The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-12-10
HOW GEO. NEUMARK SUNG
s. IL e HIS HYMN,

The Thirty Years War was over,
and Germany restedfrom blood. Two
years after-the peace young man
was living in one of the narrowest
and filthiest lanes of Hamburg. No
one visited him, and all that the peo-
| pie of the house knew of him was
that the most part of every day be
played his violoncello with such skill
and expression that they thronged
roupd, his door to catch the music
His castom was to 60 out about mid
day and dine in a low restaurant fire.
quented by beggars for the rest he
would 20 out in Sthe twilight with
something under his shabby cloak,
and it was always noted that he paid
his bill the day after such an expe-
dition. This had not escaped the
curiosity of Mistress Johannsen, his
iandlady, and having quietly followed
him eDe evening, he stopped, to her
dismay, at the shop of a well-known
tpaWnbroter. 1t was all plain now !;
and the good-natured woman deter
mined to help him ifSshecould.
A few days after, she tapped at his
door, and was filed with pity to find
nothing 10 the soom bat her own
seanty furniture. All the rest had
been removed, save the well-known
yioIonceIIo, which stood in the cor
! nerset the window, whilst the young
man sat in the opposite window-cor-,
ner, his head buried in his hand. 'a'..
- H1Ir.. Neamark, > said the landlady,.
iadon,t take it i'll that / make so
! free as to visit you !; but as you have
mot left the house for two days, and We
have had no music, thought You
might be sick, If. 1 could do any
/ tkinoL1a 7lHiii'.a =i-'--'-- .i--
Fl s.ThanE you, my geOd~ woman he
answered YEARLY, aud with sad graf
itude in his tone. 81 am not confined
to bed, and have no fever, but [ am
fillEvery III. ~ i-... -. '.'.
Ii0l'.Surely, then, you ought to go to
peu hsr5H ss@ .El,t-I t--
q No. he replied quickly, and blush
led deeply aaFEae.'I -.....-...
.uOh, but you must cried Mistress
lJohannsen. boldly. "NoW just allow
me. I'm an old woman, old enough
to be your mother, and will just see
your bed is all right" 5Ef
"Pray don't trouble yourself" he
replied, and spraDg up quickly before
1.-THE bedroom door.
1t was too late, however, for the
good Yoman had already seen there
was nutkiBg but a bag of straw, and
! that same shabby mantle in which he
made the evening journeys. a.9
"My good woman" said Neumark,
tduickly, tyou are perhaps afraid that
1 will not pay the next rent but
make yourself easy 1 am poor, but
Honorable. tt is sometimes hard
enough, but | have never been utter
" destitute yet. n l.a.a g.4ag '''--
HMr. 'Neumark, she replied, with
soma hesitation, and after mastering
all her courage, awe have little our
selves, but sometimes more than
/ tenough-as, for instance, to-day and
as YOU have not been out, if you
would allow me-2S -sz
The young man colored deeply
again, rose from his seat, walked up
and down the room, and then, with
apparent effort, said, "You are right.
Ihave not eaten to-day. l." g.
Without waiting for another word,
the Iand1ady had left the room, and
in.z few minutes returned laden with
dinner. r.-.l..-- ~
"You must not take it i'll, she be-
Igan, when dinner was over "but you
are surely not a native of our town.
Doiyou not know any one here = 'l
.'No one. L I'M stranger and
you are the first person that bas spOk-
len to me kindly. May God bless
youI's te..s4
=aeWell, now, if it would not be rude,
! I would like to ask you some ques-
tionk.z Who are you? What is your
name? Where do you come from
What Is your business? Are you a
musician sAre your parents alive
What are you doing in Hamburg ?"
/ Breathless rather than exhausted,
she stopped, and the young man smil.
ing at his good natured catechist, be-
gan aMy name is George Neumark
My parents were poor toWnsfolk o.
Muhlhausen, and are both dead.
was born there nine. and-twenty year,
ago, on the 10th Of March, 1921
There have been hard times ever since
and / haEe had to eat, and often frs
to seek, my daily bread with tears
Yet I must not be inpatient anC
murmpr and sin against the Lord my
God. l know that He will help me ]
n the last,''
"But how did you think to ge
/. ty9gE Ayiqg2' interrupted the land
lady. zF.
81 studied jurisprudence; and ther
. I fear l made a fatal mistake, sine
both by disposition and from love &
u my Savior am a man Of peace, an,
q can not take 20 these quarrels an,
! processes. Had l understood m
! iGSGsawill when j commencsd thos