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Show O ye sweet heavens! your silence is to me, More than all music. With what full delight I come down to my dwelling by the sea And look out from the lattice on the night There the same glories burn serene and bright ; As in my boyhood; and if 1am old Are they not also? Thus my spirit is bold To think perhaps we are coevil. Who Can tell when first my faculty began Of thought? Who knows but I was there‘ with you ! Li —S | Written for the Western Weekly.| Avalanche. A Short Story. LEO H#FELI. I was treading over the mountains one cold, blustery, snowy, early spring morning, when the atmosphere was raw and the landscape still looked extremely rough and rugged. Still, the very early gleam of the matutinal sun elicited from the snowy glimpse cf crystals more than brightness, - heart feel better ent scenes. and till I arrived one made at my differ- Descending into a little, fir-embowered dell, where not even the knowledge,— let alone the shrill ; and sound of a locomo- tive engine had ever entered, I came across a group of shildren. They were chubby and ruddy. Their clothes were not cut at-Worth’s in Paris, it is true; but their limbs had been raised in the unpruned garden of God’s exuberant and exultant creation. Blue eyes and auburn hair met my admiring observation. There were four of them, two of the snow-slide destruction, had been struck by the congealed element. The father of the family had gone away, far off, even into the boulevards of Paris, to sell those wooden nicknack carvings that were a principal portion of the stock lasses were grasped by the boys on the other side. Hor they were sure that“Ma”could gain a footing and join her children in the rescue she had so successfully effected that ones. Their their mother father swept tinted flood, their slipped ; her heavy though in trade of his vicinage. The stable was well inhabited. Two goats were enjoying all the space left after the hay and fodder was placed so as to furnish comfortable bedding for the two boys. The two little girls slept in the hut (kitchen, traveling afar away in the home off, clay- No, the boys. told don’t cry, Lizzie They went on the bor where the Baggage Checked ‘Ihrcugh from all Points in Family Sleepers, For further information regarding the. territory, traversed, daily excursions, rates of fare, descriptive pamphlets, etc., apply to I. A. BENTON, Salt Lake, Agent of the Union Pacific Railway; the agent of any connecting road, or address | Thos. L. Kimball, J. 8. 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PARKER, General Agent, for a few days till some of the property I cure Interfering and Corns of the family had been dug out from the on Horses. avalanche and till the peddling father Satisfaction guaranteed. had time to come from Paris to his desolate Uri home. One of the boys is in Madras, a leading engineer, the other is The high in the councilsof his country. girls are highly respected mothers and wives. Their fatheris dead. The sight of that fatal torrent broke his heart. He 59 E. Third South St., Salt Lake City. lies by the side of his wife. Where the avalanche 3 Through on Trains. ~y Are constantly filled with complete Pullman Palace Sleepers and Modern Coaches on all Through Trains. all Mail and Express Departments of. the EAGLE HOUSE the East to Points Named. FREE VARDS and Pleasant Valley Order Your Winter's Supply Now, Office, corner Main and Second Streets. Telephone 240. South | w. alls Tuddenham, Contractor and Builder, Mantles, Grates, Tile Hearths, ’ Ete., Ete. 39 S.West Temple St., SALT LAKE CITY. N.G. Christensen Asst. Cashier. [ions Savings Bank & Bro Harness, Saddles AND TRUST COMPANY, And General Horse Furnishing Goods. 48 E. Second South St. No. 68 EAST TEMPLE ST. Repairing Promptly Done. Does a General Banking Business. Pays 5 per Cent. Interest on Savings Deposits. _ MONEY TO LOAN On Approved Securities at Low Rates of Interest SPENCER & KIMBALL 160 South Main St., Salt Lake City. Only Exclusive Shoe Dealers. Send for our $3 Shoe. ng ae pal Missourr River and Pacific Coast Points. The FOUR buried under’ a hill of snow-—and still there they stood, brave and noble, though heart-broken and crying. Did they keep standing there all day after they had realized the situation? boys and two girls, the former being the seniors. Noise—well, they made a little, or more. How could children born and bred amid the tumultuous roaring of Alpine torrents learn to be absolutely voiceless or noiseless? T’ll tell you the noise they made. | W. WooprurFr, The day before, an avalanche had President. swept down that valley that extends westward and downward from the glazier-brow of Saint Gotthard. A lonely hut, within the merciless reach the inexpressibly dear burdens, dropped by her side. Half across the raging torrent fell the avalanche, the swirl of the waters engulfed the heroic and self-sacrificing. mother (God bless all mothers, anyway !) and down she was carried, never to be found, unless the Lake of Lucerne is dredged to the bottom. . _ The boys—did they stand still? Not they. Their almost manly efforts were as admirable as their little weeping sister’s despair was >itiable and there I saw them. Standing by the rushing water side, blue-eyed and flaxen-haired little spheres, Contrived by motion ere I was a man ? Else> wherefore do mine eyes thus fill with tears As I, O Pleiades ! your beauty scan? Century. BY infliction |far. Her feet, however, arms, from carrying such When first your Makers’s mind, celestial The snow ton Territory and all Princi- led across from where the boys were coming down. They run when they noticed the avalanche hurling itself on their hut and home. But quicker than cries and calls, help or prayer, the doom rushed down. One plunge by the mother, a girl in each arm, across the torrent, to escape the HEAVENS! Nevada, California, Washing- LUMBER ——o-——— egy YE SWEET as a guide, City, Pata at sR 0 side Ogden, Salt Lake Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, and all Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, eens Oy not to be curbed. A bridge, a small construction of a couple of planks with a steam Planing Mills. Cheyenne, een seemed that I would never get enough. T rested a day and then went to the Fort; where I gave up the onerous position of mail rider for a more congenial one Denver, oaten It’s im- petus (or initial velocity as an artillery sergeant would scientifically call it) was. occupation. (G down? PIONEER Are being received daily at BETWEEN later in the there I was so hungry it was almost impossible to eat, but when I began it rope on Makes Direct Connections — and Builders. eisai came Contractors goons > The avalanche around other the for- FALL AND WINTER eee AO ae days. It was about three hour’s drive to the station and upon. my arrival and sell to the United Mail. te eign tourists coming vernal season. horns Overland nent: Ammon’s Carrying States “E> petrifactions to Only Line AAR for Alpine The Engravings made for Bill and Letter Heads, Catalogues and Book Illustrations, Portraits, Machinery Autographs, Monograms, Buildings, Color Labels, Patent Articles Fte., Etc., Ete. Large Stock of WALL PAPER AND PICTURE MOULDINGS Just Arrived at Midgley & Sons, 17 w. Second South Street. ee hunting OF “THE OVERLAND ROUTE.” Neen fo sg aie long before I was back on the. trail which was but a few hundred yards from my camping place during the last three Consignments we = and then I discovered that I was lost. The oldest boy was about 14 years of age. So to make the best of a bad job, I un- the youngest daugater si. Peace had saddled my horse and permitted him to reigned over their habitation, although graze. As for myself, I lay .down sup- plenty had never been more conspicuous perless. The following two days were by the absence of her gilt-edged appearIt the same as the first, and I suffered ance. Then came that avalanche. roared down from the fluhe, it rushed some from hunger. It was easy enough to quench my thirst, chere being plenty down the narrow ravine that led to the of moisture. As long as my plug of lonely hut, it swept along in its course The hut tobacco held out I knew I could keep with irresistible impetuosity. up; but what if this fog did not lift for was in its way. True,it was a humble a week. To travel was impossible for I habitation of good and plain people; but did not know which way to go. I had the inevitableness of Nature’s events aslost my pocket compass, and being afraid serted itself. The impetuous and by no to trust to the instinct of the horse, I means spacious structure lay on a shelfy goncluded to remain where I was until ledge close by the valley current. The the fog dispersed. . What an _ over- waters tossed around and about. Loud It powering sensation hunger is! especially roared the turbid and turbid billows. if one is alone on the plains. On the was not a Missippi, let me assure you, fourth morning at about ten o’clock the but the object of attack was nota St. sun began to shine, and I was soon in Louis either. The two boys were just the saddle. I could see my land mark, coming down from the precipitous deAntelope peak, to my left and it was not clivity of the hills where they had been UNION PAGIEIC RAILWAY SS REST off the cy sess Aeetin was trail. I endeavored to return to the main road but.in this I was unsuccessful, ee ma I I Pee made the discovery that riding FMR several hours Eee parlor, drawing-room and library all in one apartment, including the cat stall and the chicken coop.) They had all gone to bed, the mother and her two sons and. the daughters. first change station before after 25 SPS night, but WEEKLY. ol to reach the WESTERN Awe. THE |
