The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-09-08

! brings Is beyond description.
, Driving down the mountain we met
many peasants on their way home from
the harvest fields: some of the women
carrying fagots of twigs. The women
appear to do good part Of the manual
labor IN these countries. sex not being
much taken into account, and ii is com
mon to see them at work IN the fields
working potatoes or other crops or
even cutting grain-the implements
employed being a sickle The day we
went from Baden to Lucerne we passed
a woman hard at work cutting wheat
in the field. whilst a baby kicked in a
baby carriage close beside her. This
was pushing female work about as far
az have ever seen it. though it is moth
Ing unusual to see women work
ing cows IN carts, sometimes with har-
ness and sometimes with the tongue
fastened to "a sort Of padde;, yoke
around the horns. The women appear
to me moro industrious in certain sec
tiOns than the men. ! remember OBJ
serving in Switzerland once when we
were going to Grendelwald that al
though we found women aud children
engaged in all eOr of manual labor.
we rarely saw any men. | inquired Of
a woman what the men were doing
They are guides she said, with a
sweep of her arms. indicating the ex-
tensive field OF their lab0rs. When we
reached Grendelwa'd we found these
industrious guides TO the number OF
score or more hard at work hanging
over the fences. and every mother S son
of them smoking "A cheroot.
f. is not. indeed. altogether uncom.
mon to find a woman aud dog labor
ing together. pulling along the streets
or the highways a cart containing the
/ family effects and the hufdy gurdy.
whilst the patro-famiias YEARLY walks
beside them performing the arduous part
Of giving directions and carrying the hat.
/ Sometimes the canine is absent. in such
cases the wife being perhaps both wO-
man and dog.
From Baden Baden we went to
LUCERNE.
stopping at Strasbourg for a few hours
TO see the Cathedral aud hoping to see
the wonderful clock 20 through lis
/ twelve o clock cvOiutiOns. In the lat
ter we were TO our great but vain re-
greet disappointed. foi the train does
not run by the SlrasbOurg clock. and.
although we hurried TO the Cathedral
in pouring rain. the moment we got
out Of the cars we bad the chagriD TO
hear the hour Changed Just as we
came i'm sight. and when we entered
the building the cock had crOved at ST.
Peter the apostles had passed around
1 4 /. ton.
airy place: and the grand noontIde to do
was not 10 be done again for another
twenty-fOur hours. This may be the
reason why. although we had the won
deriul mechanism of the clock ard It's
varied abilities TO record the workings
OF the sun. moon and stars explained to
us. we were rather disappointed in It.
Ii Is a remarkable clock. without doubt.
so far as keeping time goes, but 1t Is not
much so far as app sarance goes.
The whole affair cannot be more than
twenty feet nigh aud six or eight broad,
and is generally sombre liz appearance.
IL is 0niv about forty years old. and the
whole interest concentrates ~ the work
ing Of the little figures above II. winch
are only nine or tweiyelnchcs high. and
move stihly around on a little circular
railway up above the face. A iirstclass
American clockmaker could readily
make ilst as good a clock and better
one TO look at.
The Cathedral is. however. very fine,
and it would take "a very good Amerl-
can. and some hundreds Of years. 10
equal that. The fact that only one
spire is completed mars its appearance
to a man who has TO take 1t ia lis en-
t.Ioly. but it is justly famed.
II became during the bombardment
once more a place of sanctuary and
number Of families sought refuge from
/ Piussian bullets and shells in the
chapels and crypt. The roof, however
was battered TO pieces. Marks of irag-
ments of shells are still visible on some
of the great pillars. The storks build
their nests on the chimueys of Stras-
bourg as III Holland. the tiles being n
some cases five or SIX feet high. Stra5-
bourg is anti-German TO the core.
have never c0nyersed with an Alsaclan
who was not devoted TO France. Three
years ago we were there on the occa-
sion when the old Emperor received '
the country people. The streets were
crowded with vans and wagons filled
with round faced Alsacian women with
their bodices, colored skirts and pictur
csQue great bows. DO you THINK WeSe
are SlrasbOurgers SAID man TO me.
They are nothing but peasants ICON
tcmptuOuslyl. The StrasD0urgers have
locked their doors. They have not for
gotten that they were bOmbafed IN their
houses for six weeks This reception
was followed by the an umn mauWuvres
of the German army, sixty thousand
strong.
We had travelled to Strasbourg on
the same train with the young Crown
Prince Wilhelm, now the Emperor
aud we mad put up at the Ho.el de
Paris. where were quartered the Grand
Duke OF Baden and eighty officers OF
the Prussian army. whom we saw strut
ting about ~ all the glory Of cecora-
tiOns and bravery Of feathers and gold
lace.
went to the same hotel this time, but
10 was empty. and the rain without pat
tered on deserted streets.
From StrasOOurg we went straight To
Iucerue by way of Bale instead OF Dy
the Falls of the Rhine. which several CT
us had seen before. This route IS not
as picturesque as the other. though II IS
interesting. as it runs through PLAIN
with the blue mountains on either SIDE.
and after "a time skirts a range, the
spurs Of which are studded with ola
/ castles. whilst brown villages lay at
their feet. The rain had stopped aud
/ tie villagers were at work IN the
harvest fields cutting their little patches
Of wet wheat with sickles, or hauling
/ it up with cOw-carts. 1t strikes one as
strange never to see country home,
but The whole life Is concentrated III
villages, and one may travel for hours
through carefully-cultivated fields
without ever seeing a house outside OF
the hamlets.
THE SCENERY OF LuCERNE.
one who has been to Lucerne knows
that the scenery cannot be described.
The Paris edition Of the Herald the
other day published a letter from
Iucerue. which was wild whoop. SIN
Ill rk.xs- tho sort a lpffqr-