Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-12-03

full confidence with excessive liba-
tfons of hospitable beer, and thus
learned his biographical justification
for taking his shovel exercise 80 in
iurionsly to heart. Much affected
by. the ari stocratic novel related to
him, the fious contractor enlisted
the sympathles of several other
wealthy Germans, who, as the Rev.
Mr.. Beecher would say, "made =
pool for the sending of an attorney
to Prussia to intercede with Won
Moltke for Won Hake's pardon, and
with the elder Mr.. and Mrs. Won
Hake and their other son, for the re.
turn of the wandcrer to their arms.
Won Moltke, however, was not to
be shaken. "My dear boy, 1 don't
see it," and, although the old gen.
eral and Mrs. Won Hake were in-
clined to more favorable phenomena
in optics, their other sor, who was
an unspeakably naughty adjutart on
the staff of Prince Frederic Charles,
maiestically declined to recognize a
brother in a dcserter. So the lawyer
came back to bring bad news and
collect his little bill and, although
from thenceforth ex-Lieutcnant Won
Hake received periodical pecuniary
remittances from his good mother,
the excruciating misery of remain
ing in Canada made him the most
gloomy and occasionally inebriated
of men. In 1853 the nobility of his
origin and the great metaphysical
powers of his mind under the stimu.
iation of sufficient beverage won tor
him the romantic affection of the
only daughter of farmer of Simcoe.
Here he married in a moment of
acute cerebral excitement. aud, MS
nothing more was heard of him for
eleven years, it is to be inferred that
his matrimonial subjection was COM
piete enough to rejoice the loving
heart of Miss Susan B. Anthony.
1t was 1864 when the disciplined re-
appeared among the unmarried; !;
and then, with a widower's weed on
his unreasonable white hat, he was
thoughtfi'lly testing the beer of Kali
amazoo, in Michigan. Probably he
had gone to that place after burying
his late master, Mrs. Won Hake, in
the hope that the distracting con-
ciousness of being in a town with.
such an unearthly name might, if
duly assisted by copious sacrifices to
Gambrinus, assist him to forget his
bereavement. At any rate, his old
friend the German contractor, re-
cognizcd him there, and thought
that he had never seen a foreign
nobleman contending with go many
difficulties in recovering fallen hat.
Soon after arriving in Kalamazoo,
and while yet under the depressing
influence Of it's name, the unsteady
ex-lieutenant heard that his brother,
the Prussian Princes adjutant, had
been slain iu the rear Of his regiment
in the nearly unpronounceabIe bat
tie of Koeniggratz, and that conse-
quently, the family estate was open
to himself. Too inebriated, how
ever, to understand how he could
recover the ancestral halls without
being shot for his old military deser-
tion, he decided to remain where he
was and say nothing about the mat
ter. Having ridden a horse when at
home in the army, he became vet
Urinary surgeon, which is the one
thing that man can always mature
into if sufficiently ignorant Of equine
diseases to misname them in Latin.
Before the outbreak of the present
war between Franco and Prussia,
he had other killed or famed a num-
Der of valuable animals, and was
achieving high rank in his profession;
but the. present war, with its astound-
ing complication of perfectly reliable
and wholly contradictory special de-
spatches in all the papers, threw him
into a dense confusion Of mind,
which, or the 18th of this month, be
ended in Kalamazoo by means of a
razor, unable to the very Last to dis.
cover from his readings whether
France or his own country was the
actual conqueror.
The other day. in Buffalo, an excited in
dividual, with carpet-bag in one hand and
an umbrella in the other, and shawl hanging
over his arm, accosted one of the street ga
minis with the question, "Say, bub, which
is the quickest way for me to get to the Fri,
Railroad depot?'' I" Run, was the laconc fe
sponse. hn.' .~ .'~a 9aa 80
I Tho Mayor Of New London, Connecticut
ordered two lame soldier organ grinders t,
leave the city, last week, on the ground tha
they were an intOlerable nuisance, and a com
mittee Of citizens have invited them to return
and propose to test the Mayors right to driv,
them from the city.