Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-10-10
Miscellaneous Items Of Interest.

The face shows the pam IN Wnich t!iS
man died. Though il was nearly 2,oco
years ago. the expression is so Strik-
ing that one instinctivelN shrinks at
thought of the suffering that is portray
ed So clearly. The features are stinen-
ed. though not contorted. The upper
lin is drawn systematically upward,
exposing the mouth. The short. stub
by mustache is just as il WAS in HE.
with the exception that the mineral
waters of the moor have changed II
from its original blonde color to foN
red The thick hair of the head has
been changed in the same way. f'ut IL
has not been in the least affected
otherwise. In the back ii Is about 'iNe
inches long AMI hangs downward,
wh lie on the top of the head il was cut
shorter and combed forward. In front
i, Was cul 50 short that it stood up
ward in modern pumpadour fashion
leaving the forehead entirely free
The ears are small ana shapcly and the
,hn is strong and firm.
4 remarkable thing is that this tail
and strong man. who measures NOR"
than five and one-half feet even in his
| present shrunken form. and must have
| been more than six feet tall III life.
| had extremely small feet. His sandals
We're only l2la inches long. and the i'm
print of his foot. which is plainly 10 be
! seen on the sole of each sandal. was
| only inches from sole To toe.
The clothing had been preserved
as completely as the sandals.
The stitches are clearly visible. show
ing exceedingly fine sewing. 1t is sup
| posed that the thread was flax. and
| this has been completely destroyed by
the action of the water III the SOIL.
But the material of the cloth was un
harmed. and the discovery shows that
though they were barbarians. the
ancient Gcrmanic races had an excel
! lent knowledge of weaving. The man
tie is a piece of cloth about five and
one half feet long. 1t is five feet wide
at the top and four feet At the bottom
The fabric is of fine wool and its pat
tern is beautiful-aS fine as anything
that is produced today. The action OF
the bog has colored it in dark brown.
/ Probably il was pure white when ii
was worn in the warrier's last battle.
The neither garment is peculiar. 1t is
much like a modern pair of trousers.
1t. roo. is Of fine wool With n smaller
I pattern. and is cut into tongues at the
i lower eXtremitieS. evidently for the
| purpose of meeting under the foot ana
so holding the apparel in position.
| The sandals are cut out of one piece
of skin. At the heel there is a seam
stitched together with sinews, and "A
piece is sewed on above the heel to fit
around the back of the ankle. The up
pers are cut in diamond shaped Sits
and through these are passed the ankle
4 straps. There is a remnant Of hair in
the inside of the sandals. showing that
they must have been cut from hides
| with the hair left on.
| The. work that has been done on the
! clothing is a silent witness to the industry
of the women OF the Ancient Germans
and furnishes a nr0of Of tn" trithfu ness
of the description Of TacitllS. who de
clares that Of all women Of the known
world they took the best care Of the eir
husbands and their households Th-
women went into battle with the men.
not to share in IN. fighting, hut to share
in the danger. Close by them. says
Tacitus. are those dearest To them. :"
that they hear the shrieks Of the women.
the cries of infants. They are to every
man the most sacred witnesses If h's
bravery; they are his most generous ap-
to mother ard wife. VIII" shrink not from
counting ard even demanding them. and
who administer both food and enc0lr ago-
ment to the combatant.
Looking now on the warrior who mas 50
strangely come to us, one wonders what
women were they who cheered mir: on
; nineteen centuries ago, and, maybe, laid
. him into his grave. Were they blue-eyci
and blonde haired like the tall. beautiful
Thusnelda, wife of -Arminius himself .
What arms that have long mingled with
rushed to war? What lips that had van
ished fifteen centuries before America
was discovered. kissed his before he
died? What voices. in what forgotten
, language. eXorted him to do his best.
!, walled over him when he lay wounded.
and prayed the favcr o4 forgotten gods
for his soul when its light went out
in the battle?
| At least he died knowing that his land
was free and that his chiefs and priests
would send bloody retinue to the land
| of Wooden to keep him company The
place where Re buried is at the site
| where the la Il Of the three DAYS fighting
was. Two days before that PubliuS Quin :
titus Narus was the proudest Roman in
| the empire. Lying in Il mighty intrenchcd
| camp by the river Weser he laughed al
the massing of the Germans, and boa stci
that. as he had extended the Roman do
minion To the Weser. so in three days he
would extend it to the furthest limits
held by the rebels.
Before the end OF the day that heard
. the boast, he had been tricked into leav-
ing his camp and the barbarians were
attacking his three legions and his caval-
ry and lis auyiliaries from all sides. Tha
evening the Romans barely managed 10
force their way to clear space to en-
camp for the night. On the next morn
ing they took their march again.
striving now not to conquer ArmniuS
but to reach the Roman fortress of Also
on the Lppe river. But none of them
was to see that refuge. In the middle OF
the TeutOburger forest, in what Is now
. Westphalia, Arminius and his big men
burst on them and slew without mercy.
All that day they chased Romans as ii
| they were deer: and on the next day, in
the very part of the forests that the
Germans used for their temple, came the
| final tragedy. when Varus. with his
leSions crumbled away. and his last
bodyguard being dubbed and hacked to
death. threw himsf on his sword.
Good cause indeed had the Emperor Au-
glStus when he heard the news to cry on
: Varus to give him back his egions. Those
, legionS never We're to return. Six years
afterward. when Germanicus E,arcned in
to the TeutOburger forest to exact re-
venge. he found the evidences of the three
days of lighting and hopeless attempts to
escape the fOreSttrained men who hunted
the Roman soldiers as they hunted the
: beasts OF the wood. He found tine first
nasty camp erected by Narus. IS wide
circumference and its vast central space
showed that ii had been made for three
n leslons. The camp that was made for the
I next night told its own story. 1t was not
large enough to hold two full lcgions.
The entire center of it was snow white
IN. fha tr,t 4 he