The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1882-04-06

and dartlng out into the open air. seemed
to listen eagerly for moment, They're
coming!" she cried, thank God, they're
coming!" @Who2" asked the ordering
soldiers. sour ain Hieland lads! Dinne
ye hear the pipes? It's the auld Tilt that
ken so well, The Gampbelis are coming y
At first, the ears, dulled by hunger and
weakness and ceaseiess cannon thunder,
could bear nothing; but graaHallya light
never seen there before or since broke over
the haggaTd faces az they, too caught the
welcome sound which told them that the
help for which they had almost ceased to
hope was coming at last. Had the Lord not
been on their si6e, thsn had they been like
them that go down into the pit; but on ii
very Drink OF the grave deliverance came
SUCH . oeliverance as has seldom been
wrought oat upon earth. ,&.E. "..
On the highest point Of the low ridge
once crowned by the frGi is.trancAne1t
which the hands and heats Of the braye
mem within mads imp-egnabls.. lies . tiny
plot of green turf lappled With humble
mounds and neat Whits head stonss It is
noble and touching story that is told by
those stones, al marked with the same fata!
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, whsre
they wonld have loved % die, but beneath
ths waiiing agony Of idiAease and delicate
women pining vainly for dne breath of pure
air IN the hot, foul, sulphurous atmosphere
of the sitting cellars in which they
crouched for shelter from the merciless shot:
aud poor little blossoms witherea before
their time by the blasts Of heu-firs around
tnem. Truly these were the first fruits Of
Englands great sacrifice, har best and her
bra7est; 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 srit-
ten over brave man: "Here lies Henry
Lawrence, who tried to do his duty; may
God have mercy upon his soul!"
+ From these grim memories It is pleasant
to escape IN the freshness anu brightness
and beauty Of the wooded outskirts, and to
smooth green lawns and shady Avenues
and dainty little marble pavilions Of Win
tiald Park, filled with q dreamy, repogaful
stiffness, in the midst ofs.w1ich the very
thought Of Wal and bloodsL,sd, seems
absolutely impossible. Yet warsud blood
SIZED have been here IN their Garkest and
ssernest form. a few hundred
yards along the other SID Of tho
highway start out through the clustering
trees battered archway and moldsring
VIVA S&-ASSAAtAiLF. ~ ENssG NSE a pASl4G&A5DVs
This IS the SecunIsa Bagh, oncs d house
hold word at sye1y tiresiis. IN Britain. 1t
WAS not time or storm that made these
! deep, uneven gaps through the solid wall
zas mute witnesses OF what WIS done here
one gloomy Autumn night a wears ago,
Gray haired Veterans viii still tell you how,
when the death STappis OF 1857 was at its
! height, 1000 sspOT inut;aears intssncsI
themselves behind this rampant and sx,lit-
! ed II the fanc,ea possession OF an irn.,rav
] nal,'s ,stress;t fh6v !i,tIs kr5sw win
whom they had 70 deal, 4 few nignss
| lateT Colin Campbell and his H:ghlanaars
came to knock at their gates il q way that
! would take no denial. Gaunt, hagqard.
wasted men, VINO for weeks past have been
hghslng all Day and watching all night,
| nn1 who fall down by scores from
| shaer exhaustion rs soon as the battle is
over, work like giants at the few guns that
can be brought to bear upon the wall. An
officer soon reports practicable breach
! .. e.. 8 hole just wi1e enough for one
| man to scramble through at time. But
this is more than enough for Anglo Saxon
! lighting men with the murders Of women
and babies before them. A H;ehlan der
| struggles through the gap to faI. dead in .
sta1tly under the feet Of his successor, who
| is himself killed the next moment. But no
| slaughter can check the rush Of tina assail.
ants. In they come. man after man,
scramblng over the corpses Of their com. .
rades with set teeth. and flashing eyes, and
ready bayonets. The hearts Of ths butch
ers die within them as the shout of HRe-
member Cawnpore, boys!" out-thundsrs
| tho din of the fray; and their fire grows
fainter and fainter. and the British line
presses on. Two hours Of maddsning din
and slaughter, and Of all the 1000 that
manned the ..naag strives but cne tsrrar-
stricken wretch, - tell lis brx
mnruere-s sow tbs ''Sahtos" 'ces.id shs.
Ia.ss .Ha.ss tcpa ..SeGvnarl- Rasb.. on
| the ::opDos!.e size. ): ting san,onlitanS LIE:
sn3s::a st. pot.avah more .ssutocaole; fot.ths
story that it tells is not OF fierce bravery
| aud bloody vengeance, but Of that patient,
accomplishing he,osm which is u ali
other forms Of human courage what the
| calm fears5ssoess Of the martyr is to the
| fecoclOus daring OF the savage Here the
women and children Of the Lucknow gar,i-
sou. with train Of sick and wounded men,
were once more comprised about by those
VINO knew no mercy. Hare brave James
Outram. with handful Of WORKOUT men,
made good this wide circuit Of crumbling
wall against ten-fold odds, till the deseDss
OF the Alum. Bagh Garden became famous
through out the world as that cs the Luck
now Residensy itself. Here, too, on the
ground hallowed by the greatest of even
his achievements. sleeps Henry Havelock,
the Galahad Of that noble brotherhood Of
English chiyalry who showed. as few have
ever shown, that man may do his duty,
whether as q soldier or as General, not
whit the worse because he fears Cod
A Celestial, Prison.