The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-14

act copy of 1t, adorned with imitation jewels She pretended to be il and pre- vailed upon the priest who brought II to her house to leave it there all night, when she intended to substltate the spurious bambino for the original. But the child detected her designs and walked from there to it's hitch in the church. not. however, without sustain ing a fall which gave it the scar upon the cheek.
 Who has ever visited Noremburg without losing his heart to the dear. quaint old city? Here were made the
 first watches. so large and so oddly shaped that they were called Nurem- burg eggs. Here lived Hans Sachs, the most celebrated or the master sing CTS, whose compositions exceeded 600a in number. and here lived Albrecht Durer, the founder of the German school of painting and here Frederick Barba- rossa spent much of his life in the |ancient castle Its Goose Fountain is quaint, but it's little sausage inn, known as the Bratwurstglocklein, Is quainter still. Here Sachs and Dnrer and all the celebrities of many centuries ago ate their sausage, drank their beer and detailed the local gossip, and I cannot recall having spent happier hour than the one passed beneath its low ceiling as gazing at pewter tankard and copper or silver stein.sI ate my wurst. drank my beer. smoked my pipe and dreamed of the men who once frequented the place.
 To be sure, all visitors to Nuremburg go to the castle and all see the 'Iron Maiden" that cruel casket in the shape of maiden's form In which prisoners were encased and cruelty pierced by the internal spikes as the metal figure slow Ily grew smaller and smaller and crushed @l. .4,I,4 ID,.a a. tory connected with those barbed spikes that is not known to all. The daughter of the man who devised the iron maid en" was supposed to be a weirwolf and many in those days believed that this strange disease was caused by the hair Of the unfortunate one growing in- wards. As the maiden was supposed to
 represent this daughter the father wished an exact copy and the spikes were not placed there primarily as in struments of torture, but to faithfully portray the ingrowing nairs. We will now skip across to Paris and here again the horses hoofprint comes Into the limelight, though few people have ever seen It.
 l This souvenir Is the last footprint of the famous horse BayaTd, that legend ary steed which was presented by lCharlemagne to the four sons of Aymon and who possessed the remarkable fac ulty of lengthening himself to accons-
 modate his quadruple masters at one avl the same time.
 Although he passed through the sem blance of death. Bayard, like Arthur. lIrederick Barbarossa and Ogier le Dane, | Is said not to be dead, but still wan ders over the site of the ancient for est of Ardennes, where he may be heard lneighing on a long summers day. For hp n1 him Charlmagne demanded the death of the steed and upon the banks of the Seine in Paris near the Isle de Cite. | is pointed the last impress of his hoos ere he was cast into the stream. The Emperor was present at the drowning; he saw the feet of Bayard heavily weighted and the steed pushed from the middle of the bridge which spanned the river, Twice the noble ami nal came to the surface and cast an lagonized glance upon Renaud, his mas ter, who had been forced to come and witness the deed Ava, Renaud's moth CT, drew her sons head down upon her
 bosom to spare him the view and when
 Bayard, rising once more, missed his be- l loved masters face among the crowd, he sank beneath the waves with a groan of dispair and never rose again. l In the Latin Quarter of Paris, is a n old
 
 to have tarried in l604, and while In the lcity he visited the hoorrrint of Bayase, (which he contemplated sadly. for he
 was accursed for having bid Christ ]drini of some water which had coi- 1lected in the hoofprint of horse wner
 the Master had essayed to quaff from
 stream.
 When visiting the Matterhorn a Eur matt I was shown the spot on the Mat
 terberg where the Wondering Jew Is said 10 have paused and gazed sadly
 down the valley. The place Is now GOV cred with gentian and wild pinks but legend has it that this weary wanderer had been there before when it was the
 site of a flourishing c.;y and that he will revisit the hill on the eve of judg- ment Dore has most eXquisitely de- picted this Alpine scene where the con- torted pine branches weave semblance of the wndngs of the Via Dolorosa and only the flaming sword of thn angel keeps back the weary man from the re- pose of death
 Curiously enough the identity of the Wandering Jew his been interwoyen with that of John the Presbyter. or Preston John, of whom I have given q glance in former paper. Sir John Maundeville speaks of this strange John but while nobody takes him seriously his alleged existence a one time cleo trihed all Europe and he was sought after by prince, potentate and pope. In fact there is 10 he seen today in an Oriental library the Mss. Of a letter from Prestor John which appeared in I1165 addressed to Manuel of constanti- rople, Frederick. the Roman Emperor: Alexander III, Louis VII of France, and the King of Portugal.
 II is quite lengthy, but deem it's pre-
 sensation in full well worth the while: John, priest by the almighty power of God and the might of our Lord Jesus Christ, King of Kings, and Lord of .ords, to his friend Emanuel Prince of IConstantinople, greeting wishing him health, prosperity and the continuance of divine favor.
 Our Majesty has been informed that you hold our Excelleney in love, and that the report of our greatness has reached you Moreover, we have heard through our treasurer that you have
 been pleased to send us some objects Of art and interest that our eXaltedness might be gratifed thereby.
 Being human, I receive it in good part and We have ordered our treasurer
 10 send you some of our articles in re- turn.
 Now we desire to be made certain l that you hold the right faith. and in all things cleave 10 Jesus Christ, our Lord,
 for we have heard that your court re- gard you as q god though we know
 that you are mortal and subject 70 human inirmities. Should you desire
 to learn the greatness and excelleney
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