Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-02-28


Won Gnadewitz seemed to cherish not
the slightest doubt that the last OF MS
race would appear, upon the day OF
judgement, as the youngest child OF
mankind for, to fill all the apart
ments newly added, the old tree
might have put forth many a ne"
branch But he reckoned without
his host. True, he had son who,
with his twentieth year, was so per
feet a Gnadewitz that even the pct
ure of the ancestor with tn wheel
paled before him. But the young
master on the occasion of the 1rst
great hunt in the autumn, struck ohe
of the whippers-in fearful blow upon
the head He was perfectly right,
as all the invited participators in the
hunt unanimously agreed, for the
boor had trodden upon the paw Of his
masters fayorite hound so that the
animal was useless for the whole day
A short time after, however, Hans
Won Gnadewitz was found hanging,
not upon the genealogical tree in the
great hall Of the castle only, but real
~ and corporally upon an oaktree III
the forest with a rope around ms
neck The beaten whipper-in paid
for his misdeed with his life If not
upon the wheel at least under the AK.
But tuat did not restore the last OF
| the Gnadewltzes to life for he was
dead, irrecoyerably dead as the ply
! sicians maintained, and so the long
song of robberknights, drinking
bouts, hunting orgies, and horse rae.
! ing came to an end
After this terrible catastrophe,
| Wolf Won Gnadewit2 left at once the
castle in the valley, and, indeed, the
whole region and withdrew, to Silesia
to one Of his many castles.
He took distant relative, the last
of a collateral line OF the family, into
his house to be his nurse But the
relative turned out to be young
girl beautiful as an angel, at sight
of whom the old nobleman forgot the
| object for which she had been sum
| moned, and came the conclusion
that his sixty-year-old back was still
straight enough to slip into a we'd
dngcoat To his deep Indignation
| however he learned that time can
come when even a Gnadewit2 Is no
| longer desirable And he was furious
enough when the girl confessed that
basely forgetting her high degree, she
had glvCn her heart TO young officer
Of mere plebian descent, the son OF
one of Gnadewitz's foresters.
The young man possessed nothing
! but his sword and his handsome fig
ure, but he had obtained thorough,
scientific training, was amiable in in
torcourse. and Of rare character,
When Baron Won GnadewitZ cast off
Marie IN consequence of her doclara-
tion, young Ferber joyously led her
homo as his wife, and in the first ten
wears of his married life would not
have changed places with any king
In Christendom Still less In the
eleventh, for that was the year 1919
but il brought him hard struggles, and
a complete revolution in his Crcum.
stances He was in that critical
position in which It became neees
sary to decide between two duties.
one which his father had impressed
upon him in the cradle was; Thou
shalt love thy neighbor rs thysclf,
aud most of all thy German neigh
hor' The other was a sclfimpOs2l
one, assumed much latcr--that OF
boatug his sword In the interest C
his master In this struggle the
cradle-song prevailed Fcrbor did
not fire upon his brothormen, but
the victory cost him his profession,
\ his assured position He resigned. and,
IN consequence of cold. was shortly
atterward laid up with an illness
from which he recovered only after
years of commissioners He then re.
moved with his family to b, where
he soon obtained a lucrative position
as boolikeeper in n large commercial
house. 1t was nigh time, for his
wifo's small fortune had been lost in
the collapse of a bank aud only re-
poatcd assistance afforded by Ter
her's chief sent the Ferber fam
| lily, had saved It from want in the
worst form,
| Unfortunately this good luck was
destined to be of short duration. Fer
ber's chef was one of the pious. and
prosecuted every one near him with
! quiet seriousness and resistance
supported by ample knowledge and
decided that the pious spirit of good
Master Hagen was mortany Mortified
! To give work and bread to such n
freethiNker, thus Fastening the
downfall Of the kingdom of God
the thought gave him no peace by
day or night until he freed him,
self from the burden of sin by a lot.
Ter of dismissal to this black sheen
among his lambs.
About that time Baron Won Gnado,
WITT was gathered to his ancestors,
! and, as he had, during his mortal