The Yazoo Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1842-10-14
MIsGELLANEOUs.
Hungarian Tales e. Legends.
.a BE MISS PARDoE.
CHAP. /.
THE MINERS DAUGHTER.

CHAP. /.
THE MINERS DAUGHTER.
Yeas ago, so many that the date is lost,
and ne are indebted only to tradition for the
VaIe--there lived in the ancient city OF
Schemnitz, a Young lady Of immense wealth
and large possessions. She was an orphan,
without relatives; bat of friends she had
many, for gold can buy what the world calls
friendship, as readily as II can purchase vel
vets and levels. She hao lovers, too, not
few; ardent, passionate lovers who swore
daily that poverty with her wOLud be prefer
able to empire with any other III her sex;
and the oath rose gIibly to their liLS' tor no
thing is more easy than to VOW that ". 1lch we
are never likely to be called on TO PEI 'lorm:
Some Of her suitors were nobly born, ana mao
proud names; but they laid their famil y re-
cords at her feet, without reminding EeV
that she could add nothing to their glory
And she could add nothing; for she bad no
Wondering parchments to show forth the
antiquity Of her lineage. When high birth
and proud blood were mentioned before
her. she only smiled; and although the lips
were very beautiful that quive red with that
smile, il vet seemed rather in mOckery than
mrlh.
The first of her race who had been seen in
Schemnitz, was her father; dark stern
man, coming, no one knew whence; to take
possession Of a mine near the ROtherbrun,
which had long been deemed exhausted, and
was consequently abandoned. None knew
how he had obtained it; but as his title was
undeniabe, he at once took possession, and
peOpled il with wOrkmen. For time the
miners loiled in vain; nothing but rock was
splinteTed by the crowbar, or riven by the
blasting powder; and they became dsheart-
ened, and lsbOred less earnestly; but the
eve Of the master never clouded; his voice
never changed: he walked through the un-
prolific galleries with cold smile upon his
lips, neither rebuking the idle, nor encoura-
Ving the diligent. Did an accident happen
TO the best workman in the mine, he offered
no pity nor assistance; he had no sympathy
with suffering; or did he chance to come
upon a group who were tightening their toll
with Jest or laughter, he did not seem to
hear either; he had as little fellowship with
JOY
Time passed, and he had already paid a
way large sums to the laborers in his mine
without seeming to care that he had only
received stones in return; when, on one
occasion, as he was passing among them, a
sudden cry was heard; and miner fingine
down his tool, and springing over the piled
up masses of rock with which the GROUND
was numbered, placed in the hands of hi.
master such lump of pure and gitterinl
silver as had never before been seen in those
parts.
The almost frantic delight of the work
man formed strange contrast with the cole
immObility Of the individual to whom he thu
brought the assurance of imm ense wealth
for while the other miners, who had bee
within hearing Of the joyful cry, crowded il
clad excitement abO, their lord, he calml
fondled the precious mass as he would hay
caressed a petied animal, and muttered b
meath his breath: 'Ha! ha! thou art come
last. have watched and waited, waite
and watched; and thou art come at last
'Tis well-'iis we'll only year of life e
hausted in the vigil, and have my reward
As he ceased speaking, he thrust the c
into his bosom, gathered his mantle abo
him, and strobe out of the mine.
But from that day his mood was who
changed: he abandoned bis home, che
ful house on the hillside, nestled amo
vineyards and acacia trees, where the 81
shine and shadows chased each other thr
out HE long summer day, and whence
could look around upon the tall mounta
and the pleasant valley, and hear the che
iu bells Of the neigbboring converts as Il
rang to prayer, His heart was in the mil
he saw no beauty in the face Of nature;
heard no harmony in the Ieafy woods;
Felt no happiness in human contact;
soul, If soul be had, was in his silver; Z
each morning, ere the sun had risen,
came, with bis motherless child-in bis ha
and plunged into the recesses Of the mi
What fair child it vast A,lOyely {
with deep blue eyes, that looked PuE
when she laughed or Wepi, and hair as bl
g Plghi, falling in raven lresses over b
OF ivory. j was strange life for sue
iaIry creature; and sha soon ceased
laugh; ri seemed as though she felt
wiIs4-N was hing o. uppoF-eaTtlr, the
ePHRg Of the bright sky and the pain
GOVpssi and that its voice could not
out among the dark galleries Of the n
WheES she nov wandered, She forgot,