Morning journal and courier., 1888-06-13
ROMANCE OF THE 500. The Remarkable Outcome of the Jflt. Ing of Lieutenant Reins by an Eng lIsh Girl.

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 From the Detroit News.l
 Reins' Landing, on St. Joseph's leland, opposite the sailors encampment. in the Soo river, is always pointed out in a trip up the stream; but time and new generations seem to have obliterated the romantic episode that makes it the most interesting spot along the beautiful shore. It is now more than a hun dred years since young Reins, in the service of his majesty the King of England, fell head over heels in love with beautiful girl, the daughter of a country squire in one of the shires near London. The attachment seemed to be reciprocated, and the young officer trusted his betrothed with conf dence worthy better woman, for the young lady, having many admirers and be- ing somewhat of a coquette, at length fell victim to a designing and worthless scamp, who managed one day, by submit ting false proofs of her lover's disloyalty, to induce her to elope with him.
 The shock killed the father and seemed to quite break the young mans heart. He rallied, however, and soon obtained leave to join the British forces in America, who were engaged in war with the French and Indians It was in this service that, half reckless of his life, he exhibited daring and bravery which gained for him the rank of major. It was also in this service that he discovered the grandeur and beauty of the great lakes and their bordering scenery, and it was here that he resolved, when his commission should expire, to live the re- mainder of his days away from the world. Some years afterward, when he had se- cured his release from the service and was about to put his resolution into effect, having been allotted pension, he received one day from Montreal letter bearing the postmark of his old English home. The letter proved to have been dictated and was to the effect that his former love, be. trayed and deserted by her husband, was on her death-bed, but could not die with out again seeking his forgiveness, and end ed by committing to his cara her two daughters, aged twelve and fourteen re- spectively, and implering him to watch over them for her sake. He hesitated, but the old flame still burned in his heart, as it does ever in mans heart for 8 way ward love, and the next day found him on his way to old England, which he had de- tsrmined never to see again. He had inn agined the children destitute, and that con- sideration had also had it's weight in his conclusion to protect them. Imagine his surprise to learn after short greeting that the estates of their mothers father, willed away at the time of her mad marriage, now came back to them through the death of the relative to whom they were left, and the inheritage amounted to six thousand pounds.
 It was one day after securing his official appointment as guardian of the girls that a strange thought came tc him. He would take his wards to America. So, calling the two beautiful girls to him, the oldest a tall blonde just budding into womanhood, he un- folded 8 glowing plan, to which the girls made no objections, and within two weeks the party sailed for Montreal, whence the three journeyed to St. Joseph's Island in the Sr Mary's river and settled for life. Wheth- CT the sequel was foreseen in Major Reins mind when the idea cane to him that day ir England is to be guessed at. Certainly a like course with their mother years before would have made his life different. He was the only white man in the region, and the events which followed showed that the girls had nc the major, by some sort of ceremony, mar ried both his blooming wards, and in the years that followed over forty children were born of the polygamous union, many ot whom still live in the vicinity. And at the home of one of the renowned majors de scendants the writer lately dined.
 The major and his wives have long been dead, and the blockhouse and other substan- tial buildings, erected by his pension and the girls fortune, have decayed and disappeared while some speculative creature of the pres ent generation has erected near the landing { gable end structure, over the door of whicl is inscribed: "Meals twenty-G five eents-ho