Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-10

uOne.
Not myself but the truth that in life I have
spoken,
Not myself but the seed that in life have
sOwn,
Shall pass on to ages-ail about me forgotten
Save the truth have spoken, the things
have done.
So let my living be-so be my dying;
SO let my name lie, unblazoned, unknown
Unpraised and unmissed, shall still be re-
membered;
Yes, but remembered by what l have done.
KATIE HANSON'S FORTUNE.
Leaving Her Pareuts to Avoid a DissOlute
LOver-COok, ROustabOut, Soldier, Nurse.
T enty-two years ago Katie Hanson
disappeared from her home in Tioga
county, Penn. She was only eighteen
years of age and had grown up amsng
the lumber woods Of Northern Pennsyl-
vania. She had prediction for mas
culine ways. She was expert with the
rifle and fishing rod, and spent much of
her time in the woods. Her family was
highly respectable, and she was more
than usually intelligent. In spite of her
dislike for the pursuits of her own sex,
she bore an unsullied reputation. She
lett home one day with her rifle, which
her father had gwen her. She never came
back. Nothing was ever heard of her.
Her father advertised throughout the
country for traces Of her, and visited all
the large cities in the state seeking for
tldings of her. 1t being known in the
fhn
that Katie had formed an attachment for
worthless young man named johnson,
and that her parents had positively for
hidden her having anything to do with
him, many believed that she had runaway
from ONE for that reason, to lead a life
of shame. Others held that she had either
accidentally shot herself in the woods, or
had become lost and died in some out-of-
the-way part Of the forest. Her parents,
after searching year or two, gave her
up as dead.
Col. Grant Wilson, of Philadelphia,
was spending the winter, in 1S79, in Cuba,
During his stay therehe met Major James
Hopkins, formerly Of Ohio, who served
in General Thomas division during the
late war. Major Hopkins owned fine
plantation in the interior Of the island,
and Colonel Wilson accepted his invita-
ton to become his guest during his stay
in Cuba. The Majors family consisted
of a handsome and d1gnlfed wife Of about
forty and two interesting children
When Colonel Wilson left Cuba he was
intrusted it'll an Grand in this country
by Mrs. Hopkins. On arriving in New
York he st rted at once to Tioga county,
Penn, and found the family of Elijah
Hansoa. He caused great rejoicing by
the announcement that he knew their
lonS-l"St laughter, Katie; that she was
alive and well, and preparing to pay the
old homestead visit in the summer of
the present year. Katie Hanson and Mrs.
Major Hopkins we're one and the same,
and the following was the strange story
she tol to the friend she found in Colo
mel Wilson.
T. e young man Johnson referred tc
above was IN the habit Of accompanying
Katie Hanson on her hunting expeditions
and being an excellent woodsman and
hunter, was a most cOngenial companion
to her. His family were dissolute and
ignorant. When her father ordered he1
to cease associating with Johnson, Katie
rebellcd against the order for time
The last day she left her house with hel
rifle she concluded that the association
was not a proper one for her, but she could
see no way for its dissolution but by leav-
ing home. She passed that night in the
WOODS, and the next day went to the cab
in of some ; unters in the vicinity. The
hunters were not in the cabin, but she ap.
propriated suit of their clothes, and dis
guised herself in them. Her features
and short hair favored the deception
She reached Dunkirk, N. Y, in her wan
behring's. She secured the position OF
cook in a lake boat running between De-
troi and Buffalo. This position and life
were entirely to her liking.
One day in Buffalo she read in one of
the papers an advertisement offering re.
ward for any information OF where she
was, and giving a minute description OF
her. T is alarmed her, for she feared
that she would be appre ended and sent
home. On returning to Detroit, she gave
up her position and went to Cincinnati
She found employment on an Ohio river
steamer. She continued on the steamer
until the breaking out of the war. Nc
one had ever suspected her sex. She de-
termined to enlist, and joined an Onic
regiment, and was in all the engagements
Of General Thomas division In 1868
she was promoted to sergeant in her com
pany. In 1864, her captain met her one
day as she was returning from stationine
aguard, He said to her that he had long
suspected that she was man, and de
manded 70 know if such was the case
The CHI " vas so sudden and unexpec
ted tina '|t her self-possession, and
convict { by her reply. She
begged q not to reveal her Sc.
cret, b. onk her before General
Thomas 9 the strange fact know
to him
Katie : II once sent back to the
rear, and red to resume her proper
attire. Pc became nurse in the hospi