New-York tribune., 1885-03-08

SToward evening returned home My mothers mothers
anxious face told me that she TOO aaG ;, SuS sonn
wLcL was simmering on the embers she gave an mo
a bowIfnl. AMI it refreshed me-. 10 my dying gay
shall sS fS5Sst my %yse for whole
40 90 from my work. / was called a peacock, "a
burnt man equivalent to foop no man az .tn al,
horns, and any bad name that occurred 10 thoin
For days and weeKs after this was the most ms
cradle, downtrodden Greek alive. and al on
account of woman Ana mo. mere ta fetch him another
glass of raki to moisten his throat no creek Gun
talk or sing long without glass oil rakl. - ,...,
N;knIa with renewed vigor "ny father ordered me
to clear away a heap of stones which occupied
corner of little tcrrace-yineyard we Swnea on q
thou gt the stones had been put there 10 snpportt
the earth from falling from the terrace aoovc us
lately bad occurred to my fdtsr as hsSn ,n, Cleared off
the field and thrown there when the vineyard was
made and the removal of which would add several
souare feet to the small holding Next I. noIh,nR
started about an hour before the Panaga lMadohna
baa opened the gates OF the East, W th iiu'e d AM
panniers to remove the stones. Morhua ,,ao nnId %
and / was beginning to find I'll at the harder
worked the less time had fol thougnt stone ai,eT @
stone was remove pannler-load after pannier-ioau
WSs emptied down the cli and fell rattlng among
the brnshwood and rousng the partridss,s am anh
crows as they fell After couple OF nIuIs one
the mound was rapidly aisappea.t pppent,nS inward /
ioaped at il closely it was a marble foot More
stones removed and disclosed ar Which had
been broken of by the weight OF the stones, lay
close by Though was somewhat astonishafa ms f @ at
tbIs discovery vet did not suppose IL 10 be OF any
value. | had heard of things OF this KIND beng
found before My father hal an ugly bit 3i marble
which came out of neighboring tomb. Howeyer,
did not throw it over the elm with the oller
stones Int put it on one side and went on again
with nv work. ..; J.. chic
All dayong my thoughts kept reverting TO sr tns
The stiff ugly marble figures had seen: and u was
so much larger. too standing nearly ionr iGeI ng.
| Perhaps thought l. the Panagia has put u mere,
nerbans 4 is n sacred miraee-workng thing. such
"a the priests find in spots like thus And then sud-
German sfend had visited sikinos. and was reported
to lave ding up and carried away win MN prceless
treasures Is this statue worth anythng was tn9
| question which haunted me all day. ana wn.cn 4
would have given ten years of my young LIE 10
| SoaHWSbcp nv DAYS work was over. ! pnt the
.+e on 70 irv ,nule and carefully covered it over
| so that no one might see what had found Tor
thongh was hopelesslv ignorant oil what the valuo
NJ nv discovery might be, get instinct prompted Ihe
| tn Ican IL TO myself 1t was dark when l reached
The village and went straight to the store sorcy
perplexed to what to do with my treasure. nu,o @
| was no time to bury il. for had met one OF my
| brothers who wonld tell them ut home that hhd
returned in all haste hid the cola wite the ln
under the gram in the corner trus'lue .hng ~ &
| wonld find il and went home. passed wretched
| night dreaming and restless by turns once l
woke np in horror. and found it diihcplt 70 uispei
/
| to prince and married the statue by mistake.
| And next day my heart stooo still when my ia,ne,
went down to the store with me showed n,s nahu !;
| into the grain. and muttered that we must send
| mn 10 the mill to be ground. That very nlgnt
| went ont with spade and buried my treasure decp
IN the ground under the struggling branehcs Oh our
| Ggirre where knew it would not he likely TO be
disturbed. Never was n poor fellow IN such per
plexity asI WAS. the posses or OF marble % w"naa
| did not care one straw. while J yearned after
woman whose value ! knew to be thousand
| drachmas. and whom Il conld not buy. Ny nope.
too was rendered more acute by the vagne ldea tat
| nerbans NV treasure might prove to he ~ va nable
| as Kailriloe and smed To think OF the FOLLY 0i
the who would be likeIy 10 prefer tno con- p't
| marble statue to my plump: warm kaillrhoe Bnt
they tell me that you cold North rn'rs haVs near u
| of marble q, | prayed t. the Panama and All the
| saints TO send some who wonlo take the statue
| away. and give me money enough to buy kallirhoe;
| al was much more lively now my iafhef ana
brothers had m cause To scoid me any longer LOT
| had hone: every evening now went to the cafe 10
| talk and all the energy OF ,sy existence was
d.y1ted TO one object namely, to get the Demarch
to tell me all he knew about the Gnance' OF selling
| without letting him know that had found any
| thing After MANY fruitless Efforts. one day tho
hefore he was born. a peasant of Melos had found a
| ststne of a woman called Aphrolits, Just as had
found mine in ssn Of for It. but ha Mr.
| the French Consul. had made fortune o I OF ".
| and that now the statue WAS the wonder ot the
| Western world. BY degrees learnt how relentless
| forcigners like Won. Efendi, do swoop down from
| time 10 time on these islands and carry home what
| is worth thousands Of drachmas, after giving next
70 nothing TOR them week or two later learnt
from the Demarch's lips how strict the ,ireck Gov
ernment is that no marble should leave the country.
and that they never give anything like the vane ior
| the things Themselves but that sometimes ny
dealing with foreign e6endi in Athen, good prices
have been got and the Government elnded. -..
| q Poor me in those days my hopes grew very.
very small indeed. How could J, an lgnoran,
peasant hope to get any money from ANYBODY
| - "A nov. otnut KallirboS until face w
| hagQard again, and nv mother sighed. ,
| AMY statue had been in her grave nearly year;
| laughed Nikola, 1" aud after..the way OF the world
she was nearly forgotten. when one day calgne
put in to Sikinos, and two foreign qendi-franks,
believe-came up TO the town: thsy were @ tne
lrst that had visited our rock since tho German
| who had opensl'the graves the hillside and had
carried OF a lot Of gold and precious things So we
ali stared at them very hard. and gathered In
crowds around the iDemarch's door to get glimpse
| at them as they sat at table. was one of the
crowd, AMI As looked at them thought OF my
| buried statue and my hope tlickered again. ,
| avery soon the report vent abont among us that
thev were miners from Laurion come to Inspect ON
island and see if we had anything valuable In tht
wav Of minerals; and my father. whose VISION !
had been for years to find mine and make himself
| rich thereby. was greatly excit'd. and offered to
lind the strangers his mules. The old man was toe
iufirm 70 90 himself greatly to his regret. but ht
| sent me rs mnleeer, with directions to conduct the
miner, to crrtain points of the island, and to watch
| narrowly everything they picked mp. Many time
during the dav was tempted t0 tell them all about
nv statue aud my hopes. hut ! remembered what
the, Denarch had said about gr"sdy fSregnrr'
with asking all sorts Of questions ahout Athens
who was the richest foreign efendi there and do
he buy statues W bat sort OF thing was the Gust m
, | and sbonld T. who came from another part %
Greece. be subject to it if wenti sighed to g
, | to Athens.
"All day I watched them closely. noted what sor
Of stones they picked up. noted their satisfaction
. | dissatisfaction, and a. watched them an ide
strnck mean idea which made my heart leap ant
| trcmbe with excitement.
That evening told INV father some Of those lie
| which hurt nobody and are therefore harmless. II
the priests saw. told him had acquired IA grea