. Germany;. rate here was the stormiest ofwhich history bears a record, and under the chargeof treason he was virtually expelled. The city hasseen Gustavus Adolphus and Tilly within its had also several visits from Napoleon. Thus ithas a most notable history. From 1816 to 1866 the German Parliament heldits sessions here. Bismarck was the most dis-tinguished member of that body. During the firstyear of his sojourn the landlord of the housewhere he lodged took away the table bell he usedto call the servants when he had letters for thepost. He rang so frequently that the landlord tookthi
. Germany;. rate here was the stormiest ofwhich history bears a record, and under the chargeof treason he was virtually expelled. The city hasseen Gustavus Adolphus and Tilly within its had also several visits from Napoleon. Thus ithas a most notable history. From 1816 to 1866 the German Parliament heldits sessions here. Bismarck was the most dis-tinguished member of that body. During the firstyear of his sojourn the landlord of the housewhere he lodged took away the table bell he usedto call the servants when he had letters for thepost. He rang so frequently that the landlord tookthis bold step. When Bismarck had his corre-spondence ready again to be carried to the post-office, he fired a pistol. The landlord, alarmedat the loud report, rushed in. Bismarck coollyaddressed him and said, Sir, you took away mybell, and so I had recourse to the only method ofsummoning a servant that was left. It is needlessto say that the bell was at once restored to itsplace. COBURG—DUCAL CASTLE AND PARK. THE LUTHER LAND 135 Bismarck was here again on a more historicoccasion, in May 1871, when the treaty of peacebetween Germany and France was signed. Thatnight the fountains in Frankfort ran with wine. Frankfort was long the second mercantile cityof Germany, Hamburg being the first. It hasalways been the Banking-house and the ExchangeCity of the Fatherland. In the Juden Gasse theold dwelling-place of Meyer Anselm Bauer, thefounder of the famous Rothschild Bank, is stillstanding. Here he established himself as a money-lender at the sign Zum rothem Schilde. I haveoften heard an old lady, who was born in 1791 andlived till 1882, tell how she was many times withher father in the little back parlour of the house Zum rothem Schilde. She had many interestingstories to tell of the founder of the Rothschildfortunes. From this humble venture in the JudenGasse sprang the great European Banking-house,without whose aid no European Power would cryhavoc and let slip the dogs of war. A few
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