Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-23
THE BLACK FOREST,
THE REPOSE THERE FOUND AND
QUAINT STORIES HEARD.
Ancient aspects OF Villages and
PcopIc-Thc Beer Parliament
-Spotiess Cleanliness.

the breezy hilltops and fragrant pine
woods. and can look back complaccntly,
from our hight of 1854 feet above the sea,
upon the heat and dust and swarmjng flies
Of the parched plains below The glorious
fresh air and grand mountain scenery
around US are certainly very salutary
change from the low, sWampy unending
rice fields, and damp, sticky, yapor- bath
heat of Siam, and the unwonted presence
of white sheets and white table cloths may
well console us for the absence of white
elephants. But TO any one who should
come here for the first time the crowning
charm of the whole scene would undoubt-
eddy be the sense OF being " really and truly
in the Black Forest YOU know What a
magic sound that name had in our school
hoy days not in the least impaired by our
utter uncertainty Is to whether the famous
forest lay in France, Austria or Norway
When my respected relative, the late Mr.
Richard Golden, comrlimentcd Us Univcr-
sity men by saying that not one Of lis
could tell within a thousand miles the po-
sition ol Chicago he might safely have
said the same thing OF the Black Forest
But what matter the hollow forms 0fge0g-
raphy in the case of region which seems to
BELONG MORE TO THE NEXT WORLD
Than t. this, and which has been the
chosen scene of every ghost story, rohber
legend, and fairy tale for the last hundred
years 50 far as is romantic associations
are concerned, for its natural beauties re-
qlire no external aid. the Black Forest,
like lie face OF the Countess Cimburgis,
looks best at q distance The traveller who
has spent his month or six weeks right in
the very midst of il secs post carts rafting
through it, widest g0r-ea and telegraph
wire threading It's gl0omicSt pine woods
and sets down the mysterious district in his
notebook rs '' q woody and hilly tract living
in the great northWard bend of the Rhine
aud comprising the greater part of the
Grand Duchy of Baden as well rs the west
ern border OF #urtombors.' To the I'M
travelled reader, who knows the famous
SrhwarTSaId only through dime novels
or legends translated from the German,
there is StjIl ghost in every thicket, rob
her behind every tree, a murdered man
buried under every hillock. and he bro1ds
with sspu.clTaI pleasure over the grim
pictures OF certain gloomy holOWs in the
Widr-. part Of The forest popularity sup
posed u be st apart by Satan himself Tor
miduigh. balls aud concerts where the or
cbcslra consists OF owls bats, and ravens,
with "a running accompaniment of thunder
ami lightning. These Objectionable Gather
ines are usually attended exclusively bv
male and female skeletons, and every sllele-
tom i expected to apprar in a windillr
sheet. which seems to be the correct even
nI- dress on such occasions. Eut even nov
the
CHARM oF ruts STRANGE REGION
is not wholly lost. In remote hooks like
these, still unreached by the eyer-spreading
coils pi the railway, ami still uUprOtdned
10y The noble army OF TaTtarS with eXcur-
SION tickets who are yearly let loose upon
Switzerland and Italy, one may find even
nov the Grand paJriarchal simplicity Of the
elder world. Here, Is when you cross the
arctic circle on Your way through the
mighty SoiludeS N the polar seas, You are
struck with q sudden and bewildcring sense
"t having passed away from the living
earth into some new and unknown planet
The crowded streets the rafting trains the
vast cities, the roar, the hustle. the turmoil
az modern civilization, appear like the fan
tastes OF dream amid the silence of the
everlasting hills. As you come forth into
the fresh and fragrant GOODNESS Of early
morning and see the first rays of sunrise
streaming along the dark hosts of pines that
stand ranked in battle array upon the hill
sides on either hand, no sound breaks the
,v.ir~r,U tho tinLlin,, baII al, =, tue I..;t,r
ON The INLAND I,9stsros or r',5,,,:r ,,,l,nt
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iara. tb, owe ,.,,, rna,J, MI, .+iii,,os-
li.a th-t of the re,,,I-,r,.} ,-,.I1 80, ~,
d1, ,faan cod ra.;,i f,6n' ,ii III ,,.,rI
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- go" '"H FHo4I'h
Themselves they are Just what might be
expected in such cuunuy-Simple
straightforward. Nindlv folk, not Vet en-
hahtleJ enough To be ashamed of work
i'm honestly ior their living, and of thank
INK God i1C enabling them 10 do 50. As
you pass through the village just after sun
rise y1u hear through The open windows of
every house the voices of the Hausvatcr
and his family at their morning PRAYERS
and a lew minutes later you see the scvthes
Na-hme in the morning sunshine and die
grass falling i'm thick ,Waths on every side
il needs only one glance at the sturdy
frames and firm, manly faces of these stall
war, muuntainccr~ Ia see what has made
Germany So Formidable even when di-
yidod and irresistible when united at last
And with thc German, pluck and harli-
hood lhrF haEea !uI measure OF the tier
man ?. ''''' .i ',,'..'.'' i(e'l man OF
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