The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-12-16

SInella, ne Salu, II no use tTNluB
to sell any more of our wine. can't
get the people who buy to pay for 1t.
We might as well enjoy what we have
left ourselves
Thereafter the I.ichtenberger family
had always with their dinner a bottle
or two of the finest Moselle. Often
they had with it little more than rye
bread and sausage.
The Christmas season came round
and old Herr Lichtenberg, who had al
ways observed the feast by sending lit
tie presents to his friends, started out
with a big basket full of bottles of
Moselle. In the same way Frau Lich-
tenberg begged permission OF her
wealthy patrons In the hairdressIng
line to leave with each of them, by
way of holiday greeting, a bottle or
two of the same wine.
1t SO happened that among the wom-
en- on Frau Lichtenbergs list was the
wife Of prominent German whose
| husband was great friend of the Ger
F. man consul She had been kind to the
old hairdresser, and In consequence
four quarts of Moselle had been her
portion in the Christmas distribution.
When Frau Lichtenberg called the
next time on her patron she was asked
where such excellent wine was to be
had.
my husband" said the woman. says
he hasn't tasted such good Moseie
since he left Coblenz"
Then Frau Lichtenberg's pride in her
husband got the better of her dlscre
ton and she told more than she had
ever told before.
He is a judge Of good wine" she
said. He ought to be. For ten years
he was an officer in the kaisers army
Then he got into gambling scrape and
came to this country. His real name
is not Licntenberg. He is Won. BY
right he Is Emil Won Zolern. He has
the iron cross of the old emperor at
| home in his trunk. | will bring your
husband more of the Moselle since ne
| likes 1t SO much"
The next afternoon but one, when
Herr Lichtenberg had gone downtown
| looking for work, a carriage drove up
! to the tenement into which the Lich-
tenberg family had moved after the
| dream of the wine house had vanished
| into smoke. Out of 1t got Frau Lich
tenberg's favorite patron. She climbed
| up the stairs until she found the old
woman on the fourth floor.
II have news for you" she said
when Frau Lichtenberg had received
| her. Il told my husband what you said
| about your husbands past career Next
| evening he happened to dine with The
| German consul and repeated the story.
| The consul was interested at once.
II have been looking for that man
for three months he said His father
| and his brother are dead and half the
family estates are waiting for him to
claim them.
Il came up to be the first to tell you
OF your good luck" went on the wom-
an who had brought the news.
Fran Lichtenberg got out her hus-
bands commission in the kaisers
army document from which he had
never parted, and she displayed also
with justifable pride the little iron
cross Of valor Finally, she promised
to send Herr Lchtenberg down the
next day to see the consul.
1t all turned out to be true. Herr
Won Zollern, the father, was dead, and
the younger brother to whom the fam
lily property had been left, had been
| killed on the east coast of Africa.
| lily only one sister, happily married to
an important officer in the German
army, and the wandering brother in
America. 1t was easy enough for Herr
| Lichtenberg to prove his identity, and
within month draft for 0 GOO marks
| was received to cover the travelling eX-
| penses of the night bartender and his
| wife. the old hairdresser, back to the
! old home of the Won Zollern's at Cob
| LEM.
After all the arrangements for their
| departure had been made Herr Lich
tenberg and his wife gave a farewell
ment house was invited. At that din
ner the last of the famous MoselIe was
drunk and the host declared that his
| speculation in wine had turned out to
be after all the most successful he had
| ever made.