Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1904 — Page 6

The Secret Dispatch

CHAPTER XXI. Heavy and sad was the heart of Char lie Balgonie when on the evening of the 3fith of September," that which was subsequent to the episode at Schlusselburg, ho saw the denies and towers of St. [Petersburg glittering in gold and bronze, ■n green and fiery or fantastic colors. ■ mid the rich glow of a ruddy sunset, ■nd where rising from the haze of the vast city, the polished cupola of St. Ssaac’s Cathedral, and the slender spire iof the Admiralty, like a needle of flame, ■eemed to float in midair. As he entered the first guarded bar irier he met a party of lancers at a trot, [their tall fur caps having large plumes, their lances each with a long bannerole Waving in the wind. They escorted a covered wagon, and were led by Balhnain, a Scottish officer, who in after years stormed Kaffa. in the Crimea. ‘’Whither go you?” asked Balgonie. ‘‘For Schlusselburg—the palace of sorrow.” “With a prisoner. of course “Yes, I regret to say, with the niece ®f Mierowitz, with Mlle. Mariolizza. She is to be confined under a warrant from the Grand Chancellor —poor girl!” Sadder and heavier grew the honest [heart of Balgonie as the escort and its Ihearse-like carriage passed on, and as he {looked after it the fair, merry face, the [graceful figure, the gay manner of the betrothed of poor Basil, as he had seen >ier at Louga, came back vividly to memory. i Balgonie was at St. Petersburg when Mierowitz was executed, when his father [died, and when other horrors followed. Moreover, he was closely and repeatedly interrogated by the Grand Chancellor, [the Privy Councilor and by Gen. WeyImarn as to all he knew and had seen of mlie conspirators— So closely that nothing surprised him so much as to find that no suspicion was attached to himself. But being a soldier of fortune, who possessed [nothing in the world but his sword and his epaulets, he was not worth suspecting by the imperial government. Ere long the name of Natalie came before the Secret Chancery as . a prisoner Bn Schlusselburg, and, like the rest, she iwas tried and condemned in her absence, (undefended and unheard —and sentenced, poo, amid the solitude of her prison. ■ To Balgonie the charm of life seemed [to have passed away, and during the Nkeek or two that followed his return to [St. Petersburg, dreary, weary and unmeaning indeed seemed the routine of Jlis duties as aide-de-camp at the vast [parades, the brilliant receptions, the ieourts martial, and other public affairs Ito which he followed his chief. Gen. iWeymarn. -at- the palaces of Tsarsky fcelo, or Oranienbaum, and elsewhere, While ignorant of the fate of Natalie —- Iwhile the very life of her he loved hung ibi the balance. . Charlie, in his desperation, applied to Site ambassadors from France and Britain: and both received his verbal prayers; but they were unheeded; and the tmiuisters replied only by bows, grimaces and shrugs of their diplomatic shoulders. Their interference was impossible ■—quite: and. unfortunately, his old patiron, Admiral Thomas Mackenzie, was with the fleet. ' Balgonie, 'returning from CTonstadt, [whither he had been sent by Gen. Weyaiam, suddenly met Captain Vlastier face face to face near the palace of the Ito face near the palace of the favorite Lanskoi. This personage he would have avoided like a toad or a leper: but from him only ■light he learn something of her he loved in Schlusselburg, that hateful place to ■which the captain was returning; so, [overcoming or rather concealing his repugnance, he adjourned with him to a ■use. 1 “I dare say you have heard,” said [Vlasfief, with a strange leer in his eyes, ,as he tossed his hat and saber on the [sofa and deposited his jack-booted limbs jon another, ‘ how the estates of the Mie[rowitz and those of I’sakoff have been told or gifted away; pillaged and raviaged by Lanskoi with a party of Cossacks; and that the plunder has been stored up in Schlusselburg?” “Something of all this I have heard,” geplied Balgonie, “and —and—but you [have there two ladies of the family?” “True—one beautifully fair, the other .'black-haired like a Pole. Poor girls! I jremember them both in happier and brighter times; but those who play with jfiro will, you know, be burned. The sentiences on all have been found, recorded and, in two instances, executed; and they iare truly terrible!” “Executed —the sentence!” replied Bal.gonie, in a faint voicce. , “Yes; ah! he is a stern old fellow, I'anitn!” “How —what? Vlasfief, you jest!” “ ‘Tis no jest; we don’t jest on such Walters in Russia," replied Vlasfief. •"You are a Scot, like Balmain, and as [the Turks say, truly, ‘Those who have [never seen the world think it is all like ■heir father’s house.' In short, the—the [two ladies, in the wildness of their grief I—Mariolizza especially—on. hearing of the death of Mierowitz, permitted their tongues to run riot, and to say such things of her Imperial Majesty and some st the favorites as no womau would parIdon; -so they are to be given in succes|sion to the master of the shoulders." “Explain. I implore you. explain!” asked Balgonie, with quivering lips. “Mademoiselle Mariolizza has received six blows of the knout. The torturer is a new man, and mangled her cruelly. She has had her tongue cut out, and her forehead branded with the executioner's mark, and she goes to Siberia as soon as she recovers; but she will never reach it ■live. The other will undergo exactly ihailar p nisbment, and there ends the muse of Mierowitz, which boasts of its ififrscent from Ruric the Varagian of Old (Ladoga!” ; With wonderful coolness of manner, almost an occasional jest, the cruel and ■Mkellke Vlasfief—who, as a. parvanu M the foundling hospital hated ths heUgdltAry aristocracy -detailed these mattaye; and Balgonie felt as if a black cloud gßvetopod him. He heard the captain t

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talking, but his mind and thoughts were far, far away; and after a time he found himself alone. had mounted and ridden off; and mechanically, like an automaton. Balgonie had bidden him adieu at the portico of the case, as one in a waking dream; nor was it until the bell of St. Isaac’s tolled midnight, when the lights were burned low. and lie saw a drowsy waiter hovering near him, that he rose to depart: for to him, now, all places seemed alikx>. In the street a shower, of tears revived him; and he wept unseen, like a gre.at boy. while grinding his teeth and t wiping his mustache like a furious and desperate man. Russia, her laws, her rulers, her very air, he loathed and detect - cd. But what was he to do?—which way was he to turn?—-was he to permit these horrors and live? He had been present when the Regiment of Smolensk©-guarded the punishment of Mme. Lnpouchm, one of the most beautiful women of the Imperial Court, where she shone like a planet, was loved, admired- and more than once fought for. An alleged conspiracy brought her to the knout, in the light of open day; and Charlie remembered thzt sickening scene, before the eyes of assembled thousands, and how, as the Abbe d’Anterroche records, “in a few moments all the skin of her tender back was cut away in small strips, most of which remained hanging. Her tongue was cut out immediately after, and she was banished into Siberia.”

“Oh, Natalie, Natalie!” he could but repeat, while he wrung his hands; and thus the dawn of day found him. After mature consideration of his position, his powerlessness and the difficulties that beset him. with the horrors impending over Natalie, poor Charlie Balgonie felt maddened, crushed and heart-broken. Could he see her perish without a struggle, an effort, however reckless, fruitless and futile, on her behalf, even if he pistoled the executioner? “Hearts will break in this life,” says a recent writer; “it is the nature of them; but if God wills it; and it wqre possible, itislioncster, braver, and nobler to live than to die.” Most true; but to live is to hope. Balgonie vaguely, but sternly, resolved that he would do something, but being a poor, bewildered, loving young fellow, he could in no way practically se what that something might be. The next day was not far advanced when Balgonie was summoned by Gen. Weymarn, whose staff he had been resolving to quit; but for what purpose, or whither to go, he knew not,. With something of a shudder he beheld the Stepniak—>the comrade and confederate of the late Nicholas Paulovitch —leaving the general’s quarters. Save that he wore the scarlet livery of his new trade —torture and death — he was unchanged, and was the same hideous and ill-visaged giant—with square shoulders, enormous beard, mouselike eyes, hair shorn off straight across the beetle brows, and the pineappleshaped head—whom Balgonie had seen its the hut where the wretched Podatchkiue perished. He was now public executioner of St. Petersburg; under his felon hands had poor Mierowitz and Mariolizza been, and ere long would Natalie- be.

Weymarn was a grave and stern, yet not unkind, old soldier; and on perceiving that his young aid-de-camp looked pale, he spoke to him with unusual kindness, and added: “I am sorry to say that I have a new duty of importance for you to perform.” “Thanks, general; any excitement is 'better than—than idleness.” “True. You will have to ride to Schlusselburg with an escort, composed of six Cossacks of the Imperial Guard, apd bring back the sum of eighty thousand roubles, which are there in canvhs bags, sealed. They have been levied on the estates of Mierowitz. You will receive them' from the officer commanding there; give a signed receipt, and deliver them into the Imperial Treasury.” Balgonie bowed in The general, who, of course, knew well the corrupt venality of the Russian service, added:

“If the sum is brought entire to the treasury, Carl Ivanovitch, a reasonable gratuity will, of course, be paid you.” “Excellency, I require none for doing my duty, either in this or any other matter,” replied Balgonie, even haughtily. “As you please, sir—as you please. Some among us might be less particular,” said the old general, tugging his grisly mustache. “And —stay. By the by, there is a prisoner at Schlusselburg whose sentence is to be executed to-mor-row in presence of the assembled troops and people here ” Balgonie thought of but one prisoner there, and an icy chill came over him as Weymarn said: “With the escort and the wagon. Captain, you will at the same time bring the culprit here.”

“And—and this pris-on-ner. Excellency?” faltered the poor fellow. “Is Jagouskl, the Cossack, who so se-' verely wounded Col. Beroikoff when in th. execution of his duty. 7 An order will be necessary for you—a special order — since the affair of that wretched young fellow Mierowitz we cannot be too particular; so take this: •* . “ ‘To the Dfficer Commanding at Schlusselburg: “ ‘You are hereby directed to deliver t<s Captain Carl Ivanovitch Balgonie, of the Smolensko Regiment, the prisoner who is to be executed to-morrow. “ WEYMARN, Lieut. Gen..’ “For the delivery of the money here is n separate order from the treasurer. Adieu.” CHAPTER XXII. As Balgonie left the presence of Gen. Weysaarn a sndden light broke through the darkness of his miud-jMp-UDloOked-for thought—and. hope suddenly Inspired him afid a prayer of thanks to heaven rose to his lips therefor. No prisoner was actually designated by namein the writt«a order of the general I

Thus in lieu of the Cossack Jagouskl, he would demand that Natalie Mierowna be given into his custody,' and with her he would escape, quit Russia and the service of the Empress at all risks. He had no papers—no leave of absence, or passport; but as the epaulet is an all-powerful badge in Russia, his uniform and his saber would be passports enough. For the rest, he must trust to his own love and courage and to his knowledge of the country. But then there was the Cossack escort —how was he to rid himself of it? The same kind heaven which favored and inspired him now would not fail to Ao so, he hoped, when the crisis came. —While :: his best horse was being saddled and accoutered lie consulted the map of Russia. There was no way for it but to ride,: at al! hazards, toward the frontier of Finland. They would there be safe beyond pursuit—safe among the hospitable Swedes, who are always hostile to the grasping and aggressive Russians.

At last he saw his way clearly, as he thought, through Viborg from Schlusselburg northwestward in safety. He put all the money he possessed about his person, filled his cartridge box with ammunition and buckled on hissabeiv “By this time to morrow,” he muttered, as he glanced at his watch, “the game Will have been won or —lost!” It was considerably past the noon of an October day when they set. out for Schlusselburg, and ere long the rain began to fall heavily, soaking the hussar finery of the Cossacks of the guard; but Charlie Balgonie rode silently on at their head, heedless of the blind torrents and the bellowing wind, though he little knew that as the darkness increased, and the early night drew on, that the waters of the lake and river were rising fast, and that a peril, of which he had no conception, already menaced the existence of Natalie. But her voice seemed to be over whispering in his ear; “Carl, Carl, my beloved Carl, come to my aid —save me —help me, if you love mo!”

When they were midway to Schlusselburg the wagon driver fell awkwardly from his seat, ami broke his right arm. What was to be done now? No Cossack of the guard would condescend to supply his place, and for more.than an hour the party remained halted in a desolate spot, near a pine wood, while looking about to capture the first peasant, serf or civilian of any kind.whom they might meet, and press him into the service. A skulking and somewhat sulky boor, in a fur cap and canvas coat, leather leggings and bark shoes, who had been sleeping under a great tree, was ere long discovered, dragged forward, and, with ■sundry •th reats, —commanded-- to - mouutthe shaft and act as driver, which he did with a reluctance he was at no pains to conceal." Knowing how -necessary it was to conciliate this new acquisition. Balgonie asked him a few questions, with sternness. but yet with politeness. The serf was a singularly handsome young man, with eaglelike eyes rind an aquiline nose, that was almost hooked; he was without his mustache, which seemed to have been recently shaved off; but he had a curly red beard, with a complexion of well-nigh Asiatic darkness: “Trust me, dear Carl Ivanovitch,” said he, in a low and impressive voice, that was strangely familiar to Balgonie. “My disguise. 1 find, is complete indeed, when it deceives even you; but speak in French.” “Your disguise—yours?” “Yes—l am Apollo I’sakoff,” he added through his teeth. (To be continued.)

How to Fold a Letter.

“I see you have lots of applications,” said the advertising manager to the business house manager who had advertised for a typewriter and bookkeeper. “From all over New England,” said the business man, jamming his pockets full. “But what some of the girls who answer are thinking of I can’t imagine. Here is one girl who will come fifty miles to take a place at $5 a week. “Can you tell much as to their qualifications by their letters?” “Can I? Well, rather. For instance, there is the writing; there is the spelling of the words; there is the way the letter is put together; there is even the way the letter is folded. Ever think that letters are folded so as to save time nowadays?” “No,” said the advertising man. “It’s all I can do to get the stamps put on ’em. My stenographer folds ’em all right, I guess. How should it be done?” “Easy enough, simple enough, but folded wrong often enough,” said the business man sententiously. “If your typewriter knows her business she takes tile sheet and folds it up from the bottom toward the top, leaving the proper width for the envelope, then over from right to left and from left to right—so. Then when your letter is opened it is right side up. See?” “I see,” murmured the advertising man. “And how many applicants fold their letters that way?” “Oh, three or four out of a dozen, perhaps. Quite a commentary on business as she is taught, eh?” remarked the business man as he strolled away. —Springfield Republican.

Failed in an Emergency.

The man who said he did not see what good Ids life insurance would do him until he was dead must have been a hopeless object for the suave attack of the agent. Like him is the farmer of a Flfeshlre village of whom V. C. tells. He had been advised from time to time to insure his house against tire. The agent, Sandy M’Lery, could never get the old than to listen to the familiar argument that “his house would never gang on Are.” The unexpected happened, however, and the neighbors were astonished when the old man instead of trying to save his goods, ran wildly up and down the village, crying: “Whaur’s that mon, Sandy, noo? Whaur’s that Insurance chlel? Ye can never get a body when ye’re needin’ him." __ Pawning an engagement ring la a pledge of love.

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

One Hundred Years Ago. Bonaparte demanded from Denmark the exclusion of British ships from the Baltic and all Danish porta. A general massacre of all whites began at Cape Francois, Hayti. Heavy re-enforcements of regular troops arrived at the Spanish colonies in Florida. Four frigates and ninety officers were ordered to re-enforce Commodore Prebles’ squadron in the Mediterranean. The King of Spain issued an order that no French or English prizes were to be brought into any port in his dominions. Makey, a rebellious Malay settlement on the coast of Sumatra, was destroyed by English troops. Seventy-five Years Ago. Europe was suffering from great depression in agriculture, commerce and manufactures, the wine districts of France presenting the greatest distress. The House of Representatives rejected a bill for the construction of a national road from Buffalo to New Orleans. The Russian minister and all members of his staff at Teheran, Persia, were assassinated. ' The British fUade an attempt to secure from Germany an agreement for the free navigation of the Rhine. Paris fashion papers reported that the sleeves of ladies’ dresses were being made of ‘‘frightful breadth.” The Catholic relief bill, after a long discussion, was passed -by the British Parliament Fifty Years Ago. Cyrus W. Field secured from the Legtelftture of Newfoundland the exclusive fifty years’ right to land a marine telegraph cable. The steamboat Secretary of San Francisco, while crossing San Pueblo bay, was sunk, with fifty passengers, by a boiler explosion. x A revolution started at Bogota, New Granada, in an outbreak of the garrison, which arrested the President and proclaimed Gen. Milo dictator. Four hundred Chinese coolies arrived at Havana, Cuba, as an experiment in the development of the island’s plantations. Spain concluded a loan of $2,000,000, offering the revenues of the Philippines as security.

Forty Years Ago. Gold reached 187 in New York, but slumped at the close on a rumor that Secretary of the Treasury Chase was manipulating the sterling exchange market against the bull clique. The Chicago Tribune sprung a political sensation on the eve of the city election by exposing a long list of citizens who secured exemption from the draft by taking out papers as British subjects. The courts of London, Rome, Vienna, Berlin and St. Petersburg agreed to recognize the Emperor Maximilian when France should place him on the throne in Mexico. A new war tax bill was reported in the House at Washington, fixing the rate on whisky at $1 a gallon, on salt at 0 cents a pound, and on tobacco at 30 cents a pound. Thirty Years Ago. Forty-eight saloon men were indicted at Rock Island as part of the great temperance wave that was sweeping the country. Gov. Baxter of Arkansas was forcibly ousted from office by Joseph Brookq, whom the Legislature declared to have been elected. Gov. Baxter then issued a proclamation declaring he would seize the capitol pudding by force and oust “Gov.” iffboks, who he claimed had usurped his office. At the annual meeting of the Chicago Presbytery, Prof. Francis L. Patton filed charges of heresy against the Rev. David Swing. A plebiscite was taken in Switzerland on the proposhi to revise the federal constitutional. Twenty Years Ago. A negro was burned nt the tsake nt Lyons, Texas, for the suspected murder of a white woman. Planters in South Carolinn and adjoining States were renorted starving as a result of the prolonged drought. ( The Indiana Republican State convention met nt Indianapolis, with the delegates said to be unanimous for Blaine for President. Richard J. Oglesby was nominated for Governor by the Illinois Republican State convention at Peoria. The funeral of Charles Reade, the novelist, was held at Willesden, England, Edwin Arnold and George A, Sala being among the literary personages present Ten Years Ago. Gov. Roswell P. Flower of New York was accused of violating the civil service law and an investigation was started at the instance of Carl Schur*. President Cleveland was accused of showing unseemly friendship for Andrew Carnegie by reducing a fine assessed against him for armor plate frauds and preventing a further investigation. Kelly’s industrial “army," 1,800 strong, crossed the Missouri river at Council Bluffs and encamped ia*lwwa.

The Value of Latin.

This story, told at an education meeting In London the other night, may perhaps be enjoyed by these who are antagonistic to the teaching of the “dead languages.” At a certain school a certain boy was regularly absent during the hour in which Latin was taught, and the tdacher called upon the boy’s father, at whose instructions, it had been learned, the lad kept away. The teacher asked for an explanation, and the father said: “It is all right. During the Latin hour I am teaching Jimmy something that he will find far more useful than Latin in his progress through life.” The teacher was Interested, and asked what this subject might be. The father replied, “I am teaching my son how to shave without a looking glass.”

“Sound as a Dollar.”

Monticello, Minn., April 25.—Mr. J. W. Moore of this place stands as a living proof of the fact that Bright’s Disease, even in the last stages, may be perfectly and permanently cured. Mr. Moore says: “In 1898, three reputable physicians after a careful examination told me that I would die with Bright’s Disease Inside of a year.. My ! feet and ankles and legs were badly swollen; I could hardly stand on my feet and had given up all hopes of getting cured, when a traveling salesman told me that he himself had been cured of Bright's Disease two years before. “He said he had taken to his bed and expected to die with It, but that he had been cured by a remedy called Dodd's Kidney Pills. “I commenced taking them at once and I am thankful to say that they saved my life. After a short treatment, I was completely restored to good health and I am as sound as a dollar.”

FUTURE OF THE AUTO BOAT.

Device May Yet Lead to a Revolution in Yachting Sport. The landsman who is not a motor crank has been somewhat puzzled to understand the furor over automobile boats and why they are called such and not fast launches. These speedy craft, however, are in a class by themselves, and their introduction may cause a revolution In small boats for pastime and water communication, similar to the effects of the automobile on the use of horseless vehicles. The automobile boat 1 s merely an automobile engine in a hull modeled for high rpeed. The advantage over steam and naphtha launches have begun to be hinted at In the trials already made at home and abroad. In a contest on the Seine the winning boat maintained an average speed of twenty-five miles an 2our and faster times have been made over shorter courses. The first njatch race in this country had as a competitor a motor boat that had covered a measured mile in two minutes and twenty-six seconds. Yachts capable of such high speed are of huge cost, operated by picked crews, and have been comparable with the latest designs of torpedo craft. The automobile boat Is nothing more than a thirty-foot launch, weighing, with Its engine, less than 8J) pounds, but capable of developing more than twenty horse power. A yacht or torpedo-boat capable of a speed of twenty-five miles an hour measures its horse power by thousands. The motor boat is handled and steered by one man, who controls rudder and engines just as he controls his automobile. These craft made a sensation in England and France before they attracted much attention in this country, but the coming season Will see lively racing on local waters and a big boom in the demand for these handy little boats, whose speed and ease of handling are wholly new in small craft. —Illustrated Sporting News.

HAS A SAY.

The School Principal Talks About Food, The Principal of a High School in a flourishing California city says: “For 23 years I worked in the school with pnly short summer vacations. I formed the habit of eating rapidly, masticated poorly, which coupled with my sedentary work led to Indigestion, liver trouble, lame back and rheuma* tism. “Upon consulting physicians some doped me'with drugn, while others prescribed dieting and sometimes I got temporary relief, other times not. For 12 years I struggled along with this handicap to my work, seldom laid up, but often a burden to myself with lameness and rheumatic pains. “Two years ago I met an old friend, a physician who noticed at once my out-of-health condition and who prescribed for me an exclusive diet of Grape-Nuts, milk and fruit. “I followed his instructions and in two months I felt like a new man with no more headaches, rheumatism or liver trouble and from that time to this Grape-Nuts has been my main food for morning and evening meals, am stronger and healthier than I have been for years without a trace of the old troubles. “Judging from my present vigorous physical and mental state, I tell my people Methuselah may yet have to take second place among the old men, for I feel like I Will live a great many more years. “To all <hls remarkable change in health I am indebted to my wise friend and Grape-Nuts and I hope the I’ostum )Co. will continue to manufacture this life and health giving centuries yet, until I mv .e to a world where indigestion is unknown." Name given by Postum Go., Battle Creek, Mich. Ask any physician what he knows ■bout Grape-Nuts. Those who have tried It know things. “There’s a reason.** Look in each pkg. for the famous little book, “The Road to Wellville."

A Scheme for Comfort.

Friend —Why are you so enthusiasts on the subject of women’s suffrage? > Mr. Nojoy—The elections always come in the spring and fall, don’t they? “Certainly.” “Well, get ’em Interested in the campaigns,- and they’ll forget about house cleaning.” e

A Genuine Hair Grower.

A doctor-chemist In the Altenhelm Medical bispensary, 1907 Foso Build, ing, Cincinnati, Ohio, has discovered what proves to be a positive hair grower. This will be welcome news to the thousands afflicted with bald heads as well as those whose hair is scanty and falling out. The announcement of the doctor-chemist in another column of this paper explains more fully what this new discovery for the hair can do. A trial package can be had free by enclosing a 2-cent stamp to Altenhelm Medical Dispensary, 1907 Foso Kuilding, Cincinnati, Ohio. «|

Still Unsettled.

Fred —Were you at the wedding of young Softun and Miss Leaderer? Joe-*-Yes; it was quite a swell affair. Fred —Who was the best man? Joe—As the honeymoon Isn’t over, I hardly think it is settled yet.

Malaria.

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Forgetful.

“Will you erect a monument to your husband’s memory?” “Why, he had no memory. I never saw such an absent-minded man as he was.”—New York Daily News.

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