Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-01-19
The Legend Of Kynhauser.
from the Phfadslphia Ledger.

1t is amusing sometimes to see how
fiction mikes itself up with history,
and how the legends of remote ages
may be made to play an active part in
the events of the present day. This is
the case with the legend of Frederick
the First, Emperor of Germany, sur
named " Barbarossa, or Red Beard.
This most famous of all the EmperOrs
of midieva1 Germany, having become
involved in serious quarrel with the
Church, sought to avert its anathemas
and conciliate it's favor by joining in
the third crusade against the Turks for
the expulsion of those followers of
:" Mahomed and Tefmagaunt from
Asia Minor and the Holy Land But
his fortune was not commensurate with
his zeal, for in bathing in the icy wa
ters of the river Cydnus he was drown
ed doth June, 119O, a fate which
Alexander the Great had very narrowly
escaped from, in the same stream, 1500
years previously.
- In those days, good Germans, when
they died, did not go to Paris,- ,-but such
fate was kept in reserve for Frederick
Barbarossa; for he was transported
bodily tosthe Mountain of Kyffhauser,
In Thuringia, in state of semi loon
Seriousness, and &c in his habit as he
lived, y by whom is not exactly known,
I3F1t most probably by the tutelarv an
GELS of fSerrnany. One side Of the
Lmouutain was opened by the same nnysl
|. .tefious hands. and folerably large
apartment was excayated. wherein the
anSouarch Fwae deposited ina conatose
tate, with his Attendants, and a. page,
who plays an important part in the af-
fair. There, seated before stone ta-
bic, nodding drowsiIy, In chair, the
drowned Fmperor was Condemned to
nod and wink and dream until the
,I,roxsa5 which nv tbousanda had b,,fla
sfi,,e,r nests in tba old rninad
tower On the to1~ of the monn-
te;n, sbouId disanneays R1t ;t
SSas AZ tie say,a time decree,I that tbev
sLo,,ld MT a., g, I,,,fii All ifIiaeord. bea
/ caased in (xermanv. and when that, re-
mark s1,Ie state Of fhinos sbointd come
abo1It. no matter from what cause. then
tha Emperor. weary with long sleeniua
and waitinr. shoqfld come forth nom
his leaverno1s prison. and hire a peas
ant to earrv his sword and shield be-
fore him. with the view of terrifying
All those Who fancied thew had better
blood in Them than the r,easaff had.
In this manner the Empefor was to 90
forth and reclaim his empire. Once,
lat the expiratiou of each century. he
was allowed to wake up and send his
page up to the tower to see if the crows
had left it: and this favor he has hith-
ertoi carefully ayailed himself of. Six
times has the page done his
erfand, only to return with the
answer, t'the crows are still
there, !, and six times has the disap-
pointed monarch fallen asleep for an
other hundred years. But, on the 18th
! Of July last he was awakened IN an
4nusual ma1ner.1 and he, sent his page
up to the tower N hasta. tn Look after
tie crows. What then was his delight
when the page returned with the tid-
ngs that the crows were preparing to
leave, as war had been declared by
France, aud all diseord had ceased in
Germany, because the nation was unit
ed under one flag to repeI the invader !
Yes, the hour of awakening had come,
and the spirit of ;Barbarossa stepped
forth to. animate the new Emperor THAT
is to be1 not by one peasant but by
d1,lrs or count .consilerino, his blood
any better than that of peasant. IN the
cause of the Fatherlandl