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

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| giving her "A shelter connected with
countless "reminiscences of the noble
| family TO which she once belonged
well knowing that upon those ancient
halls fortune and blessings have ever
rested, and weighing this fact care
anything further to this my gift
| Should, however, Anna Maria Fer
Der, falling to recognize the value Of
my gift desire TO sell 1t or in any
other way part with it. her claim be.
comes void, and the orphanage in L..
takes her place
Leaving this biting satire behind
| him, Baron Won Gnadewitz laid him
self down upon his black-drapedr
deathbed. Ferber and his wife had,
indeed, never seen the old castles,
but it was world-renoWned as a brum-
bling ruin which no rescuing hand
had touched in fifty years, and from
which, when the new house in tn .
valley was finished all the house
| furnishings, tapestries and even tho
| metal roof of the main building, had
| been taken away. The heavy Dolts
and locks lay dusty and rusty before
| the great house door. The vast for.
est-trees crowdlng close about the
moss-grown building bent their Trick
boughs to the luxuriant underbrush
at their feet and the abandoned cas-
tie soon stood in the midst of an i'm
penetrable forest, like coffned
mummy
The happy heir who found this for
eign possession in the midst of lis
forest Dlirdensome. would gladly have
bought the old house for a handsome
price. But the clause at the close
Of the will cut off all such attempts
Ferber's wife laid the copy of the
will which had been sent her silently
away in her husbands writing.desk,
dropping a few tears upon it, ard
then resumed, with redoubled, almost
feverish energy, her work which was
a piece of embroidery. FerDer, in
spite of his efforts, had not succeeded
In getting another situation, and was
obliged TO seek livelihood for HIM
self and his family by making iIl-paid
translations and doing copying for
lawyers his wife helping by doing
embroidery, night and day.
Gloomy as the SKY of Feber's life
had now become one star gradually
arose among the clouds and seemed
determined to replace the lacking ex-
ternal signs of grace of the weathe",
fortune. A pTcsCntiment of this
mild ray which should one day bright
on his life arose in Ferber's mind the
first time he stood by the cradle or
his first born his daughter, looking
into her beautiful eyes smiling at
him from the dainty baby-face All
rrau Ferbers friends we're unani.
mously of the opinion that the little
one was n superb specimen, a rarely
gifted child not looking at all like
ordinary children, when red as n
boiled lobster 1t cried out at the
world for the first time Here they
always broke off, and 1t is to be sus-
pected that only the prosaiC min,
.eenth century ana i'S sarcastic nus
oai'dS leu 'hem 10 conceal the silent
pu' unia'lihs preseht'meht that mere
VI" secret hu' potent activiN OF
some io'ry was IN question
They were all godmothers, in =
pore 10 ,'e 'i''l@ daushter' wed with
enc an, '''' "a showing VINO 'h.r'
,shea uhe "WrlleSI tenderness tor
the 'lhN E"1chi'd' one Tor each AMI
ever soumotner OF them all; far
20 heaVS 'Ia'm I" make upon their
u'eunorN, however Tor When the Fer
Der" zen 'n'o unfortunate financial
circumstances S''nSllheSS rubbed
win itS nara niger N't, 10. not one
traces was leit OF all the promises.
lh,S ora experience through which
the niue h'i@abe'h was doomed to
pass IN hef hlhth year disturbed ncr
very niue. Ihe supposed fairy had