Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-01-31
g SwediSI3 Tale

. Swedish Tale.
In Falun, mining town in Sweden, a
hundred years and more ago, young
miner kissed his fair bride and said to her:
'On St. Lucia's Day our love will be
blessed with the priests hand. Then we
shall be husband and wife, and we will
build rs a little nest Of our own
And peace and love shall dwell in it,
said the beautiful bride, witha sweet smile,
for thou art my al in all, and without
thee | would choose to be III my grave
But when the priest, in prociaming
their bans in the church for the second
time before s.. Lucia's Day, pronounced
the words, If, now, any one can show the
reason why these persons should not be
united in the bonds Of matrimony,' Death
was at hand. The young man, as lie
passed her house the next morning in his
black mining garb, already wore bis
shroud. lie raped upon her win&ow
and said Good morning but never re-
turned to bid her good evening. He never
came back from the mine; and all in vain
she embroidered for him on that very
morning a black craYat with a red border
for the wedding day. This she laid care
fully away, and never ceased to mourn or
weep for him.
Meanwhile, time passed on; the Seven
Years war was fought; the partition Of
Poland took place; America became free;
the French revolutions and the long war
began; Napoleon subdued Prussia, and
the English bombarded Copenhagen
I'he hsubandman sowrd and reaped, the
miller ground, and the smith hammered,
and miners dug after the veins of metal
in the subterranean work shops. As the
miners Of Faluu, in the year 1909, little
before Or after St. Johns Day, were ex-
cavatiug an opening between two shafts,
full three hundred ellis below the ground,
they dug from the rubbish and vitroI water
the body ofa young man, entirely satnra-
ted with iron-yItroi, but otherwise unde-
cayed ard unaltered, so that one could
distinguish his features and age as well as
il he had died only an hour before, or had
fallen asleep for little while at his work.
But when they had brought him out to
the light Of day, father and mother, friends
and acqualntances had been long dead,
and no one could identify the sleeping
youth, Or tell anything 81 his misfortune,
tia she came, who was once the betrothed
of that miner who had one day gone to
the mine and never returned. Gray and
shriyeled, she came to the place hobbliBg
upon crutch, and recognised her bride
groom, when, more in joyful eestacy than
pain she sank down upon the beloved
form. As soon as she had recovered her
.composure she exclaimed !: 1T is my be-
trothed, whom have mourned for fifty
years, and whom God now permits me 10
see once more before die. A week be-
fore the wedding time he went under the
earth and never returned. All the by
ISLANDERS were moved 10 tears, as they be-
held the former bride, wasted ard feeble
old woman, and the bridegroom still in
the beauty Of youth; and how, after the
lapse Of fifty years, her youthful love
awoke again. But he never opened his
mouth to smile, nor his eyes to recognize;
and she, finally, as the only one belonging
to him and. haying right to him, had
him carried to her own little room till
grave could be prepared in the siiuFch-
yard. The next day, when all was ready
and the miners came to take him away,
she opened little drawer, and taking out
the black silk crayat tied it round his
neck, and then accompanied him in her
Sunday garb, as if it were their wedding
day, and moi the day of his burial. As
they laid him in the grave in the church
yard she said: sleep we'll now, for
few days. in thy cold bridal bed, and let
mt the time seem too long to thee. have
now but little more to do, and viii come
soon, and then will be day again As
she was going away she looked back once
and said what the earth has once re-
stored it will not a second time withhold :
Jim, does your mother ever whip you?
NO; but she does darned sight worse
What's thafl' Why She washes my face
every morning. Young America!
Sincerity Is TO speak as we think, to do as
we pretend and profess, to perform and make