The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-11-15
NO ROOM FOR MN IN GERMANY.
A Scholars Struggle and Despair aud fills
Violent Ending of Five Lives.


German has q peculiarly German kind of
educated poor. Hardly n winter passes without
some choolmaster's dying for want OF the ordi-
nary necessaries OF life. The never-ending pro-
ductlon OF doctors OF philosophy. doctors OF
law, doctors of music. and doctors Of theology.
has filed the offices of Church and State and
school to OVERLOOKING. So around the fringe of
Official life the whole length and breadth Of the
empire there hangs a hungry, poorly clad. dis
heartened. and enbittered contingent OF Ph.
DIS, Ii. DIS, and other less petitled scholars.
II a man wi. he'd to write u 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 fiji high places that never
were left vacant, or were left behind in tho
mighty struggle OF university graduates for
offices which would yield them the unbuttered
bread of life.
II any person wishes to learn how bitter is the
end of one OF these unemployed scholars he
should read the story of Paul Eulenburg. doctor
OF Jurisprudence. who took his life in Blasewitz
three weeks ago. lie was the son OF a Berlin
professor OF medicine. He married twelve years
ago. and lived in unmarried happiness with his
wife. lie had three children. 0. 8, and IN years
old. all girls. lie had written much for maya.
zines and newspapers. had published several
modest books, and had turned his hand to one
li"Ns - nv " ~ tu g.
peatedly In small Saxon towns last winter. lie
and his wife lived in II Hat in Blasewitz. mud
were supposed to exc out "a fairly decent living
with his earnings in literature. They belonged
10 AL the local societies. such as abound IN a
German town OF B~lasewitz's size, seemed cheer
full AMI comfortable. and for some time paid
tne,r debts with exemplary promptness.
Then EnlehourR began To put ntf his creditors.
His income grew smaller, and he made the most
desperate efforts to increase II BY tutoring, by
Germany such efforts are doomed to failure: tho
mar who makes them finds every avenue
crowded beyond the possibility OF admitting the
casual struggler,
with a bill! for Sl2,5O. Eulenburg pawnedp nrt
Of hi, furniture aud paid IL. Then came an
other bill for 81, another for 81, and still others
tlIat must ne lIhlu from The proceeds of further
pleuGeS' FINALLY y, I'LL for 10 cents founl Inn
AZ tho end OF AL, his resource. lie locked
did not open them to The man who called
Tor ms ~ cents. This creditor got an order
from a court to enable him to brlze ;,arI or
Eulenburg's furniture. le aud a court officer
broke "a me 'front.' door or the Eulenburg iiat.
In the hrnt room they found the llree children
IT. a row on the floor, their faces waxen willie
and GOA. ana IL sheet tucked evenly uI.dcr their
chIn.' y three we're dead. In the next room
LAY EnlenDurg ana his wife on thu bed both
wNAth White, as were the children, and dead In
earn Others arms.
Dr, Euienberg left a note saving that tho
Strufsl" Tor u chance 10 earn ms bread had
become hopeless. lie had poisoned ~" chil.
dreh. ms, wife. and himself with prussIc ncld.
nickel pile ON the bureau, Rccompan,rd VIII. a
COPY @ lhe OIL. The ~Janitreus fouud her
months pay IN an envelope addressed to her.
EulenburR had paid his last debt. lie gave no
the strussle. Just even with the world, which
had nothing Tor linn, ~ he had nothing Tor IL.