Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-09
THE SWISS PkAsANTRY,
Stolid People Who Have the Passions Tha
 BeEet Tragedy.

Stolid People Who Have the Passions That
 Beget Tragedy.
 will tell some stories which prove that the Swiss peasants, though they look so stolid, have in them the stuff of tragedy. There was lad in valley called Schanf1gg, not long ago, who loved and was betrothed to a girl in the Hinter Rheinthal below Spliegen. She tilted him, having transferred her affec- tions to another, and he went to take a formal farewell of his sweetheart in her home. Every thing passed decorously, so much so that the girls brother put his horse into the cart and drove the rejected lover with his own sister down to Thusis.
 The three had reached that passage of the Via Mala, where the Rhine loses itself in a very deep, narrow gorge. It Is called the Merlosene Loch, and is spanned by slender bridge thrown at right angles over the river. Here, as they were spinning merrily down-hill, the lad stood up in the cart, sprung to the parapet of the bridge, and dashed himself at one bound into the grim death of jagged rock and churning waves below them. It was a stroke of imagina- tive fancy to commit suicide for love just at this spot.
 And now 8 second tale of passion: A rich man in the Prattigau had two chill dren, q daughter and son. The daugh- ter wheedled him into allowing her to marry some peasant who was poor and an unequal match in social station. Then his son set his affections upon Q girl equally ineligible. The father stormed, but tho youth was true to his plighted troth. During a temporary ab- sence of the son his father contrived to send the girl of to America with a round sum of money.
 On his return, after hearing what had happened, the lad said nothing, but went down to the Landquart water in the evening and drowned himself there. And now third tale: Last spring, in a village not three hours distant from Davos, lived young man who was an orphan. He had inherited 0 considera- | ble estate, and expected more from two uncles. Life, could he have managed it prudently, would probably have made him the wealthiest farmer in the neigh borhood, and he was to boot, stalwart fellow on whom nature had lsvished all her gifts of health and comeliness. Unluckily, he loved a girl of whom his unoles disapproved as a match for such 8 youth of consequence.
 One Saturday evening, as is the cus- tom here, he went to pay his addresses by stealth to this maiden of his choice, and returning early next morning he was upbraided by his interfering uncles. I do not know what he replied, but oer- tainly he made no scene to speak of. When his uncles left he unlocked his gun from the wooden paneling of the hoose room, went out alone into the copse hard by and put a bullet in his brain.-Fortnightly Review.
 It is said that one of the great Eastern trunk line railroads deliberately provides for loss of many thousands oI dollars year upon the meals served in It's dining-cars, and charges the loss tc the advertising account, in full knowl. edge that the talk such prodigal outlay will create is as good as that amount oi moneys worth in printers ink. A man had for breakfast in one of those cars one day in April, trout . game-bird, and bowl of strawberries-and-crea besides coffee, rolls, butter and glasG of milk. The meal cost a dollar, and his wife told him she coald not buy any eae of the principal dishes in the mar kets for that sum of money,