The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-12-15
Two Stories Of Youthful Heroism.
now KATE SHELLEY CROSSED THE BRIDGE

Oh, but the night was Wild and dark, and tho
wind blew fierce and hight
Oh, but the lightning flashed and shot across
the inky sky!
While the hurtling thunder cracked and rolled,
Till down the black clouds came,
AND earth seemed nothing at I'LL TO sight but
water, wind and flame.
For she sees, slow creeping through the storm,
the plot-engine's light,
AND 1t must cross the uestle-bridge above the
swollen creek:
II stops-it runs-then down II drops, with one
long fcarsome shrek.
kate, stayl" the walllng mother cries; but
the young soul rose high
may, mother, ] must try to help though
She finds the wreck, butcan not save, yet from
the deep below
A man shouts up two frightened words. She
answers him: II know"
The trainl the trainl the swift expressl the
crowded western trainl
How shall she quickest reach the wires2 BY
Boone the hope Is vain
But 10 Moingonas but mile, and yet so wild
and drear,
To brave II through the stormy night the
stoutest heart might fear.
Torn by the underground, and drenched, the
wind and rain deiled
She reached the raging Dies Moines, and the
bridge that spans It's tide;
A bridge not built for human tread, but "0np'
A bridge OF fun four hundred feet. nothing
Int rails md tioa
NO plank the daring steps TO hold, and II q
step should miss,
Down nifty feet below her rolls the watery
abyss.
So on her hands and knees she creeps fighting
Staining the tImbors With her blood. vet heed
ing not the pain.
Then on ana on she DraVely spedl Thick dark
ness round her lay,
save when the VIVID lightning made q still
more dreadful day;
ret raging stream ano roaring wind, and herce-
Delayed her not; one thought had ehe--to save
the coming train.
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' IT, o ,n9 ~ 10 iay ofosseu' bleeu-
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nntdn bIesSed s iiOSSts, uirousn creehs'
-, ''0o9'H eien''
glimmering light, ''O'O '''- ''0
Ihen all forespent, with railing strength, she
$780, pushes wide the door;
win cleaning eyes and parted lips, she stands
- upon the moor
Ihe treste s down! The engines wreckedl
- IN slop tne coming tralnE
not come in vain
Ihen tenderly they comfort her. They ask,
HOW dld you conner
Anu, nearing nit thelr hearts ana hats, and
are moment dumb.
NO soul among them would have dared the
49,, passagedar ana VIVA;
noble child.
brave Kate shelleyI though hard toll thy
daily portion be,
Mothers with happy pride now name their
daughters after thee;
ana every child that hears thy tale shares In
my noble strain,
the coming train.
LITTLE CHARLIE WHITE.
Well. yes. ma'am. this ia the lake. and the
story is pleasant and true.
Though Charlie White did nothing at all but
what he'd been taught TO do.
Yet / count it honor enough, when boy sees
1rs+ =. nGu noys Sit hat mus ~ A. .,d
'uS' ~ Wv W W. anu w IT. "l'out any
"iA VI iuS'
You know what the August weather is. and
WIN not Eacn o NJ 81 w the Esior. +,v
tbat day IN tha iaLe "''i Nieio "'ie wv
Tho ono ,vas near about eight and tho o,hor
luz Sas we've years oldBs anu VIC ''ne'
Both lust OF that age, as youu allow, when
chldreh are oNerDoIu'
Ono rnornent 7 hoard tbnir ,pnrr,, taugb ri,o,
OA' tbroua,h tho s,nrar air '''''' i"'sN ing
And the neYt their fntbcr's shout 30 uIJoln ~
tho Innthar,s sbriolr ~ dnsnoi. AAN'P'
But beir.r old and lame ss Won see stood
dazed iika ON tho bonk' ' ''ONN'
HTiu CborIia White bod D,It ~ a hoat ond yvas
rowing 10 WHERE tbev SANK N'"'' ''--- "''