The Exeter Times, 1886-12-9, Page 7Redeemell Iiis Promise,
I.A.Ta I,
"Franz, how ithout the Lyskamin to
morrow? The weether looks settled."
"The weethee ie good, Herr, but---"
"Bt what, Franz ?"
"I do no lilee the Lyskanun."
".And why don't you like the Lysleauwa,
Frazier
"Herr, there is a fearful coruiee there title
year."
"We'll take ear chance a that. We
can't tell what it like till we try, and if
we flint it too bacl we eau always turn back.
When must wee start ?"
"Ib will, time if we leave here at two."
" Good
,ce
I Then you'll call us about one.
Getten Abe d, Franz."
" Guten A lid, Herr; schlafen Sie wohl."
The above conversation took place one ex-
quisite August evening outside the old Riffel
Hotel, Table (Mote was over, and the usual
assemblage of climbers, guides, and others
was there, watching the declining light of a
triost glorious sunset fading slowly away
from the mighty precipices of the Matter-
horn, and from the other summit of that,
to my mind, the grandest range in all the
Alps.
The season up to that time had not been a
Quetta one, and bat little climbing had been
done ; but, with the prospect of fine weather,
of which thet morning Ilea given unmistak-
able promise, every one took heart, and the
number of expeditions that were at once
planned for the following day was some-
thing astonishing.
Every available guide was "booked," and
the courteous lady who at that time pre-
sided over the Riffel was at her wits' end to
know where to accommodate all who asked
that night for sleeping space. I myself
was not a novice at climbing, having already
spent several seasons in the Alps, and for
some years I had been a member of the Al-
pine Club. I had been up most of the great
peaks around Zermatt, but I had not yet
ascended the Lyskamm, (14,888 feet,) tend it
was for the purpose of doing the Lyskemm
that I had come up to the Riffel.
hang% over 04 to the Itallen side Of the
Mountebt. The aethel ridge is. ito sharp,
and on either We of the face of the cliff,
hale %Wel Be eteeply to the glacier, duet the
greeteet mire 13 neceileary in order Us keep
on the ridge itself without treepensiog upon
the Cornieee Which, being formed. of frozen
snow only, is liable to crumble away at the
slightest touch. So deceptive is a oorniee
Of this deseription that even geed guides
are et a loss to dietinguith sometimes be-
tween whet is safe and what is not, while
to a neviwhet may appear to be one
broad smooth surfece of saow may be safe
to tread tneon only to the width of a few
Mellen
It is this difficulty of telling where the
firm growid entle and where the cornice be -
gine that coastitutes the danger of the Lyek-
amin arete. More than once it hes led to
mistakes on the pert of the guides, and it
was such tlaat caused one of the most awful
tragedies diet ever occurred to mountain-
eers—the fatal accident to Messrs. Lewis
and Paterson's party in 1878. The Lysk-
anun by this route is empluttically not an
ascent to be recommended.
I was accompanied by a fellow -member
of the Alpine Club mimed Burns, an ad-
mirable climber anti a charming companion,
and. I had my guide Franz, who had been
with me on most of my previous expedi-
tions, and in whose steadiness and skill I
, moved. downward carefully, and at eac
had reason to have the greatest confidence.
I step sounded the snow with his axe as he
Franz was a man of forty or so, tall, and of
had done on the way up. The position, in
splendid physique, with a good honest i
weatherbeaten countenance, to which a, fact, was one which needed care.
long mustache gave a somewhat military ap- Upon our left the face of the mountain
peat -item . fell sharply away to the glacier below, a
In intelligence he was greatly superior to . distance of over 3,000 feet, and we dared
the ordinary rnn of guides, for he could talk not leave the edge of the arete to pans on to
but on arriving there; to my disgust,
well upon other subjects besides the one it; far upon this face there lay a quantity
. of fresh snow in a loose and dangerous con- found that no one was available.
I seercel knew what to do for the best.
Franz was ever celebrated for his caution,
and on this day he exercised even more than
his ordivary °ere. Not a step did he take
without first testing the snow in front with
the point of his ice -axe, so as to make sure
,what was ahead, and, Le never moved for-
ward, until quite convinced that it was safe
to do so.
Thus our progress was elow, and it was
not tP1 neerly eleven o'clock that we topped
the filial ridge and stood together upon the
summit of the Lyskaman,
The view , exquisitely bright andelear as
the sky was that day, was a marvelouely
beautiful one, but it is not within my pro-
vince to describe it here, and, indeed, were
I to make the attempt, I should fail to con-
vey an idea of the impression it made upon
me at the time. Besides, it was not for long
that we were permitted to enjoy it, for
Franz was all eagerness to be down the arete
before it got much later.
We were soon on the rope again. Franz
led, then I came, then Burns, and the porter
—an admirable man for the purpose, on ac-
count of his weight and strength—brought
up the rear. It was in this order that we
commenced the descent
All went well at first. Each man was
careful to use the rope as the rope ought
to he used—that is, by keeping it taut be-
tween himself and his man in front. Franz.
It Appeared that he heel been out aPe day
after a heavy fall cif Snow, and, had perished
in an ayelenche, bodye being sweirt PAY47
no one knew whithee, Nething hie hat
and the ehattered retneins of hie. rifle, in-
deed, were ever found of hi gt agitin, and it
was only by their reeovery that it nes guests
fled what his late bad been.
To lose Franz, was like losing en old friend,
Sadly 1 thought over his many admirable
qualities Bo seldom eonibined in one of his,
doss, His truth and. honesty, his cheerful-
ness and good ueture, his skill, his courage
in moments of danger, and then I called to
ioind that lent expedition. which we took
together, (pity that it should have been the
the last!) end how near the end heti been
that day. To what purpose bad his life
been spare(' but these few months longer ?
And as I thought, of a sudden those words
of his °eine back to me with a force positive.
ly standing.
"You will one day be in diffteulty, in
danger, but fear not, Franz will be there,
and lee will have come to save your life."
Poor fellow ! It was scene worth while to
think about it. Unless the grave gave up
its dead, Franz could never now redeem
his pronnse.
PART II.
It had been snowing heavily all the
morning. Matters were beginning to look
serious. Midday among the glaciers in. the
most awful weather, and. not one member
of the party in the least, conscious of our
bearings, was a prospect, to say the least,
not very reassuring ! A dense mist hang-
ing over us, heavy snow in the oky, heavier
snow underfoot, a wilderness of white on
all sides and no prospect of any improve-
meut. Such was our position on Aug. 31,
188—.
For five years subsequent to our adven-
ture on the Lyskamm had not been to the
Alps. Increase of work and the dislike of
having to get a strange guide in Franz's
place had kept me away; but with the old
love of the mouutains still atrong within
me, I had gravitated once more to my old
campaigning ground: I had engaged no
regular guide for the season, for my days
for vigorous climbing were over, and I now
felt that I must relegate myself to only
passes, with perhaps an occasional peak.
I was tieing that delightful series of
easy expeditions known as the "Tour of
Monte Rosa." I had crossed the Weissthor
with some friends to Macugnaga, and from
there alone with one guide (not quite a wise
proceeding, perhaps) I had made my way
over the Celle clelle Loecie to the little
mountain inn in the Celle d'Olen, with the
intention of returning again to Zermatt by
the Lysjoeh. I had thought it possible
that I might be able to pick up a man at the
Celle d'Olen to make a third on the rope,
*ft one Whielt 114 Merle Pre years
ago
$trange The eeent of it was plow besille
us now; for, thought elint Wet from sight
by impenetrable mist, we •knew thcAt the
tnightlY feria of the Lyekamni wee towering
eemewbore above 00, lost tO 0$11t leintnife
the donde. Even the cleyo-Auguat
was the same, It eeenied an if by a strnnge
irony of fete that that semis Of our escepe
might witness the elosiog scene in the liVee
a all of us. '
Then Frane's werde ;same back to ine and,
I caught myself saying half aloud; " Franz !
Feenz Oh, for (me hour cif your guidence,
end all 'would be well I ()le thae you could
come back to earth to redeem your promiee !"
And as I yet spoke there was wafted toward
us across the glacier a voice deer and dis-
elect even amid the whirl and uproex ofithe
storm, a voice that said, *4 Herr, I come I"
We had altered our course. Almost in.
sensibly I felt it, but I was equally: eortuan
that it was so, I looked ahead. Burns was
still leading but no! somehow the order
had been changed. I thought that I did
not see aright for I could not remember
•The Wok Amu, 0
It is 00 p,rt 0 MY intoution $ 'otter Into
adY diaeueeion Of the nUestien oe to who
ehooki undertake the care of the siek.
Them are Ilene of ue who if We look at the
gneetion Pandidly, 41liegree With Dr.
Weir Miteheli when he pointe mit how urn
wise aud injurieue a thing it Is te heve the
care of a ebronie deeelve exclootively
on members of the household. But there
. • .
are teeny maladiee not serious •enoniflt in
their nature to warrent these being uded
in a diseuesion of thie hind. Maladies
which, while they may be a wiat duratien,
yet involve a good deal of tact and care in
their meniteement.
I have only a, few and very simple suggese
tion e to make on this eubjeet ; so simple op-
parently that the wonder may be in many
minds why I make them at "all, and yet for
all that they are the very things which I
have eeen neglected again and again. I do
not speak unadvisedly. It has been my lot
to h a lar er experience in the care of
any alteration being made in our positions the sick than falls to the lot of most women,
on the rope, and yet it was quite eertain and have seen this lack of knowledge •
that it wits not Burns who now went tint. little things displayed even by professions
I began to count. There was Josef, there mimeo,
Antoine, there 13urns, and there—but no, it Just here I beg to fifty that I mean
could not be—there wee yet another I le,
fused to believe it, Twice again I counted,
twice with the same resta. Ai #i came
topic of mountains.
Burns and I, being in some favor with the dition. On our right lay the dreaded to Lysjoeh alone with
one man was cor-
T
authorities at the Riffel, were fortunate in Mee. . Q attempt cross the
getting a r 0 ourse 3, es , u • Suddenly Franz halted. Something an act of folly I had not the peennse
1 t intention of committin . Of other
so of traveler, , for whom no other space seemed to trouble him, ter more than once
make rio criticism of trained nurses, e corp
of women to whom I think too much honor
can hexdly be residered, and were it left to
over me a feeling of dread, for I felt that he ule, for every illness of over a week s dura -
who was leading us westiot of this life. tion I should always call in es trained nurse.
I looked and the form seemed familiar— But as one star differeth from another, so do
nurses, and there is a further distinction
also to be made between the triune n
and the wordan who goes out to nurs
At any rate, duce it is not possible f
many people to have any nurse at all,
one will be any the worse for following
few directions.
There are few more Fateful things for e.
invalid than cracked ice; few more efaca-
clone things M eases of certain troubles' ef
the stomach or in attacks of nausea. 'ton
' • It I have
tall and broad -shouldered, and with a de-
cision in its movements that I had never
seen but in one guide. And yet, firmly
though it trod, the figure seemed to glide
over the snow rather than walk. Our pace
increased. 'Ne seerned almost to be flying
across the glacier. Soon we began to mount,
the slope grew steeper, then steeper still.
We crossed whet was dearly a ridge and
then began to descend. Onward over the
snow we went till suddenly the clouds lift.
OraTB.411. AtWO
The eldest Gerinan epee,king oniveraity 13
pragoe, foueded An 1348,
Lintlerhef and Herren Chient-See, the
emetics of the lete E.Ing of Beyond% have been
opened to visitors, and ,the gate -114°14Y
amount§ to $2,004 00,eb, weot, '
Mise Lelia jorelan el Washington, Gee,
hes it treaeure that she prizes. very highly.
Itisalittle shoe Worn by the wife of Presi-
dent Cleveland, when she was a lieby.
A hiet goPher snake was killed reeently
at Inky one, Fla., in whose etoroach VMS
found a three foot rattleanake still Alive.
The gopher was over• six feat in leeoth.
mis ed, and there beneath us lay the familiar simple as are the nee t
form of the great Garner Glacier, all rosy given below for preparing this ins, they
with the light of a fiery sunset. We were have found their way Into very few formu-
saved.
We raced down to a patch of rocks on this
aide of the Gorner. Here the guides threw
down their sacks and gave vent to their joy
in shouts which woke the echoes of Monte
Rosa as they had never been wakened before,
while I turned to thank our unknown com-
panion. But he was nowhere to be seen; long strong carpet needle and a thim e.
our party now consisted but of four. With the aid of the needle and by following
"Well, old fellow, what are you looking the grain of the ice (the thimble merely pro-
se gluon bout?aI'm a better leader than tecting and giving strength to the fingeen
scene of us," (and he looked savagely at An. smallpieces of ice could be rapidly- and notee-
toine and Josef;) "in fact, I'm thinking n lessly ahaved off. Nothing could be more
0011C18 out as a guide when all else fails, convenient, and, moreover, the fact that the
You'll take me, of course." operation is noiseless and rapid makes it one
It was Burns who spoke. Clearly he had of great importance. Cracked ice can in
not seen what I had. I said nothing, but I this way be had at any hour of the night or
knew my eyes had not deceived me. I felt day. A lump of it six inches in every
that those words of Franz's had come home dimension can be kept in a sick room for
that day; for had he not redeemed his twelve hours or more by simply wrapping
it tightly in a piece of flannel or an old
blanket. The ice however, should first be
washed, so as to ready for insta•nt use. A
clean piece of linen Bhould then be put over
it to keep off the lint of the flannel. Then
' it all closely and thiekly in flannel,
lated rules for the sick room. I have never
seen them in the text books for nursing, and
I know that in some of the best training
schools they are not known or have not been
known till latelY. Old-fashioned southern
people never had to pound or hammer their
ice They used very simple implements—a
A large quantity of wild rice is being
sewn in the Michigan lakes and marshes
along the Detroit, Mackinac and Marquette
reilwny to furnish food for wild ducxs.
at with six young kittens was removed
from Milton to Greenfield, N. S., a distance
of /sixteen miles. She was not et all pleased
with the claange, and took leer fainily all the
way back,
A Qhicago minister lately declared in a
sermon that ntneteen-twentiethe of theidbunsoli
oubted tte ings s estre or
to dig potatoes and offered her one cent for
every hill she'h dig. Miss Kittie went to
work, and before she quit at night had dug
500 hills and earned $5.
Preanher B.A. Tanner of Plainwell, Mich.,
is reported to have said in it recent sermon
alterncitives one was to son down the
could be found, had to repose as best they he struck his axe into the snow in front of
guide I had with me to the valley to bring
could on the floor of the 8alon, and lucky and beside him without moving forward.
up a companion, (which meant loss of time
were they who could secure a mattress, for He called to me to pay out the full lenth
even mattresses gave out at last. of rope between myself and him, whic 1 and expense,) or else to wait where I was,
on the chance of some other party bound
We turned in early; but as I can never did, and again he advanced a fevr steps.
for Zermatt turning up, to whom I might
sleep on the eve of an expedition, I was not Then he stopped, and, turning round to
ask leave to attach myse •
o'clock, warned eis that it was time toe up. ful how you tread here; take care only to I was sitting sunning myself in front of If sleep be thorough, a short s
sorry when Franz's knock , soon after one me in slow tones said, "Herr, be very care -
This getting up is, I think, the most dis- put your feet in the steps I make, for"—and the inn, and thinking over matters, when a more good than a much longer duration ,o
agreeable part of an expedition. this he added very impressively—" we are cheery voice hailed me, and who should ap. I sleep that is incomplet • and imperfect both
I have a particular objection to dressing in great danger here." pear toiling up the stony path leading from in its nature and in its effects.
the valley but my old friend Burns, whom I I Not uttering what is false or doubtful is
in a bad light, feeling Oldie while only half He had hardly spoken—in fact the words
had not the smallest idea that I should meet but a small part of real truthfulness ; deceit
than half dis e -to envy those who are crack. It was a sound such as I have never on this side of the Alps.
Burns was now a leading light of the legal spoken, in exaggerating or diminishing with
may consist en concealbag what ought to be
awake, and—.hut low be it spoken—more were still in his mouth—when I heard a loud
scribe it as being like the grate of a heavy profession; he was even spoken of mystern a purpose, in seeming to agree when there is
u---------ture Judge, but anythin more no agreement, in feigning sentiments which
not leaving the beds at such an unearthly heard before or since, and I can only de -
PEARLS OF TRUTH,
The joy of the spirit indicittes its strength.
All healthy things are sweet -tempered.
Genius works in sport, and goodness smilee
to the last.
11 will do
hour. wagon upon frozen snow. Then, without
I dislike, too, the early breaklast--a rnel-
further we,rning, the side of the mountain
ancholy meal, to be got over an expeditious -
seemed to break away, and with it Franz
ly as possible; and on this point every one
stems to be agreed, for at the Riffel, at all
events, I have observed that it is usually
dispatched in solemn silence. The very
look of the sleepy servant who brings in the
coftee exercises a depressing influence, as
well it may.
Then there is that getting into boots (for
I am not one of those inconsiderate individ-
uals who puts his boots on up stairs and comes
pounding dotvn, to the detriment of sleep in
those who do not happen to be getting up so
eerly,) and boots, to begin with, feel hard,
if not absolutely uncomfortable?
But, after all, what are these minor (Ilse-
greeables beside the extraordinary amount
of pleasure that is to be got out of climbing?
They perhaps tipake it ell the pleasanter if
we did but know it.
We were rather earlier than the ma-
jority, but there were two or three sleepy -
looking individuals in the breakfast -room,
evidently novices bound for Monte Rosa,
giving one the idea by ,eheir appearance that
they werealreacly beginning to think climb-
ing a mistake rather than otherwise.
It was close upon two o'clock—the hour
Franz had named—when we got off, end we
were soon on our way toward the Gorner
Glacier. The date was August 13, 187—.
Our party had received airadslition in the
shape of a porter whom Franz had engaged
over night—a big, good.natured-looking
fellow, ancl a very useful man to have on a
rope, as we found subsequently.
The morning was splendid, and the stars
shone down upon us from a cloudless sky,
but still Franz seemed dissatisfied, and
complained more than once of its feeling
close. The atmosphere was certainly heavy,
but as we neared the glacier there came
toward us a breath of cold air deliciously
refreshing and inspiriting.
but befon we had. crossed the glacier the
It wk till dark when we reached:the ice,
day had 'commenced to break, end behind
the giant mass of Monte Rose and the Lys.
disappeared.
unjudicial than his manner in the Kips it I are not fe t.
was impossible to imagine, and to me he It is the experience of every true worker
•was ever the same admirable companion and ' who has taken a summer vacation that the
• ' f ttin back to work once
friend that he had ever been sa
For one second f feltparalyzed. The next,
• more is more substantial and. lasting than
scarcely knowing what I did, but wi
instinct of self-preservation strong within
me, I sprang to the left over the precipice
on the opposite side to that on which poor
Franz had disappeared. The rope ran out
to its full length, and then I found myself
He had left a party of friends at the •
ian lakes, and had come "to. do a walk," as 1 the pleasure of a holiday, though leas in -
he termed it, in the mountains, and he had tense. Recreation is but an aside in life.
brought with him temporarily a young hal- Employment is the source and ineans of con -
and he, too, I found. to my great satisfac- tent.
IsTothing is more humanising and elevat•
ian guide named Antoine, and a porter,
tion, was bound for Zermatt by way of the ing than the love of flowers and trees. Rid-
icule it as some men may, there is rofit in
o an •a,
storekeeper, while talking with a customer
crumpled a'al0 bill in her hand. Then the
forgot what it was and tossed the little wad
into the fire. She remembered it 'when her
cash that night was $10 short.
A resident of Genesee found a mink ba
his hen house after it had killed thirty of his
fowls. The mink ran under a wood pile.
Determined to kill it, the man handled the
four corde of wood four time. Then the
mink, growing tired of dodgmg from one pile
of wood to another, ran away.
Neer Hawkinsville, Ga. recently, a cow
with crumpled horns was 'licking her calf,
and by some means the calf got its head, in
the circle of the horns and could not get
away. The cow became excited, and, in
her efforts to get rid of the celf, strangled
it and broke her own neck.
Mr. Green lived in Franklin county, .Ala.,
and one night revenue officers stopped at his
house to gets lights for their cigars. Then
they made a successful raid, and the moon -
shiners were so certain that Green had be-
trayed them that soon. after he was called
to his door in the evening and shot down.
those "Joe Beer."
Perhaps the best known saloonkeeper in
Canada is Charles 1VIcKiernan, alias Joe
Beef," as a stranger would say, while a
Montrealer always thinks of as "Joe
ppxng
it ' china bowl. Somewhere near the I Beef, alias Charles McKiernan.'
Joe Beef is not a bad looking fellow, a
little past middle age, and has guile a num-
erous family. "Joe Beef's canteen" is nitu-
ated in Montreal, on the banks of • the
mighty St. Lawrence, in other words on the
-wharf, and is largely patronized by "bears,
bums and wharf rats," if we are to believe
ter, and prevents their being y , the notice printed conspicuously on the out -
damp smells pr exhalations that always side walk. Entering, the bar at once at -
arise from wet wool. tracts the attention. On the counter is
cheese, old and fragrant, with miniature
ice Nboywdi ni e bree Cite . at d kv re lett ng easytbia reeraa:lik cracked
rats; also bread iv mountains,' which serve
tunnels cut through it in all directions by
the patient. Never, in the firsdplade, leave
to regale the aforesaid "bears," etc. ; when
the spoon with which your patient is to.eat
funds are low, gratuitously. Behind the
the ice, inside the vessel holding :the ice.
counter are Joe, the bartender, his assis-
The metal acting as conductor, theme melts
tants aed the beer. Sometimes Joe is not
with astonishing rapidity. Lay the spoon
window is best, of course, but almost any-
where in the room, unless close to the fire,
a piece of ice six inches square and thick
will keep for twelve hours. It is always
well to have two pieces of flannel on hand,
so that one can be thoroughly dried while
the 'other is in use. This keeps the ice bet-
• •
in a saucer, or, If necessary, across
tue top
of the tumbler or cup. Then as regards the
vessel to hold. the prepared ice. Never put
it into an open mouthed, nor in a,u uncover-
'
there, Sometimes the bartender is not there;
but the beer is always there. Glancing
around the visitor sees a stove, at this sea-
son red hot and well guarded against passing
staggerers, windows barred for the same
id silver vessel. It melts too lap y.
season; also divers printed sentiments of
powerless to move, anchored tightly to e There are to be found in some old-fashioned
edge of the arete, and with a strain upon Lysjoch. Joe's, expressing his religious convictions,
my chest from the pressure of the rope . We decided, as a matter of course, to join what they call mere sentiment: hen e country houses ceriain sorts of drinking cur
, . meant to stand on the night table, on t a etc.
which was well-nigh intolerable. Burns forces, Burn's porter was paid off, and sent trees which bear luscious fruit cease to r
beautiful, and when nature becomes badd outside of which woolis tightly compreesed. Through a small door is secn the mena-
and the porter had seen what was coming, home • Antoine and my guide Josef were re- beat
utilitarian and too miserly for the pro ne3",1 This keeps the water cool. But I have
y bears, who shuffle constantly and monoton-
gerie, consisting at present of two young
• b 1 a had come started on our expedition. tion of anything but sordid necessaries, then
may man follow. He may shut his eyes to never seen but one or two of these, and the
are difficult to find. A. substitute, though
b ti --------- allovr, but very useful ously from a gloomy inner -den to an outer
caee stadcled • with spikes. The ce,utious
• •
and had thrown themselves fiat, so that evened', and the following morning we had
when the jet
they were well prepared to meet it. The weather had become doubtful soon beauty and his eare to melody.
For a few seconds though, it was a dead. after we had left the nn; but we kept on
lock, Then I hearcia hunt voice, which notwithstanding until well on the glacier,
seemed to come from Franz, calling for help. 1 and then, when too late, we had begun to A. Trip into Greenland.
15
0080 ,visitor will not put his hand Inside the a
in a sick room, is an ordinary -piece of white
flannel, fitted and aewed to the outside of a for. obvious reasons. ,
tumbler, glass Joe's business is so large that he bas em -
thereby Preventing the melt- i
Somehow or other, but how I hardly know wish that we had had the moral courage to The only Amerisan explorer in the Arctic Mg of the ice. I am indebted th a very I ployed a professional bouncer at a sa aty o
to this day, Burns so managed to slacken I turn back before. Far the guides had lost regions this year was Lieut. Peary of the 1 dear old lady for this simple idea, one which $15 a week to remove obstreperous or bellig.
the rope that I was enabled to scramble up; themselves. They were neither of them first United States Navy, who went north last I think she originatecrherself. At any rate , erent customers. He gives largely to nearly
on to the arete again, and then the three of I rate, and now that difficulties began to spring to examine the inland. ice of Green- I know nothing more sensible. If one's eye !
, quently seen among the first subscription
all charitable funds,, his name being fre-
an easy matter, but presently an ashen face ) In fact, to such a pass did matters come that land in the latitude of Disco, and if possible possible th put the whole inside of still an -
is offended by the flannel cover, it would be
list for many good objects.
There is not space to speak of the celebrat-
es set to work to haul up Franz. It was not thicken they proeeecled to lose their heads. land. It was his purpose th enter Green -
appeared over the edge, and with some i Burns and myself had to aseume all respon-• to travel eastward on the great ice cap until other vessel of some material which would I
help from himself we succeeded in raisinglsibility. he came within sight of Petermann's Peak, not act as a conductor. Something made 1 ed buffalo which Joe formerly owned, and
Franz to a position beside ue. 1 The storm was raging furiously now, not which lifts its snowy slopes 11,000 feet above
i which every day knocked down and half
out of wood. I should think was the best.
I have space to mention but one more 1 gilled at least three hoodlums; of his mu -
the situation, as well it might, had clearly snow obliterated' everything. To add to our ' hoped in this way to ascertain the physical subject—another simple but oft.disregarded i emm, one of the sights of Montreal; of his
He was badly shaken, and the horror ot • a landmark was visible, and the blinding i the sea op the east coast. Lieut. Peary
affected his nerves. Until rescued his life troubles, we found ourselves without a corn- conditions of the island from coast to coast. thing. It frequently happens that young hermetically sealed ancestral. relics, not to
literally hung upon a thiead ; for he had i pass, the only member of the peaty possessed Lieut. Peary has returned to St. Johns, babes have to be fed entirely on other
than that of their mother's. Many . times ,
'nal mention a complete biographical sketch of
I
remained suspended over an awful precipice of one being Burns, and his he had broken and the telegraph reports that he penetrat- Joe himself. .
many thousand feet in height, with nothing , only the day before 1 We could not thus ed the island about one hundredmiles under nurses, and monthly nurses at that, think 1
they have done all that is necessary when Near Montreal, is a lovely valley between
• tell even the direction in vrhich we ought to , exceptional difficulties. He found in July i two wooded. hills, hi another eity—a quiet
be going. 1 f stormier weather than Nordensksold they have pot the pitcher containing the one. Here are no brawls, no muraees, no
I have heard of persons lost in the desert encountered in September three years ago, milk into Boole cool place. Oftener than
not it is either just outside of the window or , breaking hearts. It is the Citerof the Dead.
wandering for miles in a circle, so that they , when he flotindered during eighteen days Thoughtfully and slowly descending the in -
came back at last to the very point from through the deep snow that covered the ice else on one of the sashes. Now, we all know cline, between plateaus of grass yet green,
which they started. ' i cep, and then sent his Lapps forward some that milk is a tremendous absorbent, and where jagged rocks thrust up their moss-
• • • • seventy miles feather. . Lieut. Perry there- yet in niue cases c•ut of ten the mune leaves covered heads tands at the foot
but the rope around his 'waist between him
and certain destruction. Elia face was very
white, and a small wound on bis forehead,
from which the blood was slowly trickling,
gave him a ghastly appearance ; but there
was Et strange look inhis eyes as he grasped
m hands and exclaimed with all the en-
ergy of deep gratitnde— impossible to convey the feeling of utter fore, in the same latitude, has ,penetrated
To those who have not oxpeuence
Herr you have gaited my life. Think hopeleseness in such a case. It wasfitted we the island only a little more than half as far
many j as Nordenskiold'S men.
not that I shall forget. Mark this. You ld fel it on that day • for niter
one day be in difficulty, in danger; but ----
willan hour's weary trudge 'knee-deep in fuel At his furthestpoint Peary was 7,500 feet
fear not. Franz will be there, and. he will soft snow we found that our labors had been above the sea; anelevation due, probably,
" 1 1 returned a ain th the as much to the increasing thickness of the
' f 1,000
10 i, Vfl1YL itamin there came over the naven have come to save your life.
, aimless. me cap, Whiche ieve
pale unearthly hue which is seen at times He was greatly excited, and it was to ) treteks we had made before, Stil
1 't fact that I felt inclined. to attribute his ly at we might vealk, it waa necessary to to 3,000 feet thick, as to the greater altitude
• d f of the land. Returning coastward, he rode
1t. 10118 5 1
• ''
whet' snow and sky intermingle.
superlatively 'fine morning, and save for a
few saffron -colored clouds floating above the
Weiesthor the sky was perfectly clear.
We breakfasted near the wdl-known halt-
ing -place for parties making the ascent of
Monte Rosa, ..ml soon afterward we left
that mountain on our left to keep on rip the
Grenz Glacier toward the summit of the
nese in the manner he spoke which impress- i length of dine, meant to perish in that awful swiftly down the steeper slopes of ns „lc
words ; hut yet there was a strange earnest- keep moving, for o a au ,
ed me deeply in spite of myself, and with cold. field on his sledge, propelled by the same
an inward presentiment (I can call it no- 1 We Were white from head to foot with foree of gravitation that drives Greenland's
thing else) that some day or other they the snow which had frozen upon us, and, mighty ice rivers to -the sea and launches
would inevitably come true. had the occasion been less serious, we could their frozen strews into the ocean as ice -
From what we learoecl subsequently it ap- have 111,14114d at the strange appearenee we bergs.
peared that, in *lee of Franes precautions, presented.. Burns had assumed the lead. Although Limit- rearY has net amoru-
Lysioch.our upward trade had in one place passed It had been decided that 10Should go first Plithed all that he dedred, his inland jour-
- It seemed certain now that we should . over &portion of dm cornice, Franz had be- 1on the rope and myself last, Antoine and noy, with ody one companion, ntirPannnn
heve a fine deyebut Fraitz was learly ill at conic aware of this, but in trying to avoid Josef hetweed tle l but, as for knowing those of Hays and Keilson in extent, and
ease, and grumbled constantly about the the danger in the descent had brottght whete ive were, it did not matter much who is seeond only th that of Nordensitiold in
heat in the Dirt saying that he feared AMA the very, thing he feared, the touch acted aa leader. his second attempt to elves Greenland hi
1
thitt we should rid the Lyskarnm arete in of his axe having started tbe great snow On vt0 went, end atillson, till the menet-
bad condition. cornice, forty feet or so of which doubled. ony becanie well nigh unendureble. NO
183.
Out cif lilt Eleraett.
,
Itis spiri,ts, though, recovered somewhat op and hounded down. the mountain Bide, change, always tht seine white *Onto about
as we got Idher,and certainly the weather carrying Franz along with it. As a matter us, snow here there, everywhete, and fall -
left little to be desired, far it fibed, of golden of foot it was a VOVY narrow escepe for all lug all arou;ni more lieavi y tht.n evet'. ,
sunlight spread over rock and snow, till even of xis; for had any other member Of the What wee to become of us it it continued '1 " woat have you been doing nathe baek
the hollow of the glacier in which we stood party gone through the enoW aS well 'as. We' t6ald not go on walking indefinitely. r°°I° So bong v
became bathed in the glorious light. rinleed Franz, the others donld, not have held, and Hour after hour worrbwoarily by. "1 Was pic,kitt' the dead ilk's out of the
We could, not have thoecin 0 moreperfect day must hove been dragged down too. 1 th.guitles began to lose heart; and cried &led currants, elr, replied tritMene
for our 03epodition, shudderedinvoluntarily es I gazed into tho to'Oaeh other Latent their 'MVOs and chiltl' ' " Ir0*'3"st,qe 1" , said the grocer ,Witli mull
We made rapid Dro,,otese, fel, we were abyss into which We shontd hare fallen., reit. , I, tem began to feel net quite ItlYeelf, cliVilst " itilYealtr father tolA‘hie that 10
what is known as a "fast" party, and while and thought that there would not have Brit Wiens, finfibrIts ovti, ,I,ebt tneetwee .thought you Wete betraer the grocery busi-
it Was Still early we reachea tho foot of the been left mite& of us by the time ii"o reached forward, forward, forward; 1 btatejt myeeff Mag. on had bettor strulY for the ,mitiis-
tot-Ale arete, which ti868 straight hp frmn the bottein I thinking (en they say, didwolog Maki Will do) try) Jones.' , ". Y '
the g.lacier till it otiminates in the summit No further irioident occurred during the , of mei exits in my' pa . ' , f -liliga which„,
of the Lyskarsuri. descent, but, born haying: to go sloWly ox I bad failed to do, of things whieh I had ' ” Mother," -aicl a little girl to lier tar-,-.
Pro my mind this areto constitutes one of, Ftilires itdeottitt it lartS MA till late itt the chine brit Which it Would haVe been better Mity wholaltea a groat interest iholiatitable
the ritiStielit bits of clithbing iri the Alps. It evening that we got backlo the RiffeL had I left undone ; and then t thought of a institutions, "1 wish 1 were tin orphan I"
t liffieult lint it is Thi. and almost its It was hi December of that same year host of minor teattete which at'intal 41 thrld 1 '', Why so, inY dear v “noordiso 1 gioutd
0,10.4, 1 heard of VraorAi death. Ile fell ft( seemed positiVelY tritiat Then toy thotightS ' See Mote of yoo' ; for yeii aro always goihg
, t 'll'tc Vialefi ter theintiiii hooting, rat on otlier.Alpiotexpetlition#, dila a thht te, iti6 tAtillita dsyhtyt,,,,
" James " fetid a geocer to the new boye
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14 uncovered. of a grave, which, to udge of the many
There is nothing more simple nor more foot marks around it, has been visited. This
efficacious than placing a wet piece of linen.' is Joe's "104." On a neat headstone over
over the milk vessel, the wet cloth prevent- 'his first wife's grave is sonic of Joe's poetry,
ing the passage of any vapors. This is , which the historian refrains from chrome
often the only way to prevent milk souring cling, as, although it is a strange inixtore of
in summer, I have seen milk kept perfect ', toggene, eccentricity and real feeling, he
approach of ridicule. How -
in this way„ when next it, without these wow avoid any
precautions, the same sort of milk became ' „et., here is the inscription on. quite a hand -
bad. Milk arranged in this way ef'''' with some granite monitinent over the grave of
perfect impunity stay all night by the bed- his 3.yeat old son:
1 needsiteatly in the morn- "Freddy, clear, are you here
si ea y
ing and yet who hesitates to call any one
to get it when put further away.
• RAcatt, H)aruroo.
, alone
Johnny warns to know
from little Joe
Where do you *low stay
Ot with Whitt tittle boys
do yoo pley
Or where do you rosin
For the fittlel,ton cot
Poor mother bought
etin waits for you
itt bone.
Jou Incur.
Ittetreate,
leng.th'fis &auger aroes
from the oorolee, which in an iniluenst iTit4Sri
Stodards,
The truest and fullest ocmoeption of right
and duty which 51050 can form must be his
standard for to -day ; if he is living a true
and rio$le life, increasing intelligence, wis-
dom, and love will combine to orm a still
higher and better conception for to -morrow.
Vo cannot always dwell in an iinaginatiVe
State, be it ever so pint and goed nor would
it be desirable. Work Of hand and head
rightly absorbs smell of our Ulna and
thoughts, Yet all duty bo bettor per-
formed for, the refreshing air and wide out-
look gained by frequently dwelling the
heights—that is, by gaining and cherishing
clear conceptions of the right, the good, tlm
true, and tho beautiful, mid bringing all
force to bear upon their still further ele+a,
hen,
taelielor friend (to neWly married man)—
" Whrthis dejection, dear bov t ave you
suffered a disappointment?" "'Yes, my wife
ean't sing." "-Why, that should not distress
you think yoo ate to be emigratulated."
" bet gie' thinke she eat."
The Ustial. Awfal Reath.
aories—" You remember there were thir-
teen at the table at dinnerat my heats last
Ititortn°"\es--"—(VIC:lsl:Yoling De P—eYeter
ththtriliovilimil—lh'g:My is that possible I 1as
looking for Something of that kind,"
klonos.--P Yet, the poor fellow \vat talked
to titUtth by the Itimilton girl Who sat next
to Mit."
A writer hi it reeent number Of the AV.,
0-iecon Mciurcaist givt3S anaecount of a sWel
b�wWhieh Set the broken log of oile of
oeatliogo, antl afterWarda carefully bandaged.
%with horse -hair,
ied