Evening Star Newspaper, September 3, 1892, Page 10

10 A REMINISCENCE OF THE CHOLERA. fa THE CHOLERA. The Terrible Asiatic Plague as Viewed From St. Petersburg. HOW THEPEOPLELIVEAND DIE A Look at the Infected Regions of the Volga— Feeding the Disease on Green Cabbages, Fish and Wilted Cacumbers—How the Cholera News is Kept Out of the Press. Byectai Correspondence of The Evening Star. St. Persrsncno, Aug. 18, 1892. HE SKELETON OF the cholera now hangs over Russia and the re- ports of the horrors of | its ravages along the | lower Volga are brought | here daily. They are kept out of the news papers as far as possi- bie, and it is not known | to just what extent the | plague has spread, but | there is no doubt but | that itis rapidly march- | up the Volga and it cannot but desolate the tendency toward cholera. It is as heavy as Boston brown bread and it looks not unlike it. It is made in loaves of twenty-one pounds each and the average loaf of bread eaten along the Volga is as big asa ten-months-old baby. Liv- ingon bread, cabbage soup, cucumbers and dried fish, with now and then a bit of cheap meat, the people have not enough strengthen- ing food to ward off the cholera. are already run down by the famine sun is wilting the life out of them. They know nothing of the use of medicines and their home life ie such that it is almost impossible to keep the cholera from spreading. I oan easily see how one cholera case spreads the disease throughont a village. The man who first gets the disease probably belongs to a large family. This family inhabits one of these little, hot, thatched huts, and a dozen men, women and children are huddled together within it. They sleep side by side on one bed, which is usually the top of the stove, or lie sprawled out close together upon the fluor. They wear the same clothes day and night, and if there are cholera germs in any one of the garments of a family these are bound to be communicxted to the others. If the cholera is slow in manifest- ing itself, the patient may move around about the other people of the village. The wock of the village is done in gangs and one man must come in contact with all the others. The result ix that the disease must spread, and the only won- der is that it is not greater than it is. SARATOFY. It was at Saratoff that the reports about the cholera were first sent out over the world. I spent several days in this city just before the news of its presence was mad it probably existed at the time I w: Sara- toff is in th: rh par: about 800 miles south of Nijui Novgorod and’ 700 or 800 miles from Mose t lies right on the THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER» \t greafer than rate that t ter ‘Rus- of Great Britain, 37 of Germany and that of France. this morning and | to see of the Russian cholera in it, but on the first page wore two big black blotches which eff ally stamped the printed matter out of at least column of the newspaper. This was probably the news goncerning thecholera, and it is a fair example of the state in which the foreign news- papers come into Russia. No reports concern- ing the cholera which are not approved by the government are allowed to be read here. Every paper is carefully examined and anything which the censors do not like is stamped out. - This is so with all ne and such magazines and kpoks as are often have pages torn from them, and there ia no such thing as a free press in Russia. The here. receive instructions from the vernment as to just what they shall publish. If they do not follow out | these tnstractions they receive first a warning. if they offend again this warning is repeated, and at the third offense the paper is suspended. Three such warnings always result in the abo- lition of the newspaper. The warnings may be | Yoars apart and they may be caused by the mis- | takes of cheap reporters or careless proof | readers, but the paper loses its standing and at he third warning its existence. Its editor is also liable to imprisonment, and the result is that there is no such ‘hing ‘us free thought in Rus The most ridiculous things are pro- d from publication, and nothing concern- ing the czar is ever published. During a large part of the tims have been jin “Russia the czar has been visiting in Denmark. He met the German emperor there |and the European papers have been full of gossip concerning him. Every line of this has been blacked out, whether it came from the London Times or ‘in the way of witty remarks from the Fliegende Blatter, and a large part of | the famine news has been handied in this same ay. Ibave before me a list of subjects which were handed over to the press during a single year some time ago, but they will hold equally well today. One of’ them states that nothing on the Jewish question is to be published, Another prohibits anything coxcerning the | assassination of a Russian general whose death | was full of romance, and a third prohibits the | saying of anythiag about the church schools, The church and the government,in fact,control the press in Russia and the censor is a bigger man than the editor. | I wish I could show you one of these papers BATTLE OF NASHVILLE pe eg Sending Shot and Shell Inte the Ranks of the Enamy—Hood’s Stubborn Resistance, but He is Finally Compelied te Retreat— The Killed and Wounded. ————-+—_—_ ‘Written for The Evening Star. URING MY ARMY EX- perience no battle is more vividly impressed upon my mind than that at Nash- ville, Tenn, The rebels F) had a battery placed op- posite a hill just outside of the city, and as soon as the first gun reached the top they opened fire; our bngle rang out action front, our men jumped to 38 their stations and before 2 was in position our first had opened. I missed the first part of the ac- tion. As we went up at full speed amid the cheers of the infantry, the shouts of our officers and the cali of the bugle, it was a very confus- ing scene, and I got in front of a team swing- ing around on «gallop and was thrown some distance and stunned for the moment. When I opened my eyes I thought I was dreaming. Our guns were cracking, shells screaming over d us the brigade was coming w double quick, one of our men was being carried back wounded. and for a minute I could not remember where I was. My shoulder beiny bruised and my arm nseless, I could do nothing but hold a team. Close by’ was a large brick farm house surrounded by several cribs of corn; some drivers put corn on the gronnd and the horses ate as unconcernedly as though at the picket ropesas they stood in place, but many of our new teams drawn at St. Louis had never heard close range firing and were frantic with fear and needed a man at the head of each horse. Bricks from the honse flew in ail direc- tions, shells burst in the cribs, causing corn to rain down by the bashel. Some of the infantry | behind us were killed. but by what seemed a miracle we only lost a couple of horse and had two men slightly and one severely wounded. For # couple of hours the firing was continuous, but by 3 o'clock the enemy SHOWED SIONS OF WEAKNESS. MeArthur's division of our cozps und carried the works ~~ —_— 8, 1892—SIXTEEN - PAGES. Sear TS SAME 4 WOMAN WHO WALKS She Makes Much Fun of Her Sisters Who Cannot, HOW GRACE IS ACQUIRED. 1 Giasatoves thin-vignecen a not so Pl it was almost as hard BARD WORK ON THE UNION FORCES. Our cavalry was exhausted and many of their horses had given out, the roads were in terrible condition and our wagons with supplies could not overtake us. ‘The rain fell continually and we were wet and had not enough to est for days; our fires, built of green wood and water-soaked fence rails, would not warm us. Dozens of A Conversation Overheard in the Park— Practical Illustrations of the Proper Style I can do very much bet- ter than other women. For instance, I can walk.” Why, goodness gra- cious, Neli, any woman with two 1—feet can walk. What driving at now?” “My dear little girl, here you have had a de- but dinner and are regularly ticketed as beingon the market, aud yet do not know that it takes more than legs and feet to make a good walker! Your ignorance is vastly amusing. They were two of tho “swell” sct taking a stroll in the park and unwittingly dropped into a seat within caxy hearing distance of a STAR scribe, who was hidden by a thicket of brier | bushes, hence was an interested listener of the | sprightly conversation. | “Come to think of it, I did bear Willie Weeks say that you were a regular “high stepper,” but I didn't suppose he meant it that way. He was exercised and stuttered worse than at I thought— h, Lillie, vou are such a blessed little sim- it really doesn't matter whether you | thoughts at all, for they are liable to be all wrong. “That odious Weeks; just because T will not permit his attentions and snubbed | him he tries to create the impression that [ have ‘a temper.’ It would be a weak-spirited girl indeed who would not get exasperated in an atmosphere contaminated by the Weeks bur- lesque. By the way, the cre: along in the line of my | walk! If it could be perp: image one orthodox, Te or were brought ters a few days Inter. Hood had entered Tennessee with 40,000 infantry and 4,000 cavalry. The latter, under Forrest, he had sent south of the Cumberland with orders “to drain the country of persons liable to mil tary eervice. animals suitable for army put and subsistence supplies of all kinds. ‘orrest's absence had been ® great disadvan- tage during the battle and subsequent retreat, and he rejoined Hood's d column of starving men about the 22d and at once threw | his comparatively fresh men in front of our | cavalry and retarded our advance some. On reaching Columbia Hood threw some of his ar- | tillery into Duck river and burned the fine | bridge, thereby delaying our crossing until our | pontoon bridges conld be bronght up. Our corps arrived at Columbia December 24: | next morning our division moved down ne: the bridge to await our turn to cross, and sup- osing it would come soon two of us followed a tery over and looked around town for while. On retarning to the bridge onr division was not in sight and knowing it had not crossed and learning that some troops bad been ordered | back we were very anxious to recroas, but the guard at the bridge had orders to keep it cle: for a wagon train then crossing. He happe to be a fellow who had been in the barracks with | | us at Camp Butler, and when we explained the | matter he said a couple of orderlies had gone w | town to ge: shoes for some officers’ horses an’ | if we would get some horseshoes he would mi j take us for them and pass us. We found some | rasty horseshoes and as we approached the | | bridge we saw an officer followed by a numerous staffandan escort of cavalry crossing and learned | that it was Gen. Thomas. ‘The wagons to come over again and the matter of gi | to the other side was both difficult and danger- | our. The bridge was made of boards laid on | canvas-covered boats, and was but little wider than a wagon, The mules, frightened swaying of the bridge and the sight of water on both sides of them, crowded and pushed, and many wagons came very near the edge.” We | managed to dodge and push across, and half « re comes right observations. His uated in a graven ‘ould worship it without shocking for there is nothing like it in heaven th or in the water x the earth. . Lil, how is this! lively Neil ed her umbrella, stuck its club handle as fhe proportions of the two umped her gra ell, you certainly have tL I don't know what more we can do to =a T'm eure I'm nearly run to « shadow to keep up with the dates. There ie the class for teaching facial expression and Teform in receiving honored guests, Deecte school, the Jenness Miller Club.the Gymnasium, the rowing club, the tennis Fiding echool, bicycle club. dancing clase I think there are twoor three others, but I can't Fegulations of these won't cultivate grace and teach control, what can one do?” “Exen commen re m——ves—but—some folks have none,” re- ‘tarned Lil, hesitatingly. * “My dear girl sense at times. “Nell walked briskly down the asphalt and back again, and the passive witness felt like crying bravo and demanding an encore, but fearing THE PROPER caren. Now, Lil, that isthe proper caper for the street,” she explained with many gestures. “Shoulders up and back, throwing the cheat forward. The stomach should be drawn in by straigh| the upper part of the body forward just the least little bit in the world. There is an art in doing that and you've Sotto practice ft till every crevice in vour vertebra is filled with a separate ache before you get it. ‘The girl whose corsets ‘pinch’ never does get .Leouldn't live without my corse! them snug, but Tdon’t adjust them like one tics a silk thread around a wart to separate in «low agony . In the firet place as my dress waist the bust, long the hips—and I don't puil thom so tight in the back that the flesh on my shoulders looks as though it would burs through my dress. That ts another awful mi take t women make. With my corsets adjusted properly Tam evenly and comfortably supported and can run upstairs and slide down the “bannisters’ without losing my wind or breaking the steels in my stays. there, Lil, that girls and | women their lack of common sense. ‘The fitting corsets and *y the str the w: the top of their stays and ero: under below, until positively. ti it makes the backbone curv and that process. throws * forward, making one round at chested and ‘sway backed. turally the surplus flesh about the waist ba 6° somewhere, co it crowds round the abdomen, making it abnor- large in ‘proportion to the and makes the bips stand ont hk panniers. A woman with a figure like that 5 A she need not try display put on ill- mgs tight at Na to that the performer might stampede refrained. | It a right | snAt Nell coomed to bave run down Lilbadan F! it in for most of | Shad |. YOU positively have regular | 1? this respect it may be seen that much good ening up the backbone and throwing | | in | Ate offered. Transplanted There Famously—Too Much Salmon Killing. “The transportation of young fish to varions localities bas been in some cases productive of ‘The | ™arvelous results,” said M. W. Wiloox of San j- | Francisco toa Detroit Free Press man. “‘Be- club, fore 1880 or thereabout noone ever heard of | shad in the Pacific waters, but some time agoe Tecall them. If strict attention to the rules and | "Umber of young shad were planted in the Sec- ramento river and the result is astonishing, for they have fonrished famously. There ie snother fish which bas done well—the striped dass —which sometimes reaches a great weight. has been done by the United States fish commission. i am an ardent believer that the firth hatcheries are ao boon to the country, Your own state commission ranks very high and I believe that {te hatcheries will compare bose of the United States batcheries in this state. TI have given this matter some at- tention, as Lalways believed that many fish could be transplanted in our e waters, nd the reeuit has been so satisfactory that in my opinion Congress should always continue to encourage the United States the variow The istic, al. metimes the state commission ma: feel that it understands the requirements of ite own state better then the United States com- miswon, There is apparently an unending supply of A the are salmon and halibut in Puget sound an. Around Tacoma fish under, im the waters of Alaska. wked at about 5 cents for a ten- and if there was amaller money locality it would probably sell for less. we quantities of halibut are sold at about Scents pound. You bave heard much of the fishing resources of Alaska, where more canned jon isputup than anywhere ele. But there isa great waste, and the it U stop the wanton slanghter is going on. ihe Columbia and Sacramento rivers on the Pacific coast no rotected the t now remains to have Alaska well protected. for that marvelous region could supply the whole world with fish if proper means were taken ®o that the young fish were not destroyed. Alarka i# a remakably valuable portion of this country and is only beginning to receive ade- ist line and above: result, they boil over | @ate appreciati i out from | Perhaps iach there, seeing the opportan: It ina hittie ways off, but what of Distance is nothing.” — CONQUERED, Business and Love Happily Blended—A Pretty Romance. From the Detroit Free Press Detroit possesses one of the most modest men in the world. Yet, withal, he is very euc- that? famine-stricken provinces. I first heard of it ring a stay that I made at Nij wi Novgorod. I was entertained there by a Mr. | ry wealthy ship owner, who o Tine of stearaboats on the Volga river, business is the carving of freight front of them, capturing ix gnus | mile below found our division awaiting the put- nd some prisoners. The reb had fallen back ting down of another pontoon just neo ii Neat morning we crossed, and after swe in several places, but those dircetly opposed to | N°*t ; “ Rebeld thetr ground, “Our ammunition getting | Locn*ened in more leisurely manner. av it was low our caissons were sent to be refilled at the | “ ears . and demoralized that they would make no more wagons in the rear. We had to go a long dia- | gibi tere bee an to spring nz along before her chuin. HOW WILLIE WALKED, imagine my coat bulges in the ekirt like a balloon and 1% too narrow across the | shoulders to accommodate even my narrow- Volga and it is surrounded by a rolling country, | which have been stamped by the censor. T the hills of which rice back of the city end look as though an ink roller had been run over on the top of which there stands a long line of | them, and it is impossible to read a word of great windmills, which ewing their arms against | that which has been stamped out. They use an y delible stamp, and they have changed tho | | quality of their te lady whom I met | in cast Russia told me she used to be able to | cessful in business and now he is successful in his heart affair. Possibly ft was becanse he was so busy that he bad no time to learn the art of love, but | whether so or not it is trae that in some fifteen n front thin bebind for women who w the first principle of standing Amateur dressmokers don't un st. Asan army they and from tance and it was dark before we started for the pate ad wy ak ; rt and the result iv a dress that ‘kicks’ | 76" of manhood be had made no progres im Persia and the a i never camo together again, although part of | contracted soul, that my hat sets on my small 4 econ pat thin the ink off by washing it with turpentine, | front again. Everything was in confusion, the | B°¥ : 8 the | head like a pimple oi ba, t my | UP in front and ‘sags’ in the back. ring & mate until within the last three this Russian get poty es 4 rebels were falling back and forming a new line, | tM reorganized and joined Johnston in the ike a pimple on m id that my “Another thing. b: int would then be readable, but that within the past year eho found the ink of | a different character and abe could do nothing | wich it. The uncertainty of matter passing the censors makes all printed matter unsafe in the Russian mails. The censors are said to often keep the papers and lend them to their friends before sending them to | the people to wh they are addressed, | aud Twas told at Moscow thata journal withany | illustrations in it was almost sure to be lost in | ihe mails. ‘The Christmas numbers of the Le |don Graphic, the Iltustrated London News jand papers’ of that kind which “have |chromos. or lithographs with their I | press seldom reach the hands of their su! | scribers without these being stolen by the post | office employes,and I am told it is unsafe to | send photographs through the iail without registering them. Iam sending all my photo- graphs to America in United States consular envelopes and am registering everything, and so furl think that everything has gone through. THE CONSULAR STAMP. The consular stamp is a good thing to have on v > “ | your letters when you send them out from some of which belong to the Germans. It is one | legation, and even Russian mail clerk will of the centers of the German colonies of Russia | think twice before he ces the letters sent and you find that nearly every other man in the | out by an American diplomat. I don't think town speaks German as well ‘as Russian. The! that “the papers t come to our buildings are, asa rale, of stucco. The strects | Consul general here are ever opened, and he are paved with cobble stones, and the town is | gets all sorts of newspapers, including man h is,’ on the whole, | Which are not permitted to ‘come to ordina: much cleaner than any of the other Volga! people in Russia. ‘There are in fact only a cities that T visited, and it seems strange few newspapers which are permitted to i have first broken | come into Russia, : : the people | This newspaper censorship as to the American are leaving in large numbers and those that re- | newspapers is becoming less rigorous since the main are almost frightened to death. The town | kindness of the Americans as to the famine, and has had considerable experience With the chol- |! have received quite a number of American eva in the past and nearly every great cholera | newspapers. When I came into Russia some epidemic of history has rested during its march | weeks ago I had quite a number of newspaper through Russia at Saratof. clippings from American newspapers uboat Wita the increased facilities for communi- and I feared that these would be taken eation diseases of this kind spread more rapidly | from me at the frontier. A number of thom than ever bef ‘The hotbed of the cholera | related to the czar and others were about nihil- seems to be Asia Minor. Persia and the regions | ism and the Siberian prisons. Owing to a letter along the Trans-Caspian railroad. The great ‘h I had from one of the Rusaian diplomats cholera epidemic of 1423 came from this region | of Europe, got these through without examinu- and extended into Asiatic Russia. The | tion and my trunk was not even opened. cholera of 1930 first manifested itself in Persia,| Speaking of the blacking out of articles by and it got its start on ths shores of the Caspian | the censors, a funny instance occurred when sea. Iterept np the Volga just as this cholera | the young grand duke made his recent tour in a i . India, The London Graphic came to St. Peters ing the following year sproxd over Earope | burg with a black mark upon it as big asa sheet and wrapped its discase-spreading arms around | of note paper, and one of its subscribers who England, France and Germiny. Thence it | wondered what thisimoortant obliteration might went into Spain and Italy and finally cams"| mean eut this page out of the Graphic and sent ‘orth America. Nearly every cholera of | it back to the oitice,arking them to tear the page history has come from the trans-Caspian region, | from another copy and send it to her throngh and thongh Russia is doing all i: ean to keep it | the mails. It was vent, and the obliterated pic- down ft is impossible to tell whether she will| ture was merely a photograph of a tiger succesd. Dow i han the people are | hunt in which the grand duke was standing dying by the dozens ever? week and there are, | with other hunters about the body of a| Tam told, in the neighborhood of a hundred | dead tiger. thought the blottin, cholera cases in that through thi: | of this ro rid its next issue it re: town that ail Persian travelers must come, and | published the sketch and also the fac-simile of a rigid quarantine is enforc: 1 | the blotted pap This eam to the eves of the Trase-Caspian roed spect all passenge: 3 laughed at it and ordozed thai and a careful examination 1s being made at the | this copy of the Graptic should be admitted, i At the present writing, how-| and it was admitted and all St. Petersburg pleare suffering from the lack | laughed with the czar. there is practically RUSSIAN NEWSPAPERS. ‘ena connection | With such restrictions it is impossible to sian Lil, a girl who squeezes her- 5 arous fashion can't use her hips properly. Now, a woman should walk jnst asmost men do not from the knee,but from th taking along cleanstep. I mean by that that she should list ber foot clear of the ground aud set it down as far ahead as her length of limb will permit. louger steps than othe ort and too q: month: A year ago a very intelligent and handsowe young Woman took a position in his office,as typesriter. From the very beginning he admired hen and day after day as she did her work this admire- ly, some women take | tion grew into something «tronger. Six months ¢ most of them step | after her first day's work he had called at ber 1 mother's house tosee ber, and after thet be liked her still better, and it soon became evi- | dent that she had a preference for him, but his | diffidence was too great and he never dared venture beyond the limit of « pleasant friend- ship, o: t. he never mentioned it to any one if he did,and least of all to the prett; typewriter. A mouth however, a hhapp: truck him 1 proceeded to put it into exe- the foot down. I pl. heel first and I be- | cation. About 4 lock one afternoon be came eve that is the nat 1 don’t consider | into bis place of business withan air of heroic it necessary to make holes im the pavement with | determination. my boot hea teeth, but I ¢ firmness in her w r the most | ™y private natural and casy walkers I ever saw. They | Written. don’t swing their arms like fans toa wind mill | “Certainly. or beat the air with paddie-like precision with | the their hands. They hold their Srms " sides, and t auke a straight line from it with almost no bend at the knee. ‘arolinas, eventualiy surrendering to Sherman. THE LOSSES ON BOTH SIDE: The total lose of the Union forces during the two days’ battle and subsequent pursuit was only 9,047, of whom 451 weze killed. It is hard | ta long line of am cos filled with | to get any reliable figures as to the killed and | ed, squads of priso’ y strag-| wounded on the other sid n their way to the city nnd,passed several | zations were destr filled with th: | must have lost 20,000 men, Among the tr an to realize that we had taken part in | Gen. Thomas had to. show 72 pieces of a pretty lurge battle, but felt that we had gained | artillory, 3.200 muskets, hundreds an advantage and most of our oiicers, from | besides four generals and over Gen. Thomas down, thought that morning | on ould show Hood retreating. | daylight firing began on on: left and grew heavier and our brigade was ordered to the front. and soon our guns were at work again. Ihad a lead team, which cared nothing for firing, so I stood behind a huge tree holding the leading reias. Looking toward the enemy I er a shell howled nd a good-sized th sand twin andam T not a sight for gods and en the gait of him. I think of a ° I see him cor- n her s@f-respect hinge like that?” suid the quieter “Lil,” adwire him. Kate, for trousers are a cross between le our troops were changing position and we had | blazer sk great trouble in finding the battery; we in- | quiredgof every staf officer we met and were sent in the wrong direction several times and long after midnigh: we reached the field where the guns were, tired, cold and hungry. We had 8 self in tha already manifested itself there and it was feared ft would march on into Russia. A sho I visited Saratoff. Simbirck, all of which seuneare noe Tegions, and it was only a few days Seratoff that the cholera broke out There is no doubt but that the whole of regions will be devastated by it. and to understand its rs it is neces- m: frozen-toed ing. How c and asrociate w “He is rather “but some wom nee.” ig Hy FE va [ if E j : 5 e of the iaddish girl achting jacket, tennis lt on the avenue. ad bal inks it f% coquettish, and in is ouly tough. And Vivien! Because ks che must be eccent so she goes tearing down street house i y ommodate his stride to hov-tkip-and-trip step of one of Most of us shirt and ‘TRE VOLGA COUNTRY. ‘The Volga is as wide as the Mississippi. It is 2,300 miles long and it has as great trade us any river in the world. It flows through a flat country and the lower half of it passes through en almost treeless region. Upon these great Plains the hot wun of the tropice is beating yen now with relentless vigor. There is abeo- lately no protection from it, and the women g> abont with nothing but handkerchiefs on their heads and children boil their brains under the suc's burning rays, with no protection what- fowver. The men wear heavy caps, and the houses ars so built that they are like bake- ‘ovens at this time of tho year. At Kazan and Samara I sew hundreds upon hundreds of half- naked men Irving on the roadside and sleeping ‘with this tropical sun beating down upon them ead with the smeils of decaying vegetable mat- ter all about them. ‘@ exstem of water works, but most of these Volga cities have ‘no sanit ents whatsoever. and the Bugiethew ar orst. haveabsolutely no know!- of the rales of health, and their diet and would naturally n T think, perhaps, that is because there is nearly always music to measure our steps by, but on the street —well, it is just ludicrous, T don't like the toe instructions for setting our cozps proce Tennessee, wi ar the | and were | for the rest of the winter. The first v a of Mississippi, ves comfortable the hot blue ky. T bh the city, and divid oming to the ¢ picturesque and Russian town win Lawrences, with their eyes and peculiar way of thrusti their heads forward. us th cing and tr z itin three | from the river it atifui. better a variety of large were used e men, bat th transport. being generally stuck the mud in the rear when most need y this time troops in th: Wihthe tent used in the oficial name is shelter tent, but ic kno “dog te: Y past my tree, another flash limb fell from above my h shell which explod piece of which cuta spoke from our limbe: Wheel. another piece broke the leg of n hose | and then to my great relief the rauge was changed. ag Your typewriter into T have aspecial letter I want he replied and followed him, porter carrying the instrument. Ne be Maids hen evervthing was fixed and the door ahnt, “wall y 1 fully what I have to say? eee ee She nodded and the instrament began to click: “Detroit, Mich., J: 10, 1892. other: -. you today to inform you of a fuet sure you will be glad to hear of. For the first time in my life Iam in love.” The instrument gave a half choke andthe girl uppeared to have caught her finger or Been | hurt some way, but the man gave little heed to it, “The woman” be went on, “who has won heart is rich— dies at _ Aguin the instrument hitched and the poor little typewriter gave a gasp. It had not oceur- ted to her before to think so much of this man. “In all the graces,” he anid whieh constitute trae womanliness, and if for my heart which she has unknowingly taken from | me, Imay hope to win her, I am sure I sball have a wife and yous daughter we shall both be proud of.” e pretty typewriter had recovered her Fronted skilt and was writing along without latter. I have never spoken to ber,” he continued, ‘on the subject, and perhaps i may never do so, for I cannot, unless there is hope for love, fo we are very good friends, and I understand ‘uat where love would be, friendship cannot ex- ist, and Ido not care to hazerd that which I have for that which may never be.” He ou, office. fair A CHARGE MADE. Abont the middle of the afternoon a charg: was made along the whe send the | ide being provided a h man | ther with bu ANOTHER KIND, Now, ladies and gentlemen, having delivered the lecture 1 will proceed to illustrate my points. Iwill now introduce Miss Katharine Kane ss an example of the faddish girl.” Stick- ing her fingers in the pockets of her blazer | Jacket Nell proceeded to make a circus of ber- | goes crippling round on those horrid French | elf. She threw her shoulders back, set her | hecis and shoes two sizes too short. spine in at the X | tight, accentu | threw her abdomen out of its natural propor- 1 ions, and then went swaggering down the a8 as good as Flora Moore in Mc- yand so altered her style a to make her look like « female touga. “My next illustration is the literary slouch who has had a poem on ‘My Pug’ accepted and a sketch on ‘The Relation of Women to the iver Coinage Question’ favorably mentioned, and has a reputation as a blue stocking to sus. tain. "Enter, Vivien Arbuthnot.” In an instant that piiable backbone was curved like Hogarth’s line of beauty, but he never designed it for euch an application. Her shoulders dropped forward, her bust sank in and abdomen protruded.” Her exquisitely fashioned gown “hiked” up in front and seemed to lengthen rix inches in the back. Her arms went swinging round like wind-bereft sai she aged ten years by pulling ber well-kept locks loose and’ straggling about ber fac transformation wa: absolutely bewilderiy. ‘You have missed your calliyg,”” shgnted Lil from where she was doubled up with laug! on the bench. “You ought to have been a con- It ¢ is graceful as a reed in the wind when she waltzes, and when she poses to receive rhe is a marble goddess, and when she slks she iss n Chinee of most exnlted spe! Positively, she makes the only corn I possess ache out of sympathy, as she | a couple of sticks four feet long and half a dozen | Peg it took but txo tes to got a helter | “Fix bayonets, | which would torn a pretty heavy rain and in started for the works in fron: of them. | which two men could ereep aud sleep conifort- | enemy directly us was posted. ‘bebind ‘These tents were very little provection | a stone fence igh and bad fhe stin and none from the cold. logs on top of it. They had twelve gu with a hoavv infantry $upport and hav tained the fire of at least twenty of our pie had suffered greatly, but they stood their ground until our men had almost reach -d them, and abandoning ali semilance of order they started for the rear. Sovne of the artillerymen | eut loose and mounted their hor-es, making no | attempt to save their guns, hundred of the in- | fantry threw away their muskets and fled,while ochers made no effort to get away, but’ gave themselves up as prisoners. We had been un- comfortable during the cold siorms of the previous few days even with plentiful supplies Of rations a thing and as we saw the ragged, almost barefooted “prisonera we did nut wonder that so many preferred to take their chances us prisouers of war. They had been oa very scant rations of corn: meal and bacou and had none of th» article which gave us the most comfort Yeoffee—and c asked every man thoy As soon as it was tried tie Works our teams were sent to. bring in the red guns. hind the wall the trees were stripped of | leaves and branches by the shelis we had rained on them, twenty-three dead horses lay where they had fallen aad several wounded ones ware standing aronud. Pools of blood showed where dead or’ wounded men had lain, and in one place a littie to one side was a row of nine dea: men. The rest of the killed and ali the wounded had been removed, bat from prison- ers we learned that upward of twenty were ably | from t! IN CAMP AT Eastrour. At Eastport plenty of timber was standing, we cut what we wanted and built house some were large enough for eight or ten men, but mos: of therm held two or four. My tent- e and meelf made a very comfortable shel ter by using evpress bark. The cypress is a singular tree, growing in swamps, in many places in water from one to three feet deep; it | rows to a height of forty or fifty feet and rom the roots a sort of stump springs up; a | | dozen or more of these kuees.as they are | | called. grow around a single tree. These knees | are smooth, cone shaped and from two to six | feet high, and u cypress swamp is a queer look- ing place, as nothing elve grows there. ‘The bark ef these trees can be peeled off in fong slips: by driving stakes into the ground, mak- | i frume tix feet square, "using the sides and our i a bunk, which took 2¥ oppo- Here | we remained in camp forseveral weeks, The on] thing oat of the common order I remember is that once for rome reson our supply of hard- | throw your :Loulders back; do stand straigh , | tack was ent off and ‘ ‘ed corn | will -not effect reform. A child told to throw | tortionist. The india rubber men isn't a cir- |for two days. ‘The boys took this very good | its shouiders back will do #0, and at the same | cumstance to your last represeutation. But, | naturedly and many jokes were made about bor- | time bend back till ite stomach sticks out | in all seriousness, |, I never before realized rowing corn from a mule to be repaid when we | like a ps pigeon, That i+ only mak- | how necessary to beaut; | next drew rations, and a good story was told| ing a bad matter worse. When I was | Walk are. = of was a grave, stern man/a little maid pava was ¥ particular in ‘They are everything, my child. Ta rather with little sense of humor. Whe army | training me. He made me a little wooden gun | be as ugly as Queen Lib and red-headed in the mule team is ied to water the driver mounts his | and taught me the mancal of arms. He made | bargainand be noted for grace and charm of ot. in which there was * ‘Now, [like a narrow foot Yes, little woman, and as your feet are sen- sibly shod and you are not overburdened with flesh you are yourself a naturally graceful nks, awfully.” “Ob, not at all. Now, there is your sister Mabsl—do you know the happy-go-lucky of hitch she affects? Nearly gives me St. Vitus’ ce. She is young enoagh to be broken of it, too. If sho wax my sister I'd do ber up in plaster of paris till her joints ‘set.’ Youn, girls are apt to be from sheer embarrassmen nto very repre- heasibis habits ot walking. If mothers would only begin with their daughters wien they are quite small they could correct all such habite v. ‘They never could do it by constant ging, however—just eaying to a child, ‘Do | woman who bus so gently and innocently Jol | me captive and who bas all my future happiness ‘The girl was war growing nervovs making an effort to conceal ber suffer- | ing was plain, but the man gave no more beed than at fret. * he went on, y typewriter and”. Then she stopped before whe had written the last two words, and raising her cannot but increase it. Their favorite soup is | ot cabbages,and old men and babies eat this by the gallon. They eat carrots, and one of the chief articles which you find peddled everywhere and which is consumed in large quantities is the green cacu:aber, which is eaten Faw, just as it comes from the vine, or, more iy @ graceful carriage and villages, Daring | often, after it has become lying about under the hot sun. ited and stale from FAMINE BRRAD. In the provinces just above Saratoff a great the typhus fever and thy famine the most of ths prescriptions were made by private and the care of the sick was largely by well-t do people, who did the work for charity's sake. Reports from the cholera districts are so unreli- make good newspapers, and none of the news Papers here make very much money. The «dailies are published withoat illustrations and the pages of them look as though the Greek killed or wounded in the battery and tha: the infantry logs was lazge. THE VICTORY COMPLETE. was falling: w nda drene! to the con- saddte mule, the other five are secured to each | me stand correctly and ‘put me through the other by the neck chains. the one nearest the | pace: a light weight on my bend. As dciver being tied to the saddie and the whole | this did not quite correct an inclination to Hot kept in order by the . Every [soldier remembers the confusion that manner than to be as lovely asan houri and walk like a scullers maid. The beauty, like gold plate, wears off, but the graceful ca the big brown eyes to Lis face «be looked at him questi r. He stretched out hit hands to her iv woe Le minutes ister he said to ber emil- re ct us write a new letter, dear, te our : ther. a alphabet had gone on a drank and sprawled | Pie? Jaccompanied the pavage of a lot of we Goal of Ga ferstnn booed fo ctlll med Leon | OOS is io imy to tell just to how | around over them. ‘There are in the whole em- | fasion. One of our corps of infautry and the | mae on Ga Vert ont abe on y ‘tocing the line,’ which was a cer- fadying the effect | Aud she did so. some of this stuf while I was on the Volga and | Preat an extent Thore are anid to be a | pire tess than five daily journals, and the tele- ¥ were ordered to pursue at once and the | soemed necessary to get them along. One das | tain light strip in the hard-wood floor. I | of certain movements and motions of the body mae cf ee§ St would be the rain of any man whose bowels | few cases in the hospital at Moscow, but ao far | graph bills of the whole of them are not as down on the grotnd we oc- | the general heard a grea athe road pass- | thought it wasall prime fun then, and row I | and paying strict attention to the laws of nature | Wtitten for The Evening Star. ‘were at all delicate. Ite surface is of a dirty | ne-.e have manifested themselves here, and the gre a3 those ofa big \ ork newspaper. | eupied. ou: horses and | ing “hit headquarters and saw a number of | bless him every day for the thoughtfulness | I have made myself a fairly graceful woman Ayesha. pe tr apher ple it open vou find that | disease seems to be contined to the Volga. | Nearly every paper publichesa continued story, | no food for’ ourselves, exceyt what waa left in rings of five men. each with a muie chain | which reseued a“ narrow-chested, round- | Whose manners are quoted as ‘fetching’—mean- High on a camets hump she sat, Inaide is of 8 deep brown. “It is salty and IN MOSCOW AND ST. PETERSBURG. bleh rane along the bottom of'the paper. and | our havorvacks, which in most casos waa very | around his neck, being led fast by mon | shouldered child and made meas Tea.” tng “capes oni iknow &. Why checé I] luceecns Renan sandy, and i tastes more like clay ‘then mibvend. | This sentiary ow and | few of them have many advertisements, A | little. Near us was a large barn fuli of prison-| mounted on tules, who were Khouting ad DRESS AND WALKIXG. retend that I don't kuow it? Tain proud of it, this bread today, and while it is as gritty ae the ‘of Sodom. thouranta ‘of people tho are cating was on the Volga St. Petersburg m not that the stree kept elean enongh. f ght be improved upon. It is he houses are not are as well cared | curious feature of Moscow and St. Petersburg | are the police joar polfee organization and | the doings of the police ‘Those belong to the give fail reports 0? nd of ors, the number being constantly increa ed by fresh arrivals. Wounded men’ were being car- ried to the rear and near wasa row of dend, | cracking their whips. Ho sent an officer to ask the cause of such an unusual a driver replied, “They ain't “Tam sure that one's drese has something to anishment, a4 | 40 with one's grace and sclf-pomenion,” ten ing punished, just as other girls are proud of their jewels and pretty gowns. ‘The law doesn't make it a crime be aware of one's good points. I put on @ And salled along the waste of sand More Uke the ocean than the land. Ayesha! allacts relating | who had been shot in the charge. Oar can- | they have lad their corn and wo aro taking | tured Lil. cotton gown, emertened up with little ribbon found them ready to devour anything. Dr. | for in this r=«pe other cities | to the city. The people are bulldozed into | nonecrs were tired out and our captain ordered | them to water.” At fleet Sa giseal eaten “tease ak has. Now, tho present style of | ad lace, and aim likened to Junoand Helen and pwectrery Kangen pana Habbell, the Ameri-an Hed Cross Soci ty ugent, ave charge of the | tuking them, or rather they fear that it may | that the necessary gnards be taken from the | clined to be angry, bu: he finally joined in the | etrect dress is responsible for a whole lot of | Hebe, while Kate Kane in her imparted ae ood that guitering careren. with me, and in speaking of the corn which arrangements and if a man does not not be comfortable for thom if they do not | drivers, and although I protested that I had | {angh, Early ‘in’ February boats began to| awkwardness, A woman can't be a model of | tea gowns looks like a bar maid. + Men like to turban show-white in the sum —— in crossing the water keep the roadway in froat of his house clean or | take them. and the result is that they have | lost nearly all my sleep tho night before I was | gather at the wharf, and one morning we were grace when she is frantically groping for the | Promenade with me because I walk well and set ‘Where ostriches and zebras run. people that i allows any nuisanes to remain ab: good subscription lists and paying subscribers. | compelled to be one of them. When I went off | Srdered to be ready to move at uoon; asis| tail of her gown. And then, when the refrac- | Off their own style. They like to have me ride Ayesha the cattle. ises he is liable to tind hims:lt in j ‘Tho Russians are naturally a reading people and | at 2 o'clock it was raining hard and I waa wet usnal with soldierg breaking camp we tore down | tory thing is well in hand, the horrifying | With them because I sit well in itend ee had 2, free prose some, of the | to the rkin, but [ rolled my blanket around we | and burnt our hetses, but we bud causo to re- | thought strikes her that the "shan, aling | They. like A troop of Bedoutns with thetr spears ‘that the most ss . largest daily circulations of the world might | and laid down, puiling my rubber blanket over gret this, as we did not move that day and had | its wearer's neither loll all over the table nor my chair, nor In the Sahara quick appears, ‘The natural <= SET ore ee exist here. Faaxe G. Canveter, |my head, and in a minute was asleep. | to sleep on the ground, and just before day sit as encased in a strai And, spurring with sirocco speed, Derund description. ts A —eve When 1 rm, Atakened by the bugle | tight a cold rain sot in. ’ Early next day we em ‘Each Moslem strides a fers steed. Femimecence A Wedding Without @ Bridegroom. | at daylight I was lying” in a barked for the Gulf of Mexico, as it proved, al- wets Paris Letter to the Lonion Telesraph. an inch or more deep. The though we no where we were bound Something like the performance of the great | was cold and rain was still falling, for. F. J. Youxa. A furious charge—a broken line— cloth | Shakesperian drama with the principal ebarac- | huddled around the fires until the sage Bc! Above the sands their crescents shina, fing when she | fads take tr up, and after feeding our teams and getting Onward the fierce marauders dash ard on this ter absent hae taken place ot Ivry, a borough in | Stine coffee and hardiack we startel Oy tre ‘Mow Meather Reer Was Lost. ‘To clang of hoof and faichion’s fash. dead. Hanging the southeastern part of Paris. Two young | track of the memy. ‘The roads bad been badly | From the Saturday Review, Ayesbal ‘these Rasian Persons, who may be referred to as Francois | out up and mud was ankle deep, the cold rain| Heather atill blooms bravely on the Galloway bald bead peeped: and Marie, had resolved to enter the bonds of | was falling, and, although we we had nilis, but thirsty shepherds recall wistfully the Her cries unheard, her convoy sisin, Tae Tmpred and whowe wedlock. ‘Everything had been prepared not | guineds victory, we were not in good eels on ‘The Paynims soouring o'er the plain as the picture only for the nuptial ceremony at the mayor's | spirits. ing cold, wet and hungry, tramping her shoes Praise Allah for the prize thus seat PUTRID risu. office, but also for the mertiece feast.: "The mud all day and sleeping on the ground with curvat Acaptive to their chieftein’s teat One of the most offensive smells along the tfal at t does not make a man very vy, reason that “Ayesha! Volga is that of putrid fish. Nearly every other in der Kunf |e though he knows some one else is worse off: We | the manner of losing it is recorded in a local | tice HH vy Fete hana capes are ‘than wharf bas great crates of this packed away, eed you are Strings and which th their shoulders from Astrakhaa. nte walking about the streets fish. which they bave upon carry about swung over The most of these fish come Which is at the mouth of the ich is one of the greatest fish world. It is here that the the caviare of the world is from the ree of the sturgeon, dollars’ worth of it are ahipped Fear. mae MOFe are which are sent over Rus- at Astrakhan ie g ‘this iuereasing. The feb which Astrakhan are often rot more cured and they are in a bad condition peasan' | | & Unkritifaje Tage aus junta. = MOLERA DISPATCH STAMPED OUT BY CRXSOR, is a storekeeper his shop may be ordered shut for a period of some months, as the anthoritics decide. The great trouble is the lack of good water works, and as to the sani! build- the houses neither St. rz not Moscow has the best of drainage, and thie city of St, Petersburg, as cool as it often is in the summer is built upon a marsh, and its night air is filled with notions vapors. The anthorities are always ‘ixing the streets and the Nevski Proszect ba: been torn up during a live | part of my stay in Rassia. About The poorer | (his straet 1s paved with great row ind blocks of word. are watere | twice a day and the pty together geo e pig yn ed fall of beed di Potersbug in the death the Ru:sian people | im ordinary times is g ex‘er than that of an: other - civlixed uation, and it runs saw some of the results of the work of bedecked wit at the Maire with hor a but Francois, the faithless, eame not. Scouts were sent out after him, but searched him tn vale, He had Masbhen Tres bad SFE Hd t j it rikre HE FLE se 8 § Jegend, The Picts of Galloway, it is aid, were hard pressed by their ancient foes, the Scots Step by step they retreated bef. superior & a A 44 i i z i e z i i i a i fi i i iH EF ' f ee & | | i i i i i | { f i i if i 4 ils H 4 i i I i g 8 | i af’ ut