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miUUTS WANDERINGS.
Peeps at Some of tlie Interesting Fea
tures of Norway.
Norway as Seen by the Poet Traveler.
Fascinating: Discursive Talks About
Its Goodly Folk and Magnificent
Scenery—Quaint Churchyards and
Curious Customs—Some Wondrous
Nature Spectacles Described—The
Romsdal and the Naerodal—Water
falls Twenty Times Higher Than
Niagara—Scenes of Grandeur and
Sublimity.
(Copyright.)
London, Nov. 30.—There is much about
Norwegian scenery, scenes and incidents
worth relating discursively, which is
lilteiy to prove helpful to succeeding
travelers, in their experiences, or enter
’aining to readers who can only travel in
this stern and mighty land of the north
by the not unpleasant journeyings of
'aney with kindly tempered.'writers for
their willing guides.
There are no roadside shrines, save of
nature's exclusive handiwork, in all Nor
"ay. Indeed one traveling along the
-rand stone roadways almost feels a long
ing for those mute connecting links of
human and spiritual interest. Groups of
peasants kneeling before cross, or efflgy,
r beside consecrated fountain, are here
never seen. The only objects by the
vayside to possibly pique curiosity or
interest are upright stone posts on
which are cut or paiuted enigmatic
cures. Not even an antiquarian senti
ment can be conjured by these. Their
ignjlicanee is very great however to the
inded proprietors, for they relate with
nice exactitude the number of metres
’ ach is compelled to keep in perfect re :
Pair in summer and wholly clear of drift
'■new and other obstructions in winter.
11l law is enforced with absolute impar
iality in Norway, and that is why the,
wintry has the finest roads in the world
ami has also been trans.ormed, in scarcely
T -ore than a generation of time, from a
nation of drunkards, with all accompa
nying evils, to a land of sobriety, cleanli
ness. amplitude and content.
•lordbaert or strawberries almost con
stitute a national dish in Norway. In
'•■ed I have often thought that these
matchless berries.
“A’ the sweeter they are wee.”
re a providential compensation and
Provision to the folk of the high
latitudes. I have found them
in rny wanderings growing wild in great
est luxuriance in high latitudes in Norway,
he Hi ihlands of Scotland and the Sliet
uind and Orkney Islands, even in dreary
Labrador, and in Manitoba, where,
j - the early days, I saw miles of the then
trackless prairies crimson in hue from
the ripening fruit. They are so universal
“ad plentiful in their wild state that
here is no necessity lor their cultivation.
ip markets of Bergen. Stavanger and
; "'"iidhjem are fairly odorous with this
"' Pious fruit. At every station, at.
every home, and in every h >tei
Norway they are securable murn
noop and night, and at all places
■Mi cream is served with them. Where
*' v er t ravelers may go. upon busy or un
trequented highways, or even along lone
muuntain paths, they are everywhere for
■p picking; and if one is too lazy to help
urn; elf to nature’s largess, blue-eyed.
eu-haired children are everywhere
* hand with tempting baskets which are
■ out s for the most trifling return in coin
," u arc willing to bestow. Indeed so uni
itrsul is this custom of strawberry giv-
ing and selling that a perfect typification
of Norwegian childhood in summer would
bo formed, in painting or sculpture, by
the figure of a ragged, smiling-faced, yel
low-headed urchin standing at the road
side with upheld bashet of jordbaert in
tiny, horny hand, and hopeful, expectant
look in kindly eyes of blue.
The tiny Norwegian grave-yards be
side the mountain churches will have a
peculiar interest to every traveler in out
of the way districts. They have a cer
tain primness, desolation and yet wild
and uncouth seeming of nature’s kindly
prodigality of every living thing in green
about them that give them a strange and
impressive character. The churches
themselves are curious little boxes, and
possess a peculiar air of austerity and
solemnity, as if built with the sole pur
pose of contrasting the infantile effort of
man with the majestic evidences of the
Creator’s power everywhere surrounding
them. The churchyard, which is also
the graveyard, usually surrounds the en
tire church, and is often filled or richly
bordered with mournful firs and ever
greens. The numberless high, rounded
and prettily-sodded mounds can s.-arcel.v
be seen for the wild dux of evergreens,
plants and flowers. Beside nearly all the
graves, or family burial-plots a pt
culiarity 1 have not noticed in any other
country—are benches or rustic wooden
settles, to which the mourners come and
muse among the memories of the loved
ones at rest beneath. There are lew head
stones. Instead there are crosses of
blackened wood, intensifying the solemn
suggestiveness of the, place. The Norse
arc not given to effusive inscriptions, and
the transverse beam of each black cross
usually lias but two lines. The first be
gins with fod (born), and the second with
tod (died). There is only occasionally
added a verse of Scripture, upon the pedi
ment, expressing the universal Christian
l'aith in immortality.
In leisurely traveling through Norway,
where one from vagarous impulse or ne
cessity is likely to often come to house of
bonder, cabin of peasant or hut of moun
tain siioter, there are certain formalities
of etiquette well to be borne in mind. The
civil stranger is almost joyously welcomed
in any home. After the wonderful hand
shaking of the first greeting is over, the
housewife immediately prepares refresh
ment of coffee and smoerbroed, or but
tered bread. You are supposed to wholly
ignore these agreeable proceedings. When
they are about ready for your entertain
ment, you must rise and profess to be
in readiness to depart Then the
housewife is voluble in entreaties for
you to remain. Reluctance and entreaty \
roust now have full play until you are
overpowered by hospitable entreaty and
consent, after renewed handshakings to
remain. At th3 peasant's cabins and the
saeters a similar formality must be ob
served. The peasant woman or the
saeter girl will run forward to meet you, :
always bcariug a vessel of fresh milk in I
her hand You must at first refuse with
some expression or gesture conveying the
idea that your are unworthy of the atten
tion. 'l he woman volubly insists that must
accept her kindly offering. Then you take
the vessel, but only the siighest sip of
milk, and return it with further manifes
tations of unworthness. This enables her
to further urge and insist, whereupon you
accept the civility heartily and take a
long draught. You will be a fort unate
traveler, then, if you are not forced, by
the woman's fears that you are not quite
sure of your welcome, to drink not a pint
but a gallon 1
Scenically considered Norway presents
such limitless varieties and countless
numbers of tremendous spectacles that it
is difficult to select even a few which may
be regarded as pre-eminent for gr.mdedr
arid sublimity. Perhaps the great gorge
of Romsdal furnishes tho most amazing
number of water falls to be seen from
any one point in the world. The spectacle
of from a score to half a hundred, each
from 000 to 3,000 foet in bight; a mighty
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torrent . the river Uauma. thundering
along beside you, itself in places a series
of tremendous cascades, solid walls of
stone rising precipitously at either side
from 3,000 to 4,000 feet 1 wherever a break
in tlie gorge oeeftrs, either some weird
horn of stone piercing the skyline above,
or endless mountain chains showing caps
of glittering white and this not for a lit
tle distance* but for nearly fifty miles:
is also so different from any other scene
in any other land,so bewildering in its very
superabundance of grandeur, and almost
so appalling either in sight or memory,
that the successive scenes are impossible
of fitting description by writer or painter,
and almost incomprehensible to one who
looks jn awe upon them.
Another scene possessing similar feat
ures and yet with some added elements
of majestic grandeur is found in tho
Naerodal. where that shorter but still
more intensely gloomy gorge opens out,
above Gudvangen, upon tlie somber,
mountain-walled Nmrofjord. The Naero
dal is but eight miles in length; hut its
walls are so close; its two famous water
falls. the Stalheim fos and the Sivle fos,
are such mighty and lofty exhibitions of
force and power, as though the upper ice
fields were all pouring ever the cliffs their
combined pulverized masses; the river i
mid river always roars through the won
drous Norwegian dais is so foaming and
thunderous; while the mighty mountains
rise to such awful heights there above
your bead, the kingly .lordalsnut with its
oval crown towering precipitously above
all: that the whole scene is one of sur
passing solemnity ami unparelleled sav
age grandeur. It is skid that there is but
one other scene in all tho old world
equaling this Naerodal. and that is the
Pass of the Taurus, in Asia Minor.
Norway is above all else, a land of
mighty waterfalls. None is so wide or
discharges such a vast volumeof water as
Niagara, but there are perhaps 500 or
1.000 that the most hurried traveler can
not fail of seeing, which are several times
higher: scores are tea times as high ; and
the waters of several have a perpendic
ular descent of twenty times tho fall of
those of our American •thunder of
water!” T have no doubt that there are
still in unexplored districts of this won
drous nortbland far more malestic water
falls from glacier-melting bights than
have yet met the tourist’s wondering or
impassive gaze: for the whole face of
Norway is simply an ice mountain rent
and torn into almost measureless fissures
and gorges between which creep arms of
the sea. and into which everlastingly de
scend torrents, and waterfalls from the
melting ice-plateaus and mountains above.
The I/iugen and Glommeti rivers, the
largest two in Norway, discharge their
united waters in the Sarpen-fos, a more
noble waterfall than that of Schaffhau
sen on the Rhine. In the upper Tele
tnarken district is the Riukan-fos, liter
ally the reeking or steaming waterfall,
which drops straight from its source over
800 feet into a gulf or wall-surrounded
cauldron, so clogged with fleece-like
folds of vapor that its bottom cannot be
seen. In sailing along the fiords you can
count hundreds of falls from 1,500 to 2,000
feet high: so high that the water is often
pounded by the resistance of the air into
spray, from spray into mist, and this into
such ghostlv wreaths of vapor that they
disappear into nothingness before tho
fiord or valley level is gained. Iha ve my
self clambered along the edges of the
Romsdal cliffs with m,v post boy guide,
Peter Larsen, and discovered scores of
falls, entirely unknown to the guide
books, or travelers of the valley road be
low, which fall into churn-like cavities
from 1.500 to 2,000 feet in depth, reap
pearing at the Rauma river-edge in out
shooting cascades, or perhaps pounding
through cavernous tunnels of their own
making to Show to the beholder upon the
high wav like a mass of white coral set
hundreds of feet up against the side of
the black and onyx-like precipitous valley
walls.
The most impressive waterfalls of 'Nor
way* so far known are the Voering-fos and
the Sltjeggedal-fos. Both of these are in
tho liardauger district, noted also for its
sublime fiord and mountain scenery, the
latter comprising the vast Folgefoud or
glacier field, and its handsome, hospita
ble, picturesque and thoroughly charac
teristic peasantry. The Voering-fos is
reached, from Vik, on the Kid Fiord, u
branch of the noble Hardanger. The
going and coming, leisurely done, requires
a day. You ride in the saddle to the
little Oiflord; are rowed U(am this to the
Maabo Farm : and here other ponies are
secured for a long and dangerous scram
ble up and down a Wild and broken moun
tain into the exquisite valley of Maabo.
It is like a giant bowl carved out of ebony
with an emerald bottom. The sides rise
thousands of feet to fjekts. never tree of
snow and ice. Tho Bjoreia river brawls
and foams through tiic valley . At one
side is a wild ravine 8.000 feet deep.
Into this pours the Voering-fos
from an altitude of 2,225 feet. The
upper masses are .split and broken for
1.20 J foet. where they accumulate in a
gigantic rock basin, and, then, with added
tremendous force make their final awful
plunge for between 1 DO and 803 feet. Aside
from the appalling savage surroundings,
and horrible roaring of the almost rock
surrounded cauldron, the Voering-fos pos
sesses a weird fa.se that ion from the mighty
volume of water rebounding from the
focky, narrow pept Potto til of the gorge
in a donse eoluniu of dazzling foam and
vapor, nearly as high as the waterfall
itsjlf.
Something like tho journey to tlie Voer
ing-fos. that to the Skjaigge.da 1-fos is
made by land and water, but ponies can
not be utilized. One must walk. The
scenery all the way from the hamlet of
Odde is surpassiugly grand, com
prising many other important
waterfalls, lordly* mountain peaks,
somber gorges, and rearward, the vast
spectral expanse of the Folgefoud ice
fields. The last part of tho journey is by
row boat across a magnificent mountain
lake, 1,50!) feet above the sea, the Ringe
dalsvand. into which the Skjiegtreka 1-fos
really* pours its waters. The total hight
of this lion of Norwegian waterfalls does
not exceed that of the Voering-fos, but its
surroundings are more weirdly savageand
grand. The water, descends at first in a
score of veil-like steamers, dazzling white
against ebon black. From the vast and
terribly thunderous abyss where these
leap and rebound with frantic fury one
mighty fall descends. From the second
great whirlpool the entire volume is dis
charged. something like the Niagara
rapids, though in steeper cascades, into
the Ringedalsvand still a thousand feet
below the bottom of the great fall. From
the foot of the latter the entire spectacle
is like tremendous streamers of w hite
dropped from glittering glaciers, which
crown the mountains behind and above,
at last gathered into one mountain-high
fleecy* fold, which in turn is whipped and
tom into vagrant billowy masses to the
steely blue lake far below*.
Not having traversed the glacier fields
of Norway, i can have no knowledge of
the vast and overpowering scenes that
may be gained from their frozen bights.
But all things considered, and admitting
the human element into scenic effects
with its always warmth of influence, 1
believe the two finest views to be had in
Norway are at Molde, and the “King’s
View” from above Sundvalden. From an
easily accessible great elevation behind
Molde one can gaze not only ujion human
habitations beneath, the sea sweeping in
through the tremendous walls of the
fiord, curious and quaint craft which play
along the coast, hundreds of picturesque
islands, but a vast amphitheater of moun
tains rising tier upon tier, until lost in
glittering nights which blend with the
sky* and clouds. Among these weird, far
hights are the fantastic Komsdalhorri, the
Matterhorn of Norway; Snaehatteu with
its white and dazzling helmet; tho weird
and mighty horn of Perpuatiad; the ser
rated glittering pikes of the Langfjeld;
and those mighty -till unknown and un
tracked hights at the head of that water
way of black shadows, the lone and som
bre Sor Fiord. A no more bewildering
array of Alpine peaks can lie. found in
Switzerland; while all Swiss scenery*
lacks the wondrous magic of the sea.
From the inn at Kuudvolden one may
ascend on foot the huge mountain which
gives access to King's View. The latter
portion of the ascent is exceedingly diffi
cult. When near the top, but not expect
ing the sudden surprise in store, on turn
ing a sharp angle of the rock, the whole
mighty picture is instantly spread before
you, First is a tremendous fertile plain,
studded with lakes, the lakes with isl
lands, the land between with hamlets,
farms, churches and all the splendid evi
dences of human thrift and home pro
vision ; and this y*ast plain is encircled by
lines of forest, then tiers of eternal stone
ribbed with waterfalls, then mountains
of rock, mountains of snow, mountains of
ice; - the whole melting into pictures as
filmy, fantastic and ethereal as tlie sub
stance of half-dreamed dreams. I know
of no other such extensive view in all the
world : no other at cure so exquisitely
beautiful, so i ncompreltensively vast, and
so surprisingly sublime. From zKt'na
alone is there scene for even comparison.
That otic the sea cramps and confines and
compresses into a narrow strip of land in
which live brigands and serfs. Here are
a free, happy and prosperous people.; on
whom it almost seems that the God is
actually smiling through the ineffable
glow of dazzling mountain tops.
GboATt L. Wakeman.
INSANITY CAUSED BY THE FAIR.
Two Victims Bear the Same Name,
Dive in the Same Place, But Are Not
Related.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Two remarkable cases of insanity have
developed at Alliance lately* that are at
tributed to the world’s fair, and, strange
ns It may appear, both parties bear the
same name, although they arc not re
lated.
Last August Frank Miller, who was
rated among his friends as much above
tlie average in intelligence, left for Chi
cago to spend a month at the fair. For
several years past he has been a pro
nounced atheist, but he had been in Chi
cago only a short time when lie dropped
into the place where Dwight 1,. Moody
was holding revival services. He became
morally* impressed with Moody’s preach
ing, and finally* became a regular attend
ant at his services.
While under tlie influence of his power
ful preaching Miller one day* wasstrolling
through the art gallery when his eye
caught the sight of the great oil painting,
“Christ Crucified.*’ He stopped and
gazed at it all day long, and from that
time seem to lose control of his mind. All
his time at the fair thereafter was spent
in front of the painting, and it was only
by most strenuous efforts that he was
finally induced to return home. His con
dition since returning has steadily
growu worse, and yesterday he became
so violent that it was necessary to removo
him to tlie insane asylum at Toledo.
The other party is Mrs. Sylvanus Mil
ler, the wife of a well-known resident of
the Sixth ward. She attended the fair in
September, and on returning was so en
thusiastic over pit that she could talk of
nothing else. The art gallery seemed to
have impressed her mind more than any
thing else, and she would talk of the
paintings for hours at a time. A week
after returning her friends noticed that
her brain Was affected, but while she has
the best medical treatnieu. it is only at
intervals that she is rational upou
any subject. Her condition is so bad lha
she was removed to her parents l home,
.several miles in the country, last week,
bbu la the mother of three little children.
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FLORIDA’S CAPITAL CITY.
Insurance Companies Withdraw from
the State Other News Notes.
Tallahassee, Fla., Dec. lft.—The follow
ing insurance companies have withdrawn
from Florida: The Lancashire, of Ktig
land; Merchants’, of Newark; London
Guarantee and Accident, of Knglnnd;
.Etna Life, of Hartford, and tho Man
hattan Life, of New York.
Mr. T. S. Sherwood, from the tobacoo
growing section of Michigan, has pur
chased 440 acres of land near Ghairos,
twelve miles east of Tallahassee, and will
try* his experience on tlie weed and gen
eral farming in Loon county.
Governor ii. 1.. Mitchell, Mr. B. Upson
and Maj. Lettoy I). Bail spent a day and
night with Gapt. C. I’. Davis ou Uke
Jitmonia during tlie week- In a few hours
on tlie lake they bagged sixty-four ducks.
Tlie governor has appointed the follow
ing board of medical examiners for the
first circuit : Dr. W. A. Mills, of Miltou,
Dr* G. R. Oglesby and J. Harris Pier
pout, of Pensacola.
The Ladies’ Tallahassee Improvement
Association has named the park Just
north of University library “Bloxham
Park,” in honor of our distinguished cit
izen and his estimable wife, Hon. Wil
liam 1). Bloxham, Florida’s populat
es-governor.
Mrs James. B. iGamble has returned
from an all-summer outing.
Mrs. Julia Pettis has returned from the
north, where she spent the summer.
Mr. T. H. Bakewell and family, of
Pittsburg, are hero for the winter. ,
Mrs. Williamson, wife of Senator A. M.
Williamson, of Inverness, is here to spend
the holidays with friends.
Gapt. J. M. Cook, this week put a large
force at work in Wakulla county, getting
out stone for the St. Augustine Jetties.
W. if. Raines is setting out a box-plant
hedge around the Episcopal church
grounds.
Miss E. Hare, of Sanford, and Miss S.
C. Elliott, of New Hampshire, will be all
winter guests at the residence of Capt. J.
Hare.
W. S. Wilkins, sheriff of Dade county,
has tendered his resignation to the gov
ernor, which has been accepted.
Col. John R. Bradford and wife, after
several month’s absence, have returned to
tlieir charming winter home.
Herman J. Klein, of Chicago, has bought
two plantations in Wakulla county, about
twelve miles south of Tallahassee. Ho
lias men at work putting out choice pecan
and fruit, and will locate Tour families on
the land.
J. Michl, a large manufacturer of to
bacco at Decatur, 111., wbo bought a large
quantity of Leon county tobacco last sea
son, is here looking at this year’s crop.
It is rumored here that Mr. J. J. Wil
liams, of Jacksonville, has bought out the
fire insurance firm of Perkins & Rare
dolph. and that he will open an office in
this city Jan. 1, making fire insurance a
specialty.
A negro man in the lamonia neighbor
hood was ’possum hunting a few. flights
ago. His dogs soon tried one. The negro
undertook to climb for him, and he fell
from the tree, breaking his nock.
Mrs. F. V. |Damon and daughter left
this week for Jacksonville, where they
will spend the holidays.
Charles Temples, of Lake City, is here
for the holidays.
The governor has made the following
civil appointments:
William H. Harrell, of St. Marks, to be
notary pubiic for the state at large.
Thomas K. of Arlington, and
James E. B. Love, of Thomasville, to bo
commissioners of deeds for Florida in the
state of Georgia.
Chaunce.v M. Depew’s recent interview
I with the pope at Rome reminds your cor
respondent of an episode that is said to
have occurred about fifty years ago, in
which a Florida lady was one of tlie
principal actors. About 1838 Hon.
Joseph M. White, of Jefferson county,
was selected as territorial delegate to
oongfess. His wife made a tour of
Euro|>e about that time. When she ar
rived at Romo she asked to be admitted
into tlie presence of the pontiff. Tho
message came back to her that this honor
was only granted to sovereigns. Her re
ply was prompt and effective: “In rny
country all are sovereigns.” She was
ushered into the presence of his holiness
and the interview was a very pleasant
one.
Maj. A. L. Woodward has been ap
pointed agent for the Carrabelle, Talla
hassee and Georgia railroad at Carra
belle. He served in a like capacity for
the Florida Central and Peninsular about
twenty years.
E. C. Smith, of this county, recently
butchered a pig only 18 months old that
tipped the beam at 383 pounds.
Mr. J. Fred Deßerry has gone to the
Kentucky University, at Lexington,
where lie will take a course in shorthand.
The state board of pardons has passed
upon the following cases, in which appli
cations for pardons lias been made;
William Shepard, sentenced to one year
in Ijeon county jail several months ago;
remainder of sentence commuted*
Wesley Dugger and John Croft, of
Bradford county, recently sentenced to
stato prison for one year, granted full
pardon, to take effect March 7, 1894, con
ditional upon their good behavior until
expiration of the sentence.
Duke Underwood was shot by Mack
I,otig on the Pope plantation Thursday
night, eight miles from the city, with a
32-calibre pistol. Tho ball entered his
stomach and he is thought to be fatally
wounded. Txmg is at large, but will prob
ably be captured to-night.
Official Record for the Morning News.
Local forecast for Savannah and vicinity
till midnight, Dec. 17. 1893; Fair; colder,
northwest to north winds.
Forecast for Oeorgia: Fair; northwesterly
winds.
Comparison of mean temperature at Savan
nah, Ga., on Dec. 18, 1893, with the normal for
the day: <
Departure Total
Temperature. from the departure
1 normal. since
Normal, i Mean. -|-or Jan. 1, 189:4
53 81 -1-8 ~ —m
Comparative rainfall statement:
Departure Total
Normal Amount from tho departure
for I normal. slnee
Dec. 16, 93.; -I-or— Jan. 1,1893
.13 -TO j -|-.58 -j-KtOZ *
Maximum temperature, 68L minimum tem
perature. 54”.
The hight of the Savannah river at Augusta
at 8 a. m. 175th Meridian time) yesterday wan
6.6 feet, a rise ot 0.5 feet during the preceding
twenty-four hours.
Observations taken at the same moment of
time at all stations for the Morning News
Rainfall
■6 Velocity .
5 j
jg Direction-
Temperature. .
Name
or
Station.
Norfolk Mi WJ 6; .710 Raining
Hatteras 82 SW 24 1 .!M Raining
Wilmington 58 W aoi 80 Raining
Charlotie 48 W ! | 42PC1* cloudy
Charleston 52 W |l2 .78 Cloudy
Atlanta 40 NW: 16 .Op Clear
Augusta 50 W 8 .50 Clear
SAVANNAH. .. v 54 W ils| .ss:Cloudy
Jacksonville MSW! 8 .38 Cloudy
Titusville 60 Wi 8 52j Raining
Jupiter 72 SW C 04 Cloudy
Key West 74 W [L TiCloudy
Tampa 88: N L. .TTCIOOdy
Pensacola M NW 10 .08 Clear
Mobile MNW 14 .14 Clear
Montgomery 4s:NW 12 ‘St clear.
Meridian 4*iNW 8 ol!cie*r
Vicksburg. I ..............
New Orleans 54 NW 12 .01 Cleat-
Port Smiih |... | 1
Galveston OOiNW.IO 0c' Clear
Corpus l hristi... 62 N L .01 Clear
Palestine 241 NW LI OClClaar
P. H. SnJth, " ,j "
Observer Weather Bureau.
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