"v NAST IN THE SENATE He Sketches Senator Evarts in. His Celebrated Act of Long-Sentence Evolution. THE EFFECT OF A HOSE IN REPOSE. A Few Short Lines That Produced a Man More Lite Ingalls Than Inralls is Like Himself. HIS BTBIK1KG ATTITUDES BEPBODUCED. The Greit Cartoonist Xot Tet Eeeosciled to Stent Session BeTerity. tCOEEESrONDEKCS or TUB StgrXTCH.1 Washington, June 2L It will be re membered thst in my last letter I related how Hr. Nast was unceremoniously whisked out of the Senate gallery a week ago, when he insisted on staying there and making pictures during one of the secret sessions, and how it therefore happened that he had but half of his last picture completed when I went to press. According to promise made at that time I now have the dis tinguished pleasure ol submitting the other half of that picture, not neces sarily to enable the reader to recog nize the Senator whose portrait is Concluded JY-om Last Week therein completed for anybody ought to have Known whose feet and shins those were that were published last week but as an evidence or Mr. Nast's good faith in the matter, and as an indication that had. he been permitted to remain in the gallery d ur ine the secret session he would have made some verv readable pictures. "Of course, you know who that Senator is, I said, as 1 entered the gallerv and found Mr. Kast busily engaged upon the re maining halt of the picture. "The far-reaching Senator? Oh, yes," said he, "I have seen him many a time at the Union League Cub in New York. By the way, does he occupy both the New York :hair.?" "Bless you, no; the other one is occupied by his colleague." "But it seems to be vacant most of the time." "Exactly! That is what I say; it is Jccupied by the other Senator from New STork." Mr. Nast seemed to be very much drawn Senator Evarts; and when a man Iraws Mr. Nast, Mr. .Nast always re urns the compliment by drawing him. A Sketch Repose. ie sat with his eyes glued to the cynical senatorial face for a long time. Presently ie said: "How affectionately the Senator treats imselil" "What do vou mean?" "Why, see how lovingly he wraps him elf round himself." "That is not affection, Mr. Nast; he is aerely seeking to contain himself, to keep imself from getting away from himself." "Do Senators ever lose themselves?" "Sometimes. Oftener, however, they give hemselves away." "I thought it was his affectionate nature hat made Senator Evarts hang on to him ell in this manner." "No; if it were affection, he would wrap imseli about his neck and press himself nderly to his loving breast. But you see e only hugs his understanding." Mr. Nast studied this profound proposi ,on in silence for several seconds. Then he iid: "1 don't believe cither of us ib right. I sink I have discovered why he sits in that lvolved position." "Why?" "He is framing one of those remarkable 3iitencesof his." I had to admit that the Senator's attitude -a favorite one with him did seem to bear ut the supposition; and when the gifted lgician, a lew moments later, began mak lg a speech I could not but notice that -ne of the sentences bore a striking re--mblance to the portrait which Mr. N:.st as making of the man. I imagined I uid see them winding their way up and CharaeterUtle Senatorial Altitude. ,wn the labyrinthine twistingsof his lees rinting in the narrow confines of his ighs, dragging themselves up the ru-red rraces of spine, excurslnz through" the ,gles of his arms, and ultimately lodgine his head, to be on tap when he should ie and need a good, long sentence to reel t and wind and wind and wind about the nate. "It'has been whispered," said a centle in sitting near us, "that Mr. Evarts has a ach of thcosophy in his religion." -IP "And believes in reincarnation?" "I presume so." "What a fine old tree he must hare been when he was on earth before I" ""Why a tree?" "Don'tyou notice how much his mind is like a tree; how his mental sap starts up the trunk of a subject and turns off into every branch, every twig; every stem and every Tein of every leal?" "Yes; and results in shutting off the light from every shrub and herb beneath it." This conversation was waxing so super poetio that I shut it off by calling Mr. Nast'a attention to Senator Evarts' face in repose. At once his pencil began to jiggle thro ugh a series of odd gyrations. But his mind was not wholly on the pictnre he was making. His injured soul seemed to be gratingits teeth over the ignominious manner in which be was hustled from the gallery last week. "But executive sessions are secret," I said. "Whit of that?" he answered, tartly. "I'll bet I can keep a secret as well as any Senator here." A Life-Size Portrait. "But you know the Senators are sworn to secrecy, while you are not." "Then there's all the more likelihood that I wouldn't blab. When you swear a man to keep a secret he has two Incentives for telling it the desire to let somebody into it and the desire to violate his oath. What did they do at that secret session? Have you heard?" "Oh, yes; the papers told it all, of course, next morning. They merely confirmed a lew foreign appointments." "Did they confirm the appointment of Murat Hals'tead to his new position in Will iamsburg?" "I believe not." "I don't see how any Senator could object to that. It was too bad that Colonel Hal stead was not sent to Berlin," added Mr. Nast. "He cnuld have got even with Bis marck for objecting to the American hog." "How? 1 should like to know." "Why, of course if he had gone over there he would have taken his pen with him. But then perhaps it is just as well, since he has now transported it to a place where it will probably do the greatest good to the greatest number." While Mr. Nast was uttering these for eign opinions I watched his pencil. I could not make out what the jumble of strange lines meant until he added a reposeful-looking nose to them. I recalled what Napo leon said about noses, and fancied I could see the Emperor looking in admiration at this picture and declaring his willingness to abdicate in favor of the -owner-and possessor of that nose. Just then Senator Ingalls came in and looked over the Senate with a searching eye. Seeing nothing else that he wanted to take, he took his seat. "Draw him? Of course I can draw him. He's nothing to draw," said Mr. Nast, yanking a picture out of the air, as it seemed, and slapping it upon the paper. "Anybody can draw him." "A good many Senators have tried it with out very successful results." "Pshaw! Senators can't draw." "Guess you haven't heard about Don Cameron filling out that bob-tail straight flush the other night." "I suppose Senator Ingalls has been drawn more than any other public man of the pres ent time," said Mr. Nast. "Well, to be perfectly frank, I must say he looks it. And as for this picture of yours, Th., he looks as if Tie had been drawn through a knot hole." Maybe you don't like that, pictnre," said he, in a quarrelsome sort of way. "Well, candidly, I don't." "What's the matter with it?" "Why, it looks as if the Senator were consrions that his picture was being taken, and had struck an attitude tor the purpose. Now that sort of thing is what One may ex pect of theatrical actors, but it is hardly up to the dignity of a United States Senator. I think your pictnre does Senator Ingalls great injustice in this respect, Mr. Nast." "I suppose, then, you want something of the conventional Bort. Very well, how does this life-size portrait suit vou?" A Ltttle Frozen Oratory. "That is much better, though it seems really too bad to sacrifice the Senator's dreamy-looking plaid pants. Don't you yourself, Mr. Nast, think this is a better style of picture of a United States Senator than one in which he seems to be posing consciously?" "No, I don't; and I may as well tell you right now that what you don't know about the art of picture-making would cut nr into strips and reach from here to nowhere. Sir, you must get character into a picture. It is not enough to make something that looks like the man; it must be the very man him self on pacer. You suggest in a vague sort of way your capability of ultimately grasping this idea when yon say vou miss Senator Ingalls' plaid pants. "Now, to the real artist it doesn't make a bit of difference whether in tact he wears plaid pants or not; if plaid pants match his com plexion better than those he actually wears, the artists must dress him as befits him. So with regards to attitudes. I don't know whether Senator Ingalls, for example, ever took a hand in a genteel prize fight or posed as an elegant tough, but when the artist looks at him he must see him in the atti tudes that fit him." At this point Senator Ingalls got up and walked back into the Smoking room, and every time he passed up and down before the open door the artist brought his instan taneous pencil to bear on him with such effect that the pictures he made were more ike Ingalls than Ingalls Is like himself. Willis B. Hawkins. THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH BEATS THE TAKPON. Senator Quay Mast Hie Away to the South Sea for Real Sport. THE KIKG OF ALL THE GAME FISH 1 Is the Monster Tunny, Which Tnrni on Its Captors la Its Anger. HOW TUB NATIVES USE THELE LINES IWttlTTEX TOB TUX EISrATCH.l There is so much water in the South Sea and so little land, and what land there is has such small dimensions that the inhabitants are by nature almost amphibious and are fully as skilled in the arts ot the sea as in those of the firmer Bhore. And the sea gives good reward to those who practice its arts. It teems with fish of all sizes and shapes and colors, fish for the net, fish for the spear, fish for the trap, fish for the baited hook and fish which greedily catch themselves upon the flashing lure of the trailer. The fisher stands upon the cool beach in the early morning. Close at hand where the quiet water laps the rocky coral that etching of the surface in a myriad cross hatcheled lines means the orderly school of mullet, as toothsome a dainty as was ever drawn from the sea. Just beyond the mul let's feeding ground those splashes of silver which dart throueh the air and splash upon the sea like the first great drops of the sum mer thunder shower, are the flying fish which are caught upon the wing. Fish for them at night, but mark their place now, for they are a sure sign of game fish below greedy for the hook. Far out by the reef those dark triangles are the great sharks, 20, 30, 40 leet long; they more lazily now, but let them once feel the spear in the solt skin behind the pectorals and they can be as active as a steam engine. Those glistening streaks near the sharks show where 'the switt tunny glides. BUTTERFLIES OF THE DEEP. Best the canoe a moment over this patch of coral, which seems to grow from the white sand of the bottom like a sturdy tree, reach ing its tangled branches nearly to the sur face. Look over the side and watch the fish swimming in and ont among those stony branches; they are as gaudy as the most brilliant birds, their scales flash all the colors of the most richly-painted butterflies. Sometimes the highly-colored fish are pois onous. On the shady side of such a patch is the place to drop a baited hook, the eager fish dart out into sight to grasp their food and the water is so clear and the bottom so white that the fisher can watch every move ment and angles by sight instead of in re sponse to jerks upon the line, which turn out to be but nibbles. The tackle of these island fishers is simple and in every respect is of the same sort as other civilizations have evolved under simi lar conditions. The rod is the green bamboo, which will resist any strain a. fish could bring upon it. Their lines are of two sorts, the finer twisted of the fine fiber of the pan danusleaf, the latter plaited into a sennit of the coir fiber of the husk of the cocoahut The pandanus lines are strong, but not very durable, the coir line is strong and is really improved bv exposure to salt water. In the utter absence of metal workers books are made from shells by the slow process of rub bing them down on smooth stones. The smaller hooks are made from the cone shell and a painstaking workman can make per haps ten in a long day. Rough-and-ready makeshifts arcsometfmes provided from a lorked twig to which a sharp cone is affixed by way of barb; these are untrustworthy be cause the twig is apt to break or bend. " The largest hooks used in trolling for such great fish as the tnnny arc made of pearl shell, and are some six or eight inches long, very sharp, very neatly barbed and usually dec orated with a bright bunch of feathers. NETS AND TRAPS. Small nets are woven ot the pendanus, lareer ones of the coir fiber. Fish traps are small, but effective affairs. For this pur pose fishers make clever use of the covering which protects the first leaves of the sprout ing cocoanut It is a thickly matted growth of fiber which is cast aside by the leaf when it begins to unfold; in snape it is a cone about 20 inches long and very strong. In the bottom or this long cone the fisher ties his bait and sinks his trap in any conveni ent place. The hungry fish runs his head into the cone alter the tempting morsel and finds too late that be has run his head into a bag which there is no shaking off. Trying to back out of the sack he comes to the sur face, where his violent exertions call atten tion to his plight and he exhausts himself and is easily picked up. Still another device completes the fisher man's outfit. A vine which grows abund antly about the shore is bruised in the hands and made into a bundle to which a stone is attached. This is sunk in a basin in the coral where fish are seen to be numerous; in a few minutes the sap clouds the water and the fish as they begin to feel its influence swim about giddily lor a short time and then float belly up at the surface. It is necessary to revive fish thus taken by putting then in uncontaminated water as otherwise they taint very rapidly. SOME PECULIAR BAIT. Almost anything which lives UDon the beach serves as bait from the gorgeous sea anemone up to the smaller try ol the fish themselves. Many of the molluscs are an at tractive'bait when cracked out of their shells and particularly the cowrie is greedily snapped up by ail fish though it is very dif ficult to get the meat out of the shell in good condition. Hermit crabs abound, thev are easily drawn Irom their second hand shells and are a good bait for ground feeding fish. Surface feeders rise readily to a natural fly or moth tied to a hook and sometimes will snap at a leather. A combination ot bait and tackle is found in the devil fisb or octopus which abounds in the crevices of the coral and frequently has arms a foot in length. When tied to a hook and dropped overboard this bait is a three- old lottery whose result it is impossi ble to foretell. Either some large fish will take the octopus and be hooked, or the devil fish will catch ten or a dozen smaller fish with his snekers, or the bait will take such firm bold of the bottom or of a stem of coral as not to be dislodged, and iu that case it is necessary to sacrifice the hook and all the lice beyond reach. It is a difficult bait to affix to the hook, for each of the eicht arras is equipped with suckers which draw the blood from every point they touch and in the midst is a cruel bill like a hawk's. HOOKING THE MULLET. The mullet likes hermit crab, but the angler must allow them abundance of time to take the bait, and, above all t nines, must not attempt to strike at the first nibble, fox down under water there is going on some very pretty maneuvering where the fish is trying to reach the soft parts of the crab and at the same time avoid the nipping claws. A surface feeder, which will take almost any floating bait, is a two or three pound fish which much resembles the northern John Dory. It has the same shape, though fts colors are far more brilliant, and upon each gill cover it has .the characteristic .thumb and finger m.irks which recall the old tradition that this fish is the one which yielded the apostles their piece ol tribute money. This is a fish to test the strength of tackle to the utmost, and it caljs for the best art of the angler to land it. Net fish ing is carried on along shore in two ways. Each fisherman carries a net a fathom iu length by half that in breadth, and stretch ing it irom hand to hand slyly draws it un der a fisb which he sees lurking in some pool. When the net is well under the fish a quick jerk of the hands brings him to the suriace, where he might easily escape if It were not that by some peculiar knack im possible to describe and almost impossible for a white man to acquire, a half turn has been put in the net, completely entangling v PITTSBUHG, SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 1890. the fish. The longer nets are drawn through the water by bearers stationed two fathoms apart in the ordinary way. THB TIEBY BED SKAPPEB. Drop line fishing frbm a canoe will bring rood returns. Among the coral patches lurks the red snapper ready to gorge the bait and then lie so motionless that no jerk upon the line gives a hint that a fish is below. But when the fisherman begins to haul in his line he will find a surprise in the vigor ous pull which will come upon it and perhaps jerk it ont of his hands. The snap per tactics are peculiar and baffling. When the first pull comes upon the line the fish makes a dash directlyalong the bottom.and, keeping the line always taut, thus comes to the surface and leaps into the air. Then it swims in a circle about the canoe, always in one direction. It is impossible to haul the fish in and the usual plan is to allow the fish to wind the line about two paddles, and thus haul himself within striking distance, where a well-directed blow will break his neck. . The grouper, another bottom-feeling fish, takes the hook very lightly, and the moment he feels the prick makes a dash straight up ward to the surface, and darts quickly to one side just before breaking water. This makes it a very hard fish to strike, and one may well feel proud ofcatching even one in a dozen bites. Among many strange fish to hecanght up on the same feeding grounds, fish of odd shapes and gorgeous colors, quite unknown in colder waters, occurs an oddity which makes no connt in the fisherman's take. The reason for his abstinence is a tradition of a dreadful fate wbioh should smite the man who should dare to even taste the fish reserved by taboo for his womankind. So it is that when he brings his catch ashore the women overhaul the fish and take them for their own dainties. THE KINO 07 QAME FISH. The finest sport comes in trolling for tunny. The swift canoe flies over the sea, the long line trails out astern and SO fathoms away the shining hook of glistening pearl shell leaps from wave to wave and catches the lieht upon its irridesoent surfaces and flashes the gay colors from its bunch of bright feathers. The sea seems empty as that glittering bauble tows over the stern, yet the sport will come to the one who has patience. Far astern the watchful eye takes note of a sleek back cleaving the surface; it might be a dolphin were it not so sharp. The canoe, with a fair wind, is paying off a good 12 knots, yet that object overhauls her hand over hand, as though she were at anchor. Thus thetunny first shows himself. He has come alongside the fishing hook and" slackens pace that he may look; he darts now on this side and now on that, forges ahead and drops astern, and all this while the men on the canoe stand in anxious ex pectation to see if the fish will bite. Sud denly he leaps through the water in great bounds and seizes the gleaming hook and stops short. Then comes another anxious moment; but all is safe, the line is stout, the hook bites deep into the jaws, the right begins of man against the most agile fish of the seas. To play such a fish as this means seaman ship of the highest order. He darts about the canoe in a circle, he leaps high out of the water, he dives toward the distant bot tom, he comes to the surface as though shot irom a mighty submarine bow. Every movement he makes must be anticipated by the canoe, the strain must be taken from the line which stands clear out of the water like a rod of steel, 300 feet without a sag. A SASH FOR LIBERTY. At last the fish finds himself mastered, Se knows that he is caught, but he seems re solved on dne desperate stroke to release himself. At the top of his speed" he rushes vfjvu iuomuuc, Buiuecimes ae siriKes II so fair a blow that he breaks in its sides; some times he comes aboard to be beaten to death with clubs. Whoever brings a tunny to shore does it only after experiencing the novel sensation of being himself hunted by the fish he went out to catch. But for sport and for food it is a royal fish. One other scene shows the Srfuth Sea fish ing in a milder light. In the gentle breath of the evening wind two canoes glide soltly side by side over the -waters, gemmed with the twinklintr reflection or the .stars gleam ing warmly overhead, waters strangely lit by glowing effulgence at the bottom. Between the two canoes hang a broad strip of cloth, whose clews and foot are held up to form a bag. Suddenly torches gleam and throw flickering flashes or light upon the white screen, strange whirring noises fill the air, flying objects strike thescreen and fall help less into the bag at the bottom. Thus dainty morsels, the flying fish, catch themselves while the fishers sail the quiet waters of the South Sea, where the charm of the summer night is the charm of every night. William Campbell. THE THE0BY OF CBYSTALS. Ancient Scientists Drclared They Were Flecea orico Too Hard to Blelt. "The ancients," says a collector of curios n the Washington Star, "had a theory that rock crystal was actually ice frozen to great density and by duration of time congealed beyond liquidation. VKrystal los" in Greek means 'ice.' The famous wrljsr on natural philosophy, Pliny, who wrote more facts that were not true than ever any man collected together before or since, says that crystal is undoubtedly water frozen by cold so intense that nothing can melt it again. Eoman ladies of that time were accustomed to carry spheres or cystal in their hands during hot weather for cool ness. It was the thing also to have the material worked into wine jugs and other vessels. Nero had two "drinking cups of crystal worth 53,000 each and a crvstal ladle nlso; but when he learned that he had lost his kingdom he broke them, lest they fall into the hands of anyone else. a. crystal lens was employed in Home to kindle the sacred vestal fire. Great care was taken not to put the crystal ware in a warm place for fear it would melt. The most remarkable discovery of crystal on record was made in 1867 above the Tiefen glacier by a party of tourists, a single cave in the granite yieldingl.000 crystals ot irom B0 to 100 pounds' weight." MUST BE OBIODJAL A Parisian Belle Will Not Tolerate a Paraii.1 Ilnndle Like Any Other Belle's. TheSesjon.i r Parisian ladies devote especial care on the choice of their parasol handles. According to their idea, an elegant lady's parasol must have a perfectly original handle, such as noUiossessed uy any of her rivals. Whole sale goods are of no value. There are ladies who even sacrifice their jewelry to this principle. For in stance, the ring with the figure resting on its curve was once a bracelet, the two dragons once figured as brooch and shawl pin on their owner's bosom; the buttoa-like handle in the middle of the illustration was originally the stopper of a scent bottle, and the snake formerly wound its golden coils round a fair, white arm. These things are a -very innocent luxury and very.beautiful. ifi TIT lli (Tin I If Jm H w 0 j&k iTT C?2i v " rr k I I DNCLE TOM'S CABIN la Another Language and Directed Against Another Wrong. ORIGINAL EXILES OF SIBERIA. The Boolr That Directed the World's Atten tion to Russia in 1806. PBASKOWJA LUPOLOWA'S IHSPIKATI0S rWBITTEX VOK THZ DISBATCJI.l Praskowja Lupolowa: In all the writings of George Kennan, of Stepniak, of Joseph Hatton, there is no figure more pathetic than that of the beautiful young girl who bore this name. Who and what was she7 Ab, that is a mvstery, like everything that relates to the dreadful Bussian horror ban ishment to Siberia. This much is certain: Her father was a Pole who was exiled to Siberia for a politi cal offense. Doomed to this life of hell upon earth, he little deemed that deliver ance would come while his mortal spirit en dured; least of all that his freedom would be attained by the almost superhuman efforts of his frail daughter ot 17 years. This miraculous event occurred as by an gelic supervention; for how otherwise can we account for the safe conduct of a girl of 17who undertook on foot a journey of 2,700 miles, from the Siberian deserts to the court of Moscow? This awful journey Praskowja Lopolowa made, nerved to the task by the wild hope of winning the par don of her father by throwing herself at the feet of the Czar. And that pardon she won. In 1810, six years after her wonderful act of filial devotion, Praskowja Lupolowa died at Novogorod. Not for the real heroine, but for one of fiction, .whose exploits were taken from those of Praskowja, was the heart of tne unristian world moved to pity. AN UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. In 1806 "Elizabeth, or the Exiles of Siberia," was published in Paris, and in stantly became the leading topic of conversa tion in every cultivated circle in Europe and America. The sensation the bookcreated was analogous to that which "TJncle Tom's Cabin" caused a half century later; and that "The Exiles of Siberia" did not win for its authoress that un'ading renown which will ever be associated with the name of Harriet Beecher Stowe, is only due to the fact that- tne evu tne latter combatted was destroyed, while the Siberian exile system endures to this day and how much longer will it endnre? The authoress of "The Exiles of Siberia" was Madame Sophie Cottin, born Bistaud. In 1790 Sophie was married to Monsieur Cottin, a Parisian banker, much her senior, whom she had seen but a lew times previous to the wedding day. With him she occu pied a magnificent private hotel in Paris, and their entertainments of the beau monde were nothing less than princelv. In three years her husband died. This was in the fatal year of 1793. The revolution swept away the colossal fortune which she should have inherited, and left her a modest com petence, on which she lived in ease and re tirement. Then she began to write. Her first efforts were in the line of that which is now a lost art, namely, epistolary effusions. Her letters to friends were so fascinating that almost iff'spite of herself she was led to publication. HEE CEOWWINO "WOBK. "Malvina," a love novel, was a great success. "Claire," "Amelie," "Matiide." sustained her reputation. But the hour of her full fame arrived when "Elizabetn, or The Exiles of Siberia," was given to an astonished world. The story was intensely thrilling. The hero was called "Stanislas Springer," but under that humble cognomen the authoress conveyed the information that he was none other than Prince Potowsky, heir to the Kingnom of Poland, co-prisoner with Kosciusko, sent into exile by the Empress Catherine. In her preface to the work Madame Cottin wrote: "This is a true story, but the real heroine is much above mine. In giving an aid to Elizabeth in enduring her trip to Moscow, I much diminished her danger." The real heroine was not far to seek. It was Praskowja Lupulowa, who belonged to a distinguished family, but the cause of whose father's exile was unknown. El'za beth makes the journey ol 2,700 miles on foot, accompanied part of the way by an aged missionary, Father Paul. "Scarcely anything in fiction is more touching than the picture of the death of this venerable man of God, leaving the delicate girl of 17 alone in the wilds of Siberia, with a few roubles for all ber store. Even these she soon parts with. She meets an unfortunate man who is being dragged to the place ot his exile, and who, lacking the small sum necessary, cannot let his beloved daughter know his late. She gives him her last kopec, and only asks as a reward that he will give Stanisla's Springer, her father, a lock of her hair, when they meet in exile. THE BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT. She coutinues her awiul journey. What fearsome sights it is her's to behold! She begs her way and at last she perceives the walls of Mocow, and learns that the Em peror has arrived and is to be crowned in a lew days. Those whom she now supplicates Believe her to be an impostor, and she tails fainting from cold, hunger and fatigue, in sulted by soldiery, almost perishing, when a man of pity gives ber an honest shelter. The scene where she asks and obtains the pardon of her father is doubly dramatic by its interrnption of the ceremony of corona tion and by the unexpected arrival of the son of the Governor of Tobolsk, who loves her; she loves, too but her feelings have been so absorbed in her filial duty that she has had no thought foraughtelse. In giving him her hand she makes him promise never to quit her parents. Ibe geographical knowledge displayed in the book was at that time a revelation. Edition after edition of the book was ex hausted; the "Exiles of Siberia" were soon known in all modern languages. Dorvo dramatized thework,and a charming metric al version of the work appeared in England. Although Elizabeth's story is not now, as once it was, an active leature in literature, it must ever hold the distinguished and valuable position of having been in belles lettres, if not in stern reality, the original "Exiles of Siberia." Olive Looan. THE MOTOR GANGLIA Explanation of tbe cclvlly In Flrb After Dentil Hm Occnrred. Washington Evening Star. Tear out the heart of a human being quickly and it will continue to beat for some seconds after it has been parted from the body. A frog's heart will pulsate for 21 hours after It his been taken from the batrachian. Ignorant persons suppose this to mean that the heart is still alive, and their notion is very natural. But the fact is merely that there are in the irog's heart certain groups of movement nerves, called "motor ganglia, which fcrep ou agitating the, organ until they are starved (Tut by want of nutrition, thuugh no actual lite is pres ent. There are motor ganglia in the human beart also, but thev are not so strong in their action. When the flesh of a turtle is cut up in pieces for a stew tbe scraps continue to quiver for many hours. The popular notion is that the turtle is so tenacious ot existence that it keeps on living, though chopped up. In reality the fragments of the motor nerves in the flesh, stimulated by cutting, keep up an automatic movement Galvanism was accidently discovered through the clftnce contact ot an electrio wire with a irog's leg on Galvini's table. A human being dead for quite a while may be affected in like manner by the electric current. Vv m 0 A ROMANCE OF RUSSIA AMD SIBERIA. BY PRINCE JOSEF LUBOMIRSKI, Author of "Safer-Hadji, a Story of Turkiatan," Eta Translated From the Russian tor The Dispatch BY META DE VERA. SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. Valdlmlr Lanln, of noble birth, weds Jana Wernin, daughter of a rich resident of St. Peters burg. Onlphrl Schelm, the villain ot the story, is high In authority. He had soueht Jana's band and was rejected with scorn. Scbelm's life work seem to be to revenge himself on Lanin and his bride. He purchases the services of Miller, a schoolmate of his aid ot Lanln's. Under Schelm's instructions Miller, in the guise of a friend, betrays Lanin and has bm taken prisoner with a band of conspirators, the bead of which is Tbe Ace of Clubs. Lanin is sent to Siberia. Miller bad Scbelm's promise of help bat he knows too much to suit tbe latter and b, too. is sent to the mines. Nicholas PoposT, a dischareed employe of Scbelm's, gets papers showing that Lanin is innocent of part in tbe conspiracy. These papers fall into tbe bands of Colonel Palkln, also high In authority. Schelm bribes Palkln, gets back the papers and sends Popofl to Siberia. Then he gets Palkin transferred to Siberia. Jana gets tbe Czar's consent to join ber bsband and sets out with Dr. Haas, her friend; Popofl? mother and bis sweetheart. Palkln falls in with them and, partly out of passion for Jana and partly out of hope be can nse them to avenge himself on Schelm. acts as their escort. Once be betrays bis desiens to Jana, but t rlgbtens her so she dares not tell of it. Jana rents a beantlfnl house and for a time Vladimir is happy again. Then come orders from Schelm that Vladimir must be treated as a most danger ous criminal and forbidden his visits to Jana. Desperate, be joins an exile conspiracy. Miller is at the bead of it. The men meet and Miller craves Vladimir's forgiveness, and. alter telling bis story, is freely forciven. Palkln bas Vladimir arrested on the gruund that ha is found away from bis hut. He catcbes Popofl at Vladimir's hut, has him stripped, bound and knouied. At every blow he demands PopoiTs papers against Schelm. Popoll refuses and tbe awf nl torture continues. Suddenly Dr. Haas, who with Jana bad succeeded In notifying Miller, enters and sees that Popoll is dying. He pleads for mercy. Just then Miller and bis men arrive. A fear ful flzbt follows, in which several men are killed. Palkln is bound to the center post. Jana and Popoff a betrothed enter upon tbe bloody scene. When Popoff is prononnced dead Helen asks Miller to take ont his false tooth. Miller refnses and Helen seizes a dagger, with which she pries open tbe jaws of her dead lover. Tbe false tooth Is broken, and from it Is taken Scbelm's receipt, tbe proof of his gnilt. Then the exiles force the Captain to knout Palkln. Tbe beating eoes on until Palkin is almost dead, wben the approach of soldiers puts the exiles to flight. Helen is arrested. Miller finds Jana and gives her Scbelm's receipt and bis own J roofs against Schelm. and bids her go to St. Petersburg. He promises to care for Vladimir, ana and Dr. Haas start on the homeward Jonrney, passing tbe reviser on the way. This reviser proves to be Schelm himself. On his first meeting with Palkin Schelm takes steps to destroy bim. Palcin stavs tbe calamity by claiminc to bave tbe receipt taken from PopoiTs month. Then Schelm and Palkln arrange to get Vladimir out of the way forever. CHAPTEB XXVL Palkin soothed his aching wounds for a moment, while Schelm seemed to enjoy his pain. At last Palkin said: "Listen, I pray," and he told the story of his knout ing. When the Countess Lanin was men tioned as taking part in the conspiracy, Schlem jumped up with delight. At tbe same time he was at the door and called the adjutant on duty. "Bequest the Governor to come to me at once!" he ordered. Joyously he rubbed his hands and re turned to his seat. "Go on quickly." "That baud was armed with carbines. My gendarmes were instantly thrown down. I myself fought as long as I could and cut down a number of these men, but in the end I was overpowered, tied to a post and cruelly knou.ted." Schelm's malignity was too strong for his cunning. He could not conceal his delight and laughed a-loi'J. .Palkin bit his lips to keep back his fury, but his eyes glowed the fare of unquenchable hatred. "Xou may laugn nowi ne murmurea to himself. "Now to the point: The Captain of gendarmes of Irkutsk was their accom plice!" "Not possiblel How could the Governor have such people near him?" "I shall speak of bim, also, presently! Enontrh. this Captain offered to inflict the punishment. The inspector and the Cos sacks will bear witness that Lanin participa ted in the affair." The Governor's aid here entered the apartment. "The Governor," he said, very much em barrassed, "is momentarily engaged; he sends word, however, that he will be here directly." Schelm was so furious he did not know what to do. "Do you know who I am?" he threaten ingly asked the poor, trembling officer. "Yes, Your Excellency." "Do yon know that everybody here has to obey me?" "Yes, Your Excellency." "The Governor is himself responsible for his own conduct, but ynu must be ready to carrv out everv one at my orders." "Yes, Your Excellency." "You will go instantly to the house occu pied by the Countess Lanin. Arrest every person whom you may find there, even strangers. The matter is important. Do you hear?" "But, Your" Schelm sprang up from his chair. "Are you still here? Do you wish to be court-martialed?" The Adjutant went away in great terror. "The Minister was not mistaken; the whole nest is full of rebellious creatuns! The Governor is most to blame. They do not know me yet; I'll crush the vermin! Tell me, Palkin, what sort of a man is he, to send me such an answer?" t"You might compare him to a knight errant. I must have sent 20 denunciations against him to Petersburg nr more. It la well known that he protects the exiles, and believes all they say. He has overcome a few barbarous hordes of natives, and now thinks he can do what he chooses. I knew that be was a great lavnrite with the Czar, and on that account I feared I could do nothing azainst him. But your arrival proves that my reports must at last bave bad their effect." "Not exactly. The Minister of the In terior asked me, it is true, to be strict and even severe; but, on the other hand, the head of the gendarmes recommended to me to spare the Governor General of Irkutsk as much as I could, as he was the most loyal man in all Bussia. I came here with tbe intention of being very considerate with bim it he should make no opposition, but I see" Schelm did not conclude, for at that mo ment the Governor appeared in the door; he must have heard the last words of the revisor, for he asked: "Well, and what do you see, Mr. Schelm?" Tho general was in full -uniform and his talk, soldier-like appearance, made quite an impression upon people like Schelm, uho are haughty only with their inferiors. The revisor bowed and sat down slightly embar rassed. Military discipline required Pal kin to remain standing in the Governor's presence, but the latter motioned him with the hand to omit the formality. "Your wounds have not bad time yet to heal, Colonel," he siid ironically. "Keep your seat therefore." He seemed to evince a hidden control over the two scoundrels like a sovereign, for they looked at each other helplessly. Soon, however, Schelm remembered the supreme power with which he was for the time en dowed, and nt once his presence of mind and bis impudence revived again. "I see, General," he began in a harsh' tone, "the administration of East Siberia leaves much to wish or." The Governor bit his lips, and his eye flashed, but he checked himself, and asked, quietly: "How do you ascertain that, Mr. Be visor? Perhaps you will have the kindness,, to point out anv shortcomings." This apparent resignation seemed to en courage Scheim to think that he had intim idated this great man. "The nightly surprises and acts of vio- si- '. ftVt' FP M r'i lence against the representatives of the Czar's authorities are quite eloquent enough. A band jof exiles dared attempt the life of the Colonel here, and the Cap tain, whom you appointed, is also in volved." The General replied with studied cour tesy and quiet: "The events to which you allude are known to me; but I consider them in a dif erent light. That act of violence was pro voked by the abuse of which the Colonel was guilty." "General, such operations," broke in Pal kin. But the Governor did not allow him to finish. "Have you also been appointed revisor, that you dare interrupt your superior? When I shall cease speaking you may de fend yourself." "It your presence, Mr.. Bevisor, had not for the time suspended my authority I should already have ordered an inquiry into the matter, but as I heard of it only at tbe time when your coming was announced, I postponed action." Schelm was more and more convinced that the General was giving way, and this idea filled him with arrogant pride. Ha said enrtly: "What else?" The General could not suppress an ironical smile, but he continued quietly: "As to the Captain, oi whose criminality I am not informed, as tbe Colonel keeps him a prisoner in his own house, I beg to observe that I promoted this man, who Is unknown to me, at the special request of Colonel Palkin. Hence the responsibility would in tbe first place seem to rest with hinueli." "We shall inquire into that hereafter," said Schelm. The consciousness of seeing his vanity gratified made him verv happy. He tboughtthe Governor bad humbled himself belore him and was surrendering at discre tion. He said, tberelore, reproachfully: '' n tt 111 SOMEONE SLIPPED A LETTEE STEALTHILY INTO VLADIMIR'S BAND. "Besides this. General, I have several otber complaints to make. The way in which you sent me word through your Ad jutant" The General interrupted him with the most courteous smile on his lips: "You seemed to be so much excited when I entered, and I was so much struck bv the Inst words of your conversation that I for got to make my excuse. I was just en gaged in giving orders about my de parture." 'You mean to leave Irkutsk?" asked jjchelrn. "I cannot understand." And yet tbe matter is very simple. I sur render the administration of East Siberia to the civil Governor of Irkutsk and leave to night for Petersburg." Schelm sprang up. "Are you making fun of me?" "That is very lar from me." "TlienI forb'id vou most solemnly to leave this place." The General could not keep from laugh ing aloud. "Your journey seems to have affected you badly, my dear Mr. Schelm. You will forbid me? You will order me? I pray, do you really think vou have the right to give orders? What doyou think I am?" Schelm could not recover at once his pres ence ot mind; he was soused to see his in-' feriors tremble belore him, that a really dignified manner was incomprehensible to him. Angrily he exclaimed: "The Czar sends me here as a revisor." "In order to Inspect East Siberia, and in this no one will interfere with you. Bat this does not by any means authorize you to .U.V..V.. n..u ucuciiM uguui wisju ana ui i personal affairs. If you reflect a moment you will see that you made a serious mis takel" At these words Schelm's brow clouded over; he felt how dangerous the General, with all his high-bred courtesy, might be, and yet he saw no escape. "Do ynu wish to declare war against ras General?" he asked. . "What can you mean? Do you represent any high power? I am arcustomed to fight onlv independent powers" "General I this boldness " "You insist upon treating me as a sub ordinate. You must know then, Mr. Be visor, that you insult me, if you peer intd my private affairs, and I shall not fail to report this to His Majesty the Emperor, who must surely be ignorant of your being here. During my long service I have been commanded by sovereigns, princes of royal and imperial blood, generals grown gray in wars, but never by spies I" The Governor said all this as coolly and calmly as if he had been speaking of very ordinary topics. Schelm was clever enough to see that he was no match for such a man. Besides, the insulting epithet "spies" closed bis lips, and be began to realize tha limits within which he might use hit privileges. "Very well, General." he said, not with out a certain feeling of respect, "the whole affair will be settled before a higner author ity; but I hope you will not raise any diffi culty against tbe duties I have to perform .n Siberia?" "How could I conceive such an idea?" replied the General. "I am very well awara of my own duty. You have been appointed revisor of Eastern Siberia. Very well then I Bevise. inquire, spy out all you wish to find ! I have no right to inter ere with your work. For the time being 1 have ceased to be Governor General 1" "The Lanin family, whom you protect " "Let me tell you, once for all, that I pro tect no one, as I do not desire to persecute) anyone." Schelm interrupted him visibly excited, and. with a wink to Palkin, he added : "Not even the enemies of the Czar?" The Colonel had pulled out a notebook and a pencil. The General noticed it with a smile of contempt. "Not even the Czar's enemies I I insist upon it that no one shall escape due punish ment, but I, also do not persecute any one. Count Lanin was caught absent irom his as siened hut., I have sentenced him for this to three months' imprisonment These pun ishments, decreed by me, continue during; my absence, and I insist upon their being; faithfully carried out by my subalterns. You are, therefore, not at liberty to increase the Codnt's punishment, nor to reduce it. If I shonld not be here at the end of the time, you can then do as vou like." Now Palkin cast an unmistakable glance at tha revisor and put away again his notebook with the new entries he had made. Schelm replied : "I have ordered the Countess to be ar rested on the spot" The Governor looked at him in aston ishment "Arrested? You? Whom?" "The Countess Lanin here In Irkutsk in her own house!" "As to that, jou ought to have informed me of your intentions," replied the General, with an ironical smile. "1 could have saved yon some trouble. The Countess left lor Petersburg three davs ago." "She has left? Who gave her leave?" "I, on the strength of the imperial ukase." In spite of his usual self-control Palkin, here started up, after having been a silent witness so lar. and cried madly: "You dared that?" The Governor measured him with a look of utter contempt, and said: "You venture to us? very-bold, language. You forget you are only at liberty to maka nnta S "And I shall not fall taking down vour words, General," continued Palkin, still be side himself: "but this is too much. I shall at once send my report " "Oh! I doubt not" Schelm trembled with subdued fnry. Ha cried: "I must have her pursued! This is open rebellion! Did tu not know I was coming? Colonel Palkin, give at onte ihe necessiry ord-rs and send a few gendarmes after her!" "I doubt whether you will do anything in that way. The Countess has tnree' days advance, and she travels with a passport signed by the Czar. You ought to save ua- necessary expenditures. Fortunately w8 have no telegraphs vet in Siberia." "Yes, indeed! Fortunatelyl" repeated the Governor, "Put back your book, my dear gendarme, I am ready to confirm with my signature all I have said so far." Schelm could not brook delay. He said to Palkin: "I implore you. Colonel, make haste to bring that woman back here I She must be brought back I" "I told you your measures would be with out result," satd the Governor. "Besides, I have ordered all post horses on the routa to be reserved for my own use, so that I could first of all overtake her and then I should certainly accompany her on her journey." "And thus protect her against being ar rested?" "Certainly 1" "Well, we'll see how that will be looked at in Petersburg," Schelm exclaimed, per lectly beside himself. "Yes, yes. And now I wish you good by. My substitute will report to you, Mr. Be visor." The Governor left them with slow, digni fied steps. Palkin and Schelm looked at each other rather anxiously. "That is our worst enemy," said Palkia at last "All my denunciations avail noth ing as long as he enjoys the Czar's favor. We must make baste to destroy Lanin and to prevent this woman from reaching Peters burs, or we are lost" Schelm shook his head. "I do not know why, but I hare had pre- ' sentments and almost earl" "That is your wayl" laushed Palkia,
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