Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1876-07-08

(For the Journal.)
Tales from Mythology.
BY PAUL JONES.

o1 1hOL JONcD.
In Phyrgia there dwelt a frugal pair,
Within small thatched cottage on q
hill;
Nor strife nor discord ever entered there,
For either tried to do the others will.
And so for many years this pair lived on,
Toiling if only to keep from their door,
The giant wolf, poverty; this being done,
Contented they and asked for nothing
more.
One day there came up to the cottage door
Two weary, dust-stained travellers and
told s
A borrowing story; how their limbs were
From journing far and they would be 80
bold
AS to implore the inmates Of this cot,
To be allowed to rest their weary feet,
For in the neighboring village they could
Get either rest or anything to eat.
Their story told with sympathizing care
Old Phlemon-tor that's our hero's
name
Babe them come in, and led them to chair
While Baucis-bustling and attentive
dame
Prepared them water for their bleeding feet;
Twas in the golden ages long ago
When folks were sandals. The time of
which treat
Was long before the advent Of the shoe.
The old folks hastened quickly to prepare
Their evening meal, and often times ex-
pressed
Their sorrow. that they had no better fare
10 set before their hungry wayWorn
guests.
The meal was ended, when the older one
Of the two travellers, to the wondering
pair,
Thus spoke: "'Tis Jupiter and Mercury
his son,
Who have this night partaken of your
fare"
In terror then they fell before their guests,
In supplication cried, "Great Jove, for
give
Our humble meal; we gave all we pos
sessed."
In tenderness he bade them rise and live
but come with US to yonder hill and see
How we will furnish ysndcr selfish town
Which neither food nor shelter gave to me;
Just heavens wrath upon it shall fall
down"
While yet be spoke the town began to sink
Out of their sight; and 10 the water rose
Until at last upon the very brink
Ola huge lake they stood in calm repose
And look, their cottage fades before their
eyes,
Where they had lived and loved in days
of old;
And on its site they saw temple rise,
A stately edifice bedecked with gold.
Confused and wonderstruck, the couple
To comprehend the change, but strove in
vain,
Twas past their fathomins, when thus
spoke Jove,
make but wish, that wish you shall
obtain"
Then grant us, Jove," thus spoke the aged
twain,
"That we the guardians of this temple be;
Permit us while We live 10 dwell therein
And keep and beautify it, Jove, for thee"
"And still another boon we'd crave, Great
Jove!
That we together may pass out of life,
For we have lived in concord and in love
Since first we lived together, man and
wife"
Their prayers were granted, SO the story
goes,
And oft for many years before the door
OF their loved temple at the evenings close,
They'd tell their visitors of days of yore
As at their usual haunt they stood one day,
Their heads were covered with a leafy
crown;
They hardly had but time enough to say
Farewell dear spouse" till as the bark
grew down
1t covered up their mouths; and to this day
The Syanean shepherd on that hill will
show
You two trees standing side by side and
say
"These were that good old couple long
long ago"
FRosTBURG, June 26, 1876
The gold mines of Georgia, which
have long been known and worked,
are said to have rrodnced sorno tu,o,-