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VOL. XIV.
THE ISLAND BELLE;
OH
THE BAFFLED RIVAL.
UY BUFFO'S IT ALE.
On her native beach of Tahiti, Pa-
ciiic Oceans, stood Bessie Berlet, a
girl of nineteen, the belle of the is¬
land;
From her French father, who had
settled here, and front his wife—a
handsome Otahietan woman—she in¬
herited health and vigor, combined
with wonderful grace and activity,
which enabled her to excel in all the
playful games with the dusky island
damsels, either oil shore or in the ca-
canoe.
With much interest, she was watch¬
ing a whaleship, anchored a couple of
miles distant, when a skiff; gbided
by a dark, handsome youth of twenty,
rounded a rock, a few fathoms off.
On noticing tlie direction of her gaze,
the young man scowled, guided his
craft to the beach, and approached
her with a dejected air.
“So you persist?” he said;
Persist in what?”
r: 1 n giving me up for that American
whaling captain.
“Oh, Reuben, 3 she sadly replied,
“don’t speak of it again. Have I
not explained?”
“It is dreadful to lose you,” he said,
“after your promise to be my wife.”
“I gave no sdoh promise.”
“But I am sure you would have
taken me at last had not this whaling
captain come to turn your head.”
“Nay, nay,” said Bessie, “my head
is not so easily turned. I use my
judgment as well as my eves, and
Captain Belton is a good, noble man,”
she added, her voice softening.
“He is a mere flatterer,” broke forth
Reuben, “and does not care for you.
vVould you throw yourself away?”
Then larger grew Bessie’s eyes
and brigthef than the stars, as she
answered:
“lou and I have known each other
from childhood; you seem to me’like
a brother; and so I will tell you that
not an hour ago George Belton met
me here and asked me to be his wife.”
Ere Bessie could speak again there
was a roar, not twenty fathoms off, as-
the water parted, and a huge sperm
whale raised its nead from the sur¬
face.
Rueben started. It was not un¬
common to see whales swimming
along near the shore,- but now a look
of blended hate and exultation cross¬
ed the young man’s face.
“It is the wounded whale,” he said,
“which we have - heard different whal¬
ers who have come here speak so
much about—which lias stoven their
boats and been the death of some of
their men.”
The monster swam leisurely al on * ,
sent hng a forked jet, at regular in-
tervais, from its spout-holes.
“There go the boats! They see
him,” said Reuben; “and I would
not miss the sight I am expecting to
behold for a thousand years of life!”
he added, as lv6 entered his skiff, and
paudiCu , , r1 toward , the . , boats,
Bessie understood him, although
he had thought that sne would not.
“Oh, Reuben! I did not know
you were so bad!" she muttered to
her -elf, turning pale, “You meant
that vov. would like to see Captain
Belton killed by that whale!"
She stepped info her Canoe, lying
ClOSe to a r ock > and guided the
ve8sel swlhl ? aIon £*
Many other canoes containing na-
tives ^rous of witnessing the chase
vere cleaving the bright blue waters,
“ Pal1 aheac} > l ’°P ! a few more
strokes will bring up to him!” cheer-
captain cr j ed Belton his > ^ strained young whaling their
' as men at
lie was a fine-looking fellow,
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frank and light-hearted, much liked
by his officers and crew.
Suddenly the whale went down,
He next appeared near a reef of rooks,
and Belton found himself within
darting distance.
“Give it to him, Tom!” he shouted
to his liarpooner.
The whizzing iron, well directed,
sank to the socket in the monster’s
hump.
lie gave a vicious, sidelong sheer;
the edge of his flukes tapped the boat,
and the liarpooner, ere he could throw
his second iron, went crushing down
on his seat.
Belton laughed;
“To the steering-Oar, Tom! I’ll
take your place!” he cried, leaping
forward;
He caught up an iron, aT'd was
about to throw it when, bang! went the
Hues again against the boat, almost
cracking it, and knocking the young
captain upward off his feet. Down
he came again, laughing, and up
went his iron, to be hurled into the
whale’s body. T or a few seconds the
boat was shrouded in spray as the
flukes pounded the Sea; then the
whale sounded, and away went the
boat, dragged with the velocity of a
whirlwind.
The light-hearted captain, smiling,
took off his cap, and waved it to bis
cheering shipmates in the other boats,
which was leaving astern.
“How handsome bit looks?” niut-
tered Reuben, fiercely, “with thef sun¬
light shining on his fair hair. But
wait! wait! that whale will spoil his
beauty yet.”
Gradually the boat’s speed slacken¬
ed, and at length the whale came up
in a small bay formed by jutting
rocks, where there was but little ma-
nuvering.
Belton rolled up his sleeves. The
time for battle—a perious
was at hand.
“Pull ahead,- men!”
The captain smiled as he spoke,
His blue eyes were full of tire and
spirit. He selected a lance, and
when near enough to the monster,
sent it quivering into his body*.
Round came the whale, with open
jaws making ftraight for the boat.
“Take that, my boy!” cried Belton,-
as another lance went spinning from
his hand.
But the whale, rolling sideways,
caused the weapon to slip harmlessly
along the shining flank. Then, with
a rush, he was so near the boat that
the captain could look straight down
into his jaw.
‘iStern, boys! Stern!” he,shouted;
and while he spoke, he churned the
whale with his lance.
The light craft was not’backed fast
enough to escape the infuriated men-
ster. He gave a forward leap, and
his jaws met over the bow, crushing
it to spliter ; dien -1 hilo is -
eyes gleamed like 9? demotes he
brought his limber flukes round un-
der the boat, cutting it in two with
a single blow.
The men had jumped for their lives,
and were swimming toward the other
boats, which, now not far off.
approaching to pick them But, |
up.
Belton, who had been the last to leave
his craft, was too nadly bruised to ;
follow them, and clung to one of the j
stoven beat's fragments, which soon !
drifted with him close to a steep rock,
Meanwhile, the whole, vengefally
beating the seat with his flukes, was
swimming hither PPPH and thither, scoop-
lng the water with his jaws, as if feel-
ing for Ins foes. Viciously snapping
at everything within his reach, he
rolled and plunged furiously, as if
mad with pain, for the last rfetermin- j
ed thrust of Belton’s lance hacl been
giving near his “life-spot,” inflicting
a wound which must .shortly cause
his death.
Seeing the perilous situation of
their captain, the crew pulled, with
might and main, to effect lus rescue,
one boat stopping to pick up the
swimmers they meet, while the other
kept on.
Close astern, Bessie, with anxious
face, was also coming swiftly up.
“No use,” said Reuben, who in his
skiff, now was alongside the mate’s
boat. “You cannot help him. The
tide has caught the wreck he holds
to, and it is drifting so the whale will
see it; He will snap up the captain
before you can reach him,” added the
youth, with inward satisfaction.
“Quick, men! Pull lively!” shout-
ed the mate. \
“He is lost!” cried Reuben. “See
there!”
And he pointed at the whale, with
open jaws, making straight for the
captain.
“\Ye may save him yet!” exclaim-
cd the mate, wjiose boat now was
within four fathoms of the imperiled
mauj but, even as be spoke, his craft
was caught on a sunken rook, which
lie had been careful not to speak.
“No hope now!” groaned toe mate.
“He is gone!”
In fact, it seemed as if the whale’s
jaw, not six fathoms from the captain,
must soon have him in its terrible
grasp; but just then something shot
past the' mate’s boat and Reuben’s
dilatory craft like a flash of light.
This was Bessie’s canoe, which, with
surprising swiftness, she was direct¬
ing toward her lover.
“Come back! You will only be
lost! You cun do nothing, Bessie!”
cried Reuben.
She gave him on look of scorn;
then, right between the whale and
Belton she fearlessly glided, and as-
sisted the young captain into the ea-
noe. The dreadful, bristling jaw,
with a huge, towering hump behind
was close upon her; but, with two
graceful sweeps of her piddle, she
sent her light craft ahead, and out of
dabger, thus snatching her lover from
a fearful death, and disappointing the
evil-minded Reuben, who had hoped
to see him perish. -
The second officer,- coming up, re¬
ceived the captain, and took him to
his boat off the sunken rock, attacked
the weakened and already mortally
wounded whale, which he killed with-
out much trouble.
A month later, Bessie and the cap¬
tain were married by a missionary on
the island.
The chagrined and miserable Rou-
ben soon left Otaheite, never more to
return.
NIHILIST HARTSAAN.
Loo Hartman, the Nihilist, who
was charged with killing Alexander
II,* of All the Russia, on whose
head the' Russian government puts
price, who was imprisoned by
France at the n- ance of Russia, who
WdS shielded by .England and after¬
wards came near being handed over
to E’assttu vengaime by the then sec-
retary of State, James G. Blaine, who
has been for year drier the stirveil-
lance of Russian detectives, was
found a few days ago by a reporter
in a rather small room of an old fash¬
ioned house scarcely a stone’s throw
from The World office.
Seated in Hartman’s workshop,
surrounded by evidences of genius,
it seemed almost incredible that the
man teeling the story of his country’s
wrongs could be he who was the cen-
tral tr.u figure ugure of 1 the uie civilized world ' Nona a a
few years ago.
‘ Amer i C ans, with the utmost liber-
ty G f pres5f spe ech and assemblage
and wilh a frce ba] j Qt cannot |)OSsi .!
biv conceive of the condition of Rus-
bia to , d ay/ said Leo Harta.au, They
cannot imagine how the wilt of one
man, however distorted his mind .
can b# the law, to be executed by
every official, who represents only
that will. By the greatest stretch of
NO. 43.
the imagination Amercans cannot tin-
derstand how ft it can be a capital
offense to criticise the words or acts
of a czar, Yet it is so in Russia,
where men are sent to Siberia for
talking disrespectfully to a police-
man.’
‘That cannot be possible. You arc
exaggerating !* exclaimed the report-
er.
‘It is true, every word. I have
heard people here denounce the po¬
lice; but they do not know what po¬
lice tyranny means. In Russia the
municipalities do not appoint the
police. It is the czar. They are his
officers, and are above the law, owing
to no one un account but him. These
are the open police, and although
they arc tyrants and to be dreaded
they are not to be compared to the
political detectives and gens d annes
of the ministry to the interior,
‘They were known at one time as
the fchifd section of the imperial
chancellory. The name became such
a terror, even in that country of ter¬
rorism. that the czar was force I to
pretend to abolish it. It still exists
as a special department of the
rior. Those who compose it are in¬
dependent of all law. Without form
of law they have power to search any
hr use and arrest all its inmates on
suspicion. Those arrested never know
on what charge they are held. They
have no trial, but are sent to Siberia,
to prison or to the scaffold; as many
seem best to the department. There
is no appeal possible, for no court
has any jurisdiction over a ‘political.’
If a person is sent to Siberia he is an
‘adminrstrative exile,’ and can never
return except by consent of the third
section. As I said, it is only neces¬
sary to be suspected in order to be
arrested, and if the name of another
person is found on the suspect lie or
she too must suffer.’
‘But are there no courts in Rus-
si a?’
‘Certainly there are. and a jury sys¬
tem, too ; but they are for criminals—
murderers, thieves , etc. I may sav.
in passing, that there is no capital
punishment in Russia except for po¬
litical offenses. In the territorial
prison in which I spent nine monihsj
in Kkatcrinodar, there were tnen who
had committed from ten to thirty
murders and highway robberies. They
were exiled, while a landlord, owning
thousands of acres of land, was hang¬
ed because he gave money to propa¬
gate republicanism. That was before
the terrorist movemet bega’V When
a prominent man is arrested, a noble¬
man or an official, for a political of-
fense, and it cannot be hidden, he is
taken before a court. But what a
court! For such eases the judges are
appointed by the ministry of justice
or war. There is no jury. The ac-
cussed is not permitted to have a law¬
yer, except, sometimes, an army of¬
ficer is detailed for that duty by the
ministry. I f.eed Pot say that I
never knew or heard of a case in
which a prisoner before such a court
ever regained his freedom. To be
even suspected is to be doomed ! For
if the judge could not find the prison
er guilty the third section exiled him
anyway.’
‘These men of whom you speak, I
mean the prisoners, are they all
Nihilists?’
‘Not by anv means. As I told you
a man has only to express ari opinion
contrary to that of a policeman, a de¬
tective or some official to secure his
arrest and exiie > ’ to ^ad any work
written , by Tr Herbert . .
>p?ncer,
H ax ley, Darwin, John Stuart Mill’s
‘Utilitarianism,’ ‘Emancipation of
Women,’ or ‘Political Economy, Rob-
ert Owens’ ‘Moral Government,’ or.
such works? Those sent to Siberia
are not Nihilists or Terrorists. The
Terrorists are always executed or die
’
in prison.’
‘Are the Nihilists very numerous
now in Russia?*
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MARRIAGE LICENSE, &C.
‘More numerous than ever, and
more defiant than when 1 was in Rus¬
sia. You noticed, probably, that those
arrested on the last attempt to exe-
cute the Czar offered no resistance
nor did they try fo hide their purpose.
But in Russia they arA nofc called
Nihilists—they belong to the party
of the Will of the People, fin'd the
Extremists are know as ‘Active Ter¬
rorists.’ Not one of my coadjutors is
alive to-day;* but as fast as they fall
their places are filled by others, lrf
the party there are representatives of
every class m the community and
every grade of official, from the priest
and noble to the peasant. Originally
the party believed merely in propa¬
gating the necessity for v republican,
form of government, and but for tho
territorism of the Czar it would have
remained so until to-day. We ask
that a national assembly be called
to decide the form of government for
Russia. For agitating this queston
our people were hanged or incarcer¬
ated in central prisons, which was
worse. The central prisons are un¬
der the direct control of the central
government and distinct from territo¬
rial prisons. The walls of the cells
area yard wide, with vaulted ceilings.
The iloors are thickly matted, so are
the corridors outside. Light is ad¬
mitted from a small window in the
roof. Food is supplied on a sliding
table from the outside. A hole the
size of a dollar iff the massive door
of the cell permits the jailer to see
what the prisoner is doing, without
himself being observed. One never
knows when that eye is on him. In¬
tense silence reigns. The prisoner
has nothing to occupy him but his
thoughts’, lie never se6s the face of
man. He is in a living tomb.’ Is it
any wonder that in about six months
a man’s mind gives way, or that in
two years he dies a raving maniac?
Such has been the fate of men and
women imprisoned because they be¬
lieved in a form of government such
as youdiave in America.’
‘Does that state of affairs exist
now ?’
‘It is of to-day 1 am speaking. I
occasionally receive letters from my
friends in London, PaiiS or Geneva,
who hear directly from Russia, and
they tell me some of these things. I
cannot communicate with any one in
that country. Every letter, especi¬
ally at this time, is opened, commer¬
cial letters not excepted. It would
doom any man or woman if I wrote
them.’—New York World Interview.
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Another Great Bridge Over the Ohio*
The Illinois Central railroad has ob.
tained the consent of Congres to the
building of a bridge for its trains’
across the Ohio river at Cairo. The
trains are now transferred on steam
ferryboats, but when the bridge shall,
be completed the road will have an
unbrok n line of track from Chicago
to New Orleans. The bridge will be
over 4.200 feet long, there being two
of 515 feet each, seven spans
of 400 feet each, and three spans of
200 feet each. The whole bridge and
its approaches will be over three miles
long. According to the act of Con¬
gress authorising its construction, it3
lowest chord must be 53 feet above
ext*eme high water, and more than
105 feet above low water. The work
has alrj^dj’ commenced. A special
featiirs'qf the bridge is the fact that
the foundation must be placed in the
alluvium bottom of the Mississippi
rivor wh *ch joins the Oh»» at Cairo*• r , .
.
There is no rock on which to res*
^ Korin* to^ke nearly 200 feet in
dept fal i s anything but al-
lu vial deposits of clay and sand ; corn*
sequent)v the foundation must go a
rational ^dn^imwer "of theTand^and the
resistance of the’dises of the
foundation. It will he a truss bridge,*
ttie 400-feet spans having parade!
sUgbH j vvd ‘ upVcr* ctor $‘2,0<5o,-F *. Tuo
cos t Q f t } ie structure will be
000.'
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