Thursday, March 21st, 1912, fii eb ga EMOC EE ~. 09O0SH0H0POPO0P0POPOSOD0S0 | these holldays, driving back and forth | He was fortunate enough THE FLIGHT OF A SERF Wolves In Front and a Pursuing Master In Rear 0® 060080900206 0L0S By EDGAR L. THOMPSON p- POPOPOPOPOPO0POPOPOLPOPOGEO During the first half of the nineteenth egntury a geatieman, Roronlef, living in Finland, owned a beautiful serf girl named Souian Ad Joining the estate lived a small farmer Orloff. Orlof's son Peter nnd Sonia were wont to play together children grew to manhood and womanhood be- came lovers. Unfortunately for them while Peter was u free man Sonia wus a serf, Now, the count was a firm supporter of the government, while at that early date there were evidences of dis content among the The mur murings were heard mostly among the higher classes, for the serfs we too ignorant, too degraded, too used to con dider thelr master, the czar, a being, to protest against anything f emanated from him § far in class, to which he the few commoners who des tocracy of the g the lower classes ed When, therefor to buy Sonia and giv wife the count ref one belonging to A #“ghall pass under the in pew notions whicl terfere with the In Russia we have ig always had Certain i agitation which if cate the lower come discontented with their lot, and we shall have anarchy.” When the farmer gave t gnswer to his think no more of Sonia, fire flared in the young man’s He dare not tell Sonia, for she undoubtedly feel that the hope of hap piness which had been born to her had been quenched, 1ld never dream of disputin master's will The law gay and if she rebelle sh her Indeed. a marriage the count’s consent was | If her lover count he would Sonia's master told her that the propo sition had been made, that he had de Russian Count Koronief named ns and when they oven people. re advance nobles a overn nce of tended mperor 1 and ruie the e necdes peo] © nersiste pel § he ae count’'s son, advising him to . f fn ebhe since she wou her him serf, the law would pun e Aas n att ont e atieing ted be sent to Siberia matter. Peter brooded over the matter till he was ready risk t« Bonia Hie had expected to work his father's farm after his father ] passed away, a ed his With have heen shonmid running the « sot love heard were only get Son her to Ameri But any attemp would be fraught at danger, and there was every of fallure The only chance for such an attempt to succeed by bribery, al- ways a common met} od of accomplish fng objects in Russia, but Peter, long as his father lived, could not raise much money The old man minded to cripple himself funds to carry of his son's to satisfy glides, were they Peter secretly = could, knov ceeded in getting be not ta without other he got t passage. TI different for kidnaping trust her w he had in knowled of it wittingly to betray had no assur sent to take n frightful conse self In care of The plan he « mation, its exe bility solely In to share the we Sonia. It earry her aroun into Sweden which they desolate. The on the scheme aut nl estate from which was only a hundred Bwedish border to tnke any )} Possess th Lond for will take of Amerie: thelr owt oniy her away with gre: chance would be wo was not ralsing wild schen Be Ru ite 'Y out o any a whim sons and daughters In pot supposed to choo were pros ided 1 the ed wi We nu J ing could me ns risk fraug ences to her and him No other Lin, was not even Ww o kidnag we girl and try wis tht through must pass cold t rendered feasible wan that the y thing they miles from { in his sleigh, to meet her and asked her to go for a ride with him. Fearing that if seen | with him she would be punished, she | that demurred, but he finally persuaded her, and when well on their way he told her that they would not stop of their own accord till they reached America, She perved herself to the risk, and from moment Peter pushed forward. Unfortunately the pair were seen by a | member of the count’s family, who as goon as possible gave information that they were driving rapidly westward As goon as horses cowld be harnessed the count himself started in pursuit Peter had provided everything that he and Sonia would be likely to need In the sleigh were warm fur rugs, pro visions, a bottle of liguor and an arma ment of rifles and pistols. The latter svere to be used In case the escape was dependent upon for Peter sreued that to be eaught meant Siberia for him and possibly for Sonia, and the punishment could not be worse if he Should the pur suers come to close quarters he would fire at them, trusting to disable the horses or those attempting to overhaul him. The autumn had set in, and already the for time by taking a wrong road and hay It before resistance, killed a dozen people te sre was plenty of snow, well beaten ensy The pursuing party lost coine going ng to retrace thelr stej was there fore near midnight they into the vicinity of the fugitives ent Peter heard the so 8, came The the pursi before poke a gnlio] yunt,” sald Peter. “1 kno uld face certain de an act of tyrrany nearer the bes “It's the « him wie He we rather than fo As they drew " ith rego the wolves came | I was near bo t} 8 lies of ™ 01 } to turn, |! and they cout Handing the whi] a rifle. and as they shot throug | dozen wolves one making & lodgment i1f of Bothnia | and | would start | : the But to pass over this | distance without being caught and re | turned was a dangerous undertaking Peter Bad enough money to hire a two | borse #lelgh, Including the necessary relays, besides sufficient to take him to a salling point for America. His ar rangements were perfected In Septem ber. and, with loverlike Impatience, in stead of belng satisfied to wait till the pext spring, he planned to carry out his attempt before the winter set in, Knowing Sonia's habits and that she bad an afternoon to herself once a week, when she would usually visit a griend, be watched for her on one of ! ] | {fron barre! hrought down on its head The next Instant another springing at Ronia received a bullet in its breast be pped dead tween its fore legs and § dro T fie) r } t YW ave that of others As soon the two of thelr number that had been killed thes in. It to the fugitives coals of fire were pursuing thet be the wolves had devoured cathe OND AEN see ned iat eyes « f the th the ’ shining out brightly the lon the pad double took int the per at Air ed tt! doub of of the thro one after another succumbed And so it 1 man trying to Riise " his life and earried down = Hves of two other persons The freed from thelr pursuers, proceeded with deliberation The evening they reached the Bwedish tine, nt the head of the gulf of Bothnia, where they left their con veyance at an unfrequented spot, on the east side of the Tornea river, and crossing, found themselves In Sweden From there they made thelr way to Christiania and from thence to Amer fen. Retting out townrd the west, they at last reached the new territory which Is now the state of North Da kota, where they found many of thelr countrymen and became prosperous farmers and Peter one of the principal men in that region, was that who wns recover na perf lost th him the lovers, being next clined it, and there was an end of the [on the sleigh was driven off with the | THE CENTRE D The Teazel. Those who have never seen a tenzel | pan imagine a fr cone or “swamp ent il” set all over with little stiff hooks It 1s the bur (or tassel or flower bead | or thistle top) of the plant dipsacus However familiar to people who lve in lands where the teazel Is extensively grown, the fact way be that the prick ly heads of that plant are universatly used to raise the nap on cloth, A mi titude of persons in this country prob ably never heard of it and would be astonished to learn In what enormous quantities the plant Is cultivated. Tv France alone many thousands of acres of land are exclusively devoted to the cultivation of the teazel. French mab ufacturers use enormous numbers of the prickly heads, and from France there are exported many millions of them. They are also ralsed in Austria angland, Belgium, Poland and the C1 mea. The prickles of the teazel have u small knob at the end, and this, mount el on an stem and set with great precision on the central spindle, affords a little brush such as the ul most mechanical been able to rival, at all events at the same price.— Harper's Weekly elastic «kill has never Tea Testers In Formosa. In the Formosan trade the mo t fmportant the cha sl, or taste He ins] tests samples of tens offered and his ment determines the price to be In room admitting light only the north the cl He first fu and t tea man is and to his f wets rm a es the the tea tester though relat taining twenty never requ Uses any destroy the tea o the utenes He ney (Constant in} testers nllow fic come dull tea testing the health Americans ten will ure ten ire men Black and White, Ve N {rye placa cle of 1 out the = time money white dboard with These wh and sho place an} which bins substituting car te cards soon worn if allowes handled travs, els are white this difficulty The fresh and bright many times as lettering t show card are als locking and long. saving t | mevera!l hundred dollars In the « ] : ] | | of a vear.— Business Wesley's “Narrow Neck of Land” The actus first d st | ind It is other b at this t we Jn an J a bad spel sther at Las for he strat the sun shining In Cornwall’ Illustrated 1743) ex writes saw Magazine lephant’'s Tooth sitest denial Pulling an E Perhaps the gre on rece form po phant I e City of Mexics i ing te men | root Cure Was Chilis When throug serie are atl: od 1 moiar out London Tit Bits i" Speak to the Horse The human voice mn marked Influence ann managing he pecially t is of use, It should quiet and, though confident and I terful, not loud and one should ever touch a hore witl at the same time speaking 0 i change has » on all res os the greatest bolsteous An Accepted Story “Quills has really had a str) ed at Inet,” remarked a joumu collengne “Surels You He this moral his wife In not RAT. 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