The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-08-11

oI single garment made OF thick
leather, now called pants. The boots
hOWeVer, were all attached TO the pants
! Gentlemen in those times when dress
UIg put their love limbs in the legs OF
this garment. The waist came up to
our arm pits, and il was bnttOned at
the back of our necks. Thusly clad, |
| %rasped stout stick, mounted my
| steGd, set my hat Oh my ear and gayly
@allOpcd to her fathers stronghold.
Arriving there, took survey of the
surroundings, crossed the bridge, went
mp the roadway and boldly thundered
al The gate, which | did 30 Justify that
echOs returned from the schwartz
walder, (black wOOds) over two nun
dred miles away. 'POts dOnnerWetter
| sappermeHt blitZ carrambo,' | heard
her father swear inside. With great
clatter the gate swung open and stood
my horse over the entrance so he could
not close it. Her father glared terribly
at first, but suddenly seeing my fine
attire, supposed | was now flush with
wealth and had come to settle for the
many kegs had soapen him for during
the past years, and told me 10 come in.
AS good luck would have il, | caught
II glimpse of the girl in the garden
reading under a linden baum (tree)
All fate seemed to favor me. Swelling
out my breast and rearing up my horse,
| said to him, Bring my bill; Ich will
bezahlen q would settle up). I'll
guard the gate here ana see that no one
cutters till you return He went into
the house and galloped up to Gretchen
and said, 'FlY with me, Gretchen, and
reign queen of the world forever She
vas quite taken by surprise, and before
she recovered leaned from my horse
and grabbed her, and although l was
young then and had the ardor OF love
in my heart, the fire of youth in my
veins and mein liebes madchen (mv
lovely sweethearD in my arms, still it
was only by strenuous work that
lifted her in front OF me on the saddle,
Gretchen did not approve of being
made queen OF the world-great good
ness, how she fought and struggled
and scratched my hands and face!
marvel yet how such lovely madchen
(maiden) could so suddenly turn into
such terrible wild cat. Her father
Just then came from the house, and
seeirg us, hallooed to his hands and
came at us l clutched Gretchen's
arms tight, shook my fist back at him
whacked my horse with my stick and
went like the wind out of the gate
over the bridge and into the forest
Terrible indeed was the language he
waited after me. | tremble yet when
! think OF his words. Ere long | hear(
the alarm bell, and looking back sool
} after, could see him and his inferna
hirelings coming in hot pursuit. My
four hundred pounds of girl sat YER!
lightly upon my heart, but soOI
began to set rather heavy OIL my steed
for he began to puff and blow terribly
, beside, could see they were gainin:
on lie. | cut through the woods at al
angles, but they soon caught me.
l clung to Gretchen and made desperat
resistance, using my stick on thei
( thick heads with all my power, but
! might as well have been hitting butch
er's blocks. My horse was soon pulle'
J, down and rolled over us four times
. Gretchen was torn from my arms. He
fathers cussed hirel.ngs grabbed IN
en- masse, and by his directions L wa
t swung around through the air severa
times and then fired three hundred fee
: away, into the Clammer river, whic
n resembles your American Missouri, i
f being more mud than water. Fou
weeks later, when had gotten the las
of the mud scraped off of me, | heart
# that her father had made her MARI
2 someone else. | spent two months i
e brooding terrible vengeance on him
s which later on carried out. SO fear
d ful was it that it would crack the roo
g of this building even to whisper
3 here" said VieIbeer, looking owe
i his shoulder as though he feared som
J, lurking danger. AS he ceased speak
c ing there was an awful silence. w
d all shuddered and our knees wobbleC
5 'Let us hear it, Vielbeer," said Sc,
D eral finally.
81 cannot"
r go, yes! Do now!"
n "You all won't tell!"
"NeverW
"Well,I moved into the next county
and there being then no one to drln
his beer, it began to sour, end III orde
to save it he had to drink it himsel
which he could not do fast enough
, keep the sour supply down, and b
i drank himself over the Golden Rive
= long before it was all gone, all of whic
> T could have prevented by going an
! helping him drink it up"
, "Anotber song, Vielbeer."
! mo, no; klein sang
$ "Yes, yes; just another
I "No; Eli tell you about my grea
grand father, Baron Ulbrich Won Viel
beer, who was u colonel under Freder
| ick the Great and who was the great
q est wine drinker that ever was in Ger
I many. NV great grand father was g
= noted for his drinking capacity tina
: hardly any of his brother officers ven
+ tured to compete with him; it they di
they were pretty sure to be comtortabl
q laid under the table before he had fair
ly begun to drink. One evening,it wa
shortly after the seige of Lemrolz, i
!, which the colonel particularly distin
, guished himself by-alone and with
U broken sword at that-making tw
: whole Russian regiments fly. On
n evening, it must have been i'll the bt
5 ginning of March-the seige, | know
began in January, and was not raise
h till the Goth of February, by the al
Il pearance of Blitzholtz with 5000
= troops from beyond the Elbe. On
evening party of Officers-my gres
q grand father, then about thirty years {
g age, among the number-were maxim
:, night of it at the Black Bear
q Pottsdam. They had drunk goo
q deal of champagne in compliment
( the French officers who were presel
@ and were now busily engaged i'll dis
:, cussing st. Julien and other potter
o wines of the country. They sat Ion
n and drank deeply, but toward OIL
is O'Clock in the morning they began OIL
IS by one to drop off, and by two the
l. were all snoring in their chairs or @
= the floor, excepting my respectable al
~ cestor and all officer in foreign lool
Ie ing uniform, whom he had never b
n lore seen. Il hear you are as celt
= brated at the banquet of Bacchus as
is the camp of Mars said the strange
~ very classically, at the same time bow
d ing very politely to my ancestor. III
!. latter described him as pale, gentl
K manlike looking man of middle az
n with a Roman nose, a satirical expre
a sion about the mouth and Just di
10 cernabe limp in his gait. 'lt that
10 the case continued he, Il suppose yC
e are willing to prolong our symposiu
.. a little longer than these milk sol
n have been disposed to, and if You ha'
no objection, we will order anoth
bottle The colonel asseuted. A fre
bottle was brought, together with
plate of refreshments. The officer, wi
appeared to be Il man of various into
nation and agreeable manners, enter,
into an interesting conversational ,duril
which bottle after bottle was draine