Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-03-10

r was sometime in the
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W. fall of 1859 that strang-
I or came trudging along
#an the turnpike. He was
Sss Nh short and fat. His round
tsM w red face was covered with
a NJ 2 stubby growth of blonde
fs%Z9 whiskers. He wore
4S{ID broad fiat blue cloth cap
TGINI and a long brown linen
3 y duster a little out of sea-
son. A bundle tightly roll
4 in black oilcloth was strapped to
+, hack He stopped in the middle of
4. road. Looking about, his eyes
.,,a5 mon a weather-beaten sign
lard upon which had once been
,,rpd the picture of black bear
letting uDon it's launches. For more
40, hundred years this sign board
Nd bppn swinging to and fro as If
I,soning and inviting passersby to
,,,.r the little inn that was standing
~ro u or 20 feet back from the
.o3 # took Mr.. Herman Weisgar-
4, several minutes to decipher the
rgrption beneath the faded picture.
r1sD he had succeeded, as he thought,
b muttered audibly, Dish ish de
peop Der black bear vas inn, und
s5rst myself will walk in nit him.
9racing up a little and stroking his
Mr he stepped with a heightened
t-dp into the little front room that
aved as an Office for the Black Bear
Inn Here he found himself in the
rqsence of a plcasant-faced woman
! Who smiled coQuettishly.
He greeted her in his own tongue,
which she replied. and the CONVEX
gtor was now carried on bTiskly in
HE German language. 1t was buX-
ON widow on the one hand and a ras-
ally counterfeiter on the other. He
an a longtime rogue, but she was
Honest and unsuSpiCious With her
H. world was good, with him it was
H. cal dog and the devil take the
sldmCst The widow Eartz was al.
ge.ber too uns0Dhisticated to pene-
3nt9 the dark recesses Of the hollow
I&stcl man that had by chance come
Aai5erly into the affairs of her life.
aZe Judged him by her own heart
I'M little dreamed Of the misery so
Non to follow her chance acquaint-
ace with Herman Weisgarber.
Her husband had died about two
HS before At this time her heart
Bce2tered on her son, Q young man
nearly twenty years Of age. John
a12, rhaaks to lie training OF his
&5@ was honest and Industrious.
TIE Back Bear Inn and the little
In adjoining was a sacred inheri-
i-ce trom his paterHai grandfather.
The inn was now somewhat out Of
ale but was sill doing it's part to-
'alS furnishing the mother and son
living and a little TO lay up for q
AMY day. Johns father had taught
Mo- % stand firmly for the right in
Ill things.
Mt "eisgarbcr's gray blue eyes
"e SM0jng brightly beneath his
"a-a4Sl2& brOws as he stood ex-
sa~IS 10 the widow Hartz regarding
--s5I@ The word tramp, now SO
t| applied to the tie-path tourist.
~ not been coined in that day and
W. u lis Ike were little understood.
'a'1 ne was lust out Oh a pleasure
.'' una that he Travelled on foot As
~~'.es 81 choice. He was moving
s15! along that he might better
w.. ."' lovely scenery and pure
,,'-.1A air. His words were we'll
.., WI and deeply impressive as he
,-1Ousiy worked his way up to the
ID VI o4erIng to remain for a time
;, ~SSsSl N the work about the Inn
'~'D4' lie had a smooth tongue
.~' turnpike, winding it's way
n up and down the sides, over
:, .,''SS The Allegheny mountains
,~.. ,1s1 The popular highway for
,, ~ 'A" |2Eoners upon their way
s,; ~~ no between Eastern Pennsyl-
ana Pjttsburg. The people
an I,S route were principally Ger
VA 'oIle OF them could neither
W., -oF speak English. They lived
h r., IN what they produced and
,,sr '''e occasion to spend their
b ~, almost anything that looked
b, ~o15y would pass. In those
,t. --I'u OF the paper money
I, tt, N~''1Ion was of the wild
d ea r~ between the counterfeit
ab,. hume Issue there was but lit
In .r rlV' One passed from hand to
'oSI as readily as the other.
s.r nan Wejsgarber, as he called
l ,t,- ""o lor many years been dodg-
b =. IRON place to place ma
ts, wing ','1s by showing the queer.
as,so s'S,ence of his inability to I'M
h ~ S me English language he was
b. ~ receive the officers and es-
Nagsba. 1t was always MIGHT
r.s4e with him .sLTe sh,,o+ $50
lung bout baper monies.''
]. = NJ s widow Hartz he appeared a
>9..c.,, 1ohor, She measured his
ts,,t, oy her own and could see
&2sd fro. OK months had scarcely
e9 h. 'Vn me time she met him
h.. became her husband.
b HI, 'onn Hartz came in contact
3 us step-farhar 10 80 l' ol-e''I'