The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-02-01
GERMAN EATHERI4AND.
Youthful Northwest, as He Wanders
5 ,-7. About Historic Towns.
Tho Germans as Hero orshippers, and the
Modern Military Expression OF this
characteristic
4 Paradise OF Honesty and Fair Dealing,
Where Even Hackmen Forbear to Take
Advantage of the Tenderfoot.

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Advantage of the Tenderf0ot.
VIENNA, Editorial Correspondence, Dec. 30.
Having spent some two months in Ger
many, diyided successfully in unequal peri
DDS between Munich, Nuremberg, Bamberg,
Le1pac and Dresden, l ought to be qualified
II am as keen -sighted a traveler Us the Eng
ilshman whose Decentralization the window
OF u sleeping car in a night express train
from New York to Boston enabled him to
write n thriling book about America-to tell
all about Germany-or, at least, to tell you
something new and interesting about it. But
1 am not going to fall into the common mis-
take of supposing that what is new and in
teresting TO me in these old places and
scenes, the familiar tramping ground of
armies ofSletter-writing and matchmaking
tourists, would be ut all likely to be of the
slightest interest to any one else. Yet
there la this much to be said in
defense of a delusion which inspires the cal
low tourist to deliver himself of his first i'm
pressions; that his first impressions,
though crude and superficial and
nRely to be mistaken, AVE a keenness and
vlyidness which arc lost as the sense of
novelty Wenrs off with a longer and more
familiar acquaintance. ] think, perhaps,
hhe average American takes in more of these
Oh countries in a first rapid survey than any
other stranger. Not that he is an acutcr OBJ
server or has o sharper sense of local color:
Tor there is no one to whom everything in n
country not his own is SO strange and odd us
the European. Their armed international
antipathies, perpetuated by tradition and
policy, have more completely isolated these
little states from one another than
IT they were islanded by inter
rolling oceans. The same physical and
politicaleauses which have SO sharply ac-
centuated their national and provincial
peculiarities have given them perhaps a
keener sense of their respective minor diff
ierences thar an American can feel, coming
from 8 country where all the dispersed
nation have come together again to rebuild
the tower Of Babel, amid a miraculous con-
fusion Of tongues. But if, of all travellers,
the American ia the most catholic and cosmo-
politan, he at least brings with hin into
old countries n livelier curiosity and a
keener zest for what is old In them: for their
old things and old ways; for what l may call
the old clothes of the old world; for the me-
MORALS of old times which are found not
only in ancient buildings and monuments and
/. the like, but in the institutions and customs
and characters of the people.
To II green American like myself, Mt least,
from the. Altogether New Northwest-fresh
as the freshest kind of n daisy-batbed in
morning dew from the riotous spring of 8
civilization Just bursting into bud, it feels
good to get into countries which, have
reached their ripo and mellow autumn, ans
where the atmosphere is hazy with the mistS
of an antiquity which %empuples al the far,
off historic background and spreads ;
softening charm over all the hard realism of
the visible life and world about us. But ]
confess that the old things which rave most
attraction for me are not always those which
are set down in the guide books. Despite
the glamour of romantic interest which
poetry and song and l~egend-tc
say nothing of history-have lent
to the picturesque castles and palace
and towns of the middle ages, or to thel
still more picturesque ruins, my favorit'
antiquities are not these ancient stronghold
OF violence, built with the spells Of war ant
rapine and oppression. Nor do find them il
the royal museums, treasures and what not
where are displayed the costly gilncracks o
long lines oficnstly princes; the relics of tn
martial pride and pomp andprowess of cbiv
airy; arms and armor Of polished steel 70
use, and FURNISHED gold for show; sword
whose hits nre jeweled with the ravishe'
wealth Of dukedoms; and even the bride
and surcing1es and saddles and other gear o
royal horses Gudded with q barbario opulenc
of precious stones that cost--Ciod on
knows what wide waste OF human
life and Sanbstance to furnish fort
o knightly spageant. all this nonsense .
which the museums are full sets me to think
ing that the men who made history. as it is
written by the chroniclers, are not the mel
wbo made civilization.
THE NTEREsT or II WAYS.
SO l turn from these glittering baubies an,
the graver monuments of feulaI state an
which recall the times when war wa
The pastime and human life and substanc
the sport and spoil of mobiles and princes, Il
ramble-whereI nm never tired of rambling
in the green old, narrow, crooked streets
the squares and market places, and lnysteri
Gus courts of these old cities, with tbei
quaint remains of medieval German arcbi
lecture. This is found in its best state 9
preservation in such provincial cite
as Nuremberg. Schaffhausen, etc
which have been little invaded b
modern progress; but many traces of
still remain in the older parts of such moo
ernized cities as Berlin, Munich and Dresden
The fantastic gables, and the arcaded or pre-
jecting fronts IRE less frequentti-n the SHARP
angled, oxeyed roofs. The little, low, narrow
dimlylighted shops, whose antique, iror
barred, duodccimo'w windows recall the day
when a narrow slit like a portfolio was tn
only aperture permitted in the lower storie
of houses. which served in part as the cit
H, rI,l1 1,-ar1,,y1arn o,ra I'll
queer courts, inherited from the days whe
1t was dangerous to have doors or window
opening on the streets A broad, arched an
paved passagse-way, spacious enough II
heavy teams to pass, the entrance to whic
from the street Is barred at nigh
or when OCCASION serves, against hoi
tile intrusion, by massive folding door
lends through the exterior building to an ii
terror area Of oil shapes and sizes, but usna
" n spacious quadrangle, surrounded
buildings. the ground floors of which in con
mercjal quarters are still, as centuries ag
occupied wholly or partly by shops, atelier
restaurants. stables, and the like, while tt
III stories, ike the upper stories Of alno
ali private buildings in European cities, a
used for residence apartments. From tt
stone-paved passageway stairs ascend to Il
different stories or residence flats of the e:
terror bufidinsh These curious conrts-tl
entrance to which ia presided over, at lea
by night, by q concierge, who, il the belat'
denizen is not provided with . key, requir
n fee fur admitting him-form . chsracte
istic feature Of nearly all Co
tinentai street architecture which
have seen, though sometimes modih'
IN more recent structures to suit modern Z
uuirementA Farther away from busine
aepters the exterior building only is used I
shops, while the interior quadrangle, oft
very spacdoua, with o garden In the center,
lined with dwelling houses, though even
~-.i.ai.rolv resddenc4 nl;artArS these couI