The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-05
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officer who was not a friend or admirer
Of the old Turk tanner and hero of a dozen
campaigns They did not venture to Vio-
late their instructions in any essentials,
but they permitted the plucky old exile
to mend bis lot by his own exertions. and
gave hirs a chance to surround himself
with few primitive comforts, besides al
lowing him to kill time by voluntary ex-
ira labor whenever his supply OF litera-
ture gave out.
Year after year passed in that manner,
and in 1850 an attempt was made 10 rec
ommend the now Whte-haired veteran to
mercy, but the proposition was rejected
with promptness that made his friends
draw back their horns in alright In
1855 they tried another plan, by cireulat-
ing pamphlets describing the glor.es of his
conquests and limiting that a national ben
efactor deserved at least the boon of free
dom. The Czarina made no sign, bur
took private measures to ferret out the
publishers and printers and would prob
ably nave appointed a commission to pre-
vent abuses of privileges in the eastern
convict settlement" if her attention had
not just about that time been divided by
the outbreak of the Seven Years War.
Munich was actually forgotten and so
profited by neglect that he could celebrate
his nth birthday in a comfortable log
house of his own, and treat his guests
70 a key of home-brewed beer with home
baked pretzels. The news of battles rag
ing at a distance, however, began TO worry
him into restlessness, and the bets be-
came even that the old campaigner would
after all crafty his prosecutors by a re-
moval to underground quarters, when the
Czarina added drunkenness TO gluttouy,
ny r,afI
countless surfeits. Her successor immedi-
ately revoked the sentence of Punishment.
The plucky eXie's prediction had been fui-
filed. He had cOntriyed to play the trump
card of the game against his enemies by
surviving the horrors of a Siberian climate
for twenty-one years and eight months.
Baron Trenck however, achieved the
perhaps still greater miracle of defying
fate for nine years in a subterranean dun
seOn, and after all emerging with his
vigor and reason unbroken His exploits
in the first Silesian war made him the
favorte of his king, but his prospects Of a
successful military career We're handicap
ped by his Impotence to control. He fret
ted under restraint of any sort: exceeded
ne barriers of rank by making love to
The kings sister, and at last picked
quarrel with one of his superior officers.
who avenged himself by denouncing him
as an Austrian spy.
This imprisonment, however, was per
haps nothing but preliminary of more
thorough Investigation, and it is prOba bic
that he would have been released in defer
euce to a unanimously signed petition,
but he was consUtutionaly unable to
wait and clutched a the first chance to
effect his escape. From that moment he
was doomed man. The king was rot
only incensed, but considerably alarmed
l-t..
ex-confdants roaming the lands of his
enemies, and Prussian spies never ceased
tracking the footsteps of the deserter un
til they finally got a chance to arrest, or
rather kidnap, him on the Polish frontier.
They 4ugged him to Magdeburg, ana Cav
alier Trenck the most resuessly active of
latter-day mortals, was confined in n six
by fourteen underground cell, and loaded
with irons in a manner that prevented
him from approaching either the door or
the grated window of his dungeon.
That his jailer had instructions to kill
him by any means short of actual VlO
lence can hardly be doubted if it is true
that his den was only Gmperfectly) c!ean-
ed once in two weeks, and that his food
was not only the coarsest prOcurable, but
inhumanely insufficient for the needs of
a full-grown man. He got only two little
pieces of sour black bread each day, and
repeatedly refers. to the eternal hunger
gnawing his Vitals," but he declined to
yield to the temptation of suicide, though
his accommodating turnkey procured
platter full of rat poison and put it close
10 his bed for the benefit of the rodents
supposed TO have pilfered his bread
crumbs.
Like Col. Picquart, he warned a SYM
pathizing public not to ascribe his death
to WEAKNESS of life if a corpse should be
found in his cell some morning, and to
eI,.I Als, q In
at last released him on condition OF IeaV-
ing Prussia forever and a day
Henri RochefOrt, a far-gone consump-
tive effected his escape from Cayenne
bv efforts of outdoor exercise that cured
his disorder, and Silvio Pelico, an Italian
patriot. but withal an epicure, confessed
that his long confinement in Fort Spiel
berg freed him of dyspepsia, though at
an imminent risk" he adds 'of deliver
ing me from that more complicated ar
Fiction called life"
Al the time of Valdivia's first expedition
to Southern Chile a mutinous soldier was
tied 10 his horse and stampeded across the
border into the hunting grounds of the
savage Arancanos, who generally killed
every while man on sight but twelve
wears after that outcast was found alive,
covered only by a ragged breech c!out and
q shock Of unkempt hair that hung down
over his shoulders ike the name of lion.
Titus Oates emerged alive from mael-
stron of maltreatment unquesuondbiy IN
tended for his destruction, but the strang-
EST case Of survival under difficulties is
nerbaps that reported by, the traveller
Rohlfs. from Southern Morocco, where
tribe Of rebellOus mountaineers had been
confined in an old border castle and left
20 their fate by the death OF their jailer
IN the storm and stress of northern cam
paigns their very existence had almost
if','4' Of 40 o1oGo ~
he Sultan's messenger found a stock of
skeletons in one corner Of the heavily
barred dungeon and in the other gaunt
Bedoulu. who had kept himself awe Ior
noar1,- Two years by sucking the end of a
rome he contrived to dip in the cistern and
IN, qnawing the bones and date stones
ral,ed from an old rubbish PIKE
A writer in Bird Lore says: Several
,,o,rs ago when in a Western town, was
taton TO a neighbor's to see his birds.
rour cages swung in the shelter of a COM