Show W L I 1 F E IN I 1 EI P 7 1 G k tiie rhe journal correspondent with goethe G ft I 1 h 0 and Se sewiller biller A VISIT TO CELLAR older than american civilization is this famous underground resort of the germans EDITOR JOURNAL A cellar what can be of interest about a cellar that is the question that eliat bothered the minds of ny my 1 companion and self from the first time we heard the nanie name mentioned until wo we learned that it was a wine cellar but this little bit of information caused our I 1 minds only more bother this time we wb were troubled with a desire to visit the cellar this desire grew 0 upon us until one night near the hour of twelve wo we could res resist i st it no longer we soon found the cellar it is ii entered from one of the busiest streets in leipzig every body in this country knows the place why bihy ihy they it is the oldest wine cellar in the city aud and was in in a flourishing condition before columbus discovered america there it has been the same cellar and in the same spot for over four hundred years on investigation 0 we found that the cellar consists of two stories underground A kt at the bottom odthe of the first llight flight a of stairs wo we turn to the rigl rigi t and enter anteri what is now called goethen Go ethes etheA room the ceiling of this room is vault vaulted and ornamented with frescoes and paintings S on the walk are portraits an and a busts of noted men comfortably seated around tho the different tables enjoying a little lunch or chatting over a bottle of wine are sociable boci able groups of men and women we seat ourselves and prepare to look about the room it A straight legged waiter with a dignified aarand air and swallow a w tailed coat soon eoon discovered our presence and we learn from him as he rot ties the change in his leather pocket that the lock of dark brown hair and letter in tho the franie frame lii hanging nging on bic pillar opposite eare are goetges Go ethes yes the poet he t goethe the greatest greate of german authors author who in times past has honored the place wit with 11 his presence and enjoyed a bottle of wine with his friends as thoroughly as only goethe knew how to do the waiter goes on to tell us that schiller the favorite poet of the german people martin luther the great reformer emperor Willi william aln L and bismack are arc only afew odthe many noted personages who have visited this celebrated old haunt these old walls have rung with the laughter 0 and echoed the bongs and witie sms of the briah brightest Z test as well as the dullest think of the gallons of wine ivine that haap been drunk within these walls during the last las t four centuries fathers sons and grandsons have each in his turn quaffed tho the flowing bowl and each in his turn has passed away but still the old house elands and stands per naps to be tile the attraction of generations yet unborn after signing our names in the visitors b book ook we are ready to go down another light a of stairs and nd visit a scene made famous by Go goethen Goe ethels paus faust t one of the chief scenes i in n the tragedy of faust is the visit of faust to this room faust is taken there by mephistopheles an emissary of the devil on entered ent entering erlD 1 7 faust finds find anther arrither a discontented set of old deutschman Deutsch men but mephistopheles soon roon makes them all happy hy by taking 11 a V gimblet and boring holes into the ed edge ge of the table from which lie he causes the kind of wine to pour out that rach each one likes best by the time they all become nicely intoxicated f fire ire spurts forth ins instead tead of wine ivine and causes quite an uproar in tho the corn com pany that is only quieted at thel the disappearance of faust as he is seen I 1 riding up tip the stairway stair way and out of the door on oil a lar large wine in cask ivask they have tho the s arve old wine cask back again but the room lacks faust and mephistopheles to confirm the story on oa the vaulted ceiling 0 are painted in glowing a colors the dit different scenes of the trag tragedy e d y quite an antei interesting esting feature of this room is a tunnel that once connected it with the oldest oldean church in linzi leipzig a A peep into the dark darkness and a smell of tile the cold musty air or of this suh but te passage cause a person to think that the evil spirits aro are not far distant but standi standing Dg on the sideboard side board in bottles are plenty of good spirits to keep the evil ones onea in abeyance I 1 cant imagine why a church and a wine cellar should have hake an underground connection all I 1 know is that it has been the fact in this case and perhaps ac counts for the little amount of faith the people of today bit hiiro vo in the ministers of the he gospel I 1 will leave this problem for others to rolvea and nd thoughtfully climb the steps that have borne the tread of C so go ilia many ny of germanys germanas Germ anys brightest minds J II 11 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