Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-10
[ Adapted from the German for THE METHoDIsr I
A Story F0R The LITTLE FOLKS.
The Lost Girl in Dresden. !,


little girl whom he loved dearly. She
was his only child. He would sometimes
come home from the store on purpose to
4- see her, and bring her playthings, and
then go back again, and think Of some
thing else to take for her in the evening
.,s-, Her name Ella. One day her at.
tendant took her out walking; it was q
great day of rejoicing in the city, and
everybody put on their Sunday clothes
v Ella was dressed up in beautiful elk
.Vft dress, and had a bright gold chain
around her neck. After they had gone
some distance from her home Sarah, her
attendant, met an acquaintance in the
street, with whom she began to talk.
During the conversation she did not hold
Elias hand, but let it go, so that the
little girl might play around her. While
NJ the three were standing there together
they heard great noise up the street,
and on looking round saw a large num-
Der of soldiers on horseback galloping
down towards them. Sarah ran one
way, her acquaintance another, and little
Ella took third course It happened
TO be place where several streets met
and sitter the soldiers had passed they
could not end each other Sarah looked
around for little Ella long time, but
esee : could not find her. She called her
kfsR ~ name repeatedly, but at last went home
k@4 ~ without her. When on her way home
she was hoping to find her there, but
'M As alasl she vas greatly mistaken.
LA sA A "Haze found you at last, my little
treasurer said little old woman who
met Ella in q dirty alley.
- I'm not your treasure" replied Ella
crying aloud don't come near me; I m
afraid of you )" but the old woman went
- ~ up to her and pulled the beautiful chain
2 = - off her neck, and ran off with it as fast
as she could CO. Poor Ella crie1, but
could not help herself. -
How were things going on in the
sa4s f4 house of Elias father2 i can not tell
you what sadness reigned there. Her
father, mother, and every servant wept
bitterly for fear that Ella could never be
: loo found again., Detective officers and
= ~ - policemen were employed to search the
sGss5s and E 'y sos Ss' W. was all 70
one in. the beautiful house slept that.
night, for Ella, the only child there, was
gone. -m has vac
Just after the old woman had taken
Elias beautiful gold chain, lame beg
I'll gar came hobbEng along on his erutcb,
and asked what she was crying about.
7g g. She replied: II want to go home but
don't know where my father lives" The
beggar thought moment, and looked
in silence at the child; then he said to
* &lf himself: "That child can help me to
beg. What beautiful story I can make
aE# IN about her When tell 1t to the people
that pass BY everybody viii give me
wyrg penny I shall certainly get enough
money to buy watch and some beer
.fs7sn ne He then took Ella by the hand and said
"Be quiet my little mouse and ]. will
take you home to your papa" But Ella
was very sorrowful for she was afraid of
- gaziE b. the old cripple, who had q long grey
s. san beard; but at last she went with him.
He led her into another narrow alley,
and made her walk up three or four
flights of stairs into an old dirty gsrret
room. G@
any father does not live here's cried
fev Ellie, beginning to weep again, very bit
-'~ tery.
The old becpar took her by the arms
and shook her violently, and threatened
adiA a. to break the crutch over her head if she
~ did not keep quiet She looked at the
window, and saw that there were old
cloths in the sash to prevent the rain
from blowing through on the floor. He
= told her to lie down en- old straw bed
she did so, but could not Sleep he
r "a asked her if she was hungry, aud when
she said Yes, he gave her crust of
bread from old bag hanging in the
corner; but at last Ella went to sleep
The next morning he took off her beau
tiful clothes and put some old rags OF
her, and covered her face over with dirt
and put pair of old wooden shoes OF
III no her feet III A1lA
.3sd s. BE then took her With him, and the.
4 stood on large stone bridge which run
over the river at Dresden. The begga
sat upon stone and made Ella stan
II beside him, and whenever anybody pas,
ed along he made her hold ont her hant
and say:
,4E" Fray, pray, sir, have pity on m
crippled father" Many people went b
n .ssirs and paid no attention to the request bu
aas some took compassion on the crippl
''s issst and his little girl and gave them
st..4a.. s.ias penny or two. "a $50 s41g Z
Some came and stood at the lamp DOS
- - and read the notices of all kinds of los
articles. Rugs, and Shawls, and breas
~ pins had been lost, but nobody advertis
ed for O lost girl Several hours passe
auGEA ID by, and the little dirty box Ella held wa
almost full of copper coins
11as 1I go Mr.. Saladin, who was Elias father
- &, IA could do no business in his store tina
day. He went from one street to az
~ -ss = e other, and from alley to another, bu
sl..-s.s -. he could not find his lost Ella '.'
ase 1t was about twilight and time f
e 49, him to leave store and go home. Whe
&. - nj fsq on his way he remembered he had prom
esi s ials ised an aged widow, LIKING on the othe
III. $3.50 aide Of the river, that he would prese
aaff.a a4s her boy with a suit of clothes and SON
- lg..a a school books. She was GOO, woms
-sssf ~ $50 go and needed every help she could "a
gssi ss1.sa and that very day was the one on viii,
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