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freestone mansion, ,with iron verandas, all
covered over with climbing roses-the most
delightful and inviting traveler's rest my wea-
ry feet have ever entered. I secure a large,
handsome room, fronting the lake, enjoy a nice
cold bath, and lie down to rest. My dreams
shall be of the Alps and of Eden.
  The call to supper startles me from sleep,
and the gathering shadows of evening tell me
how near I came to losing the glory of a sun-
set such as it may never be my good fortune
to witness again. Possibly the few hours of
sweet slumber from which I have just come,
as from a life in elysium, may have so mel-
lowed the senses and clarified the windows of
the soul that I see nature as otherwise it could
never be seen. Grant it: but is it not thus
and thus only that we see nature as it is and
as God sees it? Is not the eye of man ordina-
rily blind to that indescribable, all-pervading
beauty with which God has so filled and cloth-
ed his nature here and everywhere in the uni-
verse.
  I am seated by the window through which
trailing vines and fragrant roses peep into my
chamber, the air has been cooled and purified
by the gentle shower of rain just fallen, and
with head reclining against the casement, I
look out with a delicious dreaminess upon the
unrivalled scene.
  At my left, in the beautiful valley through
which flows the heaven-blue Rhone, lies the
little town of Villeneuve, on the right, the vil-
lages of Montreux, Vevay and Morges, backed
by far-reaching, terraced vineyards on the
slope of the mountains. Before me is blue
and placid Lake Leman, its deep waters girt
in by the snow-clad Alpa on the left and ma-
jestic Jura on the right, as a crystal mirror is
bordered round with massive frame of bronze,
nay, of gold, for the sun, just going down be-
hind the Jura pours a flood of light all over
the scene, crimsoning the water and covering
the mountains with a flood of golden light.-
Upon the bosom of the lake a Beet of
        wi Vs sate go amtag dWan,"
*oh making its goal the Isle de Byron, which
seems to float therein as an emerald might



float in molten silver; and then, almost at my
feet-its ancient walls still, an of old, by Le-
man's waters blue-the old Prison of Chillon,
so famed in the early times of Switzerland
and evermore immortalized by that touching,
matchless poem of the gifted Lord Byron.
  The imagination could hardly conceive of a
picture more grand and beautiful, or fraught
with deeper historic interest. Oh. if I could
only put it upon canvass as God is now engra-
ving it for me on the tablet of memory !
  There! the glory-beaming face of the sun
is seen no more, and soon his fading beams
that still linger upon the icy summit of the
Alps will also have disappeared. How brim-
ming full has been this wonder-crowded day
of the convincing proofs of the Beauty and
Power of the Infinite! Soul and self of the
worshipper, too, are brimming with a new, ex-
tatic sense of His immeasurable Love, and as
the shades of evening deepen I seem to myself
half conscious that I am quietly passing with
the day into the realm of glorious dreams.

  Sheep and the Dog Law.-You very
justly urge the importance of the farmers of
Wisconsin giving more attention to sheep hus-
bandry. I, too, appreciate the importance of
this branch of farming, antl for years have
been doing my best to raise sheep, but like
many of my neighbors am almost discouraged
by the frequent depredations of miserable dogs.
  Will our legislators never open their eyes to
the importance of wool-growing, and the ne-
cessity which exists for a law sufficiently rigid
to insure the protection of sheep  No matter
what the price of wool, or how great, in other
respects, the advantages of sheep husbandry
in itself considered; unless the farmer can
have some security that his dock will not be
destroyed in a single night-as has happened
in many instances within the past year-he
cannot be expected to engage in the business.
  The law of 1860 is of no value because it is
impossible to get it enforced. Legislators of
Wiscoibin, if you would act for the interests
of your con   ttp and of the State, have the
goodness to give loss time to Buncombe reeolu-



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