Show FROIA FREEZING an alpine traveler describes his ex pe in this line y e w 1 ork frewald fr erald on the particular occasion referred to I 1 eta arted from ingy at 0 a and intended to traverse it fit t miles to the hospice of the 9 real st bernard before tibie being of consequence I 1 thought it prudent w as to get to the summit of the pass before dark not to stop for a meal to be cooked at Orsie jes or cliddes liddes but pr eased forward to the last place before th snow tramp commenced the con tile de there I 1 ittel with a nobleman and ill a guide after an interchange of in queries qu iries and an offer on tuy part OF some chocolate and biscuits to the other travelers as tile canane w hard up that day in eatables we see out together and had crossed the pla n tie Bl arengo without any presentiment of what was going to happen the first indication of something arn g was the peculiar appeman ve jhc g surroundings seemed to as same my everything looked leazy to vision eyen the snow and the ma lying about looked as if enveloped in a fog although the was beautifully clear then I 1 felt as if I 1 must sit down and enjoy it but the guides flask of kirsch wasser set me going aga in very soon however the former feeling returned but the same treatment temporarily reco derod me at last I 1 took to stumbling along jell down several se viral thides and at length could not help myself bly companions arved me it vain to arouse to one more efrost but it was ueless the guides peri ence was low of the utmost service divi ning the exact state of the mise and what happen lie took a very sensible course leaving the to me lie hurried forward to meet the two monks ho always came down from the hoap e at L hour each day so as to obtain their efficient help on their arrival the blasques blas quis either went on on it is own account I 1 or was requested to go forward with the news anyhow I 1 was informed the next day that his report wd that monsieur e had perished in the snow in the in e antime the two monks and the guide took me I 1 n hand and shaking me up mad e my handa clasp a bat around the guides waist and each at the monks took an arm the former acted as a substitute for home power and the latter as wheels As for myself I 1 was fast becoming a dead weight between the cantine and the hospice there is a space of 79 miles of very rough walking up hill of course ana with adepts of feet of snow where the can conniers ton had not cleared a path I 1 suspect that bad a v e r y difficult task over at least five m ll 11 e s to keep me from getting ingot from which there ia no waking tito sensations of that journey during ocea dional gleams of ill never be erased from my mind Is there such an es veltee of delight mortis if friere Is it inest have been something like it or the vera thing itself I 1 that day no word scan pom ex s tile sur phasing desire aich I 1 leil at 0 sit down and benj ay my band sleep but iny inexorable friends knew that my adeep deathel and though mi repeated at pestle of Dou cement dou cement bere plaintive eno tigh they are met by redoubled efforts to bom b me onward even when my legs not move aby longer the collapse col lApso was complete during the sustained efforts of the men I 1 had but momentary I 1 remember seeing two black one on ebelt side but very ludi these of course were the friendly monks tito one over id that filled dinv inv mind theil was how to get to that arietto that blissful blies ful euthanasia chich poets have sting about but which my companions were boint their best to rob we of just when got it within my anether lucid interval occurred just we approached the door of the hosfor pico I 1 sa w wo or three of the dop and then I 1 iras lost strain till I 1 1 i I 1 found myself in the large room surrounded by several of the canons one administered some extract of orange flowers and that was followed by some warm broth then another t god off my boots bocks pocks etc and them somehow or other they got me to bed in the night I 1 woke breathing ve and very bard tito room it had the appearance of bel one mass of cotton wool congee t on of the icings had got hold of ine now and I 1 felt very ill indeed but hoever the next morning I 1 did hat the monar had ineffectually tried to Irn upon me tie night th or and fress made an effort to th r men I 1 am humanly indebted for my life |