Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-01-27
Rec0llectiOnS of William Tell.
By ApOTH Z CARY.

RecollectiOns Of William Tell.
BY AroTH E CARY
| The telling tale I'm about to tell
OF William Tell Esquire
l. Il tale that's old. and OF been toll
OF >wItZel lands ianJ-ue.
Some cOnntri s acquire Il notoriety by
lying. Switzerland is Il lying countr, {:
that i, she lies between France on til,
west. and Germany on the east starte.!
fer Switzerlan / Il short time age to inter
view the Tell family. and what could g,r
to tell bout Tell. After getting AS far a.
/ Buff 10. asked the captain of the boa
TINT | went up on. where | would he mos
likely To lind Switzerland He said the
likliest place he knew of woul'! be on the
map about six inches from the top. wa
completely lost in amaZ ment.
Sw tz rland j. very mountainous; the
the a ps We're Introduced into his country
IT :. Very early period, and can he seen at
Il grelt distance with the IN -i0thed eve
Most OF my readers will remember a Young
mtn lv the name of = Excelsior" who
p"ri>lrd III snow storm, and WIS FUN /
10y -. Bcrnard's Newfoundland dogs. on
! the summit of one of those mountains
lI- was agent for the Alpine Yeast Cake
Company. and Was distributing samples
when h. del. He had risen from ol,sc;l-
ritv through the vra-t rising, AMI was well
up in e wurld when taken from il.
| The valleys of Switzerland are very pro-
'itlc,lvc, AMI corn l. seen = owing on the
| loot of the mountains. Tins of course
III Isl br very painful to the mountains
ptrticullrlv so when the cattle in grazing
around tread Oh he corn>- NJ untain-
have such Very large feet one cannot lelp
Stepping on lh'm. They are like some
PEE" le-ther feet are largrr than thir
heads. 1h" climate of Switzerland l.
more varied than any other in the world
| HE people have ANY season they wish; in
mt we.t.cr they can run up on to the
muuntiin- and find mid winter: and if
spring i u lit le bl kwtrd in the valleys
they nave only to hunt it mp On the mu'ln-
tains. In fact. it i place where all the
scissors stop. and people pat rollers on
th,.ir dwellings. and roll them around in
any tenn lcralure they like.
They season the hing SUIT themselves,
| AMI have n" NOW on the = iouud,
| They ran ii.iv" their summer la winter,
| o. WtnleI he wnoe year IuunI.
William Tell is dead great many
people ,it every wear. hut Mr. rcll unly
lie,i once. and ih,t WI, L great many
wears :i-o. Tell WAS born on The ALI :,
ami il was this cham of mountains thai
chained his heart 10 Switzerland There
i no telling how how large Tells ears
We're hu they must have been of enormous
~iIe. a> he WAS called Il monntain-car
Like >omr people nowl-dlvS. he could
hear a little and Tai a great deal. | have
noticed ,hll such people always have long
eIls. or NJ least ought 10 have.
some writers in speaking of Tell, cali
him Patriot Tell, but this is wrong. liz
name WIS William. and there was 10 Irish
blood N his Swiss veins. His mime is
scarcely ever mentioned with, ut an allu
on 10 lis bow and arrow feat. TO b,
born 4 cripple ana have woo:lel leg. cluI
feet. or even web feet would indeed be 4
great misfortune; but To have bow and
arrow feet would be the >idd- s. of All c:l-
ltmiticS Tell passed most of hs tim.
among the mountain passes, conl er>in.
with Liberty ami breathing the air OF
Fr, e,iom: this differed from the common
swiss air. which wt> about one part oxygen
| o three parts Swi;Zcrha>c.' | viii re
mark Just here tina the two principal eN-
ports of Switzerland aIe cheese and elni-
rants both of which acquire 4 rank
smell bv are. In cho!er, seasons persons
l
III air tl-hl cells. to keep their breath from
i'utrcfving the atmosphere. There ha,
never been any dl>inectant fonnd illa
cuuld reach this accumulation of mean
smells.
There i> one other incident in Tells life
which WAS kindly furnished me for rubii-
cation l.v AN eve witn,s>, one of the origi-
nal Swiss Bell Ringers Tell, under pen
,ltv of death, was ordered tu shooi an APP
pl. from the head of one of his relatives
lie selected his mother -in-law for = target
out the governor interccdrd in behalf OF
th, oil lady and ordered Tell To priciic,
On his son. mention this little circum-
| stance for two reasons: one Is TO advertlS,
he Bell Ringers. in order 10 yet Il compli-
mtntn,V ticket when they come around
~ i'm: :i;d the other is 10 call your attcn-
ION to the fact thai apples have welded :.
u 'Wrrlul Influence in shaping the destiny
OF indi, idual>. luu who have had proper
elrlv tanning will remember tn | Adam
brcamc in>u.vcni. and bankrupted iii,
whole hum fmily. i'll lii> apple sp'onlt-
tiun. Where would Washin-t"n's reputt
ton fIr vcr.tciiv h-iv,. been witlIoIt tiItl
,ppl, tree t. hatrhc;? How would New
n have discovered gravi;ati"n wiiho II
The :lpplco And who w, ,uhi htr,, rcn-m-
b,reu lhe sunjrct OF this sketch. had ht
not ma ic that f,t ing >ho; At the apple:
Apples have been the cause Of III lch mis-
{ v Io,h in their crude AMI dried state
Nni still tn Y We're Necessary: wlth"u
them we shuuld have had no -in. witnOu
sin there would be no sinners, and TAX,
ihr world and there wou Il be no one lef
20 pay 4 poll tax
| Nfi.nui Adams traitinnaIy apple
| We >hou.i iiavr II" metnhe-s below,
tud Ia I'VE N Il world snd no b. mean,
oud :. impossible With some Know.
All rh, Tells did not die with William
, There are Il great my hotels left; som'
f which are hard tells: that is, it is har.
telling what they are. Thy seem 10 he ;
cross between Il poor house and 4 Dutcl
eatin" saloon They are called Hotels be
cause like th. man we are writing about
Meir BIZ TU>. The end.
/ Professor Tvn Kali writes in the Ppula
| S /, urc -W,n.hip: \ few Years ago pal
| a visit Ia 4 large. school in the country, ant
/ was asked hy the principal 10 give le>>oI
, L. one of hi~ CLASSES agreed 10 do so