The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-01-06

ries ofthe Norwegian Mountains-The
Lordly Romsdal ON the Way-A Pre-
cipitously Walled Valley Sixty Miles
Long, with Hundreds Of Waterfalls
Half Nile High-Saeter Life-An-
nual Professions Of Herds and Herd
Girls to the Mountains-Their Lonely
But Loving Life Together
Pastoral Scenes.
| LONDON, Dec. To the traveller
in Norway the impression is constant
ly recurring that the country possesses
the greatest amount OF majestic seem
cry and the fewest people of any habit
able land on the face of the globe.
Perhaps this feeling is strongest with
the wanderer on foot along the noun
tain highways. What might be term
ed the superabundance of natures ire
mendous spectacles often saddens and
even appalls the spectator, who finds
scant relief in human contact or even
in that scenic contrast which provides
repose from awe-inspired emotions.
These panoramas of nature have
been provided in such vast proportions
and are so endless in number, that
something like headache and heartache
follow the unrelieved emotional ten
sion. One involuntarily cries out, in
the surfeit Of it all, for respite: just
as one who has passed with unwreeked
mind through the mountain height
spiritual and sound tornadoes of Wag-
ner's 'Parsifal," at Bayreuth, feels
that reason might be easily dethroned
if the human gaieties of Berlin and
Paris were not conveniently near to
assist in speedy restoration.
Without companion l should have
despaired of tramping more than from
one dreary station to another. Indeed
find / love best the lands of people,
Of activities and homes. The mile
posts, as would be remarked in dear
old Ireland, are too far apart in Nor
way. There are too much of frozen
field and glacier-peaked mountain be-
tween clusters of homes. And when,
after journeying long and far, you
come upon human kind, while you
certainly meet honest folk, hospitable
folk and, universally, folk possessing
"a u aoiulhaiy virtues oi nina ana
nalaouei, YOU SUN ueoect the ineHaDle
oauno'' anu appallihe ioiieiiness OF
s iiouiuihe nature reneeted 10 thelr
iaoes' as YOU wiz ma, the world over,
'aouou9 nieaseincss transmitted from
elcss SURROUNDINGS lhto uhe ma
o ..,,s anu iaoes vi al human stand
soi NE, anu suay-a1- MONIES.
whenever l close my eyes ana see
way en0, nc, peopie III IetTospect,
ooon seem 70 piena IN solined strata
VI pelspeo',Ne. down. ehere, almost
on ene sed leNei IN lne lower valleys,
are eie scahC loik Win solemn races
anu soieihi ways SO measured and ex-
acoihg III eoli or Pleasure that they
Suggest nuge IichehS whlch nave chung
onlousn ole sVorilis Oh ages 10 the
lnounoai. oasis oi stohe. Inc next
stratum Is an ih1ermlhgilng OF forest,
lock, nnolaile ana waterfall; the latter
~ :. s' ,iI's anu mccoy, that they
seeni my sna o.ereu descending glaciers
aiieooeu III uiieir ileaulohg course ana
lioAen inuo "hlte SO Wondfous that
Nv of'i ol,iy alo Gan aoualh us purify.
Apo,e o,iis Is unih idyer OF humans
anu neius' one very Color OF the snow
o.i cans anu iooh efays ihlerspersed-l
olie sae'ei IoiS ana thelr hooks, that
pas .no oi,ei summer thousands OF
leeo aooVe onelr KIN ana klnd. Then
oolne ,ne lieasureiess nelds, rock and
re neius VI uIcer soilouIe ana desola-
o,on' .ie "iole crowned py countless
ehos.ly peaks OF Ice, lar above the
1iouuS, an awful realm OF frozen 81
ieioe ueo"een ohe iasl Vestlge OF ma
VuIe, ne anu ohe eIernai INFINITE.
l nau penetrated 10 the mysterious
oasio-heSo idrnls ABOVE the CLOUDS,
anu now uesired 10 see something OF
saeoel ne III ohe same Iolty regions.
Descenuihg the lordiy homsdal, the
,lioso wonueriul Oh an Norwegian val
t rye paioiy ~ oarlioie ana partly on
Iooo, liohi Iiaiaher 10 Veplungsnaes,
came upon Ihe Jolliest skydsgut or
poso,ooy l naa souho III all Norway,
"" -hcaueu' pls-eyeu, open-noutn Lars
leoeisen' vi neuer Larsen, am not
SURE WHICH. Iranlplng alone mad be-
oo,iie insu1erdpie. ror urlnlng con-
s,ueraoion purchased the companion
sup ano VIKING services OF Lars Tor a
Peflou Vi zen uays. ne nad been taught
iJllS 1911 az SCuOOl, ldl DtcIl lOlT wears