Show thanksgiving wo dissolving g views I 1 written far for THE STANDARD by leo hafeli I 1 J TOZ N CONSUL I 1 long dasy it wave oer tb tn land of n the free and tile borne I 1 of the brave I 1 i thus bang salig supported by the powerfully melodious accompaniment i of a parlor organ an inter I 1 esting looking quartet of curiously I 1 I 1 grouped men under the glare of the six lights that reverberated their from the crystal prisms of a tasteful gas candelabrum thai that swayed lightly to and fro from the artistically frescoed ceiling of a ciza not reception I 1 room while mile the distinguished but ve very ry amiable ble and modest lay who had been accompanying the biggem on the ivory keyed instrument was serving refreshments to the quartet we will take a cursory glance at them the remarkable of the men ofin of striking V m g appearance it is the host a veteran of veterans I 1 till and straight ai one of ortho the oaks of his homo home forests in westphalia I 1 which dr F felder elder had left in 1819 1849 18 19 I 1 to find end a new life and a new lore love in the land find of liberty across taij th I 1 J I 1 atlantic in the far west the I 1 slender juris soon boon develop 1 I 1 ed IWO n tl hardy settler and a thrifty I 1 farmer a self made man liis hill jus finian and bia his code napoleon tor for I 1 gritten over the sound of the ax felling the monarchs of the primeval forest or the crack ot of the whip that stimulated the team pulling I 1 the plough share through the vir gin soil he found a helpmate in tho the years of his sharer 0 of f his prosperity and a patriotic spouse who bade him bravo brave farewell when he joined his friends of 49 under the union stars and when he returned with a leg shattered at chickamauga he found on his red earth homestead a gl faithful wife and the two loving children sturdy lads lade who grew up oa as native americans with a full supply of the blood of teutonic honert honesty zt bo so when in 1869 president grant appointed dr felder to a consulate in his native land ho be followed the cillo cill uniting the Joy loyalty alty of an american citizen with the old filial love for the land of his birth which soon after his arrival and official install lation in E was heaving in the throes of a child childbirth birth bearing the united fatherland the german I 1 empire with the schwarz roth gold for which he had bad sung an and d faught and bled and fled in hia his adolescence how now in his fort forties iea ha he waa was not withstanding the wooden substitute for hia lost limba limb a com commanding mandin 9 figuro amoia among his friends who had bad gathered on the last thursday of the winter month to commemorate the family festival of the great republic with regulation turkey cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie the ingredients to which the doctors doctor Is two sons had bent across from the I 1 wisconsin homestead on the last et steamer eamer they had a gay evening of it dr haszu editor of the only democratic paper in the province forgot reichstag and landstad Land stag and bismarck and Guel guelpho plis and all aft the rags rag of politics and joined in somewhat too resonant basso pro fundo and indistinct elocution the th friends in their american songs I 1 while his neighbor prof Buc buchstab hatab I 1 a young and rising philologist and peem I 1 tat in in prehistoric guttural founds trilled his tenor with quasi convry canary sibilance eib sib ilance illuce and plain but honest johann E enrlich also an ex union soldier lately returned from america on a brief visit for the holidays succeeded only with difficulty in concealing tho tears teara that welled into late his clear blue eyes i when frau doctor intoned the tweet sweet bars bare of home sweet home for to him the hospitable roof of his big old friend and comrade in arms the consul waa was the only home on earth although he bad had fair competencies in the two hemispheres hig his heart was torn tora almost between the old and the new faith col labia and helvetia were all bis his ve yes though bis his friendships were serous and strong and true at nat rot on his part who should clame him when the wachram Wac htam al rhein failed to impress him as strongly as did du mein Vai erland which was also put on the pro gramme in honor of tho the sturdy swiss friend and which re soun sounded tied as gia strongly etron gly as strangely like a greeting of the oldest to the greatest republic to the tuno tune of my country tig lis of thee through the gellia genial I 1 apartment over which I 1 the angel of peace and good will I 1 seem td to hover benign wi 11 a I 1 A A strange ga gathering therin j the they were F indeed a the martyr of Ti revolution evolution and of rebellion th the a 1 champion of popular government I 1 I 1 I 1 and tree free spee speech efi t the he de delver I 1 ver in bouldy mouldy antiquities and dreamer of I 1 13 utopian futurities the plain and homespun nome spun man of the people and yet all and each of them I 1 I 1 I 1 filled the bame me spirit the e same devotion th the tame enthusiastic thusia liopo lone of an ultimate fraternization of all peoples and all nations a united states not alone or america or of europe or of australia Australi abut but of the world and their thanksgivings celebration in inthe the quiet enjoyment of a limited friendly reunion ren nion was as warm and and patriotic aa as any ever was since gov bradford instituted the day aa 93 a harvest home in 1621 thus when they parted with firm grasp of the hand and a thankful word to the gracefully hostess they took c with them to t their air late night rest reat the anthem like liko swelling refrain of the star spangled binner banner oh ob long mar may it wave 0 oer cr the land of tho free and the borne home ol 01 the brave II 11 TIIE THE journalistic EXILE hello old fellows fell owl what re yn YA sorry cheer up there to the dogs with our hessly dumps I 1 take an thing bardl such euch were the more or less cheer ing attempts nt at consolation that were heard beard of a blustery winters night when tho the wind was hurling the early snow through the dark alleys and byways of ol greenwich street new york city and rattled the shutters which kept out the cold and kept in the warmth in in an emigrant hostelry bar room in that cosmopolitan quarter of the great but heartless metropolis A motley group were hustling around the somewhat time dishonored stove which gave out a heat that scorched the close bystanders but afforded no benefit to those in the rear where some old worm eaten and dirt begrimed boards were nailed to the wall as a sort of bunk on them was stretched the form of a man scantily covered with what once bad had been a horse blanket but discarded as unfit for further stable use it waa was a remarkably keen eye that glistened from under the shaggy hair that dropped over the prematurely furrowed fb forehead it and tid a deep P line of unconcealed bitterness berness dia disfigured aured the almost aristocratic cut of the thin ii lips Ps A hectic glow in the sunken z cheeks beeks tallied with tho the hoarse staccato cough the oaly only sign of life that came from the recumbent figure the exhortations and invitations of the loungers around the stove and by the bar seemed not to reach bis his ear A hello landsmann wio wie ge belits lits finally seemed to awaken the stranger from his apathy was it the sounds as echoes of a farot far ot off past ho lie lifted himself with an almost convulsive motion on ono elbow and seemed anxious to decipher the facial lineaments linea ments of the new comer whose features however ivere were bidden hidden inthe in the hood of a heavy cloak and in the bluish tj 0 bacco clouda clouds that arose from the pipes 0 of f the bar guests who were gradually warming up to the occasion which was americas family festival as betokened by the hollies that des decorated orated the bar furniture and the free lunch of cold turkey and squash pio at oneena one end of the bar well patronized and equally well irrigated by the festive assemblage but to all this sort of thanks giving ceremonial neither the man on the bunk nor his visitor paid any attention they seemed intent on re recognition cognition w which they both seemed to anticipate as if by some magnetic agency although it came naturally enough when the in increase ing patronage encouraged the now patriotic as we well I 1 as hitherto it arto erto econ amic amic bar te tender er to light a few more gas je jets I 1 un under er whose ose glare the two identities were ere revealed as its by a stroke of lightning dr was the first exclamation cla mation of pleased surprise an n by a feebler but no nc lees leas in intense hans Ehrlic hl mein gott mein mein gott and arid the grasp of those two hands one firm and warm the other one trembling and still cold almost aa as in death was more berv fervid id more affectionate than could have been the recognizing salute of ardent lovers now while the holiday crowd in front are celebrating by demolishing in g the nations bird and the native nativo pastry washing it down as W with the 7 full till V flow of the croton aqueduct and puffing away at the vilest weed ever grown drown in new jersey we listen to our old friends whom we left three years ago at the american consuls doorstep door step in K N westphalia home rome sweet homel commenced ehrlich pensively seated on a stool be he had placed ced close by his old frie friends ads b head d it is not 9 a dr F felders elis home th this bole hole is it dr no indeed ehrlich the lorn lota democratic editor in fatherland slowly started to reply it if this is the land of the fre free e and the homo home of tho the bracq brave it has giver give me few other bounties and then afier after his friend bad had revived him with a cup of steaming coffee and made bis his mise miserable couch more comfortable the man of the thil erst while white pow powerful erful pen told bis his brief but sorrowful story di during the anim animated ted parliamentarian contests con teata in the tb reichstag oter the kultar I 1 I 1 kampf and the social question dr haszu true to his b is patronymic had hit bit hard and in a manner to displease ease herr von bismarck BO so much ph that t one ono quiet evening the editor received earnest warr warning illig from an unnamed friend he always suspected us dr felder of this act art of friendship to evade at once the hastening developments of a trial for high treason and use majeste which was being instituted against him he took the hint but independent mind as ho be was did not touch tha accompanying letter of credit on a new york ork dank ank he ile made his escape from the land where the art of printing had been invented and a tr free ree press was not tolerated and managed after many ad ventures to land in castle garden the harbor of refuge and 2nd alas I 1 the fata fats morgana morgans of BO so many thou sands linds he cama came in a 0 panicky time his knowledge of english eo glish was entirely bookish boo kib tho the german news paper offices were overcrowded with applicants for any and all sorts of oven even merely drudge work of the cheapest kind and in short hii his aca scanty nty means dwindled away with them bis his energy his spirits and hii his health till he was finally reduced to accept tha the brusquely made though kindly made offer of the proprietor of the cheap german emigrant house to lee keep P his books for board and anti lodging till something would turn up false pride confined tho the once brilliant society man the ever pun gent conversation conversationalist al ait from be seeking akin his few chance acquaintances for a probable improvement of ma 3 cou con and thero there he way was an exiled journalist almost a burnt out cr ter as 03 ho he sardonically 5 egued r MM to ehrlich who had listened d to the sad recital without antei interruption int eruption save to berve tho the narrator a few more draughts of the invigorating decoction of the bean had lied ha bee been I 1 versed in the E english classics as well as he be was in good deed ehrlich would have replied 1 idill in their ashes live their wonted fires ere but blunt and plain john as he was vas bo he contented himself t to 0 make the ex editor the pr 11 pusi tiou to depart as soon boon as feasible with him t to hia his location in the far per west weal in the rocky mountains chero ha bs had bad considerable interest which as luk luk or batjer would have it had hall brought him to N new e york where be now was so happy to f find ind his old ff friend bend haszu the particulars lie reserved fir later on oil first the doctor was ta t ba 13 made comfortable and brought around so as to be fit to travel Ehrlic hB hs bard and still bard er cash at onca once opened the door t tho the cleanest rom in tha tho emigrant house and after he bad had his traps as ho he called them thern in western idiom brought to the lodging the two so marvelously reunited friends tri enda were soon cozily ensconced by a bright and cheery fire with the best beat of cheer steaming before them and so they did manage a to have the best thanksgivings nga dinner they had cn en oyed a since tho the night in dr k pel I 1 el ders house I 1 III HOME SWEET HOME PI ten years had passed ten generations of turkeys had gobbled their last and died for their country for their count rys good ten times had the cranberry bushes borne tho the red and acrid fruit and as many times had the farmer r plucked the from the autumnal stubble field wo we are in a buntlin buit butling lin rushing booming railroad town of th tho 0 rocky mountain region a town that is making great strides towards bo ba coming the all overshadowing coni com mercial center of a vast region of country where agricultural plenty vies with mineral abunda uca ucal and commercial activity to keep even pace a CI with expanding espa adim manufactures the hs place is like mado made for the rendezvous deev of frienda friends from tho the thirty two as well as the four ends of the compass it is a crisp blight bright morning the season is so far advanced towards the month that is hallowed by christmas that in other parti parts on this degree of latitude snow covers the ground but hero here it only slight ly IV decks the heads and shoulders of the mighty mountain giants while the broad and almost level valley presents an aspect that renders it difficult for a newcomer new comer not up with his almanac to decide whether dame nature is about to awaken from or rather only tj drop into her winter sleep yet tho latter ia true for the wind of a sudden brings up a chilly blast that drives us into the hotel rotund where a variegated gathering of strangers of all nationalities and profession professions keeps the clerk as busy in entering as s the newspaper reporter reporters ia in copying the names john ehrlich stockman of alfalfa ranch is the first inscription on one folio of the po ponderous i be sits the same reg register is ter there plain open faced eed blue eyed sturdy and reserved self made man he is r a big man now worth his by no means inconsiderable weight in old as als they call it euphemistically pe slid e in is just looking over the mir morning ning 1 paper ap er to get the latest quotations from from the cattle market and to find out the price of hay bay as ho he may need several thousand tons this winter if the tile one snow w keeps falling on alfalfa ranch as heavy as indicated in the reports from his general manager the ex editor dr haszu whom by the way he ia is daily expecting peati ng for consultation in a weighty weight business matter asheim as he is want wanted ato to interest himself largely in the proposed immense stockyards stock yards althis at this favorable railway center 11 that ha he cries criez almost go to as to be heard allover all over the rotunda dr Chrysos tomus us buchstaber ed 1 t tor or I 1 that is i what he reads black on of I 1 11 12 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