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flowed into the bottomless pit of the most recorded of those barbaric times
when the
lucky Teutonic stomach than is perpetually power of Might was stronger than
the law of
foaming in the great liberal mugs of this Right; for is rot that even true
of to-day?
beer-making and beer-drinking city.     Yea, the world of men and of nations
is bar-
  So much for the old totrst of Heidelburg. barian still I But it is struggling
for the light
My visit shall next be to the fine old Castle, with ever-increasing earnestness,
and so we
the ruins of which are famous the world over I may well continue to hope.
At length I grope
Who has not seen pictures of this interesting my way less doubtfully, and
finally walk in a
relic of bygone ages, crowning the rugged light whose increasing strength
convinces me
brow of the hill which overlooks the time-be- that I shall soon re-establish
my relations
dinged city, the picturesque valley of the with the outer world. Creeping
on hands and
swift Neckar below, and the distant valley of knees through an opening in
the rubbish of
the Rhine-its turrets, walls, and arches yet a broken-down wal, I stand once
more in the
standing, representative of every style of light of glorious day. Give me,
after all, the
architecture in favor during the three suc- noon of the 19th century! is
my first utter-
cessive generations of its building, and yet all ance.
blended, with a beauty of harmony that makes  A few fragments of the red
sandstone of
the whole, as it stands to-day, so perfectly which this once magnificent
castle was built,
enchanting ! Including the inner, open court, and other mementoes of my visit,
and good
the castle occupies several acres, and the site bye to Heidelberg!
being so difficult of access with the massive I  Hence my way is yet further
by rail down
stone which compose its structure, it must the valley of the Rhine, across
the line of Ba-
have cost an immense amount of labor.   den, and through Iesse Darmstadt
to the il-
  I have alre.ady taken the upward winding lustrious free city of Frankfort-on-the-Main.
path which leads to one of the entrances, On my left arc Mannheim,and Worms,
famous
have passed the portal and stand amazed and as the place where Martin Luther
in the days
awed within the inner court. Many of the of his persecution vrould go and
confront the
walls have tumbled down, and most of the prelates and other dignitaries of
the Romish
apartments not destroyed are the habitations church, "though the devils
should be as thick
of owls and bats. Some of those which front as the tiles on the houses !
 a
the town are nicely fitted up, however, and  At length we approach
occupied by a family with whom live several



ot the more romantically inclined students of
the University. Have seen all there is on
the surface and have gazed upon the enchant-
ing landscape from the summit of the towers;
and now descend into the dark subterranean
passages and apartments designed for secret
conclaves or for the concealment of lordly
occupants in times of peril. I am alone, and
wander as long as I please in labyrinthine
halls, as dingy, musty and grim as the feudal
times they represent. I shall not be lost, for
I have, as is my wont, unconsciously noted
my turnings and so can retreat, should there
be no secret door the other side of the hill.
I commune with the Past, and yet hardly
...AA..t f the thn.-ht nf the dark wrongs



The city of all others in Germany remarbable
for its historic associations.  It was here
where, for many years, the Emperors of Ger-
many were crowned-where the greatest of
German poets, Goethe was born-where the
immortal Luther, the world's greatest reform-
er, lived and wrote-and it is here where that
peculiar enterprise, so characteristic of the
American people, has made its way more ef-
fectually than in any part of the continent I
have yet seen. The streets, the architecture
of the more recent buildings, the sale-shops
and public houses constantly suggest to the
American traveller New York and other cities
of the United States.  It is a freeo tnn with



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