St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-08-21

| The timber OF the voX angelica is liter
ally wonderful. OF its truth to nature
i know nothing. No one knows what
| angels really are. Artists sometimes
represent them as chubby children:
l0ve-sick SWANS picture them as beau
| teouS maidenS; students of Scripture
say they must be beings of enormous
power. Although new fragment of
Scripture has been discovered, It is not
likely that the sources of informa.
tion about angels will ever be much
enlarged until men can see them face to
face. ConSeQuently,th the imitation Of the
angels voice must remain matter of
mere conjecture. The ambitious in
scription on the great bell of st.
LeOdrgarS invariably calls forth some
comment. 1t is in Latin, which. when
translated, reads as folIOws: 81 call the
living, bewal the dead, dispense the
storms" A bell may cheerfulIv call
the living to prayer, or its notes in
minor key may mourn the dead, but
how it can disperse storms is beyond my
ken to grasp.
A Memory Mark.
Usually in every European city
there is some one thing which
stamps itself upon the mind of even the
most rapid tourist. People may forget
town of light, the gorgeous palaces
overlooking its ever fresh-looking lake
may fade from ones memory, every
note OF the Wurld-famed or.an may be
forgotten. the very names of Mounts
PllatuS and Rigi may become iHpossi-
Die OF recall, not mental trace may be
left of the numerous paintings of its
historic chapel bridge; but no traveller
ever fOrgets the Lion of Lucerne."
1t is an immense lion hewn out of solid
rock, and is intended to preserve
the memory OF the Swiss guards who
fell i'll the defense of the royal family of
France in 1872. 1t is admirable as
work of art, as graceful hgure forceful
enough to appeal tn the feelings anu to
the imagination. But it is by no means
clear that the lesssn of history taught
by this monument is one of nnmiXei
good. Were the BuurbonS really worth
fighting Ior? At all events, the military
service of the SWISS guards was a mer-
cenary one, and there Is not much
honor and glory in dying for pay rather
than for patriotism. Every year there
is offered for the slain solemn mass of
requiem i'll the chapel near the lion.
The Chapel Bridge
Lucerne is chief center of the Cath
Ollie faith in Switzerland. More than
1000 years ago Irish missionaries COLI
verted the Pagan SWISS. TO this day
there are numerous evidences III SNitZ-
eriand of the work of st. Columbanus,
St.Gall, St.Cummln, St Kilian and many
others. John Calvin broke the ranks,
but the inhabitants of Lucerne refused
TO follow where he led, and all its peo-
pie except 5000 are strict auherentS to
the church of their ancestors.
Piety and patriotism are rarely found
united on a bridge; these virtues are
Joined in what is known as the chapel
bridge of Lucerne. The high priest of
this union is the artist. He performed
the wedding ceremony and raised
his brush in benediction of
the marriage OF patriotism and
religion. The history of the Swiss con-
federation furnished the artist with
many scenes for the bridge; the lives or
Sts. Maurice and Leger, the patron saints
OF the town, supply many more. Alto
gether, there are 154 curious paintings
on this remarkable old bridge, and these
are to the passerS-by continuous object
lessons in goodness, if not in great
ness. Standing on this bridge, and
looking up at the heaven-reaching
mountains all round. it is easy to I'M
derstand why the resident of Lucerne
can hardly help being a great mountain
tiful scenery.
A Great Mans Haunt.
The habits and hauuts of great men
have strong attraction for their fellow
mOrIals. Men like to follow in their
footsteps, and find out their failings, as
well as their sources of success. Luz
cerne was favorite haunt of
the most remarkable cardinal
of the nineteenth century-Charle les
Martial LavigerIe, archbishop of
Carthage and Algiers. The house of
his temporary abode at Lucerne is
pointed out to admring tourists; his
strong and wholesome manhood is mem
toned with pride, and his enthusiastic
efforts III the line of noble reform call
forth words OF approval even from those
who seldom praise anything that is not
crowned with the fullneSS of success.
Americans ana Swiss admire the great
cardinal of Africa because he had the
courage to declare in favor of repub-
llcan France at time when almost all
the French bishops were tugging at the
tails of royalty. Lucerne saw his eff
fort and his failure to interest the
European powers in the divine work OF
suppressing the Infamous slave trade
Of Africa. Ii he failed it was because
of the Selfishness of those to whom he
appealed for aid, and not for lack of
earnest endeavor on his part. He sue
ceeded in establishing the Cavalleri.
or White Brothers of the Desert,
whose object is to promote anti
slavery in the dark continent.
Lavigerie's body now rests In the
cathedral at Carthage, his fame is doubt
full in France. and his name only a
mOurnfuI memory in Lucerne. Curl
ously enough. Lavigerie's tomb at
Carthage teslifies to his high office; so
do the headStenes in Lucerne tell of the
calling which the lowly dead had fol-
lowed during life. Thus an anvil is
carved Oil the slab which marks til q
grave of smith, a fish on that of fish
erman, and spade on the headstone of
a gravedigger. These evidences mark
out the guild or society to which the de-
ceased belonged: they bring us back to
the days wien the church freely fOS-
tered unions of workingmen, when
high-minded eccleSiasticS aided and
directed them, and when there was no
fear of attempted suppression by means
of the sword of accommodation. On
all the tombs. whether of the humble or
of the great, we find eXuberant deScrip-
lions OF that piety which almost invari-
ably blooms in epitaphs.
4 Modern wonder.
Leaving lovely Lucerne for majestic
Milan, you travel over the st. Gpthard
railway, which is ole of the wonders of
modern Europe. People speak of it just
as they did few years alo about the
Effel tower, or as they still do about the
SueZ canal, namely, as one of the most
marvellous enterprises OF modern times.
The engineering difficulties encountered
in the construction of this railway were
CO hot 1OA,1 ,Ir l.1I