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FREEZING TO DEATH.
A Night’s Experience in the Lumbei
Regions of Maine.
‘Tn tebruary, 1840,’’ said Cant. R. L.
Zeby, of Uniontown, “I had an interest
in some lumber way up in the Piscata¬
quis region, and 1 had to go up there and
see how tilings were getting along. It
was a long journey, hut the sleighing
was like glass, and 1 had one of the best
horses that ever stood inside the thills.
Oil my second dav out the thermometer
stood at ‘2d dogs, 'below, and was incline*!
to go lower. I knew I would reach one
of those queer little villages common to
the Maine backwoods early in the even¬
ing. There 1 intended to stay all night,
and drive on next morning to the house
of the agent of the lumber property
twelve miles further along. I reachej
the village and found that there was n»
tavern there.
* 4 This, of course, upset my plans. So
J ate supper in the village and started on,
intending to proceed to the agent's th#
same night. It was a starlight night
but then ir. was filled with that peculiar
frozen mist frequently noticeable on very
cold nights. As we neared the river tliia
haze became denser, until finally it waa
with difficulty 1 could see anything ahead
of me. It was like passing through fi
storm of scaly ice. Suddenly, .as I wm
thinking that wo must be almost on the
margin of the river, there came a crack¬
ling sound, a loud splash of water, anc
the next second my horse was flounder
ing about in water, which also covereC
the sleigh, the robes and myself up tc
my waist.
drenched •‘The water splashed about soor.
the rest of me, and in less
time than 1 can tell it I was coated with
a rapidly thickening armor of ice. i
guess my noble beast must have floun¬
dered nt least a minute in that hole lief ore
he knew exactly what had happened.
When the situation did come to him he
became quiet, threw his fore feet up, and
lodged them Initli in the ice with a con¬
certed blow like a trip hammer. The ice
was thick, but beneath that blow an im¬
mense cake was broken otf and was car¬
ried down in under the edge of the ice
below. The horse swam onward, drag¬
ging the sleigh with it through the rap¬
idly freezing slush. Once more he
pounded the ice ahead of him with his
powerful fore feet, and again the ice
yielded. I shouting
“During all this time was
for help. I might, at the first break,
have turned and leaped back to shore, but
had not collected niv&Wf in time. It was
now too late, and even if it had not been
I was so stiffened by the easing of ice that
I couldn’t have moved to save myself
from death. The horse kept on, and,
strange as the story seems, broke a chan¬
nel for fifty feet across that river, and
drew the sleigh out safely on the other
side. And he didn’t tarry when he got
then yf • ‘."•fed a t the top of hia
- - d our destination. He soon
cue t)\c cad and away we went. 1
mgh one danger was es
eap 'd. givat-ir was before us, and I
* .tri i hoc on with my voice. My
rolxis and clothing had frozen so solid
that if I had been encased in iron I could
not have been more motionless. My
horse was a jet black, but his icy coating
made him stand out, even in that frown
mist, like a sjxniter horse. I could not
move even my hands. We were not yet
half way to the agent’s house when 1
found myself growing drowsy. I could
no longer use my voice. The clatter ot
the horses' hoofs and the creaking of the
runners ou the ice sounded to me like
thunder claps and weird, hideous cries.
I knew that I was freeetng, but I labored
hard to rouse my will and tight with it
against my fate. TJ»e stars looked like
great coals of fire, although before they
could be seen but dimly through the
peculiar haze. The trees, with their
branches covered with snow, took on the
shapes of gigantic ghosts. Still I pre¬
served all mr powers of reasoning.
Finally I felt myself growing deliciously
warm. A languor, such as De Quincy
might have described, with attending
visions of loveliness, took possession of
me. I hoard the most delightful music.
Still I made one mental effort to shake
oil this fatal spell, and that was all.
•‘1 don't k'»o\V how far I was from the
agent's house when I froze to death, but
the next thing l remembered I was suf¬
fering such tortures as a victim of the
rack might feel. He never felt worse.
Suddenly, at my feet, the pricking of a
million needles assaulted my flesh. Tor¬
turing me at that spot a moment, until 1
writhed in agony, it dashed quickly up
my log, stopped an instant, as if gloating
in iny misery, a»d then crawled with
that awful pain slowly upward, until it
seemed that tiny jots of the fiercest flame
were being blown into my body, heart
J and brain, r lhe intensity of this agony
was not constant. If it had been I would
have died again in a short time. It came
; in waves, so to speak. Each wave was
? a little less furious than its predecessor,
until at last the storm was passed, and 1
| found myself a weak, speeehless, limp
and helpless mortal, lying on a robe be
fore the fireplace of my friend, the agent,
He had brought me back to life,
! 4 • When 1 was strong enough to hear it,
he told me that he was awakened in the
night by the peculiar and loud neighing
of a horse. lie looked out of the window
and saw a sight that startled him—a
ghostly horse and sleigh and driver in the
road before his door. He recovered him¬
self and went down. Then lie discovered
that the driver was dead. He quickly
carried the driver into the house, laid
him on the floor before the fireplace, and
recognized me. Knowing that even if I
was not beyond all aid, nothing could be
done for me until the robe and clothing
were thawed, he made the fire blaze and
hurried to the rescue of the faithful and
intelligent horse that had reasoned with
itself that it must stop at the first house
it came to on that terrible night, and that
life and death depended on it. By the
time the horse was cared for I was in
shape to he resuscitated in case any such
thing could be done. I was stripped and
rubbed briskly with snow and snow water
for more than an hour before I gave any
evidence that I might be called back.
Then another hour waa spent in the same
treatment, when a spoonful of brandy
was poured down my throat. After that
the circulation was started, and my agony
began. That suffering lasted for an hour,
and—well, I can say this: Freeze to death
if you want. You’ll like it. But don’t
let anybody fetch you to again.’’—Ne\*
j York Sun.
Halt a Factor in Ruilding.
The American Architect asserts that
ane of the new building materials which
is likely to be found useful in many ways
is common salt. Among the carpenters
salt is now found to be useful as an aid to
the heating of glue. Where, as is usual
in joiners’ ami cabinet makers’shops, the
glue is nioi 1 in a jacket kettle, sur¬
rounded by water, it is said to be advis¬
able to put salt m the water in the outer
kettle. The addition of salt raises the
boiling point, and, therefore, allows the
glue in the kettle to be kept at a higher
temperature than could be maintained
with water alone, and this is advanta¬
geous to the work. The masons find
their use for salt in adding it to cement
mortar in cold weather, to preserve it
from the had effects of freezing.
It is not quite clear why the salt should
act in this way, as the beneficial results
of using it are visible with mortar which
has certainly been frozen, and frozen salt
water expands nearly as much as fresh
water. But engineers and contractors
who have tried it are unanimous in their
opinion of its value. In many cases
masonry has been laid in cement in cold
weather, using a considerable proportion
of salt in the mixture, which after re
peated freezings and thawings has re
mained in jierfect condition, while work
near by la.d in mortar of the same ia nd
but without salt, has been disintegrated
by the frost.—Scientific American.
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