Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1874-04-10
THE SEN TIN Ell.
AWAY from Fatherland.

Foreign immigration brings to this country
in its train many romance of sentiment or
sorrow, varying from the pretty pastoral OF
village courtship, Interrupted for years by the
yoeman-lover's battle for fortune in distant
America, to the stern drama Of the fugitye's
recapture by relentless justice, after ilfetimes
disguise and miserable wanderings across the
seas. In the city of Cincinnati, few days
ago wealthy gentleman, in his SEVENTEEN
wear, was married to a widow only one year
younger; and the event invited none OF the
uuiZzical humor generally occasioned by the
matrimonial essays of old age, because il was
the mellow climax of a romance begun in the
fitness of youth. Fifty years before, The bride
and groom of that marriage were lovers in "A
German village near the Rhine. Poverty
pressed hard upon the young man, and, after
many VOWS of eternal fidelity between himself
and his sweetheart, he crossed the ocean to
conquer future of higher possibilities in the
Great Republic 1t is not told by what vicis-
STUDIES the hearts of the twain were estranged,
but when, after several years of successful
fortune in the West, the emigrant took to
himself wife, it was not the village girl =
and when the latter subsequently came to this
country herself, and was welded no tinge Of
the old romance was in the act. Yet, as we
see, that old romance was not yet dead. Wild
over and widow, the two met once more beside
the American Rhine; the former rich man,
though hoary with the SHOWS of threescore
and ten, and the latter old enough to be the
grand mother Of her first loves maiden SELF
And thus meeting, it was to part no more;
for the old romance could not be wronged of
its dues even al the eleventh hour, and the
dream of youth became the sacrament of age.
1t may be said of our German immigrants,
distinctively, that their romances, even when
involving tragic element, are rarely tainted
by the meretricious properties too often char
acterizing the foreign sentimentalisms of other
nationalities. What pure and pathetic epic
is this, for instance, of two sample lives; AT
the Union Depot in Milwaukee, Wis, one day
last month, fine looking young fellow named
Fritz Shonman, four years from Fatherland,
was one ofa throng eagerly awaiting certain
Eastern train. As many sympathizing friends
about him were aware, he had indusiriously
and patiently won rising position in large
local business house, and was now in the depot
TO greet the girl he had loved in his German
home, whom he had summoned TO come TO
him and be his wife ia the new home be had
prepared for their future. And she came
GAS the expected train rolled at last into the
station" describes the Wisconsin, "and the
impatient passengers began disembarking, the
quick eye OF love revealed the yearning hearts
10 each other, and with the words: Fritz /
Katrinal i the long-separated lovers clasped
each other in a close embrace. After the first
Joyous emotion was over, Fritz tried TO olsen
gage himself, to present bis future bride to the
many friends who had come around. But the
hands were firmly clasped about his neck, aud
would not separate; no words came from the
lips which touched his cheek and in mo-
ment the dread intelligence flashed through
the minds Of the beholders. The girl was
dead, having literally broken her heart with
excessive joy at being restored to him she so
fondly loved No words can describe the