The Argus and radical. (Beaver, Pa.) 1873-1903, October 08, 1873, Image 2
10 801L&XCE OF All OLD BUREAU. In the summer of 1867. after a prolong ed course of US81:111 steppes, Crimean hill-sides, Mor ,I'w churches, §tyt,.'eters burg boulev ids, Finnish tikes,: : And Swedish forests, I found myseirat Berlin, and during tilislirst week of my staff was busy front deist to dtisk:in ezihesting, with the systematic industry of the gen• nine Britsb tourist, the "sights" of that methodical city, which Mr. Mu:ray's "Koran," in red binding, politely defines as "an Oasis of brick amid a Sahara of lir;0/ 6 in'staryitig e ail the minutim of thiii iiifyrclayed ci vi I leation - -wh ich ap 0e*,14 iite the national army, in le a , ..t0 the music of the "Pas de Jest ae tot : 11aitini; fever was begin 'ping to abate, a slight service, rendered in a pouring wet day in the park, brought Me into oloiit relations with a pleasant •looking elderly German, who had fre quently crossed my rambles, and more than-once halted to exchan , z,e a few words with me in the frank, open-hearted fash ion of the hospitable Teutonic race. Our acquaintance, however, was still in em bryo, when, on the day of-which I am speaking, the old man, having taken shelter under a thinly , foliaged tree, was in a fair way to be thoroughly drenched, I came to the rescue with my umbrella. Observing that he had got wet through before gaining his impromptu refuge, I - insisted upon taking him to my lodgings (which were close at hand), and drying him thoroughly before I let him go; his own residence, as I found on inquiry, be ing at a considerable distance. The old man's gratitude knew no bounds, and next morning he reapp4ared with a hos pitable smile upon his broad face. an nouncing that he had told "his folk" of my kindness to •him, that his "Efausfran" and his "kleine Gretchen" wished to thank me tbemsehree; that, in short, I must come and eat tea-cakee with the 4 that very tvening, and s.nnke a German pipe afterwards, which Herr Holzmann, in common with the maj•,rity of his coon• trymen, regarded as the acme of human felicity. In. -order to secure himself sgainstany evasion, be added, with a res• 4 olute air, that, as I might possibly !me my way, he wouli come and fetch me him. self. Punctual as death or a collector of water rates, Herr Heinrich Holzman pre sented himself at the time appointed, and marched me off in triumph to a neat, com fortable-looking little house on the south ern side of the town with a small garden in front (if it. Th?... garden VV-Ii of the in variable German type; the same trim lit= tle fi iwe7-beds, accurate as regiments on parade; the same broad gravel walk, laid ca l l:, with m Lthematical recul trity; the same trellis work PUTIIMPf-hqll'le festooned with creepers at the turther end, and the same sm 111 table in the centre of it, are mounted by a corpulent teapot of truly domestic proportions, presided over in thi, case by two female figures, who, on our approach, came forward to greet us, and are introthiced to me by my host as his wife and daughter. Frau Holzman (or, as her husbanc! calls her, Liecehen) is a buxom. motherly, ac tive-looking woman, apparently about fifty years of age, with that snug fireside expression (suggestive of hot tea-cakes and well aired sheets) characteristic of the well-to-rio German matron, but a close cb server may detect on the broad, smooth forehead, in these round, rosy cheeks, the faint but indelible impress of former tri als and sufferings; and through. the ring of her voice, full atid cheery though it is, runs an undertone of melancholy that would seem to tell of a ti ne in the far distant past whet such sa lness was only too habitual. The daughter, Maxgarethe —or Gretchen, as her parents call her— who may be abut eighteen, is one of those plu m biting dim:els, with chin a blue eyes a-id tr•-te.l- c)1 )red heir, who never appear xitbout a minature of Schiller oa :heir neck, aid a pips r of prunes in thcir ;»;:ket, aid wh ), after flowing on for a whole evening in a steady, cana'-like current of sentiment, NCI sup upon sucking pig and apricat jam with an appetite of which Dando, the oyster eater, might hive been j i tl; proud. B )th welclme me with true G , r. man cordiality, and overwhelm me with thanks fir my courte:sv to the hea I of the family, reproaching him at the sam e time or bringing me in before they have c im pleted their prep rar,oas, and made everything comfortable for me; to give time for whico little operation, Herr Zeinrich marches in int) 3 trim lit 1.1: dicing-room opening upon the qirden. and thrusts me into an easy chair and a pair ckfe.asy slippers, while I take a h isty survey of the chamber into which I have been thus suddenly usherel, It is one of thr,se snug, cozy little rooms, spotless in cleanlineqs and faultless in comfort, immortalized by Washington Irving in his description of the Dutch set ,tlements in North Ain erica. Ti,e Et or j'L.e 4 ,Q2irror: tbn tasteful gr een a d 1-I.C'Et p t • ip ( which deliths fully • free _ ftt..,;,trg wea.her) --erns 9T frrs:s as the day it WAS p'ii on: while the broad, we stuffed sofa, w h.' , Ch takes up nearly one whole side of the rnom, .seems just made for the brawny beaten-c.Dde of 'tome portly German burgher, or rite restit.ss rol.y-pooly limbs of his half-d.nz'.:n b ig ba bies. Above the chimney piece, along which stands the usual china shspherJ. uses, "Presents from Dresden," and busts of Qiethe 4121(1 Schill t, Lings a sta ring. itiztily colored medley of fire, smoke, tl;_ . Li e ua:form:, rearing horses, and overturned cannon, which some crab bed Teutonic letters beneath it proclaim to be,,"Dia..l3chlacht bie Kentliggiu: r tz, 8, tilli, 18 ~,while facing it froms the Tee i s * fiifa ir t ii-ra _er ne4l7 done ws SOW" l i , wi d n u - fair-haired . laci,th sis i (sett!, u tna r, berskl • riightlyl guess to be .IDs est's . "Win( eon . Wiliam (a household ward in his father's month,)' now on garrison duty at Spandau. - - I\ But the object which especially attracts my attracts my attention is a tall, grim bureau of dark-oak, in the farther corner beyond the fire•place, decorated wi;l2 those quaint old German carvings which carry one back to the streets of Narem• berg and the house of Albrecht Durei., , PA4.47;04P4, 4144 4 i ,Ad P:e , in0)1 1 0 untrammeled freedotn, shoulder Ciishoul: der, like officers in the centre of a hol low square, with `all the beasts of the earth formed in close order around them, and the tree of knowledge standing op like a sign-post in the rear. There the huge frame of Goliath, smitten by the fa tal stone reels over like a falling tower, threatening to' crush into powder the swarm of diminuatiie Philistines who hop about in the background. There ap• pear the chosen twelve, with faces curi ously individualized, In spite of all the roughness of the carving, and passing through every gradation, from the soft, womanly teatures of the beloved disciples to the bearded, low-bred, ruffianly visage of him "which also was the traitor." And there the persecutor Siul, not yet transformed into Paul the Apostle tsheathed in steel from top to toe, armed with a sabre that might have suited Blue. beard himself, and attended by a squadron of troopers armed cap-a-pie), rides at full gallop past the gate of Damascus on his errand of destruction. IMO ' The bureau must be a very old one," remarked I, tentatively. "Wise indeed; but' that's not why we value it," answers. the old man, with kindling eyes. "That bureau is the most precious thing we have; and there's a story attached to it which will never be forgotten in our family, I'll answer for it. I'll tell you the story one of these days, bit not to-night, for we musn'ispoil our pleasant evening by any sad recollections. And here, in good time, comes Lieschen to WI! us that tea's reedy." I wi l l not tantalize my readers with a catalogue of the good cheer—which heap ed the table; suffice it to say, the meal was one that would have tempted the most "notorious evil liver" that ever returned incurable from Calcutta, and seasoned with a heartiness of welcome which would 'have made far poorer fare acceptible. Fresh from reminiscences of "frlermann and Dorothea," I could almost have irn agined myself in the midst of thitt finest domestic group of the great German ar tist. The hearty old landl 'rd of the G Ilen Lion, and his "kluge ver stindige Illusfrau," were before me to the lite the blue eyed Madchen, who loaded my plate with tea cakes, might, with the ad• dition of a little dignity, have made a very passable Dorothea; while "brother Wilhelm," had he been there, would have represented my ideal Hermann quite fair ly. Nor was the "friendly chat„ wanting to complete the picture. The old man, warming with the presence of a new list ener, lauhched into countless stories of his 601 tier son, who, young as he was, had already smelt powder on more than one hard fought field, during the first short fever of the seven weeks' war. Frau Lis beth, who was an actual mine of those quaint old legends which are nowhere more perfect than ivi"Ot , rnaaciy, poured forth a series of tabs which would have made the fortune of any "Christmas Num ber" in Britain; while the young lady, though rather shy at first, shook off b. r bashfulness by degrees, and asked a thous and questions respecting the strange re giens which I had recenely quitted; the sandy wastes of the Vol - 4a, and the v(iiee !es, s. litudes of the Din—relics of former • gl ry whtc still cling around ancient Ka zri—wicker•work shanties inhabited by brawling Cossac'is and Crimean caverns tenanted by Tartar peasants—battered KPrtch and ruined Sebastopol—Odessa, with her sea-fronting boulevard, and sack ed Kiev, with her dim catacombs arid dia dem of gilded towers—the barbaric spier d..r of ancient Moscow, and the imperial beauty of queenly Stockholm. It was 1 ate in the evening before I departed, which I was not allowed to do without promising once and agai i not to be long ~f returninz. "Aid I kept my w, - Ird; for the bap• piuesz• of this litt'e circle, sf. simple anl npen hearted, was a real tr•••at to a rest• 1 .ss gad about like myself. rwfore the month was at an end I had strolled around the town with Herr Holzaiann a do 7. time. I had partaken fully as often of Frau Lishei b's inexhaustibic tea-cakes; I had preserved Fraul , in 3largaretlie, on the morning of her eighteenth birthday, with a pair of Russian' ear-Jrops, accompanying iny gift (as any one in my place might well have done) by a resounding kiss on both cheeks, which the plump little Madchen received as frankly as it was given. But the relentless divinity of the scythe and sellpd Kid, who pr,iverbially wars for no man, at length put a period to rh_v stay in Berlin; and one evening, a few days be r,,.te my departure, I reminded Herr I-V.iiririch of his promise to tell me the history of the of I bureau which had ?it tracted my attention. The ' 011 nothing I lath. settled film in e ample Lorner %I l e, note, fixed his eyes up ,n Gl.lll, Ek If =nlizly THE ARGUS AND RADICOi4I::OSDAY OCTOBER, / 8, 1873. the quaint old piece of futhiturl, which formed the theme of his course, and begin as follows: :."You must know, hen, mein aerr;tiiat in the year '52 business began rather fall off with me (I was a cabinet. maker, - you remember,) and frost., had cirius to worse, until I thought: ; :**ollig alma, really be dose to puirifiktterit.,to .rights: Now jest about this tints' iii ; tilititin't: of torles were beginning to giiittloyka the high wages paid to foreign Workman 1,.m Russia, and the heaps of money -that sun= dry Germanswho had gone there froth Breslau 'and 'Konigsberg and elsewhere -were making in St. Petersburg andIllos ()Ow, Auc so pondered and ,prlndered ave.!' . iknd'thi j ert6 fitt'fitraatlanst begur-t , and tryitig MY , luck as the rest. My wife and I talked it over, and Fettled that it should be done ; and we were just gettin ready to start, when one night a message,eame that my old uncle, Ludwig }lolzmann, of the Frei irlch-Strasse (*ho had taken offence at my marriage, and never looked near me since,) WhS dying, and wanted tO)see me immediately. So away I went—My wife wanted to v, too, but I thought sh had better not—and when I got there I found him lying in a kind of adose, and nobody with him but the doctor and the pastor, who lived dose by. 'S ) I sat down to wait till he awoke ; and sure enough, in about half an hour, his eyes opened and fell• full upon me. He raised himself in bed—l think I eee him now, and with the lamp-light falling on his old, withered face, making it look just like one of the carvings , on old bureau, which stood at the foot 'og, the bed—and said, in a hoarse whisper, l Hein• rich, my lid, I've not forgotten thee, al though the black cat has been between us lately. When I'm dead Limn have that bureln yonder ; there's more in it than though thinlest ;' and he sank back with a sort of choking laugh that twisted his face horribly. Those were his last words, for after that he fell into a kind of stupor and died the same night. "When his property came to be divid ed, every one was surprised, for they bad all thought him much richer. I got the bureau, just as he said ; and, remember ing his words about it, we ransacked each drawer from end to end, but found noth• ing bill two or three old letters and a roll of tobaixo ; so we made up our minds that he must have either been wandering a little, or else that—God forgive him— he had wanted to play us one more trick before he died. In a few weeks more all was ready for our going, and away we went to St. Petersburg. "When we got there, we foukd it of a'- all ouch "(land of rJtnise as - the storier made it out; but still there car goa_ wages hr those who could work ; and for the first year or tw we got along well enough. But after a while in cat a lot of French fellows, with new-fang)ecks of earvirtg that pleased the Russian gen try more than our plain German fashions; and trade began to get slack and money to run short. Ab ! mein lierr, may you nev er feel what it is to dad yourself sinking lower and lower, work as bard as you like, and one trouble coming on you after another, till it seems as if God had forgot. ten you." The old hero's voice quivered with emo tion, and an unwanted tremor disturbed the placid countenance of his wile, while even the sunny face of the little Frau le in looked strangely sad. "Well, mein Herr, we struggled on in this way for two years longer, hoping al ways that our lu,A w )uld turn, an.l put ting the best face we could on it ; though many a time when the children came to ask me why I never brought them pretty things now, as I 113+1i t I do at home. I could almost have sLt down and cried. At last the time came when we c )uld Stan d against it no longer. There was a mane y lender close by us, from whom we had borrowed at higher interest than we could afford, who was harder upon U 3 than any one, (may it n b?, 1 to his charge hereafter!,) (tad he, when he saw that we were getting behind in our payments, seized our furniture, and announced a sale of it by auction. I re,oa.qnbsr the night before the sale as if it was yester day. My boy Wilhelm was very ill just then, and no one knew whether he would live or die ; and when my wife and I sat by his bed that night, and io aced at each other and thought of what was to come, I really thought my heart would have broken. Ah !my Lisbeth, we have indeed been in trouble together." As he uttered the 1 tst words the old man clasped fervently the b-)11, brown hand of his wife, wh.) r-turned the pressure with interest, and, after a ;light pause, he resumed thus: "Oa the morning of the salt. a good many people assembied, in t amon r the rest came the district in:4.pector of police. He was a land man in his way, and had given me several little jobs to do when I first came over; hut he was not very rich himself, and nobody could blame him for nil helping us when he had his own family to think of. H )wever, I've no doubt be came to our safe in perfect goo faith, meaning to give the best price for what be bought. "Well, in he came, and the first thing that caught his eye was the old bureau, which stood In a corner of the room. It seemed to take his fancy, and he went across to have a nearer view of it_ He began trying the grain of the N;VO(d*:— drawing his nail ac;oes one part, rapping n r with his knuckles—till all at ouce I saw him stop short, bend hie Lead down al if listening, and give another rap against„the back of the bureau. His face lighted up suddenly, as if had Just fund out something he wanted to know; and he beckoned nee to , him. 'Do you kacw whether this bureau.. has a, sei.ret opting; anywhere about!' 4kedlte; the beck seems 14, sad I bid niver noticed aiiithittg of -the fai iudeecis had I; for, when we kind tat the drawers were empty, we looked arkurther. Now, however, be and I began to search in good earnest: and Rt litattlamr-lharttnr had_ - plehly - of practice in: such FPprk . ( since -,14 : entered the police, d'ukuavered alittle_ iron prong, yik,e_acu:2ty nn frna l , h de. A f tot cUved .54u roe.. pressed. it,i • -•—• t 'Labe, bureau: flew up like the lid of a box, disclosing a deepirllqw, in wadi lay several rackets of banknotes and governmient shareQ, about a dozen rimleaux of gold Freder icks, kightly rolled up in cotton, and t . or three jecasee, filled with vtilliatie rings and bracelets—the whole amounting aQ we after Wards calculated, t' more than 20,000 Prussian tbalers "Well, you mly think how we felt, saved as we were in the uttermost strait by a kind of miracle; and how we blessed the name of my ell uncle, When we saw how truly he had spoken. The inspector (God bless him!) refused to touch a pfennig of the windfmll, saying he was sufficiently rewarded by seeing so many good people made happy; so we paid our debts, packed up all that we had, and came back to 6ur own folk and fatherland, never to leave it again." pew A drertiottnento. GRANDEST SCHEME EVER gNOWH, FOURTH GRAND GIFT CONCERT For the benefit of the PUBLIC LIBRARY OF KENTUCKY. $12,000 CASH GIFTS,. $1,500,000. Every Fifth Ticket Draws a Gift. $25Q.000 FOR 850 The Fourth Grand Gift Concert authorized by special act of the Lezit.'stare for the benefit of the Public! Library of Kentucky, will Like "ace n Public Library Kull, at Louisville, Kg., WEDNESDAY, DEC. 3d, 1873. Only sixty thousand tickets will be sold and one. half of these are Intended for the European mar ket. thus leaving only 3000 for sale in the United States where 100,000 were disposes of for the third concert. The tickets are divided into ten conp ons or parts and have on their back the tcheine with a full explanation of the mode of drawing. At this concert, which will be the grandest mu sical display ever wit! eased in this country, the unprecedente&snm of 51,500,0010, divided into 12,000 cssh gifts. will be distributed by lot among the tickt-bolders. The numbers of the ticaets are to bb drawn rrom one wheel by blind children and the lifts trum ahoitier . LIST OF GIFTS. One Grand Cash Gif! One Grand Cash Gift.... . One Wand Cash GUI One Grand Cash Gilt.... . One Grand Cush Gift 10 Cash (lifts $lO.OO each 30 Cash Gifts $5,000 eaca.. 50 Cash Gifts $l.OOO each.. SO Ca. 411 Gifts $5OO each . . 100 Cash Gifts $4OO each.. 150 Cash Gifts $3OO each.. 250 Cash (Jilts $2 , 0 each.. 325 Cash Gif's $lOO each.. 11,00 U Cash Gifts i 1 ,50 each Total MOM Cash Gifts amounting t 0... t 1,500,000 The distribution will be positive. whether all the tickets are sold or not, and th 12,000 gilts all paid in proportion to the ticket:. 4old —Bll unsold tickets being' destroyed as at the first and second concerts, and not represented in the drawing. PRICE OF TICKETS. . Whole tickets $3O; Halves $3:3; Tenths, or each Coupon Z 5; Eleven whole tickets for si(io: tickets for 11,000; 113 whole tickets for t-5,0110; 111 whole tickets for $lO,OOO. 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