Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-08

OF the past-thc lifc OF an old man, no
looking forward into the dazzling IN
certainty of the future, but seeking ir
the remembrance of the past all that 4
good, sacred and joyful. The be,
grew up behind Chinese wall apar
from all the joyful excitement, the busy
uproar of his generation, '.heavily Ia
den, as the great Russian poet ter
montoff says ''with the hoary wisdom
of his sires."
When Andrusha was fourteen year.
OF age his father brought him to St
Petersburg to the Corps DIES Pages, the
first military school of the Empire. Or
taking leave of his son in the recer
tion-roOm of the school thn General fol
the first time in his life BETRAYED some
weakness. He clasped Andrusha in
his arms and whispered: ''Be good
boy, become an honest soldier. remem.
Der you have got an old father whose
life you hold in your hand. If YOU
should ever bring shame on onr name
shall die" The boy felt two heavy.
burning tears fall on his brow, and be.
wildered, amazed by this unexpected
outburst of a feeling he had hardly
suspected, he threw both his arms
around his father and broke out into a
lit OF wild, uncomfortable sobbing.
All the passion, all the love which had
heon hitherto chilled in his young heart
by his fathers repulsivc severity,
seemed at that moment to stream out
at once, shaking his body from head to
foot, and mingled with a half-conscious
feeling of pity for himself, for his cold,
bleak childhood.
And thus father and son parted.
During the four years of his studies
Andrusha but rarely saw his father.
The Journey to Holtava was a long one.
The net of railroads which now con-
meets the South OF Russia with the
capital did not exist even in the widest
dreams of a loyal subject of the Gar
Travelling was slow and expensive and
General Savciiefi''s fortune less than
modest. When al length at the end of
his studies, which he accomplished bril-
liantly, the young artillery officer, An
drei lvanpritCh Savelieff. came to pass
the lnng vacation with his father in the
small country house Of Poltava, the
latter was deeply struck with the change
in the appearance and temper of his
son. Instead of q merry, somewhat
silent but healthy and blooming boy
there sprang o,it of the perekladnaya
lmail carD the General had awaited
with such throbbing Impotence, an
earnest, pale man, with nervously ex-
pressive, deeply-marked face, with a
fiery, piercing and unflinching gaze
one of those Young faces only to be
found among the Russian generation
OF to-day, face telling Il tale of deep
thought, of premature suffering and of
great tormenting love. And the
boys temper was changed too. OF his
former awe. mingled with an impulsive
tenderness towards his father no trace
was to be found. He met the latter
respectfully, but with certain micn of
independence and manly dignity which
struck the old General with utter
ama2cment, though it pleased him
OH the other hand to find in his
son something akin to his own iron
nature. They met no more like father
and sou, but like two sold or friends,
one younger than the other, but both
hardened in the great battle of life. 1t
was, however, precisely this resemb-
lance in both their natures that brought
them further apart than ever. Both
Were not slow in detecting that they
had no interest, no idea, no aim in life
in common with each other. While
the son was hardly able to answer cor
rccty all his fathers queries about the
whereabouts of this or that General,
the newest patterns of uniforms, or the
most recent events in the life of the I'M
perial family, the father felt but little
interest and showed still less under
standing for the young officer $ crudite
explanations of the newest improve
mant in artillery or the projected re-
forms in the military administration.
Besides. the son had other studies
which cngrossed him, other books, not
trcatises on artillery, which he read
without ever showing them to his
father. Once the latter, coming I'M
expectedly into his son S room, saw the
titles of two of these books, 1.-The Life
and Writings of Ferdinand Lassallc''
and Commentaries on John Stuart
Mill Political Economy" Both names
were naturally unknown to him, and
the name of Tchernyshevsky, the ccle-
DRAFTED Russian Socialist, being not
printed on the last named book, the
brave old General retained no other
from that incident than that
his son, though a capital soldier, was
of a bookwOrm.
In autumn Andrusha returned to st.
Petersburg and entered the military
academy. He passed rapidly one grade
OF the military career after the other,
was in 1870 promoted Captain, the
Shipka Pass affair. during which the
young artillery officer rendered signal
services. bringing him the dignity of
Colonel and the grand cross of the ST.
George Order. At the same time his
name became wildly known in
scientific circles. He became editor of
one of the best military reviews of St
Petersburg. and his house was the
place of the best and ablest
of civil as well as mill
tary intelligent circles.
Thus years went on. The great
Nihilist movement broke out. holding
Russian society in 4 constant state of
agitation and terror. The storm
reached even the old General in his
solitary retreat. His evaporation
against the ''mlscreants and muir
derers' knew no bounds. He even
went so far as to write a letter, ad-
dressed personally to the Gar, prof
fering his services for the '.good and
holy cause" He never received any
answer. The great number of young
mobiles implicated in the conspiracy
was what especially appalled, him.
Have ali those young knaves no
fathers with honor enough in their
hearts to kill the vipers they have
in their bosom?" he used to |
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