The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-11-15
THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE.

| rial columns OF newspaper that has grown
] to maBhood's proportion, and shows you
the beard underneath the mufiler, but-lis
| ten to this one. In 1S41 Prussiau cOun-
try squire, young enough TO have his ro-
| nance, but old enough to have shaken his
/ health in burschen boots at Gottingen and
! Berlin, and wild hunting frolics in POme
| Tanian forests, came to the obscure peas
ants watering place He'd Mi;terbad. in
| the valley of Unten, in Tyrol, 20 battle and
regain his tone and elasticity Of frame.
| Mitterbad was the humblest of peasant hot
! springs, and i'm the Tyrol they know how
| to preserve the primitive simplicity of
| these places, for they take a noble pride in
eschewing luxuries and keeping expenses
| down, SO that every man, no matter how
| poor, may be able To GO to the springs aud
! take the baths If he needs them. Mitter-
| bad, however, if it had no fashion, could
| still boast of beauty, and JUsepha Hcltz-
| ner, the daughter of the owner of the
baths, though she had not yot passed out
| Of her teens, was belle of some seasons,
and bad suitors from all the country side
around. She was girl of some force of
| character, and had all those brilliant per
| sonal attractions which give to the Tyrole-
an women, when truly lovely, such a won
! derful fascination. The PTussian squire,
a man of austere demeanor and overbear-
| ingly naughty manner, saw JOsepha, ad
mired, worshipped, and began his wooing
| with impetuosity that in short time he
had frightened off all his rivals and con-
| quered the maiden's heart as by coup de
! main. Only Holtzner himself, Josepha's
! father, objected to the girls receiving the
| attentions of the 'heretic Prussian ; But,
though MitteIbad was only small place,
aud had many curious eyes, love found its
| opportunities in diplomatic caution that
vas shrewd enough to battle a dozen in
| quisitive parents. Old Hoisl, the attend
| ant at the bathing establishment, who low
| ed the maiden fondly, and was munifcent-
| ly subsidized by the lover, vas willing to
| serve as position d amour, and as long as
| he lived this ancient Ganymede delighted
to tell, with many a chuckle, of the innu-
merable love letters that passed through
| his parboiled hands, and of the many sto-
! len rendezvous at which he presided and
! over which he watched, playing the part
| of the wall in Pyramus and Thisbe.
The mad courtship went on, Josepha be-
! coming fonder and fOnder of her Otto, aud
be finding her more and more lndispensa-
BILE 20 his existence. The squire was a
! proud man, 'Junker,' par excellence, full
OF the exclusiveness and spirit of caste of
| his order and Josepha was but a simple,
| frank maiden of the Tyrol valleys, who
| might not shine If iransplahted into the
| glitter Of court. There was struggle,
but love conquered, and the squire, in or
|
| leap to cross the almost immeasuTable
| chasm which, to his baughty soul, seemed
! TO divide his own rank from the burgher
| class He visited old HOltzner in ceremO-
| nious state and demanded JOsepAa's hand
in marriage. lie was refused. This was
something which had not at all entered in
to the Junker's calculations, for he had
only estimated his own sacrifices in propo-
sing to marry so much beneath him, and
uayar draoued hat tbere T0iubt he
greater sacrifices on the part of the other
party, But old IIoltzner did not leave
him long I'm doubt about the matter. He
was one of those stern, sturdy peasants
who do more honor to the Tyrol than
would the pIOudest nobility in the world.
The old faith of his fathers was much
more to him, and should be for his daugh
ter, than any worldly honors or temporal
advancement, and the staunch peasant
sent the naughty PTussian to the right
| about with a peremptOIy "no, from which
there was 10 appeal. More than this, he
stormed and swOre as If the "JunkeT's'
offer was rather an indignity pct npOn him
| than an honor, ordered his daughter into
the house. and vowed that if she had any
more intercourse with the 'heretic'' be
, would cudgel her with his alpens;ock until
, her ribs were sore. But there was DC
danger of Josepha's being cudgeled foI
such an offence,
The rejected lover, whose name in fun
was Karl Otto Won Bismarck -Schonhausen, f,
! afterwards prince and chancellor of the
the German empire, left Mitterbad that
very night never to return, and six years
after he married Johanne Won Putkammer,
About :he same time the fair JOsepha was
married to a petty official of the Episcopal
court of Justice at Saltzburg. And 50 these
two lovers drift out of the romance forever,
but the tremendous consequences of tha.
marriage 7nanqWe have filed many volumes
and are like to fill many more. What
might have been the state OF Europe to-
day had sturdy old Holtzner answered
''ves' instead of moe Might not Bis
! marck have stayed a simple country
squire, content to Taise his cabbage and
hunt the boar and wolf remote from courts ?
In that event wonld there have been any
Sadowa, and Sedan? Would Napoleon S
uneasy bones now rest at Chiselhurst &?
Would Gambetta rule the roast in France =?
Would the German prime ministers be 81
inyeterately hostile to Rome and its church?
| There has always seemed to be grain OF
personal feeling in Prince Bismarck anita
oonism to the ultramontanists, and grim
sort of individual satisfaction when be has
subjected some hight prelate to the rude
treatment of his ''bloOd and iron'' rule.
Did he acquire this feeling what time he
| sighed like a lover, while Josepha obeyed
as a daughter, in the humble valley of u
ten ?-BdltimOre San.
4 COUPLE of Kentuckians have invented
a coffin torpedo TO discourage the grave
robbing fraternity. 1t is fastened by small
chains to the arms of the corpse, and as
soon as any one endeavors to move the bo-
dr. it explodes, scattering formidable
charge of buckshot around. Messrs. Tay-
lor & Griffith, of COvington, KY, the in
ventors of the coffin torpedo above alluded
70, have taken ont a caveat and tested their
compound. \ piece OF beef vas buried in
the sight of a dog. with It being placed
some of the Jerry CruncheF 0iscouTager.
In due course, the digger retired and .be
dog appeared then in due course the
meat was exhnmed and the dog disappear
ed. To tell tie tail only the extreme Zip
thereof remained.
WITHIN a space Of two hundred yearI
+ previous to the Norman conquest, thirty
, Saxon kings aud queens left the throne tol