“HER YANKEE” There is a long lapse of years be ¢ween that time and this, but the ine cident has lost none of its pathos or beauty, bonne of that. I enn see ber now asshetripsalong . = veot little girl of T years, blown back from = blue to schoo’, her sanpny curls fair frchead, eyes of her bright giad in the innocent happiness clu ldbood Ii was in 1804 that there were a faw prisoners of war brought to G— for incarceration and kept here sever- al months, well guarded. Little Sal- lie passed the prison every morning on her way to school, and with child- ish cur sity, not evineing any fear she w ld look at the gloomy plae: of coufivement giving a glance of commingled pity and awe ab the peering hopelessly from the though peisoncrs, small windows of the forbidding house, The men, weary of the monotony of Ow. There was one, however, pale and | child gazed at in and he in return s.ck, whom the mule sympathy, woald smile at her until once he call- ed her, sayloy: Il me your name.” manner morning, and te Attracted by and refined appearance, she approach- his gentle ed and said: what is your name?” “Charlie,” he answered; then he said, “My dear little girl, if you have | anything in your bucket please give sick me something to eat, for I am and cannot eat prison fare.” «I will give it all to but don’t know how to get it away there” | up you, “Ask the guards to let you pass.’ With childish confidence she went | to the nearest guard, but was courte- eusly refused, and going back, told | she Yankee. He then bade ber ask | the guards to pass the bucket to him. | Returning tothe sent inel she said so | ; “Please carry this to that | earnestly, poor man, who is 80 sick,” that the Confederate soldier could not the pleading eyes and manner, or the compassionate feelings of his Bears, and taking the lunch passed i as requested. So it continued for week, until the child was seen coming | a with two buckets, one for herself, the | ether for “her Yankee.” She was afraid to reaveal her secret | at home, fearing she might be denied the priviledge of feeding her Yankee, and whea her mother asked her why | she ‘carried two buckets and why she | chose the daintiest and best of all on | the table, & “Oh mamma, it is for a poor person Buy nice things to eat.” waa pardonable under the circum- stances. Often did she deprive her- self of delicacies toputinto the ‘other bucket; nd so it went mouths, the guards allowing her she re pliec d: not able to four to on for pass freely and her mother encourag- | ing her in her charitable deed, but mever dreaming who was the At last Sallie passed and the prison Yankee and his companions had been 3 Tec ipi ent. one evening WAS en] pty. exchanged and had gone to join their wespective commands. Sallie stopped taking his lunches mother spo! she had simply and het r | ‘W - eame tired of i Four months passed in peace, when the {read cry was heard, *The Yankees are coming! body tried to be calm and collected, but very few succeeded. the gown was “blue,” and Sallie's mother had her front yard and of the blue coated strangers and « among them two Lieutenants and one Captain. The lady had shut all her ttle children into the bedroom with the injunction, “Be perfectly quiet.” The Captain announced that would like to have dinner for Bimeelf and and men. Pale and sol ema, not afraid, but feeling that the fmtraders were her enemies, she them, and going to her room to see after the children found them “mute as mice,” with the exception of Sallie, who would ron 0 the window and turn the blinds, Her mother begged aod scolded in an awful whis, “Don’t do that, Sallie?” “Just a Jistle bit, mamma, I woot let them see me,” and suiting the action to the word, she turned the blind very eavefully and caoght a glimpse of a face that she and she alone of all the family, had ever seen before, Soon porch full he “Come bid me good | “My pame is Sallie, and | resist | own | The evasion | {in Her | be- | compartive | Every- | left | NTING LEOPARDS, HU “Oh ! mama, there's my Yankee!” she exclaimed, forgetting all precau- tions and instructions, me go I'm not a bit afraid!” “Let and see him ; The poor mother, already ina state of bewilderment, thought that her bright and beautiful child bad suddenly be. cried buck being run into and killed by the | Many consider this a low kind of sport, but | [ think it is quite equal to patridge | berutiful describe as cheetah, or hunting leopard come bereft of her senses, and out, “Hush, Sallie! You Yankee, and they'll kill you if you go out there!” Being compelled to superintend the dinner, she locked have no |shooting, besides being a sight. shall therefore well as I can what I saw, On arriv- the door to keep the child safe and returned to the kitchen, rough and ready looking natives in When dinper was ready Mrs, —— went through the room into the hall where the soldiers were assembled. Sallie slipped ber golden head out and the charge of three carts, or rather small | two-wheeled platforms, drawn by two bullocks. an erect attitude, a beautiful leopard, On each platform sat, in stood partly in the door, while strongly chained and with a | men slowly and silently, marched to the dining=room* When the seventh | hawks. We were soon under man passed he glanced at the child, telopes which could be seen grazing {in the distance and which had been | i | and iu a moment of glad recognition. | | caught her up in his arms and kissed marked down beforehand. There was no difficulty i | her again and again. "Manon, I told ‘you this was my | within 120 la of the deer, | p . one of the cheetahs, fine male | y | unhoods d Mrs. - st | me nt bordering on stupefaction, ood in a state of nmaze- a was and and set free, Its depar, the men were as much astonished. | ture from the gharry ani its decision Sallie!” the the child und hisneck whis- | “This is my sweet little lin choosing the most covered line on | Yankee exclaimed, and the open plain { wound her arms ar: y 50 instantaneous and rapid as to pering, “Charley I have that Yankee marvellous, It seemed to “Madam,” “I must explain this | ’ | dollar you gave me yet) anish from the cart and appear sim al he ldier said the soldier, ultanecusly toward the fine ¥ L 1S | | : e quite halfway | bla k buck it had s When he as you seem to be in total ignor- | with le I have never | scene, ighted out for at- ance of acquaintance ur | Whi of seeing y my | iittle daughter. y | tack. at about thirty yards from t unsuspicious trop, they sud- the deadly and ) galvanic wu before to- | denly to | they life sprang hen |} DOUllGE, an ad th I ( f had the honor aware of ia. became I am no stranger, as you see, She saved y day, peril One all this dear child. by fe my TILL with for months w { seding me dail ed to es. | was sick and fee ble for want int- 1.0, this fears | eyes he continued, “Ab! . and this o my yu only knew, could co you glese things pe was soon | not be surprised at loving het if |i midst of the affrighted throng, yi mprehend, the | which scattered wildly and panic, dreariness of prison life and how this | stricken in all directions, as their a five black buck —was struck ist. There he in his death agony, inthe nd as hard As Wwe little angel brightened it by her visi Do not have I would protect your ta | le ader {and her charity. any | down in their mi lay, | fears, madam. alone, dead- of his beautiful We could, and were soon surrounding the p. Neither animal m interests and this child with my life.” | iy clutch resents | less foe. all ran I do not know how long the sol | diers remained in G.. but they left to oin in other battles and Charlie was | strange grou | killed in one some time after, f k Sallie is married, | p 5 r the bu ins & lovely home | was paralyzed his starting | two beautiful and interesting rhb New Orleans a nostrils The £ his body alone heetahs hild hall children | evebalis and and is 8 kind neig r and friend.— | gave evid lon the other hand, with Cn —A—— WALL STREET PIC prostrate form of to is prey spread out over the TWO his victim, seemed strain every perve in pressiog h against the A speculator in four years hss paid i ) Ol says a New | sharp | he strangulation earth as, with hi ng the buried in its delicate throat, |one firm in Wall street sum COM. $250,000 in commissions, York letter. when he tinues the process of He was a wealthy man the { | | Isudable but unwarrantable desire t of extraordinary ferocity that became | increase his patrimony by speculating fied as his keepers rushed for deer by the hind growled fiercely, He was very SOtioblen, but his went to street with y 1 en | et with a | ,c0; were fixed uf us with a glare ou fintens rs in stocks. Now, so heavy has been | oo 4 and seized the leg. and, Ughteni extremely | his losses that he would be satisfied if | he possessed the sum As | cheerfully accept a clerks! I'he brute now be has paid out it he ! ng his cluteh, looked so . Hk will the mmis 18 i : COmINsAIond, a, dangerous that I was far who were in sueh to him. H ith goer 8 from envyiog those {said firm, who wish to avail of his | to increase their custom. close proximity bat | selve numerous ac jaaiet ances : ir trade, knew the knifi caused the had they cut the throat ' | been contented with a handsome suffi 8deaiiy i warm Diood to unting torrents into the face of the half wuld instead of in the posi. 1 Lh | cid ney for the day, am really | to a superabundance, he w now H g¢ whole frame now seemed One beast, wl { be in affluence with estacy. the bore oF aOmb tive stitution he i , . jon of comparative destitution he is, meanwhile, eaught a { he other hand, a young clerk a1 Ja the other hand, a y { the crimson life str quantity ol few years ago commence 1 to in the street with $200, the savir 1, and fo re Of } | ] » i |n year's abstinence from smoking.and $1, {000.000 and several more in securities, | ’ pow is worth in real estate over lap with avid this In "Wall street speculation, more than wl wa his eyes and the er h lin anything else, what is game for chains lar with twe man is ruin for another. a —— PROVIDENCE attached, was adjusted round his neck. While “They were discussing in the II- | had cut off one a { and this the the was no sooner emptied than the brute AND QU AND QuUalLS this was going on a third the share,” bucks hind le Ke, i lion's said a gentleman linois legislature,” | close to bloody chalace, which | from Springfield, “a bill to prevent the destruction of quail for three years. | | Speeches of various sorts were made. vice like grip. Each chain was now the suggestion If they should be preserved for three 0) | ) vanced ‘ qn ne farmer advan grasped by a different man, who by tha sre wore fod f 11 i! that there were too many quails, keeping apart s0 that the tether re mained taught, kept the leopard be- vans they wonld eat up all the crops. tween them in such a way that neither Then rose up an honest Granger, who was within reach of hisclaws or teeth. Then the third individual, who had ever retained his hold of the shank- bone of the leg of venison, gently drew the cheetah to the little cart that had now been brought close up. As soon as the beast felt himself against the edge of his own familiar chariot be sprang lightly upon it and proceed- ed to demolish his succulent morceau at his ease. I now inspected the car- cass of the deer, with a view to ascer- taining, if possible, how the cheetah had vot opened his mouth before, with this valuable contribution to natural history, delivered mn a drawl ing, squeaking voice ; ‘Mr, Cheerman, I've lived in Illinoy, man and boy, for forty years, Endurimg all of which time I've follored agricultooral pursoots exceptin’ for seven years, when I was a runnin’ of a saw-mill, and I have obsarved this about quail : Whenever there is too many quail the Lord He freezes them all out. at settled it." — Philadelphia Record It was here that I witnessed the only instance I ever saw of the black | ing, with my friends, at the place of meeting in the jungle, we found a few hood | over his eves, similar to those used for way | and driving toward the heard of an- 1 getting the carts to Then | ir rushing on its prey ! man ! was held | seized the meat thus provided with a | | had been able so instantaneously to | strike down such a powerful animal | immediately on getting up with it, | at once observed a single long deep gash in the flank, which was evidently But 1 | coul¢ I not imagine with what weapon | caused by the decisive blow. inflict for 1 | the leopard had been able to this very strange lookicg wound, | the cheetah has a foot like a dog, | his claws are not retractile. Turning | then to the beast, as itsaton the cart, I inspected it closely, and the saw that | the dew-claw, which in dog | pears such a useless appendage, is rep- | resented in this brute by a terrible | looking talon exactly suited to the in | fliction of such a gash.— Our Indi Sations, - HUMOROU Charley eaten two dishes to Clara, who had already of ice — Will cream | you have another dish, dear? Thank Just Clara , Charley, no more. Charley one more for my sake? Well for just take one more, (Clara- your sake, I will To explain the appa { impossibil, ity of ( ‘harley 's conduct 18 NECessary to add that the « take nversalion restaurant, nut New York Sun. place at a atl an evening party. very much ex nder naGeld tand \ ur pocket man wi me up in the scarcely breathe, at and smi ne, me, did Why « duct knew Why that? the con [1 Out with it +hit 1 hougnht Was what? ed him Count. What ! | [ As he =a what farmer ther over { Yes sir. Isl 0, 1e ally yes. French Italian, By Ge May be Of course vou d 2 nineteen years old, an Marry am in | ed I'll have Aunt Jerus and arter I'm scraj hj 4] Wo sh ! I'm in luck! Italy, at who is and Neu barber! Yori unt me quick o Tam Star. The deacon told me a good story the other evening at one of onr regu- He said he { didn't know it had attained the vener. | lar swapping matches, able character of a chesnut { but he vouched for the literal it, Fifiy years ago, said he, we (that i to say my father's family) lived | Northwestern New York. One day | there came to our house a poor man whcm we had been in the habit of helping in a small way from time to time. We knew somehow, that h. never wore socks. That shocked us children, and we became very curious to know the reason for his eccentricity Father shared our curiosity, and be, fore the old fellow left the house he (father) said to him : Mr, Mann, I don’t want to be im. or not, pertinent, but I am sure you will not ana | ap truth of | in | take offe ense If I ask you why it is that you never wear socks? M seven good reasons for it, r. Deacon, was the reply, I have Scven reasons! exclaimed father, | Bir, if you will give me seven reasons why you do uot wear sock ! you a 85 gold piece. Old Manv's eyes danced, Well, have no socks, 8 I will give Le began, Becondly in the first place 1 Hold on, cried father, | you { mind the six other ressons. Mother gold piece in ive Mr. Manon that $5 the | u |B stand drawer, while were Feveral yearsago, of West the approach | I had [3 €n b it & fs Ww when he peopl alarmed at Judge Bolivar, C Te nNoessee of ¥e How fever, . convened conrt at Be E8100 id mphis days in the reports f additi yi caused were many wi Less court, i y naturally v ) and ver they im portuned the judge to permit them to 1 4) } The go | | willing ome, business part of y declared that the commu for the Ys to run any risk sak of tra le, BCAre was unnece t the A i ap ssary, and that lisense was no w fever. number of physi with 1 so more i repaired to the d the ic was Lo bi apprehended. i ase, said at ¢ erat exaggera CTuw IRLOTY Jim ribus unum, but thers It's awful kets put a bg ci nt to bed keep us warm all night an Ellen sa it “Mary but ain't for comfort 1 her 1 didn't id =O | tur ved fore we got to sleep we 1 tol Kn wb B turn cold goemed at down one quilt. had to {down another quilt. 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