The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-06-06

head and q cretin grandfather hun
dred and three years old? Why no. I
prefer myself as ana
NV friend smiled and shook his head.
why take it for granted" said he,
Chat no man can cultivate his brains and
his patsrnal acres at the same time? Hor-
ace, with mons of the adjuncts you name,
loved country life, and turned it to inn
mortal poetry"
"The world has gone round once or
twice since then, nay dear friend" re-
piled, philosophically. "The best poetry
comes out of cities nowadays"
| "And the worst. Do you see those aV-
alanches ever yonder 2"
Following the direction of his eyes, I
saw something like tiny puff of white
smoke glide over the shoulder Of huge
mountain on the opposite side OF the val
| ley It was followed By another and an
other. We could neither see whence they
came nor whittier they went. We were
too far away to hear the sullen thunder of
their fall Silently they flashed into
sight, and as silently they vanished.
Wolfe sighed heavily.
"Poor Lawrence !" said he. "Switzer-
lane was his dream. He longed for the
Alps as ardently as other men long for
money or power"
Lawrence was younger brother of his, ,
whom I had never seen "a lad of great
promise, whose health had broken down
at Adscombe some ten CIR twelve years
before, and who sOol after died Of rapid
consumption at Torquay.
"And he never had that longing graft
fed had hep"
"Ah, no--he was never out OF England.
They prescribe bracing climates now. |
am tod, for lung disease but not SO
then. Poor, dear fellow l sometimes
fancy he might have lived, if only he had
had his hearts desire"
81 would not let such painful thought
enter my head, if l were you," said I, has
tily.
"But 1 can't help it My mind has
been running on poor Lawrence all the
morning and, somehow, the grander the
scenery gets, the more | keep thinking
how he would have exulted IN it. Do
you remember those lines by Coeridge,
. written in the Valley of Chamouni? He
knew them by heart. Twas the sight OF
= yonder avalanches that reminded me.
! Well l will! try not to think of such
things Let us change the subject"
Just at this moment the landlord of the
. chalet came out-a bright eyed, voluble
young mountaineer about five or six and
: twenty, with spgig of Elderweiss in his
hat.
, Good day, meme Herrin," he said, in
: Guiding all alike in his salute, but I'd
. dressing himself especially to Wolfe and
myself. Zine weather for travelling
: fine weather Tor the grapes. These Her
' rem are going on by the New Pass Ach
y Herr Colt a grand work and all begun
. and completed in less than three years
e These Herren see it today for the first
time? Good They have probably beer
1 over the Pete Noir? No! Owe, thH
! Splugen Gooa-goou II these Her
rem have been over the Splugen, they car
a form an idea of the New Pass. The New
, Pass is very like the Splugen. 1t has g
' gallery tunneled in the solid rock, just
ike the gallery on the Via Mala, with
this difference, that the gallery in the
i New Pass is much longer, and lighted b.
I loop holes at regular intervals. These
e Herren will please to observe the view
looking both up and down the pass, be
4 fore entering the tunnel-there is not &
'Jt must be great advantage to thu
!. people hereabouts, having SO good roaC
carried from valley to valley" said I
a smiling at his enthusiasm.
>. ooh, 1t is a fine thing for us, meii
Herr !" he replied. "And fine thing
for all tits part of the Canton. 1t viii
). bring visitors-foods of visitors B,
J. the way these Herren must not omit t.
look out for the waterfall above the gal
>. lery. Holy st. Nicholas the way il
which that waterfall has been arranged!'
= Arranged !" echoed Wolfe, who was a
!. much amused as myself "Diavolo! d.
}. you orange the waterfalls in your coun-
n try?"
v at was the Herr Becker" said tht
q landlord, unconscious of banter; "tht
;. eminent engineer who planned the New
Q Pass. The waterfall, you see, meme Her
!, rem, could not he suffered to follow III
. old cou Sc down the face of the rock
C through which the gallery is tunneled, Of
G it would have flowed in at the loop holes
;. and flooded the road. What, therefore
did Tie Herr Becker do?"
!, Turned the course Of the fail, and
e brought it down o hundred yards fur
9 Their on" said ], somewhat impatiently
"Not so, mein Herr-not so The Herr
Becker attempts nothing so expensive
r He permits the fall to keep it's own coul-
r DIR and come down it's own way-but in
0 stead of letting it wash the outside of the
gallery, he pierces the rock in another
. direction-ver tically-behind the tunnel
!, constructs an artificial shoot, or conduit
in the heart of the rock and brings the
/, fall out below the gallery, just where the
8 cliff overhangs the valley Now what do
I the English Herrsn say to that?'
{ "Fhat it must certainly be clever