Democratic messenger., 1888-03-03
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The scene of our story is In Russia-
"lloly Russia" as the Russians call IL. In
the lan'l Of the car the police officials are
allowed considerable latitude. They take
copious advantage Of their opportunities
to make II unpleasant for their personal
enemies. The man or woman against
whom the police have u spite is not safe
in person or property. The usual mode
of conciliating those in authority il to in.
vitc them to take snulT ont of snuff box,
the contents of which are gold rubles. To
avoid trouble witt. the police man In
Russia must bc reckless with his rubles.
Police Commissioner Sul,on was very,
very obliging In some RESPECTS. lie was a
hopeless victim of the snuff habit when
the snufr box had gold lining. lie was
up to SNUFF In several scuscs OF the word
To use an American expression, Suboff
was mn investigating committee OF one,
that had to he continually4ubricatcd lie
had, however. one other weakness. lie
was very much given % paying his nd.
dresses To the fair sex. He was not pretty
10 look at. lie was n short, fat, bald
headed man. Scientists say that In u
thousand years we will all bc bald.
SuboT had merely anticipated the scien-
lists by a thousand years. lie was bald
already. although h. was unmarried. No
body could accuse him Of failing TO re-
move the hairs out Of the comb. His
blood might cur,llc in his veins, but his
hair never stood on end with terror.
As an additional attraction his com.
plexion was very much the color of nm
Italian sunset, ar circus poster. His
mouth WAS the shape of II scmi.circular
cash, and looked rs IL it might be
partial To pie His ears were large and
generous. and gave him the appearance.
ut distance, Of being provided with
wings. Ills face betrayed about ns much
intellectually rs an Irish potato. IL was
only when lie lcered tha. IL seemed To
have any expression at all in IL.
One would have supposed that such n
caricaturc Of u man would have confined
his attentions 20 females who were. COM
parativcly speaking, rs devoid of personal
attractivcncss rs himself such. for in
stance, as those who were adorned with u
hump and one eye. That. however. was
not the modest sort Of man that SuhofT
was. lie forced his attentions on the
luvclicsi IN the land Ii they opposed his
wishes he promptly trumpcd up n con.
spiracy against the government aud sent
them. or their relatives. to Siberia. II n
handsome woman desired tO have any OF
her relatives Sent 10 siberia nil ,bn, shc
had in Ia wns Ia rcfuso tn admir-. SuhoT
Sul.,,, Nns IN Warsaw invrs,iru,iue, n
cnusplrncy 4 number az nrn,niu,n,
Poles were arrested and sent to Siberia,
and SnbniT WAS hunting for more conspir-
n,ors. IIc was Kent pr,,,y hnsy but H.,
wonlI I,nyc uai,I much n,oro n,ien,inn Ia
his official duties II It had not been for the
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SnIinskv
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woman. She was tnn well formed win
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ms thns,. ~ n Gr,.ciun stain.
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