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A Pennsyf1
BarOniall
The Barl,ooin'sA
Gam!ekeI D!

Emil Kreitn1ey
ployed at EconoI
past as. a farm ?
.ComInunistic socf
employ he has be
nouncement that h
meyer and that he
sion of the title Of Z
Oberamt Maulbro1i
berg, Germany. -
The story Of hD
Baron told it to a ny
spondent, contains s.
q dozen novels and
unquestionable, as
substantiates his evea
production of docuu
most unimpeachable
Kreitmeyer is the se
Baron of the same mai
fathers estates in the
named forty eight yea
ing his majority he
with Wilhelmina FreiH
ter Of his fathers Id
eyed, rosy-cheeked, bu7
whom at length he clas
When the concealmt
riage was no longer ~
Emirs noble father kio
pronounced anathemar
con for having disgraee
alliance with a peasant
| Of doors and forbade hi.
the threshold Of the W.
Thus cast off by his faith
aristocratic friends. w
pluckily resolved to tah}
the sea and endeayor tO1,
living for her by the laf
New World. During &
sented him with a son !
mother and child died .
sea. J
Meanwhile the guns Of,
booming, and when KI
New York he found thi
excitement Having be
father for the army,
home as an officer OF I
and having no other pr
employment. Kreitmey'
In q New York regiment
of Bull Run he was carrb
q Confederate bullet in
long weeks afterward b
Washington hospital
recovered to leave
returned to. his regime
lantly until the very end
again twice wounded, an
a Confederate sharpshoo oot'
in his head, continues t
day. For q time he di,
messenger at the headqua
Dowell, and in this capat
into contact with many
nent Generals, Congressl
tinguished individuals Of
eral Of whom he received
Of regard.
When mustered out Of
surrender, Kreitrneyer,
stemious life and carefr
found himself the posse
and with this sum he de
the water and pay a vi,
neighborhood Of his old
he had never received
gence since leaving y
years previously. {
Oberamt Maulbronn
wended his way, by the
well, to the lodge in the 4
estates, whence he had le'
long ago. Making him
father-in-law, the old gar
from him that both his
and that his elder brother
the title and estates.
Completely overcome q
news Of his mothers
sought a reconciliation W
the new Baron declared t
forgive the disgrace whic
upon the family name by
the gamekeeper's daughte
example Of his father he
returned soldier and Il
the second time
friendless and alone
Kreitmeyer came to the {
best thing he could do wa
as possible. Accordingl..
Prussian army, and cont
for a period Of fifteen y
time he passed unharmed
Austro-PruSSlan and Fr'
though on more than one
was shot under him. ].
He left the army in 1Se
to the United States; but
this country was not so Il
Many OF his. old friends
dead, while others had r
life and were scattered in
country, and he expert
difficulty in obtain
After wandering alb
time from city I
his hand to any odd job
he at length drifted to Ect
employment as a farm Ia
pacity he has continued
Some three or four ]
out mentioning the
one, he answered 9
in a German newspape
concerning Emil Won Kre
barony and estates Of Y
Oberamt Maulbronn, WI,
the last incumbent, En-
recently died. Considera
passed on the subject, al
received a letter with a
from the family solicitors
on New York for a sum
all his wants and enable /
gentleman to Oberamt Nj
x.&1o o,I ocfaf fao a ruoif hir