Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1868-09-16

and its mountains for standing army
OF no political Importance itself, it serves
great purpose in the politics of Europe.
1t keeps France, Prussia and Italy from
coatnual ,fghting b.. intcrpoSing bar
rier between them which they cannot
cross. Tie highland peasants know this
and arc boastful Of their Importance.
They NIKE watches and carve delicate
im.ges in wood instead of going to war.
Blessed peacemakers happy republicans !
They must sometimes feel, ,howe7ot, that
they live 10 a great fortress, stronger
than Napoleon can build or Prussia bat
ter, down and, SO imagine themselves
prisoners of state. But they do not;
they laugh at mopntpins three thousand
feet high, and had rather walk up a hill
than plain A poet who symp4thizcd
with them wrote: .,. ,..r....
80, 7 love the mountain land,
With lofty hiIls ON every hand,
Towering in the air .-...... ...
Where skyborn eagles love to soar,
AID natures wild prophetic lore,
Become study rare -
1t is rarely that we fud a native of
Switzerland in any other country. They
are timid, shy, suspicious people, cspoe-
iaily the lower classes. l believe ttcy
would actually be afraid TO sleep on our
Western prailics, they are SO etcrnally
accustomed to being separated from the
world by their impossible lights, ,.
Musings like these form the topic of
our conversation. The road is smooth,
winds around The base Of The mountain,
keeps near to the valley streams, aud
emerges now and then into an op"n space,
where the pines have been cut down.
The cottages are numerous, and there is
a perpetual din of bells, hung to the
nccks of browsing cows and goats. a
merry chime it iG, for some of the ami
mails arc in the valley, knee deep in the
cool stree IDS that rush down from the gla-
ciers; others arc far up on the nights,
standing where you or | would not dare
go. and piueking the sweet grapes that
peep out from beneath rocks and ice cakes
The mvsc Of the near and distant bell,
sounds peculiar ard can be heard no
where else than on The Alps. 1t possess
cs charm for me, greater than any mu
SIC ever heard, unless except that ageC
Itolion woman whose zones so struck ny
heart, aud who thumbcd her Tyre 81
swcctly, bescechiug aims. that quiet eve
ming | visited pompcii.
1t is thirty fre miles from GGneya t'
Chamouny. We stop to dine at . littl'
Swiss village, SO surrounded by rocky
prccipices with cascades leaping over thei
sides, that The place seems like an arti
fetal garden, built wholly for effect. Ih
landlord # the "llont Blanc Hotel bus
ties about, brings forth his Oldest wines
and fills the glasses with ice that SOM
daring highlander has Just spatched from
+ descending avalanche. Fresh horse
are meantime hitched to the carriage. anC
we proceed on our route, now growing il
interest as we approach the king of noun
taips.
We are in that part Of Switzerland
where the water drank comes entirely frcn
ice fields, and consequently contains curl
:. Gus properties that produce the diseas
known as "goitre." l. only affects tn
female Sex, strange enough. In my lette
about the l." Simplon Pass" alluded t
this popularity as existing there Here
. however, thin disgusting adjunct OF noun
9 tain life is even more visible 1t consist
A.. Of ahuge swelling of the neck, below th
chin. which is often so large that the VIC
men throw 1t over their shoulders Will
{ at work. It Affects young and old alike
/, and you not unlreqaently SEQ modes
eirl of Is summers With larger neck ina
! her mother They make no. effort TO con
{ ceal the disgusting dcfor'nty---.ySear lo'
= neck dresses and toss the swelling a6ou
/ from one shoulder to another with gre0
/. native grace. II may b0 species OF f(
Y male beauty for aught know Some'hin
of the waterfall genius and iOsiered az
e cordingly, .gsia l..s.,
4 There arc great water troughs Rion
9 tie road, with Iimpid streams pouring !
/ 10 them from the hills keeping them TO
ever filed. They are hewn ont OF graz
f ito boulders. A delicate gray moss Co
}. e,s then sides, giving them the appearan'
il Of great age. .,,,.,,
' After dinner we are tired enough 70
3 to bed. Throving open the window
j The little room the moon glipts in like
c old friend, so often seen at nome IL
e here looking clamly down upon the Il
# summit Of Mont Blanc, and casting !
il rays into the rushing glaciers 1t is pr
Q. badly shining on you too, Q reader