The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-21

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another statue is Of a great fat ma
with a jolly face, gleefully eating
little child while half q dozen othe
children are swung about him await
ing their turn to be eaten. They ca
this the "children-eater", and it
said the Bernese mothers control thei
children by telling them that tn
"Kinderfresser" will get them If the.
are bad.
But The sight in Berne is the grea
clock. 1t is i'm a high tower in tn
center of the city-which tower the.
say was built by the man who killed
the bear-and Is curious piece o
mechanism. Just to one side of th'
dial sits a little fat old man. Three
minutes before the hour wooden
cock at one side of the old man flaps
its wings and crows. In another
minute, bear just above the old man
strikes little bell with a hammar,
while whole procession Of bears
come out and circle around the man.
Then the cock gives another crow,
and as the hour is reached a life sized
figure away up at the top of the tower
strikes a great bell with a big ham,
mer, and at the same time the little
old man turns an hour LASS which he
holds i'm one hand and counts the
strokes with a scepter he holds in the
other, at the same time opening aud
closing his mouth. The cock then
crows again and the performance is
over until the next hour comes
around. 1t is great clock, and if I
had thought of it in time 1 should
have bought it for the school house in
lola.
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1t only takes three hours if you
know now to use them, to see about
all there is to be seen i'm Berne, and so
by four o'clock or a little after you are
on the train again with ticket for
Interlaken by way of the Lake of
Thun. The lake is soon reached and
it is an infinite reliefto leave the close,
stuffy, smoky cars and step onto the
clean open deck of the little excursion
steamer. The Lake of Thun is about
eleven miles long by two miles wide,
and we sail the entire length of it,
stopping often at little villages on
one side or the other to let off or take
on passengers. The mountains rise
sheer and high from the waters edge.
grsss grown and tree covered, with
fine hotels and picturesque villas
percbed here and there upon some
little shelf or on the very summit.
For all the region hereabouts is one
great resort and swarms every sum-
mer with people who come from all
parts of the world for health or rest or
pleasure. 1t is a delightful hour and
a half ride. But it is eight o'clock by
the time Interlaken is reached, and a
cold rain has set in, and the fire and
the lights and the dinner and soon
after, the bed, are very welcome.
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Interlaken is little town made up |
mainly of hotels and restaurants and |
situated, as its name indicates be-
f,roa, Tho 1aLoo Th,,p and Dr;o,,,
1t is resort solely, and it is certainly |
a delightful one. Through it runs a
sparkling river. Back of it
rises the green wall of a great noun
tain. Close around it are gardens
md orchards. And away off to the
south, seen through long reach of
green valley, lies the stately white
Jungfrau, cleaning in the morning
sunlight, changing hues every hour of
The day as the clouds lift or lower,
glowing as if with an inward light
ong after the valleys below have
grown gloomy and dark. There is moth
ng of interest i'm the town itself, FORUM
ltely, so one has time for long excur-
lions in among the mountains, and
ior long sleep and rest. One of the
regulation excursions is to the Staub-
bach Falls. two hours by carriage, to
he south. It is charming ride, over
perfect road, along foaming stream,
through fragrant woods, past pretty
fields so small that it seems as if the
,eople must be merely playing at
with the white winding
'heet of the Jungfrau always i'm sight,
md the air that exhilarates like cham
,agne always in your lungs. And the
light after the falls are reached is
worth coming to see. The word
,taubbach means "dust brook, and
t pretty accurately describes these
alls, for the water running over a
ledge and falling sheer 800
eet, is broken by contact with the air
nto the finest spray before it has more
han half reached the ground. An
ther delightful ride is to Grindel-
rald, three hours from Interlaken,
thence after an hours hard climb, a {
smous glacier is reached. took the
ide because 1 wanted to. And 1
lade the hard climb because I
bought it would never do to come all
he way to Switzerland and then re-
urn home without having seen gla-
Ter. A glacier is a great sea of ice,
Immed in between two mountains,
pitt and perforated and punctured