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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1889)
L;KDAIER a5 ^ ER - TERMS : $ 1 00 ix?onth« in advance , . »» cr f on ;; . 50 cts S ..25 “ * three . ** .. l dvertising medium of w a Jjak county- Vol. IS. OlEb Ot liiiAV a V F, r, I i' EUROPE | F J BY T. D- C KELLEY. Wittenberg,' Berlin, Dresden, to _jj, Pi •Q-ue,', ijjje last a jtiefXit off just as the I B about Luther’s burning bull. Lor the benefit of Hi not know, I ex¬ tk/bull (Latin bulla, neck) ^tiling- worn around the finally meant the seal of the Pope, and then it came to mean a iocunie \t to which he had affixed these Leal. It was one which of the Ce jjjled documents, m against pronounced all his a curse followers, in jitter and ease they did not retract in 100 javs that the great reformer pub ly burned at Wittenberg before a church door, saying, “Now ieserious Egun work begins: God—it I have it in the name of Jibe light.” brought to an truly end* by bold His L«I; This was a and though that little [parchment |sudthat for gave only but a moment, small flame the / ; a Heed itself was a torch that set I tie hearts of the whole German nation on fire, out of which came, as the pure metal from the fur¬ nace, the emancipation of Germa ! | sy from the servitude of the Pope. As we walked into the old town 'of Wittenberg, shaping in our paginations some of the scenes of lose fiery times to suit the i jfoundings, more interested in j iseenes of 350 years ago than I Si® then around us, we observed Sal tlie people were in a great (Motion, heard shout after (shout which we could not under tad, and saw a smoke rising fom what seemed to be the midst I the streets. AVe soon disco v-i ■ frecl that the cause was .only a I tosse on fire; but this agitation Imed to impress indelibly upon Iiwimaginations the scenes which I We enacted there early in the I ffli century and which were the I reason of our visit. This I old city is acknowledged to be fte chief cradle of the great re¬ formation in Germany. Here [Jived jp the great Luther the last 25 ara of his life; here lived, died aB d vvas buried, Philipp Melanc- 1 then, who was second only to Lu te himself in the German Re¬ formation, and who, though timid a( l sometimes almost cowardly, at all times Luther’s trusted a U ‘So most the leader helpful friend. He was of the Luthean P a rty till the time of his death “is ^irich more was powerful 14 years colleague. after that of It taMelancthon who, in 1529 at tae f T e t of Spire, drew up the fa ®°us protest of the evangelical minority against the Catholic ma joriiyof the diet, which gave rise to the name Protestants. At Jjfiecl ktenberg also lived and was Irederick the AVise, who a the death of Alaximilian I. 1 T?) _ declined the crown of Ger aan y> and who, though not an a -owed reformer, greatly assisted ^flior by securing for him a ( deduct" to the diet of °rms and afterwards protecting in Wartburg Castle. Here also , was buried John the Con .‘A brother of Frederick, and ^successor as Elector of Saxony, e proceeded at once to the yk'hlosskirche” (Castle-church) whiefi were interred all the great men whom we have just ^ laetl ^ but it closed ke eper ; was and the could not be found. AA r fi „ 011 Principal u door the 95 . f. Ses ^hich Luther proposed oiacuss with any one whom the select. AVe saw Ale to*’^ ^ 0Q inscription ' S to use where according “he lived, taught w,, l J nil JL the VTe went through departments of Lu- . 0 W'^SgSw < V:;.\ ■cF»a. A -fcAisES m el » ; ei / ip ^ fill ■-.-j? Ife H < •J i m s * a * An* , €/m- c* Sr CONYERS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1889. tlier's palacial residence given him Toy the Elector, and in which he spent quite a number of years with his homely but amiable wife. We saw his old chair and his wife’s, his stove, and both his and Melanctlion’s original manuscripts etc. After taking supper at the sta¬ tion restaurant, where the waiter seemed to he perfectly amazed because we called for “a whole baked hen,” at 8 o’clock p. m. we hade farewell to AVittenberg, and arrived at Berlin, the capital of the German Empire about 11 o’clock. AT BEELIN. Next morning early after break¬ fast we proceeded to the Unter den Linden, a street 19G feet in width, lined on each side with su¬ perb shops, and beautifully shaded by lime trees, whence its name. This magnificent street is inferior to the Boulevards of Paris only in length. Passing under the Brandenburg Gate, a most magnificent structure on top of which is ATctory riding in a four-liorse chariot, executed by the great German sculptor Schadow, we entered the great Thiergarten or park. This beau¬ tiful pleasure ground, is 2 miles long by § mile wide. AVe walked by the Column of Victory, a most imposing and appropriate monu¬ ment to the memory of the vic¬ tories of 1870-71. Through the park we proceeded to the west end, where we visited and walked through the Zoolog¬ ical Garden, one of the most ex¬ tensive and beautiful in the world. Near by tbe Zoo. was the Hippo¬ drome, a sort of perpetual fair¬ ground, where we saw horse racing by •wild Arabs, and an ex¬ hibition of tlie home life of the wild Arabian similar to the AA ild AV est show at the Piedmont Ex¬ position at Atlanta this year.—Aly pen can never do justice to Ger¬ man pleasure grounds. Returning to the eastern end of the park we visited the aquarium a most pictureque and delightful place; such a variety of fish, such a variety of wonderful water plants, was to be seen ! Next day beginning early we went to Borsig’s Engine Factory, a very extensive establishment. employing 1000 hands. In these shops we saw engines in all stages of formation, and the room in which the first locomotive was built in Germany. From this factory we went to the Museum, where we admired statuary pictures, and autiqui ties,—antiquities, pictures, and statuary,—pictures, statuary, and antiquities,—until all our joy was converted into inflamed eyes, aching legs, and broken backs. Sick of German art, we returned to our hotel, and began to prepare for leaving the great Kaiser s cap vtal. In the morning of the first day of our sojourn in Berlin an inci dent occurred which may perhaps be worthy of notice. The' propri etors of our hotel came to us and said that the police wanted to see our passports. This was the first time they had ever been demand ed, and this was caused by Dr. Scomp s love of fun. The author ities are very strict on hotel men in all German cities, requiring them to make their guests give their names, where they are from, i where going, and what is tlieii business. Instead of all this Dr. Scomp just wrote opposite his name in German, “traveler-for pleasure." AVe of course followed with dittos. This did not by any means satisfy the careful German. In fact, when he came for passports, he asked if we were from Texas. I do not 1 hat he thought that our party was composed of Buffalo Bill and two of his comrades, but he was evidently distrustful of his guests, and suspected we were from the A! ild AV est. Dr. Scornp told him that he had no passport. At this lie showed signs of agitation. After a short suspense, however, Dr. Scomp said that the young men with him had passports. AVhen these were handed him he seemed to feel great relief, and very kindly asked permission to show them to the police. This was granted, and when he return¬ ed them, he said the jiolice were satisfied. At about 5 o’clack p. m. we left the great capital, with its palaces, its million inhabitants, its arts, and its pleasure grounds, and we arrived at DRESDEN at 8:30 o'clock. About all we did next day was to visit the Zwinger Picture Gal¬ lery, where we remained till 2 o’clock. Among a vast number of very celebrated paintings, we saw Raphael’s most noted production, his “Sistine Madonna;” also an excellent copy of his Aladonna Della Sedia. Next day while Dr. Scomp went in another direction, Henderson and I visited the great regal “Green Vault.” Why it ever re¬ ceived this name is a mystery to the writer, hut beyond any ques¬ tion it is one of the richest de¬ posits of minute ivory and mar¬ ble statuary, precious stones, gold ornaments, f*nd other curiosities, in all the world. From this we went to the Royal Library in the Japanese Palace. Here we books and manuscripts of all shapes, sizes, colors, ages, and languages. AVe saw a manuscript said to be over two thousand years old. In this—-so the librarian said—a woman was complaining to her king, or prophet, because she had prayed without being answered. In tbe afternoon we visited Haufman'ffi Acoustic Cabinet, in wnicli wo saw music boxes repre¬ senting full-fledged German bands, and many oddities in tbe way of musical boxes, One of these was a small boy—and it did look very much like a hoy—play¬ ing a solo on a cornet, and it seemed to exhibit some of the finer touches of the art. It was our purpose at 6 o’clock next morning to go by boat on the Elbe as far as AVehlen, and from there on foot through Sax on Switzerland by way of the Bas tei, and take the train at Sliandau for Prague. AVhen morning came however, our clothes had not been returned from tho laundry accor ding to promise; and we were clieeted out of an excollent view from the top of that rugged crag, and also a very tiresome walk over a very rough country. The scen¬ ery along the Elbe was exceeding¬ ly enjoyable. AVe reached Prague at 7 p. m. numbers furnish¬ . [N. B. Back ed on application to new subscrib¬ ers.] (to continued.) be i* the oldest and most popular ecienimc Hu cirouiatiodo p f a ajiy paper o?a* cias* in the worid. 'S CO..Broadway, n.f. jiL-NNk #4 IRGHSTEOTS Edition cf Scientinc & BUiLDcR^ American, v K cts. a copy. M uxx gco- puBLifan . J sTrsii j > !s Ia?sr?pp"cs^““ SiAS“ For* j p ; TRADE MARKS. ?asr!^w«twa«® .“SK'SSrito* etc quic** procured. Address 1 Flap—I'm in love, and the only disagreeable thing about it is that the girl is older than I. Jack—How old are you now? I'm 18.” “And the lady is what?” “Twenty-two.” “Make your mind easy, my boy. By the time you are fJl she'll ho only 20.'’ A man, desiring to have a pet dog licensed, facetiously ask¬ ed the clerk if the dog had to make a personal application. “No,” was the reply. “You as next of kin, can take ont the pa¬ pers.” Rheumatism is caused by lactic acid in the blood, which Hood's Sarsaparilla neutralizes, and thus eyres rheumatism. “No my wife is not good look¬ ing. In fact, she’s very homely. But she’s good and talented, and I am proud of her.” “She's of a literary turn, I believe?” “Yes, she is now contributing a series of articles to the newspapers." “On what subject?” “How to be beautiful.” The Cedartown Standard speaks of. Rev. Dr. A. G. Hay good as “tho only man who was over elect¬ ed to the bishopric and declined.’ A Japanese paper reports a battle of butterflies which took place on the 20th and 21st of Au¬ gust near Nojima. It took place above a narrow road and was witnessed by many of tho villa¬ gers. The fight was finished be¬ fore noon on the 21st and the ad¬ joining fields were covered by tbe bodies of the slain. A Baltimore justice, before whom a policeman was brought on. the charge of profane swear¬ ing on the public street dismissed the case, as the officer said only “damn.” The justice explained that the mere use of that word was hot more significant than the word “durn.” Damn as defined by Webster and AVoncestor and the encyclopedia, when used by itself, is not profane language. If, he said, the prisoner had used it in connection with the word of God, then I should have found him guilty and punished him severely. Dom Pedro ex-Emperor of Bra¬ zil, once called on Victor Hugo and asked the privilege of diu ing with him. The two men talk¬ ed until 3 o’clock in the morning. Hugo asked the emperor what countries in Europe struck him as being the happiest, “Switzer land, France and Scotland,” was the answer. “AVliat reason do you assign for this?” continued the poet. “The fact thst Switzer¬ land is an old republic, that France has accomplished a re¬ publican evolution, and that Scotland has a republican form of church government,” explained Dom Pedro. “The church has given a moral strength to Scot¬ land which is unique, and her climate has imposed hardy habits on the Scotch people.” “I confess I am sometimes sorely preplexed,” said the father, with a heavy sigh, “when I think of the future of my boys, It is a great responsibility to j have the choosing of a calling in life for them.’ Through the ! open window carao the voices °f two of the lads at play, “Look bere j» loudly exclaimed Johnay, “that isn t fair! You’ve divided these marbles so as to get all the best “Didn't ° ne H 111 the your trouble own of V a £; di I have vid ing ’em?” reiterated AV lllie !lotl >'- “Think I'm going to ^nd my time at such jobs for! nothing?” “So far as Willie is I , concerned,” resumed the father, | I after a pause, “the task of choqs tag a vocation is not difficult. 1 ,hdl make a lawyer of him.” asSl-W* 0F <*myi***"**»*~’ The orthography of our great grand-mothers was uncertain, The old Duchess of Gordon used to say to her cronies: “You know, my dear, when I don't know how to spell a word I al ways draw a lino under it, and if it is spelled wrong it passes for a very good joke, and if it spoiled right it doesn’t matter.” Senator Bradwell, of the Ilines ville Gazette, says Representative Mclver, colored, has invested some of the money which he re¬ ceived from the State in a hand¬ some road cart, which he calls his traveling “convenience." “Air. Cleveland has lost none of his admiration for his tariff message,” says the Chicago Inter Ocean. Nor have tho people lost their admiration for it. It is more generally approved than when it was sent to congress. AVait until 1892, and you will see. State Trueasurer Hardeman has made an estimate of what the recent Legislature cost the State. On looking over his. pay rolls he found the fall session, which last¬ ed forty-six days, cost the taxpay¬ ers a trifle over §56,000. By ap¬ plying the rule of three he ascer¬ tained that if forty-six days cost $56,000,130 days would cost $161 000. This will make tho total cost of the last Legislature $228 000, or nearly a quarter of a mil¬ lion. Tho Legislature of 1887-’88 cost the State $186,000. The pay rolls, however, will show that tlie last Legislature did $33,000 worth more work than its predecessors, and also took in tho exposition. A. AVilson, of Sparta, is adver¬ tising for. fifty first class stone¬ cutters. He has the contract for getting out $30,000 worth of stone for tbe'new Presbyterian church in Savannah. Ho wants to have 125 hands at work J anuary 1. There is such a diversity of opinion among newspapers as to the effect of the lottery Taw upon existing contracts that tho opin¬ ion of tlie Attorney-General lias been requested. There has been no decrease in the sale of lottery tickets in Go rgia, but tbe effect of the bill has been to take at least $48,000 from tlie newspapers of Georgia. A special train on the Michigan Central carrying Cornelius Van derbuilt and family, about two weeks ago made a run of 107 miles in ninety-seven minutes, stopping four minutes for water, running at one point for three miles at tlie rate of seventy-eight miles per hour. This is the faft est railroad time ever made in this country. When Air. Davis had made up his mind he rarely changed it This was illustrated a year or two ago. He prepared for the North America Review an article in ref¬ erence to Andersonville and the other prisons of the south during the war. It was a reply to the c } iar g e D f inhuman treatment ma( } e against the southern people, ;m q as ^ reflected upon certain federal officials who were friends Mr. Allen Throndyke Rice, the editor of the Review, Mr. J£i ce endeavored to get Air. Davis to modify it, or to allow it to be odited . As Air. Davis had pre pared it w ith great care, and af t er tedious historical research, refused to do this, and as a consequence it was not published in the Review. It will be pub ii s R e a i n th e next number of Bel f or( p g Magazine. 1 — Negro T preachers , , having , i are a : bad time in Dublin. Three have ! been arrested during the last few' ^ ««»» <*“*«• of . dninkenesH, . , obstructing the marshal m law ful arrest, and theft. Try BLACK-DRAUGHT tea Tor Dyspepsia. WOSDS TO fRTENSS: J «/oo w?or£ solicited and satisfac¬ tion jvaranteed, 4); Jtollable attention given advertis¬ ing. TJdliMS HE A SON A BLK No. 43 Homo of the most prominent of the New York clergymen have recently given their opinions n 3 to whether or not clergymen should smoke. Mr. Talmago l.says: “Every clergyman must set- ‘ tie tho question for himself ac¬ cording to his own conscience and bolielf. But as far myself, smok¬ ing is utterly out of tho question. It is my opinion that many cler¬ gymen who have on their tomb¬ stone, ‘Died in the Lord,' might have a far more appropriate epitaph, ‘Killed by Tobacco.'". Here is something that will interest Dr. Pasteur in peculiar, and many other people in general. Some days ago several children of Air. Joseph Trogle, of C uni rtf, Pa., were bitten by a mad dog. Instead of hunting up a mad stone, or sending the children to Paris to he treated by Dr. Pas¬ teur, Air. Treglo called in Dr. Samuel Sehlaback, who has Lad some success in such cases. Dr. Schlabnek’s mode of treatment is very peculiar. He wrote out 'di¬ rections, and said that they must be followed implicitly, take off their clothes and put on clean ones. 2. Strip their bods of, all sheets, blankets, etc., and put oh fresh bedding that tho children never slept on before. 3. For the first days they must drink noth¬ ing, and eat nothing except dry bread. 4. They must drink no water for nine days. 5. They must not oat pork for three months. 6. AVhen overcome , by thirst give them warm coffee. 7. After three days they can eat a little beef and potatoes 8. Keep them out of school, indoors, and don’t allow their blood to 'get overheated. 9. The lacerated wounds must bo rubbed open with a piece of pine wood three, times a diiy until they bleed, and the medicine rubbed in the' wounds with a rag. The medi¬ cine of herbs and roots is o to bo taken internally. 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