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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1892)
' the jxiles. A RI;SSI_AN STORY. And When the spectators raised their eyes the shy. they saw to their great surprise *?thc full moon was shining in the centre If nn immense cross-shaped glory, repro ducing itself six times in the heavens with • sinister effect The polar night stretched out its tremen dous veil through which the stars pierced with extraordinary brilliancy; through the cold air, a great light fell upon the black hills, the snowy peaks and the glassy sea. The vast silence, broken only by the howl ing of the dogs, filled the mind with an in describable feeling of uneasiness and fear, as if it were under the empire of a night mare which nothing could drive away. The same thought then assailed these three men, so far from their natal countries. Yermac, Yegor, and good M. Lafleur were transported in imagination to the lands of tho sun. Who knew if they would over see them again, and if a cold grave would not open for them also In this regiou of tho pole? Y egor and M. Lafleur grasped the hand of Dimitri’3 father to console him, and then grasped each other’s to strengthen them selves in their resolutions. “Shall wo, Ycrmac,” said Yegor, “before this tomb promise mutual assistance and succor?” “No, Yegor,” answered the chief of po- , lire; “you brought me into this region. I j followed you without too much resistance, j because your courage had made an im- j pression upon me. But ask nothing further j of me.” j The Yakoutes started on their journey the next evening in a south-east wind, vulgarly ! called thc \farm wind, which had blown all day, causing the thermometer to rise above zero, softening tho snow, and melting the ice incrustcd in the two little windows of the hut. Tho moon lighted up their road, and if the dogs held out at the rate they j commenced, they would make over eight miles an hour. i On seeing them dopart with the two I nartas, Ycrmac, already much discouraged I by the death of his son. lost all hope of flee- | lug. More taciturn than usual, he refused all consolation, all assistance. Nadege had tried without success to induce him to ac cept, food at Ladislas’ hands. When the guides had gone, he seated himself near the spot whore Dimitri had been buried. In the pale light which fell from above, the wooden cross seemed to be the centre of a vast cemetery. In the distance, upon the sea, in the direc tion of the icebergs, the ice, broken up by the action of the sudden heat and the dash of the freo waters set in motion by tho wind, gave vent to resounding and con tinued crackings, which mingled with the noise of the waves dashed against the promontories by the gale. The Polar Sea had. for a few hours, shaken oft the yoke of winter. tUJl lLIl AAT.— JtllJlil, a EAr£.KlUnL£a. Yormac was hungry. For several days his means of sustenance had been limited to two lemmings (a‘ species of small rat) caught in the traps he had set on the marshy plain which bordered upon the shore of the sea. The foxes and gluttons obstinately kept away from the traps. He had also discovered several hiding places in which foxes had collected numer ous lemmings slain by them, as one might judge from the fact that their skulls had been pierced by the canine teeth of those animals. In one of these hiding-places, Yermac found half of a white hare. But the flesh of all these creatures, spoiled by its long stay in the earth, could only be used by him as bait for his traps. He was hungry, but would accept nothing from his companions. He did not regret, despite the tortures of his stomach, having voluntarily stepped aside from the common life. Nevertheless, ho comprehended that, if he did not tako some energetic resolution he would run the risk of perishing from in anition. The fall of the temperature augmented the sharpness of his wants. His limbs grew numb and his sight became extremely faint. His skin grew dry, discolored and earthy; it seemed glued to his bones, so prompt had been the emaciation of the muscles. His pulse was scarcely perceptible; his body lost all warmth and it seemed to him that his very breath was frozen. He dragged himself along like a man who is slowly recovering from a severe illness. His sleep became light, and, when he strove to summon slumber as a restoring agent, the lethargy which took possession of him frightened him—he saw in it a pre cursor of death. Ho felt himself subjected to the most terrible trial he had yet under gone in a life full of painful incidents. And yet he was not afraid of weakening in his resolution, of being forced to ask favors or *'*■ lumaon uuuw ttu uio lucrej ux iud fugitives. What he feared was that death might compel him to abandon the pursuit of them, that he might not be able to re turn from one of his nocturnal walks, in the midst of which moral discouragement and physical weakness seized upon and overthrew him. These walks. In company with hunger, across tho ice or through the snow, amid in tense cold and beneath the pale light of the moon which gave fantastic figures and ■enormous proportions to distant heaps of ice blocks, were rapidly wearing him out. Sometimes the moon hid itself; a thick fog same from the sea, and the snow fell beaten by violent gales. Armed with a stick, he looked about him with eyes enlarged by fever and the hallu cination of a disordered brain; his teeth ■shattered, and his tongue, with unconscious movements, worked in his mouth as if it were gathering up food chewed and pre pared for swallowing. With empty stom ach, he sought a prey, forgetting that he himself, feeble as he was, might fall into the clutches of some polar bear in search of • feast. He Sought and found nothing with which to satisfy his hunger, now became a •ort of madness. If there bad been grass, he would have swallowed it like a pasturing heast. Oh! that the recently fallen snow t\ad in something resembled the manna of the Israelites!—but it was not even capable ®f quenching his terrible thirst! Wide awake, he had epicurean dreams. "8> who all his life had been frugal, saw blocks of ice suddenly cover themselves with a white cloth, upon which were spread cut in abundance, beneath the chandeliers °f orgies, savory victuals and succulent Preparations brought from every portion of the globe; and thus he renewed without the Ppwer to shake it off, the punishment of Tantalus. At other times, his wandering magination led him to banquets of canni bals, devouring human flesh! And when, broken but indomitable, with out regret for hating exposed himself to • death from inanition, he threw a sad look over the desolate solitudes, hunger, terri 1 Personification, identifying itself with himself, seemed to him to Be their sole guest, Yegor had restored him his gun, but he knew not what had become of his munitions wiring the rapidly-made sledge Journey. Would it be too humiliating to ask his com panions to furnish him with a new supply I he resolved to do so. Ho had no other re source. Without munitions, all was over with him and he knew it. He wished to live; he wished, when the nartas should return to the camp, to resume With the Yakoute Chort those stimulations and seductions which had nearly succeeded. If he could flee, altogether relieved of obli gations as he now felt himself in regard to Yegor Semcnoff and his companions, the game would become equal. The winter had scarcely cominonccd. Nijni-Kolimsk, that is to say the power of the law, was not so very far .away 1 What matter how he suf fered if, in the end, he sueceodcd in his at tempt, repulsive, oven perilous, but for that reason worthy of furnishing an example to all those who allow themsolves to capitu late with their consciences. Thenoxtday - ho was forced to hasten, for the moon would soon abandon the nights to their obscurity, like that of the days— Yegor and M. Lafleur saw him start out, scarcely ablo to drag himself along but ready to venture afar. Siugular hunter, leaning upon the butt of his gun as he walk ed, staggering over the snow, and so thin in his furs, so bent, that he seemed to be posing for some funereal allegory! He walked to the east, in the direction of Cape Chelagsk, across abrupt earthy hills and frozen bogs. He was fortunate enough to meet two deer, belonging to that peculiar species which inhabits the shores of the Arctic Ocean, and does not retire into the forests in winter. He fired at one of them and killed it. All his confidence returned to him. The only difficulty was to convey the animal to the encampment. Pull of ardor and proud of himself, he seized the deer by the antr lers and found strength to drag it as far as the hut At last, he had food enough for many days. The chief of polico rapidly recovered. He resumed his position of unfriendly observer, living as little as possibly among the fugi tives. Despite the cold, he remained with out, returning to go to bed when everybody was asleep, and, in the morning, stealing away the first from the hut. On one occasion, Yegor assured himself that he had not returned the night before, and became very anxious about him; some misfortune must have happened to his tor mentor. At an early hour he set out to hunt for him. taking the direction of the sea, while M. Lafleur went to look in the vicinity of Yermac's traps. Yegor advanced, slowly and cautiously, through darkness somewhat dissipated by the brilliancy of the stars. He listened. A sepulchral silence reigned, broken only by the groaning of the wind. Suddenly, on passing around an enormous block of ice, he perceived Yermac sunk to the belt in a hole in the midst of newly formed ice. M'hA P.hlflf rtf nnliisa Tiraa Irnanlmr ViSmcol f above tbe ice with his elbows, but could not extricate himself without help. He was waiting with a calm and resigned air—for what! “What are you doing there?” cried Yegor, “I am looking for deliverance or death 1” answered Yermac. “I have fallen into a fissure of the ice.” “Take hold of this and I will pull you out,” said Yegor, and he extended the butt of his gun towards Yermac. It was wim great difficulty that he extri cated the chief of police, whose body was incrustod in the ice as in a sheath. “Again I owe my life to you!” murmured Yermac. “Everything conspires against me.” “Why should contracting such a debtcost you so much?” observed Yegor. Yermac was silent. Without a word, they returned to the hut. M. Lafleur entered an instant after wards. “This is, indeed, a day of accidents!” cried Yegor, on perceiving the latter. “My good Monsieur Lafleur, your nose is frozen.” On hearing these words, Ladislas ran out of-doors to procure some snow and, a minute later, M. Lafleur, paler than his nose, began to rub it to restore to it heat and life. He warmed up at this work, got out of breath, dropped upon a rude stool and said, as he did so: “It seems to me that this polar winter is miserably long.” “My dear Parisian,” answered Yegor, “the winter is only commencing; but be pa tient—on the 38th of December the sun will reappear at the horizon. The cold, however, will not diminish—far from it! As for me, I shall be satisfied as long as your friendship for us remains warm!” “My friendship!—you may depend upon that, my dear Yegor. Pardon my little dis play of impatience—for one does not see his noze frozen without some very natural emo tion." CHAPTER IITI.—PRIVATIONS IN TUB FOIAB NIOIIT. When Yermac had eaten enough of his deer—he had offered some of the choicest pieces to Yegor and his companions, but had received a refusal similar to that he had made them—he utilized the remainder for his traps. Thanks to this bait of alluring odor, he succeeded in capturing three fine gluttons, the flesh of which he carried away. The precious fur of these animals was carefully put aside. Yermac, with his pro* jeet of flight, wished to create for himself resources for his Journey; besides, the fur of the glutton commands a very high price among the natives of the north of Siberia. The Yakoutes did not return quickly with j their nartas loaded with food, and the fugi- i tives began to lack provisions. In their turn, they felt the rough attacks of hunger. { Then, touching combats of generosity arose among them. M. Lafleur pretended that j the cold produced in him an effect contrary j to that which it usually produces and ap- I peased his hunger. He insisted that Nad- | cge and Yegor should take the largest i shares. Ladislas devised means to make j his adopted sister believe he had eaten too : much and, with genuine self-denial, obliged j her to eat the food of which he deprived j himself. . | Yermac, much surprised to see the fugi tives so soon reduced to the extremities j from which he had Just been rolioved, stud- i ied with curiosity the suffering expression ! of their countenances. The-more they weak- j ened—while he was regaining strength and j courage—the more things became equal be- j tween him and them. His satisfaction would ! have been perfect, if he had not shared the fears of his companions in regard to the two guides. The fugitives sought to explain tho delay of the Yakoutes, and economized their food. Yermac was disturbed by the prolonged ab sence of Chort He regretted having said too much to Tekel's comrade concerning the people he served. Perhaps, afraid of compromising them selves, the guides would not return. In that Yermac regarded his flight as impoa ■rai®, nut would not tn® continuation of the fugitive*' Journey also be rendered Im possible 1 What could they do without their ■ledges, without their dogs, end without provisions upon the deserted shores of the Arctio Ocean! They would be forced to eyow themselves vanquished, incapable of pushing their attempt to the end, and would be but too happy to be able to return to Yak outsk under the protection of the chief of police. The fugitives were soon reduced to dis puting their rations with Wab and the two Siberian dogs which Yegor had kept. Those animals, deprived of nourishment, utterod lugubrious complaints. The Siberian dogs are accustomed to howl four times a day, but Yegor’s dogs now howlod all day and all night. The situation of the exiles grew painful in the extreme; and, added to this, the biting cold occasioned them all sorts of suf fering. One morning, little Ladlslas complained that his feet were excessively cold. M. Lafleur took off his shoes and uttered a cry on seeing that the child’s stockings, frozen to his feet, adhered to them. It was neces sary to use caution in disembarrassing him of tho icy coverings. Happily, the feet, although stiff, were yet unharmed. M Lafleur re-established the circulation of the blood by rubbing them vigorously with brandy. The difficulties of life were also augment ed by reason of tho cold. They were forced to cut the moat with hatchets. If they touched an iron utensil, without taking the precaution to cover tho hand, the contact of the iron with the skin produced the effoct ol a bum. If Yegor, on consulting his little compass, neglected to hold his broatb, tho glass immediately vanished beneath a coat ing of ice. Out-of-doors, their eyelids were oovered with an icy crust. Yegor's watch would no longer go, although he took great oare to carry it always upon him and to put it at night under his coverings. Although tho fugitives were clad in flan nel undershirts, drawers and stockings of wool, flannel shirts, knit jackets, coats of heavy felt-cloth, and sqal-skin pantaloons— indispensable objects that Yegor had had tho foresight to purchase at the bazar of Yakoutsk—and although they slept with their clothes on and covered with furs, fre quently the cold, hunger’s auxiliary, pre vented them from sleeping. When M. Lafleur oxposod hlmsolf to the air, he put on a cloth coat, with a veil at tached, and covered his head with a wool len cloth resembling a huge dishevelled wig. But his laughable attire had not the power to bring even a smile to the faces of his friends. The unfortunates were overcome with sorrow. They had esoaped from the cap tivity of men only to fall into that of the elements. Yet this exile, this imprisonment in the midst of ice and gloom, seemed to have at tractions when compared to what Yegor had suffered in the mines of Nertchlnsk and Nadege in her life of banishment. Here, hope sustained them. As soon as the sun returned from its long journey, they could continue meir own. iney coinparea tnem selves to those heroes of fairy tales, who await their deliverance in a forest or a chateau where some magic power has con fined them. The chances of safety increased daily. Oh! that hunger had not so imperi ously demanded its rights and made them feelita tyrrany! Happily, they had passed through the greater portion of that long night which lasts more than a month. At noon, it seem ed to them like midnight In the south, vacillated a little twilight glimmer of a pale yellow. The sun had descended so many degrees that it could be seen only from the top of a mountain more than thirty miles high. When the moon did not appear in the sky, and When the aurora borealis was absent, in the Bombre vault of the firmament there were produced only from time to time luminous cays traced by the silver track of a shooting star—a rapid flash in the midst of the deep night, a spark that fell and was extinguished in space. But to break the frightful silence o f tho polar night, which affected the mind still more than the disappearance of the light, there was only the noise produced by the ice blocks as they broke one against another In the incompletely solidified places, a noise capable of making a strange impression when heard during this long and cold night. Now it was hollow and continuous like the listant surf of the sea, now sharp and pierc. ng like the noise of the ungreased wheels ora cart; and now resounding and jerky like the discharge!, of cannon. Yegor and M. Lafleur had begun to hunt, but without success. The shores of the Arctic Ocean seemed depopulated forever. The odor of the dogs and their howling had driven away the white bears. Neverthe less, they had the luck to kill two seals, the fat of which they ate, washing it down with tea. M. Lafleur thought it tasted like rancid butter, but arrow accustomed to It. Finally, Yegor and M. Lafleur decided to hunt for white bears upon the frozen tea. The day, which for a week had been grad ually returning, rendered this project feasi ble. The next day, when a yellowish reflection, appearing in the south, announced the ris ing of the sun, Yegor and his friend de scended well-armed upon the ice, taking with them the two Siberian dogs. Soon, a first jet of light broke forth, and then the sun Itself emerged, the color of blood, with its disk gnawed by the mist. The snowy lines of the coast hills and of the huge blocks of ice took a mild tinge, a light pink, and the blue shadows became violet. After an hour’s walk amid the accumula tions of ice blocks, broken, crushed, and studded with points, which the English ex plorers of the North Pole have called hum mocks, and which have the appearance of a field upturned by a gigantic plough, the hunters reached a labyrinth of icebergs. There, they saw in the snow numerous tracks of white bears and polar foxes (these foxes are parasites of the bears, from which they succeed, thanks to their agility and nimbleness, in snatching a portion of their prey). A moment afterwards, they discov ered a den, the inhabitants of which were absent. These caverns, two yards deep, have two openings—a couple of bears have scarcely sufficient room to lie down in one of them. A little further on, they saw two bears in ambush. Near one of those round crevices from whence seals issue for air and light— and where they come for the sun's warmth— the bears had collected a pile of snow be hind which they were hidden. At the base of the slight mound they had pierced a hole to allow the passage of a paw. They were watching for their prey with so much at tention that they did not hear the approach of the two hunters. e Ito Mi comroinaxl There is no machinery in the Sicm Leone Islands except the sewing ma chine. The colony is 103 years old and contains 50,000 people, without a sawmill or any other kina of a mill to do any kind of woodwork. "It you hfcr# 910 to ■pend," sold Bar ium, "spend 91 for the nrtlole end the ither 90 In advertising It." The old nan knew n thing or two when It came :o advertising. Barnum said some years ago: "1 can out-talk anybody on sarth but the printer. The man who :an stiok type and talk next morning to thousands ot people while I am talking to one Is the only man l‘m ifrald ot 1 want him for my friend" Frightful shipwrecks. Staunch ships strike and founder, the leroe winds and mountalhous waves iweep noble mariners’ “hearts of oak" to ihlpwrock and to death, yet that does not prevent the lubberlleit landsman from risking his life on the stormy Atlantic in the role of tourist or commercial traveler. But, if he shall reach his destination safely he will scarcely have escaped some ot the qualms of sea sickness, nulcss he takes with him IIostetter’a Stom ach Bitters, that iuimltable specific for nausea. Bad water on long trips nro a threat to the voyager, but this may be de prived In a great measure of its disorder ing effects upon the stomach, bowels and liver by the Bitters. Aguinst the preju dicial effects of malaria, bad diet, futigue snd exposure it is also eHlcaelous. It averts, moreover, rheumatism and kidney complaints. 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I' Ltrfo bolAia*. fto mqU ■ OMitn mrywAftWi Or; <1 LIVER PILLS DO XOT OBIPK MOB BICKBV. ■""■eurt for SICK HEAD ACHE, Itnpsiiod dlfaattos.oanatt ffttioiB, torpids I nnd«. Thay ftfonaa vital organa, rtmovo n auras.dip ~‘ i*a. Magical aflaot OR Kid* •Tfftndblnddor. Const** billon* ntrnni dli> Benntlfy complexion by blood. Purely Veortarle. lion* ntmaa orders. Gmkliili ... ural DaH.V A OT l on. pnrlOlai Tho doaa la nlrely sdjuatvn Rovarboloo much. Kirlk via itwttoaultesM. • vlaUantalnad,* I. Dualneao n poahol. Hko load Ron®II. Dualneao men'o ] convanlsnea. Takas aaalar than auger. Aol4<n vrliara. All gtnuins goods War “Orasosat.” ■MdtOTrt *»».*«• |«MHotMkV*fcMa«l» BB. HABTIB MEDtriNI CO., tl. ImIa. *» by rvtara Mil, f«U 4«Mrl»d«« l ilmlin W t MOOBY'IVmp | *•« noo»r» mrum [ tailos m* I TBMS «f Pt«M I Olltlllh fliri t* fli— .4 ay Mi Mrs r Mall f taav* | (• <11 Mi srii.1* •ay it;h, •» si'lTuTJ: J« !■! cy» uriiMi H i puiMtly '’"•-jzs Ftiooortoo. Gmouutii* BORE WELLS, rkh our funs ohm Well Mnrhlnf ry. The onto MTTMt Mlf-C Waning »M k«t> dropping tool* In on LOOMIS A NYMAN, l firn^* on in. TM nr DRILL CAN YOU SMELL? rAiiMAM ■ innAi^KM win iniitDiir cietr your newi, cure uo<neoeH, do re inruai ana neaer ache. It will promptly relieve and permanently cure Catarrii, La Grippe, Aathma, Bronchitis and kia dred affections. Price 80cents. Agents, write for sample and exclusive territory. gS.60 per dos.s IlM half do*. TO GET ONE FBEK i Secure mo an agent, and on receipt of bis or bar first order for halt doien or more 1 will send you one FKEE and will take back any Inbaiers unsold by agent at and nl month. F. K. CRKW, Mfr., cor. 41st Street and Indiana Arc, Chicago, IU. CHEAPER THAN BARB WIRE. HARTMAN WIRE PANEL FENCE. Double the Strength of any other fence; will not etretch. eat, or set out of shape. Hnrmteae te itiA A Perfect Farm Fence, yet Handsome enough to Ornament aXawn. Write for Pricee, Descriptive Cutnufl and Testimonials, also Catalogue of Hartman Steel Picket Lawn Fence. Tree and Flower Guards. FlexibM wire Mat*, ke. Aidraa. rour iutmI acent. UABTluFiirQ. CO.. 8«nr Vafin. rn. T. 11- OAXII, ttccral Western I«Im Afilt, MS IUU UnM. CH Lis, Clabk Aiidiiiih HAinw.ii Co., Omaha, Neb., General Amenta for State of Nebraska. WAIwiil mention Ibis paper. rm. IXSTAMT RELIEF. Final cure in lOdajri. Never returns; no ' no salve; no suppository. A vic tim tried in vain every remedy has dis covered a simple cure, which he will mall free to his fellow sufferer*. Address J. U. REEVES, Dos 3890. New York City. N. Y. PISO’S CURE FOR •r • j sv .** '■ ■■ ■ i. v *T.'' . v> .!•?• * •. ft fl FIT FOLKS REMKB JOHN V.noHlUb 'i ».<£ .__J WuhlD(loilv_ lSyr«<u »**t Y*mr, lft«4Judle*tinKclAH’-«. M* PBitszoiva - !»«• »ii awLDinst A disabled. S2 In for lucre***. M mra ex perience. Write for Uva. A.W. IfcOouici * Bore, Wa»«hcbton. D. C. A Cincinnati. O. 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