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Show OB BELLjF PARIS "La Savoyarde" Soon to Hang in the Sacred Heart. On Lofty Church, Topping High Mont martre, Chime Will Ring to Many Miles Church and Statue a Warning to Heretics. Paris. Within a Bhort time "La Savoynrdo," tho second largest boll In EurDpo outsldo tho two great bolls of Moscow, will bo moved from its temporary tem-porary shed nnd hoisted to Its permanent perma-nent homo In tho domo of tho Church of tho Sacred Heart. Tho boll Ib ton feet high and weighs, without tho tonguo, 19 tons. Tho lattor is so big Hint It roqulres 1G men to move It for itrlklng. Tho first tlmo tho boll wns used it cracked, and it has been rung only a few times slnco. Once it hns boon placed In tho domo Its sound will carry to tho most distant precincts of Paris nnd to many points in tho country. "La Savoyardo" roprcsonts tho savings sav-ings of tho good Cnthollcs in Snvoy, who gave it to tho church. It was cast at Annecy, nnd, among bells in Europe, is oxeceded only by tho great boll of Munich and thoso in Moscow. Sncrcd Heart is ono of two lofty structures, both of which havo boon crectell in tho third republic and which dominate Pnrls. Tho othor Is tho Elffol tower, which, however, probably will bo torn down In a few years. The church is massive and grandloso nnd 3f a Bolldlty which seems Intended for eternity. It stands on tho hills of Mont-nartrc, Mont-nartrc, tho vory highest point In all Paris, visible for many miles In evory direction. Except for show purposoa tho location loca-tion Is a floor one. A funiculnr railway Church of Sacred Heart and Funicular Railway Leading Up to It. takes visitors and some of tho worshipers wor-shipers up the heights from tho Btreeta below. The building Is in tho Roman. csquo-Byzantlno Btylo, from designs by Abndio, nnd tho domo Is 2G0 feet high, Work was begun In 187G nnd the church has been used for servicer Blnco 1801. Tho progress of building haB been slow, for oxtensivo sub structures woro required in tho an dent qunrrles from which tho gypsum called plaster of parlB was formerly obtained. Already $G,000,000 has boon expend cd on tho edifice nnd much has yot tc be raised by subscription. The lntorloi is colorless and utmost bnro, its dec oration having scarcely begun. Bchlni the high altar is a hugo kneollng sta tuo of MotiBlg. Gulbcrt, archbishop o Paris, offering a modql of tho grea church which arose under ls nusplcei to tho Virgin In tho Lndy chapel oppo 9lte. Hero, by his own request, In Btead of In his cathedral church, Notri Dame, he is buried. Ab if n perpetual warning to heretics, her-etics, a statuo of tho Chovaller do la Barru has been erected Immediately In front of tho main entrance. This unfortunate man was burned nt tbo stake in 17GG, at tho ago of 19, for refusing re-fusing to salute a clorlcnl procession. Though tho site of the church Is regarded re-garded as unpractical, thoro was a pur-poso pur-poso in Its seloctlon, which illustrates a predominant French characteristic. Whonovor any of tbo cxtrcmo partisan frictions In Franco hns secured control of tho government It has gono to grout lengths in exulting over Its triumphs. Refusal to odor measures of conciliation concili-ation is one of tho causes of tho constant con-stant unrest In Franco. When tho present ropubllc wns, for a time, In tho hands of reactionaries, nnd tho government govern-ment was In sympathy with the church, the erection of Sacred Heart wnB.suggestod and begun. It Is Intended Intend-ed an a perpetual reminder to tho poo-pic poo-pic that, for a while, the clerical Bplrlt was dominant in tho third republic and as a threat that If it again gnlns the ascendency It will make its power felt. And it was with tho samo pur-pqso pur-pqso in view that a bell which could i be heard for many miles was ordered i Sacred Heart seems destined to domln ate Paris so long as Paris exists.. |