Deworeaic alc,
Bellefonte, Pa., April 1, 1927.
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The Milan Cathedral.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
By Rev. L. M. Colfelt D. D.
MILAN.
How many lovely cities there are in
Italy, each one containing a marvel
and each marvel having its particular
character. Iach of them has pro-
duced a genius which it unfolds in ex-
change for the gift of existence and
the aspiration of immortality. The
divinest monument of Milan, the civil
city of Italy and its especial kind of
architecture is:
THE CATHEDRAL.
Of all the arts the most impressive
is that of Architecture. Stones shap-
ed by design and expressive of beauty
and harmony give pure and intellec-
tual pleasure. The great lines, the
broad spaces, the ambitious arches,
the aerial cupolas, the columns with
their adornments, the galleries with
their perspectives, the court yards
and their cloisters, force upon the mind
profound meditations and always ex-
press the genius of the age with its
symbolical character. Without a
doubt the best architecture to resist
the tooth of time and the more de-
structive age of man is the Grecian
with its strength and stability. But
the Grecian, though complete in its
subjection to the laws of harmony
and proportion is distinguished by
small power of expression. It it too
severe and rigid to appeal powerfully
to the imagination. In fine, we come
to architecture as we come io every-
thing else, looking through the dom-
inant element of our nature—as
through a glass. To those in whom
reason and conscience preponderate
the simplicity of the Grecian with its
truth to nature will always be pret-
erable. The imagination, however,
demands something more bold and
striking. Art is a magician and im-
presses her kiss of fire on very dif-
ferent foreheads, the high and narrow
as well as the broad and square.
In obedience to her behests, the art-
ists of the ages conceived the Gothic
method. Not a line of Roman sever-
ity is to be seen in the Cathedral of
Milan. Truly it is imagination run
wild and the florid Gothic expanded
in such profuse open work as to con-
stitute forever the richest flower of
the Renaissance. Begun in 1386 by
Duke John Galeas Visconti, it is not
yet completed, though 500 years and
over 100 millions of dollars have been
expended on its erection, this vast sum
being for labor alone, the marble hav-
ing been a free gift. This tale of
years and expense would sound im-
probable but for the vision of the
Cathedral itself. No gallery in Eu-
rope contains nearly so much sculp-
ture. The building is four hundred
and fifty feet in length, two hundred
and seventy in breadth and the arch-
ed ‘roof is two hundred and thirty-two
in height.
foundation stone, the material is of
fine, white marble from the quarries
of Gangdoglio. The whole external
surface is loaded with ornament. The
friezes of the monuments, the cusps
of -the turrets, the roof itself, are
crowned with chiselings, white marble
statues carved by the best sculptors
of Italy appear in every niche, in
every angle, on every steeple, around
every spire. Their total number has
béen estimated at more than 4000 but
many of them have been carved for
immortality alone as they are so con-
cealed that they are visible only to
the birds of the air that perch orn
them. Within the Cathedral, fifty-two
marble pillars, each eighty-four feet
in heizht and twenty-four feet in cir-
cumference and adorned with many
statues and pediments, enriched with
a prodigious number of arabesques,
support the vast edifice. The marble
floor, the red-polished columns, the
singularly painted ceiling of the vault,
a perfect imitation of sculpture, the
rich colored glass of the windows, the
various altars, the oaken confession-
als, the different chapels, the paint-
ings worth a province, the basso-re-
lievos, the forest of statues, all by
men of rank, would require a vast
leisure for careful examination. We
can but ascend to the roof of the tem-
ple for a final view. Whoever has a
feeling for the beautiful could not help
admiring the prospect from the plat-
form of the great cupola. From every
angle of the temple beauty leaps, the
endless array of ornamented pyramids
being set in order with such a sym-
metry that amid all this madness of
architectural display of creeping arch-
es, magnificent galleries, astonishing
ogres on the parapets, one cannot es-
cape the impression of a consonant
method withal: Turning the bewild-
ered eye from the immense roof a
most imposing view of the whole city
and plain is presented; surrounded by
the chains of snow-capped mountains
which girdle the horizon. To attempt
to describe the sublimity of the Cath-
edral of Milan is useless. Better to
see, feel, admire—and be silent. It
is unequalled in the world.
In the Dominican Convent is the
famous painting of “The Last Sup-
per” by Leonardi Da Vinci. It is not
a fresco but an oil painting on the
wall of the Refectory, occupying a
whole side of the low hall and about
thirty feet in length by fifteen in
height. It has been so much disfigur-
ed by time and vandalism that it is
difficult to trace. Sorrowful is it that
the two-greatest paintings in the world
“The Last Supper,” by Da Vinci and
“The Last Judgment” by Angelo in
the vault of the Sistine Chapel are so
injured as to be almost incapable of
restoration. This in the Dominican
Convent has had an outrageous his-
tory. It could hardly be credited that
the Milanese authorities at the begin-
ning of the 19th century, turned the
convent into a prison where French
soldiers guarded their prisoners of
war. French soldiers used as a target
the painting which had been the great-
est ornament of Milan for three hun-
dred vears. An old woman who lived
near the Refectory has related that
a soldier of the French Hussars told
From highest turret to
her that he himself had fired at the
picture when guarding the prisoners
in the hall, not knowmg what the pic-
ture was and the prisoners, alike ig-
norant, threw stones against it by way
of amusement. Bonaparte, who had
a genius for art amid his mighty
schemes, on coming to Milan visited
the picture and finding the hall used
as a place of confinement “he shrug-
ged his shoulders and stamped with
his foot,” according to the relation of
the aged woman and ordering the pri-
soners away, had a door walled up and
a balustrade extended the length of
the hall in front of it.
Milan has always held a high rank
in the useful arts, being the greatest
commercial and manufacturing city of
Italy. The National Exposition, still
open at the time of our visit, bore
abundant witness to the practical en-
ergy of the Milanese. From May un-
til November 1st, more than a million
persons had passed through the turn-
stiles. Was the Exposition worth see-
ing? Well, perhaps not worth com-
ing from America expressly to see
but by no means uninstructive when
one was actually in Milan. Of the
Exposition the Italians were proud as
well they might be, seeing that it be-
tokened for the first time that Italy
was about to awake from the apathet-
ic industrial sloth that had so long
pervaded the peninsula. The ox and
the ass were about to be relegated to
the rear and the era of steam emerge.
The Exposition did prove that Italian
industry was full of probabilities. The
machinery was not better than our
own but prettier externally. Their
carriages were light but strong and
in finish surpassed the world. In
silks they were running the Lyons
manufactures closely and building up
an export trade with England and
America. Always great crowds
thronged the exhibition of the proc-
esses by which the silk was manufac-
tured, exhibiting all the stages from
the glass cases in which the silk
worms feed on the mulberry leaves,
the cocoons steeped in hot water,
the delicate threads disengaged and
reeled with as delicate machinery,
clear to the loom with its finished
product of brilliant and complicate
pattern, all these processes passed
successively under the eye of the
specator. The cocoons and the ma-
chines were manipulated by Milanese
girls, in ancient costumes with hair
folded in tresses and bound together
with a number of silver bodkins, mak-
ing a sort of shield at the back of the
head and presenting a peculiar and
unique appearance. Cotton could also
be traced from the raw material to the
manufactured article. This was an
element of popular interest that was
wanting in our Centennial Exposi-
tion which might have been anticipat-
ed on a larger scale with greater to-
kens of popular approval. But the
jewelry exhibit, with its pfofusion of
cameos, mosaics, corals, chased and
beaten gold and silver work, in which
the Italians surpass the world beside
attracted throngs. One booth espec-
ially we noticed filled with products
of Neapolitan skill was crowded about
with humanity many ranks deep from
morning till night. Drawn by cur-
josity, we joined the spectators to find
it was not the fine jewels that were
causing so much excitement but the
most exquisite piece of young woman-
hood it was our lot to see in all Eu-
rope, a perfect Greek type, narrow
forehead, brilliant eyes, olive complex-
jon that blushed with crimson embar-
rassment under the gaze of hundreds
of starers, a Venus indeed with the
body of Hebe. Horace Walpole tells
of beauties practically mobbed in the
streets of London by those eager to
behold them but here was a spontaan-
eous tribute of a mob of sightseers
paid not a famous court beauty but
a plebian girl of about 18 summers
presiding over a Neapolitan jewelry
case, that certainly testified to the ir-
resistible attraction physical beauty
has for all classes. Even the French
child that happened to be standing by
my side could not restrain its admir-
ation but cried out “La Belle Made-
moiselle! La Belle Mademoiselle!” "
Last but not least among the ex-
hibits which attracted attention was
the celebrated Majolica ware that fill-
ed the dome ir the center of the buiid-
ing. For centuries this has been an
Italian product. The forms of the
vases are in many instances exquisite
in beauty, a few of them being mod-
ern in design but for the most part
models of the antique. The dismal
weather somewhat dampened our en-
thusiam for the future exploration of
this massively built city in which
mean looking homes are as rare as
palaces in other towns. But with rain
falling fast and the tempest moaning
sadly through the trees we traversed
the great squares leading to our hotel
oblivious to all but the gloom and
tempted to substitute for Milan Mag-
nificent—Milan Muddy.
Milan seemed to be devoid of any
respect for foot passengers, the pave-
ment and the street maintaining the
same level without any line of demar-
cation and both sufficiently dirty. But
the general architecture of the city is
massive and imposing in the extreme,
the foundations of first stories being
rugged as bridges and railroad abut-
ments in our country as if built with
an eye single to strength and endur-
ance. The Duomo, a vast arcade,
glass covered, furnishes the Milanese
with a rendezvous, to which thousands
resort at night, with its music, its ta-
bles for refections and its social en-
joyment. This is something unique
and not to be seen in any other Euro-
pean city. While the Milanese seem
to be more solid and sombre than the
gayer and more volatile Neapolitans,
they are just as addicted to music but,
be it said, of a more classical type.
The world beside does not present
such a sight as the La Scala Opera
House with its tier on tier of magni-
ficent boxes filled to the roof, and the
pit jammed and even the vestibule
crowded with half a thousand stand-
ing, 6000 of them enjoying, on the
night of our visit, the rendition of
Semiranides by Patti, suppo~ted by
the greatest Divas in Italy and the
famous La Scala chorus. I am too
much of a Philistine in respect of
music to be fitted to convey any ade-
quate conception of the grandeur, the
glitter, the beauty, the perfection of
the performance.
PINE GROVE MENTION.
Mrs. Anna Gray is visiting friends
in Berwick this week.
David Porter has recovered from an
attack of scarlet fever.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Corl spent Friday
with friends in Altoona.
_ C. L. Goodling and wife are spend-
ing the week in Philadelphia.
_ Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Miller are visit-
ing relatives at New Oxford.
Fred Corl, of Juniata, was an over
Sunday visitor with his mother.
Rev. W. W. Moyer made pastoral
calls in this section last Tuesday.
John Meyers, of Somerset, was
registered at the St. Elmo on Friday.
Miss Helen Young spent several
days last week with friends in Belle-
fonte.
Forty names are on the roster for
the organization of a P. 0. A. lodge in
our town.
Melvin Barto has resigned as
teacher of the Baileyville school owing
to ill health.
Charles Goss, of Harrisburg, spent
several days last week with his mother
in this place. ’
Russell O’Bryan was taken to the
Centre County hspital, on Friday, as a
medical patient.
Jacob DeHaas, of Mt. Union, spent
the latter end of the week at the M.
C. Wieland home.
Miss Grace Smith, of Centre Hall,
was a Thursday visitor at the Mrs.
Viola Smith home.
Mrs. Laura Lytle and Mrs. George
Glenn spent Wednesday in Bellefonte
on a tour of the shops.
A kitchen shower was given Mrs.
John A. Neidigh, on Monday evening,
at her home on White Hall.
Russell Foster, of Mgahanoy City,
spent last week on a visit with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Foster.
George Bell, of Spruce Creek, was
here on Tuesday to see that his mother
got properly fixed up in the Goss
apartments on west Main street.
Fred Randolph and wife and Fay
Randolph, of Huntingdon, were guests
at the R. R. Randolph home over Sun-
day.
James Keller, farmer and lumber-
man, of Charter Oak, was here dur-
ing the week in quest of farm stock
but was not very successful in finding
much.
Our new barber, Mr. Springer, has
leased the J. W. Miller building and
mechanics are now at work beautifying |:
the interior. Rumor says he intends
opening up a beauty parlor.
After a two months stay at Camden,
S. C., Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Aikens and
daughter Mary Ann, and Mrs. Maurice
Baum and daughter Catherine return-
ed to State College on Friday.
Harry W. Frantz, Republican czn-
didate for county commissioner, was
hereabouts during the week and seem-
ed surprised to find so many Demo-
crats in this section of the county.
W. A. Collins has given up the
agency for the Atlantic and Pacific
Tea company and gone back to his
anvil and tongs. Rumor has it that
George Burwell will take the tea
route.
Last Friday evening the I. W. T.
band invaded the James Pfoust heme,
at Baileyville, and tendered a kitchen
and linen shower tc the newlyweds,
who have located on the Mrs. Reish
farm. It proved a very enjoyable
event for all. $
ww E. Rearick, of Milroy, was a
visitor here last Thursday. Forty
years ago he lived at Centre Hall and
manufactured corn planters and re-
called many of the incidents of those
days to old friends. He is now in the
grain and lumber business and quite
successful.
A double birthday celebration was
held at the Joseph Curtis Meyers
home, on the Branch, on Sunday, in
honor of Mr. Meyers and daughter
Evelyn. Mrs. Meyers prepared an
elaborate dinner of roast chicken, etc.,
which the guests enjoyed very much.
Both Mr. Meyers and Miss Evelyn re-
ceived many nice gifts.
George A. Goss quietly celebrated
his 57th birthday anniversary, on
Monday, at his home near Charter
Oak. He is the eldest son of the late
Cyrus Goss and was born in Pine
Grove Mills. As a young man he lo-
cated in Pittsburgh where he learned
the plumbing trade, but.is now en-
gaged in farming. A few friends were
invited in on Monday to help dispose
of Je chicken dinner prepared by his
wife.
It is estimated that five thousand
people attended the Will Kline sale,
on the Dr. Kidder farm, last Satur-
day, it being the last of the season
in this section. The sale amounted to
more than six thousand dollars. The
Ed Kocher sale, at Graysville, proved
the banner sale of the season, total-
ing $8,100. His five horses brought
$1,000; his herd of cows $3,000; hogs
$500; chickens $350. One brood sow
brought $130.
The movings in this section included
John Hess to his father’s farm at
Shingletown. C. B. Lohr from Al-
toona to the James E. Watt farm in
the Glades. W. A. Reish to Williams-
burg. James Pfoust to the Jacob
Reish farm at Baileyville. Ed Harp-
ster to the J. D. Dreiblebis farm at
Fairbrook, Mr. Dreiblebis moving to
his new home at Struble. John Parker
moved into a house in Lytle’s Addition,
George Brown succeeding him on the
Charles Snyder farm at White Hall. C.
M. Powley sold his farm to Charles
Simpson and retired to a home in
Baileyville. Elmer Rider moved from
the James McCool farm to that of J.
G. Strayer, at Gatesburg.
Ira M. Corl has retired to a cosy
home in State College and his farm
will be tenanted by Charles Rudy.
After a five years rest Jacob Cramer
has again taken possession of his own
farm and will resume tilling the soil.
John Horner has moved onto the old
Horner place near Centre Hall. S. E.
Fleming has taken charge of his new
farm near Boalsburg, H. E. Harpster
moving into the Fleming home, on
east Main street, which he recently
bought.
R. E. Musser moved into the W. E.
McWilliams apartments, at Rock
Springs, the Ault family moving fo
Mooresville. LeRoy Trostle has taken
charge of the Clement Dale farm at
Harrisonville, and Elmer Spicher the
J. E. McWilliams farm near Pine
Grove Mills. N. O. Dreiblebis has
retired from the farm and moved to
his new home at Struble, while his son
Walter will farm the old homestead,
at White Hall. Joseph Markle has
moved to the McCoy farm at Potter’s
Mills. Kyle Alexander has returned
to his farm at Julian.
Vare Gearhart moved into the Fry
place on east Main street, and
Ephriam Dodd to the H. S. Illingworth
place at White Hall. Guy Kocher and
bride have located in Altoona. Mrs.
Maria Reed will in the future make
her home with Mr. and Mrs. Elmer
Reed, on east Main street. John
Klinger purchased the J. M. Goheen
farm, in Harris township, and has
taken possession of same. Frank
Powell is a new beginner on the David
Wagner farm, at Houserville. Samuel
Reed moved from Mooresville to the
Daniel Irvin farm, at Baileyville.
A. C. Rockey has quit the farm and
moved to Bellefonte, Mr. Rudy suc-
ceeding him on the A. O. Johnson
farm, at Pine Hall. Leonard Griffin
has moved onto the Strunk farm. Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Krebs, of State Col-
lege, have taken rooms in the Mrs.
Susan Goss home in this place. Robert
Bloom has moved into the Dunlap
apartments. John A. Neidigh is a be-
ginner on his father’s farm at White
Hall. B. C. Smeltzer has moved onfo
his father’s farm, in Buffalo Run
valley, Charles Leosch succeeding
him as tenant on the Hon. John T.
McCormick farm, at Pine Hall.
Ed Kocher quit the farm and
moved to Warriorsmark, Daniel Fish-
er taking charge of his farm. Will
Kline and family have moved into a
home at Shingletown. Mrs. Harry
Glenn has gone back to her parental
homa on the Branch. Miss Edith
Sankey has taken rooms in the Mrs.
Viola Smith home. Elmer Rider has
moved onto the F. X. Rider farm, at
Gatesburg, and J. B. Kessler to the
G. E. Harper farm, at White Hall.
—Little Majorie came to tell her
Sabbath school teacher that she would
have to give up her part in the Christ-
mas exercises.
“Oh, Majorie!” lamented the teach-
er, “don’t say that. Have you lost
your Christmas spirit so soon, my
dear?”
Majorie shook her head.
“Not my Chrithmath thpirit,” she
lisped “It’th my front teeth.”
—R. C. T. B. tells us that a Bishop in
England was watching a small boy
playing in the gutter. “What are you
doing, my little man?” he asked.
“Making a kerfedral.” And where is
the bishop?” “Oh, I ain’t got enough
mud to make a bishop.”
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BOALSBURG.
John Dernar is convalescing from
his recent operation. :
N. E. Hess, of State College, was a
visitor in town on Tuesday.
Edwin Benner, of State College,
was a visitor in twon on Sunday.
Henry Reitz Jr. went to Oak Hall,
on Monday, to assist L. K. Dale on the
farm.
John Klinger purchased the Goheen
farm, vacated by Mr. Cole, and will
occupy it April 1st.
Mrs. Miranda McIntyre and baby
are visiting Mrs. MecIntyre’s parents,
Mr. and Mis. David Bohn.
Mrs. E. E. Stuart returned home on
Thursday after spending the winter
with her sons, in Pittsburgh.
Phil D. Foster, of State College,
and son, Harold Foster, of Chicago,
were business visitors in town on Fri-
day.
Mrs. E. R. Tussey and daughter,
Mary Helen, and Miss Mary Segner
have been victims of tonsilitis the past
week.
Mrs. O. F. Smith, who was called to
her former home in Maine on account
of the death of her brother, is suffer-
ing a nervous breakdown.
William Cole sold his farm machin-
ery and stock at public sale on Tues-
day and will move into the John Kim-
port residence, on west Main street.
George Mothersbhaugh purchased
the Wm. Stuart farm, east of town,
and will take possession on Tuesday.
The Stuart family will occupy the
Mothersbaugh residence on Main
street.
OAK HALL.
Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Dale and family
spent Sunday at the John Lambert
home, at Bellefonte.
Mr. Levi Roan, of Williamsport,
spent the week-end with his father,
Mr. George Roan, at the N. B. Martz
home.
Mr. and Mrs. James Searson and
daughter, of Centre Hall, were callers,
Sunday, with Mrs. Searson’s parents,
at this place. ;
Mrs. Philip Shoemaker, of near
State College, is spending several days
at the home of her parents, Mr. and
Mus. Frank Ishler.
Misses Emma Eliza and Nanny Bell
Stuart, and Rosella Meyer, of Boals-
burg, were entertained at dinner Sun-
day, at the home of their friend, Miss
Anne Williams.
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