The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-05-07
THE DUTCH PORK.
RyDR. O. 3. MAYER, sR.
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NO. 2.
f. at thy command,
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The past retuzHs--the present. les
14'o CADyow CASTLE.
Tn history there must be many gaps
-as,,lt;,o from contradictions or Silence
among the chronicles consulted, "o'cn
have been bridged ovec by nterenoes
fairly drawn from established eVenS'
.,d TINS the current OF narrative has
baen made smoothly continuous. Sc
tits in biography;-apd. remarkaoiy sc
in the life and adventures of the nrs'
white man that ever staiked throusr
the virgin Woodlands OF the DutcI
Fork. I have gathered many tiushlu
records which, strewed along his career
like stones in boggy path, enable d.
= 10 step from one to another "'h''
HS>ashap, and thus to present a nara
tive not 6eSly highly romantic Op
probably very snsShtly deviating ff0fS
the true account.
think, then, that I nlay>>Safely be
DIN the story of this adventures< o1
stating that he was born in Wuer'en
burg, among the Odenwald Mountains
II will be seen, further on, that the re-
mantle admiration of the beautiful al l
the novel, so certainly manifested by
him in his developed manhood, had i's
origin in the charming scenery that
surrounded the cottage in which ne
was horn. The first outdoor Objects
that met his infant gaze were the beau
tiful mountains with their accllvlties
co GRADUAL that their sides more than
half way up towards their tops were
cultivated in narrow, alternating reo'
yellow and green strips Of various pro-
ductions, presenting appearances ao'
unlike Scottish Highlanders'- whom ne
long after saw, with their pIalos
wrapped around then. can fancy
this pioneer visitor Of the Dutch Fork
strolling forth in his boyhood among
the valleys Of the Odenwalds, 1oilo"-
ing the murmuring brooks Invisible
under the luxuriant grass overlapping
and concealing their channels; and l
can admire the eager attention he gives
to the old peasants telling him OF st.
Hubert's chase-St. Hubert who, with
his pack of dogs, often passes through
the air over the mountain tops,
.sThe hunter and the deer shade
;InBEsszzn his young imagination WIN
this old legendary ys1ssssssstision by re-
counting how often they had heard rs's71iS;
aerial chase of the weird monk. Then,
no doubt, the boy would sometimes
stand after dark before his cottage door,
listening to the flight ofa flock of storks
seeking their roost, (the true exp!ana-
ton of St. Hubert's chase, and believe
that he heard the phantom monk WITH
his dogs in full bry through the air. =
He has grown to manhood. Hedas
become a stalwart peasant, laoorlng IN
the meadows. From time to time he
hiss walked portheastward along the
Bergstrasse-the great thoroughiare
designating the sharp line that divides
the Odenwald Mountains on the right
hand from the vast valley Of the Rhine
on the left. On this great highway
did he often look northwestward, be-
yond the Teufelstein in Rhine-Bavarla'
far away into France, and wonder al
the understanding Donnersberg, DIM
" defined like misty cloud against
the evening sky; or turning his eye dl-
rectlv northward have his gaze arrest
ed bv the conical form Of the Melloo-
CHS. forty miles away, and hard by the !
c;tv Of Darmstadt. Then, some Sab |
bath evening, after spending the morn
ing in strict devotion at his church,
follow him to Ziegelhaussen on the
Neckar, where he dances like demon,
and falls in love with dozen rosy
checked, fat-arnled maidens whose
shadows cast 1pon wall would meas
ure eight feet across by din: OF the null
tiplicity of undergarments.
But Germany was in distress. the
wave after wave Of war, that had for
centuries been sweeping over the coun-
trv to satisfy the whims Of potentates,
left little security for life, property, or
hearthstone. Vast numbers OF people
were forced to become soldiers, who,
during wars hired themselves to amOl-
tious princes, and in peace were divided
into robber-bands who chose their cap
,ains, and committed depredatlons
upon the unprotected peasants. A ru-
NOR had reached the Odenwald region
that man1 Germans had fled from this
Iawlessness to the new countries across
the great waters. My hero was not
long making up his mind. He would
90 and establish home in these iar-od
lands. Now, be has left his native
valley, and there be goes, working his
way On timber-raft down the Neckar.
He enters the Rhine at Mannheim; and,
after toiling day and night fora month,
he reaches Rotterdam. His offer is ac-
cepted, to work his passage to America
on Dutch galliott freighted with Hol-
land gin. Forty days is he on the At
Iaptic Ocean, tossed and sea-sick; and
he arrives in New York. There, he
finds compatriots who tell him that IN
country further South, called Penn
sylvania, be can find large colonies OF
Germans. Thither he goes. What
strange appearances meet his gaze!
What vast forests! What strange look.
ing people inhabiting them! He meets