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

full to overlooking. This cmbarrass.
ment on my part is further increased
sby the divided sense OF the enlarged
committee as to what should have pre-
eodence and prominence in my initia.
| tory correspondence The newly tiedged
agriculturalist from Brooke thinks
that something OF the earth and earthly
should at least be the ground work Of
my overture performance, by which re-
mark you will sec that he is facetiouS
aswell as agricultural. lie suggests some
thing about the outlook Of the country
at this time Of tho year-its exceeding
beauty-itB narrow breadths OF green
and yellow.-its grain and root crop.
and tho wonderfully intensive culture Of
both-its forests Of pima and fir and
beech. Some description Of tho women
who arc at work in the fields and at
least paragraph about tho cows and
the steers that pull the wagons and
carts either in shafts or by leather
yokes across their foreheads and horns
instcad OF BY hickory loops around their
necks Us in America. All this he in.
sista should come in right here, and
hence this brief illusion which have
made to the schedule, which he has
submitted for my application. Per
contra land here is moro embarass'
mcnt) the Junior member Of the com:
mtttee suggests, notwithstanding all
have already said about music IN Ger
many, that | should mako special men
ton, and oven 20 into some detail, IN
regard to the rich treat OF Wagnerian
opera we had at Munich and Stuttgart,
where "Lohengrin" tho same 10,
hengrin" that set Paris wild
when Mr.. Frew and wore there
in September last and "Siegtriod'",
and Hrhe Flying DutchmRn,"
and I know not what all elso, were pro-
duced, not exactly for our special bene-
fit, but most OPPORTUNITY while we
were therc. Il am told not to mention
on what evening OF tho week two oil
those operas were brought ont) | am
also enjoined not TO forget something
in fact, good deal) about the great
paintings and statuary we saw in the
celebrated Pinakothci galleries at
and enthusiastically of that city as an
art center. if not tte art ccntcr OF Ger.
many. Thus you SEQ the burdens that
are laid on ne'a chairman and scribe
ofthis travelling committee. "As thy
days so shal! thy strength be- but
am notequal to all this. 1t isa little
late in the day, as have suggested, for
the chairman TO appear in the role OF
an art critic. The next thing will be, as
further suggest, a demand that he shall
write q critique on the German Ian
guage and explain why, it Is that w is
pronounced v, why a is pronounced
All, and Z pronounced A, and al pro-
nounced ow, and why two small fly
specks are put over vowels in order to
further confuse the pronunciation, and
why the laborious and conscientious
use Of der and die and des and das got
the laugh on you so continually when
you experiment in German on the hall
porter or the head waiter @
A FAMOUS OLD UNIVERSITY.
If I was left to myself in this letter |
would pay special attention to Heidel-
berg, and eli particularly about the. an
cient and famous University where l
went in and out for about three weeks,
and where, as at Rome, ! heard lectures
in tongue that l did not understand,
and where ! sat on pine benches
the, mates to which only exist in the
backwood school houses OF America,
and in rooms that smelt Just as piney
as those school houses in the morning
before they have been aired. would
accompany this sketch, II ] was permit
ted to write this letter after my own
mind, with a kodak, view OF the pro-
lessor In spectacles, first as he comes in
and throws his hat down anywhere,
and next as he commences talking be-
fore he reaches the little and very
slightly raised pulpit, andthird, would
enYelop the whole room in the dust
that the boys raise as they give him q
send of with their feet; and fourth l
would complete my sketches by adding
few bars OF Wagnerian manuscript
music as an illustration OF my utter in
ability to grasp the subject matter oil
the discourse.
And then still further, il had my
way in this letter, l would take my
kodak and got on the incline train or
else walk by the winding roads up to
the most imposing castle ruins in Cor
many, and after photographing 1t for
your columns in all It's richness OF
architecture and all tho plenltude OF
Its turretted and castellated walls, l
would adjourn to the "Schloss" beer
gardens hard by and kodak group or
two Of Heidelberg students for your in
spection.
THE STUDENTS AND THEIR SCARS.
At one table, supp osing me to get q
good photograph, 20 U would see lot
Of burly fell ows with German Universi-
ty caps and the band around their caps
would DO green; and at another table q
lot more wearing caps with band OF
red, and at another table still bands OF
blue, and still another Of white, and
these caps would represent the corps"
to which the respective bearers belong,
and at each OF these tables you would
see, II my kodak was working well, and
you looked closely enough, several chaps
with deep cuts and scars on their faces,
and some with bandages on their faces
aud around their heads, and heexpla.
nation OF the whole business would be
that these hacks and scars come from
sword cuts received in dueling, and
that dueling is very common practice
ut HeIdelberg-a little more prevalent,
II anything, than attendance on the lee
lures, and wellup to tho universally OF
beer drinking, and thata fellow with two
or three scars received in two or three
duels is more OF o fellow than the chap
with only ono scar; especially II his
scars are deep and broad. In addition
to these scars and caps my photograph
would show huge mug Of beer in front
Of each fellow at each table, with which
he would DO seen frequently and sue
cessfully wrestling, and in mid.scene