Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07

She reclined on an elevation beside some
brushwood and began to eat. On looking
about her she observed that the entire ground
under the hedge was covered with violets of
s very peculiar quality. The leaves and
blossoms of the flowers were all shriveled
up rs if thev had been touched by the frost,
but the petals were covered in several
places with a moisture of a reddish color.
Bertha looked at these peculiar violets for
some time in great establishment. But
wishing to examine the odd flowers little
closer She pulled several of them out by the
roots. However no sooner had she severed
the last fiber and the stem was in her hand,
when the entire wood seemed to be
shaken by a supernatural emotion.
The big oak trees swayed backward
and forward as if they were being unrooted
bv a gigantic force. The smaller trees
Jumped out of the ground and commenced a
regular dancing movement that resembled
very much the antics of an Indian war
dance. The brushwood, however, being the
slightest and lightest, literally few out of
the ground and hopped up and down like an
india rubber doll suspended by an elastic
string. The commotion lasted for about 15
seconds, then suddenly it stopped and
everything was as quiet as before. Bertha
sat on the ground and looked about herself
in utter bewilderment. Her bread crust
had fallen from her bling hand and big
drops of perspiration began to gather on her
forehead, for when she saw the entire forest
around her in motion she became afraid,
like everybody else would, I suppose.
Now. however, all was oyer and the
wood looked just as it had done before.
Bat even while she was quietly thinking
over what had happened, the hill on which
Bertha was sitting opened up, and the poor
little orphan girl disappeared under the
ground without having even a second to con-
slider what was going to be done with her.
The quick succession of these events was
TOO much for Bertha. When the hill had
opened up and she fell into the chasm she
lost her consciousness, and although it must
he said. that she was not hurt by a hair OF
her head. still when she arrived at the
yrouud of the hollow hill, she was insensi-
HE. The place in which she had arrived
WAS an enchanted country, however, that
was inhabited by very wonderful people
some thousands OF years ago. AT the
time when Bertha arrived here though,
ali of them had died except the queen ofthe
nation who now lived alone in this vast
realm bemoaning and bewailing the loss of
her subjects. 1t had been an old tradition
in this country. that the population could
only he established again by the appear
ance OF a vouug orphan girl who was to
come into this land. Another popularity
of this wonderful country was that no flower
had ever grown there except the violet. 1t
was therefore the national flower of the
people. But when the nation had died out
ali these flowers shriveled up and they
= literally cried tears like bloody dew to show
their sorrow for the people of this land.
Now the queen, who had heard Bertha
ascend the hill under which the entrance
into the country was hidden. had great
plan in her head when she noticed that. 1t
was she who had opened the hill and let her
come down, and she now appeared before
the girl as she yet lay on the ground in an