Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-17

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DAUGHTER.
Travellers who know Siberia and read
a-s VINO have studied the literature Of
the subject iced not be told that it is not
slravs winter in that vast region of the
Russian empire, which is larger than
Europe and has nearly as much variety
nf climate. If this last claim, however,
he somewhat exaggerative, it must at
least be confessed that there are tracts
of siberia which can boast Of flowers
ana gardens, song-birds, butterflies,
clear streams, pleasant lakes, and fertile
valleys \ great portion of the country
In the provinces of TObolsk and Tomsk,
and including the steppes Of Baraba and
Tshim, are Of rare fertility; they are,
indeed, the granaries Of Russia. The
valley Of the Yenesei, in Western Siberia
north Of the Sayansk mountains, is not
unworthy in Its summer months to be
compared with the valley of the Severn
in England.
Consult your encyclopedia and you will
fnd that the majority Of the inhabitants
Of the central provinces Of Siberia are
Russians and Poles who have been sent
thlther either as political or criminal eN-
lies; leavened somewhat by a respectable
minority of colonists. The worst type of
criminals and the prisoners who nave
given most offence to the Teigning powers
in the fierce, political cOnspiracies, are
condemned TO hard labor in the mines;
Others are detailed for work of less
fatal character; and there is third de-
gree Of punishment which gives to the
political exile a large amount of free
dom, in which many live more or less
6ontenteGlv, with their wives and fami-
lies, and occasionally even preferring
such limited freedom to a return to their
former homes. They are Telegated to
specific districts under the surveillance
of the police, but are permitted TO en-
plov themselves how they please. Some
Of these have entered upon their new
life with their household goods, accom-
panied from Moscow by their wives.
Many pathetic stories that are honorable
TO our humanity are told of lovely women
thus sacrificing themselves on the altar
of their loves, even marrying for the
sake OF such feminine martyrdom.
The general impression of the reader
who has dwelt upon the gentle romance
Of Madame Coffin s g Elizabeth - is that
around the heroine g humble home in the
province OF Ishim, the world was dark
and dreary, and had but one sad tale of
snow and chilly landscape, forgetting the
authors description Of the four months
OF summer that Tslgned even there, with
the perfumed blossoms of the birch tree,
which the eXles cultivated in their little
garden: the playful hocks of wild-fowl
on the lake; the genial character of the
air: the pleasant sunshine. It is true
these delights are only enjoyed to the full
by the natives of the country, the eXiles
Etin signing for their liberty and the sight
Of old friends. Elizabeth, in the well
kuownS story, at last found a merciful
cZar, and this present history is not all
one long record of imperial tyranny +,
though the mercy found for the exile Of
TObolsk and the interposition of the d.
rect imperial power which marked the
closing days of Anna KlosstOck and her
father. not to mention the release of
Philip Forsyth, are romantic exceptions
70 the general outcome of those official
"ordeTs Of the czar, - which fill the
bleakest spots Of the Siberian world with
weeping and wailing and gnashing Of
teeth
There are Instances Of exiles, as I have
said, pTeferTing to remain in the favored
wTetched men aud women who have out
lived their friends, and who no longer
feel that they possess the capacity to be-
gin the new life that Is offered to them.
Possibly these cases are few and far be-
tween. but thousands of eXiles, after
their term of detention has ceased, con-
time in the country, becoming farmers,
traders, tTapperS, and following the Oc-
cuPations from which they had been car
RED of by the strong and too often Sc
cret arm of the law.
Johannes KlOsstock had, for some
years, been permitted the highest privi-
leges allowed the exile; and he had ac-
cepted the relief with the same religious
resignation that had entered his soul
from the first. He had long since ceased
TO suffer. The past had become to him
dream. Happy Czaronva was still his
world. lie walked out in summer days
and saw Anna and his wife. he sat by
the stove in winter and talked with Los
inski and the Italian traveller FerTari.
once IN way. there would come to him
disturbing glImmerings of the bitter
change that had left him all alone with
his dream. But he was religious man;
he bowed his head and prayed, and
locked forward to the coming of the
Messiah and 10 the reality of reunion of
wife and Child.
one summer afternoon, sitting at the
door OF his simple hut, where he was
permitted 10 have the attendance of
an Old Polish housekeeper, who was de-
voted 70 the old man, he saw the appa-
Tit.on of lis daughter Anna. She came
out or the distant woodland, crossed The
rough bridge which spanned the stream,
tributary Of the great lake; then
pausinE, she turned toward the cottage.
me old man smiled The summer sun
ehlhe teN upon the much-loved figure IN
Nhat he conceived TO be his happy dream.
Ny dear, dear Anna, he said; and
the woman came on, flowers in her path,
peace IN her heart. She was no imag-
mary Anna walking in the silent land Of
Inc father tender fancy; she paused at
me primitive gate that finished the rough
Ienclng of the tiny garden and saw her
Iather. There was no demonstration on
tne part Of either OF them. Anna was
dressed very much in the fashion Of her
early day. Her face was pale, but the
ola hight had come into her eyes. Her
Ieu-goid hair showed streaks of grey;
out her step was light aud her voice was
sweet and musical. When she entered
me garden the old man rose to his feet.
ne passed his nd 10 then