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THE wuRzB uRa RIVER BANK.

the surrounding country in costumes a
century old and speaking a language not
much younger, for in Bavaria dialect Is slow
to change.
1t is quite transition from Ashoffenburg
to Wurzburg. the next important town in
passing up the Main, for the traveller is
taken in one days journey from the depths
of medievaliSm back to modern times. In
portant as may be the history of Wurzburg,
it dwindles into insigDifcance when com
pared with the two modern institutions
which have made it famous throughout
Germany-its hospital and university. The
first is one of the richest institutions Of the
kind in the world. having an endowment
exceeding So, go 900. over GOO patients are
daily lodged within its walls. Its buildings
are enormous in extent, and the medical
collections and libraries are unsurpassed.
No pains or money are spared to keep this
establishment at or near the head of med
zeal Institutions, and treatment at Wurz-
burg is as near perfect as the present state
of medical science will permit. The uni
yersity has come down to US from 1882 and
thus is child of medievalisrn; but to such
an extent has the hospital Oyersha1owed it
that out of the thousand students who an
nually receive instruction the greater part
are medical. Wurzburg has another at
traction-the palace OF the Bishop, now
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of going up to his laboratory, it will mean
that he intends spending the even ing in
company with that designing creature"
Sure enough, at o'clock precisely, the
professor rose, and, as was his custom,
bowed very low to his wife, and passed out
into the hall, merely remarking that he had
promised Pellet, RackHam and DOnremus
to play a game Of whist with them at the
club.
"Club indeedI' sneered Mrs. Grubb-
FilEens as the street door closed behind her
husband. \ on may be a great scientist,
but when 1t comes to an intrigue with a
pretty woman you are lamentably weak"
and with these words she picked up his
cigar-case and squeezed it vicinusly. 1t was
empty. Now if he had filed it and laid
it down aud forgotten it, it might still be
that he was going to the club /;
but not TO fill the case al all meant most I'M
doubleday that the professor was going TO
pass the evening among non-Smokers. And
where else could it be except at the bijou
apartment of Mrs. Aortensia Plantam
Loew? The thought was agonizing. and
fastening upstairs she shut herself in her
room. She wanted 10 be alone. She wanted
to plot her Vengeance all by herself 1t
would be so much better if no one elSe'S
hand were in it.
Josephne's first thought was to get pos
session OF some scrap Of proof that the re-
latiOns existing between her husband and
the widow were tender enough 10 justify her
jealousy. For the first time in her life she
turned her husbands pockets inside out.
An envelope with deep band of mourning
upon it fell out along with other letters and
memoranda. Mrs. Grubb-Filkens caught at
it with an exclamation of almost fiendish
joy. 1t bore the widows cipher impressed
in black wax. With all his thoughts on his
microbe the professor bad, no doubt, for
gotten TO destroy the tell-tale missive, but
Josephine threw it down with an expression
of disgust when she discovered that it was
mere acknowledgment of some moneys
received.
'What fool / am" whispered the
woman. 'I'm not searching in the right
place; the Inferno is where he would hide
them. He thinks no one would dare cross
the threshold Of his laboratory. Why has
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AN ENOCH ARDEN ROMANCE.
This Time, However, the Couple Are
Happily Reunited.

This Time, However, the Couple Are
Happily Reunited.
A romantic story came to light hero tho
other day when John Pierce, aged 65, aud
Sarah Cozzens, aged 81, were made man and
wife by Lawyer George Crime. Pierce was
married forty years ago to the woman he
has now remarked, and when the rebellion
broke out he enlisted in tue army, saws Il
Fall River special to the New York World
On his return he decided to 60 TO California
and unsuecessfully urged bis wife and five
children to go with him. He left here about
1866, went to California and his wife re-
manned with her children.
She wrote several times to California and
made cOmmenda6le effort to find her hbs-
band. Failing in this she advertised for
him in the California papers and was grant
ed n divorce in accordance with State laws.
Most of her children married and she went
with daughter TO live in Boston. There
she met a MIR. CozZeus and became his wife.
Eight or nine years ago a tap came tn the
door of Alphonso +. Pierce, a compositor on
the Daily News here, and on going to tine
hallway lie was surprised TO find there a lit
tie boy leading man totally blind who
claimed 10 be his father. An Investigation
proved the truth of the mans statements.
The father had lost his sight as the result
OF q malady contracted on board ship during
the war. and after an adventurous career in
California had come back to reclaim his
wife and his family.
Ex-Congressman Davis and ex-State Rep
resentatiye John c. Milne became inter-
ested in his case, and mainly through their
efforts pension of S72 mon th was secured
and back pay amounting to nearly $1,000
was paid to him.
A year ago Mr.. Cozzens died, and since
that time every effort has been made to
bring the once husband and wife together.
The success Of the effort has been stated.
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bridge, as the former bridge of boats across
the Main has given way to a railroad bridge.
A hundred years ago Mainz was great
literary center, but during the French wars
all the literary and art treasures of the Ca
thedral and the churches were dispersed.
The invaders did not spare even the costly
shrines of the churches, but took away alike
shrines and relIquaries, pictures, statues.
books. Among the attractions it still
retains, however, Is a museum of Rom an
remains, for here was a great fortified
camp of the Romans and relics of their
occupation are still extremely common. A
grand aqueduct, many miles in length,
brought the water from the neghb0rins
hills to the city and nearly a hundred
columns of this wonderful work still
remain. Entertaining as it is from its
relics of antiquity, Mainz is brought
closely to modern times by the fact that
it was the home of Gutenberg. the house
where he was born still standing in the
older part of the town; visitors may still,
for fee, examine the room where he set up
his press.
A short stretch of travel brings the tour
ist within sight of the spires of Frankfort,
one Of the most furnishing cities of the Ger
man Empire. Its character Is utterly differ
eut from that of Maiuz; the large garrison
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4 TYPICAL MARKErPLAcE.

in the latter city gives tone to the place; it
is military in character, while Frankfort, on
the contrary, is commercial. 1t is great
market for American goods and securities;
its streets TEEN with traders from every
part of Europe; but nevertheless, it has
not lost those features of antiquity which
make it interesting to travellers from new
world. In the older part of the town the
streets are narrow, the houses overhaaging;
there appear here aud there specimens of
wo0d-carving which would delight the eye
of collector, and in the oldest portion of
the Jewish quarter stands the house which
saw the childhood of the first and greatest
Rothsehild. Aside from the ancient feat
ures of the town, it is one of the most
pleasant cities in Germany in which to
spend few weeks. and no city of its size in
Central Europe is better provided with pub
lie parks and promenades. To the tourist
the Council House will furnish no end of
entertainment, for here the EmperOrs Of
Germany were once elected, and on its bal
cony after election they showed themselves
to the people in the public square of Romer-
berg below, where were enacted those gor-
geous ceremonials which it was Goethe's
delight to describe.
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Nuremberg to Mainz there may be seen the
ruins of the robbar castles, for on itiis
stream, as on the Rhine, the medieval chief
tains kept their watch. and compelled every
passing boat to come in and pay them toll.
In almost every valley there are still to Do
seen the deeayed walls of monasteries, gen.
orally unprotected by inelosing forllnea-
cations, for the monastery was the one hoiy
place, the one place sacred from the steps
of the sacrilegious intruder.
The railroad, says the Globe-Demderas Oh
st. Louis, from which the above is taken;
has left the Main almost deSertedi the great
commerce which formerly passed between
its banks now aiss along in sight of its
placid current. and the travellers who were
once laborously rowed up. or with little
labor sailed down. between its vlue-eovere1
shores, now pass rapidly along in sight OF
interesting localities and historic sites. hur-
rying by lest they loose connections they are
anxious to make at the next station. So the
Main is deserted; but to one who desires to
know the ways OF the people. to understand
something of their daily life, there is no bet
ter way than TO follow its windings, stop
ping from time to time at points where he
deems stay advisable, to inform himself by
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THE EMPEROR'S DOG.

A Story About Lost Money and How 1t
Was Found Again.
1t was dark, and down a retired street In
Paris a man rode alone on horseback, says
a writer in the Youths Companion. Sud
denly the horse stopped as if frightened
Then man rose from the pavement in the
middle of the street, ana jumped to one side
with cry. The rider was angry, and eN-
claimed: ''ATe you drunk, man, that you
lie about in the middle OF dark street to
get yourself run over?"
You might better lend poor fellow
hand than scold in that way" exclaimed the
other. 81 had $40 francs in gold in this bag,
carving it to pay bill for my master. aud
the bag has broken and it is all lost over the
street. II you have some matches they VIII
do ME more good than your curses.
IT'S no easy task 10 find money lost on q
night like this" said the rider, dismount-
ing 81 have no matches, but perhaps
can help you. Have you any OF the pieces
'Only one," replied the unfortunate fell
low, with sob.
Give it to me-" said the other.
The poor man hesitated, but the stranger
repeated the words in a tone of authority,
ana the last coin was handed to him.
The stranger whiStled and great Spanish
mastiff stood beside him. He held the coin
to tile dogs nose and, leaning to the rough
pavement, SAID, hnu them.
Ide dog snuffed the gold piece and began
the search.
One, two, three; he began bringing in the
coins and dropping them into his MASTER
hand. while the poor servant stood by In
silent wonder.
Thirteen times he returned with twenty
franc piece. Then, after long search, lie
came back empty, with grunt that seemed
to say: There are no more"
1--WE are yet lacking one piece" said the
stranger. Are you sure there were just
sure as sure can be, sir" the servant re-
'Then look into the bag again; there
must be one left there"
The man looked. and sure enough found
the last gold piece still there.
oh, SIT" he exclaimed, as the stranger
lIyerer. Tell ME your maze that my mas
ter may know who has done him such a
service"
~ have done nothing" said the stranger
"Tell your master that the one who helped
you was a very good and intelligent dog by
the name OF Joie."
1t was some years afterward, when France
had seen troubled times and the royal fam
lily was no more, that the master was telling
the incident to party Of friends, one of
whom had been employed in the palace.
"Joiei Joiei" he exclaimed, There never
was but one dog of that name and there
never was more remarkable and faithful
dog than he. He alwSys accompanied his
master when he went in disguise about the
city,
WHO was his master ?" they all asked.
The reply was Grief: 1.-The Emperor Ma
DOleOn"
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ca APTER IL

After one of these attacks the relations be-
tween the professor ana his wife were sure
to remain strained for a couple of days. At
table. instead of asking him directly
whether he would have any more Of this or
that dish, she skillfully MADE use Of one of
the servants as an Intermediary, the follow
ing formula being the most customary one:
ASK the professor if lie will be helped to
any more of the soup or any more of
the roast" As for the professor him
self, he was as incapable of serving
up any Tancor the next day as he
would have been of palming off a discovery
of a brother scientist as his own. But,
strange to say, he was unusually quiet
and absent-minded at dinner the day
following Josephne's attack. He put sugar
in his soup, salt in his tea, and to cap the
climax cried out to Theresa, the waitress,
Butter Mrs. Grubb-Fllkens and pass her
to mep 1t was only too evident that the
thoughts of the great scientist were occu-
pied abOnt equally with the origin Of his
mcrobe and the deSirability OF piacating
his wife
But to Mrs Grubb- Filkens all these
proofs of her husbands absent mindedness
pointed only one way, and that way was in
the direction of the handsome widow.
"H," murmured Josephine to herself,
" the professor, after finishing his cigar and
the evening paper. leaves the house instead
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called the ''Royal Palace" which was orig
inally built in imitation of the palace of

called the Royal Palace" which vas orig
Inally built in imitation of the palace of
Versailles.
In the valley of the Main, but on tribu-
tary the Regnitz, and four miles from the
point where it joins the Main River, stands
Bamberg. one of the best-buiIt towns in
Bavaria. 1t covers several hills which rise
on each side of the Regnitz, and is divided
by that stream into nearly equal parts.
picturesque bridges cross the stream at var-
Gus points of convenience in the city, and
the streets appearing suddenly from among
the overhanging houses run across the
bridges and dive under and between the
houses again, as if the bright German sun
light were thing to be avoided. Bamberg
is full OF interest, but the traveller will not
fail on the first day to visit the cathedral, a
structure which dates from the reign of
Henry II, 1904. In the twelfth and thir-
teenth centuries it was changed, so that
much of the original structure has disap-
pnared, but the sculptures in front, illus
trating in crude and somewhat literal style
the scenes of Scripture still remain as when
they came from the hands of Henry's work
men. In the center of the nave stands the
sarcophagus of the great Emperor and his
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Oh. no, my dear professor" replied DR..

Pellet; "you're quite wrong. Her pulse is
still strong, though thready. She will live
till iaybreak."
The great scientist made no reply. Again
he seemed not to hear his friends words.
Now there was no gainsaying the fact that
Professor Grubb-Filkens was deeply at
tached to his wife; but yet as he sat there
with her cold hand clasped in his, salts
faction as mysterious as it was comforting
took possession of his very SOIL. For the
nonce the man, the husband, was crowded
out of existence by the scientist. He had
tears for his loved Josephine, but as he
paused over and anon TO wipe them away
he fixed his anxious gaze on the face of his
watch. The bacillus Grnbbii-FilkenSii-the
Grubb- Filkens microhe, surnamed Morti-
fulgurans or the Death-dealer, was on
trial If his long years of labor had really
accomplished all that he had good reason 10
think they had then his dear Josephine
would breathe her last in ten minutes. 1t
was a heart-rendiug thought, but it was
not without balm for his acquitted feelings.
He would lose his Jose phine, his good and
faithful wife, but what would he not gain
the assurance that his death-dealing mi
cTOhe was able to perform all he had
claimed for it.
Just as the eminent scientist had pre-
dicted, al the end of the ten minutes Jose
phine was seized with terrible spasm.
Her bands flew TO her head, she groaned,
gasped and died.
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symptoms are present and pronounced. The
snddeEness of the attack, the purple hue of
the face, the dilating of the pupils, the
spasms, the cold extremities. the torpor."
To the unspeakable surprise Of DR.. Pellet
the professor now turned and dashed out OF
the room. When he reached the door Of his
laboratory he felt in his pocket for the key.
1t was not there. Then it occurred to him
that he had left it on his wife's dressing
case. As he wheeled about to return for it
his foot struck against some small object
which gave out metallic ring. He stopped
and picked it up. 1t was the key of the
Inferno. The cold perspiration started out
on the professors brow and chill struck
him to the very vitals. Once within his
laboratory there was no longer any room
for doubt. The missing tube, the disor-
dered papers, told him more plainly than
words that Josephine had been there search
iEg for the letters which she imagined were
concealed in the desk. There was but one
way to account for the missing tube. In
her haste to search the pigeon holes
floor. and in clearing away the broken
glass the bacillus Morti-fulgurans, the
death-dealing microbe, had effected an en-
trance into her system.
When Professor Grubb- Fllkens re-entered
the room where his wife was stretched life
over her with his hypodermic syringe in
hand. when we can't save murmured
the physician" we must make death as
easy as possible"
A strange expression was on the profess
sor's face He didn't seem to hear the words
spoken by DR.. Pellet. Reckoning the faith
full Theresa to him the professor asked her
to indicate as exactly as possible the hour
her mistress had been stricken with this
terrible malady.
at was striking nine," replied the woman.
"when | found her fainting on the stair
way"
Its we'll" replied the professor, sadly
and silently. And taking his place by jose
phine's bedside he took her hand tenderly
in his. and drawing forth his watch fixed
his gaze with strange earnestness upon its
face.
1T is now half-past ten, DR.. Pellet" he
remarked in deep and measured tones !;
Sin fifteen. or twenty minutes at the very
farthest, the spirit of my dear wife will take
its flight"
sob no nv dear professpr" replied Dr.
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TIE EpAnKEoRr RRrpaK

Continuing up the Main, the traveller next
passes the bustling little town of Offenbach,
with its big castle and little streets, through
many of which a cartwould find it difficult.
if not impossible, to pass. Small as the
town is. its streets, morning and evening,
are filled with people in hurry to get to
their work. for Offenbach manufac-
lures carriages and cotton and playing
ever, do not devote all the time to their
work, for here as elsewhere in Germany
the beer-houses are well patronized. The
German operative takes life easily; he is
not we'll paid, and much hard work is re-
quired to make a living; but he does not
worry over the fact, but smokes his pipe
and drinks his beer, talks politics with his
neighbors, goes to church on Sunday, grows
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AN ALPHABET OF MAXIMS.
Every One of Practical Usefulness to the
youth Of Our Day

Every One of Practical Usefulness to the
Youth of Our Day.
A practical and helpful gift from parent
to a son would be the following alphabetical
list of maxims, printed or written as head
ing to calendar, or framed and hung upon
the wall of his room. 1t is said that Baron
Rothschild had these maXims framed and
hung in his house:
Attend carefully to the details of your business
BE prompt in all things.
Consider well and then decide positively.
Dare to do right, fear to do wrong.
Endure trials patiently.
Fight iife's battles bravcly, manfuily.
Go not into the society OF the vicious.
Hold integrity sacred.
Injure not another reputation or business
Join hands only with the virtuous.
Keep your mind from evil thoughts.
Lie not for any consideration
Make few acQuaintances-
Never try t. appear what you are not.
Observe good manners.
Pay your debts promptly.
Question not the veracity OF n friend.
Respect the counsel OF your parent.
Sacrifice money rather than principle.
Touch not, taste not, handle NOT, intoxicating
drinks.
Use your leisure time for Improvement.
Venture not upon the threshold OF wrong.
Watch carefully over your passions.
Yield not To Encouragement
Zealousy labor for right.
And success is certain.
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CHAPTER I.


It was early autumn IN 1891. From the
upper windows of Professor Galeu Grubb-
Filkens' fine residence on Nine Hundredth
street, corner of Yoakers plaza-so called
from the small suburban city formerly
located here-there had Streamed for many
n night flood of electric light This emf
nent experimentalIst had been for months
engaged in calling into being new microbe,
one which he averred would in its DEATH
dealing powers display strength and yiru-
lence positively appalling.
One night in the first week of October, as
the bells were ringing out the hour Of mid
night, the distinguished saVant, after bend
ing breathIeSsly over his microscope for
several moments, raised his hand with a
glass slide between thumb and finger, held
1t at arms length, and, as he gazed almost
awe-stricken upon the minute milky blur
upon the glass, exclaimed
My God, have found it, have found it
at lastp
1t will be remembered that about the mid
die of the nineteenth century micrOblc
science has made rapid strides. A French
man. one Louis PasteuT, not only succeeded
in proving the existence of certain micro
scopic organisms, ininitesimal parasites
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Queen. the sides of each huge marble cas-

Queen, the sides Of each huge marble cas-
ket being covered with bas-reliefs illustrat-
ing scenes from the lives Of the twain.
From hamburg 10 Nuremberg there Is
scarcely point of the river which is not of
interest. Here and there. along the whole
course of this stream, from its rise In the
Swiss Mountains to its merging into the
waters of the Rhine, there are villages
which possess for the stranger an odd fasci-
nation. They generally consist Of single
street, one side Of which is fringed with
houses, while on the other is the river
From the windows and porches the people
terested faces follow passing boat Their
lives are quiet as the water of the river, and
probably meet with rs few obstacles in their
course. On almost any elevation from
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Doesn,t LOOK Like an Invento,.

The inventor of the Harris parlor car, the
newest and most ingenious development of
a new familiar idea, is typical Bostonian in
everything but appearance. He loves the
gilded dome and reyerences the frog
pond, but isn't pale and doesn't wear spec
tacles, and doesn't say "Vaws." He is
handsome, pleasant-faced fellow, dark
haired, dark-mustached, dark-eyed and
quite fresh and young looking. If he
weren't so thoroughly unassuming and lack
ing in affectation he might be taken for an
opera tenor.
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The Empress Frederick will prolong her
stay in England until the eve OF the arrival
Of Emperor William in London.
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actual intercourse OF the condition of acoun-
txy population Which has changed little IN
the last five centuries.
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sY PROF. WILSON LAOoMBE.

written and copyrighted, 1891. for THE SUNDAY CALL