The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-03-30
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: Making an Enemy. !
y BY KENNETH BROWN y
BY KENNETH BROWN.
Andreas namberger is fat German

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who has made a mortal enemy.
Hamburger came To America during
the Sturn und Drang period of his life.
with many theories of the brotherhood
OF man i'm his head. and some of these
stayed with him after he had become
fat and prosperous. At the University
OF Heidelberg he had belonged To a
club where any views could obtain
hearlng--a club which after certain
number of Schoppen of beer became
either quite anarchistic or maudlinly
patriotic. according To the songs that
il happened TO be singing.
Hamburger came TO America 10 es-
cape duty i'm the army. because il was
compulsory. He had known an Amer
lean from the slopes OF the Andes who
had told thrilling tales of revolution
after revolution i'm the cause of liberty.
The romance OF IL had fired the Ger
mans blood and he sailed TO New YORK.
He knew, Of course. that North Amer
lea did not have SO many revolutions
as South America; but North America
was the grand country of Freiheit,
which had fought South America der
Sklaverei wegen TO set the slaves free.
and he Thought he would get there hrst
and look around. and then, If he found
IL too tame. Just slip down To South
America for a revolution or two.
He landed i'm New York with little
money-he had left Germany uncero-
moniously-an began TO talk about
Freihelt Unfortunately, ID was neither
the Fourth OF July nor the eve or an
election, and Bamberger found the peo-
pie too busy To talk about freedom
much. Then he inquired when the train
started for South America where the
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the cause OF freedom. and the people
laughed at him and told him not 10 give
them any of his lip. and used other
expressions which he had never met
with IN Shakespeare and the other
English authors he had studied.
Bamberger 1rifted southwark and i'm
Baltimore went into wholesale gro
Gerry house i'm "a very humble position.
being disappointed i'm finding gold and
precious stones for the seeking I'm this
country. whose distorted image had
entered his head i'm Germany. a fell
low worker i'm the grocery story took
him 10 the Y. NJ. c. A. gymnasium.
and Bamberger. TO whom the word
gymnasium conveyed the idea OF an
educational institution. inquired for
classes In English and history and eag-
erly Joined them, Co the disgust OF the
man who had introduced him To tho
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Andreas never left the firm he start
ed with. The lower rungs OF the lad
der were rough. and he discovered that
human nature in the western hemis-
phere is the same as In the eastern. BUT
your optimist never has To live from
hand TO mouth: ne has the limitless
future to draw upon: and N some or
tho Germans ideals We're shattered by
a few months life i'm America, he be-
gan TO see something OF the boundless
possibilities OF the country. and with
the keen love OF the philosopher 70.
possibilities. he Interested himself In
this new land. as different from his
preconceived ideas OF IT, as II was from
old Germany.
When Bamberger made his mortal
enemy. he was junior partner in the
frm where first he had rolled barrels
and shifted sacks: and II he had not
married his employers daughter. her
children at least called him Uncle
Andreas. and punched bis fat stomach
quite as freely as If he had.
a few years after Bamberger came
to America. n man went TO Sing Sing
for manslaughter. He was an Ameri-
can of the class we call the bone and
sinew Of the country. or look down
upon as not quite as good clay as our
selves. depending on circumstances.
Had he told the details OF his case ana
been in a higher social sphere. ne would
probably have gone free, and the papers
would have given columns to II: but ht
had come from part or the country
where a man keeps some things to him
self: and he had gone to spend the best
part Of his life i'm prison.
When he came out he had a little
money which he had earned during his
prison life. He changed his name to
Watson and went to look for work. BY
chance he got place on the street
cleaning force. which he kept for one
day. The police knew him or his
clothes-every man who leaves the PEN
itcntiary wears "A suit that the police
recognize at n glance-and he learned
that the New York street cleaning force
was too immaculate TO admit convict
into its ranks. unless he were politi-
cal convict. of course.
When he come out Of prison he
thought he had passed the bitterest
part OF life forgetting that the past is
rarely so bitter as the present. Ah
the blessed day when he was released:
10 be able to walk in this direction or
in that He turned every corner; he