Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 12, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 September 1897 — Page 6

A HEIDELBERG DUEL.

WHERE STUDENTS YEARN FOB DISFIGURING SCARS.

Life in the Old l'nIv«TRity Town—An American Tourint Challenged For Speaking Bad Grammar—Difficulty Over the

Choice of Weapon*.

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Correspondence.]

HEIDELBEKCJ, Sept. 3.—Heidelberg is built upon terraces, six terraces—on the first terrace, the railroad station on the eecond, the city itself on the third, the university on the fourth, the rnins of the biggest and most historical castle in castle ridden Germany on the fifth, the finest beer garden and the prettiest waitresses in the kaiser's empire. The sixth is the niorntain top, otherwise the konigsstnhl. This is Heidelberg's natural Eiffel tower. From the summit yon can see down the Black forest to Baden Barlcu.

The city itec-lf, on the second terrace, is like any other German city—the usual teams, thr big, blue imperial mail boxes, the soldierly policemen in Bismarck uniforms, the white private hotels with inner courts, the Hockstrasse, which is Broadway, and the Leopold platz, which is Union square. The principal distinguishing features are picturesqueuess, professors with thick beards and spectacles and studeutsin blue caps with broad visors, who stare at traveling American girls if you happen to have the same in your party. In this last respect the town is not unlike the American university city.

On the third terrace the university buildings are like the "Long Beach hotel and cottages"—one monster, many pygmies. Here the trouble began. Jim was with us. Jim thinks ho can speak German. A student happened along. He was a tall, strapping fellow, with handsome fact—that is, ho was handsome from right hand view. From a left hand view, however, be was veiy ugly. A red scar ran in a furrow down bis fare from temple to chin.

Jim spoko to him in German—said something about the jettenbulil, and the molkencur. and the konigsstuhl, meaning respectively the castle, the beer garden and mountain top. The student snickered, protonded not to understand

A STUDENTS' DUEL.

mid Munitert (i on. Jim plnrcd, turned red wii.i embarrassment, then white with anger. He started nft-r the student. We stopped him. He expostulated. We reminded him that the student had a scar on his face—a long, wide scar. Jim didn't eare if the blank Dutchman had r.lt sears, and so on. But by that time the student had disappt-ared.

Later Jim and I went tip to the beer garden. Jim insisted upon calling it the molkencur. We talked about scars. Jim's father had been in Heidelberg before. He had told us all about scars. At. Heidelberg university a sear on a student's face is a sign of valor, of courage and bravery, of manhood, just as bent nose, a crooked ear, a cracked arm, wide interstice in the front row of teeth are signs of tho same virtues at Yale or Harvard.

At the beer garden we could look down into the castle ruins where Queen Elizabeth was entertained bile yet a princess. Jim and 1 chose the table that had the prettiest waitress. This required a trained eye, for all the girls were pretty. Simply some were prettier than others. They were of afar better class than those who grace or disgrace so called beer gardens in America. Besides the students, whole families were gathered around the tables—fathers, mothers, relatives and children. The waitresses were bringiug beer to them all— reeking steins of very dark beer—choice beer made only in Heidelberg. Everybody chatted pleasantly with the pretty waitresses, who flitted here and there, a bit ponderous, but thoroughly German. Jim said he liked the color effect of their black petticoats, red bodices and white aprons. He called our waitress Marguerite because of her two thick flaxen braids. He said something to her in German. Some one near by snickered, and I heard a laughing imita tion of Jim's German. Jim turned. The student with the scar sat near. With him were other students, also with scars—scars more or less prominent. Jim spoke again to our waitress in German, at which the student with the long scar dropped his stein and roartxi, mimicking Jim's German. His fellows roam! with him.

Theu up rose Jii# in great wrath and stepped to where the other sat I heard "son of a Dutchman!" theu "son of a Yankee tradesman!" afterward "insult," then "satisfaction!" Jim came back to me and said: "Duel tonight. His second will se* jou. bat, mind yon, with pistols and to the death!"

Wheu Heidelberg was very dark and men wen* washing the street with how. the second caute—a big Saxon, blond, but fierce. We agreed as to the plare— in the castle ruitts where Queen Elizabeth was eutrrtaiued and where Heidelberg duels are always fought time.

tvio hours later weapons—he said swords, I insisted pistols. We came to a deadlock, but agreed to meet with principals at the time specified.

We kept the appointment. Jim was simply unmanageable. He wantod to bill or die that very night.

I said: "Jim, these students never kill. They fight only to disfigure. At the first blood they stop."

But Jim only said, "Blankety blank blank!" We were all there-j-Jim and the student and the seconds and many ocner students. The two ends of the great banquet hall were in darkness. The middle was lighted with many candles. The table at which Queen Elizabeth bad eaten was pushed one side. All was ready.

Jim had brought pistols. The student had provided rapiers. Jim looked at the rapiers scornfully. "I be no butcher not," said be in German. I have translated his German literally.

The student rippled with laughter, repeating Jim's German to his friends. Then the student, looking at the pistols, said in English: "And I ain't not no murderer yet already."

Thereupon Jim burst into laughter, uproarious laughter, repeating, "I ain't not no murderer yet already."

Everybody laughed. In the end the company decided that Jim's German was at least as good as the student's English.

Then the table at which Queen Elizabeth bad eaten was rolled back to its place, and we all gathered around. Steins were produced as by magic. The beer was very dark—choice beer made only in Heidelberg.

KEY WEST, Sept. 13.—Of no part of tho United States not actually uninhabited is there so little generally known as of the Florida keys, that long segment of islets which extends in a curving line for more than a hundred miles to the northeast of Key West in such a way as to form a sort of coral nose guard for the Florida peninsula. Unquestionably this is because they are not easy of access, since there are few more interesfc-

ing places to visit the whole world than these same keys, whether tho visitor bo fisherman, natuiulist, student of human nature or simply in search of rest. But to reach most of these little islands you must have a boat at your own command, either chartered or yours by ownership, for the public facilities for communication betweeu the keys and anywhere else are few and decidedly uncertain.

Both the islands and the waters abont them are teeming with all sorts of strange life, but to me the human inhabitants are of vastly greater interest than the birds, fishes, turtles and queer marino creatures of all sorts that abound so plentifully. These human inhabitants, though not aborigines, are about as different as may be from most of the inhabitants of either the mainland or Key West, both in blood and manner of life. Many of them are descendants of tho sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth century pirates and freebooters who made the keys their headquarters, and they are all very like the present inhabitants of the Bahama islands, that lie to the southeast and are still under the rule of her gracious majesty Queen Victoria. By occupation they aie fishermen, spongers and wreckers, with an occasional farmer thrown it, and they are held to be pretty bad folk by those who know them least.

This, however, is an injustice. Rough and unused to the ways of the distant world they are as a matter of necessity, and there are some desperate individuals among them, as there are in every community, but as a class they are good hearted, even tempered aud straightforward, of shrewd though untutored intellect and with bodies inured to almost daily exposure to the subtropical elements. They are all great swimmers and divers and excellent watermen.

Much amusement cau be got out of the pelicans and the gulls, though a member of each of these great ornithological families must take part in the performance to make this saying true. The pelican is an excellent fisher and a patient one, often being content to wait a full half hour for the expected fish to present itself. Sometimes when a pelican is thus motioulessly watching for its prey a gull will seat itself upon the larger bird's head. „Wben the fish appears, the pelican seisea it with lightninglike rapidity, invariably giving the prite a toss in the air and catching it again in the pouch attached to the lower part of the bill—that is, the pelican does this whenever the gull is not in position as described. When it is, the smaller bird almost always grabs the fish in mid«ir and flies gleefully aw ay, leaving the poor pelican to resume its fishing all by itself.

FRANK J. FCUUEB.

The Annexation Question.

FLOYD E. DUNHAM.

THE FLORIDA KEYS.

Though Not Very Well Known, They Are Highly Interesting Islets. [Special Correspondence.]

TEHEE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENENQ- MAIL, SEPTEMBEB 18, 1897.

A BIRCH BARK CANOE

THE CANADIAN INDIAN STILL KEEPS THE SECRET OF ITS CONSTRUCTION.

Shooting the Rapids In Frail Craft—Condition of the Red Men In Canada—Raec Distinctions—Where Silence Is Golden

[Special Correspondence.]

GRAND DISCHARGE, Que., Sept. 11.— The American tourist shoots through this place as though he were propelled from a gun. At 11 o'clock in the morning the steamboat Roberval arrives with its load of 10 or 20 travelers. They stop at the hotel on the island long enough to eat luncheon. Then they go on their canoes, running in single file through the rapids which mirk the opening of Lake St. John at the head of the Saguenay river. The next day they are at Chicoutimi, and the following morning they take boat for the trip down the Saguenay river and up the St. Lawrence to Quebec. When I say they travel liko

GROUP OF MONTAGNAIS INDIANS,

a bullet, 1 am not so far from the literal truth as you may think, for there are places in the rapids where you travel at the rate of half a mile a minute. There are places, too, where your frail birch bark canoe scrapes the rocks as you go whirling throueh the foaming rapids, and, seated on the bottom, you can feel the bump almost as distinctly as though there were not two thicknesses of wood and a skin of birch bark between the water aud you.

The French Canadian guide is today just what the traveler of 10 or 15 years ago pictured him. His birch bark canoe is still Indian made, and there is the same rare pleasure in sitting with your back to one guide and yonr face to another while with well trained hands and hardy, muscular arms they force the little craft up the stream against a swift current.

The birch hark canoes used in these waters are made by the Montagnais Indians. They look cheap and flimsy, but the guides have to pay $20 or moro for them, and they last only three or four years. The guide, in exercising his trained eye to take you safoly through the rapids, is thinking quite as much, no doubt, of the safety of his canoe. A new canoe might represent the profits of a season.

The Indian canoe makers belong to a tribe which camp through the summer months miles above Roberval. There are about 100 families, and they live for the most part in tents. Their only occupation in summer is the making of canoes and moccasins, guiding hunting parties and fishing in the lake. They are dirty, degenerate and lazy, like most of the American Indians, and their camp swarms with dogs, many of them Eskimo dogs, who help them haul their outfits iuto the wilderness in the winter. With the coming of the snow the Indians scatter to the north, and their v.iter is spent in trapping and hunting. They don't prosper at it as they once did, for game is growing scarcer every year, and the hunter who used to get 150 beaver skins in a season is fortunate now if he brings in 60 or 80. These skins he trades in Roberval or tho Hudson Bay agencies for provisions or money.

Until two years ago the Hudson Bay company had a monopoly of fur trading, and its agencies dot the whole of British North America. It had held that monopoly for 207 years and surrendered it only when it sold the Northwest Territories to the British for $1,500,000. It made enormous profits in its early years, and even the last half century has seen it bring wealth to many men. Sir Donald Smith, who is the president of the company, started as one of its clerks, and today he is reputed worth $30,000,000, and he endowed a hospital at Montreal a year or so ago with $500,000.

The young man with whom I talked is the manager of the little hotel here, but in a few weeks he will start for France, where his grandfather was born and where his father lived for many years. "There is no chance for a French Canadian here," he said to me. "In all the cities of Canada the big business houses are controlled by the English, and a Frenchman cannot hope for employment, or, if he gets a place, he has no chance to rise. A French Canadian cannot get into the employ of the Hudson Bay company unless there is some one to push him. I bad a friend who helped me to get a place as apprentice clerk at one of the agencies. Then I became a clerk, and afterward I was put in charge of a trading post I spent five years in the bush. There was no one but Iudians or half breeds to talk to, and they could talk of nothing but furs or credit at the store. If an Indian is reliable, the company gives him supplies, and he pays for them afterward with skins. In Quebec the government does not feed the Indians as you do in the United States. The government has reservations for the old men and widows and builds hospitals for them, but the others must hunt and fish for their living and buy their supplies from the traders. Of coune we would net see an Indian starve. If he needed food to keep alive, the company would give him something."

This young man told me the next generatiru of French Canadians waif not being brouubt up to farm life. The coming generation is being educated.

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pot at agricultural colleges like those vxiich we have in the States under the admirable Morrill law, but at grammar schools, and when the young men come out of school they have no taste for farm life.

It is rather absnrd, it seems to me, to talk about the loyalty of the French Canadian to the queen. His tastes and habits are so foreign to those of the English people that he can have little sympathy with English institutions. Besides, he is resentful of the commercial supremacy of the English and Scotch in Canada. When I was here two years ago, observaut men told me there was a strong sentiment among the French Canadians in favor of annexation. All of the French Canadians who had gone across the border had done well, and the others had an idea that it would be easier to bring the States to them than to go to the States. This feeling, they tell me, has changed.

GEORGE GRANTHAM BAIN.

They Called Him Van us.

It is curious how inconsistent are the prejudices of people in regard to the use of heathen names. Mr. Payn, in his "Gleams of Memory," tells an amusing story of the late Dean Burgon, who objected to the name of the goddess of beauty, but found no fault with that of the god of the woods.

An infant was brought to the church for christening, and the name proposed for it was Vanus. "Vanus?" repeated the dean. "I suppose yftn mean Venus. Do you imagine I am going to call a Christian child by that name, and least of all a male child?"

The father of the infant urged that he only wished to name it after his grandfather. "Your grandfather!" cried the dean. "I don't believe it. Where is your grandfather?" He was produced— a poor old soul of 80 or so, bent double and certainly not looking in the least like the goddess in question. "Do you mean to tell me, sir, that any clergyman ever christened you 'Vanus,' as you call it?" "Well, no, sir. I was christened Sylvanus, but they always calls me 'Vanus.'"

And Granite Nerve.

A good story is told by an English tourist who staid for a week in apartments in Aberdeen, the Granite City. "I had heard," he says, "of the canny folk of Aberdeen, and my experience, short though it was, proved that rumor had rightly estimated the character of the people. The strtiets are granite, the houses are granite and the inhabitants are granite, and when they have a granite baby they give it a ball of granite for fear it should break auy other toy. "I had a granite landlady, and one day when I was going fishing her sou volunteered to accompany me. I provided the lunch, the rods aud the lines he provided the worms—dug them up in a neighbor's garden with a borrowed spade. I caught 16 trout he ate the lunch and broke my best rod. When we got home, I made a present of 14 of the fish to my granite landlady and asked her to cook tho other two for my tea. She did—and charged me threepence for the dripping in which they were fried."—Edinburgh Scotsman.

Englishmen and Scotland.

The Englishman is looked on in Scotland and regards himself as a foreigner. Though the literary language of both countries is one and the same, many of the most common Scottish expressions are quite unintelligible to him, while the laws and institutions of the country are entirely unfamiliar. "How," in this connection remarked the Edinburgh Press, "how is it that, after living 1,000 years side by side, after three centuries of union and in spite of the yearly visit to Scotlaud of tens of thousands of English, there are still among them people, even writers, who know less about our country than about Patagonia?"

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About eight months ago Mr. Paskle caught cold and his rheumatism returned, but much severer and accompanied by indigestion and intense pain in the stomach. His faithful wife called in the family physician, who pronounced it a case of la grippe combined with stomach trouble and said on account of Mr.

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FOLLOWING DYSPEPSIA.

Two Patients from Different States tell their Ills to the Papers.

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From the Star, Valparaiso, Ind. The attention of The Star having been called to several cases of radical cures effected by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, it was determined to investigate

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