The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-10-05
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nowhere more perfect than in Germany, I
poured. forth series of, tales which G
wonld have made the fortune. of any 4
NUMBER. in Britain; while i
the young lady, though rather shy at
first shook Of her bashfalness by de-
grees and asked thousand questions a
respecting the strange regions which !
had recently quilted the sand wastes
OF the Yolga, and the voiceless solitudes
of the Don--the relics of former glory
which still cling around ancient Kazan
-wicker-work shanties inhabited by
brawling Cossacks, and Crimean caverns
tenanted by Tartar peasants--battercd
Kertch and ruined Sebastopol-Odes-
sa, with her sea-fronting boulevard,
and sacred Kiev, with her. dim cata-
combs and diadem of gilded tower-the
barbaric splendor of ancient Moscow,
and the imperial beauty of queenly
Stockholm: It was late in the evening
before departed, which I was not al
lowed to do without promising once
and again not to be long of returning.
And kept my word; for the quiet
happines of this little circle, SO simple
and so open-hearted, was real treat
to restless gad-about like myself.
Before the mouth was at an end had
strolled around the town with Herr
Holzmann dozen times; I had par
taken fully as often of Fran Lisbeth's
inexhaustible tea-cakes; l had pre-.
scented Fraulein Marguerite, on the
morning of her eighteenth birthday,
with pair Of Russian ear-drops, ac--
| companying my gift (as any one in my
place might we'll have done) by a re-
: sounding kiss on both cheeks, which
the plamb little Madchen received as
! frankly as it was given. But the re-
i lentless divinity Of the scyth and scalp
!, lock, who proverbially waits for nc
:, man, at lenght put a period to my stay
i, in Berlin and one evening, a few days
Is before my departure, I reminded Her
d Heinrich Of his promise to tell me tn
N history of the old bureau which hal
attracted my attention. The old man
t. nothing 10th, settled himself snugly i
a. the ample sofa, fixed his eyes upon tn
er quaint old piece Of, furniture whic
til formed the theme of his discourse, an
cs began as follows: a5 i s;e, 4l.iz
of NYou must know, then, mein Her
hit that in the year $50 business began
re, fall off rather with me q was cabin
m maker, you remember), and from bs
in it came to worse, till I thought som
all thing should really be done to put ma
ose tiers to rights. Now, just about til
of time, all manner, of stories were b
ost ginning to go about of the high wag
of given to foreign workmen in Russi
ne, and the heaps. of money that sund
at Germans who had gone there frc
rm Breslau, Konigsberg, and elsewhe
hop were making in st. Petersburg, q
ap- Moscow. And so | pondered and pc
Gu dered over all these tales, and over
all plight was in, till at last began
the think Of going and trying my luck
ved well as the rest My wife and I talk
ed, it over, and settled that it shOnld
also done and we were just getting rea
per- to start when one night as5mess'
into came that my old uncle, Ludwig H
steel mann, of the Friedrich Strasse "
lbre had taken offence at my marriage, /
card never looked near, me since), was
N of ing, and wanted to see me immedi'
full ly. Sol went (my wife wanted
, on come to-; but I thought she had be
, not), and when got there 1 found
old old man lying in kind Of doze,
nobody with him but the doctor
why the old pastor, who lived close BY
mon sat down to await till he awoke;
an ia sure enough, in about half an h
and his eyes opened and fell full upon
/, u;u He raised himself in bed think
Tn him now, with the lamp-ight ia
storv on his old, withered face, maxim
9 for look just like one of the carving
an;no the old bureau, which stood at
20 ;n foot Of the bed-and said, in h
!, ma whisper; Heinrich, my lad I've
"a forgotten thee, although the blac
-, has been between us lately. '
.S.s, Tn dead thou'lt have that b
"i., yonder; there's more in it than
y 'no think,st:, and he sank back "
,,p,.u sort of choking laugh, that twiste
.aa. face horribly. Those were bis
80, words for after that he fell j
! we, kind Of stupor, and died the
80 night. 81 .ie4 h'.,- y
thea :, osWhen his property came to
nv self vided, everyone was surprised; TO
,mest;c had all thought him much ricf
The got the bureau, just as he said; q
an ~. ,membering his words about it, "
Hans. sacked all the drawers from end
The but found nothing except two o
I'D mr. old letters and 3 roll of tobacco
NTH, a made up our minds that he mus
,;on;tr either been wandering q little,
rothea that-God forgive llim-he had
l,e been to play MS one mere trick be
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