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jjY T- D. C KELLEY.
SoA- gcidelberg to Wartburg-,
Although Thursday morning
found Dr- Scomp and myself in
Heidelberg, our readers will ex
!!ie for referring back a mo
ase at which city
lent to Mayence, the
bad taken supper evening
Te Being engaged in the
before. business, I could not af
Jjjto printing the fact that at May
omit
pee vas born Johann (John)
[Gutenberg, the German inventor ,
h L printing with movable type,
there he labored and died;
L L g h perhaps he first practiced
invention at Strassburg about
Be year 1440 . He died in 1468,
tr Lje having brought to a eonsid- the
Lof degree of perfection
printing, which is the great¬
est of all factors in modern civili
Ltion. In the principal square
fdntenberg Platz”) of Mayencc
stands a statue of Gutenberg,
Lear which, and in front of it, is
|feivn the inventor’s first printing
office.
IN HEIDELBERG-.
I We spent the principal part of
I Thursday in hunting for Hender
I sea and our Yankee friends that
[insat I Bonn, but failed afternoon to find
them. Late in the we
I eiossed the little river Neckar, on
| |Wis le south bank of which the Heidel- north
situated, over to
IA and up to what is called the
[Wosopker’s erable height Road” to the a consid¬ city.
above
Bie gently-winding walk, that
pse higher and higher up the
pan Lin, gave us many a beau
Itiful view of Heidelberg beneath
| I that our feet, tho impenetrable forests
manteled. in dark green the
I sides of the opposite mountains,
I sad most of all of that king of
feudal relics, the great Fleidelberg
Castle. The great hill on which
westood seemed to have been
Me for the express purpose of
Mthe affording the best possible view
landscape that lay before
F The scene was simply inde
I scribably beautiful.
Beneath us, and a little to our
!, Mis looking towards the
the Hirschgasse tavern, in
| S «ge upper hall of which is the
N-known students’ dueling
M ce< E is said that the students
r; he ^eat University of Heidel
JN>’ or i° rather certain those fraternities, of them that
for
“ ears have been fighting from
M sword duels each week
* | en months in the These
[ le k year.
are °f two kinds; “affairs of
and those that are brought
M ut 8 imply by the rules of the
■flatter if jTnities. there It must was said that be less of
not
i three challenges and accep
tces for each meeting, of which
r e were two each week. The
j ainus only differed from each
J 111 their origin; for they
M e IOU ?bt under the rules
aid same
: with the same energy.
the Participants are pad
^ le P' arms, shoulders, and
IfeC*,' an< I have their eyes pro
He I l stout steel gargles by
a uier straps of which their
^shielded ^eir heads, „ and held close
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for thei v heads and faces
^ full es Posed, the
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CONYERS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1889.
bids us giving further particulars
about these duels. Enough to
say that a person can scarcely at
any time take a walk in the “an
lagen” (promenades) of Heidel¬
berg without seeing quite a num
ber of students whose faces are all
scarred and blurred by sword
gashes. These students seem to
be as proud of their scars as an
old veteran of a hundred battle
fields; and they wear little cup¬
like caps on the top-fronts of their
heads with close cut hair, so as to
leave as many wounds exposed to
public admiration as possible.
The fraternities are distinguished
by the color of their caps. Those
of the same color never contend
in a duel.
Immediately after breakfast
next morning we set out to visit
on foot that justly celebrated old
castle which we had viewed from
tho opposing mountain the eve¬
ning before, and to see more of
the inner life of those dense for¬
ests that were so beautiful from a
distance. Up and up we wended
our way along the winding roads
and foot-paths, on each side of
which were the most dense forests,
which in some places made an
ever-reigning twilight along the
mountain’s rugged slopes. Un¬
like Mark Twain we did not meet
w T ith any ravens who, speaking in
English, exclaimed, “What a hat!”
O, pull down your vest!”, though
we heard many a sweet-voiced
songster. On the other hand, it
seemed to the writer that the very
frogs in the marshes below croak¬
ed in low Dutch, while the song¬
sters of the wood twittered away
in German. Perhaps it was be¬
cause I was not expecting any¬
thing else; for avo were there to
see Germany, and not England or
America.
We first viewed the castle from
the Molkencur, a restaurant and
beer-garden, which is 195 feet
higher up the mountain, and is
the only place from which the
castle can be seen from above.
Decending by way of the ever
turning network of paths, we came
to the castle itself.
Wo entered with several others.
Near tho entrance we obtained
tickets at 50 pfenigs apiece and
Avere furnished Avitli a guide in
the bargain, Our guide Avas a
very amiable sort of old Avoman,
Avho seemed to lia\ T e lived in the
old wreck until she had partaken
somewhat of its nature. However,
she had a limber tongue, and
spoke three languages, German,
French, and English, Avith sur¬
prising fluency, especially Avdien
no one interrupted her with ques¬
tions. But the rapid changes
rather overtaxed her power; for
often she would put more than
one language into the same sen
tence, and sometimes all three.
Still, we got along splendidly,
saw all the apartments of that gi¬
gantic old fortress, and viewed it
from AA’ithin and from Avithout;
saw the ivy on the wall, one stem
of Avhich was said to be 150 years
old. We saw the place where the
great OA r en used to sit in Avhich
the old feudal lords had beeves
baked wh le for themselves, at
tendants, and guests, The most
conspicuous thing was the great
tun, or casque, which once held
49,000 gallons, This it Avas that
gave Mark Twain so much trou¬
ble to account for, until an En¬
glishman explained it to him, to
wit: That tho Germans milked
five or six cows into a tea-cup, and
then poured this milk into the
great casque filled with Avater, and
then skimmed this to get cream
for the German Empire.
It is said, with what truth I
know not, that this monster bar- j
rel was three times filled Avith j
Rhine wine and drunk empty, j
By the side of it is another casque I
which itself must hold several
thousand gallons.
On our return from the castle
we almost accidentally called in
at the Wiener Hof (hotel) to
enquire for Henderson and our
friends. There they were; they
had come the evening before.
The next day these ladies left
for Switzerland, intending to go
from there to Prance, thence to
England, and thence home again,
It was while at Heidelberg
perhaps, we found out that at
least two of our three friends were
teachers from Chicago, one in a
kindergarten and the other in the
public schools of that city. At
10 o’olock we accompanied them
to the train and bade them adieu
expecting never to see them again,
our routes were so different, they
going to the south and we north.
The next day, it being Sunday,
we spent in perfect quiet, and in
resting from travel.
Monday morning before day
we left for Eisenach and W art
burg, the old haunt of Martin
Luther the great reformer. At
Frankfort, however, we were de¬
layed two hours on account of a
lack of connection in the trains.
This time we improved by a walk
to tho monuments, or statues, of
Goethe, Gutenberg, and Schiller,
and to the house in which Goethe
was born in 1741.
At Frankfort lived the ances¬
tors of the Rothchilds. It w r as
founded by Charlemagne, and is
said to have been named from an
incident in his life, which Mark
Twain uniquely tells as follows:—
“Charlemagne, while chasing
tho saxons (as he said), or being
chased by them (as they said), ar
rived at tho bank of the river at
dawn, in a fog. The enemy were
cither before him or behind him;
but in any case he wanted to get
across very badly. Ho would
have given anything for a guide,
but none was to be had. Pres¬
ently he saw a deer, followed by
her young, approach the water,
lie watched her, judging that
she would seek a ford, and he
was right. She waded over, and
the army followed. So a great
Frankish victory or defeat was
gained or avoided; and in order
to commemorate the episode,
Charlemagne commanded a city
to be built there, which he named
Frankfort,—the ford of the
Franks.”
We arrived at Eisenach about
1:30 o’clock, p. in. and immedi¬
ately after dinner proceeded to
the old Wartburg Castle, a pic¬
turesque looking old fortress, in
which the great Luther Avas se¬
cluded by the agents of his friend
the Elector Frederick the Wise.
He Avas intercepted on his way
from the Diet of Worms, and lodg¬
ed there under the assumed name
of “Junker Georg.” He remained
there, as it Avere, perched in the
air, from May 4th 1521 to March
7th 1522; which time he spent in
praying, translating the Scriptur¬
es, and in Avriting tracts, He
dates his letters, or rather tracts,
“From the region of air. “From
amidst the birds which sing sweet
ly in the branches of the tall trees
and praise God, “From the moun
tain,” or “From the Isle of Pat
mos; and fiom this eig 1 j
rained down his writings upon |
Germany till the Reformation, 1
like a mighty torrent, roiled on
sweeping everything before this it. j
Some of his invectives at j
time against the Pope were .equal
to the most withering utterances
of Demosthenes against Philip,
or Cicero against Yerres.
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g^-wiNE OF cardui a Xoaic lor Women.
WHY THEY PARTED.
Two sweethearts were very, very
fond of each other and every sum¬
mer evening in the gloomy twi¬
light, which they called the wed¬
ding time of day and night, they
strolled in ecstatic embrace to the
leafy bower and sat and watched
the little chirping birds fall to
sleep; sat soul to soul and dream
ed again the sweet and swoonful
dreams which love so oft hadcon
jured up before, In the winter
evenings, too, they sat, each fold¬
ed to tho other’s breast, and gazed
with rapture on the graceful forms
tho curling smoke assumed as ris¬
ing from tho open fire it floated
lightly ere it fled away to mingle
with the fleecy clouds. Agd as
they sat and dreamed they bab¬
bled of the bliss that should pos¬
sess their souls through all the
endless ceons of oternity..
“For we aro wed forever and
forever; arn’t we, darling?” said
the maid.
“Forever and forever,” said the
swain.
And then they had their lips to¬
gether and in one long, loving
kiss drank deep of love’s intoxi¬
cating honey.
“.O, sweet, sweet love,” they
murmured low in blessed unison;
for now, indeed, they were but
one.
Then came the joys of specula¬
tion on their future earthly bliss,
and one by one tho sweet; details
were thoroughly discussed. The
lovers were agreed on’everything.
At last the blusing maiden hid
her face upon her lover’s bosom.
Ho had said:
“And darling one, when we are
old and gray and have our little
family about us—•”
When they had sat in silence
and timed tlieir thoughts to the
rhythmic ticking of the tall, old
fashioned clock—thoughts which
were lover-thoughts; thoughts
made by love a single thought—
they spoko in timid accents of the
beauteous children that should
grace their happy home.
“And wo will have them all im¬
mersed and reared in Christian
faith,” said she.
“Yes, reared in Christian faith,”
said he, “but not immersed, for I
am a Methodist, you know, my
dear.”
“Oh, yes,” said she, “they all
must be immersed, for I am a
Baptist you know.”
So there they split. They loos¬
ed their fond embrace. They oc¬
cupied two chairs, far, far apart.
Their voices lost tho gentle mur¬
murousness, their eyes the ten¬
der softness of true love. They
spoke no more of merging souls
of ecstacy, of endless hours of
bliss. They glared and yelled and
called each other names, She
made an ugly face at him and pok¬
ed her tongue far out. He swore
at her.
This Avas too much. She stern¬
ly ordered him to leave the house.
He left.
They never met again. fondly hoped
The children they rugged path of
w r ould smooth the
their declining years are still un¬
born.—Ex.
“I use Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral
freely in my practice, and reeom
^end it in cases; of Whooping
found it more certain to cure that
troublesome disease than any
other medicine I know of.” So
says Dr. Bartlett, of Concord,
Mass.
A little girl in Plainfield was
very thoughtful on the way from
morning service on a recent Sun
day. The last hymn had been
“Even me, even me.” Finally she
^ ked her mothe D Lold ' ■
mg her by the hand: Mamma,;
did Adam write that hymn?' j
“Why, no, my child,” said her
mamma; “why do you ask that?”
“Because it says ‘Eve and me.’”
The very unusual occurence of
a 3-year-old child dying from nic¬
otine poisoning is reported from
Harlingcro, N. J. When little
George Joyce was only 1 year old
he made a plaything of his fath¬
er’s pipe. The parents thought
it was very amusing, When ho
was 3 years old, he puffed away at
the pipe in a most remarkable
man nor, and the smoke did not
make him sick. His foolish par¬
ents thought it was a very fine
thing indeed, and they would in¬
vite the neighbors to come in and
“see Georgy hit the pipe.” The
natural result followed. The
child was finally forced to succumb
to the poison of the nicotine, and
tho other day ho went into con¬
vulsions, which were almost inces¬
sant until his death. The physi¬
cian said that smoking undoubt¬
edly brought on the convulsions.
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of ugly names, the paper would
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It is much better to keep your
vest pulled down and your sub¬
scription paid up.
Maj. Campbell Wallace, of At¬
lanta, who took the oath of office
before Chief Justice Bleckly the
other day as a member of the
railroad commission of Georgia,
will be 90 years old when his
term expires, if he is living at
tlfht time. He has been a mem¬
ber of the commission ever since
it Avas organized, and ho lias done
the state very valuable service in
that capacity. It Avas thought
that he would decline tho recent
reappointment, as ho did not
qualify at tho regular time, but it
turned out that ho Avas suffering
from a spider bite, and was una¬
ble to be on hand. It is to be
hoped that Maj. Wallace will be
as strong physically as ho is
mentally.
EA r ery person ought to take a
neAvspaper, and his first allegi¬
ance is to his county paper. If
he is only able to take one paper
that should be bis homo paper.
It may not be as newsy as others,
but there is something about it
that makes it closer and of more
interest than any other.—Consti¬
tution.
Mr. Martin Calvin, of Augusta,
who has represented Richmond
county A*ery satisfactorily in the
legislature lor a number of years,
is a candidate for tho democratic
nomination for commissioner of
agriculture. This office was
made an elective one at the last
session of the legislature.
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No. 41
BE COURTEOUS, BOYS.
“I treat him as well as he treats
mo,” said Hal.
His mother had just reproached
him because he did not attempt
to amuse or entertain a boy friend
who had gone home.
“I often go in there, and he
doesn’t notice me,” said Hal
again.
“Do yon enjoy that?”
“Oh, I don’t mind! I don’t stay
long.”
“I should call mysolf a very sel¬
fish person if friends came to see
mo and I should pay no attention
to them.”
“Well, that's different; you’re
grown up.”
“Thon you really think that
politeness and courtesy are not
needed among boys?”
Hal, thus passed, said he didn't
mean that; but his father, who
had listened, now spoke:
“A boy or a man who meas¬
ures his treatment of him, has
no character of his own. He will
never be kind, or generous, or
Christian. If ho is ever to be a
gentleman, ho will bo so in spite
of tho boorishness of others. If
ho is noble, no other boy’s mean¬
ness will change his nature.” And
very earnestly tho father added:
“Remembor this my boy, you
lower your own self every time
you are guilty of an unworthy
action because some one else is.
Be truo to your best self, and no
boy can drag you down.
President Tobin of tho Augusta
Exposition Company stated at a
mooting of tho company the other
night that a prominent South
Carolinian had suggested to him
that tho states of Georgia and
South Carolina buy the exposi¬
tion plant at Augusta, and hold a
joint exposition each year. Tho
South Atlantic thinks the sug¬
gestion is a capita] one, and that
if carried out it would help every
part of the two states named, and
Augusta particularly.
Stewart county was carried by
tho antiprohibitionists, Tuesday,
by a ma jority of 400.
Any one wishing to buy Italian
bees will find it to their euterest
to call and see Mr. W. V. Aimand
NOTICE TO "CREDITORS.
All parties having claims
against the estate of F. M. Weth
erford, deceased, will present
them to me at once.
J. S. Wetjierford, Admr.
Nov. 19th 1889.
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