THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. -V PAGES 17 TO 20. f THIRD PART. HR. MASTS HIE AHT. ' An Experiment in Gracefully Curved Lines Aptly Applied to Yice President Morton. SEUATOE CALL IN GLOBULAR FORM. XcPherson Drawn Out in Straight Lines and Biker Coinage Teller Eepre Bented as a Professor. IS EXECUTIVE SESSION EIPEEIEHOE. tha EBtassIxstle Artist Bnstltd Ihrcn;h Spue by aa Anzry Door-JCetper. rCOBSXSFOKDEXCX of tiie dispatch.! "Washingtos', D. C, June 14. Ever since Mr. Nast has been io 'Washington I have labored diligently to correct his falie ideas of art, and to develop him along the lines of fine drawing. At the yery first I perceived he had some natural talent for making pictures, and I felt it to be my duty to guide and encourage him. But I have had a pretty hard time of it No matter how often I might caution him to be more careful, more precise, I could never get him to heed the instruction. He would go on dashing off pictures with as free a hand and as gallns a man- Presiding Officer of the Senate. xer as a ten-ceut barber lathering the Sat urday night chin pf a supernumerary brick layer. I have tried to impress upon his mind the self-evident fact that fine art is fine, but he poet on slashing away, making great heavy lines with ragged edges and jagged ends. Yesterday, however, I made a manifest im pression on him. "We were walking down Pennsylvania avenue on our way to the Capitol when I saw a number of persons ad miring a beautiful testimonial exhibited in a store window a delightlnl example of the finest style of penmanship. 'There," said I, "that is fine art, Mr. Nast See how true every curve is, how accurately the shadings rise and tall, how smooth it all looks! Now, sir, why can I never induce you to do work like that? You could do it; if not now, after a little careml practice. But it requires pains and patience and trne artistic persist ence." Mr. Nast's nose was awav up in the air. "Do you call that art? Humph!" "Well, you can see for yourself how the parole stop and admire it and ask who did it. I tell you, sir, we are becoming- civil ized in this country civilized and refined and yon people who call yourselves artists may as well learn at once that yon can't slash off pictures for us much longer. "We Rant fine wort and we are going to nave it In this strain I scolded Mr. Nast until we reached the Capitol. It wan the first time I had had an opportunity to deliver a real clin ical lectnre to him and I made the best of it, I am glad to ear it had some effect. "There," said he, when we had sat in the Senate gallery some time; "here is a picture The Broad Call. of Vice President Morton. How does that atrikeyou?" "That, sir," I said, shaking his hand warmly, "that, sir, is art; fine art That is the best picture you ever made. Beally.my dear fellow, 1 have more hope for you than ever before. I knew you had talent, but, sir, if you keep on in this way you wili con vince me that you have genius. True, this Jiicture makes our esteemed Vice-President ook a bit like King Gambrinus pausing, mallet in hand, alter opening's keg on bock beer day, but viewing it merely as a work of art, j. am proua oi it, sir, and will print it in my next letter." Mr. Nast seemed to be very much pleased that he had given me such gratification. He smiled a smile of peculiar pleasure and went on with his picture making. If be did not make any more drawings of equal merit it was not surnrising. He is JUr. McTherionJEnnohienxno the World. deeply set in his bad habits and I cannot hope to drag him ont of them all dt once. "Who is that Senator?" asked Mr. Nast. "That one down there the one who looks sj.it he ought to take a broad view of every thing." ' "OhI that one whose picture you have gjxgggi. yfTyyyK'' drawn? "Why, that is Senator Call the broad Senator from the narrow State ol Florida. But, Mr. Nast, you have given him no legs. Is that intended to be a re flection upon his understanding, or is it an allegorical representation of the Senatorial situation in his State?" "Well, if what I hear of that situation be true. I should say he hadn't a leg to stand on down there." When Mr. Nast began to talk politics I alwavs back off into silence. "And who is that narrow Senator over there?" he asked. "That is Senator McPherson, of New Jer- "K .-- 27ie Stiver Tiller Prom Colorado. sey. Now, see here, Th., don't you go to poking fun at him. New Jersey is rapidly becoming one of the most important nations of the earth. Heretofore she has relied mainlv upon her succulent peaches and mosquitoes, her intoxicating mushmelons and lightning, but now that she has become the proprietor of the statue of Liberty, the orld must nencetortn loos: tojier lor lis enlightenment." Mr. Nast stroked his mustache in a reflec tive sort of way. Then he gave Senator McPherson's mustache a few strokes and combed his hair up a little better. I think what I said to him had a mollifying influ ence upon the picture. "Who is the professor?" Mr. Nast asked, after awhile. "What professor? I see no professor." "Why, the one in the rear row of seats. Don't vou see ? The gentleman a la Pompa dour." "Oh, that is Senator Teller, the silver minded Senator from Colorado. He does look somewhat like a professor, it is true, and his habits are those of one, for he is probably the most studious man in the Senate, but he makes no professions save those of a Christian gentleman and a bi metallic statesman." Mr. Nast was perplexed. He did not qnite comprehend what a bi-metallic states man is. But when I explained that Sena tor Teller is in favor of the free coinage of silver he seemed to catch the meaning. "That's what I'm in favor of, too," said he; "the free coinage and the free distribution of it. I have studied this money question pretty carelully and I think I know something about it. If vou will let me take a silver dollar The Senate JIas Gone Into Secret Beuion. and a gold one a moment, I will show you by practical demonstration one of the most potent arguments in favor of free coinage of silver." "Ob, no, Tb.," I said. "I have had that argument played on me a good many times. I have let people take dollars and I have seen the practical demonstration to my en tire satisfaction." Mr. Nast was at work with his pencil. "What are you doing now?" "lam making a nice picture of Senator Teller," he said; "I am with him and I mean to make as good a portrait ot him as I can. When it was finished he passed it over to me with a triumphant air. "Do you call that a good picture of the Senator?" I asked. "That is my clief'auvre." "It is nothing of the kind, Th. I am sur prised that you should think it is. I must decline to print it, sir. I will print it, but I do so only that tbe people may see why I decline to print it," It amazed me to see that Mr. Nast had fallen back into his old habit so completely, and that he even went so far as to set his picture above the one of Vice President Morton, which is in so much higher style of art, I sometimes almost lose hope of" ever being able to reform this man. I need hardly say that in this frame of mind 1 was gratified to hear the bell x -- e-A s :rV-v: "r .M")". f IS.K " To be Continued in Our Next. which announces to all the doorkeepers that the Senate is going into execu tive session and that the galleries must be cleared. "Come on," I said, as I arose to go. "Where are you going?" "I don't know; anywhere." "I'd rather stay here a little longer." "But the Senate is going into executive session." "Is it? "Well, then, I'm sure I want to stay. I have never seen an executive ses sion, and I have often wondered what it is like. I believe I can get some good pic tures out of an executive session." "I shouldn't wonder," I admitted "but" "You go on if you want to. I'll meet you afterawhile. I'm going to stay right here and see this thing out." "What was there for me to do but to go? Still I did not go far. I stepp'ed out into the corridor and kept my eve on Th. through the glass door. Presently one of the doorkeepers ap proached Mr. Nast, who was working away at a picture. "The Senate is going into executive ses sion now," said he, politely. "So I heard," said Th. "Every body leaves the galleries, you know, during exeoutive sessions." "Xes; I noticed that, but that's where they make their mistake. 1 understand there's twice as much fun in the executive session as in any other. The doorkeeper looked down on my little friend and smiled. k"i 7 - "But I am a doorkeeper, and it is my duty to" "Are you, though? Then I suppose you know most of the Senators by sight," "Yes; I know them all." 'Good 1 You're just the man I want. Come and sit down with me, here. I'm making pictures of them, audi don't know their names, you see, and" Mr. Nast noticed that the doorkeeper's manner had undergone a violent change, whereas he had been polite and genial be fore, he was now a creature of frightful mien. "So you're the little imp that's been mak ing these pictures of Senators, are you? And you think you're going to stay in "here during the secret session, do vou? "Well, we'll see cbout that, you little skeezix," and he gathered my friend's coat collar into hi capacious grasp and started lor the door. Poor Tb., dangling in air, grabbed up the half-finished picture on which he had been working and lelt himself projected through space. Out in the corridor the doorkeeper dropped him in a heap and went away mut tering something to the effect that he guessed that little cuss wouldn't come around there to make pictures any more. The experience was so novel a one that it quite bewildered Mr. Nast and lelt him to tally unfit to complete the picture he had begun. I give the completed portion of it to the reader at this time with the promise that if Mr. Nast recovers his mental and physical equilibrium by next week I will obtain from him the other half ot the picture for my next letter. "Willis B. Hawkins. EASY COKES, EASY GOES. Champion Sullivan' Utter Lack of Appre ciation for Money. "Few men care less for money than John Ij. Sullivan," writes his old friend Arthur Lumley. "He has undoubtedly made more money and made it easier than any other pugilist that has ever lived, and spent it with a very liberal hand. To say that he has fairly thrown away $50,000 or J60.000 in a year to his friends and followers would be no exaggeration. I remember an incident that happened in a swell uptown cafe in New York shortly after the big fellow's sick ness. He was about financially wrecked at the time, "A wealthy young clnbman, who was a great admirer of the champion, knew of this fact and hunted him up in tbe cafe. John Ii., for some strange reason, did. not ancy h is admiring wealthy friend, for I noticed he treated him in a very indifferent manner. This, however, did not seem to have any effect on the young sport, for the first chance he got he rather surprised me by pulling forth 5500 in $50 bills and offering them to Sullivan, saying: 'Here, John, is the dust; I want you to have it.' " 'No, I don't want it, thank you.' " 'But I insist, John, you must. "Why, bless your soul, you can't go broke while I'm well heeled.' "Still Sullivan refused. Finally he agreed to accept $50, which he slapped on the bar and ordered the barkeeper to put up that many dollars' worth of wine for the crowd. This reckless action of Sullivan fairly horrified the swell clubman. He stood speechless looking the big fellow over. When he recovered later on he offered Sul livan the remainder of the boodle, but the latter refused. " 'Well,' he said, 'John, you're the great est puzzle I ever met with.' "Although Sullivan was fairly broke, he wanted to show that rich young man his contempt for his money." STEAMEB OP THE FOTOBE. What We Stay Expect If Improvement In Ocean TruTel Continues. The coming ocean steamer will be over a quarter of a mile in length and will do the passage from Sandy Hook to Liverpool in 36 hours, being one night out. She will be driven by electricity, and in such a fashion as to keep railway time, despite storm or fog. Passengers can be secured by flash photo Edison's patent and the ticket will include an opera stall, or a concert ticket, or a seat in a church pew the opera house, concert hall, and church being all on board. A covered ring for horse exercise will be provided and a racing track for fast trotters. A baseball ground and tennis courts will also form a portion of the attraction. For business men a stock exchange will be operated, the quotations being posted from the tickers every two minutes on the vibra tion system. The leading papers of all countries will be reprinted each morning by tbe electric reflection system. A spacious conservatory,containing the choicest flowers of all climates, will afford an agreeable lounging place, and bouquets will be pro vided gratis. As at Monaco and Monte Carlo, a suite of apartments will be laid out for play, to be kept open all night a sumptuous supper, with costliest wines free. English tailors and shoemakers will be in attendance, and clothes will be 'made and finished during the passage. Tne millinery department will contain the French fashions of tbe pre vious day, and costumes will be confectioned while the ship is en route, and delivered complete on arrival at dock. Accommoda tion will be furnished for 10,000 passengers. TO EIVAL THE SHE W0EM. A French Scientist Propose! to Make the Fabric From Mulberry Leaves. According to a report presented to the Paris Academy of Sciences bv M. Emile Blanehard, a professor of chemistry, says a Paris correspondent, it will be quite possi ble, at a not remote epoch, to manufacture silk without the intervention of the cocoon. Mr. Blanehard is convinced that the con stituent materials of silk are to be found in the' mulberry leaf, upon which the silk worm feeds. By dyeing some of the leaves on which a worm fed, and then after a while opening the body ot the chrysalis, he found that nothing had passed through the diges tive organs and into the blood except the elements necessary for the production of silk. Other matters had beeu excluded by certain glands of tbe worm which had acted as a membrane. M. Blanehard confesses, however, that the silk which he produced bv experiments with mulberry leaves was inferior in rich ness, and particularly in gloss, to that turn shed by the cocoons. This resulted from the fact that, as the silk goes through two pro cesses in the glands of the worm, he had only tbe time and tbe means to study the first that in which the silk is evolved in its primary state. He believes, however) that it will be possible eventually to produce, by chemical means, the gloss or varnish which is the result of the. second stage through which the silk passes in the body of the insect which produces it READERS OF BOOKS. The Classes That Will Take Advantage of Sir. Carnecle's Library. Now that Pittsburg is to have a library, it might be interesting to know what class is going to profit most by it Some light is thrown on this question by the Intent report of the Birmingham Free Library Commit tee. Among other tables therein given is one showing the occupations of .borrowers admitted during 1889. Here are some of the figures: Scholars and students, 1,392; clerks and bookkeep ers, 1,138; errand and office boys, 301; teach ers, 293j shop assistants, 290; jeweler, 216; compositors and printers, 192; milliners and dressmakers, 169. Almost ut the bottom ol the list come journalists 6, new agents 2, reporters 2. Is this because they hav libra ries of their own? or" because the people who write in newspapers have no time for read ing boftnjf? PITTSBTJRG, SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 1890. SOOTH' SEA L07ERS. In New Britain the Youth Wins His Bride at Fnblic Auction. HE PAYS HINE PIGS IP SHE IS FAT. A System by Which He Is Allowed to Wed Only One Girl in Four. MOTflEEB-Ilf-LAW STRICTLY TABOOED 1WBITTEN FOB THE DISPATCH. ! "When a man and merry maiden make their minds up to marry, being savages of the western half of the great South Sea and possibly cannibals, the affair is not as easy of accomplishment as on first glance it might seem to those who, without exper ience of its complex multitude of petty re strictions and rude ceremonies, look upon savage freedom as the best instance of sim plicity of fashion and absence of all conven tionality. No judgment could be more erroneous. The conventionsof civilized life may be put aside by those upon whom they bear heavily and no particular harm will re sult therefrom; the conventionsof savage life form a containing wall too high for the savage to look oyer, too stout for him to break through. It would seem that the greater the sim plicity of the barbarism the more fixed is the power of its daily round of etiquette. Noth ipg in Melanesian life is less easy of accom plishment than matrimony, yet at the same time no other communities show such simple conditions of lite in general. Students oi the manners and customs of the islanders find here a ceremony and there a formal phrase, which lead directly to tbe custom of polyandry, in which the woman has a plur ality of husbands. Yet polygamy is now the rule nmong the Melanesians, who perhaps, have migrated from some land where poly andry was a necessity of life to one where the conditions were less severe. THE TYPICAL COlXBTSHrP. New Britain gives the explanation of that which is faint in other islands; there the Melanesian stock is the purest and there it is most difficult for two young people, or three or four for tbe matter of that since polvgamy rules, to become one. Every New British community is sharply divided into two clans, known respectively as the Mara- J mara and the Pikalaba. They are most intimately associated in all the business and pleasure of life, they live in the same houses, in fact, no household can exist without hav ing representatives of each clan. That there may never be any doubt of the clan to which any particular individual belongs the device of the clan is prominently displayed in tattooed lines upon his back and breast Far from being a division of the community, these two clans tend toward its closer union, for no person may marry a member of his own clan but must choose from the other. This plan is still further complicated by the subdivision of each clan into four co-ordinate groups which are named respectively alter some fish, plant, bird or beast The natural object whose name is borne by each gronp, becomes in some sort its totem and in tattooing upon the body and in rude carving upon the doorway is displayed as a device. The gronps in each clan which bear a kin dred device are looked upon as too closely related to allow intermarriage between mem bers of each although their clans are dis tinct Likewise the individual must not marry into the group of either parent or one cognate therewith in the other clan. A YEHY DESIBABLE CATCH. This may seem far from clear, a concrete example will, -serve for illustration.1 De cember that there can be no doubt about the clan and group of any individual, for the most cursory glance at his body will at ouce show his position. Lumie, we will take for example, a young man who has built for himself a house, who owns a whole fishing net and has the equity ot a yam plantation or'' so and 'many coacoanuts. His house seems lonely and he wants a wife. This is how he goes to work: His own father belonged to the Pikalaba clan and the fish gronp, his mother was a Maramara of the plant group; thus he, in heriting nothing from his father and every thing from his mother, is likewise a Mara mara plant He is therefore debarred from marriage with any member of a plant or fish group, but must restrict his choice to the Pikalaba birds and beasts, say to one-fourth of the girl population of his town. This is indeed no great haidship to him, for he has known from his earliest childhood that some of the maidens were positively pro hibited to him and bj the time his thoughts bend toward matrimony he must have be come resigned to his late and is prepared to confine bis attentions to every fourth girl. A young man so prosperous as Lumie seems to be could not be expected to mate with any but the daughter of a family equally as wealthy as his own. The poorer girls whom he will see about the town may become wives to him, but they must wait until he has made selections of his chief wife and then they without any ceremony are sum moned to take the minor positions, which are in little different from slavery. TIIE OIBL3 AEE ALL CAQED. But of the maidens of high degree he has no view, for they are all carefully caged at their seminary in the bush under the pro tection of the dread fabu. Upon a morning early the women of the town are in commo tion; they have learned through some mys terious channel that a girl will on that day be brought home from her seclusion of from six to eight years. "Who the debutante mav be they do not know, but they glee fully spread their news about the town. All other plans must yield to the great event; tbe fishers on this day draw no nets, the warriors grant one day's respite to the towns on either hand all busy themselves with guessing who it is whose education has been completed and in absurd speculation as to what she will fetch. As the sun climbs high and nearer to its midday point the villagers flock out along the path which leads to the girls' retreat and crowd about the latticed hedge from which dangle the cloth streamers and fillet of hair which mark the tabu; well to the front will be found Lumie and any others who may be ready lor marriage, upon the other side of the sham bulwark people are heard moving about and at the moment of high noon the guardian of the young girls appears and leads into view her charge, who perhaps would blush if she were not as black as a bag of soot. Alter one moment of interested inspection a murmur of dis satisfaction arises from many of the young men who find her to belong to a clan and group prohibited to them. But not from Lumie. He spies upon her breast the Pikalaba mark and tattooed above it the outstretched wings of a bird, by this he knows that she is eligible. I THE FATTEB THE BETTEB. Led by the chief and by all the young men who seek to marry her, the young woman goes down to her old home in the village and nods and speaks to those whose faces are vet familiar after her long absence. She sits upon a small mat before her lather's door to receive her friends, and at her side sits her guardian who now and again con descends to a gratified smile when one and another compliment her upon the fatness of her charge. Meanwhile a feast is preparing in the house behind her to which all the village is invited. In the high post of honor sits the maiden just about to make her entry into the world of society, thus placed oil exhibition that her chance of finding a husband may be better. The morning alter the feast she is put up at auction on the village green. The bid ding begins at two pigs, for tha't is the amount uhlch ha been expended upon her education; pig by pig it runs up to seven or eight and then, if Lumie has any earnest competitor, it may creep slowly up by a bid of now an additional cowrie or a palm of shell money until nine pigs is reached and the girl is knocked down'to the highest bid der. That is all the ceremony there is. Lumi drives his pigs to the house of his father-in-law, leads the girl to his own house and she is his wife. To bring as much as nine pigs a girl must be very fat and be furthermore the daughter of a man wealthy enough to be a chief; seven pigs is a high figure and few run over six. The buyer takes his purchase to his home and looks to her domestic services to make good the amount which he has paid. NOT ALL A MATTEB OF PICS. Such a system affords no room for any of the softer sentiments, it would seem, yet husbands and wives in New Britain dis play great affection and are as true as though their marriage had been solemnized with the most elaborate vows. After mar riage the clan division is ceremonially per petuated in the house, not to the extent of interfering with domestic harmony, hot upon certain solemn occasions. The door way is in the middle of one of the sides, the fireplace directly oppositeon the other. Be tween the two the line is drawn; one side of the house is the husband's side, the other is the wife's. Each retains the individual ownership of their separate property: he keeps his possessions on his side the line, she on hers, and nothing is moved from one side to the other without an equivalent. The children belonging to each are said to be "in tbe door," and it is only as they grow up or in the event of tbe father's death that they definitely go oyer to the mother's side. In the Solomon Islands, this idea of mar riage classes has become so obscure as almost to have passed out of existence, and with it the idea of marriage by purchase. In its place we find a strong development of the idea of wedding by force, which is the gen esis of the marriage ceremonial of all civil ized communities. Tne marriage class sur vives only in the shape of a custom that a man must marry someone not of his own town. As there is no free intercourse be tween town and town, this naturally leads to WIFE HUNTING FOBATS conducted either by stealth or lying in wait on the part of the single man, or by the union ot a number of bachelors in a bold attack upon some village, followed, in the event of success, by a division of the spoil. The captive woman makes such resistance as is in her power as long as resistance avails; afterward she settles down content edly in her new position and makes no at tempt at escape. Beyond the Solomons, in the banks group, marriage still goes in classes and entirely by purchase. As soon as tbe purchase price has been paid over and the bride taken toher home she can have no intercourse with his parents nor he with hers. "When accidentally brought face to face with the tabooed individuals they must ignore them as though the place in which they stand were filled with empty air. As in the other concerns of life, so in this the most important ot all, tbe Fijians seem to have sbown the fullest flower of barbaric manhood. Space was afforded for tbe growth of affection and marriage was not forced upon the women. From this sprang happy homes, and to this is undoubtedly due the fact that the Fijian race shows no sign of dwindling before the white men like the Hawaiians and other Polynesians who were always lax in their views of marriage. William Churchill. JAPANESE Hi ONE LESSON. A Half Dozen Words Will Enable Ono to Say Anything; Worth Saying;. Pall Mall Budzet Contrary to popular belief, Japanese seems to be a tolerably easy language to learn, after all. The following, under the heading of "The Japanese Language in One Lesson, is from the Japan-JIcrald: "Arimas means everything. Anmasen means noth ing. Wakarimas means to understand in all its moods, tenses, persons, etc. It Is a whole conjugation in one word. "Wakari masen is the opposite of "Wakarimas. Deki mas means unlimited potentiality, past, present and future, and can be made to ex press anything. It also is a whole conjuga tion in itself, and can be applied to every thing and everybody (yourself included). Dekimasen means of course everything that dekimas doesn't mean. Ka is a vocal note of interrogation and can be tacked on to anything. Ano-ne can be thrown in any where to make conversation. After going through the above course the student is' competent to say anything. "When being spoken to or answered it is ad visable to exclaim Hoi (long), hai (me dium), or ha (short), which expresses sur prise, wonder, assent, sympathy, absorbing interest, honor in fact, the whole gamut of the feelings care being taken to ejaculate it in a different tone every time (minor scales preferable) with a varied and ap propriate facial expression, the cue for which must be taken from the face of the speaker. When the student is not speaking, this word properly played upon will keep the other man going all the time. A VORACIOUS PIKE. Ill Death Cnnsed by a Large Fish Getting; Fast In Its Throat. A female pike weighing 29 pounds has been found in the lake at Ewhurst Park, Basingstoke, the seat of Lord Alexander Bussell. It had apparently met its death in the vain attempt to swallow one of its own species weighing nine pounds. The two fish, in the position in which they were found, are being stuffed at "Winchester. Pike have died in this manner before, and it is doubt ful whether or not these should be regarded as instances of voracity or pure accidents. Pike, like many other fish, frequently do battle, and it has been suggested that when two savage fish rush headlong at one an other the smaller one might easily enter the jaws of the larger. Once in, there would be no getting out again, for tbe pike's mouth is lined with hundreds of sharp teeth, which, like those of the shark, point throat wards. As an undoubted instance of pikeish voracity, there is an unusually well authen ticated record of a pike of two pounds first swallowing a trout of one pound and shortly afterward, while the tail of the trout was still in its throat, seizing an artificial bait 3 inches in length. CHARMING AWAY DISEASE. AmniloE Custom That Still Prevails Among; the Hindoos of Bencal. A ludicrous custom is still followed in Hindoo households of Bengal. The last day of Falgoon, that fell on March 12, was ob served in worshipping Ghantoo, the god of itches and the diseases of the skin which afflict the natives. Very early on tbe morn ing of this day the mistresses of the families, changing their noctural attire, put a useless black earthen vessel outside the threshold ot their back doors, with a handful of rice and masoor dal, four cowries, and a piece of rag smeared with tumeric. Wild flowers appearing in this season called Ghantoo tool are offered in worship. The young boys of the families stand in a semi-circle betore the mistresses, with cudgels in their hands. "When the conches are sounded by the female worshipers, as the signal of the poojah being over, the boys break the ves sels into atoms. The mirthful children, in their anxeity to strike the first blow, some times bruise the fingers and hands of the matron. The piece of rag is preserved over the doors of tbe houses in zenana. In the evening of the day the boys of the lower order of the villages sing the songs of the occasion in chorus from door to door for pie. -n s " mmws 1 rm fed W KS A ROMANCE OP RUSSIA AND SIBERIA BY PRINCE JOSEF LUBOMIRSKI, Author of "Safer-Hadji, a Story of TurJdstan," Etc. Translated Feom the Russian fob The Dispatch BY META DE VERA. SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. ma uriuB, ixb purcnases toe services oi aimer, a scnoolmate of his airl nt Tjtnln'a. TTnrtor Schelm's instructions Miller, In the guise of a friend, betrays Laninand has blmlJkeDrisonM M,'i?aSaSdn,HC,0n?pirat0,;S- th, hfaof which Is Trie JotWtttfff&gSSSS. Miller had Schelm's promise of help but he knows too much to suit the latter and hYtoa.ta sent to the mines. Nicholas Popo, a discharged employe of Schelm's, gets papers showing that Lanin is Innocent of part in the conspiracy. These ppers fall into the hands of Colonel Pillcin also high In authority. Schelm bribes Palkjn gets back the papers and sends Popofl to Siberia! Then he gets Palkin transferred to Siberia. Janagou the Czar's consent to loin her hi sband and sets out with Dr. Haas; her friend: PopolTs mother and bis sweetheart. ' Palkfn falU? te with them and, partly out of passion for Jana and partly oat of hone he can use them to avenge himself on Schelm, acts as their escort. Once he betrays his deslens to J.ina but f riehtens her so she dares not tell of it They find Vladimir the victim of the T brutal wife of an inspector whose advances of love he hid ignored. Jana rents a beautiful house and for a time Vladimir ia 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, he joins an exile consniraev Miller is at the bead of it The men meet and Miller craves Vladimir's i fdrgivenen? and. after telline his story. Is freely forgiven. Palkin has Vladimir arrested on the Sound'has be is: found awaf from his hut He catches Popoff at Vladimir's hut, has hm stripped?bound and knSSted At every blow be demands Popoffs papers against Scheloi. Popoff refuses and the awf nl tTrtnrA continues. Suddenly Dr. Haas, who with Jana had succeeded I In TnotifyiSe Mlllt" enters anS sees that Popoff is dying. He pleads for mercy. Just then Miller and Sis die TarriV A fr fnl fight follows, in which several men are killed. Palkin is bound to thf center Dost Jana and Popoffs betrothed enter upon the bloody scene. TO lnB C8nlerposr. jana CHAPTER XXIV. Killer's opportune arrival had. come obout in this way: TheTungus had brought Dr. Haas to lenar-kus, who understood a little Bussian and knew Miller's name. Tbe same evening Haas saw Miller, who at once collected a small nnmber of exiles and gave the promise that the colonists of the village itself would also render assistance. The Doc tor had Jana's money still about him, and was already suspected; he thought it best, therefore, to give Jenar-kus tha 40,000 rou bles, who, in retnrn, engaged to furnish the exiles with the necessary arms. As the time was pressing, Miller determined to go on, although most of the men had only heavy clubs and a few swords. While Palkin was trying to persuade Popoff to surrender the unlucky paper, Mil ler reached the village, where he had many allies. They first surprised the house of tbe inspector, seized and bound two Kossacks and the captain of gendarmes of Irkutsk. In another room they found Jana and Helen, held prisoners. Helen had been released after she had told the Captain all she knew, but as Jana was not an exile some regard had to be had to her name and rank. Then Jana and Helen had at once started to warn Vladimir and Popoff against Colonel Palkin's treacherous inten tions. They had, however, been seized by the Captain, who was on the watch for them. Then Miller with his followers had hastened to assist Popoff. -The whole vil lage was involved in the conspiracy, hence no one warned the gendarmes. Palkin did cot cease to shout and to curse; his uninterrupted threatening at last made Miller impatient. "Keep silence," he commanded. "Did we utter complaints when we were in your hands. Tyrants are always cowards. Keep silence, you wretched coward." These last words hurt Palkin like a mor tal offense. He ceased to cry. Helen, kneeling by tbe corpse of her be trothed, was apparently praying quietly, but in her face threats seemed rather to pre vail than resignation. Dr. Haas cast a last look at Nicholas, bandaged the slightly wounded men, and turned to the Countess: "Countess, we have nothing more to do here. Your husband is in danger, and Popoff is beyond our help. Human justice must proceed. Scenes like these are not for your eyes. I also cannot stay here; my duty is to help and to save, not to punish. Fol low me, I pray." Jana understood at once. "Blood enough has been shed," she said. "Pardon the guilty man!" Miller shrugged his shoulders and turned round, eagerly. "The Doctor advised you well, Countess This is no place for you!" "For my husband's sake do not avenge yourself I" "Your words are in yaln, Countess. I pray you once more leave us, unless yon wish to witness the execution! Haas seized her hand, saying, "Come, I beseech you. This is nothing for you, and we cannot change matters as they are. These men have gone too far to stop herel" She followed him, saying, almost uncon sciously: "Ob. my God! My God! Pardon them! Pardon him. alsol And pardon me, whohave caused all tnis shedding of bloodl" Haas was already in the door with the Countess, when Helen sprang up, and, in her despair, cried: "Doctor! You abandon him? Stay! You must stay!" Haas shook his head. "I "can do nothing more. I can assist no one and saye no one here." "Then Nicholas is no longer alive?" Haas had no answer to give. He turned to the Countess, who took Helen by the hand. "Come, Helen! Let us return together to town. "We must submit to God's will, all of us, my childl" The Doctor noticed that the exiles were becoming impatient at this delay; they meant to have their revenge. He there fore drew the Countess along with him, say ing: "Come! Helen will follow us soon!" Helen stood like a statue, and when the door was closed behind Haas.and the Count ess, she spoke: "He Is dead!i Beally dead! Murdered by those who dispised him because he served them. Yon will surely punish that man, won't you?" she added, pointing at Palkin. The exiles bowed their heads. "That Will.be the beginning of revenge, but only the beginning. Other men as powerful as this man have been as guilty of his death. He is dead, but do not believe that he cannot avenge bimsell!" "Listen to me," she said, turning to Mil ler. "You seem to be the leader of the others. They have tortured him to death to extort his secret from him. ,1 have kept it as be has kept it, and I will intrust it to you. "What do I now care for Count Lanin? I shall avenge myself and him at the same time." She sat down on tbe bench and took PopofTs cold head in her lap. "You searched in vain for that docu ment," she said, turning to Palkin, "and vet he had it in his possession. Now that he is dead you shall see it. Do you know what he did? He bad a false tooth inserted as large as two ordinary teeth, and in that he kept the paper. Will you be kind enough," she added, turning to Miller, "to take it out" Palkin roared with fury, while Miller thought the girl was eraxy, "Follow my advice, my child," he said to her in a gentle yofceA "Go with the Count ess. You will see bad! things here, and von va loaitw In a awav '' (USHUIWlj u nvi4 I We Bussian women are still half sav ages, she said, never letting go PopofTs head. "Yesterday I was a cheerful, merry girl to-day I cannot weep, and only thirst for revenge. You think I am insane. I swear to you I tell the trnth. He is dead, you say. Will you have the courage to open his firmly closed mouth, while I will hold his head? Do you think I do not love him because I thus treat his body? Then you are mistaken, for I only carry out his last will. I only came here, because he had commanded me to do so. He was my life, my hope, my all. To-dav I have lost all!" "Are you afraid then?" she continued as Miller hesitated. "You want revenge and you neglect a formidable weapon. Must YOU SEE I AM TOO my weak hand set you an example and show you that you are weaker than a helpless woman?" With these words she hastily seized a dag ger in Miller's belt, knelt down, put Pop ofTs head on the bench and tried to open the firmly closed mouth of the dead man. The bystanders shuddered. Helen tried in yain;.sbe even tried it again and again, but in vain. She gave tbe dagger then to Miller, saying in a flood of tears: "You see, I am too feeble." Helen's courage had made a deep impres sion upon Miller. He took the dirk, but he also tried in vain. To end this fearful scene he struck the handle with his whole strength. The front teeth dropped out! The whole body shook and Popoff uttered a cry of paia that sounded superhuman. The powerful blow had aroused the last breath that dwelt in the body. Miller dropped the dagger in amazement Nicholas opened his eyes and saw Helen, Palkin in bonds and "'the exiles around bim. That glance revealed all. "With a superhuman effort he raised his bloody arm, took ont the false tooth, handed it to the nearest bystander and whispered, "Lanin! Schelm!" Then he breathed his last "And now," said Helen, "break the tooth." Miller struck the apparenMooth with the dagger.. "When the ivory broke a small roll of paper dropped on the floor. Miller picked it up and examined it. "A receipt by Schelm! That is Schelm's own handwriting! 30 October. Conspiracy La. . . . Secret funds. ... I do not see at once what this means, but it must be a weapon of very great importance." Palkin could not help, by a powerful curse, to show his wrath at having failed to secure the paper. "I was a fool!" he cried in his fury. "Ha! ha!" said Miller. "The bird is singing again. We must have made a good barcain!" "You shall know it all," said Helen. "I know all, and shall have strength enough, I trust, to tell you the details. And then all is at an end. Now I have done my work. Do you now administer justice and avenge yourself. I shall pray for him here." She knelt down by the body of her be trothed. "And now," said Miller, turning to Palkin, "it is your turn." Did you, per haps.'think we had forgotten you?" Miller turned next to the exiles with these words: "We have transgressed the criminal laws of this country. "We shall henceforth be looked upon as murderers, and be hunted down like wolves and bears. To-morrow I shall procure arms ror you all. To-day we must create general terror. This man here is one of our bitterest and most powerful enemies. I need not accuse him before you; you know yourselves of what he is capable. What punishment do you decree against bim? What has he deserved?" "Death!" cried the exiles unanimously. "Death? Beally? Have you thought of nothing better?" laughed Miller, scornfully. "Listen to me. Far in the west of tbe world, across tha ocean in America, they have a law they call lynch law. This law says; An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth! This man has had one of us murdered, killed by the knout I condemn him to the same penalty!" At these words Palkin changed color, and tore madly at his bonds. "What! You will dare touch your Colonel?" Miller laughed aloud. "You shall see what we think of yonr rank." In the meantime the exiles looked at each other; some one had to he found who would take upon himself the duty of the execu tioner. Miller grasped their secret thoughts. "Well, we must have an executioner. Bring the captain from Irkutsk in here." The exites all agreed, and two men imme diately went to the inspector's house. "Listen to me, although I do not know vou," said Palkin now. "Don't do this. Do not disgrace a superior officer by strik ing him with the nagaika. Bather kill ma at a blow at once. What harm did I ever do you?" Miller interrupted him angrily. "You pretend not to know me, and ask . me what harm you have done me. And yet you arrested me at tbe same time with the Ace of Hearts, and I owe it to you that lam herein exile!" "I only did my duty at that time." "Perhaps yon also murdered this man from duty, who was my friend? You only gratify me immensely by your prayers, which show me what cowards you are, after all." Palkin, now convinced that nothing could prevent hi3 destiny from being fulfilled, showed contempt, and boastingly said: "Do what you choose, robber! You shall see how a Colonel of the gendarmes can die. You shall not hear my voice, and see how diflerentty from your lriend I shall bear your torment!" "We'll seel" said Miller. The door opened, and four of the exiles dragged the Captain in. He trembled and looked deadly pale; when he saw the corpses lying about he fell on his knees and cried, addressing Miller: "Pardon me! Mercy!" Miller kicked him back with his foot. "Get up, do;! You shall escape with your life if yon obey our orders." "Whatever you order I'll do it cheer fully." "I have sentenced this man here to re ceive 500 blows with the nagaika. That is your duty, aa you are an officer of the police. Carry out tbe sentence and your life shall be spared!" The Captain sprang up. "A knout! Give me the knout! I un derstand that an to perfection. Yon shall see it!" With these words he took the instrument ot torture in bis hands, approaching Palkin and letting the leather strap whizz through tbe air. At the same instant, however, ha started back; he had recognized in the bound prisoner his terrible Colonel.' FF.EBLE, SAID HELEN. "That man I am to beat? No, neverl" "Well," said Miller, "then yon will have to die, too. Comrades, this vermin writh ing at our feet is one of our worst and cruel est enemies. He has the death of many a brother on bis conscience. You are all of you soldiers, and therefore it is no disgrace to anyone to carry ont the sentence which I pronounce. It is death for the Captain of Irkutsk, and death by being shot "We have only two guns, hut they will suffice. Two men forward ! Instantly two exiles advanced who had once been dependent on the hated Captain, and bad suflered accordingly. The hesitation of tbe Captain had, how ever, been founded only upon the fear of the inferior before the superior. When he saw death so near to himself his apprehen sions vanished, and he cried: "Stop, I'll inflict the punishment 1" "First tear off the gold lace of his uni form," commanded Miller. "Consider," cried Palkin. "You are committing treason against the Czar." The Captain saw only death threatening him visibly. Like a wolf he fell upon tha Colonel, tore off the lace and the whole uni form. "Considerl" cried Palkin once more. "It is high treason!" The Captain, half insane with fear, tore off his shirt also, leaving tbe broad back of the Colonel of the gendarmes bare. The ex iles looked curiously at tbe proceeding. "Captain, take time to reflect!" cried Pal kin once more. "Strike!" commanded Miller. Tbe nagaika whizzed through the air, and Palkin uttered a cry that went through marrow and bone, as Russians say. "Captain, strike harder if you -wish to save your life!" The man struck almost without knowing what he did. At the twentieth blow Palkin roared like a wild beast "Bather kill me at once, but cease tortur ing mel" Miller laughed aloud. "Did I not say so? You have weakened very quickly. Captain, mind, if you do not use the nagaika well " Miller's revenge was, however, not to ba complete. Suddenly one of the exiles, who had stood sentinel, rushed In, exclaiming: "Take care! A troop of soldiers is ap proaching the Tillage. We must have been careless and allowed one oi the Cossacks to escape." "Let us escapel" cried Miller. At the same time he drew his dagger and threw it at Palkin, but the but was too dark and the dagger stuck in the post without injuring Palkin. Miller jumped out of the window; all the others bad scattered in moment Helen alone remained near the body of Popoff. She did not listen to one of?the exiles who asked her to go with them. The Captain alone saw and heard nothing; be continued pitilessly to inflict blow for blow. Only when all the exiles hid left, and the room bad become quiet, he looked around, and, lot he was alone with Palkin. Helen only kneeling at her betrothed's side. The heavy tread of approaching soldiers, the rattling ot arms became audible. Tbe Captain be came aware that help came for Palaia. la 4 1 .1 i I SBSBSBSBsaHtfBsVBslBSBBSBHBHBslBHBtHBslBS
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