Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-12-08


:'rrr WHO c>N TURN THE STREAM or DIS
rlNY?
How came it about that MoshLa
Umanski WAS At ka.a' j, will be asked.
It, was Fate. and who can avert
his Destiny Thus it happened. Wien
MoShka was condemned his sentence was
Sakhalin; but ~ was often the ease with
those who were sent 50 lar cast. he was to
spend the frs, twelve months of his SEN
tcnce at the mines of Kara Afterwards.
when Aaron Arama was banished to the
convict island, Il message was despatched
to the Governor at Kara, to say that Imam
ski was to hc detained there pending FUR
ther orders. No reasons We're given for tins,
but probably somebody in power deemed,
in his supreme wisdom, that there was
danger in bringing l'nianSki and Arama
together in >akhaliu: for the Russian
official mind is haunted ever with fears of
conspiracy.
If an official We're to see Il peasant
whispering confidently into the car of his
donkey ten 10 one but what TN peasant
would be placed under arrest nm a charge
ol an attempt 10 overthrow the Govern
mcnt This j. scarcely an eXaggeralion.
and it serves TO illustrate the rottcnness vi
the Russian Government. One of the
greatest bogie> that brighten the official is
the belief that the Jews aim at governing
the country.
To some wi>eacrc it seemed likely that
the young Jew and the old Jew
would concert plan even in iar-otl
akhalin for the Cars downfall.
This is n suggestion. not Il statement. 1t
might or might not have been so. But
whatever the cause, tharc was the fact.
Moshka Umunki was at Kara when
Rachel arrived. and therein was plainly
dISccrnible. to all who are not blind, the
mysterious workings of Fate.
Now it has already been shown hat
Rachel had bunisheu Moskka from her
dreams. Lei shcre be no lnisnterpretaton
osthis. 1t does not in any way in, ply that
she had ceased to love him. But can one
love the dead? She regarded him as dead
to her: and out OF the charity OF her heart
she had hoped that &C ual death might.
like Il kindly friend who comforts lis in
our trouble. and croons us to sleep when
ton and degradation of his bondage and
give him the peace which pa>scth under
standing.
Yet though she deemed him dead 10 her
comes she now TO Kara and behold. he is
there. Was not that Fate Now touching
dwell in detail on all he had passed
through all he had suffered and endured
since with ruthless barbaritv he had been
torn from her upon whom he had
built his hopes: who was the
lie of his life, and who seemed to
touched with the radiance Of heaven, and
only one degree removed from the angels
of God.
II you drag from the wall to which it
c'ings an ivy plant, tearing out its delicate
tenarils and wounding the thousand and
one iib,res with which it has identified itself
with the structure wl.ereon it has grown
and thriyed, do you not destroy its lie? 1t
does not die suddenly. but gradually.
Every day it witherS little as its life ooZes
away through the wounded tcldris. Thus
was it with Moshka. He was like the ivy.
He seemed wounded unto death: not out
wardly wounded mind you. but in the
heart. 1t was there where the wIenched
'endrils were bleeding. and as he marched
away in his letters to the land of sorrow
and tears, he breuthed silent prayer al
most hourly that he might lal! by the way
side and die. for why should lie cling to lie
now that the essence OF his life was destroy
ed! Such were his thoughts. such his
wishes. But. after all, hope dies hard in
the human heart, especially hen the heart
is Young
When the first effects ol the storm that
had beaten him /" the earth had passed
Moshka began 20 look skywari ag:iln. and
there was born in his brain a thought that
lie might yet clasp Erchel to his breast
once more and c.!l her his own. 1t was a
slid. perhaps Il dr!u>ive, thought. bit it
lad good effect since it aroused in him IA
desire to hold on to life. Men had escaped
t ~. 'ot'l' ne 'eii'o'ts' re- ohS " 7!oe':.
WY >ho",h i'"t ne 90 "ha' o'her
n'''i had zone me question SNAPPED
.','i' 10 nm ~ laHI III Ms Ga!5
'''-5': anu ~ '' .'i' i'"sia''" nc !i'l''
.G''tiNes r'lIt"lu va Il ''ee Io"ntry
~ cTeJe" ai!h ''eii'l!t' lh,'nri ana ruFk.
.nlsa, De Io''ii' :Nl'5 III "i',E. lI, r,
were 10 Prosecutions. no 'nas-Hcfc.. me
.aneS ~ J",'itc yer" lc''' 'a''i! aliu tlc
.a*
!" MoSiIka. therefore England was as
the PROMISED land, under the c!rcun-
sauces OF MS eXiie ana misery; and could
ne bht succeed III gettinI clear OF siberia.
might he not IN England ENJOY that peace
and happiness that were denied hlIn in ri,
native country! FOR rouid nor fachel
JON NM ana theil' All. then, what lie
OF hiiIs "oulo ne MS.
20 llla' rom mere i''t'Ihg PhaI,"hi
tEat came ana vent at iirst, and seemed to
MOCK MN, me ldea gre" ana strehSi!"heu
nlitii IL was i.ls one aDsGroins tnousht. IL
nro,lslt PACE ''gof ~ MS !'uscles, Ht1ehSth
10 MS !a1l,ns t'tlios' ms n1l'i'nen eyes
sfe" pr,s LII ,. ms paie GneehI "oh on