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Show FAMOUS THORN OF CURAY Marked Grave of Brave Swedish Sol dier Who Lost His Life In Thirty Years' War. Everyone hns heard of the Clnston bury thorn, which blooms nt Christmas Christ-mas and wns thought to have been plnnjed by the first prencliers of Christianity In Hrltaln, In the year 31 A. D. There Is. or wns until recently another famous thorn tree at Curny near the old fortllled town of Zell In Germany. A brave Swede was cap tured during the Thirty Years' war and ordered to be killed since prison ( ers were not needed. lie begged to be allowed to write a letter to his parents, and tore a thorn from nn acacia or locust hush for a pen pricked n vein to get blood for Ink nnd on u bit of bis Jnen shirt wrote his mother: "In this life we meet no more. Hope for another." Then he vns murdered. Hut his letter went to Sweden, nnd some years later his father and mother came and hlentl (led the spot by the thorn hush, nnd ; built a little church there In memory , of their gallant lad. The church fell , to ruin years ago, hut the hush grew Into n line tree and wns still there, the nnest of Its kind, until n little while ngo It wns cut down for Uf ; lumber value. Then It waa found to he so old that Its wood was rotten nnd useless. |
