New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-01-12
A Swedish Tale.


Tn rs,un mining town in Sweden, a hundred
vears and more ago, a young miner kissed his falr
bride and said to her .s,,,. ,,, ;,l
the priests hand. Then we shall be htlspahu ,,ai
wife and we will build us little nest OF our own Gr'
"And peace and love shall dwell IN III salu u Nv
beautiful BRIDE with sweet smile, for thou arr m!
all in all, and without thee would choose 10 DC
in my grave .4...., -.....,a.,
in the church for the second time before ~. Lu-'
ca's Day, pronounced the words, II, now, any
one can show the reasop why these persons shoala
pot be united in the bonds OF matrimony Ies s wSe
at hand The young man, as he passed her housethe
NEXT morning in his black mining garb, already wore
his shroud. He raped upon iher WINDOW ana ssaa
Good morning but never returned 70 pa het sopa
| evening He never came back from the NINE anu
| ali in vain she embroidered for him on that very
morning black cravat with q red border for the
wedding day This she laid carefully away, and
never ceased to mourn or weep lor nun. ...u
Meanwhile, time passed on the Seven ears war
was fought: the partition OF Poland took pace
| America became free the French revolution and the
| long war began Napoleon stbdued russia, ana Tue
English bombarded Copenhagen. The hsbahdmah
sowed and reaped, the miller ground and the smith
hammered. and miners dug after the VEINS OF neSas
in their subterranean workshops. AS the miners OF
Falan in the year 1909, little before or after -.
Johns Day were excavating an opening between Two
shafts full three hundred ellis below the ground tney
dug from the rubbish and vitrol water the body OF
young man, entirely saturated with lron-Vitfoi, DYE
otherwise undecayel ana HUaitetu-so st'u uiS "e''
distinguish his features and age as well as Il ne had
died only an hour before, Or had fallen asleep Tor
" little while at his work. ~
But when they had brought him out to the light OF
day. father and mother, friends and acquaintance had
hcen long dead and no one could identity the sleep
ng youth or tell anything Of his misfortune till she
came who was once the bctrothed OF that miner VINO
had one day gone to the mine and never returned.
GRAY and sliriyelied she came to the place hobbng
upon crttch and recognized her bridegroom, when,
more in Joyful ecstacy than pain she sank down upon
the beloved form. AS she had recovered her
conposyre she exclaimed 10 1t is my betrothed,
whom have incurred for fifty years, and whom God
now permits me to once more before de- week
before the wedding time he went under the earth and
never returned. All the bystanders were moved to
tears as they behe!d the former bride, wasted and
feeble old woman, and the bridegroom still in the
beauty of youth and how, after the lapse OF fifty
wears her Youthful love awoke again. BIT be never
opened his mouth TO smile his eyes to recognize
and She finally, as the only one belonging to himand
= having right to him, had him carried to her own
little room till grave could be prepared in the
: chulrhyard. The next day, when all was ready and
the miners camel take him away, she opened little
drawer and taking out the black silk cravat tied il
round his neck, and then accompanied him IN her
Sunday GARD as if it were their wedd day aEd not
the day Of his burial As they laid him in the grave
e in the churcl-yard she said: sleepwell now, for
few DAYS in thy cold bridal bed and let not the time
seem too long TO thee. have bat little more 10
do and will come sOOn and then will be day again"
n As size was going away she looked back once and
, said what the earth has once restored 1t Will not
g second time withhold