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In Falnn, uining ioua in Sweden, .
hundred years or more age, . Joung miner
Kissed HE fair bride ssd s4id to her:
On 81 Lueias Dsy our love will b. bls...
ed vish the priests hand Thea We ss.ll
be husband and wife, sad We will build .,
. little nest Of our osn
Add peace and ls,e shall dseil In IL
Esid the beautiful bride, with a sweet smile,
for thou art my all IL all, aud vi,hsat thee
would choose TO be in ny grave
But ubse the priest. 10 prpelsisaing 4 their
banE il The et1reb for ;ks second tins be
lore =. Baeis's Day, pronoansed thewords,
Al, nov, any ee- eau show the rssssn uhy
thsse porsous SHOULD hss be united Ia the
bonds OF mairimcny, Death Was al 'h.Ed -
The young man, as he passed her house the
next moreing in his black mining garb, al
ready we're his shroud fIe raped upon
her window aud said Coed tseruins'-but
never returned b bid her good evening =
He never came back frou ihe niue: aud all
- vain she enbroijersd fsr h,m on that vsry
morn.sg black cravat with . red border
for the -dipg day This che laid care.
fully asay, anc asver ceased TO mourn or
weep for him.
Mssawhils, time passed on the Seven
Years war uss fought The PARTITION Of Ps-
land took place America became free the
French revolution aud the long war began
Espolcsn subdued Prussia, aud the English
bon barded Copenhagen The husbandmau
soWed ssd respcd, the miller ground. aud
the smith hammered, aud miners dug after
the veius Of faetai IN their subtsTTanesn
work shops As he miners Of Fsjuo, in the
yesr 1909, little be- fore or after IS Johns
Day, were exesSating an opening between
tw0 shafts. full three hundred els bctou the
ground, Oh. dug from the rubbish sBd Wit
roi water the body OF 4 young man. en:ire-
ly saturated With iron yitTol. but otheruise
undecayed aud unaltered 80 that one could
distinguish bis features and age rs well ~
he had died only an hour be ore, or had
fal.en asleep for little while at his work
But when they had brought him ou, 10
the light Of day, father aud mother, friends
and acquaintances, had been long dead, and
no one could identify the sleepiug youth, or
tell any thing Of his misfortune, tili she came,
who was ose1 the betrOthsd Of that miner
who had one day gone 10 the mice ana ncy.
CT returned Gray aud sbriveIled she cane
10 the place hosbliag upos a ernteh, aAd re.
eo.sized her bridegroom, Uhes, more 10
joyful s.-staey than pain, she sank down upon
the belovea torm. As soon as she had re.
covered her esI> >posure, she exclaimed st
is my betro,hed. w.. EN- have mourued for
ffty years, aud xhom q I'd bOu permits me
to see once more before a.. A week be-
fore the Wedding time be vent under the
earth, and never returned All he by
ISLANDERS we're moved TO tears as they be-
held the former bride, q wasted aud feeble
old woman, aud che bridegroom siill In the
beauty Of yesth asd how, after the LAPSE
Of hfty year,, her youibfal lovs s~she agsis
Bat he never OPencd bis mouth TO smile,
nsr his eyes 20 recognise and she, Gsally,
ss the only Que belonging 10 him aud hav.
| ing right to him. bad him carried 10 her
/ eH0 little room, I'LL . grave could be pre-.
| pared ia the church yard The next day.
when AL vas ready aud the minsts came 10
take him away, she opened little drawer,
aud taking out tie black silk eTavst, tied IL
round his neck. and then accompanied him
is her Sunday gsrk, o. II il were their we'd.
/ 6ias DAY, aud net che day Of his burial -
! A. they laid him iB the grave in ths church.
/ y I'd, she sAid sleep well nov. for n few
I da)s, IN Thy cold bridal bed, and let not the
time seem too long 10 thee have now ba.
little more to do, and Sill eone soon, and
( then will be dsJ again A. she Vas going
away she looked back once aud said What
the earth has once restored, is will rot Sc.
eoRd time withhold