The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1889-02-13
Two ExiIes

we're banishe-l % siberia by administsa-
tive process IN ISIS. / becane very vel
scFulinssd with them. and for Mrs Cher
niavski especially cane q feel the pro-
foundesg pity and regsri- Few women,
even ia Russia. have had tefare the age Of
thiry-iive 20 tragic and heart breaking a
life, and still fewer have maintained
through hariships. siekaess. and BE-
reavement sach eheerfuIR - AMI courage
She was arrested in Odessa il the early
part Of ISIS 81 the aga Of about twenty
five, and afler long FERN Of imprison-
meHt vas sent by administrative process
70 tSse province Of Tobelsl- In tAe city
kiev, on her way 70 Siberia she was de-
iaIned fora feW days. and while there
was forced 10 be almost al eyewitness Of
the assassination Of her dearest friend.
4 yoGng man of English descent name,l
BeTerly. whom she had known from
childhood, had been arrested shortly be-
fore upon the charge ofHving on ! false
passport and elrryiag on revolutionary
propaganda. and be vas a that time in
the kiev prison. The night before Mrs.
Caerniavski Was 10 resume her journey
10 Siberia, Beverly, Whh a oomrade
named Izbisski. attempted TO escape
through tunnel which they hal suc-
ceeded in digging from their cell to a
point outside the prisoa NaH The pri-
sou authorities, hoWersr. had in some
way become aware 0f the existence Of the
tnanel. and had posted a squad Of SOL
dsers near the place where the filzitives
mEst emerge from the ground Late at
night, when they made tlieir appearance.
they we're received with a y0liey Of
musketry. Beverly was 1-ortally wound
ed, AMI IS be lay Writhine ON the ground
he was dispatched By a soldier with sew
eral repeated bayonet thrusts. Izbitski,
w1uoded and severely beaten, vas taken
back into prison. The next morning
when Ms. Caernilgski started with her
party for Siberia sac had b march past
the bloody and disdgur,d bo,iy Of her
dearest friend, which vas still lying
where It had fallen. in plain sight Of the
prison Windows
I can bear my own personal tor
ment, she said to me with a sob as she
finished be story Of This trsgedy. but
such things as that break my heart
need not recount the hardships and
miser.es that she. a cultivated and re-
fined soman, endured on the road and
in the Siberian province Of TobOkk
where she and her husband had been
a residence They reached their
destination Al last a child vas there
born % them. and they hved there in
something ike comfort until March, 1881
when Alexander III came 70 the throne,
and Mr Cherniavski was required TO
take the oath OF allegiance He refused
70 do 20. and they were sens farther east
ward to the. taHn Of KrasnoyarlS. a
seeand refusal to take the oath Of ale
glance resulted in their being sent u
Irkutsk. By this time winter had set in,
and they were travelling IN an open tar
antas with a deiicate baby thirteen
moths Of age. II was with the great
ct difficuity that Mrs. Cherniavsk could
keep her baby sarm. and at the last sta
ti0n before reaching Irxutss she removed
the heavy wrappinEs IN which she had
il and found { dead. With
the shock Of this discovery she became
deiirious, and wept sang pathetic little
nursery songs 70 her dead child, rocked
IL IN her arms, and prayed aai cursed
God by turns In the courtyard Of the
Irkutsk forwarding prison. in temperl-
ture of thirty degrees heiow zero. NJ.
Cherniavski stood f1r half an hour wait
ing foF the party 70 be formally received,
with his wife rayins IN ielirium beside
him and his dead child Ia his arms.
Mrs Cherniavski lay in the PRISON
hospital al Irkutsk until sue recovered
her reason, and to some extent her
strength, and then she and her husband
we're sent 30 miles further 70 the north
eastward under gaard Of renlarmes. aud
colonized in q Yakut settlement knoxn
- the Bzrtaruski ooioos. sitIlted ia the
'tiaga or primeval wilderness Of Yakussk
lbs miles from the neares- town There,
suffering almost every conceivable harl-
ship and privafion. they lived until 1884,
when the Minister Of the Iatsrior allow
ed them to return % a more civilized part
Of siberia.
Mrs Cherniayski when I male her
Acquaintance was pale. delicate. hollow
checked woman. whose health hal been
completely wrecked by years Of impris-
onment banishmeus, and grief shs
had had two children. AMI lost tsem
both in exile under circumstances that
made the bereavement almost ini0Ier-
able; for seven years she hai been separ-
ated by = distance Of many thousand
miles fromali her kindred aasl the future
seemed to hold f)r her absolutely nothing
except the love Ofthe husband whose exile
she could Still share. but whose interests
she c0ul1 % - little n her boken state
Of health 70 promote. She not had been
able 70 step outside the house for two
months, All II seemed 20 me. when
babe her goodbye, iaat her life Of IN
ami suffering vas drawing 70 4
close. feit profoundly s1r-os f1rther. -
vhile listening % her story iay fice Vas
vet With tears almost flr the first time
since boyhoo'l,-4nd hoping to give her
some pleasure and 20 show her h0E sin
cerely ( esteemed her Al h0w deeply I
sympasEize,l With her, offered her my
photograph. A. the only nlefaento I could
leave with her. To my great surprise
shs ssdly buf firmly declined It. asl sab
Many years aeo 7 had 3 Photograph q
little child that { rad lost. u Has ihe
only one in existence. and ] could not
get another. Tie poles male search
one night in aly house. aud took away
aH my letters AL Photographs told
them thai this particular picture vas the
only portrait had of ny dead boy The
cs1darme officer who condgefed the
scsareh promised me up7a his word of
honor that Il should be returned 10 me,
but never saw it again. 7 made a FoN
then tia. Z should not be possible for
the Russian Government o huTt me -
a seo1nd time, an from that day to this
1 have never had = photez-a9h in my