Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-03-14

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struggling lite in one corner nc
leaves covered with crumbling NOR.
Tar, ana a lew gray grass-blades nc.
tween the stones OF the pavenen5
made the desert waste still moro
melancholy TO behold Not a sound
broke the deathly silence that pre-
vailed; even the jackdaws crossing
Ihe bright blue sky passed silently
oeVrhead, and the noise of the
newcomers steps on the pavement
souhded ghostly in their own ears
mere said Ferber, moved nv
the sight of the decay all around him
THESE powerful old mobiles have
plIed up vast masses of stones and
thought the cradle of their race
would proclaim their name. and fame
throughout all time. The different
styles of architecture show how each
heir modified his inheritance AZ.
cordng to his own taste and necec-
s'oes, as though there were never
to be an end of it,
And yet he liyded here but a short
tlme, chimed in the forester, "and
mad at last to pay his rent to the
hnal landlord, Mother Earth, in the
shape OF his own precious self. with
hide and hair But let us go fay-
Their. Brr! l am freezing. Thee
Is nothing here but DEATH"
DO you call that death, uncle?o
suddenly cried Elizabeth, who had
until now been impressed and silent
one pointed to a gate half-concealed
ny an intervening column. There
Dehlnd a green, grated gate, sun.
llSht green was shining, and young
wild roses pressed their blossoms
against the iron rods.
With a bound Elizabeth reached
the gate, which she pushed open,
he space before which she stood
was comparatively large and may
formerly had served as a garden
though the green wilderness couId
not possibly be called So now for
not one foot of pathway was to be
discovered, and only here and there
did damaged head of a statue
emerge from the angle of under.
brush and weeds Wild grapes
cIamDered in lick punches to the
top-story of the building, clingine
tightly to the window sills and fall
ing from these again, like green
ram, upon the blossoming wild roses
and elders below. There was a
great humming and chipping upon
this isolated DIossoning spot o.
earth, as though the spring had as.
sembled his whole winged Reserves
mere, Countless butterflies fiutter
ed IN the air and over the huge fern
leaves at EIizabetns feet golden
beetles ran busily about Several
irulttrees and some fine Iindens rails.
ed their crowns above the blossoms
and uPon a slight elevation stood
the remnants of a pavilion.
The garden was surrounded uDoo
three sides by two-story BUILDINGS
and the fourth side was formed by a
wall, over the top of which the for
est trees looked down. Here foo
all the buildings showed evidences
OF decay, comparatively strong with.
out and utterly ruinous within 4
one-storied nnectng link between
two high wings was conspicuousIv
by reason of It's darkness. II was
not to be seen through, like the
other rootlesE and dorless buildings
The HAT roof, with heavy stone con.
ings at both sides, as well as toe
gray Window-shutters that were Wis
lble her and there through the
tangIe Of climbing plants, must have
detied wilma and weather The
inizi1g that this must be Sabine's ia.
forester thought, after careful scrut.
nous connecting building. Perhaps
1t hhSht not have been SO utterly
ruined within as the rest of the cas-
Tie. But he did not see how the
swallows nest, as he called it. was
TO De reached There were. indeed
neither doors nor stairs to be seen,
by reason of the thick underbrush,
1t was therefore decided to risk tha
ascent OF tlme-worn stone stair
mat seemed comparatively solid and
led 20 one of the side wings and
hence to pursue the voyage of dis
co'ery farther. In this the party
succeeded by constant clinging to
stone wall First they found !,
large apartment which revealed the
blue sky above, and some green
shrnooery at the top of its walls
nigh overhead, as its only decoration
CrumDling rafters, worm-eaten ioists
scraps of fallen roof, with remnants
OF decoration formed a gray mixture
over witch the explorers were oh.
liged to climb in the same desolaf.
condition. Tattered family-portraits
hung upon the walls, showing an IN
canny blending of the dreadful and
the comical, one eye,a pair of clasped
hahHs, or an armor-clad foot.
At last they reached the end of tn q
suite, and found themselves in front
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