Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 283, Hammond, Lake County, 18 May 1907 — Page 3

Saturday, May 18, 1907.

By ROBERT BARR, -The Triumphs of Eugene Vilmonf." "Tekla," -In the Midst of Alarms." "Speculations of John Steele." "The Victors." Etc

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CoByrifbt. 1906, By Arrangement -with The Author and SYXOI'SIS. Chapter 1. Dorothy Amhurst, a beautiful young woman, goes to the t!f-n In Bar Harbor, presents a check, whicn the cashier pays, and then walks out, leaving the money on the counter, one Is overtaken by Lieutenant Alan Drummond of the British warship Consternation, who hands her the money. explains to Dorothy that he Is in rather bad repute with the admiralty because of the fact that some time Defore he had, in order to test a new run, fired at a lonely rock In the naitlc, which immediately rtu? ,ae fire, making an "affaire" with Kussla Drummond expresses his lntenti0n,o? going to Russia personally to explain that the episode was not the "eult design. Dorothy attempts to di9SU.aae him. II Dorothy, who Is of excellent family, has been reduced in means so that she is obliged to become a sewing woman in the family of Captain Kempt. U. S. N., retired. The family consists of Captain and Mrs. Kempt and their daughters, Sablna and Katnerine. Katherlne is exceedingly kind to Dorothy, while Sablna Is Just the reverse. It develops that Dorothy has 1ni.t Inherited a fortune of 115.000.000. Ill At the reception on board the Consternation Alan Introduces to Dorothy and Katherlne his intimate friend, Prince Ivan Lermontoff, who la aboard the vessel as Jack Lamont. The latter asks Katherlne for a dance. IV - Alan Is ordered home by the admiralty. He assumes that It is the aftermath of the "Itock In the Baltic" affair. V Jack Lamont, the prince, visits Katherlne at her home. VI Dorothy Invites Katherlne to live with her in a tine apartment in New York City and meanwhile asks the entire Kempt family to become her guests at a Catskill mountain fashionable resort. Katherlne is persistently studying scientific works in order to please Jack Lamont, the prince, who is a great scientist and an inventor of note. One of his processes contemplates the dissolving of solid stone by means of certain chemicals. VII Dorothy receives a letter from Allan Drummond informing her that he had been called homo merely for the purpose of giving Borne facts about a new gun. He also tells her that Jack Lamont Is about to join him for the purpose of accompanying him to Russia. VIII Captain Kempt receives from Jack Lamont ft letter requesting that he be permitted to pay his addresses to Katherlne. Dorothy incloses the favorable reply in a letter which she writes to Alan Drummond. IX Alan writes that he and Jack are living over a blacksmith shop in St. Petersburg, where Jack is conducting certain experiments. There Is an explosion, and Alan fears that the police are not satlstled with Jack's explanation. X Alan writes to Dorothy that Jack Lamont has been spirited away in the night from his experimental shop. XI Alan's letters cease, and Dorothy learns from a Nihilistic society In New York that Alan has also disappeared and is believed to be In the prison of St. Peter and St. Paul with Jack Lamont. (Continued from yesterday.) "I telegraphed to his estate and received a prompt reply saying that hi Bister was much better and that he was already on his way back and would reach mo at 11 tonight. So that?? what happens when a grown man gets a fit of nerves. I drew the most gloomy conclusions from the fact that I had been refused admission to the foreign office and the admiralty. Yesterday that was all explained away. The business Is nt last concluded, and I was shown copies of the letters which have been forwarded to my own chiefs at home. Nothing could be more satisfactory. Tomorrow Jack and I will be of? to England together. "My dearest Dorothy (second time of asking), I am not a rich man. but. then. 'Do lo u think it worth $10,000? " la spite of your little fortune of Bar Harbor you are not a rich woman, so we stand on an equality in that, even though you are so much my superior lu everything else. I have f.00 a year, which is something less than $2,C00, left me by my father. This is independent of my profession. I am very certain I will succeed in the navy now that the Russian government has sent those letters, so the moment I was as sured of that I determined to write and ask you to be my wife. "Will you forgive my impatience and pander to It by cabling to me at the Bluewater club. Pall Mall, the word 'Yes or the word Undecided? I shall not allow you the privilege of cabling Xo. And please give me a chance of pleading my case In person if you use the longer word. Ah, I hear Jack's step on the stair. Very stealthily he is coming, to surprise me, but I'll surprise" Here the writing ended. She folded the letter and placed It in her desk, Bitting down before it. "Shall I make the check payable to you or to the society?" "To the society, if you please, madam." "I shall write it for double the amount asked. I also am a believer In liberty." "Oh, madam, that la a generosity I feel we do not deserve. I should like to have given you the letter, alter all

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Newspapers Association of New York. yon have done for us, with no conditions attached." "I am quite sure of that," said Dorothy, bending over her writing. She handed him the check, and he rose to go. "Sit down again, If you please. I wish to talk further with you. Your people in St. Petersburg think my friends have not been sent to Siberia. Are they sure of that?" "Well, madam, they have means of knowing tho?e who are transported, and they are certain the two young men were not among the recent gangs sent. They suppose them to be in the fortress of St Peter and St. Paul; at least, that's what they say." "You speak as if you doubted it." "I do doubt it." "They have been sent to Siberia, after alir "Ah, madam, there are worst places than Siberia. In Siberia there is a chance. In the dreadful Trogzmondoff there is none." "What is the Trogzmondoff ?" "A bleak rock in the Baltic, madam, the prison in which death is the only goal that releases the victim." Dorothy rose trembling, staring at him, her lips white. "A rock in the Baltic! Is that a prison and not a fortress, then?" "It 13 both prison and fortress, madam. If Russia ever takes the risk of arresting a foreigner, it is to the Trogzmondoff he is sent. They drown the victims there drown them in their cells. There 13 a spring in the rock, and through the line of cells it runs like a beautiful rivulet, but the pulling of n lever outside stops the exit of the water and drowns every prisoner within. The bodies are placed one by one on a smooth Inclined chute of polished sandstone, down which this rivulet runs, so they glide out into space and drop 200 feet into the Baltic sea. No matter in what condition such a body is found or how recent may have been the execution, it is but a drowned man in the Baltic. There are no marks of bullet or strangulation, and the currents bear them swiftly away from the rock." "How come you to know all this which seems to have been concealed from the rest of the world?" "I know it, madam, for the best of reasons. I was sentenced this very year to Trogzmondoff. In my youtti trading between Ilelslngfors and New York I took out naturalization papers in New York, because I was one of the crew on an American ship. When they illegally impressed me at Ilelslng fors and forced me to join the Russian navy, I made the best of a bad bar gain and, being an expert seaman, was reasonably well treated and promoted, but at last they discovered I was in correspondence with a nihilist circle in London, and when I was arrested I demanded the rights of an Amer ican citizen. That doomed me. was sent, without trial, to the' Trogz mondoff In April of this year. Arriv ing there I was foolish eiugh to threaten and say my comrades had means of letting the United States government know and that a battleship would teach the jailers of the rock better manners. "The cells hewn in the rock are completely dark, so I lost all count of time. You might think we would know night from day by the bringing in of our meals, but such was not the case. The jailer brought in a large loaf of black bread and said it was to serve me for four days. He placed the loaf on a ledge of rock about three feet from the floor which served as both table and bed. In excavating the cell this ledge had been left Intact, with a bench of stone rising from the floor opposite. Indeed so ingenious had been the workmen who hewed out this room that they carved a rounded stone pillow at one end of the shelf. "I do not know how many days I had been in prison when the explosion occurred. It made the whole rook quiver, and I wondered what had happened. Almost immediately afterward there seemed to be another explosion. not nearly so harsh, which I thought was perhaps an echo of the first About an hour later my cell door was unlocked, and the jailer, with another man holding a lantern, came in. My third loaf of black bread was partly consumed, so I must have been in prison nine or ten days. The jailer took the loaf outside, and when he returned I asked him what had happened. He answered in a suny fashion that my American warship had fired at the rock and that the rock had struck back, whereupon she sailed away, crippled." Dorothy, who had been listening intently to this discourse, here interrupted with: "It was an English warship that fired the shell, and the Russian shot did not come within half a mile of her." The sailor stared at her ia wide eyed surprise. "You see, I have been making inquiries," she explained. "Please gc on." "I never heard that it was an English ship. The jailer sneered at me and said he was going to semi me after the American vessel, as I suppose he thought it was. I feared by his taking away of-the bread that it was Intend

ed to starve me to death and was sorry I had not eaten more at my last meal. I lay down on the shelf of rock and soon fell asleep. I was awakened by the water lapping around me. The cell was Intensely still. Up to this I had always enjoyed the company of a little brook that ran along the sido of the cell farthest from the door. Its music had now ceased, and when I sprang tiy I found myself to the waist in verv

cold water. I guessed at once the use of the levers outside the cell in the passage which I had noticed in the light of the lantern on the day I en tered the place, and I knew now why it was that the prison door was not pierced by one of those gratings which en able the jailer in the passage to look into the cell any time of night or day. Prisoners have told me that the un certainty of an inmate who never knew when he might be spied upon added to the horror of the situation, but the watertight doors of the Trogzmondoff are free from this feature and for a very sinister reason. "The channel in the floor through which the water runs when the cell Is empty and the tunnel at the celling through which the water flows when the cell is full give plenty of ventilation, no matter how tightly the door may be closed. The water rose very gradually until it reached the top outlet, then its level remained stationary. I floated on the top quite easily, with as little exertion as was necessary to keep me in that position. If I raised my head, my brow struck the ceiling. The next cell to mine, lower down, was possibly empty. I heard the water pour Into it like a little cataract. The next cell above and indeed all the cells in that direction were flooded like my own. "Of course it was no trouble for me to keep afloat. My only danger was that the intense coldness of the water would numb my body beyond recovery. Still I had been accustomed to hard ships of that kind before now in the frozen north. At last the gentle roar of the waterfall ceased, and I realized my cell was emptying itself. When I reached my shelf again, I stretched my limbs back and forth as strenuously as I could and as silently, for I wished no sound to give any hint that I was still alive, if, indeed, sound could pen etrate to the passage, which Is unlikely. Even before the last of the water had run away from the cell I lay stretched out at full length on the floor, hoping I might have steadiness enough to remain death quiet when the men came In with the lantern. need have had no fear. The door was opened, one of the men picked me up by the heels and, using my legs as If they were the shafis of a wheelbar row, dragged me down the passage to the place where the stream emerged from the last cell, and into this tor rent he flung me. There was one swift, brief moment of darkness, then I shot, feet first into space and dropped down, down, down through the air like a plummet into the arms of my mother." "Into what?" cried Dorothy, white and breathless, thinking the recital of these agonies had turned the man's brain. "The Baltic, madam, is the Finlander's mother. It feeds him In life, car ries him whither he wishes to go, and every true Finlander hopes to die In her arms. The Baltic seemed almost warm after what I had been through, and the taste of the salt on my lips was good. It was a beautiful starlight night in May, and I floated around the rock, for I knew that in a cove on the eastern side, concealed from all view of the sea, lay a Finland fishing boat a craft that will weather any storm and here in the water was a man who knew how to handle it. Prisoners are lauded on the eastern side, and such advantage is taken of the natural con formation of this precipitous rock that a man climbing the steep zigzag stairway which leads to the inhabited por tion is hidden from sight of any craft upon the water even 400 or 500 yards away. Nothing seen from the outside gives any token of habitation. "The fishing boat, I suppose, is kept for cases of emergency, that the governor may communicate with the shore if necessary. I feared it might be moored so securely that I could not unfasten It. Security had made them careless, and the boat was tied merely by lines to rings in the rock, the object being to keep her from bruising her sides against the stone rather than to prevent any one taking her away. I pushed her out Into the open, got quietly inside and floated with the swift tide, not caring to raise a sail until 1 was well out of gunshot distance. Once clear of the rock I spread canvas and by daybreak was long out of sight of land. I made for Stockholm, and there being no mark or name on the boat to denote that it belonged to the Russian government I had little diffi culty in selling it I told the authorities what was perfectly true that I was a Finland sailor escaping from the tyrant of my country and anxious to get to America. As such events are happening practically every week along the Swedish coast I was not interfered with and got enough money from the sale of the boat to enable me to dress myself well and take passage to England, aud from there first class to New York on a regular liner. "Of course I could have shipped as a sailor from Stockholm easy enough, but I was tired of being a common sailor and expected, If I was respectably clothed, to get a better position than would otherwise be the case. This proved true, for crossing the ocean I became acquainted with Mr. Stockwell, and he engaged me as mate of his yacht That's how I escaped from the Trogzmondoff, madam, and I think no one but a Finlander could have done It." "I quite agree with you," said Dorothy. "You think these two men I have been making inquiry about have been sent to the Trogzmondoff?" "The Russian may not be there, ma

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dam, but the Eaglishman la sure to be there." "Is the cannon on the western side of the rock?" "I don't know, madam. I never saw the western side by daylight I noticed nothing on the eastern side as I was climbing the steps to show that any cannon was on the Trogzmondoff at "all." of finding out how many men garrison the rock." 'No, madam. I don't think the gar rison Is large. The place Is so secure III III Ml IiLt iX"One of the men picked me up by the heels." that it doesn't need many men to guard it. Prisoners are never taken out for exercise, and, as I told you, they are fed but once in four days." "How large a crew can the Walrus carry?" "Oh, as many as you like, madam. The yacht is practically an ocean liner." "Is there any -landing stage on the eastern side of the rock?" "Practically none, madam. The steamer stood out, and I was landed in the cove I spoke of at the foot of the stairway." "It wouldn t be possible to bring a steamer like the Walrus alongside the rock, then?" "It would be possible in calm weath er, but very dangerous even then." "Could you find that rock if you were In command of a ship sailing the Bal tic?" "Oh, yes, madam." "If twenty or thirty determined men were landed on the stairway, do you think they could capture the garrison?" "Yes, if they were landed secretly, but one or two soldiers at the top with repeating rifles might hold the stair way against an army while their am munition lasted." "But if a sholl were fired from the steamer might not the attacking com pany get Inside during the confusion among the defenders?" - "That is possible, madam, but a pri vate steamer firing shells or, indeed landing a hostile company runs danger of meeting the fate of a pirate." "You would not care to try It, then?" "I? Oh, I should be delighted to try It if you allow me to select the crew. I can easily get aboard the small arms and ammunition necessary, but I am not so sure about the cannon." , "Very good. I need not warn you to be extremely cautious regarding those you take into your confidence. Meanwhile I wish you to communicate with the official who Is authorized to sell the yacht I am expecting a gentleman tomorrow in whose name the vessel will probably be bought, and I am hoping he will accept the captaincy of it." "Is he capable of filling that position, madam? Is he a sailor?" "He was for many years captain In the United States navy. I offer you the position of mate, but I will give you captain's pay and a large bonus In addition if you faithfully carry out my plans, whether they prove successful or not. I wish you to come here at this hour tomorrow with whoever Is authorized to sell or charter the steamer. You may say I am undecided whether to buy or charter. I must consult Captain Kempt on that point." "Thank you, madam. I shall be here this time tomorrow " (To Be Continued.) Mint Farm. The Virginian who conceived tho Jdea of a mint farm evidently was not unfamiliar with the refreshing qualities of a julep. He has found a ready and good market for all the mint his arm has produced. The farm has now run three years, and its owner has accumulated a pleasing bank account, while hundreds have accumulated pleasing jags sipping juleps made from his mint. African Woman Suffragist. Onltsha, in southern Nigeria, Africa, possesses a suffragist. She is the oiau (queen) of the women and is looked upon as a man officially. She cannot have a husband, but obtains children from other women. She has just demanded a seat cn the native council, but the British resident has temporized and said that she had. better get the consent of the council first For Treatment of Burns. The best way to treat burns 13 to cover the injured part with a poultice of soap as thick as a shilling, so as to exclude the air. An application of flour or finely ground starch dredged thickly on the burn may be used in an emergency. The Get-Away. The race Is not always to the swift, but it cannot be denied that the man who gets started first has a big advan taea.

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Telegraph News by Direct Wire from All Over Indiana. Bloomington, Ind.. May IS. One of the most flagrant of the cases of whitecaping which have marred the fame of Monroe county occurred at the village of Eilettsvllle, seven miles north of this city, on the Monon railroad. when the marshal, Luther Oden, was called to the door of his house at mid night, seized, gagged and bound to a tree, the keys of the village calaboose taken, and a prisoner, Oscar Morris, 0 years old, son of a well-known citi zen, was taken out and severely flogged with whipcords and switches. Has a Sensational Sequel. The victim says he knows every one of the Avhitecaps and he was in con ference with Deputy Prosecutor Lou den. The cause of the whitVeaping i said to be the looseand wild life young Morris has been living. His father, Jacob Morris, is one of the old respected citizens of Ellettsville, and his son's wild career has been the cause of a great deal of worry to him. But the whitecapping had another angle which did not develop until Thursday night, when young Morris eloped with Mrs. Charles Daniels, the pretty wife of a Monon railroad man, and went to Spencer, where the two were arrested at theConners' hotel and lodzed in jail. Names His Assailants. They were arraigned yesterday morning, fined $5 each and allowed to go. Texas is said to be their destination. When Morris was conferring with the deputy prosecutor he named Amzi Reeves, who for two years was bailiff for ex-Sheriff Benton Hough; Raleigh McNeeley, a wholesale liquor dealer and a brother-in-law of Morris; Abner Culp, a Monon railroad employe; Andrew Brown, son of John Brown, an Ellettsville liveryman, and Jas. Everyman, a young butcher, as men 'i" were In the crowd of whitecaps. Was a Bold Elopement. He then went back to Ellettsville and pretty much everybody in town met the train, and there were black looks and muttered threats against Morris. In the crowd was Mrs. Daniels, and as Morris got off the train she got on. lie stood facing the crowd for a moment, but as the train started he swung on to the car and everybody knew what had happened. However, the two will not be brought back. The whitecaps are not feeling perfectly happy and don't care to have the chief witness against them present in case they are prosecuted, and Daniels has been persuaded to let her go, being thereinto incited by those who want to get rid of Morris. WEATHEIt AFFECTS THE BEES Cold Snaps Have Shut Off Their Supply of Honey Making Materials in the Fields. Boonville, Ind., May IS. The supply of honey is so scarce in the fields of Warrick county that the bees have invaded the grocery stores, and screen doors have been put upin order to keep them from covering the sweet articles in the stores. Bees are seen by the hundreds trying to get entrance to the stores. The managers of the stores let the fires go out in the evenings before they ciose for the night and the cooler air makes them numb. They are gathered up in pans in tho morning and put outside, where they revive in the sunshine. Bee growers sny it was never known in this part of the state when the supply of honey and pollen was as short Blossoms have been killed by freezing weather. There are only a few wild flowers. Boy Must Be Immortal. Anderson, Ind., May IS. Ward Starr, 13 years old, son of John Starr, former sheriff, was dragged for nearly sixty feet under a 1,000-pound farm roller, and lives to tell of his experience. The horses took fright as he was driving off the field, and he was thrown forward underneath the roller aud dragged along the ground till a neighbor succeeded in stopping the frightened team. The boy was severely bruised, but he escaped with unbroken bones. Went Unconscious During Prayer. Portland, Ind., May IS While Miss Pearl Hiatt, 20 years old, daughter of Mrs. Rhoda Hiatt, was attending serv ices in the United Brethren church, Tuesday evening, and while a fervent prayer was being offered, she sudden !v became unconscious, since which time she has failed to revive. She was removed to the parsonage, close by, where she still remains in a trance. Base Ball and Religion. Muncie, Ind., May IS. The principal speaker at the banquet of the Presbyterian Brotherhood held here last evening, for which 150 covers were laid, was en Mnlford, Jr., base ball writer. Mulford spoke on "Running Life's Bases." Boys Set Fire to a Gas "Well. Bedford, Ind., May IS. Boys striding a match set fire to the gas well beIn? bored near this city. The flames wrecked the derrick. The well baa reached a depth of 1,100 feet and tho gas gets stronger each day.

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