THE TIMES, NEW BL00MFIEL1), PA.. SEPTEMBER 8f 1880.
A Mohawk Legend.
THE valley of the Mohawk Is one of
the most picturesque and beautiful
In the world. And, if it 1 attractive
now, what must it have been before its
acres were given to tillage and Its moun
tain sides robbed of their forest cover
ing? At one point a high mountain ends
on one side in a terrible precipice of at
least two hundred feet, at the base of
which the river rolls and tumbles over
Its rocky bed. Connected with thta
mountain Is a legend which, although
never before put in print, still lives in
the traditions of the neighborhood. It
runs as follows :
More than a hundred years ago Brave
Dear was one of the youngest and hand
somest warriors of a tribe of Indians
which dwelt in the Mohawk Valley.
'Tall, straight and powerful, his physical
prowess won for him wide fame among
his people. Indeed, he and White Beer,
the chief's pretty daughter, were the
pride aud boast of the tribe; and, as the
chief had no eon, the marriage of White
Deer with Brave Bear was ultimately,
by general consent, to elevate the latter
to the rulership of the tribe.
The young people assented to this, for
it chimed exactly with their desire.
Time went on, and the day fixed for the
performance of the marriage rites drew
11 ear.
At this time white settlers had invad
ed some portions of the Mohawk Val
ley ; and within a few miles of the hunt
ing grounds of Brave Bear's tribe lived
a family named Batterson, consisting of
a husband, wife and daughter. Mary
Patterson, Just past sixteen, was freBh,
blooming, and healthy. Pure air and
exercise kept her cheeks red, her limbs
supple, her spirits buoyant; and the
whole valley could not boast a prettier
girl.
One day Brave Bear, wandering near
the clearing, came upon Mary. Proba
bly he had never seen a white girl
before, or, If he had, not one so attract
ive as Mary. Although a little fright
ened by the encounter, for the place was
solitary, the girl was reassured by the
Indian's kindly demeanor. Indeed, he
showed his admiration so plainly that
Mary could not but see it. He paid her
the broadest of compliments in terribly
broken English, and followed her to her
own door. Then he turned suddenly
and was gone. The fact was, that the
savage was thoroughly impressed by
. Mary's charms, so different from the
dusky beauty of White Deer. The pale
faced girl was in his dreams that night,
in spite of the proximity of his marriage
to the chief's daughter.
With an Indian, treacherous by na
ture, the evil wish is father to the deed.
Brave Bear's sudden love for Mary
blinded him to every other sentiment.
All was swallowed up in a desire to
possess the newly-found treasure, aud
his scheming brain readily concocted a
plan for her abduction. Accustomed to
the proverbial submission of Indian
women, he imagined that, once in pos
session of Mary, she would quietly be
come his wife.
Stealthily watching her movements,
he soon caught her at a sufficient dis
tance from her house to suit his purpose.
Seizing her in hla powerful arms, he
bore her rapidly off. She screamed, but
no friendly ears heard it. She entreated,
but her captor would only assure her
that no violence was intended. She
was, he added, to become his squaw;
only, he further explained, it would be
necessary for him to hide her for a few
days in some safe place. His marriage
to White Deer was at hand, and al
though the laws of his tribe did not
prevent an Indian having two or more
wives at once, Le wished to have one
marital ceremony fairly concluded before
another was begun.
Brave Bear, after carrying his captive
some distance, bade her walk. Knowing
the uselessness of resistance, she obeyed.
After a while he securely blindfolded
and led her, to prevent her finding the
way home in case she got away.
After a walk that seemed of many
miles to poor Mary, the Indian stopped
1 -and removed the bandage from her eyes
Upon looking round, she saw that dense
forests surrounded them on three sides,
but the fourth was a nearly perpendicu
lar rock.
Pushing aside the vines which over
grew the latter, the mouth of a small
cave was disclosed. Into it Brave Bear
conducted the girl. The interior evi
dently had been roughly fitted up for
her reception. There was a couch of
skins, some food, water, &c. There she
was to remain, as her captor cautioned
her, without venturing more thau a few
feet from the entrance. He then left
her.
Mary's first thought's were of escape ;
but a moment's reflection convinced her
it would be impossible. To fly would be
foolishness, as the would be unable to
find her way home. Therefore, she
determined to stay where she was, and
hope for the best, being at least safe
from hunger.
That night she slept but little, and in
the morning, her eyes red with weeping,
Bhe went out, and sat disconsolately
upon the fallen trunk of a tree.
Now this chanced to be the day of
Brave Bear's marriage to While Deer.
The latter, with heart overflowing with
love for the handsome young warrior,
rose as happy as a lark, and wandered
off into the woods for an early walk.
As Bhe went along, she came upon the
captive Mary, who still sat crying. The
sight of a girl so unhappy, when she
herself was so joyous, touched the heart
of the Indian maiden with pity. She
addressed Mary as well as her limited
command of English would permit.
The conversation, robbed of its dialect,
was as follows :
" Why does the white maiden weep V"
asked the savage.
"Because she is In very great trouble,"
replied Mary.
"She is too beautiful to weep; the
tears dim the brightness of her eyes.
What is her trouble V"
" She has been carried off away from
her home and friends by a wicked In
dian ; and she weeps because she does
not wish to remain here."
" Why did the Indian steal her V"
" To make her his squaw."
"What is his narneV"
"Brave Bear."
The swarthy features of the Indian
girl grew an unearthly pale, aud she fell
to the ground in a swoon. Hastily
bringing some water from the supply In
the cave, Mary bathed her temples, and
Boon had the satisfaction of seeing her
open her eyes.
"The white maiden has seen me
weak," she exclaimed, springing to her
feet; "now she shall Bee me strong. I
will save her to her home and friends,
and Brave Bear shall lose his pale-faced
squaw. Cornel"
Mary obeyed the command without a
word. She felt that her escape depended
upon the caprice of the Indian girl, and
deemed silence and obedience the wiser
course.
White Deer led the way through the
forest without hesitation, being per
fectly familiar With every nook and
dell. A silent walk of an hour brought
them to the verge of the - precipice de
scribed above. Taking Mary's hand in
one of her own, and pointing Into the
valley below, White Deer said, " Does
the white maiden see her home ?"
Mary saw familiar landmarks.
"Yes," she replied.
" Then Bhe can go. This pathway
leads round the chasm."
Mary was about to thank White Deer,
for her Bervices, but a strange,unnatural
light in the latter's wild, flashing eyes
restrained her ; and she hurried away in
the direction indicated.
Mary had gone but a few hundred
yards when, upon looking back, she
saw her preserver standing upon the
very edge of the precipice. Her arms
were extended as if in prayer, aud her
eyes were lifted towards heaven. Only
an Instant did she remain so ; and then
she flung herself over the rock I
Mary, horrified by the spectacle, saw
the body whirl down through the air,
and fall in a mangled mass upon the
rocks below.
Then she ran until, breathless with
fatigue and excitement, she reached her
own home in safety.
MARRIED CHILDREN.
ON last Tuesday the following mar
riage notice was published in the
Public Ledger:
Matlack: Crox. At the Parsonage,
August 4th, 1880, by the Hev. Wm. M.
Gilbert, George C. Matlack and Elvia L.
Crox, of this city.
On Wednesday the following was pub
lished among the marriage notices :
The marriage notice of George C. Mat
lack and Elvia L. Crox, published Sep
tember 14th, 1880, is false, as no such
marriage took place.
George C. Matlack.
On Friday the following was published
after the last marriage notice :
This cert i flea that George C. Matlack
and Elvia L. Crox were joined together
in matrimony by me at the Union M.
E. Parsonage, on the 4th of Aug., 1880.
William M. Gilbert.
In Investigating the facts which led
to the above publications, a Press re
porter discovered a very pretty and
romantic story :
Last Monday a young lady friend of
Miss Elvia L. Crox, who resides with
her father and mother at No. 733 Spruce
Street, called on Mrs. Crox and inform
ed her that her daughter was married to
George C. Matlack, a school-boy and
would-be amateur actor. Mrs. Crox
denied the fact with a great deal of In
dignation, but the young lady was firm
and Bald that she knew that Elvia had.
tern the wife of Matlack for some time.
Mrs. Crox knew Matlack, whom Bhe
regarded as a mere boy, slightly, and
she was well aware that Elvia had
known him quite well, and she at once
took that young lady to task. The
result wag that Elvia told the whole
truth. Bhe said she and Matlack had
been married by Itev. Mr. Gilbert of
Union M. E. Church on the morning of
August 4th. The scene which followed
was a more dramatic one than is often
witnessed in amateur theatres.
Mrs. Crox loudly announced her dis
approval of her daughter's conduct, and
when Miss Elvia began to excuse herself
on the ground of her love, the story goes
that Mrs. Crox cut the explanation
short with a rattan. The result was the
publication of the marriage In the next
morning's paper. When Mr. Matlack,
Sr., who is a well-to-do Iron merchant,
strict in his dealings with men and
sometimes quite stern In hla demeanor,
demanded the truth from young George,
the husband of a month became a boy
again. He had not the moral courage
to tell the truth and he denied the fact
of the marriage. 1
" Then go and put your denial in the
paper," said the stern father. Poor
George meekly went to the Ledger office
and wrote and published his denial of
the Btory. The next morning when the
lad saw the Judas-like lines in cold type,
he was seized with remorse, and he
rushed to his love and re-told the Btory of
eternal devotion with all the earnestness
and energy of a lover in the honeymoon.
When Elvia asked him how he could
deny the marriage, he said he did it
because he was afraid of his father, who
he continued had been extremely cross.
He assured and re-assured his dear Elvia
that all was right, and that some day he
would be 21 , and until that happy time
and forever after he would do nothing
but love her. Miss Elvia was perfectly
satisfied, though with womanly shrewd
ness she reminded George that Bhe did
not deny the marriage and that she, too,
had had a stern parent to deal with. At
the end of the interview the young
lovera thought their troubles all over,
but the course of their married life never
had run Bmooth, and they discovered
another ripple on the uneven surface
the next day. Elvla's parents could
not allow George's repudiation of the
marriage to stand, and they so informed
their daughter. There was but one
thing to do, and the old folks lit upon
that with an alacrity which astonished
Miss Elvia and astounded Master George
a statement over the name of the
preacher who married them must be got
and published. MisB Elvia entirely
agreed that this was the proper thing to
do, and George for the first time in his
life fully understood the import of the
dread words of the poet :
Needles and pins, needles and plus,
When a man's married bis trouble begins.
He knew that his folks were ' not yet
fully aware of the truth. They firmly
believed his story. They would read
the reverend gentleman's card. The
whole truth would come out, and there
would be the mischief to pay. George
did not at all enjoy the development of
the plot. A pleasant little comedy was
getting to be very like a tragedy. The
young amateur trembled in his shoes,
and longed for the conventional good-
natured friend of the parties to make
every thin g all right in the last act. The
Ledger of Friday came out, and with It
the bold and terse lines of the preacher
which the way-faring man, though a
bachelor, could not fall to understand.
Of course, the very first thing that Mr.
Matlack, Sr., saw after he had put on
his spectacles and picked up his paper
was the assertion from a source which
admitted of no contradiction that his
son and Miss Elvia had been man and
wife for more than a month. In the
scene that ensued Mr. Matlack played
the part of the irate father with more
than usual vehemence and young
George recited his lines with less than
the courage of the amateur.
The principal parties to this affair,
Miss Elvia L. Crox aud George C. Mat
lack, are well known in amateur
theatrical circles. Miss Crox is the
daughter or adopted daughter of John
H. Crox, who formerly kept a restaurant
at No. 261 South Ninth Street, but who
now lives on Spruce Street. She is a
remarkably pretty girl aud has just
turned seventeen. In dress she is rather
showy and always attracts the attention
of the gentlemen. She is also exceed'
ingly graceful in person, and intelligent
enough, her friends thought, to make
fine actress. For a long time she had
been in the habit of appearing on the
stage, and lately for one week at the
Museum, under the name of Rosalie
Lucas. The young groom has also been
stage struck. He has appeared on the
amateur boards two or three times with
more or less success. He will be seven
teen In December, and is a large, manly
looking fellow, though he Is still a High
School boy. Matlack's father is a very
respectable gentleman in affluent clr.
cumstances. He lives on Marshall
Street, In an aristocratlo quarter of the
city, and he is well known in business
circles and In society. Miss Elvia and
young Matlack became acquainted three
months ago, though it is hinted that
her husband had long admired her and
was anxious to be Introduced long before
that time. The courtship was as short
as the marriage was sudden. The fam
lly of Matlack had no acquaintance
whatever with Miss Crox and did not
know such a ladv wa In pirlstenrn ntilil
the notice of the marriage was read at
the family breakfast table. The parents
of the young couple are reticent, and are
sorry that publicity has been given to
tueaiiair. mecroxs seem to take a
cheerful view of the situation, but Mr.
filatiacK is very much worried. lie
called on Mr. and Mrs. Crox on Friday
ana intimated tnat be would send the
boy Into the country, and possibly steps
Will be taken to annul the marriage on
account of the youth of the parties. The
affair is considered a most Interesting
one by a large circle of people, and
future developments are looked for with
nterest. Philadelphia Press of the
20th Inst.
A Slippery Evening.
MARIA ANN went to the front door
last evening, to see If the afternoon
paper had come. She had been deliver
ing a short address to me concerning
what she is pleased to term my "cold
molasses style" of moving around. As
she opened the door she remarked i
" I like to see a body move quickly,
prompt, emphatlo" that was all ; but I
heard some one bumping down the steps
in a most prompt and emphatlo manner,
and I reached the door Just in time to
see my better-half sliding across the side
walk in a sitting posture. I suggested
as she limped back to the door, that
there might be such a thing as too much
celerity ; but Bhe did not seem inclined
to carry on the conversation, and I
started for my office.
Right in front of me, on the slippery
sidewalk, strode two Independent
Knights of St. Crispin. They were
talking over their plans for the future,
and, as I overheard them, I heard one
of them say: "I have only my two
hands to depend upon, but that is for
tune enough for any man who Is not
afraid to work. I Intend to paddle my
own canoe I believe I can make my
way through the world," his feet slid
out from under him, and he came down
in the shape of a big V. I told him he
never could make his way through the
world in that direction, unless he came
down harder, and if he did he would go
through among the " Heathen Chinee,"
and he was really grateful for the inter
est I manifested. He Invited me to a
place where ice never forms on the
sidewalk.
Then I slid along behind a loving
couple on their way to hear Madam
Anna Bishop. Their hands were frozen
together, their hearts beat as one. Said
he, " My own, I shall think nothing of
hard work, if I can make you happy
It shall be my dally aim to surround
you with comfort ; my sympathy shall
lighten every sorrow, and through the
path of life I will be your stay and your
support, your" he stopped. His speeoh
was too flowery for this climate ; and as
I passed them she was trying to lift
him.
The lawyers coming from the Court
House next attracted my attention
"Ah," said one, " Judge Foster would
rule this out. We must concede the
first two points. We can afford to do it
if the evidence sustains us in the third ;
but on this position we must take our
firm stand" his time was up. I left
him moving for a new trial.
I mused. What a lesson the ice
teaches us. How easily is humanity
controlled by circumstances and the
attraction of gravitation. What a ser
mon migbt be based! got up and toon
the middle of tne Btreet to prevent lur
ther accidents.
AGIrt'a Mistake.
A Galesburg, 111., despatch says : This
town is greatly agitated over the mar
riage of Galesburg's moat refined and
highly educated young ladies to a color
ed man who was a servant in the family,
She is highly connected, her father hav
ing been an eminent divine at the time
of his death, and well known in Eplsco.
pal circles throughout the northwest.
The couple ran away last evening and
were married. To day they were found
several miles from this city at a colored
man's residence.
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Henry Herbert Crane lived childless
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