Evening journal., 1908-03-28
What | Know About
Delaware Politics and
Other Things
slxTY-sIXTH ARTICLE.
By Washington Hastings


It would make long story by itself and, TO many
old to undertake to tell about all the interesting
things saw in Dresden, one-haf Of them.
One characteristic Of the city which hrst impresses
the visitor the exceeding cleanliness Of the streets and
thorodghfares. In the business portions well as in
he more retired residence sections, and even In neigh
borhoods where extreme poverty finds its dwelling place
the sluns, cali themgangs Of men, with their
nuVes ana proons are constantly TO be seen satherhs
up and loading in barrels fixed little push carts
particle OF superuous matter be found This together
WIN ire sricty enforced rules FOR Keeping the SIDE
walks in good order by the residents makes Dresden
neathess and udness or the habatons and surround
inss in localities where the very poor live is also
markdble Each little house, many Of them only one
story hish and some with only one ROOM had white
curtain hanging at the dminuve window which in
yaraoly decorated with pot of flowers The little chill
uIeh paying IN ule streets-mere lniants-whne IRE
quenty scantiy clad also looked clean comfortable
and happy their countenances betokening that they
were well nourished.
Drescen abounds in places of interest historic and
otherwise From the Kings palace the building Of which
was commenced in the year A. d. 1927 ESQ the nscrip
ton on the wall said) and not finished when
was ere as they We're then building an ADDITION TO IT,
down to nnumerabe little parks and outdoor cafes and
beer gardens with their excellent music and brilliant
hshts hHed with good-natured men, women
and children seated tables and taking their evening
meal Of ssusages and cheese with German
bread and butter or whatever else they liked that their
purses would permit them to indulge in.
These various objects of interesting information and
instruction embrace the Great Garden" immense
park of giant forest trees right in the of the
city, (where one afternoon l King Albert walking
accompanied only by two big dogs) the "Belvdere"
beautiful park high, erraoed hill, overlooking the
river Eibc and the bridge the river that Napoleon
blew up after his army had crossed when he
paignng all this of the country leaving be-
hind him trail Of distress destruction and blood, but in
after years, freer people The Royal Museum of the
palace In the courtyard Of which stand among others
marble statues OF Martin Luther Savaranoa and Abra
ba Lincoln, three Of the worlds benefactors
the Royal Picture Gallery with Raphaers wonderful,
original sistne Madonna and other historic
"od masters-many of which, however had seen years
before with Mark Twains in "Innocens Abroad"
nothing in the railroads or railroad equipment
could be at all favoraby compared for excellence with
those Of the best lines this country and this Inferior
lty particularly noticeable on the road from Dres-
den to Berlin The roadbed rough and uneven the
Locomotives ngHt and apparently "structurallv wea'
(as whitney said about John Roachs vessel and the
carriages as they term them decidedly himsy in
struetiou; with a twsty. zg-zag motion in rounding
thing but comfortable sensation
The valley OF the Ebe appeared so far as the land
was concerned TO be rich and fertile section ana the
work Of cultivation performed the road from
Cologne to Dresden by peasants of both SEXES and All
oges and seemed to be well done Their methods and
practice in farming, however were. our point OF
primitive and out of date and abandoned In This
country fully twenty-five years before. No modern
universally use butthe oidfashoned "sevtbe or sioIes
or cradle instead, and the grain separated from the
husk and saved by readng under horses feet on
the barn-yard hreshing aoor Their nioVs ana bsrrs
and cutvators drawn sometimes by two horses some-
times by one, and sometimes by horse and a mule or
extending up in the air about two feet above collar
OF the animal-of whatever variety combination it
might happen to be-woud have made of our up
o-date Sussex county farmers his head away in
DISGUST and perhaps use language.
Passing cut of Saxony into evidence Of much
less thrift and prosperity quite apparent The
soil under cultivation was thin and the crops
looked backward, while in sections miles and miles
the surface sand producing nothing but stunt,
pine forests 50 thick that stray rabbit would be in
danger Of losing its To fellow passenger native
OF SaNony, who spoke good English. remarked on the
differ enoe in the of things compared with
saxony, and ne replied with vehemence that almost
startled me, that IL because the Prussians were a
n sniiuess low-down good for nothing peope"-those
In further conversation, learned that the animos
intense character existed for generations ben
religously nstlled into the minds Of the children nv
their parents and would probably never die outand for
his part he hoped that it never would And Vet the
people IN those two sections in Germany, wherever the
Wer-Lord sees proper to let slip the dogs Of war"
win rally side by side in defence of the Faherland ,
as they dd before the consolidation Of the Empire when
Bismarck nrst nveiged and then bullied Napoleon III
into which ended in his destruction -