The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1861-09-18
From Bentley's Miscellany.
A Fair Tale With a Moral.


she had no dearcr wish than once, by ac
cident or n miracle, TO obtain a great deal
of money, because she believed, that if
she only had money, all sorrow and suf-
fering would be ms gone. The accident
and the miracle did not happen for lorg
time, however, till the woman once heard
that on the slope Of hill there grew
among other grass weed, and if any one
was so fortunate rs to pluck il, the
mountain would open, the plucker would
walk into a large cave, in which seven
men sat round table, who would allow
her TO take away as much of their treas
uro rs she could carry. From this mo-
ment the poor woman had nothing more
pressing to do than TO fetch hllgrass
daily during the summer for her COW, be-
cause she hoped to pluck the miraculous
weed among it. And so she did; one
day the woman collected grass, carried
the heavy basket on her head, when a
large rock opened noiselessly before n
well-o oiled door, and allowed her to sec
into the cave, where seven old men with
long boards were sitting round table,
and piles of gold and silver were heaped
around them. The woman naturally
soon took advantage of the opportunity,
einptied her basket upon the ground and
filled it with gold. When this was done,
and she was going out, one of the old
men certainly said, "Woman forget not
the best thingp but she did not listen,
and went off, But she had scarce
reached the entrance of the cave when
the rock closed up again, and shut in the
woman's little daughter, who had re-
manned behind playing with the gold.-
Then the mothers grief and agony was
great; she ran lamentng to the clergy
man, and told him what had occurred.--
Tho latter said she must wait another
seven years, till she could find her daugh-
Ter again; after that period she mast
90 again TO the mountain at the same
hour in which she lost the child, and
wait for what might happen; but she
had made grand mistake in quite emp
tying her basket for the sake of the
gold, because the miracle weed was
among the grass she threw away. Now
she remembered the old mans words,
and learned to her sorrow that she had
done wrong to consider wealth as the
highest blessing. How slightly she now
valued this gold she brought home when
size had to pay for it by the loss of her
child She thought further, and found
that there were many blessings in the
world which, if lost, reduce the value of
gold to nothing. This and many other
things the poor rich woman had time to
reflect on during the seven years, and, TO
her honor be it said, that till the expra-
tion of that time, she would not look at
or handle the gold. AT length the day
came ON which she hoped 10 find her
child again. The woman hurried to the
hill in the neighborhood of the rock
where her child was shut up; and see
therel from the distance she perceived
the treasure of her heart, her child,
sleeping in front of the rocks: il was as
young and blooming as when she lost it.
She lifted it tenderly, and kissed it a
thousand times with tears on the road
home, thinking, "lf all the gold were
out of my room | should be as happy as
if l had found all the treasures in the
world!" But the gold was not gone
and so she was grateful for that, and en-
joyed the advantage of wealth, and spent
much on the good education Of her
daughter,a thus the well trained maiden
became a great and invaluable treasure.
ToRTUGAs.-Tortugas, to which point
number of our army mutineers have
been sent, is black aud barren sand key
in the Gulf of Mexico about one hundred
miles southwest from Cape Sable. 1t is
cherries and uncomfortable, desolated by
simoons and peopled by mosquitoes and
venemous enthusiastically one of the
most uncomfortable points to which tho
Government is obliged TO send its insub
ordinates. The mutineers banished &c
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