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cWE-RieAN 1NVASION OF THE "RHINE j .iSSfgS1
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COLOGNE. April 16. (Special Corre
spondence.) I write today of the
Rhine. Not the Rhine picturesque,
not the Rhine romantic nor the Rhine of
castles and cathedrals, but the Rhine as
a trade route and as the great water
avenue of the American invasion of Ger
many. During this trip in Europe I have
studied it from its source to its mouth.
I was near its beginning on Mount Saint
Gothard !n Switzerland, I saw It rush
ing past Basel, the head of navigation,
and watched the enormous traffic mov
ing into It from Rotterdam near the sea.
It is 526 miles from Basel to the German
Ocean, and throughout this distance the
Rhine is spotted with towns and cities;
It Is cut by canals, which lead to the
Seine and the Danube, and others which
bring it into connection with the busiest
flection of this busiest of all -the conti
nents. You can get from Hamburg to
the Rhine by canal. The ports of Bel
glum have access to it and a network
of railroads leads out from it to every
quarter of Europe.
The Rhine at Colocne.
Here at Cologne the Rhine is about
1300 feet wide, and it is deep enough for
boats drawing 12 feet of water. The
lall is slight from here to the sea, and
the flow is so slow that it does not Im
pede navigation. A little further south
the river narrows, and In the Seven
Mountains the current is so swift that
the steamers make only a few miles an
hour, and so strong that the banks have
to be walled in with stones almost the
whole way to keep them from washing.
Cologne Is the trade center of the Rhine.
It has about 400.000 people, and Is largely
dependent upon its river trade. It has
built up a great harbor for handling the
traffic, and is now a general transship
ping point for all parts of Europe. Ships
come here from London, Bremen, Ham
burg, Copenhagen and Russia. There are
daily boats to England, and three boats
which run regularly between Cologne and
St. Petersburg.
America on the Rhine.
The most of the goods from the United
States is transshipped at Rotterdam,
Amsterdam, Antwerp or Hamburg, and a
large part of it is sent up the Rhino in
barges. I have spent much time on the
river, now passing rafts of logs and
boards of American lumber, now going
by strings of narrow barges, each 200 or
more feet long, filled with American
wheat, and other barges piled high with
barrels of American petroleum. I have
met a few American travelers and one
or two of our drummers, but the most
of the travel is European, and the most
of our goods go on German and Dutch
boats handled by German importers.
A Great Inland Port.
Cologne is a good place to study the
Rhine traffic. It is the headquarters of
the leading steamship companies. The
trade is carefully watched. It steadily in
SEAWEED IN T) EGOR7VT I V E 7VRT
GREAT VARIETY OF ARTISTIC ORNAMENTS MADE FROM KELP
BY A CALIFORNIA "WOMAN
T IS only within the last few years
that kelp has been used In decorative ;
art, but so rapidly has it advanced in
popular favor that already in several
places on the Pacific Coast there are
whole stores devoted to kelp work, and no
curio store Is complete without something
In this line. Crude indeed were the first
attempts to utilize this sea product, so
tantalizingly suggestive of possibilities, so
elusive when one sought to give the
thought a visible form. First to appear
upon he market were elf-like faces paint
ed upon small kelp pods, and peering out
tinder tho broad brim of a paper som
brero or from among the shadows cast by
a poke-bonnett These were mounted on
cards bearing some appropriate verse and
cold as souvenirs. Painfully amateurish
In every way. yet they marked the advent
of a new Industry.
After them came the brownies. China
men and mermaids, dressed in kelp leaves
of different colors, more artistic because
more harmonious, but still lacking much
that Is essential to true art
Then some ingenious woman discovered
a way of curing the undried kelp and out
of the larger bulbs were moulded all sorts
of Jugs, jars, candlesticks and vases ri
valing in form old Indian pottery. The
color greenish brown and the glaze
which the curing process gave aided the
delusion, and It was hard to believe, until
one handled them, that they were not
specimens of some antique earthenware.
Yet they had neither history nor use,
while the crudest piece of Indian pottery
has both. So although they readily found
admirers among the lovers of the curious.
the -general public felt that the work still
lacked tho Inner meaning, the thought, the
soul.
Ploacercd Kelp in Decoration.
It remained for a resident of San Diego
to establish the industry on an enduring
basis and to make good its claim to rank
among fine arts. "When only IS years old,
Ruth Sllbery. the daughter of a sailor,
commenced experimenting in the possibili
ties of kelp. Her artist's soul, longing for
expression, found in lt a material ready
lor her hand, and never did a medium
yield itself with more abandonment to
the will of a master. "What wonder, then,
that there ehould grow np in the heart of
Ink Coast child a love for the kelp such
STItEB i'-CAKS SELL PASSES.
creases from year to year, and it now
approximates a million tons annually.
Something like 4000 passenger boats call
at Cologne every year, and the freight
boats number many hundreds There are
also sailing vessels, and an -enormous traf- j
nc -o ius ana Darges. m with great stone blocks and paved with
I saw my first Rhine barges at Rotter- . cobbles. Bridges connect It with the rail
dam. They are built for the narrow parts roads and the cars are brought right to
of the river, and are. I venture, the long- , the boats and loaded and unloaded with
est boats made In proportion to their I great steel cranes. There are custom
width. The average barge Is about 15 feet j houses on the Island with bonded ware
wide and 200 Or 300 feet long. It looks like houses, and the facilities are such that
a great black eel as It Is towed up the ' scores of barges and boats can be handled
river. At the back of It Is a little cabin, at one time.
with a stovepipe sticking out of its roof, j T walked along upon tnIs lsIand j
and about midway is a hinged mast so j saw a barge unloading South Carolina
2?. CSi? h? raed nd lower at ! Pine. The boards were built out over the
the bridges. Each barge has a rudder. sldes of tne oarge that It seemed to
sometimes so large that It is moved by , De a plle of lumDer 100 feet wide. 200 feet
a horizontal cog wheel pushed around by j long. lo fect hIgh It nad been towed
the sailors. , Up from Rotterdam by a steam tug. and
on many of the barges families of boat- when x saw it the hydraulic cranes were
men live. You see the washing hanging j llftinff up 100 boardg at a time and drop
on the line, the women cooking at the ; plng tnera onto tne cars whlcn were to
sterns of the boats and the little ones ff,v tVinm tn ih. infrinr
, playing about over the cargo.
The PnnscnRer Bnnl ncmi. ;
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The Rhine has an immense passenger ;
business during the season. This is now I
at its beginning, and it will continue until
late in the Fall. There are two great j
passenger companies which have regular j
daily services to Mainz and Cologne and j
Dusseldorf. They are doing well, paying
regular dividends of 6 per cent and over. I
Their stocks are considered safe invest
ments, and they, are bought and sold on
the exchange. i
It Is not the foreign travel, however,
that makes the boats pay. That is enor
mous, it is true, but it is nothing in com
parison with the local traffic. The Rhine
Is one almost continuous village. There
are towns everywhere near the river and
back from it. except in the most moun
tainous parts, and on holidays the boats
are crowded, and, as the fares are cheaper
than these of the railroads, the every
day travel is great. A difference In weath
er makes a big difference In the profits of j
the companies. This is especially so as
to foreign traffic A cold "Whitsuntide
means there will be no trafflc from Lon
don, and a cold season may cut down the
dividends more than 1 per cent. There are
now about 100 steamboats on the Rhine,
and the average number of passengers ex
ceeds 1.000.000 a year.
Traveling Is comparatively Inexpensive,
and, strange to say, it costs less to go
up the stream than down it. It takes
only a day to see the most beautiful part
of the river, and you can have a round
trip ticket at reduced rates. Each passen
ger Is allowed 100 pounds of baggage free,
a small charge being made for loading and
discharging the trunks. All the steamers
have eating accommodations on them, and
the food Is quite as good as on similar
boats at home. At 1 o'clock there Is a
table d'hote dinner, which costs 75 cents,
with reduced rates for children. Breakfast
and supper are also served.
Nearly all the Rhine towns are growing
and are steadily Improving their port ar
rangements. You see cranes on the land-
as the sculptor feels for his marble, the
poet for tho creation of his brain?
In the light of results one gives ready
credence to her claim of being pioneer
along this line.
Treated by some process the secret of
which is Jealously guarded, the kelp Is
given all the pliability of leathert and the
natural colors ranging from deep browns
to delicate cream are preserved.
In some of the articles the kelp cannot
be distinguished by the eye from a piece
of kid. In others it has the soft texture
of velvet, and again lt Is given the ap
pearance of a piece of bark or wood.
"Whether these different qualities are the
result of nature, accident or premeditated
art is known to the artist only, and she
does not tell. Her skillful fingers repro
duce in kelp every effect that can be
obtained in burnt wood, leather or birch
bark, besides many others possible to
kelp alone.
Some of the Products.
There are plaited belts, In which the
soft, white cf the inner lining is combined
with the rich natural browns and which
are warranted to outwear belts of leather;
there are walking sticks covered with
rough, dry kelp so Ingeniously that none
would doubt lt to be their natural bark,
the knob being a sailor's knot made from
the kelp's fibrous roots; there are vases,
teapots, jars, each fashioned from a sin
gle piece. One exquisite vase has a pure
white calla springing from its base, with
the foliage circling the stem of the vase
In a manner which Is a triumph of artistic
skill, securing grace without destroying Its
semblance to nature.
The witches' cauldron reminds one of
the elaborate pieces often seen In bronze.
In the background Is the witch. Just in
the act of dropping a bug into the pot
Twisted vine-like stems produce the ef
fect of a forest out, of which peep tiny
kelp demons alert with interest In the
brewing charm.
Figures made from the kelp rival In
naturalness and' beauty those familiar
ones made by the Mexicans. There is the
dusky dude, whose white waistcoat has all
the appearance and luster of satin; the
sailor, the Chinaman, and, perhaps, most
ingenious of all, the rubberneck, so called
because the head is attached to a piece
of rubber, whfch allows it to be pulled
up a short distance, while pennies and
other coins are dropped into the hollow
body: for the rubberneck Is not Intended
for ornament only, but is in reality a
savings bank. The body, made from a
huge kelp stem, suggests a flowing robe,
and stands on & firm flat base, Snow-
THE SU1STAY
JUXGSTRASSE,
ing places, at many small towns, all the
cities have wharves, and the busy scenes
upon them shows that this part of Ger
many Is industrially alive.
The port of Cologne Is formed by an
Island In the river. This has been walled
Near bv were other barsres loadinir roods
for the United States, and I was told that
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COLOGNE IS THE
white hands are arranged in attitudes to
match the expression of the face painted
on the ball-shaped head. A pointed collar
surrounds the open neck of the stalk, and
on this the head rests, like a stopper in a
bottle, held in place by a piece of rubber
fastened on the Inside.
Something: New in Baskets.
Every part of the figures is made from
kelp, and as one studies the . contrasts
In color, the differences In texture which
are produced, one feels that he Is Indeed
in the presence of a master artist and
that kelp is quite as suitable a medium lor
expressing thought as paint or marble. In
one beautiful frame the natural colors
have, at will, been preserved, extracted
or shaded until a scene has been repro
duced quite as effective as any ever seen
in burnt wood.
And then the baskets in form, color and
weaving they rival Indian art They are
not imitation Indian baskets. They are
original both In stitch and design, the
basket of the 20th century.
There are baskets made of the kelp bulb
In its natural shape cut to represent a
flower with its petals, laced together with
slender thongs and others woven of nar
row strips of kelp, the white and brown
effectively combined.
Some of the woven baskets have for
their bottom a circular piece of kelp, and
on these beautiful designs are made by
clipping off the brown surface and expos
ing the white, that lies beneath.
The first attempt to bring this work be
fore the public was made in 1S94, and a
history of the years since then would read
like a novel. It is the story of a young
girl's struggle against opposition, -against
treachery, and with imitators. Her ar
tistic soul hungering to create beauty for
beauty's sake, yet forced by circumstances
to keep ever In view the necessity of mak
ing each hour's work bring its equivalent
In dollars and cents. Hampered by lack
of capital, and without influential friends,
but always persevering and bravely strug
gling upward, she has at last gained a
foothold In the business world.
Financial Result.
For several years Mrs. Bauer's work
has been on sale at Catallna as well as
in San Diego, and this season she and
her husband have opened a branch estab
lishment at Long Beach.
At present the work is done chiefly by
Mrs. Bauer, her mother and sister a man
to gather the kelp and a man and girl in
the weaving department being their only
assistants, but as soon as the patent ap
plied for is obtained another light, agree
OREGOSIAN, PORTLAND,
COLOGXE, MADE OX SITE OP OLD WALL.
something like $2,000,000 worth of goods are
annually shipped from here to our coun
try Another big Rhine center is Dusseldorf,
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about 2 hours by steamer down stream.H
It Is the chief port of Westphalia, an
enormous industrial region underlaid with
coal and iron. Dusseldorf Itself has iron
and steel works, foundries, furnaces and
rolling mills. It makes railroad cars and
electrical equipments, and the same is
true of Cologne.
Dusseldorf Is also the port for many
other towns near by, and does a great
business in selling American machine
tools, Carolina pine and some of our best
hardwoods. It takes a great lot of Cali
fornia fruit, and has until recently Im
ported considerable iron and steel tubing,
although this Is now furnished by Ger
many. It is from there that a large part
of the Krupp shipments go out, including
those to the United States, which ara
heavy.
Up the Rhine above Cologne there are a
number of important ports, and espe
cially Coblenz, Mainz and Mannheim. I
am surprised at the size of Mainz. It Is
RHINE TRADE-CENTER FOR AMERICAN GOODS.
able and profitable employment and one
peculiarly attractive to women will be
open. .
The name kelp Includes many varie
ties of seaweed, ranging from the tiny
egg-shaped pods growing on a flat rlb-bon-llko
stem and their sisters of broader
base and sharply pointed tops, to the gi
gantic species whose hundred feet of
stem measures several Inches In diameter
and whoso bulbs are larger than a man's
head.
It Is this larger rubber-like variety that
furnishes the material for most of Mrs.
Bauer's work, and In her subjugation of
it she has proved herself a scientist as
well as an artist, for no sooner is lt cast
upon the sand than lt becomes a tenement
for swarming Insect life, and left to Itself
decays so rapidly that it has the appear
ance of melting beneath the sun.
GEORGINE T. BATES.
Pasadena, Cal., April 23.
A Serious Defect.
Paderewskl Josefty Fortissimo Leo
Was the greatest pianist you ever did see;
He rendered' fantasias, gavottes and cantatas,
Cadenra and overtures, fugues and sonatas.
He could nlay like the sweep of a rushing
cyclone,
Or as softly and low as the south wind's faint
moan.
He knew all the works of Beethoven and LI sit.
Of "Wagner and Chopin not one had he missed.
He ' gained honors and laurels wherever he
went,
And he knew ho deserved them, so ho was
content
But his pride, had a fall, for one Summer day
A dear little girl came to hear this man play;
And she said, as he turned politely to greet
her,
"Please, sir, -can you play, 'Peter, Peter, pump
kin eaterT " ,
He was deeply chagrined, and he felt very blue.
But he meekly replied, "2So, I can't, dear; can
you?"
"Oh.,yes," she responded.. She flew to the keys,
"With her two fat forefingers she played it with
ease;
And. she afterwards said, "I would ra,therbe
me
Than Paderewskl Josefry Fortissimo Xee."
" Judge.'
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Heart Sacrifice. .
If I had loved him less, perhaps
I do not know, one cannot know
He might have loved me more, and T
Should not have felt within me grow
The crying loneliness, which comes
To women's hearts that love and wait
In longing, hopeless hopefulness.
Outside the unpermlttlng gate.
And yet. if I had lored bun less,
I should not know one could not know
The rapture of love's sacrifice. .
Those fires, through ashes, always glow
To light the long, hard way that leads
The faltering spirit up to see
The Infinite unselfishness
"Which saved mankind on Calvary.
William J. Laaapton, la Xay Ssaarjt Set
MAY 3, 1903.
growing like a green bay tree, and now
has more than 100,000 population. It is sit
uated where the Main flows into the
Rhine, and gets the traffic of both rivers.
It was so rich in the past that it was
colIed ..Golden Malnj: nd lt w at one
time the leader of the league of Rhenish
towns, lormed during the middle ages to
boom the trade of this region. Today it is
overshadowed by Frankfort, but lt has. an
Increasing trade.
Mannheim, still further up the Rhine, at
the mouth of the Keckar, might be called
an American trade center. It has enor
mous imports of American grain, coal oil
and tobacco, and Is the headquarters for
the transshipment of American goods. The
Diamond Match Company, the Standard"
Oil Company and the Pure Oil Company
have plants there and our leading export
ers of all kinds have their agencies.
Mannheim is the head of Rhine naviga
tion for large boats and the chief point of
distribution for grain, cotton, coal oil,
lumber and coal. Over 16,000 boats unload
at Its docks every year and its freight
runs up Into the millions of tons, It is a
great commercial center. Its banks having
a' capital of $0,000,000. It is also a manu-
TVDE'S FABLE IN SLANG
NE Day a lowly Steam-Fitter, who
received only TO cents an Hour for
Filling his Pipe, was sent to do a
Job of Repairing in the Palatial Residence
of a Syndicate Mogul.
"While he was hammering merrily at his
Task, trying to fill out an S-hour Day,
the Lady of the House came and watched
him. Her Heart was touched with great
Pity for any Man who still had his Ap
pendix and whose Picture had never ap
peared In the Sunday Papers. So she had
the Butler bring some Charlotte Russe
for the humble Toiler. After which he
borrowed one of her gold-tip Cigarettes
and gave her a few Minutes of his Time,
In spite of the Fact that she did not be
long to the Union.
"This is a Swell Joint you've got here.J
Lady," said the Steam-Fitter. "The only
thing that makes me Sore Is to think
that all of this Hot Dog you're throwin
on comes out of the Pockets of poor,
hard-workin Guys, such as me."
"Ion wrong us," .said the Great Lady,
in a Tone of Gentle Sadness. "My Hus
band never flim-flams the poor laborer. All
that he has he made by Shifting the Cut
on the small Stockholders. "We are much
Interested In the "Working Classes and
wish to establish a free Lecture Course,
so that the Poor may learn all about An
thropology. "Very often I go and sing Solos
at Mission Entertainments, but in spite
of this my poor Husband Is pictured as a
hungry Octopus, who has taken a death
grip on the Consumer."
"I'd hate to be a Corporation Director,"
said the Steam-Fitter. "The Mug that
controls a Million Bucks ain't got a friend
on Earth except the People who happen
to be with him at the time. All the Con
gressmen throw Bricks at him. and the
Editorial "Writers toast him to a Crisp.
The Rainbow Weeklies put hhn In Car
toons as having four Chins and a "Waist
Measurement of 52, whereas all the
Money-Getters I ever spotted were as thin
as rails and looked as if they had to live
on Tea and Toast. Bat the "Worklngman!
He's thfr Boy that gets all the Violets.
"When they put me into a Cartoon they
make me out to be a handsome Charley
with my Sleeves rolled up and a set of
'Muscles that would make Jeffries ashamed
of himself. I aiways wear a dinky Paper
Cap and a full growth of Presbyterian
whiskers. Every time I see a Picture of
the Americas "Worklngman in three Col
ors, I'm glad that I'm sot a low-down
UNLOADING AMERICAN GOODS
facturlng city, making dye stuffs and
chemicals, corks and cars, beer and glass
bottles, agricultural implements, pianos,
cocoanut butter, cigars and a scoro of
other things. Its analine dye plant is the
largest in the world, its exports to the
United States alone amounting to $100,000
a month. It has 4000 men in Its chemical
works, 1400 workmen in Its comb and doll
factories and other thousands making
wood pulp, which, steange to say, lt ex
ports to the United States. It also sends
us patent leather to the value of some
thing like $1,000,000 a year, and at the
Bame time buys a few American shoes. It
uses American tobacco and makes mil
lions of cigars every week, which are
shipped to all parts of Germany.
.Nerr German Tovras.
These Rhine towns are among the new
est of the German cities. This statement
seems strange when one remembers that
they thrived in the days of the crusaders.
Cologne was founded about the time that
Caesar overran Gaul. It was so rich dur
ing the middle ages that Instead of saying
"as rich as Croesus" they said "as rich
as a cloth merchant of Cologne," and It
has been an important town from that
time until now.
And still it is a new town! Since the
Franco-Prussian war lt has been almost
rebuilt. The old wall has been torn away,
and a wide street, paved with asphalt,
with trees In the center and rldeways and
driveways oh each side, has taken Its
place. New houses have been erected
along this street, and. Indeed, the whole
city looks as though It were put up for
show. It is only in the older sections that
you find antique structures, and the cathe
dral, although begun centuries ago, was
only completed along In the '80s. It Is
now the finest cathedral In Europe, and
cost, all told, a little lees than $3,000,000.
Dusseldorf Is also a new town, and there
are new buildings all along the Rhine, In
cluding the villas of the rich, which have
grown up under the shadows of mediaeval
castles.
The Rhine cities are new In their sys
tems of government. Municipal ownership
Is coming to the front along the old river.
There Is much city pride, and but little
boodllng. Dusseldorf owns Its own gas
and electric light plants. It has public
bathhouses, where you can get at cost a
Turkish or Russian bath, first, second or
third class. It has Its own slaughter
houses and market-houses and Its own
Ico plants and cold-storage establish
ments. The municipality acts also as a
wlno merchant, selling wine by whole
sale, and making a profit off of It It
has a municipal savings bank, with a
pawnbroklng attachment, and also homes
for the aged and those who are too feeble
to earn their own living.
Dusseldorf owns its street-cars and so
does Cologne, and the fares in both cities
are just about half what they are In the
United States and the accommodations
equally good. My car fares cost me about
$5 a month, or 5C0 a year, while at home
in "Washington. In Dusseldorf I could
have the same for just half and save 530.
Here In Cologne one can buy a yearly
pass good on all lines for $30, monthly
passes are sold for $2.33 and the ordinary
1 fare for the longest distance is 3 cents,
OF MISDIRECTED SYMPATHY AND THE
STEAMFITTER
Capitalist I may not handle as much
Coin as some of the Shell-Workers that J
hang out in Wall street, but any time
that I feel discouraged all I have to do is
dig up my 30 Cents and go to a Variety
Show and then I find out that I am the
only true-hearted and honest American,
except the gallant Volunteer. The very
best Friend that Union Labor has in this
Country is the Vawdyville Artist who
works 28 -Minutes a Day for 51T5 a Week."
"Still, with your restricted Income, you
cannot seek tho elevating Influences of
our kind of Society," said the Lady of the
House. "That must grind you a good deal,
especially If you have Children growing
up. I can imagine that it would be hard
lines to know that your Offspring have
no Social Careers awaiting them."
"Me and my Wife lay awake Nights and
cry about it," said the Steam-Fitter. "We
thought for a while we might save up and
buy Jimmy an Auto, but when we looked
in the Catalogue we found that the Price
was 14000. So we decided It he wanted
to practice Homicide it would be cheaper
to get him on the Police Force. Being too
poor to send him to a University, we let
him take Lessons at a Boxing- Academy,
and now, w,hen any one starts a Rough
House, he is almost as handy as a regu
lar Student. He can smoke Egyptian
Cigarettes -and blow the Smoke through
his Nose and give me the Laugh when I
call him down, and so I feel that we have
accomplished by Home Training what
might have been expected from a College
Course. As for Vivian, our bright-eyed
little Daughter, she Is the zippiest High
Flyer that speeds the Boulevard. When
it comes to French Heels and the long
Straight Front and all klnd3 of Blouse
hanging in front of her, she can make the
average Society Bud look like a bum Imi
tation. She has one of those wig-wag
Walks the kind that -makes People jump
off of the Sidewalk. Of course, she Is
only the Daughter of an Obscure Steam
Fltter, but let me give you a Pointer.
Tou can't tell by lookln at one of these
Fairies nowadays what kind of Clothes
her Father wears. When it comes to
Lugs, I can't see that the Heiress has any
Bulge on the simple Working Girl. As
for butting Into the Social Swim, she has
a Scheme all framed up, by which she
expects to become acquainted with all of
the gold-plated Johnnies who Infest the
Municipality. She is going on the Stage
"to be a Show GIrL She says that the
Debutante seldom has more than one on
her Staff, while the Show Girl can. take,
her Pick of a large Bunch. So you see
that la these Days of Public Schools and
cheap Readiag Matter and custom-made
AT COLOGNE.
while the shortest distance coats lesa than
2 cents. -Children under 10 years pay
less than 2 cents, and students attending
educational Institutions have commuta
tion tickets for 11-5 cents. The chief ad
vantage that the railroads here have over
those at home Is in the lower wages for
motormen and other employes, for coal,
steel rails and car equipments must cost
about the same. As to wages, motormen
receive 83 cents and conductors about 72
cents for a day of ten hours, and other
employes are proportionately cheap.
It is wonderful how the Rhine Valley Is
cultivated. For the greater part of the
distance between Cologne and Mainz it
is very hilly, but every Inch of available
space is used. The mountains are ter
raced In places, the earth being held in
with walls of stones, and some of It, I am
told, carried up from the lowlands on the
backs of women' and men. Some of the
patches are no larger than a bed quilt, and
a field a yard wide will run a long dis
tance around a hill or up a mountain.
This Is especially so In the vine-growing
regions, which are in the most mountain
ous parts of the valley. The land Is so
rough that all cultivation must be with
the hoe or the spade, and hence back
breaking. The grapes are planted In row3
running up and down hllL Each vine has
its ' own stake, and lt is cut down to a
central stem or stump every year. All
along the river under such vineyards are
little towns of one or two-story houses
with roofs of slate or tiles. There are no
houses In the vineyards, the most char
acteristic buildings being the white stone
castles high up on the sides of the moun
tains. The soil is carefully handled. It Is fer
tilized and so treated that although lt has
been producing for centuries It still yields
abundantly. I expected to find Rhine
wines on the Rhine very cheap, but the
beet are exceedingly dear. The prices
rise and fall according to the season,- .for
sometimes the crop is short, causing a
general rise.
One of the best wine regions Is that of
the Rhelngau, which runs for about 15
miles along the river. It Is here that the
Johannesberger wines are produced. They
come from about 55 acres of vineyards,
being made from the best grapes raised
on that area.
The Idea prevails in the United States
that the Germans drink only beer. This
Is not true. They consume vast quanti
ties of wine, and their wines on the aver
ago are good. Every city has scores of
wine restaurants, and many hotels have
their wine restaurants and beer restau
rants side by side. The difference Is that
anything ordered In the wine restaurant
costs considerably more than the same
thing in the beer restaurant Even beer
costs more if taken In the wine restau
rants. The people often drink wine with
their meals, and it is a common thing to
carry wine along with a lunch on the cars.
As to beer, lt takes the place of water
among young and old, and no one thinks
anything strange of children drinking It.
I .saw a school teacher bring 30 school
children into a restaurant the other day.
He ordered dinner for them, and each
had her pint glass of beer.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
(Copyright, 1903.)
COMEBACK OF THE LOWLY
Imitations, even the most Humble can
occasionally make a Bluff at being the
Real Thing. So long as my Children
hoot at my Suggestions and tell me every
Day where to get off or how to back
over the Dump, Papa will not be alto
gether discouraged in regard to their So
cial Careers. In fact, the only thing that
worries me Is the Fear that I won't be
able to keep up with them."
"I am glad to find you so Philosophical,"
said the Millionairess. "After reading
several Books written by College Profes
sors who disguised themselves as Labor
ers and went and lived among the down
trodden Masses, I have supposed that a
Steam-Fitter was a rather gloomy Propo
sition." "Why should I be gloomy? The formal
Dinner Party is the Champion Gloom-Factory,
and I never have to go near one of
them. I don't have to wear my Intel
lect to a Frazzle keeping up with Pop
ular Novels. When a Foreign Musician
or a Lady with a new System of Cul
turitis bobs up on the Horizon, I don't
have to go chasing around, letting on
that I am interested. Tou never see me
at once of these punk Amateur Perform
ances, applauding the Bank Accounts.
Nobody expects me to make any Calls,
and I never drink Tea except when I want
it The Scandal Sheet3 never show up my
Family History, and as far as I can learn,
my Wife never hired a Detective to watch
me. It is true that sometimes I find
nothing on the Menu except Corned Beef
and what goes with it, but I tear into
it with an appetite thpt would be worth
$3,000,000 to Rockefeller at this Minute.
And now, Lady, according to the Rules of
the Union, I must knock oft Xor today,
as It Is 5 o'clock."
"Tour story has interested me," said
the Lady of the House. "I should Like
to visit your Family and write a Paper
on the Home Life of the Tollers."
"I'm sorry we can't have you," was the
Reply. "Tou Society Ducks don't care
who you Invite; but I'm an Officer of the
Union, and I'll queer myself if I begin
to associate with the disreputable Rich.
Tou'll have to put up with your own
Kind."
Moral: The Wealthy have nothing left
except Money.
(Copyright, 1S03.)
All. iu the Family.
Philadelphia Press.
"All you people of this congregation,"
said the self-willed minister, "are entirely
too stubborn. Tou're Tegular mulea,"
"Ah yes." replied the mild meaVer,
"now I understand why yon always ad
drees us as 'Dear Brethren.'"