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The Brussels Post, 1893-12-1, Page 22 IN THE MIDST OF ALARMS BY ROBERT BALM, IN "LIPPINOOTT'S MAGAZINE." CHAPTER VIII,—(Cosmse1D.) "I presume," he said at length, ' there ie little use in attempting to improve the morning hour by trying to show you, Ken - mark, what a fool you made of yourself in the eamp'1 Your natural diplomacy seemed to be slightly off the centre." "I do not hold diplomatic relations with thieves and va abonda." "They may be vagabonds, but so am I, for that matter. They may also be wall• meaning mistaken sten ; but I do not think they are thieves," ' While you were talking with the so- called general, one party came in with sev- eral,horsos that had been stolen from the neighboring farmers, and another party started out to got some more." " Oh, that isn't stealing, Renmark; that's requisitioning. You muatn't use such reck- less language. I imagine the eeoond party bus been successful; for hero are three of then, all mounted." The three horsemen referred to stopped their steeds at the sight of the two men coming coned the bend of the reed, and awaited their approach, Like so many of the others, they wore 310 uniform, but two ot than held revolvers in their bands ready for action. The one who had no visible re- volver moved his horse up the middle of the road towards the pedestrians, the other two taking positions on each side of the wagon way. " Who are you? Where do you come from, and where are you going?" cried the foremost horseman,as the two walkers came within talking -distance. " It's all right, commodore," said Yates, jauntily," and the top of the morning to you. 'We are hungry peclestrians. ISe have just Dome from the camp, and we are going to get something to eat.' " I must have a more satisfactory an swered than that." " Well, here you have it then," answer ed Yatoe, pulling out his folded pass and handing it up to the horseman. The man read it carefully. " You find that all right, I expeot ?' ' Right enough to cause your immediate arrest." ' But the general said we were not to be molested further. That is in his own hand- writing." ' I presume it is, and all the worse for you. H1s handwriting does not run quite as far as the queen's writ in this country yet. 1 arrest you in the name of the queen.—Cover these men with your re- volvers,and shoot them down if they make any resistanc•." So saying, the rider slip- ped from his horse,whipped out ofhispocket a pair of handcuffs joined by a short, stout steel chain, and, leaving his horse standing, grasped Renmark's wrist. " I'm a Canadian," said the professor, wrenching his wristawey. "You mustn't put handcuffs on me." " You are in very bad company, then. I am a constable of this county, and, it you are what you say, you will not resist arrest," I will go'with you. But you mustn't handcuff me." Oh 1 mustn't 1?" And, with a quick movement indicative of long practice with resisting criminate, the aonstable deftly slipped on one of the clasps, which closed with a sharp oliok and stuck like a burr. Reumark became deadly pale, and there was a dangerous glitter in his eyes. He drew beak his clinched fist, in spite of the tact that the Docked revolver was edging closer and °loser to him and the constable held his struggling manacled hand with grins determination. "Hold on?" cried Yates, preventing the professor from striking the representative of the law. "Don't shoot," he shorted to the man on horseback : "it to all a little mistake, that will be quickly put right. You are three armed and mounted men,and we are only two unarmed and on foot. There is no need of any revolver practice.—Now, Renmark, you are more of a rebel at the present moment than O'Neill. He owes no allegiance, end you do. Have you no re• specs for the forms of law and order ? You are an anarchist at heart, for all your pro- fessions. You would sing ' God Save the Queen 1' in the wrong place awhile ago, so now be satisfied that you have got her, or, rather, that she has got you.—Now, non - stable, do you want to hitch the other end of that arrangement on my wrist 7 or have you another pair for my own epeaial use?" " I'll take your wrist, if you please." "All right : here you are." Yatea draw back his cont•sleeve and presented his wrist. The dangling ouff was speedily clamped upon it. The constable mounted the patient horse that stood wetting for him, watching him the while with intelligent eye. The two prisoners handcuffed together took the middle of the road, with a horseman on each side of then, the countable bringing up the rear, and thus they marched on, the professor gloomy from themdignityputupon them, and the newspaper man as joyous as the now thoroughly awakened birds. The scouts conoladsd to go no farther towards the enemy, bub to return to the Canadian forces with their prisoners. They marched down the road, all silent except Yates, who enlivened the morning air with the singing of "John Brown." "Keep quiet," said the constable, curtly. "All right, I will. But look here : we shall pass ahortly the house of a friend. We want to go and get something to eat." " You will get nothing to eat until I deliver you up to the officers of the volun• tears." "And where, may I ask, aro they?" "You may ask, but I wiit not answer." "Now, Renmark," said Yates to his com- panion, " the tough part of this episode is brat we shall have to pass Bartlett's house and feast merely on theremembranoe of the good thing] which Mrs, Bartlett is always glad to bestow on the wayfarer. I call that refined cruelty. It is adding insult to in• jury." As they neared the Bartlett homestead they caught sight of Miss Kitty on the veranda, shading her eyes from the rising sun and gazing earnestly ab the approach - fag squad. As soon as she recognized the group she disappeared with a cry into the house. Presently there came out Mra, Bartlett, followed by her son and more slowly by the old man himself. Thy alt came down to the gate and waited. "Hello, Mrs. Bartlett," tried Yates cheerily. "You see the professor has got his deserts at last ; and I, being in had company, altar° his fate, like the good dog Tray," "What'sall this about?" cried Niro. Bartlett, The aonstable, who know both the farmer and his wife, nvclded.familiarly to them. "'They're Fenian prieoners," he }laid. "Nonsense l" cried Mro. Bartlett—the old MAN, aauaualkeep inghis mouth grimly abut when his wife was present to do the talk- ing ; ; ' they're not Ionians, They've been cam ing on our farm for a week or snore, "That 1ney be," said the constable, Grin• ly. "But I have Ole bast of evidence against them, and if I'm not very much mistaken they'll hang for it," Nils.) Kitty who had been partly visible through the deer, gave a cry of anguieh at this remark and disappeared again. " We have just escaped being hanged by the Ionians themselves, Mee. Bartlett, and 1 hope the same fate awaits us at the hands of the Caltadians." "What! hanging?" "No, no; just escaping. Not that I ob- jeot to being hanged; I hope I ant not so pernickety as all that; but, Airs. Bartlett, you will sympathize with me when I tell yott that the torture I am suffering at this moment is the remembrance of the good things to eat which I have had in your house. I am simply starving to death, Mrs, Bartlett, and this hard.hearted con- stable refuses to allow mo to oak you for anything." Mrs. Bartlett came out through the gate to the road in a visible state of indignation. "Stoliker," she exclaimed, " I'm ashamed of you! You may hang a man if you like, bub you have no right to starve him.— lento straight in with me," she said to the pri- soners. Madam," said Stoliker, severely, "you must not interfere with the course of the law." "The course of stuff and nonsense!" cried the angry woman. "Do you think I am afraid of you, Sam Stolikar? Haven't I chased you out of this very orchard when you were a boy trying to steal my apples? Yes, and boxed your vara too when I caught you, and then was fool enough to fill your pockets with the best apples on the place after giving you what you deserved. Course of the law, indeed I 1'll box your ears now if you say anything more, Got down off your horse and have something to eat your self. I dare say you need it," " This is what I call a rescue," whispered Yates to his linked companion. What is a stern upholder of the law to do when the interferer with justice is a determined and angry woman accustomed to having her own way ? Stoliker looked helplessly at Hiram as the supposed head of the house, but the old man merely shrug. ged his shoulders, as much as to say, "You see )tow it is yourself. I em helpless." airs. Bartlett marched her prisoners through the gate and up to the house. "All I ask of you now," eaid Yates, "is that you will give Reuutark and me seats together at the table. We cannot bear to be separated even for an instant." Having delivered her prisoners to the custody of her daughter, at the sante time admonishing her to get at as quick- ly as possible, airs. Bartlett went to the gate again. The constable was still on his horse. Hiram had asked him, by way of treating him to a non -controversial subject, if this was the oolt he had bought from old Brown on the second conoeseion, and Stoliker had replied that it was. Hiram was saying ltd thought he recognized the horse by his sire, when Airs. Bartlett broke in upon them. " Come Sam," she said, " no sulking, you know. Slip off the horse and mine in. How's your mother?" "She's pretty well, thank you," said Sam, sheepishly, coming down on his feet again. Kitty Bartlett, her gayety gone and her eyes red, wafted on the prisoners, but ab. satutely refused to serve Sam Stoliker, on whom she looked with the utmost contempt, not taking into account the fact that the poor young man had been merely doing his duty, and doing it well. "Take otl these handcuffs, Sam," said Mrs. Bartlett, "until they have breakfast at least." Stoliker produced a key and unlocked the manacles, slipping them into his pocket. "Ah 1 now," said Yates, looking at his red wrist, "we can breathe easier, and I, for one, can eat more." THE BRUSSELS POST "Dick is 017 name, Kit" " Well, mina is not Kit." "You're quite right. Now that you meta tion it, I will mill you Kitty, which is molt prettier thou the abbreviation," ' I did not 'mention it.' Please lob too go, Nobody loathe right to pall use ,u ythin, tut Miss Bartlett; that is, you haven't anyhow." " \Well, bitty, don't you think it is about time to give somebody the right? Why won't you look up at me, so that T can tell for sure whether i should have aoousod you of crying ? Look up,—Hies Bartlett." " Please let mo go, Mr. Yates, Mother will be Hero in a minute," "Mother is a wise and thoughtful woman, We'll elide mother, Besides, I'm not in the least afraid of her, and I don't believe you are, I think she is at bilis moment giving poor Mr. Stoliker a piece of her mind ; otherwise, I imagine, lie would have fol. lowed ate. I saw it in his aye." " I hate that man said Kitty inconse- quently. "I like hint, because ho brought me here, even if I was hatdon0'ed. Kitty, why don'b you look up at me ? Aro you afraid?" " What should I be afraid of 7" asked Kitty giving him one swift glance from her pretty blue oyes. " Not of you, I hope." " Well, Kitty, I sincerely hope nob. Now, Miss Bartlett, do you know why I cane out here 7" "For something more to eat, very likely," said the girl, mischievously. "Now, Miss Kitty, that, to o man in nap. tivity, is both eruct and unkind. Besides, 1 had a firet•rate breakfast, thank you, No such motive drew me into the kitchen, But I will tell you. You shall have it from my own lips. That was the reason," He suited the aotiou to the word, and kissed her before oho knew what was about to happen. At least Yates, with all his ex- perience, thought he had taken her un - amerce. Men often make mistakes in little matters of this kind. Kitty pushed him with apparent indignation from her, but she did not etr ke hint across the face as she had done before when he merely at. tempted what he hnd now accomplished. Perhaps this was because she had been taken so completely by surprise. "'shall call my mother," she threatened. "Oh, no, you won't. Besides, she would not conte." Then this frivolous young man began to sing in a low voioo the flippant refrain, "Hare's to the girl that gets a kiss and runs and tells her mother," ending tvitt the wish that she should live and die an old maid and never get another. Kitty should not have smiled, but she dict; she should have rebuked his levity, but she didn't. " It is about the groat and disastrous consequences of living and dying an old maid that I want to speak to you. I have a plan for the prevention of suoh a oaths. trophe, and I would like to get your approv- al of it." Yates had released the girl, partly because she had wrenched herself away from him and partly because he hoard a movement in the dining -room and expected the'entranoe ot Stoliker or some of the others. Miss Kitty stood with her book to the table, her eyes fixed on a spring flower which she had unconsciously taken from a vase standing on the window -lodge. She smoothed the petals this way and that, and seemed so in. terested In botanical investigation thatYates wondered tt Nether she was paying attention to what lie was saying or not. What his pian night havo'beon can only be guessed ; for the fates ordained that they should be interrupted at finis oritioal moment by the one person on earth who could make Yates's tongue falter. Tho outer door to the kitchen burst open, and Ma•garot Howard stood on the thresh- old, her lovely fade aflame with indigna• tion, and her dark hair down over her shoulders, forming a picture of loveliness that fairly took Yates's breath away. She did not notice him. " Oh, Kitty," she cried, " those wretches have stolen alt our horses 1 Is your father hero?" " What wretches?" asked Kitty, ignoring the question, and startled by the sudden advent of her friend. "The Iranians. They have taken all the horses that were in the fields, and your horses as wen. So I ran over to toll you." "r" they taken your own horse, too ?" The professor said nothing. The iron had not only encircled his wrist, but lied entered his soul as well. Although Yates tried to make the early meal as cheerful as possible, it was rather a gloomyfeetival. Sto- liker began to feel, poor man, that the paths of duty were unpopular. Old Hiram mould be always depended upon to add sombreness and taciturnity to a wedding-feasta and the profeaaor,'lever, the liveliest of compan- ions, sat silent, with clouded brow, and vexed even the cheerful Mrs. Bartlett by having evidently no appetite. When the hurried meal was over, Yates, noticing that Miss Kitty had loft the room, sprang up and walked towards the kitohen door. Stoliker was on bis feet in an instant, and made as though to follow him. "Sit down," said the professor sharply, speaking for the first time. " He is not going to escape. Don't be afraid, He has done nothing, and has no four of arrest, It is always the innocent that you stupid ofll• dials arrest. The woods all around you are fall of real Fenian, but you take excellent care to keep out of their way and give your attention to molesting perfectly inoffensive people." " Good for you professor 1" cried Mrs, Bartlett, emphatically. " That's the truth, if ever it waaspokon. But are there Iranians in the woods ?" "Hundreds of them, They came on us in the tent about three o'clock this morning, —or at least an advanoo-guard did,—and, after talking of shooting us where we stood, they marolied us to the Fenian camp instead. Yates got a pass written by the Fenian general, so that we should not be troubled again. That is the precious document which this man thinks is deadly evidence, He never asked us a question, but "lapped the handenfro on oar wristo, while the other fools held pistols to our heads." "It isn't my place to ask questions," re. torted Stoliker, doggedly. "You can toll all this to the colonel er the sheriff, and if they let yon go I'll say nothing against it." Meanwhile, Xatos had made his way into the kitohon, taking the precaution to shut the door after him, Kitty Bartlett looked quickly around aa the door shut. Before site could speak, the young man caught her by the plum pp shoulders,—a thing whioh he certainly had no right to do. "Miss Kitty Bartlett," ho acid, "you've been crying." " I haven't ; and if hod, it is nothing to you. "Oh, I'm nob so sure about that. Don's deny it. roe whom were you Drying? The professor ?" No, nor for you either, although I sup - pogo you have conceit enough to think so," "Me otncoited7 Anything but that, Come now, Kitty, for whom wore you ery ing? 1 mud' know,' " Ploaso let ins go Mr. Yates," said Kitty, with an effort at dignity, oscapo. You °tight to be asltanted of your- aolf, dant Stolikor,of you have any manitood about yott,—which I doubt," "I must do my duty." The professor rose frottt his ohair. "Mn Stoliker," ho said, with determination, "hay friend and myself will go with yott quietly, We will meice no attempt to oscapo, as we have done nothing to snake us fear investigation. But I give yen fair warning that if yeti attempt to put a hand- ouff on my wrist again I will smash you." A cry of terror from duo of the girls at the prospect of a light caused the professor to malleo where he was, He turned to thorn, and said, in a contrite voice,— "On 1 I forgot yon wore here, f sincerely beg your pardon," Margaret, with blazing oyes, cried,— "D.n't beg my pardon,bub—smelt him," Then a consoiousness of what she had said overcame her, and the excited girl hid her blushing facie on her friend's shoulder, while Kitty lovingly stroked her dark tangled hair. Renmark took a step towards them, and stopped. Yates, with his usual quickness, cams to the rescue, and his cheery voice relieved the tension of the situation: "Come, come, Stoliker, don't bo an idiot. I do not object in the least to the hand- cuffs ; and if you are dying to handcuff somebody, handcuff me. It hasn't strttok your luminous mind that you have not the first tittle of evidence against my friend, and that even if I were the greatest criminal in Anterioa the fact of his being with mo is no crime. The truth is, Stoliker, that I wouldn't be in your }hoes for a good many dollars. You talk a groat deal about doing your duty, but you have exceeded it in the case of the professor. I hope you have no property ; for the professor can, if he likes, maize you pay sweetly for putting the haudouffs on hint without a warrant or oven without one jot of evidence.—What is the penalty for false arrest, Hiram 7" con- tinued Yates, suddenly appealing to the old man. "I think it is a thousand dol- lars." Hiram said gloomily that he didn't know. Stoliker was hit on a tender spot, for he owned a farm. "Better apologize to the professor and lot us get along.–Good-by, all.—M.us. Bartlett, that breakfast was the very best I ever tasted." The good woman smiled and shook hands with him. Good•by, Mr. Yates ; and I hope y ou wilt soon come bank to have another." Stoliker slipped the handcuffs into his pocket again, and mounted his horse. The girls from the veranda watched the pro- cession move up the dusty road. They were silent, and had oven forgotten the exciting event of the stealing of the horses. (To DE CONTINUED.) " No. I always keep Gypsy in the stable. The thieves did not come near the house. Oh, Mr, Yates !—I did not see you." And Margaret's hand, with the unconscious vanity of a woman, sought her dishevelled hair, which Yates thought too becoming ever to be put in order again, Margaret reddened as she realized from Kitty's evident embarrassment thaOshohad impulsively broken iu upon a conference of two. I must tell your father about it," she said, hurriedly, and before Yates could open the door she had done so for herself. Again she was token aback to see so many sitting round the table. Thorn was a moment's silence between the two in the kitchen, but ills apell was broken. "I—I don't suppose there will be any trouble about getting back the horses,' said Yates, hesitatingly, "If you lose them the government will have to pay," "I presume so," answered Kitty, coldly; then, " Excuse me, Mr. Yates : 1 mustn't stay here any longer." So saying, she fol- lowed Margaret into the other room. Yates drew a long breath of relief. All his old difficulties of preference had orison when the outer door buret open. He felt that he had had a narrow escape, and bo- gan to wonder if he had really committed Himself, Then the fear swept over trim that Margaret might have nottcod icor friend's evident confusion and surmised its eauee, He wondered whether this would help him or hurt him with Margaret if he filially made up his mind to favor her with hfs serious attentions. Still, he reflected that, after all, they were both oountry•girls and would no doubt be only too pager to accept a chance to live in Now York, Thus his mind gradually resumed its normal state of self-conftdenee, and he argued that whatever Margaret's suspicions were, they oould not hut snake him more precious in her eyes, He knew of instances where the vary danger of losing a man had turned a woman's wavering mind entirely in the man's favor. When he had reached this point, the door from the dining -room opened, and Stoliker appeared, " We are waiting for you," said the constable. "All right, I am ready." As he entered the room ho saw the two girls standing together talking earnestly. "I wish I waea oonstablo for 1,wontyfour home," cried Mrs. Bartlett, "I would be hunting ltoroo.thieves,inotead of ltandoufling innocent men." "Como alohaq," said the fmpa}eivo Statile- er, taking Oheliandouffs from Ma pocket. "If you theca men," continued Mrs. Bartlett, "gannet take thee° two to camp, or to jail, or anywhere also, without hand - miffing them, I'll go along with you myself and protest you and --sae that they don't — m LIKE 1 HEART IN HIS LEG. ,in Interesting Operation on a St. LOON Patient for femoral Anenrirru. Dr. Marks, Superintendent of the St. Louis City Hospital, out a heart out of a man's leg the other day. Instead of being necessary to the patient's existence, as hearts usually aro, this organ was a very dangerous possession and was likely to end his Rife at any moment. The heart was almost as large as the one usually found inside a man's ribs, and beat in very much the same manner. It was situated upon the inside of Oho right log, four or Ste inches above the knee, and was more tender than the ball of the owner's eye. Charles Gantry, a laborer, was the owner of this very remarkable organ. To the sur. goons the phenomenon is called a traumatic aneurism of the femoral artery. This artery is the big blood feeding pipe that runs from the heart clown through the body and leg, furnishing life to the different parts of the anatomy as it goes. About two months ago Gentry was struck upon the leg just over the artery by a shaft of a piece of machin- ery The inner wall of the artery was burst, and the big 1 ip3 began to bulge out at this point. The outer wall, nrcoat of the eatery, lucltily stretched and held the blood, or Gentry would have bled to death bine time. The artery kept an swelling with every pulsation of the patient's heart. Froin the size of a hazelnut the bulge grew and grew until yesterday it was larger that a man's fist. How the artery managed to stand it without bursbing was a matter for wonder even to the surgeons, The least touch given to the skin over the swelling caused Gantry hor• rible pain, and he was obliged to keep vary still lest any sudden movement or contact would break it and by the hemorrhage bring on death. The aneurism- could be seen to beat to all intents and purposes like any other heart. If one brought his ear close to it be could hear a constantly repeated blowing or breathing sound coming from beneath the skin. Thin noise was caused by the vacant air space around the swollen artery where it had crowded the muscles aside. Dr. Marks decided to operate in order to save Gentry's life, The aneurism was per. oepOibly growing, and was bound to burst soon. The patient was laid upon the operating table and placed under the in- fluenceofchloroform. A sharp knife laid the tissues aside and exposed the femoral artery with its apple•shaped bulb. The artery was then tied, or "ligated," 2 inches above and 2 inches below the swelling, and the big bulb out open. Nearly a pint of blood gushed fortis and than there was no heart loft. The slit artery was then sewed together witha'en° silk threads previously soaked in antiseptic solutions, and belt to heal. The ligatures above and below were left to remain, however, until the artery is fully healed. Then they will be untied and the blood allowed to go down Gentry's leg as usual. In the mean time the patient's limb will receive blood from the smaller arteries, and will in all probability keep from dying, THE LONGEST RAILROAD. VIVO 'Thousand Six Hundred Ulloe 11'Uit out ('banging ('ars, A wealthy Russian who has the contract for building a part of the great Siberian railway, arrived at Victoria with several of his countrymen on the last Pacific. Mail steamer. This gentleman is J. J, Galetzoki. Tho others It the party aro Mr, Koralolf, who has been operating Siberian minds, and two civil engineers named "vane and Allan. oli. They are on the way tc St, Peters- burg. The Siberian railway Mr. Galotzaki is now engaged in contruotimg, is a costly on - teepee and When completed it le expected that 10 will have an important affection com- merce and civilization. It will bo the long. est line of track ever laid. A person can. got on a aur and ride more than 5,600 miles without °Mango when it is built. At the inception of the work the supposition was that it would bo finished in 1805 ; when some progroas had been made the belief was that the last spike would not be driven until 1897, and now Mr. Galotzaki ]las in. formed acquaintances hero that in 1000 the Transoiberian Railway may be completed. As the diflioeltios are greater than antici- pated when encountered, it may bo that the project will be accomplished at the begin. ning of the century. Mr. Galetzski began work on his part of the line two years ago. On the 24th of May, 1801, the Cearawitz turned the first sod, laid the first rail, and drove TUE FIRST seI1mis at Vladivostock, ',Work was then pushed at both ends of the line. In Russia the railway starts from the station in the Ural r,2ountains where the European line now terminates, and on the railway, by means of a junction, a continuous journey can be made to Moscow and to other European cities. Mr, Malowansky oaid that about 200 versts of the road had been finished by Mr. lsaletzski, 400 more are partiallyfiuish- ed, and the aervoyors are in advance for400 additional versts. A verab is a Russian mile, being equivalent to two-thirds of a mile in this country. Ton thousand Chinese and Coreans are employed by the contrac- tors, they being considered as handy for railroad building in bleak Siberia as in America. The other workmen aro convicts and ticket -of -leave men, The price paid per verot by the Government is 00,000 rubles, amounting to about $3,000,000 for the sections under Mr. Galotzslci's charge. The work is very expensive, as a great deal of blasting of solid rook mast he done. Whole mountains of rock have to be moved and deep gorges have to be made. tench difioulty was experienced in getting she material to.Siberitt. A largo part of it had to be shipped to the Pacific coast and then up to Vladivostook. Transportation across Siberia under existing conditions is slow and cumbersome. The DEEP SNOWS IN WINTER A MILLIONAIRE DEAJJ. air. J.11, Pemberton, of Victoria. 11.01, Rap tures a 10100,1 Vossol. A Victoria, B. 0., special ear:— Joseph Despard Pemberton, one of the millionaire business men of this province, diad this evening on horsebaok while re- turning from a run of the Victoria Hunt Club out to Uodar Hill. The immediate cause of death was the rupture of a blood voosel near the heart. Mrs. Pemberton accompanied her husband on the afternoon's sport, and was riding ahead as they turned into a shady avenue near home. Speaking half over her shoulder to her husband, and receiving 110 answer, rho turned, and in dismay caw his prostrate body on the road, the horse standing motionless beside it, Hastily cliemotmting and hurrying to his help,ehe was horrified to find life extinct. Doceasacl was an English gentleman and came bete in 1851, at once ootnmonoing to take an energetic, place in public affairs. Ila surveyed the site of the present city of Victoria as colonial ourveyor, and occupied a scat in the first Vanoouvor Island Legis lative Caution, loo achieving business 011Dee00. impede and stop work. Those facts make the magnitude of the Russian Government's huge undertaking more impressive than the mere statement of the lines extraordinary length. The steppes are uninviting to ap• pearance, and dangers abound. "Tigers and other wild animals have been shot along the line not far from Vladivostock. To now reach a city of European Russia takes forty days from Vladivostook, and when the rail- way is running ono can go to St. Petersburg from that Siberian port in twelve days. The idea of having this railroad was in the mind of the Uzar twenty years before work was begun. A commission which was appointed by the Emperor in 1887 unatim• ousty r000mmondod the project on commer- cial and strategical grounds. It was fore- seen that the cost would bo immense, but the Russian Government decided to bear it alone, accepting no foreign capital. The benefits that will accrue to Russia aro ex. pectod to more than repay the expenditure. Among the advantages which the railway will bring about are the colonization of Siberia, which is a vast unpopulated portion of the earth ; the development of agricul- ture and of the Siberian minds ; the open- ing up of new markets for Russian industries, and, in short, to make Asiatic Russia a }aurae of revenue instead of constant expense, besides increasing Russian influence in countries bordering on Siberia. By building up Siberia tate railway will aid Russian extension in Asia. Part of the trade of China, Japan, and Corea will be diverted to Russia. To transport freight from Shanghai to Vancouver, thence over the Canadian Pacific and across the Atlantic to Europe, takes thirty-five days. Through the Suez Canal to Genoa and Marseilles requires forty-three to forty-six days. When THE SIDEMAN RAILWAY is finished freight can be transported from Shanghai to Europe in eighteen to twenty days, and this saving of time will divert trade to the new line. Russia thus ex- pects to cut into the business that now falls to the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, and Germany, Rnesta had once a great caravan route across the desert, but the increase of facilities for ocean carrying caused it to fall into disuse. One draw- back for the Siberian line is that the port of Vladivostook, to which all of its freighb must acme, is closed by ice during several months of each year. The esOimate by the Russian engineers was that 'the railway would cost from $30,000 to $67,000 a mild, Some parts are to pass through a country where engineer- lee difficulties are groat. The outlay is to be from 350,000,000 to 400,000,000 rubles. The line will rim close to the fifty-fifth par- allel of north latitude from Zlatausk and Mask as far as tate Yenisei River. Branchos will there extend for about sixty miles to conned with the important towns of Tomsk and Omsk. The road will then follow a more southerly coniae to Irkutsk, go along rho southern ahem of Lake Baikal, and through the valley of the Soling River, cross the valleys of the Lena and the Atntir to Lake Callan, where excellent coal has been found; thence run eastward to the steamboat station of Srejetinok on the Amur River and along that sOream south- eastward to Khabarotl'ka. There it will turn southward along the right bank of the Ussurl, run to Graffeky, and terminate at Vladivostook, in latitude 43a. Some doubters say that this road will bo a constant drain on Russia for years after it to built, and that it will not begin to pay for half a century ; but evert if it brings ill no direct financial profits itis certain to be productive of good to the Russian empire. Although Siberia contains barren and al- most useless wastesit haamiltions of fertile soil, wliolt with easy cultivation will yield immense harvoste, One purpose of the Government is to relieve the crowded die. triats of European Russia, so that wIIEN 00,9 DROPS FAIR the famine may not affect AS marry as it hao in the past. Hundreds of thousands of toilers can hardly keep body and soul to. gother in Russia, and if this surplus labor were put on the fertile atoms of Western Siberia, that countr would bo developed, European Russia would be relieved of so Muth 'whom weight, and the emigrants to Dii;t EMflER t, 1893 Siberia, could maintain themselves ntuoh mora comfortably than note, Thus the intermits of the empire would bo advanced. Otto part of Western Siberia which is capable of being converted into n garden is Rh largo as France, and its soil is rioln enough to support as large a population as that country has. Such districts ore badly needed by Russia, for it has been found that in some of its European districts the agri outtural population hao increased far beyond the abllity to 110011,70 freeholds. This super- fluity of the Russian population ltae aggro. vated the snfforingo during each famine. The Siberian farms that are awaiting ouch settlers aro inaccessible now, but the rail- road will bring them within react, The alining regions of the Altai Moun- tains will also be aided by the railway. Mr, Korado0', who is with Mr. Galetzski, is credited with the belief that gold mines will bo developed there which will oomparo well with those of California. Australia, and theTranovaal. Steam centnnnioation will give an impetus to this district, whore enormous quantities of precious metal are supposed to be concealed, Ono of the remote regions to which the railway will probably bring population is the valley of the Saleuga River, on the southeast shore of Lake Baikal, It is the warmest district in all Siberia and has been called the Siberian Italy. Its fertility is unourpaesod, yet because of the lank of carryying facilities the ground there is un- usecl. How the Railway Whitttla was Invented. When locomotives were first built, and began to trundle their small loads up and down the newly and rudely constructed railways of England, the country roads were for the most part crossed at grades, and the ongine-driver had no way of giving warning of his approach except by blowing a horn. This horn, as may ins imagined, was far from being a sufficient warning. If a cow strayed upon the track, " so much the worms for the coo," as George Stephen- son said. Brit by.and•by it became Moon. venient for others than the cows. Otto day in the year 1833 a farmer of Thornton was crossing the railway track on ono of the country roads with a great load of eggs and butter. He was going to Leicester to sell tlto produce. Just as he came out upon the traok a train approached him. The engineman blew his tin horn lustily, but the farmer did not hear It. He drove squarely upon the track, and the engine plunged into his wagon. Fortunately the farmer was not seriously injured; but his horse and especially his eggs and butter were. Eighty dozen of eggs and fifty pounds of butter were smashed into an indistinguishable, unpleasant mase, and mingled with the kindling wood to whioli the wagon was reduced. The horse breath- ed his last in a few moments. The railway company had to pay the farmer the value of hie fifty pounds of butter, his nine hund- red and sixty oggs,bis horse and his wagon. It was regarded as a very serious affair, arid straightway a director of the company, Mr. Ashton Bagster by name, went to Atton Grange, where George Stephenson. lived. "What shall we do about this 7" ire ex- claimed. " We can't have such dreadful things as this happen on our railway,you know." Stephenson was inclined to take the mat- ter with true North -country philosophy, but the director was aroused. "Now, upon my word," said Ashton Bag. inter, " why can't you make your steam make a noise somehow that will warn these people?" He thought of no method to ac- complish this, but at that time people had, in a general way, a high opinion of theoapa- bilities of the power of steam. " That's an idea, mon," said Stephenson, "Bless your soul, I'll try it I" Ho wont to a maker of musioal instru- ments, and got him to contrive an appara• Ons which, when blown by steam, would make a horrible screech. This was attached to the boiler of an engine, and the first locomotive whiahlo was in full operation. The railway divootors, greatly delighted, ordered similar contrivances to be attached to all their l000motivea, and from that day to this the voice of the locomotive whistle Inas never been silent, So it may bo truly said that the locomotive whistle had its origin in the smashing of eighty dozen of eggs. Finanoial Aspects of the World's Fair. That the fair succeeded was enough for Chicago. It had other views than that of being a huckster of the occasion. Its view of what pays is imperial, and it draws on a long future. There is not a regret that the city has }unto five millions of dollars in.a subscription, and the citizens of Chicago had sunk five and a half millions in stook. It was quite enough that the debts and obit. gations wore all paid. The ten and a half millions that Chicago contributed was a free-will gift. Ib liked to read the big fig. urea. The treasurer received from all }pure- es, stooks, bonds, admissions, concessions, 532,796,103. Ho drew his checks for 530,- 558,849. And lie olosed the fair with a Dash balance in hand of $2,237,254. The total nest of construction was about $19,000,• 000. Tito operating expenses were $6,670,- 000, ranking a total of disbursements of over twenty and a half millions. The reoeipta, exclusive of admissions after Oc- tober 30th, and of salvage, are $10,280,000. From the concessions have been received about $3,800,000, malting over fourteen millions, The fair, therefore, falls eleven and a half millions short of paying expenses, and the stockholders would get nothing but for the souvenir come given by the govern. mens, which amount to about $2,430,000. Congress withheld half -e million dollars of its appropriation. lb is possible, therefore, that the stockholders will got bank about a million and a quarter, or fifteen poi oent of their subscription, When the fair officially closed there had been a total of 21,477,212 paid admissions, and a total of 27,529,400 of paid and free admissions, Thio total is less than that of Paris in 1889, which wan 28,149,353, but the fe admission e at Paris wao on an aver- age w e loss than twenty cents,, while that at Chicago was fifty cents, The Philadel ilia admissions in 1870 were 0,610,966. But for thefinanoial panic iu the eunsmee there is no doubt that the number of the Paris admissions would have been far exceeded, and that the fair would have been pecuniari- ly profitable to all concerned. Jnet in the Line. " What do you call this?" asked Oif10er 7o'oGobb, as he pulled a dangerous•looking bl'tclgoon out of the pocket of his prisoner. "'Chat is called a ' life proaervor,"' an - }moved rho acrobat, "An' fwat riuht have you with aliftpre. server, Ot would like to know 7" " Because 1 belong to the floating papula• tion ; see?" 1300 rho officer refused to ado. .e. "Will you give mo aomethiugg to oat for my children 7 !