Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-03-23


is general content among them.
1t is difficult for Americans TO under
stand this, for it is inconceiyable to us
how We could be thus contented. When
you get close to the European peasant
you will find that it is equally as diff
cult for him to conceive of any other
than that in which he exists.
To Illustrate, in any half hours ride by
rail through Bayarian valleys you are
certain TO whiz past some pretty field.
lane and see Bayarian peasant driving
a Cart TO which are yoked little heifer
and coarse woman. AS they stop near
your passing train, you will notice that
the heifer is the only animal chatting
under its yoke, for the woman looks up
and smiles and the male removes his
pipe for hearty laugh.
They are simple, childish folk one
and all, content in their severe labor;
satisfied with their, to us, niggardly rec
ompense; loving the very earth they
dig with unutterable affection; happy in
the few holidays the year brings about;
patient under the tithing Of king and
church, while proud that the one pro.
tects and the other Strives; and quite
radiant, at the end, to lay aside the
working clothes of the sodden days be.
hind for the promised llnery of the eter-
nal holiday beyond.
Nowhere else in Europe can be seen
such variety and wealth of roadside
shrines as in Austrian Galicia. In the
1900 or 5000 miles of its great stone
roads huge wooden or stone crucifix,
or a tiny brick or stone shrine, may be
found on the average at the distance Of
every half an English mile. Most of the
crucillxes are of wood hewn out OF
beech or oaken logs. Whether of wood
or stone, as if from some great burden,
every one leans, and this very leaning
lends strangely suggestive sadness and
loneliness to the landscape.
They are most frequent in districts
nearest the Carpathians which form the
peasants being of Russian stockare all
Greek Catholics, and the Polish Gala
clans are without exception Roman
Catholics They are equally pious, anc
you can never pass crucitiS or shrine
without witnessing a group of both il
rapt devotion, many of whom are groyel
ing PROSTATE upon the earth before thu
sacred reminders of Calvary. AT Whit
suntide one will sec crowds of thest
simple and pious deyotces crawlin!
upon all fours, while trailing hug,
wooden crosses from their necks anC
shoulders, around every roadside shrin,
in all Galicia.
After one gets over the first flush o
| rebellious resentment at the system
| there is good deal Of grim humor TO b
got out of continental railway travel
You will find the same little carriage
as in England, comprising from four t
six compartments, each holding eigh
| people in the first and second, and te,
persons in the third-Classc compartments
In Bavaria there are even fourth elias
cars, or carriages, principally for use /
time of war. They are all marked ct
contain 10 horses or 36 men,"
Except in France, Italy and SPAR
the service is about equal to that i
England. One has personally to see hi
luggage in the luggage-van; and nc
only give trinkgeld or pourboir to hay
it tabled but to have it put on boarc
While the monarch of the train, III
guard, cannot take money for fare, Ii
would accept bride from anybody fc
any service: AMI even an officer Of Ii
line thinks it quite the proper thing I
pay tribute to the guard, should
desire to occupy an entire compartment
This guard bribery is universal. r
Gently saw train Of 10 carriages CAPT
BILE of accommodating 450 people moy
out of Cologne with but 81 passenger
who had in this manner purchase
almost exclusive compartment accom-
modations, upwards OF 100persons ha
ing been left behind at the station. III
most serious opposition to the gener
Introduction of modern sleeping coach
for night service comes from the
bribers and bribed. A five-mark or
; tive.tranc piece, or less, slipped into Il
hand of night-train's guard will secu
an entire compartment, or an entire Sit
. Of one for your individual use, and
, far preferable to berth in the vile lit
four'Compartment sleeping-coach wlit
r has latterly crept into service, where Il
| guard, conductor and porter in one, i
{ sists at all hours of the night on 70
{ purchase of bad yiands and worse wine
. In Germany will be found the me
, grotesque otficialism but the best coach,
and the prettiest railway stations in
the world. The government wholly CO
4. ducts all German railway lines. Eve
D employe, even the walters at the static
G dining-rooms has been German soldi
/, and the entire regime is military. la
. station has a captain in a red cap al
r gorgeous uniform. The station guar
n and porters are also uniformed, wi
+ dark blue caps. When a train halts t
e captain and his station guards will
e found drawn up in line in front Of t
main entrance. The train-guard aligl
and salutGs the station-captain, W
d with his men return this salute, VIII
+ the loading and unloading Of luggage
o begun. EDGAR j.. WAKEMAN
n Tuesday club and cw-Ccntury CIuf
N 1t is stated authoritatiyelv that
II reason for the Tuesday Club not taking
L its quarters in the New-Century q
~ building is not because OF any lack of G.
Te venience in the new building. but sim
a upon the score OF economy. The Tuest
s. Club engaged its quarters in Eden Hall
ID the year, and looked forward 10 hold
~. it's rRlpurSnlS in the Now putury tlub