of a cloud-in appearance as though it might be suspended from the sky.

and follows a bridle path. The sailor and imposing than the vertex of a goes in the face of the gale by a prop- mountain protruding from the midst. er system of tacking, and so the mountaineer ascends the most abrupt precipices by a proper system of zigzaging. Backward and forward he winds his way until he reaches the cloud-capped summit. With Alpine staff and knapsacks swung upon our backs, ourselves our own guides, we set out up the Gemmi Pass.

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In the valley below turning to look back, lo! the cloud had been quite lifted up, and there frowned down upon us in awful grandeur and sublimity the precipitous sides and rugged peaks of the Alps. There was our path clearly defined for a time, At first I was only troubled because but soon lost behind the cliffs. the ascent seemed so insignificant- such a time and place one would easiwe would certainly soon reach the ly realize with Byron that "high top. I got over that feeling. Many mountains have a feeling." a halt was called, and march renewed. Following the valley of the Dala to We crossed snow-fields, and evening the Rhone, and the Rhone to Bouverdrew on before we reached the solitary Inn of Schwarenbach on the summit. Here in the midst of the desolate peaks and "eternal snows," we put up for the night.

et, we there embarked for Geneva. Although Lake Geneva is 60 miles long, and our boat crossed several times from one side to the other, yet the distance is too short to weary, and the scenery too diversified to become monotonous.

At an early hour we were again upon the march, and coming to the culminating point, sat down a few The city of Geneva itself situated minutes on a jutting rock, from which, so beautifully on the shore at the af-had it been clear, we could have look- flux of the "blue, rushing Rhone," ed down thousands of feet, almost presents an imposing appearance, esperpendicularly upon the village of pecially to one approaching from the Leukerbad in the valley below, and lake. By making judicious use of the valley of the Rhone in the dis- time we were ready for the returning tance. But just while we were sit- boat in the evening. One cannot ting here, the cloud that had been easily forget such a day. The shores. hanging over the valley, enveloped so beautifully diversified by cities, us with a mist so dense as to almost villages, and terraced fields have hide us from each other. In the stamped themselves indelibly upon his midst of this we began to descend mind, and associated with the evening one of the wildest, most picturesque he thinks of the rain-bow in the watand dangerous passes in Switzerland. But down we go into still thicker clouds, until we hang between the above somewhere and the beneath apparently just as far away.

If the ascending is monotonous, the descent is all that with the addition of an almost intolerable weakness of the knees-people with weak knees should never attempt to descend a steep zigzag. Still apparently no nearer the unseen base and no further from the top, we continue to travel the awkwardly steep descending shelves. At last the cloud begins to clear away slowly, now and then disclosing some frightful abyss, or some huge overhanging crag. I have never seen anything more awfully grand

er caused by the spray from the prow, and of the sky, rendered three-fold bluer when viewed as a reflection from the clear but colored lake.

From Martigny to Chamouni! The ascent, like all other mountain work, called loudly for muscle and pluck, to use it, and was longer and more wearysome than the Gemmi. Reaching a small hotel we were about ready to congratulate ourselves on being so soon on the top, when, to our dismay, a valley lay before us into which we must descend in order to climb a still higher Alp on the other side., There could be no mistake for crossing back and forth, there in plain view. staring us in the face, was the inevitable zigzag. We quailed before it for

a time; but summing up all our cour- the "mer de glace," or sea of ice, age, we went forward, in the lan- many miles in length, coming down guage of one of the company, "re- off of Mont Blanc, and reaching far solved to conquer, if muscle did not into the green valley below. Degive out or breath desert us." No scending, we crossed the huge modoubt it was in front of some zigzag raine of the latter, and so stood on like this, that so many of Hannibal's the veritable glacier. How immense men revolted! But on the top of the everything! The mind cannot comCol de Balm, the anticipated view prehend the vastness of the scale of was marred by clouds in the valley. nature. To one brought up in the It was cold and so we put on all our level valley of the Mississippi, such a extra clothing, and stepping accross day was a life in itself. His geology into Savoy, we began to descend. tells him at home of glaciers and One of the company had been moraines, and that the boulders were wishing for "a storm on the Alps." scattered here and there over the He had his wish. The storm gather- fields by glacier influence. Here he ing in the valley of Chamouni below, believes it; for he has crossed a moburst suddenly upon us, throwing the raine already that would in some mist and half-formed rain into our places itself be called a mountain. faces. The thunders rolled beneath, Here he stands on the transformed and the wind swept around the jut- snow, and sees the rocks that have ting rocks most disagreeably. It been broken off and are being carried was more uncomfortable than it was slowly down. The path across is curious, colder than inspiring, and quite plain and so improved by the wetter than sublime. In ten minutes guides that it is entirely safe, and so it was intolerable, and yet had to be we went forward, now crossing deep borne. All wet and chilly we reach- chasms, now ascending protruding ed the valley, and a village where, points, sometimes passing frightful although there was no hotel in the fractures into which it were death to place, we received hospitality equal fall. Some distance above two glato the occasion. A peasant took us ciers meet and there in the center is to his house, where he treated us with the expected moraine. Here lie vast all the consideration that lay in his boulders and rocks as large as houses, power, giving us changes of clothing like pebbles on a frozen mill-pond. and drying our wet garments, and Innumerable fractures open up gradsetting us a simple but wholesome ually, then gradually close, as the meal. And so we were in the valley crystal sea shapes itself to the irreguof Chamouni, at the very foot of Mont larities of its bed. Ascending the Blanc! At such a place one might third moraine we followed it quite well spend weeks or better months down to the terminus, where we were instead of days, and to give only a more than ever impressed with the faint idea of what we saw and felt tremendous power in that apparently would be more than a letter itself. motionless ice. Here at the extremity Suffice then that in spending a few issues the Arveiron river, at once a days here we visited some of the most considerable stream. I was disapnoted glaciers, studied somewhat the pointed in Mont Blanc at first. It geological interests of the place, and is only after being in its presence a ascended to some of the finest prospects. We climbed the mountainvest, (a part of Mont Blanc,) and then leaving the path, depending upon our firm mountain-staff, we climbed a thousand feet or more to a pinnacle of the Aiguille de Charmaz. Here on the one side was Mont Blanc itself, with the great glacier des Bossons between, on the other

few days, that one begins to realize its magnificence. Its immense fields of glittering snow, from which hang down the glaciers, and its summit exceeding in height every other mountain in Europe, prove to man how incapable he is of comprehension.

Since the driving out of the robbers, Chamouni has become a great resort for tourists in the summer, but the

winter snows drive great numbers of the inhabitants to Geneva or Martigny, while the peasant who remains ventures out seldom from his wellstored hut.

C. W. P.

DIED.-At the house of Elijah C. Fellows, near Carey, Ind., on the 28th of 10th mo., 1867, Elizabeth S.. wife of John P. Pennington, aged 35 years, 5 months and 25 days.

A rapid descent into Italy brought us to the valley of the Doire, among people the most degraded and even hideous, that we had met anywhere in our journey; almost every middleTo reach St. Bernard we returned aged or old person being afflicted to Martigny, and ascended the valley with a goitre. As the cholera was of the Dranse. At the Hospice we reported to be prevalent all through were kindly received by the Pryor, this part of Italy, we hastened through and conducted to a well-furnished Genoa; by steamboat to Leghorn. room. A bountiful repast was set At Pisa we stopped to ascend the before us, and that night we slept on leaning tower, to enter the church, the highest inhabited part of Europe. and to swing for ourselves the lamp The story of the dogs, read so long which suggested the invention of the ago, was not forgotten, so in the pendulum to Galileo, then passing morning, after matins, breakfast, and through the very finest country of a visit to the museum, we went in Tuscany, we came into this city, search of them. They seemed to be maintained by its admirers to be the conscious of their importance, and "fairest in the world.” received our caresses with a quiet complacency, until by our continued special attention, they barked out lustily their dogly satisfaction. Large, strong, and of acute scent, they still go forth of winters upon their errands of mercy, to search for travelers imbedded in the snow. Close by is the Morgue, where, as nearly as possible in the position in which they are found, are placed the bodies of those who have perished. Two or three every year are added to the number, and the little crosses marking the places where they were found, are frequent along the road, both going and coming. Looking in through the grate there they were before us, for the atmosphere is so rare that the flesh dries up before decaying, a dozen or more on one side and as many in front, some leaning against the wall, some stooping forward, all obeying the words, "unto dust thou shalt return." As one moulders away, another takes his place, even in the charnel house there is succession. The bones lie in heaps upon the floor. What suspense! When the dead can be followed by the loved ones and laid quietly away, it is often though sad yet sweet to speak of them. But the name of him who goes and comes not, who delays through long expectant years, and returns not, is buried in a silence more profound and in an obscurity deeper than the grave.

During her last illness she spoke frequently of the joys of the believer, and her friends have the comforting assurance that she is receiving the reward that awaits all those who love the Lord.

DIED.-At the same place, on the 24th of the 10th mo., 1867, George W., son of John P. and Elizabeth S. Pennington, aged 5 months and 12 days.

Both the above were members of Spiceland Monthly Meeting.

TAKE CARE OF YOUNG APPLE TREES.

HAVING planted six orchards of apple and pear trees, I have had some experience in that direction, and I find one of the difficulties is to protect the trunk from worms, mice and rabbits. This can be done by rub bing the tree thoroughly with soft soap. Let it be done in the fall to protect them from mice and rabbits in the winter, and in the spring to protect them from worms. It will also give the tree a smooth bark, and produce a vigorous growth.

Spiceland, 11th mo, 1867.

J. B.

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FRIENDSVILLE, TENN.

THERE are so many things of interest here in connection with Friends, that I scarcely know what to write first. Newberry Monthly Meeting here has 89 members in all. It contains but one Preparative Meeting. Formerly there was another, Hickory Valley; but some of its members having moved away, it was suspended. The little old house in which the meeting was held, stands about three miles from Newberry, occupied by a family. There are, I am informed, ten or eleven families and parts of families of members located conveniently about it, enough to make a good lively meeting.

Many of the members are situated so far from Newberry that they do