Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-07-23
Baron Sothen, Miser.

nal shapes human nature might not
take upon itself II only cultivated with
sufficient industry aud intelligence; for
it is no doubt as far possible to alter 1t
and create altogether new types of mind
and heart as it is to alter the physical
Outlines of the human form and give us
short and gnarly headed bushman OF
South Africa and the colossal and well.
proportional petagonian giant. 1t is
no cause for special wonder that, In bar
barous times, what we call the Christian
virtues should cease altogether to gov
ern men: but we have right in our own
day, and in one of the oldest civilized
countries, to look with mute astonish-
ment and just horror upon o type OF
of fiendish and sordid avarice that has
prospered these many years in the
world, but has now, happily and in a
violent manner, gone out of it forever.
Baron son Sothen was an old man who
lived Oh handsome estate few miles
from Vienna. His fortune was so large
that, even among millionaires, he was
entitled to distinction. He began to
make it in the noble occupation of trad
ing in lottery tickets with the poor, and
even after he retired from the lottery
business q rich man his habits of grind
inc the helpless wretches had so deeply
set themselves in his heart that he still
found a pleasure in expressing and scol-
ding every poor creature whose kreut-
GERS could add anything TO his own
wealth. His baroness, exemplary as
she may have been in her youth, got
| finally to be for him quite worthy
companion Never did servants get
more from her or her lord than the
hard law set apart for them.
Did an apple fall i'll the orchard when
the wind was blowing, and did a ser
want take it for his own, the punishment
inflicted was the loss of q weeks wages
Over barns, stables and pens they kept
personal watch, and no pig or horse eve1
cot more corn or oats than the preScrlb
ed and mean allowance--which was no
always so good as corn and oats In NJ
these matters there was thrift, and boil
baron and baroness found i'll them ont
of their chief delights, Meanwhile the,
lived in an imposing castle surronnde'
by spacious park, and no decent ma
or woman was ever seen within thei
gates. There are, after all, degrees c
baseness which no worldly success ca
shut out from the general condemns
ti0u
Both the old miser and his wife wei
devoted to the Church Of Rome, NeG
their highland castle at place know
; as Der Himmel,' they put mp n han'
( some chapel, and for this papal deere
{ raised them to their rank. Freely, I
all times when not grinding the poo
abusing tho servants. or watching tt
. food that horses, cows aud pigs col
: sumed, they both prayed with a deT
: ton which, to strangers, might ha'
seemed very beautiful in its eaTnestneS
: 70 religious corporations and to char
IS they gave of their substances largel
= and thus, from persons III high plac
II and far away from the complaints OF q
Il poor and the sutferings OF dumb az
= mails. they secured rich favor and fl
faith in their nobility OF aim and life.
~ Among the barou's servants was
~ game keeper, who had lived ten yea
with a woman who was not his WI
~ He desired to marry her, but could n
:, get the money to pay the cost OF Gel
mony performed in accordance with
law of the land he lived in. When t
baron, after ten years of silence, reno
= strated with his gamc-keeper for
immoral life, the game-kceper promls
10 merry the woman if the baron wot
pay the cost of the ceremony. This
man Of prayers and the builder OF
, chapel refused sCerntnlly to do, a
~ forthwith dismissed the man from
> service. Within few hours the gar
keeper returned and urged and urged
w point once more, but received only &c
"o sion and loud denuncations for
VI pains. He then shot the old mlser dc
~ npon the spot and delivered himself
to the police officers.
Vi Vienna WAS for a week in great
It citemeut over this tragedy, and v'oie1
up came near resulting from it when
p barons remains we're taken to the gra
er- Crowd after crowd wended its way
~ the height that leads to the CASTLE !"
mo IT was estimated that ten or 1--WE
-, A., ..., ,,,,,,nu nod got there. POI