History tells of a most striking rescue from an avalanche on the St.
Gothard. In the year 1628, Landamman Kaspar, of Brandenburg, the newly
chosen Governor of Bellenz, was riding over the St. Gothard from Zug,
accompanied by his servant and a faithful dog. At the top of the pass
the party was overtaken by an avalanche which descended from the
Lucendro. The dog alone shook himself free. His first care was to
extricate his master. But when he saw that he could not succeed in doing
this, he hastened back to the hospice, and there, by pitiful howling and
whining, announced that an accident had happened. The landlord and his
servants set out immediately with shovels and pickaxes, and followed the
dog, which ran quickly before them. They soon reached the place where
the avalanche had fallen. Here the faithful dog stopped suddenly,
plunged his face into the snow, and began to scratch it up, barking and
whining. The men set to work at once, and after a long and difficult
labor succeeded in rescuing the Landamman, and soon afterward his
servant. They were both alive, after spending thirty-six fearful hours
beneath the snow, oppressed by the most painful thoughts. They had heard
the howling and barking of the dog quite plainly; and had noticed his
sudden departure, and the arrival of their deliverers; they had heard
them talking and working, without being able to move or utter a sound.
The Landamman's will ordained that an image of the faithful dog should
be sculptured at his feet on his tomb. This monument was seen till
lately in St. Oswald's Church, at Zug.

THE STORY OF GRANDMA, LORENZO, AND THE MONKEY.

BY MRS. A. M. DIAZ.

The children told the Family Story-Teller they did not believe he could
make a story about a grandma going to mill. "Especially," said the
children's mother, "a grandma troubled with rheumatism."

Family Story-Teller smiled, as much as to say, "You shall see," took a
few minutes to think, and began:

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In Grandma Stimpcett's trunk was a very small, leathery, beady bag, and
in this bag was a written recipe for the Sudden Remedy--a sure cure for
rheumatism, sprains, bruises, and all lamenesses. The bag and the recipe
were given her by an Indian woman. To make the Sudden Remedy, grandma
got roots, herbs, barks, twigs, leaves, mints, moss, and tree gum. These
were scraped, grated, or pounded; sifted, weighed, measured, stewed,
and stirred; and the juice s