The Republican journal., 1913-10-02
OVER SEAS.

t-ir, Blanc at close range. We left
80 steam train at LeFayet for an cleo.
.- -raju up hill and down, round ravines
- Trough gorges. 1t was thrilling,
7-'v circumstance to what was in
.= far train riding the next dav.
-.r In we dove. Colder came the
ass # air. whittier and higher shone the
peaks. Larger and farther
e- the slopes appeared the awful
rs. with rivers emerging from their
al moraines of gray limestone
.-l with ice. Just before sunset |
-s ny right arm to an angle of about
L,s :, and, pointing to the dazzling
.-n, Of old mount Blanc, clear and
the heavens, l asked fellow
~= r. 10 you ever pray? and said
is there. That monument of i'm
. replied, "By Jove, l hope He's
.s fur coat on. That night in the
st village of Chamounix we had a
our hotel looking directly upon
mt Blanc summit and the great
-7n glacier, and in a clear sky we
r.. noon in the first quarter to add
feet.
next morning we trained to
-Hy, TO catch steam train TO Niege,
--. Ne took another train to Zermatt,
the spirit of the Alps in the
'.-'-rrorn and Rosa SUBMITS. Such a
lie was that to Matigny, round
r-s through tunnels, on the brink of
IS from 1000 to 5000 feet above
ong and foaming glacial rivers,
axe the firmest nerve and make
, .p@ the most level head. Once l
lar down on an auto road, farther
a wagon road, still farther down
.iage, and below that on the
river. From height of $500
At length crept down the noun
Natigny in the great valley of
Zone, that, rising among Alpine
-.- -9 the east and south, makes its
TO Geneva Lake, thence into the
., rranean. Passing by steam train
Naugny to Niege, we found the
through the valley to Zermatt
mi down hill affair, much more up
Wn, for on arriving at Zermatt,
.1 that we must sleep above the
the altitude being some five
feet. The precipices were not
on this route as those on the
ron ChamouniX to Matigny, but
ser exhibited in volumes of water
ng down wild declivities was
reater. Science has found it. and
ty is in evidence.
liely picturesque wooden build
the mountain dwellers, with
.-- agging stones for roofing tiles,
more picturesque people, goats
4 lneys, that have their housing in
ark the phases of life on these
-s of the eternal. We reached
tt Just before sunset, the best
..- ri LAY to see mountain submits,
chill of night soon envelopes them
gis Above the lower thanking
,rnts there stood the Matterhorn, a
-.g pedestal on mightier base,
huge monumental shaft, enam-
18th snow and ice resting upon
vned by pitch-roof shaped cap
r stalline splendor, its whiteness
to PINK in the celestial bask of
a sun and moon, before the night
ad spoiled the esprit" vision.
shing summit of Rosa, little to
til of the Matterhorn, just peeped
huge fianking battlement, said
YOU do, stranger, and faded from
nind the vast veil that its own
ath had made.
Ugh altitude caused a rush of
my head and gave me earache,
L IS tired and slept in spite Of it,
eamed-not of ''spirit' Alpine
hut of the more charming shapes
les Of early life, my native Sears
ai nay boyhood Montville, Hard
Int passes on the sea, in the noun
In the cities of Europe ancient
rn, when these gracious visions
avs Of my humble youth do not
elk to me in the sweet transports
ans. Pardon the depression.
HI Rosa has an altitude of 1927
-7 he Matterhorn, l4,705 feet, and
-.e=t Saint Bernard, few miles south
Vast e120 feet, the altitude of perpetu-
snow on these mountains being $500
Great Saint Bernard has long
Been LIBERATED for its foot-pass be-
'8r southern and northern Europe,
'is "ayfarers of the world making use
81 .a The monastery there is typical of
lis eass in these Alpine mountains. 1t
Sept by a few monks, who at that
o{7 altitude can live but about eight
7'e atter committing themselves to
sfTlce of thus rescuing perishing
ers. AT every hour of the day
Eht monks and hounds (St. Ber-
s" leave the bright fires of the
cp, and 60 both ways down the
iu to meet and welcome travel
and pick up any found chilled to
non. The hounds in the lead give