Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1910 — TEMPTED, HE ATE. [ARTICLE]

TEMPTED, HE ATE.

A Story of Heinrich Heine and a Toothsome Lyons Sausage. Returning from a journey to the south of France, Heinrich Heine met a friend, a German violinist, in Lyons, who gave him a large sausage that had been made in Lyons with the request to deliver it to a mutual acquaintance, a homeopathic physician, in Paris. Heine promised to attend to the commission and intrusted the delicacy to the isare.of his wife, who was traveling with him. But as the postchaise was very slow and he soon became very hungry, on the advice of his wife both tasted of the sausage, which dwindled with every mile. Arriving at Paris, Heine did not dare to send the remainder to the physician,’and yet he wished to keep his promise. So he cut off the thinnest possible slice with his razor, wrapped it in a sheet of vellum paper and enclosed it in an envelope, with the following note: “Dear Doctor —From your scientific investigations we learn that the millionth part of a certain substance brings about the greatest results. I beg, therefore, your kind acceptance of the accompanying millionth part of a Lyons sausage, which our friend gave me to deliver to you. If homeopathy is a truth, Jhen this little piece will have the same effect on you as the whole sausage. Your "HEINRICH HEINE.” —Ughetti’s “With Physicians and Clients."