The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-10-05
NUMBER "A.

German fashions and trade began 10
get slack, and money to run short. All!
mein Herr, may you never feel what
it is to find yourself always sinking
lower and lower, work as hard as you
like, and one trouble coming on you
after another, till it seems az if God
had forgotten you"
The old heYo's voice .quivered with
emotion, and au unwonted tremor dis
turbed the placid countenance OF his
wife, while even the sunny face of the
little Frandlein looked, strangely sad.
"Well, mein Herr, we struggled on
in this way for two years longer, hop
ing always that our luck would turn
and putting the best face we could ON
| it, though many time, when the chill
dren; came to ask me why Inever
bought them pretty things now as
used to do at home, could have sat
down and cried. At last the time came
when we could stand against it no lon
ger. There was money-lender close
by us, from whom we had borrowed at
higher interest than we could afford,
1wlo was harder upon us than anyone
(may it not be laid to his charge here
after!), and he, when : he saw that we
we're getting behind with our payments
seized our furniture, and announceda
sale of it by auction. 4 remember the
. night before the sale as if it. was yes
tcrday. My boy Wilhelm was very Ill
q lust then, and no one knew whether he
!. could live or die; and when my vito
!. and sat by his bed that night, and
= looked at each other, and thought of
what was to come, really thought my
\ heart would have broken. Alb my
% Elisbeth, we have indeed been in trou1
e. BILE together" Easlsea.-'1ll- 8"
In AS he uttered the last words, the old
10 man clasped fervently the broad brown
Nv hand of his wife, who returned the
20 pressure with interest, and after
RI slight pause he resumed thus: i'aacF
he "on the morning of the sale good
ad many people assembled, and among
IN, the rest came the district inspector of
in police. He was kind man in his way,
he and had given me several little jobs to
ich do when FIRST came over; but he was
nd not very rich himself, and nobody
could blame him for not helping us
,rr when he had his own family to think
tn of. However, I've no doubt he came
net to our sale in perfect good faith, mean
had ing to give the best price he could for
No. what he bought. Well, in he came,
at and the first thing that caught his eye
his was the old bureau, which stood in the
he. corner of the room. It seemed to take
oes his fancy, and he went across to have
SO a nearer view of it. He began trying
drv the grain of the wood-drawing hif
rom nails across one part, rapping another
,ere with his nuckles, till all at once saw
and him stop short, bend his head down a
ION. if listening, and give another RAJ
tho against the back of the bureau. HI
TIC to face lighted up suddenly, as If he hat
! ne inst found ont something he wanted Z
l,-od know; and he beckond mo to him. ID
, ba Won know whether this bureau has
,ady secret spring nywhere about i'll aske
On ve he: sfor the back seems to be hollow
Ioly. said / had not noticed anything Of til
who sort nor, indeed, had / for, when foun
and that the, drawers were empty, y
dv- looked no further. Now, however. !
late. and began to search in good earn e.
a n and at last the inspector, who had D;
,etter plenty of practice in such work sin
4 the he entered the police, discovered
!. and little iron prong, almost like a Jus
!. and nail, sticking up from one of the car
!. 30 ed figures. He pressed it, and instalr
and ly the whole top Of the bureau hew
hour. like the lid of box, disclosing de
n me. hollow, in which lay several pack
7 see of bank notes and government shar
alling about a dozen rouiea uiNs. u 1 :
;np it ericks, tightly rolled up in cotton,
os IN two or three jewel-cases, filled "
4 the valuable rings a nd bracelets
hoarse whole amounting as We, atterward
70 not culated, to more than 10000 Prass
lck cat thalers. sPassa1 aIa sf.ttF r. -
When ,,s"Well, you may think how we
bureau saved as We gwerc in this utteru
n thou strait by a kind of miracle; and
with a we blessed the name of my old IN
ted his when we saw how truly he had spo
is last The inspector (God bless him!l ref
into a to touch pfennig of the windfaii,
same ing that he was sufficiently rewa
LA by seeing so many good people 2
, he al happy; SO We paid our debts, pa
~ tbex up all that we had, and came baI
.hsr.., our own folks and our=own father
.,a re never to leave it again. y Aye,
70. Herr, ne have indeed been wonde
1 to end ~ heipeo. "a ",''
or three And, almost uneonsciously, tn
o; so we man broke into the opening wof'
list have Luther's grand psalm The same
J. OF else els. the pious soldiers of Frederic
/ wanted Great chanted in the bleak Dece
,.efore he morning when they. went out ont
J ~ oi,v against three, to. turn to flight 4