THE STORY OF ERNST CHRISTIAN SCHOEFFER

I PURPOSE relating the story of Ernst Christian Schoeffer. In order to do this circumstantially, I will begin by stating that he was the only child of Dorothea and Wolfgang Schoeffer, of Ulm, and was born in an upper chamber of a house on the Graben, just thirty-one years since. To say that Wolfgang Schoeffer rented a house on the Graben is equivalent to saying at once that he lived in a poor way; for excepting, perhaps, some foul, tottering, water-rotted tenements down by the river-side, in the boatmen's quarter, there are few meaner dwellings in Ulm than those huddled against the walls and along the verge of what was once the moat surrounding that ancient Suabian city.