The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-19

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only to pause and fall back, some
crossing, others playing upon each
other and a dozen other ways not now
to be recalled. These are the small
fountains and extend over a space of
half a mile square. The large foun-
tains are down in the park and throw
water to a great height. Lions, SER
penis, turtles. etc, seem to breathe
forth these great streams of waHer.
The sun was shining with all it's glory
on this Sunday afternoon and the sun
light upon the millions of drops of
water was one of the prettiest sights
/ ever saw.
Just $4,000 is necessary to play the
fountains for half an hour. Thus the
French government expendS four
thousand dollars per month for the
pleasure of thousands of people who
go to see the display.
The Parisienne is Peach.
We now began to see Paris. Well
supplied with guide books we learned
the free days to the places of interest.
These places not being close together
we were compelled to do slow work as
we deemed it best to walk and thus
save our pocket-books. We visited the
catacombs of Paris and brought back
as souvenirs teeth from the skulls
therein. / have a fine pair of molars
i'm good preservation. the skull from
which they were taken, being one of
collection placed there in 1903. The
Notre Dame Cathedral with its beau
tiful stained glass windows of the 18th
century is an imposing sight. Napo-
Icons Tomb, the Eiffel Tower. the
Morgue, the Grand Opera, the Louvre
containing the greatest collection of
paintings in the world and the original
Venus of Milo. the beautiful Seine
with it's hundreds of river boats are
worth visit to Paris. AS to the thou
sands of amusements and gaieties in
Paris | shall say nothing. as SO much
has been written about them; l will
say, however. that the Paris women
are the prettiest in the world and as
for knowing how to dress in the most
stylis1tlnd becoming manner they are
wonders. On Sunday night, the 9th of
July, we took the train for Geneva
Switzerland. We were supposed to be
on a through car but upon looking
from the window about six o'clock in
the morning we found to our great
surprise that We were on the Marseil-
les Express and at Lyons. France.
We hustled out and finding an inter-
prefer told him our tale of woe. He
said We should have changed 70 miles
back, that we were only couple of
hours ride from the Mediterranean
Sea. He had the agent to buy our tick
cts, as it was not our mistake, and
that afternoon we were taking
launch ride on Lake Geneva. We
remained in this beautiful place a
couple of days, spending most of the
time in the cool park on the shore OF
the lake. The lake is as clear as a
cta1 oh or inn
ming through the water. Large white
and black swans add much to the
beauty of the lake.
The City of The Bear.
From Geneva we went to Bern, the
capital OF Switzerland. Bern is
queer looking old place, most all the
stores and houses in the old part of the
town have the second story extending
over the side walk to the street. This
cuts out a great deal of light and the
stores have very gloomy appearance.
The capital building is very pretty
building and reflects much CREDIT upon
the little republic. Just inside the
building are two large bronze bears,
the emblem of Switzerland. There is a
large bear pit in Bern with its fine
bears. These bears are the property
of the republic and as one dies anoth-
er takes his place. The man who
founded Bern was a great admirer of
bears and always kept them, and so to
his memory the big bear pit which he
owned is Kept with bears to this day.
It is told that kinsman of. this man
once rode upon horseback too near
the pit and losing his balance, fell to
its depths and was torn to pieces by
the bears A marble slab upon the
ledge of the pit marks the spot where
the unfortunate man fell to his death.
We set out after one day in Bern for
Interlaken. This place is situated be-
tween two lakes about mile apart. SO
the name. The scenery here is grand
SO we decided to make this a resting
place. We didn't rest much, however,
for on the second day w walked to
Grindewald. Just twelve lies and every
step ND HILL But that wasn't ALL as
we wanted to get upon a glacier and
so had TO walk three miles farther.
We reached the glacier about three
o'clock in the afternoon and there we
were standing on a solid mountain of
ice. snowballing on the 18th of July.
We went into a cave in the ice $50
feet back. Our days walk was not
yet over as we were fifteen miles from
our hotel. We were seeing Europe OH
the cheap plan and when we reached
Interlaken about ten O'Clock that night
we were six francs better off and only
little tired. We rested. however, the
next day as we were quite stiff in our
joints. The snow-capDed mountains
viewed from Interlaken are grand.
The Jungfrau upon moon
light night is beyond description. l sat
and watched the full moon rise from
behind this snow-capped mountain
and such a sight l ,haI never beheld
before. No words can describe it. We.
now turned towards Lucerne, the most
popular resort of Switzerland, two
hundred Thousand Americans having
visited this place in 1904. Part of the
trip was on one of the beautiful
mountain lakes. the remainder by rail
through the famous Brunig Pass.
While on this part of the journey we
saw and passed close to Mt. Pilatus,
the refuge of PLATE who ordered
Christ to be crucffied. PLATE seeing
and feeling the wrong he had done
fled from his people and country and
sought solitary abode among those
uninha bitable hills as he could not
find peace and rest at home Here he
roamed and all alone lived and died.
We found Lucerne lovely place.
but not having the required amount to
stop at the big hotels, nor take auto
mobile rides with the many pretty
American girls. we contentcd our