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BANISHED TO SIBERIA FOR LIFE.
Something About Felix Volkhofiki sad
His Devoted, Herole Wife.
To ma, perhiys, to most attractive and |
Syagathatio of the Tomsk exiles wns the |
author, Felix Volkhofski, who was |
banished to Siberia for life in 1878 upon the |
charge of “Belonging to a society thas in-
tends, at a more or less remote time in the |
future, to overthrow the existing form of |
government,” writes George Kennawin The |
Century.
a was about 88 years of age at the time I
made his acquaintance, and was a man of |
cultivated mind, warm heart and high aspl |
rations. He knew English well, was familiar |
with American history and literature and |
bad, I believe, translated into Russian many |
of the poems of Longfellow.
He spoke to me with great admiration, I |
remember, of Loogfellow's “Arsenal at |
Springfield,” and recited it to me aloud. He |
was one of the most winning and lovable |
men that it has ever been my good fortune |
to know; but his life had been a terrible |
tragedy.
His health had been shattered by long im- |
prisonment in the fortress of Petropaviovsk; |
his bair was prematurely white; and when |
his face was in repose there seemed tobe an
expression of profound melancholy in bis |
dark brown eyes
I became intimately acquainted with hiro |
and very warmly attached to him; snd |
when I bade him good-by for the Inst time |
on my return from Eastern Siberia in 1586, |
he put this arms around me and kissed me, |
apd said: “George Iwanovitoh, please don't |
forget us! In bidding you good-by, I feel |
as if something were going out of my life
that would never again come into {5" }
Since my return to America I bave heard
from Mr. Volkhofski only once. Hp wrote |
me a profoundly sad and touching letter, in
which be informs me of the death of his wife
by suicide. He himself had been thrown out | i
of employment by the suppression of the |
liberal Tomsk newspaper, The Biberian Ga-
sette, and his wife, whom Iremember asa
pale, delicate, sad faced woman, 25 or 50 |
years of age, had tried to belp him support |
their family of young children by givin-®
private lessons and by taking in sewing,
Anxiety and overwork had finally broken
down ber health; she had become an invalid,
and in a morbid state of mind, brought on by
unbappiness and disease, she reasoned her
self into the belief that she was an incum-
brance, rather than a belp, to ber husband
and her children, and that they would ulti-
mately be better off if she were dead,
A little more than a year ago she put an
end to her unhappy lifs by shooting berself
through the head with » pistol, hus
band was devotedly attached to her, apll her
death, under such circumstances and in such |
& way, waa a terrible blow to him.
Ho sent me with his letter a small, worn,
leather matchbox, which had been given by
Prince Plerre Krapotkin to his exiled brother
Alexander, which the latter had left to Volk-
hofski, and which Velkhofski had in turn
presented to his wife a short time before her |
death.
The czar may whiten the hair of such men
as Felix Volkhofski in the silent hombproof |
casemates of the fortress, and he may send
them in gray convict overcosts to Siberia;
but a time will come, in the providence of
God, when their names will stand higher
than his on the roll of history, and when the |
record of their lives and sufferings will bea |
source of herole inspiration to all Russians |
who love Hberty and their country,
Bent to Jall by as Mouse,
For a year or so the proprietors of the Cap- |
ital hotel have been aware that money was |
disappearing in small quantities, which was
& source of great annoyanes, Finally a
trusted employe was discovered in the act of |
abstracting a small amount of his employers |
funds which had been taken in through the |
office. He was at once accused of having |
secured a considerable amount, aggregating |
in the neighborhood of several hundred dol
lars, and uitimately apprehended for the |
theft. Ho confessed to petit larceny, which |
was all that could be proved against him,
and as stoutly maintained his innocence in |
excess of the smount he bad confessed to
taking.
Circumstances, however, were against him, |
and he paid the penalty. The matter was |
settled satisfactorily, perhaps, and be left |
the state. A day or two ago the cash drawer |
was found to be short of a balance in the |
sum of $25. A careful review of the entries |
revealed no remedy, and the proprietors |
were puszled to account for the shortage |
Finally the cash drawer was removed from |
its position and s large sized hole discov. |
ered through which rats or puioo bad gained |
an entrance into the money drawer. Further
top, which was built of papers taken from
the drawer. In addition to this, the nest was
lined with three 85 bills and one $10 bill,
which balanced the ey oh the cash
drawer. —Denver Times,
Electro Deposited Copper.
Messrs. Elmore, in England, bave,iotro-
duced a process for the uction of pure
copper tubes, wire, eto, by which very satis
factory renin: ha ve been obtained. The
generai method of producing a tube is to im-
merse a revolving mandrel, near
rounded by bars of Chili copper, ina
sulphate, and send a current of elec
leading scrow frou from onasnd of the man
drel to the other, its motion being sutomati-
cally reversed when it reaches either end.
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THE SQUEERS SCHOOL.
DICKENS’ PEN BROKE UP,
Situated in Bowes, Yorkshire—The Vil-
Inge Is Golog to Decny Conflicting Tes
timony,
A word of advice here to intending
ens or to Squeers’ school, except in the
ties. These subjects may be said, to use
an expression more forcible than ele
gant, to stink in the nostrils ef your true
Bowes man. He believes that the vil-
luge owes its decay entirely to the aboli-
tion of Yorkshire schools in general and
! of Dotheboys Hall in particular. He
| points to the fact that whereas half a
century ago Bowes higl close upon 2,000
inhabitants, it has now short of 400, He
has never read Nicholas Nickleby,”
nor would he if a copy could be found in
the place. If you question him about
the school, he will either tell you flatly
that he knows nothing about it, or will
evasively refer you to other places in-
famous from their schools.
Of course, all Bowes folk do not share
these prejudices, as we shall afterwards
sce; but the broad fact remains that
Bowes, which was ruined mn common
with many hundreds of country places
must be humared If the visitor hopes to
We pass by a grand old inn, once
known as the George, now the Unicorn
and, with the little Norman church and
the grim keep of the old Norman castle
on our left, push on to Dotheboys Hall
which is the last house in the village
“A long, cold looking house, one story
behind and a barn and stable adjoining.”
So we read. The house itself is unal
tered, save that it is now decidedly the
pleasantest and most cheerful looking
i dwelling in the village, with itsxcreeper
embowered windows looking on to a
The stable
and barn, too, remain; but the outbuild-
ings, in which was comprised the school
house proper—the scene of the merciless
of young hearts, the wrecking of young
lives, the revolting misery and the blood
stirring barbarity—they have long dis
appeared.
A woman's face looks out from a lower
window, and we are about to turn in at
the front gate, but our guide stops us,
saying: ‘Not that way! No admittance
there! You would be asked if you wanted
to bdy the house, and have the door
slammed in your face.”
So we follow the path and turn in
i through the barn door. This leads us
into a yard, where still stands the iden
tical pump which it may be remembered
Mr, Squeers discovered to be frozen the
morning after the long coach ride from
London,
From here we enter the kitchen—cau-
tiously and silently, for the servant tells
us that if her master discovered us we
should assuredly be turned out with
ignominy. There is nothing remarkable
in the kitchen—a large, low, heavily
raftered” apartinent—nor in the little
room leading from it, which was the
schoolmaster’s study
But we linger a long while as we gaze
at the marks on the wall by the modern
wherein were boiled the potatoes which
formed a principal part of the “young
noblemen’s” food, and as we peer through
the study window, which the boys were
set to clean when they had satisfactorily
spelled “w-i-n-d-er, winder,” on to the
garden, whither they were dispatched
to hoe and rake on the attainment of the
{| word “*bottiney,” we ask if a great num-
i ber of people do not come here bound
upon the same errand as ourselves? The
reply is that a great many come; but
that as they go to the front door they do
not get in at all, but have to content
themselves with an exterior view of
Dotheboys Hall, so that we may deem
ourselves lucky to have seen even the
little we have.
WHAT THE RESIDENTS SAY.
So much for Dotheboys Hall itself.
Still more interesting is the information
we managed to pick up from various
sources concerning Squeers and his
school.
All our informmuts, country clergy.
men, intelligent residents, “* oldest inhab-
tants,” and such natives as did not feel
themselves in honor bound to keep their
mouths shut, agreed on one point, that
the systom of Yorkshire schools was
monstrous and iniquitous to an incred-
ible extent; that frightful cruelties were
practiced upon the boys—who were
chiefly the illegitimate offspring of Lon.
don parents—~but that the school typified
by Charles Dickens was the only one to
which he could gain access, and was the
best of the lot
But in other respects the evidence was
so conflicting that we must simply give
it without pronouncing any opinion on
its value or the reverse. For instance,
one woran, a native of Bowes, whose
sympathies one would naturally imag-
ine to be with the maligned Squeers, told
us that she distinctly remembered the
boys coming in summer time to her fa.
ther's field to help get in the hay, goaded
to the work of horses by ushors armed
with whips.
On the other hand, a gentleman whose
father, being a schoolmaster, used to go
up to the Saracen’s Head with and on the
same errand as Squeers, declared that
the one eyed schoolmaster was an esti
pbs. fu, Who cared for his pupils
property. and was generally
liked. He further stated that hi
father related to him how he happened
TRICKS AMONG TELEGRAMMERS.
am—————
The Tenderfoot Is Usnlly Put Through a
Vigorous Course of Sprouts,
ny aking of country town telegraph.
" sald a veteran operator, “reminds
Sy of a story on myself. I was the
‘student’ of the railway station ina small
New Jersey town when an old timer
came down there 10 work a wire in the
division superintendent's office, which
was just across the track in another build-
ing.
“One day I answered a call on my in-
strument and got a message from Mas-
ter Mechanic McMartin, who lived down
the track sixty miles, asking me as a per-
sonal favor to take the handcar and go
down the road about three miles to the
farm of J. Bird, where I would get 500
strawberry plants. He wanted me to
bring them to the station and send them
down by the evening express, Now Me-
Martin was in especial favor with me, |
had two brothers working under him,
and I naturally thought he was a great
man. So I sald I would do it.
“I went home, gota big clothes basket,
rolled out the handear, and with one of
the boys that always hang around a
country depot started out to find the farm
of J, Bird I had never heard of any
such person, but thought 1 might have
overlooked him. Sol pumped 1 away up
a long grade until I reckoned 1 had gone
at least three miles. Then I hailed a man
in a fleld and asked him where J. Bird
lived. He said there wasn't uny such
man around there—might live farther
west; 80 1 went on a couple of miles
until I found another man, and he was
at least half a mile away in a plowed
field. So I floundered over that stretch
ofgbroken ground and asked him where
find the farm of J. Bird. He said he
had lived in that county thirty years,
and that no such person had ever been
init so far as he knew—there was no
such man in thst immediate section,
ANYWAY.
“I went back to the handcar in a
quandary. I would bave gone farther
west, though 1 was already between
eight and nino miles from town, sud my
bands from pumping the handecar were
blistered fearfully, if it hadn't been for
the old farmer's positive statement that
no such man lived anywhere around
Finally 1 concluded that there had been
some mistake and started bhick. It was
mighty hard work and my hands were
awful sore, but I pumped away, and
at last I rolled up to the depot. There
was a great crowd of young fellows
there, and when | picked up the big
clothes basket and stepped on to the
platform everybady gave me a great
laugh. Then the old time operator put
bis head out of the window and sung out:
“Got them strawberry plants”
“It didn't take me more'n a second to
realize the whole weasly trick. The op-
erato roms the ot! hey bailding had
switched on his ground wire, calied me
up and sent mio the message and signed
it McMartin, On the strength of that |}
had gone out on a bunt for a jay bird and
come back with two dozen blisters
While I was gone he had circulated the
story and the gang bad gathered. 1
didnt bear the last of that sell for
months, and I was so suspicious after
ward that | wouldn't answer mv own
call half the time. That's what [ call a
low down trick; but I've hoaxed youn;
operators just as badly since. [1 teaches
‘en the business.” New York Star
“Hats om
Two characteristics mark the Russian
people: an intense reverence forthe czar,
and an idolizing adoration for the mere
picture of any royal or sacred personage.
While visiting Kiel, Mr. Morrison, an
English lawyer, entered a telegraph of-
fice,
As ho passed through the door, he gave
the usual continental salute by raising his
hat; but he had advanced only a few
Step within the room, when a loud shout
ade him take off his hat. The English
man went up to the shouting official, and
apologized for his unintentional radencss,
“It is not for me, sir,” replied the clerk
“It is for the emperor,” and he pointed
over his shoulder to an unflattering col
ored picture of his majesty Alexander
IIL
The most sacred entrance to the Krens
lin, at Moscow, is the Redectner gate, so
called because there is hung in it a pict.
ure of the Saviour—a picture of great
sanctity. Even the emperor has to un-
cover his head as he passes through this
gate. The passage under the gate is a
long one, but even in a terrific snow
storm every one uncovers his head
The traveler istold that when Napoleon
refused to take his hat off, while passing
before the suered picture, a sudden gust
of wind took it off for him. — Youth's
Companion.
The 1 Gum to Chew.
It is a good plan for those who wish to
improve their throats to chow pure spruce
gum, pine gutn or that of the compass
wood of the western prairies, for the ex-
ercise of the jaws develops the throat,
and the resibous qualities of the gum
strengthen digestion. | Won't mean to
recommend the habit of chewing gum,
as practiced by Its devotees, but there
never was an unsightly habit which had
so much to be said for it. Rank dyspep-
tics, with the coating eaten off their
stowachs, as the dogtors say. find relief
to their cravings by chewing pure spruce
and all agree that the lungs ere
better for it. The compound of parafline
and sweet stuff sold for guin has nothing
to recommend it.8t. Lous Republic,
Boo.
Why Didw't They Pall Them ON?
Two, youngsters whe (pund the busi.
ness of selling papers and shining shoes
a trifle dull the other night,
Ti.
of tion.
the flip of
ence on Billy's shoes,
made Billy's Aly at
, hie threw down
and 1 “1 ain't goin’ ter shine
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‘A RACE FOR THE BRUSH.
GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF A FOX
HUNT IN GEORGIA,
“Ola Kate" Seouts Reynard and the Chase
Beglus—Over Fences and Plowed Flelds.
One Boy on the Old Gray Mule, An
other Rides u Btoer,
“The brush! the brush!”
It was the termination of the most ex.
citing fox chase ever witnessed in Hous
ton.
Just beforp daylight u party of eleven,
all mounted on fleet horses, met at the
home of Mr. J. E. Andrews. The fox
hounds in the neighborhood had been
collected the previous night. Thero
ware thirty-four of the finest dogs to be
found anywhere,
A faint ray of light could be seen to
the east when tho party, led by the three
veteran hunters of the county, Messrs,
J. E Andrews, John Rountree
Btonewall Hose, started off to the north,
ran in front through the woods. For
three miles the ride progressed without a
sound from the dogs,
“IT'8 A FOX, BURR."
Suddenly the leading horseman reined
up. The almost distinct yelp of a
could be heard in the far distance,
dogs around the horsemen stopped
listened.
“I's old Kate!” cried Andrews, “and
it's a fox, sure. She never lies.”
The words had hardly been uttered be
fore the remainder of tho pack started
off towards the sound at a full run. The
horsemen followed, and as the dogs had
bot jumped the fox, but were only trail-
ing, soon caught up. For twenty min-
utes progress was slow, as much of the
ground had been burned off and it was
difficult for the dogs to trail. However,
in a short time the track was soefted,
and, with old Kate in the lea 1, the dogs
started through an open field like the
wind and every dog yelping at each
stride.
The fox had been jumped.
The music of the dogs was grand, wild,
exciting
Through the great open fields, immedi.
stely behind the dogs, eleven horsemen
ran at a breakneck speed. There was a
big ditch in the conver, but over it they
went like the wind, Both men and horses
were excited to the highest pitch. Roun-
tree, on a sleek black mare, was in the
lead, and the others ran in a bunch close
behind,
The dogs secined to increase their
speed. The horses were poing at a wild
gait, but the riders wore not satisfied,
dog
The
and
the spur.
Suddenly a {ence was ween in the dis
tance. The dogs were scrambling over it.
“Hadn't we better rein up?’ cried one
of the rear horsemen.
“Not a bitof it,” yelled Andrews,
was now running neck and nock
Rountree. .
“Come on!” he cried, and
4
wila
his fleet
fence as
he re-
tree bounded the seven rail
though it was not a foot high
little and wore
spon seeing the eas
sanders cleared the hurd
to his horse and awey thy
»f the horses cleared it witho
but two struck the tog
their riders foto the
ground, which prob abi §
bocks. But ncither he
were hurt, and
were mounted again
renewed the che
sitement
BOINIOW al
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y Tid, fell and the
Heos Dor
de layed
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1 INDOre inlense
sithouzh
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THE GRAY WOR
The horses bad run bard, but the fox
snd dogs were too fleet for them The
were away off in the distance and thei
yelps were not distinctly heard
horseman drew rein and rode
through a clump of woods to
which they mounted
Suddenly the yelps of
tame more distinct
“They have turned.”
“You, and they are coming this way,”
cried Andrews
“Keep quiet, boys, a him.”
The sun was up and the dogs could be
seen coming towards tie party
Suddenly tho fox, a big gray, with tai
erect and tongue hanging far out, passed
the foot of the knoll. He was blown,
but still running like the wind.
Two hundred yards behind were the
dogs. A big red hound was in the lead,
while at his side was old Kate, the
striker. Behind them the pack came,
forming almost a solid triangle, extend.
Ing fully twenty yards in tho rear of the
kmders. But they wore running like
lightning and gaining on the fox at every
jump.
It was an open field for two wiles, and
into this, right behind the dogs, the
horsemen rushed.
the dogs
shouted Hose
nd well sey
Both wen and horses
were wild with cxcitement. Every one
wanted the brush, and all were running
for it. Spurs were pressed against the
sides of tho already flying horses, und
the riders leased forward asd yeiled to
their racers The eleven horses were
running in a bunch, while far behind
could bescen two boys, one on a gray
tule and tho other riding asteer—both
without saddles. The field seemed cove
ered with small ditches, but the animals
ped them without apparently notic-
the ground,
We were within @ifty yards of the dogs
and the fox was not
fhirey-fout dogs were piled up on top of
him and tearing bisa
The horsemen in a hundred
‘| yards behind, and that hundred yards
ute for the the brush. It was a wild
their een almost in line right at
the dogs, but the rider of the fleet gray
wus there a nick ahead. He seemed to go
right over the head of his horse into the
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