The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-05
WHO HAD GRIT.
,r,rts SURVIVED KILLING CON-
OPTIONS.

/ ..,.-.h.tb-Baron Trenck With
...5 Inbuman Captivity-Tales of
r-.,, Wen Who Resisted Death as
Stur5ilv as They Had Fought
,uong the Living.
rr,D, the Cincinnati Enquirer.
,..., the presence of financial difficult
u, ,go5 induced the French government
fss1ss the expedience of relinquishing
o- the most Improbable tropical
l-..as cynic remarked thot the com
-,,sl iuua solar auto-da-fe"-in other
u. nv the value of a climate war
MED 10 execute a solar Auto-da-Fe"-
/ other words, by the facilities for the
.sfriction of prisoners who could not con-
oisnt.y be sent to the guillotne.
As an Indirect form Of capital punish
rt exposure 10 the fever atmosphere
ON ,auatorial coast swamp is indeed an
I4salve substitute for the hardships of
N Siberian man-pens, where the malice
/ taller. or an incidental fuel famine,
am exuuguish the vital spark of nes-
ted orsouers in less than a week with
D, any teu-tale traces of i'll treatment.
la Yakulsk, on the banks of the Lena,
he average survival of hard-working con-
lets Is about five years, in Jeniseisk six
taors and a haf, while in certain re-
ons Of Cayenne imprisonment alone sur
ces TO XIX nine out of ten eXiles in less
han four years The Isle du Diable is,
Ia one oepton, the unhealthiest spot
tie entire sWamp-Gehenna- il
en-, almost a miracle how the victim
the bordereau plot could weather the
pd5al under all the aggravating circum-
RANGES of his sentence. The political sus,-
b. BeruJef, who had been sent to r.
kltsk for an indefinite term of exile"
oaei repeatedly for a revision of that
rdI1J 10 anything like definite terms.
! ASK them 60 tell me have to stay here
h. or twenty years" he wrote to his
Il end "or If that will not satisfy their
h nlmeut beg them to compromise on
fry Anything in preference to the I'M
h rtanty ] now subsist chiefly on rye
cad ana water. If l could see an end
1 head could live on rye bread, water and
4 Eut Capt. Dreyfus could enjoy even the
y
Il ru The sentence Of The court was IN
fu1ocaL Punishment for life" with a
4 ram OF possible deliverduoo in the case
n m2alculable events, IA Their French
yomu,n, an International war or a wall
u .A 81 CONFUSION Of tho clements
4 lie was hot even granted ne privilege
n minutes privacy, lie instruction
4 'i' ail enabled his -Ugris to watch
r movements night and day. They al
RTe1 him to leave his sweatbox only
ice a Week-ab0ut two hours on Satur-
evening, when his quarters were
rubbed, ana less than an hour on
edntSlay afternoon. on those occasions
q Was permitted 10 walk up and down
a e narrow enclosure, with the bayonets
Two Sen.ries ghttering at the exit
te' DurNg the long intervals he had
SIT id.e all day waiting for night. and
r on The coJty bed of an i'll ventilated
Y m-otE all night waiting for daybreak
guards suffered hardships second only
his own, and of all life-blighting in
4 nees OF the moral world few exceed
aaIF sight of human beings anxiously
\ .Ahs tle ehaing sand in ones hour
'ss oil existence and praying for The adj
e- lle funeral as for the dawn of
e1laE 'Oaly insane people can turn
u lHeF savings TO a relative on condi-
Oh being boarded for the remaining
OF their LIFE says the humorist,
a1a.| lt Is poor policy making it your
I 'As Interest TO feed you on indigestible
7o1lS' could never sleep in peace if I
5'en my landlord cause to be pleased
Vase should fail to wake up"
was mat kind of Insomnia that short
4 'Av DAYS OF Napoleon the Great; but
4 prisoner of SIR Hudson Lowe was per
LEA lo 1Iut fish, farm, chat and write
"H A'3fis content. and, moreover, was
i"'4 nF the promise of a historical
'F as immortal as that of Caesar and
AaAief While Alfred Dreyfus was
4 p.'nl'ted TO hear the voice Of
4 t'' ana must have been almost crush
~ ,"5 weight OF The thought that mil
1 VI MS counWymen would loathe his
'0oiE as that of a traitor.
'Ae sustaining gleam of hope NAV have
4 ~ derived from the poor exile's conf
4 -n the zeal of his friends and in the
''a'.ity that the conspirators. like
sue1 lnieves, would eventually quarrel
o"s themselves, but the main exp!ana-
Vi nus survival can probably be found
"' hereditary staying powers of his
roe d ions series of centuries his
0ls Add experienced exceptional IA
4 Ior Iertecung the gift of survival
ntieuiues. The bondage of Egypt,
'"l' TONS OF the Babylonian chain
4 'at roman captivity, the thrice
furnace of medieval persecution,
'9' ua0e Inc children of Jacob almost
- uoh- proof. Ten 10 one, some of the
'''I uHeet ancestors had learned TO
'ISoh rare in the dungeons of the
-,'''0u or acclmated their lungs to
4. ~. ]" the atmosphere of slums like
VII, 10 OF The Frankfort Juden Case,
thousands of Parahs were crowd
VS. 'Het IN double row of rookeries
l.| e0AasplnS that snowslides from
3N 1901 often smashed through the
'o"S Oh AronSOn's bed ROOM across
H'|r ana where the evolution of
'oo''='fai resisting power was enforced
.''S Metcliess removal of the unfit-in
case the less absolutely misery
@raoy another branch OF the tena-
oeNlItes has become Injured to an ex-
temperature, and one might as
70 destroy fish by deluge as TO
Ie health Of Bedouin by floods
,l.''lsn' too. established his stock farm
feT, '"iesAod of the tropics. and il
.'1 "e questioned If one of his descend
'o1 w" nave stood the ordeal of Mar
W.. -1IuH'ch who, in 1741, was dragged
LA al the advanced age of IS years.
+, N1 consisted in having meddled
',okmakers of the political race
ana then, after all, betting his
arg oti the wrong mare. No direct
f55 vi conspiracy could be proved. and
Il csr would have liked to humor che