Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-01-07

not my own story, Sd Snail hOs bSiI t0u
how it came TO pass thai found mysek,
by the will of relssive. Ioft my own
master, with abundant means aud not q
claim upon me in the world. Bat one
day was called over to Bafi@Ue on
some business, and there, in oHs OF the
public streets, | saw SRhi wZcb AZ
tractod my attention strangely.
We Northern mon scarcely reaased
during the war how much sympaihy for
the South was felt in Baltimore. But Tire
Southerners knew it. and. therefore, To
Baltimorean it appeared only matter OF
course that confederate soldier in bis
gray Uniform should be star ding at the
corner OF street grinding away al M
old hand organ. say standing, although
this poor poor fellow hsd no legs 10 stand
upo.-only two poor deiOrmed sIunsps
on which his body rested. was attract
ed by tho sight, but should probsblY have
passed on with 40 more than q sisrp of
curiosity. had not child beside the sol.
dier began TO sing. ! doot know thai !
should have recognized The ''Baaep's
Pride either, for the elf-lscss were oil
braided neatly around her head and sho
was taller and less chubby Than when l
had seen her in our camp Two years ago,
but the words OF the song struck upon my
ear az strangely familiar. AAd nj memory
instantly sprnrg TO The uma and ptses
where had heard them before. Remem-
bering too, what poor Ramson hha said,
| stopped and spoke 10 heF.
She looksd up pleased whea | ppi q
lillle gold piece into hoe palm. ssa then
| asked her if she remembered met
"Sho never lorgels anything he ed
soldier said. pale smile spreading oves
his sickIy features as he so&ed ai hss-
But upon this occasion il appeared mai
Nina had forgotten. She shook heT bead
and glanced up sbyly iat0 my h6e. bna
declared that she had neyer ssss Das b
fore.
But when | recalled ber childish feat oi
walking into all enems's ssap alpDo ID
night her face lit up direp<J.
And were you lhsea' sbs aAkad. =
do not remember anybody. Oh yes. I
do" she added tboughdally, Il temem-
Der The sergeant. He took me In hfs
arms and kissed meW
think some oi my readers nust know
The feeling that one has for an sed eetn-
rade at arms that one has toaRbt be1de
and su ffered with. and loved doabt ~
,here is any other feeling 10 the xuaIa
quite like it. That this ifttIe thing should
have remembered Ramson alone. su< oi
scoIe of men who had been kind W bef.
touched me- deeply. had ilals 10 iotss-
es, me In the world. and Mas Deasly
forty. | determined 10 ind out some-
.hing OF the child's history, and perhaps
do something for her Tor R,ms0u's Sake.
And yet did not know hNn thu ciatm
she hsd upon him.
questioned the SOLDIER closely sns
found out whore he lived. Thai evening
| went 10 see him, snd remembering that
past episode. took with me a generous
supply OF the Lone Jack for which Nina
had pleaded 50 eloquenIly two years ago.
1t was only q garret where the two lived,
and yet tho child hsd managed to give ID
a certain home-like air, Tor her pretty
ways and songs brought many peHny 10
their common pnrse. and IL was plain to
see that they were not in absolute want.
And some kind ladies, too. 10 the house
below. had helped them. The man said.
for near friends oi their own had fallen
10 The Lost Cause"
But the man was very uneasy aeout
Nina. He had taken her Us saersd
trust, be said, from his dear captsiR thas
Captain Ned of whom Mira had told US
so much. Captain Ned (his surname wss
Auderson) hae rescued the child txen
house that the Federals he'd fred, and III
though he had advertised for the pasensi
he had never found them. Tae command
had been ordered 10 dktaat part ot ihe
country, aud in time Captain Anderson
had become so attached to the child that
he could not bear to give hnr up. But be
bad always said that he Was only keepip
ber till he could find her parent; the
mother, ho said, had been an old sweet
heart of his, Mrs. Rsmson-
Ransom cried; ae yoa sAfe~
"Oh, yes" answered tho soldier
"Cspt. Anderson knew lhs cid plants
ton well. and 30 did |. and pretty sasss
Louise and her father. Colsnsl AAilory
We all came from The came parts. Apd
when Capt. Anderson Ned he gave sse
these papers uud charged me II sver
came across any OF tho Naiiqry's that
should give up the child
looked at the lite one, who was kneel-
ing beside the pale soldier, uitAher snak
hands clasped over the gray sleeve a the
Southern uniform.
"My child" l said. gently, "you Gid
right to remember the sergeant for he
was your own father"
am getting on In years now, and my
hair aud msustache are qoke stfeaked
with gray. Nina Ransom Is fall maiden