The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-10-23

date was 1853 Some others arc very terse.
6 Hin ist hin, Anna Maria Fidelerin,
which signifies that a young lady by nam
/ Miss Anna Maria Fidelerin departed this
life on the spot, and that gone is gone.
But to return from the summit of Mount
Hal,icht; our friend, the graz, was SO tat
and had more title than wind and hence
! was badly used up, so we told him Adleu,
and took our way into the next adjoining
valley and after a hard days tramp stopped
overnight in a pleasant enough wayslde
inn. The next day we were going TO climb
the Zuckorhutterl /" (Sugar hat), one
of the highest and most difficult points in
/ the neighborhood. But alas for humun
propositions ssThe best laid schemes O
men and mice aft gang aglee," and a clou-
DIV day in the mountains is one OF the CIR
cumstances which makes the best OF
schemes inert The mostwc could 90 was
to 30 over glacier and a high pass TO the
next valley, hoping that the next day
would bring a bright sun and a smiling
! sky. But it did nothing but rain, rain,
/
and plucking some Edelweiss, we took Il
wagon for the railroad. The weather i'm
proving a bit we went next day hf post up
the valley Of the Inn to tackle Mount
| Ortler, the highest Of the peaks in the
TyroI, and only ii trifle lower than the
Jungfrau. He has the very respectable
altitude of 1900 feet. We stopped over
| night in Il hut above the snow line and
we're charmed on waking up. TO find u
bright day. The highest point of the
Ortlcr from a distance looks almost as
sharp as the point of Il needle, but we
found on attaining it that one could sit
down on it with considerable more pre-
tentions to comfort than would be possible
on the last mentioned article. The day
was not perfectly clear but was all the
more beautiful.
Great valleys and oceans OF q LIQUIDS we're
below us with the snow covered peaks
threslng out their heads above them /;
often it was almost impossible to tell
which was cloud and which was snow.
But no matter how beautiful the clouds
one cannot stay forever OH snow bank
admirng the scenery so after an hours
drinking in Of the panorama we descended
| into the valley below, where parted from
nv friend and took the road across the
Stilfaer pass into Italy. The road over
this pass is II most remarkable Que. Like
most of The mountain roads it owes itself
to the military energy of tll, Government.
Ii is as smooth as and broader tllan Il
| McadamiZed road in the b'ue grass region
of Kentucky, and winds up the steep gorge
with no less than forty-scven grand SER
pentines, When one walks it seems more
like ninetY-eight.
The elevation to he overcome is some
thing tremendous, the pass being the
highest on the continent. At the turning
point into Italy one passes just at the foot
of glacier; and then comes the descent
with almost as many everlasting serpen-
tines as the ascent bad.
The difference in the people became at
once manifest; the skies were darker, the
houses were dirticr, and the crucited
Christ was scarcely to be seen OH the road
side. After hard days tramp reached
Bormio, which is a dirty little Italian vii
laye which boasts some baths, however, OF
some renown While ut supper heard u
terrible row in he public room and arrived
on the scene just in time 10 see Il drunken
and boisterous Italian elected through the
door at the point of boot sole. In the
Tvrol ! had never heard boistcr6us
sound hut Italy does not seem TO he.so
calm and peaceful The warm southern
sun makes hot blood, which mixed with
wine becomes bad blood.
On the way down the valley next day |
was much struck by the number of people
saw with goitrc should say that two
thirds Of the population wear these huge
Jumps on their nccks, both men and
| women, young and old. 1t was almost an
exception to see a person free from this
unornamental disease.
Every now and then there was a Crctin,
poor miserable creatures, stunted in
growth, with crooked and deformed limbs
and huge necks. Their minds are as de-
formed as their bodies. They are only
found in these mountain valleys where
goitre is so prevalent. and those who have
| the welfare Of the world at hand have
cause to he thankful that the sphere of
these Cretns is so limited. reached
Lake Camo at little village called Calico
piano, which is as ugly and unattractiye
as Lake Camo is beautiful. If you ever
|
leo piano with black mark as one Of the
places 10 be avoided. These Italian VII
lagos are very old and look every day OF
their age. The houses are built of stone
and all of them appear TO be on the verge
of topping to pieces. The inhabitants
seem to be all either little children play
ing in the dirt Of the street, or old people
equally dirty. Tie middle period Of
youth, young manhood, and young woman
hood seems to he lacking entirely should
he inclined to doubt lis existence at all
were it not for the fact of so many chill
dren playing about in the dirt which are
evidences not to be gotten around.
The little steamer took me down to
Camo, at the southern extremity of the
lake. A more beautiful little body Of
water could scarcely lie pictured. The
water itrelf clear and blue, the borders of
the lake closed in on every side by high
steep mountains, and the fringe of pretty
villages and prettier villas along both
sides of the lake combine to make a pic
ture almost ideal. The town Of Camo has
nothing to recommend it but its location,
and the fact that Volta and the two Plinys
a., Il III oroca IN liz. nd l1Ou. tboypc nj ,.ao