Smyrna times., 1876-04-12

Pl"hteu upon the sand and vet
IL aoldeth like house upon rock. II
evidently has some relation to little brook
that hows down through deep notch in
the hills half mile distant. because ON ono
occasion, when the brook was being ditcbod
OF damned the spring showed great pertur
patton. Every nymph in it was filled with
sudden alarm and kicked up a commotion
In some sections of the country whom
'here IS no spring near the house, the far
lher' With much labor and pains, brings
one from some up-lying field or wood. Pine
OF poplar logs are bored and laid IN q trench
ana the spring practically moved to the
ueSlred spot The ancient Persians had a
law that whoever thus conveyed the water
OF aspiring to spot not watered before
should enjoy many immunities under the
State not granted to Others.
Hllly and mountainous countries do NOT
abound in good springs. When the stratum
Is vertical or has too great dip, the water
Is not collected in large veins, but is rather
held as it falls and oozes out slowly ot tbo
surface over the top of the rock. On this
account one of the most famous grass and
dairy sections of New York is poorly SIM
piled with springs. Every creek starts in a
Dog or marsh; and good water can be had
only by excavating.
"hat charm turks about those springs
that are found near the tops of mountains.
50 small that they got lost amid the rocks
and debris and never reach the valley. and
so cold that they make the throat ache p,
Every foX-hunter can tell you of such
usually on the last rise before the summit is
cleared. tits eminently the hunters snrinc.
do not know whether or not tho fovos |
lap at 1t, but their pursuers are quite ant 70
pause there and take breath or eat tboir
lunch. The mountain climbers in summon
nan IL with shout. 1t is ALWAYS surnriso
and raises the spirits of the duIlest Tbon
1t seems to be born of wildness and remote
ness, and to SAVIOR of some special benefit or
good fortune. A spring in the valley is an
luyi, but a spring on the mountain is =
genuine lyrical touch. 1t imparts mild
thrill and if one were to call any sprinos
mlracies,' as the natives of Cashmere arc
said to regard their fountains. it wouId bo
such as these.
what secret attraction draws one in his
summer walk to touch at all the springs on
lis route, and to pause moment at each i
IS Ii what he was in quest of would he
likely to turn up there? can seldom mss
spring without doing homage to it. It'll {
he shrine at which l oftenest worship. IF {
ma one iouled with leaves or trodden q
ull by cattle | take as much pleasure in
leanlng it out as devotee in settinoun bis |
roken image. Though | chance not to S
'ant to drink there, like to behold \ t
lear fountain, and l may want to drink v
ext time l pass, or some traveller. or G
eiter, or milch COW may, Leaves have = a
TRANCE fatality for the spring. They come I
rom afar to get into it. In grove or in p
lie woods they drift into it and cover it IN W
Ike snow. Late in November in clearing c
ne out, brought forth frog from his 4
lbernacle in the leaves at the bottom. He II
as very black, and he rushed about in = lc
ewlldered manner like one suddenly b
reused from his sleep. II
| know of no place more suitable for fe
atuary than about a spring or fountain el
specially in parks or improved fields. a,
ere one seems to expect to see figures b.
nd bending forms. "Where a spring in
ses or river fows,' says Seneca. there W
lould we build affairs and offer sacrifcos ;, IL
have spoken of the hunters spring. cl
he travellers spring is Il little cup or sauc. bl
'rshaped fountain set in the bank by the W
'adslde. The harveSter's spring is beneath h'
wlde-spreading tree in the fields. The eff
vers spring is down lane under a hill. II
here Is a good screen of rocks and bushes. fiji
ne hermlts spring is on the margin of a di
ke in the woods. The ishermans sprinc ge
by the river. The miner finds his sprino ex
the bowels OF the mountain. The sol le'
ers spring is wherever he can fill his can
en-. The spring where schoolboys 90 to
the pail is long wayup or down hill. W
d has just been rolled by frog or mi
uskrat, and the boys have to wait till If Sh
tiles. There is yet the milkman's sprino tn
at never dries, the water of which is be
lky and opaque. Sometimes it flows ont
a chalk cliff. This latter is hard spring.
the others are soft. ln'
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There is another side to this subiect-the olo
'rvelous, not to say the miraculous. and -
were to advert to all the curious or
ernal springs that are described by
velers or others-the sulphur springs, gel
mud springs, the sour springs, the soap ira
'lngs, the soda springs, the blowing are
'lngs, the spouting springs, the boiling SUI
'lngs, not one mile from Tophet, the
ings that rise and fall with the tide, the
springs, the springs spoken of "V
VItruvius, that gave unwonted loudness ma
the voice, the spring that Plutarch tells VIII
'ut' that had.something of the flavor of has
1e, because it was supposed Bacchus had j,
IN washed in IL imnediataIv oFtor ~;