The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-03-30
LETTER FROM SWITZERLAND
NOTES OF 4 YEW HAVEN
 SoJOURNER.

 Winter in Romantic Chrisehona-Inci-
 dent With Wild ROe-St. ChrisehOna
 nm Evangelical Training School
 Some of the People to be Met With
 School Near Historic Basel
 St. Chrischona, March 6. 1905. Dear Courier:
 In a few hours St. Chrischona will be only a remfniscence, as I expect to leave for here for Geneva tomorrow.
 In my walk this morning l had glimpse of three fine wild roe for one of my parting pleasures They were crossing an open field through the snow when I first saw them, probably in search of something to eat. They stopped for a moment and looked at me, then started on gallop for the woods. They are such charming little neigfbors, but so wonderfully shy and timid. and so fleet of foot, that one rarely gets chance to have a good look into their lovely, soft-brown eyes had rather 8 pleasant experience with one not very long ago. I was walking upon a road leading through the woods when I heard noise, and upon looking around I saw a roe rum ming at full speed with an immense, fierce.looking dog after it. To my sur prise. when the dog saw me he came to a dead stop and the roe made its es- l-z. ,.Izf IN afNf know. had a big stick in my hand, and perhaps he imagined I was the owner of the roe and he had better let 1t alone. hoped the roe understood that had been it's friend.
 One of our proteges here at "Zuden Bergen" is wounded wild bird. I think 1t is what we would call a jay. It is quite a large bird, nearly as large as a pigeon. We'll, it happened that about three months ago somebody shot this jay and broke one of it's wings. One of the young men caught it, for then the wound was fresh and it could only hop and fiutter about. The man of all work, whose name is Becker, who has been in America and who speaks English quite well, took the bird in charge and it was left to hop about and have plenty to eat in the basement where the furnace is, and which is a nice, light. roomy place. For these three months the bird has gotten along very well and has received the name of Johnny The other day, a very warm and pleasant one little Johnny took the opportunity which happened to of Ifr 1 o,If 4In fF, dnr1 and his native woods. Becker set a bucket out near the house with food in 1t and hoped little Johnny would come back, as the weather had come off cold and snowy, and he was likely to suffer. Yesterday I was out taking walk through the snow in the woods, when saw little Johnny sitting on the top of a high bush in the midst of the snow. He looked cold and hungry and forlorn, for he cannot fly about and keep warm like the rest of the birds. I went right back to the house and told Becker that : little. Johnny was over in the woods, etc. He started off at once to try and catch little Johnny and bring him back to warmth and comfort until the weather should be more suitable for him to start off on his peregrinations. Becker had good half hours chase through the bushes and the snow for s little Johnny, with bird instinct, was determined not to be caught even though it were for his own good, and hopped about lively enough, but the capture was at last accomplished and little Johnny is again in out of the cold and snow. a
 It may be we'll to state here in a word or two that St. Chrischona is an Evan gelical Training school for young men, and is comprised of a group of build ings around an old church on the tor of one of the mountains of Switzerland one of the moderately high ones, near the city of Basel and that the house ..Zuden Bergen is little outside oi the group, and was built as sort of an overflow house for the regular estab' lishment, but outside guests are re- ceived, especially during the summer while there is no school session, and all the year round as far as the limited accommodations will allow. The name .sZuden Bergen" is a quotation from one of the psalms which reads as near ly as I can recall it, T will lift mint eyes unto the hills from whence cometf my help; my help cometh from tht Lord who hath made heaven anC earth
 Just word as to the people ont meets here at 'Zuden Bergen"
 Herr Rappard, the director of St Chrischona, is a white-haired, tall commanding looking man, with 6 grand voice. His niece, who is called the frau director, is daughter o Bishop Gobat, who was Bishop of Je rusalem many years, until his death about twenty-five years ago. Fra, Rappart Is highly gifted woman ant of very kindly and agreeable person ality, and is both a poetess and a mu sician. The whole family come over t Zuden Berger once a week to supper