St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-08
DREAMING INTO AN5INS.

Experiences of Detroit Trarsier Ia Ger
maUD.
/ lThse i'm Harizgebirge, Germany Cor. Detrol,
Free Press.
Some ten miles 10 the south Of the Hartz
Mountains rises group Of hills, the mos.
prominent Of which is called the Kyffhauser'
under which Emperor Barbarossa sleeps. and
on whosd height are the ruins Of what are
said to be a castle Of that emperor, built to
protect the merchants who traverscd the
plains underneath from the marauding rob
Der knights, whereas it Is more probably true
that this ''schloss" was the stronghold Of one
OF the rohber knights, and was used for a
contrary purpose.
! Well, 10 visit this mountain came within
my plan, and arranged to stay At the same
ian at the toy Tuesday night, that might
see sunset 10 sunuse therefrom. Monday
night was in EisIeben .lseeing where Luz
theirs birthplace and house In which he diedl
and on Tuesday had good days walk be-
fore me, az lesst forty kilometers usually I
made thirty, about twenty-five miles. / was
up BY a. M, and before sunrise was on the
road, making such good progress during the
day that by $3.50 P. m. was In TIleda, a
village The foot OF the Kyffhauser, from
which the ascent required good hour In
Tilleda / met at the i'm the head teacher in
the village school, and the man who had
charge Of the "Rittergut'' In the village To-
Gated.
A Rittergut, or, perhaps, Knights Good, 10
saxon-Euglish, is 70 be found in or near, al
most, IL is not quite, every village ia Ger
many. and is large farming establishment
where the poor of the neighborhood are en-
ployed-more or less land belonging AWAY
to the Gut, or Good and the owner, in time,
profits from their labor. Originally, as the
name implies, the Gut was owned by a
knight, and probably, from what can learn,
quite certainly had in ages past some poiitI.
cal signihcAnce; but now any one who has
money enough and the wish can buy Ritter
gut. The owner sometimes lives upon the
property, but frequently, as in the case of
Tilleda, be has his farmer, "Verwalter." for
him.
Besides spending considerable time In talk
ing to the teacher, who was, under his cir
enmstances, an intelligent fellow Of perhaps
IS years. was easily persuaded 10 90
through the Rittergut under the guidance Of
the Verwalter. Among the many peculiarit-
les of the establishment, mention only one
minor point The drinking troughs for the
animals we're generally Though others were
used) hewn out Of large stone-the outer
circumference being perhaps nine feet aud
the stone shell being three or four inches
thick, the interior hewn out and perhaps used
thus for many hundreds Of years
Before i had seen all that / wished the
teacher warned me that 1t was becoming late,
and after going with me a short distance up
the hyfihauser, we parted, and pushed on,
finding that 1t was already $50 .. M, while
by night would have settled down. Before
6:30 reached the top, quite tired out and
hungry, though surprised to fiud the inn IN
occupied aud doors and windows locked.
The situation was not charmingt 70 one Of 9
practical turn of mind, and as climbed up
TO the ruins Just above the cottage to have 4
view of the Surroundings, determined that,
It being at least an hour TO the next place,
either by going ahead or returning, and the
road being through woods and difficult even
10 day time TO follow, / must stay on the
| kyffhauser over night, and also inside the
gasthaus. Nothing new developing by NV
trip 70 the ruins, !. upon my return, tore away
a couple of the sheet iron bars protecting one
OF the windows and smashing a pane Of glass
opened the window and climbed IN. There
were beds there, but 10 my intense disap-
pointment nothing In the place to eat, though
the house appeared 10 have been occupied
quite recently. To stay my increasing hun
ger ] went Immediately TO bed, and within
well, didn't stop to count the seconds, was
asleep.
Now, tie arrangement Of the inn on the
Kyffhauser II have since learned) is little
peculiar The family sleep and have lodg-
ing for strangers In the cottage referred TO al
the foot OF the ruins, and some short distance
thence in the wood is located the kitchen OBJ
servatory, dining-rooms and garden, erected
on a modest plan. While / was breaking
into one part Of the home the family father.
wife, and five or six ehildreu,a couple grown
up we're enjoying their evening beer il the
kitchen. IN less than an hour from nv en
try they returned 10 their quiet rest, and
were filed with many emotions, horror, fright
and anger TO find their window smashed In
They made such noise by their exclama-
tons that was awakened fif required con-
siderable 10 produce that afeci( When
simultaneously with my awakening, they dis
covered me, and besides being called thief
and rogue. which ] could understand, and
many things that could not, was about
being hustled foreibiy out Of the place, but
MANAGED 10 get q word or two heard and
then, though the anger and excitement BY
no means abated, Suddenly explained and
argued until, considering that ] was an
American, was pardoned and the act OF
horse-hreaking was looked upon a. a peculi-
arity Of the semi-civilized nation. This and
my professed willingness and evident ability
10 pay for damage done set things straight,
aud whereas II had been a German, Il should
bow probably be IN the Fraukenhausen, near
est city jail, WAS not only allowed my bed
TO sleepy on but was conducted as an hon.
ored guest TO the restaurant, where the frau
prepared my some very good potatoes and
sausage.
Before left the next morning I was on
the best Of terms possible with the whole
family, baby included, aud with the Herr
Wirth went TO Kelbra on The opposite side OF
the hill, learning from him on our way con-
siderable concerning German customs, VIII
lage government, aud became through the
whole. adventure acquainted with what I be-
lieve 70 be fact, that the boas;ed superior
ity Of the English people Gas In many otheI
things) in this Is exaggerated. That 'seyery
Engiishmzn's home Is his castle'' can be aD-
piled believe, with as great force to the Ger.
mans.
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