Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1898-03-11

..as on the river-sLore .
~ abe ,opes Greek yesterday evening
About sunset, and was greatly surprised to see
two large bulllrogs swimming down the river,
side by side, bearing in their mouths some
thing white. With considerable difficulty,
and not without wetting my feet, succeeded
n gstuue the whiiesonething from the frogs.
1t proved TO be a letter. The original docu-
ment returned to the frogs-wAo patiently
waited for the same-afler bad carefully
copied IT, The letter was as follows.
From Chapel Point 10 Pope $ Creek, these;-
Dear Brother, Greeting. doubt you have
heard Of the scheme on foot to destroy my he
loved tranquility BY sending your railroad
down here. Though jou and are so differ
ent 10 our dispositions and pursuits that you
can hardly understand my horror at the idea
Of having transferred to me something that
il Is necessary to your happiness 70 keep
yet are you not my brother2 And, Decides.
must have some one to whom ! csn tell my
tale OF woe, albeit address hut an unsym-
pathetic ear. You, with Jour environment
40 different from mine-yoI, whom habits OF
life have so familiorized with stir and hustle
and activity that those things have become
part Of yourself, cannot conceive how my
whole soul is narrowed up at the thought
even the Thought Of horrid, footing engine,
and fendish, grinding wheels breaking up
my wanted Sahbath-like serenity For, on
the WHOLE Notwithstanding The several III
advised attempts Of shallow paled mortals TO
alter the wise arrangement Ct our beloved
mother, Nature, Ia regard to the part she
allotted to me, my life has been one Of melan-
eholy tranquility in harmony with my isoiAt'
ed location and my vocation as keeper Of We
dead What can that man be thinking about
He must talk too much 10 think at all. Why,
in prehistoric days ages before the white man
dreamed of these shores, the savage red man
ielt in some inexplicable way, that Was
different from other spots on earth and would
pass with soitest football, and bated breath
when, returning at eventide from the chase
be entered thess precincts. he, with hne-
ness Of iatuition-an instructive perception
Of the fitness Of things, built no wigwam, held
no pow-wow, here. Surely ] ask bnt little,
tbs only 10 be let a lone.--' It's only 10 be
allowed TO continue, undisturbed. ms COM
nune with the spirts oil those whose frames
have returned again t6 dust and thereby re-
yive our kipships.--To look forth upon
tile white marble shafts on the all
gieaming m the moonlight or staFotans ana
feel the soothing influence Of the everlasting
repose Of which those tomb stones speak IL
is true my brother, that you have not proved
a very decided success in life; but your posi-
bilites are great and only need developing.
As for mel am success as a graveyard, but
have been, sm, and always will be. failure
as ything else. Whatever may be the out
come OF the scheme to rob you and torment
me, Of this you may rest dssured;-the dust
Of the author Of all my woes shall never re-
pose in my ground. They may bury hun here
with all the ceremony Of ''Uook and bell, "
and heap the soil ABOVE him as high as Hau-
let asked to have it piled above him and
Ophelia, but at night the grave shall open
and cast him forth, and the morning sun
find MIN unsepulehered.
Yours most melancholy,
CHAPEL POINT.