The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-10-07
From Eipptncotts Magazine.
Snow Upon the Waters.


Snow Upon the Waters.
Para. By LUCY L. HOOPER. ~ i7iT & 6.
The clocks of the city OF Berlin 1owere
striking the midnight hour. It was a
cold, clear, cold night in January: the
marbls groups in the Schloss Blucke were
half hidden under wreaths of snow /; the
frozen surface of the Spree, looked dark
and CLASSY where the wind had swept
away its snowy covering, and the graceful
colorado Of the Crown Princes palace
was hung with icieles instead OF the
swaying vines that decked it in morepro-
pitious seasons. The moon was just ris-
ing, and under the magic wand OF d It's
beams the fairest city in Germany seemed
transformed into one of those gorgeous Wis
ions of the Arabian Knights city. of
silver paved with pearl and flashing with
diamonds Two belated pleasure seekers
were hurrying along the jaeger Strasse,
and one of them, looking up at q window
ON the third floor of a house which they
were passing, and from which gllmmered
a Iioht, said y 91b a5oT Tgoi fHioq o5 bso.
tsThat is .uerr Mansfeldt's room . be
did not act tonight. g ia "a es.lT -[la
SHE is doubtless having 8 carouse with
some of his boon companions. These
actors are sad, dissapated set, andlI have
no doubt Mansfeldt Is as bad as any of
Them 90 a91sft .r9ITsgg fRif9f,97~5 Is ssrfs9rs
And the speaker passed ona1il diuos sB5
Notwithstanding this charitableI SUR
mise, Herr Mansfield was at that moment
quietly sitting in the small salon of the
suite of apartments which. he occl-
pied in Frau Wagner's lodging house
alone, unless the spirit ofot Goethe were
with him, for he was stud lying the part Of
Mephistopheles,s which, IN q few weeks,
he Was to enact for the first time5og vfridi
Though the furniture was plain and
worn, the room wore CHEEKY aspect.
The wall on three sides were hung with
prints and pictures of various kinds--a
COPY in oil eolors of the portraitof Wal
leastein, an old print of Garrick in9athe
character OF Richard I'LL, a pencil draw
ing, representing the vision of ,Egmont,
in Goethes tragedy of that name, and en-
.graved portraits Of the great German ac-
tors, Seidelmann and Devrient, being
among the most important. A pair Of
swords, another of foils, and an assem-
blage of daggers, pistols and such small
weapons, all remarkable either for their
antiquity or their workmanship, were ar
ranged on the wall over the low sofa. A
gigantic white stove, towering almost to
the ceiling, difused a fgenial warmth.
Two objects of luxury alone adorned the
apartment-on of which, a beautiful
bust in white, marble oof MeIpomene,
stood on a pedestal between the windows,
while the other, a large cheYal glass, had
been wheeled into the centre of the floor,
and snalbtable, on which We're placed
two candles and copy of aRetzschsl out
line illustrations of Faust, stood before 1T.
Beside this table sat Herr Hermann Mans
feldt, the leading actor at the Royal Thea
tire of Berlin, and the most gifted young
tragedian Of the day. 1e8 tsae fsbja
Nature had richly endowed him for the
profession he had chosen. Not above the
middle height, with a slender, finely pro
portioned figure, dark, lustrous expressive
eyes, features as regular and as severely
outlined as those of an antique bust, a
voice whose soft, deep tones were capable
of all varieties of meditation, and grace
of movement that made each of his 5atti-
tudes on the stage a study for the sculptor
such were the gifts which fortune had
bestowed to aid the rarer. gift of genius
In the Youthful actor. 10 Notwithstanding
these personal advantages Herr Mansfeldt
was siguIarly free from vanity, that most
common and natural defect among dram
attic artists The photographers complain
ed that they could nptpursuade himto sit
to them half often enough to supply the
demand for. his picture and the perfumed
notes which ahB.e occasionally received
were invariably cast, half read, into the
fire, while the only expressions they, ever
x drew from his lips were words Of indig
nation and disgust. His Iifeswas devoted
to his profession, and he loved his atart
with passion that had as yet found nc
rival in his heartdj 5ns .noitsfsg hisa dits
And vet Hermann sMansfeldt has not
been born in the station Whiclhe occupied
Twenty years before the opening of OH
"A story, joseph Heinrich II ermann Ruprecht
Won Adlersberg, an officer in the Austrian
service and a member Of one of the proud
est of noble Austrian families, committee
suicide, having dissipated his small pat
rimony at the gaming tables Of Baden.
Baden His only child Heinrich ven
.AdIefsberg then a boy Of nine, years OF
age, was left totally dependant on the
bounty Of his, aristocratic relatives, one Of
whom generously offered to educate, him
and nobly fulfilled his promise. But
when young Heinrich left the university
he found himself regarded as a burden
and a nuisance by those relations into