Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-19

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was so completely in the power of such
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The Course of True Love.
It is not often that the ''silly sooth" of
a love tale is of importance so momen-
tous as to deserve embalming in the
grave editorial columns of newspaper
that has grown to manhood's proper
ton and shows you the beard under
meath the muff1er, but-listen to this
one. In 1S41 Prussian country squire,
young enough to have his rcmances,
but old enough to have shaken his health
In burschen bouts at Gottingen and Ber-
lin, and wild hunting frolics in Pomera-
MAN forests. came to the obscure pea
SAINTS watering place called Matterbad,
in the valley of Ulten, in Tyrol, to battle
and regain his tone and elasticity of
frame. Mitterbad was the humblest of
peasant hot springs, and in the Tyrol
they know how to preserve the print
tive simplicity of these places, for they
take noble pride in eschewing luxu-
ries and keeping expenses down, SO that
every man, no matter how Door, may be
able to go to the springs and take the
baths if he needs them. Mitterbad,
however, if it had no fashion, could still
boast of beauty, and Josepha Holtzner,
the daughter of the owner of the baths,
though she had not yet pas sed out of
her teens, was belle ofsOme seasons, and
had suitors from all the country side
around. She was girl of some force of
character, and had all those brilliant
personal attractions which give to the
Tyrolean women. when truly lovely,
such wonderful fascination. The Prus
sian squire, a man of austere demeanOr
and overbearingly naughty manner,
saw Josepha, admired, worshiped and
began his wooing with such impetuosity
that in short time he had frightened
off all his rivals and conquered the mai
denis heart as by coup de main. On
ly Holtzner himself, Josepha's father,
objected to the girls receiving the atten-
lions of the "heretic Prussian;;' but,
though Mitterbad was only small place
and had many curious eyes, love found
| that was shrewd enough to battle a do
zen inqu;sitive parents. Old Hoisle, the
attendant at the bathing establishment,
who loved the maiden fondly and was
munifcently subsidized by the lover,
was willing to serve as position glamour
and as long as he lived this ancient
Ganymede delighted to tell, with many
a chuckle, of the innumerable love-let-
| tiers that passed through his parboiled
hands, and of the many stolen rendeZ-
vous at which he presided and over
which he watched, playing the part OF
the wall in PyIamus and Thisbe. The
mad courtship went on, Josepha becom-
| ing fOnder and fonder of her Otto, and
he finding her more indispensable to his
existence. The squire was proud nina
bunker" par excellence, full of the
exclusiveness and spirit of caste of his
order, and Josepha was but simple
frank maiden of the Tyrol valleys, who
might not shine if transplanted into tht
glitter of court. There was struggle
but love conquered, and the squire, in
order to possess his Josepha, resolved al
leap to cross the almost immeasurabIe
chasm which, to his naughty soul
seemed to divide his own rank from the
burgher class. He visited old Holtz
ner in ceremonious state and demanded
Josepha's hand in marriage. He was
refused! This was something which had
not at all entered into the Junker's cal.
culations, for he had only estimated his
own sacrifices in proposing to marry SO
much beneath him, and had never
dreamed that there might be greater
sacrifices of the other party. But Ole
HOltzner did not leave him long in
doubt about the matter. He was one ofths
stern and sturdy peasants who do NOR,
honor to the Tyrol than would the proud
est nobility in the world. The old faith
of his fathers was much more to him
and should be for his daughter, than any
worldly honors or temporal advance
ment, and the staunch peasant sent the
naughty Prussian to the right abou
with peremptory no." from which
there was no appeal.
i More than this. he stOrmed and swort
as if the "Junker's" offer was rather al
indignity put upon him than an honor
ordered his daughter into the house, anc
vowed that if she had any more inter-
course with the "hereticr he would
cudgel her with his alpenstock until he
ribs were sore. But there was no dan
ger of Josepha's being cudgeled fol
such an offense. The rejected lover
whose name in full was Karl Ottt
Won Observation-Disclosures afterwards
prince and Chancellor of the German
empire, left Mitterbad that very nigh
never to return, and six years later h,
married Johanna Won Putkammer. A
bout the same time the fair Josepha wal
married to a petty official of the Episco
pal Court of Justice at Salzburg. Ant
SO these two lovers drift out of the rom
ance forever, but the tremendous conse
quences ofthat marriage mangue have
filed many volumes and are like to fill
many more. What might been the
state of Europe to-day had sturdy ole
Holtzner answered Eyes" instead o.
"no?" May not Bismarck have stayed
a simple country squire, content to raise
his cabbages and hunt the boar and the
wolf remote from courts? In that event
would there have been any Sadowa, any
Sedan? Would Napoleon's uneasy
bones now rest at Chiselhurst Would
Gambetta rule the roast in France 2
Would the German prime minister be
so inveterately hostile to Rome and its
church? There has always seemed tC
be d grain of personal feeling in Prince
BIsmarck's antagonism to the ultramon.
tanists, and grim sort of individual
satisfaction when ne has subjected some
high prelate to the rude treatment of his
"blood and iron" rule. Did he acquire
this feeling what time he sighed like &
| lover, while Josepha obeyed as daugh
ter, in the humble valley Of Ulten ?
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