| Show A vtTiiil eisTini I A writer In the Catholic New World gives Iw following description of a beautiful and Impressive Swlsa custom or ourn It could not Ie I practiced In Cities hut > It Bcetos not Improbable thai the piety morality and patriotism or the Alpine mountaineers may bent least In part duo to It Among the lofty mountains an1 ele oh1 I valleys 01 Hwlt7erlan1 the i Alpine horn has another use besides tint or sounding the fnrramed Hon des Yoh 01 cow song und this Is I 01 0 veqglnin Unit ImpreI nature VH hen the xun has set In the valley and lie snowy ul1lrnll or tile IllUII tolu gleam mith golden light the herdsman who dwells upon the highest habitable spot i takes him hum and pro nolinces clearly unit loudly through Ito It-o through a speaking trumpet I raise the lor dod As soon gin i the sound In I heard by the neighboring herdsmen they lou from their huts take their Alpine horns Unit repeat the slim wod wodThl This frequently lasts a quarter of nn hour und the call rounds from all the rnountolu and roekv elllT around hen silence aenln reltifs the herds men kncel and I pray with Uncovered head I Meantime It has become quite dark flood nlclit at last lulls the highest I herdsman through his horn The wrds 1 resound from all the moun tnIns the hon of the hro1mn unit the cllrrs and the mountfilnccis retire re-tire to their dwellings Have wo not here a disclosure of the secret by which the brave and patriotic wins 1m e so Ions main tallied their frdonl Interior In nurn born to other Jealous nations near them I and often surrounded by contending armies they have continued from gen etlon to generation n free people I Ior Clod to abandon to the power of their enemies a people flint thus signalize their homage of Him would bit contmry to 1119 Usual methods In dealing with men and nations unit It may well be I believed that the sincerity of the Swiss In their woishlp of God has long been the bulwark or their liberties |
