Douglas Island news., 1911-01-11

due up in 1880, when the city insisted on having the ground for building pur- poses. They ordered those in charge to dig the ground over carefully ana remove everything they found.
 The church is brick and is plain and unpretentious without, but the interior is we'll worth seeing. There are num- Der of tombs, sarcophage and brasses telling of the death of somebody that perhaps with the exception ot Mlke Beltzhoover, nobody in Alaska has ever heard of So we will pass them up.
 The wooden coffin in which St.Ursula was found was placed in beautiful sarcophagus. On the lid is the figure of St. Ursula with the dove that showed St. Cunnibert her grave. As to the other virgins, I remem Der once hearing Sir Jonathan Hutchinson in alluding to the rooms in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, with their hundreds of shelves filled with skulls, say that it was a perfect Golgotha. The church of St. Ursula is certainly a Golj gotha. They have found the remains of over three thousand bodies, most of them with skulls split open, crushed in or with arrowheads sticking in them. Competent pathologists say that they are all skulls of young women and that injuries were inflicted at time of death. The bones are eVerywhere--on shelves, in glass cases, in wooden cases, in sar- cophagus, and thousands are stuck on the walls to make wreaths and pretty figures. I found it nearly as bad as the convent of the Capucius in Rome. In this church they have also the stone or marble jug which held the wine at the feast at Cana of Galilee.
 CHURCH OF ST. GEREoN
 In 3O2 the Theban Legion of 6,OO0 men came from Rome to Cologne. They were christians and Gereon was kind of leader among them. On some Ro- man feast day the commander ordered the whole army to sacrifice to, Jupitur. The Theban soldiers refused and every tenth man was ordered out to be killed. He tried them again and gain with the same result until the whole legion was slaughtered except few who had fled and become monks or hermits. The church is we'll worth visiting. The bones of all the soldiers they could find are there, stored away in sarcophagus, chests and reliquaries of all kinds. The church was erected when the martyr dom took place.
 The streets in Cologne are narrow in the older parts of the city. This is the case in many old cities and the whole district has to be torn if it becomes necessary to widen a street. London has done more in the way of widening streets than any other city 1 know of. They simply condemn district, pay the owners for their property, tear down the houses and put in strhet as wide as any city in America possesses. Of course it costs millions. If street is narrow you cannot make it wide by simply moving back the houses, as you "back into somebody"
 Cologne is an easy city to get about in as the people are civil, polite and law:abiding. The officials let you see that they are watching you, but nobody else troubles or annoys you.
 I believe the bicycle nuisance is worse than in America, but they told me in Germany that it is dying out for sexual reasons. When it becomes thor oughly understood everywhere the eff feet the bicycle is having on the man. hood and womanbood of the riders { think it will die out-except possibly with poor curates and their wives who are liable to have twelve or fifteen chil- dren if they do not do something to prevent it.
 (To be continued.)
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