The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-05-19
THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE.
How a Yankee PeddIer Won q PhfIa.
deIPhia HERES.
By LIZZIE A. ;. CHESTER.


The story the writer has to tell was
derived from such sources that she is
willing to youch in her proper person
for the truth of every incident of it..
The last of the parties interested died,
the past winter, and slight changes in
names being made, no possible harm
can result from the narration.
Ia the fall of 1906, while Napoleon
the First was rapidly marching his army
Eorthward for an attack upon Prussia,
press-gangs constantly secured the lat
ter country, recruiting for the army of
his majesty, the King. The Widow
Schauber, resident of small VILLAGE in
Alsace, like many another German
mother, kept her sons concealed in the
cellar by day, and released them at
might only, for air and exercise. One
moonlight evening, Frederick Schauber
and companion are playing at a street
corner, when songs, and shouts, and
sounds of hurried tramp come up the
street; officers hands are on their
shoulders, and the lads are in the service
of his majesty, the King. Resistance is
death; no time is allowed for adieux;
the lads are marched to the front
They are too young TO bear arms, but
are assigned she duty of removing the
wounded The vehicle appropriated to
this use is rough cart. The wounded
are picked up and tossed in, piled one
upon another until the cart Is full, then
driven TO place of safety, where they
are incontinently dumped!
Frederick is sickened. Give him a
musket, and he will fight-this kind of
work he viii endure no longer; but his
majesty, the King, chooses not to give
him a musket; there are more wounded
TO be loaded and dumped. Then, in the
ear of his comrade, he whispers, deser-
ton. Back into Prussia is sure arrest
and execution-Over the line, them
The boys have in their possession
money TO about the value of u cents
The Prussian forces are wretchedly fed.
The sagacious Frederick invests the "
cents in bread, brides the furnishing
Pickets, and, half starved himself,
comes, at length, within the French
line. lie hastens to Paris But who
can foretell the fortunes Of war? Eu-
rope may quake at he name of Ma
poleon Bonaparte; Frederick fears be-
cause he has felt the power of his ma
jesty, the King Of Prussia. Who knows
but the Pussian army may yet enter
Paris? His comrade remains in Paris,
but he pushes on to Havre- He finds
there a vessel about sailing for Ameri-
ca. lie works his passage, and, as
soon as the vessel touches wharf at
Philadelphia, springs ashore and accosts
the first Individual he meets with the re-
quest for work.
This individual Is Hillyer, a Philadel-
phia baker. IIilyer does not wish to
hire, but will take the young man as an
apprentice. Never did bakerfi find more
faithful apprentice. Hillyer's business
is flourishing one, and for the next
few years, increases both in quantity
and character. It passes from retail TO
wholesale. Schauber is Indispensable.
Hillyer amasses fortune; then
dies, leaving his widow and Schauber
TO manage. The widow is gentle.
pretty little woman, and Schauber and
the widow 4" manage" as would be ex-
pected. Schauber has already accumu-
lated handsome property Of his own,