Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-05-15
DR. sOHLIEMANN.
An Evening with the q reat Arch@"
OIOSist-His Homc.Llfe.
tA.hens Letter to New York Trlbune.l

he Baptist missionary, kindly un-
lertook to procure them an interview
With DR.. Schliemaun. The result was
III invitation to the house OF the lat
ter for all the American travellers in
Inc city, the doctor saying, in his
blunt way: ~ will give them from
ha.t-past TO halfpast 8, my tea hour.
and st half-past s 60 to bed" 1t is
needless TO say that we all accepted
the invitation, and were prompt in
our attendance.
We were ushered into bright room,
partaking of the character Of study,
library, museum and sittlng-rOom.
the walls covered with book shelves,
pictures. photographs and tsstimOni-
ais of membership to numerous sOci-
cites, geographical, sl,archSological,et etc;
W nile tables covered with books and
papers, glass cases covered with an
tiques, ancient jars evidently in
course of reconstruction, and articles
of modern make for the comfort of
the occupants, filed the room. AS
soon as the introductions were at an
end, DR.. Schliemann, without q mo-
ments pause, even to take a seat,
plunged in naedias res by showing
the gentlemen diagrams aud maps Of
the excavations in Trey, the MSS.
for his forthcoming book, "IliOs,"
and other matter, while his wife eu-
| tertained the ladies and stray gen-
tleman or two, who, finding the doc
tor well surrounded, concluded to
try the chance of picking up u few
grains of instruction by joining the
lesser circle. DR.. Schliemapn is q
short, bala-headed, round-faced Cor
man, speaking with thick nasal
voice, as if his eyeglasses pinched his
nose too hard, and quite fast except
when he attempts to repeat Homer,
at which timo he shutters and stan-
mers and "backs up" in way that
recalls the school-boy. Mrs. Schlis-
mann is ii Greek of exceedingly pleas
ant features and graceful manners.
one is tempted to think that she al
soon dissipated by seeing her ad-
circle at once. To our inquiries as to
what led her husband to dig up old
Trey, she said in her pretty English,
because he believes so what ever
Homer says.'' And even as DR..
Schliemann believes in the blind
bard, so does DIR. Schllemann's wife
, believe i'll her husband. She has al
4. ways been at his side in all his labors,
except for one period OF his sojOurn
of two months and halt, when she
was too il! to leave Paris. Their
, frat stay in Troy of seven months,
sho said, was very uncomfortable OH
account OF the heat and dust, Homer
having rightly. named it Windy
9 Troy;" and their inability to procure
0 more than few articles OF food. and
those of the cOmnsnest kinds. For
subsequent trips, however, they pro-
1 vided themselves with everything
v necessary beforehand When asked
how she employed her time in those
long months, she answered 81 was
Il busy from 6, in the morning until
dusk for was my husbands first
> assistant, and there were others I'M
der me. We had the overseeing Of
the diggers; keeping them busy at
), work, taking charge of all articles
= discovered, and marking them with
s the number of metres ct depth at
which they were found.
l. DIR. Schliemann next invited us in
: to n room containing his antique
II treasures, at which his pretty ife
,, was quite disturbed, and begged the
ladies in a low voice to. excuse the
l. looks Of the apartment, Tor since her
RI husband always kept it locked the
~ servants could not get in to sweep
~ and dust Here we saw cup with
two handles, which the doctor cen-
" siders the greatest of his minor dis.
j. ceveries, and he was for moment
;" disposed to be rutfied when enc Of
is the gentlemen present inadvertently
expressed doubt as to the acknowl.
edgment of its correctness by sONe
o. of the German universities, but quiet
sc ed himself by assuring the doubter
IN that the universities, Mr.. Gladstone
aud all, now granted the truth Of the
- Identification. The treasures in this
room OF jars, ewl-headed, pig-shaped
culinary utensils of all kiuds and uu'
), merOus other curiosities were 80
OF great that we remained standing al
r. hour more, and whenever the ladies
made a movement toward the sitting
u room, the doctor would cry out
ar Zone thing more, ladies'" which
i" would at once bring them back
in Meanwhile tea was passed around
the servants assisting being Pelopt
- and Brisels, for the worthy master
III gives Homeric names to all his house
d. hold at their birth if possible, If not
al at their entrance into his family. Hi
-. wife he calls Glaux Minerva's sacred
I'll bird, while his children are andre
Nc mache, . little Greek Of seven years
at and AgamennOn, q haxeu-hairsdl lboy
ee of four or five years younger.
We asked Mrs. Schliemanu il !
was true, Us commonly reported IL
~, America, that she could repeat all .
Ia the Odyssey. ooh, no." she replied
I'D "only detached portiens of both Iliat
and Odyssey" On being questione.
n- which she preferred, she replied will
e decision, 1.-The Iliad; 1t is SO mucI
,s- grander, although woman holds
ev higher sphere in the Odyssey" Sh
~ also expressed her convictions tina
al the two were not by the same author
his We then begged her to repeat som
NJ of the 1iiad for our pleasure, and q
to several joined in the request. sh
" ask ed simply, "Do you really wisl
- it," and being assured that We did
10. most graciously complied. giving a
'ut oar request Andromache's partin
with Hector, and never since the day
Of the blind bard have those immOl
tai lines flown more musically frOr
.r.l mortal lips. She recited several time.
intcrrupting herself to exclaim Of
TO- that she learned these portions t
l"S please her husband, who loved t
ed near her repeat "Homer, and we
'm he might. One Of tho company ask
,in ing how many languages she ceul
iie speak, she modestly answered "a
ns poorly as I.peak English, five." w
ns' were all by this time grouped abou
ny her in the sitting-room, while u,
ch doctor seemed rummaging i
i his treasure-house, aud Mrs
Mt Schliemann told Us much about he
IN husbands habits. He rises summe
by and winter a, 6, jumps upon his hors
'hs and rides 10 Phalerum for q plung
me in the sea, returning fer his cal
,ht aud0tt at :, when he devstes himse
ties TO business till lunch at noon, afte
IN. which. with his amanuensis, he d,
all votes himself to his new book, dinin
tly at q, and i'll the evening his wife read
dy aloud to him until $50. when ho +,
tho tires. We locked ut the clock it ws
ION long after the DOCTORS bedtime al
old we hastened TO make our adieus, bu
zen we're detained by his entrance wit
ley his hands full of terra-cotta votiy
the offerings, dug up from Troy, whic
1t he Qistrihuted tn hls UupSts aa non