The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-10-02

church went up under the direction of Father Maute, whp; after preaching the sermon Sunday morning, announced who had been selected to work during the coming week. By this means about one-seventh of the entire congregation labored each week. Father Maute not only assigned the men to Work, put he' the busiest, directed 1t all. Year after year this continued until gradually the structure took shape.
 The dimensions of St. Joseph'5 are one hundred and ninety-six by ninety feet From the foundation to the caves it is sixty-seven feet, and from the floor on the interior to the ceiling 1t is ninety feet. The walls are four and SIX feet thick. The steeple, when comple- ted, will be two hundred feet high, III 1t is bell which, with its hangings, weighs eight tons. Its eonorous ana grand voice can be heard, with a favor able breeze, at Celestine, ten miles easr of Jasper, and at Ferdinand, twelve miles south.
 The church, though the seating ar engagements have not been completed can seat two thousand people, and an- other one thousand can stand on the lower floor of the structure. ~ Father Basil Heusler, now in charge of the pastorate, is doing all he can to beautify the great structure left un11n- tshed by old Father Maute. Besides putting in splendid heat system, there have been added fine art windows. Over the entrance Is an art window showing Christ feeding the multitude. It cost six hundred dollars. Near the altar Is another of the Good Shepherd that cost four hundred and seventy five dollars. On the other side is the
 nativity of the Lord that cost four nun-
 dred and fifty dollars. Over the center altar is small window, he glass in
 which cost three hundred dollars The | smaller windows cost one hundred ana | eeventy-five dollars and side windows three hundred dollars.
 But the windows are not the most ex- peneive part of the ornamentation. | The three altars are especially fine, be- | ing constructed entirely of Italian mar ble. The high altar with the two l groups, each seven feet high, cost nine- | teen thousand dollars. The side altars l one crowned with the blessed Virgin the other with St. Joseph, the patror 1 saint of the church, cost six thousand | dollars. The high altar has before ii
 six great candlesticks, each of which
 cost fifty dollars. The railing separa' l ting the sanctuary from the church | auditorium is of onyx and brass tha' cost one thousand dollars. The other l decorations are proportionate In ex pense and beauty,
 l When Father Matte died he hac
 failed to make any provision for heat | ing and lighting the vast structure l At present candies are used for illumi l nation, but soon the building will b. equipped with electricity.
 The congregation of St. Joseph's in
 cludes three hundred and thirty fami
 lies, or about three thousand cofmuni
 cants. In the city of Jasper 90 per cent of the inhabitants are Catholics, ant | Dubois county Is in the strongest Cath olic district in the state. They hay
 made many sacrifices to construct thi magnificent edifice. The monastery a
 St. Meinrad has received considerabl
 aid from these people. It is though
 that the aggregate amount of Catholi
 property in the county of Dubois is
 million dollars---Chicago Record.