THE NOKTH ELATTE SMI-WEEKLY XRIBOB1: ITESDAY EYENJ1TG, SEPTEMBER 15, 1896,
' - DEATH.
To a thecscphist.
C t . t - - . -
aiMiL, mercaiB uoaies 01 ine acaa, yon B&y,
na, loiienag; wait mmj- evidence.
Jingling and ciphering to a mortal
3echanic mummers oa parlor play.
2foI To our life, as to a holy day
Of godly wisdom, and of penitence,
13 given no sight of the Supreme. Lut thenca
Shine symbols manifest and. as she may
Faith builds in emblem true and miracle
Mysteries, where the soul itself doth glass,
Whore art, stem eyed, and visa red duty -well
Discourse of things eternal, until death
Kings for the veil to fall, the shew ta pass
Disci to et discedite, he Faith.
George C W. Warr in Academy, j
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As the small sailing yacht drifted
slowly past the bluff at the entrance of
Presque Isle bay the two men sailing
her stood breathlessly watching the
strange lights -which seemed to rise and
fall at intervals on the spot -where the
old blockhouse stood in the days -when
ilad Anthony Wayne, with his troops,
was stationed at the fort and -where he,
was buried in 1796. As the boat drew
close to the shore Herbert Manning, the
younger of the men who had been, striv
ing in the semidarkness to make out
what the unusual lights were, grasped
his companion by the arm, exclaiming
excitedly: "Look I Look quick, captain!
There are three persons on the ground
where the old blockhouse was burned
down. How queer they look. You can
almost see through them. I move we
get away from here; it makes my flesh
creep." Captain Boss, who had a most
profound contempt for the superstitions
most of the sailors are imbued with, :
looked long and earnestly at the group
before he spoke. At first he thought per- j
haps some hot headed feud was being
settled with firearms at an hour of the
night when they could best elude the
vigilance of the authorities; but, no I
The figures whicir could be distinctly
' seen through the mist were unlike the
people of the present day. The military
man, standing with head erect and one
hand extended as if issuing a command,
looked wonderfully like the old por
traits of General Wayne. Standing be
fore him, with folded arms, was a
young man in the dress of a lieutenant.
His face expressed defiance and despair.
Kneeling" bore the general was a slight I
girlish figure, with clasped hands raised
in supplication to the stern man whose
face looked hard and merciless in the
blue ghastly light which made the
scene so weird that the captain as well
as his young friend began to have a
weak feeling-about the knees as they
gazed spellbound through the mist at
the uncanny pan torn ine. The woman,
who seemingly had pleaded in vain,
suddenly springing to her feet, threw
her arms around the young lieutenant,
and in that instant all three figures dis
appeared No vestige of the scene enact
ed remained, although the yachtsmen,
straining their eyes to trace a shadow
of what they had seen, could distinctly
see the ground upon which the ghastly
trio had stood
A moment later the mocn, Lursting
through a cloud, Ehone clear and cold,
showing the bleak spot where Mad An
thony "Wayne had once been buried.
"Who on earth were they, captain?"
again asked the younger man with a
glance at the bluff they were fast leaving-
behind as their sail, answering to a
stiff bieeze, carried them toward the
lower piers. "1 do net know, Bert,"
replied the captain with a short laugh,
trying to conceal the nervous feeling he
could not shake off. 4 I doubt whether
it was any one 'on earth.' If the old
story told by some of the sailors bo true
about the bluff being haunted by the
spirits of 'Mad Anthony Wayne1 and
he young lieutenant he had shot as a
deserter, I imagine we have seen the
Epooks tonight. I have never believed
fh ghosts, but this beats ine.' It is a
trifle too supernatural to suit my taste.
''I will tell you the story of General
Wayne and his favorite lieutenant as it
was told to me by an old resident of
Erie, who moved there from Pittsburg
at the time Anthony Wayne died and
was personally acquainted utii the
facts.
"We all know from history that Gen
eral Wayne was one of the bravest and
most daring soldiers of the Revolution,
and as an Indian fighter had scarce his
equal. He did not know the meaning
of the word fear, and as a disciplinarian
he was a terror to nil who were under
him. Among the young officers on his
staff the one he liked best was a fair
haired youth of 24 years, to whom he
had given leave of absence to visit his
bride, to whom he had been married
but a few days when he received march
ing. orders.
4 'He was a great favorite wi th G enerai
Wayne, who sent him away Buoyantly
happy with the permission to remain 4S
hours with the object of his affection.
-At the expiration of that time he was
tg report promptly for duty. . He started
on his short journey with hearty geed
wishes and congratulations of the other
less favored officers, who, although they
might envy him,, did not grudge him
the 48 hours freedom from duty, nor
the happiness before him. It seemed a
long time, but, alas, how short it was!
The bride, a dainty little wcrr.an un
used to discipline of any kind, with
loving imperiousness so bewitched the
heart and brain of the young husband
that the hours flew on uncounted and the
general's command to return in 43 hours
was unheeded was actually forgotten
until four hours over the allotted time.
They had passed before the lieutenant
realized he had disobeyed orders, and
he was about to return and sue for par
don, trusting to bis gocd standing with
the general to influence his granting it.
It was a hope that showed how little he
knew Anthony Wayne. There was net
.upon record a time when mercy was
shown by him to one who set at naught
one of his commands. Were his nearest,
dearest friend to offend In that way,
while under military regulations, he
rpuld mete out the full measure of pun
ishment without flinching. No matter
how palliating the circumstances nor
how strongly his own. heart plead for
the offender, the offense must be met
T' the penalty laid down by the law.
3Y .ally ignorant of this, our young
hero was hopefuL fie sincerely regretted
bis thoughtless act of disobedience, but
his only fear of punishment was that he
might be put under arrest for a few
nays.
"As he was bidding the little wife
goodby and trying to reassure her that
all would be well with, him, two Etal
wsrt soldiers entered the door unan
nounced and, without further warning,
arrested him as a deserter. 'As a de
serter L Merciful heavens V exclaimed
the lieutenant, realizing in aa instant
tha Kar-ror nf that meant
" I am not a deserter I Who has dared
to accuse me as such?'
" 'Our orders are from headquarters,
sir,. replied the sergeant, showing
him a paper, the warrant signed by An
thony Wayne. The doomed man, crazed
with the thought of what his fate would
be, looked about wildly for some chance
of escape, but the soldiers of General
Wayne were too well trained to neglect
their duty "or to even show the piry they
felc for the young man, whose offense,
seemingly so slight, must yet pay the .
penalty cf a base deserter.
"The few brief hours of happinesshad
cost them dear. What a sad aye, ter
rible ending of that short honeymoon I
The girlish bride, white with terror,
yet not realizing the awful sorrow be
fore her, was sure that she could save
her husband from punishment were she
to plead for him with the general, who
had been so gracious to her when they
met that she could not believe him
crueL Hastily saddling her own horse, j
sue naa ioiiowea ciose Denina tne sol
diers guarding her husband, determined
that nothing should prevent her having
an interview with General Wayne.
' 'Arriving at the fort, Ehe dismountedi
and, slipping past the guard before they
could prevent her, had forced her way
into the presence of the general. It was
said of 'Mad Anthony' that, however
stern and unbending he might be with
his men, with woman he was ten
der, deferential and yielding. They
could not believe the stories abGut his
cruelty, and the little woman who stood
before him was not prepared for the
stern order given to the sentinel to 'es
cort this lady to the outpost and then
report for lack of duty at once' who
has dared to let her through the guards.
'This is no place for you, madam,' he
said more gently, but throwing herself
on her knees before him she pleaded as
only a loving woman can plead for the
man whose life is dearer to her than her
own.
" She might as well have appealed to a
rock as to Anthony Wayne, for, although
every word she uttered stabbed him to
the heart because he was fond of the
young lieutenant whose future had
seemed so full of well earned hope, yet
no thought of granting the pardon in
his power entered the stern command
er's mind In his estimation there,could
be no reprieve for a soldier who willful
ly or through careless disregard of orders
had placed himself in the light of a de
serter. "Lieutenant G. stood before the man
whose power was unlimited with folded
arms awaiting his sentence. Without a
plea for his life and horior, without tho
usual court martial, or, in fact, any
chance of escape, he was condemned to
be shot at sunrise as a deserter. Not a
sign cf agony felt was shown by the
doomed man, whose bright young life
was to pay the penalty of a few hours
of happy forgetf ulness of time, but as
his wife, springing to herfeet, threw her
arms around him as. if to save him and
"with a shriek of terror fell at his feet
unconscious tiio lieutenant turned and
looked at Anthony Wayne. It is said
that General Wayne never forgot that
look while he lived, and that when the
report of the muskets reached his ears
at sunrise that fatal morning he dropped
his head on his hands and groaned
aloud, and it was not well for the hap
less soldiers who had business with him
that day.
' ' One word from him migh t have saved
that life, which" lay like a gift in the
palm of his hand not only one, but
two lives, for the girl bride never re
covered from the shock of that day.
Dying, she cursed the hard hearted sol
dier who telk from her all that made
life dear to her. For that reason, and
because when, the bones of General
Wayne were taken, frcru the grave on
the bluff at Presque isle and carried to
their present resting place among his
kin, the scalp and particles cf flesh
which had resisted decay being replaced
in the old coffin fnd grave by the block
house, the superstitious sailors say that
'Mad Anthony' cannot rest, but that at
intervals he comes to the old headquar
ters where that terrible tragedy was en
acted so long ago. It is believed that
he regretted that act of cruelty which
fce at the time thought imperative duty
demanded in order that military obedi
ence be enforced upon the soldiers whose
hearts were filled with horror at the
punishment meted out to the young offi
cer whom they all loved.
' 'Begret comes too late when the coffin
lid is closed
"I don't know why we have been
chosen as witnesses to the ghastly reap
pearance of the trio tonight, but I am
glad to find myself ence more among
living creatures," added the captain as
the boat touched the pier.
"Whatever mistakes were mads by
'Mad Anthc ny Wayne,' ho at least
was a brave, dauntless soldier, and I for
ere say, 'Rcquiescat in pace. ' " Phila
delphia Times.
Per Secret,
An old lady died not long ago who
during her lifetime had under all cir
cumstances managed to maintain an ap
pearance of composure and placidity
and who had been the admiration, of all
who knew her. When her life was al
most over, her family physician stood
at her bedside one day and said :
"Mrs. Brown, I wish you could tell
me the secret of your happy disposition. '
The old lady looked up at him with
an attempt at a smile and murmured,
"I always had patience with fools."
Boston Woman's Journal
Social Inequalities.
"Say," snapped the busy man, "my
time is worth a dollar a minute a dol
lar a minute. Do you hear?"
"That jist shows the difference in
folks, " said the gentleman with the
shoe laces to selL "Once I done a whole
year's time for only 3.45." Indianap
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"Please,- sir, do you. need any cham
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'Chambermaids I What do we want
of chambermaids? Dis is a hotel, not &
lodgin houses" Truth.
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THE OLD CELLO'S THANKSGIVING.
On fceinjr recovered from a Gencvese garret.
Thank heaven, the age of my shelving is past.
This dust hidden page .
Of my history drear
With a melodist's tear
Is -written at laat-
That long, bitter sSlitude netbenvard cast!
A. century Coxra I A hundred years long
On my dim attic throne,
Likj a Theban of old,
la my sepulcher cold
I ruled, xrhile the song: - s
On my heart kept a vigil unfading and strong.
Gone, gona arc the ladies- in pearls and in
laces.
Those lo rulings from Cadiz
And Venice and Come,
AH. all gathered home,
finite a thousand new fares
Appland my love sighings and sibylline graces I
The love I once bore in my tremulous measure
Is dead, and tho rear
Of tho battle is gone.
Tho curtain is drawn
On the dolor and pleasure
All sealed in my boficm, mysterious treasure I
So I sigh, and I purr, and I moan as If now
The glories that Tvcro
Slept not en my heart.
Bet by a new art
They spring to tha brow
Of the master who rules me, he half wonders
how.
Vogue.
COUSIN HM.
"Young ladies, this is your cousin
Linn, : caid cur father, coming in. ta
dinner one day and presenting "a tall
young man.
Helen and I giggled. Cousin Linn
was tall, as I Eaid, and he did not know
what to do with his tallness. His em
barrassment at sight of two grown and,
I may say, handsome young ladies was
plain.
"What a gawk I" we thought.
Dinner did rot much improve our
opinion of our relative, and it was with
dismay that we heard, as we left the
dining room :
"Girls, I leave your cousin Linn to
your devices this afternoon. I have no
doubt you "can entertain him." Then
father strode out of the door and back
to business.
The wretch I mean, cur new relative,
of coarse. That very afternoon we were
to have paid a number of neglected calls
that could not longer be put off.
Entertain him! Oh, yes, we would
entertain him. And we did.
"Just wait, ' ' said my sister Helen be
tween set teeth. "He shall show us how
himself."
So when Cousin Linn had finished his
cigar he seemed to linger over it an
unreasonably long time and entered
the parlor, his rather shceyish gaze met
a batting cf fcur light brown eyes,
whese owners were prepaied to make
out whatever mischief he invited
The first few moments passed tamely
enough. Cqusin Linn was a twig of a
branch of the family tree that flourished
in a neighboring state, too far away for
us to know more than that we there
boasted also an Aunt Lucy and a Cousin
Kate. We put Cousin Linn down as an
ordinary farmer bey, with a little more
thfTi his share of the farm and of the
boy about him.
Just as wo expected, Cousin Linn
himself gavo us tho first hint of how he
was best to be held up to the proper
ridicule and scorn. In despair at our
brief replies to. his well meant conversa
tional efforts, his eye fell upon the
piano, and he, in gratitude of spirit,
fell upon its neck. He asked us to play.
Poor man 1
Sister Helen began. Now, if there
Was one thing we girls prided ourselves
upon, it was our musical talent and ed
ucation, pr, rather, we were proud of
the talents and father of the education,
which he had paid for with mingled
feelings of satisfied duty and outraged
pocket. But that day Sister Helen ajH
peared possessed. She played nothing
but the simplest tunes, Jigs and reels
and even had tha audacity to pick out
several good old hymns with one hand
I followed her leadr and our pcor old
piano wa3 made to bring forth sounds
that no self respecting cow would have
died to.
"Can'tycu play, Cousin Linn?" asked
Sister Helen. Law, that girl's smile
was as innccent as a baby's, but it
meant mischief for our cousin. That in
dividual, who had applauded us loudly,
looked at his shoes and said yes, he
could play a little. He would try, even
after our brilliant performance.
Cousin Linn's musical education had
evidently been on the lines laid down in
our programme. He reeled off country
dances with the ease of a cow walking
a railroad trestle. If our selections were
rum-te-tumty, Cousin Linn's were rum-te-tumtier.
And to watch, him picking
out the tune, using one, two pr three,
fingers of each hand, his long hair bobi
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lent laughter.
"Let's take him with s," whispered
Helen, as he n eared the end of a "num
ber. " And of course I jumped at the
idea of more fun with Cousin Linn.
"I'm agreeable," said, that young
man when we asked him.
He spake better than he knew.
So off we set To every girl of bur ac
quaintance we paid a visit, and at every
house we made new sport of Cousin
TiiTTTi and his piano playing.
First, we would play when asked,
and always the same rum-te-tum tunes.
Of course, the girls took the cue from a
wink and did the same, while Cousin.
Linn, sat there, his great eyes staring at
his shoes, and saying never a word ex
cept "Fes'm'r and "NoTm."
Then, "Cousin Linn can play," one
of us would demurely say, and Cousin
T-irm always toed the mark and the
pedals.
So it went on. We left one household
after another in convulsions of laughter,
t until we came to Miss Matilda Craig's.
It happenejlifchat Miss Craig played first
and we"wre unable to give her the cue.
Poor, good Christian souL She played
the piano as she did everything else, as
her conscience bade her, just the best
she knew how. So after Miss Matilda
had given us the "Turkish Retreat,"
the ' ' Wellington Boots Quickstep, " and
other carefully rendered selections,
Helen and I could do no less. We thun
dered at Bach and trilled at Chopin in
! the best conservatory style we had been
taught and snickered in our sleeves
(they were wide then, too, my dears,
but at the bottom and not the top).
How Cousin Linn gaped I actually
thought the man's eyes would pop out
of his head
Then we made him play. He had to
be almost dragged to the piano this
time, but we were eager and curious to
see him go through with, his little jigs
and reels again after our old masters.
So Cousin Linn took his seat at the
instrument. Somehow, as he sat there
idly fingering the keys for a moment,
the stoop went out of his back and the
dull look faded from his eyes, and he
seemed almost handsome.
Suddenly he threw his head back like
a warhorse and struck a chord. I never
heard a like sound come from Miss
Craig's old piano or any other. Grand
and full and sweet, it sounded in the
ears of our guilty consciences like the
trump of doom. Again he struck the
keys, and we felt that if it had not been
for the expense and trouble to poor Miss
Craig we would have liked then and
there to sink through her best parlor
carpet.
Then our cousin flung back his long
hair and started off in earnest. What it
was he played I have never known, but
if it be possible to crowd more runs,
cadenzas, shakes, arpeggios and other
tests of technique into one piece of mu
sic I have never heard that piece. The
music seemed to flow from him like a
river, and it was a pleasure to watch the
swift and easy movements of his fingers.
With hardly a pause and never a leck
from the player at his two shamefaced
auditors', the tones of the piano drifted
from the grand to the light and airy,
from the classic to the modern, and
finally into a soft and dreamy adagio
that brought tears to the eyes, that had
just now before beamed with the laugh
ter of mischief.
And all the while poor little Miss
Craig looked on, with folded hands, and
never dreamed what a tempest-of re
morse she had stirred up In two hearts.
Well, remorse meant repentance-,' and
repentance meant reparation.
"We must take him back everywhere
and show what he can really do, " said
Sister Helen as she lingered behind
with me at Craig's gate, pretending to
fasten my sash.
So back we went. Our faces, long
as the shadows of the falling even
ing, told every girl friend that
something was wrong, and when we
had played and they had played and
Cousin Linn had played they knew
what it was. And when we had closed
the last gate and turned homeward we
were two sad and conscience stricken
girls and one silent and solemn man.
But as we neared the house Cousin
Linn's downcast eyes began slowly to
turn, toward us, and as they fell upon
our woebegone countenances the pre
terna rurally grave lines went out of his
face like a dissolving view in a stereop
ticon, and he fell down the man actu
ally fell flat down in a fit.
And we solemnly nicked up our skirts
and left him there groveling in a con?
vulslonof laughter that scared the birds
from every tree in. the block
Cousin Linn came again to the house
many times afterward. He often played
for us, but the painful subject was
never referred to. We did not con
sider him awkward any more. In
fact, I was beginning to think him
quite handsome when one day I came
unobserved into the garden, where he
and Helen sat, and heard her ask for
the first time his f orgivenness for the
trick that had recoiled so shamefully
upon us.
I thought tho man would fall into
one of his hateful fits and turned to go,
but he only bent over her and whis
pered his reply, while I Etole back
through the trees to the house.
So the end of it all was that I had a
new cousin, and, though she is three or
four times removed, to this day I love
her well, for she is my sister Helen.
Cincinnati Pest.
Pollcemea as Models
Phil May seldom lets slip a ehanee to
play a practical joke. Not long ago he
needed a policeman for a model. He
went out into the street and accosted
the first one he met, saying who he was
and what he wanted. "Come to my
house at neon tomorrow," said Phil
May, and he gave the man his address.
Then, he walked on a. couple of streets
farther until he met another bobby.
This one was also willing to pose, and
he was likewise told to appear at noon,
of the following day. The artist wan
dered about London for several hours
making appointments with policemen.
The next day at noon, there was an.
entire platoon of police in front of Phil
May's residence. A crowd collected,
and the reason for such an. array was
freely discussed. Some asserted that a
den. of anarchists had been discovered
and was about to be raided. Others
hinted at a murder or at some other
mystery.
A few minutes after 12 o'clock Phil
May came to the door and invited all
the policemen into his garden. There
he lined them up and inspected them.
He picked oat the mast most suitable
for his purpose, then, handed to each of.
the others an. envelope containing the
regulation fee for a sitting arid, dis
Buseed theaL Pearson's Weekly.
A Scotch. Pearl.
With much preparation' an old man,
half gypsy, half soldier, produced from
his peckef a twist of very dirty news
paper. Unfolding this, appeared a sec
ond twist of grocer's "white brown,"
and when this was unrolled with due
ceremony he displayed a pearl. It was
not a bad one and was about the size of
a sweet pea seed, with fair gloss and
radiancy. He proceeded to enlarge on.
It. "Now, sir, this is a very fine pearl
whateffer. It is really worth 20 guineas.
I have Just sold the like of it to the
Duchess of 2L Yen admire it, sir? No
wonder. Well, I happen to he cut of
gold today, and you shall have it for a
trifle. I will takf 2 for it. Beckon, it
by the cost of seven, weeks of work, for
it took so long to find so gocd a pearL
Put down my clay's work at so much, "
eta 1 admired, but declined
Not so'long before I had bought a Tay
pearl at a Perth 5ewekrTs for exactly 5
shillings. It was quite as lustrous and
nearly as large as the one offered by the
old soldier. Indeed it was so fine that
I hadit set as. a ring in a broad band of
gold' After seeirg the pearls offered at
Perth, unfortunately for the gypsy gath
erer, was I enabled to criticise his prices.
We parted gocd friends, however, and
he went off toLcchEanncch. As a gocd
many brides and bridegrooms were stay
ing in that district, the probability is
that one of the former now wears the
pearl whose fellow adorns the Duchess
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inches in length from the tip of their
pinchers to the termination of the wing
covers. The specimen I have before me
as I write is slightly smaller than the
average Dynastes hercules. It has a
long, black horn growing out of a head
which is even darker than the horn it
self. On its lower surface the horn is
covered with a thick setting of gold col
ored bristles, which the entomologists
say are used by the insect in capturing
its prey. Another and shorter but more
powerful horn grows out from beneath,
the two forming a powerful pair of
pinchers. The creature has six powerful
legs, each armed with claws. The elytra
or wing covers are of a dapple gray
color and the under parts of the body
black. Taken, all together, it is a for
midable creature, with strength suffi
cient to catch and hold a bird of the
size of the English sparrow. St. Louis
Republic
Pope's Pay For His Iliad.
Pope made o,320 by his ' 'Iliad,' 1 on
which he worked alone. By his ' ' Odys
sey, " after paying Broome and Fenton,
his assistants, he made about 3,500. To
Broome and Fenton he paid 50 for
each book. Broome did eight books,
Fenton did four. I would be pleased to
translate the "Odyssey" at the rate of
50 a book that is, for 1,200 alto
gether. A better price is not likely to
be got today, and I have known a much
smaller price offered. Pope got far more
3, 500 for IS books but that was
because of his name. Broome and Fen
ton. were not likely to get more than
they did in open market, -and no pub
lisher would offer so much to ordinary
men of letters today. If the poet lau
reate, even, produced a translation of
Homer tomorrow, I doubt if he would
be offered 3,500. PerhapsLord Tenny
son might have secured that sum, for
his name and fame were justly great in
the land, Longman's Magazine.
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