Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-10-22

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The poor guide was as distressed rs n hen, when
her ducks take to the water h9 ran, and called,
and shouted in German, French and English, and
It was not till c. had contrvel to throw the
heal of the little boys Ratchet down into crcyas-
Sc that he gnye up. There were two francs to pay
Tor tins experiment, hut never mind Our guide
book says. that clergymun Of Ncvay, on this
glacier, fell into crcyasse several hundred feet
deep, and was killed. 81 was glad enough when
VIC got our clryalrCus freud Oft from it.
lie ought 10 have a lcll on his neck, as all the
cows do here; and OyropOs to this we mouut--wc
leave the glacier, and ride up into land Of pas
lures Here we see n hundred cows grazing in
the hcld--thc fields all yellow with luucrcups.--
They are very small breed, prcttily formed and
each had on her neck a lcll. How many notes
thcrc are in these lclls! quito q diopason-somc
very dccptOned, and So on, up 20 the highest how
prcttily they sound, all going together! Tho bells
a:c made OF the best Of metal for the tone is Of
an admirable quality
Oh do look OF there, on that patch of snow un-
der the Nctcrhorn II is all covered with COWS :
they look no bigger than insects, "Whot makes
them go there?" said we to our guides. 10 Lc
cont. was The answer.
llark! what's that? sudden sound, like the
rush Of cascade.
Avalanche! avalnnche." exclaimed the guide
And now. pouring down the side. of the " cttcr-
horn, came milk-wliite cascade. locking just like
any other cascade, melting gracefully over the
rocks, and spreading, like stream Of milk, on the
sollcd snow below.
This is n summer oyalanchc--a mere bjou--a
fancy article. got mp, rather got down, to enter
tain travellers. The winter a,ulanchcs are quite
other things. Witness little further in our track,
where eur guide stops Us, and points 70 place
whore all the pines have been broken short oil ly
one OF them. Somewhere along here, ] remember
some old ghostly pines, dead ages ago their white,
ghastly skeletons hcachcd 10y hundred storms,
there stand, stretching cut their long bony a rms,
like phantom giants. These skeleton pines are u
wonderful image; ] wonder have not seen them
introduced into pictures.
There, now, a little ahead, is a small hut. which
marks the summit of the gran Schnidich. Our
horses come up 20 it, and we dismount. Some Of
the party go in TO sccp-l 20 out To climb neigh
boring peak. AT the foot of this peak lay wreath
of snow, sOilcd and dirty, rs half-mcltcd snow al
ways is, but lying amid the green grass and luxu-
RANT flowers, it had a strnnge aira little spot OF
death in the green lap Of rejoicing lilc-kc that
deatl-spot which often lies in the human heart
among all seeming flowers and bloom. cold, cheer
less no sunbeam warns it, and the warming that
unlolds thousands Of blooms around it does not
melt it.
Now thought, have read Of Alpine flowers
leaning their checks ON the SHOWS. / wonder If .
any flowers grow near enough to that snow 10
touch it, ! mean to 60 and see. SO | went
there, sure enough, my little fringcd purple lcll.
to which have given tho name of "susprium. ."
was growing. not only close 20 the snow. but in it.
Thus Gods grace, shining steadily on the waste
places of the human heart. brings up hcavcnward
sghings and aspirations which pierce through the
cold SHOWS Of aiiicton, and tell that there is yet
life beneath, and q power which shall melt all
away. These flowers are the prayers of the ahlc-
ted hearts, called up through the ice of long.
pressing, bitter agony, by the sunshine Of Gods
mercy. They teach us never to despair climb
ed up the grassy sides Of the peak, flowers TO the
very top, and on the top rock of loose shalc.-
There | sat down and looked. This IS Alpine sol
tudc, All around me were these deep green dells
embroidered with flowers, from which comes up
the tnke of bells, like the dropping of rain every
where 1t seems 60 me that the air is more elastic
and musical here than below, and gives grace to
the commonest sound. Now look back along the
way We have been travelling. look at the strange
old cloudy mountains, the Eeger, the WetleIhorn,
the Shuckhorn. a kind Of hazy ether floats round
thcn--an indescribabe mrial hao--whieh no
painter ever represents Who can paint the air.
that vivid blue in which these sharp peaks cut
their glittering images? OF all peaks, the Eiger
is the most impressive 10 me. 1t is u gigantic
ploughsharc Of rock set up against the sky its
tlin keen purple blade edged with glutering frost
for so sharp is its point, that only dazzling line
marks the eternal snow ON its head.
walked out ms far as ! could on n narrow sum-
init, and took n last look. Glaciers SHOWS! noun
tains! sunny dells and flowers! all, good bye, I'm
4 pilgrim and a stranger.
! Already, looking down to the shunty, | sec tho
guide, like hen that has lost a chicken, shaking
his wings, and cucking and making great fuss
| could stay here all day. | would like to stay
two or thrce--to see how it would look at sunrise
at sunsct--to lie down iu one of these sunny ho
lows and look up into the sky--to shut my eyes
luzily, and open them again. and 30 let the wlio!,
impression sodE IN.
= But no. the secpcrs have walked up the guild,
has the horses ready and we must come down.
We always must come down, when we take any
comfort in this world. So here descend my hill
Difficulty, into the valley Of Humiliation and sour
roads here no turnpikcs, and we 10 plac,
= called the Bldcf Forest; not He Black Forest, bu
I truly black one always love pines, to all gen
erations. / welcome this solemn old brotherhood
which stand, gruy-beardcd, like monks old, dark
! solemn, signing certain mourniul sound-likc
! bencdicite through TIE leaves,
- About noon we came TO Roseuanc. As we drew
near the hotel the guide struck of path lcadin;
O up the mountain, saying, by way Of explanation
"Mc GiGcier!'
o Now, confess, that il was rather too near din
= ncr time and was rather too tired, at once t
c appreciate this movement.
Ircgret say that two glaciers however beautiful
9 on "a empty stomach appear rather Of doubtful
+, utility. 80 ] TcmunstTatcd but the guide, as al
= guides do, when dead ahead, as if hadn't said
| word---,howeycr, rode composcdly toward tn
hotel, saying that dinner was q finer sight than
glaccr and thought only Of the same mind thoug
would follow my guide just to see
s W-wcnt with me- After little, we had toeav
!, our horses aud scramble al out mile up the sai,
mountain. "C--was right and we are wrong
aud my companion, sententiously. l was just du
bous enough to be silent Pretty soon we came l.
= tremendous royinc, as if an earthquake had rem
> mountain asunder. A hundred feet down in thi
= black gorge stream was roaring in II succession
Il Of mad leaps, and bridge crossed it. whore W
stood to gaze down into its dark, awful depths
= Then on we went till we came to the gla2ior.-
= What a mass Of clear, blue ice! so very blue, :
: clear! This awful chasm runs directly under il
! and the mountain torrent, formed by the melting
every gazier, falls in roaring cascade into it,
= You can 60 down into Il cavern in this rift Abov
your head roof of blue, clear ice; below your fee
G this black chasm, with the white flashing foam o
> the cascade as it leaps away into the darkness
r On one side oftbe glacier was little sort of cell
or arched nook, up which an old man had step
and he helped me up into it, ! stood in littl
Gothic shrine of blue, gIitering ice, and looked on
Of an arehed window at the cascedeand mountains