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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 24, 1891)
lOTHlNG TO EAT IN LIBERIA [leien Neg™« Return ln * Pit' iable Condition. „ aod Sn»h*» Arm Stspl* Article* oI *** put *ud a Shilling m Dnj I* th* Ulgli Water Mark for Wage Worker*. Ssw York. Dec. 19.—Eleven negroes, ,t of » colony of sixty-eight who Jailed from here for Liberia a year ago, returned today in a pitiable condition, with their clothes in rags and their lockets empty, although when they left they had a large sum. One of the men said: ••I saw it was no place for me to live just as soon as I got there. All the lind was covered with brush, and just M soon as you got on it you couldn’t tee the sun. There is nothing that will grow there but coffee trees after you do get the land cleared, and they don't begin to bear anything for four or five .•ears. There was no chance to sup port a family by working, so I didn’t work at all. They only pay a shilling a day wages. Everybody ?ets the same—a shilling a day. I 'ouldn’t support my family on that "When it came to building a house to live in there wasn’t anythiog to build it with. All the wood had been #ut and used, and there was nothing but bamboo and a little palm wood left There were some rooms in some of the houses that the people let us sleep in till we got places for ourselves, and as we only stayed about four months we didn’t have any trouble about that. But there was hardly any thing to eat The society gave us a little beef and pork, and Hour, rice, coifee and sugar to start on, and once in a while they gave us a little after ward. Most of the time all we could get to eat was roots and snakes. They all eat snakes down there when they can get them.” NEW ROUTE TO THE SEA. Scheme to Connect tlie MlMtffsippi With Lake Superior and tilt* Ocenn, Minneapolis, Dec. 19.—Tlie discrimi nation against Minneapolis aa a wheat receiving point will result to the city’s advantage after all. Minneapolis is to have connection by water with the sea by way of a canai connecting the Miss issippi and the St. Croix with Lake Su perior. It is not generally known that the scheme was pronounced eminently practicable more than twenty years ago, when a survey of a proposed route was made. A canoe party ascended the St Croix river from Stillwater, fol lowing the branch which runs through northwestern Wisconsin. At a point about due south of West Superior after making a portage of a mile they found a stream supposed to be Black river that emptied its waters into Lake Su perior. . So much for the ancient history of the affair. In regard to the present and the future, a gentleman who has an excellent opportunity for knowing said today that the matter was now brewing and would be given to the public shortly. As a sig nificant point he referred to the fact that Senator Washburn had secured a place on the senate committee of river and harbor improvements that he said was gotten specially to give him a chance to work successfully in the new deal. Congressman Castle, who lives at Stillwater, one of the towns that would be most benefited by the canal scheme, is also in favor of the improve ment. The canal will be built big enough to carry the largest whaieback boats on the lakes. The effect of it would be a revival of river navigation and the necessity for large improvements on the Mississippi river below Hastings and all the way down to St. Louis. This would enab’e a boat to load at Minneapolis and, by shooting the rapids of the St. Lawrence, carry its load to Liverpool, or it would permit a good sized boat to take a load of goods st Superior and carrv it to New Orleans The St. Paul chamber of commerce has taken up the idea and is pushing it in its own peculiar way. n is recognized that the canal is the nly thing needful for the business supremacy of the Twin Cities of the northwest. THEIR CHILD NOT BURIED AT SEA fte Appeal of Bereaved Russian lmmi frants Moves a Steamship Captain. New York, Dec. 19.—John Canola and his wife Margeret, Russian immi ^D^8' Passe^ through the immigrant ® ce today, and their first duty in the and of their adoption was to bury eir 2-year.°u child Ella, who died at **a Tuesday on board the Anchor Line Meamer Circassia. When the little one tw ^v caPtnin of the vessel ordered ' q j " raPped in a piece of can iwiiji • droPPe'1 over the side, as is u tk ln ?,ases °f death at sea. As soon orH»»e»v.ai ors canie to carry out this th« ij”c Parer»ts objected excitedly, lhomjeaved father knocking one of camo d°.wn- Then the chief officer ru»,*„a»i? **Plained in their own lan bodEt ,at lt wa* customary to bury nitem, B®a, ^ut the father begged hisri,-^ th.at t*® allowed to bring timo »l!<i ashore and bury it. Mean and “e.m°ther rushed to her trunk, of r,ni,;tmn.^ with her hands full thfr.U C01ns’ Ba'd; “Here, man, take .■- «v.u. man, v«o Thed;*!*^’ *>ut 'eave my child's body.' tailed strejS °f the couple finally pre ordered t^le Bi*'P carpenter wa little n ^ make.a coffin in which th other iDe s- remains were laid. Severa ftaine [m”1f?rants accompanied the re ns to the cemeterv tod air. AIR line to THE ATLANTIC. tthern pBC||j0 Hald to II. Intcrutcil la 0,.., ew Canadian Kallwaj.. the \’BE u’ I)eo' l9‘—^he rumor thal K,, ‘_.ortnern Pacific railway is quietly dian 1Dfan interest in existing Cana con/5 '' ays and In lines now under for the purpose of ulti tc ^ controlling an eastern ontlel •act th 1 ant*° Port, is revived by the tlodin at tt num^®r °f its officials, in Vn-i, * Messrs. O. S. Jonea, New • and McNaught, of St Paul, Minn., Tire interested in the newly con structed Lower Laurentian railway, the opening of which they recently attended in company with the treas urer of the road, who is none other than John C. Eno, the ex-president of the Second National Bank of New tork Mr. McNaught, the Northern k ucific b leading counsel, is presi dent of the new railway, and another director is Jules Tessier, Eno b most intimate friend in Quebec, through whose influence as a member legislature the very profitable subsidy accordod the railway by the government is said to have been se cured. The Lower Laurentian rail way is destined to form part of any nir line that would be constructed from Duluth or Sault Ste. Mane to Quebec, running as It does from a point I north of Three Rivers to Rivicre-a j l lerre, the westerly point of the Que 1 bee and Lake St. John railway. Even now it forms a profitable investment without any government subsidy, run ning as it does through a rich lumber ing and agricultural district. But the chief interest attaching to the new line is that this company controls other links of railway and Canadian char ters for railways that would make to gether an almost uninterrupted air line from the southwest and Lake Su perior to Quebec and the lower St. Lawrence MILLS DECLINES. Offered Second Placs on the Ways end Meano Committee. Washington, Dec. 19.—Mr. Mills has been offered second place on the con, mittee on ttays and means, together with the chairmanship of another im portant committee, and he declined to accept such assignment. The tender was made in a letter from Speaker Crisp, which reached the Texas stateman last night It is said to have been per fectly courteous in tone and otherwise, but Mr. Mills would not have it. The answer to the proposi tion will reach Speaker Crisp some time today. In it Mr. Mills will say that _ he has served on the committee on ways and means for ten years, was chairman in the Fiftieth congress, and that if any reason existed why he should not be at the head on the committee the same reasons will prevent his accep tion of a subordinate place on the com mittee. CHANDLER AS A DETECTIVE. Dlguised In Shabby Clothes lie Observes How Men are Natnralised. Nkw Yokk, Dec. 19.—For three days in October last a small, nervous man flitted in and out at Judge Me Adam's court room in the superior court cham bers He "was shabbily dressed and a well worn felt hat was pulled down over his head. He wore a pair of spec tacles and seemed to be paying strict attention 1 o the process of turning ont ready-made American citizens that was going on around him. It has now been ascertained that he was none othei than Senator William E. Chandler. Charges of fraud in the naturalization of voters in this city have been fre quent in the past. Senator Chandlei disguised himself and observed the proceedings. He has drawn up the result of his observations in this city and will submit it in the form of u report from his committee to the sen ate. It is alleged that he has collected evidence of more than 2,000 cases ol fraud in naturalization in this city last fall. • ENDED IN BLOODSHED. Participant* In a Political Demonstration Get Into a Free Fight. Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 19.—There was a good demonstration and a torch light procession given here last night in honor of Governor Jones, who is a candidate for re-election. Special trains brought in hundreds of miners from the neighboring towns and settlements. After midnight, while one of the trains was returning tc Blossburg, a bloody riot occurred in one of the ears when the train was neat Brookside. Clifford Price attempted tc restore order among the drunken pas sengers, when Hass Wood, a farmer, opened fire at Price, killing W. 11. Black, a miner, fatally wounding Jas. Glover, whose occupation is unknown Wood came near being lynched, blit a posse of officers hurried him off to jail here. A MORTGAGE ON "HEAVEN." Schwelnfiirtli, to Avoid Prosecution. MuUey a Settlement with James Ogilvie. Rockford, I1L, -Dec. 19.—Schwein furth has decided that he does not care to go to law with James Ogilvie, the Alpena man who gave him $2,100 when he became an inmate of the Wel don heaven, and who now wants his money back. State's Attorney Works and Schweinfurth have had several conferences, the result being that to day Spencer, Agnes, John E., William G. and Lincoln S. Weldon placed on record a mortgage deed in favor ol Ogilvie for SI,584, the property mort gaged being a portion of the heavenly estate. BRAZILIAN CONGRESS. President Felxotto Congratulates on the Uovrnrall of fonirta. Rio Janeiro, Dec. 19.—Congress re assembled today. President Piexotto in his message to congress said that the people of Urazil had during the events of November 23 shown their virility and a jealous regard for their national liberties which were threat ened by Marshal Da Fonseca Con tinuing, President Piexotto said that the duty of congress was to deal with the existing coromeicial crisis by tak ing immediate steps to reorganize the banking system of Brazil. KILLED BY*HIS NEPHEW. A Weil Known Mluer Shot In llntte Wlth ont Warning. Butte. Mt., Dec. 19.—Last evening H. J. Cunningham, a well known min ing man, was shot and killed by his nephew, Chas. Price. The men were walking quietly along the street con versing in low tones, when suddenly Price drew a revolver and fired three shots, one of which took fatal effect in Cunningham's left brest. Price was arrested but refused to talk. It is hinted that there is a woman at the bottom of the affair. FIFTY SECOND CONGRESS. Senate. Washisotoh, Deo. IT.—Mr. Mundenon presided In the senate today and after he had called that body to order Mr. Callom presented the list of committees whloh woe read and unanimously adopted as follows: Civil Service—Power, chairman; Qal> linger, Pfeifer, Gray, Vilas. Finance—Morrill, chairman; Sherman, Jones ot Nevada, Allison, Aldrioh, His cook, Voorhees, McPherson, Harris, Han som, Carlisle. Fisheries — Stock bridge. chairman: Dawes, Stanford, Squire, Power, Blodgett, Call, Ransom, Gibson, Louisiana. Foreign Relations—Sherman, chairman; Frye, Dolph, Davis, Hiscoek, Morgan, Butler, Kcnna, Gray. Immigration—Chandler,chairman; Hale, Squire, Proctor, Dubois, Voorhees, Mu* Pherson, Daniels, Cockrell. Improvement of Mississippi — Wash* burne. chairman; Pettigrew, Power, Pfef fer, Waltham, Bate, Palmer, IndianA ffairs—Dawes,chulrman; Piatt, Stockbndge, Manderson, Pettigrew, Shoup, Morgan, Jones, Arkansas: Daniels, Vilas. ’ Interstate Commerce—Cullom, chair man; Wilson, Hiscock, Chandler, Wol cott, Higgins, Harris, Gorman, Jones, Arkansas; Barbour, Colquitt. Judiciary—Hoar, chairman; Wilson, Teller, Platt, Mitchell, Pugh, Coke, Vest, George. Manufactures—Higgins, chairman; Du* bois, Galtlnger, Blodgett, Gibson. La. Military Affairs — Hawley, chairman; Cameron, M&nderson, Davis, Proctor, Cockrell, Waltham, Bate, Palmer. Mines and Miuing—Stewart, chairman ; Jones, Nevada; Power, Warren, Felton, Bate, Call, Chilton, Irby. Appropriations — Allison, chairman; Dawes, Plumb, Hale, Cullom, Stewart, Cockrell, Call, Goiman and Blackburn. Commerce—Frye, chairman; Joties, Ne vada; Dolph, Sawver, Cullom, Washburn, Quay, Ransom, Coke, Vest, Gorman, Kenna, Gibson, Louisana. Naval Affairs—Cameron, chairman; Hale, Stanford, Stockbridge, Chandler, McPherson, Butler, Blackburn, Gibson, of Louisana. Pensions—Davis, chairman; Sawyer, Paddock, Shoup, Hansbrough, Gallinger, Turpie, Blodgett, Palmer, Vilas, Brice. PostoiBce ami Post Hoads — Sawyer Mitchell, McMillan, Wolcott, Dixon, W’ushburnc, Colquitt, Blodgett, Brice. Irby, Chilton. i/rivuegcs nnn Elections—roller, chair man ; Hoar, Mitchell, Chandler, Higgins, Hansom, Pugh, Gray, Turpie. Public Buildings and Grounds—Stan ford, chairman; Morrill, Quay, Squire, Carey, Vest, Daniels, Iliscock, Paseoe, Brice. Railroads— Casey, chairman: Hawley, Rtockbridgc, Pettigrew, Power, Pfeffer, Blackburn, Berry, Bate, Gordon, Palmer The credentials of Senator Hill were presented and placed on tile. Mr. Turpie addressed the senate on the subject of selecting the presinential electors by popular vote. Mr. Turpie declared that the passage of the amendment he proposed would be in accordance with the law of our growth and would be stow upon the people a gift entirely worthy of their acceptance. At the close of Mr, Turpie’s remarks Mr. Stewart anticipateo his notice for Monday next by delivering his promised silver speech in favor of free coinage. House. Washington, Dec. 19.—In the house to day, promptly at noon Speaker Crisp rapped for order and in reverent attitude the members listened to an earnest prayer for their welfare by Chaplain Milburne. Mr. McMilliu, of Tennessee, offered a concurrent resolution providing for ad journment from December 24 to January 5, w’liich was adopted. Mr. McMillin from the committee on rules submitted a report covering the ap pointments of committees of the Fifty second congress. 1. That the speaker oe authorized to ap point the following standing committees: Ways and means, elections, judiciary, ap propriations, interstate and foreign com merce, rivers and harbors, agriculture, postoffice and postroads, and claims, to consist of fifteen members each; banking and currency, coinage, weights and meas ures, merchant marine and fisheries, foreign affairs, military affairs, naval affairs, public lands, Indian affairs, terri tories, roads and canals, mines and min ing, public buildings and grounds, Pacific railroads, improvement of Mississippi river, education, labor, militia, patents, invalid pensions, pens on claims, private land claims, District of Columbia, revision of law’s, to consist of thir teen members; manufacturers, eleven members; accounts, nine members; ex penditures in the several executive de partments, one for each department; ex penditures on public buildings, to consist of seven members each: on rules and mileage, to consist of five members each; joint standing committees on library, three members; on printing, three members; on enrolled bills, seven members. 2. The speaker is authorized to appoint such select conference committees as may be ordered. 3 The first named member shall be chairman of the committee, in his absence the second member shall serve as chair man, unless the members select one of their number to serve. In case of vacancy by death of the chairman the spcakei shall appoint another to Berve in his stead. * Chairmen of committees shall appoint clerks and assistant clerks thereof, to be approved by the members. Iu connection with the report Mr. Me* Milieu presented an order directing the speaker to appoint the following selecf committees: Reform in civil service, election of presi dent, vice-president and representatives in congress, thirteen members each; alco holic liquor traffic, immigration and natur alization, irrigation of the arid land* and quadro-centennial, eleven members each; ventilation and acoustics, seven each. Mr. McMillin stated that toe changes made by the committee had not been many. The committee on ways and means has been in reused from thirteen to fifteen because since the committee was fixed al the former number the membership of the house has largely grown and the import ance of the committee made it fit that it should keep pace in size with the house. The committee on Indian depredations claims had been abolished for the reason that in the Iasi congress a bill had been passed referring all such claims to a special court for con sideration and adjudication. The com mittee on world's fair and immigration and naturalization had been in creased from nine to eleven members, for reasons that wert apparent to everyone present, and tbeii growing importance. A change had been made in the name of the interstate com merce committee to the committee on interstate and foreign commerce, to cover the scope of the questions with which that committee is expected to deal. The most striking change made by the report was in the method of succession to the chairmanship of a committee in case of the death of the chairman. The sec ond member under the old rule took the vacant place: now the chairman will be appointed as in the first place. In answer to a question Mr. McMillin said he did not know any reason for mak ing a difference in this case from that of resignation and was for himself, willing to put them both on the same basis. Mr. McMillin said in conclusion that the com mittee had not undertaken, for want of time, to fix the jurisdiction of the com mittee, that will be reported in the future. Mr. Cbipman, of Michigan, then an nounced the death of his late colleague Uon. M. N. Ford, and in pursuance of the usual resolution the house at 19:85 ad journed until Wednesday next. THE EXILES. A RUSSIAN STORY. I He filled the album of the governor-gen eral’* wife with caricatures, sketches and colored designs, executed quadrilles upon the young ladies’ piano, played chess with the governor, invented charades, and organ ised dancing-parties to which the few ladles of Yakoutsk were Invited. All this for fifty four dollars a month. M. Lafleur was at all those little parties given by the governor. At these reunions the dancing-master resumed all his advant ages. Nothing was more comical than to see him regulate the movements of the •■Sibcrienne" with tho doltcate sounds of his pocket viAln, Interrupted during certain steps the time for which he beat himsolf, supplying in these Intervals with his voice the missing musio of the Instrument. On such occasions he assumed the noble attitudes of the old French school, which had reached him by one knew not what tra ditions; then, suddenly, shaking himself, loosening his Joints and twisting himself, ho mingled the free and easy movomonta of the balls of the barriores of Paris with the classic rigidity of the dances of the old-time oourt. Yegor finally obtained, to his great Joy, permission to hunt with the governor's guns. He had bought, secretly, at lrk outsk, at the moment of his departure, a double-barreled carabine and a pair of re volvers ; but these weapons remained care fully hidden. The chase would give him an opportunity to study tho region. Ho made many excur sions during tho winter, and was even ac companied, onco or twice, by Mile. Agrafe na, with a few CoBsacks us escort. He sometimes quitted the town with a slodgc drawn by horsos, and remained away three days, in order to accustom the gover nor to prolonged absences. Yegor was treated with affability by the governor and all his family. Notwithstand ing, ho novor took Nadego to the govern ment palace. He asserted that the young girl suffered from weakness to Justify her seclusion. uno spring morning, Yegor, at an oarly hour, had started with his sledgo over the softened snow. Driving himself, ho was proceeding, as fast as two good horsos of the country could go, along tho groat west ern highway, when ho met another sledgo in which was a traveler carefully enveloped in furs, in whom Yegor thought he recog nized tho man of tho whip of tho Oukbeul mice, the corporal whom he hod struck and defied. Such u meeting in this spot was passably strange I What strengthened Yeg or in his supposition, almost Inadmissible, however, was an involuntary movement ho surprised. He could not doubt that this man was the Russian, Yermac. It was he, in fact. Yegor know it with certainty that very day. Yermac had been relieved of his vow of expiation and humiliation. The governor of western Siberia, when he learned the mo tives for the resignation of tho Ipravsnikof Nertchinsk and was informed of his en trance into tho service of the mines, resolved to induce the honest functionary to recon sider his determination. He fell to work and succeeded in overcoming his obstinate resistance and excessive scruples. At last, Yermac yielded; but he made a condition, namely, that he should leave the district. General K-gave him a letter of recom mendation to the governor of Yokoutsk and enabled him to go to him. On the day succeeding this mooting, Yeg or saw the ex-guard enter the governor’s of fice. An instant afterwards, the latter summoned his secretary. "Monsieur Semenoff,” said me, "thin is our new chief of police, M. Yermac; aid him in taking possession of his post. M. Yermac, however, has been long in the ad ministration and has no apprenticeship to undergo.” Tho governor noticed the constrained air of tho two men, the smiles of irony upon their lips, and their strange glances. “Perhaps you know each other already)" said he. “Your Excellency is not deceived,” re plied the new chief of police. “Monsieur seems greatly surprised to see me again here.” “Aftor having loft you with those con victs at Oukboul; yes, I admit it,” said Yegor. “Ah! very well. I see how it is!” ex claimed the governor. “But,” resumed Yermac, “I beg Mon sieur to believe that the chief of police of Yakoutsk has left at the bottom of the mine the remembrance of the sometimes rigorous relations of the Oukboul guard with the con victs placed under his surveillance.” And he added, with emphasis: “I never remember but one thing—the strict accomplishment of my duty.” “I extend to you my compliments, Mon sieur,” answered Yegor, “and regret that the somewhat haughty fashion in which you havo spoken forbids me to thank you person ally.” “Very well, Messieurs, very well," inter rupted the governor, who feared that the words exchanged might become bitter. “You will hare leisure to renew your ac quaintance under different and, above all, better conditions.” These words cut short a sort of presenta tion deprived of all cordiality. Yegor saw in the presence of the former corporal of the mines another obstacle to his project*. i lennac, mougni ue, "cuungi nave completely forgotten the affront I put upon him. Should he find occasion to avenge him self while executing his duty, he will seize upon it; he is an attentive observer capable of making an excellent police bloodhound. He will watch me closely.” Something, a secret presentiment, told him to beware of this fatal man. CHAPTER VI.—TIIK ESCAPE. Summer came, the fair season opened, and the merchants of Irkoutsk brought stuffs, utensils and tea, while from the shores of the Arctic Ocean, lrom the borders of the Sea of Okhotsk and even from Kamtchatka came fur-hunters loaded with spoils and searchers for the tusks of the walrus and mammoth. Yegor Semenoff took advantage of the op portunity offered to purchase provisions and garments indispensable to the execution of his project. But, though he acted with the utmost prudence, the chief of police Yermac, who watched all his actions with the evident de sire of taking him in fault, knew that the governor's secretary had mode considerable purchases. Further, the authorization of marriage de manded of the Czar had arrived and had passed through the hands of the chief of police, who could not comprehend why the young couple did not hasten to profit by it. What could be their motive except to free themselves by flight! The former Iprav sntk of Nertchinsk well knew the repug nance felt by the exile* for contracting these marriages which bind the future of the children they may have. Hla attention re doubled and took tho character of veritable surveillance. Yegor did not confine himself to procuring what could assure materially tho success of his attempt. Ho studiod minutely all the maps of the country he could procure, ques tioned the merchants and hunters, and learned the language of the natives. At last, ho found himself prepared to adopt the fol lowing plan: Furnished with a passport from the gov ernor for himself and his betrothed, he could, at the commencement of tho Journey, tako advantage of the relays of horses es tablished upon tho right bank of tho Lena ns far as tho s|K>t where the Aldan flows Into tho groat Siberian river. At Aldan skoi, a town situated at the mouth of the Aldun, he would find horses purchased by M. Latiour, and a Yakoute guide, selected by tho same M. Luflour, whose kindness wo* inexhaustible. Tbo Parisian, in his hatred of tyranny of every kind, bad placed himself entirely at Yegor's disposal. He was to go on before, In tho little cart serving to transport the merchandise in which ho doalt. Besides the camp tent, the provisions and the winter garments, he was to take tho little Pole. They could leave Yakoutsk without exciting the least suspicion—such was their boliof at any rate. M. Lafleur would accompany the fugitive* to the Vcrkho-Yensh Mountains. This chain of mountains crossed, the exiles wore to hide in one of the impenetrable forest* which cover the region beyond, there to await the first snows. They counted upon wlntor as an auxiliary to level tho roads, freoxo the rtvors and cover their flight with its darkness. It was only with a sledge that it was possible for them to go towards the north as far as Nijnl-Koltmsk, tho last Russian town, situ, atod at the point whore the Kolima pours tho tribute of its waters into tho Arctic Ocean, and not fur from tho polar regions where the Immortal Nordonslriold was uble to confirm his discovery of the north-east passage. itcrorcing in mo calculations or Yegor Semonoff, they could hope, with the favor of the long winter night, to penetrate to the country of tho Tchoukchis. Although the tribes of these natives are not equally hos pitable, Yegor did not shrink from tho diffi culties ho might encounter when this mo ment should come; nothing could over ap proach the infamous life of a convict from which ho was escaping. Among tho Tchoukchis It was already lib eration ; it would only remain to llud the means of ronching Behring’s Strait, on tho return of tho summer soason and of the froo waters, which bring yearly into that lo cality American and English whalers. The interesting daughter of tho poet Dnvl doff, in whose eyes Yegor assumed unnatu ral proportions, drew from hor chasto love all the stimulants capuble of increasing the ardor of the man who wns about to exposo his life for her, wishing to relieve hor from tho shame of being an oxilo’s daughter. She could not forget that Yegor, thanks to the favor ho onjoyed with the governor, had ameliorated and rendered supportable her situation, and that it was, above all, to fulfil the sucrcd promise mado to the dying old poet that he asplrod to liberty. Yegor already caught a glimpse of that liberty. But besides this seductive prospect, what terrible punishment in case of failure, what dolorous expiation! Yegor, in his moments of weakness, remembered the convict dis figured with sulphuric acid whom he had seen on arriving at the Oukboul mines, ox posed to every kind of insulting treatment. ■What fate, if he failed, was he preparing for poor Nndcgo and little Ladislasl For him self an ignominious dcuth and for thorn a prison, that is to say, death also, slower but as sure! At last, ho could hesitate no longer! One evening, in the early part of Septem ber, when the temperature was quite mild, Yegor and Nadege quitted Yukoutsk. Yegor had spoken for a long while to the family of tho governor of a two or three days’ trip that he wished to make upon tho right bank of the Lena which was still unknown to him; he came very near having for a com panion on his Journey tho governor’s eldest daughter, who, more than once, had, on sim ilar occasions, imposed herself upon him. The fugitives took a hired boat to cross the Lena, which is encumbered with little islands dividing it into several arms. One of these arms of tho river was not less than throe miles wide. Grave and serious, as at the commence ment of a perilous enterprise, they saw re cede without tho least Joy the sad cupital with its broad, deserted streets, its dull habitations ensconced behind high wooden enclosures, the belfrys of the four or five churches, and, towering a little above the miserable hute, tho convent and the bazar. The night was clear and starry. There was not a sound in tho country, not a shadow behind them. Soon, in the oast, a faint, gray dawn soemed to announce to them the morn ing of a free and happy existence. “Courage, Yegor!” murmured Nadege, pressing tho young man’s hand. “Ah, my beloved!” said Yegor, smiling softly, “I am carrying you ofT and you arc allowing me to do so! Born far from here, both of us, I came, os it would seem, to seek you out amid the Siberian snows and bring you back to the warm heart of friendship, devotion and love! Have you any regret on leaving!” | res; one only." “What is that?" “I regret the scarcely closed tomb I am quitting.” And the young girl’s eyes filled with tears, at the remembrance of her father Yegor turned away his face to hid his emo tion. A moment later, Nadcge resumed: “Do you really love me, Yegor?" said she. “It is not generous obedience to the supreme desire of my dying father which alone is making you act?” “Do I love you?"answered Yegor, warmly. “Demand my life and you will see!” “Your life! And what would I do with out you upon this earth, now altogether a world of exile? No; live for me, if you love me. You are worthy of liberty, be free, and deliver me also; I shall then doubly belong to you!” Yegor strongly grasped the hands of his betrothed. Half an hour later, they disembarked upon the right bank of the river. Thanks to his passport, Yegor obtained two relay horses kept by the Yakoutes. The journey was be ginning in earnest. Nadege had a superb look on horseback. Modest like a well brought-up young girl, sho possessed that vivacity of bearing and that special grace which are acquired in the active life of a traveler. Guided by a Yakoute, running on foot be fore them, they followed for a long while a narrow path, which, turn by turn, wound among willow bushes or crossed plains cut up by ponds. Broad day had come. From one of these ponds some teal arose. Yegor, who carried, slung across bis back, a gnu "borrowed" from the governor, kilted three of these birds. An Instant after, on tho edge of .a wood of larch trees, tho rldors dismounted and the guido kindled a Are, spitted the fowls and, In hie fashion, prepared breakfast. Tho travelers approached the blazing and crackling branches, fob tho morning air waa keen. Tho roasted teal, servod upon slice# pf bread, which Yegor drew from a small sack of provisions, and washed down with koumls made of formentod mare’s milk, ob tained from the Yakouto In exchange for. some brandy, formod an excellent repost. A kettle illlod with water, drawn from a neigh boring pond, besides, permitted tho making of some cups of tea. “Ah I If wo only had our dear Ladlsla* with us I" exclaimed Nadoge. “He may, perhaps, bo sufforing from cold and hun ger!" “Do not torment yourself about him, dear* est,” answered Yogor. "M. Imfleur is a man full of resources, who, certainly, will not let him want for anything. They passed by hero,” added he, showing his companion upon tho humid ground the recent t races of the whools of the honest and bravo Paris ian's cart. He had scarcely finished speaking, when, In tho distance, upon the read opened by them a short time before, appeared a man on horsebuck. Nudego shivered wjth fright “Yegor," said sbe, “are wo followed!” Yegor, wbo had suddenly become dis turbed, looked in tho direction of the horse man. “It must bo a travelor," said he, "but it is certainly not a native—that may be seen from his prudent fashion of trotting. It Is a European, and, probably, a Russian." The Yakoutes have keen sight. The guido of the fugitives, In his turn, began to exam ine the man who hod attracted their atten tion. Ho described to them with precision his costume, hearing, and face. “If it should bo tho chief of police!” murmured Yogor, grasping tbo barrels of his gun. “What do you say, Yogor v’ cnoa in ta ngo, alarmed. "Do you foresoo any dan fcrl" “What danger!” said Yogor, casting upon his companion a look supplicating her to hldo her troublo from the eyes of tin* guide. “Aro wo not going to Aldanskot f Well, there will bo one more of us. Thin man has no guide; ho can go in our com pany 1" “I bcllovo that ho haB followed in our foot itops thus far. How else could ho hove »voided losing his way! You know how frightful the roads aro!" "Several times, In fuet, It lias seomed to me that I heard the trot of a horse behind ns. AU Is now explulnnd. In nny case, Nudoge, roossuro yourself. Whoever shall dare to cause you pain shall pay dearly for it!” Nadego approached Yegor. “Yegor,” whispered she, “If we were to mount our horses, could wo not try to cs cupo!” “Impossible I” he answered, also In a whis per. “Our guide would not muke himself our accomplice, and we should compromise everything.” “But, at least, do not expose yourself!” “What aro you saying, Nadego! Do you think that I havo waited so many months for the first day of our liberation to obey a summons without resistance ! Do you know what would await me—what would await you—under such circumstances I I must either deliver up or defend both our lives I’ “Defend our Uvob! By what means, Yeg or!” “By every means!" answered the latter. He again gazed at the horseman and added; “It is Yermac!—it is, indeed, tho chief of pulicc. He is following us. I thought hs had forgotten; but to a man of his mould death alone brings forgetfulness.” “How you frighten me!” murmured thf young girl, “I no longer recognize you I" “Ah! It is because 1 love you and they wish to separate us!” “Yegor, I supplicate you—” “I will do all I cun to put what I owe yov in accord with what I owe honor and hu manity. If I wore a common malefactor, I would submit at the sight of a gendarme; but I am an innocent man, the victim of an odious persecution. For myself and for you '■ I have the right on my side and, porhaps, I am tho stronger 1” The Yakoute alone was yet eating the mains of tho teal. He was devouring with a capital appetite the morsels which tha travelers appeared to havo abandoned. At the same time, he took copious draughts of koumis and brandy. Yegor was not deceived. It was, indeed, tho chief of police who was approaching, and it was not chance that had put him on the track of the fugitives. For a long while, every time the governor's secretary left Yakoutsk, he had caused him to be follow ed. This time, his habitual suspicions had assumed such proportions that he hod de cided not to confide the task to anybody but himself. Wbbn he learned that the exile had quit ted the seat of government with his betroth ed, preceded by DavidolT's adopted son and M. Lafleur, be felt assured that it was with the intention of not retbrning. Hu wished to have the cruel satisfaction of arresting him himself In his flight.. Neither hatred nor tho remembrance of the affront put upon him actuated Yermac. He had a higher in centive. He considered himself the instru ment of the law and was obeying tho harsh obligations of duty. When he was within twenty paces of the spot whore Yegor had halted, Yermac dis mounted from his horse and fastened it to a larch tree. He advanced towards Yegor, who arose at his approach. “Out for a little trip, Monsieur Seme noifi” said he, with a smile on his lips. It was not an affcctod, hypocritical smile, but a smile of proud satisfaction and tri umph. “Out for a little trip, as you see,” an swered Yegor. “And here is a young and charming lady,” continued the chief of police, turning towards Nadege, “who fears neither wretched roads nor dangerous accidents." Nadege bowed, growing red and pale by turns. “We are going to .Aldanskoi,” said Yegor, with assumed carelessness. “My betroth ed and I desire to get some idea of that part of the country, with which we are acquainted only through the vague ac counts—” “Of the merchants who frequent the Yak outsk fair," interrupted the chief, with » satirical meaning that did not escape Yeg or. “I also am going to Aldanskoi," added he. “Indeed!” exclaimed Yegor, ironical In his turn. “My sole vexation is that I know the way . only by this direction—constantly follow the right bank of the Lens." Pro BE OOMTDimk] ▲ Philadelphia man wears a pair ot shoe* made from elephant bide. * ,ci ▲t this season the pooractor and the poor stove both fail to draw. v