The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-08-23
An Incident in the NapOIsOnIc Wars.

An Incident In the NapOIeonic Wars.
IN the memorable year 1914, when the
Il allied armies were concentrated about
Paris, young lieutenant of dragons
was engaged with three or four Hunga-
rians, who, after having received several
smart strokes from his sabre, managed
to send ball into his shoulder, to
pierce his chest with thrust from a
lance, and to leave him for dead on the
bank of the river.
On the opposite side of the stream
boatman and his daughter had been
watching this unequal fight with tears
of desperation. But what could an old
unarmed man do, or pretty girl of six
teenp However the old soldier-for
such the boatman was-had no sooner
seen the officer fall from his horse than
he and his daughter rowed most vigor-
ously for the other side. Then when
they had deposited the wounded man in
their boat these worthy people crossed
the river again, but with faint hopes of
reaching the military hospital in time.
my boy, "said the old guardsman to him;
I" but here am l, who have gone farther
still, and have come home"
The silent and fixed attitude of Lieu
tenant S--showed the extreme ago.
ny of his pains and the hardy boatman
soon discovered that the blood which
was flowing internally from the wound
on his left side would shortly terminate
his existence. He turned to his youth
full daughter.
MARY" he said, "you have heard
me tell of my brother; he died of just
such wound as this here. Well, now,
had there been somebody by to suck the
hurt, his life would have been saved.''
The boatman then landed, and went
to look for two or three soldiers to help
him to carry the officer, leaving his
daughter in charge of him. The girl
looked at the sufferer for moment or
two. What was her emotion when she
she heard him sigh so deeply, not that
be was resigning life in lie first flower
of his age, but that he should die with
out mothers kiss.
my mother! my dear motherl said
he, 6 L die without
Her woman's heart told her what he
would have said. Her bosom heaved
with sympathy, and her eyes ran over.
Then she remembered what her father
had said she thought how her'uncle's
life might have been saved. In an
instant, quicker than thought, she tore
open the officers coat, and the generous
girl recalled him to life with her lips.
Amid this holy occupation the sound
of footsteps was heard, and the blushing
heroine fled to the other end of the boat.
Judge of her fathers surprise, as he
came up with two soldiers when he
saw Lieutenant So whom he ex-
pected to find dead, open his eyes and
ask for his deliverer.
The boatman looked at his child and
saw it all. The poor girl came to him
with her head bent down. She was
about to excuse herself, when her father,
embracing her with enthusiasm,
raised her spirits, and the officer thank
ed her in these prophetic words;
- You have saved my life; it belongs
to you"
After this she ten d'd him and became
his nurse; nothing would he take but
from her hand. No wonder that with
such nurse he at length recovered.
Mary was as pretty as she was good.
Meanwhile Master Cupid, who is very
busy in such cases, gave him another
wound, and there was only one way to
cure it-so very deep it was.
The boatman's daughter became
Madame S..
Her husband rose to be lieutenant
general, and the boatman's daughter be-
came as elegant and graceful as any