The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-08
a RUSSIAN WIFa's DEVOTION.
She Passes Through Terrible Exper!
enceS TO Reach Her Husband

She Passes Through Terrible Expert
ences TO Rsach Her Husband.
From the New York Christian World. .
Another Queer Story from Russia" is
given in the current issue of the Christian
World. 1t is concerned with the i'll for
tune Of Boris Pliaskin, editor of the
Szoboda, and his wife. The editor wrote
an indignant article about the tyranny
exercised by the authorities of Moscow
University. This was the match t. the
powder. The student; in great crowds
thronged round the university buildings
and cheered for Boris Plaskin until the
mounted Cossacks rode them down and
whipped them from the square. Two
hundred of them were arrested. Pliaskin
was lodged in jail. The spies proved him
to be an enormous influence among the
university students; he him'el admitted
being the author or toe obnoxious article,
and among his papers were found oon-
vincing proofs that he had been in active.
though innocent enough Co respondence
with the so-called nihilists Of Lucerne and
Zurich. The sentence Of tho court was that
Boris Pliaskin should be sent to Siberia
for life, and that he must spend ten
years in penal servitude in the mines.
Then this happened Pliaskin had been
married a little over two years. His wife
was delicate dark haired, large eyed girl,
full of romance and poetry passionately at
tached to her husband. After the terrible
sentence had been passed Anna Michaelovna
was stricken with brain fever Three
months passed before she was able to get
about, and she then announced her fixed in
tention Of joining her husband in Sibe.
ria.
In early December Anna Michaelovna
left Moscow, and in three days arrived st
uk.a,-f nkNa.r
The railway went no further, and the only
mode of transit now at her disposal was the
Siberian sledge. For eight days her way
lay across the desolate Urals, and then over
the interminable plains covered with blind
ing snow and swept by arctic blasts from the
north. Until Tmmin was reached she
allowed herself no rest night or day; dissat-
isfied with the speed she would bribe the
drivers 10 urge on their horses she wonld
humble herself to gruff and impertinent
poStmasters if thereby she might the
speedier obtain horses. A thousand miles
from Tiumin-it is so easily writteu-and
the gilded domes of Tomsk were seen on the
horizon; but 1t was not as resting place
that she welcomed the town, rather as a
stage nearer the end of her terrible Journey
From ToDsk she took horses to Irkutsk, 200
miles further. The dau tless girl-she was
only 20-passed day after day, week after
week. in her sledge, snatching now and
then troubled moments Of sleep. From
Irkutsk it was two weeks journey to
Netschinsk. where the silver and lead
mines are, $500 miles from Moscow. She
arrived, worn out with sleeplessness and
fatigue, suffering agony from frost bites on
face, hands and feet. She at once made
inquiries as to the mine in which her hus-
band was, but until she bribed the officials,
whose duty it Vas not 60 give her this in
formation, she could obtain no clew to his
whereabouts. She lost no time in reaching
the lead mine where Pliaskln shaved, but as
she now knew that no Official rermissicn
would be given her to see her husband she
determined TO accomplish her desire
by strategy and brides. The inspector of
the district she was now in
would at first give no information, but
Anna Michaelovna at last persuaded him to
tell her exactly where her husband lebored.
At dead of night, she made her way to the
mine, and by wonderful good fortune man
aged TO elude the sentyies and overseers. She
feared nothing At the head Of the shaft
there was windlaSs and large bAsxet. She
knew this must be the machinery for de-
scending to the mine, and with ready fingers
she adjusted the ropes, aud, entering the
basket, let herself down into the black hole
yawning beneath her. She said afterward
that she had no consciousness of what she was
doing; tina she lEstincuveiy felt Boris was
and that she must go TO him. At the bot
tom Of the shaft she looked around ard
noticed the glimmer of a solitary lamp.
Mad with excitement she FASTENED TO the
end of the narrow, damp gallery, and, fall
ing at the feet of a wretched, crouching
figure there, size moaned, Boris, Boris"
kissed his chains and tainted. In the morn
ing the inspector, with his guard Of soldiers
going their rounds, noticed that
the gear of shaft No 70
was missing, and suspecting something
wrong they descended. Boris Pilaskin an d
his wife we're found locked in one another's
arms. uttering incoherent words OF love and
CRYING aud laughing in turns. The in
spector had his duty TO do. Prisoner, pro-
coed with Your work" he called ont. and
then to the guards: ARREST this woman
and bring hel before me in an hour" No
friends OF the prisoners were allowed to
settle in the district. The woman was forced
back 10 Irkutsk, whence after weary months
of petitioning she was ordered to return to
Moscow.
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