Show 0 depman germanys y f s noble river splendid scenery and picturesque ruins line the banks of the rhine beauty of colognes wonderful cathedral thedral Cd ww special correspondence all children dream at night and have day dreams as well their earli cst years are spent in worlds created by their own imagination rather than with what is termed the actual uni verse imagination is such a force with them that they consider anani mate nature as alive as their own personalities there was nothing I 1 dreamed of more than the rhine with its fiendish dolse tower and the lovely lorelei who spent her days in song and comb ing her hair with a golden comb F irk p fg ter rm A F NR GATEWAY OF COLOGNE BRIDGE cathedral Cathe drar in distance years went by and often I 1 wished tor for the day when I 1 might see those asplen aid lid ruins at last my wishes were fulfilled I 1 found myself along by the rhine the water was placid and a perfect blue the banks were covered with splendid Nine vineyards yards and many ruins rums and still I 1 was disappointed this was probably because I 1 saw the rhine after the glorious lake of lu cerne and yet notwithstanding that I 1 was disappointed the river is lovely from Ble brebrich brich to coblentz for miles the high hills are covered with well a arranged vineyards brol en in places by tumble tumbledown down p picturesque ruins the first interesting town passed was mainz best I 1 as the birthplace of gutenberg the investor veator in of the art of printing with movable type not far away is the town of bingen and its adjacent island where stand a crumbled round tower I 1 to children as once having been the home of a miser who was tormented with ith mice close by is the town of wh ch is proud of its new statue commemorate comme morat ng the Nic victories tories of 1871 and also is celebrated for its ex cellena rhine wine of the several handsome ruins none is more lovely that the castle of w aich NN as once a robber s den it is situated on the edge of a precipice close to the rhine later on the castle was bought and remodeled by prince frederick of prussia and is now used as a museum Bo Bc charah harah is another city northy worthy of mention hav ing been a strong roman forti fica a splendid course in places the pre repito is coast Is clad with dense for ests while nesti ng among the fir beading trees rises the proud castle of stolzenfels which was once a asplen did roman fortification but in late years has served as an art gallery the most splendid of the rhine pan orama are the where seven mountains vie with each other tor for admiration the only other place of importance a ong the rhine excepting cologne is bonn during the reign of constan tine the great this city was a mighty poman oman stronghold it is also noted for its fine university which was founded in the eighteenth century and later enriched by naopleon Nao NaD oleon I 1 bonn is also remembered as the birthplace of beethoven the resting place of mann schiller s wife and eldest son this wonderful cathedral at cologne was not completed at one time A monk gerhard von rile is supposed to have been the architect and his plans are yet to be seen within the chuich august 15 1248 the dounda tion stone for this magnificent edifice was laid its progress at this period was slow as the church was at war with itself the saddest period in the church history was when the soldiers of the french c entered the city many of the valuable ant equities were destroyed and the bronze tombs of the arch bish p wore were melted dur ing the revolution it was used as a garrison and later as a prison the cathedral abounds in chapels decorated m with ith rare paint ggs and groups of marble figures in the en trance of the north portal is the great organ built in the sixteenth cen tury but which has been repaired many times in the chapels are asplen did tombstones erected to the memory of the archbishops who are there laid to rest the high altar though beau ticul is not as magnificent as it used to be in the middle of the seven century the cardinal of strass burg presented the church with paint ings b by rubens and valuable able tapes tries later they were removed and V A 4 4 IF 41 t C a EHRENFELS tion and as evidence there yet stands a sacrificial alta by the time we reached oberwesel Ober wesel the hills had given ilace to steep rocks where are seen the handsome ruins of Shon burg two of these steep cliffs cliff s are called liebenstein ebenstein Ll and sternberg were once owned by two brothers who quarreled and killed each other in deadle combat A little farther along stands a sharp high cliff called the lorelei along this part dart of its it windings the river makes the paintings were covered with a carpet worked and presented by the ladies of cologne the work depre the nicene creed in a number of 0 tableaux when we said good by to cologne we bade farewell to germany the th country which Is proudest of its asplen did army a nation who loves and fosters architecture painting a and nd music and a people who are well versed in science as well as every other branch of knowledge |