Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-10-12

Horrors 81 >slsrrfa-
4 Russian convict never knows until
be reaches SIberis shat sort u life Is
IN store for him /; for in prOBoIncing
sentence Of hard labor the Judge nakss
no mention II mInes. II the convict
has money or inhaentiAl friends, he
had better use the tIrae hesxe.n has
senteEce and fr2n~.sortziion IN buying
= warrant ~hieh consigns HIM Co the
lighter kinds a labor at.ove grOunA.
OtIerviss be will inevitably he sent
under earth, and never again see the
sky until be Il hAElei mp g. die in an
intrnary. The convlcts are Forwarded
10 Siberia in eonvo,s, which start n
the commencement Of .pring. iuss after
the SHOWS have melted aEd left the
ground dry. They perform the xhole
journey on foot. escorted by mounted
COssscks. Who sre armed Nth pistols.
lAnoes and long whips and t..hind
them Jolts long string Of sprinsie-s
tambrils, % carry fLo-- vho fall lame
or Ill Oh the vay. The start - alxays
made IN the night. and care l. taken
that the conveys shall paS- through the
towns on their road only after dark.
Esch man 10 dressed IN a gray kalafan.
havl"g . brass nnmber-plafe fastened
to the breath, knee boots. and n sheep
SKIN bonnet. He carries rug strappsi
TO his back. q mess-tin and q wooden
spoon at his girdle. The women have
black cloaks, with hoods, and march in
gangs by themselves, with an escort OF
soldiers, like the men, and two or three
females warders, IN carts. In leaving
large cities, like st. Petersburg. all the
prisoners are chained with their hands
behind their backs, but their letters
are removed outside the city, except in
the case OF men who are marked ,lau-
gerous. These have to wear leg chains
Of four pounds weight all the way. and
some OF the more desperate ones are
yoked three to q beam Of wood. which
rests on their shoulders and is fastened
to their necks by iron collars. Nobody
may approach the men to inspect them.
The Cossacks crack their whips loudly
to warn persons off, and scamper up
and down the line with lanterns tied
to their lance points, which they lower
to the ground at every moment to see
if letters have been dropped. MUIR
derers, thieves, Nihilist conspiriators,
felon clergymen, mutinous soldiers and
patriotic Poles, all tramp together as
fast as they can 60 and perfectly silent.
Then come the women, shivering, Sob
bling, but not daring to cry out because
of those awful whips.
A New Jersey man of an inventive
turn of mind, undertook to accomplish
the Biblical feat of walking on water.
He made two immense India-rubber
shoes inflated with air. Then he went
down to the river. buckled on his air
shoes, and succeeded in walking fifty
yards, and was making bravelv for the
opposite shore when he was struck by
stiff breeze, and lost his balance. His
head went down, and his feet remained
above water. and, fifteen minutes after,
couple Of gunners, sighting the huge
shoes, mistook them for a couple of
amphibious monsters, and riddled them
with buckshot. This released the air
and the man disappeared. He was
found two weeks afterwards, but he
was as dead as the late julius Cesar,
ESD Norristo'rn Herald.
A little boy hearing some one re-
mark that nothing was quicker than
thought, said, II know something TINT
is quicker than thought" "What is it,
Johnny ?" asked his pa. "Whistling,"
said Johnny. "When 1 was in school
yesterday, whistled before 1 thought.
and I got licked for it, too"
"If Colonel goes on drinking as
he does now, he'll soon not have coat
to his back, said one friend to another.
"Nor to his stomach either" remarked
q physician who was standing near.
Encouragement for the Feeble.
So long as the failing embers OF vitality
are capable Of being re.kindled into a warm
and genial glow, just so long there is hope
for the weak and emaciated invalid. Let
him not, therefore, despond, but derive en-
couragement from this and from the further
fact that there is a restorative most potent in
down system. Yes, thanks to its unexampled
tonic virtues, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is
daily reviving strength in the bodies and
hope in the minds OF the feeble and nervous.
Appetite, refreshing sleep, the acquisition of
flesh and color, are blessings attendant upon
the reparative processes which this priceless
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successful conclusion. Digestion is restored,
the blood fcrtilized and sustenancc afforded
to each liie-sustaining organ by the Bitters.
which Is inofensivc even to the feminine
palate, vegetable In composition and thor
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