The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-09-09

trip from Klein 70 Malnz is all thot poeis
and bards have made Of II for centuries.
Miniature mountains upon whose heights
are perched old castles IN iviod ruins, AMI
amid whose stately grandeur the river
pursues its peaceful way forms a cture
Indescrihablg beautiful
The poetic genius OF Byron begins
to approximate when he says that tina
Rhine is "A blending o. all beauties
streams and dells, fruit, foliage. cIag,
wood, oornneld, mountain, vine and chief
less castles breathing stern farcwells.
From gray but leafy walls, whore RUN
greenly dwells.'
The degree Of cultivation OF the land
along the Rhine is typicni OF ali Germany
Farms can DO seen along the sheerest
mountain sides, every inch OF laud is put
in, highly iertilized and highly cultivated.
But what miniature farms In Northern
Germany We were carried over the farm
OF a wealthy fArmer. II comprised about
tcur acres, but the variety OF crops We
saw there and the gh slate OF cultivation
were simply marvellous. We were carried
in . snug farm house. fac, TAT Holste n
cows were in the font rooms or the par
lol the family resulted IN the back por-
tion-but VIC did as people should do ii
Rome and went to the back roons vita
the family and lett the parlor for the
cows.
In Germany tho women ell go to the
fields and work while husband and son 20
to tho army. 1t Is a necessity. Again II
was no unusual sight to see the bent form
OF woman h tched to a wagon with a
huge dog, both painting and exhausted I'm
der weary load.
Is 1t any wonder thpt the ocean liners
are crowded With immigrants fleeing from
q n lnfI
the new where standing army is not
yet supreme and the actual possession Of
lo0-acro farm not always far-otf. ir-
ridoscent dream?
Nobody could have asked for more in
terostng and eventful summer to DO"
Europe in than has been the summer just
pass The great exposition at Paris; the
assasa nation Of Italy's king and the at
iempts also upon the lives OF the Shah
Il Persia and the prince of Wales; the
crusade instituted against these misguided
and to-bc-pltied people, the taking OF so
many illuatrloue men by that insatate
reaper, the uniting Of civil zed Chrissen-
dom against China; the mobilization o,
forces the pathetic good bye oil mothet
ana sweetheart TO soldier boy seen at al
most every station we passed tho re-
sounding CInnonade Of naval reviews and
the martial trend of threatening armies
have all served to keep Europe in a tur-
moil during the long, sultry summer.
~
In such stirring times it was really
rcsttul to drop down to Oborap n sau, a
picturesque li,tle village los, in the Ba-
varien Alps and view tho Passion Play.
The simple purity, h unselash devotion
OF the lives of these gentle players is pro-
foundly touching. AS thousands sit W Ii
uncovered heads and oft-times tear
stained Cheeks watching that drama which
so faithfully depicts the career OF the great
EazcHne, there is a soemnity, a suDlim-
ity about 1t all that battles description.
10 rather makes one feel that despite the
declarations OF cmperors who want nc
peace. The great, throbbing heart Of hu-
man.ty IS certainly and surely yearn.ng iol
the days Of universal peace. The stined
sobs como from the bent form Of Germau
motherhood which goes every day to tbs
hcld OF labor IN order to live for lamil,
whose father and husband has been forced
into army service; 1t les heard in tn
signs of tax -burdened and toilng mil.ions
crying to heaven for surcease.
humanity Is growing weary OF the
blood and iron" OF Us Bismarcks; weary
oi tho conquering genius OF It's Caesar
weary OF the imperial viii OF lis MAJ oleons
Above beyond them all it seeks the silent
, sympathy Of the Son Of Man.
Fewer philipics ard more OF the hui
manities less Of lies soba and signs ont
moro Of lts song and smiles may be al
idcalist's dream, but toward that consum-
nation every M an who loves his neigh.