sStfsiSiBMaSSa W-PT ," tip THEPITTS PAGES 9 TO 16. SECOND PART. SSSa?SSSifiIi&SflHfi5SM!SSS burg dispatch: WEALTHJJNDREAMED Hidden A-nray in the Iron Ore Teins of Minnesota. THE BUSY DIAMOND DKILL Has Kevealed Deposits Sufficient to Supply the World. GEEAT ACTIVITY THIS SEASON. Many Tons of Steel Plate Wanted for the Whale-Back Barges. WONDERFUL DOG TEAMS Iff CANADA rC01tBESF0XDE;CE OF THE DISPATCH.! Dumrn, Minn., April 9. THE surprising rich ness and marvelous extent of Upper Minnesota's iron ore deposits is a matter ofihe greatest import ance to the iron manu- correspondent has just returned from a several days' trip along the Vermilion range. A partial res ume of what is there presented to view and now being ireshly de veloped will intert jr Pittsburg's iron men. The central point Three Feet of Snow, of the largest ontput of the first-class Bessemer ores is at Sou dan, on the Vermilian range and lake just back of Tower. The Minnesota Iron Com pany's mines are here The company's present winter force of 1,100 men will soon I year, as returned to the State Auditor, was 635,711 tons. It plans to make its output this year 100.000 tons larger. Its present output is over 2,000 tons daily. THE ENORMOUS SHIPMENTS. The immense stock piles accumulating are an impressive sight. The company is now shipping 20 car loads a day to its harbor pockets at Two Harbors, 6C miles distant. Later this shipment will be at the rate of 200 car loads daily These shipments last season from here and the Chandler and Pioneer mines at Ely, 21 miles to the east ward, at the present terminus of the Duluth and Iron Itanpe Railroad, reached the rate of 38 trains oi 1U loaded cars, with 20 tons to the car, every 24 hours. The company is now preparing to immediately build a rail rood extension around back of the range proper, so as to mine its property along the Vermilion lake slope and carry out the ores from the two thaits already in operation there. There is a large amount of ore on that slope awaiting mining until the ex tension is built so that it can be shipped ad vantageously. The flats to the lelt of No. 12 it also expects to mine as it has been found that it is full of rich ores. Of tne shafts at Soudan, No. 12, Alaska, Arra strongand Butte are new and this year will be their first season's operation. Beside MINEES HOUSES these there are in active operation Nos. 1 3 C, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13 and 19. ' ' Superintendent Pope informed me that five-eighths of the companv's ores are Bessemer ores, and of these nine-tenths of the three grades are first-class. Of the non Bessemer ores the company ships three grades, three-fourths of which are first-class. This last jear about two-thirds of the products went to Cleveland and Lake Erie portr. including 100,000 tons to Buffalo. The other third went to Chicatro. He stated that a great deal of the Chandler soft ores of Ely, went to Asthtabula. The Bessemer ores which are styled first-class are those which come up to the guarantee of 66 or C7 per cent of metallic iron with not over .055 of phosphorus. To tpeak of these great lodes of ore as veins, when they are 30, 60, 80 and even 100 LITTLE INDIANS AT feet wide and of an unknown depth, seems hardly expressive enoueh or sufficiently de scriptive. They have been found 60 feet wide 400 feet down. One can mere readily picture them as great molten rivers of iron which have become solid and fixed in their channels, and which mankind are now en gaged in exploring and excavating. The well-directed and united hands of labor and capital are stripping Minnesota's surface soil, exposing her iron veins, discharging their contents into the centers of trade, from wnicn,inrouh the varied arteries ot com- ?lfMr 1 - rfjL s &J&ff'''Hiy'4L& til merce, after many days there comes back a golden tribute to her victorious heart, sjln these magical times diamond drills have become the plummets, by which the iron channels, throuch which course the seas of her prosperity to unknown depths and extent, are now being soundea. The diamond drill is doing a great work in this country. In Minnesota No. 12, it has just penetrated a 40 foot vein at the depth of 100 feet, and in No. 3, a 33 foot vein into which they are now drifting. Similar and equally significant results have been arrived at in other shafts and at widely separated points of exploration and development. THE EXHAUSTLESS STOKE. "An iron man remarked to methpt there is sufficient ore exposed aud within easy mining distance to keep the present existing mining facilities of tnis section busy for 15 ceaseless years of uninterrupted activity. Butcampsot exploration were never so active or so well equipped as now. They are pushing into an unexplored andunsurveyed wilderness of which, in richness of ores of many kinds, neither the East nor the West, nor the men thus engaged, have any ade quate conception. At manv new pointsthe outcroppings, and the searching revelations of the diamond drill, show the existence of as handsome ores as have yet been revealed to God's sunlight or man's eyesight. The Minnesota Company alone will have about a dozen diamond drills busyall sum mer, prospecting in various directions, and MINNESOTA IEON MINE NO. 8, VEEMILION EANOE. The entire width was filled with a solid mass of ore. The level upon which the tracks and cars are seen 13 pure ore of the finest quality. doing more work of this kind than ever be fore. It is expensive work, but it pays. Three miles to the east the company has an exploration camp of 20 men and diamond drills, meeting with magnificent results, as also another highly satisfactory camp near Armstrong Lake and another toward Ely. There seems to be hardly anyliniit to the distance under ground, and through rock and even solid jasper and flint, which these AT SOUDAN. machines can reach, and then bring to light the core of strata or ore much as the core of I an apple is extracted by the little apple- corer and parer. itecoras are Kent ot every core, and thus a history of the strata is known in any direction so far as is desired and practicable. In jasper, with a single bit the operators will bore about two leet a day, but in the soapstone rock GS feet is reached. OTHEE EXPLORATIONS. For six months past the Chicago and Min nesota Ore Company, to which the Chandler mine at Ely belongs, has been exploring township C2, range 14, section 10, with a force of 30 men and diamond drills and a plant of machinery, and has developed many excellent showings beside, in particu lar that which the company holds as a very && $-. Hnllr SUCCOB POINT. fine mine. Messrs. Conkey and Warren, of Minneapolis, with 15 men and diamond drills are exploring 62-9-17, east of Ely. They have been there and thereabout for a year past, spending a great deal of money satisfactorily to themselves. There is also an extended series of similar developments along the Mesabi range, in the future of which there is a great'deal of interest. It is astonishing how much of Upper Minnesota is as yet unexplored and un surveyed. I am told that this is true of one eeventh of the State. The counties of St Louis, of which Duluth, at its southeastern end, is the county seat, and of Itasca and Beltrami, contribute a large part of this area, and are each larger than the States of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined, and indeed approximate well to the size of Massachusetts. Through this northeastern end of the State lie the known and unknown iron ranges and mines, as to the extent and prospects of which there was never so much reliable information as now. Neither has there ever been a time when those who have had an opportunity of acquiring informa tion upon the subject have lelt so strongly as now the overwhelming truth of the extent of THE AMAZING DEPOSITS of metallic ores awaiting development throughout this portion of Minnesota's im perial realm. In the languige of a noted ex pert: "There is no part ot the country now developed where as great a quantity of iron ores, rich in metal and within the 'Besse mer limit' of phosphorus, can be obtained as within a radius of 120 miles of Duluth." The owners of the famous Chandler mine at Ely last season, its second year, shipped, according to their returns to the State Au ditor, 308,741 tons of soft or granulated specular ore. They expect to repeat (if not exceed) that unparalleled record again this year. The Pioneer, near by, has not been a heavy shipper heretofore. Carnegie is said to have taken its output last year. Prepara tions have been going on, and it is said that as soon as the owners are ready to give the word it can and will become one of the heaviest shippers of the range. It is con sidered a very fine property. Hon. John C. Spooner is one of its principal owners. Its ore runs about the same as that of the Chandler. Immediately adjoining and east of the Pioneer, is the Zenith 'Iron Mining Com pany's property and ike Bernnger and section 26, all said to show fine deposits of ore, but at present being held for sale. Im mediately west is the famous Lockhardt property, the title to which is now being contested at Washington. West and north ofElyit is said that the explorations bid fair to develop a separate range. Imme diately south again James H. James, Esq., of Duluth, has developed enough to satisfy him that he controls extensive deposits. He also states that three and one-half miles east of Ely in section 30 there is un doubtedly the greatest outcrop and surface showing of ore that has ever been fonnd in the Vermilion or any other iron range. The title to this property is in dispute, but us settlement is only a question of time. Iron men estimate that lrom it an output for the first year of at least 500,000 tons can be made. It is said to be worth $4,000,000. It is well known as the "Hyde 40." After all it must be borne in mind that the development of this iron country is only in its infancy and with a future which almost staggers belief and intimidates prophecy. Seen at a distance at night the Minnesota and Chandler mines -present a brilliant spectacle, as thev are lighted by powerful electric plants. The mines of the former company are now being lighted by electricity underground as well. Four times dnring the '24 hours, a series of blasts are fired in the Minnesota mines, warning whistles and a danger limit contributing to guard against accidents. Intermingled with the deep boom of the giant blasts will be heard the shrill singing of the rocks as they co flying through the airand woe betidethe man or spot where they alight Everybody makes no scruple of seeking shelter at such times. The larger masses can frequently be seen in the air as they mount or descend. A HOSPITAL AND SUEGEONS. To cover cases of sickness or accident and provide for skilled medical and surgical aid, the company provides a hospital and competent doctors. Each workman pays a small fee toward this fnnd, and becomes thereby entitled to medicines and the best of treatment There was no one in the hospital when we were there. The miners also have a profective association or mining clnb to which they contribute an assess ment from their pay roll, and when one of them is Killed his heirs get $500, snd smaller sums in proportion for smaller injuries. ' The Minnesota Iron Company is one of the largest, it not one ot the very largest iron mining corporatipns in existence. One of its prominent officials told me that its property was bought for abqut $8,000,000, and is now considered by them to be worth S14.000.000. In manv respects the interests and owntrs of the mining property and of PITTSBURG, SUNDAY, APBIL IS, 1890. the Duluth and Iron Eange Kailroad are one and the same. There are at least be tween six and seven square miles of the mining property proper, although not over about two miles in extent of the range are now in active production, and that only PILES OP by a shaft or pit here and there. Then too, it is said, the company is now reserving on the landsof the grant to the railroad the min eral rights, and that wherever mines should be discovered, the Minnesota Iron Company would be found stepping forward to control and mine them. Its iron possessions, present and prospective, are therefore practically in exhaustible. C. B. Coffin, ot Chicago, is its secretary. THE MINING POPULATION. The company is building 34 new mining houses. It had 37 old ones. These are rented to the miners for about 55 a month. Nearly 200 houses are owned by-the miners, built, however, on leased ground, for which the company charges a 'ground rent of 60, cents monthly. The population at Tower with that about the mines in the Soudan district nearby will aggregate about 4,000 people. The company will not allow any stores or saloons to be kept at Soudan, and the miners and everybody else have to buy at Tower. Ely and its mining population and stores, etc., are all together. About 700 miners are now employed there. Ely is , Ir ' - IM . THE MINNESOTA IEON COMPANY'S PBOPEETY AT perhaps aboutrtwo-thirds the size of Tower, but is growing rapidly. The woods close in all around the clearing which it and the mines occupy, and some of its streets are thick set with stumps, which have not yet been removed. Some of the miners at Soudan make a SHAFT HO. 5 good deal by taking in boarders and lodgers. One was pointed out as having a monthly income from his boarders of $170 and an other of $200. Their houses are one and a half and two stories high and contain from six to eight rooms. The average charge per month for room and board is about $19. While at Soudan your correspondent was induced to undertake a trip to Jasper Peak, about two or three miles distant, aud said to be the highest point in Minnesota. It scarcelr looked a mile off. Mr. F. M. Card well, in charge of the company's office, was to act as guide and counselor. Mr. E. J. OEE AT ELY. Bell, of St. Paul, a heavy real estate dealer, completed the trio. None of us realized the depth of the snow until off the beaten track, and then we wonld not give up, but STRUGGLED VALIANTLY ONWABD3. The crust would frequently break, and as the snow proved to be three feet deep on a level, and we were without snowshoes, we frequently found ourselves in up to our hips and even waists. It was upon one of these occasions that, being in advance, I turned my detective camera upon my floun dering comrades. Cardwell was so con vulsed with the situation that his laughter forced him to steady himself with his hands. Bell threw up a mittened hand to the ut most possible height in testimony that he could reach above the snow. We were grateful enough to reach the solid rocks of the peak, up which we quickly scrambled. There upon Minnesota's topmost peak, with our feet upon Jasper and our heads in a crvstal atmosphere, our eyes feasting upon an almost illimitable snowy waste of wooded wilderness and frozen lakes. we were ailentl v standing. It was a wondrouslyj exhilar ating atmosphere. It was a grand and sug gestive solitude around us. We cnnlrl nupr. look Vermilion Lake and its islets as if at our teet. Our gaze stretched athwart the intervening spaces and rested upon the dominions of Canada. Miles upon miles of virgin pines were to be seen. It must be borne in mind that from Two Harbors to Tower we had ridden by train nearly 70 miles turougn wnat was practically an unbroken forest of pines, birches, sprnces and tam maracks. Now and then there were a few houses and an occasional deserted claim shanty and a burnt over clearing. That was all naught else to break the unbroken forest SOME GEOLOGICAL PEATUEES. The jasper rock at the snmmit, swept of snow by the wind, was banded and mottled and colored in a beautiful manner to behold, and formed a brilliant and striking contrast with the snowy surroundings. Upon this topmost summit, however, we found several gray granite drift boulders bf two and three teet in diameter. The jasper itself in places was wonderfully polished and scored bv glacial actiont some fine specimens of whicFi I detached and carried away. Along the whole southern and eastern edge of the Ver milion Bange, for several miles here, stretches the debris of an immense glacial moraine. It is an enormous line of deposit. The bedrock iff places here shows scoring and polishing to a remarkable degree. Three mile3 from Tower, on Vermilion Lake, there is a Government post for tne Chippewa Indians, with a blacksmith shop, a school and church, and a Government faimer to teach "Lo" how to farm. The Ft. Boise or Net Lake Reservation is about 40 miles distant, upon which there are some 700 Indians. These Indians, however, spend a great part of their time in the woods and upon the lakes hunting and fishing and in visiting the settlements. While at Tower T was fortunate enough to see a magnificent dog team which had come from Fort Francis, Canada, 110 miles in 20 hours of actual traveling time, with one night's camp intervening in the bush. The dogs were of great size and beauty; two were white, one of a yellowish tinge and the leader black. They were harnessed and blanketed in a marvelous fashion. Their SOUDAN. blankets were embroidered with minute and varied designs in fancy colored bead work They wore high collars, a la Russian style' from which dangled and tinkled little bells! POE SNOTT, ICE AND WATEE. The toboggan was about ten feet long, AT SOUDAN. carrying thereon a box somewhat canoe shape. Over its frame was tightly stretched a tanned noose skin, the surface of which was elaborately decorated and painted. The whole thing was -so designed that if they should get into the water in crossing a lake they could set the dogs to swimming and by paddling bo escape. The trailer "Mil " who brought the team through was a quarter breed named Bichard Lyons. His passen ger was a man named Mosher, who had re ceived word that his brother down in Mich igan was badly hurt and seriously sick, having recently lost an arm through an ac cident, and be spared no effort to reach him. The Indian said that the way they came to make such good time was by their taking turns at running at a dog trot behind or be fore the toboggan about every five miles, of course using snow shoes. Thirty miles of the trip was over a smooth pathway across frozen lakes. The rest was through the bush by a trail known to the Indian. The latter is now at Tower, or was when I lelt, awaiting the return of Mosher, who expects to bring on his brother if he is well enough to stand being moved. If he has sufficiently recovered they will under take to carry him back in the toboggan across the wide expanse of snowy wastes to the northward. I mentioned to-day the dog team to Captain McDougald, of whale-backed steel barge fame. The Captain says that along in 1873, he used to drive hundreds of miles in a win ter behind dog teams, and that there used sometimes to come in here as many as 20 good teams from the northward in a day. DOGS USED BY THE GOTEBNMENT. He stated that about that time ' the Canadian Government employed as many as it could get to aid it in hunting out an available route for the Canadian Pacific, and to that end agents scoured the country way north into the Hudson Bay region. It was some of those teams which appeared here then, and were the finest teams he had ever seen. Some of the dogs seemed to be crossed with foxes, others with wolves, and some were said to be crossed with bears. At all events they were so like a bear as to be scarcely distinguishable at a little dis tance. Captain MeDougald says that between now and the season of 189l"he expects to use 16,000 or 17,000 tons of steel plate not yet contracted for. He has now just arriving about 1,300 tons from Carnegie, the Park Brothers and the Olivers, and about 1,600 tons will be coming on soon. At Superior he is working hard to get the shipyard in shape. With five steam drivers and one team driver they have driven about 8,000 piles in two weeks' time, and he wants to know if that record was ever beaten. They have about 2,000 feet of dock line at Su perior. They have thus far arranged for live slips or ten berths, which will permit of their building ten boats at once. He hopes they will succeed in building 20 new boats before the season for 1891 opens. The Captain thinks real estate values in Duluth a little high. MORE RAILROADS NEEDED. The great need in the matter of develop ing this mining country is railroad facilities. The Duluth and Iron Bangs is the only road in the Vermilion section. To the northeast of these cold and silver have been discov ered. What is known as the Western Mesabi country is being reached at one point in lower Itasca county at Grand Rapids. Possibly existing roads are not in favor of new lines, but even if this be so the general interests ot the country and the people are paramount, and the necessities are such that they will certainly come. It seems as if this part of Minnesota had been held back to a surprising degree. Much less is known about it than would seem possible. Within two weeks a party of surveyors will beein to survey township 64, range 13, and township 63, range 14. For some years very little has been done in the way of township surveying. It looks now as if there was going to be a change in this respect, and it is likely to be followed with extensive developments. I am informed by a party concerned in the transactions that there has just been consummated two of the largest land, tim ber and mining deals which has ever been effected in this country. One is with an English syndicate, some of the members of which recently visited the locality in per son. Not a word about it has been pub lished, my informant states, bat it will soon be given ont, nnd I am promised early in formation concerning it. Oelin M. Sanfohd. A RACE BOESE ON THE OCEAN. He Warn ns Cpol as the Coolest Tar Under Trjlnsr Circumstances. New Tort Tribune. 1 The writer once traveled with a racehorse on board a steamer, and became deeply in terested in the1 animal's behavior, as in fact did the entire population of the vessel. It was generally acknowledged that there was no better sailor on board, before the mast or behind it. His stall, a few pieces of scant ling nailed together, was in the steerage, 20 feet from the port bow, and he stood there in one position for 12 days and nights. No one saw him move a hoof during the voyage. He was not afraid. In the roughest weather, and some of it was so rongh that the vessel which had been going with the storm, turned around and steamed in the teeth of it for eight long hours, he kept his nose in the oat-box, swaying back and forth and from side to side as gracefully and con tentedly as an old tar. At times it was im possible for a sailor to stand on deck with out support. The horse never lost his balance. Three hundred sheep were in the steerage with him. The first .night out 180 were washed overboard. Fifty died from exposure. He did'not seem to suffer in the slightest degree, and when the ship reached port he., pranced down the gangplank as sportively as a thoroughbred ought to prance. THE WIDOWS OP INDIA. A StrnageSnpertltlon That Itlnkea Her Lot Doubly Hard to Bear. Woman's Journal. In India a widow must not change her clothes for 13 days after her husband's fu neral. No one pays any attention to her or gives her a kind word. She must be con tent with one meal a day and at the end ot this time her head is shaved. The Hindoos say the soul of a man after his death goes to heaven quickly and pleasantly in proportion to the sufferings of hia. wife during the month after his death. Consequently the mother-in-law and the rest of these relatives try to make these sufierings as great as possi ble. Even in death she has not the funeral of other women. In the northwest provinces of India, where the holiest of the Hindoos live, the woman is often dragged along with the husband's corpse to the cremation. She is pushed into the water and made to stind there while the body is burning. She comes home in her wet clothes, and she dare not change them. It matters not if she be sick, orwjiether the weather be warm or cold. She sleeps in these clothes for 13 days, and she is persecuted by all. 4 Poor YorieftlZXhcw&iin Well, SoratioJi ff if 7K A BY " Author BgP j&M viRv IIS,-''' SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CIIAPTEIIS. The story opens In St Petersburg with an interview between Colonel Palkin, ald-de-camp of the head of the gendarmes, and Mr. Onophri Schelm. head of the division of political affairs under the Minister of the Interior, Count Perowski. Both are ambitions and cordially hate each other. Palkin announces a conspiracy that Schelm knows nothing of. Const Lanin, ald-de-caniD of the Emperor, enters announcing the order of bt Vladimir for Palkin. in reward for his skill, and a censure upon Schelm for his ignorance of the conspiracy. Jana is the daughter of wealthy Alexander Wernin. Count Vladimir Lanin is in lave with her and she accepts him. Previously Schelm lias asked Wernin for Jana's hand. She, thinking to humble Schelm. has Count Lanm send to him an invitation to their wedding, as her answer to his request for her hand. Wernin learns of the insult just too late, tries to intercept the invitation, but fails. Schelm receives it, and his anger knows no bounds. Wernin trembles, for Schelm's power is al most absolute. Continued From Last Sunday.l CHAPTER HL The drizzling rain had, in the meantime, become a very hard rain it poured. And yet Schelm was still wandering about, un mindful, without his hat or spectacles. His egotism had been terribly wounded, and this aroused in him all hi3 evil passions. He was so excited that he could not even devise a plan of revenge, and yet his mind, as well as his heart, thirsted for revenge. His in stinct told him that he could form plans only in the ministry, and without any clear purpose he returned to his office. The per Bpiration ran from his brow, and his scanty hair was damp. His eyes, always inflamed, were bloodshot and bleared. He looked horrible in his dumb despair. Only after he had walked abont half way he stopped and tried to collect his turbulent thoughts. "There we see what human life is," he said to himself. "Yesterday I fancied I was on the high road to honors and riches; to-day all is over, at one blow." THKT HAVE-TURNED MB His thoughts filled him with new bitter ness, and he again hastened his steps. "A Lanin is aid of the Emperor. Another marries Wernin's daughter. That name is unlucky for me." An ominous smile disfigured his mouth. "The 28th of October is written in bloody letters upon my memory. I cannot forget it, but I shall remember the names." He went on repeating to himself: "Lanin! PalkinI Wernin!" In the same moment he heard somebody call out behind him: "That must be he! Schelm! Schelm!" The head of division, who had not a friend on eartjj, turned around, quite surprised, on heiring himself called in this familiar way. Before him rose the dismal walls of the Ministry of the Interior, and in a corner of the huge portico, half in the shade, stood a man who looked sharply into Schelm's face. The man was a picture of misery; his shabby costume, his lean, haggard face, ail spoke but too clearly. When he saw that Schelm loosed at him attentively he .ex claimed with a smile of delight: "To be sure! Schelm in his own person! A strange meetingl" The head of division cast at him a look of contempt "I do not know you!" he said drily. "You do not know me?" continued the unknown. "Well, it is some years since you saw me last I am. your school friend and your only friend. Don't you recognize me? I am Miller, of Millertown! Come into my arms, comrade!" The meeting was not pleasant for the ereat man; he attempted to break off the conver sation. Miller, however, willed differently; he almost forced his friend to come Under the shelter of the balcony, where he himself had soneht protection, and said to nim: "Are you in such a frightful hurry? I understand how, in the position which you seem to occupy, a meeting with an old com rade may not be very pleasant, but console yourself; my misery is as great as your ill luck. You need only look at me, my coat, my hat, my boots; I am thoroughly demoral ized. I should be glad if I found you to be still the same man .you were of old. I was glad just now to notice that you were not happy. At the sight of your unhappiness my heart warmed up. Surely, you must still be the same as of old." Schelm did notconceal his annoyance, but submitted to his fate and did not leave his old friend. He asked him, with an air of bitter haughtiness: "Whatdovou want of me. Out with it! Quick." "To press your hand, dear friend, and to tell you how I have fared since we separ ated, and then, perhaps, to take leave of you for another ten years. Ah, my friend, fate has not been kind to me. I had a small patrimony which ' I soon squandered. I could not bear the position ol an officeholder: I resigned and plunged into the whirlpool of life. That lasted five years. At last I awoke one morning from this dream, with out money, not a friend, no prospect for the future. For five years I have knocked at all doors, tried every profession and can do nothing to earn a living. All this time I wanted to work honestly and fairly; my feelings revolted against all that was con trary to honor and to conscience. This dis position closed every career against me. I was driven away everywhere aa being good or nothing. For three days I have been ROMANCE OF RUSSIA AUD SIBERIA, TVBITTEN TOE THE DISPATCH PRINCE JOSEF LUBOMIRSKI, of "Safar-Badji, a Story of TurJnitan," et& living on crusts. To-day I am ready to do anything. If anyone were to ask me to steal 1 verily believe 1 could do it; if 1 were asked to libel and slander anyone I could do it; if they wanted me to commit murder I would be able to do even that Hunger is powerlul!" Schelm had listened attentively to the words of his old schoolmate. When ha paused he shrugged his shoulders and said brutally: "What is all this to me?" "You are just as kind, I see, as you ased to be," replied Miller. "I thought I would please you by telling you my history. I felt a certain comfort in seeing you, whom I ex pected to find rich and happy, looking any thing but happy your disordered dress yonr melancholy face all this encouraged me to offer you my hand." "Who told you I was poor and unhappy?" interrupted Schlem. "On the contrary, I hold a high office and have a salary of 15,000 rubles. Perhaps you like to hear that news?" " "Is it po sible?" cried Miller, "that's Terr different, I'm sure. Pardon me, bnt be 89 ki id as to lend me 25 rubles." OUT OP THE HISISTKY. Schelm drew back a step quite surprised. "Twenty-five rubles! What for?" "That I will tell you at once. To-night takes place the annual law supper, at wbicu, all appear who have studied law toe ether. You are no donbt invited as well as I. Bat you have perhaps never been present, while I do not neglect a single meeting. It is the only place where I can appear without ac cepting it as alms and where I always meet kindred and sympathizing hearts. Every one of my places or employments I owe to these annual suppers, to my former fellow students. To-night I shall attend for the last time," continued Miller, leaning on his schoolmate's arm, "but I must have 25 rubles to pay my score and to hire a decent costume. Can you lend me that amount?" Schelm withdrew from the hands of hi colleague and said in a hard, icy cold tone: "Mr. Miller, I observe in life the princi ples that everybody lives and care3 for him self alone. I only show favor to those who can returji me favors. But how could you prove your gratitude? That would be sim ply impossible. You could not even return, the borrowed money. You are simply a beggar, and I do not like beggarsl Good by! Hereafter leave me alone and do not refer to our former acquaintance." Thus the head of division left his friend perfectly dumfounded and entered the office. "A very nice man, indeed," murmured Miller. "I must try Vladimir. I must ab solutely attend this supper once more." Trembling with cold and wading through the deep mud. Miller went away. In the meantime Schelm, in still worse temper than before, ran up the stairs. It had just struck 9 and a fewclerks were again, at work. Tne old soldier slept once more on his bench. Schelm hurried down the pass age, drew a key from his pocket and opened tne aoor oi ais omce. There was no life in it, the fire in the grata had gone out, and it was bitter cold in the vast apartment Schelm looked all around, uttered a fearful curse, pulled the bell rope aud waited a moment No one came. More and more excited, Schelm rang and rang, till at last the old soldier appeared in the door only half awake. Schelm's eyes glared in the dark, and his repulsive form assumed strange, fantastic outlines. The old soldier crossed himself, fearing he saw a ghost "Why have you not lit the lamp and made a fire in the grate?" asked Schelm. "Don't you know your orders?" Yon know that I often work here at night" "Your Excellency, I have received no or ders from the officer on duty." "Call him at once!" The soldier hesitated. "You do not obey," repeated Schelm, in a rage. "You obstinate rascal! A hundred blows with the stick If yon do not bring him here instantly." "Your Excellency, the officer on. duty has not returned yet from his dinner." "Is that the way you do your duty In the Ministry of the Interior? Whose turn is it to-day?" "Mr. PopofT." "Very well. I know PopofF. Call to me instantly the head of his bureau.No.Tl; you hear? And then make a fire on the spot and light the lamps if you wish to escape your punishmentl" The soldier hurried away. Schelm stepped back into the dark that seemed to suit his temper, and fell into deep thought. His whole past came up beTore his mind's eye. The memory of his youth, however, which ordinarily causes men to be deeply moved, only increased his fury. "Ah! if X could but make others Buffo) '
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