Douglas Island news., 1911-01-18

take to bed. He called for priest, who confessed him, and few days later he died, thus cheating the devil out of one soul. To get another soul was a puzzle, but "loose" woman who had been condemned to death for witchcraft and other evil practices came to the front aud said that as the devil was going to have her soul anyhow he might as we'll have it first as last. She made prop osition asking for pardon in case she fooled the devil, which was promised. On the day appointed for consecratlon six men walked up to the cathedral with large box, out of which jumped something clothed as woman. It walked into the church on all fours. The devil, who was waiting at the door, bounced on it, broke it's neck and ran away yelling and screaming. They ex- amined the clothed body and found it to be that of large pig. The devil was hot about the way he had been bilked out of the two souls and swore that he would never allow them to finish the cathedral. They did not for GOO years. 1 do not believe the devil has as much power as he had GOO years ago.
 The cathedral is 5l2 feet long; it has central tower 357 feet high and in front are twin towers terminating in spires 512 feet high-same as the length and higher than the Juneau picnic ground is above the sea level. You cannot realize that they are so high when you are close by and have other buildings all around, but when you are i in the country miles away and cannot see building in Cologne the two spires loom up and you think you are looking at pretty fair sized building. 1 re- member when first saw Mount Blanc. had climb bed another mountain 6UOO i feet high to see the sunrise and inci- dentally Mount Blanc. Did not see the sunrise (you hardly ever do, though everybody say they do), but saw Mount Blanc. It did not impress me. had seen several snow capped mountains before and some of them looked better than this. saw it from the mountains several times after (not at sunrise) and it seemed little higher than the other I fn The guide wanted me to climb Mount Blanc; said it would only cost me SOU besides tips and board. Hooked at the dirty, dust.stained mountain with mud streams flowing down it's side and l said, "Why doesn't somebody take that mountain away and wash it?" l did not blow in any $50 that day. Weeks after was on the way from Lyon to Grenoble and we stopped at siding to meet or connect with another train. It was level plain and as far as you could see there was not hill in sight except in one place, where cone shaped white mountain seemed to rise out of the plain. It was white from top to bottom, without spot, and the whitest white I ever saw. asked somebody what that was. "C'est le Mont Blanc Git is the white mountain)," he replied. I was 80 miles away from it and liked it hundred times better than when I was so feet from it. An other test for the greatness of an object, whether natural or artificial, is that you do not tire of it. It becomes greater every time you see it. So with music-"Ben Bolt," "Annie Laurie" "Last Rose of Summer" or "Killarney" do no tire people. The colosseum, pyra- mids, Spinx and Tai Mabal all appear ed greater to me the last time l saw them than they did the first. So with the Cologne cathedral. It is Of stone and the outer walls are covered with thousands of carvings-life-sized carV- ings of saints, apostles, archbishops and other dignitaries of the church, rulers of Germany and men who have figured in its history, besides gargoyles and many other fantastic figures.
 (To be continued.)