The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-02
FOUND A FATHER IN BRAZIL.
story OF . Young Hamburg PedIer Who
Went In search Of an Inheritance.

story OF q Young Hamburg PedIer Who
went In Search OF an Inheritance.
A Dick Wilmington sort Of story is being
told by the Hamburg newspapers, the hero
Of which is a young man who three or four
years ago conducted what the Germans
call a stomach store" In the hop market.
In other words he made his living by selling
shoe lsces and garters and toys and collar
buttons, which he displayed in a tray slung
around his neck and resting on his stomach.
About three years g his customers missed
him, and then the story came out that
he had gone to Brazil to claim an inheri-
lance.
A friend OF the stomach merchant
had received a letter from a relative in Rio
Grande do Sui, which gave a circumstantial
account OF the death Of the stomach mer-
chants" uncle and added that he had
left a large estate which the young man
he was % years old-could recover at once
II he should go to Brazil. Money was sent
to pay his expenses. The heir was sceptical
about the story. Still he had nothing to
lose. He took passage On a steamer for
Rio Janeiro and. securing all the necessary
Official documents to establish his identity,
started to seek his ready made fortune.
DCIlk a NcIy SdiOAAA JUN AAn Ac
all his savings in a stock OF his usual wares
to take with him, so that IL the inheritance
should prove a myth he could at once start
in his old business.
The next act in the drama, as witnessed
by the Hamburgers, came about three
weeks ago, when a carriage made it's ap-
pearance in the Hop Market. The occu-
nant OF IL wa the former stomach mer-
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time friends and associates. One by one
as he met them he invited them to meet
him in the evening at supper time at one
of the finest taverns in the city.
They we're the oldest collection OF guests
hat the pompous walters had ever served,
and the feast provided was an event in their
lives. There were thirty-two Of them alto
gether, and every delicacy hat the house
al orded and its finest wines were served
10 them with prodigal liberalty. After the
edibles had disappeared the host made
them an explanatory speech.
There was no inheritance from a dead
uncle awaiting him in Brazil. he said; but
he found there instead a live father who
had invented the uncle fiction to induce
him TO 20 out there. His father had never
been married to his mother. He had been
forced by his family to desert her and go to
South America. By chance. after many
wears, he had learned Of her death and Of
the poor circumstances Of his son. He
was wifeless and childless and became
possessed of an eager desire to right so far
as he could the wrong he had done.
The father was a wealthy planter and
trader He received his son with great
affection and at once gave him an interest
IN his enterprises and started to acclimatize
him az a Brazilian. The little stock of laces
ard buttons remained in the bottom Of the
young mans trunk.
The father died a year ago. He left his
entire estate to his son, with only one con-
dition. Re enjoined upon him to return to
Hamburg as soon as he could and erect
over his mothers grave a handsome mOnu-
ment, Thiy duty was the main reason OF
tho Young mans return. Having accom-
plished IL, he resolved upon a reunion with
The poor men who had been his friends
and doing something to brighten their way
through life.
The feast was prolonged far into the
night, with all sorts Of good humor, and at
its close the giver divided among those OF
his guests who were really in need 81, 800
10 help place their little businesses on a
more substantial footing. He sailed for
Brazil the next day.