Bread Cast upon the Waters
CHARLES FROELICH, a farmer’s lad, living near Welleston, Ohio, was ambitious to complete a liberal education, but did not have means sufficient to do so. He went to a physician in that city, Dr. E. S. Higley, and borrowed from him $700, and graduated from college as a mining engineer. This was in 1880. Soon after, the young man went to Australia. Not a word was heard from him for twenty-five years, when one morning he came into Dr. Higley’s office and said he owed the doctor some money. He had changed in his appearance so that the doctor did not recognize him, and then he revealed his identity, and paid the $700 principal and compound interest on the same to date. He informed his benefactor that he had been successful in Australia and South Africa, and had amassed a fortune. Mr. Froelich returned to Australia, and nothing was heard from him again until the other day, when Henry K. Thorncroft, a lawyer of Melbourne, Australia, arrived in Welleston and notified Dr. Higley that Mr. Froelich had died without relatives, and had left his entire estate, valued at a million dollars, to his benefactor.—The Christian Herald.