Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-08-23
JENNIE JUNE IN Europe.
The Ruins and Legends Of GOdesburg, RO-
Iandseck and Draehenfels---Lur-
Iein and its Famous Legen-
dairy Maiden.
Copyrighted 1851
Special COrspond~ee Of tie Sunday Register.


Social COrsspORdmce Of he Sunday Register.
WEIsBADES, August 9.
Obi the bride OF the German heart in this noble
river and right Il Is for, Of all the rivers Of TINS
beautiful earth there are none 50 beautiful as tbs
LonqfeiOu.
The pilgrimage of the Rhine fttinglY be-
gins at Colonge and ends at Mayence, where
in the shadow Of the Cathedral the frat Gar
man poet repoSes, whose verses, dedicated to
the praise and exsltation Of women have re-
ceived in these later times from German wo-
men the recognition due to poet, whose own
usme is lost in thatof "Frsuenlob" (woman's
praise No ore can dojustice to the Rhine
and Its influences who has not previously, par
titulsrly if young and American, made them
selves somewhat acquainted with its legen-
Diary and historical literature, its poetry and
its romance in stone. 1t is the commonest
thing to fud young tourists on the Rhine
boats staring about from one side to the
other of The wonderful serpentiue stream,
and making such remarks as these Dear
me, and this is the Rhine! Don't think much
oft, do your 1T amt as wild as the Hud
.on. Good gracious, is that old rock cas-
tleT' I'm so hungry. Don't you feel hun
CRY? Wonder what time they have table
d'hote" And these young enthusiasts, who
have excited the envy OF their friends BY
talking Of the Rhine they were going to see,
and will for years in the future expatiate on
he glories of the Rhine they have seen,
yawn at the first stage OF it, lose the best
and most characteristic part of it at the
rsble d'hote, and bury the rest in sea
side" by the Duchess Still, travel abroad
and trip up the Rhine, is OF some use
even to vanity and Ignorance. 1t sometimes
rxcites in them desire to know something
IN regard to what they see, and they end
where they ought to have begun, in acquir-
ipg the lore and something Of the spirit of
The region or the country through which
hey pass. In truth the practical disposition
af the age is strong, and has so invaded
ven the Rhine, that it requires an effort to
letsch oneself from the prosaic present,
With it's noise, hustle, vulgar obtrusiVeness
aid display, and carry ones thoughts and
ceilings back to those remote times when
he knight and the lady, the retainer and
he peasant, the pilgrim and the troubadour
peoped the valleys and the heights and the
hriekip locomotive, the tall chimneys of
he mandatory and the big, vulgar, barn
ike structures called hotels, which over
.hadow the picturesque Rhine villages, were
unknown.
Beginning with Bonn, where left off
rather hastily in my previous letter, 1t may
De remarked that no other city better repre-
,euts the modern epoch, for it is here the
great fight for intellectual liberty as against
The despotism of the Church, took place
something more than sixty years ago, at
he very moment when throughout the
world the geuius of modern mechanism, OF
he steamboat, the telegraph, the locomo-
i've was waking into life. Here in the
shadow of the old Munster Kirch the battle
was fought and won, and the Lutheran spirit
which had triumphed at Worms nearly 200
years before triumphed again. and founded
The University Of Bonn, an institution Of
G, rman science, seat of modern culture
upon the ground Of State entirely devoted
to a church of the Middle Ages"
What there was that was good of that
church is still left-its poverty, its spirit Of
devotion, its kindness and its accessibility
10 the Door, its stones which have witnessed
he prayers and felt the tears of the ages,
and the worship it receives, irrespective Of
creed, in return for its unquestioning charity
and protection.
The first object of interest after leaving
Bonn upon a Rhine boat at quarter to
eight a m is the ruin of Godesberg, where
the Archbishop Gerhard brought down
upon himself the force of tie whole ecclesi.
astical establishment Of Germany by re-
signing his church state and dignity, heving
the Protestant faith preached in its chapel,
and marrying wife and opposing his power
as temporal Prince and Elector to the
strength of Rome. This was in the latter
part Of the sixteenth century, and the seige
0ravely maintained within the walls of
Godesberg might have held out had not the
s,rtngth of the Church been supplems nted
by the use of gunpowder, the discovery of
which was Simultaneous with printing, and
he employment of which was not disdsined
BY ecclesiastical authority to undermine and
blow up their enemies The tower was spared
by the explosion, and the unfortunate Arch.