The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-21

soon afterwards developed WOnuerlul powers of suction and drank in an hour
 more beer than I had ever seen in my
 whole life; he tried me in very bad French, and finally by means of broken English, indifferent French and ooh! l such grimaces and contortions) ges- lures, we did begin to slightly under stand one another. I signified my de- sire for a sort of German before break fast" book, and my companion soon produced a German conversational book badly battered and torn. l seized 1t like drowning man grasps at a straw; all that ] could find, however,
 was the complete conjugation of the German verb "Lieben,' to love. The man who wrote that book should be kept in prison, in solitary confine-
 ment for life. The changes which he rung with that little inoffensive verb were wonderful to behold, I turned
 page after page, hoping to find word
 to signify I hunger, I thirst, for I hum gered while others about me were feast ing. l desired food and drink; (my com panion seemed perfectly satisfied with
 his beer and tobacco): but as l sought
 in the little book for suitable express sions to convey my desires l found naught but q shall love-" q had loved," T shall or will love-" Love Thou" in vain I looked for the Varia-
 tions of the verb Ito eat" I dashed
 the gruesome Mormon book of love upon the floor and became desperate. By
 humiliating and ridiculous signs final ly obtain food, and my complacent Men
 tor who in vain endeavored to fill him
 self with beer at the expense of my will ling purse, gave me many interesting facts about Roderan. I learned that it was town of fifteen thousand inhabi-
 tants, and there was not one who could speak the English language; what de- lighted me chiefly was the fact that railway train would arrive from Berlin at il D. m. and proceed at once to Dres- den. When the train arrived I jumped aboard and made my exit from Roder
 an. I did not arrive at Dresden until 1 a. m., for I discovered I was travelling on an omnibus train, which Is the slow
 est of all trains, and that is the style in which I crawled into Dresden in the ear ly hours of Sunday morning. I have often passed through Roderan since, and it is with difficulty that can re- II ali II piAA SlAllltIS clS ! AbpfA OAA dPOAA that pretty railroad station where got my first serious lesson of German cus- toms. I can give to my readers the same good advice which Hood pre- scribed to his friends:
 Never go to France Germany unless
 You know the lingo,
 For if you do, like me,
 You'll repent, by lingo"
 Such lowing, saluting and air scrap ing as one sees here in Germany. Ger mans are very polite; in fact I think they excel the French in their urbanity. When a German meets a friend off comes his hat, up goes his hand, and from the saluting and waving of hats that follows one is reminded of the wig orous hat waving one sees when the blue leads the red at New London. To look up a long German street and to be- hold the hats in the air, on the salute, you would really be much amused. Hats do not last long inGermany, for they are worn out by continual salut- ing. Little lads at school (even in the two fine English schools) when they meet on the street invariably raise their little German caps, and girls always curtsey to one another as well as to their elders. The polite respect which children show to their elders is refresh ing to witness. In no country, unless forsooth in the West Indies and Eng land, have I ever seen such polite chill dren as here in Germany When one enters a railway carriage or street car, or omnibus, the last conner salutes those already in their seats, and this same custom obtains in hotels, beer gardens and in all places where people most do congregate; if person already seated does not return the salute he is at once looked upon as a rude fellow Peasants as they meet you on the high road out side the city invariably salute you with "Guten Tag" they salute first and you are supposed to return the salute. Natives are always very particular to politely return a peasants salute. The same custom holds in the house; every servant as he meets you in the morning i'll the halls or rooms greets his superb or first with ''Guten morgen" or simply 'Morgen," to which @ polite greeting is returned. Saxon German is not pure German, and the language as spoken in SaXony and Bavaria is singular and ex- tremely harsh The customs and man. ners which I have carefully seen here have greatly interested me, and to de- scribe even 1.-the Of them would be difficult matter, Schools begin at a. m and keep in session till D. m., with thirty minutes recess; there are after noon sessions daily except Saturday from to 430, then compulsory hour on the play-grounds. Every school-boy wears a distinctive school cap, and by variations of certain colors often the manner of arithmetical combinations and permutations an infinite variety of caps can be produced. The opera and theater commence at 6:30 D. 1n and close promptly at 10:30. All houses must be shut at 1O:3O; at this hour the outer door must belocked tightly; very often fee of two cents is paid to get into your own house, and Americans of- ten find it hard to obey German laws. did chafe at many things, but after a residence of nearly two years observe the laws like very German, and feel grateful to the authorities for talk ing pretty good care of me. I had heard, before coming here, that for eigners were very heavily taxed; one day a big official envelope was sent to my room. Here comes the tax bill cried; considered it pretty hard to pay taxes in New Haven and in Dresden, too. I tore open the paper and very