THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : TUESDAY , DECEMBER 6 , 1892. oo-J e v Jn 1t ' There is nothing , 11 . * J - ' < I ing more ap Sale If 10 preciated , nor Furniture , is anything more appro , Carpets , priate than a nice piece of This before large stock taking must inventory. be reduced Draperies , furniture , a rug , a curtain or one of the many useful Everything at cost and when articles that we say cost , we mean just what we say , we have in At Cost stock for A Don't miss it. Christmas FOR ALL NEXT WEEK. Come in and see what an < b elegant assortment we . . , ) -.a have. IT " Jo ! Present i - f ( I A. ORCHARD , o 1414 , 14ie , 1418 Douglas gtreet , Omaha , JACK FROM SIBERIAN EXILE iJacob Gerber of Omalia Eeturns Homo After a Tearful Experience.- ESCAPED FROM THE CZAR'S ' CLUTCHES ilcr it 1 IftiTii-Yonr SpntiMne. Ho St'curoi rliinni I il AnsUtnncn from H TnUliful \Vlfo lint ! Tnnnret'H TliousiimU of Lonely Stiles. After braving Innumerable perils and well- Inlgh worn out \\ltli niiiny months'experience Jot a life that is unknown except ns a vague ( unreality to the citizens of this country of 1 the f rco.Tacob Geibcr is oneo more in Omaha , having escaped fiom the Siberian exile to ( ( which ho was ( loomed a j car and a half Jugo becuuso ho had tl.ucd to coino to % JAmeiica sovoial years hefoio without per- 1 mission from the olncial minions of the czar. Hoarrivod in this city SuiuhvyovciiliiB.nftor [ nn absence of twenty-ono months , but ho is ( older by twenty years than when ho luft { hero in the cuily spring of 1-91. Ho comes j back to tell a storyth.it coiroboratcs Ken- } nan's tale of Kussian honois. After being.i icsldent of this city for six I jcais , Mr Gorbcr returned to Kussla to dis ( jiosoof what piopcrtyho lud tlieio am' i hiIng his family to tills country Ho hai : 1 taken out Ills Hist papers hero , and supposed I that ho was to till intents and purposes a cit- 1 iron of the United States , but subsequent lovonts pioved Unit ho had iclicd too mud Eon the pi iv lieges of a half completed cltircu I ship , for ho.is soiled us soon as his identltj [ uasdlscovoicd , oven though ho was at the Itlinoueioss the botdor in ( ! eimany , and a Fwoiship in u church."Withouta tilul or hear ling of any sort ho was stalled fo 'Siberia , in spite of all his filends could dc \ or say In his bolmlf. When the fi lends o Itho unfortunate man in this city ho.ud o iVlmt hud occurred , by moans of n lotto ( from the old homo to an acquaintance heio Ifl'iiK Di'K took up the matter , and tluough It Icauiest effoits the case was culled to the at [ trillion of the authotlties at Washington [ but a c.noful Investigation disclosed the faei [ that the naturalisation process had not beer I fully completed , and that it would ho Impos I Bible for the goveminent to becuio the 10 I lease of the pi Itioiicr. Iliuk , IIH Oiin from tlui Di'iul. It may theioforo bo Imagined that the ap pearancoof Gc-ibor among his old acquaint i tinees last evening created hut little less sur piiso than would alslt fiom ono known ti luvo passed boi end Into the gi eat unoxploi e < future , mid thoio was n unanimous deinuni 1 for an uxplauatlon of the manner Inwhicl 1 the return of the exile had been brough about. The story \vas forthcoming , and It was i | recital that brought tears to the oycs a ovor.vonoho listened to it , so full was it o I outrageous cruelty und human BUffeilni ; I The evidences of the truth of the narrath , -wero amply shown In the filghtful scars an still unhealcd sores in the living llesh o Gerber , and ho vvill c.irry them to his grave Ho xlsltcd his old homo , which Is bu BOVCII miles from the German frontier , nn renmlnod there about ton weeks , when h learned thut there was talkof nrrcsllnghlu Ho quietly slipped o\er the l > oiilor , but wd si o i afterwards apprehended , and almost hi for ho realized what had happened ho WM on hlti way to Siberia. The charge agalns him was tliat ho had loft the country si years before w Uhout the necessary peunL Dion , and ho was not given any opi > ortunlt to defend himself against It. Ho vainly a eel ted that ho was an American citlzc &ud gho\vod his papers to that effect , bi .hey . did not deter the Russian ofllccrs for an nstant. Ho was heavily manacled , the irons joingwelded aiound his arms and legs in the cry town in which ho was bom , and ho was Uu ted on that fe.uful trip of over lii.OOO niles without the slightest hopooE ovorset- ng his w ifo or childien again. _ On Hi" Uouil tf > Mlitirlu. Ho supposed that ho was going to the mines for lifo , and none of his loved ones had any reason to believe otherwise. It was not until ho had i cached his destination , niuo mouths laterthaVho learned th it ho was sen tenced for fifteen yeais. During that nine months ho leirned moro by wi etched experi ence of merciless treatment and oxticmo phi slcal and mental suffering than the aver age man meets vv ith in a lifethncand besides which the horrors of war pusous become less dreadful Ho was placed In a herd of COO convicts and started for the Siberian wilds. They were taken by rail fiom Warsaw to Nijnl Novgorod , wheio they were placed on board a steamer on the Volga , and taken to Permo , and thence to Tomsk , where their transpor tation ended. They were then c ompolled to pioeeod over the lemainlng 2.01)0 ) veists of thcii joiiHiey on foot It was lf > 00 veists to Yakutsk , and COO moio to Ilga , which was their objective point. The men were honed together in p'llrs , and fiom the \cry moment that they stalled thoii Hufloi ings weioindescrib iblo Not once dining the long , woaiydajsof thoio nine months weio the irons icmovcd \\eiotho metal bonds binding them to their lomp ni tons biolcen At night tlioy wcio turned into a shed , and the gtoimd was their bed They \\eio not e\en piovided withhtraw , but slept on tlio bait ) oat th witli no co\eung what ever Being bound together , they tould sleep on only ono side and in only 0110 posi tion , and the llesh became so binlsud and dis- coloitd that to toucli it meant the most agon izing torture. llnrnirH orsilieiliu Kxllo. They were herded and di i von llko cattle , and no matter what additional Insult , abuse or outiago might bo heaped upon them it had to bo ieLel\cd uncomplainingly , or the conse- queiH'cs , weio the most dire. Thev were comi > clled to match through the middle of the road , oven though the mud was anklo- ilocp , and thoio wasdrygiound on either sldo , and they woio denied oven ho much as a dilnlc of water except at the regular stopping places , where they had to buy it out of the miserable allow mice of 10 kopeks a day , cquil to n cents of Ameiicnucoin , which furnished them with all tht'i had to eat or dilnlc. It took t kopek to buy water , which was fuuiLshed them wai in in onliT that thev ml lit make tea , und tin ) remaining U kopeks bought the tea. salt and btead that < onipu > > od the whole bill of faio week in and week out The biead was made wholly of birloy The grain was ground the same as for catllo and baked without tlia bran being sifted out The journey of 1MX ) versts to Yakutsk by roll uud vt.itcr lasted llvo months , and the succeeding tiip of 500 Mjrststollga icqulrod four months. The men became lousy , de spite all that they could do to prevent it.nml it beoanm a habit with thorn to remove their nhilts wheno\or they stopped tocat , and to extend them on 11 stick over the lire that was built in the middle of the load , in aider to smoke out as many of the uniiiin as they could In the brief time allotted to them for the stop. The shackles worn by each of the coin lets weighed ton and a half pounds , and a. strai running to the waist held the heavy chain clear of the ground , but the rough lion b.mi aiound the log would cut the llesh almost to the bono. Oilier has soics above the ankles caused in this manner that will not heal for many u day , if indeed they over do. riiUiluith iiiooii. Ho sajs that , ho ficquently was compelled to stop and | K > ur out the blood that had tilckled down into his boots from under thu shackles , and It wus the same with nllUiu prisoners on the road On ono o < caslon he stumbled and foil headlong Into a dceii snow dilft , and because of the shackles ho vv as unable to exti lento himself Ono of the guards stepped up , and without any com ment or asking any questions hit him n tor- rillo blow across thu side of the head w 1th the butt of his gun , knocking out all the teeth on that side of Ills jaw. In speaklug of the body llco Gerber saW that the men generally bought about & cents' ' worth of tea at a Uino and that would liul them about a weclc. Their money went far ther in that way , but the lice would got into their pockets and theio would ficqueutly bo moro of them than there would of the tea , and the men vi cio compelled to buyoftener and in smaller lots even if it was moro ex- ti.ivagant , or eKe drink a decoction that was houiule in its ingiedients The guaids wcie detailed by relays fiom each station along the load and each relay took thorn along two dajs ti.uel. Thoj tov- ciod Irom twentj-two to foity miles a day and rested every third day. The cold was intense tit times , and the frosty manacles on lie baio llesh of the convicts caused cases of iostbitoandfiee7ingth.it resulted in the oath of many of those ho started w ith the vietclicd compain fiom Warsaw. The dead wcio buried beside the load with othing to mink their last resting place and ho only icpoit thatwas made was tli.it such n individual had died on the way. A tom- nny of convicts fiom the mines passes over he load every -week and the people in the ittlo tow us along the route know what day hey aio coming and diive down vith little vagons to sell them bread. At Neusohask , Gerber was stricken with .jphoid fever and was left behind in the lospital. Ho lay thcro for six wcoks , but ils slnckles were not removed or even oosened , and when ho tccovcred ho was put n witli another company of convicts who veio being diiven thiough and continued his ournoy When ho aimed at Ilga , ho w.is aken out into the middle of the stiect and i blacksmith was called , who took oil his 'otteis , Gerber was told that fiom that iom that time forw.nd hoould Imo 0 take care of himself , as he would ceaseto draw the ten kopeks per l.ithat ho h.id been rcioivlng up to that time He w is a stran or in a stiango 1 ind , RC.in.eh able to help himself and without a cut Unlike manj , ho had been sent there for i irtually nothing .it all. though ho found 1 prc at number who hail been just ab uu- ustlj tieatcU as ho had been I'liim for INr.ipn. Ho remained theio three months bofoio lie found an opportunity to cairy into elfeet the ilan for escape that ho had imipiied out. Ho : iud oxcitcd the sympatliy of n fellow [ lobiow who was engaged in business there , and induced the latter to write a letter - tor homo for him , asking his wife to send tilm some money. The money , amounting to SJ.OO , was sent by telegraph , and Gcrbor's ftit'iid took him to Yakutsk w ith him when going there to buy goods Ho had been Heated as vveio the other com ids at the start , and his boaid and half of the top of his head had been shaved , but ho had man aged to save his bcaid at all subsoiiuejit seances held by the tonsorlal aitist , and was consequently ina very pienontablo condition when hn tiled to escape Ho paid y > 0 to got to Yakutsk , and then took eonvovnneo by post to Tomsk , a distance of l.MKI miles , and paid for it 175 Ho had secured the diess of n nobleman , and carried an oillclal portmanteau that seemed to have moro to do w ith saving him from iinnovanco than everything else , for howas not mo- lebtcd and wus not asked for his p ibspoits. Ilimilri'iU Drlvi'ii to Snlililii. Ho had fully dotetmcncd to commit sulcido in case lie w as captuiodand oven arranged how to do It , having over } tiling in icadiness to tear up his clothing and hang himself with a lope inado thoiefiom. Ho says that thousands commit sulcido In Siberia every year by drowning Thov nro turned loose theio as ho was. and. being threatened with starvation , vvhilo suffering from its panga they throw themselves into the liver , and that is the last of them , as theio Is no attempt made to iccovcr their bodies Gerber sajs that last spiing , when the water was high ho saw thu bodies floating down the river of Ilga , and they bceined to bo as numerous as the chunks of driftwood that tloated dovv u the Missouri past this city There is a constant inflow of the uuhnppj exiles to Slbeila , but thcro aio none toe many to take the places of tUoso who suicide or die fearful deaths as the result of then awful treatment , for the number of those ho lornu back U very small Indeed coiu paiedtvith thu thousands who went thero. Ho received another'Installment of f.'KN from his wlfo and hired a man to take bin across the bonier into Clullci.i for 450. The guido was a thief , and that fact nearly re suited In sending Qerber back Into Siberia Ho vv as ( onccaled In the bouse of tl\o guide w hen nnoftlcrr arrived to search the placi for some geese that the fellow had stolei und while searching thu attio ho found Get' bor. Ho hurrlml away for assistance and : little later Gerber was in Jail , where ho 10 maincd for si\ hours , until snme of his coun try men tallied to hib relief , and ho vuis ic- leascd and permitted to gcr his way. Money i emovcd obstacles that he encoun tered , and ho linallv leached a sm ill town within flftj miles ot his homo without being detected He know that it would not bo safe to loinain thoio long , and at once set about getting over the frontier andrctmn- iug lo this conntiv. His vvitovas com municated with tluniigh another pirty , and Geiber icceived another sum of money amounting to f 100. 1)1 1 % I'll I'lCk tO ItllKSl.l. He tried to got over the line four times bc- foio ho succeeded , as the cholera quarantine was being latcfully enfoiccd , and ho was sent back each time ho apwoachod the bor der. He finally made a cucuit of ! ! 00 miles , and was successful in leaving Hussian soil behind him. He lobt no tlmo in getting as faraw.i.v as ho could , for ho knew that ho was not safe until ho had leached Ameiica. Thus it happened that he at last anivcd in Omaha , and of the 41,000 that had been bent him by his wife , ho had only 10 cents in his pocket \\hun the Journey was over. But despite his poverty and the suffering that ho had onduicd ho said to his friends : "I could fall down and kiss the earth , for this is mv countrv and I shall never leave it again You don't know what a flee land means , but I do , and I shall never foiget " Gerber had about $1.000 w 01 th of piopcrty In the oM-counti'i when ho loft hero less than two jo.us ago , but theio will bo little of it loft after ho gets his family over hcio. They are still at the old place , but will como hue in the early spring. C.ciber willie- sumo his foimcr occupation as a peddler as soon as ho can scenic the monci necessity to purchase his outllt- Tor six veus ho was in tint business in this state , woi king inmcipillj in llio counties of Hutler , i'olk , Madison , Sowaul , Buffalo , York mid i'latto Ho umloiibtedlv has n deeper conviction ot the ical value of American t itUenship today than any other in { & in Omaha , and will not fail to complete tlnR citizenship at thu caill- est pobbiblo moment. 1'riii C. P. Moore & Co , prominent druggists ot Nevvberg , Ore. , siv : "Siuco our ciibtomeis have become acquainted witli the good qual ities of Chanibeilain's Cough Kcmcdytva sell but little of nnv other kind. Chamber lain's medicines iill give good satisfaction. " Tor sale by druggists. Tor tlin ntj'H Hcillh. Yesterday afternoon the Board of Health had bofoio It the nutter of using the old pumping station at the foot of Burt stioot Manager Hunt of the American Water Works compiny said the plant was oiilj used a short tlmo each day , and that that the water pumped about y , ! > ( > 0,000 gallons dally , was used by the smelting works and the Union Pnrlffc shops it did not get into the mains to thu prejudice of the water fiom the Kliucncu station No action was taken. 'Ihoboaid will recomcmd that the chain gang be used to clean the stioots In the business pait of town , 'Mr. Howell and Chief Seavoi will ptepaio an oidlnanco In tended to lostraiu the habit of thro \ \ Ing advertising matter loobly la the streets. i The commissioner reported fortv cases of diplitheilu during thu month of November and twenty deaths from the disease Dipli- theria had threatened 'to 'hecomo opidenito but the phybcians now luvo it under con trol , and about stamped , out. Considerable buslnobs of minor importuuco was transacted by the board. Nut from u I'limm lul StiiiulHilut | , "I do not iccominend Chanibeilain's Cougli Ucmc'dy from u llnanci.il btandpolnt , for v\c liavo otheis In stock on vv hick wo make n laigcr profit , " sajs Al Magglnl , a pjominent druggist of Hi.uldock , I'a. , "but because many of our customers have spoken of it h the highest pralso , Wo sell moro of It thai : any similar preparation wo have in the store , " For sale by druggists , 1'nr the I'oor. The Hebrew benevolent societies will holi a fair from Tuesday until Saturday of thli week at Metropolitan ball , the proceeds o which will be devoted tochaiitablo work ii Omaha. The bazaar will have the usua variety of iibuful anil beautiful articles fo salts and Jor the further entertainment o visitors ( hero will bo concerts and balls. UNION PACIFIC'S CHANGES. Auditor VlIiiK Succumlud l > y C. S. Stclibins. It will boa surprise to the local railway world to learn thatW. S Wing , auditor of p isscnger accounts of the Union Pacific , has resigned and that ho will bo succeeded by C. S. Stebbins. It is understood that Mr. Wing's icsignation took clTect December 1 , but as yet no oflicial recognition of the change has been taken by the executive de partment of the load , these in charge evi dently waiting for the return of Mr. Clark. Mr. Wing bad been connected with the auditor's ofnco for many years , and was one of Mr. Ei astus Young's most trusted , lieu tenants , but , with a desire to make money more rapidly than by draw ing a salary of less than S.JOO per month , ho became inter ested in a different scheme outside , notably in the smelter in Kansas and in milling operations in Colorado. Ho has been successful In these ven tures and natuially wished to give nun o attention to his individual business. Ho wanted to resign. It Is understood , months ago , but Mr Young would not bin o it , and the matter lemaincd in the same con dition as befpio until thirty days ago , \v hen the resignation tendered. Mi1 Stebbins is a Claik appointee and ono of the best lailroad men in thu west. Ho was until the dissolution of Iho'LY.insmissouii association chief clerk to Secretary McKadden and had charge of the passenger end of _ that body Up to IbM ) ho was general ticket agent of the Union 1'acillc under Mr Klmball , and now after \eais comcb back to the "llibt love of his hfo" Should the Illinois hcnid about the head quarters piovo authentic it is not too much lo expect a number of changes in the audit ing dep irtincnt consequent upon Mr Wing's letiicmcnt fiom the head of pabbcngcr ac counts. _ DfllnliiNT 'llnlr , luil il ! < tlon. Mr. J. A. Munroo , fi eight tratllc manager of the Union Paciilc , will shortly isbiio an ofll- clnl bulletin denning the duties of Mr. Wood and Mr.Woodvvorth , assistant gcnoial freight agents. It is thought tliat Mr Woodwortb will have charge of the local and thiough business west of Clijenno or fJrecn Uivor. Air Wood to take care of the local and thiotigh business east of tlio dividing point , which as jot is not decided Mr Wood , ho- Ing the senior freight man , will undoubtedly have charge of tlioollico in the .ilucnco ol Mr Munrou , who ly tlio vv ay gees to Chi- r.igo tonight on business connected with the Western Pi eight association Kalluiiy NoUii and IN rHoniilri. Mr Hd Dickinson Is in Per Hand and Is ex peeled back December 15 It Is rumoicd that tlio Adams Express company will oc < iipy iho room next door t ( tlio Anioiican Hxpirss eompanj now occu pied hi liuluy , tlio diugglst In respect to the memory of Jay Gould tin offices in Union 1'acilio he.idquaitcis won clobod all day , -\vhilo the olllces in the Mis souil I'acilic closed at noon. Hx Governor Bullock , one of the govein ment dhcctois of the Union Pat illc , passet thiough Omaha on Hatuulav oniouto cast ti attend tlio funeral of Mr Gouhl Mr. Hul lock has just completed a daj light Inspectloi of the Union Pacific and bub been on tin load nuailjy two months Clmr | { d About 11 o'clock this foienoon a joung fel low appeared at the piling toiler's win dowof tlio First National bank and presented a check for $40 pmpoiling to bo signed by Abner Travis , a coloicd g.ubago man. Travis has an account at the bank but the teller i of used to cash the cheek , as the signature was not in TiaviV wilting. The fellow sad that Travis had given him tlio check that morning , and the teller en gaged him in corn cr sation hilo an olllcor w as telephoned for The man was taken to the station , whcio ho said his name was John Curtis , arid ho was locked up on a charge of forgery. Draw Your O n Conclusion. Mr J O Davenport , manager of the Tort Bragg Hedvvood Co , Ft. Bragg , C.il , has tins to s ly of Chamberlain's Cough Kcmedy "I used It for a'soveio cold and cough and obtained immediate iclief In tlio Foit Bragg Hedvvood Go's store wo have sold largo quantities of Chamberlain's medi cines. " For sale by druggists INHUMAN PARENTS. Children Cruelly Il < > : it ) > n mill Drltpii from Iloinn. Yesterday aftoinoon Carrie Hart , a 11- ycaiold girl who lives at Seventeenth and Mason btieets , came to the station and asked for protection fiom her parents. Slio .said that her father had beaten her with a suntlouor stalk during the moining until she could haidly stand , and she was afraid to go home. Apiofusion of long red welts and duk bruises on the child's back and Miouldors tcbliticd to the buvority of the punishment. About tin ee wcoks ago hot father choked her until she spit blood , and her screams attracted - tractod tlio attention of an ollli ci , who saved her fiom fin thor violence ut the time Her fathci is- John Hart , a gi-idor , and a warrant will ho issued for liib aucst for inhuman tieatment. Another and somewhat similar ease is that of I'ddlo Habblngton , a T .tear old boj , whoso mother lives with a man nt Twenty fouith and Bui t sli eels About a jcar ago Kddio was diivon fiom homo by his mother's ci uclty and for .ilxiut a vv eok lie llv ed on the hlreets , blcciilng In allovs and doorwa.vs and living upon such icfuso as ho gathered from garbage banols Ho was finally taken in charge by the police , and thiough the gonoiositv of some of the memhoisof the Gland Army of thoKopublii , ho was sent to the Kibtcrb orphanage Litilho has gone hick to llvo with his mother , and ho savs that dining hist night bho and her p iramour thicw him into the bliuut and told him never to ( amo b.u k again Million Ciimmings will lilo n complaint against tlio inhuman mother and will endeavor - doavor to have a gu irdian appointed for the bov and put him in bumo family wlieioho will ho taken caio of The st.indaid ouio for cold and cough , Ir Bull's Cough S.viup , should bo kept hi every mother who loves liei d.it lings blolin .Inuclij lilonllllfil. Mrs. Clara Miller of Twenty-ninth und Webster sli cols identified Iho joVvclrj found on Fiank Johnson and George Kullv , a t miplc of loughs who vvoio in rested last vveoku propcity which had been stolen from her icsldcmo A charge ot larecni and liouso- In caking against tlio Johnson and Kull } tirm is thu icault. - - Pei feet notion and poifcct health result fiom the use of DoWitt's Little i.uly : KUeis A perfect little pill Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report. The Tiffany "Blue Book" Tiffany & Co. , NOW Mcssis , Tiffany READY. & Co. , anouuce that their an nual catalogue for 1893 known as tiie Tiffany & Co. , "BLUE BOOK" is now ready , and upon request , will be sent without charge , to any addicsr. Although it conve nient form hastens ictain- ed , the ' 93 elition giro wn to 230 pages , containing many new features and suggest ions , valuable to intending purchasers of holiday gilt ? . Tiffany & Co. , UNION bQljAlli : . NIW VOItK. HEALTHFUL , AGREEABLE. 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