The daily gazette., 1878-01-07
THE MINERS BRIDE.
BY A. D.

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In Falun, ! nainine town 10 Sweden,
. hundred years or more ago, young
miner kissed bic fhir bride, and said 10
her: " tet e9ld1 s's yftt4tT HOS
aOn 81. Lucia's day our love viii b
blessed BY the priests hand. Then We
shall be hnsband and wife, end we win
build rs : little nest Of our own.r
"And psace and love shall dwell in II, y
said the beautiful bride, with . sweet
smile, ''for thou art my all In all. and
without thse 1 would choose 70 he in my
grave.' H5 1 t9l s. IA IA
But when The priest, in proclsimIng
their banns In the church for the second
time before st. Lucla's Day, pronounced
the worda: .If, now, any one can show
reason why thess .persons, should not be
united In the bonds Of matrimony, death
was q hand. The young man, - be
passed her house tho next morning In his
black mIning-garb, already wore his
shroud- BE raped upon her window and
said good morning., but be never return
cd TO say good evening. He never came
back from the mine, and ali IN vain. she
embroidered for him on that very MORN
Ing black crsvat with . red border for
the wedding day. This she hid carefully
away and never ceassd TO mourn for
him, hEFI HAuh*
Meanwhile time passed on, the seven
years war was fought; the partition OF
Poland toek place; America became free;
the French Revolution and the long war
began, Napoleon subdued Prussia and
the English bombarded Copenhagen.
The ahusbandman sowed and reaped,
the miller. ground, the smith hammered
and the miner dug aftef the veins Of
meal 10 their subterysnean workshops.
I A the miners Of Falup, In the year
1900, o little .before or after St, John's
Day, were ,excavating an opening be-
tween two shafts fun three hundred ellis
below the ground, they dug from the
rubbish and vicroi water the body OF q
young man, entirely saturated with
vitrol, but Otherwise unducayed and un-
altered-s0 that one could distinguish his
features and age as we'll ~ IL he had died
only an hour before, or had fallen asleep
for q little while at work. Z
But when they had brought him ont to
the light OF day, father and mother,
friends and acQuaintsnces had been long
dead no one could identify the sleeping
youth, or tell anything of his misfortune
till she came who was once the betrothed
ofthat niueF, who had one day gone to
the miue and never returned. Gray, and
shriveled she came to the place, hobbifng
upon crutch, aud Recognized her BRIDE
groom, when, more in joyful estacy than
pain, she sank down upon the beloved
form. As soon ~ she had recovered her
composure she exclaimed lD.l ~
cit IL my betrothed whom I have
mourned for forty years, and whom God
permits me 10 see once more before die.
A week before the wedding time he went
under the earth and never retured."
All the bystanders were moved to tears
as they bshsla the the former bride, q
wasted and feeble old woman, and the
bridegroom still In the beauty Of youth
and how, after theIlapse, of ffty years,
her youthful love awoke again. But he
never opened his mouth TO smile, nor his
eyes to tecognize and she, finally. ~
the only one belonging to him and hay
| ing right 70 him, had him carried to her
own little room till grave could be pre-
pared in the churchyard. The next.day,
when xll was ready and the miners came
TO take him away, she, opened little
drawer, and taking cut the black silk
cravAt lied 1t around his neck and then
II il we're their wedding day and not the
day Of his burial. As they laid him In
the grave of the churchyard, she ssid /: 9
"6leep well now, for n few days, In
thy cold burial bed, and not let the time
seem long 70 thee. / have now but little
moro 70 do, and then it will be day again."
As she was going away she, looked back
once more and said, "What the eartb
has once restoredwill not . second time
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