The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-11-30
TIE SCHOLAR In GERMANY.
No loom Over There for the Highly Edu
Gated Poor.

No Room Over There for the Highly Edu
Gated Poor.
New York Sun: Germany has a pc.
culiarly German kind OF wretchedness-
the wretchedness OF the highly edu-
Gated poor. Hardly a winter passes
without some schoolmaster,s dying for
want OF the ordinary nccessaries Of life.
The never-ending production Of doc
tors OF philosophy, doctors Of law, doc
tors OF OF music and doctors OF the
ology has filled the offices OF church and
state and school TO orertiowlng. So
around the fringe OF official life the
whole length and breadth OF, the empire
there hangs a hungry. poorly clad. dis
heartened and embittered contingent OF
PHI. DIS. LII. DIS and other less be-
titled scholars. II q wished to
write q dark page in the everyday life
OF the German people to-day, he would
need only to record the suicides OF men
who were trained to fill high places that
never were left vacant, or were left
behind in The mighty struggle OF uni
yersity graduates for offices which
would yield them the unbut;ered bread
OF life.
II any person Wishes to learn how
bitter Is the end OF n OF these unem-
pIoyed scholars he would read the story
Of Paul EulenpurG, doctor of jur.sprl-
deace, who took HE life "a Blasewitz
three weeks ago. He YVES the son OF a
Berlin professor of medicine. he mar
RED twelve years ago, and lived in un-
married happiness with his wife; He
had three children, nine. five. and two
and ane-half years old. all girls. He had
written much for magazines and
papers, had published several modest
books, and had turned his hand TO one
play, ..Our Bismarck" which was pre-
seated repeatedly in small Saxon towns
las. winter. He and his wife lived In
q fiat in Blasewitz. and were supposed
to exc out a fairly decent living with
his earnings in literature They be-
longed TO all the local societies, such
as abound in a German town Of Blase-
Wits size, seemed cheerful and com
Portable, and for some time paid their
debts with exemplary promptness.
Then Eulenburg began 10 put OF his
creditors. His income grew smaller,
and he made the most desperate efforts
to increase it by tutoring, by writing.
by copying, and by odd Jobs at law.
In Germany euch efforts are doomed TO
failure; tine nan who makes them
finds every avenue crowded be-.
You'd the possibility ar admitting the
casual stranger.
On October Is a tradesman cane to
Euienburs with a bill for Sl2 so. Eulen-
burg pawned part of his furniture and
paid Il. Then came another bill for IS,
another for So. and still others thar
must be paid from the proceeds OF fur
Their pledges. Finally a bill for 70 cents
found him at the end Of all his re-
sources He locked the doors and win
dows of his fiat; he did not oDen them to
the man who called for his 20 cents.
This creditor got an order from a court
10 enable him 10 seize part of Eulen-
burg's furniture. He and 4 court officer
broke in the front door of EulenburG's
fiat In the first room they found tho
three children in a row on the floor.
their faces waxen white and cold and
a sheet tucked evenly under their chins.
All three were dead. In the next room
lay EulenbucG and his wife on Inc he'd
both waXen white, as were the children,
and dead in each others arms.
DIR. EulenburG left a note saying that
the struggle for 4 cnance TO earn his
bread had become hopeless. He had
poisoned tn children, his wife, and him
self with prussIc acid. The tradesnan
found his 20 cents in d little nickel pile
on the bureau, accompanied with a cory
OF the bill. The janitress found her
mon;h's pay in an envelope addressed
to her. Eulenbuyg had paid his last
debt. He gave up the struggle. just
even with the world, which had nothing
for him, as he had nothing for 1t. Z