h I v I R Ji i f KJ a J r THE OLD DAGULnRCOTYPE Cp In tl f Mtlo I found thfm lotVul In tl cilr liwi WVe Die flowcrrJ ror tic foMcil wlilch onco vwrv lne nit up lrt nl Ilk Hi ji -ft old Jaikiti ami tlio wnMooats RBV With ftllp Thfj toll of t woriioiit ftnlilun thfH olil riotJTo Quaint little foldltiff cfr fnsttnpil with tiny liocik Sctmlnjrlj made to tempt one to lilt up lie aixl look Lining of purple enl rlvrt odd little ramrs ol poll Circling the failed lacen liroiiRlit Irom the ilajs of olil flramlpa and crimilnn taken cvrr so lone njro irjtiilnifl5 tioimet a niartrl Kraiidpai lolUr a ftiou Mother n tin toddler with rlnps on licr Miy lism lnlnteil lul none should nutlet In glittering elided La hi J Aunt find nuclei and ioiilrn a tarcliy and till Lrinv Lovers and tirliTrs thin blooming hut now so urluMul and proj Out througli the mist plaifes they ante at tne hlttlnff lure Opening the quaint old cases with a smile that is half a ttar I will smile no more little picture for heartless It tm in truth To drnir to the cruel da light these ghosts of a vanleliul Jouth Oo back tu jtour cedar chatnlirr jour f owns and jour lairmtpr And ilrtam mid tlulr bacono Erucos of the won derful days that writ- Saturday Ienlng lost t THE WOMAN WHO t COULD NOT DIE J Y A Btrnrifjn ntul Ciri wtniuo Tain V Q 15y Joint L Tolstoi Q -6---- O Tier hood nml tin1 apron Hint conceal oil the ilnilc Mlit sln woio till but for a narrow strip lu the buck ami the Rcaif fastoniil ci osmv No over her breast were ilazzlinnly white On her left arm she canieil a basket of home made sweetmeats in her hand a stout cane She Rhu filed alonji In the attitude of n half open penknife but approaehltiK the bench where 1 sat raised herself n little so that 1 could see her faee A veritable network of wrinkle Hers I said to myself must have been a lonp laborious life a life full of cares Mid disappointments If the lines by which misfortune had maiked her countenance tell its story Sit down little mother I said making 1 ooin for her Thanks my lord If I may lean ngahwt the fence a bit I will be all right again When nn old thing like I sits down and gets up there is al ways a shooting pain in ones back Then how old may you be little mother Eighty and more years dont know for certain But Its all In the books at the village parsonage where I was born Then you are not a Moscow wom an Oh dear no I am Ekatrina from Wadowlce One of my daughters mar ried a Moscow lad Peter who works In the nail factory When I felt death approachlmr I went to live with them thinking my hist hours would pass pleasanter In the society of those I love Ones relatives If they are not too hard hearted will at least place a handful of straw uuder the tired head when Its all over so the soul may de part easier from what has been its sin ful abode And nre the children good to you 1 How could they bo otherwise An old woman unable to escape misfor tune must be content anywhere But things are not exactly going as 1 hoped Whats wrong then Death disappointed me I came here to die you know yet I am living living living ujl the time Look at me iiny lord Would you suspect that tlieie Is more than a spark left in me Gods wrath I seem to have more lives than a cat Had It all planned out to a nice ty wasnt going to give them any trou ble whatever After the police had been duly notified of my arrival that was to be the end of It I reckoned My went to the factory as usu al my daughter busied heiself about feathers I had collected the past year My sole ambition was to cure enough for a bed the Inheritance I meant to lenre behind And all the time I mur mured prayers one after the other and then began anew Death which I thought so near should find mc well employed I waited a month another a third who didnt come was death I run cold when I think of It And Pkatri ua trembled as she leaned on her cane One Sunday in the fourth month the Janitor came up Peter he said you must get a permit of residence for the little mother Thats the law My son became frightened Does It cost much he asked when he found bis tongue again About 2 rubles a quarter Then my son got down his tobneco pouch and gavo Its contents to the Jan itor who forthwith withdrew just as lf there were no police In the world When he was gone I said Sonny dont you trouble about a permit of res idence for me I came here to die not to live True I am still breathing but ready to collapse any minute And my daughter said Thats right Why spend any money on her If Bhe doesnt die today Its tomonow or next day She says so herself and dying people dont lie You see my lord continued the old woman we nil agreed on this dy ing business nnd felt quite satisfied that It would come off in good season But now that death has disappointed us dont think my lord that I was bhnmming at any time Even then at the very beginning of my martyrdom If I may call It so without disrespect to the good salntfl even then I wai subject t Intervals to such agonbed feelings of oppression and helpless ness thai evciy bone In mc cont acted and It became black before my eyes Just is if they weie filled with soot Again 1 had such featful pains In my spine that 1 couldnt hae raised my face to heaven for a silver ntble But my loid we I beg j our patdon a thou sand times 1 mean we common people are such lnni is and know toothing about dying absolutely nothing A second ipiniter pnssul by and I was still sitting on the stove bench a pltl able monument of miscalculation 1 couldnt understand It Is It pes Bible I said to mjself that the Lord lesus has forgotten to cull me when my days are up One e citing Jut as Peter ictuincd ftom work the janitor walked lu tuile ly What In thunder Is the matter with the old woman he bellowed You say she came heie to die but confound her she Is living on ami on cheating Hie slate out of Its dues She ought to hae bought a penult of tesl dence nine months ago Now you will have to pay a line In addition Attend to this without delay as the police hold me responsible Peter poor fellow looked all per plexed never said a wotd and scratch ed his head But my daughter scarlet with t age snapped at me viciously Old fool she hissed you came heie to die didnt you A line excuse that for eating us out of house and home Now we will be sold up for taxes May you suffer In puigntory a hundred years for every kopeck we have to pay But Peter ah he Is such an angel of a fellow cant hurt a lly Krnnkn he said stop vour abuse God may punish j on for it Think how you may fare some day when you aie old Then we talked It over and Peter gave the janitor ill kopecks to hold In hand for he atgtied death might come at any minute now Klfty tlnce kopecks for a uilsciable bag of bones like me It nearly broke my heatt and Ktnnka went mound the house like a she bear bereft of her young She was so mad she smashed the soup pot In setting It down anoth er kopeck gone And all for me I wouldnt mind It so much said my daughter after a day or two If we had all got drunk for the money Ekatrina breathed hard once or twice and continued musingly I cant say that they begrudge me the soup I eat May God punish me If I ever had such a thought But at the same time I do not shorten their rations by unseemliig appetite A few spoonfuls left In the tureen is enough for me A line thing It would be Indeed If a dried up whlsp of straw such as I am allowed herself to be fattened by young married folks The Janitor became even more trouble some Peter had to give him tobacco beer money even I was exceedingly unhappy Everj thingwas going against me all my calculations went for naught Ah I learned the truth of tjie proverb Man proposes God disposes While the feather bed was still unfin ished there was perhaps some excuse for my living but when that was done I felt Ilko cursing my fate THE NOKFOLK NEWS FRIDAY JANUARY 42 1901 llrst room vvheie some gteat loids sat al tables One was most pioud and niagnllleent another was gowned all In lilaek mid Hie thltil looked lather mean I bowed down to the ground and begun to tell my story Not heie not here they said 1 bowed again and went to the next room The same story Not lieie And s I hustled from room to loom fiom table to table My strength was leaving me when ilnally a thin long gentleman took pity on old Pka til tin nnd took me Into the light chain her where the muster sat In ttate There I waited upon the thieshuld while my legs shook like aspen leaves At Inst the gnat one deigned to look up Whin Is it he asked Mtavely I unbosomed mvself utnl told him evi rj thing fiom beginning to end lie lis tened Hun aura in asked What Is it I repented niv slory of how I went to the children to die how being alto gether sure of death I omitted to buy a permit of residence how the dear Lord lesus had seemingly forgotten me and how because I continued to keep on living I was summoned befoie him The great loid rang n silver bell Immediately another came lu who looked even more beautiful for big shiny buttons weie on his coat 1 had to tell my story to htm also When I finished the master said See here Ekatrina thou ovvest the little father PvnTi mru iu 1 tiilrii It- linu Its tipfiiltnr i iiie C7ar iiuite a Heap of money IlglllS MIHI ll IVlltHlN VJIU fcUUIl for nothings can better affotd to starve than youth with Its thousand duties to fulfill No my lord they never stinted me In the way of food But the loss of icady money they suffeieil IMtty three kopecks Oh It was cruel The old woman paused to dry her tears And what happened then I asked beside me I opened my eves It was the Janitor w ho nine to fcti h me to the master of polke on account of Hie lesl ilenc permit I piaved that Hie earth might open and swallow me but my wish was wicked and was not gt anted Peter wasnt at home Piunka was washing 1 was aftald to dlsiuib her If Peter had been there he would have found means to pacify the Janitor for the moment when all would be well for 1 felt sine that 1 would Le dead before nightfall While I was weighing these things in my mind Iinnka came out with a big tub or soapy water What aie you standing mound tlieie for she scolded Get yourself to the police masters for his excellency wont be bambooled like us by stoiles of cough and fasting Your whole lesldence heie was a fraud IPs too bile now to wall about II Go and to Jail If ueces sary At first I was duinfounded but present l mv senses icttirncd Yon aie tight daughter 1 icpllcd took my shawl ami went out I walked slowly along the houses gioplng my way and leaning against a wall fiom time to time My eves weie Itching as If beset b a thousand ants and my body felt colt now as If hey weie tolling un linked lu the snow and hot then Was I so near puigntory At last I lauded i at the police masteis and entered the but we will take pity on thee and let It go at na ruuies 1 wrung my hands PIve rubles and a half The very amount to a kopeck that I had given my children to pay for the funeral Peeling swoony I leaned against the wall It got dark before my eyes and a gale was blow ing through my brain And those fine I ircntlcmcn iiimned from their senta iih A second winter season had begun lf 1y OI on 0ne grabbed the water bottle the other brought a chair Seeing the police masters compassion I knelt down nml embraced his knees Most gracious most powerful lord police master have the goodness to look at me I am Just a bit of useless dust no more As to the amount of faoul within me Its not worth bother ing about Believe me I am taking no ones place In this world sleep on a truss of straw behind the stove and But the whiter was extraordinarily foo plck no more ft pnrrmv cold nnd 1 took heart again for my A nn1 1I1I nr for i rheumatism became almost unbearable and my cough inci eased lo such In tensity that I told Franka Be cheer ful daughter there Is no deception about this The new pains will cer tainly kill me IShaw replied she contemptuous ly talk Is cheap Dont make a iiioun tain out of that molehill of a cough if you please Its no real cough tit all i Just a bit of irritation In the throat she added with scorn ft wont hurt you more than a kick will a dog I wanteil to say something but Eka trina fearing criticism of her unnatural the house while I sat In n corner by dKhter quickly continued It was 41iti ntit ioiik lrti ilclitli ItVflllL il llHil 1t the fireside to work over the down i keep that infernal janitor In liquor all the time to prevent his tattling He was forever In her kitchen smoking Peters tobacco and sending her for wodku Then I resolved upon another plan I began fasting even two days be fore the feast of Christs holy trans figuration Peter objected Do not attempt to correct God he said What must come will come Death catches a good many flies In winter lie will catch you too little mother You dont need to iuvlte 11 id by starvlug your self But I fasted Just the same And did It do any good Yes yes After 20 days I was so weak that I couldnt scrub the floor any moie I could lmtdly swallow a drop of water Zounds I thought this Is death for a surety And my heart leaped with Joy Pranka heated a big pot of water and gave it to me with a handful of soft soap also a lough piece of linen and I washed from head to foot to save them the trouble after ward donned my fresh laundered clothes and sal down on the threshold praying anil waiting The weather was most beautiful On the blue henv ens rows of white lambs chased each other I had never seen such finely formed clouds lu all my life The sun laughed larks weie singing and sptlng wns lu the air Fiom the tower near by chuich bells sounded And I cross ed mj self and said aloud Jive mu thy eternal peace O Loid and may thy light show me the road to heaven Amen And with that I closed my eyes feellug like one lid of all cm tidy misery I was going to my father 1 was courluced of It Suddenly loud steps creaking boot too weak to bicalhe much As regards sunlight I live lu the cellar where a beam seldom penetrates 1 know I ought to be dead long ago but what inn I do against this persist ent damnable costly habit of living Pray take pity on me Its suiely the heavens fault The good saint who keeps the book of life mut have ovei lookcd poor Ekatrina Dont punish mc lest the heavenly recoider may re sent It I assure your loidsblp I have been expecting death and prepaiing for It ever so long I have piayed for It dally hourly And while I owe the little father the czar may the Lord bless hlni I pild my permit of resi dence to God Thirteen children I have borne and have burled seven Oh I worked for the czar loo I gave him two recruits snapping fellows One of my boys was drowned one daughter an away with the clicus the youngest burned to death In a hayloft like a sparrow under a thatched roof Indeed my lord God and I are quits as regards the permit of i evidence quits by virtue of the child en I bore in pains anil suckled with hunger staring me lu the face Ho took It out of me In cares In hard labor in cuffs and beatings from a drunken husband In the bloody terns I that I cried on those burial grounds of yellow sand seven of them count them my lord Old Ekatrina was overcome Gieat teats rolled down her fleshless cheeks I Her lips trembled and her head cllned fiom one side to the other I Indeed I said thou hast paid for thy permit of residence in this world I After she had come to I added And What then Oh they made me pay replied the old woman without a shadow of icsent ment In her voice They took it nil my entile funeral money is gone Hut I dont blame those line gentlemen They did their duty The law Is on the books nnd must bo obeyed And now thou hast taken to ped dling Yes I sold the feather bed and bought a new permit of icsldcuce for the ensuing quarter For the next I am trying to c mii a few kopecks In nil vnnce With that constitution of mine 1 niny live another year I am begin ning to think 1 cant die Philadel phia Tlinea llii n EASD CMTDDIMa FOR SENA TOULAL CA1u DATES llixlrtlit liuil Ciiiiiuil IriMfiit I Inn I nlili nt iiiiltnl mill I till In Xru X iwl XVorMnn lir V iriluu stiiimMi Ip l inn piiii Iin Wvsiiimiiov liui lO Gongtcss Is again plunged Into the conshhtitlou of liiipui taut legislation and lueuibcis will all have a most busy time dining the siirecedlng two mouths Then- Is none ol that disposition In dally which Is so appnieiil In the long session and the tlllbu teis in the senate who have ilieii plans all mapped mil aie likely to iiieoiintet some pietty laud sled ding beloie they get thiotigh with Ihelr obsti lletlve luetics I he people at huge me 111 no mood to see luipor taut legisntlou like the army bill for liistatiie hung up a few tiltet lv Im ouseqiientinl setinlois dcsltc lo make it laundry of tin- senate in older Hi it Ihelr soiled linen muy be washed in public Men aie not scut to cou gn s to air their peisonnl gilevaiues Imt tiny aie lent llieie to legislate Im tin- uitioii and he pitlem e of even the mil lest smuter will soon be exhausted it this kind of game continues The subsitullon of the army ieor giiiiiiiilon Ulll for the shipping bill as liuiltilsheil business has compelled Hie opposition lu Hie senate to show Its hand Many of the opponents of the amy bill expected that Hie discussion ol the shipping bill almost side by side Willi the loinicr would give them a valid pietcxt for dlliloiy motions But Hie lomplete elliniuiiliou of the ship ping bill brings I he issue squniely upon the at my hill and it will stand or lull wholly upon Its own merits as ll Is di sunite it should Tlieie is plenty of evidence that this pioecdme on the pail of the leadeis has quite dlsconcci t ed those who hud their little plans all mapped out to use other impoilant mciisiiies to llllhiislcr agalnsl those lo which they weie opposed Now under tin- pievailiiig piogiamme each meas ute Is coiisldeied solely upon Its own molts I am told by a gieat many members of cougiess nud lu each blanch that they took the oppoi tunlty of their shot t recess while at home to sound public opinion regaidlug the desliablllly of the passage of the ship subsidy bill ami not a lew weie a mazed at the eial unanimity of sentiment lu favor of its passage What we want one congiesMiiiu from Michigan tells me an iinpoiinnt and InlliienHal of his told hint is a bill thai will build up our shipping and give employ ment to our own people in building ships and ilieii lu i mining lliem That is what the ship subsidy bill will do if I iindersianil its Iciins bceause the llrst thing anybody must do who wants some of the subsidy Is to build new shps in the Pulled States Thais what counts wllh the people he said and as a consequence this piiitlciilnr coug essnian Is studying the bill with a degiee of cue he had not given to It befoie The most effective prosubsldy bill In cident that has yet come to light Is the circulation of a letter by the New Yoik Itefoim club soliciting funds to help It lo scud out plate mutter In opposi tion to the shipping bill The Itefoim club Im composed of tin- most virulent fiee tiadeis in the country those for Instnnce who bltteily oppond the Mc Ivlnley tui Iff bill those who vvoiked for a much moie radical fiee tiade bill than WIKon finally gave the country and those who iietuully tiothcd al the mouth so bitter was their opposition to the Dingley KullY bill To find lids or ganization which is the essence office trade piopnganda In the Fulled States out in opposition to Hie shipping bill Is beginning to convince many who weie hitherto lukevvaim on the subject that the measure must be a good one and likely to help American and possibly Injitie foielgn Interests But the most hi siren piece of imper tinence In the eiicular letter lu ques tion was that poitlon which said In addition to tills woik I of supply Im material already on hand to news papeis tongicssnien etc who apply for It we hope to begin early lu lauii my to supply matter lu the form of plates to the KM or 500 nevvspnpeis mostly in the middle and noiihwcstcin stales willing lo aid us In defeating this bill This h the most i IVectlve and cheapest way to educate the people and It would stmt flies behjnd mnuy eongiessiuiii ami senatois who me now but lukewarm siippoiters of the pio posed subsidies Just how hot those flies will become and Jim how much that kind of home inlli ce will affect the Ivernge senator aud icpicsenlatlve ie mains to be seen If after the circular i of cried to which Indicates that 400 or 100 news- i paper mo to be subsidized to print antlslilpplng bill aiginneuts and Its fin tlier admission that Its mithnis are supplying niatcilals abeidy on hand to new spa pei s congiesHinen etc the average man falls to giasp the fact that a colossal combination N being vvoiked against a nicasuio that is Aineiican In every line then sad to say the forelgneis will continue to ab sorb our 17o00000 each year for do ug our foielgn carrying J B ACKKI f 8 I C ANCt SUP To make a rorlmic -Tim Opportunity may not Come Your Way Affain Twentieth Century Farmer Offers ii 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