The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1882-04-06
\ MINNESOTA THU RsDA Y, APRIL 8, 1882


man IA the sitting yanlt of The Tykhaneh l
and darling out into the open ali, seemed
to listen eagerly for . moment They're
coming!n she cried, thank God, they're:
coming! S Who 2" asked the 81 ordering
soldiers. Our ain HiAland lads Dinne
ye hear the pipes? It's the ;auld lilt that +
ken so we'll, The CampbeIls are coming p
Az first, the ears, dulied BY hunger and
weakness and ceaseless cannon thunder,
could bear nothing; but gradually LIGHT
never seen there before or since broke over
the haggard faces as they, too caught The,
welcome sound which told them that the
help forswhich they had a,most ceased to
hope was coming at last. Had the Lord not
been on their side, then had they been like
them that so down into the pit;; but on "a
very Drink or the grave dellverance came
such . deliverance as has seldom been
wrought out upon earth. 0 ss
On the highest point Of the low ridge
once crowned by the fEai d Ssstrsnc hment
which the hands ard haaYss d the brave
men within mads impregnabls,s lies ) tiny
plot Of green turf dappied with humble
mounds and neat white head -stonas It is
q noble and q touching story that is told by
those stones. all marked with the same fatal
year, Young lads lie here whose first glimpse
Of war was their last, and strong men who
died not IN the Forefront of the battle, where
they Wonld have loved, q die, but beneath
the Waiiing agony Of iidiAease and delicate
women pining vainly FIR due breath Of pure
air IN the hot, foul, sulphurous atmosphere
of the sitting cellars In which thew
crouehed for shelter from the merciless shot;
and poor little blossoms withered before
their time by the blasts OF hell FIRE around
them. Truly these ware the first fruits Of
Engiand's great sacrifice, her best and her
! brayest; nor could filter company than this
army of battle martyrs have been found for
him who lies in the midst OF them, beneath
the simplest and noblsst epitaph ever writ
ten over = brave man: Here lies Henry
Lawrence, who tried to do his duty; may
1 God have mercy upon his soul"
From these grim memories il is pleasant
to escape in the freshness and brightness
and beauty Of the wooded outskirts. and to
wander in the quiet Of eve min q among the,
smooth green lawns and shady avenues
and dainty little marble paviiions Of Win
fsid Park, filled with a dreamy. reuossf,al
stiffness, in the midst of.waich the very
thought of war and bloodshad, seems
absolutely impossible. let warand blood
shed have been here IN their dsrkest and
sternest form. A few ls5 nun area
yards along the other :: s2s. .of the
highway start out through the Clustering
trees q battered archway and mol daring
tower sarmoansing q huge dark battsement.
This Is the Secundra Bagh, oncs S house
hold word at every fresiae. IN Britain. &c
J was not time or storm that made these
deep, uneven gaps through the solid Wall
Tue mute witnesses Of what WAS done here
one gloomy Autumn night "a years ago.
Gray haired veterans viii still tell you how,
| when the death graphic OF 1857 was at its
height, 2, 0cb sspoy mutiaeals intrancsd
! themselves behind this raMpart and exsllt-
| Cd u the fancaed posession pt an in pnag-
l.nab.s 4 ttIs krsw VII,
1 whom they lad ID n deal . a ffeW ni,f1ss
later Colin Campbell and his HighIanders
| came to knock at their gates il a way that
would take no denial. Gaunt, haggard,
1 wasted men, who for weeks past hare been
lighting all dsy and watching all night,
T I'D who fall down by scores from
! sheer exhaustion as soon as the bastle is
over, work like giants at the few guns that
can be brought to bear upon the wall. An
officer soon reports a practicable breach "
a. e., hole Just wide enough for one
man to scramble through at time. But
this is more than enough for Anglo Saxon
| fighting men with the murders OF women
/ and babies before them. A Highlander
struggles through the gap to fall dead in .
stantiy under the feet Of his successor, who
is himself killed the next moment. But no
/ slaughter can check the rush Of the assail.
ants In they come, man latter man,
scramblng over the eorpses of their com. .
rades with set teeth, and flashing eyes, and
ready bayonets- The hearts Of the butch
! ers die within them Is the shout of Re-
member Cawnpore, boysl" out-thunders
the din of the fray; and their fire grows
fainter and fainter, and the BRITISH line
! presses on. Two hours Of maddenine din
and slaughter, and Of AL the 900 that
manned the -Na4g sar1ivAs out one tsrfaf
stricken wretch. ::sSal.sd To tell hia brothar.
murderers how tht sSahihss could H.hR
Ihnsa .niiss fspm ..SeeqnEra Raab.. ON
the opppss.e SHE. 81 the santonliaanS LED
snota 81 pDs.eyah more .,asnnrabls, fot the;
story that it tells is not Of fierce bravery
aud bloody vengeance, but Of that patient,
uncomplaiuing he,Oism which is Us ali
otner forms OF human courage what the
calm fearisssness Of the martyr is to the
feroeious daring Of the savage. Here the
women and children Of the Lucknow gar1i-
son. Uikh q train Of sick and wounded men.
were once more comprised about BY those
who knew no mercy. Here brave james
Outram, with 8 handful Of WORKOUT men.
made good this wide circui 1 OF .crumbline
wall against ten fold odds, I'LL the desens So
OF the Alum Bagh Garden became famous
through ont the world IS that cf the Lnck-
now Residensy itself. Here, too, on the
ground hallowed by the greatest .of even
ms achievements. sleeps Hen1y Havelock.
the Galahad Of that noble brotherhood of
English chiyalry who showed. as few have
ever shown, that man may do his duty,
whether az q soldier or as General, not 8
whit the worse because he fears God.
a CeIestial,P Prison.
Although - previously mentioned in the
TiNes, Mrs. Tsun, the Chinese minister's
wife. resolves no visitors and never leaves
the building occupied ~ the legation, she is,
4 Il hear very chearful, = shs his. always been
shNo kyn hnra ~ -.