The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-11-12
ANOTHER LETTER
FROM GERMANY
ALBERT HUME WRITES SEC
OND LETTER CONCERNING
HIS EUROPEAN TRIP.
Plymouth Boy Describes Life in
German City-Has Engaged in
His Studies.
Leipsig. Germany, Oct. 10.

| closed my last letter on board tn
steamship Neckar on Friday, Oct. .
just as we were entering the Eng isl
annel On Monday afternoon ",
landed at Bremen hafen and sool
found a train leaving for Gottingen
where we arrived about ten in tie ev
ening and found our friends, Mr. anC
Mrs Petit waiting at the station q
receive us. Ii was delightful to res
in their home which we did for tw,
.days. They came on to Leipsig VIII
lis giving us much help in thi.
strange land with other Language
and other customs than those We
know
The country around Bremen haier
As one comes in by boat is low like
Holland, they say. Before we ca n,
10 the landing we could see Holstcir
cattle grazing on the shore. The
green pastures looked abundant ans
the little fields and farms looked lik>
many very comfortable gardens. Blu;
after one leaves Bremen hafen the
country soon becomes more hilly and
fewer and fewer cattle appear in
pastures
Farther inland about Gottingen
and here about Leipzig we. are told
no cattle are turned out to pasture
but all feed is curt and carried to them
because land is too valuable; they can
BE fed cheaper by soiling.
1t did not take long to pass the
customs at Bremen hafen. Our stuff
was carried off the boat by the stew
ards into a long station room where
every fellow claimed his own. Our.
did not invite close scrutiny and So
were soon sent on to Leipzig and
were here the other day when we
wanted them.
One week ago we were on Tile road
safe enough to be sure. though in
dark strange land Tonight we
a~e in our little home-by our own
tireside-beside our own supper
able. from which, truth TO tell. the
Ii, tie, blue, German dishes are no
yet cleared away.
We found this four-roorn fiat last
Thursday toward evening, after hunt
ng all day We got the lease and
paid rent for quarter. The price
900 marks FER year. \ mark IS q
raction less than twerty-four cents
0 500 a year will cover our rem,
This pays also water rent and stoves
funny tile stoves are built into boJl
! hen and sitting rool.: We have
i,oal brickettes iof fuel rhat cos;
about one half more per ton than
,oal in the United STATES.
Oct. 20
This is the day long looked towarl
the day for entrance - the UnIvef
sity. /; mas been crowded with in
.idenS--wh;ch sometime seemed tc
threaten accident. No boy in tht
grades was ever more anxious les,
lie fail TO pass" than was a certain
nan waiting to have audience with
The Powers. One gruff professor
asked me where / was from-wanted
D see my certificates and c1eered me
ssarirg it was his opinion | nigh
never be eligible to come up Tor ex-
animation at Leipzig Univers ~
Then he sent me away TO another
after waiting long | had tie inter
view. He allowed me some crumbs
Of encouragement which | Joyously
accepted. | FASTENED to Prof. Pfeffer
who graciously gave me TIE one re
manning place in the laboratory and a
seat in his lecture room. Myself
studying with the great Pfeffer
whose name has sounded like a far
off dream. Maybe | can secure 4
seat under Profs. Beckmann and Cor
REM. They are hard 10 reach. but
now | have Prof. Pfeffer am not
so uneasy and can fight Tor the rest.
Tomorrow afternoon ! am to go TO
he Senatsalle TO get what cores
ponds TO the right hand of fellow
ship.
While waited in the great court
OF the University Building | saw on
the east wall a wonderful painting
wonderful TO me, that is all | know
about it. Great dark ragged rocks
are piled mountain high Beyond :
the sunny pleasant plain. An III
protected man with torch in AIS
iand, alone, scales the rocks He
might have come by way OF the plain
and he. himself would hardly know
why he did not.
1t is all written Their. in his face
like a wonderful story that cannot
&c told in words. He will scale the
rocks and learn the dep.h OF painful
JOY and poyful pain that cannot be
known by those who do not look
10 the hills"
Write a lot OF letters and ask our
friends. They will be appreciated
you may guess. Our days here have
begun and they viii end.
A Birthday Dinner.