Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-05-11

naleVer the law Will allow 10 tnee.
Then flew the maid to the Court of Lords,
Where every man wore a brace Of swords,
And babe them name what sum would be her
When her Turk should go to his fore a-ther:
They sat in the council from dawn till night
And sat again till morning light
Figured and counted and weighed to see
What an eightieth widows third would be !;
And at the end Of it all, as you we'll Nigh
Was nanght but grief to the Turkish beau;
For Lovely Waska Singty Wee
Said: eco back alone to your old Turhcj''
Early Life Of Major Andre.
Andre was son of Swiss merchan
in London, where he was probabl,
born, and was about twenty-four year,
old when he was made prisoner. \
an early age he had mastered several OF
the modern languages of Europe, an(
had become an expert musician, ;
promising painter and draughtman
and graceful dancer. His reading
was extensive. and his general knowl
edge of bellies lettres literature was re-
markable for one so young. From his
pen flowed graceful rhymes, and from
his lips q sweet voice, af1luent of words
that bewitched all who came in con.
tact with his handsome face, as deli.
icate and tender in expression rs that
Of 4 woman.
Young Andre entered his father Z
counting room as clerk when he was
nearly seventeen years old, but the
death of that parent soon changed the
current of the young mans life. With
his mother, 4 younger brother, and
three sisters he spent the ensuing sum.
mer in the interior of England, and at
Litchfield he made or renewed an &C.
quaintance with the family of Thomas
Seward, canon Of the cathedral there,
and living in the Bishops palace. His
house was the center OF literary cir
Gle in that neighborhood, composed of
such young men as Thomas Darwin,
author of The Botanic Garden;'
William Harley, who wrote about
1.-The Tears of Penelope Sir Brooke
Boothby. author of ''Triumphs of
Temper" Pichard Lowell Edgeworth,
the father of Maria Edgeworth the
novelist, and Thomas Day, whose
delightful story of Stamford and Mer.
tom charmed young England almost a
hundred years ago rs much rs did
'.Ro inson Crusoe'-''a book" wrote
Leigh Hunt, which I shall always re.
member and always be grateful for"
These were then only young aspirants
for literary fame, an almost nebulous
galaxy. of which Anna, a daughter of
Canon Seward, was the Upright partic-
ular STAR She was the planet around
which the others revolved as satellites
paying homage to her genius, and
praising her poetry, ''most of which,"
Walter Scott, her biographer, said,
sis absolutely execrable." The grace
and beauty OF her person. and her rare
conversational powers made her very
attractive.
1t,was in this circle, and especially
in the company of Anna Seward, that
young Andre spent a delightful sum-
mer. Canon Seward had in his family,
as his ward, Il young lady named Ho.
nora Sneyd, daughter Of a dear, de.
parted friend. Her blue eyes, golden
hair, graceful person, slight hectic
flush on her cheek that heightened the
brilliancy of her charming features
her sweetness of temper, and her vi
vacity of manner won the heart of
young Andre. The maiden was equal
ly impressed by Andres mind and per.
son. 1t was clear case of Glove at
first sight" and not many days had
passed by when they were solemnly
aftianced. Andres love for Honora in
spired his first effort to delineate the
human face. He painted two minia-
ture likenesses of her, one of which he
gave to Miss Seward, and the other he
kept for his own consolation during
absence from her. This he carried in
his bosom until the latest hour of his
life.
Miss Seward was delighted, and tried
to speedily light the torch of Hymen,
but wiser counselors interposed. The
extreme youth of the lovers made
their nuptials then undesirable. They
might ''marry in haste and repent at
LEISURE" and 50 time was given them
by the parent and guardian for repent
ance before marriage by a long sepa.
ration.
1t has been observed that in all love
affairs there are two parties, the one
that loves and the one that is loved.
Miss Sneyd seems to have been in the
latter category. She soon repented,
and in l773, four years after her en-
to Andre, she became the
second wife of young Richard Lowell
but not the mother of Ma
ria. Andres love remained I'M.
quenched. His letters to Anna Seward
were filled with affectionate senti-
ments toward the object of his love.
He dislikes the bushes of as merchant
but for her sake he resolves to pursue
it. "All my mercantile calculations,
he wrote, ego the tune of dear Homo.
"a. When an impertinent conscious
ness whispers in my ear that am not
of the right stuff for a merchant, l
draw my Honora's picture from my
bosom, and the sight of that dear tails
man so inspirits my industry, that no
toll appears oppressive Anna Sew.
ard summed up the matter in rhyme,
saying:
Now Prudence, in her cold and thrifty care,
crowned on the maid and babe the youth
despair;
For power parental sternly saw, and strovc
70 tear the holy bands of plighted love;
Nor stroye in vain; but while the fair one's
signs
Dispense like April storms in sunny skies,
The frmer love, with answering truth,
TO his first passion consecrates his youth.
Andre had always expressed 4 pre-.
ference for the life of soldier to chat
IF a merchant, and failing to reawaken
the tender passion for him in the hos.
om of H0nora Sneyd, he obtained the
of lieutenant in the most
ancient regiment in the British service,
the Seventh Foot, or Royal Fusileers,
in 1855. That was in the
spring of I'LL. He afterwards spent
time in Germany. Just
before he sailed for Philadelphia in
LIZA Ito observe the movements of