Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-12-18
A True Story.

Tho following remarkable story has all the in
.orast of romance, yet it is true, and the parties
are still living
II was in the memorable year of 1914 when the
allied armies were concentrated about Paris.
A Young lieutenant of dragons was engaged
with three or four Hungarians, who, after having
recved several smart strokes from his sabre, man.
aged to send ball into his shoulder, to pierce his
chest with thrust from lance, and to leave him
dead on the bank of the river.
On the opposite side Of the stream, boatman
and his daughter had been watching the unequal
fight with tears of desperation. But what could an
old unarmed man do, or pretty child of sixteen ?
However, the old sOldier-for such the boatman
was-had no sooner seen the officer fall from his
horse than he and his daughter rowed most vlgor-
ously for the other side.
Then, when they had deposited the wounded
in their boat, these worthy people crossed the
river again, but with faint hopes OF reaching the
military hospital in time. >,
"You have been very badly treated, my boy,
said the old gentleman ''but mere am - VINO nave
gone further and come home
The silence and fixed attitude of Lieutenant S.
showed the extreme agony of his pains, and the
hardy boatman soon discovered that the blood
which was gathering about the wound on his left
side would shortly terminate his existence. He
turned to his youthful daughter
Mary he said, you have heard me tell of my
brother he died of just such would as this
here. Well, now, had their have only been some
body to have sucked the hurt, his life would have
been saved
The boatman then landed and went to look for
two or three soldiers to help him carry the officer,
leaving his daughter in charge of him.
The girl looked at the sufferer a moment or two.
What was her emotion when she heard him sigh
so deeply, not that he was resgning life in the
first flower of his age, but that he should die with
out mothers kiss.
"My mother my dear mother p said he, 81
die without
Her woman's heart told her what he would
have said. Her bosom heaved with sympathy,
and her eyes run over.
Then she remembered what her father said
she thought how her uncle's life might have been
saved. In an instant quicker than thought, she
tore open the officers coat, and the generous gir
recalled him to life with her lips
Amid this holy occupation the sound of foot
steps was heard, and the clustering heroine fled tc
the end of the boat. Judge of her fathers sur
prise as he came up with two soldiers, when he
saw Lieutenant s., whom he expected to fine
dead, open his eyes and ask for his deliverer.
The boatman looked at his child and saw it all
The poor girl came to him with head bent down
She was about to excuse herself when her father
embracing her with enthusiasm raised he spirits
and the officer thanked her in these prophetic
words:
you have saved my life, it belongs to you
After this she nded him and became his nurse
Nothing would he take but from her hand. Nc
wonder that with such nurse he at length recov
cred. Mary as pretty she was good.
Meanwhile, master Cupid, who is very busy il
such cases, gave him another wound, and there was
only one way to cure it, so deepi was
The boatman's daughter became madam s.
Her husband is not simple lieutenant, but
Lieutenant General, and the boatman's daughte
is as elegant and graceful a lady as any you see a
Court.