The Alaska daily empire., 1914-09-16
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 one of the many towns
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 ,.ouaint little city of Detmold,
 .oital of the principality of Lippe-
 aold. Lippe.Detmold was a very
 .all principality, not larger than one 4 our counties, but until it's absorb. ton it was as important as any in- dependent territory in the whole of Europe. To us the idea of state so small being in a petition to exercise all the functions of government seems ludicrous. one of our states could raise an army large enough to annihilate the Prince and all his subjects, for Detmold had not more than seven thousand inhabitants, but for all that 1t was one of the finest little cities in all Germany. And even yet it wears the quiet digniHed air of Q capital, with it's broad beautiful streets and it's well built houses, and one notes on It's stores the same signs one seea in Berlin, Munich or Vienna.
 Practically everybody in the Elm pire who is in any way connected with the world of business seems to feel that he is personally obliged to serve the Emperor in the way of personal needs, and many and interesting are the explanations offered for the pre- valence of the royal coats of arms which are mounted over every shop door. Little Detmold has it's share, and over her shop doors the princely arms gleam and glitter and give the place a mantle of metropolitanism. Here is the court bookseller, there the court barber, and little farther down the street the court clothier rears his sign.
 And so 1t is all through the city. In the center of the place is the resi- dence palace, a structure which dates from the sixteenth century, whose towers are like those of an old castle, looming large and gray under the green of the vines. The touch of modern times is seen in its windows, and glimpses through their parted curtains tell one that the palace has been refltted and is very beautiful. Before the gates is small public park. and within pace the guards whose duty 1t is to secure his majesty from ntrusion-though perchance If one dared confess the real truth he would find that the place is guarded to give the sentinels something to do.
 In the southern part of the city stands the new palace, which is very beautiful, but which is surpassed by many merchants house in America. The avenues before the building is very broad and lined with trees, and the palace garden is one of rare beauty and is remarkably well cared for.
 Just a little way out of the city of Detmold one enters the famous Teu- toberg Forest, where in the year g AID. three Roman Legions under Varus were lost to the German hero Herman, Prince of the Cherusci. Scarcely a Roman escaped in that other fearful signet of the Teutonic advance, and the soldiers who sur rendered were crucifed, or buried alive, or offered as sacrifices on the altars of the heather gods, The ia bIes furies were not more pitiless than these barbarians against whom the southland warriors moved. Only a very few escaped to tell the dreadful tldings beyond the Rhine and for years the foreign yoke was broken until the serpent of discord in the ma. tive army snatched the great Hermon himself and he fell a victim to the jealous rivalry of another prince.
 This heroic act, coupled with the melancholy fate of his wife and child has made the Cherucan Prince one of the most beloved warriors in the Ger man temple of fame. Many years ago the sculptor Ernst vOn Bandel con ceiyed the idea of erecting colossal statue to Herman on the summit of the Teutorburgian Hills, near the sup posed site of the great victory. The artist devoted the greater part of his life to the task, beginning it in 1888, and the completed monument was un- yelled on August 16th in 1875, It stands upon the Grotenburg, one of the highest peaks of the Teutorburg. ian Hills, and is HOO feet above the level of the sea.
 The static represents Herman with one arm resting on a shield while the other hand holds sword aloft in the air. The height of the pedestal is one hundred feet, the height of the figure fifty-four feet. The height of the swords point above the helmet thirty feet, that is, the statue stands one hundred and thirty feet in all and commands a view of marvellous ex- panse. The cost of the monument was about two hundred and seventy thousand franks.
 Paths lead out from Detmold through the dense forest, and there is a gallery around the monument for the accommodation of visitors, The statue itself can be entered by means of an internal stair case, but on ac- count of the wear and tear on the