Frankfort-on-the-main

In allEurope there is nomore lovabla sity than Main. I bave met Americana who wero as enthusiastic about it as Madame de Stacl was about Paris, and as much deliglated to make it their home. The Frankfurters themselves regard it as an excellent place to stay. Not many of them, indeed, especially of the older stock, can be persuaded to leave it. There re Dot % few of its families whose peripienous annals of residence extend back tlirongh a long line of ancestry, for two or three centuries. There are banks and other business honses whose present name and location have been continuous for 100 to 150 years. The city itself dates back to the time of Charlemagne. One of its gtone bridge, spanning the River Main, is aaid to have been built eight or nine centuries go. A legend tells us it was placed ther by his Santanic Majesty, on a special contract with the city fathers, that he slionld have the soul of the first creature that hould pass over it. When it was finished the shrewd Frankfurters Bent a rooster acrosg it, thereby showing themselves smarter than the ely party of the second part. An image of the rooster, surmouuting a pole set upon the bridge, cominemorates the event and couflrms the trutli of the storv. -