The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-06-07

posed tho great and noble, stately as
sembly of broken columns, snowy urns
and tall monuments. The tombs of
those lately dead were known ere you
came close enough to read the date OF
their inscriptions, by the fresh wreaths
OF everlastings, which dear, loving
hands had hung there last All Souls
Day, and by the bright gardens that
fourished over their inmates quiet
breasts.
The name of Winterwerb was we'll
nigh forgotten in Gottngen, so that the
Rath did not dream of searching among
these for Jacobs grave. He hurried
on to where the seven old yew trees
stood in hoary array, and there, sure
enough, was the beautiful marble urn,
no longer white, but gray and venet-
able after the lapse of century.
Here it isl'' cried Rath Marquardsen,
in hoarSe tone, that almost startled
himself. "'Jacob Winterwerb, who de
parted this life June %, 1903, deeply
respected and regretted. >"
''Stay you there" said the business
like professor, ''while l summon the
sexton"
''Not l." said our friend, trying to
conceal shudder; al shall accompany
you"
The day was far advanced before the
sexton and his assistants had removed
the urn, and dug away the earth from
the cotfin-lid. Several people,
attracted by what was going on,
came hurrying up just as the
coffin was raised and laid upon a fiat
tombstone. Rath Marquardsen shiv-
cred, and would fain have retreated,
but shame kept him on the spot. He
was not prepared for the sight that met
his eyes when the lie was raised. The
professor rubbed his spoctacles. and
bent over the coffin calmly speculative,
as he was wont to inspect new Curl
osity in the museum. S"'i
He lifted the folds of the shroud,
which, to his intense amazement, was
white and spotless as it was on the day
of Jacobs funeral, and beneath lay the
body undecayed, after hundred years
sojourn in the tomb. The Rath gave
one trembling glance and turned away
hastily, seized with a sudden fit Of
shivering, while the spectators, pressing
round the coffin, shouted with horror
and wonder. Meanwhile, the professor
coolly proceeded with his examination
He raised the long gray locks thai
rested on a velvet pillow, and strokec
the parchment-like cheeks. 1--WE mus
have this fellow in the museumr' crieC
he delightedly; "a perfect mummy, pre-
served by miracle. / shall write off tt
Heidelberg and Munich, and ge
Schulze and Helms here to examine it
and then shall prepare a paper for tn
AIterthuDier Blatt"
"No, no, Won Schenk. Put hin
back IN his grave; shall never forgiv
myself for the Dissertation of the tomb
, wish had not read that confounde,
MS; then L should not have had tina
} wild dream. nor brought you hear t
disturb. the dead. Replace him, l pra::
you" : 'lViti- 81 ."
/ II shall place him, not replace him
He shall stand between our Thebal
mummy and our Mastodon giganteus
+ in the left-hand corner of the grea
, museum saal. My dear sentimentalist
the responsibility rests upon the Uni
, versity of Gottingen. not on you. Pra
3 set your mind at ease" ..',..,.aI ,
; The Rath turned away in real misery
and walked home, pursued by the voic
of Won Schenk, who called after him t
t inquire whether he were willing to re
sign all claim to the mummy, whic
was his property by right of discovery
1 1t was long time before he preyaile
' upon himself to visit the museum. A
| length some ladies begged him to tax
4 them over the college, and he coul
hardly refuse. Old Jacob was leanin
9 against the wall in his corner between
9 the geological animals and the ancien
l Egyptian; he was dressed in his shroud
: and very grim and horrible he looked
5 but he was surrounded by an admirin
crowd, to whom Prot Won Schenk wa
: relating the true story of Jacob
, Curse; or the Mummy of Gottingen. ~
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