Cañon City record., 1909-11-18

the alleged meeting place OF Welling-
ton and Boucher, while soup sign
is over the wall behind which the
English held one day.
The European governments which
own railroads, breweries. theaters,
galleries., music halls, street cars,
telephones and telegraph lines. should
acquire the battlefield of Waterloo.
1t would pay, For 'it was a famous
victory
After visiting Waterloo, we quit
Brussels and went up the Rhine. At
Cologne, where we took the Rhine
boat, we saw the most beautiful thing
that we have seen SO far in Europe.
1t was the Catholic cathedral OF Co
logne. 1t would be absurd to try to
describe it. But 1t is possible to set
down the feeling it produced.
OF course, the exterior does not diff
fer so materially from the exterior
of other churches on the continent.
The cathedral dominates the town,
just as the Duomo overlooks Flor
ence, and st. Peters hovers over
Rome, and st. Marks overcomes We
nice. But that is unimportant 1t is
the inside of the church that grips
ones soul. We had been riding in a
cab for two hours of the early morn
ing through Cologne before going into
the cathedral. And Cologne is busy
modern city. Thousands of men and
women were hurrying along the
streets to work.
Traffic was beginning its daily
drone. The clatter OF cars and wa
spelled commerce and work and the
hard rough world. The world was
too much with u.s." perhaps. For with
all that in OUR ears We went up the
broad steps of the cathedral and as
the door closed the world slipped
away-and we seemed magically
transported to great somber forest.
We seemed suddenly to be brought
up face to face with God.
The soft light through the beauti-
full windows was a light never seen
on land or sea. And the great una
dorned stone pillars that rose up and
up into graceful arches that vaulted
the roof. took with them all the as
piration of the soul toward It's Crea-
tor.
This is indeed Gods house. None
of the gilded bar variety OF st. Pc
ter's marred 1t. None of the tinsel
and glittering marble and golden vir-
gins and gaudy Christs of the Italian
churches spoiled the simple effect OF
the place. II was no pagan temple
with Christian names.
1t was the primitive house OF the
Lord. The woods were mans first
temples" And this temple took man
back as little child into the eternal
woods and let him listen for the voice
OF God. 1t was a great and beautiful
experience to come plump out OF the
world in the morning into this holy
place. 1t was a fitting beginning for
a perfect day.
From the cathedral we were hur-
ried to the boat that took us up the
Rhine. or course, one always thinks
his own way OF doing a thing is the
right way. So we say-always go
first up and not down the Rhine. For
we went up first. But many people
come out of the high Alps into the
cliffs of the Rhine and then at Cob
lenz, into the plains-making an an
ti-climax of lanscape
They are not pleased with the trip
and It seems likely that a trip begin
ming with the plains and lowlands
and gradually rising to the noun
tains would be more satisfactory.
For enthusiasm over scenery is like
anything else. II doesn't go well pie
first. So to us. who had not had the
pie of the trip, the plains above Co
logne. with the beautiful little red
rooted villages shining in the morning
sun. were beautiful We enjoyed the
thrifty German farms
We didn't mind the factories that
are sDringing up everywhere And
when the plains roughened into hills
and the hills broke into cliffs and the
cliffs sharpened into castles we we're
delighted The castles were the
homes OF the robber barons. The
robber barons used to swoop down
on the Rhine and levy tribute on its
commerce coming up over the Alps
from the Mediterranean. They say
that some Of the later castles have
been converted into summer hotels
"a conversion which is questiona-