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Show JOHN A.HENDRICKSON In the Land of Limberger and Schnops. Tells Whoppers About Pretzels growing on Apple Ap-ple trees and Weinerwursts with 4 legs. Mr. John A. Ilcndilckson, of this city, who Is now In Euiopc, writes In a very commendatory way of the Hi i'I'iilican, and sends us the following Inteicsting article for publication. Mr. Ilcndilckson was In Boilin, Germany, Ger-many, dining August, and wioto the article while there. In all probability Mr. Hendrickson is now paj Ing his ic-spects ic-spects at the Court of St. Peter, as he wai meiely awaiting his passpoit at the time of wilting. lierlln, Germany: -Editor Hepubll-can. Hepubll-can. Should jou or any of jour readeis wish to see Gci many in all her glory, visit her about the month of August. You not only find nature at its best but the people In their high mood. Everjone and almost oveivthlng is in motion, and don't let me forget to say that cvciy eje is on the lookout for an A mei lean pocket book. They seem to think an American can cut a piece otl himself almost anywheic and its money. The land itself with Its rolling hills and forests, an occasional mountain (but not high like ours), Its thousands of fields of grain and ten thousand times that many haivcstcis make a pleasing plctuio to behold. l'KCUMAlt 3IKT1IOD OF HAltVESTlNll. When jou consldei Germanj's greatness great-ness and advancement In so many other wajs jou will haidly ciedltmo when I lclalc some of Its old time methods of hai vesting. 1 tiaveled over 1000 miles directly thiough her fields of egctables, meadows icady for the mower, and giain jellovv for the reaper. Thousands of men, women, wo-men, and chlldicn were in the fields. During this journey I failed to see a single header, self-binder, 1 caper, mowei, or sulky plow. 1 did see a few secdeis. Thme was but little plowing being done, but all 1 saw in use weic hand plows held either by a manor a woman, and diawn by one horse or one o. The glass was invailably cut with a sj the, and raked with a hand rake, the giain with a ciadle and bound by hand. When a field of lj-e, wheat, oi oats was llpe, let It be 10, 20, 50 acies, It would be suriounded by 5 to 10 men with a cradle and an equal number num-ber of women following up tying the bundles by hand. In this long Jouiney I made a special effort to find a bundle bound other than by hand, but failed. Yet I am told there aie some sclf-blndcis in the country. After a field has been harvested and the giain hauled to the farmhouse, you might see from 2 to 10. women and an equal numbei of children, gleaning the scattered heads that remain (Utah In 1800.) In answer to my Inquhy as to why machlnciy was not used on the farm, I was told "if wo did as jou do, half our people would bo out or woik." I believed hhn'and decided hu then only told half the whole tiutli. on viiatti:ams! The teams on tho German fauns aic enough to make an Amoiican laugh out loud. You will llnd the two horse team and Amciican slc wagon. The old time pair of cattle joked together to-gether Is very common, but think of a hoi so and an ox hitched together, an ox and a cow , an ox or a cow alone, wouldn't that look odd to a UtahnV Hut probably the funniest mix up was when I saw a cow alone hitched to a four wheeled wagon caujlng a hay lack; a woman pitching the bundles to a man on the wagon who did the placing. The shock last stopped at being loaded, she would match up to cow and "wohaw"'hcr to the next. Women do much of the faun work and do It fully as well as the men. Hut the wages don't let mc mention. IIEIUI STAFF OF I.1FJJ. In tills land beer takes tho place of water. It Is fattening and unlike the Utah make, in not being Intoxicating. When I asked to what use water was put, L was told "To make beer, row-boats row-boats and bathe the feet." "Then" said I, "beer Is the stall" or life In Gqimanyy" "No" came the icply "It's life Itself." You would hardly believe mc should I tell jou how numerous num-erous the beer gardens arc. They arc everywheieand cverjbody is In theie. Should jou be wondering aiound sightseeing In Berlin and get lost, Just sit down, look around jou and jou will find jou aic in a beer gaidcn. 1IK11UN A (UlANl) CITY. You may sing of "beautiful Paris" with its plats, boulcvaids, monuments, monu-ments, and biidgesciosslng the river Seine connecting the two halves of tho eitj1; jou may laugh when jou see "London on tho Thames," with its 15 miles of great buildings extending 15 miles four wajs fiom a given point, Its wealth, its pomp and show, and points of attiaction; jou may leap with exultation when jou arrive at Stockholm the "Paris of the Noith" with its clean broad stieets, white buildings, and situated as it is on seven Islands suriounded by water fiom the Haltio sea; but none of these bi Ing out my admhation as does the city of Berlin. A large piece of the $1,500,000,000.00 war indemnity received by Geimany fiom France In the late Geiman- France war of 1870, was spent on the city of Berlin. Since that time the city's sboand population lias doubled several times. Its monuments of.stone, broiuc, gold and silver; Its bouie-vaids, bouie-vaids, lavenucs, open "plats," broad streets, parks and boat ponds within the city, make the whole an Interesting Interest-ing view. The public buildings and palaces of Kciser Wllhchn with Its monuments of gold and silver and other precious metals and stones, are goigeous. Till: STltKKTS A Fl.OVVKlt UAUDKN. Stand at tho Intersection of any four sheets and look any direction jou may, and jou will have the appearance ap-pearance or two peipendlciilar flower gardens. The balconies of the 1,5 and Ostoiv buildings are so bedecked on both sides of the street with cver-gieens cver-gieens and shurbery, that it lcndsjthe appcarancu above given. Kveij thing It. clean, the city well oillccied, sticet cais overhead andsuifacc up to date In cvciy lespect. FINK LOOKING -MKN" ANIJ WOMEN. The men of Germany, I should say or the cities, aie a ciy line specimen. Well built, erect, clear complexion, rat and well dressed. The women are good looking.well dicssed and In every way lescmblo their neighbors, the Scandinavians on the north, whose language resemble quite a good deal, and who evidently not long since sprang Horn the samo origin. l'AVi: LOGAN STIIKKT WITH GOLII. Much gold and silver Is seen In the palaces or the kings and queens or Fairope In the way of monuments, but In no place can it be found so abundantly used as in the palaces of the four kings and the emperor or the Geiman Empire. Monuments and statuaiy of solid gold or silver ornamented orna-mented with precious stones. One orchestra stand In the Emperors palace is made of solid silver and weighs 8000 lbs. Thcic Is enough silver used In these palaces to pave our Main street Horn bank to bank with a lajei 1 inch thick and sulllclent gold to plate It with a lajcr the thickness or a $20 piece. On one set or harness belonging to Kaiser AVIlhelm tho gold ornaments aic valued at $.10,000. OOVKIlNJIENT OVVNKItSIIll'. Most or the laihoads, tclegiaph and telephone Hues of the countiy arc owned by the government. Heilln's street cats botli surface and elevated aieowncd by the municipality. I was unable to asceitaln to what extent thes6 weic financially beneficial to the countrj-, but learned however that they wcie a somce of Income. 500,000 STANDING AllMY. Few nations would be able to support sup-port a standing aimy so large, piopor-tlonatolj-, as docs Geiman v. Consider a country of but 00,000,000 people supporting sup-porting an aimy of 500,000. When the matter of "expense" has been mentioned to tho Kelser lie simply replied re-plied "Its cheaper to suppoit an aimy than to fight." In the event of war all other able bodied men under 50 (CONTINUED ON 5tll I'AQK) 'John A. Hendrickson. I UONCLVDF.l) EUOM 1st I'AOK) can be inartalled out in ::o days. No body of people In the world Is ar well oiganicdas the German army, "except "ex-cept the Mormon Church." It Is tuilxcisally conceeded the superiority of this organization over like bodies or other countries Is duo to Hisinurk who was certainly the Washington of the Gorman Empire. Previous to 1870 the Empire, It Is said, was a loose conglomeration of states and cities with divergent purposes producing national disunion and stagnation. LOOSK KNDS OK 40 YJiAllS 1IKNCK. It Is told mc "40 ycais ago a native of Germany was ashamed to be called a German, but preferred to go by the name of llavarlan, Prussian, Hessian, Saxton, or one of the principalities forming the disjointed and weak in itself, it-self, confederations." Hlsmaik brought about new life, harmony, national pro-gicsslvcness pro-gicsslvcness and economy since which time the Empire has made wonderful progress In many directions. I am even told that previous to these Improved Im-proved conditions Gcnnans dqlng business in trans-oceanic countries weic at times compelled to seek pio-tectlon pio-tectlon fiom consuls of neighboring friendly countries Mich as Swiss, Dutch or llrltish. There are. no German warships In-suilng In-suilng protection to Germans either on the seas', at foreign poits or In distant dis-tant lauds. A ItKOKNIlUATlON. Hut a change has come over the land and Its people. It Is claimed the German Hag Is nioie lcspccted and better known on land and water, than any other country, England excepted. A German Is pioud of his country and the Individual German alms to keep abreast with his country's extraoulln-ary extraoulln-ary giowlli. When In England I learned that Germany's financial, commercial and manufacturing enterprise and Interests Inter-ests arc being felt to an alarming extent ex-tent In that country. English-made goods lie on the shelves while those fiom Germany and the United States aic boing purchased. This Is what has awakened Lord Chamberlain, and an American can readily see his observations ob-servations aic concct. SHIP MACIIINKUV TO AMHItlOA. Hut few have any Idea the amount of German machinery that goes to America. It runs up into the millions mil-lions of dollars annually. Our woolen mills arc almost cnliicly tilled with them. Hut few worsted mills use any thing else. German knitting machines are found in every state of the Union. Germany will pay an l.ti-port l.ti-port duty of fiO per cent on textile ma- chlnery and still undersell us. German Ger-man commercial travelers simply swarm Europe; I have seen them In : every country 1 have visited, and let mc say they are wide awake. Her capitalists, according to European papers, arc now building railroads In Asiatic Turkey and in her African Colonies; have created new shipping lines and iccently bought out English Eng-lish companies engaged in Chinese coasting trade. Observing these things, an American Ameri-can can not but admire them when we consider the extraordinary growth in our own llttle'Rcpubllc. KDUOATIONAL ADVANCKMKNTS I No country in the world is prouder of her educational advancement than Is Germany. From every country under un-der the sun young men and women come here to complete their education. educa-tion. To have "graduated in Gorman Gor-man universities" is usually recommendation recom-mendation sutllclcnt to secure a scholar a position. One of her latest expansion methods meth-ods is the creation of a "National Academy for the training of young men for positions as teachers abroad." At first thought one hardly realizes tlio Importance of this move, but when one learns that the real Import Is to " keep Germans in the lead in every line of educational advancement In new countries like South America and elsewhere that Germans emigrate," emi-grate," we can see the object more clearly. Dr. KalT, one of the nation's leading educators, residing at Frankfort Frank-fort on the Main recently delivered a lecture on the needs and object of this venture LIUVK Hill 11USSIA. I leave for St. Petcisberg in a few days and if I llnd anything which I consider of Interest to your readers In the Czars "one llfth or the world," I will drop you a few lines. J. A. Hi:ni)uickhon. |