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A NIGLLIMJS AX AVALANCHE Ci'mtrury to :i:.i .tir.in^ciueiits anil ex pectation^ i' th-i ilf.-ar i»Ll uucle who li:ul reared me. I Iriu riot trot farther alon^ in life th:m t' i ttiird-clam clerkship in the State department at Washinijton.imd this only Invalid I could write a tine hand, «nd make fancy capitals, said my disappointed uncle. I bi-lieve uncle was thoroughly ashamed of my getting into the depart ment at all. He would a hundred times over have preferred that I had been a farmer. But when the hard times came, and when the hard times got harder, and tii« old tiirni, going under a mortgage, was only rescued by my savings as a third-class clerk, uncle sank his shame in hi» gratitude, and my fancy writing was ridiculed, no longer. Still, it was weary work, reading and copying endless dispatches of the chief clerk to our consuls in Europe, and all tliat without any apparent hope ot ever becoming chief clerk myself. One day I was copying a dispatch ot the secretary to the counsul at Z It was to the ciTcct that from that day on he would, in accordance with his request, be allowed $1,000 a year for clerk hire. "He will want a clerk, then,ot course,'1 I said to myself, "and it I could secure the situation, I might happy still." I didn't wf.nt promotion so much as I wanted a change. Tnat evening a dis patch of the department, copied in my beat hand, Lett for Europe, accompanied by a private note of my own to the cou sul. As a specimen ot my writing, I re ferred to the inclosed {dispatch, and in formed the learned consul that I could apeak the German language, having learned it evenings during my stay in Washington. Perhaps the last remark, and not my fine writing, settled the busi ness. Clerks who can speak foreign languages are in demand with our con suls. In six weeks from that day I had peeped into the great cities of London, Paris and Brussels, and was now stand ing at the clerk's desk of the American consulate at Z —. The business was not burdensome. "With the ollice open but five hours a day, we were happy. I had beautiful times —so did the consul. Among the Washington letters last winter was one trom our worthy com missioner of pensions, asking the consul to investigate and lurnish evidence that Certain widows and minor daughters ot Itoited States pensioners living in his district had not married, and thus for feited their claim to further aid trom the government. All the certificates except 1,004, were indorsed, and were ready to be returned. "This pensioner," said the consul to his chief clerk, one morning, "is proba bly either dead or married, and I am determined to find out which. It is not so wonderfully far from hereto the vil lage of Bleikerg, and if you have an in clination you may take the next train and go there. Come back by Saturday, and, at course, make the expense as tri fling as you cm." I had long wished for a stroll of some sort into the magnificent valleys of the Corinthian Alps, and here seemed my Opportunity. i was twenty-five miles still from Blei berg, when I tiansferred myself and my hand valise, fn a second-claas railway car into a first-class mountain diligence. It was a wonderfully beautiful valley I was to ascend to Bieiberg, There are no finer mountain prospects anywhere. It seems to me some limes that" all the ornamental work of the creation has been expended^)! Switzerland and the Tyrol. Usually when in the mountains, I rode outsids with the driver or up in the im perial, perehed like a leather bonnet on the top of the vehicle. I determined ful ly to do so this tim llow capricious is the mind of man, I reflected, on enteting the station and see iog n young lady in a velvet jacket and gray k'nis buy inside coupe No. 1 for Bieiberg. In a minute and a half I had Changed my miad, and was the owner of Cdupu ticket No. 2. There was but one pa'^en^er besid Minutes the "Al tai n ''lligenc" v Attainted. 1 V t'tal, lwre, uThis riiVsclt*. 11 twenty of that II: ccupunts tolerably well Her mother, a native of Bieiberg, t»ok this only daughter and returned to her "J 1 n for veais i Mr. said Miss Sheiton, laughing, as she presented ma to her mother, *-a real American and, just think, he has corne to ask it you are married.1' The good looking, embarrassed iittie widow soon unraveled the nonsense with which Miss Margot was seeking to over whelm us and 1 was welcomed not only as an American, but as one who had been at Vicksburg. When the dinner was over I strolled out through one ot the lovliest situated villages ot the Alps. The view down the valley we had just ascended was enchanting. Behind the pretty town and edged by a green mead ow sloping upward, was a forest of tall, dark firs, and ab'ive this an Alp, ang ling up the side of a steep mountain, known to all tourists as the liigi of the Kernthal, It was only the 25th of February, but the sua seemed as warm as in midsum mer. The grass, so wonderfully green, was high enough for pasture, and violets and daises peeped out every where. It was "dangerously warm, in fact," muttered the little postmaster in the blue cap, as I handed him a letter to post to tiie consul .at Z-—, saying everything was well, but I couldn't possibly be back on Saturday. ''Dangerously warm, because then-had not been so much snow on the mountains in fifty years as now, and ulr^dy people began to hear of avalanches falling out of season.'" Bieiberg, however is sife enough, I thought to myself, as I glanced up the sides of the old peak where, sure enough, there were oceans of snow and ice glis tening in the sunshine, But it was a mile away, and between pretty Bieiberg and it swept like a dark veil, the forest of tall fir trees. I don 1 ?ke if—it too warm—and there's no telling," continued my would be pessimist of a postmaster. "I haven't Hved in these regions nigh to fifty years for nothing. Snowing all winter, and hot sun and daisies in February, aren't natural. It means avalanches to some body some where.'" I had almost forgotten that, as I left the house of my fair entertainers, I was informed that it was carnival-day in the village, and that at three o'clock I must be on hand to see ttie proce»ion. It was already after three, and I hnrried buck to be offered a good place to .sec from, at the upper chamber window of Miss Mar got, where, joined by her mother, we awaited the tjr.ys striped trousers and masks.and the nifii witii music and flags. It was a nov. 1 sight, as the long proces sion filed up the road and approached the house where we were waiting. The contrast of the bright colors oi the cos tumes and flags with the green foliage and the greener grass at the road-sides* the comparative silence, distuibed only by the echoing of the notes of music from the lofty rocks the seeming diminutive ness ot everything—of the men, of the thread-like roads, of even the houses ana trees, as seen under the shallow .{ the towering moun.ains- all added siveness to the thing. 1 here were possibly a hundred o sic in th land. ing, aJ ot second* :m trees, ice and the swell of Wii.it We spoke ir^o, in Gcn .•druck us boti, .\ lather singul .-r, wa- the great .imiianty «)I man pronunciation. Miss Sheiton--Miss s Margot Sheiton, to be more explicit—lor I had seen her name on the ticket as 1 passed it to the conductor—was perfect :y certain that I was not a Swis..-, much less an Austrian, ana I was equally confi dent my faivc mpanion was not a native of the Alps. 1'Ier German bore too strong an accent for that. I afterwards leaped that she thought my own a little curious, Once, just for the sport of the thing, I1 shouted something'to the driver in Eng llsli. flow astonished I wai to hear Miss aiyzed spterliless. Sheiton add to it a phrase as English as My first hnpuise was my own! We held our breath to explain, and in almost no time at all discovered that we were both Americans. Strange discovorics followed—they always do. Miss She]ton's father had been a volun teer captain in our army, anil I myselt had been within a rifle shot of huu when he foil at Vicksburg. :, iWev otir (5 old home, stopping at the solicitation ot other snow seemeo friends, first for months, and now it had white brow of the Then I recalled what had hour. 1 before no of or*n puyzlbiL.' .-••en the name i where. for h-J »mc WilO was pensioner lodi but Elsie Sheiton—why had 1 not thought ot that before --wile or captain Shelton, ki 1 ied at "Viek^hurg in June, 1863. llow ex itremeiy singular! We b»)th exe'.timed. Mrs. E:»ie Sheiton, TV I iutormed. w-is not iem^,rri*d. The objert of my is soon uc complisheii. I might retura home af I did nor, however. Li^-ide-, M: one Siielton insisted that 1 sh'-nid go oa and visit pretty Bieiberg with her mother and herself. 1 was easily pursualcd. Why hid the consul's letters not been anbweud'r I asked as we made a turn in the road. ••Oh,'' said Miis Sheiton, "mother and I were both coming next week to 'I,- to visit a relative there, and so she prop wed answering in pjison. Besides she is not so poor that she cares dreadfully whether Uncle S.un stops the ten dollars or so a month or not." By noon the church steeple of Blci burg was in sight, and in an hour flew driver blew a shrill note or so on his horn, the villagers hastened to the win dows of the houses as our four panting ponies passed on a gallop, and the little old postmaster lifted his blue cap, and gave us a salute all round. Mr3. Shei ton was living with a friend, then ab sent, in a suostantial two-story stone house not far from the post. with a MO of sons in the pri ctsM boys following at the villagers looking oil. there was an awl ill whizzin: a erv -f "AvalancheV\ Ava id an instant roaring and crack failing foiests. In ten short awt'ufV.ood of snow, mangled sides, and ail the Suduenir the mi: Hies parsed the house like mighty sea. Kvurythim: shook. The* process ion disappeared as it .-ugu'.fcd by an earthquake. Houses, li'iiit and 1'ft. tumbled over, and wen buried in one single instant. Tne an cooled f-c a moment, and again hot, was rent with the .screams of the mangled An awful catastrophe had befallen us, the wrath of the mountains was upon the village! For a moment we stood par- What my tivst ihou-MS were 1 am un able to lecali. I oniy remember our fearful cries for help: how we shouted separately, and then united on one word, crying out together again and again, and our only an "." t1^ grave. Every soul \tv vi..:.g.\ :»:io!y, had been killed, or like ourselves, buried beneath the snow and ice of the moun tain. It was only after we had exhausted ourselves with vain cries for help that we meditated on Indping ourselves. We had not been injured. We i-'nieinbercd that we were in til." little sitting room down stairs, the windows only of which seemed broken in, and filled with snow, ice and stones. The stairway was also filled with enow and debris of crushed walls. Above lis ali was desolation. The furniture in the mom seemed all in its proper place. We could move about, but it was becoming terribly cold, and we felt the sleepy chili, that dread ful precursor of death by freezing, over coming us. Once we were certain that we heard voices above us, and again we shouted to try to tell them that we were still alive. We listened—the voices had gone—we were abandoned to our fate. For hours we had alternately shouted and listened, until we sank down in de spair. It must have been midnight when in our gropings auout the little chamber, our hands came in contact with a wax candle, and in a few moments we had light—light to die by. Hours went Ly. I don't know whether we we sleeping or freezing, when I started at hearing a cry: "A light! a light!" I sprang to my leet and again the voice cried, "A light!'' In ten minutes three haif frozen, half insane human beings were lifted from the grave into the gray light of morn ing. A lundred noble souls had labor ed the long night through, seeking the buried. Everyman and woman from every vil lage in the whole valley had hurried to the scene, and was straining every ner/e to rescue those to whom life might still be clinging. We among the last taken from the snow and rocks, which had lain upon us thirty feet in depth. Did those brave rescuers wonder why we knelt to them and kissed the hems of their ragged garments? Beautiful Bieiberg is no more. Half of those whom we saw dancing al&ng in the procession of the carnival, in the bright sunshine, sleep among the violets on the hillside. The snow and the ice, and the black boulders from the moun tain and the dark fir trees, still lie, in this summer of 1879, in one mass in' the valley. We all left as soon as wc could travel. I went home to Z—. My chief has resigned and I am now acting consul in his place. Should the senate confirm all the new appoint ments, I expect to remain as consul. ML-Ss Sheiton thinKs also of remainin", and when Americans wander to Z they will find the latch string of our home at the consulate on the outside of the door. One word and I am done. Mrs. Shei ton has lost a part of her pension—sr much of it as was allowed for a minor daughter. I have so reported it to the commissioner at Washington. The Science of Cookery. Pumkm thus discourses ,u cook.-rv nat does ''cookery mran Itim-aii* too l.nowledge of Media, and of Chn-i and ot Ca!yp o, and of Helen, and of Jv bekab, and »f th» Queen of Klifba It I.u tn kirml-dge of all herbs und l'1'1-' ''jf'1 balms and spices groves and iraprea- :m .l of all healing iind sweet in fields and H,ivory in m- al it nie (»M. of Th.' fclrl ot all In ,-liftr'tiimj Kanry Hall: Tho viMi-st at ii !in-lvii. !li carefulness and inventivenoss, wub-hfi:!. ness, willingness and readiness nt «nces if, ill, great. i:,i\u id mothers, modern chemists it, ing and no wasting I')'- i"'oj]o!iiy of vonr md the scirixv i.f lneai nilicb it ln",Ul.S ElU'ii:,}. ,I RS •'M-ITIO J.JILL.! 11 SI! thoroughness, and French art, and Ara bian hospitality it means, i!t fm4. you arc to be perfectly hh.\ ahvay*' 1 i die.V "loaf-givers -."'and, as v,,u mv f„ K"c, imperatively, that ever'ybodv has something pretty to put un-so that V ou are to SI ,., yet liio]-,. imperatively, that ••\'ryb«h La:- .uin.-thing nice to eat The |jiivrnt !it .'i 1M'!', llrr chm-'k i.- Ilk" U .fiTKOj- lf-1 •. Utl-1-vi• tn blue iiittl d'-at, Ami IK-r Hp is iilii- (In- MiUliX' .-. tli'- iiutuuia el tli* u. tv rusb to the street, and to drag my companions with me but there was no street, liven the garden had disappeared in a foam of snow and ice W e thought of the back window at the embankment, but as we tore it open, a single glance toward the mountain told us the horror was but be gun. "The forest'." we all shouted in a breath. It was gone, all gone .as it mown bv a mighty reaper, and masses of ready to slide. The mountain still learn e i in t'ie sunshine, and seemed to laugh nt our desolation. Another whizzing, a roar, and with our own eyes we saw the side ol" the mountain start. Instantly and together we sprang down the steps into tiie lower room. Tin-re was a roll ot thun der, a mi'htv erah. and then id! w" darknes-'. \V- -vi i: i at.s an avalanche. n.irl!inil-li in In"''1 N.. i.w!t il».'iit lii-r Sitdms.i iiini i,"'/- lr "i nuiru till tiie'-' You'll tu:il ln'r i» i-lV'-'t nr iw AJMI r!ii-I. fiii!-ii all, l:«-i jiixiri- till- bird- ui HpriDR VotrpDiiiiln't li-Ij ls wailili" lut HllO lSJIi** tll.lifj. A Siningi1 Dream-Story. 'i'heii- is mi inexplicable story--which I believe has never been published-- among the traditions of the fat,fertile hill country of Western Pennsylvania, the most u'nlikeiy quarter in the world to sine a a breeding place of mystery. It was settled wholly bv well-to dolarm ers from the north of Ireland, economical, hardworking folks—God-fearing too, after the e.vict manner described by John Knox, and having little patience with any other manner. Not a likely neople rtssufedly, to give credence to any fanci ful superstitions, and still less to origi nate them. The story indeed, has a bold, matter-of-fact chuiacter in every country was scoured, but in vain: the day, just bel alarm spread, and excited a great dtai ot »ecassion to go cnor in the peacea!»le, domestic commu-1 nity which would seem inexplicable to, city peojile. to whom t!ie newspapers had brought a budget of crime since their childhood. To children raised in tlioac lonely hamlets and hill-farms, murder' was a far off, unreal horror. The girl had left home on Saturday at seven o'clock That night long before ten o'clock ^farmers go to b-.-i with. t!ic see tiie wmin,, that they hud met by appointment: thi'y couldn't bear to put it inae sat down on a log and talked for some then it would have to gn wit time. the baggage car,and *uiieju« The man at last rose, stenped hind I home to New Orient her, and drawing out a hatchet, ei uck And tin car rattled on tli her twice on the head. She fell back ward on the wet, rotten leaves, dead. Presently the man was joined by anoth er, also young, who asked, "Is it doner' He nodded, and together they lifted the body and carried it away out of ni'dit After awhile they came back, fouinUhe bundle of Sunday finery and the shoes and stockings, all ot which were stained with blood. There was a ruined, old mill near the road they went into it, lifted a loose board iu the flooring, put! the bundle, shoes, etc., with the hatchet I (hie,inn linrl/ifr. nntl. 1 1 railways in those iay»-.,,ot even mail-1 ',u,!l carriers in those secluded districts. When the story of the girls disap pcar :nee was tool over the country at the end of the next Week, the people to whom the dream had been rupua ou re called it. Now a days the matter would only serve :s good material for the re porters, hut the men of those davs still believed that (jod took an oversight even of (hen dreams. Might this not be a hint from Him? 1 iiC *iev. Cnailes Wlieeler, a liaptist clergyman of Wasiiingtou, well known in western Pennsylvania and Virginian generation ago, md Ephraim Filaine, -Ksii a magistrate, and father of the present senator from Maine, and a pop ular man in his narrow circle, drove to w ii„ i,.. W ilhout •. tat in/ their, '"l her and her i ist tune lifc oilutv, and she Ma, ti, the roa,: whicbl^, gone. "Have you ever seen ti, o odf one of tliciti "Never." That endevl th« in back, taking a litti. save time. IWntly -i, KT«ralagita?:..n, crvi:, ilThis i- *, ln 1)1, of!" 1 1 They Hsured ii.-r .tiial Rj had not been upon t:latr(il "i kn'-^notiiing^ 1 ''but tn.it giil 1 saw in along here there i„ the": winch the man came, aril turning you will |5n,j t!k .(i killed her." Tney did tin, on the ground the'st-iius ,'.f woman, walking swiftiv, li old mill and to\i1P h,,^" lay the stained ioth"3 ami Ti.o gild's b.idy was f*,U .. r-"' lonr detail which i{Uite sets it apart from re- buried by a crei k near at !i lations of the Biipenia'ural. I have nev-j loyer dad aSre-i iy er heard it cxp.aiiu-d, and it i^ the be?t pjenni. It w,. "*-'l thaV authenticated invs'.eiy in my knowledge, tired of U,. Here it is in brief. Ani"iigthe Seotidi- found Iter han Irish settlers in Washington -ounty in icco^nized hit 1S12 was a family nuiui Plytnire, who and startled occupied a eoiuforiable farm and home. I by pointit o Michci. the «laugliter, wis engaged to a Jrom the WCH T.umg I'.uiner of the neighborhood. On a Saturday evening in July, having fir, ished her we«-k's work, she dressed he self tidily ami tarte i to \rU\i |n*r mm ried sister, who liv»d i farm about live miief distant, intei. to|retiirn on eoul-j n, Monday morning. She tie i up her Sun- ,1 ream. Wit ho day gown and ii.it in a checkered hand- proo* for con vi KerchiLi, and earm-d her s.iie.s and stociv ingly enou"i), Vit i: ings the other h-uid, meaning to walk the pns-»ner to in her bare feet and to put them on j)ro.if of his guilt th when she came in sight of her destina- married tiie j. tion, aff.er the canny Sc.otch fish ion. SiIO ieit home about siven in order to have the cool evening for her walk. The road to the farm was lonely and un frequented. The girl did not return home on Monday, but no alarm was felt, as the tamily thought her sister would probably wish to detain her for a few human nature, .i days: and it was not until the latter part eves now a of the week that it was found that sliu stury T-m t«li had never been at In sister's. Then the after-supper oipi f:rr-. i f..r 'ike ifl. crti,vl liion au dreaili. -.vn of •i: -amer eliort. A'll tliL WUi. Die W man and remo\ 1.1J..W. i" I Love that Kiori lies the There i nothing in the wi i"i me l.tM 1 ^nn. back, and wfi bay. he noticed a n:ij car front ot i.i: i v lying in his arms. Tov 1 young, and the man ijett !i a 1 arms with a gent tM-nding over it v. .m i u.. white face. Afur tj- train conduct. ircametoT W!l* eonduct Is 4d'ome wit!» m\ chick ens) a woman living in Green Coun- saddt-st, strangest sight ym ty. about forty miles from the Pivtnire i your life," and he led the v farm, awoke her husband iu great "terror I next. car. "Do you se.: tl:s declaring thut she had seen n murder there' said he, and there done, and went on to describe a jilaceshc I whom Tom noticed with th had never seen before a hill country precious little bundl»* lay n with a wagon road running through it,! ^at in front of him, and, a: and a girl with a bundle tied with a! two checkcred handkerchief, her slioes and i hng and earnestly in the 1 wdnte stockings iu the other hand, walk-i fuee. ami th»n ki^si-d ttie ing briskly along the grassy side ot the tips fie field so genl:y iu lii»: road. She was met by a young mun biiy's dead," said th- •.'!• the woman judged from their manner! watched, he lewd 4iied this morning at the his stale slices of spoNg'1*" cigars through the train die laughed, and smoked, ii.-id mosquitoes and he, stnd heart's core, sat there quad# ing, watching over his ueadr the fingers that would neviT his, looking iloA-n upon the that had closed over th"' ',rl the petals of a sensitive ll'" night time over its ilelicitc rid was uotiiini,' Wt Times. und ,rneath, and replaced the hoard. Then thev separated and went through the woods in difierent directions. The farmer's wite tohi her dream to her hus bmd that night the next (Sunday), go ing to a little country church, she. re mained during the intermission between the morning and afternoon services. Tne living being i/mned by 'a* neigh ors who had come from a circuit i strangers' through iidni of twenty miles to church, gathered, ac- ing the night or when th cording to their homely habit, in the covered with MIOW. clunchyard to oat tiioir lunrh AND CW- IH»\VCV*'|, 1 V "A Wonderful Mi" A very remarkable .John Mebadf. a nati was living ut the beginning1 nry and, strange to say. was no other thai that ot ,)f lh' Sft#' uii WHS change the news. Our dreamer told her He«pie jfly tolfowa d, ar 1 tliw story again and again, for she was was that'of n projector :m impressed l.y it as if it had been a reali ty. After the after noon service the con gregation separated, going to their wide ly scattered homes. Tin.re were thin witnesses ready to certify to the fact that the woman had told the dream the morning after the murder was continu ed at a distance of forty miles, when it was absolutely impossible that the news could have reached her. There were no, lefe-wphi.w must ro„„.„,l„.r, tin* ili if. proj. of higiiw:ivs in liiVn-r.it aiul mis jiii-ts.*' With the aid a stali which lie carried, h,!l si-en traversing roaits. m()|i and exploring vaih-ys. It 1 v,i di'-eetion of' M.dealt' that n l'oaiLs over tie' Peak, in alb-red ami ho also de-iiv perintended the bin'51" roiid in t)i sain-' le 'hboili' copr v""'r r,.a.e ,lk ''v' :U• o Iieeo„ sit_y of passing ovet' the ., ii v eleplwUU ll. ntr: 'J'h s is the tlliek bi i i '.I ct ta: 1 ta i it i e'-ed with a eiallv about, the eroWl'J1 tin* back, and fhe legs. **1L or tlivo inches long. 1 lf- in tlu3 Malay poio imlllll. iioii-UT hovi inui-ra ms sifter nt l)ennian, ,u' prison for bigamy.