The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-09
FIRST LIMBURGER CHEESE.
How 1t Won a Serf n Title and a
Bride.

Az" - won SerT Title and u
Bride.
writer in the last number of the
American Field started a very interest
ing story on Fishing in the Fox
Lakes" but before he had progressed
very far he seems to have suddenly
recalled an equally interesting story
anent the discovery of the process Of
making Limberger cheese According
TO his interesting narrative, away back
In those extremely primeval times be-
fore the Dutch nation first commenced
to keep history, there lived in an old
ANTICIPATED castle on the banks of the
Rhlne one KlotZ Himmell by name: an
individual who owned the best part of
the surrounding country, kept a host of
clamorous fighting retainers, observed
no laws or religion except those Of his
own making, and passed his time in
eating, drinking and carousing when he
felt good and merry, and in kicking his
retainers when he happened to be mo-
rose and mean. After many years
spent in this manner, old KIotz's ap-
petite began to fail him; his palate re-
fused to recognize the piquant flavor
or those former delicacies of which
previously he had been so fond.
just about this time things began to
get extremely unpleasant; for, owing to
his fretfulness and irritab ihty, KIotz
was misery to himself and holy
terror to all around him. He was stone
deaf, partially blind,
HIS SENSE OF SMELL
was all but gone. Things had come
10 such pass that instead of eating
TOUR square meals a day in his spac-
fouS banqueting hall he scarcely ate
four meals month, and then only a
little bowl of mush and milk in his
daughters private boudoir, situated in
a uny turret stuck away up on a re-
mote point of the castle. This daugh-
ter's name was Mary Anne, at least
that Is the nearest approach to Ameri-
canlsm that can translate from the
old manuscript before me-
Now, Mary Anne was an extremely
good and pretty girl, doting on her old
rather, and d1Stractedly fond Of a good
looking young serf, who used occasion
ally to call at the back door of the
castle to peddle fish and bananas. his
name was Lynn. The maiden1y curves
or pretty little Mary Anne when she
had some three months previously an
peared at the back door Of the castle
In her morning wrapper with the inteu-
tlon or cheapening a big carp had set
tled Lym's hash at first sight, although
Doth OF them were aware their mutual
appreciation was hopeless, owing to the
Iact that soclety-which was just as
as noW-forbade maid of high degree
to wed any sutton below the
RANK OF A BURGHER
The old man grew rapidly worse.
oozen OF physicians attended him night
anu Gay, and one afternoon-after a
consultation of six hours DURATION
they announced to the weeping Mary
anne that unless some delicacy Of mar
Vicious epicurean choiceness could he
found with which to tempt the old
mans appetite he would Certainly
Starve to death.
NOW Lynn was youth Of quick parts
ana ingenious faculties; SO, bidding
mary Anne cheer up, he made her
promise to meet him at the same spot
the next evening. Lynn went home,
and, while restlessly tossing on his
had pallet that night, his mind tor
tured by the sorrows Of his sweet little
mistress, his big toe struck against
something hard at the fot of the he'd
Getting up he struck a light and dis
covered a small parcel lying on the
noor Of his hut, which evidently had
been dislodged by his toe a few mo-
ments before. He picked it up. and
after unwrapping it, found a small
piece OF cheese, which he recognized as
the contents of small package he had
hooked up when fishing for carp in the
adjoining lake some five years pre-
vlously, had tucked it into the foot of
his bed for safe-keeping and then had
forgotten all about it, Lynn took if IN
c2rlessly and commenced to turn il in
his warm hands. The cheese began to
emit a.ey Fr4 IN,
A FAINT, CHEESY DOOR,
which gradually increased in strength
until Lynn was obliged to open the win
dow. The longer Lynn handled the
cheese the stronger it became until at
last, through sheer inability to stand
It's pungent odor any longer, he clapped
his fingers to his nose and held it tight.
Suddenly an idea struck him: Surely,
this would be the very thing to recuper-
ate old Klotz's WORKOUT palate. Lynn
wrapped the cheese in at least twenty
covers of cloth and delivered it to Mary
Anne the next night with directions
to open it only in the presence of her
father
That night the old man had been
taken down into the big banqueting
hall, to bid his old retainers and hench-
men good-by, and thither Mary Anne
hurried. Pushing everybody on one
side she hurried to her fathers couch
and placing the package on the small
table by his side, commenced to tear
off the wrappings. With the removal
of each successive layer the retainers
edged nearer to the doors and windows
While the CLASSY look in old Klotz's
eyes gradually gave way to one of in
terest, followed by his presently sitting
up and shifting the air with inauisitive
curiosity such as he had not shown for
months past. With the removal of
the last wrapper the cheese stood dis
covered, and simultaneously with its
appearance an odor so weirdly un-
earthly and
DIABOLICALLY PUNGENT AROSE
that it could be seen like a pale wreath
of blue smoke to circulate slowly until
1t filled the room, it's fumes becoming
so overpowering that everybody except
Ing old Klotz and Mary Anne inconti-
nently fled by the nearest exit they
could find.
The odor apparently inspired old
Klotz with new life, for, starting up
from his couch, he seized the cheese and
devoured 1t with an avidity and relish
tc which he had been long stranger,
begged for more, kicked off the bed
clothes, commenced to dress himself,