Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-06

One man amidst q thousand who dehed him.
On man from whom bis awful strength had fed
You brought him out TO lash him with your ven
geauce,
Ten thousand curses on one hoary head
You think his eyes are closed and blind forever,
Because you scared them TO this mortal day;
70 draw longer breath OF eXutation,
Because your conqueror's power has passed
awpy.
q, fools! his arms sre round your temple pllart
o, blind his strength IN wine begins TO awake
Harkl the great theatre trem0ies from its centre
Harkl how the ratters bend and swerve and
shake
Rose Terry Cooke, known as poet and
a writer Of New England stories, died al
her home in Pittsfsld, Mass, July Is, in
her Seth year MRS, Cooke was one OF
the best Of the sympathetic delineators OF
Yankee life and character, of whom Mrs
Stowe is chief writers who have presented
the peculiarities of old New England pso-
pie, in custom, dialect and ways OF
thought, without caricAture, but with full
| appreciation and portrayal of the humor
the palhos, the principal and the hardness
the occasional deep sweetness and the mar
row conditions of those people, whose
types are now growing fewer and farther
retired. Sac began 10 write when she
was a girl, and vtrs OF hers appeared in
Horace Greeley's New York Tribune
and the name OF Rose Terry was
known 10 the readers of the Hart
ford Courant and The Republican in
years before the war One OF
her stories of that day published in
the eolumes of The Republican, entitled
Three OF Us, fingers in the memory yet as
a touching, tragic episode. Her first
writing outside Of school poems and
dramas, aud some things contributed to
local papers, was The M9rmon's Wife,
which appeared when she was Is years
old in the celebrated Graham Magazine,
Of Philadelphia, In Edgar A. POe's time
and she and Mrs. Stowe were tho no able
band of first contributors to the Atlantic
Monthly Mrs Cooke furnishing the
leading story in the first number of that
magazine. Her long stories are of excel.
lieut. quality, but undoubtedly her strength
was SHOWN in the short story, a form quite
as valuable and quite as decisive of the
stature of a writer as the three volume
novel. The novel Mrs. Cooke could not
handle as Mrs. Stowe could, but in the
short story she wa', at her be {, uusurpass.
ed and scarcely eqnaled in that field, The
power al story of Freedom Wheeer's Con.
stroverey with Providence may be cited
here, it Is a masterpiece of tragic conflict,
which ranks in that respect with Haw-
thornes Scarlet Letter. Literary
quality Mrs. Cooke possessed in
| positive degree though she has no
sure mastery of it, When she felt
most deeply, and wrought her theme ia
the quiet union of her warm heart and
earnest head, as in several tales of this
type she rose to an unusual power of ft
expression We nave regarded her
sketch Of The Deacon's Week,-which,
appearing IN a religious weekly, made
such an impression that it was issued as a
tract,--as one of the most suggestive
treatises on applied everyday Christian
ity that was ever written. Asa poet Mrs.
Cooke has written many lyrics accepted
by the public, end many that are charm
ilg. The Two Villages (tbose of the hv.
ing and the dead Is a poem that's wholly
| familiar
Mrs. Cook was the daughter of Henry
Wadsworth Terry and Anne WRIGHT
Hurlburt On both sides her an
cestry was the old New England
stock. The Terrys are an old Connecti-
cut family, and her fathers middle name
points 10 a share in the ancestry Of
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, while her
mothers father John Hulburt, is spoken
OF as the FIRST New England ship-master
who a led around the @orld--and wheth
er his were 50 or not, he and his fathers
before him were sea captains Mr.. Terry
was a prominent man in Hartford, and his
/ daughter Rose was born at West H rtford,
/ + buary Is 1897, on a farm whence her
| father and mother moved to the city when
4 she was a child. SIZE had q common
school and seminary education; and at Is
ohe was graduated from the seminary
| She became a contributor TO the Atlantic,
Harperss ard other magazines. Stead
/ fast, a nogel-her latest work, won wide
recognition, and was eOmplimented by Mr..
/ Gladstone on its appearance IN England.
/ Whittier has SAID OF Der that she was the
best writer Of the New EoRIaud dialect
stories Her tract Tie Deacon Web
/ has been translated INTO many languages
Miss Terry was married at New Haven
/ April IL, 1873, to Bollin H. Cooke, an
iron manufacturer at Winsted, Cf, whore
/ her home was for several years thereafter
and until her husband removed 10 Pitts
field ia 1887 The mex spring they oCcu
MED a house on East street. OEIng 10
| Mrs Cookies i'll heath, following at
tack Of pneumonia, the pleasant home was
broken up and she wen 10 Boston, where
she spent the winter OF 1889, and was at
lacked by the epidemic influenza, which
7 80 undermined Ter strength that on her
return spent two months in the House Of
1 Mercy. After this time with her husband
sbo took rooms with Mrs. G. A. RObt on
the corner OF Wendall avenue and East
] Houeatonic street SUp never recovered
from a severe bronchial cough, and suf-
fered three other attacks Of the grip, each
Of which left her in a still more critical
state Of health A short time before her
death she asked to be moved into a chair
that she might die more easily and soon
after relapsing into s,upor, her cod was
as painless az 1t was unexpected.