, 1866-11-25

nv bnir memory dreams of schoolboy ex- fou
rr'ences would not be pleasant realities. ter
be scotchmsu who comes to America and 1lvl
= his enterprise and economy. quickly pu'
,akes a fortune, longs TO be once again With sir'
is loved Grampian hills; but It Is not until pr
e coes back and tries to live among the quiet thu
Id familiar glcna that be discovers his In
>ast experience 10 be quite unsuitcd 10 his pc
resent tastes, concludes TINT the Scotch pl
world moves much too slowfy, and that fine go
cenery is most beautiful when not often tr'
:ecn. So our excellent Amerfcanizcd Ger
Ian secs visions OF the cherished Fadcsland G.
i'll full Of old time happiness; but when he dt
wanders away back up the Rhine to Frank III
fort he finds that his country must now be 81
seen through American eyes. and he is q
shocked ut the tyranny Of the Government a
aud the contented poverty Of his country Z
men. u
In many villages doctrine like That Of h
Nautilus Is adopted, and only n prescribed 81
number Of citizens arc allowed 10 marry In I
each year, If one want cord OF wood, ne
must make application at the police office.
No rrIyate citizen Is allowed to Kill his own
biz or prescribe. Its own medicine. The y
blacksmith must not marry the widow Of bis
fricrd the shoemaker aud caITv on the busi-
ness Of the latter, though horse-shoclnS !
might bave made him rich enough to hire
foreman. The owner Of lot must build his
house OF such material and dimensions and
looking toward such point Of the compass ns
The Government may think best; nor can the
denizeu Of the "ftce city Of Frankfort"
mar1y e.keepEr without giving good
and sufficient evidence that his kren!zozs
will count up to certain magic spu. The
traveller must hand over his passport and beg
a ticket Of permission to stop few days.
If bis visit be prolonged into what Miss
Leslie uould call visitation, he must de-
| posit three hundred forms, lest he fall into
vassarcy and get 1 job In the poor house.
The proprietor ofa grocery shop may iced
crackers and cheese to Ills customers At the
counter; but he must not furnish seat -
table, for those luxurfes Orc allowed only to |
another sort Of moncy-gctter. Women may |
rcddle fruit, but not crackers. oue man
may sell beer In covered glasses only, While
his ne!shbor enjoys the aristocrattc
priyilese VI selling 1t in bottles. The butch
er must not oycrstcp q certain modest
| humber Of slaughtered cattle in year. At
cyery corner 4 soldier Is seen. The PFussiau
foetlcs tie Frankfort merchant into the
kennel, because he hates the city. The
officer Of the Austrian contingent cuts down
tile Italiun with the sword, for he hates
: Italy. Terror Of the strong arm preserves
the peace.
To IN American 1t seems strange that
} Germans thould manifest such breadth of
} MUD In theorizing man into his highest hap
{ pjnces, und set submit to the baseness
Of bling daily troddcu upon By arbitrary
. rover They have much intellect, Int little
I will. Two hundred years Of oppression, hu.
+ ! initiation, and destructive wars havo lel1
= their mark upon the If. ofthc people. The
is politicai rrostration and individual weakness
= With which the countrymen Of Ga:the have
It been rep.oaehed, arc attributed by Herr
e F,cjtac to the waste and destruction Of the
l. Thirty Ycars' War. II Is calculated that this
= war dcptiycd Germany Of two-thirls Of its
If popu1ation and three -fourths of Its capital
1s 4 whole reueration Of insecurity drove fore
N thought itself to despair. The diversion
y eastern trade from tho German 10 another
to route, which occurred about the sam
cs time, may be set down us fruit
Of full source of the euhsc1uen
Of ruin. Tic termination Of the Religion
r. Wars left fallen nobility and a starvin!
nd pcusautry face to face. Toward the end c
III, tic seventeenth century the peasantry wer
IS, brought under tho control Of the 2rctcndc
ire representatives Of the old nobility. It w
lb- the peasants duty to supply cattle aud labe
oy- on his lords estate. Two days In wce
eel we're thus sacrificed; and so late as l1o0 tt
md peasants Of aicisscn rose In rebellion hccau!
3 Of these lords days were increased and divide
hin into fractions to such extent that no fr
all day's work could be done on the lands Of II
crc. rcoplc. In RuCen the lord charged hu
stly Jrcd and fifty dollars for the liberty OF Z
.rn- ablc.bodied man and fifty Or sixty dollars
tiul | that of tho beautiful Girl. who wanted