The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-07-22
CHIT-CHfT.

| transferring the following extract from a
Chicago Tribune editorial on the death of
Lady Franklin to the chit-chat column.
But there is contained within it so many
lessons of trust and faith; of womanly de-
votion, amid multitulinous trials, that it
will do all good &C read it.
Lady Jane Griffith Franklin is dea d..
Her long waiting and weary watching ale
ended. Through the darkness of the grave
she has passed to that country where the
mystery SO long hidden in the frozen fast
nesses of the North has already been solved
for her. Thirty years ago, on bright
May morning, Sir John Franklin set sail
on his fatal voyage of discovery to the
North Pole. His brave wife with her own
hands had helped tit out the Terror and the
Erebus, those vessels Of i'll omened names,
and her goodbye and words of encourage
ment were the last sounds he heard as he
sailed away, never TO return. Years pass
cd, and no news came from the North.
Slowly and reluctantly the world came to
the conclusion that the gallant explorer
was lost,-all but this devoted woman,
whose faith aud courage rose as all others
gave up hope. She was not a woman to
sit and wiring her hands in nut despair or
to waste her life in hopeless mourning.
Fir John was lost-then be must be found
She reused herself and reused others
Moved with admiration of her wamanlv
courage and devotion, there was not want
ing gallant knights, both in England and
America, ready to answer her call to search
for her absent lord throughout the silent
region of the Pole. Expedition after ex-
petition sought faithfully, but the ice and
snow refused TO yield their secret. Five
years passed, still the womans heart did
not fail her. She fitted cut an exredition
herself, and it sailed away with the bless
ing of her prayers, and freighted with the
dearest wishes of her heart, only to return
with the same melancholy tidings. Four
more years passed, and Dir. Rea came back
with the news that he had found some relics
which demonstrated to the satisfaction Of
the world that the Terror and the Erebus
had been crushed IL the lcebeygs and that
the crew were lost. Still this brave heart
ed woman did not give up hope. With
undaunted courage she fitted oct still an
other expedition, which was placed in
charge Of Capt. McClintock. Three years
sped away and he returned bearing with
him record Of the death of Sir John Frank
lin and the abandonment Of the Terror and
Ecebus found IN an icy cavern on the shore
of King Williams Land. y'his was the
death warrant of her hopes that her hus.
band was alive. II extinguished the last
spark of hoYe that they .wo could ever meet
again is this world, but it could not cxtin-
guish her love, and devotion, and courage
She could no longer question that her bus
band was sleeping his last sleep in the fro
zen North with no monument tC mark the
spot but the towering icebergs whose solid,
glittering walls he had sought to pierce
through to pluck the mystery Of the North
ern Pole. She could no longer hope to
catch the CLEAN of his coming sail as she
watched the ships come and 20 over the
sea in her weary vigil. But her love was
not buried with her lord, her life did not
droop or y ishcr. She nj, ight yet hear from
some OF the crew and learn something of
sage of love he might have sent her, and
where he was buried SO from that day,
fifteen years ago, TO the day she died, she
pat,onized all the Polar expeditions until
her fortune was gone. No vessel sailed to
the North that did not carry with it some
commission from her. When the English
expedition set sail few weeks ago for the
Polar regions, she went on board to speak
some words CT encouragement to the sailors
and to bid them good bye, and also sent
her own son to search for his father grave
When Sir J chm Franklin set sail from Eng
land, she was woman in the prime oflife,
being in her 43d year. When she babe
good bye to the feet, she WAS poor old
feeble woman OF -, whose Little spark Of
life was fe alone by the love she still bore
for her husband.
4 trip to Milwaukee at tn is season of
the year by way Of the NJ. L. S. & w. R.
r, is about as delightful as any we know
Of 10 the state. The road runs through a
beautiful section of country, which is now
seen to the best advantage. The road is
smooth, the officials kind and courteous and
altogether, the ride will pay anyone who
may be called Milwaukee ward either OF
business or pleasure.