The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-09-04
YUSEF AND cara.

| Many veterans of the war will symp
thize with the hero of the followil
romance, from "The Morals of ABB
Ben Adhem :"
Yusef was straining her to his man
bosom, and was figuring in his mir
whether he hadn't better swear b.
again that they might again fall in
each others arms, when he was arouse
from his dreams by touch upon IL
shoulder. He turned fiercely on IL
intruder, and Immediately turned bacl
not SO fiercely. It was an officer,
shoulder-strspped hireling in milital
| clothes, who held paper in his hand
cart Yusef Thaher ?" said the OF
pressor.
81 am" proudly said the youth; &
which cara, who had come to the Col
cIusion that she had been fainting lon
enough, awoke with sigh.
81 have been searching for you, m
buck, high and low" said he. Your
drafted, and must go where glory wait
you'll"
Wretch r reterted Yusef, "tho
lest The quota of our ward was mad
up a week ago."
cha! Ha r sneered the -hireline
"not so fast. In truth, you thought sc
and faith, so did I; but we want NOR
men, and the caliph revised the figure
for a dozen Of the wards, this anon
the others. The draft was drawn thi
morning, and you were hit"
"Why this haste?' said lusef
"Canst not wait till thou hast tn
evening paper? Perchance he will fig
ure again and let as out"
1t won't do" said the officer; "w,
can't wait. We must have men. Come I
"But I am physically unfit.
"I know what you are going to say
You are ruptured, have a cough. have
varicose veins, and are near sighted
etc. It won't do. We have reduced
the causes of exemption to barely one.
"And that is"
"Death before draft"
els there no escape?"
"Nary. There isn't time to get sub.
stitutes, and if there WAS"
81 haven't got the stamps, you would
say, but delicacy prevents You. True,
too truei"
"Here |" shrieked cara, tearing the
jewelry from her ears and fin
gers, and arms and bosom stake these
glitterino gauds, and give me back my
Yusef II
The officer looked at them, and re-
turned them with a perceptible sneer
on his finely chisled features with the
significant remark, "Dollar store T.
All hope was gone
cat least" said lara, "let's do the
regular thing"
"Yusef !"
"Zara !"
And they fell into each others arms,
assuring each other that,
through veal and woe, they would be
rue to each other forever and forever.
In the course of four minutes Yusef
rhaher was on his way to join his reg
ment, leaving cara fainting on the
,ward.
Did she remain true to him? We
hall see.
One year elapsed. A gallant soldier
vas standing at the door of an humble
cottage. Twas Yusef. He had returned
1nscathed by a bullet, bayonet, or
hell. He had been in the commissary
and had snuffed the battle
lfar of.
"Motherl" Kissed he, "tell me,
lara"
"Zara was married precisely eleven
months ago, my son. to one OF the
irst gentlemen of Cairo, who made a
zig thing out of an army contract"
married |" Kissed he, through his
,lenched teeth, and shifting himself
vice on the forehead. Married !"
Certainly, my son." replied the
mother, wringing out a shirt, calmly,
about a month after you were
Irafted."
"Tell me, did her paternal parent on
Ter fathers side compel her thus to
acrifice her youth and her beauty, thus
o break her plighted troth, thus to go
pack on herself and me?"
"No."
"Did not her father speculate in
York, and get caught on falling mar
ret We're not his notes going to pro-
est, and did not this rich villain offer
Ter the dread alternative of her fathers
uin or her hand ?"
"Nary. She laid for him until she
,obbled him."
"Did she never speak of me? Has
he grown pale and wan, and so on?"
"Not a wan. She's as fresh as a
,each and the gayest of the gay. The
,ulbuI sings not more sweetly. nor the
nightingale moro frequently" replied
he old lady, putting more soap on
[irtv wristband, "She haunts at the
,pera, while wash shirts at fifty cents
dozen. Bismullah Such is ife."
Destruction |" muttered Yusef. 81
will meet her. I will confront her, and
aunt her with her faithlessness, and
hen -" And uttering despairing
hriek, he flung himself from the
louse.
"There was sound of revelry by
light I"
There was a ball in progress at the
spread Eagle hotel, ct which were the
lite and bon, ton of Cairo. That none
nut the elitest of society should be
here, the managers had put the tickets
t twenty shillings.
cara was there, in the highest spir-
oothing syrup to keep it sleeping
nd relieved of care on its account, she
vas rushing things. She had just fin
While her cavalier was bringing her
,oblet of water, when manly form ar-
,roached. He was clad in blue, but
lis features were hid by slouched hat
rawn low down, and an immense mill
dIf OtCICOhh, WltSh 1lO AOPS WV N&o
ace, as Claude Melnotte does in Sir
edward Bulwer Lytton's justly cele-
rated play of the Lady of Lyons"
"Zara - Missed this singular figure.
"Who calls me by that name?" said
he, drawing herself up to her full
leight.
"Zara, dost remember the garden
he orange grove in which the bulbul
ang and the fountain squirted?'
"Ah, sir, whatsoever you are. my papa
las such q garden, but the fountain
quirts no more the hydraulic ram is
busted p
"Like my hope!' Missed Yusef, in
cree whisper, THAT hydraulic ram
he patentee warranted to endure, like
,our love, forever and forever. Dost
ne ?" said he, seizing her by
he arm and throwing off the cloak and
triking an attitude.
"Youi Pardon me. It strikes me as
hough, some time, had seen your face
where, cannot recollect.
-FOUR name, sir p
She was as cool as a condensed cucum-
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