The Montana post., 1869-01-01
FRIDAY MORNING JAN. Ist.
THE CITY.
From Tuesdays Daily.

Prom Tuesdays Daily.
PROF. KEYEs LECTURE.-An audience
composed of the''elite' of Helena assembled at
the Academy last evening, to enjoy one of
the rarest literary treats that could be offered
to an audience truly intelligent and refined.
The Prof. introduced his subject which was
''Student's life in Frieberg," by basty, yet
interesting review of the various theories of
education which prevail throughout the
world, and applied each to the proposed OBJ
ject and end of true education, and demon
strated that the true theory was that which
gave strength and tempered at the same time
il impaired polish. He paid high compli-
nent to American character as the result Of
a system of education that comprised more
of the elements of true theory than any
other held In Christian lands. Passing from
this introduction which contained more orig
inal and valuable ideas upon the subject of ed
ucation than could be gathered from a library
of educational works, the lecturer traced
the course If The student leaving the Atlantic
shores, passing magnificent panorama of ma
ture's creative hand, the green isles of the
English coast and the thousand points of
historic interest. till the gallant ship anchors
in Brennan haven. Having "did'' the city,
admired the wine, the municipal regulat tions,
the Burgomaster's dinners and their daughters
the train starts, aud at the rate of twenty
miles an hour, spends the time remark
ing the equipments of the road. On through
the Duchies of 0ldenburg and B. Iunswick till
at length the Saxon border Is passed aud the
cars halt under the shadow of the palace of
John, King of Saxony, in ancient Dresden.
Wandering and wondering through the choice
galleries of paintings, admiriDg the magnid-
cent collection of precious stones, the rare
cabinets of minerals, gazing upon Raphael's
Madonna, the day hastens when the student
must hurry 70 Frieburg, only - miles distant.
Leaving Dresden, the German dialect attacks
the poor boy with a harShness that CRATES
coldly upon ears accustomed to the music of
a LIQUID tongue. Ore mountain is passed,
from whose depths the Kings and Crown
Princes of Saxony have derived a royal reye-
nue. for over 200 years. The gray walls and
moss covered towers of Frieberg surround the
dent and he enters upon a lite that Is his
wor ID for long years His description of
German students life is from a German stand
point and is imbued thoroughly with those
rare old theories of such life that the story
Is invested with an intensity that Is thrilling,
and beauty that Is iacinating. Frieberg
was once the residence of the crown princes
of Saxony, and their palace is still there
receptacle for grain. The Prof. gave very
graphic and interesting account of the politi~
cal history of Frieberg, description of Its
placels, its mines, Its fortresses. de told the
tify the history of n nation and stamp with
Immortality the valor-the glorIes of people.
Friberg owes its existence to its mines OF sil-
yer and ores, and is situated in the midst of
these sources of her wealth and prosperity,
which were supposed to have been discovered
in llTl. In 1910 the city contained 10000;
the present population is about half that
number. the mining school consists of the
assay, laboratory, lecture rooms and fne col
lection of ores and minerals A distance
from this building is the chemical laboratory,
under the supervision of Prof Scheerer and
Dr. Rube. In the schools of Frieberg theo-
ries are not lain out, but every energy of
body and mind Is used to observe facts, to
define conclusions and elucidate truth. 1t a.
essentially a school of labor. Taking Erie
burg as a centre within a radius of 2S miles,
there are over n hundred different mines,
yielding lead, silver, gold. copper, cobalt,
zinc, coal, Tin, nickel and other minerals. A
large number of these have reached depto
of 1000 feet, AMI gallaries ON galleries, ways
aud cross ways form such a lAbrynthian maze
that it is easy TO loose ones self and never
come to light. The excavations are so i'm
mense and complicated that the galleries and
passages are named like city streets, and n
a person can travel twenty-five miles under
ground. The process for extracting ores
was described in a manner simple and clear
All the works for the reduction of ores be
long 70 the government, and the miners raise
the ore from the mines and sell it TO their
great furnaces. The Student attends lee
tnre in which he Is inf6 rmed of the manner
of doing = thing He Is then put in the ss-
say room or mine and reduces the theory 10
practice, and it then becomes knowledge to
Eim- The Professor gave a humorous sketch
Of a German student on the avenue, and de-
sHibed the duties, the pleasures and che labor
taat crowd upon him, and from each of
which be never shrinks. Each class has It's
officer, whose business it il TO instruct his
followers, or "foxes," - they are called In
the . anly games. Contesss IN sword play are
had between the several classes, and the
grsphic and humorous description of
one Of these fierce encounters wss
intensely interesting. The descriptions of
the 6erman Students STRAND Comme1." IN
which they sing that magnificent melody
"Father of the Land. !" was most intensely
thrilling The season at Frieberg cioses, and
those noble moss covered walls that have sent
forth to immortality as her illustrioas sons,
Werner, Leopold, Buch, Humboldt, korner,
Mohs. Plattner and Others, whose fame is
household koowledge fade from our vision
as We turn our faces 20 the beautiful shores of
our own land. We regret TIA. Ne could not
draw more largely upon the hssty notes we
took and our memory for fuller memoran- J
Ia OF this moot entertaining, Instructive, .