Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-09-29

slightest elevation, green meadows,
distant villages and nearer city on
which the bright sun warmly shone.
together made a lovely landscape. The
statue of the two great workers Luther
and Melancthon in the public square,
and the latter'S house next claimed our
time, but Melancthon's greatness suf-
fers by being so near the blazing glory
OF the immortal reformer, and all one
sees is the bare room where he lived
and studied. The day we meant to
make wholly Luther one, so natur-
ally had our dinner at the Luther
Inn finding Catherine Won Bora"
goose so delectable it worked a refor-
nation in our taste for that usually
uncared-for fowl
We fingered over our dessert. count
ing on our fingers all the sights and
satisfied that we had seen them all;
when some evil spirit whispered in our
ear Luther Brunnen." 1t must have
been an ancient adversary Of the good
doctor, for We owned no "Baedeker"
ana not a living being had mentioned
Luther Fountain. Persistently il kept
ringing in our ears until we started
forth to find it. Each of the several
individuals we questioned looked at us
with surprised air as they answered.
"oh, it's twenty minutes to half an
hours walk-immer, INNER grade as
vaguely pointing in the distance one
compassionate woman hestatingly
suggested to her barefoOted boy that
ne accompany US. but though he looked
lonSingly at our pfennigs he negative
ly shook his head with such decision
that doubts as to the real worth Of the
expedition for the first time assailed
: US. Even at that eleventh hour We
might have saved ourselves, but the
tempter clinched us fast with-"The
first question you'll be asked on reach
ing home will be Did YOU see the
Luther Fountain?'" That fired our
wavering minds firm as the everlasting
hills and turned our feet in the direc-
ton Of the water. None can deny that
Luther Brunnen" has an alluring
sound. We pictured to ourselves the
sage and scholar walking as we were
on this road, looking always, always
I forward" to the rest beneath the
4 dropping trees that grew about the
bubbling waters Of-Before we gave
form to the fountain we passed an
aged man, mechanically we repeated
/ Bite. wo list der Luther Drummer
! nonotonously came, Inner. INNER
gerade aus'-this we expected but
/ when we added tit is twenty minutes
( to half an hours walk" then we knew
Y without a doubt this was the ROAD
where Luther saw the "cloven foot.
We had no power to turn, on. on we
trudged past young and Old each one
repeating to us this same dread
formula. In vain we cried piteously.
We have been walking twenty
! minutes to half an hour
| from eleven o'clock till three.
ineXorably the voice would an
swcr, always always forward"
Finally nature utterly rebelleG ana ex
7 hausted We sank down beside the road
deciding the only way to drive this
demon out Is 70 take the first convey
ance q any sort that passes. Soon it
Y ratified by; horse, two long. bare
I boards and four small wheels driven
BY what seemed to us an angel of de-
liverance. BY making signals Of dis
I t-ess the vehicle was stopped, fecblv
4 we assisted each other up while shud-
( deringly we Misrepresentation far is il
I to the Luther Brunnen?" Five
minutes was the CHEEKY answer ana
I joyfully we cried, The evil spell is
broken" Footsore and weary Ne
clamOred down to look at-what, a
common two story plain stone building
built over a spring Of clear. cold water
and looking UP we read in large black
type. "Gaethaus Luther Brunnen."
MRS. HERMANN KOTZSC HMAR.