The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-09-19
WHEN POSITION FALLS

les naiieyed it not. Was there al
| equI 10 Gen. Washington? Did we
| not ringea a bit to rank when French
mt MS albeit tail, red haiIed boy
cane among us? i title caught ev
en zen many a good appointment
an I doubt much sometimes If Alex
au5 5.r Of New Jersey would have been
80 Il nch esteemed If he had not had
clam to the Scottish earldom of Stir
ling / am sure many inefficient for
eigu adventurers had service with ns
because they had titles. Two of these
gen emen showed undoubtedly great
ag II abilities: one, of course, Mon
81 Lafayette. who, boy of twenty,
cam 50 cleverly out Of the affair OF
| Ba. Hill, and the other C2simir
Pn. ii. the Pole, whom I saw fall
VII I wound in the thigh during the
chas..a on Savannah. Taken on the
bI- Wasp, ne died as she was putting
to esteemed a good friend, a gal
lau oaptain.
Il was only the night before that be
toid ne the truth Of that affair at War
saw hich led to his service la Ameri-
] ca, i was not, the Count Pulaski as
sure" me, himself a party IN this mat
ter though he was indeed member
| 0s 1T Confederation at Bar, sworn
/ to a lt for Polish freedom to the very
eu3 3lJ circumstantial evidence led
| tc baGishment, as it had to that Of
aa p ~ others. DespaiIing of Poland
an, saner for a career, he came to
bm f;2a
-. although my friend was not
biues.f in this affair, the story he told
Of If appaars to me new. The picture
| Of tao king and the assassin walking
side ~ side, and reasoning together
on tlc rainy night in the wood of Bill
any nas had more than passing effect.
The tory proves that our revolt
agai ast a king was not the first. All,
hist ~ IS full of these instances
Ein John. Charles Stewart, Stanis-
lauz 0f Poland. Louis XVI, George
TT av proxy III America, and many
another account.
this is the account of the affair
| as J ramember it that began in the
streat of the Capuchins, Warsaw.
Ft king had been to his summer
pa that day of Sept. 3, I'll, and
his Zach was returning along the
stra of the Capuchins. How it was
9o.a'nck Of a rainy night as the leader
Of tie kings guard of some seventeen
drag tons was astounded when sudden
| ly nan leaped before his horse with
| q loal command Halt" The lieuten
ant truggled to bring his sabre down
on the fellows head His horse ca
reen II, stopping indeed the whole
com any and the coach, whence the
kin" head suddenly projected.
A the moment a shot from a WIN
dow 5G a supposedly deserted house
graz, The kings face, Instantly xii
linz ne servant who was within the
coach
Tho king is assassinated,'. the cry
was aisad from guards and passers.
:'li7. majesty Is dead"
S nislaus, who ever was consider
at his interiors, shouted at this:
is Faliz, the heyduc, who Is shot.
Qr., catch the assasinw
Sf1enly down the street, came
the alnds of horses, and cries. Down
wit tanislaus, the creature Of the
Ru- ans~
f he same instant men rushed out
Of :aa house whence the shot into the
coaa had come, swearing, shouting
an4 ring. One of the kings guards
cr1ea.
- plotl An ambush. There are q
tho and"
i -.antly the panic became general.
We lieutenant Of the guards, who
haG 1cceeded in running through the
fctls- at his bride rein. now found
hin If confronted by horsemen.
tn NC, he led the fight, and the king
Wa, Il almost alone in the coach hug
GIN the dead body of the poor servant
and arliyious to everything else. The
ho, on the coach, required all the
at ion Of the postillions, who them
seiyc. We're frightened ont of whatev
e Is they may have had
Bv this time the leader OF the at
.aos. lg horsemen was dismounted by
IL each door.
"lat, Stanislaus," he cried, you
ar come with me-,
Tine KING. perceiving this to be
| Coaat koiinski, cried out to him.
".5Iinsk. traitor, [ am your king"
Far an instant Kolinski hesitated.
The sight of the king, placed as he
wa, with the dead servant in his arms,
aul. yet. still the king, with that dig
nity Stanislaus always possessed
that scene shown dimly by the lantern
Of the coach, shook for a moment the
conzrirators resolution.
Eey the others were behind him,
| leere ate. and knowing that If the is
sue rs the adventure were not success
ful cath was certain.
.,1.all him oUtr'
INng Stani5laus looked up from the
ijg gcy .juc III his lap-the dark
han -ome man he always was, now
w.t. no fear, but with mastering
ar at the indignity.
cu snail hang for thisw
: they knew that danger too well.
Tie could not hesitate if pity for a
moe mt had weakened their purpose
! Roughly they dragged the king
fro the coach, he struggling and
crv ng ard elinging to the dead and
sides of the coach.
I IA imagine nothing more horri-
ble than that sceue-the king now
on e il the mud. tde dead body of
Ill a,vaut dangling from the coach
s. he postiliioIs struggling with
}a, horses, the conspirators, some on
foo aad some mounted, surrounding
the ting. one bringing the fiat OF a
~..ss against his head, the crowd OF
tov,s people who suddenly had gath
cree
AID then a cry went up:
The guards re returning"
! E0inski was on his horse now. and
! he ,aught the king, who, between the
struggle and horror at his dead servant
was ii half-dazed state Another
| sail Stanislaus' other shoulder.