The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-03-05

landscape with unfading color, at last Now as we have passed from the do
 main of Germany, and by this term refer to the Germanic race as repre-
 sented by Germany proper, and O course Austria, my readers will par
 don me while I detain them a momen | to pay even slight tribute to the in
 stitutions and material civilization O.
 that grand race among whom l have
 dwelt for a considerable time. The | Germans are peculiarly patient, law
 abiding, industrious people, and wher one is patient obedient and respectful
 to law, he is advancing in the right di.
 rection towards a successful solution oi
 what we call one's calling or "life's
 work
 The German laws are very far reach | ing and protect the citizens, and every
 German child's first lesson is to obey
 the law, and from the obedience. of
 millions of citizens has come a splen- did development and condition of
 things in the varied branches of their high order of civilization. Splendid
 forests cover large portions of Germany
 and Austria. and the forest laws are willingly obeyed by all. No such glar-
 ing evil as has taken place in Michigan
 can ever happen here. In the above
 and in other states whole forests have
 been ruthlessly and shamefully de-
 stroyed, thus entailing not only great
 pecuniary loss to those commonwealths,
 but broad tracts of virgin lands have in consequence become waste and arid.
 German law demands that for every
 1o1 II hp fA1n n n f.
 ed, and so perfectly carried out is this
 system that the German forests even in
 the far away provinces are never de-
 pleted.
 The greatest secret of German suc- cess is economy; this is a word almost
 unknown in the United States. Travel
 CTS who visit our country are aston ished, nay. appalled,, at the boundless
 waste and extravaganza which they
 beheld on every side. From the kitch- ems of our homes to the offices of our gigantic corporations, there is observa- ble a most wilful waste and extrava- gance, and this American eXtrava- gance" has become a bye-word all over the world Economy is not mere syn onym for meanness, and the thrift and economy of the Germans has unlocked to them the trading ports in various parts of the globe. Their clever mer- chants are growing rich in the great cities of China, Japan, India, Australia and South America, while their compe- titors cannot hold their own, but are growing poorer; in other words, the Germans are fast crowding their com petitors to the wall German manufac- tured goods are even supplanting Brit ish goods in the British East India markets. Out of seventy-five hundred pianos which were imported in 1893 into Australia less than eight hundred were of British manufacture, the remaining hundred were. imported from Germany. There are nearly two hundred ocean steamers in the North German Lloyds" and "Hamburg-Am jean Co.," These companies manage to pay dividends, while many other com peting lines of other nations have that word from their vocabula- ry
 The German government is a paternal government, and by honest. not bogus, (who in some countries can be bought for even a modest sum) ex- anime all kinds of food thoroughly, and thereby know that "the people" have food. And this inspection embraces every possible kind of food, l IS well as water, wines beer, &c., &c. | Even the very column of black smoke which in some other countries follows | behind the railway trains is in Germa- ly consumed by a clever contrivance, | md every stoker and fireman must go frst to the government school (say | Ieipsic) and learn how to handle coal md how to build fire intelligently lot by pitching the coals helter-skelter nto the engine fires, and thus extrava- santly causing nearly twenty-five per ,ent. of that article to be blown uncon- tuned through the smoke stack; they must learn how to secure the greatest md best result from the coal, and when hese men get their certificates" they re then permitted to enter upon their uties.
 Again, where in the world is there ny system of education which can qual that of Prussia, which has out anked all others for over century, nd from which other systems have opied. The laws in respect to game nd fish have been implicitly obeyed for enturies. Germany stands at the gen. h of the scientific world; her men of cience and polished Literature are le- ion. German universities attract undreds of graduates of foreign col : ,ges, and thousands take advantage of le past graduate courses to be enjoyed ! nder the management of German pro- 1 ,ssors of the very highest order. Ger t lan influence, in every department in l ,ience and letters is keenly felt to the I emotest ends of the globe. The count { SIS books which are published al Leip- C c and Berlin find their way to the li- [ rares of scholars and families in all l ,untries. Again, the manufactured I pods of Saxony and northern Germany c i'll, if their development continues as r -pidly during the coming ten years as has during the decade which has just V lssed, completely crowd out their com V ,titors, and Germany will supply the a orld The untraveled, honest, aver f se American is too apt to think that s good thing can be found beyond the n ,rders of our grand America, just as h
 the old days the New England skip f. IFS asserted that there was no Sab lt ,th to the westward of Cape Horn, but r. ere was just the same. l do not call il paradise; very far from it, r. It she can show us many secrets of D