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THE PITTSBURG
THIRD PART.
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AS MR. NAST SEES IT.
The Capital City, With lis Fanny
Freaks and Fancies, Keprodnced
. in Black and White.
POSSIBILITIES OF THE DOG CAET.
A' Critical Observation of the United States
, " " Treasary and a Disquisition Upon
V" the Surplus.
EDMUKDS IS THE BOLE OP SOCRATES,
Stray Eemaiks About the Monument to Washington,
and Their Usnal Effect
r CORRESPOND EKCE OP THE DISPATCH.!
"Washington, June 28. "We walked
down the Hall Mr. Nast and I down the
Hall which the
pride and taste of
our Republic will
Eome day (let us
hope) make into
the most beautiful
little park on earth
we walked down
its winding aTe.
"hues, so deceptive
n their distances;
by its moss-stained
buildings, so sol
emnly set upon the
hills; under its
generous old trees,
so prodigal of the
shade they flung
down upon our un
covered heads.
Mr. Nast stepped
- high and woie an
lUE."1" -i-' seemed to be rigged
Purest Thing J3e' 'd Seen. out ;Q top boots and
white cockade, and appeared to be strutting
with its thumbs in its vest armholes. As
we came out into an opening upon a rise of
ground Mr. Nast stood and looked with
sparkling eye and heaving breast upon the
grand old dome, so serenely, so securely
resting in its dignity upon the central
structure of our Union, and turning
square about, beheld in rapt and lingering
admiration the tall white shaft
tvj.vt . . -v in lur:. -m in wv -
"
Xight Eeeomt a Senator.
which marks a Nation's grateful
memorv ot Washington the tall, white
shaft, sharp-pointed at the top. The artist
stood transfixed and mute. His spirit
tanced; his feasting eyes drank in the glory
o. the scene. He threw his shoulders back
and bent his gaze on high as if inviting
down that heavenly afflatus which wafts the
thoughts of poets far away from worldly
themes and sets their spirits reveling with
old Olympian cods.
"Aht" said he, in swelling tones, "that
is the purest thing I have seen in "Washing
ton, and typical or the uovemment wnicn
Georce fought for and founded and which
he would have continued to carry on by
lines as straight as thoe.
"Waal, I snum 1" said a man from Ver
mont who happened to overbear Jur. JNasi;
"the ole monyment does look like a big
stick o' chalk, ready sharpened, sure
e mugh."
"When a Minneapolis man came up and
asked what mill that was over there with
the "tall white chimbley," Mr, Hast and I
walked on in solemn silence.
I was the first to speak. I kicked a yel
low dog that crossed my path, and then, re
lenting, coaxed the skulking creature back
to me and stroked its mangy head and mut
tered: "Dogs are not so verv contemptible after
all. In some respects dumb brutes show off
Our Modern Greek Stow.
to good advantage. It was Madame de
Btael, I believe, who said that the more she
saw of men the more she liked dogs."
"While these thoughts and those which had
suggested them were wallowing in our minds
we met a beggar being led by a woelul- look
ing cur.
"Please help the blind," said the man.
"Is the poor dog blind?" aked Mr. Nast,
putting his hand into his pocket.
"No; I am blind," answered the beggar.
Mr. Kast withdrew his hand from his
pocket and passed coldly on. "We were soon
out on Pennsylvania avenue.
""What is that imposing looking structure
down the avenue there?"
-i.".Which one?" I asked.
't',Wby, that tall edifice with the group of
statuary upon it."
'Klbat is not an edifice, Mr. Nasi; that is
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one oF the ultra-fashionable vehicles of
"Washington an English dog-cart, don chu.
knaow. They are now the very height of
fashion." ,.,.
"I knew ther were the very height of some
thing," said Th.; "but I didn't know of
what." . .
Then as the dogcart came nearer he con
templated it more in detail.
"Where's the elevator?" lie asked.
"What elevator?"
""Why, how do they get up to tho main
floor ot it?"
"Oh, yon know the young men who ride
in these carts are not very heavy. I pre
sume thev merelv let iro of their canes and
just float up."
Jl.r. .Nast nad py this time turnea aia no"
Thou Shalt 2Tot Steal, tut Thou llayeit Explode
With Spontaneout Generosity.
glass toward the top ot the cart and dis
covered that it was not a group of statuary
not exactly statuary that he had seen up
there.
"Oh, no," I iuformed him; "that is the
young man and his cluster of footmen."
"Aud does the voung man own and con
trol the entire outfit?"
"Yes, indeed. He is an exceedingly
wealthy young man."
"How did he make tis money?"
"By the sweat oi his father's private sec
re tarv."
""Why doesn't he buy the Eiffel Tower
and hitch a bobtailed horse to it?"
"Mr.Nast," I said, severely, for Ithought
I detected a tincture of irony in this speech,
"you should not opeak with undignified or
disrespectful levity of our rising young
men."
"Great Cajsar 1 Ton don't mean to tell me
this young man is ever going to rise any
higher, do yen?"
"Not in the concrete sense, perhaps; but,
Mr. Nast that particular young man, sit
ting up there among the topricging of his
dogcart, mav one day be a United States
Senator."
'Ton don't tell me. Is he, indeed, as rich
as all that?"
And my companion lapsed into silence al
most reverential. "We had not gone iar
when we saw a woman coming toward us,
limping and following a small, hairy dog
which led her by a silken cord.
"Bless mej" said Mr. Nast Vhow many;
beggars you have in "Washington I"
His tender, sympathetic soul was touched
with remorse lor the coldness with which he
had declined to help the poor blind man in
the park. He drew a large coin from his
pocket and was hastening toward the woman
to give it to her when I inquired of him his
purpose.
"I cannot pass by such a case as this," he
said. "I can now and then refnse to give
alms to a man, butthe sight of a poor, lame,
blind woman appeals to niy heart and
arouses sentiments and emotions which I
cannot resist. Madam," he said to the
woman, holding out the coin, "this is bnt a
mean and unexpressive token ot my sympa
thy for you, but it is "
"StopTh!" I said; "for Heaven's sake
stop," and I dragged him away.
"Would you hinder me irom giving this
Socratet Edmunds.
pittance to a poor, lame, blind woman?" he
asked resentfully.
"She is not poor."
"An impostor?"
"And she is not lame."
"Not lame?"
"Nothing but corns, my dear fellow."
"Do you know her, then? Who is she?"
"Mrs. Senator "
"Wbatl A Senator's wife? Blind though,
isn't she?"
"No, of course not Well er that is to
say not blind exactly."
"Only short-sighted, eh?"
"W-e-1-1 urn in a manner, perhaps,
That is, her vision might be improved if
she wore spectacles on her mind.' That is
all."
As we turned into Fifteenth street Mr.
Nast asked: "What building is that over
there?"
I told him it was the Treasury of the
United States.
"Let us walk round it," and we did so
clear round and back to the starting point.
"Where are the soldiers that guard it?"
"They don't have soldiers to guard it, Mr.
Nast."
"Who does guard it?"
"Nobody in particular."
"But back in the sixties I used to read
that they kept a strong guard of soldiers
about it all the time."
"Yes; but that was when there was no
money in it. You sec, it is different now.
Tho vaults are crammed lull oi money
and "
"Then 1 should think there was all the
more reason for guarding it."
"Ab, it is easy to see that you do not
understand the economics of Governmental
finance Mr. Nast Why, sir, it would be a
godsend to. this country if somebody should
burrow into this building and steal every
cent that is in it I was talking with an in
fluential Congressman the other day about
this" '
"About burrowing into the building and
stealing the money? I suppose he favored
the project"
"No, no;, you don't understand me. 1
was talking with him about the vexatious
and expensive surplus, and he told me that
he had complete confidence in the wisdom
and patriotism of the present Congress and
fully believed it would do all in its power
to-overcome this great national bugbear."
"So that is the reason no guard is kept
upon the treasury, is it?"
I saw that Mr. Vast was incapable of
comprehending this vast 'subject in all its
broadness. He could readily understand,
he said, that the more money a nation has
the poorer it is, but he could not go forward
far enough to see that if the possession of
great wealth is so heavy a burden, it logic
ally follows that the way to dispose of the
surplus, and at the same' time to break down
the excessively and dangerously rich classes
of the nation is to pile his "money upon
them by means of subsidies and grants. So
I changed the subject, v
"Shall we go to the Capitol and see what
the lawgivers are giving us?"
The proposition pleased Mr. Vast, and we
crawled over the feet ot the man who per
sisted in sitting at the end of the seat in the
summer streetcar crawled over his feet and
squeezed by his legs.
In the Senate gallery Mr: Nast began ask
ing questions as usual.
"Who is that tall gentleman down there
in the front row?"
"Which one?"
"The very bald one who tells all the
others what to do and makes them do it;
the one that looks like Socrates come to Hie
again, after the fatal enp of hemlock."
"Oh, that is Senator Edmunds."
"Been South recently, hasn't he?"
"Yes; returned only a little while ago."
"I thought so his nose is so dreadfully
sunburnt."
We listened along time to the debate. It
was all about the tariff.
"Is the tariff bill before the Senate?"
asked Mr. Nast.
"Bless you. no; they wouldn't be talking
about the tariff if it were. When you hear
them discussing the race question or the
free coinage of silver, or something of that
sort, you may guess the tariff bill is up. It
is one of the'traditionary rules of this body
that Senators must avoid as far as possible
any even remote allusion to the question
under consideration."
At this point Senator Edmunds made
some -eloquent remarks in support of the
commandment: "Thou shalt not steal"
not even the fruits of the American manu
facturer's labor, he said.
"By the way," said Mr. Nast, as if this
had reminded him of something, "what did
International Copyright Theft-Our Hag Wat
There.
tbey do with the international copyright bill
in the House?"
".Beat-it by-a- clear majority."
Mr. Nast looked off into space, and his
countenance wore the expression ot a mau
who is trying to solve the intricate problem
of riding two horses (going in opposite di
rections without ultimately yanking off a
suspender button or two.
'Willis B. Hawkins.
PICKINGS FROM A POETS BIRD.
Some Cnrloua Similes Illustrative of Caleb
leg Birds.
July Scribner.3
An odd lot of strays turned up the other
day in" the corner of a drawer, including
some penna? that in hands entirely great
might have come to something. One that
seems to have been begotten of an inquiry
into the grounds of cotemporary renown
makes such an appearauce as this:.
Bo mixed it is, a body hardly knows
If fame is manufactured goods, or grows.
Dnaco man is he whose sense the point imparts,
Where advertising ends and glory starts.
Another grasp of plumage, gleaned, it
would seem, in another chase after this same
bird, disclosed this:
And here the difference lies, in that, whereas
What a man did was measure of his glory
In those gone days, now ganged by what he has
He reads his title cloar to rank in story.
Tho patriot lives, obscure, without alarms:
The poet, critics tell us, smoothly twaddles.
The patent-tonic man it is who storms
The heights ot noise, and fame's high rafter
straildleBt
Soap is the stuff
CAMBEEDGE LADY SENIOES.
MI Fbllllppa Garrett Fawcett Above the
Senior Wrangler.
Fall Mall Budget
The papers are full, and no wonder, of the
remarkable triumph of Miss Fawcett in
winning the blue ribbon of the mathemat
ical year at the university of mathematics.
Miss Fawcett's triumphs in the mathemat
ical tripos puis the crown on a long series
of successes by lady students at Cambridge.
There have now been lady "seniors" in all
the important triopses (except law). Here
is the list:
Moral Sciences Tripos In 1S80 Miss Jones was
bracketed Senior. In 1SS1 Miss Moberly was
senior, and so in I SSI was Miss Hngbes.
Historical Tripos In 1880 Mis Rolleston
(daughter of the late Oxford Professor of
Zoology) was bracketed senior, and in 1887 Miss
Blanche Paull was similarly placed.
Miss JPhillippa Garrett Fawcelt.
Mediaeval and Modern Languages Tripos
Here there have been four lady seniors. In
ISSS two ladles and no men were placed in the
flrt class. The ladles, who were placed in
alphabetical order, were Miss Chamberlain
and Miss Skeat (daughter of Prof. Skeat). In
1887 Miss Hervey was senior, and in 1888 Miss
Tuke (whose father is well known in connec
tion with schemes ot Irish emigration).
Finally, there are the successes of Miss
Ramsay in the classical tripos (1SS7), and Miss
Fawcett in the mathematical (1890).
Of these 11 lady seniors, 2 came lrom Qirton
(Miss Jones and Miss Ramsay), the rest from
Newnham.
It is often asked what becomes of lady
students when they leave college. A few
particulars about some oi these lady seniors
may therefore be added. Miss Ramsay is
now Mrs. Montague Butter, the wire of the
Master of Trinity. Miss Moberly is Head
Mistress of the Tonbridge Wells High
School for Girls. Miss Hughes is head of
a training College at Cambrigde. Miss
Chamberlain is instructor in German at
Mawr College, Philadelphia; and Miss
Jones is cioral science lecturer at Girton,
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PITTSBURG, SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 1890.
NO CAUSE FOR ALARM.
Legislation on Socialistic Lines in
England and America
IS SCARCELY A POSSIBILITY.
The Sellable Trades' Unionists Do Hot Want
an Eisht-Hour Law.
JOHN BURNS AND HIS CONFEREES
rCOEBISPOXDENCI 07 THE DISFATC0.1
London, June 20. One of the most in
teresting features of English social and
political affairs at present is the question of
Socialism. This may sound strange in re
gard to this conservative and steady-going
oountry, but it is a faet just the same, and
there is much connected with the ques
tion that concerns America. It is safe to
say that Socialism, or the advocacy of so
cialistic principles is more prominent in
England to-day than has ever been the case;
and to a very great extent there is a unity
of effort between the Socialistic leaders here
and those in the United States. It is re
markable that in this country trades' unions,
generally speaking, are almost steeped body
and soul in Socialism. What I mean by
Socialism is the desire and the demand to
have the National Government pass laws
to remedy every evil in the industrial
world.
Well, wha I wish to point out is that the
working classes of England are, like the
working classes of the United States, step
ping prominently to the front and demand
ing special legislation in their favor of a
very pronounced socialistic type. The suc
cess attainedin one country means to a great
extent success in another, so that a recital of
the true state of affairs here as regards the
"eight-hour demand" and other matters
cannot but be or the greatest importance to
the masses of the United States. I have in
quired into the matter not only faithfully
but fully, aud while 1 am not disposed to
enter into any discussion regarding the right
or wrong of these socialistic demands, I
am persuaded that the English Parliament
will not by law limit the working day of
adults to eight hours.
VIEWS OF THE EARL OF WEMYSS.
I have come to that conclusion notwith
standing the fact that such labor leaders as
Burns, on the one hand, and such opponents
of Government interference as the Earl of
Weniyss on the other, both declare that the
tendency of the National Government is to
ward socialistic measures. On this subject
1 had a long conversation with Earl
Wemyss. ""He is the recognized leader of the
laisses faire party in England, a prominent
member of the' House of Lords and Presi
dent of the Liberty and Property Defense
League. For more than 30 years he has in
terested himself in social and industrial
matters, and undoubtedly is a leading au
thority on the questions referred to. The
Earl sees some' awful things ahead ot En
gland and America because of the Govern
ments yielding to the demands of a social
istic kind. During the conversation he said:
"I know that the desire of the masses in
America for Government interference in
their behalf is very strong, but I venture to
say that we are beating you Americans in
that respect The growth of socialistic
notions in England has become alarming,
and I ""nave fears of the future. I "define
socialistic legislation to be legislative cur
tailment of liberty and legislative confisca
tion of property lor the benefit ot the poll-:
tician. There are many bills before Parlia
ment that illustrate what I mean. There
are three, for instance, dealing with mines.
One of them is called the eight-hours' bill
and another refers to quarries. The latter
is a very remarkable bill. It is brought in
by a Liberal, and it prescribes the angle at
which ladders are to be placed, thedistances
at which platforms are to be fixed, and
further, that an inspector is to go around,
aud the owner or. person working the quarry
is to state to him the amount of produce
from his mine and the quantity of metal in
the mineral got This is the way trade is
expected to be carried on.
PROPOSED LIQUOR LEGISLATION.
"Then there have been no less than ten
bills presented lately in reference to alcohol.
These temperance people would do far better
if they relied on the fact that 999 out of
every 1,000 Englishmen prefer, on the
wnoie, Deer to water, i mine we may say
in England that every man has been
more or less sworn on the Horns at High
gate, by which I mean that a man swears he
will never drink small beer as long as he
can get aletland that he will never drink
water as long as he can get small beer. Yet
we have Parliament giving heed to the
noisy faddists, who go about the country
advocating all sorts of what tbey call re
forms aud crying out for prohibitory legis
lation, in the face of the fact that such legis
lation has signally tailed wherever it has
been tried, as in America and Canada,
"And I wish to say a few words about the
trades' unions. I believe that our legisla
tors are greatly influenced by the opinions
ot workmen, as expressed through their
trades' unions. Not long ago there was a
Trades' Union Congress, the President'ot
which said: 'The eight-hour bill is only a
temporary measure; land reform will give
permanent relief. It must be searching,
durable and give the land to the people.
Inspectors should be allowed to enter at all
hours without warrant to see- whether the
work is properly carried on, whether it be
in a bedroom or anywhere else.'
'"Another president said: 'When light Is
spread, then, indeed, it will go hard with
stock gamblers, land monopolists, rents and
royalties. With trades' union magistrates,
trades' union parochial managers, aud with
trades' union M. P.'s, what could not be ac
complished?' THE ROAD TO NATIONAL EDIN.
"Now there is no way of mistaking the
full meaning and intent of all this, and it is
ot importance to every English Bpeaking
country. Depend upon it this Socialistic
heave must be stopped both in America and
in this country. What I mean is that the
legislators must stop making laws embody
ing the socialistic notions, because they are
the road to national ruin. I don't say that
the laboring classes have no grievances to
be remedied; they have many, but law can
not do as much as the workmen can do for
themselves. I find that the English social
istic movement will receive no encourage
ment from the success of American move
ments. I am persuaded that Americans are
too practical to cling to that false notion of
relying on the Government for everything."
Without doubt the Earl is very strongly
impressed with the notion that socialistic
laws are going to predominate. There are
many others of less importance who think
similarly, but I believe that facts are
against them. Sound and trustworthy Rad
icals like Messrs. Burt, Fenwick and Brad
laugh have no such apprehensions; indeed,
the three members just named are strongly
opposed to making an "eight-hour working
day by law, Messrs. Burt .and Fenwick
are paid by trades unionists, so that matters
do -not seem to be as bad as the Earl of
Weemyss makes them or thinks they are.
Still, there is a strong section of the trades
unionists who are demanding the eight-hour
law. The majority of these trades unionists
are of the socialistic class, end have their
leaders in Messrs. Burns, Williams, Morris
and others. The influence of the last named
three, however, is waning last.
INTEMPERANCE IN LANGUAGE.
Of late they have been prompted by en
couraging words irom New York, Chicago
and other American cities. They are not
mild in their language, either, aud plainly
say what they mean. Mr. Williams is re
ported as saying at a public meeting: ! We
will go in a body to Grosvenor. House '"ahd I
Buckingham Palace and parade all the
thieves and criminals for the benefit of the
pot-bellied aldermen and the idlers of the
"West End." No, Williams also went on to
to sav "there were thousands ready to cut
off Lord Salisbury's head, like the French
in 1789. They would terrorize Parliament
and knock down members of Parliament
like bullocks."
This is a true specimen of the talk of the
Socialistic-labor leaders here, and it is of
great significance to Americans just now, as
it will inlly give them an idea as to what
class of leaders in England Americans are
asked to support It seems to me that the
utterances of these-English Socialists are in
the same class as those of the Chicago An
archists. Most certainly these leaders and
orators of the Socialists here, that is, those
trades unionists who are demanding law to
remedy everything, are not representative
trades unionists. They are enemies to such
recognized union leaders and officials as
Messrs. Broadhurst, Burt, Fenwick and
Crawford. It is important that Americans
should know, because I am aware that a
wrong impression regarding the situation
prevails in America. In a word, then, tho
olamorers for an "eight-hour law" here are
not the trades union leaders who have been
in the van of unionism for the last 20 or 30
years, but they are men who have sprung
into prominence in a Jonah's gourd-like
fashion.
OBJECT TO THE LAW PART.
I came to the definite conclusion then that
the English Parliament will not pass an
eight-hour law for adults. The best friends
and leaders of the laboring classes are op
posed to any such law. Of course they are
not opposed to a day's work being limited
in duration to eight hours, but they are op
posed to having that limit enlorced by law.
On this point Mr. Bradlaugh says: "In my
opinion a law of the kind referred to would
have a most demoralizing effect upon the
laboring classes. 'Let the working men en
courage a spirit of self-reliance and settle
their hours of labor for themselves. Parlia
ment cannot make backbones for men who
have not got them; and to legislate for the
weakest and most helpless would discourage
the strongest and most vigorous in the con
tinuance of the efforts they have hitherto
made, and which have advanced this country
before the other nations of the world."
It follows, then, that Mr. Gompers and
others in the United States who are urging
"eight hours a day" by law" have little to
expect from England in the way of encour
agement. Last night I talked with a well
known Liberal member of Parliament on
the matter. Outwardly he supports many
Socialistic demands simply because he
knowB that tbev will never become law. He
said to me: "We know that the United
States won't have a national eight-hour
law, and certainly we won't But an airing
out of the ideas hurts nobody."
John D. Prinqle.
FOLLOWING THK1K LEADER.
Hotr tho Standard Oil Mngnntoi Accumu
lated Their Millions.
New York Sun.
Nearly all of the Standard Oil, million
aires have followed the lead of one of the
senior members of their trust and built
magnificent residences on the Sound. Two
or three of them go to the main office of the
Standard Oil Company from their residences
every morning on their yachts, but Mr.
Flagler, though he likes a sail as well as any
of the other of the miilionaires.still patron
izes the train. The Flagler palace
near Larchmout occupies a penin
sula, and is one of the most mag
nificent country seats on water front in this
country. Just off Mr. Flagler's private
dock Jies n huge steam yacht, and beside it
a-big 100-foot schooner. Both of the cralt
are ully manned, so that whenever the
Standard Oil millionaire likes to take a sail
he has only to stroll down to his pier and
step aboard one of his yachts.
Mr. Starbuck, whose place is four or five
miles beyoud the Flagler house on the
Sound, rises in the morning, takes his bath,
steps aboard his yacht, and breakfasts on
the way to New York. By the time he has
finished with his breakfast and has smoked
his cigar on deck, he is ready to go to the
office of the Standard Oil Company and ar
range a few more twists for the innocents.
One of the Rockefellers lives, further
up the coast of the sound at Greenwich
and his yacht occasionally indulges in a
race with Mr. Starbuck's. The other Rocke
feller comes down the Hudson to busines on
his steam yacht Taken all in all, the
Standard Oil millionaires enjoy the lux
uries of life as thoroughly as a'ny similar
group of financiers in the world.
AS BABY, HAH AND SAGE.
Three Picture! of Cardinal Mannlnir, Who
Has Just Celebrnted Bit Silver Jubilee.
As Archdeacon in IStt.
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Cardinal Manning as aBaby.
IFrom! John bidcastIarsMemolr.l t
Cardinal Manning 2b-Uay,
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A ROMANCE OP RUSSIA AND SIBERIA
BY PRINCE JOSEF LUBOMIRSKI, -
Author of "Safer-Hadji, a Story of Turkistan," Eto.
Translated Feoii the Russian for The Dispatch
BY META DE YERA.
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS.
Valdimlr Lanin, of noble birth, weds Jana Wernin, daughter of a rich resident of St Peters
burg. Oolphri Scbelm. the villain of the story, is high in authority. He had sought Jana's hand
and was rejected with scorn. Sen elm's life work seenn to be to revenge himself on Lanin and
his bride. He purchases the services of Miller, a schoolmate of his and ot Lanin's. Under
Scnelm's instructions Miller, in the guise of a friend, betrays Lanin and has him taken prisoner
with a band of conspirators, the head of which is The Ace of Clubs. Lanin is sent to Siberia.
Miller had Scnelm's promise of help bnt he knows too much to salt the latter and be, too, is
sent to the mines. Nicholas PopoiT, a discharged employe of Schelm's, gets papers showing that
Lanin is innocent of part in the conspiracy. These papers rail into the bands of Colonel Palkin,
also high in authority. Schelm bribes Palkin, gets back the papers and sends PopofT to Siberia.
Then he gets Palkin transferred to Siberia. Jana gets the Czar's consent to join her brsband
and sets out with Dr. Haas, her friend: PopoiFs mother and his sweetheart Palkin falls in
with them and, partly out of passion for Jana and partly oat of hope he can use them to avenge
himself on Scbelm, acts as their escort Once he betrays his designs to Jana, but frightens her
so she dares not tell of It Jana rents a beautiful house and for a time Vladimir is
happy again. Then come orders from Scbelm that Vladimir must be treated as a most danger
ous criminal and forbidden his visits to Jana. Desperate, he joins an exile conspiracy. Miller
is at the bead of it The men meet and Miller craves Vladimir's forgiveness, and. after telling
bis story, Is freely forgiven. Palkin has Vladimir arrested on the ground that he is f oand away
from his hut He catches PopoiT at Vladimir's hut, has him stripped, bound and knouted. At
every blow he demands PopofTs papers against Schelm. FopoS refuses and the awf nl torture
continues nntil he dies. Just then Sillier and his men arrive. A fearful fight follows, in which
several men are killed. Palkin is bound to the center post Jana and Popoffs betrothed enter
upon the bloody scene. When PopofT is pronounced dead Helen seizes a dagger, with
which she pries open the jaws ot her dead lover. The false tooth is broken, and from it is
taken Schelm's receipt, the proof of his guilt Then the exiles force the Captain to knout
Palkin. Just as Palkin is almost dead, the approach of soldiers puts the exiles to flight Miller
finds Jana and gives her Schelm's receipt and his own proofs against Schelm. and she hastens
to St Petersburg. Scbelm arrives in Siberia a reviser. On his ttrstmeeting with Palkin Schelm
takes steps to destroy him. Palkin stays the calamity by claiming to have the receipt taken
from PopoiTs mouth. Then Schelm and Palkin arrange to get Vladimir out of the wav forever.
The Governor General defies both Schelm and Palkin. He has ordered Vladimir in prison for
three months lor being found absent from his hut. He forbids Schelm to Increase the sentence
and then goes to St. Petersburg. Schelm sends spies to prison to excite the prisoners against
Vladimir. Then a letter comes from Jana. Scbelm has a spy give it to Vladimir and then he
has Vladimir seized and orders him to give up the letter. Of course, Vladimir refuses, and
Schelm has accomplished his object
CHAPTEE XXIX
All eyes turned threatening to Vladimir.
Schelm had expected this, and rubbed his
hands with delight. Lanin was revolted by
this injustice, and, stepping up to Schelm,
said:
"I beg Your Excellency will make no ex
ception." "Hal hal You do not like to expose your
self to the ill will of your fellow-prisoners?
And yet that is to be your punishment for
your obstinacy. I will not decree any
other. You have too powerful protectors!"
"I beg Yonr Excellency will punish mel"
"What have you to say until I do you the
honor to turn to you?" said Schelm con
temptuously. Vladimir saw the hostile glances of his
companions and the overseers, and con
tinued in great excitement:
"I pray you will not exclude me from the
punishment, as I am the guilty one "
"Be silent," said Schelm. "We have
wasted enough time with the letter of an
adventuress to an exile."
At these words Vladimir turned deadly
pale, and his eyes flashed fire.. He walked.
close up to the Revisor, and said in broken
words:
"Does that refer to my wife? Repeat
those words!"
The commandant touched Schelm's arm
to call hi3 attention to Vladimir's passion
ate excitement But the Revisor shrugged
his shoulders contemptuously and said:
"Do you think you stand above the law?
Do you think you can do what you choose?
To be sure your wife came in company of a
Colonel of the gendarmes to Irkutsk, aud
now she has even had the Governor General
to keep her company as far as Petersburg.
It is very pleasant, certainly, to have a
pretty and unscrupulous wile!"
Most contemptuously he threw Jana's let
ter on the floor and stamped on it At the
same moment Vladimir fell upon him,
seized him by the throat and cried:
"I know it is my destruction, but first,
you scoundrel, you shall feel my hand."
At the same time a blow was heard. The
commandant and the overseer seized Vladi
mir. Schelm was colorless, and yet a smile
of satisfaction played on his lips.
"Now you are in a nice fix," said one of
the jailers to him.
The commandant accompanied Schelm to
to his carriage.
"I have found a nice state of discipline in
your prison," he said upon leaving. "For
the present I suspend you from your office." '
XL1S place was uueu me Haiuu evening uv
one of the most hated, because most cruel,
directors of prisons in all Siberia.
We are at St. Petersburg at the court of
Czar Nicholas. The entry to hisrooms at the
Winter Palace is very simply furnished,
but monumental in its proportions. Sofas,
covered with red damask, are placed against
the walls, which form an oval; between two
windows stands a writing table; before it an
armchair and a number of other chairs this
is all. Opposite to the writing table a door,
white and gold, opened into the Czar's own
studv. This room is so well known'inRussia
not only, but in Europe generally, that it
needs no description here; suffice it to say
that its great simplicity formed a striking
contrast with the gorgeous splendor and
matchless luxury that reigned everywhere
else in the Winter Palace.
April 21. 1852, was one of the days on
which the Czar received all who during the
last fortnight had asked for an audience.
He observed this custom strictly to the end
of his life, never omitting it, when in the
city. The adjutant, who sat at the table,
entered the names of those wlio were ad
mitted, and compared them with his list
The crowd ot people waiting lor tho mon
arch's appearance mingled with the many
officers, chamberlains and other courtiers
on duty. All seemed to be greatly excited;
many a heart beat louder at the thought
that in a few moments the ruler over so
many millions of men, on whose word their
fate in this life depended, was soon to be
present
Twelve o'clock, the door opened wide, the
men of the Imperial Life Guards on duty
presented arms, and an adjutant general
entered, escorting a lady draped in black
and closely veiled. These adjutant generals,
it must"be"known, are the only persons who
have the privilege of speaking" to the Czar
without having previously demanded an
audience. At this sight the adjutautou
duty rose and advanced a few steps. He
started, however, for the features oi the new
comer were strange to him, and yet the
number of adjutant generals was so small
that the two men ought to have known each
other.
"General Laninl Yod seem not to know
me," said the last arrival.
"Indeed." "
"After five years' absence in Siberia a
man may well change' very much, especially
when be has held all that time the reins of
government in his bands. I am Count (
Moski 1"
Lanin shook hands with him heartily.
"Pardon me, dear Count ! Wo courtiers
have a short memory for those we do not
often see. I shall announce you at once to
His Majesty, the Emperor!"
The Governor of Siberia held him back
with a nod.
One moment, dearGenerall Later I shall
avail myself of my privilege, but to-day I
beg you will do me a favor and give me a
token of yowgood will." ,
who had drawn her veil still more closely
around her as she recognized the adjutant
on duty.
f "I wish to obtain an audience with His
Majesty lor this lady.
"Has she had an audience granted to
her?"
"No, but I hope"
"Then you ask for an impossibility. His
Majesty, the Emperor, is very strict'in such
matters.!'
The Count insisted, adding: "If you knew
the name ot this lady you would perhaps be
less strict."
He was interrupted by an unusual com
motion among the assembly. The door of
threshold .Nicholas himself appeared. If
me tzar wants to snow anyone special favor,
be accompanies bis visitor to the door and
there, in the reception room, takes leave of
AT THE SAME TIME
him with a cordial pressure of the hand. A
diplomat from one of the smaller German
courts had just been thus dismissed.
Nicholas was famous for his wonderful
memory. The Adjutant was just about to
present the Governor of Siberia when the
eagle-eye of the Czar anticipated him. He
had at once recognized his old friend in the
crowd.
'"Welcome, dear Moski," he exclaimed,
wnlVini rm to hifSi. Thi Governor fipnprfll
fbowed Tow.
"What good star brings you here? Do
von know, it rains denunciations against
you."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
"Tbev report to me from all sides yon are
too kind, especially to the political exiles.
You give them their liberty and permit
everything. Can that be true?,"
The Governor answered calmly:
"It is true, sire. My idea is that the Czar
punishes, but does not persecute, aud since
I represent Your Majesty in Siberia "
Nicholas kindly held out his hand to him
and said:
"Here is my right hand, dear General.
Youhave understood me, and I thank you
for it I am not only glad to see vou here:
I should like to grant you any favor you
might have to ask of me.
Full of emotion. Count Moski bent over
the Emperor's right hand.
"I came, indeed, to ask for favors."
"Speak. AVhatisit?"
"In the first place, I beg for mercy for
myself."
"For yourself?" asked the Czar.surprised.
"Yes, indeed. They have sent me a
Revisor."
"A Revisor to youf"
"Should Your Majesty not have known
that?"
"Then you wish to speak to me person
ally?" You did well to count upon my
good will and my justice. I again thank you
from the heart Pray, follow me into my
study!"
When Nicholas was not irritated by re
sistance or by treachery, he showed in his
evory-day life a remarkably kind heart. He
turned to the croud of people waiting for an
audience and said:
"Pardon me,- gentlemen and ladies; I
meet here an old Irieud whom I have not
seen for five years. The audience will,
therefore, continue an hour longer to-day
than usual. Come, dear'Count!"
Very modestly the Governor said:
" "Your majesty has heard but one o( my
petitions; may I be permitted to state the
second also?"
"And that is?"
"An exceedingly important affair which
is nearer my heart than my own interests. I
wish to present to your majesty an opportun
ity to redress a great injustice that has been
done in Your Majesty's name."
With these words be vtook the lady in
deep mourning, who was visibly trembling,
by the hand and presented -her to theEmper-
vi, sajriug.
"Your Majesty, grant the wife of Count '
Vladimir Lanin an audience!"
The Czar's countenance clouded over.
General Lanin exclaimed, frightened and
discontented:
"What! My nephew's wife?"
"Yes, your nephew's wife! You see I
have more courage than you in the presence
of our most gracious master!"
Nicholas knew how to appreciate inde
pendence of character in those on whose de
votion he could reply; he therefore replied:
"Very well, madame. Present your peti
tion for an audience and it shall be granted."
The Governor was, however, determined
to remove at once all impediments and to
procure a hearing for Jana on the spot Ha
said, therefore, in a beseeching tone:
"Your Majesty! This unfortunate woman
is surrounded by very influential enemies
who strain every nerve to prevent her ap
proaehing the footstool of your throne. X
alone take her under my protection. I must
soon leave here. I yield to hermyown privi
lege, if your Majesty will only be gra
ciously inclined to hear her to-day!"
"You make good use of the pleasure I
derive from your coming to me, a very good
use," replied Nicholas, not without a shadow
of displeasure. "But you shall not say that
I have refused you a favor to-day. Pray
follow me!"
Nicholas opened the door to his study and
beckoned Jana to enter before him. The
countess had removed her veil. Her queenly
beauty had not failed to impress the Czar
favorably. As she was crossing the thresh
old she cast an imploring look at the Gover
nor, who at once understood her.
"Your Majesty, the poor woman does not
dare face Your Majesty alone. She wishes
to have me at her side at this critical mo
ment Your Majesty will be pleased to
grant her wish, I pray!"
The monarch's brow began to clear again.
"It cannot be denied that you understand
how to speak for those who have secured
yonr assistance," he said, smiling. "Is it
really so, Countess? Do you wish to have)
the General near you?"
"Yes, indeed, Your Majesty!" replied
Jana, eagerly.
"Well, then, come. I see I can refuse vott
nothing!"
Thev disappeared behind the closed door,
and all were marveling at the very excep
tional favor which the Czar had shown the
Governor of Eastern Siberii! Lanin wa3
utterly bewildered. The protection which
theGovernor extended to his kinsmen as
tonished and troubled him at the same time.
He himself must have been unjust and
hard of heart. In the greatest excitement
he awaitedjthe end of the audience.
Suddenly a bell rang in the Emperor's
apartment. Lanin was at once at hand and
even, in his haste, lorgot to close the door
behind him, so that all could hear the
Czar's words.
"I must instantly see the Chief of tha
Gendarmes, and the Minister of the Inte
rior. Yon, Lanin. will also return."
The Adjutant was spared the trouble. A
Colonel on duty had immediately gone and
sent two messengers.
"Poor Lanin," said the Czar. "You and
I seem much to blame. Your nephew seems
to be innocent."
"Vladimir?"
"Yes! As yet I am not certain, but tha
absolute faith of this noble wife has made a
deep impression upon me. Countess, pleaso
come here two or three days hence, at tha
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A BLOW WAS HEARD.
same hour. If the investigation I shall
order confirms your statement I promise
justice Shall be done you, aud I give you.
my imperial word upon it!"
Jana concluded from this thit she might
withdraw, and she dropped a low curtsy.
The Governor was about to follow her, but
the Emperor held him back.
"We have not spoken of your own affairs,
and I have not thanked you yet enough for
the way in which you have maintained tha
honor and the glory of my government
Stay, I have much to ask yet"
When Jana reappeared on the third day
she was in a state ot most painful excite
ment, as she did not at all know what to ex
pect. She had seen no one in the meantime,
and the entire absence of all news from her
protector troubled her sorely.
The ante-room in the palace looked very
different to-day. This was not a day for
audiences, and hence the vast apartment
was empty. A few officers on duty were
alone visible. Jana mentioned her name to
the Adjutant General, who at once rose,
opened the door to the Czar's study and an
nounced her name in a loud voice.
Jana was terrified at seeing the Emperor,
surrounded by many Generals, and among
them her husband's uncle, the Minister of
the Interior, and the Chief of the gen
darmes. She was to fall at the Emperor's
feet, but was so unnerved that she could not
stir. Nicholas approached her, bowed most
respectfully, and said in a voice lull of emo
tion: "Countess, the Emperor of all the Russias
begs your pardon."
Jana bad to lean against the wall, or she
would have fallen.
"Does Your Majesty deign to pardon us?"
she asked, making a great effort
"It is not a question of pardon," replied
the Czar with emphasis; "but justice shall
be done you."
Now she knelt down before the Czar, aud
deeply moved, kissed bis hand, but was still
unable to utter a word.
"An inquiry has been held and Orloff,
who cannot be surpassed in a case where in
justice is to be redressed, has helped ua
greatly. All you told me has been found to
be perfectly true. The house has been found
in which your husband was arrested, and it
has been ascertained that the name Ace of
Clubs was used there for the first time in
1810, when you were in the Crimea. Sev
eral conspirators, whose share in the affair
was too trifling to warrant their being ex
iled, have conlessed that they bad never
heard a word of vour husband. This re
ceipt is evidently in Schelm's handwriting.
At the police his order to arrest PopofT for
stealing 5,000 roubles has been found. Tha
Minister of the Interior remembers tha
event perlectly well. Your husband has
always "been considered one of my most
loyal subjects and servants. All this, to bo
sure, ought to have bees ascertained at that
time already, but the haste with which this
affair was dispatched is inexcusable. Min
ister," added the Czar, in a stern tone of
voice, 'you were badly informed at that.
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