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Show THE % stranger nor noticed his remarks, but continued his piece on the flute. _ “Well, he does not appear to even deem me worthy of ap answer,” continued the King, getting cross. But the man in the green coat gave him a glare as paternal as malicious, and without uttering a syllable he pointed to have engaged,” said she, “one ‘to } astor,” murmured the King. “Keep your remarks to The player nodded and the King commenced'to accompany him. As he realized being confronted by one who “knew how,” he tried his best. Soon the sober Judge started to extend nods of satisfaction and even: to smile. “Well,” said he, when the piece was finished, “now we are both of us calmed and can talk correctement with each another.” “He seems the King. to be a “queer chap,” said “Well heis not of the commonest timber, either,” retorted the Judge, “but what business of his is it what Ido in my house or office?” “Tf it didn’t concern me, I Gould not have asked him to account.” “Well, then, what’s at your service?” “Before all, an explanation how he, can waste his time on the flute while there are plaintiffs and dekon dans male outside?” “The world is like an opera Where each one, as he may, replied the Judge, tapping when there is a case that would be hkely tion, just as is in righteous the ease work first and blow my mind; for no one tence in anger and corruptible towards tion: y favor. Did indigna- today, I go to the flute to mollify should render senJustice must be inany kind of disposi he understand me?” “Perfectly.” “Then I invite him to attend the hearing,” concluded the Judge, opening the door and following the King with the mein of a Jupiter, only with a flute instead of a thunderbolt in his hand. * ES for grenadier than yourself” “T won’t fail to.” “Justin, relate * Having taken a solemn survey of the hall of Justice, his Honor rang the bell ‘T’ll take the Dae the minutes.” “Much and of the clerk and keep obliged,” responded the J udge took the had taken bench. his seat on When the King the Judge’s left, _ had spread out the foolscap and whittled his goose quill, the Judge called out: “Mathys van Deibel.” Present.” “he got his licking for the sake of the “A musician and a po—” “A poetaster,” completed the candidate. “He did, the scoundral?” shouted the boil- before on account of Miss Lisa.” “How was that?” “Well, it was kind of funny, the way the miss and I got acquainted,” resumed the candidate. “Although neighbors,we never had spoken to each other, hardly seen each other. But it happened one Sunday evening that I dozed off on my bench in the garden of St. Paul, when I was suddenly awakened by a tickling under my nose. scare off the J made a motion presumed fly; but a giggling on the other side to I heard of the wall and after the giggling came a shower as outof Flora’s cornucopia. After this with a book before him. I hid myself in the honeysuckle by the wall, and when the sweet fun recommenced J inadvertently caught a charming little hand and Miss Lisa was my prisoner who had to ransom herself with a kiss—in all honor.” “Yes, that’s it,’ Lisa coincided, “and from that hour I was fond of him; and he deserves it, he’s a good boy.” “Tt’s the defendant’s duty to account for—” ‘How can he testify what he does not know?” bravely continued the pretty lass. “That’s a lie,” shouted the defendant “That. fellow has powder in _ his stomach,” said the King, scanning him through his lorgnette, “I like the young chap.” “Mister Justin,” replied the Dutch- man,“if you want to bear it all, Ill tell you it was about your daughter, Miss Lisa. I wanted to keep it quiet out of delicate regard for your Boe “He hes.” “Come to order, Justin.” “Yes, on account of Miss Lisa,” said van Deibel. The girl in touch him to the quick he used disrespectful language about our King.” “About the King?” asked the Judge whose voice was rolling like distant thunder. “He dared todothat? And what terms did he use?” bar. cast him an boldly up to the a “Well then, let’s have it out neal T- and frankly that we love each other and oN : control myself but — must be “I beg of thee, his seat with be a Royal Hussar.” “At your service, your Majesty.” ‘“‘And he—he is getting tired and loneSome in Bornim since ‘the lass is “At your service, your Majesty.” “T have not forgot him, Tempus. those the girl with uplifted hands; “remembre that if he is punished for an assault and. battery he can. never get a situation; that the happiness of our life-—” “Shut up!” the Judge shouted to ie daughter. “T'll keep still.” “Has heanything to say for mitigating cireumstances, Justin?” “No, sir.’ “But he is very sorry he allowed him- self to be carried away.” “No, Mr. Tempers, I do not.” “Bravo,” murmured the King. Honor. the witness,” “Present.” “His name is?” “But, Mr. Tempers, as I do. resumed his “Biebel.” Heinen” “At your service, your Majesty.” “Justice must be incorruptible,” con- he heard that Ihave him the flute; after he had played a tune from a French Shepherd play the King, perfectly recomposed, reseated himself. “Ahem! He called the King a poetaster?” asked the Judge. “Yes, and a Macchiavelli,” exclaimed the second witness, surgeon Gause. tinued King, “as he remarked occasion us a good example. cleanse the Augian President Now the Judge jumped up and lifted his fist against the Dutchman, but this time the King hastened to hand him the flute; the worthy man bethought himself, smiled, and rapidly played that im- pronounced the judgment. * * lets me * out of ‘I’m not capable—God being my witness—to fill such a responsible place.” “That’s for me to decide and not for him. I know him andI know what I have to expect of him. He is President and that settles it, point blank! Within eight dayshe isin F. and take mortal student song, Lauriger Horatius. Then, mollified, he resumed his seat and called up the third witness. After the hearing the Judge at once possession of his new office.” “At your service, your Majesty,” responded the new President, “although I do not deserve this exaltation by any merit of mine.” “T want an honest man there,” eried the King. “Is he one or not?” “At your service, your Majesty.” “All right, God bless you.” had left the court room. “Who tells him that?” shouted in The Judge great was curiosity, brave about Consionments OF FALL AND WINTER GOODS char- an honest man, a good boy anda charming girl?” Justin and Lisa were about to throw themselves on their knees before King; but he stopped them half way laughingly patted Justin on shoulder. “T like him. Continue so. He head and heart in the right place. will yet hear from me.” Justin and Lisa the and the has He had been happy couple for a year and already a the latter was rocking a stout baby boy. But the old gentleman in the courthouse at Bornim was more than ever in need of the mollifying flute, for he felt. lonely without the bright hazel eyes of his/ Lisa and sometimes he would startle up quite rambunctious and_ belliferous. [The latter word is not from the German though it might be.] | as well One Block East of U. C. Depot. Made ON ap Ge-onerative Mercantil Institution. Organized Manufacturers, October 16, 1868. Importers and sale and Retuil Dealers in Whole- General Merchandise. SALT LAKE BRANCH CITY. HOUSES AT We make a Specialty of Home-Made GO@iDsS: ing him to an audience in Berlin. Mr. Tempus was scared to his very inmost Teutonic marrow-bone. What was up? What could be up? Who could or calumniated Sighing he called at the palace. Sigh- Jnion Pacific Railway b0., Agent. 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WEBBER, tumbling. “Your Majesty,” hestammered, Fritz S ox”S Pr SS MS Se ¥ 8K AG S o* Orders by Mail will receive prompt careful attention. the don’t he forget to invite me to the wedding.” Justin unfolded fie paper, and the Lisa, NS my parish, King from his table, where he had just been finishing an official document. “I have just now made an appointment for a parish and here is-his.certificate. But looked over his shoulder. There it stood, in bold, acters: Frideriaes Rex. ge Q Pe OS IES 8 made a deep bow as he was approaching the door. “Hold on, something yet,” the King cried after him, “let him, for God’s sake, not forget his flute in his new office.” anyhow?” sighed the candidate when the complaining witness and the others and NOS YVARDS. OGDEN, Weber County, Utah. LOGAN, Cache County, Utah. PROVO, Utah County, Utah. “Yes or no?” “Yes, your Majesty.” The new President gBane SFORYF Veg!’ 7) “A robber?” Judge LUMBER I am about to stables. I want “At your service, your Majesty.” “He'll go to F., in place of K.” “Your Majesty, beg your gracious excuse. Such cannot be your intention.” that steam Planing Mills. on “A Macchiavelli,” repeated the surgeon. ‘““And—a robber,” added the merchant, ‘now it is all told and out,” “But PIONEER when he gave point Vhonneur for my executive and judiciary as well as for my army. Does he understand?” and him—the stern Brutus of Bornim. know the that memorable deposed the Judge got to have denounced, you He But at this juncture the Judge handed Sou Ae ssrema Ss Meta oy? Contractors and Builders. away?” is going to have plenty of business. Has “How? What?” be trembling. oF? 4 oo oe3?, “the and the next boy will TEASDEL'S incorruptible. father,”.resumed Majesty, Are being received daily at Here I am not father, not man, not Pruss'an—but Judge.” asked “All in order?” your “mercy!” “Yet, it was fine,” said Lisa, “and therefore thou darest not punish him, father, you canst. “Brutus sentenced his own sen to death,” responded the Judge with dig- “Justice service, “What for?” the King promptly interrupted. “Because he gave me an the ‘opportunity to become acquainted with induced him to plunge into the depths of his interesting report. nity. your duty to his King hit him “That was fine for you,” cried ‘King, but a stern glance from the Judge “Then the window angry look and stepped 3 and only out of mean jealousy that, last Sunday, he picked a quarrel with Justin and because he knew where he could on the head.” jumping up. from * “Against?” ‘Against the candidate Fritz, Justin.” see.” “The cause?” “There was a quarrel about a girl.” rising Bornim?” flaming eyes for which he is still remembered in history. me,” I could not here, the candidate, hit me on the head last Sunday in front of the tavern. The scar isnot healed yet as any one can King, in “And the Pastor’s wife is rocking her first young one, I reckon?” “At your service; your Majesty.” “Well that little belongs to the Lord as his father does, that can’t be helped; but I hope that Justin will also do his The Brutus of Bornim was no joker. He fined both, the candidate and the “Indeed he might say that since then Dutch, to ten thaler and eight days imBut. after that he we have met each other every evening in prisonment each. the garden and told each other pleasant stepped upto Fritz Justin and extended things over the wall. But he does not to him his right hand of fellowship. Said he: “I have fined him that was know that the Dutchman even then was pursuing me and when I was in the my duty. But he was right and in his He tavern one evening helping my aunt in place I would have done the same. kitchen and cellar he offered to embrace shall have Lisa. That’s settled.” ‘Ves sir? “Gardener.” “You relate briefly the state of affairs.” “That’s soon told. This young man “Nothing further than what Justin has confessed himself and had he not done it, I believe I would have knocked down the Dutchman in his stead my- King; but the bad blood had been it Judge replied tremulously. chant, “but he called him a Frenchman.” “That’s noinsult.” ing “At relat- straight and “Ts he the plaintiff?” “Profession?” thereunto how the row began and ended.” “To tell the whole truth,” replied Fritz, briefly goes Frederick the Great. say ‘Well, it may be all the same in Dutch to the King,” replied the worthy mer- “T can’t manage to repeat what he did say,” answeied thecandidate. ‘“Knough ‘““Where and when was he born?” “In Haarlem, January 7, 1730.” “Yes, sir.” “What has he to ing?” “How “Was the language so provoking?” “Pardon, miss,” interrupted van Deibel. . for the elerk. “Ts that so?” cried Lisa, putting her “Mr. Gukow is ill,” said the bailiff, “I arms in resolute fighting attitude. “I forgot tomention it before.” “From, he forgets everything,” re- did not scratch his face, did I, when he Oh no! But, sure torted the Judge with a clemency to be kissed my neck? credited to the charitable influence of enough, he did not want to go to Court with that scar, not he. Butstill it’s true; the flute. “Tf it suits him,” intercéded the King, him, was waiting for him. self.” grumbled the Judge. bench the King cordially on his shoulder. “I have a vehement temper which is easily fired up over injustice. Now, to carry me away theologic.” suited ing he entered the little salon where the great King, with arms crossed behind Biebel, merchant, “He has seen the row?” joking had been repeated for some time I fixed up a straw man with my long coat and my cap, putting him on the According to his bent of heart, His humble part does play.” Thus “Better then, Simeon born at Bornim, Sept. 14, 1698.” sessing young man,came to the front.” “Your.personal data?” “Mritz Justin, born at Bernau, May 3, the King, whom menced toamuse. com- “Well the Judge, “it’s your turn, Justin.” The candidate, a well-made, prepos- 1749, candidatus WEEKLY. “You answer.” the other, Justin and I.” “The witnesses come after,” interposed a flute lying before him on the table. “What’s the matter with that?” asked the situation “Play?” WESTERN satisfaction Prices Paid on all kinds Dried Fruits. : of Large Stock of WALL PAPER AND . PICTURE MOULDINGS Just Arrived at Midgley & Sons, 17 w. Second South Street. |