Evening Star Newspaper, December 29, 1888, Page 7

‘CIFIC RUSS! A Visit to Her Famous Stronghold in Tartary. rue EASTERN WATERS—YLADIVOSTOK AND ITS [SHASITASTS—A TOWN UNDER COMPLETE scUTART CONTNOL—RUSSIAN METHODS AXD aaoCLATIONS, yom Tar Stan's Traveling Commissioner Viaprvostox, Oct, 6, 1888, sian government and the geographi- on of Russian Tartary have sueceeded keeping this place well out of and 10,000 miles nearer to it in you little or no nearer to it in the journey is easy enough to yhama the Yokohama Mara, ficent steamers of the great ship line, the Nippon Yusen 2 southward along the coast to casantest foreign settlement in to Shimonoseki, famous for its rdment in 1965; then through sea, ranking high among the “show east; drops you at Nagasaki, t hours later it is in Shanghai, « to Nagasaki is 692 miles: livostok is 659 more, and the iho Maru is lying at anchor, waiting rthwards. At noon next day the teams out into the Korean strai » the ably being that England did very b to take them and to give them up; the following afternoon, she drops the treaty port and Japanese on the SOUTH COAST OF KOREA. yme @ revelation of head-gear among robed Koreans, a chat with the com- nissioner of customs (in the Chinese service, and an afternoon with a hammer- . resulting in brace of a suipe, and.a small deer; and off or twenty-four hours we steam alon; lesolate, and forbidding coast, an yext morning the anchor again in the splendid harbor of Gensan, the western treat port. alongside the big white French ironclad, the faship Turenne. Soon a smart petty omes up the gangway, bearing a cour- tous invitation to Captain Walker and myself dine with “M. le Contre-Amiral Layrle, nt en chef la division navale de Orient,” and that night on board the Turenne a dozen merry guests, all very far from home, the flashing of many wax candles over silver plate and glittering glass, the skill of a decorated French cook, oid the witchery of rare urgundy, and the strains of Offenbach all combine to dispel the thought ing off the uninhabited Port Laza- reff, in the wild and lonely seas of the Hermit land. Butat midnight the anchor is heaved agam, and at daylight next day but one the helm is suddenly put over to starboard, the nan in the chains takes up his monotonous sweep round into the harbor of ok—the proudly named OSSESSION OF THE East.” An old-fashioned theologian would say that Providence had intended this place to be made The harbor is shaped, speaking like « plain letter L standing on its us: P. It has two entrances, one at the st corner, the other in the middle of side, both netrow deep-water chan- latter indeed being only a few bun- eet wide. As we steam straight north up eg of the f. we notice first an exten- on the right, then several large ba: n succession, and ass through’ ring between Capes Novosilsky and nd leave the western entrance on The hills around are densely wooded defenses visible so far have been © earth-works building on our right, is of bricks for them lying on the low. Now, however, as the ship oldobin we discover a large two- -y from which nine black muzzles wn on us. Soon after passing Fort asharp turn to the right, almost at ie. brings us into the harbor, which * out due east in a straight line miles long and half a mile wide. ern Bosphorus and the “Golden Horn” of the Pacific, THE TOWN OF VLADIvosTOK nearly the entire length of the north f the harbor, and in configuration it rather resembles St. John’s, Newfoundland, the houses beginning gradually thinning out atthe water's edge and ‘as the ‘hills behind pe anchorage is so admirable that Takachiho, a vessel 327 feet long. lies throw of the wharves, and the anchorage existe all round. Directly in t after we have anchored, are three 1 streets constituting the Chinese zaar. Ou our left is the Chi nd Korean of wooden shanties; behind us are five oF x blocks of fine brick buildings forming the r barracks, while straight away ahead is treet soon disappearing over the hill, after a while the great Siberian T eet runs parallel with # are the chief stores ae houses. A quarter of ar right is the governor's din a square mass of fol gardens where the band plays and the society of Vladivostok comes i to gossip. Further on, al: {the street, is the vernor’s official headquarters, a large. ome building. and farther still, ‘a mile oF trom where we lie, a tall chimney marks tion of the *“Port,” as the Russians call or more of storehouses and machine ing the navy-vard or arsenal. This the shore for a quarter of a mile, Jo boats and small ships of the sberien squadron lie alongside, with a confis- n fishing-sloop, whil ~ and gunboats are anchored a little farther ) the opposite shore of the harbor there | ings of any kind, except an iron dee oods here and there, ably on account of inflammab! ontents. On the summits of the behind the town are twostations ateh. THE MILITARY GOVERNOR. The chief hotel of Viadivostok is at » pastry- cook's shop. so Tremained in my comfortable arters on board, andafter breakfast I went on present my semi-official introduction— looking document a» foot square assian eagle on the back—to the . Rear Admiral Ermolaie cy received me with the utmost . bat his efforts toconceal his vast sur- rise at my visit were invain. He the ne—then he looked at me; then read it again and looked again. “Yes,” he 1, timally, “anything I can do for you, of rse, but what on earth do you want to see at ‘adivostok?” I modestly replied that, with his "s permission, I wanted to see every- But what?” As I had only been an a the place, however, I was not in a on to specify my desires’ in detail. “But ut shall Ido?” To dictate to a Russian ‘overnor was naturally repugnant to Admiral Ermolaiew's French—the in which we could communi- jimentary character, the con- : hing an embar- Suddenly, with an explo- b!” the governor sprang from his chair disappeared, returning in a minute with « most attractive and energetic lad nig even at that early hour of the mo: Madame Ermolaiew spoke French like a With the native tact of a Rus- raightened matters in a moment, minutes later I was bowed out between of the blue-jacket and the sentry, ernor’s card in my pocket bearing permission to go anywhere and see hing, and with an appointment tp an cer the next moruing at eleven Who would act as a cicerone. A MILITARY TOWN. Vladivostok is a purely military town. The Place os just Russia's one stronghold and naval base on the Pacific, and nothing else. Its im- Ports consist of the supplies for the military fod naval population and those who minister te them; its only export at present is a little | feaweed. Two other industries might be de- Yeloped here, however, and these are well the attention of energetic men with some Siberia contains vast forests of the ad largest timber, and a very im} it trade in this could easily be cultivated. i in sup- ng themselves with fresh meat. are jivotted regularly from Korea, but the supply and uncertain, while Siberia is prob- ably as well suite: L- : cattle ) din man; Falsing an Western Canada. "helices, srone would ma- over, that the Russian authorities ferially help the right man to ‘The population Vilians, ; civilians, $00; Chinese, 5,000; Koreans, 4 Fgpt 2600; blue-jackets ashore, 720; ‘THE CHEESE AND KORMANS are under very strict regulations, being allowed to reside in their own prod eap Pa found in the street after nine O'clock at night Spy Tested and locked up. Thiewas found neces- Bese bi | iat there ‘has The stores employ many Chinese, the; trolled all night by Chinese watchmen, only domestic servants are opens, and lea y mostly for Chefoo, in the late autumn, it closes. There has been some talk about putting a prohibitory tax upon poor John Chinaman here too, but it will to noth- ing; he is nsable. = SOCIETY AND sPoRT. Life in this corner of Russian Tartary is lively enough, especially in winter. Commu- nication with the outside world is easy by mail and Core Letters come by sea (very few g0 overland) from San Prancisce in four weeks, and tele; 8 to European Russia are ridicu- cheap. During the summer there are stant festivities attending the arrival of eign men-of-war. All the Russian officers, too, are fond of society, and there is a first- rate band. In winter it is, of course, dread- fully cold, and a frozen stick of milk is left at the door in the morning, and the beef is kept frozen in a tuband cut out as wanted. But from Christmas onwards for a couple of months, Tam told there is a ceaseless round of social gayety. Excellent pheasant and duck-shootin; is to be had over the surrounding ba: hills; large deer abound in an island a day's Sail to the south; while the famous thick-coated northern tigers are to be found by seeking. One of the traditions of Vladivostok, and a true one, too, tells how a young fellow named Chudjakow Was out shooting one day when atiger met him, He fired and killed it. Scarcely had it fallen, however, when a second walked out of the woods. He fired again, hitting thisone, which turned tail and disap A moment later tiger appeared again from the same place. He fired for the third time, supposing this to be the same animal, and wounded it slightly. Before he could reload, however, it was a him and he was fighting it for ‘his life. His rifle was useless, and he had only a long hunt- ing-knife. As he didnot return at night his father and friends organized a secrch-party, and at last found him unconscious between the Binrs of the dead tiger. A little off lay the body of the first, and just inside the wood they found the second, which had died of its wounds. The days are gone by when the houses at Vladivostok were barricaded against the great cats, which used to come into the back yards at night and revel in the family slops put for them, and when men did not ven- ture out after dark except five or six together, all armed; but I have seen one of the ers thus shot by Chudjakow, and a ge the young man himeelf and the three UNDER MILITARY RULE. Everything in Viadivostok is made subservi- ent to military interests, and there is no pre- tense to the contrary. The mayor is merely the vehicle of the governor's will. Th borhood of every fortified point guarded Laan whom no civilian ever e local weekly newspaper, the Vindivostok, with n circulation of copies, is edited (excellently so far as Cs seep eth- nological, and other non-contentious informa- tion is concerned) by a member of the staff, and the governor himself is the censor. In re- turn this, however, it receives an official subsidy of 2,000 roubles a year. The police, who know everything that passes and the movements of everyone, resident or stranger, are of course the governor's pawns, under the command of @ military officer. No foreign consuls are allowed to reside at Vladivostok, the only foreign representative being Mr. Ter- ami, called the —- commissioner Most foreign newspapers forbidden, as in Europesn Russia, And inquisitiveness or gossip on the part of the foreign population about local, naval or mili- tary affairs is sternly discouraged, and tres- passers against this unwritten law soon learn Very distinctly that they will be more comfort- able if they obey it. The Russian officers that I met and talked with told me, of course, just as little as they liked, and the sources of infor- mation were therefore distressingly conspicu- ous by their absence. I was immediately told that I could not not i t the batteries or fortifications from within—a permission I should never have dreamed of asking, but sev- eral places where no Englishmen had ever been before—the whole of the navy-yard and arsenal, for instance—were thrown open to me; the governor's card took me almost everywhere; Theda written permission to take photographs’ with certain specified exceptions—a permission command ofa Russian official's by six lusty Russian bluejackets, and with a Russian rear-admiral’s flag trailing benind me, itstruck me asa decidedly unique ition for an English journalist, and as an teresting commentary upon the suspicion and exclusiveness and unfriendliness that are 80 freely attributed to the Russians by our own. people and press. * in my next letter I will try to answer the question, “Is Russia impregnable on the Pa- cific?” in the light of the new and striking facts Thave discovered, Henry Nonmax, gebtecan ant BRGSeee say The Haytian Indemnity. IT 18 NOT LIKELY THIS GOVERNMENT WILL DE- MAND TWO MILLIONS, ‘The New York Mail and Express Thursday announced, in a dispatch from its correspondent at Port-au-Prince, that the U. 8. government would demand $2,250,000 indemnity from the Haytian government —_ for the seizure of =the ~—-Haytien Republic. The owner demanded $230, 000, the dispatch read, and the gov- ernment wanted £2,000,000. This state- ment caused much asement at the State Department, where it was learned to-day that Mr. Morse, the owner of the vessel, had requested ‘the department to demand $250,000 indemnity, and in reply he was told that he had better wait until the vessel reached New York, when a judicious estimate of the damage suf- fered could be made. Until then. the de- him, it would be matter, AS opinion “was ex- it is generally thought been a typographical error whereby the two figures have been con- founded, and that the dispatch should have read that the Government would demand $250,000, the owner's indemnit Hed oo. Rest. Weary of the weary way We have come from yesterday, Let us fret not, instead (Of the weary way ahead ‘Lot us pause and catch our breath On the hither side of death, While we see the tender shoots (Of the grasses—not the roots. ‘While we yet look down—not up— To seek out the buttercup And the daisy, where they wave G'er the green home of the grave. Let us launch as smoothly on Listes of the lawn, And drift out across the main: our dreams again. Yoyage off, beneath the trees, O'er the field's enchanted seas Where the lilies are our sails, And the seagulls, ingales. of the plaintiff, Mra. Eveline B. Smith, of Woodstock, Vt, who broughtsuit torecover her UP A LADDER, In spite of all that is said concerning time- hallowed customs of Christmas as they are cel- ebrated in our native land, there are many thousands of persons who basely agree in look- ing upon the ancient festival as a disturbing and uprooting of their daily habits, if not in the actual light of an unmitigated nuisance. This is, no doubt, very wrong, and not at all what should be expected of us as members of a community, and yet so, alas, it un- it, im the offices of that | august institution, the foreign office, to whom the blessed season which poets and moralists have alike immortalised appeared to be too severe a trial tobe endured in the accustomed fashion. And becausé he was young, and there- fore both obstinate and selfish, as many yor Fsons are wont be, he made up his mind thei e would not do as others of his kind did, and as he himself had hithefo been accustomed to do—i. e., return to the bosom of his expect- aut family for the Christmas vacation—but yrould shut himself up in his London lodgings for the four days of enforced idleness, read y low French novels. smoke innumerable pipes, | my go to the pantomime on boxing night, and dine in peace and solitary grandeur off roast mut- ton and deviled kidneys (if so he listed) every night of the festive season, at his club. rnest Redforth, such ‘was this miguided youth’s name (he was only two-and-twenty years of age, or he might have known better than to have flown thus into the face of de- corum and propriety), was so convinced of the racticability as well as the wisdom of this resolution, that, when the jovial festival drew appreciably near, he sat down and wrote to his oldmother in Hampshire, snd informed her that he was going tostay in town for Christ- mas this year. “For what is the good of going home to be insufferably bored!” he argued with himself, as he folded up and directed his lettor with a gay 4 jaunt: 1 The governor is always as 8, mater has r ‘8 tticoats om the brain, jecorating and flirting urate from morning {ill night, this frost won't give for a month, 80 no chance of a day's hunting, and now the governor has let all the shooting there's not a single thing a fel- low can do. I should only moon about and i If in town, and out of all the hum- bug that goes on about merry Christmases and family effusion! I'll stop where I am.” But he reckoned without his host. By re- turn of post came such a pile of letters as he had never received before in one day from the parental roof. They were pitched in every possible and conceivable key. Anger, rée- roach, atresty! ‘Everything that was Pom le to be sai ‘ne upon r was poures forth uy him by hie sotlied ‘relatives How could he be so heartless and unnatural? they wrote. How desert them thus cruelly at the one time of all the year which it most behooves all families to cling together? What would their Christmas be without him?—a yawning blank! What might not have happened to scatter the family between this Christmas and the next?— who could tell! How would he feel if his aged mts were to be by then mouldering in Ritaily vault?—the most harrowing repentance! Would he ever be able to forgive himself again? &c., &e., &c. And so the end of it was that poor Ernest had to give up his little dream of peace and pleasantness, and to knock under, as many a better man has done before him, to the exigencies of that British juggernaut of fate to which most of us are doomed more or less to succumb—the Christmas family gather- groaned a good deal over his defeat, but when the day arrived he packed his portman. teau, putting up the presentshe had thought himself bound to come armed with—a pate de foie gras for his father, a sealskin bag for his mother, and sundry lesser gifts for his sisters— upon which, he told himself, he need never have spent his hard-earned money unless ithad been this cruel, exacting, all-absorbing season; and he went down meekly and in profoundest melancholy by an afternoon train to the small station of Fossett in Hampshire. Now this is not a tale with a moral intended to extol ue and to villify any departure from the beaten tracks of duty and of goodness; very far from it. And yet in regard to what befell Ernest Redforth ‘in consequence of dutiful arrival among his affectionate relatio upon that particular Christmas, a moral might very well be drawn that would fitly serve as an i e to all other light-minded gentlemen such as he to do what is considered the right thing upon the 25th of December, rather than that which in the bottom of their unregenerate hearts they prefer to do. There was nothing new or out of the com- going on at Fossett Hall when the only son and heir of the house made his appearance at the front door of it. His mother, as he had foreseen, was cutting out coarse flannel into shirts and petticoats and tring them up into bundles for her pet poor people; his father a eared in the doorway of his study with a hand- of bills in his left hand, and in his face a re- tion of the consternation with which he has been docketing and anditing the family ex- i and presently his sisters. little rab-colored women, who had outgrown their youth, but were still called “the girls” by force of habit, came in from the church hard with stained hands smelling of laurel leaves and torn with holly thorns, to welcome him. They were all very glad to see him, and made an affectionate fuss over him, as good parents and sisters are wont to do over the nice-looking son of the house, and they magnanimously forborp to cast it in his teeth that he had not wanted to come, which was to say the least, highly creditable to them. But when the little fass had sub ide | and bis father had gone back to his bills, mother to her flannel, and_his sisters to their church decorations, then Ernest began to feel that he had nothing on earth to do at home, and that he really would have been much happier by himself up in town, ‘ossett Hall was a comfortable old house, but there were no evidences of wealth about it. In these days squires are not rich men, and Mr. Redforth had hard work to keep up his Property at all upon failing rents and bad har- vests. He had let off all the shooting, and had had to take many of the farms at a great loss into his own hands. There were no horses to speak of in the large roomy stables where Ern— betook himself with a soon after his al; only the two f ¢ horses, the Pony that went to the statior ‘old hunter which didall sorts of odd jobs, and had only not been sold because he was ‘very old, and what is called “dickey” ‘upon his for had been blistered and fired, and was slightly touched in the wind into the bargain. He had beem a fine horse once, and could do an easy day after the hounds now and again still, but the frost was a foot deep in the ground now, and no chance even of this solace for our friend Ernest. Presently, for want of something to do, he strolled down to the church, thinking he would see how his sisters were getting on, and whether Ellen, the youngest and most 'com- Paniousble of the three, would feel disposed to leave her pious labor and come for a little walk with him instead, He walked in at the opep church door un- noticed. It was an ugly whitewashed struct- ure, with heavy galleries running between the round Norman pillars, and great dark oaken beams, stained and blackened with age, reach- ing across the roof. A church ‘that might with eare and money have been restored into some- thing handsome and interesting. but in its ne- glected condition was marvel of unmitigated ugliness, At present it ately untidy. Great heaps of evergreens obstructed the aisle, trails of half-inuhed wreaths, yards of searlet flannel fecked with gotton wool texts, imperfectly put together, y berries gummed into sacred devices, long. Passages wildest confusion in most of the addition, there were no less than four erected in different parts of the “sacred edifice,’ upon which four petticonted beings were ropes means subdued or revential, A the ‘empty church, which, in i He fae i F THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURD. i i i i n es it 3 ‘sold without mit or re- ce. i ‘of all kinda bat’ DECEMBER ‘the entire stock is Closed 476 Pennsylvania sven: SAMSTAG & CO. RT STUDENTS Ractione 317 F et. very remarkable thii remarkable effect on AVENUE NORTHWEST B14 L treet ne, INSTRUCTION THOR: as. irits straightway took of adventure, and a into the irits straightwa ves very much at hom he had been hunting for all gift, slipped upon thi watch ‘was reposing safely at this very moment, What happened during the course of that ity | eventful dinner Ernest never afterward could recollect. Whether turkeys and plum pudding by ‘or cold mutton he could not have tasted— it friends were drunk, POWDER Absolutely Pure. ilies NSTRUCTION EN LATIN avd desired. “Addivae Mrs Monsi @28ate ROBERT W. NORRIS, USTERS: SALE OF WELLING HOUs! UE, OPPOSITE, T: Fork GnouNDa SCHOOL, NEAR Cee This trae with multit Eero SOMPORTABLE FRA Ti A’ imply picked up the -_ When he got near the top he came upon soft woollen skitt and found himeelf in close imity to an oval face, which seeme in by line of dazzling white. He could not see her features, for it was much darker amongst the wooden rafters even than it was below, but he could seo that narrow line of white that seemed to make a setting to the ywy face above him. What was she? A hospital nurse in the reg- ulation cap? or a charity girl in a cottage bon- net? He was certain that she was neither! He was certain that she was a lady, not only by the silvery voice that had spo- he was near her, by a cer- UNE: select schoul for he 3 wept, or whether or as usual, expressed their dosire shortly united to certainty unto this did happen was that over ears in love with that he neither ate speak of—that he saw no! face, and was conscious of the silver ring of her He kept his secret well, end lay for many days snug and safe in his coat pocket, For four consecutive Sundays did the infatuated youth run down to Ham tothe unfeigned surprise of his parent the amusement of his more gh and each Sunday |ALISTHENIO8—LIN town, on Tuesdays hea SES SVS ME YeBSon sea, 1100-1104-1116 M STREET AND 1128 11TH STRENE Pounorss ASP RAY PORT Roe oom (3 is > LJ Sees Miss E* good Temi ‘cloud of obscurity and un- le one thing that | drank ng to Univ., Parts "Private modern lancuages sweet tones of the ken, but also not tain subtle and aroma near the odor of lillies and roses about the per- of s woman who is young and re Nicatotyepr close to her he into her outstretched hand, an & movement as though he would scended, when the voice above again; this time ne “Don’t go, Mr. Fer to say to you.” oe. waist- ‘days frow the day to resell the prop then he made hat time never a word the diamond ring which she hadso impulsively e wrong man. Per! ever, she had her suspicions; anyhow One day she suddenly said to him: “T have lost a diamond ring, Mr. Redforth.” Ernest colored up to the ‘undeed?” very politely. in . viet’ T hove healing Ernest ought of course to have spoken up at this juncture, but the threo spirits afore mon- 1103 in_holdi high Fenld nothing at all ket bestowed upon tioned being still em; jinks within him, he ‘stopped where he was, “Do you know, Ihave thought a deol aboat what you ‘said to me ‘ink you were pei she paused, roots of his hair. “Pray when did sisters with the e church searched? fenton, the curate, Mrs. Lei ty of Washington, Dieter pt “When I was helping church decorations just be don’t you ask Mr. n their eyes met suddenly, “I once had a diamond ring given tome,” be- gan the young man hesita and something mysteriously out of was a reward for savii ‘was | @ consolation for—"” “Oh, what ashame! What a shame of you!” up and trying to Knew it was you!” : thorotch Yeas classee also towooal. Tots muibered 3s i - Yesterday, and I rumberet S67 to stl, inclu and ‘lots nunitere 27 to S34, inclusive, of ‘of Unionto some answer was expected of him, and re- alizing that whether it were for good or for evil he could not now retire from th ion, murmured in a choke: the tones were almost “Do you think so?” “Yes, Ido really. But I don’t want youto think more of my words than I mean. quite right of you to tell me some good in the worl my mind I will do so. the sick—or—or do an; uggest to me to be useful. I all to deny your right a8. clei out this to ine when I told marry you. I was sorry I spoke 80 be other ways of doing marriage, even with a clery Cines om budio, S21 11th n.w. ASHINGTON SCHOOL 908 M stn, ‘recor ‘of $200 will be reqi ing & lady's life and also as not complies Sie ‘in tet have made up will visit. the poor or oried Mrs, Leigh jumpi thatch it out of his hand er He got up and heldit high above hi ing to have it,” given to Mr, Fenton.” “Confound Fenton’s impudence! How dare he ask such a woman as you to marry him!” Mrs. Leigh sat down er downcast face. shouldn’t he, shouldn’t any man ask is nothing again not marry again‘ “Do you mean that?” cried the uroualy falling down upon his VALUABLE IMPROVED jd notmean at te ttn “It was given to me. “It was not, It ws Queen Anne Cologne is sold in bulk at $1 per pint; also in handsome half-pint and pint bottles at 60c. ‘and 81, respectively. Select your goods now while the stock is unbroken. ‘Later many of these goods will be closed out. af the time, but Iam Tam sure there must im the world than A tiny smile f @ beautiful blush ied himself at the i thre me to marry him; a= is there—that I should Columbia, designat fy am parte of orci twelve (12). ip. sa formation Cy the courses: ty Is tor —ys nad i Py eA) i} aber handed, saber hae ‘ Eber dey Gentes le nic err at seventy-five (75) feet, thence west fifty-two (52) feet and one-half (33) inc! thence S50) inches to the four two-story brick sire now was to run away. dare Goods delivered to all parts of the city. dared not disclose himself; he ocz3-tu,th&s,3m to's as they glittered in the light of the dle far away in the distant chancel. He dared not utter a sound indeed, so fearful was he of betraying himself to Me. poor be Trent ive you another \d'one, in exchange for this?- you could be a wife?—or if you'd wait a year or two till I Unrrecevesren Arraactios: OVER A MILLION DISTRIBUTED, Fenton's -love! ‘ish to listen to any seed the LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COMPANY. tpouring of heart, and yet how on ‘the Py aoe alae by an overwhelming popular vote. z\ Semi-An- Its MAMMOTH DR: NGS Pasty ss each of the ‘2ald subject to certain in of and “There's no occasion to wait, I have gained my lawsuit, Ernest. The letter from the lawyers came this morning.” ‘What has that to do with me?” ‘Everything; since it gives me three thou- if you think that it won't be grief to inflict upon poor Mr. Fen- never finished the sentence—nor ever got back her diamond ring till she wore it in Fossett church as a guard to another one on her wedding day. That is why Ernest Red- forth never regreted having gone home for Christinas,—From London Sociel tm 1968 for Fu ioe Farrag sah te He went down two rungs of the ladder, and then the voice ‘of the angel arrested him once she said, and he waited obediently. ‘ing in the ring of that voice that began to produce odd effects upon him; he crept up the ladder ag of perfume in the very atmosphere that sur- She bent toward him and he P- | could almost have touched the dusky locks of She was young and she was beautiful. He could not see it, but he could ‘There was some! in. There was a wi a6 the Academy FAMED FOR TWENTY YEARS, FOR INTEGRITY OF ITS DRAWINGS, AND PROMPT PAYMENT OF PRIZES, oo Attested as follows: iat reepar 5 kertery Company, and conducted with honesty. fairnes eertifteate. ith Fac-simules Qf our sig- advertisements.” Tenmasiain, b iabed 1888." WOOD'S Mae ‘COMMERCIAL — COLLEGE, ‘School of ‘Te her scented hair. O%, Tru 462 Lowiniana avi “I have something I wanted to give you. You have been kind to me in a place where I was a stranger—and—I fear [ have not treated you very well, and I wanted you to keep thi 4 little remembrance of me. because I have been in the h and because I think you will like it all the better for that. How darl a bit; hold out your hand.” And then a terrible thing hay the ladder with its double wei shifted, or whether the lady reached out too far and overbalanced herself, it will never But of a sudden there was crash and a cry, and down came that ladder reat thump, while the two een at the top of it re- mained suspended, struggling, clinging on to the fortunately very which was fastened to the beam above their PRADO’S VARIED CAREER. Igive it to you Something About the Criminal Who Was bit of wearing it, Guiliotined in Paris Yesterday. M feet six (6) inches front four (4), in Davidson's eubdivi aud sixty-eight (0: D.C., with the impror Prado, as the murderer who was guillotined in Paris yesterday called himself, had a most remarkable career of crime, extending all over the world, All efforts to identify the adven- is now believed he was a iard or a Mexican. He made a great ado about “the secret of his birth,” and is said to have claimed to have been a natural son of Napoleon III and induced many to believe him, At other times he said he was a brother-in-law of President Diaz, of Mexico, but this story was easily disproved. To President Carnot, in a jaunty, defiant letter written a few days ago, he is supposed to have revealed the secret of ight had slightly EDARS™ — A pat school Pon yocse, Labia TOBE Ae One-third G9) cash ae HARVARD GRADU. coer A ctnely or in mall rightly be known, turer failed, but © Commissioners, Banks ‘Bankers, wilt all kt ihe Lowtiana State Lotions which may be presented a our counters. RM. WALMSLEY, not complied with in to the floor with a the frasteo will resell persons who had WILLIAM 4. coupox, DUNCANSON BROS... & CARUS! “Teal Estate Brokers, 1008 F street northwest. SALE OF NEARLY NEW DWELLING-HOUSE. ON STREET, | BET AND. E78 NORTHWEST, KNOWN AS No. 1 Ar'pubiic AUCTION. eet from day of sale ‘cost of defaulting ly” attached rope PROFESSIONAL. ROF. CLAY, by ys weal pebunibens, Reiives all EO pg Tairvo; only genuine clairvoyan Eres Bint N einaat he ans National It sounds perhaps worse than it really was, Galen Nationa! Beak for the distance was not immense, and the ropé hung down almost into the organ gallery. More- over, Ernest, who was young and agile, had caught firm hold of the young lady’ GRAND MONTHLY DRAWING AT THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC, NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1889, CAPITAL PRIZE, $300,000. Marie Aquetant was a young and beautiful demi-mondaine, and was known as “La Dame aux Diamants,” from the splendor of a noted necklace she wore in public. It was on the evening of January 14, 1886, that a small, man addressed Marie in rformance, and toget astily to Marie’s aj ionable quarter of the town Prominent man in club circles, M. Bles. “Don't be frightened, I have nu,” he said, and then he swung the rope’ hineelf and his fair burden—even at that moment he no- ticed how slight and lissom was the figure that clung to him—very dexterously into the organ gallery, where they both dropped about a con- le of ‘feet into an empty pew, a little bit wreathless, but otherwise quit “You have saved my life!” little hysterically, “Fiddlesticks!” re forgetting his asa pee 100,000 Tickets at 010 Stietare 8: ‘unimportant looki a corridor of the unhurt, cried the lady, a plied the gentleman, quite ter, and speak- ice. Amomentof silence, “Ihadno idea you were so active—and #0 clever! It was all my fault. I bent too much over, have been hurt, too, Mr. Fent and you might ton, but for your of mind, which saved us 's companion. nothing.” began a detective hunt through Paris and all the rest of France, but for a long time no clew was found. ‘afterward he ned by & Seeing himself over- ymin turned and sent «piste bal ugh the policeman’s 3. F. LEWENBERG, M.D. Manager, ‘THE CELEBRATED oe ar hii tetas was not only ugly, but desper- | tn, , and home to Fi his legs would An s i é Hi HE i ii r; i ft i 3 > ii Fi i & F £ i i ny SRE MPAA LEI % 1 .¥.¥ z