The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1875-05-22


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10 che piosy woods Of tbs ihto'tgr
THE village fronts The beach, snd u
one sf the most picturesque IitiIs ham
lots on tho coast The batbiag y un-
sufpasel--ibe sca waves dasbing 10
from the fsr.off shores Of Mesico's
| gulf. Rot nd island and Hors island
find many excursionisls; pleasur scck
ers, sud she'll hunters traysfsing their
shores and mi.iy woodlands ut all
seasons.
Returning 10 The Cresceutia at
uigbdslI after fotipuing tramps
through the fine surrounding ooun
try and comper sating trips to the Is
land, we rested not as they rect who
live for the hjatiBg moments TO
whom
"TomoTow's light
To norrow's cares will briug to light,
We had been reminded of the
beautiful tradition Of Pascagoula's
mysterious music, which had engaged
the attention OF scientists, aud
awakened the songs for 10, these
many years Of all the poets. The re-
currence Of sounds resembling music
in Pascagoula Bay had been accred>
tied almost from time immcmorial.
Que OF the earliest governors of
Louisiana, Peries, in the first quarter
of the last century, visiting the first
settlements Of the French at Bay ST.
Louis, Biloxi and Mobile, had been
invited to visit Pascagoua to hear,
and had heard it. 1t forms the sub
ject of various legends and traditions.
than which the brilliant dreamings
OF Eastern romance are not pleasanter.
1t came not as Ariels to the love>lorn
Ferdinand, when
Sitting a bank
Weeping again the king, his fathers wreck
Sweet music crept by him upon the waters,
Allnying both their fury and his passion
With its sweet airs. .
The night must be calm, the waters
nndisturbed; the moonlight clear, else
the cLarm is broken.
On such night as this the devout
and the undevout of the Crescentla
awaited the witching hour of mids
on the beach. and others
on the yachts deck. The full moon
had just risen. The silvery beams
we're shedding their reiulgcnce over
the placid waters OF the bay. The air
scarce drew its breath. Low, plain,
tive sounds are heard, now distant,
now near-foating on the waters.
They come at one moment as sad and
sorrowiul as the whispering Of the
breeze in distant pine tops, but breeze
there is not. The waters of the bay
are as calm as an infants sleep. Ris>
Ing and falling softened into tone
as faint as the last sigh of dying
saint, nearer, still nearer. The mys-
terious music seems 10 issue from the
very depths Of the bay-irom buried
wheru holy nuns
"Breathless with adoration,"
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are offering up their orisons--irom
caverns and grottos where nymphs
aud naiads hold pleasant revels, down
in the coral depths with the Queen I
Undine restored 10 them freed from
earth's loves and taints. 1t came up
rom beneath the very keel of the
on that pleasant summers
evening like unto the music of I
thousand 4Eolian harps. The illusion
was perfect. The music was an un- .
doubted success. Midnight had
passed-when Captain Top, wLo had
rlbboned his faith to many fair bead
worker at Niagara, many a slipper
maker at Stamboul-and many rich
widow in Louisiana-suitting his
owes and his faiths to almost every
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