Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-02-13

- 0N6D"s Alhu uOt5 ubt DDd9b OF Gfs
merits. though he is not ignorant Of
them. Neither doss be insist upon i'm
mediate recognition; be 10 willing to
remain unreceGnized until his deeds
shall draw him into the light.
when koseiusko o presented hin self to
Washington With latter of recommend
alton from DIR. Franklin. the general
asked biR what be could do.
Try NE, replied the Polish captain,
Who had been educated ia one Of the
military schools Of Europe. The mod
esty OF The answer, indicative of char
aoter 40 free from assumption ss from
oashfulness, pleased sse commander in
chief, himself ons of the most modest
aad self reliant Of men. He appointed
kosciusko q colonel of enaiueers, in
which responsible position he justified
WashlnRton's saeaeity and was made
one Of his sides- de- camp.
Washington was seldom mistaken In
his judgment Of men. and kosciusko's o
snosequent career In Poland proved that
the American commanders confdence
IN the modest Pole vas net misplaced.
In the Polish insarrection he command
cd twenty thousand regular troops aud
forty thousand poorly armed peasants,
and With this force resisted for months
the lH.0OO men forming the combintd
armies of knssia and Prussia. Every
sohoolboy Who has declained Csmpseli's
lines -
" Hope. for a season, bade the world
farewell,
And Freedom shrieksd a. Koseiusko
fslir'
Knows that he vas taken prisoner st the
capture of Warsaw. having fallen from
his horse. covered With wounds, aud at
the same time Whispering. The end Of
Polaudv'
When Paul became Gear the Polish
patriot vas released frsm prison. Tie
EmF Feror handed him his own sword.
Sire, have no mere need Of sword,
As have no lorger q eouRtry," said Kos
eiusko. declining the gift.
he then settled on farm In France.
when the allied armies were marching
toward Paris a Polish regiment, fora-
ing the advanced guard Of the Rassians,
oeRan foraRinR in = village near kosei.
usko's farm. The TROOPS wantouiy out
raRsd the property of the villagers and
their officers looked on. Suddenly q
man. In the dress Of French farmer,
ordered thew, IN their o~n language. to
step their rsvzges. Offisers and men
gathered about him. surprised to bear
the Polish language spoken by one who
vas apparently a FrenchInau, and quite
indignant At bis presumption IN order
inc them.
when commanded the armr," said
the stranger. ignoring their looks of as
tonishmept and wrath, of which Your
regiment is a part. punished severely
.nch acts as your Off ioers sanction. Had
| the command GOV, would not punish
the soldiers. but YOU"
VITO are Your demanded the colo
mel of the regiment, indignant at being
lectured by an unknown man.
IL am kosciusko,' answered the
stranger.
instantly every hat was removed, and
officers aud privates. doing homsee to
the modest patriot, retired from the
village st his reqaest. The Emperor
Alexander, hearing Of the incident. sent
a Russian guard of honor to protest
kosciusko's farm frem foraeers and
camp followers.
when the Polish patrio. died, two or
thres years after the fall of Paris, toe
same Emperor ordered his rem aims to be
removed TO Crssow, and laid side by side
With thoss of John S-hieski, the Polish
king whose victery over the Turks, be-
fore toe sails of Viepns, saved Europe
from a Maham edau master.