Year: 1869

Western FJopement-HOw nm Honest 81.
Louis German Lost his "Dear Kathrinn''-


The FOllies and Infeltcities Of Married Life.
FrcDt the Chicago Tribune, July 81.


St. Louis is a first-rate place TO emigrate FROM
so thought Louis Hansel, the proprietor of q
lageT-beer saloon at No. 1l2S North Seventh
street. in that city. Where would he come to,
being a sagacious and sensible man, but to
Chicago, the centre of civilization, the centre
of commerce, the centre of attraction, and pro-
badly the centre of gravity lie packed up his
new valise, a bran-new secondhand one, for
which he paid SO currency, and then sat down
to give his wife directions how to run the ma
chine when he was far away. 1t was a sight
worthy of sign painter. He dandled a two
year old ilaXen-haired baby-the solitary result
of their love-upon his new pair of breeches.
His arboard arm encircled the pretty waist of
his wife. The baby played with Aagon of
creamy lager, which the fond parents slipped to
aid the mastication OF a plentiful supply of
sauerkraut which they had engulfed short
time before. A tear stood in the starboard optic
of the husband. 1t was their first parting.


Coming events cast their shadows BEFORE
and there was something upon Louis mind or
stomach which forboded disaster. The eXpan-
sive area of his face-whch, when clean shaven,
was as smooth as a file-was now rippled and
ruflled with care. He spoke in tender tones of
the business, of the quantity of beer on hand
and of the thousand dollars in the bank which
she was to take such good care of. Like true
woman and wife, she endeavorCd to dissipate the
gloom that destroyed his peace of mind. With
a kiss she assured him that she would be care
full and attentive to business, and especially
watchful of his hard-won currency. He need
not be uneasy. She was not. She had no
doubt that while he was wandering in the wilds
of Chicago everything ut home would be lovely
and the goose would be suspended to an exalted
altitude


They fell on each others neck and wept as
David and Jonathan did once upon time. They
embraced they osculated they took u farewell
glass out of KEY recently tapped, and parted


pnic of mi on
the Mecca which he sought in safety. He had
not the good luck TO break his neck, and realize
the amount OF twenty-five cent accidental
policy in which he had invested. He perambu-
lated the streets of Chicago, and looked out for
a good place to set up business in, and indulged
pleasant day dreams of future happiness when
his wife, his baby, and his beer should be
rescued from st. Louis, and he be tlourishing
like green bay horse. A week passed plea
sanity enough and he was about to COnsummate
a bargain, when he received letter from his
wife. 1t was written in the vernacular of Goethe
and Schiller. The following is a literal transla-
tion:--


"ST LOUIS July o. 1s69-My dear Louis the darling of
my heart and soul, great distress; and to whom
if not in my own sweet Louis have not slept nights
you left for hear that Chicago not the safest place for
her This is merely preliminary gently to break
Beer sells well have not the heart to tell you what
drew the money from the bank have it me,
ss EHS S xiii a Rno%s


You send me $500 out Of what you took with You to pay for
beer? Your mpecunious wife, KATHRINA."


The letter was a sumner. II knocked Louis
prospects out of time. He telegraphed to the
detectives at st. Louis to hunt up the thieves.
They telegraphed back that no such robbery had
taken place. Louis began to smell an enormous
rodent He sent for further particulars. He was
informed that his saloon closed that the stock
in trade had been sold out; thath his two year old
baby was in the hands OF friend, and that his
wife had taken the $1,000 and another man and
ran away with both. That was the unkindest
cut of all. He felt awfully cut up about it.


The only information that he could gather
about the gay LOthario who had wOoed and won
his fathless frau was that he was young and
handsome He was also Informed that suppos-
ing he would return to st. Louis after hearing Of
the robbery, his tickle spouse and her paramour
had shaken st. Louis dust from their pedal eX-
tremites and had started for this city. In the
hopes of catching them, poor, forlorn, and for
saken Louis placed the case in the hands Of
Detective Schulman, who is now busy working
it up. Meanwhile Louis feels bad. He has not
been used to such things. A wife never ran
away from him before. He has not lived in
| Chicago.