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The Stolen Heiress.
A TALE OF NEW YORK IN 1835
BY PROF. WM. HENRY PECK,
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CHAI'TEIt XXXVL
T)AME ORTITABO NABItOW ESCAPli
No sooner was Dame Grippard find in and her
1 ‘-droom than shi; hantened to
swallow n drug of whose peculiar merits she
mi- well aware. She then sat down to note
the - Sect of this antidote upon her recent
fearful sensations. Her features Her speedily
resumed their customary aspect. exultant in spir¬ their
its rose. Her eves be wane
expression, .She smiled nt her image in a
minor iu which she had continued to gaze
Bnxiouslv after swallowing the antidote.
“Saved!” she exclaimed, after the lapse
of about ten minutes. “Saved!" she re¬
pented. triumphantly, rising and pacing her
tloor. But, by mv soul, it was a narrow
scape! What bad luck to have tasted the
wrong drug! What good luck to h ive been
so near the antidote! Come, this mischance
has put a tine idea into my head. I will act
upon it immediately. I was iu a huge
quandary as to how I could best lure her
lover to this cottage to-night. I have it!”
A few moments later she presented her¬
self again in Verneena’s bedroom. She
entered feebly and whiuingly, feigning to
gasp for breath as rhe again seated herself
near the maiden.
Verneena glanced inquiringly at tbe eld
woman’s face. The face was still terribly
pale, and the features seemed to writhe
with barely suppressed pain.
She was not lying,” thought Verneena.
She lmd really eaten poison. I know that
she bought rat poison a few days ago. i
am glad the poison has n >t killed her. Per¬
haps it will after a time Ah. I shall be
glad to be far awny from her when she dies.
True, she would uot hesitate to pois >n or
strangle me, but still 1 do uot desire her
death."
“M\ darling girl,” gasped Damo Grip
paid at this moment, “I have had a very
narrow escape from death. I swear it! Yon
need only look into my face to see that i
was near death, my child. You cannot
imagine how much and how fast one thinks
while under tlie t nor of sudden death by
poison. May you never live to know that
terror, my own dear grand-daughter. But
1 havo corno to ask you not to treat me so
coldly on this, the last night you arc to
Iiass under your grandmother’s poor roof.
Forgive me for the past! J feel that 1 may
die before another day dawns Pangs at
my heartstrings warn me to expect death
with n a foiv days. There is little hope for
one who has swallowed as much of that
poison as 1 have while eating that cake. I
wish to write a letter to Mr. Hnwksworthy,
ray dear. ”
“Ah a letter to Edward! You wish to
write a letter to Lieutenant Edward Ilawks
worlhy, Dame Grippard!” exclaimed Vcr
neenu, much astonished.
“Yes, my darliug. I wish to write to
him, so that some time to-morrow you may
give my letter into his hands."
“I will not be tho bearer of any lettoi
written by you, Dame Grippard, to Mr.
Hawks worthy—nor to any one,” replied
Verneena. firmly.
The maiden emphasized this declaration
with a swift gesture. As she did so the
sparkle of a gem caught the dame’s eye.
She | ercoived for the first time that a golden
l ing, set with a valuable diamond, one r
led one of Veineoua’s beautiful fingers.
”(>h!” exclaimed the damo, point ng
quickly Hawksworthy at this ring: "I have uo doubt Mr.
gave you that to-day while
von and ho were in the carriage. That tolls
i talc, my dear."
Verneena blushed rosy red, but made no
reply.
"Your sweot cheeks tell what your tongue
refuses to say, my dear. Well, I have al¬
ready more than once assured you that you
md ho have my consent to your marriage.
However, you have decided to leave me
forever, and refuse even to carry my letter
o him. Well, at least von will give me his
iddrt as, so that 1 may mail or send it by
band to him. I have something very im¬
portant to make known to him -something
that will be of great benefit to you aud
to him, my lovo. After you and he are very
rich, from what 1 can reveal memory,"nay to you you
may learn to love at least my
child. Here—please write his address 0:1
that sheet of blank paper ou your table.
Pettis gave me Mr. Hawksworthy's address
ihis afternoon, but T lost it on my way
If you refuse to give it to me, why. do so -
for I cau easily learn it to-morrow.”
"So sbe can.” thought Verneena. "I
would like to know what she has to write
to Edward. It may at least amuse him aud
me. I have no hope that she intends to
benefit either of us, the treacherous old
wretch!”
Suspicions of no evil, nor of the potency
of the weapon she was about to place in
Damo Giippards hands, Verneena drew
the designated her blank sheet of letter paper
toward and wrote upon it. iu the center
of one of its pages, Edward’s name and
city address. Having written thus, she
gave tho shoet to the dame.
Had Verneena looked up while she was
writing nnd noted the horribly exultant
expression of the cunning old woman’s
features nt the moment, she would sooner
have cut off her right hand than penned
that beloved name aud address, and placed
them in tho merciless hands of the wily and
unscrupulous wretch before her.
The dame received the paper with a
whining volley of thanks, thiu-t it into one
of her pockets loosely, lmt with care not tc
crumple or wrinkle the sheet, writhed again
for a few moments as from restrained an¬
guish of body and soul, then groaned nuc
ottered slowly toward the door, saying:
"I feel very weak—vetv weak and s ok.
my child. 1 am not so strong as I was just
now. I am afraid I may fall before I get
:o my bed—for to my bed I must go.”
Deceived by the admirably feigned fee
deness nnd suffering of the dame, Yer
ueena sprang to her side and offered herar
irm to support mV her, sayifig:
"Let assist you to your bed. Dame
Grippard. Yon really seem very ill. "
“Really net in. do you say. my dear child;
Why, as I live. 1 am sure this will be my
last night on this earth. Mav kind heaver
^ive me repose iu another and a better
srorld! ”
“Supper is ready, Miss Verneena,” said
Maggie at this moment, as she appeared
suddenly in the hall before tbe open door.
“Ah. let me go with you, my dear child,"
urged the damo. “It will be our last sup¬
per together on this earth, perhaps. Let
mo go with you. my darling child.
have "5jie doubt.” has’ some thought vile purpose Verneena, in who view, I
po was
miudrnl of the recent attempt which Dam
IF ppufti fiatl mule to destrov be:- con
scioiisness. “She would not use such af
‘"'-lionate and appealing language wit:. OUt
do p and dark purpose behind it, I
‘ o on inv guaid, aud taste nothing that
l hey to eat.”
w, re scon seated at the supper ta
“V ?. bcre foe dame at once said.
mink it would bo well for me to eat
And -tartdy drink if i rau ^ . ( ^ eftr c fiiid, as food
will help to weaken the strength
R the iat poison. At least, so I have
heard.. A large cup of tea. Maggie, and
ohGr>f UteIX ?* 01 er « r .vthing Voa will no:
iiave mm y / l0a Cbikt ' though it is trim you
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was before them. i he old wornm—who
k;; ; ■; • n it tbc fvitidote which she bad just
* rr a ns: the j>oisf-n which s-be bad ac
ideri :t v swallowed, as we Live told, was
l!SO »n ant id >fe ncnuist that \v;th which she
hid dragged the food ou the tible, drank
and as-, npparciitly. ravenously of all be
fore her.
Perceiving this, Verneena did not Leri
tate to satisfy feel her own appetite. better,
“I already much - * said the
dame during the meal, “but I fear I shall
be very sick before to-morrow morning. I
much fear that I shall be obliged to send
for Dr. Erwood—who is the best doctor
near us—though he charges, I hive heard,
feirfully high for his services. It’s a very
storm? night, and he'll hate to come, and
h* 11 charge double to come. Oh. you mav
be verv suie that onlv when I think I em at
the verge of the grave wi 1 f send for him
or for auv other doctor. - *
Verneena permitted the dame to do all
the talking. She now had so great a con
tempt even" and dislike of her that she abhorred
When exchanging a word with her.
the meal was nearly finished, the
dame began to groan verv dismally ” again K
and whined- *
After ali, my dear child, I fear eating goodT
and drinking has not done me much
I fear J shall not be able to write to vour
dear Edward to-night, as I iutended to do.
Ah, what nausea is upon me now. Oh.’ I
must go to my bed. I mmt he down. Obi
I am going to have a verv bad night of it.
No—I am able to get to my room without
help, my dear child I can manage alone.
Good-night, my darling. Oh! I hope I will
not have to send for the doctor. ”
Groaning at even step, and feigning to
totter as she went. Dame Grippard quitted
the dining-room, and was soon in her own
apariruent.
"I hope she will have a bad night of it,"
whispered Maggie to Verneena, whoa the
dame was no longer near. "What is the
matter with her, Miss Verneena? I am sure
she looked as if sue was as sick as any one
I ever saw. ”
“ She says she ate some rat poison bv ac
cide.it in her bedroom, since she returned
from Old Anchors, Maggie.” he?,
And do von believe Miss Verneena?”
“Yes, Maggie. She certainly is very ill
sicker than I have ever seen her befoie. ”
“It is not rit poison that would hurt thc
likes of her, Miss Verneena. She’s of that
nature, mind yon, that could swallow enough
rat poison to sink a Chinese junk aud not
be hurt by the same."
‘ l here is rat poison iu the cottage, ° Mag
‘
" “That’s
true. Miss Verneena: She bought
some tho other day, for she said the beasts
were getting ahead of her in the place. It
is none of her victuals ihe poor sleek
tilings would be eating. She's just the
worst rat herself iu the world, Miss Ver
ueena, She told me a bit ago, before sup
per, that you and the elegant young gentle
man that came with von to-day mean to
elope (his blessed night, and that she means
to keep cat-watch on lie you the whole night.
She’s pretending to sick just to have
false reason, mind you, to send for a doc
tor, and so have him in the house to keep
us all wide awake the entire night, mind
y0 the'!mnd 0 e 1 sa°w“?ith
smne st man ! cner my
two eyes—no chance to elopo before morn
j„ k ,--”
“Maggie, I have no intention to elope,
nor lias the young officer who came ia the
carriage with me.”
‘ If I can help you in any way. Miss Ver
neena, let me know. Its not the loss of all
m n A V m ie 7 ,ri ld keep me
from n- strangling o | „ yonder - old black r corrao
rant ' if you sav the word ”
“I I am sure ”you love me well, know'she Maggie,
Hut do not need your help. I
fancies that I may elope to-night. I heard
that at Old Anchors. But I repeat, I have
uo intention to quit the cottage before to
morrow will to morning. Good-night, Maggie. I
go my room now. I wish to write a
long letter before I sleep.”
“Heaven bless and pi’osper you always.
Miss Verneena. And now I’ll eat my sup¬
per,” said Maggie, seating herself at the
table, and beginning to eat with the hearty
ippetite which had appalled Dame Grip¬
pard when Maggie first entered her service.
Maggie began to eat at about eight o’clock.
At about nine Dame Grippard again en¬
tered the kitchen, where Maggie had just
finished her tasks for the night. The dame
was very pale, tremulous, weak in voice
and joints, and sank into a chair with a
great moan of pain.
“Sure,” thought Maggie, after a dvowsv
stare at tho old womam “she's about dead
now by the looks of her. What do you
want, Mrs. Grippard?" ‘
“Maggie,” twice gasped the dame, in a
scarcely audible voice, and rolling her eyes
feebly, 1 am afraid I shall die before
morning. i wanted to speak to you about
g °T?fav« 1 Trf d ° 80
Give had better me a littlo’help, Mag^if. bed. I thiXi
return to my But first as
sist me to mv dear grand-daughter’s room.
I wish to see her once more before I die—
for I am Mire I am not far from death.”
"4 hen let me run for the nearest doctor.
Mr.-. Grippard, responded Maggie, quite
a annei •
and doctors’biTi? a fmay . have to send ^
for a doctor, Dr. Erwood. before morning ”
Maggie gave the support of her arm to
the dame, and aided her to Verneena’s room
—wondering the while why she herself felt
so terribly drowsy. She had bad no sus
picion that she had been drugged ou tbe
preceding night. \ erneena had sa d noth
ingot tka fact to her, a d therefore she
now had no iui-p;ciou that she was again
f ^ ° m11neueo ° f a ver v po ' T '
f otic -
e r a n a re
They found Verneena writing, and as
wideawake as ever. The power of the
dame's last use of the drug had not yet be
gun to affect the maiden.
"My darling child,” moaned the dame on
tho threshold of the room, "I feel that I
am soon to die. and have come to ask vou
to coma to my bedside and do me a service.
Will you come with me, my child? It mav
be tke-last favor I can ever ask from you.”
“Certainly, Dame Grippard,’’replied Ver
neena, deceived by the ghastly aspect of
the cunning old woman. "I will assist you
can." to your bed, and aid you in any manner 1
“Heaven wili ble>s you, Verneena. for
this kindness," groaned ihe dame, as Ver¬
neena and Maggie assisted her to her room
and to her bed. She reclined upon her bed
without taking off any of her day garb,
saying, huskily:
“I am too weak to undress. I shall never
be strong enough to do so again.
hin been J™ stronger m r her r life r p li r than rd she B ad was neve at l
this moment, She was now drawing close
her invisible and terrible coils, to ensnare
md crush to death the lover of the beanti
fnl girl whom she was warily luring into
involuntary and innocent aid toward her
merciless purposes.
CHAPTER XXXVIL
SNAIUXG her game.
Near Dame Grippard's bed was her writ¬
ing desk, tho broad lid of which was turned
so that its front edge rested against the
bed. Burning candles were upon this lid.
Ou it also was the sheet of paper on which
Yerneemi had wr.tten her lover's name and
city address. No other paper was on the
lid. The side of the paper containing Ed¬
ward's name and address was downward
and invisible. Across this paper rested a
newly sharpened lead pencil.
All the above arrangement of articles on
the desk lid hid been carefully made by
Dame Grippard into before bedroom. she lured Maggie
and Verneena her
“Do not leave me immediately, my child.’
moaned the dame, soon after she had ex¬
tended herself freely on her bed. “I find
lh.it I must not delay to send for a doctor,
Sit down Maggie, for while Miss Verneena
writes a short note me to Dr. Erwood."
Maggie, 'civ drowsy, and glad to be
seated, obeyed at once.
Dame Grippard continued: I do wish
“My dear Verneena, not to die
yet. I believe I wdi send for two doctors, i
Yes. I will ask Dr. Erwood to bring an- 1
other physician with him. Will yon my
dear, write as 1 dictate? Ah, heaven will
reward is you sheet for of your blank kindness, my Write child. ]
There a paper. on
it—and with that pencil—a pencil wili do
as well ns pen and ink in this case, my dear.
Please hasten to write as I dictate, mv
love."
Again mnch alarmed by the ghastliness of
the dame's face, and especially by the : aw
fui huskiness of her voice, Yerneeua hast¬
ened to use the pencil as requested. She
wrote rapidly but clearly to the dictation of
the dame. Dame Grippard dictated as
follows:
“Hoslvine Cottage, Yorkville, <_
Oct. 5, 1S33 —'j :30 p. m. >
“ Doctor Erw'ood: Gome to im¬
ma
mediately. I am in extreme need of your
instant advice and assistance. Come im
, . “ edlate , , *^ T Do not . delay , , moment . Ise
a
th ® carna 8 e whlcb \ « eud this message
your fee as proof of the urgency of my
n N e 8Ui ® uot t0 com<J alono - Brin S
, C ‘v with y oa 1 F^-do not
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come alone. Your old 1 , acquaintance, Helen
I ^ “f lm P? rtdnt
l I J aste FVlJ®!?“r ha8ta I M 1 L lK>19 ° m6 ‘
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0ned b ? rat P°' 80 “ Vt \°£Z v
f £
^ v emeena ™ Roland, O ,»
i a ifie - h moment the secreilv vigilant old
f° man eaw Verneena complete the above
- ie Get ^claimed mo , read what you have written. Give
e the paper.
shespokeshe reached forward and
^ \ trne r ratbe ^ a 5 V. hand. ha V ^ ecei he uid 1 v ^ d this - tbe so deftly P a Pf
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lhat , thc cou!d uot f 03 b " -r lOTers
and addr e8S ds " ude ^ 8lde '.
tbe V da, " 1 ' B? ,l after a , sbe ^ bad ^ l ° ner e ves . ove u . ^
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, tbe a °d placed the paper out of
9lR . h ‘ b v in her bed 1 hauk y° u >
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But bow are y° u 8 om § to . scll d ... tlie paper
*° V 1 * Drwoodf And who is to go after a
! cama S e * Dame said Grippard. Aerneena. It is a very
^ormy night,
. Dook for another sheet of
| , replied the damo, still feebly. paper, my
< ear ’ “Ad
>
dress it to our neighbor, Air. John Hay
man—tell him how very sick I am. He
b °"ow money of me at lower rate
bau 1 3aro to lend it. J ell him I will do
tho , bcs f an tor b f advanta « e - Oh. what
a lf^K that was. Haste, my dear. He will
^ot refuse to lend me his cainage and to
en ‘ b I s dnve r ^ llb lb ^ a 88 la s h aB take
,i tb 1 n ? te °A er to . ^ e hves only half a
“j the 0 doctor / rom here. gets here. (. h, T 1 Maggie, may be deid go to before your
room and get ready to face the wind and
i y ! A lr ait, l, do ‘ dear t hats \ erneena—I a good woman. will dictate Hurry. the
my
i note to Mr ’ Ha Tman '”
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I [TO BE CONTINUED.)
I Remarkable of Nathan Meade.
Case
j Nathan Meade, a private of Company
\ C, Forty-fourth New York Volunteers,
j was a handsome young fellow', and, in
s l nte .. of his D'lghtful wound, lie still re¬
; tams hls g° 0<1 looks. His regiment,
! says J. A. Truesdell in the Chicago
I Ledger, was engaged in a charge at the
. Battle of the Wilderness on thc 5th of
• Mav, 1864, when Meade was struck by a
j I niinnie ball, xyhieh passed clear through
I | te,n lis h T l10 ? :ld ; and He c ld . a "] .'’ c 0llt an(1 ^'ough lt was supposed the other
he had been killed. M , hen the battle
j v - -i i s over and relief parties were picking
up the wounded, none thought of carry
j ing this New Yorker off. There he lay
for three days, unconscious and half dead,
j i man of ordinary physique would have
succumbed to such odds against him.
^
i But I? . Meade t lived, ,* •, and, -.1 by chance, ? on the
l - third da i r he was seen moving. He was
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RIGHT SIDE OF MEADE’S READ.
at , once takcn . , t0 , lhc , , hospital, , and , the ,,
? ”>'£eons were asked to examine him.
They did so, and said be must die. They
could do nothing for him. Probably, if
it had not been for the hospital steward,
Meade would have died. Thathumanitar
i j in poured a big do-c of vlibkr dow r n
1 ‘he wounded man's throat and washed
! [ tween iis , wo . hie , ! pc1 and ' Fpr death. ^eeks Much Meat3e ot the lay time be
ho was blind, and lie was unconscious
i for nearly a fortnight after receiving his
wound.
The ball had passed through both
vision temples just behind the eyes. The
of neither was destroyed, and no
b ?. n f were broked i n a way to cause any
Vltal or mater al ln J ur J r - Terhaps no man
e v er before received such a wound and
lived. . Mr. Meade finally gained his
health, and was able to go home, and
in time to do a little work, lie was
j granted a pension i of eighteen dollars a
month an given a clerkship in the
Pension Office. He is at times subject
! to intense dizziness, and he fears that the
time will come when be will not be able
t0 ( ' ani hi s living at any pursuit which
; requires the , use ot his eyes,
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LEFT SIDE OF MEADE’S HEAD.
jj e p, as r ^ e( q Congress to give him $-50
a month, and with this allowance he
thinks he can take care of himself, as
long as he lives. He is a great student,
• a nd ba ? one of the finest, private libra
. V ashington. His penchant is
i m
wood-cuts and old prints, and he has a
large colic tion. He is a modest, quiet
follow, and puts on no airs because he is
I the only man who was ever shot clear
through the temple and lived.
j Photographs of Air. Meade's face taken
upon both shies, have been filed with the
Senate Committee on Pensions, and show
where the ball entered aDd came out.
Mr. Meade has the ball which made his
wound. It is conical, and weighs one
ounce.
Financial.
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SENT TO SIBERIA.
A . RUSSIAN ________ .»- I I.ITICAL nmcrtv PRISON
KR'S DRAMATIC STORY.
Scenes Connected With the Depart
lire of the Condemned Men
For Siberian Mines— The
Convoy On the Train.
The followingjis a Russian exile's story,
taken from advance sheets of Mr. George
Kennau’s paper on “Russian State Pris
oners, ' written for the Century. The
exile, describing his departure in com
• pany with other prisoners from the Home
of Preliminary Detention for the far-off
mines of Siberia, said:
About 3 o’clock in the morning an
o"mve r n,0 ke ^t d opened the door
n d ^“prison!
office of
z^TJu* °! thC COnV ° y 111 fl
held in his * hand, Photo™.h comped taken mv won «f cr
Kli/dV, , 10 “V '??*• ,d ™ t,t -’ r recei-red °PP arcntl me - v
.
7 the pnatm authorities. I
kon down a a.glht of stain to
Lr„,f„, p » l g “«>« M. C ' d f o 0 '"W r of toon. hieli »n'he itood
■ T' S ? ' Tiie spacious lj h but '0' i low y a
n"“ , " ’
& W , sa h s p *».n? | , .
^ °" fiftee “ mCn a " d
women ^ T V1C . ° vercoats
k haffshaven "hertil wo^clX r
were
So'rfr-rr KSTlh.'trEJt’dfiSSuTwhS a,Hl 7; ^ ° r
signify ° that the criminal so marked is a
t j i • , x - ... •
i le w,mn, : ° 1 1 S • ° r C 'f V,’ ;t T" •
„ , a m Xt
amonl ers rb^^ . perm . I
among themselves as if ? communicating n0W
to one another the results ot their obser
vations. The stillness of the room was
unbroken save by the faint hissing on'the of
two or three brass samovars
tables, and an occasional mo?ed jingle of
chains as one of thc convicts ins
feet. There was no conversation, and a
chance observer would never have im
agined ting that thc gray-coated figures sit
silently side by side at the tables
were near frieuds, ling and in some cases rel
atlves who had fortress, been buried in the
casemates of the and who were
looking into one another’s faces for the
3 " ^ *
As I entered the room one of the pris- .
oners, whose face I did not at first recog
mze but who prove to be au old friend,
rushed forward to meet me, and as he
threw his arms around me whispered in
my car: “Don’t recognize anybody but.
ine—the understood gendarmes are watching us.” I
the warning. The police
really knew very little about the history
ami the revolutionary records of some of
the political convicts who were present,
and it was important that they should
not be able to get a clue to any one’s
identity or past history by noting recog¬
nitions as prisoner after prisoner was j
brought in. The incautious manifesta
tion of emotion by one convict as he
met another might result in the l’eturu of
both to the casemates of the fortress and
their deten tion there until their mutual
relations coiJuTDt investigated. This was
the reason for the silence which prevailed
throughout indifference the gloomy lia'.l and for the
seeming with which the
prisoners regarded one another. They
were they apparently strangers, but in reality |
were bound together by innumer
able ties of friendship and memories of
the past; and as they looked into
another’s faces, and noted the changes
that time and suffering had wrought,
they maintained their composure only by
the most heroic effort. On one side of
the table sat an old comrade of whom we
had heard nothing in years and whom we
had all supposed to be dead. On the
other side were a young man and his
betrothed, who for five years had not seen
each other, and who, when thus reunited
under the eyes of the gendarmes, did not
dare to speak. Near them sat a pale, thin
woman about twenty-seven years of age,
who held iu her arms a sickly baby born
in a casemate of the fortress, and who
looked anxiously at thc door every time
it opened with the hope of seeing her
husband brought in to join the party,
Most of us knew that her husband was
dead, but no one dared to tell her that
she watched the door in vain.
thau Nothing could have been more dramatic
the scene in that gloomy hall at
half-past four o’clock in the morning,
when the last of the condemned prisoners
had been brought in. The strange and
unnatural stillness in a room filled with
people; the contrast between the blue and
silver uniforms of the gendarmes and the
fetters coarse gray overcoats, chains, and leg
whisperings .of the of the pr.soners; detective the police: furtive and
the silence and assumed stolidity of the
pale, emaciated, shaven-headed convicts
would have made the scene striking and
impressive even to a chance spectator,
To one, however, who could look be
neath the surface of things: who could
appreciate the tragic significance of .the
situation; and who could see with spirit
ual insight the hot tides of hatred, agony,
sympathy, those and pity which surged under
gray overcoats, the scene was not
merely striking and impressive, but ter
riblo and heart-rending.
At five o’clock wc were taken in closed
carriages burg.and to the station of the St. Peters
Moscow railway, were put into
convict cars with grated windows, and
began our long and eventful journey to
Siberia. I could not describe, if I w'ould,
tbe scenes that I witnessed in that train,
when we wore at last freed from the
could espionage of the gendarmes: when we
greet and embrace one another
openly without fear ; and could relate to
one another the histones of our lives
during the long years of our enforced
separation. The and experiences of all were
essentially alike, the stories were an
endless epopee of sufferinsr. We talked
all day, and should perhaps have talked
all night had not the over strained nerves
of the weaker members of the party
given away at last under the tension
of excitement and the sudden in rush of
a flood of new sensations and new emo
tions. To a prisoner who had lived for
years in the si’enee and solitude of a
bomb-proof casemate the noise and rush
of the train, the unfamiliar sight of
God’s green world, and the faces and
voices of friends who seemed to have
been, raised suddenly from the dead,
were at first intensely exciting: but the
excitement was soon followed by com
p!ete ing prostration. comrades, Early in without the even
one of my the
least warning, became hysterical and in
less than"ten minutes seven men in our
car w r ere either delirious or lying on the
floor in a state of unconsciousness,
Some of them raved and cried, some
went from one long faint into another,
and s.-me lay motionless and breathless
in a profound swcoa until we almost
gave them up for dead. The surgeon
who accompanied the convoy was sum-
moned, stimulants were administered,
water was dashed into the white, ghastly could
faces, and everything was done that
be done to restore the sufferers to a
norma i condition; but all night the car
was gjj e d -with moans and hysterical
weeping, and the women of the party who
—particularly Anna Pavlovna self-possessed Korba. than
was stronger and more
any of the men—went from one fainting
or hysterical patient to another, with re¬
storatives, stimulants, and soothing
ministrations. WhenwearrivedinMos
cow nearly half of the party had to be
carried out of the car in the arms of the
guard, and our journey was temporarily
suspended in order that they might re
ceive medical treatment.
Some Remarkable Leaps.
Air. Charles G. Leland writes from
„ . , , . the NG James’*
to tfiifeffect:
?» ^ 1 * * *■* at the end of
• ;
tioued' at Chariton! l Nv!"t Virginia.
™ iSlSut’Tir and vSovwino.
summit b 8ccne of of the high festivity being a, .ho
a hill near the town.
1!olllld tWs hil , Wound thc roa[1 nnd m
[,,0, places About it OTerlookci , litcrnl
J, | mounted midnight .ho party ,J
0 C ers „„ d odo
, own The horse of the one who was
about to d , „, became ullnilyaud
leaped with 1 is master over one of these
least «'“».?««' in^uVed "bm'thf ->■ *»*- 0 slddle *
was in ihe :
—a '**'<$ high one, made in thc Mexican
a’SSttSur ? ™vered 1 wi.h T0UCh leather- ,or ,he
«"•* O'- Porne there is a tablet
®» ° t 'ttooo overiook... g a straight fa!
of 100 feet. It commemorates the fact
that i« the l. Hoi, or about that time,
while a student of theology was riding
iu,hat p^'« e? «■ .'«■«
manner over the parapet, student ihe animal
was killed; ’ but the was not in
• i
•. .at ! , ,, , , ,
!'« > w jh.Hi i 1 pointed 1
n . , out to
’'‘1 equal as forego,ng. regards the
J onoc 11’ " w.th my . own eyes a gen
, ' r ‘ rm * f “ ™“ ; ' h m er ' or
JrVTf 8 g , C t*’t
. ;p ? magui ■ ■ iceut black
' f f T'lT.T P . d“’ T "" !‘ “
r °f w y m 7 hlch • t ox “ t "- , T 'e emble 1 a
,ta , T!', b “ "'as worse ,n . this respect
stones, “S? , h ’ lhere ™ v0,y were f “» in our ”» '«»?• party *•» old
frontiersmen, cavalry officers, Indians,
etc., who all declared, on viewing the
place, that it seemed incredible that any
man could have galloped down it. The
nde was equivalent to about three hun
died steps. “Not one of them would
have tried it,” said a colonel in coni¬
man d, “for all the horses on the plains.”
This was in Western Kansas, on the
Smoky Hill range, in 1876. I am hapoy
to add that the rider got thc cow, and
that I helped to eat it.
All in Half a Century,
The discovery of the electric tele
graph. discovery
The of photography,
The establishment of ocean steam navi*
gatron.
The annexation of Texas,
The war with Mexico and the acqui
siton of California with the discoveries
of gold that followed,
The French Revolution of 1848.
The rise and fall of Napoleon III. and
the estabiisment of the French lle
public.
The laying of thc ocean cables.
The great civil war and abolition of
slavery in the United States.
The unification of Italy.
The great Franco-German war and the
unification of Germany.
The emancipation of the Russian
serfs.
The extension of Russian power into
Central Asia.
The dicovery of the sources of the
Nile and the Niger and the exploration
of interior Africa,
The discovery of the telephone,
The Sirius was the first of true ocean
steamers. She sailed from Liverpool for
New York April 5. 1838, and was fol
lowed by the Great Western, which
sailed from Bristol, England, on the 8th
of the same month. Both steamers en
tered the harbor of New York on the
23d of April, the Sims in the morning
and the Great Western in the afternoon.
The Manufacture of Imitation Gems,
A New York jeweler tells a Mail and
Express reporter that imitation gems
“come from Oberstein, in Germany,
q'he entire town is supported bv the
manufacture of such gems, IIow are
they fixed up? In va ious ways, This
imitation diamond is only quartz, and it
has been boiled in some chemical that
will make it look brilliant for awhile,
but it soon wears off. If you handle it
much it will not look so lustrous. Dia
monds are the hardest stones to success
fully imitate.”
“What other gems arc manufactured
cheaply.” asked the reporter,
“One of the easiest is the emerald,
Many stones you think rubies arc only
red spinal, and lazuli is onlv dved dial
cedonv. Chalcedony is the usual ba e
‘
0 f false onyxes and agates, which are
most counterfeited. The stones are
boiled in some coloring matter and then
subjected to intense heat. The color
permeates the whole stone. Some of
the families at Oberstein have one secret
and some another. They never give
them away. ’ One family has the secret
of converting crocidolite into cat’s-eyes.
Gypsum and hornblende are also made
into the same gems. Zircons, which are
formed of silicon and zirconia, look like
diamonds. A thin slice of diamond is
somet mes laid over a topaz so that the
yyhole appears to be one gem.”
'_ ^
__
Magical Rings.
The ring among divining astrologers was a
favorite means of the future. It
w &s suspended by a divining hair in the middle of
a cup known as the cup. Ques
tions were asked and the ring tapped the
sides of the gobie.t in answer, but as the
hand of the astrologer held the hair to
which the ring was fastened, perhaps
there was not so supposed. much divining in this
as the credulous All astrolo
g® 1 ' 5 ? however, had at least seven mngic
rings; one for the sun, a diamond set in
gold; another for the moon, a crystal in
silver: a third for Mercury, a loadstone
in silver: a fourth for Venus, an amethyst
iu copper: a fifth for Mars, an emera!din
iron; a sixth for Jupiter, a cornelian in
tin; a seventh for Saturn, a turquoise in
lead. Many astrologers had a zcdiac
ring, or ring exhibiting the in its setting all
the signs of the zodiac, general effect
being that of a calendar or old-fashioned
almanac. Charm rings are also very
common even in later times. Henry VIII.
had so much confidence in a ring which
belonged to Thomas a Bec-ket that he had
it set as a thumb ring and wore it all his
life. — Glebe-Democrat
WILD BEASTS.
METHOD 4 EMPLOYED TO REN¬
DER THEM LESS FEROCIOUS.
Tho Lion is Chloroformed nnd Hls
Teeth Cat—Rated By n Bin
con—Inhuman Treat
ent of a Baboon.
To the thaid beholder the daring act
of riding through the streets caged The up
in a lion's den is blood-curdling. and the
spangled keeper in a lion’s den wolves
imitation Indian in a don of are
tho heroes of thc hour, but could tho
timid spectator know that there was
would really no actual devoid danger thc procession al¬
be of its sanguinary
lurements. The training is simple, per¬
sistent and effective, Thc king of
beasts when conquered is like a lamb,
and the young lions are tamed one at a
time.
For several days the animal is welt
fed. He is tempted to thrust his fore
paws out in front of thc den. Over
them then is firmly slipped tied a noose, down. and the feet are
The lion at
once begins to roar and thrash his tail
aud hind legs about the Cage. After a
time he quiets down and thc keeper
enters the cltui. With a dexterous
movement a bag is drawn over the
liou's head. The keeper sometime be¬
strides his back and holds his seat by
tightniug his legs around the body and
grasping the mane is of usually the animal. In
the head covering a sponge,
saturated with about, eight ounces of
chloroform.
Thc lion will try to shake off the
keeper, but it is powerless when his fore¬
paws are tied down. Iu a moment or
two the beast becomes unconscious.
Other trainers then enter the den. Great
attention and care are exercised over the
pulsations of the lion's heart. The pulse
is felt under the lower jaw the same as
in a horse. It is dangerous to etherize
or cloroform an animal of the cat species
too severely, and thc instant the pulsa¬
tions become at all feeble the dose lias to
be lightened.
When the keeper becomes satisfied
that the animal is unconscious they begin
operations on his teeth. The canines,
bicuspids and dexterity incisors are cut off. It re¬
quires great to know how far
in the crown to cut without laying the
nerve bare. After the operations on the
teeth are finished the keeper clips the
claws, and in a few moments the lion is
bereft of his teeth and claws. A heavy
collar and clain are fastened around his
neck, and when ho comes to conscious¬
ness lie is a very different beast than be¬
fore.
The keepers will enter the cage at short
intervals after this, and, should the lion
attempt to spring, the chain retards him,
and the keeper at once administers a
sharp lion deprived rap with his a rawhide whip. The
of teeth and claws soon
becomes cowardly. He is kept well fed,
and, if too ferocious, is drugged until he
becomes used to his keeper’s presence in
the cage.
Their Tigers are biore difficult to conquer.
teeth and claws are cut off in a
similar manner to those of the lion.
Tigers are more treacherous, and will
spring at a keeper unexpectedly and
without any warning whatever. They
long are drugged and kept chained for a
time and often flogged into sub¬
mission.
Leopards and panthers are easily tamed,
With the wolf and the hyena the keepers
fear only the teeth. They nre “dog¬
footed,” and do not strike like a cat
animal. Their teeth are cut and a good
club will do the rest.
The operation upon the long tusks of
the baboon h so painful and apparently
so inhuman as to call for Henry Bergh’s
interference. The keepers will secure a
baboon’s paws and legs aud draw the
creature close up to the bars of h!s cage.
The head will be tied also. After he is
made fast his long tusks are sawed off.
The baboon is subject to toothache,
and his teeth are extremely sensitive.
When the saw cuts through the nerve
the poor beast will utter the most
piercing the shrieks toothache and howls. To allay
pain, drops of oil of
cloves, oil of cajuput and chloroform are
poured in the teeth, and tar rubbed on
to keep out the air.
After the operation is over the keeper
retreats, the fastenings arc removed and
the baboon allowed to recover. After
such an operation the baboon seldom
shows a disposition to attack a man. It
is, therefore, not so wonderful, after all,
that the man-eaters and all sorts of
carnivorous animals are paraded through
the streets with keepers among them.
Timid people should take heart and re¬
member that animals clipped, drugge 1
and chained in cages are not possessed
of such ferocious instincts as those of
their native wilds. — Globe- Democrat.
A Determined Colonial Governor.
Richard Bellingham, a Colonial Govor
nor of Massachusetts, was born in 1592,
and died December 7, 1072. His wife
died in 1641, and he married a second
time under circumstances which are de¬
scribed as follows: “A young gentleman
was about to be contracted to a friend of
his, when on a sudden the Governor
treated with her and obtained her foi
himself. The banns were not publi-lie:!
properly and he peformed the marriage
ceremony himself. He was projected
fora violation of the law, bnt at the
trial he refused to leave the bench, and
sat and tried himself, thus escaping pun¬
ishment. In his Jast will he provided
that after the decease of his wife and oi
his son by a former wife and his grand¬
daughter, the bulk cf his estate should
be expended for the yearly maintenance
of goodly ministers and preachers of the
true church, which he considered to be
that of the Congregationalists. This
will tbe general court set aside on the
ground that it interfered with the rights
of his family. One of his sisters (Ann<
Hibbens) was executed at Salem in .Tune,
1692, during the witchcraft persecution.’
—Brooklyn Eagle.
Written Pauses.
Lord Erskine in the habit of m?„k- '
was
ing a very effective nau.se in all letters
replying to solicitation for subscriptions.
He wrote: “Sir —I feel much honored
by vour application to me, and I beg to
subscribe’’—here the reader had to turn
over the leaf—“mvself vour very obedi
ent servant,” etc. One of the best in
stances of this form of pause occurred in
a letter received bv a popular physician.
This gentleman was pleased with a cer
tain aerated water, and by his rccom
mendatious he managed to procure foi
it some celebrity. For this he expected
‘neither reward nor thanks. Imagine his ;
surprise, therefore, when he received
one day from the makers of the aerated
water an effusive letter, stating that his
kind recommendations had done so mucli
good that they ventured to send a hun
dred--Here the page turned over,
“This will never do,” said the doctor oi
“it is very kind but I will never think
accepting anything.” Here he turned
the page and found the sentence ran—
“of our circulars for distribution.”—
Chambers's Journal.
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS*
Fried Potatoes.
Slice cold boiled potatoes very thin,
and seasoa the slices well with salt and a
little pepper. For one quart of potato
slices put a tablespoonful and when of butter thc butter into
a warm frying pan, add tbe slices of
begins to melt potato.
Place over a hot tire and stir with a fork,
frequently tossing up the slices. When
hot, they will be light,dry and delicious.
Serve very hot. The slicing and season¬
ing may be dono the previous night.
Fancy Duster Bag.
Take one-third of a yard of felt, any
color desired, and fold it in the center
(as felt is double width); cut a strip ton
inches wide aud twenty-four inches long
— this is for tho back and flap; cut
another piece twelve inches long and ten
inches wide; cut both the long and
short strip at the ends, so as to form a
point, and embroider tbe short one and
one end of the long one. Lino with
satin or silk the part, of the long strip
that has been ornamented and sew the
short part and plain part of long tho one to
gether so as to forma sack; slip part cel¬
lined with satin through a brass or
luloid ring; fasten ornaments to tho flap
and bottom of the bag and tie a ribbon
to the ring to hang it up by .—Dttroit
Free Dress.
Lamb I’ie.
For a delicious lamb pie: Take some
cutlets from the upper portion of a leg
of lamb, and cut them into pieces about
three inches long and wide; season
slightly with salt and pepper. Let them
stew in a very little water for half an
hour. In the meantime prepare a deli¬
cate paste, allowing a pound of gradu¬ butter
to a pound of flour, adding water when in
ally enough to make a dough; should the
readiness, the upper crust be
thickest. Put in the stewed lamb with
its gravy, intersperse some blades of
mace, add a few sliced potatoes and
boiled turnips, cover boiled the meat celery lightly and
with some chopped for the celery boiled
piecei of butter, or substituted,
cauliflower may be seasoned
with nutmeg .—Xeic Yoik Post.
Directions for Corning Be of.
1 et thc beef for corning be welt
soake 1 in weak salt water to draw out
tlie blood, then pack in a sweet barrel,
l’ut a layer of salt over the bottom ; then
make a pickle of of four gallons of water,
one quart molasses, two ounces ot
saltpetre, eight pounds of coarse salt;
boil well and skim off all impurities.
When perfectly cold pour over the beef,
and it will be sweet, nice and tender.
The comfort of a family depends so
much upon having meats cured piopcrly
that one can afford to take some extra
is paiips danger in preparing them, and then there
no of their heating if you aro
careful to keep the flies away, which of
course, housewives know, requires con
stunt watchfulness and care. These
recipes have been tested for nearly forty
years, and not improved upon.
Learn to Carve.
Carving is a very graceful and useful
accomplishment, and everybody should
study to know how to dissect a fowl.
A turkey in tlie hands of an artist can lie
made to furnish a large number at a
table, but a clumsy butcher can make it
au inconvenient bird—too much for two
and uot enough for four. Mrs. Muhl
bach, in one of her instructive and inter¬
esting historical novels, shows how en¬
tirely the mistress of a house is depend¬
ent upon tlie skill or temper of tho
butler. If he choo-es lie can carve the
fowl so as to serve a number of guests,
lmt if he is ruliled he will cut it in such
hunks as that it will not suffice to go
around the table. Every Southern man,
nearly, prefers to do his own carving,
and the skill displayed in the perform¬
ance raises it to the dignity of the fine
art-. Skill in carving is one of the
necessary the house, requisites for every gentleman
of and without it the sum of
his domestic accomplishments is in¬
complete.
Carrots.
This rather plebeian vegetable has the
merit of being exceedingly nutritious,
particularly when made into a soup. The
proper way to make it is to remove the
fat from a piece of fresh beef, seasoned
with a very little salt and pepper, al¬
lowing a small quart of water to each
pound. Grate half a dozen or more largo
carrots on a coarse grater, an 1 put them
to boil in the soup with some other car
rots; into perhaps three will l e sufficient;
cut lien two-inch-long the beef pieces.
is boiled to rags, and
has left the bone, pour off the soup from
the sediment, transferring it to a tureen,
and sending it to table with bread cut.
into it. A simpler manner is to use car¬
rots in winter, boiled and forced into a
pulp through a sieve into some good,
not too strong stock. It must be remem
bered that carrots need more boiling
than any other vegetable. Small young
carrots need half an hour, large ones
from one to two hours. Those are also
considered a very pleasant accessory to
the table sliced thin after boiling, put
into a saucepan with bits of butter,
dredged with flour, seasoned with pep
per and stewed soft with water.
Coffee.
There are many ways of making coffee,
says Miss Maria Parloa in the Youth's
Companion , and most of them have good
points. To have coffee strong there
should be one teaspoonful of dry burnt
and ground coffee to every three pints of
water. Should it be preferred weaker,
use half the quantity given of coffee with
the three pints of water.
Always use one-third of Mocha to two
thirds of Java. When you are sure that
you can buy the pure article, burnt and
it is perhaps as well to purchase
it, at least burnt, because the burning is
not always well done even at home.
'i he flavor of the prepared coffee is im¬
proved if the dry coffee is heated very
hot before the water is added to it. Here
are two simple methods for making good
° e i * °‘ , hree foaspoonful of cof-
1 ' x - an egg, pints of boiling water,
9 U J ! 11 r °j d water. Break the
. coffee-pot
ln ° upon the dry
L° re> una mi ^ ,ber J. with a spoon,
v en P our J , n fbe boiling water. Boil
minutes . from the
, nr en moment
^ " !1 ^ has begun in the coffee
P 0 ' \ /-’ U P °f cold water and set
P° -' af -k where the coffee will keep
, not ”°A for minutes,
ton or un
,1^ ne ® ded -
ce * _ r , small flannel
, a '°, J °’ string ,”‘ aae draw a
' S> a%l Qg a to the mouth
°° e \ ri ‘ * ® ne or tw o teacups of
ro,Jncl . the bag,and after
V a the in ot boiling placing
S m P ,pour water upon
i f n P ut the pot in a saucepan of boil
“ ... v 'ater and boil half an hour; or have
L ! -V mHde 1Q fo * be tea-kettle.
ea you d ? no ) have cream : u ? e boiled
-,, lnstaad - cold, , for it is much
“ er > and has the additional merit of
0t m e c °ff ee c °l d before you
- t0 . dr mk .
je S m it.
Waldeck, Germany, has a law which
drunkards to marry.