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SOUTHERN BANNER. JULY 16, 1878.
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A Wonderful Castle.
Vi.it III tlit Sows ot l.ulhor';. Straggle*
Von Bor V«*olwi'iilo> Triumph*.
i:\ns prom out tiie storied past
,F THE WARTBURG, OR TANN-
HAUSER AN'I) ST. ELIZABETH
OF HUNGARY.
fciul Correspondence on llie Boston Post.]
Kisknach, May, 187?.. - On the
Li ije of the Thuringian forest, under
lie shadow of the Wartlmrg, in the
e old town of Eisenach—could
ivlhiiig be more delightful ? Anti
not much altered, I am sure,
M i ce the days when Martin Luther
,s a little school boy here and lived
The brisk
edge of the
___.. .. — perhaps the only in-
t >vation he would find could he re-
^|im to the scene of his early exploits,
il its consequence, thin coscyest and
leasantest of hotels opposite it, so
£^jgte:tn and comfortable, with such
®l»ooo!au\ and a dinner fit to set be-
e a king for S4 centf. We order-
a carriage to bo in waiting early
Qi take us to llie “ Wartburg,” but
id of the humble vehicle of
derate discomfort which we ox
cted, a large landcau dashed up to
lie door just aa we finished breakfast,
;lrawn by two fine, well-groomed
a i.nue scnooi uoy ner
J tli the good Fran Cotts.
ihvay station at the e
wn would be perhaps
Coining out into the cou< l again, J which she brought, with her in her
wti pass through a second raid much I
larger one guarded by an tfneient,
massive square tower, which frowns
over the brow ol the mountain.
! An Irish soldier railed out to his
I companion: “Hollo, Pat! I have
The Grand Duke has managed, in j taken a prisoner.” “ Bring him
piteof disadvantages, to make his j along, then : liring him along!” “ He
||iK>rsrs, the coauhniiiii in a mustard
klorcd livery with several tiers of
littU‘ capes, quite grand to behold,
ami before we had recoveted from our
Basedeeker tells us ” that castle,
founded in 1070, has been recently
restored to its original shape,” but I
doubt if Germany of the eleventh
century boasted a fresco-)-a : nter like
Schwind of the nineteeth, who has
done no end of beautiful work here.
The most interesting is the series of
pictures in the Eli/abath gallery,
telling the story of Si;. Elizabeth of
Hungary, daughter of a king and
wife ot a Thuringian landgrave, lie
ginning with her arrival at the
“ Wartburg,” a child of four years
old, with a halo already around her
little head and its fur-trimmed hood,
on through her eventful, tragic life,
the agonized parting from her hus
band, who goes to the holy wars ;
her flight front the “ Wartlmrg,”
with her fatherless children; her
death on a pallet ol straw on the
floor ot her convent cell, and Iter
royal burial, where an emperor and
his knights carry the bier. The
rooms we next came to were real
“ baronial halls,’’ with t raditions of a
very different sort, from fair girls or
doughty old warriors ot .the fiti.b.
Here the Minnesingers of Germany
were wont to assemble in the days of
this old, art-loving landgraves of
Thuringia, and in one room sp’eadid-
i ly decorated by Schwind in com-
j| H octore we mm recoveieu iroiiiuiu j mo 5n nation of the event, occurred
surprise we were da-hing off at a ; ihoiiinioiis “• Tournament of Song,”
break neck speed which never re
laxed until the little town and its ad
miring inhabitants were left far be-
itii> 1. Soon we began to wind around
the mountain on which the “ Wart-
I burg’’ stands. Everywhere, as far
*8 we could see, was softness, undula
v> iis and perfect loveliness. Some
of the undulations were very bold,
with quite mountain-like peaks, and
finally the one we had all been eager
ly looking for came iu view, the
■ Tannhauser ” Mountain, where tra
dition has placed the Venus cave,
with which and the minstrel knight,
Lrho learned its fatal charms Wagner ] the r.. mis are
as made ves ail so familiar. Alter j Gih mnn from
which Wagner has immortalized,
where the sweet singer Walter von
der Vogehvaide won the laurels, and
poor Tannbauser, who was a real
minstrel knight known in the
dining-room invi ing and most in
teresting. A great, hospitable fire-
plucc gives it cheerfulness, as do the
silver and cryst; 1 drinking-horns and
tankards which crowd the old side-
hoards. One of these, designed by
Dnrer, is a work of art iu i s way—a
perfect lace-work of dark wood-varv-
ing over dead-gilt panels, lint the
treasures of the room bung on the
walls—four lutes ot quaint design,
such as w.e see suspended about the
necks of troubadours and minstrel*
in old engravings and chronicles.
Some of u-', l think, turned pale, as
if we had seen a ghost, when the
castellan said, pointing oone: “This
bite was Walter von der Vogel-
weide’s, and lie played on it at the
great tournament of the Minnesin
gers, and this was Tanuhauser’s!’’
Such power have trifles to make the
dead past live again and to realize it
jo us as all the histories and essays
in the world cannot do. This is the
wonderful power of the whole
* Wartburg,’’ being a perfect record,
as it is, of such far oft* times—most
charming and interesting of all places,
both for what, it is and has beey !
We passed in a dream oat of the
courts where the sweet Elizabeth had
so often fliti d, spirit-like, on her
errands of mercy to the viilage below
where the gown of good Dr. Luther
had flapped in the wind as ho paced
to and fro, pondering deep and dar
ing things; where I he gay iniosirei
knights in silken -.oublcl and hose
stood under their ladies’ windows
rhyming new couplets to their praise ;
where knights in armor sallied forth
TO THE AFFLICTED!
IN CALLING THE PUBLIC ATTENTION TO THE
Indian Compound Co ugh TVI ixture
Consumption and all diseases of the Lungs and Throat, I say that nothin* surpasses it
dknMr d in'! ra ? 1,8 *,*,*?“ fronjold age down to the cradle with iinpnnity, and withovt
, B n e professional world is so full of Amtdgiiousness and Egotism, that anything pat be-
w ,'nd * ” ,e and reliable Remedy for certain diseases is scoffed at and pronounced wonh^
^ tr jM‘ bef,re y ° U COnJ , emn . lt ’ «!?»' give you the na.Jies of eve” bTrb,
v'i! it U /! s . COIU P° s ®d of, whic t you can examine at your leisure:
M * e, ‘ An ^roiueda, Arborea, Arctium Leppa, Inula Hefe-
ticid’entam,'sViuphy 1010*0fiehiale^ 1 '' Uorehwachshener Wasserdost, Cephalantboo
Vf^nt^nTisin/h^n^n ^ 1 ^ Pea . chtr ?L St -’ At,ant *’ Ga - where it can be had in any quantity.
turnetl° ne U in * wl say lhat has Joue them no gtKKl, return the bottle and get your money re-
Life and Money Saved by the use of the Southern Remedy !
EOIt IT WILD CURE
Dysentery, Diarrhoea, Cholera Morbus, and Cutting
Teeth ot Children!
i"? no »f‘ x ?uV ,n the following eercifleites, w'tich are enough to sitistv any reasonable man,
MsilMi'n'k aa imp »s t on pal meit off „n the iwop'o. To prove it. get a bottle, ar.d
a " 1 y ,!"- wi ," b > «“ a hei that it Is all that is ebimed for it. Itispre-
pareu purely from ?e.;etables a medicinal property. r
won’t con’t omit*.*’ “Then come
yourself.” “ He won’t let me ’*
Edison has perfected a fog-horn
that can he heard ten miles, but
when it comes to an invention for
getting his hired girl up in the morn
ing, he smiles sadly and falls to mus
ing <>n the infinite.
The man who has never seen two
women in Shaker bonnets trying to
kiss each other has never experienced
the rejuvenating power -id a laugh
that could throw him down and kick
him in the ribs.
•
The Senate has decided that it
would he unwise to change the to
bacco tax. The tax is all right;
what the people of America demands I moataiia^in f1fit, ‘.Y? u fyou/ Southern Remedy in my family, Ibavo found it the
...... . . I m j piotwmt medicine ws children t*> take, and the most satisfactory to cure I hare ever met I have
is a law by which they can hang the a“i d e\iM«v^autruuhl«.^iT d ™. T8r *|* 0,r “ , y» elf be, without/mm of non hand, aud its tiu^e.
i , ® Ml trouble aud dinger. I have always felt if you had no other lnim to the nuhlir eon.
titan who never chew’s Ink own tobac- I ® « 8 m* t V n 11 *!""? sho , ,,IJ » iTe ii to you, and both, fame and fortune adled, if you
I woulJ on, y Z a ' lverU3e “ 10 Iet tha worlJ k “'>w its healing and^benefits ’ 7
Th 0a bove isfrom the Ex-Chief Justice Supieme <kmrt of Georgia. °* LOCHI:ANE -
KUKEICA. bUltbKA ! (I hive foun l it. My wife ani tar4 children w«rA tl.twn with Rhwviv
. ^ I JH?* We had two doctor*, as guo-I as any in the city, and found no relie’. My baby 7 months old
t er, who came in rather late for din- Remedy 6 ^thefclT,!rof X J^h ,e w ,s J . < ! l ^ f ' > l tWO '!! e ^ el ‘ 3, w , U m ^‘"5 In luced to try Hr. Higgera 1 Southern
I Kemeily. the rdlof^of each was. m irvetous, and are at present doing well. I tried it on myself for the
C. DAVIS, Atlanta, G».
TESTIMONIALS.
Atlanta, July 1st, 1871.
“ Alary,” vaid a lady to her datigh- Fiux'^voVo-n
mr, “ifyou want your dinner you “ med ^’“’ and -oV P »ie^
f«b.2G.8m.
von Ofierdingen being still under
the dire enchantment of the “ Venus
Cave,” terrified all the far company
by his wild, strange songs and was
driven out with execrations to wan
der through the world, shunned of
men, until the Holy Father at Rome
iniuht shrive him of his mortal sin.
On t! e beautiful feesctTed wa'Ms of
verses in quaint old
the songs winch the
“ Peerage” of his day as Henrich j with braving trumpets ami flying
standards to fierce combat; an J, in a
dream, wo commenced the steep
descent an-1 heard iho birds we had
so cruelly deceived still singing gayly
in the thickets the very so g.s they
used to sing to Walter von der Vo-
elweide, who loved them so ten
derlv and reverently.
Early fruit catches the worm,
is reliable.
ach winding wi, reached the bridge
iver tfee narrow moat, and stood at
e great gate of the castle. Baed
eker says: “ It is one of llie finest
xisting secular buildings iu the
Romanesque style but, once in the
ouTt yard, one no longer thinks or
arts for styles, being wholly e»-
dnrtiWl with what he sees. Tl e
building is immensely long and min
ding, incloses two courts, the first
ntered the “Vorbutg,’’ with an old
tone well in the middle, and sur
rounded liy low, vine-covered build-
[sings, with sleep projecting tiled roofs,
i hideous gargoyle grinning over one
and a beautiful little old oriel window
peering from under another, with the
glass in tinv round lead casings.
From this quiet little court, sugges
tive of anything but knightly sports
and teats of arms, we entered an un
pretending doorway leading into a
narrow hall, passed up a flight of
crude stairs and entered a ruin ot
•moderate dimensions, with riule
board partitions, one side only boast
big of plaster. A beautiful old carved
bookcase, a bodstead that must have
been quite grand tor its day, a
writing table, a wooden chair that
would be an acquisition to a museum,
a quaint old stove of colored ties and
.a few portraits by Cranach made up
the furniture of the simple, primitive
room. The deep recessed window
fj'ks out in the Tannbauser Mountain
and the dark Thuringian forests. In
this little quiet retreat, far above the
observation of a busy world, was the
arena where the great struggle for
religious ligerty began, for this was
Luther’* room, and here, under the
prouv iott of bis friend, the Elector
Frederick the Wise, at this very
table, which we touched with rever
ence, lie, toiling through long winter
nights and summer days, finished his
translation of the Bible. His books
and letters, the portraits of his father
and mother—homely, hard featured,
iOas'De it, strong, old faces—and vari-
< us other relies, with the furniture,
have here been scarcely preserved
through all these centuries.
minstrels sang at the “ Tournament.”
Up winding stairs, through rooms
with bewildering frescoes, and views
from little, narrow, deep windows
which make you feel that you could
spend the test of your life at any one
of them, we came to the great ban
queting ball that rises up to the roof
of the castle. It is magnificent iu
s'ze and decoration. A gallery runs
the whole length, where the minstrels
used to play while the feast went on.
The polished floor reflects like a
mjrror, and the great vaulted celling
is a triumph of wood-carving, while
the long lines of deep niched windows
look like the stalls of an old Gothic
cathedral choit, but arc decorated as
gorgeously as the court of a Moorish
palace. But more than knights and
minstrels and flying princesses hail
the image of the sweet young St
Elizabeth taken hold of our imagin:
lion, and we longed to see the very
rooms where she had lived, and
although we knew tin y were in
had better set yourself on some eggs.”
Thank you, mother,” she replied,
“ I don’t propose to set.’’
Elizabeth Allen, iu a poem, asks :
“ Oh, willow, why forever weep ?”
Elizabeth is a little .Mistaken as to
to the facts. It isn’t the willow that
weeps; it is the boy who dances un-
d'.T the liuiticf e <d of it.
The wicked stand in slippery pla-
rs—but tor a pi-ruct picture of IBRIDY
upi'l insecurity, you ouiy want to
look it a frightened woman trying to
stand on an old camp stool to keep
out of the way of a mouse.
Two gentlemen were arguing in a
asture field, with only a goat tor an
audience. Iu reply to a statement
of one the other said; “ I know.
But—’’ Tlieu;oat took him at his
word, and th^ argument was contin
ued on -.he other side of the fence.
Dr. ED SMITH.
&&R&&3S SROf
This
part of the castle not usually shown to
strangers, as Llie ducal family was
away, the old castellan yielded to
our persuasions, and led us through
wildernesses of old dismantled rooms,
across the court with the old watch
lower, the huge bunch of keys rat
tliugall the while and opening all
kinds of queer and ancient doors,
until we stood at last in the large,
low, square room on the ground
floor. The walls of tremendous
thickness were pierced, high up, with
narrow windows intended only to
admit light but no sights of the
pleasant outside world, altogether a
place which resembled more the
crypt of a church than a grand ducal
dining-room, which purpose it at
present serves, though it is one of
the suite where the little Princess,
with the halo around her head, found
her home when she came from far-off
savage Hungary to be teared at the
court of her betrothed. Her bed
room next it and identical with it
still has a pair of old brass candle
sticks, a crucifix and a bit of rich,
People with colds in their heads
belong to a generation of wipers.
A three-lieadcd chicken ! A Jer
sey hen is accused of doing it with
her little hatchet.
The hymn sung at the Woman’s
Hotel: “ I want a man—I want a
man—I want a mansion in the skies.’’
We sometimes hear of public men
taking care ot their friends, but
Sitting Bull knoweth bow to take
hair of his enemies.
When t,wo girls meet they kiss
When two young men meet, they
don’t. That sho ws who wants kissing
the worst.
Somebody has taken the trouble
to write a book about “ how to find
the Stars.’’—Don’t want to read it
step on a bit of orange peel.
Whittier, who wrote about “ The
Man with the Branded Hand,’’
about to set to music “ The Woman
with the Brand ied Peaches.”
.3-A.W XTOTICES.
r e.thrasbx:r,
.VrfiSrtlsEY AT J
LAV/,
Watkinsville, Ga.
Office in former Ordinary’s Office.
jnn25-].876-ly
p G. TUOMSON,
ATTORNEY’ AT LAW,
special attention paid to criminal practice.
For reference applj to Ex-Gov. T. II. Watts
iu-1 Hon. David Oloptou, Montgomery, Ala.
0 iice over Host-Office Athens, Ga.
ieM-1875-tf
Ilroal Sircet. Over Mamieville’s Jewelry Store.
FOREST CITY
Foundry And Machine Works,
170 Femvick Street, opposite Water Tower,
Augusta, Georgia,
GI50. It. LOMBARD & CO., Proprietors,
Manufacture Portable and Stationery Steam Engines, an i Roiic.s
Saw Mills, Grist Mills, Shafting Pulleys, Gearing, Hnngcrs, etc., Iron
and Bras.-. Castings, Plantation and Mill Work of any kind, Cane Mi Is
aud K. tiles, Horse Powers, Graham’s Improved Solid Kim t.nd otl er
styles of Gin Gear. Special attention given to Repairing andOver-
hnn’ins Machinery. Promptness and good work guaranteed. Send
CatrVgue of Mill Gearing. Agents for the Celebrated Hip=e
ifo, Donb'e Turbin Water Wheel, the Judson Governor, the Niagara
!§£■ Steam Pi.inp and Nordike, Nlarmon & to’s Plantation Mills.
5 Send for Circular.
may.21 ,.ly.l878.GEO. K. LOMBARD & CO., Proprietors.
D. C. Ua merer, Jk
Pops Harrow.
garrow Itros.,
ATTORNEYS AT LAV/,
Office over Talmadge, Hodgson A.Co.
jani-ly
HILL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
• Athens, Gaq
Prompt attention given to aU,bnsiaess and
'he same respectfully‘solicited. ianll-ly
Lamar Cobb. Howell Cobb.
H. COBB,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Athens, Ga
Office in Deupree Building,
fel)22-1876-ly
PLANTERS’ HOTEL,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
1STAnR-AJNTOEMElNrT.
B.a k ' ©3 Reduced to $3 per Day.
HAVING LEASED THIS WELL KNOWN HOTEL, I enter
upon its management by Reducing Rates, and asking ot the Travel-
ng Public, especially my friends of Carolina and Georgia, a continu
ance of that liberal support 'they have always given it.
El. IF*. HR.OT7K7TXT,
jan28 .in FORMERLY OF CHARLESTON, PROPRIETOR.
Akdrsw J. Cobb.
A Chicago chap advertised lor
“ steady girls to help on pantaloons.’’
A fellow who can’t help on his own
pantaloons ought to be ashamed to
want girls to do it ?
The average congressman will
come home t-> find tlia; he can take
up i o more roo »i on the street otr
than the chap who goes about selling
two lead pencils f,»r five cents.
•
A writer siys “ brilliant and im
pulsive people are apt to have black
eves.” Yes., impulsi.e people are
apt to run against some fellow's clon
ed hand.
All all! ah ah ! the festive mosqui
to is with us once again, and wc can
now in the dead hour of the night
lam blazes out of the old woman’s
nose, and tell her we were hitting at
his nibbs. All ah ! ah ah !
A small boy of the freckled, species,
in the parlor where a dry goods
clerk is sparking the boy’s big sister,
will make the course of true love
rougher than ri ling in a. lumber
Albx S. Erwin.
jgRWIN A COBB,
VTTOBXKYS AT LAW.
Athens, Ga
Office on Corner of Broad and Thomas street*,
& Cb.
ever Childs, Nickerson <
.if*b22-187S-ly
J S. DORTCH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ap!8-1878-tf
Carnesville, Ga.
TOTHE
Citizens of AthensIS^hingi 1878. §pr ng is-zs.
1st, our SPRIN*
l most extensiv
CLOTHING,
VlCllUwy_ OJ - atvl aftcr April 1st, our SPRING OPENING will take p'nce, when we will be prepared to
The undersigned has this dav purchased from I exhibit the finest and most extensive Stock of MEN’S, YOUTH’S EOY’S and CHILDREN’S
h s brother, Maj, THOMAS A. BURKE, his
e itire interest in the BOOK AND STATION
ERY BUSINESS AT ATHENS, and intends to
run a
First Class Book Store,
ever before exhibited in this city. Onr stock lias been purchased under the present ueclme of
We enumerate prices of a
AT ?9. 200 GENUINE
FLANNEL (Genuine Middlesex)
III tt uwu, .. V4. sqq.v.mvu A'lmc, mu; ^ tUMlvl OUJ..LO Ofc -piV, w nun V*'” aassxaw.asm .
found. Being connected with t.'tie well known f rom $10 $12 50, $14 and $15. In our Dress Suit Department, we are prepared to show genuine
and extensive wholesale house of English and French DIAGONAL SUITS, ranging from $12 50 up. Worsted suits in endless
J. W. BURKE &C0., MACON, GA.
English i
vanety.
tarnished scarlet and gold brocade, • wagon.
Iu addition to the above, ’,ve have a first-class Stock of
His facilities for keeping up stock and keeping I /-j T7) _ _ _ /"i _
everything at Bottom Prices, will give him a ( -}-©ICftS H UTIllASljlllg I rOOdS,
decided advantage in buying Books &e., at \_e LA
ft t0 g ‘ Ve his CUBto " which for priors and quality cannot be excelled iu the State. Wo still continue to offer our spe-
the tun bonent ot it, by cialty. UNLANDRIED SIliRTS, a* ?50e.. next grade 75c., extra fine $1. Hats and caps in all
LING AS CHEAP AS THE CHEAPEST, the latest styles. TRUNKS, UMBRELLAS, etc , ete. Extending our thanks to our patrons for
He asks his old friends in and around Athens, their geneixius patronage in the par*, and soliciting a < ontinuanec of the same, when we shall
'to give him a shurc of the patxoiiflge. To ell I endeavor to Oder them inducements which will surpass nil our former efforts.
■ - ..— " — j *--- I Vcrv Respectfullv,
CSABAFiS STBB.1T, Tlia CSlothisu.
>1. B. In addition toonr regnlur Clothing Department, wo have made arrangements with oil 1 "
tinue the patronage heretofore loeiffowed on him. I Now York Custom Tailors t > make suits to order upon short, notice. Guaranteeing a saving of
JOHN W. BURKE. 25 per cent, from the regular prices charged by tailors. LHAS. STERN,
June 11AL l np9-3m Broad street, opposite College C ampus, Athens, Ga.
he extends a hearty invitation to come and bay.
Maj. T. A. Burke will still be connected with
the house, and will have charge of the business,
and he asks bis friends and the public to con-