The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1900-06-14

. with the some mysterious writing. Tn
latter. he said would be taken iron N,
aud kept al The trontIef,
Beips boand for sou,hsfa Rassia,
vas to cross the liIe 81 WoosEJsk. A
French woman, dressed rather sorssou,l /,
silh whom | oeeapisd an eniit,
railroad upe. Afforded me si his poi
ssrie. comic inisrmsEs, /, was too im
prestise sn adventure ever 10 bs iorg Of
ieu,
o. leaving Pod wolocEJsks, the last
Austrian station, remarked 10 The lady
We shall have TO get our passports ont.
Paaporif Have yea onsf she inquir
cd OF me 10 French.
Nice, eertsiply. replied. am afraid
yon will not be permitted 10 continue
your journey wiihsut one.
The poor woman grew excited, Why,
said she, have q etrlinsate Of birth 81
the bottom OF my trunk Don't ron
think they will le. me pass on ilf BE
sidss. can show my husbsnd's letters
that siye evidence that be expects me At
O less.!
l felt sure that this would have no
weight With Russian oit .isls st the fion
tier, who are genuine types OF the Sc
called Russian bears, yet my snswer ex
pressed slight doub. which Was intend
ed for ~ much encouragement for my
companion.
Notwitasta1diog she grew more and
more restless. "a momen. later the con
ductor passed at the outside OF our coupe
Please stop him she calculated ia her
viyscious way. Add after | did 40:
Will you tell him to ask one OF the gentle
men 10 the adjoining coupe, where was
before, il one OF them would DO kind
enough TO say st the next station ! was
his wife2
PerpleIed as | WAS and unwilling TO be
| kept the conductor waiting. Yielding
finally TO the womsn's supplioatIons. /
translated the message, whsrsupen the
conductor Informed her, with ill.conoesi
cd hilsrity, tbs. this could not be done,
because the fact OF their travelling with
wives WAS not stated in their passports
My yis-a.vis had by this time found out
that was goodnstnred. and taking me
BY this weakness. bsseech you she said
mploriugly. Here is pencil. Do pat
iown ia your passport that you are travel
nR With . msidl
Drowning people will cling to straw
But aside from the sbsurdiiy OF the re
luest and the grave consequences my com .
olisnce with it would have Involved, the
hought Of my plsin-looking self travel a
ng With maid dressed in such oonspicu
us style seemed so ludicrons thst could
ot iorbssr smile. At this iunoture my
uspioions that the lsdy belonged to = +,
roups OF French actors then playing at
)desss, had become = certainty. l tried
0 explain to her the impossibility Of my Il
omplying with her request, when Ut
hat moment. the train stopped Vt
Voloczysk.
Anybody entertaining the slightest '
oubt O. TO our being GA Russian soil :,
'ss speedily made to bslieve otherwise,
the two Cossacks thst barred
10 entrance OF the station building, call
" out: PAsspor-r-r.tl pssspor-r-r-tl 1t
sens fortunate for Russia that this here
Il important word is 20 much alike in '
ANY different tongues. :
The French woman kept close 10 my
ssls, but the Cossscks refused to lot her =
utsr without the precious document. - :,
few minutes later / found her in tbs =
AggAge-room. Please tell them. she said =, -
lining me eagerly. that ! have come oil :
10 way from Paris without 9 passport.
lst will show them my certificate Of " ',
nth and oil my husbands letters. :,
We do not core for certificates nor let
10, We want passports. You will hsve "
leave this place In fge minutes. on the
ain returning to Austris. for you cannot
main here without spssspott, Was the ;.
ern reply.
Poor womsnl She sobbsd like y heart
oxen child. Some obliaipg gentleman -
Iggestsd that she telegraph 10 her hns
md st Odessa ss the most expedient
cans OF ob.sining the indispensable pa -
" from the minister to France living
ere. Meanwhile, he said, addressing :,
e, she will have to rsmsin st the hotel ct
ID woloczyska. II luck isvors her, she
ny be able to continue ber journey =
rec days hence, =,
This hotel ss / iesrned Afterwards, had "
en- built msinly for sbelteriDg such IN =.
rtunste travellers, and is carried Oh on
incipsls Of robbery. Ll
Several months later also found on. =,
chance that ill.stsrred heroine oi this -
tie drama had spent five days Of the
Ilorn place, paying five forins per day
room only, before the longed for "
camebt srrved.
While our passports were being viseed, :.
went through the interesting procs
re OF having our luggage searched, IA
\ it Interesting for the fact that every
Q OF the passengers bu, myself deposited %.
I'm one 10 FIVE rubies 10 bsnk-Doies on
, Of their trnnks. which money Tbs a.
asspt who see mpsnies the ofi,er poe "
10 With ibe most innocent mIsn before :
enins the tratk. Another remarkable
iure 10, that the smoust deposited w