THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURO. PA.
Blackmail is Carried on in the
Oil Fields of Russia.
VALUE LIFE CHEAPLY.
Receipts Given by Revolutionists to
Their Victims The Money Ac
counted Fcr, Too The Counter Sys
tem of Assassination J'igandage
Out.ide the Town.
"You parasite!"
When you open a letter at Ureal. Cr.st
and find that written at the top lu
raJ of "Dear Sir,'' or 'My darlins
Ijvv," your attention is iuimtdiau:y
trawn to the contents.
lint in LaUn, if you huppen to bo
the hard working taanast r of a rich
tt i 1 with Kits of welis jieldi-s some
Iu'.khi barrels of oil ai;ci e eve.y
ft lily-four hours you w ill not U- to
tu'i' .1 surprised as at home. You v. iA
l.:;;.v fli once what U ecn.i:;
jof.r first thougiu will to a v
yo'ir batiUt r's. s ;;. a w..;e.-
a.. J
il.e
is'ew York tjtiu.
"our n;-'euts," the lottt-r rir-s .:.. v..
tlu.ush solicit ir.jj the fawr of : c :r
esteemed crdeis, "will cuil :i vc- .
i:;,rrow afii t r.oi ii at 5 o't ',:..;. . :
fi ,v.g you nice tiiiU'. you '
lo; in at the hau'.i Ur.-re th.
a" be l ack again, "isnJ you v,i:: ; . i
tt.c.M the sum of 17,0. H.ofk! .-..
reuse you will be killed tu:.r..: r v. ...
t;e:.t day. Should you betray or
fc tits or give the sniai'.ejt hir.t to
t'r.- ;;)llce the whole of your f.iii.l.
v.. i share your fate. fclsntil
fceuled, for the comiuittee."
The seal is a rubber stamp in icJ,
e: i.:eti::ies. bearing the words, "So. ial
euioratic Federation," sometiiiKJ
"Anarchist Commune."
Tl.e sum demanded varies consider
ably. I think it is seldom more than
i.-dd, for one must be reasonable in
tiuse matters; and usually it Is ices.
have known a popular and capable
English manager to get oft with 5,
a ludicrous exchange for life.
But when the agents ring at the
door and ask the servant If you arc at
borne and disengaged the only thing
to do is to pay unless, of course, you
happen to be on the verge of suicide
and wish to save yourself trouble and
expense, or think the world would be
all- the better without the kind of
lamily you have produced.
For there is no pretence about the
threats. Refusal or betrayal means
teat a, probably within the day.
It has been proved over and over
again. The government is too busy
with the troublesome and expensive
task of shooting its political oppo
nents or sending them to Siberia to
undertake the protection of common
jiiace citizens who have no perilous
notions about freedom. So the para
Lire pays, valuing his life as even
j-urasites will. The agents have given
k!m a formal receipt and politely de
part. In some cases a formal account
f expenditure is afterward forwarded
1;' post, giving the items to which
the contribution has been devoted.
Of course, the men are not really
anarchists at all, for the anarchist is
the Salvationist of revolution and will
die rather than kill. Nor are tney
'. Sal Democrats, except in name.
Some may be genuine political revolu
tionists, but most com:? of the class
t'.iai always hang3 about a gambling
mining city like Baku and they use
t political opportunity just la the
U:ren path of livelihood.
I have more sympathy personally
with another method of brigandage
which flourishes in the wild and dts
e;t country outside the town, where
caravans of camels go plodding into
Ax:: and members of the English
ctv.b go killing things for fun.
Seme time ago three of these sports
Deti had traveled out some twenty
ui'.es for a week when they were
Approached by the Tartar chief of a
r.e'.ghborins village, who captured,
then with great politeness and held
them to ransom for 100 apiece. At
first he demanded four times that
amount, but when they represented
that they were only cltrks after all
aud had relatives depending on their
salaries he desplayed great considera
tion and concern at their unhappy lot
and allowed one of their number to
return to Baku for the 6ruuner sum,
while the others were hospitably en
tertained in his own house.
When the money was brought he
r.ot only handed back 4 apiece so
that they might travel first class on
leeching the railway and enter the
town in style, but gave them permis
sion to shoot over his country in
future, making them life members of
hU hunt. It was an action that must
cereal to our own game preserves at
home mid his whole method of re
itr.'.inlng poachers appears to me far
J. referable to theirs.
On the day of my arrival, seeing
iHfople tunning for their lives In front
cf the Metropole, I naturally suspect-
J the police, were at work, but on
approaching I ouly found two men
1,-ing on the pavement, shot by eac'a
other lth revolvers. I thought it an
Armenian-Tartar feud, but hearl a."
t.rward the cause was an old family
mdetta. between two Tartars.
ONE WHO NEVER CAME W
No Trace Was Left by Swede Who At
tempted the Pole In Balloon.
"The One Who Never Came Back'
was a , newspaper headline,, of las.
week In recounting the various expedi
lions to the north pole. Of the long
list of those who have braved the
frigid terrors of the arctic seas in the
Interest of science or to grasp the
wlll-o'-the-wlsp of fame there are end
Icps talcs to stir the souls of men and
arouse sympathy, but It Is the chatter
dealing w ith "the one who never came
back" from which the world turn
j with a shudder. It Is twelve years
I now since S. A. Andree tnndu his Car-
ing and, as It has proved, foolhardy
I atten.pt to sail over the north pole
I In a baloon. How he perished, t.nd
I when nnd where. Is one of the secrets
j locked In the Icy fastnesses of the re
' cion of everlasting cold. What terri
' Uo suffering, what horror of lonell
: ness and des-pair be.et him before he
s erished, is dreadful to contempla'o.
j Andree was a Swede. He v.na a
i c:i;bcr of the Swedish tnternation.il
polar expedition of 15J rt:d IS'A .m l
, . n aeronaut of considerable skill. He
' had his own ideas about re. a-!. '.;", Mi'
I ,n..l of the age. o had observed
, 'iai at certain seasons of the ye ir r.
i -uauy current of air flowed to:i:ri
1 ';e IV r'h po!e. What coald be v.vler
; Auil'. ce. than iY.r a v,-t r;
d balloon to set sail in this c.;.'.t.
' nir, float over the pole, dev. v,'.
'..e oVervations, and then lloat a-vi;
r .in to carry the word to a wait!;...
i !d.
i' .-re-ate as appeared the r.z.Cr.
Andree four.d cm wnn v, . i
;Ur.g to aid hint In carrying it ; .
'ven more, he found two men v.a;.
ere v.il'ins to take the s'.r::c;
;..vi3 with hint and stake their l.vc
or fame and adventure.
0.car, late King of Sweden. v.v
:i.fng tho.-e who gave their f.ippor.
i the venture. It was in 13 tlia
::ilree went north to Danes 1;-1. v. d.
"pltzbergen. and made preparat m
f the Journey. A balloon house wan
i-iilt, and the big bag was Inflated. I:
as found, however, that the gas c.
r.ped more rapidly than was expec--il,
and the trip was postponed a yiar.
Two Swedish war vessels escorted t'.".
'x; edition to Spitzbergen the follow
ng June. Experiments had shewn
that the gas w ould keep the balloo i
afloat thirty days. The plan was to
liave the balloon drift along nbout $00
i'eet above the surface of the ice. Of
men, freight, food, and ballast the
craft carried a weight of about Eve
tons.
A favorable breeze was awaited. At
last, July tl. 1897. it came. The
ropes were cut and the balloon shot
upward. Suddenly, for some reason
never known, it dropped rapidly al
most to the surface of the sea. Bal
last was thrown out by the men oa
board, and the balloon arose again and
sailed away over the mountainous isl
and of Vogelsang, an altitude of 1,500
feet being necessary to make the pas
sage. When the watchers on shore and on
the war vessels lost sight of the bal
loon It was the world's last glimpse o:
Andree and his two intrepid compan
ions. Three message buoys dropped by
Andree the day the start was made
have been found. The. latest wa3 dat
ed at 10 o'clock that night. An alti
tude of 82 degrees, 8 degrees from the
pole, had been reached at that time.
The brave aeronaut reported that all
was well. But of the ultimate fatu ol
the balloon and its passengers search
ers have found never a sign.
Jukes Family Record.
One argument that caused the In
liana niarriag'j law was the Julte.
'arr.l!. Ancesror Max Jukes, born In
"?w York in 1TC0, was a lazy druu!.
nil. Of his descendants 1,200 were
roved to bo occupants of penal and
heritable Institutions before S"i.
Wt one was ever elected to public
jt-lte and not one ever served in the
r.T.y or Navy or in any way hr:';;ed
ju"!'. ic welfare. On the contiary, they
o.-,: society more than $1,000 each, or
a total of ?1.2r.y.f00. Three hundred
md ten were i:i pcorhouscs, 2.S.0
ivsrs in all; JC0, one in four, of hi.
Jcs,o:sdun?3. died in childhood. 410
were vl iously diseased; 400 were pay
.;iial'y wrecked early by their own
v!i"!o'.:rrer.s; filty were notorious wom
en; seven were murdeters; 6ixty habi
:ua! thieves; 13) wc-:e convicted for
n.lsccllancous crimes.
When It's Gore, It's Gone Forever.
There Is yet to come no end of fakt
serums, hair restorers, to make bald
heads dream of hyacinine locks, de
parted never to return. The hope of
the bald head Is one of the 6tran;e
and positive delusions of men. It Is
an old stale drug store Joke how a
bald-headed man will buy hair "re
storer" from a baldheaded drug.u;lut.
Baldness is largely a natural pro -ess
In many higher types of man and
rather shows such men to be still
growing and changing, even for Into
senility, and that science is still very
much in the dark about Nature's al;n
and purposes in old ae.
Handing Down Bad Eyes.
There is no certain or een marked
relationship between bad homes nnd
bad eyesight. It is mostly a matter
of heredity and disease. As Tip
pointed out years ago a mother with
rare and complicated eye defeats
transmitted these same defects !n
every detail to every one of her sons
Here coincidence was out of the ques
tlou.
National Development of Colleges.
One of the differencbs between love
and a puppy Is that a puppy ceases to
be blind when it is about nine days old.
Sometimes it takes love a little long
er to get its eyes open.
Romance
i mi an ntj
"You don't want to stay for the pic
tures, do you?" asked Molly in the
tone of one who expects the answer
to be "No."
Bess blushed. She took a childish
delight In motion, but her cousin sad
ly disagreed with her tastes.
"Do you mind?'" Bess asked timid
ly. "They're Are department pic
tures."' With a shrug of her shoulders hor
cousin settled back In the seat as the
lights went out and the first picture
was thrown on the curtain.
The property man and his fellows
on the stage supplied the clanging of
the bells and the screech of the whis
tles, and to Bess It was all very real.
Then the street with its onsltn'S
vanished from the curtain, to be re
placed by a contrasting picture? of
three firemen sitting In quarters en
gaged In a game of cards. Their f ires
were shown large enough to ilhc-trv.o
the play of expression, and the audi
ence shrieked at the panto".. i:i:lc
humor.
But Bess had leaned forward and
was looking engerly at the curtain.
Molly tugged at her skirt, but the
girl did not realize It. There uixm
the curtain was Ted Prescott. She
was sure of It. The picture changed
again and she sank back In her Feat
quivering In every muscle.
Rapidly she explained to Molly how
Ted had gone away from hn:ue, how
his letters had stopped and his moth
er could find no trace of him.
"His mother's heart la breaking for
him," she declared. "I must find hlm
and tell him to write home."
She left her seat, greatly excited,
and started up the aisle. Molly fol
lowed her country cousin curiously.
An usher directed her to the balcony,
where the machine was operated, and
she waited until the operator had fin
ished. He could give her little In'or
mation other than to furnish her with
the address of the firm that had tak
en the pictures.
She could scarcely wait until 'he
next morning to continue her search,
and she started Immediately after
breakfast, with a male cousin as an
escort.
The manager was courteous and
seemed to take an interest In her
quest The pictures had been made
In town, he explained, and he gave
her the number and address of the
engine company.
It was far up town, but she could
not rest, and in a short time she stood
in front of the 'tiny desk beside the
glittering engine.
"Is Mr. Prescott, a fireman, here?"
she asked wtlh trembling voice. The
man in blue shook his head.
"Jimmy Prescott is with Seven
Truck," he explained.
"I am looking for Theodore Pres
cott," she explained. "He was photo
graphed here for some moving pic
tures." "Pratt, French and Roe posed for
that picture," he declared. "You
mean this?"
He took down from the wall a small
framed photograph, evidently an en
largement of the picture film.
"That's" Ted,"' she cried. "I'm
sure of It"
"Call Roe down,,' demanded a voice
behind her. The fireman sprang to
obey orders and she soon found that
the captain was the man with the
gold Instead of silver buttons, nnd
crossed trumpets on his cap front.
"Stand where you will be in the
light," directed the newcomer, as he
stepped Into the backgkround. Won
deringly she obeyed his directions, as
in answer to the ,c a 1 1 a man came
sliding down the brass pole.
Before she could speak ho had
turned around and came toward her.
"Hello, Bess," he cried. "Where
did you come from?"
"What is your name?" demanded
the battalion chief.
Instinctively the man's hand went
to salute, and he gave a puzzled
laugh.
"It's Prescott," he said. "Yet I
know I'm called Roe. What's the mat
ter?" "You remember the Douglas street
fire In the shop where you worked?"
suggested the chief. Ted nodded.
"But you forget that In Jumping to
the net you fell short and struck your
hed. When you came out of tha
hospital you had forgotten who you
were."
"I remember now," Ted exclaimed.
"The boys were interested in me and
kept me going until I could get in the
department You gave me Richard
Roe for a name, eh?"
"I Baw you in the pictures at the
theatre," Bess explained. "I knew tt
was you."
"Which Is more than I did," he
laughed. "I've been someone else for
nearly a year now. Ij mother "
Bess nodded, as he faltered. "She
is alive," she assured, "but very lone
some. She thinks you are dead."
The captain stepped forward. "I'm
going up to see the chief," he said.
"Put in your application for leave and
I'll see that headquarters grants it."
As he left the room Ted turned to
Bess. "And you," he asked. "Have
you "
"I've been waiting, too," she as
sured. "We can have a pretty good honey
moon in 30 days," smiled Ted. "We'll
send the picture men some of the
cake."
"We must," she agreed, as he kissed
her right before the man on watch,
"for I found you in the pictures.
L M. RE1NHALTER. v
USE8 OF SAWDUST.
Too Valuable now to Be Put to the
Uses it Once Served.
Many are the uses of sawdust. In
the days when the sawdust wagon
made Its lumbering rounds through
the streets of most large cities Iwo
commercial uses of sawdust were to
sprinkle floors and to shelter load
pipes from cold nnd glass bottles from
breakage.
Near every sawmill was a vat for
the sawdust and It was carted av.ny
free by any one who had any use for
It. In this era of the use of by-products
sawdust has a commercial
value. It is no longer given awuy,
but Is sold.
One of the recent uses of sawdust
is its distillation. rcsuUlns In nettle
ncid, wood naphtha, wood alcohol p.nd
tar. Sawdust may nlso be burned In
special furnaces or mixed with oilier
material for fuel.
Sawdust, when saturated with
chemicals, can bo effectively urcd In
the manufacture of explosives, but it
Is more particularly In demand l'l
paper making than fcr any other pur
pose. Such a thing as- sawd'.K on
the floor of a room ns n substitute f;r
a rng or carpet Is now practically un
known. Sawdust has Joined sand in
this respect.
Cotton felt tins brcn substituted for
sawdust as a non-conductor of cold In
win'er. tins can be made fro:;i paw
dust. It Is also used for briquettes.
I. e., blocks of compressed raw-dust
and wood chips burned for fuel. Kve-i
in the protection of glassware nsair. t
breakage sawdust has been su;'or:vl
"( by excelsior, sawdust belnr; re3 :rJ
od as too valuable for such uto.
San Salvador Prosperous.
"?an Salvador is in a good niMiy
rr-pocts the best country In Crntrr.l
America," declared Felix Mugdcii, n
merchant of that place, who has Jir-t
ve. limed from a trip to Europe-. "1
Tnr.'iie this statement because I br
Hove that It Is true. Financially cn 1
I -
in a great many other respects the
country is far ahead of its neighbors.
We have not the disturbances that
have racked some of the other Centra!
Amertcnn nations, and we have l.ot
interfered in the troubles of others.
The President of our country, Fig up
roa. Is a fine man in many ways, cn;!
we all love and respect him. He ii
do-ng much for San Salvador. He Is
honest and Is an able statesman of
the highest type, besides having a fine
record as a soldier. He has been a
conspicuous figure In public affairs for
t.iore than forty years. We did not
feel the depression that disturbed
jusiness in this country, and commer
cially we are prosperous. The Indi
cations are that the coffee crop this
year will bo good, and prices promise
also to be very favorable."
The King and the Boy.
An amusing anecdote relating to
the King's recent stay at Brighton
was related last evening by the Rev.
Cecil Maunsell, vicar of Thorpe Mais
or, to a gathering of his parishioners,
who made a presentation to him In
celebration of his return from Brigh
ton, where he has been staying for
the benefit of his health.
The reverend gentleman, who
vouched for the authenticity of the
story, said that a few days ago a boy
walked up to his Majesty as he was
strolling along the esplanade at Howe
and said to him:
"Mister, can you tell me the time?"
"Yes, replied the King, taking out
his watch; "it Is a quarter to one."
The boy then informed his Majes
ty that he had "been waiting two
hours to see the blooming King," add
ing. "I am not going to wait any long
er." "Neither shall I," replied the King;,
aa he resumed his wulk. His Majes
ty himself, said Mr. Maunsell, after
ward related the incident with much
gusto. London Globe.
Discovery of Peat Bog In Maine.
An analysis of the strange mixture
which spurted ten feet in the cir
when Henry Hagan was d'pclns a
trench on the Alonzo Davis plac :.t
Norridgewock. Me., a few weeks pijo
shows that it Is the finest peat.
So finely separated are the parti
cles that the substance after the wa
ter evaporates from it Is nearly all
carbon. It hardens quickly, and when
in this state burns readily. Hagan
was digging a trench through it piece
of low ground when he struck the
vein. It spurted Into the air with r.
rush that drove the men from the
trench. The substance was so fine
that the men thought It contained oil,
but the analysis showed this conclu
sion to the erroneous. About ten tons
are In sight, and It is believed that
there Is a still larger deposit under
the surface. These suppositions are
borne out by the fact that the stuff
spouted out like an oil well for a
while, indicating that somewhere It
is under great pressure from a clay
or other deposit
A Good Bargain.
"I wish," said a Capitol Hill man
recently, "that peddlers would keep
away from my house. Somehow or
other my wife can't help buying their
wares, whether she needs them or
not. All the peddler has to do Is to
say his article Is cheap. When 1 get
home at night I usually find some
new stove polish, a new tangled kitch
en utensil or something else lying
around. Last night my wife had a
bottlo of something to show me when
I entered the house.
" 'It's an asthma cure, John,' she
said.
"'Asthma cure?' I repeated with a
frown. 'Why, Mary, no one In our
family has asthma. Wo don't need
that stuff."
" 'But, John, Just think bow cheap
It was,' she said, 'It only cost a quar
ter.'" Denver Post.
The Kind You Have Always
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- and has been made under his pcr
jtyfzV Bonal supervision slnco its infancy.
'CyCCAX Allnw nn nnA tn dmpl vn vnit In lila.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and Jnat-aR-pood" nro but
Experiments that triflo with nnd endanjrer tho health of
Infants nnd Children Experience against Experiment
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and Flatulency. It assimilates tho Food, regulates tho
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep,
Tho Children's Panacea Tho Mother's Friend.
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