The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-07-12

tides OF Europe ana oil tno RoTld. 4ts
foundations were laid before the days
OF the Albigneses or Waldenses, and
before the days Of Hnss or Wicklyhe or
Jerome Of Prague, or savanorola OF
Florence, and long before Luther or
Melancthon or Calvin were born. What
it shall yet 600 ore its venerable walls
totter TO their fall no man may predict.
There have been whole libraries written
to tell OF tho substance and Significance
OF all that TRANSFERRED within its portals
in those uncertain days of tho sixteenth
century, and who knows what It may
yet live to record in regard to tho I'M
certain days that are to Gomez
sSowsronM ~ THE ALPS.
At tile historic town of Innsbruck in
tho Tyrol (which is nowadays famous
health resort l encountered the first
snowstorm that / had witnessed in
Europe, and this, too, after having
escaped snow in England up to the Goth
day OF December last, and in Italy al!
through the winter from tho 4th day OF
January clear through to the warm
days OF spring. Therefore 1t really
seemed after such an exemption little
unreasonable to people who had
Invested themselves Of their heavy
underwear to witness snowstorm III
May. OF course have seen some snow
during tho winter, but OF distance
only, as for instance on tho top OF the
Sabine hills and Alban mountains as
viewed through glass from the dome
of ST. Poters and other emltences in
Rome, but ut Innsbruck we met the
genuine article face TO face and i'll adds-
ton got sniff flee cold air from the
glaciers Of the Alpine heights that
look down upon you there. Still
We enjoyed tho change from the higher.
Thermometer and denser barometer OF
Italy. Indeed, in every way We en-
loved the change-cliinate, country,
people and ali. There was not only
more life in tho drier and cooler Dir
but likewise moro evidence OF energetic
and wholesome life among the inhabi-
tants. For one thing, there was no
sign OF beggars, and that Of itsclf was
a refreshing circumstance. BY that
sign alone we knew that we were no
longer in Italy.
The Tyrol Is q poor country compared
with Italy; its mountains ure very pro-
cipitous and its valleys very narrow; but
it does not seem poor enough to pro-
duce crop OF beggars. A begger Is
something we did not see in that por-
ton of the land OF William Tell:-the
land, by the way, from which West Viz
ginia gets the smotto on her state seal:
Mountaineers have been immemorially
free. Sure enough, in the Tyrol, and
more than once freedom on the Cont
nent seems to have made its solitary
home there. No people in Europe are
so passionately attached to their homes
as these mountaineers, and when they
go away It is always with the hope and
the resolution to come back and end
their days amid their native passes.
NO BEoGARs THERE.
remarked that we did notsee Q beg.
gar in the Tyrol, and SO neither have l
met one anywhere since We left Italy.
And yet We soiourned over two weeks
in the city OF Munich, the capital OF
Bavaria, q community Of at least 800, 600
people; and likewise two weeksin Stuff
CART, the capital Of Wurtemberg, city
OF say 10000; and We stopped alsonear-
ly three weeks in Heidelberg, in this
Duchy OF Baden, a city OF about 5000
people; aud yet in no one OF these
communities have / seen a beggar-
at least not a recognizable one-and
certainly have sojourned in Italy in
vain if do not now know beggar
when I see one. The question Is, how
and whence comes this marked differ.
enco in such an Important social and
economic respectH Bavaria is q rather
poor country agriculturaily, and yet the
people there seem to be able to drink
good deal Of Munich's famous beer, and
pay for it, and they also seem to be ON.
ployed, not at high, but at improved
and possibly improving, wages, aud
whatever there is of pauperism or dis
tress Is not paraded, much less slmu-
lated, in the streets and parks and gar
dens and other public places, We ira.
versed the highways and byways OF
Munich, as also OF Stuttgart, pretty ex-
tensively aud rather thoroughly with
view to forming judgment on this very
point, and in the former city we had to
some extent the assistance OF our excel
lent vice consul, Mr.. Corning. OF New
York, and We had to conclude that
while the evidences OF very restricted
and humble living we're abundant
enough, yet rs respects actual and alb
solute pauperlsm we saw practically
nothing. Whatever the pinch may be
in their homes the Germans seem to
have way OF their own Of sailying
forth in the evenings with their frauen
and fraulein and merging and forget
ting it oil in beer and music. And as
respects both their beer and their music
1t il the emphatic consensus Of. four COM
mittee that they therein excel any part
Of the world that We have yet seen.
We road that "the Lord made OF one
blood all tho nations OF the earth" and
originally perhaps (away back in their
common Aryan origin) the embryotic
Touton and embryotic Latin may have
been one and the same person, and
neither constituent may have been adj
dictcd TO beggary, but, as we used to say
Of tho blue and tho gray during our war.
they arc long ways from the same
headquarters now. They have very lit
tic IN common these times whatever tho
fact may have boon originally. To some
extent and in a certain way they have
loyn OF music in common. Tho Italians
arc said to have q peculiar ear for the
music OF stringed instruments and pc
culiar ego for a fine picture. l remem-
bor OF DR.. 0'Connell, the rector of the
American college in Rome, telling me
once chat oven dirtencrusted prole-
tairc or worthless lazzarone had this
ear and this oyc. As mandolin and
guitar thrummers and as violinists and
emotional singers, especially on the
moonlit waters OF Venice and Naples,
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