The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-11-25
FINE GERMAN CITIES.
KoIn Celebrated for Its Large Produc.
tion of Eau de Cologne.
IT'S CATHEDRAL WITH 5lz.FT. SPlRE.
High Standard Of Architecture. Churches that
Took Hundreds Of Years to Build.
Origin Of Freemasons.

OilcduS, duu DIS lUS name tCOIDD)
indicates, was at one time Ro.
man colony. 1t owed a great deal
OF its earlylmportance to Aggrip.
ina, Empress of Rome, who great.
ly favored it, and procured for it
great privileges and laws, even
such, as only the largest Italian
cities enjoyed. We find, even
now at this late day, traces of
Roman laws and customs; for in
stance, the mayor and city Off
GERS can only be chosen out OF a
guild of the wealthy men of the
city, which corporation has ex-
isted ever since the days of Ro.
man rule. 1t is said, that at one
time, there resided IN this city,
no less than $4,000 weavers. Al
present it Is the greatest wine
market IN all Germany; and it is
also the place, where the cele.
brated toilet article, called cologne
which is so highly priced by our
ladies, is manufactured and sold
in every part of the world.
kOln has now a fine iron bridge
which connects it with Dentz, a
town on the other side OF the river.
Formerly it had only a boat bridge
of a very peculiar construction.
A strange feature is the Touring
mills, which are anchored in the
river. counted no less than
seventeen of such. These are
simply boats, built to accommo.
date a single set of buhrstones.
A very large water wheel which
the current turns, supplies the
power.
But the greatest attraction of
koln Is its great old Cathedral,
with it's two 512.foot spires. 1t
Is the most celebrated church of
it's kind IN all Germany, France
and England. 1t covers nearly
two acres of ground. This build
ing was commenced as far back
as the year 1918, and was only
finished IN 1883, It's towers had
only progressed little above the
main building, and were sur
rounded with scaffolding, and
surmounted With great derricks,
and the sight was not very at.
tractlve, but now since they are
completed, 1t is almost impossi-
BILE In a letter like this to de-
scribe It's beauty.
In 1S43 the Catholic population
of Germany made an attempt to
complete this costly structure,
but were unable to raise the nee.
essary funds without any other
help. The matter rested again
until 1871, when, after defeating
France and becoming an empire,
with the king of Prussia as EN-.
peror, the entire German nation
undertook it as a national enter
prise and completed it in 1888.
In this way all the honor and glo-
ry of presenting to the astonish-
ed world so costly and wonderful
a specimen of German art, skill,
and workmanship in German ar.
chitecture, redounded upon the
whole German nation instead of
upon the Catholics alone.
In the Middle Ages, it seems,
art and science, especially archi-
lecture, were the exclusive pos
sessions OF the church. So 1T
happened tn 1t in the beginning
of the thirteenth century a great
mania, as it were, to build church
es of the most fabulous dimen-
sions, expenditure OF money, la
>or and time. took possession of
the Christian world. The result
was the planning uf mum bers of
edifices the building and compile.
tion of which seems almost be.
yond human conception, even in
this our own day.
There were two styles of
church architecture the Byzan.
tic or round arch, ending on the
top with a cupola, as the Sophia
church in Constantlnopls, the
church Of Saint Mark in Venice,
the cathedral in Aagen. and 9th
ers; and the Gothic style, with
the high pointed arch and high,
slender, graceful spire terminal