Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-02

unthought of. in a country then unexplored, On the other
side OF the world. The shepherds name was STUNT and his grand
sons name is Ernest STUNT, pioneer citizen of Omaha. The shepherd
kept the nocks of a feudal lord in Mecklenburg, strehltz. Germany
His father and grandfather and his ancestors for many generations
had watched the progenitors Of those same sheep which had been
the possessions OF the ancestors of that same lord. Thus, quietly, the
world had been drifting along the placid stream Of time, a stream
as placid and peaceful ~ Nature herself. One generation followed
another. grew up. nOuTIshed and died - regularly as the trees grew,
dropped their seeds and decayed. The grandfather of Ernest STUNT
was a man Of the same mental and physical development as his an
cestOr who had probably watched nocks in time of peace or carried
his masters spear and armor in time of war half a thousand years
before.
The race of men was stn IN infancy and euns close to the pro-
teCang skirts Of It's good mother, Nature. That mother protected
and strength and virtue nourtshed. While the meek sheep cropped
the verdant grass, the shepherds reclining IN some shady nook
by the side Of a purhng stream " IN q fountain sprinkled grotto,
played upon their pipes; shepherdesses danced and when tired lay
down In a healthy sleep upon natures grass beneath natures can
opy. The world indeed was in its infancy.
Then came strident ambition into the world and brought with II
an era which men proudly call the Industrial era, The human ac.
left It's mother and burded itself cities. 1t dug into the earth for
coal which 1t burned. spreading a pail Of smoke over the walled
cities. The buoo4c peace ~ violated by the road a, macbira-v ~
pastures were cut BY railroad lines; men sailed the sea in sbips to
discover new lands. In ths eTa wagons were needed, because people
were n o longer Oonteneed to stop at home. but must = q abroad
through the world. The 10 Of the shepherd of Meckleuburs-
strehitE was the father OF Ernest STUNT, and at the age Of 1s years
he was bound out to learn the trade Of a wheetwrtrht N the cttv =,
Treptoe. After serving IN spprentceship he Travelled through parts
of Switzerland, Germany and Denmark. But his mother grieved a.
his absence and he returned home where he was re- artervard -
garded g a most prodtgtous Traveller. He worked at his trade %,
the same lord for whom his father was Sll shepherd
Where Ernest Was Born.
Naturally a man Of suCA paris found favor in the ayes of the
fair sex and the yOung WhSs1wTsht and traveller woOed and won the
neau nO~SeA"ePed ms n~up houSenoAo- They were married and
moved b the town Of RamalOw, where, On June 80, 1S48. their son.
Ernest, was born. Two years later the family moved to Revellen, in
the province of Prussia, where the father built up a comparatively
large business and became . leader in that tiny community. The
bucolic blood of many generations awOke In his veins, however, and
six years later he sold out his business and took his family 10 south
ern Germany, where he bought a farm Of sixty acres near the
village of schloffedOrf. A year and q half afforded safety of agh
cultural life and the family. whach now numbered six sons and q
daughter, proceeded north again TO the city Of epandau, near Rerlin,
1t was one OF the most interesting places IN which this migratory
family resided. 1t was ancient and had not yet abandoned its feudal
garb of high wall and deep moat for the styles of the modern age
Indeed 1t was an Artstocrat among the Cattss OF Germany. Located
near the capital, II had been . favoTfte resort Of the retSning fam
lilies. No city could boast greater aga. for II had received town rights
in the year 1899. which was 3eo years before Columbus discovered
America. II was at that time and IL today the strong box In which
much of the German imperial treasure IL kept Beside very valuable
jewels, large sums in gold are stored there to bs ready Immediately
in a national emergency.
Tive years the industrious father worked at his trade IN ths bis
tonc city. By that time. with the aid Of his thrifty wife. he had
saved sufficient money to buy an Inn on the highway between the
small cities Of Ank1am and DemmsnS IN the extreme northern part
of Germany, almost on the Shores Of he Baltic pA. There Ernest
began active lie BE the assistant of his mother IN conducting the innL
His father continued to werk At his trade