New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-10-22
CAUGHT IN HIS OWN TRAP.

CAUGHT IN HIS OWN TRAP.
What glorious thing it is to have a hol
day a little allotment Of time all your owl
upon which you need pay duty to no ma
living, and within the compass of which. j
you be a scholar, no one can plague yo
about the date Of the Hegira, or ''exac
political significance" of the LEHMAN Roga
tions, nor any shock fall upon you if you D.
. man of business, from alarming telegram
respecting the fall Of UtOpian consols. or th
unhealthy depression" of the Cloudlapd
Atlantic Grand Central railway. Surely
there is no one living who does not appre
ciate such furlough, from the fourth-forn
boy who overeats himself at Warwick O.
Kenilworth on the half-yearly holiday
damped only by the horrid recollection tina
wearied merchant prince who follows Out
his doctors prescription Of - complete
change of scene" by making Rome or Swift
zerland as much like London as possible TO,
two months every year.
Somewhat after this fashion (had l
felt incllned) might have solilocuized. as
! sat looking down upon the good town OF
Heidelberg from the terrace Of the ..Molken
Kur,' q little wooden amberge, perched
upon projecting bluff, in which few sol
disdnt invalids play at curing themselves
"
curds and whey. And certainly the scene
before NE deserved more than passing
glance. Above rose the green. eloping crest
Of the Konigstuhl, with all its waving
woods, upon which the fading sunshine lin
gered lovingly: all around lay the leafy
hillsides, between which, like a thread of
gold, glittered the winding stream of the
Neckar; Immediately below me lay the
narrow streets and tall grim houses Of the
oev< 10 c1
red towers Of the castle stood out in the
glow Of sunset like pillars of fire. and far
out in the plain beyond, breaking with its
shining curves the nonotony of the vast
green level, l could just descry the broad.
smooth flow OF the parent Rhine.
But at this moment my reflections are
broken in sufficiently unromantic way by
conclusion of a huge steeple-crowned hat.
which, driven by the wind, ricOchets of nv
shoulder, and is just rolling over the brow
OF the hill; when l spring forward and
lind myself face to face with q quiet pleas
ant-looking old gentleman in frilled shirt
and black silk stockings the very image Of
the Glass Dwarfin Wilhelm Hautf's * altes
Herr" evidently man Of some note by the
respect with which the h0titaes make way
for him.
MANY thanks, mein Herr" says the old
man, as l restored his errand head gear.
I'm not quite SO supple now as was VIII en-
took the prize at the Freyberg Nolksfest.
fOrty-three years ago, before even thought
of becoming a professor It's only YOU
English who can keep up your training for
ever.
How did yOu guess that was an Eng
lishman = asked /, somewhat surprised: for
indeed, with beard like a pasha's and a
face bronzed by the sun of Egypt and
Syria, my appearance is anything but An
Clio Saxon.
NO man but an Englishman would have
caught that hat as you did, answered the
professor. with little chuckling laugh;
its just in their nature to jump up and run
after anything that passes. All, if you Eng
ilsh would only employ your irrepressible
energies in the cause Of science, what might
yon not achieve! But no; you do not care
to learn"
do us the justice to believe. Herr Pro.
lessor. that the nation which produced Ba-
con and Newton has still some reverence
Tor science"
They were mighty men, replies the old
gentlemen, with reverential bend Of his
ray head; but l am speaking Of the ma
ion at large, not of a few exceptonable
celebrities Ach Himmel! what set they
lIe those English A fine life they led me
when first began to practice medicine
Town yOnder in SaxOny. The first thing in
he morning king. Hing at my door.
What is i'll! An Englishman has broken
lis leg in trying to climb the Teufelshorn,
which no one ever assembled yet set the
be Herr Englander's leg, and leave him
'retty comfortable. Not half an hour later
ling! king! again. What now An
across the Elbe against the cur
ent for wager. / roll the Herr Highlander
warm blankets and bring him round. Be-
ore have well settled in my chair again,
ling! king. once more. .Mein Got what's
he matter! An Englishman who has tried
0 run twenty miles within the hour. be-
ause some one said he couldn't, and has
roken down under the strain Mein Herr,
am sorry to have to say it, but your coun-
rymen are equally devoid of fear and of
eason. There is but one man in England
'hom / can truly reverence, and LIS name
, Herr Carlyle"
MT. Carlyle; why: he's an old friend Of
line! l saw him the last time was in
.nGland. I'm glad you admire him.
Ibid you. mein Herr? did you really p
avs the old man, with unmlstakable inter
st. "Tell me all about him. beseech
on; he is great man-worthy to have
cen born a German
And for nearly twenty minutes we sit in
ldgment upon the biographer Of Frederick
re Great. till the strokes of seven. boom.
g from the town below, warn the protes-
'r that it is time to be going home
You must come with me. mein Herr
lys he rising from his seat; mo excuses. I
eg Of you. 1t shall never be said that
ustus Weissenbart met with friend of
le Herr Carlyle without making him
elcome; and, besides. I've got something
show you which I think will interest
)u."
The old mans hearty manner was not to
stood before the door of tall, grim.look-
& stone house at the corner of the Market
atz, the curiously carved front Of which
lowed that it had seen more than one CEN
Try. But if its outside was stern and I'M
its inside was comfortable in the
CHEST degree; and so / thought when l
und myself seated over a substantial Ger
an supper in the professors little snug
,ry, and heard the old mans CHEEKY voice
dding me fall to and spare nothing
While eating, found time to glance round
re room, which (save for its antique furni-
ire and heavy cross-beams Of dark oak
fered but little from the countless other
boratories that had seen in various towns
Southern Germany; but one object ar
'sted my attention. human skeleton,
anted upright in a corner. presenting a
stol menacingly with it's feshless hand (
ne professor noticed the direction Of NV
yes. and smiled significantly ,
.Ihats the curiosity was speaking Of
I'D he; lit has history of it's own which
worth hearing. When we have finished
upper Ill tell it you"
And, accordingly, as soon as our meal
as ended, Herr Weissenbart settled him {
If comfortably in his great easy chair,
yhted an enormous German nine which |
g most seasoned "fOx" in the university :
ould have found it hard to smoke out, and
,gan as follows: