Show DEATH FREEZING A traveler TRAV ELbR DESCRIBES HIS experience IN THIS LINE Fr marti igar gily to the ills holice of the great st bernard first indication ol of strange and delicious c IOUs sensations on tile particular occasion referred d to I 1 started from cartigny martigny Mart Marti igny guy at 0 a in and intended to traverse iche the thirty mil miles s to the hot hospice spice of 0 the great st bernard before right night time being ot of conse consequence que nee I 1 thought it prudent so as to get to the summit sumit of tile the pass before dark not to stop for a meal to be cooked at Orsi Or sieres cres or liddes cliddes but pressed forward to the last place before the snow tramp comme commenced neLd tile the cantine do de there I 1 met with a young nobleman and his guide after an interchange of 0 inquiries and an offer offe r on my part of some chocolate and biscuits to tile other travelers as the cantine wa hard up that day in eatables we set ou on together and hall had crossed the plan de LAI marengo arengo without tiny any presentiment of what klinl was go going irig to happen the first indication of something wron wrong g wits was the peculiar appearance pe arance aluch my surrounds surroundings seemed to assume looked hazy to my vision even the snow and the rocks tying lying about looked as it if enveloped in r tog fog although the afternoon was beautifully clear then I 1 felt that I 1 mu must st sit down and enjoy it but the guides flask of kirsch set me going again very soon however the form former er feeling returned hut but the same treatment temporarily recovered inc at last I 1 took to stumbling along fell down sever several al times and at length could not help myself my companions urged me lit in vain to arouse to one more effort but it was useless the guides experience was now of the utmost service divining the exact state of the case find and what might happen he took a N ery cry sensible course leaving the marquis to see to HIP he he hurried forward to meet the lle two monks moi Ls who always came down from the hopick ho nico at a particular hour each day clay so us its to obtain their efficient help on oil their arrival the marquis either bithe wet went on on his own account or was requested to go forward with the news anyhow I 1 was waa informed the next lay day that his report was that 1131 M lo in had bad perished lit in the snows in the meantime the two monks and guide took me lit in liand hand find and shaking me up made my hand hands i clasp a belt around the guides waist and each of 0 the monka mauhs took an arm the former acted as a substitute for her power and the hie two latter as wheels As for myself I 1 was fast becoming III a I 1 dead weight between the cantine arid and the hospice there is 13 a space of seven anda and a halt half miles of very rough walking uphill of course and with a 1 depth of several feet of snow where the canton ulers hall had not cleared a path I 1 suspect that my deliverers had a very difficult task over ever at least five miles to keep n me from getting gelling into that sleep from which there is is no waking the sensations journey occasional gleams dijt consciousness ess will never be erased frota from my mind Is there buch an essence if f ecstatic deli delight glit as elixir mortis if there is it must have been something like it or the very thing I 1 i itself which I 1 enjoyed that lay clay no words can call pos possibly ably express the surpassing desire which I 1 felt to sit flown down and enjoy ruy ray felicity and ancl sleep but ble friends friend knew that alec sleep meant death awl a nl though my illy repeated appeals of Uon Don cement dou douce cement nent were plaintive enough they were met by redoubled efforts to force me onward even when my own legs would not bruve any longer the collapse was complete during the sustained efforts of the three men I 1 hall had but momentary glimpses of consciousness I 1 remember seeing two something black one ou on each side bide but very indistinct these of course were the friendly imbriks monks the one overwhelming idea that filled my mind ilind then was how to get to that sleep that blissful euthanasia winch which poets have sung about but which my were to rob I 1 me ine of 0 just when I 1 I 1 b had lil got it within my iny grasp another lucid interval occurred just as we ve approached ill the c dor door of the li hospice spice for I 1 davv sa w two or three ot of the dogs and then I 1 NA as lost again till I 1 found myself in the large room surrounded by several of the I 1 canons one administered sonic some extract I 1 ot of orange flowers and that was followed ved by sonic some baim biath abiol th then another another I 1 i tugged off my boots socks etc 11 and bei tween i them somehow iov or other they got me into bell bed this particular room would I 1 not have been cell mine it if I 1 had gone a as an or 1 binai traveler usually does I 1 am und r the llie impression that it ii was lourei upon as 1 the best bedroom being beilig 7 the one used by napoleon bonaparte when lie stopped lit at the hospice en route to the italian campaign in the night lit I 1 breathing very quickly and very hard the room itself had tile the appearance of being one mass of 0 cotton wool congestion of the lungs a had bad got hold of me now flow told and I 1 felt very ill indeed but however the next what tile monks had ineffectually tried to impress upon noon ma me the night before and I 1 m made ride aa effort my first duty to others was to lo see tile the excellent guide u ide and make him it due and as the noble lid and 1 heroic monks who live only for others other s would not net hear of anything but than thanks Ls I 1 had recourse to the trone tronc of tile the ch to life iho three men I 1 ari am humanly Epe peaking speaking indebted ol for ray life A glate grateful ful heart need cell never be danied a asha nied oj of its precious burden chambers journal |