Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-21

scale. vet we longed for homelike
Leipzig or coy Dresden but before
| returning TO the former We went to
Wittenberg rather later than we in
| tented. 1t happened this way Think
ing we had become proficient in Ger
man, we took a car on our own re-
sponsibllity marked the Bahnhof and
sitting down waited for the station to
appear While waiting we noticed
! peculiar custom. A German would
en.er. the conductor would approach
ana 10, instead of paying his fare, the
passenger would WhiSk out his picture,
snow II to the conductor, return it to
MS pocket and ride on without paying
anN fare. We We're sorry we did not
nave any OF our pictures with US. Still
we rode and we soon began to notice
| endl we we're leaving the city behind
ana entering the country. Finally the
car came to a full stop and We asked
the conductor what that meant, and if
We Were not coming to the station? He
seemed TO think something very funny,
out after ne finished laughing he in
formed us that we We're four mics
from the Bahnhof and that we had just
lett IT when we entered the car. The
only thing to do was to ride back and
wait for the next train. but we saw
more of the country through our blum
der.
1t was dark when we reached Witten-
Derg, the home for so long a time of
Martin Luther and his co-worker
Melanethon. As there was only one
main street we could not help finding
the two hotels Of which the little Ger
man village boasts. It was the KAISER
hot we chose and TO all appearances we
were the first guests they had had for
some time. AS IL was January we
wished for fire vet it took four differ
ent servants TO build it; we wished for
some supper in the dining groom and
four other servants must wait on us,
one to give US the sugar, another to pass
the spoons. the third to move the rolls
little nearer, and the fourth to adjust
our chairs.
We We're overwhelmed with SO much
service and We're glad when the morn
ing came and we We're able to escape
from it all and explore the quaint old
town. AS it was Sunday we attended
service in the Schloss Kirche. 1t was
on the door of this church that Martin
Luther nailed his theses Oct. 31lst 1911.
! Our hotel was between Melancthon's
house and the monastery where Luther
worked so long as Brother Augustine.
Later it was made university and
| Luther taught in it. The place where
| Luther lived is part of the old monaS-
terry and an interesting spot it is. We
saw there the Lutheran family tree, an
ella borate German porcelain stove and
apart from the rest of the room the
window seat, where Frau Luther and
Martin $50 the guide told us) sat many
an evening as it was growing dusk.
| We enjoyed our stay in Wittenberg
for it was a typical German town with
| its RathCuSe or town hall. its unevenly
paved streets, its low-roofed stone
| houses, where from the dOOrWaNs the
peasants locked at us as objects Of
great curiosity. There we saw German
town life in all its primative pictur-
esqueneSS, and we We're sorry t. lcaNr
Il all and return to Leipzig.
When we asked for our bill at III"
hotel before they gave Il to US the clerk
ut the desk rang several bells. and b.
| the time We had settled our accounts
| there was d long line of servants drawn
| up consisting of all who had don" us any
service however small AS We Wert
paying amply for what we received aud
a. The service rendered by them was
slight, We picked up our sui. cases,
walked the gauntlet leaving behind an
astonishcd row Of servant. 1t seemed
almost like nome to us when we reach
cd Leipzig ana were welcomed by the
children and Fluch.
MABEL FRANCES KNIGHT.
THE tenth letter will be on Weimar
and our journey to France.l