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THE LOST BRACELET.
.‘Just one penny, if you please, ma’am.’
It waa tbe day before Christmas, and
late in tbe afternoon, a beautiful and richly
dressed Isdy as walking up Broadway wi h
her arms laden with brown paper parcels.
Hundreds of people were hurrying along,
jostling each other as they passed -up and
down the crowded thoroughfare; but her
bright, happy face was like a ray of sun
light in the gathering darkness of tbe win'
ter afternoon, and the owner of tbe olat
terings shoes that had been following her
some distance, took courage from its mo
dest plea for just one penny.’
It was a low, pleading voice, scarcely
andible in the noise and bustle around, yet
the lady heard it, for she turned and look
ed an instant at the little creature before
her. Her scanty garment was a poor pro
jection from tbe frosty air, and her bands
and pale face looked blue and pinched
with tbe cold; her miserable hood bad fal
len on her shoulder, and a pair of elo
quent eyes looked up into tbe lady’s face,
while, with her little stumpy broom, she
swept crossing.
‘Never mind,’ said she to herself, ‘I can
walk home—this poor little thing needs
this more than I do;’ and she dropped in
,to the open palm before her the only six
pence left. ‘There, child, a merry Christ
mas to you,’ she said in a sweet, sympa
thizing voioe, which made the tears come
into the dark eyes of the little girl, as she
tried, to think her.
( It was a long walk that lb« lady had be
fore her, and the orainbuset rattled along
with a provoking empty seat or two inside,
hut her heart was light and happy with
the little sacrifice which she bad made,
and just as the jets of gas began to blase
out of the windows, she resulted her home.
She bad been married only a short time,
and as she looked around her pretty room
whiob her husband had furnished for her in
their board iog-hqnse, she felt more than
ever grateful that God bad given, her suoh
happy home. Bhe bad not removed her
hat and oloak, when she heard her hus
brnd’s step in tbe hall, and with a smile
and a kiss, she mat him at the door;
‘Why, Kate, how tired you look—have
you done a great deal of walking to
day V
Kate blushed and smiled, but deception
wee not e part of her nature, and she re
plied i ‘Yee, Henry, I walked sll the way
home,’
'You shouldeo’t have done that,’ said he,
a little reproachfully, and he laughed
as he oontinue and: ‘Did you spend all your
money, so that you couldn't afford a six
pence to ride home with ?’
‘Well, I suppose I must tell,’ said Kste,
with soother blush. ‘I did have just one
sixpence left, and was going to ride up,
when suoh a poor little girl -’
‘Yes, that’s it, I know what’s coming.
Why, Kate, you make the very mischief
among the poor people and my pennies—
they are the most ungrateful set iu the
world.’
‘But,’ said Kate, earnestly, she was such
a delicate, half-clothed, and, I am afraid,
halKstarved little atreet sweeper ’
■Street-sweeper,’ and her husband held
up bis hands in mock horror ; ‘why Kate,
they pick up handbills of money in a day,
and did you walk home, and give one a
whole sixpence. Oh, ob, what wouldn’t
your innocent little heart do next!’
Kate bore this quizzing very well, and
was about to reply, when, on passing her
hand up her arm, she exclaimed suddenly:
*O, Henry, my bracelet is goue—your gift,
last Christmas— what shall I do f where
can I have lost it t’
‘That is too bad,’ said he thoughtfully,
.but the next moment he continued, shrug
ging up his souldera mischievously : ‘May
be some honest person has picked it up.’
Seeing the tears come into his wife’s eyes
at this speech, be put his arm around her
and kissed her, with, ‘Never mind, though,
I can replace it some time.’
Her husband, who really loved Ins "hHe i
wile tenderly, took Jieykend and put some
thing in it, closing her slender fingers tight
ly over it, saying ‘Don’t distress yourselt
any more about bracelets and street-sweep
ers ; here’s your Christmas gift, and the
next time you go down town get a pretty
set of furs with it,’ JUte’a band closed
over a hundred dollar bill.
The day after Christmas the was again
in Broadway, and as shs was passing bv
the identical spot where she had given
away her sixpence, she felt her dress pull
ed gently, and taming round she encoun
tered the same little half clad girl.
Tm so glad to see you’re come, ma’am,’,
•aW *l* child : sou dropped this the other '
day and I’ve been saving it for you ever
since; and palling something ont of her
bosom, she put it into lady's hand. lla«ti
ly unrolling the bit ot news-paper. Kate
A lair saw her bracelet. What a triumph
for herself and lor Henry. ‘Thank you,
my child,’ she exclaimed, taking tbe little
bare bands in hers.
“I tried to find you out that day,’ said
the little child, ‘but you went ont of sight
so soon that I couldn’t.’ And with a bright
face, she continued, 'I want to thank you,
and my mother wants to thank you too, I
didn’t get a penny all that day until I saw
you, and that sixpence bought the medi
cine which is going to make her well.’
Kate’s eyes glistened as she heard this,
and thought of the temptation to ride
home that God bad helped her to resist.
'Take me with you to your mother,’ she
said, still holding the girl’s band—‘such
honesty and thankfulness shall not go un
rewarded.’
It was a pretty long walk away over
near the North River, but the finally reach
ed the tenement house, in the basement of
which tbe little girl lived. A pale, sickly
woman waa lying on a bed in a single
room which she occupied, but she looked
up eagerly, as she heard Inw child's voice
say, ‘Hire moi her.the beautiful lady is come
herself.’ Kate sat down by the bedside,
and lent her ear to a tale of want and
privation of which she had never dreamed,
and leaving what little pocket money she
had with her, she promised to come and
see her again; then she started lor her
husband's office. Mr. Alair was poring
over his account hooks when Kate rushed
in with her bright eyes and glowing
cheeks, and liold'ttg up the bracelet before
bis eyes, she exclaimed : ‘See there, Hen
ry, that’s what came of my giving sixpence
to the street sweeper.
Her husband looked up, glad and sur
prised, first at seeing her, and then because
the bracelet was found, and be listened
while she told him of the interview with
the child and her mother. ‘Ami now,
Henry, I am going to ask you if I may do
one thing—l really do not need so nice a
set of furs as you have given me the money
for, and I wsnt to take some ol it and buy
fuel and lights and provisions for tbora
poor people; they had neither coal nor
caudles, and nothing but a little cold cab
bage for their dinner.’
Henry shook his head, but it was not a
very negative shake. 'Nobody can resist
you Kate,’ said he smiling, ‘and you may
do as you please with your money.’
Kate thanked him with her moistened eyes
more than with her voice, and ns the door
closed alter her, Henry said to himself,
‘There goes an angal; and if ever that
text, Tic ilia' giveth to the poor shall not
lack,’ was meant for anybody, it waa for
her.’
The little girl’s mother did not gel well
again, but before she died, Kate told her
about Jesus and won her to love and trust
Him, soothing her last moments with com
forting, cheering words. Even little Jane
she taught to say with faith, ‘When inv
father and mother forsake me, then the
Lord will take me up.’
By and by Mr. and Mrs. Alair went to
house-kecpiug, and they took little Jane,
now an orphan, to live with them ; and if
there was one grace more than another that
Kate prayed the child might have, it was
that of charity; for Jane's growing beauty
of character, and her constant gratitude,
proved a continual reminder to her gener
ous benefactress of that sweet lesson of
our Saviour's—“lt is iaore blessed to give
than to receive.”
SOHO.
Air— “l'd offer thee this hand of mine"
“I'd offer thee ibis band of mine,”
But still you will distress
This hears that bests for only tbee,
And thine own happiness.
Why will you coldly then disdain
A heart that's warm sud true;
A heart that always turns with fond
Affection upon you.
“I leave thee in thy happiness,”
As one I long to love;
While you have rudely cast me off
And l»«dr nte sadly rove.
Y**t, oh 1 when pleasure's cup you drink.
All peaceful though it be.
Remember that I sip from out—
The eup of misery.
Alas I my brightest dreams are o'er,
You’ve bid them all depart;
And I must leave thee happy, while—
I weep with broken heart.
Then, oil dear one, wheufar away.
I’ll ne’er know joy again;
And every thought that’, u»«t on thee.
Will give in; bosom pain.
The Prussians have a cartridge which
explodes after entering tbs body ol a man,
and tears him to pieces.
FOBRE TS own ACCOUNT OF THE PUR
SUIT CAPTURE OF BTREIGHT.
Late one afternoon, long alter this, at
the raoment when tbe entire Confederacy
was ringing with his pursuit and capture
of Col. Straight, Forrest came into tbe ed
itorial room of the Rebel at Chattanooga,
where three or four of his old friends were
collected, and gave us a minute narrative
of tbe recent campaign, nis descriptivw
powers are naturally very good and on thia
occasion be was full of this story, and spoke
with the enthusiasm and simplicity of a
child. lie had pursued Slreighl's column,
fighting every day, for nearly a fortnight,
over an almost barren country for over »ev
liundred miles and with an inferior force,
capturing him at last by stratagem. “I
wasn’t Certain when I demanded his sur
render, which would have to give in, him
or me. But it was like a game of poker,!
called him on a single‘pair’ to his ‘full,’
trusting to luck. He seemed, at first, to
have very little confidence in my band ;
but I said: ‘I give you five minutes.
I've followed you and fought you for two
weeks, and now I’ve got you just where I
want you. I'm tired of sacrificing lives,
and offer you a chance to stop it. If you
don’t I warn you I won’t be answerable
for the consequences.”
Streight waa ‘fairly bluffed.’ He was in
a strange country. His adversary was
known to be a desperate man. Hi« com
mand was jaded, What could he do? If
he stood out any longer and was mistaken,
be might be sacrificed. He surrendered,
and in a few minutes himself and his men
were disarmed prisoners under tte escort
of ooc-fourih of their number. “Where is
tbe rest of your command General ?” ask
ed Col. Straight. Forrest smiled grimly,
and made no reply. Presently when they
arrived in tbe village of Home, the myste
ry was removed, and the gallant but out
wilted Imlianian saw his blunder.
It was during tbe puisuit of Straight,
that an incident occured which Forrest re
ported with great satisfaction. The chase
was becoming excited and the Confederates
were beginning to be eager lor its conclusion
wheu thuy reached a stream over which
the enemy had crossed in safety, but which
had risen so rapidly ns to be impassible.
Forrest rode along the banks l>afiled and
angry, while the bullets from the other
side spun through the trees and whistled
about bis ears. After vainly seeking for
half an hour, he came to a cabin which
stood alone in the wilderness near the wa
ter’s edge. Here, as a last resort be in
quired for a ford. A young girl ran out
and said, “lean show you one if you take
me up behind you.” Tbe mother was ve
ry much shocked, but the girl continued,
‘l'm not afraid. You're General Forrest,
and will take care of me.” ‘Hop up,
then,’ said Forrest, riding close to tbdftrice
—The girl bounded upon the horse, clung
tightly to the General's sabre sash, and
away they rode, down the stream and
sharp shooting and the whizzing of min
nies, ‘What’s that?’ said the girl innocent
ly, aa one of thsse came very near. ‘That,’
said Forrest is a skecred bird.' They
reached tbe lord in safely, the command
passed over, and the General turned to his
gallant little guide and asked what he could
So for her ? She replied that her brother
bad been captured by Colonel Straight and
was a prisoner in his hands; all she desir
ed was his release. ‘Very well,’ said For
rest, taking a note of t. e name, ‘you shall
have bun by twelve o’clock to morrow.’
It was turned of eleven the next day
wheu Straight surrendered. Immediately
General Forest called for John Sansom,
who promptly appeared, glad enough to be
relieved, and wondering what could be
wanted with him by his own General. ‘I
promised your sister Emma,’ said Forrest,
when tbe young man appeared, ‘to send
you to her at twelve o’clock to-day. Time’s
nearly up. Take the best horse you can
fiud aud put out. Double-quick now—
march I’ As related by Forrest himself,
with tbe earnest delight,of his nature and
iu tnal quiet little editorial room at the
close of a summer day, with all its free
uess about it, the story w.t- thrilling, and
we at ouce resolved to make a heroine out
of the little rustic, Em uua Sansom. Sub
sequently she received a grant of land and
a vote of thanks from me General Assem
bly of Alabama; but the remembrance of
that ride behind the most daring cavalry
leader of tbe American continent should
be worth more to her than all the grants
and resolutions which Legislatures have
power to give. I know that F "rrest looks
tuc k upon it with pride that exceeds the
sense ot the victory whiob it secured, and
never aliu 1- >.o it without a touch of the
old nre and a qu.ck returning of the old
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