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CHAPTER XX.
iICHAEL STROGOFF was
not. had never been, blind.
A purely human phenom
enon. at onee moral and
physical, had neutralized
the action of the redliot
blade which the execu
tioner of Feofar had passed over his
eyes. One remembers that at the mo
ment, of that terrible punishment Mar
fa Strogoff was there, stretching ont
her hands toward her son.
Michael Strogoff looked at her, as a
sou can look at his mother when it i*
for the last time. Streams of tears
welled up from his heart to his eyes,
which his high spirit tried in vain to
restrain and, tilling the sockets of his
eyes, had tints saved his sight. The
action of the heat had been destroyed
just in the same manner as when a
smelter, after having plunged his hand
into water, thrusts it with impunity
into molten iron.
Michael Strogoff had at once under
stood the danger he would have run
in making known Iiis secret to any one.
He realized the advantages which lie
might gain from this situation for the
accomplishment of it is projects. It is
because they would believe him to be
blind that they would leave him his
liberty.
It was necessary, then, that lie
should be blind, that lie should be
so for all. even for Nadia—in short,
that he should be so everywhere ami
that not a gesture at any moment could
cause any doubt of the sincerity of his
role. His resolution was taken. Even
his very life must be risked in ordet
to give to all the proof of his blindness
and cue knows how lie risked it.
His mother alone knew the truth,
and it was on the square of Tomsk that
he nad whispered it in her ear when,
bending over her in the shade, he had
covered her with his kisses.
We can now understand how when
Ivan Ogareff had placed the emperor’:,
letter before his eyes, which he be
lieved to be blind, Michael Strogoff had
been able to read, had read that letter
which disclosed the hateful designs of
the traitor: hence that energy which
be displayed during the second part of
the journey: hence that -unchanging
will to reach Irkutsk and on arrivin'
there to fulfill with his own voice his
mission. He. knew that the town was
to be given up by the traitor. He knew
that the life of the grand duke was
threatened. The safety of the brother
of the czar and of Siberia was still in
his hands.
In a few words all this history was
Secountod to the grand duke, and Mi
chael Strogoff told also, and with what
emotion, the part which Nadia had tak
en in these events.
"Who is this young girl?” asked-the
grand duke.
“The daughter of the exiled Wassill
Feodor,” answered Michael Strogoff.
“The daughter of Commander Feo
dor,” said the grand duke, “has ceased
to be the daughter of an exile. There
are no more exiles at Irkutsk.”
Nadia, less strong in joy than she had
been in sorrow, fell at the feet of the
grand duke, who raised her with one
hand, while he held out the other to
Michael Strogoff. An hour afterward
Nadia was in the arms of her father.
Michael Strogoff, Nadia, Wassili Feo
dor, were reunited. It was on all sides
complete happiness.
The Tartars had been repulsed in
their double attack upon the town.
Wassili Feodor, with his little troop,
had crushed the first assailants who
bad presented themselves at t-m Pol
chain gate with the expectation of find
ing it open.
At the same time that the Tartars
were driven back the besieged had ren
dered themselves masters of the tire.
Before daybreak the troops of Feofar-
Khan had returned to their encamp
ments, leaving a good number of dead
under the ramparts.
Among the dead was the gypsy San-
garre, who had tried in vain to rejoin
Ivan Ogareff.
For two days the besiegers attempt
ed no new assault. They were discour
aged by the death of Ivan Ogareff.
That man was the soul of the invasion,
ami be alone, by his long continued
of day lhe boom of cannon resounded
on the heights around Irkutsk. It was
the relieving army which had arrived
under the orders of General Kisscly.
I who thus signaled his presence to the
; grand duke.
| The Tartars did not stay any longer,
j 'they did not wish to risk a battle un
der the walls of Irkutsk. The camp of
J the Angara war, immediately raised.
! Irkutsk was at In:-! delivered.
With the first Russian soldiers two
friends of Michael Strogoff had entered
tno town. They were the inseparable
Blount and Jolivet. By gaining the'
right bank of the Angara along the
harrier cf ice they and the other fugi
tives bad been able to escape before
the fiames of the Angara had reached
the raft. This had been put dowu by
Aleido Jolivet in his notebook and in
this manner. “Was near ending like a
lemon in a bowl of punch!”
Their joy was great to once more find
Nadia and Michael Strogoff safe and
sound, especially when they learned
that their brave companion was not
blind, a statement which led Harry
Blount to jot down this observation:
“A retlhot iron is perhaps insufficient
to destroy the sensibility of the optic
nerve. To be modified.”
Afterward the two correspondents,
well installed in Irkutsk, occupied
themselves in putting in order the im
pressions of their journey. From thence
two interesting chronicles of the Tartar
invasion were sent to London and Par
is, which, strange to say, only contra
dicted each other on points of less mo
ment.
For the rest the campaign was bad
for the emir and his allies. That inva
sion. useless, as are all those that at
tack colossal Russia, was most fatal to
them. They soon found themselves cut
off by the troops of the czar, who re
took successively ail the conquered
towns. Besides, the winter was terri
ble, and of those hordes, decimated by
the cold, only a. small number returned
to the steppes of Tartary. The route
from Irkutsk to the Ural mountains
was free.
The grand duke was in haste to re
turn to Moscow, but he delayed his
journey in order to assist at a touching
ceremony which took place some days
after the entry of the Russian troops.
Michael Strogoff had sought out Na
dia and in the presence of her father
had said to her. “Nadia, my sister still,
when you left Riga to come to Irkutsk
had you uo other regret but that of
leaving behind you your mother?”
“No,” replied Nadia; "noue what
ever.”
“So that no part of your heart has
remained down there?”
“None, brother.”
“Then, Nadia,” said Michael Strogoff.
“I do not believe but that God in bring
ing us together, in allowing us to pass
through these great trials together, has
wished us to be united forever.”
“Ah’” said Nadia as she fell into the
arms of Michael Strogoff, and. turning
toward Wassili Feodor. “My father.” j
she said,"blushing deeply.
“Nadia,” said Wassili Feodor, 'my !
joy will be to call you both my chil
dren!”
The marriage ceremony took place in
the cathedral of Irkutsk. It was very,
simple in its preparations, but very j
beautiful in the concourse of the mill-
tary and civil population, which thus
wished to show its gratitude to the
young coupie, whose strange journey
had now become legendary.
Alcide Jolivet and Harry Blount of
course assisted at the marriage, of ;
which they wished to give an account !
to their readers.
“And does it, not make you envious to
imitate them?” asked Alcide Jolivet tt
his companion.
“Pshaw!” exclaimed Harry Blount
"If, like you, I had a cousin!”
“My cousin is not any longer mar
riageable,” laughingly answered Alcide
Jolivet.
“All the better,” added Harry Blount,
“for they speak of difficulties which
are about to arise between London and
Peking.”
“Would you not like to see what is
passing there?”
“Why. my dear Blount,” cried Alcide
Jolivet, “I was about to propose it to
you!”
This is how the two inseparables set
out for China.
Some days after the ceremony Mi- j
Her Best Front.
It was at Nantucket one summer thA
a city visitor learned a new way of
displaying one's personal adornments
during a call upon cue of the native
Nantucketers. It was a nice old lady
who was entertaining the strangers,
and she was very anxious that the}'
should see everything to advantage
and that even siie herself should make
os good an appearance as possible. Un
fortunately she had net been forewarn
ed of the visit and was not entirely
prepared for it.
“If I had only known you were com
ing,” she said apologetically, “I should
have had on my best front. This is
only my second best, but you can see
the other when you go out, for I al
ways keep it in the front room.”
Surely enough, on taking their leave,
the visitors were piloted through the j
front room, and there in the inside of
the melodeon, when a heavy green ba
rege veil was carefully lifted, a nicely
waved hair piece was to be seen, the
hostess’ best “front.”
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flW A WHPP! the rider frequently meets with disaster. Avery
Uii H ¥■ ntC- handy and efficient doctor to have with you when
m accident happens is a bottle of Mexican Mustang Liniment.
THE COMMON WILD RABBIT :
Habhit Proof Fences and n Tra;!.
Common Kentucky Institutions.
I In many of the less closely settled re- |
glons of our country when snows are
! deep and food scarce rabbits develop j
| into a serious pest by gnawing the
bark of fruit trees. Some items about
this trouble from a recent bulletin by
II. German of the Kentucky station
may therefore not come amiss.
When the nursery is small, it is pos
sible to inclose it with a close slat
- Wii *3
Spoke Too Late.
The good minister of a Scottish par
ish had once upon a time a great wish
for an old couple to become teetotal
ers, which they were in nowise eager
to carry out. After much pressing,
however, they consented, laying down
as a condition that they should be al
lowed to keep a bottle of “Auld Kirk”
for medicinal purposes. About a fort
night afterward John began to feel his
resolution weakening, but ho was de
termined not to be the first to give
way.
In another week, however, he col
lapsed entirely. “Jenny, woman,” he
said, “I’ve an awfu’ pain in my heid.
Ye micht gie me a wee drappie an’ sec
gin it’ll dee me ony guid.”
“Well, gudeman,” she replied, “ye’re
owrc late o’ askin’, for ever sin’ that
bottle cam’ into the lioose I’ve been
bothered sae wi’ pains i' my heid ’t is
a’ dune, an’ there’s nae drappie left.”
The 11.1K tlihle.
The bug Bible was printed in 1540
by the authority of Edward VI,. and
its curiosity lies in the rendering of
the fifth verse of t lie Ninety-first
Psalm, which, as we know. runs.
“Thou shalt not be afraid for the ter
ror by night nor for the arrow which
tlietli by day,” but in tlie above ver
sion ran, “So thou shalt not node to
be afraid of any bugges by night.”
Ludicrous as this sounds, it is not
etymologically without justification.
“Bug” is derived from the Welsh word
“bwg,” which meant a hobgoblin or
terrifying specter, a signification trace
able in tlie word commonly in use to
day—“bugbear”—and Shakespeare once
or twice uses the word in this primary
sense, notably when he makes Hamlet
say. “Such bugs and goblins in my
life.”
Fine China.
Fine china needs care in washing
and drying and should neverjbe placed
in nervous or indifferent hands. Treat
ed lovingly, china will last for year*
and even generations. Only a piece
should be put in tbe tub at one time,
the soap should be made into suds be
fore putting anything in. and the wa
ter must be very warm, not hot. Fi
nally rinse in water that's just the
same—warm. A good supply of fine,
soft towels is a necessity, and, U;us
equipped, the washing cf china is not
a hard task. China will shine beauti
fully if wiped out of clear warm wa
ter.
Looking- am] Seeing.
There is much in knowing how to
see sights. The discreet and skillful
person, when confronted with a varie
ty of attractions, will carefully select
those that are for him the best and
then will devise means to see them
with the least wear and tear. But
there are excitable people who set out
to see everything, tire themselves out,
see only half of anything and are dis
satisfied in the end.
A BABBIT TRAP, COMMON IN KENTUCKY.
fence that will “turn” rabbits and
serve all the purposes of the ordinary
fences required to keep out stock. Ir.
timbered countries, where rabbits arc-
most troublesome, fences of this char
acter can be cheaply built. Two types
of fence suitable for the purpose are
to be seen in the state. The most com
mon is made of rough slats four to six
feet long and about three inches in
width. The slats are securely fasten
ed together from one to two inches
apart with No. 11 wire, stout posts be
ing sc-t at intervals of ten to sixteen
feet to insure stability and keep the
panels upright. Since tlie slats can be
adjusted to any unevenness of the
ground, it is possible to exclude any
thing that a fence can reasonably be
expected to turn.
The second type is made of shorter
slats, three or four feet long, and these
may be supplemented above by one or
more wires stretched from post to post.
J- Q. A. Raimi has built such a fence
about his nursery. He uses slats three
feet long, none less than half an inch
thick, and sets his posts in spring,
waiting until hot weather in August
and September before putting up the
slats in order to have the wire fully
expanded at the start. The wires are
simply crossed between the slats ant
are kept taut, while building, by a bar
row loaded with about 1,000 pounds of
stone and placed 100 to 400 yards ahead
of the workmen. Near the barrow the
wires are secured to a single tree made
of a piece of stout timber, a log chain
being passed around this and secured
to a weighted barrow.
Rabbits are very easily caught, not
withstanding their well known cun
uing. One of the simplest and best
traps used for the purpose is made of
rough fence boards six inches wide and
about two feet long. These pieces are
nailed together so as to make an ob
long box, one end of which is closed
with a short piece of boardNwliilo the
other is provided with a door consist
ing of another piece of board which
slides down from above in grooves cut
* ‘ Equal Partners, ’ ’ by Howard
Fielding, will be our next serial.
This is a story of mystery. The
interest aroused in the first
chapter is admirably sustained
to the end. A beautiful actress
is found in her room in New
York dangerously stabbed, with
one chance in a million for her
life. Who stabbed her? The
reader forms opinions to quickly
abandon them as the story rap
idly unfolds. The identity of
the criminal is so skillfully veiled
that it is not discovered until
the end. Our readers who are
good at solving mysteries in
stories will find something
worthy of their powers in
"EQUAL PARTNERS.” Don’t
miss the first chapter.
Two Sentenced for Child Murder.
Chattanooga, Jan. 22.—Dr. J. L. D.
Walker, of this city, and Milton Lewis,
of Sequatchie valley, were convicted
of murder in the circuit court here
today and sentenced to ten years each
in tne penitentiary. It is charged they
conspired and killed a child born to
Mrs. Lewis at the Wisdom house
this city in the year 1900. The crime
did not develop until several years
alter that time.
Ulcers
mm rales
or
need not become a fixture upon your
body. If they do it is your fault, for
MEXICAN
MUSTANG LINIMENT
will thoroughly, quickly and perma
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is no guess work •about it; if this lin
iment is used a cure will tollow.
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8UU LlUil 3 rinauw until you have treated it with Mexican
Mustang Liniment. As a flesh healer it stands at the very top.
Easily a Good Thing.
“Did you say that hair restorer is a
good thing?” asked the patron.
“Yes,” answered the barber, with
some slight hesitation; “it's a good
thing. We sell several bottles a week
at. a dollar a bottle.”
“But bow do you know it’s a good
thing?”
“Because the profit on every bottle
is 75 ceuts.”—Washington Star.
nailed to the end. as shown in the out
The bottom piece may also be allowed
to project so as to make the door more
secure when closed. A small hole is
bored through the top at about the
middle of the box. and midway be
tween this and the door a stick is se
cured in an upright position. Across
the top of this latter a second stick is
secured by a nail in a notch made in
the upright oue so that it will seesaw
up and down. A third stick of small
size is notched near one end and se
cured at the opposite end by means of
a piece of twine to the end of the
larger movable piece. This movable
piece is now connected by twine at its
forward end to the top of the door,
when the trap is ready to set.
The door is elevated, tlie little stick
passed through the hole in the top and
Two Escapes Recaptured.
Tacoma, Wash.. Jan. 21.—A Ledger
reported who has returned from the
chase after the federal convicts re
ports that W. D. Snyder, sent up from
Idaho; James Carroll, an Alaska mur
derer. and Harry Davis, a Nome lar-
cenist, were recaptured last evening.
Davis broke away from his captors,
who fired on him. and it is thought
injured him. He was not recaptured.
Firs Destroys Courthouse.
Westville, Fla.. Jan. 13.—The court
house. with all the records except
those in safe, was burned last night.
It is thought that the fire was of in
cendiary origin. Steps are being ta-
Ken_to apprehend the supposed crim
inal. All the surrounding property
was saved by heroic efforts of the citi
zens. This is the third fire in this
town, within three months.
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is hard enough as
it is. It is to her that
we owe our world,
and everything
should be made as
easy as possible for
her at the time of
childbirth. This
is just what
His Fortune.
“Who is that handsome young man
standing over there?” inquired an old
gentleman of a rictrtrtd lady at a party.
“That’s my son-in-law. He’s a very
chael and Nadia Strogoff. accompanied brilliant young man; made a large for-
by Wassili Feodor, started on their tune by the law.”
journey to Europe. That road of sor- “Indeed!” said the old gentleman,
rows was only one of happiness on How’s that?”
their return. They traveled very rapid- j “The law made him my daughter’s
ly with one of those trains which glUL husband.”—London Answers,
like an express over the frozen steppes
lOTHEB’S
Friesd
will do. It will make
baby's coming easy
and painless, and that without tak
ing dangerous drugs into the svs-
tem. It is simply to be aunlied to
the muscles of the 'abdomen. It
penetrates through the skin carry
ing strength and elasticity with it.
It strengthens the whole system and
prevents all of the discomforts of
pregnancy.
The mother of a plumb babe in
Panama, Mo., says: “I have used
Mother’s Friend and can praise it
highlv. ’ ’
Get Mother’s Friend at the
Drug Store, $1 per botUe.
The Bradfield Regulator Co.,
ATLANTA, GA.
, of Siberia.
[ Meanwhile, arrived at the banks of
the Dlnka, just opposite Briskoe. they
stopped there one day. .Michael Stro
goff sought out the place where he ban
interred poor Nicholas. A cross was
planted there, and Nadia prayed for
the last time on the tomb of the hum
ble and heroic soul which neither tkr
one nor the other would ever forgot.
At Omsk old Marfa was awaiting
ihem in the little house of the Stro
goffs. She pressed in her arms that
noble girl whom in her heart she had
already a hundred times called her
daughter. The brave Siberian on that
day had the right to own her son and
to say that she was proud of him.
After some days passed at Omsk. Mi
chael and Nadia Strogoff returned to
Europe, and, Wassili Feodor being well
fixed in St. Petersburg, neither his son
nor Ins daughter had any occasion ever
to leave him, only when they went to
see their old mother.
The young courier had been received
by the ezar, who attached him specially
to liis person and decorated him with
the cross of St. George. j
Michael Strogoff afterward attained
to a high post in the empire. But it is
not the history of his success, but the
history of his trials, which has deserv
ed to be chronicled. i
Tin-; end. • |
Her Pet Pis’.
A young woman in London took a
pig in infancy and brought it up. as she
says, “like a Christian.” Complaint
was made to the authorities tlie other
day, and the sanitary officers who went
to investigate found the pig in bed be
tween two white sheets, with its head
on a pillow and its body covered with
a white lace counterpane.
Should Keep Something;.
New Woman—Simply because a wo
man marries a man is no reason why
she should take his name.
Old Bachelor—Just so. The poor fel
low ought to be allowed to keep some
thing he can call his own.—St. Louis
Republic.
A man seldom realizes how few of
his remarks are worth repeating until
he has conversed with a deaf person.
—Chicago News.
RABBIT PROOF-FENCE ABOUT XOtTNG TREES
secured by the notch to tbe front edge
of tlie bole. When the rabbit enters, it
pushes the projecting' end of tbe stick
before it. setting it free, ailowing the
suspended door to descend and thus
cutting off its own escape. The traps
may be baited with a piece of apple or
cabbage placed in the end farthest
from the door.
Forests cover one-tentli of the sur
face cf the earth and one quarter o'
Europe.
American Orcharding;.
If we are to have the proper kind of
fruit, we must have the orchard in the
control or ownership of business men.
Of men who are not afraid of expense
ff they wish to obtain good results.
We want to get into American or
chards men who are not afraid to
spend tt little money to improve the '
conditions. If we can once do this, wo j
will produce a type of fruit that will
enlarge the powers of consumption, j
that will go out to the world in differ
ent ways and in wider volume than
anything we now dream of, says an
Illinois orcliL rd-.st.
YVImt Ke Wanted to Sny.
“Prisoner at the bar,” said the judge,
“is there anything you wish to say be
fore sentence is passed on you?”
The prisoner looked wistfully toward
the door and remarked that he would
Iike_4o say “Good evening.” if it would
be agreeable to the company.
\ot n. Sensible Man.
Daughter—Oh, mamma, I do wish I
were pretty!
Mother—You needn’t, dear. Sensible
men. think very little about beauty.
Daughter—But it isn’t sensible' men
I’m thinking about r mamma; it’s Char
lie!
Her S iry 1 e.
He looked despairingly 4Hto vacancy.
“I have bad my misgivings.” he said
in a dull, passionless voice, “but now I
am sure. Your laugh shows me you are
utterly heartless.”
She turned pale.
“Heavens!” slig cried in terror. “Did
I open my mouth as wide as that?”
Candid.
“Do you mean to say that you have
not read till of Shakespeare’s plays?
“No.” answered Miss Cayenne. “To
tell the truth, I did not mean to jsa.v
it. As in the case of most people, the
confession slipped out quite by acci
dent.”—Washington.
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The iron pen mentioned by Job in the
book of that name in the Bible is sup
posed to have been a steel graver used
for cutting inscriptions on stone.
Aged Macon Citizen Dead.
Macon, Ga., Jan. 20.—Patrick
O’Hara, one of the oldest as well as
one of the most highly respected citi-
Smallpcx in Elbert County.
Washington, Ga., Jan. 20.—News
reaches here from Elbert county that
smallpox is prevalent there. However,
steps are being taken to retard the
spread of the disease in that county.
It is confined to the negro popula
tion.
She Carved Her With a Razor.
Macon, Ga., Jan. 20.—In a quarrel
zens of Macon, died at the residence about her husband Lula Jenkins, a ne-
of his daughter, Mrs. J. T. Coffee, on gro woman > on Saturday night cut
Oak street, at an early hour yesterday ^ ary Nee ^ another negro. The cut-
t to Blame.
She—Saturday is our silver wedding.
Don’t you think we ought to kill the
pig and have a feast?
He—Kill the pig? I don’t see why
the poor animal is to blaiue for what
happened twenty-five years ago.”—Lon
don Tit-Bits.
Serve Iletjnired.
Perdita—Did you say, “This is so sud
den?”
Constance—I didn't have the nerve, i
You know how he stutters.—Chicago
Record-Herald.
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A.t $2.00 Pep Gallon.
Old-Fashioned HAND-MADE
CdPtN WHISKEY.
At $2.00 Per Gallon.
A, P. PADEPT’S
Corner road Du McKinne Sts. ■ ^ Cr H
GK 03 CO.,
A UG US - A, G EpftG I A.
AND WINDOW SHADES
Jlanter*' Hotel.