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You my lord, have never been subleeted to than) of persecution which the fiction - writer must accept as his own. Diaries are thrust upon him from all sides plots thick- en around hint *• and anecdotes innumerable are related in his presence, that he may hamly include them in eome tale. It was,, therefore, more with the feeling oi idle curiosity than with the idea of utiliztng your work that.' east my eyes over your lines; more with the desire of noting the impressions you had formed of Eastern lands, familiar to me from the travels of my youth, than to gl tan from the perusal stolen thoughts. I have your permission, my iord, to revise d publish your diary as I see tit but the world is so overwhelmed with works of travel, that I have rather deeiclecl to extract the interest from your work in my own way ; and whilst adhering only in part to the wording of your itiary 1 snail still ae- eompany you throughout, to be with you in heart amidst scenes which you and I haVO looked upon, under cireem-ttances strangely differing, in the years gone by. And, lastly, as the tale with which you home entrusted me is familiar only to a few, • I shall Qover your identity with the cloak of Action. You -shall figure as a commoner, in place of a lord ; for as it is the custom of a novel -writer to make a commoner a peer, so L from perversity, take a, malicious pleasure in reversing the order of things and taking my revenge upon yen. I have the honor to be, my Lord Your Lordship's most obedient servant, * * 'CHAPTER I. Ern3i01, April „'?n --A cuione thing occurred this evening. I Was seated in the veranda., for the day hail been more than usually warm for this season of the year, when my eye WM at. tracted by a little •bird that, alighted first upon the parapet and then, in a. mo. ment or two, almost at my feet. It was a swallow, and appeared to me to be in a sorry plight, and worn either by old age or lengthy travel; for its wing drooped upon the ground, and its eyes were half closed in weariness. I reached out my hand, and the swallow, making no movement, became my captive, 1 Was endeavoring to ascertain if it was wonnded, or how otherwise the bird came to be in such a condition, when my glance fell upon what I discovered to be a fragment of paper, closely and firmly bound with thread around its leg. "Here," 1 said to myself, "is an adven- tore ; this swallow does not come to me by hence alone ;" and thus thinking—for I confess I am of a somewhat romantic turn of mind, and. that curiosity at once aver - came ine—I took my penknife and cut the thread—au operation of no small difficulty, as the bird struggled till the remainder of its strength evaporated, and the missive, of whatever nature it might prove, was so closely and tightly wound that there was the greatest danger of injuring the slender limb round which it had been secured. Having finally suceeeded, I wrapped the bird in my handkerchief, that it might not escape; and, proceeding to examine the fragments which I had detached, I found that 1 held in my hand what was evidently a small and torn paper, ragged and destroy- ed, partly perhaps from the attempts et the swallow to tear it from its limb, partly perhaps by the wear and tear of time. Unfolding the fragments with greo.b care, and piecing them together, I was delighted to discover that my mo- mentary expectation had not led me far astray, and that the paper was actually covered with certain words written or scratched thereon, apparently in dark red ink. In all, the paper cannot have been more than an inch square, which yet con- tained in a small and clear handwriting— that of an Englishman—sufficient to give me a clew to follow, were I ready to accept the mission now strangely breught before me a message borne by a swallow's wing front far beyond the seas. After prolonged scrutiny, and the at- tempt to fill in such words as were missing, I made out the following to be the writing: * God's name rescue * * * * Lose no time. * * *prison* * * * * * * * In the us Pekin By the Chin * * Tenth •swallow William Norris September * * * * * * * God help * * * * Thus the centre part, which, from the folding, had come to be as it were a corner, and which evidently contain- ed the full information necessary to explain the whole, was wanting. But the meaning of the missive was in a sense clear, although there were some points upon whieh T was unable to form it judgment. I shall point out what I mean, by repeating the words with the simple filling up of suoh gaps as may be easily treated, thus: In God's name rescue (rue cr us) Lose no time (we or I) (am or are) prison- er (or s) In the -- --- us in Pekin By the Chin (ese) Tenth swallow William Norris September (yearand date missing) May God help (me or us) Thus the chief gap, which is the most importantof the whole, lies in the third line. It is evident that some name is omit- ted. But what name I have endeavored to fill up by judging the length of the line, and by inserting the word " find " or " seek " before the final "us," thus: In the — seek us in Pekin.; but beyond this I ca,n not go. My sensations, upon discovering the nature of the communication which bad fallen into my hands by the strangest of coineidences, are boyona description. I was at once overpowered by wonder and a sense of the supernatural, and inflamed with the first birth of the desire to investi- gate and follow- the matter to the end. Looking more clearly upon the coinci- dence, as I now do some hours Iseer,"I ain the more determined to carry out my part of the chain of destiny—a destiny ,of which the swallow, perhaps for many a year, per- hapa onlyformonths, has berne its share. One of my fellows (perhaps more than one) has been, and it may be still is, confin- ed by the Chinese, for some reason mike o wn, somewhere in or near Pekin,' And of the messages whieh he has entrusted to matiy birds, as I gather from the words tenth swallow," one at least has reached its des- tination—the hand of a brother -mom. 44n young, wealthy, and free, and I ac- cept the trust that has been thus strangely given to me • and if you are alive, William Norris I shall come to you, ay, oven at the risk of my own life. I have longed for adventure, and the op. portunity has eome—an opportunity which no one could have forseen. BrImiel4, April ;3'3rd—The swallow died this morning. It appeared to be an cad bird ; but whether ib be that it was so when this man -in Chime attaehed the paper to its or whether it has grown so during years in which it has flitted over the earth as the prisoner's messenger, I cannot tell. Was this message written years or mouths ago? I would give much to learn the date. • Brave bird ! what fate brought you here to diet What can have brought you to me from a land thousands of miles away, unless the guiding power of the God. above? I have hopes, William Norris, that your Ines. sage has not come too late. 'Chia morningl telegraphed to my oldest friend—the very num to go with me on an adventure or ex- cursion of this kind. I have his reply before me now, "Wait a month; im- possible sooner, Will go to the end of the world with you then. eau net wait it month. Every day is an eternity to William Norris, I shall go. alone. My inteetion, therefore, m to go to Pekin and to find this man, wherever he may be either by 4 prolonged search or by some miramilous Intervention which shall enable me to fill in the miming word. Who tvoald have thought, two days ago, that I, Herbert Vanscombe, should have made up my mind (one usually of the dilatory order) to sot off upon it few hours' notice for the far -distant Exit? In four days I shall be on hoard the isiessitgeries steamer at Marseilles, and if all be well, I calculate on being in Pekin within two maths and it half from now. A considerable journey fora lazy treveler who has never done more thee lounge about the Continental towns 1 : Well, it could not have occurred at a more fortunate time. It gives me an object, in life, at it time when I am sick of frivolity and can not bear the idea, of it London sea; SOD. I believe I should feel almost disappoint- ed were any one to ItSSIire me now that the William Norris has been dead for years ;or were Norris himself Lo arrive in person to inform me that he had escaped. How set - fish is the nature of man h Were Willie:fa Norris not a primmer of the Chinese and et their mina my journey would have lost its zest, and the spirit of adventure would be gone. It is difficult for a, man to be honest to himself in thought, En route emtward4 to Pekin.—Life be- comes it dull monotony at see. There is nothing all around but the glassy wave and the unchanging blue of it heaven white with gazing at its own loveliness. • Occasionally it flying.fish or two w.11 rise, and as swiftly disappear; else there is nothing but the regular beat of the engines, and the motion of the mew, and the silence of repose only beneath the awning that stretches o'er the deck, And thus it is, dey after day, till ono grows wee:tar of the sameness of every hour, It is only in after years that, the mind re- calls these heavily delicious bouts with a lodging that they might be born anew. I will pass over the days which were doubly, nay, trebly long to me, in that my impatience urged me on; and I will put aside the sense of aching pain which recur- red to me when my mind recalled the quest upon which I was set, and when I realized that I was power- less and could do nothing for weeks to come. A few weeks have moale it differ- ence to me. At the first blush I took the swallow's message as it came, as it coinci- dence—no more, 1 tiid not realize how a fellow -mates life may lie in my hands that I may seve him, or leave him like a dog to die. I did not accept the swallow's mes- sage so truly'and deeply as I have done now. After many, many days, at sea—da.ys longer to me, I suppose, than to any on board -1 found myself at Shanghai—Shang- hai, with its fine bund and its boulevard— the Paris of the Ease ! I spent several days there, for the chief reason that I was obliged to wait for a steamer to the North'but I did not count the time as wasted, for I bad inquiries to make as to the man in search of whom I had come, and of whom I had been able to learn nothing in Hong Kong, It was but a chance that I came across his name even in Shanghai. My banker's introductions, which I had received by post at Suez, were useful in one sense, but practically useless as regards the end in view. Without giving any one the clew as to the object of my journey, I made inquiries everywhere as to the man whose missive I had so strangely received. No one knew him, even by name. This I was at it loss to understand, because, to reach Pekin, it was almost a necessity that he Should -pass through Shanghai. I pondered much upon the subjeat, and came to the conclusion that the few words which I had carefully preserved must have been written many years ago, since no one could recollect having met or heard of the writer, or that he might have passed so rapidly through Shanghai as to leave no trace of his move- ments behind. It then occurred to me to examine the guests' book at the hotel. I took it in my hand and opened it casually, almost in despair of its proving of any avail. I started involuntarily as my eye fell upon the page. 13y chance the book had opened at a date nearly a year previous, and before me was this entry: "William Norris, from Nagasaki, arrived 5th Augnst; left for Pekin and Great Wall, 6 August." So there was a fair chance that I might be still in time 1 Further than this I could learn nothing. They remembered Norris in the hotel—a tall gentleman, dark and wearing a slight mustache. Had he ever retarnecl 9 Per- haps; but he might have gone to it friend's house or to the Club: he had not come to the hotel. And I alone knew the truth, thab he was a prisoner of the nation for whom I had al- ready conceived a hatred of the strongest kind—a nation which filled me with a sense of loathing, and from which my inmost nature shrank. One thing was now made clear to me—that William Norris might still be saved. 'had never doubted of hi existence. That had no t struck me, strange as it rimy seem. I believed in his call for aid, and I was right. But—shall I confess it ?—I had begun to despair when, first in Hong Kong, ancl then' in Shanghai, I had been uneble to discover any trace of him of whom I was in search; for I feared that the message might have been of sach an ancient date that William Norris had suc- cumbed already, perhaps, to a life of tor - tare or to • it lengthened imprisonment amongst his Chilies° foes. And now that I knew otherwisszony desire tosavo hint only grew the stronger, since I perceived there was it chance. And often I. wondered for what reason he had been seized: was it because of hatred for the European rue upon the pars of the Chinese ; or had he desecrated some religious rites, or in what manner offended his cold-blooded foes? On the day which remained before my departure for the North I lessened my baggage as far as possiale, by the packing of all that I absolutely requireol itt a single portmanteau and the committal of the remainder to the charge of the hotel. I was well armed, for I knew not whet, casualty might occur ; indeed, I iney say that, in addition to zny own revolver I bad three others, thus allowing, in case of need, for one apiece far three men, English or Chmn. ese, amd Omagh it was probable that these would prove mere superfluous baggage. I had deemed it well rather to be over -equip- ped than the reverse. Further than this I had two strong knives, of the nature of daggers ; so that it will be seen that in leav- ing Brussels I heel done so not unprepared for the worst if the worst should come. There were two young fellows in Shang- hai whom I had met, upon the first evening of my arrival, at the house of my banker, with whom I dined. They were btothere; their names Frederick and demo Dicey; and I took it liking to them from the first. I deolded to put before these men the par- ticulars of the expedition upon which I was engaged, aud aacordingly I invited them to dine with me upon my last evening ashore. I tient thelmy from the room as soon as dinner was at an end, and. then narrated to the two the ineident of which yen have al- ready learned as the cause of my presence itt Snaughai. 'You are both," I concluded, "men whore I feel that I tem treat. One has it strange feeling, which is not exactly tear, and still something very closely akin, upon launching out alone on it venture of this kind. I may tell you plainly that I expect to be in Shanghai again within three months accompanied by William Norris, for this reason, that the chain of fate, which bronght the swallow with its message across the seas will miss. it link or two if I succumb to the death I may have to face, But, all the same, I am prepared to die, and ready to do so, unless I succeed in escaping from the Chin- ese la company with William Norris," Neither of thetvm answered me. I think, as men, they weretouehedwith something of the same sorrow as had fallen upon me. relit my cigar. "If you hear nothing of me in three month's' time," 1 continued, endeavoring to lighten my tone "will you make it public in Shanghai that two of your brother -Bing - 'Mitten have disappeared in the North? Will you make a movement, no matter whether he and I be dead or alive, to seek us out? Will you do something for us here in Shaughai?' —M. spite of myself, my voice was thick. ''.Vo will." come the answer, as with one voice; and then Frederick, the elder, in- quired, aftera pause : "Can we not help you now? 'What is it you wish to be done?" 4' I wish nothing," I replied, "until you hear from me, or until three months have passed without word. Stay,: there is one thing. I wish a boy who will o.ot as my guide, who knows pigeon - English well (Ill manage With him somehow) and who knows Pekin. Can either of you procure me this? Do not think I run him into danger: if he is my guide, that is alt; his Chinese akin protects bini, for the rest. Can I find such it man to. night in Shanghai, or shalt I find him at T i e nt s hi en l' "Tmuneration must be large," said the elder, "Thatisnothingt he may name his sum." He rose, and summoning the boy, gave him instructions to find ate a guide. "Sttvey V' he said in conclusion. "iSly can savoy," mune the answer; "chop -chop on.n do." "Then yon wish us," lie continued, re - seating himself, "to keep silence in the mean time regarding your journey ?" do'" Is itneceasary ? Would it not be better to stir the colory now, if it is true, as I have little doubt, that this HMI isstill kept a prisoner? There is many a man in Shang- hea who would join you." "I have little doubt of it, and, indeed. I have considered," was my reply, "doing what you suggest; and, were I to do so, trust me I should come to your brother and yourself in the first place, to as r for ''your assistance; but it must be remembered that there is nothing to go upon as yet. It is true that I know of Norris's imprisonment, but I do not know where he is confined : so that my journey resolves itself simply into esearch (at any rate, in the mean time, rather than a hostile affair with the Chinese as an enemy. You wiU understand, easily enough, that I do not feel justified as yet in calling for assistance , indeed, in it word, I believe that one man is muoh more able to prosecute the search efficiently, and without exciting suspicion, than a band of half.a-dozen." I was right, and he knew it. "Might we see the peper ? forgive my curiosity," said the younger. "I mean the paper brought yon by the swallow." "Certainly," I answered. "I was about to put it before you, in order to see if you could assist me in any way to fill the gaps." I took it from the little box in which I kept it, "There it is 1" The two bane over it. "I see you have gummed it to a piece of cardboard," said Frederick. "Is there nog‘tchNinothoinn wbaack1 s ms" answer. "I did so to preserve it. Do either of you know Pekin?" "No. I am afraid we shall be of little assistance to you. One moment z what is the meaning of the word as in the third line? You have spoken as though there was one man only, ----this would indicate otherwise." I answerecl him at mice. "You have formed the same opinion as I did upon -first reading the few words. I have care- fully studied the fragment since that time, and I shall tell yea why I am of opinion tha,b the first thought is in this case probably it wrong one. If we filled up this by add- ing the word seek,' we decreatse the space which might contain a Chinese name to a very small capacity. Now, it is likely that the writer has In these words that are a -missing, given very full directions as to his 'whereabouts, which he could not have done in the space we shall leave between the word 'the , and the word 'seek.' Again look at the end of the second line ; you will see that if we make the paper square, as it seems to have been, there is exactly room for us to insert 'or,' making ' prisoner,' but scarcely margin for the addition of an 's' Then, and chiefly, we have William Norris,' followed by the date : no mention of other names. And finaily without giving you: more lengthy and minor reasons let me recall to you, if you wish ferther proof, that William Norris passed through Shang- hai alone. My first reading.VMS the simple one : 'In the ---seek m Pekin,' but litter I put aside the word and am in- clined to treet this as part of a Word, of which the letters on either side are a- missin a." Elven es I spoke'something told inc that I had wandered into a mere conjecture. I fell into a thoughtful fit : to tell the truth, I had. not greatly considered this point till now. I had known that Pekin was my destination, and I had looked upon it as impossible to conjecture it word which would exactly fill this space, But now for a naoment I began to think differently. "Can either of you suggest a Chinese word ending, say, with usi,' or 'use,' or—well, I inithe go through the whole alphabet, gentlemen ?" I asked. . But perhaps it is unnecessary to say that the riddle remained unsolved. " And what, then, do you imagine," ask , ed Frederick Dicey, a little later, ' to have been thehistory of this paper?" "Well, I think you see thc whole; it. man crying for rescue, in some place where he appears to have a certain liberty. in so far as he has been able to send this message. It is written I conjecture, ha blood, scratch- ed upon the fragment of paperwith something small and sharp, like a pin. He has written it number such as this: WO read it there, where be says, tenth swallow.' This is only one of many. If it is in Court grounds that he is it prisoner, I despair of rescuing him ; but in the mean time, I shall say no more. Here conies the hay." A short colloquy ensued ; then James Dicey turned to um, he has found you it guide, and good man too." We sat late that evening—my last, ae I have eald, in Shanghai; and I must confess that my mind was not a little relieved by the conversation, and possibly chiefly so from the knowledge that I was not merely following in the footsteps of William Norris to disappear 05 he had done ; or at least, if I (lid. so there were those who would follow me to lay bare his fate and mine. Pour days later zny guide and I remixed Tientsin. (To DE cottrIXrEn.) SOIENAMBIJLISTI0 PEUTILIAR1TIES. Some Strange Things Done by I'e�pieWiiflo Asleep. It is reported that a!young Free& clergy- man frequently arose in the middle of the night, while asleep, and wrete severai sena mons. Not only did he compose them, but he spent much time in making profuse grammatical and other corrections on his manuscripts which he would find perfectly legible the 3104t morning, In the swampy dietricts of Franco the men are accuetomed to walk over the marshy ground on stilts. A sleepwalker on one occasion buckled on his stilts and crossed it swollen torrent in the dark. On awaking he had net the courage to perform the same feat in daylight. A young girl some time ago was observed to be perambulating the housetop in a cer- tain street of one of our large towns. Her parents were communicated with and steps were o.t once taken to prevent any mishap befalling her. She seeeesefully walked the length of several houses, then returned and passed through the window into her own room; A Amsterdam benker once requested it professor ef mathematics to work onta very intricate and puzzling problem for him, The professor, thinktug the mattergood exercise far the intellectual faculties of his pupils, mentioned it to them and requested them to work out the alumna. One of the ;students, who had pondered deeply over the intricate subject during the day, retired to bed. Some time afterward he arose, dressed, and seating himself at, his desk worked out, the problem accurately, covering sheets of paper with his calculations. He had no recolleetion in the morning of having done so. A remarkable case is given by Vireirtholt. A musical student was in the habit of rising in the middle of the night and going to the piano would arrange his music and sit down and play correctly the piece before him. As showing the emit° intelligence which existed. iu him during his sleeping state'some of his fellow -stud- ents one night wetched him, and suddenly turned the music upside down, The sleeper, however, detected it, quietly restored the sheet toits proper position, and went on playing. On another occasion oae of the strings of the instrument being out of tune, the discordant note so jarred upon his sensi- bilities that he etopped playing, took down the front of the piano and turned the of- fending note, before continuing his practice. Another student was accustomed to trans- late pa.ssages from Italian into French during Itis sleep. He used a dictionary and was most assiduous and correct in bis searches after the words needed. Touching the sense of sight, which is brought into play during such sleep efforts it remarkable case is recorded of a young lady who would rise from her bed and write intelligently and legibly in complete dark- nerss. The most curious feature in connec- tion with her efforts was that if the least light was admitted into her room she was unable to continue. A ray from the moon passing in at her window was sufficent to disturb her She could only continue so long as she was enveloped in perfect obscuri- ty. No bonbon twith doing their duty through- out the day and when they are awake, there seems to be some people who are not content unless they keep themselves employed whilst they are asleep. Not ittfrequently individuals have projected and carried to a successful issue projects which they were quite incoaorible of tackling when awake. No doubt because they couldn't, even if they wished to, dream of doing them unless EGYPTIAN CAVALRY WIPED...OUT. They Stray Far South of Their Outposts and the Dervishes Annihilate Them, A Cairo telegram says :—Details of the reoent lighting between dervishes and Egyptian troops near Arribukol have jest been received here. The Egyptian troops numbered 120, including it body of Shag- glyeh irregutavs. The dervishes were sur- prised by the troops at daylight and re- treated to the hills, keeping up an incessant firing. A squad of the troops which follow- ed them soon found itself cut off from the main body by ambushed dertrish cavalry, supported by spearmen. A lutud-to.hand fight ensued, in which the Egyptians made a gallant defence, but unsuccessfully, as they were greatly out. numbered. A similar fate befell another detachment of the troops 81 alt followed the dervishes. The fighting continued until Capt. Fyne and a native officer fell. The Rgyptituas then retreated. Besides the losses mentioned, twenty-eight of the Egyptians and eight Shaggiyehs were killed, and fifteen wounded. The few who weie Ieft managed to return north. neorporated '1887, with Cash Copal of $60,00D \ Ah • •\ • p T1A110.16.40 \ A • _ *••••••...01. EL AND APPLIANCE 00. 49 KING ST, W,, TOROK% ONT, G. 0. PATTERSON, Mgr. for Canada. Electricity, as applied by the Owen Electric 13elt, 7 4 414 4 Tawny recognized as the greatest, boon offered to suffering humanity. It is fast taking -Ake place of drugs in all nervous andasheurnatio troubles, and will offect cures in seemingly hopeless eases where every other known means has failed. It is uature's remedy, and by its steady, soothing(ourrent that is readily felt, POSITIVELY CURES nhouinatiMil, Sexual Weakness, Sciatica, Female Complaints General Debility, Impotency, Lurabit,To, Kidney Diseases, NorvOUR Diseases, Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, Lame Back, Varloomelo, trainary Diatanses. RHEUMATISM It is a well kuown fact that medical selenco has utterly failed to afford relief in rheuxuatic cases. Wo venturethe assertion that although Electricity has only been In use es a remedial agent for a few years, it has cured rnoro eases of Rheumatism than all other means vont. 801110 of our leading physicians, recog- nizing this fact, tire availing; themselves of this most potent of nature's forces. TO RESTORE MANHOOD Thousands of people suffer front a variety of nervous diseases, such as Seminal Weakness, Impoteney, LOA, Manhood, Weak rinck, ole,; that alai old modes of treatment fall to cure. Thera is a loss of .110INO force or power that cannot he restored by medical trent uaent, and any doctor who would try to accomplish this by any kind of drugs Is mortising fi. daugerOue 'form of charlatanism. Properly treated THESE DISEASES CH BE CURED Electrleity, as applied by the Owen Electric Reit and Suspensory, will most assuredly do em It is the only known remedial ageut that will supply what is lacking, namely, nerve force or power, Impart tone and vigor to the organs and arouse to healthy action the whole nervous system. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS And the worthless, cheap, so-ealleil nectrfo Belts advertised by some concerns and peddled through the couutry. They aro electric In name ouly, worthless as a curative power, and dear at any price. We Challenge tbe World to show an Electric Itelt where -the current is limier cons trot of the patient as completely as this. Our Trade Mark Is the portrait of Dr. Owen euxhossed In gold upon every Belt and aPPlianee manufactured by us. Send for Catalogue–Malled (Sealed) Free. THE OWEN ELECTRIC BELT CO., 49 King St. W. Tgronto. Ileuthan tins pauer. BO BATE AN KVAIAN OHL, Awful Death. in Montana ern, nrnvo and Much Esteemed Torontonlan. Mr. RoyGoodwin'of the Great Northern railway, Montana has arrived in. Toronto with the mortal remains of the bete A. L. Mordent son of Capt. Mordera oflhit Deter., ling avenue, Toronto, who was one of the unfortunate victims of a terrible landslide in the Rocky mountains on the alst ult. The circumsta.nees ettendingitiorden's deeth were of it peculiarly harrowiug oharaeter. Be was only 24 years of age, and had been employed on the Great Northern railway as brakesman since May last, On the day of the catastroplic, it train was sent out from Kalispell into tbe mountains to clear the track of snow, after one of the heavy storms which are prevalent in that district. It consisted of a heavy tiousolidated moun- tain engine, attached to which was a. kind of snow plough styled by the trainmen a "dozier," and a van. Engaged in this ser. vice there were seven trainmen and about 25 Italian laborers. The work of show clearing had been successfully accomplish- ed, and the train was returning down the side of the mountain to the canyon below, when Morden, who was on the top of the caboose, notieed an immense mass of snow moving down the slope nearly t we thousand feet above, The sight was an appelling one. Should the slide strike the party it meant death to some, if not to all. Instantly Morden signalled to the engineer to in- crease the speed, and then began a race with death. It did not last long. With a tremendous crash that resounded through the canyon, and echoed for miles through the 7unTtanirts g3loIrtgaeITS'Ir AVALANCHE gaining momentum, every foot it traversed swooped down upon the racing engine, turning it completely over and hurling it with fearfnl fors.0 on &ledge -tar -below. Morden was knocked off the caboose paid- " buried under thirty feet of snow. How any of the party escaped is a mystery. When the survivors recovered from the shock they found that the foreman, the line repairer and an Italian laborer had met an avid death. The two former were killed by being crushed against the boiler bead of the locomotive, and the third man by the door of the van bursting open and pinning him to the floor. Morden was not to be seen. After 10 hours' weary work, how. ever, he was discovered, but the immense mass of snow had forced all but the faintest spark of life oat of him, and as he was gently removed from the wreck he feebly murmured: "1 am buried," and expired. Those were the last words evidently, on hie lips when the crush came. Marco's re- mains were sorrowfully borne to Kalispell by his companions, and embattled for con- veyance to Toronto, this being carried out under the direction of the Brotherhood of Trainmen A Domestic Tragedy. A telegram from Niee, Dec. 12, states that a sensational suicide has occurred. there. The young wife of M. IVIairargue, who is well kuown in Paris, went a short time ago to censult, one of the nemerouti fortune- tellers who abound in the distrioe She was told thet she would die on the birth of her first child. She was very numti upset by this answer, ankinformed her husband of what she had been told. Ile immediately replied that if lb were so he would die, too, and he at once prepared hie 'will. The wife was confined on Saturday last, and,-istrange to say, died a few ,hours afterwards. Upon the sad news beitig conveyed ,to the husband weut to his room, placed his will in an a envelope in -his aiesk, and then shot himself 'through the heart. The favourite flower of the :PrirTyass oe; Wales is the lily of the velleas