr it aw- n over her sacred grave.
it wa ob o'- iv.n'ir,g, gisd somci : -n :*
his heiVr 1 talk 1 him. The knife-bbrie
rubbed so often to fill the rurl, was bc
comin-r tliin.
ft was becoming sharper, though, nnd
he smiled each time he Ifiß its ftdWttanlly
keener growing edge.
“It will do its .ini!, all the hotter,” he
thought. "It will do it all the more
surely, swiftly and fatally.”
Sometimes, however, a tear would be
set hint) Might ho not, die? The very
roving lift, bis pursuit led him exposed
him to perils which might balk his pur
p se.
“ft" I should die before I meet, him!”
he thought, “My God! ii' that should
be!"
At this thought his blood would turn
to ice, and a strange honor come over
him, a horror that would set Ins brain
whirling, lull of mad devils, that had all
one single, mocking (lice, and seemed to
jeer at him and taunt him with defeat
defeat.
Irionc of those desparing fits a letter
reached him from what had been bis
home. It told him that the child—her
child —was ill, and besought him to rei urn
at once.
With a cfir.se upon the fortune that in
terrup'ted his purpose even ior alow u,
ho set.about it to obey the letter, never
cheless.
He was in Palermo. The oi l brig i
yonder lay there, bound for Majoicu, and
be shipped on her.
On the night of the third day out they
cu ol9 upon a boat, drifting, and in it a ,
tainting man—the last survivor of a i
piea-ure-yaebt foundered in a gale two
days tcore.
He was taken on board, revived and
restored, and next day appeared on deck.
Tho husband saw him, and his heart gave I
a great leap.
The end. long sought bv ninny laborious!
ways—through deadly peril, toil, trouble,
bitter wuut, but always with underi.-iting i
faith, had eoiuo at Ins.. ,
lie and her turn do er stood face to fn-e. j
His hand wont at once to lho koilo i 1 i
his bosom, but touched the piiest’p letter
and fell again.
lie must be cautious. lie must not
create any barrier to hi-* secinr the sick
lit lie one among the Mujou-i Hill*
His work -could he done secretly a .<1 ’
sc l'lv on someone of the. dayi of tin
voyage yet to, come.
Sovor.d of these days Passed wi boat
brin.-.-ing the importunity;
At last it a rued.
0 in night the , aveler and thee ptam
sal 1,0 togo. nt; o.i-; the'.- w if. 'l\ ey I
were di-ep.il -i - >-l i!•<
lump s..w many a • er eip <-1 ..no e
the oar.iu-evs sopa -i.
The man at the whoa! lo a cow
through t"-e cpo.i cabin b Ir'i sa.v t, i ,n
rie at 1. st, anJ he. n o iv -k- ■ • n
spe.A press.ag h-s temples -.e.'v- ' , I- ->
blinds:
“I m.re a lieu c'.u, he s id; ' I. w 1
■;0 on deck f-r a breath of w.i. t it.o
fiesh sir the e is.”
It wrs hot; a breath ess, bevy sum
mer night, upp es*ive with the intense
waimth of a covni-g bin at; .uc tho
helmsman, as he felt ib.- ai- fc >u h's
bo-1-111 a'l i. e iuruac-es of hell lon'-l u -t
have b.ou- it such a fierce g.-ss of fl ur ig
jjy as to led his blood to fire and flashed
a,ed mist ialiis e.iio; eyes whe-i
stepped upon the deck.
At. lust! at last I
“A close, hot i-...h , n\v n n.” nhi
the Englishman, in 1- 0.-y c oc- v.y
asholor.eged slowly ;o the i. !. . “Tne
sort of nf lit.to ie,iiii ido co me u>- I dies
the daw led in- e gn md oh.'
Tbeh’igg ve a li-c • .olcev,. dasl'ie
fen ttv sted her i w . a- c~ A
hr'giit hi., a f. shod - I-'. ' i the 1 gilt- of
the b oni ce; ihih u , e mi-y hhjoJ weere
two had u~c) .oo't' g with bV ng eyes
into 11*0 blick tv. er wlie ea < ele of
sn. rpi'.(pies ! i.-g.-u tt! 'phosphors cut
I i-e. tv'ue icd in lines of paUiu flume anu
vanished.
There had been a single deep gi oao,
and a figure had plunged past the c:i hi
window; a figure where heart ws* cleft b -
a keen krfb whose blade tv * w.i i ,o
thin that it hod licet) Bnf pped of-.. i ng
oidv tho liaodle in the c.'.ectu one.’s
hand.
At the mure i -stent, a su . t e si-igle
one visible in the niii.k..- heavens litd
fJleu in a swift sweep ol '-girt.
Next day it was known t r-t l -e i. ave -
er, ho lately snatched from de.-ih i-,>ou i ,
hud fallen overborn! -i a d..c-d.cn fit and
been swallowed bv the sea.
“And the man? r J f e c'u’hl? ’ I • c--'
when my svovy-teller drew a It . i - en l
j v,lpc-i ‘the pc-->•-a,-on ’"o u . : s fn-e
1 sad with the b. air ofl- ■ •>'.*•(*-]
j his finished c ~:if ia. /tT-v..i "/ "
| thv ni''re? ’
I “Fail bless />• d..-- o ” sa: ’- v • ••
j bind mu, a- Ia slehdtir o < w.i, : - -
I free-limT.i.-ii f irl bi'th icm e- 1 <
■ halo-footed. atiS ch and in die d-c.r -• • ■■■•
pWt.ninl’: .! C:*S of fix- cnc i'-. .--i "1
iviisi me and smote i: - icn.l V ’ i
the face with it melon-e.r. *
promise? Pardon me, Liu " f i
know how false be is. II" pi- - ire
faithfully to t.-ike me to tli<> 1.1:• a em i •:
ji/ciza to-dav, and here I find b■; - :
way.-, siar iglfseycsout at i'-.-I tvic.i 1
old ship yonder. Wlwfc c.m i‘- c ->i
about t that be feasts If* eyc-s jipon u <*;>,
like a poor worn-in pm n nt her sit <;?
“It is a sL-bie Ia mon ume nt! '- ■ and
story-teller, h ; s eyes ‘Waii-tg 1 a
nient with savage jn.v, which s•' c , 1 -
suclt a look of love as one m cl - -me
when he brushed the gi l.c. . ’
back from her icrobcad and kisdm he
“8 n -r, you ask whether the mt’-i ; .4
the child of my stoiy are alive. The.'
are.”
. And hand in hand with i l-p.bo went
up the bhi/.irig Huti-it quav, ami -■ matted
imho busy -tieet.
Wen tell Phillips credits Horace Greeley
with having said to a lecture committee,
who paid him in Western hank hills, that
if convenient he woold prefer to have
a well-executed counterfeit on some East
ern bank.
Here’s an argument in favor of cheese.
Prof. Peck says that in this country,
where cheese is least used, one physician
to every 500 persons is required. In
ttwitzerland and countries where it is
most used, only one physician is needed
for every 10,000 persons.
NUMBER 14.
KAHSAD.
Nrss.au, ns is generally known, is
not rally the chief town of tho inland
of New Providence, but. also the capi
tal of the Btihaiivts. The.‘the Legis
lature meets ana the Governor resides.
The Government Houso Is pleasantly
si!-.luted, und the n;-l roach to it is ap
propriuiciy Htlorned by a colossul sta
tue of Christopher Columbus. The
Legislature ie oleoted once in seven
y. us, and generally Includes several
coli : 1 men-burs. The black popula
ti-m hi ■ >ly prodomfimtes, for not only
did i: rr.ly settlers own slaves, but
mmy curg. et if captured slavers were
in i to Nassau, aud left thereto
shill for themselves.
S-m- ■of the mulattoes and! ’ey con
sld- viit-li) talent as artisans. The shell
work they produce -.-. c-s exquisite
-te and skill; and lkrthcl. -.lm best
i- hub .-or of the group ur. J very
\ - : luH'i lie itoo is of ‘J-.o colored
-u-osi-lil.
O; 1 thinnybngs Is r. n.,fcd character
of N.--. am,a modern -i- genes,who has
taken up Ids msidorii* in Grahtr.town,
-suburb ivifeeted by -he blu-*k g-.ii
try. The old fellow, not to speak dis
respe fully of him, was crossed in
love in his earlier days, it is said, since
which mclam-holy event he lias worn a
suit of gunny bags of a fashion not
borrowed from Paris, and has slept in
a hogshead laid on its side under a
wall 1 y the way-side; owing to the
narrowness of li is quarters, and the
heat of the climate,he cooks his meals
In the open air.
1 think the charge of laziness un
founded, if one but considers the se
vere labor the negroes often accom
plish, ns, for example, in the sponge
fishery, which gives employment to
the owners and crows of five hundred
licensed cruft of ten to twenty-five tops
burden, and is carried on with somfs
risk from the weather,and much hard
sldp, for the sponges are two or three
fathoms below tho surface, and must
bo tern from the rocks with hooks at
tached to long poles. The position of
tho sponges Is ascertained by means
of a water-glass, which is a simple ob
long box a foot square, open at the
upper end, and containing a pane of.
glass at the other; on holding this,
perpendicularly over the water one
win see everything through it as clear
ly as in an aquarium—fish, sponges,.
coral, or shells. The Bahama sponges
arc chiefly of four sorts, sheep-wool,
which is the most valuablo.rcef,velvet,
and glove,and although inferior to the
finest Mediterranean sponges, are
very strong, and serviceable for wash
ing carriages, surgery and the like.
The sponge boats usually get in on.
1 .turday, and the sponges are assort
ed in 1,1; • markets, each boat-load and
variety by i'self. On Monday they
n-o -!'■■.p r-d <f at auction, only mem
b-.-s ol th - sponge guild and those
m : n-- -- • .If offers being permitted,
to bid, ; :fi v '.me by written ten
h is. li. ;y." ' Mttjazine.
IHI! VATICAN. >
Thu word is often used,but there are
tnany who do not understand its im
port. The term refers to a collection
•f buildings on one of the seven hills
: of Home, which covers a space of 1,200
feet in length,and I,ooofeetin breadth,
i It is built on t lie spot once occupied
by tin- 1 aril on of the cruel Nero. It
>.y . i: . origin to the Bishop of Rome,
i,in the early part of the sixth cen
t.ury, erected a humble residence on
its site.
About ’ e year 11 CO Pope Eugenlus
robtiift i on ft magnificent scale. In
iM.-eni I a f-ov years afterward,gave
It up as a lod ing to Peter 11., King
of Ar-.gon. Ju 1305 Clement V.,at
th ■ in?! i ration of the King of France,
r oioved the Pupal See from Rome to
A vignoii, -vhero the Vutican. remained
id a condition of obscurity aud neglect
,r more tin ri seventy years.
But soon after the return of the Pon
tifical Court to Home, an event which
had been so earnestly prayed fir by
poor Petrarch, find which finally took
place in 1576, the Vatican was put In
a state of repair, again enlarged, and
It, was thenceforward considered as the
regular palace and residence of the
popes, who, one after tho other, added
fresh buildings to It, and gradually
encircled it with antiquities, statues,
pictures and books until it became the
richest depository in the world.
The library of the Vatican was com
menced 1,400 years ago. It contains
40,000 manuscripts, among which are
some by Pliny, St. Thomas. St. Charles
Borromeo and many Hebrew, Syrian,
Arabian and Armenian Bibles.
The whole of the Immense buildings
composing the Vatican are filled with
statues found beneath the ruins ol
ancient Rome, with paintings by the
masters and with curious medals and
antiquities of almost every descrip
tion.
When It is, known that there have
been exhumed more than 70,000 sta
tues from the ruined temples and pal
aces of Rome, the reader can form
some idea of the richness ol the Vatl
oan.
The Chinese have commenced to take
London. A colony has settled there in
th* wishee-wushee business,