The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-09-10
DAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1885.
German Customs.
A correspondent of tho Brooklyl

"A correspondent OF tho Brooklyn
Eagle, travelling in Germany, writes:
1t was q warm, still, summer Sun.
day-it often seems rs though nature
was moro peacefully disposed on that
day than on others-whcn wo sailed
forth to scale tho Appolinarisbcrg.
This hill is crowned with a four-tow-
cred Gothic church adorned with frcs-
Goes. Somo sort of religious foast day
was being observed on tho Appolinaris-
borg. Pilgrims, who haunt tho place
and have done 80 since Appolinaris' s
hoad was buried hero, were ascending
tho road in their best attire, and bow
ing and kneeling ut tho stations of tho
cross placed beside the way.
Flags 1luttered about the terrace that
the church stands on, and crowds were
entering tho edifice. We stepped in,
glanced at the fine frescoes, hoard the
organ, and would have attended a little
of the service if man had not crept up
to us and expressed determination to
have fees. We concluded then that the
Rhine was better worthy of our atten-
ton. Fees everywhere. Oh, tho curse
of them! In churches, in galleries, in
palaces, in museums, in railroad sta
tions, in restaurants-fecs! foes! fees!
You pay them to the army and tho
navy, the clergy roach for them, no.
bility and even royalty sends its lack
eys after them; guides, porters, clerks,
landlords, loungers, train hands, po-
| licemen, drivers, customs officers
confound the beggars! Peasants were
| gossiping about tho terrace, looking so
picturesque and SO like figures out of
the grand opera in thoir. Sunday dress
that wo half unconsciously put our
hands in our pockets to pay for that
exhibition, too, but we @ere not as.
| scssed.
On the contrary, they mado way for
us beside them on the wall that pre-
vented visitors from rolling down the
steep hill into town, and then stared at
our modern clothes rs curiously as We
looked at their quaint, unhandsono
costumes. There was n spring up
there, too, and nobody on hand to cof-
| lect fees from the drinkers, so tho Un-
daunted who thought it Appolinaris
water, and who surmised that the bar
keeper in attendance had stepped in to
hear mRss and was liable to emerge at
any moment and charge him half a
dollar, drank himself almost into an
illness. There was reason, however,
for this seeming abnormal thirst. In
Europe the water is generally bad, and
ice is to be had by none except tho
rich, so that bcor and wine, being good
and cheap, are common drinks, as tea
is with us; but for real thirst there is
no such palliative as water, and beer
and wine seemed only to augment oul
| drouthy condition.
Whonevor we found water that was
not green with stagnation, yellow with
drainage, or gray with mud, We i'm,
bibcd it with the trcmulous eagernes.
}pesttSpfrs. There is good water in th.
I ScOttS hills, tho WoToh mountains, tn,
English lake district, some of TIN
Khe'ish highlands and tho Alps. We
found it bad elsewhere, and no trouble
seems to be taken to purify the supply
of the towns. Among tho things thai
we tonderly dwelt upon when. far from
homo and friends. we talked of joys
that awaited our return, were ice water
and pic. Water is regarded by the
European-not every European, oithor
as good for washing purposes, while
as to pies. he is as ignorant of that Sc
ductive Wand as he is of buckwheat
cakes, sherry cobblers, or political lib
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