The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 18??-1882, 1881-09-23

SCENE on LAKE LucERNE.


world. You can hardly'imagine, nor
couldI describe intelligibly my first
sensations of the wonderful novelty
of this first experience of Venice.
The black, canoe affair, with the old
gondolier behind us on the stern
standing and propelling our craft by
long sweeps Of the paddle on one
side, entirely up through the Grand
Canal under old bridges and
bv old palaces and prisons, where ma
ny poor victim of the awful "inqui-
sition" has met his fate in this world
BY the old palace Of the two "Forca-
'ri", byron you will remember has a
play by name "The Two Forcari'')
and finally our gondola stopped at
the Hotel "Suisse", where we are
now staying. We pay 10 liras per
day each, that is about So in U. S.
A. cash, where we get everything fur
nished, except our washing and that
is extra. We will stay about one
week here, and then go to Florence.
We are about a week ahead Of our
plan when l wrote you last at Held
elberg, Germany. i had no time to
write much until arriving at Geneva,
where 4 received your kind brotherly
letter telling me of our darling sis
ter's death. We were oblig-
ed to leave Geneva on Monday,
and taking boat came up through the
lake with its most picturesque white
villages dotting the green mountain
slopes on every side, and above all
and behind rose the beautiful and
sublimely grand snow-capped Alps.
And such mountains l never saw nol
has anyone else ever seen their equal
in this world. What appropriate
symbols, and what grand evidences
of the awful and omnipotent power
of the Almighty. I never shall for
get one sight on Lake Lucerne in
Switzerland. On our journey by
boat to Fluelen, after passing noun
tain after mountain with their crowns
of glaciers glistening in the glorious
sunlight, appearing from the bosom
of the lake like diamonds in a golden
setting, and the whole thing beau
tiful mosaic in the clear blue waters
of the finest of all European lakes,
Lake Lucerne. Away beyond us,
at the end of the lake it had just
ceased raining and going to the bow
Of the steamer there burst forth upon
my unprepared vision the culmlna-
ton of all the wonders and beauties
of Swiss scenery. There in the dis
lance stretching from one glistening
glacier-crowned peak to another, far
away on the other side of the lake,
was perfect rainbow-and to con-
tinue my comparison-a seeming
handle to a basket of beautiful gems,
diamond and crystals. And all this
reminded one of the mercy of the
Creator, and the covenant he made
with Noah long ages ago. There
came sigh of emotion and pleasure
from many heart, Swiss, French,
German, English and American, at
this superb sight. We stood and
looked until this glimpse of heaven
vanished, and after the storm had
reached us and it had become dark,
we were lost i'm meditation until our
journey ended. After hearing the
sorrowful news from home l was of.
ten reminded of the comparison of
the darling girls life, with that of
the rainbow which / have described.
For time it gladdened us with its
beauty, full of love and light and
grace, then like the rainbow 1t
vanished and the storm reached us
and the world was dark and dreary
and as / never expect to see another
such rainbow as that, filling me
with Joy and gladness, so l never ex-
pect to see another life like hers, al
ways full OF love and sisterly kind
ness to us all who mourn her loss,
and yet make joy that she is at rest
from pain and trouble. was re
minded of these lines:
If thou hast gone,
Angelic sister dear,
This world better
For thy living here.
And memories blest,
Shall cluster round thy name;
OF all thy goodness,
And thy love the same.
And we who mourn,
Though great thy form we miss;
Will still remember
Thou hast left us this,
A life to pattern,
And name to love,
Which both dc point us
To life above.
Next day after leaving Geneva we