Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-19

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one reaching up, the other bending farther ,
down to try 10 imagine what ships have {
sailed over this same track going this way /
and that, so many of them going gaily out
and some of them never coming back-Wlth ,
the sad hearts all over the world waiting for
the ones who never come, and the sea rolling
on with its secrets and mysteries without
record-a beautiful, strong, sad sight
We have tried fishing by trailing a clothes
line for three or four hundred miles with the
intention of capturing dolphin, but we
never get bite, so we cant have even that
excitement
"what kind of birds are those following
the vessel ?' ! ask the mate.
And no answers, "Those are not birds,
sir"
"Not birds? ?" | ask cautiously, for fear Of
my ignorance betraying me, "then what are
theyT'
"Those, sir, are the spirits of old sailors
who have been connected with this ship and
have died, and follow this way fora kind of
companionship-thos are spirits, Sir. IL IL
bad luck to the vessel from which one of
those birds, as you call 'em, have been Killed,
sir. / wouldn't go with such ship, sir"
And he believes 1t, too If death gives us |
no more rest than that, what shall we do? |
! believe the mate is right, for | know |
plenty people with souls not bit too large |
10 be transmitted without any reducing into |
such little birds
ENTERING THE sAvASSAH RIVER.
We enter the Savannah river Wednesday
morning aDbIR lub DNbNs mar hliiB Jul
circuitous course. on the left, at Tybee,
towers the tall lighthouse, an old martello
| tower near it, modest relic Of olden times.
The river seems to be nothing extraordinary,
| except the near approach OF both shores TO
| our vessel frequently. Each bank il over
| grown with some kind of seed or cane and IL
| low and marshy, with an occasional stunted-
| looking swamp palmetto.
| The first we see of Savannah il long
| wharves covered with thousands OF barrels of
and hI,tt nIg Of MI nT n If
| the latter having summoned up enough
| energy to be fishing.
Our landing il made among a mixture of
| rosin, turpentne, watermelOns and more
| niggers: three or four dozen of the latter at
one time implOre US to take carriages. lhey
are as earnest about us taking those carriages
as If the future of their race depended upon
it. Just how they expect us two To take all
the carriages is a question we decide toy taking
an omnibus. These omnibuses are unmiti-
gated nuisances. In the first place they
charge double what they should, and have
noticed more particularly IN Western cities
| than Eastern or Southern, that they almost
| pick you up and rattle you OIL whether you
| wish or not. Well some of the streets OF
Savannah are paved with the view oi making
them rough as possible and that bus driver
went as fthe devil were after him. Ana the
way he switched that bus from one gutter
to another, and around right angles, made
our grip sacks dance iigs all over the floor,
while We could do nothing but hold on for
. dear lite, wonder Just where we would up
, set and what kind Of coroner the city haa.
AS we make this tally-ho journey, wc EatheI
{ the impression that the city IL populated
Q mostly by niggers and goats, rather indiS
criminately mixed. Possibly the mixture
was owing TO the difficulty in taking accurate
r | observations on account Of the gyratlng onInl
| bus
\ PEN-pICrURE or SAVANNAH.
o Ofcourse, when We reached the railroad
}, station the train was gone, so we gave the
Q day to Savannah In other parts Of the city
| we found some other kind of inhabitants
than what | have mentioned and while j
is sleepy Southern city, it has sufficient en-
j ergy to have great many fine buildings anC
: | residences, with tasteful grounds. They
. | have a great many Southern shrubs anC
plants AN occasional banana tree or plant
. and orange, and live oaks, magnOlas, hollle'
j and the Grape myrtle now in bloom with IL
v beautiful pink flowers.
= An Obelisk in Johnson square to the mem
:. | ory of General Greene and Count Pulaski
| had its cornerstone laid in 1925, by Lafayette
There are a number of other fine monuments
and interesting buildings, notably the Man
Q sion hall, where the ordinance OF secession
: | was passed in 1861.
@ There Is a new, better South growing VI
4 | here where the blood was split for the old
!, | but when one compares their lack OF energy
| with our Northern superabundance 1t; com
I pares their land and its resources, their man
i. ners, mode of living their every thing will
y ours, DR.. Holmes cry for them
4 | "God help them If the tempest swingS
The pine against the palm,
was a true one.
, | IN A FAMOUS CEMETERY.
r We have been told we must visit Savan
+ nah's famous cemetery-Bonaventure Sc
8 | we climb on to a street car, drawn by towr
q | mules driven by a little ngger on ono corner
of the front platform. They use their nigger
for very possible thing here, but the uses are
q less numerous than the niggers, and the con
sequence is a great many black idlers; bu
| that suits them exactly and they take 10 1t a
| kindly as their goats To the sidewalks.
We reach Bonaventure after ride OF three
: | miles from the city and are unprepared foi
| its beauty. Some one told me 1t was once
. owned by the Tatinall family, but is now
1 general cemetery. l had never seen any
0 thing at all like it. 1t contains a variety o
b trees such as cedar, holly, pine, magnolif
O and live oak the latter are most numerous
v and grow in long rows with sandy avenues
f | between. i wish ! could describe those
a | avenues and those dear old trees forming
/ them, with their long, twigless limbs reach
: ing out so far toward each other, and twininl
: to make a perfect shade with ust little
: stand over the graves, extending theil
{ | branches so kindly like great mute
0 mourners holding out their arms for bene
r diction on the graves below Them And all
{ | over the limbs, hiding their nudity, with
: festoons of rarest beauty hangs the wonder
: full Southern gray moss. 1t droops down foi
: yards here and it gathered up there and
| twined with fantastic devices of natures own
/ | cunning from branch to branch in every
direction. On top of the limbs, occasionally
) from the moss peeps out little bunch of fern,
i and here and there find Virginia creeper.
+ beautiful place! A wonderfully beautiful
, place! l wouldn't wish TO die ON purpose,
but beng dead / think one could rest SO
} nicely under the oaks of Bonaventure
DRUMoRE.