The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-03-14
in THE HARZ
MOUNTAINS
Astoria Lady Tells OF Their
Wonders and Beauties.
LUTHER CHURCH PEERED INTO
RefOrmer's Birthplace Visited In
the Town Of Eisleben.
THE MONUMENT OF THE EMPEROR
Situated on the KIffhsuser-Beautifui
Sights OF a Summers Vacation
In Far-0ff Germany.
THE MONUMENT OF THE EMPEROR

To-day In the sunny ist Of June and
over the hills and far away. only with
us Il sounded more like this. TT.
July's frst sunny day and with the
train wen Gy away to Old Halle ON
Sale and then maybe the HartE wei
Hre.
Arrived AZ Halle. only an hours dis
tancc from Leipzig. We proceeded Ia
the market place. II was the busy
hour of the morning. and the place was
nlled with wagons from the surround
ms country. and housewives crowded
around the tiny stalls well Allied with
vegetables, fruits and flowers, presided
over by portcntous old danes. II was
sccnc ~ CONFUSION 70 an outsider. bu,
the participants knew well what they
were about,
After firing of looking down we
looked NJ. The church OF Our Lady,
the 'Bothe Thurm," high clock tow
er. and bronze statue OF Handel ali
received their share of obvcrsailon.
Handel ls represented In English court
dress on the back Of the music desk
on which he leans Is IA pretty little
relief ~ 81 Cecilia. whose face u a
-,ure u Jenny Lind,
This city was the birthplace of Han.
del. and now We turned our steps "a
the house in which he n said ~ have
been born. but no one seems to know
positively In which room of the house
and sight-scers are not admitted: So
We wen, out In the garden restaurant
behind and had our second breakfast
We wandered through little narrow
streets. dark alleys and then again
In the wide pleasant boulevards passed
the university old churches and mon
uments, until finally we found our
selves on the outskirts OF the city, and
crossing the Sale We stumbled up
against the house where the stu
dents fight their dueis. Going in
We found nothing 80 remarkable
about t. A plain brick house with a
restaurant on the first iloor and on
the second a large assembly room
Opening from this is smaller room.
In which the real duelllng ls done
Back OF this is a regular network ot
rooms, through which the students can
make their escape and AVOID the police.
should they happen up. Here also thr
duelists have their wounds attended
to,
Directly opposite from this building
across the river. rises very high blum
bearing the ruins OF Gieblchensteln, an
old castle In which. so the story runs
Louis the Springer was once lmprls-
oned and made his escape by jump.
Ing into the river below.
In the afternoon we went on to Els.
lcben. the birthplace Of Martin Luther
We saw the house In which he was
born. his bed, some old books and pic.
lures. gave the old lady who told us
about these things some "TTinkgled. IT
and went on 10 look at the town thai
had Graded such a great man as Lu,
ther. There was nothing In particular
to distinguish II from other little Ger.
man towns Of the same size. only an ali
of sadness seemed to prevail Nc
Laughing faces, but all wore hopeless
looks, While sitting in an out-of-the.
way corner eating some cherries, an old
grey headed man let his tongue talk
OF what his heart was full He told
us that the underground salt lake. over
which the city is built, has been drained
through mines, and the city Il now
sinking piece by piece. We told him
that was n common occurrence In
America. Why. In some localities the
ground was not satisfied with sinking
but there was such a constant drain
that It even ran away, carrying houses
and people with II, and all we thought
of II was to tie rope on and pull ouI
houses back again and let the land
go, for we knew more would be along
directly.
The church in which Luther first
preached was peeked into. His statue
on the market place, ana near II
the house in which he died, were both
looked at In turn We were beginning
to feel quite familiar with Luther. ant
walked slowly up the hill to the statloI
thinking a big think.
Our hnal stopping place for that day
was Sangerhausen. or "Jammerhausen'
as the inhabitants call It. We prefer
red saying we We're up in the Colder
Aue." tired. TO be sure, and quite con
tent TO be embraced by feather bed
The next morning we felt refreshet
and ready TO start for Kelba, wher,