Bisbee daily review., 1908-04-28
SWITZERLAND PICTURESQUE
 AND HISTORIC
Her Environment Has Made a Race of Men Who Stand Out Boldly in Affairs-AS Seen by Review Correspondent.
fc. c. Young.)

Cologne, Germany, April F.
 The trip through snowy Switzer land was an unusual experience for us who had been so long in the mild climates. At Lucerne the Alps show ed their whitest and best colors in the far distance across the lakes and wes>- ward just above the city. The rail road journey of one hundred and fifty miles through the Alp mountains, will not describe, or even make an attempt. So often in life have heard men attempt description of the Alps mountains, but now having sen them in their best effects, in snow, feel that description would be mockery and to me well nigh impossible. For ma gesty and beauty combined, no scene in my life has been greater. No small wonder to me that the Swiss have been a hardy race of people, and that they are yet as strong as of old. To the ancient Romans, Switzerland, was Hell vetia and with them they had many wars. No wonder to me that Switzer- land has produced such men as William Tell and Arnold Yon Vinklerud, even though much of legend has been at- tached to their true history. The Swiss have no kiRg, but their govern ent is a confederacy of the four cantons, or states and the affairs of the states are in the hands of the electors who are chosen by the people. The people love freedom and have always held out welcome hands to those who came here in search of place where free homes and con science could be had.
 Many French Hugenots fled here in the past centuries, especially during the French revolution and this is why about one half the people to this day. speak French. The only monument of note in Lucerne Is that of huge lion, sculptured in the solid rock of the mountain side. Walking along one of the streets of the town one sudden ly comes to where 1t ends against the high mountain and here the huge lion lies sculptured five times life size il the rock. He is shot through the body with an arrow, his paw rests on a shield which has a cross and some arrows, in fact he Is dead. It is to com memorate the eight hundred Swiss soldiers who fell in 1792 in defense of Lucerne against the tribes from the north. On the monument is engraved "Helvetiorum fidi ac vertuti.' to the fidelity and bravery of the Helvetians.
 The great fame of the Alps moun- tains, in a practical way, is that they are the birth place of the great river of the German empire. After a visit to Heidelburg and to Magence on the Rhine we had trip of 150 miles down this great stream to Cologne, the place where we are now.
 Where the glaciers melt, far up among the lonely rocks of the massive Alps, the Rhine has its origin. It flows through the land of the Swiss, through Germany and finally through Holland. There is a charm in its eter- nal impetuosity as it rushes along amidst the snow clad peaks of Switzer- land; there is Q stately grace In lCs peaceful progress through the meadows of Holland to its grave in the North sea. But the great fame of the Rhine | is derived from the middle part Of it's course, lying withing the borders of the German empire. The stretch from Magence to Cologne has been called | the "romatic Rhine" and is indeed one l of the finest pieces of river scenery in the world At every turn of the stream, on the high hills above, can i be seen the many old castles, the ruins of once rich barons, but now reminis- cent with vanished human ambitions. I had heard all my life of the many castles in Germany but on the Rhine I have seen the ruins of them and they were greater in their existence than any descriptions give them credit The most conspicous object in the whole vicinity of Heidelburg is the old castle, one of the most imposing ruins of the past German race. 1, was once the seat of the Electors oi Germany before Bismark made tnt country into an empire, but on that night of blood in 1888 1t was laid in ruins by the French under Count Milac There was but one house left standing in HeideIburg in that night of destruct ion and that now is used as a hotel In some of the old castles, nearly all of which were destroyed in the years from 17S8 to 1900, there are yet some interesting remains. In one I saw some wine barrels, one holding ter thousand gallons, and another forty eight thousand. In the three hundred years that the castle was occupied by the different Barons these wine barrels were filled only three times Also I saw a great fire place where they roasted a whole beef at one cook ling when there was a great feast, and the huge chimney was almost as large as the great smoke stack on the smel ltsr. The walls in the powder maga
 zine are twenty feet thick and whel
 the French destroyed these castle
 they simply found where the powde
 was and touched it of.
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 in Frankfort Cologne, Magence, Held
 elburg and Bruges about their countr.
 and they tell me that since the France Prussian war in 1870, the empire hal been h fine condition. That wa
 made lots of destruction and som
 estates have not yet recovered iron
 1t, but the people have learned tna
 peace is more prosperous than wal
 Many people In the empire criticis