Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-07-20

/ wife and joyous daughter, who soon
] expected to become the bride of EIlsler's
| young assistant in business. When
+ Ellsler arrived at his place of business
next mOraing, contrary to the general
/ order of things, the store was locked;
! the shop eases had not been filed for
I the days business. OpeEing the door,
EIlsIer waited for the clerk, who
( soon arrived, flushed when giving as an
excuse for ais hardness that he had
/ oversight himself. - The EOung man
busted himself with putting the store
/ fn order, while Ellsler turned the
combination OF the safe preparatory to
/ beginning business for the day. Sud
/ denly Ellsler gasped, fell backward,
/ and uttering the one word, gone % fell
| into a dead stupOr. The precious gems
received the day before and the channels
! bag which contained them were not IN
/ the safe. The combination being found
untampered with and its workings
being known but to himself and his
clerk, the latter was accused of the
robbery, which charge he stoutly de-
MED Surely burglars were not the
nocturnal visitors, else the array of gold
and silverware would also have disap
peared. The clerk was placed under
arrest, but as no definite testimony
could be brought to bear against him
he was released. Even after her
fathers heavy loss, and when circum-
stances pointed to her lover as the
guilty person, Ellsler's daughter Emily
would not believe him guilty, and in
side of two years, during which time
the young clerk had been employed in
st. Louis, they were married, removing
to st. Paul. A year passed, and with
] L, !,
against his own wishes, but at the
urgent request of his wife, the husband
sent news OF the happy event to Ellsler
and his wife. The answer was brief, but
terrible you have given birth to the
son of a thief % was all it said, but it
was enough to break the young moth
er's heart and she died in the course
of q week. ElIsler's business rapidly
dropped off, and, financial difficulties
following, he was finally enabled to
sell out for enough money to purchase
several acres on the edge of LeaYen-
worth and became one Of the many
gardeners who in the early morning
supply the market with vegetables and
fruits. For nine years he has been en-
gagged in this business, during which
time he and his wife have constantly
n2ourned the unhappy ending of their
daughter. The recent heavy rains and
bad roads have often prevented the old
na8R from making his accustomed trips
to the city market, and upon one of
these occasions, the family clock having
become out of. order, he determined to
give d few hours to righting it. In
some way the pendulum was accident
ally broken during the job, and the old
clOckmaker was about to give the job
up for the time being, when he be-
thought himself Of what might prove to
be substitute, which had hung
mOtiOnless since the day, he had crossed
the ocean and landed, carrying in his
arms the big family clock which had
timed the hours of his bOyhOOd days in
Germany.
3 The family heirloom had hung on the
wall of his store in his more prosperous
days, but it was always silent among
the many ticking watches and clocks.
When Ellsler, with the nervousness
which sometimes comes in old age,
Quickened by the sight of an article
which brought back to memory father
and mother, sister and brother, opened
the old timepiece, he certainly had no
thought of what he would find within
Closely ensconced behind the pendulum
was q small channels sack, covered with
dust, but its contents as brilliant as the
day, twelve years before, when they
had first come into ieweller Ellsler's
possession. The old mans feelings at
the time of the discovery are. of course,
impossible to describe. Tears cOursed
down his cheeks, and when his wife
found him with bowed head, holding
the lost treasure in his arms, diamonds
falling to the floor with each heave of
his breast, she, in some unaccOuntable
manner, surmised at a glance what had
taken place, and fell to the floor faint
ing and calling upon her dead daughter
for forgiveness.
In conversation with a correspondent
EIlsler said: AT first it seemed too
much like a dream to believe, and at
least q dozen times a day [ would run
the diamonds through my fingers,
needless of where they scattered, in
order to convince myself that it was
all real. After a while it all came back
to me so plain. Before locking up that
evening L thought that it would be
better to secure the diamonds in some
out of the way place, thinking that
should the safe be blown open during
the night I would lose nearly my all,
so Just before closing 1 secreted them
In the old clock. Being tired 1 slept heav-
iIy: the next morning my surprise atnOt
finding them in the safe where I nightly
deposited all my goods must have
chased away all recOlIections of where
had put them the night previous and
in the excitement following my mind
was turned. My wife and L are grow
ing old We have a small competence
which our garden brings US. We in
tend spending our newly acquired
wealth and more in searching for our
sOn-in-law How happy we would be"
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