The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-08-08

Will WOEk lOug nouIb On thSaS NSAS
willlive substantially inthe same way in
all respects, in food anddress, as they are
living here to-day. Why not2 What's
TO hinder II? What's to help it2 Ger
many Is a highly civilized country in
fact, Is famous for her high civilization;
and yetthe toll and thelife Of the masses
is Just as l have suggested II. The cons
dltien Of agricultural work especially,
andof work generally, is long hours and
poor pay.
At this season Of the year (harvest) a
man works from dawn In tho morning
until sunset in the evening for two 10
three marks 600 to 20 cents and a wo-
man works the same hours for say two
thirds Of what he gets, aud children also
for two.thirds Of what the mother gets.
and all "hnd" themselves. l go along
the highways now every day and see
these brawnY and industrious people
hard at work. Sometimes, where they
can speak q little English, l talk with
them, and sometimes talk through a
German friend. 1t is a daily sight to
see women bareheaded and sometimes
b~arefooted working in the fields, espe-
cially where they are hoeingor Weeding
the root crops. They bend their backs
beneath the sun all the day long to the.
cutting OF the grain with eickles. and
they are as tanned and weather beaten
as so many sailors, Their very hair
seemed parched and dried up. They
rako hay in the meadows aud they bind
up and shock the sheaves OF barley y
rye after the repears. They drive the
wagon, leading often two cows httched
to the load. or they walk behind the
load on its way to the village. That
they have q care worn as we'll as a mas
culine look goes without saying. How
could it be otherwisef
HOW THtYIIvE.
How do many Of these people live?
That is, what d othsy eat2 We a see
for ourselves what they wear. will
tell You tho story of their diet as it has
been toldto me time and time again.
They take some bread early in the
morning, and with 1t sometimes coffee
and sometimes spirits, as the case may
be. Al Cookbook theytase some more
bread and with ii, PERHAPS some cheese
and some beer At -lAA4f.pRst IL they
haye soup, ono or Two vegetables lear
rot, a~rtichoke or cabbagelT possibly
some sausuge-o Of. othes meat, and also
some wine or beer, and at 4 in the after
noon. some more broad and beer, and at
evening the noon meal i~s:lepeated, in
whole or part. This is the n~llaverage or
rather in fact the best schedule of diet
furnished to me. Meatis byno means
q daily article OF food, even once per
day, in every house, and in some houses
tits not seen three timcs a.week. You
must.knowt that meat is not cheap over
here. For that mattor no sort of diet
scarcely is as cheap as with US, and oc-
caslonally ! am addicted TO. quoting
the local market reports Of, the INTEL
LrdENcER as they como to hand, in or
der to show, them here how much
cheaper meat, potatoes, onions, rad
ishes, cucunibers, beans, peas andthe
like srein Wheeling, with its $1,000
people, than here in Homburg with its
5000. I have even gone to the pains
Of enumerating to Them theibin OF fare
at a Wheeling hotel, where a dinner is
to be had for 50 10 70 cents, such as
is furnished nowhere in Germany tor'
that money. And when you tell the
average German restaurant mar that
there are places like Van Keuren!s and
Martin Thornton'siwhere you.get ham
and eggs. aud bread and butter, and
coffee for / mark Us cents) he simply
doesn't believe you, They cannot un-
derstand how a man a get a dollar
per day for common labor and yet get
a square mealfor a quarter.
CONSULAR TESTIMONY.
When / was in Frankfortton-the-
Mantle other day TSstopped in and
had a talk with the Vice Consul, "a
former Belmont county, Ohio, boy,l
Mr.. Alyesto S. Hogue, who was born
and raised out at Belmont Station, and
in the course OF conversation about rel
alive costs Of living here and in Amer
lea, l said to him, sis it true, Mr..
Hogue, that o working name working
clothes in Germany cost any less than
in u country" mo" said he, sit is
not true. They cannot be had cheaper
here than there" Now the same thing
is my observation and information
pretty much everywhere Igo. As Mr..
Mason, the Consul General subsequent
~ said to me, "the way a working man
lives cheap over here is explainable by
the small!amount on which he lives.
The Consul at Stuttgart, Mr.. Louis
Gottschalk, made, as Irecall ii, the same
statement TO me in regard to u working
mans working clothes, and oil Ameri-
ans whom / have met official and un-
official, have the same story to tell aa
regards the cost Of meats and other ar
ticles OF diet.
With an American friend OF mine,
with whom ] occasionally discuss pol
itics, / went into q meat shop the other
day at Baden.B Baden andaskedt the price.
Of a ham thatsw we happened to observe.
What do youtshppose was the price?
Why tifty-eight cents two marks and
forty pfennigs} per pound by the cut
THAT Is, one, two or moro slices), and.
one mark and sixty pfennigs, or say
forty cents, BY the whole ham. For
that matter Ihaye pages OF quotations,
gathered here and there, that / am sure
would astonish you II they were all
tabulated. For instance here are some
prices that were furnished me on the
10th Of this month by the landlord OF
the house at which We stopping, viz:
Per Lib.
New potatoes ...,,........', -'..,..'.'''..'' ''''.''..' 9
New peas, ....".. ...,. s..,,.,...,..+". . 9
Now beans, .......,..... ,,...,..". 11Sc
New tomatoes ......,.... ........ .............,....... ,..,lo Q
Now spinach. Q
Now lei1tIls .,.........,. 49,. :. .,,..,.,. ,,..,,,. ..,,....,,,,,... ttIC
New caulilOwcr, 12to IIcpnts apiece.
New turntps, 8 cents apiece,
New carrots, 10 cents per bunch.
Hast hnnV n
Second quality beef........................,............l7lMc
Mutton outlets '' ........, ..... .,.., ,..,r..,.,,.,,,.M Q
Mutton oRSt-..,.......... ,...,. ...... ............,.,....l 9
Veal outle .,.........,. Q
.Other veal. ,......,.., ...., Q