New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-02-04

the light will show better. Yes, / see
distant resembla You certainly
look very much like that hearty
young companion OF mine forty years
ago; very much, in fact, as L have
almost expected to see him-though
know that over half a lifetime has
passed by. But your father tell me
OF him at once, /" and thelitt!e old man
began to get fdgety.
They relaxed their grasp of each
others hands and sat down together,
while the others gave every attention.
s'My father is Dead" began the
young man.
"What!" said the sire at his side!
eyes, my father, and the compan-
ion OF your younger days is no more.
He passed away four years ago, and
onhis dying bed he gave me the in
structions I am now carrying out. It
was the one wish of my fathers's
liter life to be able to take
the eastern trip to Rochester to meet
the other two members of that party
you have told OF. 1t was on his mind
a great deal.
"When my father died he was one
OF the most prominent men on the
Pacific slope. He had figured in all
the great political events Since 1860,
and occupied many positions of pub
lie worth, He was attracted toward
California by the great gold panic, and
had a very venturesome, yet not I'M
pleasant, trip overland, for it was be-
fore the railroad came. -. a.
"He became early interested in the
fisheries OF the northern coast, and
during a visit to those grounds was
taken captive by a rowing band OF In
dams and held for over ayear. He
finally succeeded in making his escape;
but was in the mountainsf for months;
at last, and by the merest chance, get
ting to the coast again, and so on
back to San Francisco. He became
cashier in a bank, and while in this
position married the daughter OF the
banks president. It was not long aft
er this before my father found himself
president of the bank, which was the
largest of it's kind on the Pacific Coast.
ut was then that my father began
his public career, and he continued to
rise in worldly station until his death
came. [ am now one of the off( ers of
the bank of which my father was for
years president, and have large and
pressing interests to oversee, yet /
have left all for a tilne-fo the sole
purpose of following out the wishes-I
may almost say last wishes-of my
father relative to this trip to Roches-
ter and the hunting up OF the other
two Of that original little partys Of
forty years ago. Ihave some momen-
toes with me that father put aside for
those he expected to meet this year
at Rochester, and now [ am afraid
that we will have to unite our powers
in an effort to find No. 3 of the origin
al party.' - -.
just then violent stamping was
heard in one of the little staterooms
on one side of where the narrators and
their small body of listeners were
seated. Then two or three sharp
kicks came against the door, followed
by: -. s.@t..
"Consarn it! if hadn't got sech in
fernal tight boots, jest t. 60 down't
Rochester in, [ wouldn't hey t. kick
tn Internal legs off'n me when I want
ed t put them on" ~ ,.5[-
Then there came great bang, with
a ''Thar, by gol''
Immediately thereafter a, tall, thin,
straight haired old fellow opened the
door OF the room from which thenoise
had come and, minus collar and with
one trowser leg caught on the top of
his boot, he stood in the dim glare Of
oscillating light and looked with be-
wilderment toward the Wonderisg
ones about the table.
''Ken any of you fellers tell me ef
I've been a dreamin'?" he inquired
after a moment or two had passed.
II don't believe we can, uncle" said
one Of the number.
''Hev you fellers been tellin'
yarns?'' he again asked, without
much attention to the answer just re-
ceived.
The little old gentleman ventured to
say that they had been considering
some old time events
't'Then amt been dreamin'; Iknow-
ed was. awake. Say, which one OF
you was tellin' that last story?" he
asked; and upon the young man &C
knowledging that he was the one the
old fellow said:
''Put her right thar, then, for /
knowed your dad;;' then turning to-
ward the group he inquired:
Nov, who was it tibet told the first
yarn bout those three chaps?''
a '"The little old gentleman bobbed up,
prepared by his former surprise to
have almost anything happen
''"Then," CALCULATED the old fellow,
his dlsheveled hair and sparkling eyes
indicating much excitement, :'Ill be
dubbed and skinned fer a sneakin',
wild eyed rattlesnake zef I amt trer
missin' link. I'm one Of ther same
crowd tibet separated at Detroit away
back that in ~, an I'm Jest on my
way Finder m I--dowu t Z Roehes-
ter t shake huns all Ground ag'in.
By the great whale that eat up tibet
teller Job, but this is er coincerd ence.' .
After further expressions OF surprise
on the part OF each the tall old man