Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-01-25


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all commercial buil dinps. are Inns occunied
5It Is owing to this near ly uniye cnstom
that "a MANY more nf,f,,;a &. r,aS ,lr9sd' nanv
III, OF over, d given ground area tilan III
American cities Berlin Tor exampl e. with
200, COO inhab itants, has al area az only
LW anty- three square miles. about the came
as that Witilin the city limits 81 81 Paul
pEopLING TIE PAST.
But here am almost lost among these old
courts, and almost forgetting what brought
me there. What I was going to saw - 81 That
it, doesn't aIa require lively fancy e restore
streets and alleys and courts and "a peppIe
them with the old asliOnad ancestors r III
their If present denizens ~ Ere B tall
.ors, and thinkers. and weayers, and
smiths and shoemakers, and craftsman of
every guild and petty traGesmen 5of all SORTS
habited la their old .fashi Oned costumes and
acting over again the unclassical but by no
means unherOic or unpicturesaue. (lrama Of
the common life they used to live. For it
was In these humble homes and workshops
where THRIFT was born Of frugal toll and oniy
honesty was honor-and not In the stately
halls where force fattened on the spoils Of
labor, and successful crime was glory-that
were generated the cOntrO bling forces which
have nodded the characteristic virtues
and what is best IN the genius and
institutions Of the German people Not
ably the world owes to these burgher
cotemporaries 81 the feudal lords that or-
ganic force OF nnl1ic viii and action
springing from sense Of common wrongs
and dangers and interests-which first
made the people a recognized power in the
state and gave birth to that civic freedom
which has survived the walls that sheltered
it to become the heritage of Che civilized
world It seems to me that there are more
Of the elements Of dramatic and Dict1,resoue
poetry In these old streets, and courts. and
market places-in this pri,nitiye theater Of
the low life of the most plastic
and picturesque period Of Euro
pean htstory-here where Hans Sachs
sang and where use wooed beauty, amid the
CRIME and sweat Of toll. till beauty mar
ried use in the immortal works, for
example, of that other Nuremberg raftsrnan
Peter Vischer---than in all the stored ex PLOTS
OF mobiles, and knights, and kings
THEIR HERO WORSHIP.
And vet it is O. curious characteristic of the
German people that they see only the real
and coarse in common life. while they fairly
dote ON chivalry and it's romantic ideals +
suppose it is the old Alemanni in their blood;
but, however it is accounted for. the fact is
striking one that their most popular poems
and nearly all their dramas and operas turn
upon tales OF chivalry or legends Of the FAIRIES
and giants and supernal bowers of the old
German mythology Their imagination CON
soles them for the hard and dull realities of
their Flooding, frugal methodical life by
creating for them q splendid ideal world,
peopled with invincible heroes and aerial
powers, who help the heroes out
of all sorts Of desperate situa
lions; think, perhaps. it is because
OF this imaginative tenderness for the
romantic side Of feudal times that the
Germans love their dukes and princes almost
as dearly as an Engllshman loves lord: not
from any sentiment Of servile social snob-
bishness, but because these dukes and
princes represent to their lamentations the
tlemen have meanwhile neglected no means
of fostering q sentiment SO politically use
full. Munificent patrons. as thev have been
for centuries of learning and literature and
art, literature and art have teen thus insid-
iously subsidized to perpetuate and exalt the
later ancestry: The public squares and parks
and the facades and pediments and tv1n-
panums Of public edifices are everywhere
adorned with statues Of royal personaees.
The walls of these edifices are decorated
with their portraits and blazoned with fres-
the historic events associated with their
names It is impossible that Lbs, nonu1ar
feeling should not be STRONGLY i,nnresse11
with the continual presence ia their visible
forms of the heroic traditions which connect
the nrinca7v houenc with tho ara If ohi1o1rr
The world Of GERMAN ART ,vbic;, n,,e <' 81
much to roya1 ,nuniticence is DOWN otad
by this arist0cratic atmosnhere II u1os Mt
by accident that the GREAT naintars
OF low life and grand subjects were nearly
"a "a W Gne Du1en anu Netherlaho SCHOOLS, ana
eIa I the nrst ueVelopmenC OF sympathetic
leel1hS Ia Ar1 Ior the DeauIT ana poetry OF
tne money! everyday NE OF burghers and
where the common people were or had been
che ruling power OF the ststte though there
Is slrons soclans11c elemenC IN Germany, it
~, Suspec1, raCne1 specaia1lVe IMAM rract'-
ciu AZ uly RUE IL IS not visible on the sur
ldee III f t,.e oloinary conversation OF tne peo-
speah1ls americans =! or Enghshmen who have
lohs nVeu ID Germany IheF are, on the con
braLy, prouu OF Ghelr aflstocracy, and SO long
as lheli essenIlal personal IlghIs are carefully
respec5eo ana guarded, nave neither social
Classes which nbsorb ,no lts a afpeI nor
H T1gner civil 4 th military employments
ICY lave, LINK, d greater respect TOT
auoilo.Icy WAacn - associated VITA inherited
supeilo Fly 81 ianh, anu the German iane'-
ngaa,,o doi +, uue saue reason prefer TO De
~ Gs,s Dy 49, 49,, - nu'ie % rlusai as
tho cost Of Iavarvtbino. +11a,- o,1, - ~
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nstI1 oon nf 10 psy ioonay ior Inc
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dol az 90 fae ns ',t,e 70 .ne cnValrc
~ ~ 20. ae w 49, cosoions WI per
aulo ~; anu,o o., d. i.ase saan' soloier an
eApe' a'As''AlS''' s'ne' s"oios''i1h'
THE SUPERB MILITARY.
So it is in entire accord 18th popular feel
ing that the army is ofhcered chiefly bv
dukes and princes and counts, and the scio1is
of noble houses And fne-looking fellows