Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-11-02
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~, lucky, not only in great things
but IN small, that he had no oeens.
ION even for an umberelIa. But the
morning OF the day after the panta.
looms came home everything seemed
70 go crooked with him in the most
unprecedented way. In the first
place, the pantaloons themselves
We're SO ill-mended that not to have
thrown them away was a waste Of
money. Then. having oversight
himself, he cut his chin in shaving.
and, being unused TO such treatment.
could find no sticking plaster: his
watch had stopped; and he felt d de-
eided twinge in one OF his toes.
lie was not an ill-tempered man:
but ha felt that for Cnce, lie had
good cause for complaint against
the universe; and so his daughter
Bertha being the oniyrepresentative
Of the universe present at that enrly
hour, she had 20 pay for the sins 0i
the watch and the razor, as we'll as
the sun, moonand stars. Fortunate
IL she was as gentle ais she was pref
w and she was the prettiest girl IN
Eulenhurg.
No gentle was she, and 80 bright be.
sides, that, helped by his coffee, she
was making him forgot even the
twinge, when be suddenly turned
pale; and, alter "A rapid search OF all
hts pockets, exclaimed:
lit only wanted thatl | wouldn't
have lost that--np. not for a thous.
and! Ring up everybody, BERTHA
never mind what they are doing
that must be found, Il il takes all
dnyl"
Bertha turned pale too. "Whati Is
II. father What has hnppend?''
"It's-it's n glilden--"
~ gtilien7" she asked. in sudden
alarm. not al the loss OF a gulden,
bnt AZ the Thought that her father
had gone craxed after way not I'M
common with milliunaires.
Yes. a gulden." ha cried. turning
ont his pockets. The first gulden |
ever earned. when | was poorer than
Job. the gulden TINT | was prouder
and glnddcr ni than AL I've ever
made since. the gulden ! got on the
day | first snw your poor mother.
thegnldrn that brought the all the
rest. the gnldcn that's never been
out ofiny pocket for thirty years.
the guldan- no wonder watches stop
and razors cut. aud toes twinge, Il
that's gone, and Bcrthn--l'm not
myself without that gtilden. I'm not
n superstitions man, I'm not n fool;
but Ia give the thousand guldens to
have that one back again"
Nor was Bertha Supcrstitious; but
she set towork aud led the search 60
satisfy her fathers within, as diligent-
IL IA II tile trumpery little coin were
Il missing diamond. Brains and
memories meteorological; the most un-
likely papers were rnnsacked; every
pnrkrt was turned inside out ofevery
garment Herr Lewis had ever worn.
4 good many long lost things came
to light. but not the gulden; and
Herr Lewis ut last had TO set OF 70
his Office without It, arriving there
later than had ever happened since
HIS vito was buried. II is wonderful
what a trtile will sometimes throwan
otherwise sensible man out; how
much more thnn u big thing with
which habit has nothing to do.
where's Herr Mark" he asked,
ploomily. when he missed from the
nsunl desk his principal cashier.
Eve thought that he must have
been with you, sir, as you were both
late" said one Of the clerks. lie
has not yet come.
That was unlucky, too. But when
dinner time came without Herr Marx
but within pressing demand supposed
To hive been long ago settled, from
nm important firm, there seemed to
be- something beyond ill.lueS about
the absence oi the most punctual OF
cashiers With as much trepidation
rs Ii had turned out his pockets,
Herr Lewis explored the books; ana
thnre was no doubt ofit-a horrible
rhnos of fraudulent entries made one
thing clear. TINT Herr Marx had a6 D
seconded with all the assets and lett
the bankers nothing but the liabili-
ties. and the worst of It was that
Herr Marx had got of just IN time,
Tint the search for the gulden had
made mi the difference between being
II time 10 be- saved, and only in time
TO be ruined. Cans Mohr, the tailor,
Il was who had pulled down the
prent bnnk which was the prop ana
glory OF Eulenburg. ..,.
Naturally, nowhere In the whole
city was The crash 81 the house o.
LAWS more earnestly discussed than
IN the workshop oftheex.millionalre
tailor IL is true TINT the phi ne
owed there was but triile, but tn i,
wns held TO he chief cause OF nus
downfall. People who run up large
Mills with their tailors, and never
nav them. invariably flourish, as ~
the world knows, even though ny
body knows why. .,l.u a.
asna M he snt cross-legged and us
tened 10 the gossip OF hls fellow y
workmen. that the last carmen, n. z,
Herr Her Lewis had passed through lllt