FRANZTBOMISE. earthly hue which is seen at times but how I hardly know to this day, BISMARCK.' ing up, to whom I might ask leave to Gorner Glacier, all-rasy with the-light J JiA-lf** when the snow and sky intermingle. Burns so managed to slacken the rope attach myself. of a fiery sunset. We were saved. It was a superlatively fine morning, ,s that I was enabled to scramble up on IFrom the Gornhill Magazine. I was sitting sunning mvself in front We raced down to a patch of rocks at the Iron Cfcaneellor from Curious Sonrenir* and save for a few saffron-colored the arete again, and then the three of of the inn and thinking over matters, on this side of the Gorner. Here the PAKT I. clouds floating above the Weissthor Count Ton Suest's Memoirs* us set to work to haul up Franz. It when a cheery voice hailed me, and guides threw down their joy in shouts "Franz, how about the Lyskamm the sky was perfectly clear. was not an easy matter, but presently Translated from the Figaro for the New' who should appear toiling up the which woke the echoes of Monte Rosa to-morrow? The weather looks settled. We breakfasted near the well-known an ashen face appeared over the Orleans Times-Democrat. path leading from the valley but my as they had never been wakened before,, halting-place for parties making the edge, and, with some help from himself, old friend Burns, whom I had not the Our politi"al understanding with while I turned to thank our unknown ascent of Monte Rosa, and soon afterwards we succeeded in raising Franz to smallest idea that I should meet on companion. But be was nowhere "The weather is good, Herr, but" the German empire havins become we left that mountain on our a position beside us. this side of the Alps. to be seen our party now consisted "But what, Franz?" more satisfactory after the close of left to keep on up the Grenz Glacier lie was badly shaken, and the horror Burns was now a leading light of but of four. toward the summit of the Lysjoch. "I do not like the Lyskamm." 1870, I deemed it well to renew with of the situation, as well as it might the legal profession he was even spoken "Well, old fellow, what are yo*u looking It seemed certain now that we had clearly affected his nerves. Until "And why don't you Jike the Lyskamm, of mysteriously as a future Judge, Herr Von Bismarck the relations so glum about? I'm a better leader should have a fine day, but Franz rescued his life literarly hung upon a but anything more unjudicial than his FraT.z?" than some of us" (and he looked which had ceased after 1866,and Heft was clearly ill at ease, and grumbled thread for he had remained suspended manner in the Alps it was impossible savagely at Antoine and Josef) in "Herr, there is a fearful cornice tor Gastein. constantly about the heat in the over an awful precipice many to imagine, and to me hewasthesame fact, I'm thinking I'll come out as a this year." night saying that he feared that we thousand feet in height, with nothing The three weeks which I passed admirable companion and friend that guide when all else fails. You'll take should find the Lyskamm arete in "We'H take our chance of that. We but the rope around his waist between there with him form one of the most he had ever been. me of course." bad condition, him and certain distruction. agreeable souvenirs of myexistence. We can't teH what it's like till we try, and He had left a party ot friends at the It was Burns who spoke. Clearly His spirits, though, recovered somewhat xl- his face was very white, and a small lived together at the Straubinger Italian lakes and had come "to do a if we find it too bad we can always he had not seen what I had. I said as we got higher, and certainly wound on his forehead, from which Hotel, and passed the time in each walk," as he termed it, in the mountains, nothing, but I knew my eyes had not 'turn back. When must we start?" the weather left little to bedesired.for the blood was slowly trickling, gave other's company. When one is on and he had brought with him deceived me. I felt that those words a flood ol golden sunlight spread over "It will be time if we leave here at him a ghastly appearance but there good terms with Bismarck, he is the temporarily a young Italian guide of Franz's had come home that day v2." rock and snow, till even the hollow of was a strange look in his eyes as he most agreeable, the most amiable man named Antoine, and a porter, and he, for had he not redeemed his promise? the glacier in which we stood became clasped my hands and exclaimed, with possible to imagine. The originality too, I found to my great satisfaction, "Good! Then you'll call us about 1. bathed in the glorious light. Indeed all the energy of deep gratitude: of his ideas is surpassed only by the was bound for Zermatt by way ot the Guten Abend, Franz." we could not have chosen a more perfect originality of the expressions which he "Herr, you have saved my life. Lysjoch. Girls Should be Useful. day for our expedition. "Guten Abend, Herr schlafen sie uses. He is good-natured, and his Think not that I shall forget. Mark We decided, as a matter of course, We made rapid progress.for we were From the Harrisburg Independent. good-natured manner somewhat softens this: You will one day be in difficulty wohl." to join forces. Burns' porter was paid what is known as a fast party, and the bitterness of the opinions in danger but fear not, Franz will be There is a large class of Americans off and sent home. Antoine and my The above conversation took place while it was still early we reached the which he utters. One of his favorite there, and he will have come to save guide, Josef, were retained, and the people of opulence, men of acquired one exquisite August evening outside foot of the terrible arete which rises expressions is "He's an idiot" (e'est your life." following morning we had started on or inherited wealth who do not hesitate straight up from the dacier till it culminates the old Eiffel Hotel. Table d'hote un imbecile)but he does not intend He was greatly excited, and it was our expedition. to inculcate the belief among in the summit of the Lyskamm. to hurt one's feelings. was over, and the usual assemblage to this tnat I felt inclined to attribute their childei-n, and especially their The weather had become doubtful his words but yet there was a strange daughters, that it is useless and unnecessary soon after we had left the inn, but we of climbers, guides and others were One day he said to me: "What do To my mind this arete constitutes earnestness in the manner he spoke kept on, notwithstanding, until well for them to learn to do you do, when things don't go as you there, watching the declining light of one of the nastiest bits of climbing in which impressed me deeply in spite of on the glacier, and then too late, we anything useful in connection with want them to? you should never lose a glorious sunset fading slowly away the Alps. It is not difficult, but it is myself, and with an inward presentiment began to wish that we had had the domestic manual labor. It is no uncommon your temper as I do. I am angered long, and almost its whole length Jrpm the mighty precipices of the Matterhorn, (I can call it nothing else) that moral courage to turn back before. expression in the higher with men for their wickedness, dangerous. The danger arises from some day or other they would inevitably For the guides had lost themselves. and from the other summits circles of society for ladies to declare"My never for their stupidity. Do you the cornice,which in an immense mass come true. They were neither of them first rate, Husband" or "my father is rich never find a real pleasure ITS breakingWit. of that, to my mind, the grandest hangs over the Italian side of the From what we learned subsequently and, now difficulties began to thicken, occasions9 why, then, should I demean mvself by something on such range in all the Alps. mountain. The actual ridge is so sharp, they proceeded to lose their head. In it appeared that, in spite of Franz' manual labor?" In such "society" it the ideas you have, you would smash and on either side of the face ot thecliff The season up to that time had not fact, to such a pass did matters come precautions, our upward track had is deemed vular for a lady to know all the fnrniture in the house if you falls away so steeply to the glacier, that Burns and myself had to assume in one place passed over a portion of been a good one, and but little climbing how to do a useful thing in connection were in my place. that the greatest care is nece59ar in all responsibility. the cornice. Franz had become aware had been done, but with the prospects with housekeeping. Parents in these "I went once to see him- one day," order to keep on the ridge itself without of this, but in trying to avoid the The storm was raging furiously now, cases rear their daughters not to learn continued Bismarck, pointing, as be of good weather, of which 'that tiesspassing upon the cornice, danger in the descent had brought not a landmark was visible, and the to do the useful, and many mothers spoke, to the windows of the Emperor which, being formed of frozen snow morning had given unmistakable abont the very thing he feared, the blinding snow obliterated everything. whose husbands are under a hard William, "but I got into* an infernal only, is liable to crumble away at the touch of the axe of which doubled up promise, every one took heai t, and To add to our troubles, we found ourselves passion. I banged the door with such strain every day in the year to find slightest touch. So deceptive is a the number of expeditions that were bounded down the mountain side, without a compass, the only violence that the door-knob came off the wherewith to keep up appearances cornice of this description that even carrying Franz along with it. As a member of the party possessed of one I in my hand. I went into LehndorFs, impress their daughters with the idea at once planned for the following day good guides are at a loss to distinguish matter of fact, it was a very narrow being Burns, and his he had broken and I slammed the door-knob into that labor is degarding, and that a sometimes between what is safe ~was something astonishing. escape for all of us for had any other only the day before. We could not the wash-basin, breaking it into a hand which shows any sign of manual and what is not, while to a novice Ever available guide was 'book- member ot the party gone through thus tell even the direction in which thousand pieces. 'Are you sick?' labor will not be sought in marriage what may appea to be one broad, f, ed/' and the courteous lady who at the snow as well as Franz, the others we ought to be going. Lenhdorf asked me. *No,' said I, 'but by a gentleman. We confess we do smooth surface of snow may be safe that time presided over the Riffel was could not have held, and must have I have heard of persons lost in the I was.' And, indeed, my anger was not know how true this is. If it is to tread upon only to the width of a at her wits' ends to know where to accommodate been dragged down too. I shuddered desert wandering for nine miles in a over." correct, then indeed it is evidence of a few inched. all who asked that night involuntarily as I gazed into the abyss circle, so that they came back at last He talked to me a great deal about lack of manhood and, if it is not true It is this difficulty of telling where for sleeping-space. I myself was not a into which we,would have fallen, and to the very point from which they the war of 1870, and his negotiations is a wicked libel on the character of the firm ground ends and where the novice at climbing, having spent several thought that there would not haye started. with Jules Favre and Thiers. "Thetime an American gentlemen. cornice begins that constitutes the seasons in the Alps, and for some been much left of us by the time we To those who hare not experienced of the expiration of the armistice dangei of the Lyskamm arete. More years I had been a member of the Aljtine reached the bottom. it, it is impossible to convey the feeling was nearly over," Bismarck said than once it has led to mistakes on Club. I had been up most of the Girls who won't learn to do useful Two days later I said good by to of utter hopelessness in such a case. to me one day, "and I said to Thiers,. the part of guides, and it was such great peaks around Zermatt, but I Franz, who seemed to be getting well things at home because their fathers It was fated we should feel it on that 'Listen, Monsieur Thiers, I have borm that caused one of the most awtul tad not yet ascended the Lyskamm over his accident, and made my way are rich, lose opportunities to fit day, for after many an hour's weary your eloquence for a whole hour, and. tragedies that ever occurred to mountaineersthe (14,889 feet), and it was for the purpose A back to England, leaving Burns to themselves to meet the exigencies and trudge, knee-deep in the soft snow, we we must have an end of it. I giveyou fatal accident to Messrs. of doing the Lyskamm chat I had carry on a career of conquest which accidents of life. It has always been found that our labors had been in warning now that I won't talk Lewis and Patterson's party in 1878. come to the Riffel. the admirable weather up to the close the custom for the princes of Germany vain, and we only returned agaiStillo French any more I shall only talk The Lyskamm by this route is emphatically I was accompanied by a fellowmembe of the season gave nim every facility before.aimlessly to learn trades. The bourbon the tracks we had made German.' 'But, monsieur,' said Thiers, not an ascent to be recommended. of the Alpine Club named for doing. as wo might walk.it was nee princes of France all accquire trades. we do not understand a word of Ger- .Burns, an admirable climber and a When I took leave of Franz that e*sary to keep moving, for to stand Some of them were printers, book man.' 'That makes no difference to me Franz was celebrated for his caution, charming companion, and I had my time at the Riffel I did not think that still, and for any length of time.meant binders, shipwrights, house-carpenters I shall speak nothing but German.' and on this day he exercised guide Franz, who had been with meon I 3hould nevermore set eyes on him. to perish in that awful cold. joiners and painters they did not follow Then and there Thiers delivered me a eyen more than his ordinary care. most of my previous expeditions, and Did I say nevermore? Yes nevermore, "We were white from head to foot these vocations, but they understood suberb address, in five parts, which I Not a step did he take without first in whose steadiness ani skill I had at least this life. with the snow which had frozen upon them. Royal and princely listened to, smiling, and I answered testing the snow in front with the reason to have the greatest confidence. It was in December of that same us, and had the occasion been less serious, ladies in Germany and France understand him in German. Favre and he remained point of his ice axe, so as to make Franz wss a man of forty or year that I heard of Franz's death. we could have laughed at the every function of housekeeping, there half an hour in silence but an sure of what was ahead, and he never so, tall, and of splendid physique, He fell a victim to his passion tor strange appearance we presented. and know how to perform it. hour after they had signed the protocol. moved forward until quite convinced *with a good, honest, weather-beaten chamois hunting. It appeared that Burns had assumed the lead. It had They can go to the dairy and stable Then I at once began to talk to that it was safe to do so. ^countenance, and to which a long mustache he had been out one day after a heavy been decided (hat he should go first on and handle milk or a cow and a horse them in French." gave a somewhat military appearance. Thus our progress was slow, and it fall of snow, and had perished in an the rope and myself last, Antoine and with dexterity and satisfaction. The Bismarck told me all this in just was not till nearly 11 o'clock that we avalanche, his body being swept away Josef between us, but as for knowing Prince of Wales is a bookbinder. such a tone as one ordinarily uses in topped the final lidge aud stood together In intelligence he was greatly superior no one knew whither. Nothing but where we were, it did not matter who Each of his brothers has a trade, and telling a hunting-story. He did not upon the summit of the Lyskamm. to the ordianry run ot guides, for his hat and the shattered remains of acted as leader. his sons are now learning trades, according seem to have the least idea of the he could talk well upon other subjects his rifle, indeed, were ever found of On he went, and still on, till the to their tastes. All the ladies mental tortures which the two wretched 'besides the one topic of mountians. him again, and it was only by their The view exquisitely bright and monotony became well nigh unendurable. of the English royal household are accomplished French delegates must have passed Burns and I, being in some favor recovery that it was guessed what his clear as the sky was that day, was a No change, always the same in practical thingsthey through during that half-hour. with the authorities at the Riffel, were fate had been. marvelously beautiftl one, but it is white waste about us, snow here, know how to do useful things even if He also told me one day that after fortunate in getting a room to ourselves not within my province to describe it To lose Franz was like losing an old there, everywhere, and falling all they are never called upon to perform the review held by the Emperor William whobut a score or spacf so travelers, here, and, indeed, were I to make the friend. Sadly I thought over his many, around more heavily than ever. What lfo"r no other could be them. upon the Longchamps race course, attempt, I should fail to convey an admiral qualities, qualities so seldom was to become of us if it continued? The mawkishness of sentimentality a man in a blouse came up to him 'found, had to repose as best they idea of the impression it made upon combined in one of his class. His truth We could not goon walking indefinitely. which encourages girls not to do useful, and said to him- "Bismarck, t'es line could on the floor ot the saloon, and me at the time. Besides, it was not and honesty, his cheerfulness and good Hour after hour went wearily canaille!" (Bismarck, you're a vil- practical and strengthening labor lucky were they who could secure a for long we were permitted to enjoy nature, his skill, his courage in moments by. lain'). "I could have had him shot." is a debasmentof thenoblest impulses mattress,for even mattresses gave out it, for Franz was all eagerness to be of danger, and then I called to The guides began to lose heart, and continued Bismarck "but his courage of nature. When Buch an inculcation at last. down the arete before it got much later. mind that last expedition which we cried to each other about their wives made an impression on me." is encouraged it tends to depm We turned in early but, as I can took together, (pity it should have and children. I, too, began to feel Another time he told me that he girls especially from developing their never sleep on the eve of an expedition, been the last') and how near the end We were soon on the rope again. not quite myself. But Burns, firmly had been very much opposed to the mental and physical forces, toenvrate I was not sorry when Franz' had been that day. To what purpose Fianz led, then I came, then Burns as ever, kept plodding forward, forward, annexation ot Metz. them and impair functions which, if knocks soon after 1 o'clock, warned us had his life been spared but these and the porteran admirable man forward. I caught myself "I only yielded to the military par- properly trained, might develop the that it was time for us to be UD. few months lonaer? And as I thought, for the purpose, on account of his thinking (as they say drowning men ty," said he, "who claimed that Metz good and grand in their character. This getting up is, I think, the most of a sudden those words of his came weight and strengthbrought up the will do) of incidents of my past life, of was worth a hundred thousand men Work properly performed is a recuperator, disagreeable part of an expedition. back to me with a force positively rear. It was in this order that we began things which I failed to do, of things to us. Oh! if Bazaine had been able not an exhauster, of mental I have a particular objection to startling. the descent. which I had done, but which it would to hold out four weeks lonerer at Met/, and physical forces. Knowledge is -dressing in a bad light, feeling all the All went well at first. Each man was "You will one day be in difficulty, have been better had I left undone we would ha\e been obliged to raise power, is an axiom of truth. To know while only half awake andbut low careful to use the rope as the rope in danger, but fear not. Franz and then I thought of a host of minor he siege of Paris." how co do the useful is an accomplishment 'be it spokenmore than half disposed ought to be usedthat is, by keeping will be there, and he will have matters which at such times seemed Otherwise it is very difficult to put of which any girl can be proud, f, to envy those who are not leaving it taut between him3elf and his man in come to save your life." Poor positively trivial. Then my thoughts confidence in Bismarck. One day and especially an American girl. their beds at such an unearthly hour. front. Franz moved downward carefully, fellow! It was scarce worth while to ran on other Alpine expeditions, and when we were talking about the German I dislike, too, the early breakfast and at each step sound the think about it. Unless the grave of that last one which we had made A Biff Country and' No Mistake. provinces of Austria I asked him a melancholy meal, to be got over as snow with his axe, as he had done on gave up its dead, Franz could never five years ago. if he had never thought of annexing The following are a few extracts expeditiously as possible and, on this his way up. The position, in fact, was now redeem his promise. Strange! The scene of it was close them. "That would be a very stupid from an article which the Hon. Edward point, every one seems to be agreed, one whicn needed care. PART II. beside us now for, though shut out thing to do," he replied. "The population Atkinson, president of the manufacturers' for at the Riffel, at all events, have Upon our left the face of the mountain It had been snowing heavily aU the from sight by impenetrable mist, we is Catholic. It would form an mutual fire-insurance company observed that it is usuallv despatched fell sharply away to the glacier morning. Matters were beginning to knew that the mighty form of the opposition center. It would be a. of Boston, furnished for the Century in solemn silence. The very look of below, a distance of over 3,000 feet, look serious. Midday among the glaciers Lyskamm was towering somewhere great deal better to annex Holland." Magazine in its January number, the sleepy servant who brings the and we dared not leave the edge of the in the most awful weather, and above us, lost to sight among the Several months later I was an ambassador and shows what ai vast knowledge coffee exercises a depressing influence, arete to pass on to it, for upon this not one member of the party in the clouds. Even the dayAugust 13th at London. The Dutchcharge that gentleman has of this country .as well it may. face there lay a quantity of fresh snow least conscious of our bearings, was a was the same. It seemed as if by a d'affaires, who had just arrived and its resources, and ought to be Then there is that getting into boots in a loose and dangerous condition. prospect, to say the least, not very strange irony of fate that scene of our from Berlin, told me by chance read carefully by every American citizen. ''(for I am not one of those inconsiderate On our right lay the dreadful cornice. reassuring! A dense mist hanging escape might witness the closing scene that one evening when he had asked The comparison made with regard individuals who puts his on upstairs Suddenly Franz halted. Something over us, heavy snow in the sky, heavier of us. Herr von Bismarck whether it wastrue to our national domain will and comes pounding down, to seemed to trouble him, for more than snow underfoot, a wilderness of Then Frana's words came- back to that Germany thought of annexing open the eyes of people who don't thTfletrimen of sleep in those who do once he struck his axe infecrthe snow in white on all sides and no prospect of me, and I caught myself saying aloud: Holland, the chancellor had lan* realize what a big country this is. not happen to be getting up so early), front of and beside him without movingforward. any improvements Such was our position "Franz' Franz! Oh, for one hour of swered himi "That would be a stu The state of Texas alone is larger and boots, to begin with, feel hard, if He called to me to pay out on August 13, 188. your guidance, and all would be well! pid thing to do* It would only make than either the Austrian empire, the .not absolutely uncomfortable! the full length of rope between myself For five years subsequent to our Oh. that you could come back to an opposition center. It would be German empire, France, Spain or But% after all, ,what are these minor and him^whjch Iidid\ and again he advanced adventure on the Lyskamm 1 had earth to redeem your promise!" And mucn better to annex Austria!" 1 Sweden. California, Dakota and disagreeables besjde the extraordin ary a lew.sf^pst ||Vhenhestopped, not been to the Alps. Increase of as yet I spoke there was wafted toward I had another example of this dplicity. Montana are separately larger than amouht'of pleasure that is to be got and turning roundilto me$* in slow work and the dislike of having to get us across the glacier a voice, In the negotiations which ensued Norway. New Mexico is as "large as out of ciimbing?^'They perhaps make tonesfsaftl: "Herr, *be ve% careful a strange guide in Franz's place had clear and distmcb even amid the-whirl after Sadowa, Bismarck kept Great Britain and Ireland and larger it all the pleasanter if we did but h*8w yb\i1 rea?rher6 take careonly to kept me away but with the old love and uproar of the storm, a voice said, perpetually talking about his love for than Italy. Kansas is considerably -know it. put your foot in the steps I make, for" of the mountians still strong within "Herr, I come!" Austria, toe Vienna and his wish to larger than Turkey in Europe. Florida We were rather earlier than the majority, and this he added very impressively me, I had gravitated once more to my We had altered our course. Almost spare the Viennese the humiliation of is as large as England and Wales. but there were two or three "we are in great danger here." old campaingning ground. I had engaged insensibly I felt it, but I was equally an occupation. One day (it was at Kentucky is larger than Portugal. flleepy-looking individuals in the breaklast-room, He had hardly spokenin fact, the no regular guide for the season, certain that it, was so. I looked Gastein) a certain Henry Christ, a Indiana is larger than Ireland or evidently novices bound words were still in his mouthwhen I for my days for vigorous climbing ahead. Burns was still leading,.but no! .good Frankfort bourgeois,who used to Scotland. West Virginia is larger for Monte Rosa, giving one the idea heard a loud crack.r heards It wa a sound were over, and I now felt that I must somehow the order had been changed. know Bismarck in the times o the Dhav neve before or than Switzerland. Maryland and by their appearance that they we're as4 such relegate myself to only passes, with I thought that I did not see- aright, Diet, askei him in my presence: "Tell Vermont are each but a trifle smaller ^already beginning to think climbing a since, and I can only describe it as being perhaps an occasional peak. for I could not remember any alteration meyour h^hness why did you nofcenter than Belgium* Taken as a whole, the '.mistake rather than otherwise. like the grateol- a heavy wagon being made in our positions on I was doing that delightful series of Vienna i 1866? You used always to United States are vastly larger than It'was close upon 2 o'clock, the upon,frozen snow. Then, without the rope and yet it was quite certain expeditions known as the Tour of tell us at Frankfort that the day you any European country except Russia. 'hour Franz had named, when we got further warning, the side of the that it was not Burns who now went Monte Rosa.',' I had erossed the would ride into Vienna at the head ot Mr. Atkinson, says that the visionary -*oTl and were soon on our way- toward mountain seemed to break away, first. Weissthor with some friends to the Prussian troops would: he th possibilities a the future product o! the Gomer Glacier. The date was 'and with it Franz disappeared. I began to count. There was Josef, Macugnaga, and from there alone with proudest day of your life." the United. States may be imagined by Aumist 13, J.87*-.* --._ For one secondy I felt paralyzed. there Antoine, there Burns' and there one guide (not quite a wise proceeding, That was the only time inrmy life reference toth following statements rTh next scarcel knowing what I Our party had^ reMiv4da addition but no, it could not bethere was yet perhaps), I had made my %ay that, I ever saw Bismarck enibarras&^^l The land: iaa actual use for growing in the shape of a porter whom did, but with the instinct of self-preservation another! I refused to believe it. over the Colle delle Loccie to the little fid. corn, wheat, hay, oats and cotton: in It' Franz had engaged overnight a big, strong within me, I sprang to Twice again I counted* twice with the mountain inn in the Colle Olen, the whole country now consists- o! COUNT VON.BBUST^ gobd-natured-Iooking fellow, and a the left over the precipice, on the "op- same result. And then came over me with the intention of retnrnihg again 275,500 square miles, or a fraction very useful man to have dn a rope posite side to that on which poor a feeling of dread, for I felt that he who to Zermatt by the Lysjoch. I had A private letter from BSU Nye to a less than the area of the state, of Texas. JOB we found subsequently. Franz had disappeared. The rope was leading us was not of this life. thought it possible that I might be able jChieago friend," says The-$ewof that The entire wheat crop, of the J' The morning was splendid and the ran out to its full length and then I to pick up a man at the Colle d'Olen I looked and the form seemed familiartall Wity. "contains the unwiconie infortnation united States could begrowmon wheat -'Stars shone down upon us from a found myself powerless to move, anchored to make a third on the rope, but on and broad-shouldered, that the popular humorist's land ol the best quality selected from cloudless sky, but still Franz seemed tightly to the edge of the arete, arriving there, to my disgust, I found and with a decision in its movements faealth, so far from being improved, that part of the area of the* state of dissatisfied, anil complained more and with a strain upon m$p chest from that no one was available. that I had never seen but in the one ^.eerns fa be becoming poorer and Texas by which that single state than once of its feeling o' The atmopher the pressure of the rope which was guide And yet, firmly though I trod, the I scarcely Jcenw what to do for the poorer. In fact, Mr. 5ye writes that exceeds the present area of the German was certainly lwavy, but as Well-nigh intolerable. Burns and the figure seemed to glide over the snow best. To attempt to cross the Lysjoch fie has been compelled to, abandon empire. The cottoa factories of we neared the glacier there came towarcl porter had seen what was coming,and rather than walk. Our pace increased alone with one man was an act the world now require about 12,000,- literary work altogether, and he fears us a breath of cold air deliriously had thrown themselves Hat, so that we seemed almost to be flying of folly I had not the least intention 000 bales of cotton of American fchat, if a change for tie better doesn't refreshing and inspiriting. when the jerk caused by my leap had across the glacier. Soon we began to of committing. Of other alternatives weight. Good land in Texas produces Set in) pretty soon., be will have to come, ,they were'well prepared to meet It was still dark when we reached the mount, the slope grew steeper, then one was to send down the guide I had one bale to an acre. The world's supply taks o his bed andl surrender himself it. Hce, but before we had crossed the steeper still. We crossed what was with mo to the valleyto brine up a of cotton could therefore begrown IwUotty to the doctor's care. He is {lacier the day had commenced to For a few seconds, tholigh, it was a clearly a ridge and then began to descend. companion (which meant loss of on less than 19,000 square miles, or s*l at Asheville, X. C^, and he intends break, and behind the giant mass of deadlock. Then I heard a faint voice, Onward over the snow we time and expense), or else to wait upon an area equal to only seven pet to remain there for the winter. It is 1 Monte Rosa and the*Lyskamm there which seemed to come from Franz, went till suddenly the clouds lifted, where I was," on the chance of some ^entjjof the area of Texas. appareiit that he is \ery much dMV lame over the heavens that pale un- calling for help. Somehow ,or other, and there beneath us lay the great other party bound tor Zermatt turn- wmcasjed abou| hAruself, mm