Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-16
A CUBAN RtASfaxss
A CheDksred Career IN which Detroit
0aee took Part.

The Waverly On. W Advocat,
publishes a lively romance about Kati,
Hanson, who left her Tioga county
penn home when a young woman t
get rid of the attention of a boorisl
lover her parents did not like. She
dOnned male attire, and obtained the
position of head cook on a irst-class
boat plying between Detroit and Buff
falo. This position pleased her, and
she retained it for a long time. In the
meantime her parents had resorted to
every means to find her. They searched
far and near, advertised, etc. The fear
that she had gone to the bad weighed
heavily upOn them. One day while
Katie was in Buffalo, marketing for
the steamboat cook-room, she picked
up a paper and read the advertisement
describing her appearance. This
alarmed her, but her alarm turned to
positive fear when shortly afterward
she saw her father and a policeman
enter a low place on the very street
along which she was walking with her
market-basket or her arm. She
hurriedly made her purchases and
returned to the vessel. The
thought that her father suspected
her of dishonoring him by becoming
the inmate of such a place as he en-,
tered was agonizing, and in order to
undeceive him she almost determined
to throw off her disguise and return to
her mourning parents. But stubborn
ness prevailed, and she preferred that
all her suffering should continue
rather than abandon her purpose of
forsaking all who formerly knew her.
When her boat returned to Detroit
she gave up her situation and went to
Cincinnati, where she obtained en-
ployment as cook on a boat running
on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
The life was rough, and she often
longed for her old home, but she re-
manned until the breaking out of the
war in 1861, when she enlisted as a
private. She afterward was promoted
to sergeant, and in 1864 was in Gen.
Thomas division at Nashville. One
day her captain, whose name was
Hopkins, halted her as she was return
ing from s%tatiOning a squad of pickets.
Looking at her sharply, he asked her
if she was not a woman. The hot blood
mounted to her cheeks. She confessed
that she was. The captain said he
had long suspected it. She pleaded
with him not 10 reveal her secret, but
he said General Thomas must know
it, and the captain and Sergeant Katie
were soon before him. He sent her
to the rear in the hospital, where she
again donned the costume of her sex.
and her duty until the close of the
war was to nurse the sick and wound
ed. When the war ended she married
the captain. Drawing from a bank
the money she had saved as a steam
boat cook, they went to the island of
in the interior of which they
bought a handsome plantation, where
they now reside with their two chill
dren, In this retreat they were found
by Colonel Wilson, of Philadelphia.
in 1876, and Mrs. Hopkins, once little
implored him to let her parents
know Of her whereabouts and condi-
ton, and to convey to them the assur-
ance Of her deep love to them still.
She had been brave in everything
else, but when it came to writing to
her wronged parents and explaining
everything, she admitted that she was
a coward. But she proposes to visit
them this-summer.