Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-09-09
EVENING STAR,
HOW TO GET RICH.
Where did the Money Come From

ABOUT three years ago, German and an En-
gnsh student, (Fitz Won H and Harr,
VI at the University at Heidelberg, Ger
many, graduated and separated-the one I,
remain at home and turn soldier under thu
austrian Tag, and the other to 90 to England
ana become lawyer. The German student
was poor, and without any prospect of be
coming richer; but recently he sent an invi.
ia 1auon 70 his English friend to pay him visit
Inc Epglishman, having the two months, va
cation usually accorded each year to Lordor
lawyers On his hands, accepted He found hi:
"erman college comrade living in great style
~ irried to handsome wife, in the posse essiou
OF every luxury, and in high respect among
the people. He could not account for his sud
aen acquisition of wealth, until he and hi:
iriehd were sitting together one lovely even
| Ing, When the German spoke as follows:
marry, since you have been here, YOU
nave often wondered how became possessed
OF my present fortune. I know it | could
see IL In every look L enjoyed mystifyinC
you but never intended letting YOU depart
| without telling you how 1 made nv money.
lou remember Werterish sort of a letter I
wrote you year or two ago? About that
| time was In considerable trouble Our regi
mont mad been stationed for some months in a
1nia', : Town on the bohemian frontier; and, as
L had nothing else to do, L managed to fall in
iove, veritably over head and ears in love,
| WIN the daughter of neigh hboring nobleman.
a. nrst all went on prosperously enough, and
l had already constructed some very magnif-
cent chateaur en- Espagns for our future
| ABODE NY love was amply returned; ard
the conhding innocence Of a young country
giri, fresh and pure as one of her own noun
tain mowers, contrastsd so favOrably with the
artificial graces of the great ladies L had re.
| Gently left in Vienna, that L felt tremulous
rapture, difficult to describe, in possessing the
affections OF so pure heart. Matters went on
In this happy way for some time but ALWAYS
10 WOO and never to wed, although good in a
song, became bore in reality; SO screwed
up sufhcleDt courage one afternoon, rs we were
sitting alone chatting across the walnuts and
the wine, to ask the counts consent to our
marriage He seemed perfectly astonished,
and asked me what fortune had to support
wife upon. Here was a knock-down blow
70 all my hopes Fortune-my fortune, Sure
~ IL must be joke for any one to ask Lieu
tenant Fritz Won IL what his fortune was
But resolved to use no deception so gave
tue oid gentleman minute and graphio ac.
count of my worldly possessions As iconclu-
ced, he rose, saying very quickly
"i wish to avoid all ccrimin ations II YOU
have been wrong in playing the role of IN ad.
venturer-paVdont the expression-I was equal
~ to blame in encouraging your visits there
lore cast no reproach upon your conduct it
Is what men of the world and romance writer's
would applaud. You are a suitor for nv
laughter s hand her affections, you saw, are
already yours, and 1 believe your general
character to be fair and honorasle. there
tore will not raise any unnecessary obstacles
In the way of your union, Il was ready to en-
brace the old fellow for joy,) but there are
conditions (my face fell immediately which
must be fulfilled before my consent can be OBJ
tained 1 consider that it would not be pru-
dent for two young people in your station Of
life to marry much under a yearly income of
o0Oo horins. My daughter marriage portion
viii not exceed the moiety Of this sum There
fore, my young friend, you will see that until
you can make up the difference. L should not
be doing my duty were L to yield to your
Wishes and so saying, he rang the bell. and
bowed me out of the room with perfect cour-
tesy:
I" left the house mechanically without saw
ing word. / was quite stupefed, and con-
tinued so for the next few days have the
recollection of writing letter TO the dear
girl was losing, but what about it would
puzzle me much to tell At length, the colo
mel, seeing how i'll looked, gave me a months
leave Of absence, and advised me strongly to
travel. Caring bat little where 1 went, [
found myself after a weeks ramble, deposited
One afternoon outside the pretty village of
Hamburg, where L engaged a quiet odging
for few days. The neighboring scenery
pleased me; and that was lucky, for cared
nothing just then, as you may believe, for
drinking, or gaming or sociality of any kind
That evening. L read part of Zanoni, took a
stroll in the Frankfort road, and returned to
bed at an early hour. When I awoke next
morning, the first object that met my eye was
a large heap of gold piled up on the dressing
table. Strange that l had not noticed it be-
foe l must have mistaken my bedroom, or
l. ii
diately rang the bell, and demanded an ex
PLANTATION of the mystery. The landlady could
not solve it; was in my own room no money
was left there last night; the servants had
neither seen nor heard any ono moving about
the house; consequently, must have placed
the gold on the table myself.
" Unable to get any explanation, L care
fully counted the money, which amounted to
the large sum of 10000 forms, and locked it
up in my portmsntesu, fully expecting to
have a claimant for it in the course of the day
But to my great surprise, no such person ap-
peared, and l went to bed that night with
these riches still In my possession, previously
taking the precautiOn TO lock my door and
placed the key under my pillow. The follow
ing morning, q similar heap Of gold and bank
notes stood on my table. sprang out Of bed,
unlocked my pOrtmapteau, and found the
money had deposited there untouched l
trance but through the door, and this was
fastened, and the key safely slowed away un-
der the pillow. l now called the landlady,
and somewhat sternly rebuked her for per-
mitting these practical jokes in her house !;
but the poor woman's face too plainly showed
that she at least was innocent of all partici.
patton in them; so that L again counted the
money, and placed it with the other sum.
"That night, before going to bed, made .
| minute survey of the premises, carefully hasp-
ing the window and locking the door; but the
good fairy who supplied me so literally with
gold, was not to be shut out thus easily, and
| found on awakening larger sum than ever
on my table. 1t was perfectly useless asking
the landlady or servants any further ques-
tions--they only stared at me; and the other
dodgers were by no means persons Of attluence
Unable, therefore, to arrive at any satisfac-
tory conclusion, 1 rambled about the promo
| made in a somewhat dreamy state of mind that
day. L thought people seemed to look at me
in peculiar manner as passed along, but
this was probably a mere fancy on my part.
Towards evening, received letter from my
a ,xl; v,rl bat cha nod of pf,xI