Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-02

the shape OF Latin cross.
In the monastery of Cisterian
monks at Wettingen, founded in
1927 and now occupied by the can
tonal seminary for teachers, are
carefully preserved specimens of the
highly developed, artistic culture of
the 10th century. The monastery
church contains a sarcop,iagus in
which the remains of the Emperor
Albert of Austria lay for IS months
before their removal to Speyer, and
the beautiful choir stalls, carved in
oak, with fantastic heads of men
and animals and splendid ornaments,
are considered to be masterpieces
in the art of wood carving. The
precious 10th and 18th century
stained glass windows, decorating
the clc;sters. illustrate the different
stages of the wonderful develop
ment and sad decadence' which the
art of glass painting has undergone
in the course Of some four CEN
turtles.
Snake Brought Wonder Jewel.
Zurich's most famous place Of
worship is undoubtedly the Gross
munster, erected in the Romanesque
style with the upper stories of the
towers completed later in the
Gothic style. On the west, tower is
enthroned Charlemagne with gilded
crown and sword in recognition Of
his donations to the church.
In an effort to explain the founda-
ton of the Wasserkirche, a legend
relates that once, when Charlie
magne came to the city he had a
pillar set up before his palace with
bell and rope attached thereto,
and made it known that whoever
suffered wrong should pull the bell
when the emperor sat at dinner, and
he would come out and hear the
story of his wrongs.
One day the bell rang, and the
emperor, going out, saw a serpent
which nodded its head and started
fer the lake, turning around to see
that the emperor followed. There
the latter saw that a toad was sit
ting on the eggs of the serpent, and
Immediately declared that the toad
should be burned to death. The
next day, as the emperor was sit
ting at the table, to the terror and
astonishment of all present, SER
pent crawled through a hole in the
wall, swung itself down, lifted the
cover of goblet on the table,
dropped a precious stone therein
and departed the way it had come.
The emperor in his joy founded a
church on the spot where the ser
penis nest had been, a church
which to this day is known as the
! Wasserkirche (water church,.
Town of Oriels.
North of Zurich, near the falls of
the Rhine, lies Schaffhausen, a me-
diaeval gem of rare charm, often
| described as the town of oriels, for
there is scarcely one old house
which has not an architectural
ornament of this kind.
| The principal place of worship in
this city is the Munster, now the
Protestant Parish church, a classic
structure in the early Romanesque
style. dating from the beginning Of
the 18th century. This convent was
founded by Count Eberhard V and
consecrated in 1852 by Pope Leo TX
in person.
Inspired Schiller's Song.
The celebrated Munster bell, cast
in 1886, whose motto: "Vivos
Voco, mortuos plango, fulgura
FRANCO" inspired Schiller to write
his immortal "Song of the Bell
has had to relinquish its duties
some years ago, in consequence Of
a crack, and now reposes as the
Schiller Bell" on a granite pedestal
amid appropriate surroundings be,
tween the cloisters and the chape
of St. Anne.
St. Calls and Parsifal
Not far distant from the Wild
kirchli is St. Gall, the famous EN-
broidery seat of modern days ane
one of the most influential center:
Of Christian civilization in centra
Europe. The city owes its founda
| ton to the Irish apostle Gallus who
in the year GA, founded hermitag,
near the brook Steinach. In thu
resulting monastery of St. Gall, tht
strict rules of the Irish church were
enforced until 720, when those o
| St. Benedict were substituted by al
abbot, Othmar.
| 1t prides itself for instance on tn,
celebrated "Psalteruiin Aureuni,
| the Golden Psalter, so called on &C
count of its golden writing on whit,
parchment; of a Niebelungenlied O
the 18th century, of manuscripts re
lating to Parsifal and other heroe!
sung by Wagner.
i Angels Lived in Valley.
i In central Switzerland, too, in !;
sunlit Alpine valley, where the ma
jestic Titlis. king of the mountains
of Unterwalden (Obwalden), stands
eternal guard, lies Engelberg, tn,
mount of angels of former days,
gloriously beautiful spot. Histor,
! tells us that this by nature so Law
ishly endowed valley was uninhab
tied by man until the beginning 0
the 18th Gentry, when Baron Conra,