New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-08-24
BLACK FOREST SCENES.
FEATURES OF OUT-OF-THE-wAY sUABIAN
LIFE.

the cholera and while those whose misfortune VI IS
| to be obliged to remain in town during this seasons
unusual heat dcploring their wretched lot many
are the charms of cool deep valley in the heart of
the Schwarzwad hidden from the outer world by
ranges of pine-clad mountains. and far removed
from all the dscomforts which render August IN
town insupportabie.
Neuenbirg is not quite rs old as the hills aroundIt,
but it has nevertheless, very respectable antiquity
! for the other day we had distinguished archTolo-
gst mp here from Stuttgart TO view ruin recently
unearthed on the neighboring mountain top. and
| he unhestatmgy pronounced it portions OF
structure antedating the Christian era by u cent
ury or two. With such venerable roles as tins TO
boast Of it were superauous for Neuenbirg to 20
further and point out her other old castles, now IN
ruins, dating back to the Roman occupation or
her hillside cemetery with its inscriptions
only seven or eight centuries old or to the various
! camp-grounds or batte-Gcds in the vicinity, where
! at successive periods Romans Saracens Cossacks
! Austrians, Swedes French and English have tented
| and fought You feel here that you are on historic
ground and that the very air you breathe is freight
! ed with traditions. In the course of a~l yester-
/ day at what is called the New Castle overlook
! ing the town, | remarked how much comfort anu
attractiyeuess can be impaired the interior of an
| od-time mansion. "Oh this we consider a modern
house, said my host smiling; ut only dates back
TO 1860 or 500 The railroad and telegraph came TO
/ NeucubUrg some years ago. or rather came to ITS
! vicinity tor 10 take the train one has 10 walk
/ fifteen minutes out of town. If want to send "A
telegram from Neueuburg, | GO to the
post-oace opposite my inn. ask for
blank. write my dispatch, hand 1t m at
the window. and pay for 1t there but bless you
! the dispatch doesn't leave for perhaps an hour or
two later, until some postman happens to he gong
ont To the railway station with the mail he takes
Z a.. tlttrn t.h in
send. it to Wildbad whence 1t is In turn repeated
| to Stuttgart and from there forwarded ON it's way
to the point Of delivery How does this method Of
! teloprop,v strike Ncw-YOrk stock-brokorf But
/ thou people in the Black Forest arc seldom IN a
| hurry Some years ago Ncuenhnrp became
midway station on q little single track railway
leaving the rranacoutinenh route az PloHhoim
I'm Baden. aud following thanta tho to tl1n7 wind
ur4 of tho rivct Iutz for a distance II Fifteen
| miles up to tho renowned bathing luwuuf Nidhhd
Before that. for hundred yrtta .ut two. STAGE
tonrhra foowci tho uamn foutoaud hud uan "ld
history of Wdhad that ia ohe arhz"n away bach
IA tho laat century nearly every royal house IA u-
rope WA represented among IN tufr-eurHiH hut
staging would not suit tho fashionable Wdhad
visitor, Of to-day Tho railroad, cutting through
hills and jumping valleys, brings them from Ptorl-
helm To Wlldbai in less time than II formerly took
to reach the first village on the road.
NeueuhuTg IL by far the loyelest spot IN the Ent4
Valley. Take letter u, lee the perpendicular rep
resent the railway tunnel, amt the curve the valley
and the river. In the incloscd space, on high
peak is the castle, while along the curve, on moth
sides of the stream, stretches the compactly bnlt
town From the outer amphithcatre Of hills, GOV
cred with dense growth Of ancient pine and laid
out in broad footpathsp with benches at con-
venleut distances the view OF the town. the stream.
and the valley all far below, and of the opposite
height crowned with its stately castle is picture
to be remembered for a lifetime. Even these peo-
pie who see 1t every day Of their lives seem never
weary Of admiring it. Upon the mountain there,
the other dav met a wOodcutter, leading by the
hand his little boy. n chubby, haX-pated chap of
SIX or seven years. Our ways led together for a
I while and as we walked along under the cool,
delicious shadows which gave a half darkness even
| mt MONDAY. asked the little fellow, who was tug
ginG sapng after him. if lie liked TO come up on
the mountain and help his papa. Perhaps my Ger
man accent was not Suabian enough for him n
derstand IT, but lis father nnds stood me at once
and answered: " like TO bring bin with me he
can climb like n cat and it makes him strong and
free - and then, after a Dause. be added; " And
he can strengthen his soul too, with that view be-
low there; It will make HIM good man,
The tide oftrayel and the progress Of civilization
have as yet brought little change to the simple,
old-tne life of the people in this region. They
maintain the quaint religious obseryances of their
ancestors observances which smack of the Puritan
DAYS or the times of Luther. Often in the dead of
night am awakened by a sepuchral at the
street corner undermy window. uttering IN dreary
monotone some unintelliglblc words II is the
night Waterman calling the hours and recitIng FOR
each an ancient cOuplet calculated to arouse the
hearer to u sense OF hts spiritual needs Each
couplet is preflccd by Il summons to listen, as Tor
instance, at 9 o'clock.
abort rhr I-ute; last euch sagcn
Unse clock hat ueun ulr 'scnli gen.
a similar introduction being used in all cases
with the substitution Of the hour which has JUST
| struck All of these coupets are extremely quaint
and curious but | reproduce only two more OF them
here samples. For instance, after announcing az
above that 10 o'clock has struck. he continues:
"Zehn 'romme warren NIGHT
a pointed reminder to the worthy burchers Of
Ncuenburg that it may require now. as In Lots
time ten righteous men 10 save their city. And
again at midni ght, the chance s0journer IN Neuen-
burg is aroused To a solemn sense of the shortness
and uncertainty Of human life by hearing the
| gh0stly voice eXclalm;
II ,Glf stind hat Gin gedcr Tar
Wcr wci.s IN man sterbcn mag ~
The other verses are all Of the same STYLE and TO
| add to their mprcsslycness and patEos, the man
| who uttcrs them u.s. / am Informed the village
| grayc.d gger Yet for all these reminders of Od
Mortality the race OF NtueuOufpei1 nofH npl S'cul
! disuoscd To die out rapidly on the contrary It
gives tndt, at ions of remarkable tendency 70 m
| crease and multiply. Daily ! see sitting IN the
shade before her front door opposite my hpt"l WIN
dow a portly dame. calmly engaged IN knitting
and muslng while a crowd of Youngsters play
| around her She isa vcritable motner in Israel,
for her children living and dead number twenty.
seven Another of her fellow towns,
women has increased the census ol
NUrttcmbtrg by twenty three, aud mine
host of the Old Post Hotcl casually m
forms me that he X one OF little family of six.
teen brother. and sisters. Hero people grow old
slowly man ~ still boy az twenty 1--we IL siill
Young al forty and is only considered IN has prime