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HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 467
RESUKGES
Thou shalt arise! When death's approach
May cause the cheek to pale,
With fancies dread, of grave and tomb,
Of earthly mold and cheerless gloom,
That oft make brave hearts fail;
Then, in an instant, thou shalt see
Through death's wide open door
A glorious world of light and hope,
Where every power has perfect scope,
And joy reigns evermore;
And while thou lookest, thou shalt rise,
To taste the joys of Paradise.
RESURGENT
They shall rise! The world's great, throng,
Through all time's cycles born.
Not one shall fail of Easter Life,
Whoe'er has entered earthly strife,
Or fleshly body worn ;
But some shall shrink in fright away
When called to leave the home of clay,
And others baste to go,
And meet the Judge of all their life,
Whose eye bath witnessed every strife
And battle here below.
Tis llms two armies shall arise,
To lose or gain a Paradise.
—Mrs. Mttrrjarrt Blboriyood Pcelic.
Lewis II. C Post was in bis day the Ward McAllister of Sandusky
society. If someone could write a vaudeville sketch with him
us a basis it would surely command the applause of old residents.
lie was a short man with bald bead on which he usually won;
a. toupee, sandy whiskers, a high feminine voice, heavy body and
short thin legs. 11 is two great traits were an insatiable love of gossip
and one of the kindest hearts ever placed in a human body. These two
traits got bini into a great deal of trouble. His' Fid us Achates was a
clerk also much given to gossip. On one occasion a young lady sent
for the clerk and told him her father would call and settle with him /or
the slanders be bad circulated about her. The clerk went to the office
of Lewis Post and told Louie, as he was generally called, that the young
lady s father was going 1o call and settle with Louie for slandering his
daughter. While Louie could not remember what be had said he judged