Mexico weekly ledger., 1910-08-11
hontreux. July 20. 1910.
Edifor Tadoas.

M~ontreux. July 20. 1910.
Editor LEDGER
IL l ere ever tempted to be mean
toward my church people and friends.
! think such temptation must be
easily overcome attire this. None but
an incorrigible Migrate could ever be
mean toward a people who have Civ
en- such opportunity for rest, refresh.
ment and wonder to a pastor. 1
thought while in Italy that | was get
tlng great things, but things o.
digger every day. | enjoyed the art.
sculpture and architecture of Italy,
and 1t was wonderful, but the seen
cry we have been looking on for
The past two days sinks the works
OF man into secondary place. We
came into the mountains SOON after
leaving Milan with It's Gothic Cathe-
dral, said to be the most beautiful
piece of Gothic architecture in the
world land | can readily believe it,
We spent the night on Lake Mag
giore, IN Northern Italy, and the next
afternoon took train for this fair
land of the sky. We left the train
at the place where it plunges into
the famous Simploh tunnel, 0 miles
long. Our party with baggage was
loaded into a big five-horse bus, and
five three-horse carriages and we
started on the 29-mile drive over
the SimplUn Pass. There we're four
teen in u wagon. Mrs. Wallace
and ! on the front seat, and to the
music Of the horses bells and the
sweet aff~ectionate tones of a kind
and efficient driver as his greatly
urged, (rather than dashed and cut
as so many of the Italian drivers
did his horses, we began the most
wonderful ride | have ever taken.
This Is the road Napoleon built, and
at n place where we stopped to
rest the horses, We saw on a tablet
that the Little Corsican" had stop
ped there in 1907 and paid 5 francs
for a glass Of milk. l did better, for
| only paid 5 cents for the glass
got there and had a nice little
cake In addition. Past towering
peaks, roaring water falls, we cover
ten miles Of the trip by seven o'clock
and found ourselves near the great
F~letschhorn peak. Our altitude was
1880 meters at the hotel. For real
rest, commend me to that spot. A
splendidly clean and polite Swiss
family kept the little hotel we stop
ped at. BY the way. u party fill
ed both hotels and then ran over In
TO private houses.
So great was the difference be-
tween the party and the hotel accom-
modations Of he town, we crowded
a Columbia, N. Y, professor into
the annex Of the town, but he said
that even there his bed was good and
as he sat at n end OF the dining
tabIo 7 oh tha otbar aud tbara wae
nIontn r. hotwoer bo bod No Lick
L. - u no. m ord az osoot
at Z a. m, and landed at Berg ahead
of us in the afternoon. Two of
our party-Mr. Albert Edwards, of
st. Louis, and a lady from Nebras-
ka covered about ten miles of the
mass ON foot. We overlook them lust
before the rain and the wind began
ia heat down unon ms.
We were hungry and cold when
wa got To Berg. having covered
about 10 miles. all Of It at a great
attitude and some of II in rain and
w;nd ana Iuncb never tasted bet
ter. Cooking in Switzerland so far is
splendid. Everything impressed one
with its thrift, gentility, polfteness
and cleanliness.
M%ontruex, where we now are is
a modern town Of about 2o,OVO peo-
pie | would say. 1t is up-to-date'
clean, quiet and the shops are full OF
things WORTH THE MoNEf-whScn
can't be said Of all the shops we
have seen since landing.
Coming in we passed the famous
castle of Chillon, of which Tennyson
wrote in one of his undylng poems.
This morning / was told that the
first Crane vines planted in America