Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-07-15

trlc car for Weisbaden, which was a snort distance away. This is d eefy popular watt ring place. has nume1- onS parks, benches line the streets. ! haven seen so many fashionably dressed people ill long time. The sidewalks and parks were filled with them The kucubrUnU, il. as the spring is called, has q glass payil- ion over il, elegant ,roands Elegant people were sitting around drinking the water There aYt fifteen hot sprinSa, which pour auto the Kach- brunnen. Many more where they have the bath houses.
 We ate lunch at We.shaden and ac- complished feat Went into q Ger man restaurant and ordered a meal when they could noG speak word ot English, nor could we speak q word of German Beefsteak. am thankful to says. is the same in Jll languages. We pointed to potatoes at another table, and when our bread gave out, I showed a sample had saved to the waiter
 In Mayence we went to another an- cient cathedral. The first one was built in 4o6, but this was about the 1lth century. The sacristan took us in the Chrstucrypt, St Gotthard's chapel, where wa saw many old tomb stones.
 Gutenberg, the inventor of print ine. was born in Mayence We saw the house, and went to museum where were many books printed by him. es- pecially a fine Bible
 Friday morning we started ap tae Rhine and the day was one of great pleasure. W'sa coald tell you of all tue castles saW and tbe le- gends connected Wiib each.
 Was kept ous4.. felnHng from one side of the boat to the other. Castles came thiek aad !ast. It was all bean tiful. but part of the Danube was grander than any Of the RIsnc. StOl ! dard gives a fine description of the Rhine. with stories about the castles ] This whole country is filled with le- gends The Cologne cathedral $ grand. IL surely underwent vieisi- tudes; was commenced in the 18th century. X legend says the devil made a wager with the architect If he finished d wonderful canal first, he was to get Meister Gerard's soul; if Gerard finished first, the devil was to give him much money. The story runs that the old man finished architect, with the plans of the ca thedral was talking to the pro- prietor of the Pension about it and he : said the sequel was that woman rescued Gerard from the devil and got back the plans Anyway, the work dragged along from the 18th to the 10th century. then all hope was given up of ever completing the ca 1 thedral as the plan was lost But the Fredericl,s of Prussia, in the 18th century. became interested in the work, and the cathedral was dedi- cated in the pre sence of Emperor William in 1880.
 We went to the church of St. Ur- sula, where it ia said the saint is buried with her II 1000 virgins. They are supposed to have gone on pill ! 1rimage to Rome from Britain. On their way back home at Cologne they were attacked by the Huns and muf- derod. There were stone collins all around the church in which the mai dens are buried. There were TOO skulls. partly covered with velvet and 1 jewels. in glass cases, i'll the chapel and rows of them in the church. The whole ceiling of the church was freS- l coed with these bones in different pat terms. The chapel was lined with Sll- yer busts with skulls on them, dec orated. We went to picture gal lery just to see the famous picture of Queen Louise, the one used as ad- vertisement for Queen Quality shoes We went. to Bonn, ride of about a half hour on the electric car. Here Beethoven was born. In the home 1 is a Beethoven Museum, his original music, etc. saw the Moonlight s. nata. At Bonn is a large university where Emperor William II was edu- cated, also his children. It is a very pretty little city, on the Rhine. We leave in the morning for Brussels from there to Antwerp, Hague, Rot terdam. Amsterdam and across ie yooaop q S K