Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-11-10

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which the chicken was boiled, then
pour it on the meat; place in a tin,
wrap tightly in cloth, press with a
heavy weight for several hours. When
served cut in thin slices. This is de-
licious for sandwiches at picnic
Chicago Tribune.
A Russian Mutiny, and How 1t Was
Punished.
One need not be surprised at any,
thing that happens in Russia. The
other evening, while smoking a cigar
with one of my old friends, who has
seen, read and travelled great deal, |
was told of an incident which occurred
some forty yeara ago at Novgorod,
quite Us sinister as that which rec entity
occurred at Smargon, when a popula-
ton of raging madmen flung children
into blazing fire, and reveled at the
sight of the poor little bodies writing
like vine stems upon the blazing Goals.
But in the narrative l am about to re-
late there was no race hatred or re-
ligious passion for motive.
iment, ferociously tyrannical aud |
may say merciless toward his soldiers,
was in the habit of treating this human
flock like a pack of brutes. He dis
ciplined with the knout; sentencing
men to whippings for having one but
ton insuiliciently polished; whipping q
nOn-cOmmissiOned officer for one stain
on his cloak; striking veterans of Boro-
dino in the face for saluting too slowly;
sending poor wretches to Siberia for
giving too free an answer. In short.
during the lapse of years this Colonel
had made himself so detested by his
men that he reaped frightful VEN
geance from the seeds of hatred he
had sown.
One morning. during parade, he sud-
denly saw file off from the regiment Il
company of soldiers, bearing, instead
of muskets, those long rods which cut
deeply into the flesh at every blow.
Nevertheless, he had given no orders!
There was no soldier to chastise.
"What is that for?" he demanded.
A grenadier advanced from the ranks,
and replied with terrible GOODNESS:
"For theer'
The entire regiment. non-commis-
stoned officers and soldiers, were in the
plot, which had been concocted in the
barracks. The whole regiment was
present at the terrible spectacle. The
Colonel was seized, his uniform torn off,
he was tied down in a wheelbarrow,
and wheeled up and down before the
ranks of the grenadiers, armed with
rods, all of whom struck and insulted
him. The officers who attempted to aid
their Colonerwere Immediately seized
and bayonets pointed at their throats.
Some were taken away; others garroted.
Only one soldier attempted to take
part with them. Then Sergeant, still
pallid from the effects of his last whip
ping with the knout, put his musket to
the soldiers temple and blew his brains
out.
And all the regiment saw its colonel
pass under the rods.
When it was all over they opened q
kiln-oven. The Colonel was flung into
it, all bleeding, together with the Off
GERS who had well obeyed him. And
when the furnace was well fed, the
soldiers heated it slowly, slowly-until
at last that hideous, heavy and revolt.
ing smell of melting fat and burning
flesh arose in the air, which the savages
of the Russian frontier inhaled some
days ago at Jewish cemetery at Smar.
gon.
But the tragedy of Novgorod was
not yet over!
An imperial courier bore to the Czal
the news of the mutiny. Nicholas
listened, became white, but said moth
ing except to order four batteries o.
artillery to Novgorod. Ten days aftel
q white-haired and -mustached Ma
jor-General, accompanied by q single
aide de-camp, knocked at the door o.
the barracks which the soldiers haC
never left since the murder of theil
chiefs.
The General gazed coldly upon those
pale men, all neatly and faultlessly uni
formed, who gave him the military
salute,
Not areproach-not one useless word
He only said to them:
''At 6 o'clock tomorrow morning
the regiment will assemble in undres
uniform and without arms at the Tarta
camp, upon the Little Square. Orde
of the Gar"
| Not ono voioo replied. DuG tile nov
day upon the narrow square, all il
ranks without arms, in their long graz
coats, their Sargeants at their usua
posts, all the mutinous soldiers wer,
there, in lines regular as if adjusted t,
string, with double line of lance
bearing Cossacks before and behind
Then all at once FROM every far spire
all the great bells began to toll
The COssack horsemen withdrew. Onl,
the unarmed infantry remained upol
the square, with folded arms, waiting
Then there came long low roll O
drums, and with it from all the aven
ues leading into the square came vol
leys of grape like iron-hail.
Then nothing was heard awhile bu
the thunder Of the cannon in that city
otherwise silent az a cemetery, whel
men, women and children kneeling be
fore their holy images, were prayin.
for the soldiers they were shooting
down in the square. And during III
interval in the cannonade, hymn roll,
ed up from the square; for the soldiers
were dying with the prayers of thei
childhood upon their lips. The canno
Numbered for hours. Then all was S
lent. Powder and iron rested awhile
The cannoneers entered the squar
and recoiled at the sight OF those rank
of men mown down like wheat-th
marsh of blood. From under the dea
they pulled out few still breathin
! victims, able to live awhile.
what shall be done with them, Ter
eral? ShaS we put them in the hos
pital?"
''Put them under the knoutr' -Par
Figaro.