Grant County Herald

AN AFFECTING INCIDENT.
"Not many years since," says Frazer's Magazine, "certain miners, working far under ground, came upon the body of a poor fellow who had perished in the suffocating pit 40 years before. Some chemical agent to which the body had been subjected—an agent prepared in the laboratory of nature—had effectually arrested the progress of decay. They brought it up to the surface; and for awhile, till it crumbled away through exposure to the atmosphere, it lay there, the image of a fine sturdy young man. No convulsion had passed over the face in death—the features were tranquil; the hair was black as jet. No one recognized the face—a generation had grown up since the day on which the miner went down his shaft for the last time. But a tottering old woman, who had hurried from her cottage at hearing the news, came up, and she knew again the face which through all these years she had not quite forgot.— The poor miner was to have been her husband the day after that on which he died. They were rough people, of course, who were looking on; a liberal education and refined feelings are not deemed essential to a man whose work is to get up coals, or even tin; but there were no dry eyes there when the gray-headed old pilgrim cast herself upon the youthful corpse, and poured out to its deaf ear many words of endearment unused for forty years. It was a touching contrast—the one so old, the other so young. They had both been young these long years ago; but time had gone on with the living and stood still with the dead."