Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-04-30
A. Swedish Tale.
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF HEBEL

IL.
In ta!um, mining town in Sweden, hun
dred years or more ago, young miner kissed
his fair bride and said to her:
On St Iucas day our love will be blessed
bg the priests hand Then we shall be bus-
band and wife, and will build us little nest
of our own"
And peace and love shall dwell in it." said
the beautiful bride with a sweet smile, ''for
thou art my all in ALL and without thee would
choose to be in my grave"
But when the priest, in proclaiming their
bans in the church for the second time before
st. Lucia's day, pronounced the words, 'If,
now any one can show reason why these per
sons should not be united in the bonds of mat
rimony," Death was at hand The Young man
as he passed her house next morning in his
black mining garb, already wore his shroud-
He raped upon her window and said, good
mornng-but never returned to bid her good
evening. He never came back from the mine
and all in vain she embroidered for him q black
cravat with red border for the wedding day
This she laid carefully away, and never ceased
to mourn or weep for him.
Meanwhile, time passed on ; the Seven
ears war was fought the partition of Po-
French Revolution and the long war began
Napoleon snbdued Prussia, and the English
bombarded Copenhagen. The husbandman
Sowed and reaped, the miller ground, and the
smith hammered, and the miners dug after the
VEINS OF metal In their subterranean workshops.
AS Tie miners OF talun, in the year eighteen
nundred ana nine, little before or after St.
JohnS day, were eXcavating an opening be-
tween two shafts, full three hundred ellis below
the ground, they dug from the rubbish and
Vltro water, the body of young man. entirely
saturated with iron vitrol but otherwise unde-
cayed and unatered-so that one could dis
tlnSuish his features and age as well as if he
had died only an hour before, or had fallen
asleep for a little while at his work.
But when they had brought him out to the
light OF day, father and mother, friends and
acquaintanccs, had been long dead 70 one
could identify the sleeping youth, or tell any
thing OF his misfortune till she came who was
once the betrothed Of that miner who had one
day gone to the mine and never returned
Gray and shriveled, she came hobbling upon a
crutch, and recognized her bridegroom when
more in joyful ecstacy than pain, she sank
down upon the beloved form As soon as she
had recovered her composure, she exclaimed,
IL Is my Detrothed whom L have mourned
for fifty years, and whom God now permits me
to see once more before die A week before
the wedding time he went under the earth, and
never returned"
All the byStanderS were moved to tears, as
they beheld the former bride, wasted and
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 having a right
to him, had him carried to her own little room.
till grave could be prepared in the church
yard. The next day, when all was ready, and
the miners came to take him away, she opened
a little drawer, and taking ont the black silk
cravat, tied it around his neck, then accom-
panied him in her Sunday garb, as if it were
their wedding day and not the day of his
burial. As they laid him in the grave in the
churchyard, she said Sleep we'll now, for a
few days, in thy cod bridal bed, and let not
the time seem long to thee. | have now but
little more to do, and will come soon, and then
it will be day again" As she was going away,
She looked back once more and said, "What
the earth has once restored, it will not sec
ond time withhold. ". Y. Ercning Posi-