The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-01-14
WALKS TO ESCAPE HIS WIFE.
by Keeping on the Move for Twenty
Five Years a Wnnderer Has
DOdged n ScOIding.

| Newspapers in St. Petersburg, Rus
sia, contain accounts of the strange
| wandering of Theodore Miranhoff, a
peasant of Tamboy. For 25 years
Miranhoff has been wanderer on
the face of the earth. In that time
he has walked enough to carry him
around the earth at the equator He
has done little all those 25 years but
walk, walk, walk. He has walked
across Russia, he has walked through
the SHOWS of Siberia, he has walked
up the Tamir highlands in central
Asia, and tramped along the banks of
the Amur river to its source He has
gone shutting across China, and his
weary feet have stirred the dust in
every road in Japan from Nagasaki
TO Mount Morioshi. Hehas invaded the
United States and walked along the
west coast and over the Rocky noun
tains, and across the country to the
Atlantic seaboard. Then back again
to Russia, and the last heard of him
he was wearily walking up the left
bank Of the Volga river, in Russia, de-
termined to follow it for all its wind
ing 1900 miles to'its source
And when Theodore Miranhoff had
walked up along the left bank of the
volga from the Caspian sea to its
source. what did he propose'to do then?
Why, then, he was going to step across
to the other bank of the Volga and
walk from its source down to the Cas-
plan sea-
Thus for 25 years has Theodore
Miranhotf been walking. And all to |
escape the tongue lashing of his shrew- I
ish wife. Like poor Rip Van Winlle,
who fed to the mountains and went o
sleep for 20 years, Theodore Miranhof
has fed to the trackless desert and
the fields of ice and snow in the effort
to walk away from the terrible tongue
of his wife. But, unlike Rip Van Win
lxle, who went back after 20 years, and
found peace, poor Theodore Miranhoff
even after 25 years was met by his
wife, still much alive, and who un-
braided him in more burning words
than ever and chased him with broom
to the outer circle of Tamboy.
Then it was Theodore Miranhoff
made the remark, which, if translated
from Russian TO English,
would be: Its me to the Volga," for
off he put for the banks of the Volga
with no other intention than that of
walking up one side of that great
stream, dipping his feet in the source
of the river. and then walking down
the other side. 1t was anything to get
away from his wife, and 50 as long
as She lives Theodore Miranhoff will
keep walking. It's a question of en-
durance between his sturdy legs and
Mrs Miranhoff's sturdier tongue. with
the odds all in favor Of the tongue last
Ing the lShgest.
Miranhoff. when young man, went
with his family to Vladivostok, on the
Eastern esast Of Siberia. There it was,
that the continual tongue
Iashings OF his wife became so yio-
ent that Miranhoff decided to leave
his happy home. He started out on
his wanderings.
IAHdlif ne ltdchtu ~. EettFSDuIg ,
after walking over 5000 miles. But ,
be was not happy there. He decided
10 keep on walking. He marched away
seross Russia. tramping from town TO
own until finally he had reached the
Jral mountains He crossed these in
winter. and. descending into Siberia
gain. walked southeast and climbed
lowly up the highlands to Tamir. the
oof Of the world. He found his way. G
travelling with caravans. but "
lftener alone. until he reached the
Western Kinehan mountains. where
ls hunted for the source Of the Amur {
iver He slowly followed the river :