The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-06-09

| COLOGNE, May 20, 1886.
We wrote the first part of the above let
ter on Sunday, while We were staying with
the monks. We had Seen on the Vesu-
vius, the fire mountain, and then we were
| on the snow-monntain over 1000 feet high.
| OF the two we liked the last the best.
There is something awful and grand in
looking al the several peaks around you
as high again as We were, covered entirely
with snow, and without sign of vegeta-
ton. Everything around you is as still
as death, except now aud then the Monas
terry bells and the moaning of the winds.
The monks have beautiful chapel or
church. On that Sunday they sang mass
| as grandly, all by themselves, as if ii was
in the Cathedral of Milan. There were
| only in church about dozen rough but
devout looking workmen, ourselves, and a
Protestant gentleman who was sharing
with us the monks hospitality. We would
have liked to stop there for a whole week
if we had the time. The monks did every
thing, as they do for everybody who goes
to see them, for the love of God, and took
no pay.
Next day at twelve o'clock, we started
TO go down to Switzerland on foot, and il
took us FIVE hours to arrive at the first
town called Brieg. The Protestant gem
tleman came with US. He had made the
whole trip with only a stick to help him.
You can climb up on foot just as fast ON
foot as with horses. At Brieg we took the
railroad and went to Berne winding around
nearly all the Lske of Geneva. It is verv
beautiful, but not so much as Lake Mag
giore and Lake di Como From Berne 10
Strasburg, we saw there the Cathedral
with its two marvels, the organ and the
QtQpt The ha =
world, and the clock works all the follow
ing things: lst, the year %, the month
Sd, the day OF the month 18th, the hour
and the minute; 9Th, all the movable and
the immovable feasts of the calendar 9th.
the day on which Easter falls each wear
9TH, the quarters of the moon Sth, the
signs of the Zodiac 9th, it shows, by means
of little globes, the different movements of
the earth around the sun, of the moon
around the earth, and ~of several stars
around the sun. 1t has several other
movements that-.we don't remember. 1t
strikes every quaAer of an hour. At the
first quarter appears little boy, who, with
a neat little hammer, strikes one, and then
actually walks away At the I'd quarter
appears young man who strikes two. and |
walks away. At the Sd appears middle
aged man, who strikes three, and walks |
away. At the 4th appears decrepid old |
man with staff In his hand, who strikes |
four and walks away. At II O'Clock. ex- |
actly after the old man has struck the four
quarters, ST. Peter appears before our |
Lord, bows to him, and passes on One by |
one pass all the other eleven apostles, each |
bowling III his turn to our lord. When all /
have passed, our Lord gives them his bless
ing. Then grim Death, with an ugly ham
mer, strikes the twelve hours The clock
viii run for 999 years. We will end fhis
long letter BY telling you that we are we'll /
pleased with Cologne and its Cathedral.
Although not as large as st. Peter of Rome.
or the Milan Cathedral, still it is q marvel
Of beauty. Father Ditto passed on pur-
pose through Cologne in order to see II. AZ
he had never seen it before.
We have not much more to see. and "A
our money-bag is becoming smaller and
smaller, we are beginning to think Of
home Our return ticket on the ocean q
paid for. But you will oblige us greatly
10 remit to MS in New York, the salary
which is due rs as your foreign CORE
spondents, to enable ns to get home. +
Al revolr, AMOS JOHNSTON.
EDWARD Scorr.