| Show mm OF A POET where goethe compose a faustus IN CELLAR what one of the cultured boys from utah sees goes tore historic correspondences Correspondence 1 we are seated in the old historic Auer Auerbach bachs fl cellar the old church bells bella have just jagt struck twelve without all is eilent allent except the clapping of an occasional mail hors homsta Is shoes upon the the hideous laugh of some half drunken hoodlum within can scarcely ba b hoard heard a word and the waiters lest they pollute the silence of these underground haunts whose at 4 since the time of goethe seems eema to inspire one ona with strange inge fancies moye move around as if in fear of calling forth the groat great personification of the evil one from hla his hiding biding place it will be remembered that the great german writer goetha laid the scene of his popular piece dr faustus in this room here the faustus of tradition arose from the fusion of the primitivo primitive conceptions a compact with the evil one and a subjugation of the infernal powers by intellectual preeminence pre eminence the th op ophilua hilus was made the personification and cyp typical ical example ot the evil one hero hera germanys germanas Germ anys gret greatest test poet he whose nature responded to every in fluence finance of df passing emotion and like a delicate harp was silent if not touched and yet gave its music to every wooing of the willful wind times perhaps unnumbered chatted with his bis distinguished friends and sipped at the wine glass beneath these quaint old arches have dingis priests warriors historians his and politicians quaffed quaff ed on the right stands standa the stool oven graced by the bemerer william 1 I and opposite sat th tb great bismarck in this corner schiller received soma eoma fanciful fani ful later matured into pearls of thought now daily dropping from the tongues of his bis many admirers in the far end of tha th 5 room stands a huge base barrel on which tradition says dr faustina rode up the staircase and away under the direct command of satan four hundred years have added to its in interest immediately behind it is the table on which perhaps fairies danced as aa the ivil evil ono one bored a hole therein from which by magic wine issued forth to suit bait the demands and haats casts of the gay company A cool mouldy bouldy draft as aa if coming comina from some eoma deserted mining tun tan nelse nel eta our curiosity at work now imagination there is is much to be done I 1 here are the scenes the remains remaina the surroundings that inspired great minds to soar boar in fairy lan lands da and see the strong fall victims to the be beaudu autu we need the imagination of a rees to properly connect th the e cold realities and meaningless objects as they here exist with the fanciful characters that are eaid arkid to have glided around these chilly corridors corn dora let us enter the tunnel nothing of import importance anco greets us we see nothing bun buc the shadows of ourselves amid the weak flicker fl ick eringa ings of the candle step lifter after ittel and rod it tod r vals nothing but generates in us the desire to know its object was it an underground escape could it have led to some torture chamber was it jam employed as were the catacombs cata combs of egypt t as a resort of safety and seclusion for the persecuted saints at last have bare we reacted the end after two blocks travel could f ascend where would we be we would find bursel ourselves ves stand ing ice face to the shrine the pulpit the sacred acred sanctuary of the church in which students itu dents who are sent to the university of leipzig pay reverence to 10 their maker Inthe in the dava days of papal su supremacy lemac it yih was found very convenient jor for tha priests to have an aa underground dark ened pathway leading froni from their sacred vessels e as els to the sparkling glasses of aner rv bachs cellar Isit 18 it possible thae tha any out of the thirty thousand students thit that came cam e here when the brej areat t university was moved to this city from prague could have hava 1 found the th trail la Is it not cot probable that out of go BO many some found such behavior ancone inconsistent basat with thi tha teti leaching ching they received at their gotberg kneet today as aa the fruits bf stench such christianity we nod find a generation of infidels and atheists sent here bare to preach the tha gospel wa can fina no ho bearing no listeners because the people have hava drawn their conclusions concerning priests and religionists from buch premises prem iaea it little wonder th that t imaginary goiri boisits ts e fanciful fairies demons devils devila ange angea Is and monsters mon itera found babi habitation tation in the tha imaginations of many of the of these underground parlors for four hundred years the elect of germany have congregated here to drink their wine and every tourist who may have bavo read goethen Go ethea works eels asels that ho he has baa not seen this city without decena docen J ding inz their sieps a and d viewing the paintings the objects object a the hair the handwriting i ind and the Dic pictures tures of that german baake S bako speare who is 13 called the appointed teacher of ages yet et unborn martin luther and his hii thou thon are quoted as having g been among the distinguished visitors here the identical cell cellar arbas baa d done one z a finz business bu Biness in wines blues bines ani year to vleit it under circumstances to makl it the most interesting ope op must coma about the lonely midnight hours when tradition says tho spirits formerly made their appearance the walls walla and coil ceil ings acs are decorated with paintings of scenes cenea in I 1 dr faustus and everything within the cellar is in intended to create a thirst for the writing of goethe to 10 I 1 whom the place owes is present kopul arity we little realize in a city ft 6 thousand years year old that has existed through the dark wms aa when lenoraa cs was waa an attribute attrib uto 07 of the populace and the great secrets of learning were con can fined to th the a few elect in a city that had witnessed the therise rise and aalf fall of ci kingdom kingi lows jl tile the alternation of wicked and merciful mercil nl ruling of thi prosperity and adversity of peoples I 1 fay we little litja know of the various uses that haye bijo been made mide of 01 the ground on which we tread thousands here today do not know that thai the oldean church in the city founded in A D 1 1229 is ia tied to Auerba Auer bachs elis cellar by a tunnel and still more decline to be convinced that dr faustus did n not ot actually ride ia a bucking barrel of wine out of this place and around the cit city citrin yin in obedience to the abe command and power of evil spirits As schiller immortalized wm tell goetha gave to faustus and these wine rooms an everlasting name history gives a faustus its CB a living being but the faustus of goethe is purely imaginary a personification ft character though as in the case of william till many of the heros at tributes were pro probably bably first found la in in a livina character ai le let t that ahat be as it may wo we see fee around us G maio maso nary of almost live hundred years endurance and whose popularity has brought here some of the most renowned men the world has ha avei veen been ali writes y rite our oar names me in the re gitter mid leave with a an in creased creaked b hanger ung e r for more of the inc incidents of germanys germanas Germ anys Iii history story and gl keener desire to read the tha works of schiller and goethe the mid midnight night hour has baa revealed no spiritual manis manbo feB tationa E W R LEIPZIG do de 9 1893 |
