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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26
Taking Sorrow With Her

T know what ails you now. It is not the same sorrow that you had then. An, pretty one. I was once young myself. | know-I know. You have come across a good, brave man and you will cling to him until death.
 Never mind. I will take your hand kerchief and with it will take away your sorrow.
 See it is not raining so fast now. But you stay under cover for a while and I will go-taking your sorrow with me
 The old woman went out of the ora tory and presently Ellen, looking out of the door to see if the storm was over, saw Demetrius Insaroff passing by and called to him
 You here he exclaimed.
 Have you come from our house?" she asked.
 No, not from your house."
 Then you meant to go away without saying good-by?"
 ''I did replied Insaroff in a dry, low tone Believe me. it is not easy to leave ycu thus" he went on: If you only knew--m
 T do not want to know she inter- rupted "I see we must part. We are fiiends-are we not?"
 NO. rot friends he replied. ''I wished to go away because we are more than friends.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26
The Time for Action

Those are from my friends in Bull garia,' he said They tell me that am wanted now. Soon it will be too late"
 She threw both arms around his neck. But you will take me with you" she said.
 He sasped and then said: 70, my darl- ing girl, O, my brave heroine. How mo- bly you speak those words. But it is a wicked crime-a wicked and thoughtless act of mine-to do so. I have no home, and alone in the world should not draw you with me-and whither?'
 Stop" said she gaily, "or I shall be angry Was it not all arranged-all set tied, there in the oratory?'
 Ellen" he said gravely, understand T shall have to leave Moscow within a fortnight Go home and be in readiness. These things cannot be done at once. We must have money-passports."
 70, how nice it will be to travel to- gether!" she cried.
 Yes" answered Insaroff, but where are we bound for?''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26
Oppressed by Secret Anger

Some relatives smuggled the boy away to an aunt in odessa. The family were poor but had managed to give Demetrius an education, and he him. self had helped along his support by translations. He now dreamed of Bull garian independence.
 It was a long and dramatic and touching story as Andrew told it, and Ellen listened with rapt attention. Her imagination was caught and fascin- ated.
 'To free ones countryr' she said these words have noble, magic ring in them. They are noble words
 - will bring him over to see you, said Andrew.
 Strange feelings possessed Bersieneff as he walked home. He did not repent of his promise to Ellen to bring Insar- off to see her. He thought that the deep impression which had been made upon her by the stories he had told her of the Bulgarian was but natural.
 But there was a secret, we'll defined sense of anger in his heart He was oppressed by d heaviness of spirits-he scarce knew why. He took down the History of Hochenstauffen'1 and be- gan reading at the page where he had left off the night before.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26
A Turn for the Better

For a whole week Insaroff lay hover iag between life and death. Another week passed of doubt and uncertainty Ellen, while outwardly composed, was unable to eat and could not sleep at night.
 Our young mistress" said the cham bermaid to one of the other servants. ''is melting away like candle.'
 At length, one morning, as Ellen was sitting in the breakfast room with her mother who was reading aloud the Mos COW Gazette, Andrew came in. Ellen gave him quick, eager glance and read in his face good tidings.
 He is conscious whispered Andrew. Tn another week he will be all right"
 Ellen hastened from the room, her eyes filled with tears of gratitude and joy.
 Bersieneff's prediction was only in part fulfilled. Insaroff was no longer in dan ger, but he recovered his strength slowly and the doctors spoke forbodingly of the thorough and complete shock which his system had received. Andrew kept Eller informed of the invalids state as before
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26
Demetrius InsarOff

After some difficulty he found Insa- rolf at last in extremely humble lodg- ings hired from a tailor in a great ten ement house. After some desultory talk Andrew said
 T have taken a small house in the country II is very cheap and comfort able There is a spare room on the top story"
 Ensaroff remained silent.
 What do you say. Demetrius-will you occupy it?"
 To make a long story short, 1t was only after much urging and with an agreement that Insaroff should pay something for the room that the Bull garian consented to accede to Andrew s desire of having him for company. He was to come out to the country the next day.
 Andrew went home and called upon the Stachoffs He talked with Ellen and announced the coming arrival of De metrius
 He told her Bersieneffs history. How his father had been a merchant in Sophia His mother had been murdered by the Turkish Aga. His father had tried to kill the Aga, but had only sue ceeded in wounding him and then had been shot by the soldiers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26
After the Storm

One day she said that she wanted to see Insaroff-but was afraid to go to his lodgings as Andrew had told her the Bull garian was seldom alone. some one of his Countrymen being almost constantly with him. But it was arranged, and Ellen went
 Andrew had told Demstrius of the com ing visit and the invalid waited impa- ticntly. Finally the door opened and Ell len, dressed in a light silk robe, all fresh, young and joyous, came in.
 Insaroff was alone With a sad ache at his heart Andrew had arranged that. How she loves him. he thought with a pang
 You are living, my own" she cried. ''rhe storm has passed over, just as it did that day we met in the oratory.''
 It is needless to go into the details of that long talk which the lovers indulged in. Lovers, left alone together, seem to talk pretty much alike, whether you meet them in Moscow, Timbuctoo or Skowhe- gan.
 After that interview sometime elapsed Insaroff gradually gathered his strength But the doctor hinted that his lungs were effected-that he needed warmer climate The treatment of tuberculosis was not SC well understood in those days as it is in these.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26
Paul and Andrew

Then Paul Shoubine came to live in the house.
 Paul was the son of Mime. Stachoff's cousin, and, having been left without fortune upon the death of his father, Mime. Stachon had given him a home and agreed to provide for his future Paul had just left the University of Moscow and had decided to become a sculptor.
 Ellen regarded her cousin with the greatest interest-and of course the inn questionable Paul fell deeply in love with Ellen.
 Then came to reside in d neighborins villa one Andrew Bersieneff-a fast friend and former fellow-student of Paurs at the university, He was a constant visi- tor at the Stachoff villa and Ellen be- came more interested than ever in man. kind.
 Paul watched Andrew and Ellen close ls. He began to show petuance wheI the two talked much together.
 One day-he went, in d pet, to his room and locked himself in until Andrew has lei. the house. Then he rushed out ant overlook Bersieneff, who was on his wal home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26
Lonely Amid Luxury

There was one child, a daughter, Ellen now in her 2Oth year.
 When her father made a visit to his home he treated Ellen with a calm and patronizing dignity, as if she were d young lady for whom he had the greatest re- lspect but with whom he was only slightly acquainted
 As for Mime. Stachof, while she al- ways kept Ellen with her, she was so much occupied with her own wrongs, with her headaches and her constant 'fussing' over minor household matters that she found no time to become really intimate with the girl.
 She provided her with a paid com panion and a governess who would have been honestly surprised had any one hinted to her that Ellen had grown up
 Mme. Stachof had large fortune and was really at heart generous and good natured. But the results of her mar riage had nearly destroyed this latter quality in her.
 Ellen's governess ana companion" had warm sympathy for their salaries. but cared little, in reality, about Ellen
 Ellen, filled with a warm young life and of a deeply sympathetic nature, sec ing that they were sought for nowhere else, spent her affections upon animals and upon the poor of the neghborhood
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26
Selecting a Husband

Demetrius went to Moscow; there was a considerable time yet to elapse be- fore the impending troubles in the Bal kans would require his presence upon the field of action. He took up his resi- dence in the same old room in the tene- ment house which he had hired of the tailor and where Andrew had found him.
 The Stachoffs went also to Moscow and occupied their town house there. Ellen and Demetrius corresponded in secret
 One day Stachoff came home to his family and, sending everybody out of the room except his wife, said: Anne, it is time our daughter was married, I have picked out husband for her. He will dine with us tonight He is Greg ory Cournatovsky-first secretary of the Senate. He is man of affairs-a rising man: a Russian-no Montenegrin.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26
The End of If All

That night he had bad spell, a hemor- rhage Rfndftch arrived at midnight He found a dead man there.
 The next morning Rinditeh said to Ellen: We shall have heavy news for his couI- trymen They have been waiting him there. When shall we bury him?"
 Captain" said Ellen, calmly, take nG with him and bring us away from here to, the other side of the sea. Or is it impos-' sible?"
 Tt is not impossible" replied the cap tam; but suppose we succeed in buying him there-how are we to get you back?"
 Tt will not be necessary for you to send me back" she said slowly; .I shall find place somehow or other Only take us'
 That night Ellen wrote a long letter to her parents bidding the~l adieu for ever-telling them of all that had hap pened and, while begging pardon for all the anxiety she had caused them de-, clared her intention of proceeding to Bul- garia with the body of her husband
 What happened after that is shrouded in mystery. One rumor was that the ves- sel of Captain Rinditch was lost in a storm-that no living person was res cued from her. but that coffin was washed ashore upon the coast of Dalma- tia
 Another said that Insaroff was finally buried in his native land and that a sad among the suffering in stricken Bulgaria
 Copyright, 1914, by Irving King)
 Next weeks one~page classic will he "A Dark Nights Work" by Mrs. Gas kell
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26
The Story of Bulgaria. Wrongs

But his eyes were expressive" thought Ellen. On the whole, however, she was much disappointed with him.
 She felt that she could be friends with him. But he was no hero" such as she had pictured
 On the other side Bersieneff asked, as he and Insaroff walked home, How do you like my friends?"
 Very much-especia1ly the daughter. She is rather enthusiastic-but it is an honest enthusiasm.
 During the first two weeks after !n- saroffs arrival at his friend s villa he did not pay more than four visits to the Stachoffs. Then he began to call oftener
 At first Ellen was always glad to see him. but that only Then she began to watch eagerly for his comng-and his comings were oftener
 Little by little Ellen drew from him the story of Bulgaria and his own story. An uneasy feeling of pain shot through him as he noticed how Ellen's cheek would suffuse with blush and her eyes sparkle as the eagerly listened to his story.
 Then, one morning. Bersieneff came earlier than usual to the Stachoffs and said to Ellen "Only fancy-our Bull garian here has disappeared
 How disappeared?" asked Ellen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26
Her Marriage Announced

Papa" finally began Ellen, T know what you wish to say. l am to blame that I did not long ago confess my sc cret to you. It is quite true as the loo'- man told you, that have been to house in King street several times.
 An, ah, and pray who lives there
 My husband I am married to Deme- trius Insaroff."
 The headache was forgotten, the hNs- terics stopped, and even the verbosty or Nicholas Stachoff checked in amazement'
 When he got his voice again, Nicholas raved threatened that he would have the marriage declared void and send Ellen to a nunnery, while he would dc several unpleasant things to Insaroff.
 But Ellen was calm And when she got a chance to break in said: We are going away. We are going to Buigaria.
 More fireworks, tears and mysteries on the part of the parents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26
Buying His Consent

She had long conference with her husband the result of which was that he agreed to the marriage, but declared that he would not see his daughter or his s,n-in-law and went to the English club to stay until after they had started on their journey.
 The price that Mime. Stachoff paid for this compliance on the part of her hus- band was promise to pay all of his debts and increase his annual allowance.
 lnsaroff. still pale and weak, came to the house of his bride where the mother embraced him with tears. Then Ellen went to the squalid apartment in the ten ement house, and on a cold winters night they started upon theii journey.
 Mime. Stachoff was thsve, weeping fare well and supplying the couple with funds She had already settled an income upon them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26
Thinking It Over

He sat down in the oarlk at small piano which stood in his room and for ruore than an hour he remained there, striking. over and over again, the same notes. or clumsily trying to make out new chords or letting the sounds die away gradually and faintly.
 Paul was right" he murmured. Tn m, whole life there will be no such sec ord night as this
 Then he lighted a otndle, put on his dressing gown took down from his book case the second volume of Raumer's His tcry of Hochenstauffen'' and. with sigh. hogan to read that learned work
 The next day Bersieneff went to Mos COW. For some reason which he could not explain the idea had occurred to him during his talk of the night before with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26
An Excellent Fellow

Paul came over to meet lnsaroff when he arrived at Andrews villa, and found him an excellent fellow He had no misgivings of what was to be the out come.
 Paul was a young man with an 'ar- tistic temperament which is often oalv a paraphrase for egotism. Such people twang the strings upon the guitar which they fancy best and ignore those others of equal value.
 ''ls Insaroff young?" asked Ellen when Paul said that he had met him.
 Just turned 140" replied Paul in a mocking tone.
 Bersieneff brought Insaroff over to tea. He was a large man of muscular proportions Great strength lay within his well proportoned form. His face was strongly marked and Paul thought "what a subject for sculptor,''
 Ellen was not so much struck with him as she had expected to be. There was nothing of the romantic about hin soulful eyes or that sort of thing. His manners were simple and straightfor ward-and that pleased her.
 But his whole bearing had quie heaviness and an every day commences about it that was different from wha her ina magination had pictured. He spok little,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26
"You did not expect me- she cried

"Anywhere-to the ends of the world, here thou art there will l be"
 And you know that your parents will never consent to our marriage. You know that I am as poor as a beggar?'
 "I know it." she replied steadily.
 And you also know that l am dedi- cated to hard and thankless task. That I-that we-shall have to endure not merely danger and privation-it may be ignominy?"
 ''I know it all love you" she replied. He raised her head, which had dropped, and said: Hail to thee-my wife before God and the people"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26
Farewell Blessings

As the carriage which was to take them away was about to start and Bersieneff anc Paul were anxiously inquiring if there were enough wraps in the vehicle, there came the sound of sledge driven rapidly into the courtyard.
 It was a gorgeous sledge with three horses abreast and arms emblazoned on it. the driver and footmun in livery. From it sprang Nicholas Stachoff
 Thank God I am not too late,' he cried. Here, Ellen, is my last farewell blessing"
 Taking from his pocket small cruel fix attached to velvet string he hung it about her neck; then Aobbed and kissed her.
 The carriage of the bridal couple start ed and Nicholas ran for little along slde of it, crying out: Don't forget to write.'
 "Good-by.' sobbed Ellen; ''good-by al
 good-by Russia"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26
BY IVAN s. TURGENIEFF

Austria, but that now impossible. Spies were upon him-Austria was un- friendly.
 So Demetrius and Ellen went to Venice, where 1t had been arranged that sehoon- CT would meet him and carry him across the Adriatic to Dalmatian port, whence, he could make his way to the Bulgarian headquarters
 By the time they arrived in Venice De- metrius was very weak. Consumption was making it's ravages with unusual rapidity. still his heart was in Bulgaria, and thither would he go. In fact he had no idea of the seriousness of his own condition
 Days, weeks, were passed in Venice, and yet the schooner which had been ap-, pointed to transport him and his wife' across the Adriatic did not appear.
 They floated in gondolas and walked upon the Lido. It was a honeymoon but sad one. Insaroff failed fast
 Rinditch was the name of the skipper who was to come with his schooner. One night, when he went to bed, the feebl. man said to Ellen: Wake me at any minute that Rinditch comes.n
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26
Impossible to Understand

Then there came a day when Nicholas Stachoff. walking up and down his study ano complaining to Paul of the little importance he was in his own house, said:
 ''It is impossible to make Ellen out of late. She does not seem to want to marry Gregory. Then today she is all gayety and the next day dull as death. All at once she grows pale and thin and then, all at once she is quite well
 But nowadays young ladies do as they please; talk with whom they please, and do not confide In their parents-or obey them. They go where they like.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26

By dinner time he was hot and burn ing and unable to eat anything. He went to bed in a. sort of stupor. He began to have hallueinations and then everything vanished from his thoughts in a red and indistinguishabl chaos
 To the lodgings which Bersienoff now had in Moscow came the tailor who let the room to Demetrius and told him Of the condition of his friend.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26

stood, in the year 1895, the villa or Nicholas Strachoff, a retired officer of the Guards, who had started out in life with two professed ambitions--to become an aid to the Emperor and to marry an heiress
 His handsome person and agreeable manners-and the assiduity with which he cultivated society-had enabled him to accomplish this second ambition; but he had failed utterly-given il up long ago-to achieve his other laudable am bition
 At the period mentioned he had for years been striving only to enjoy him self and see as little of his wife as the conyentionalities would allow, or IS was required for him to extract the money necessary for the procuring of his pleasures.
 One of his pleasures was the contem- plation of his own superior intellect which was entirely inexpensive. His other modes of enjoyment were decided 1y expensive.
 As for his wife, Anne-whose maiden name was Shoubine-she had become a querulous person with a constant ten ldency to heada ches
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26
Arranging for Flight

"Where?' returned Ellen. But would it not be happiness to die together? But why should we die We shall live-we are still young. How old are you, Dome trus?''
 "Twenty-six.
 "rwenty-six? And I am 20 We have long life before us. But I must go now. Let me know when you are ready and when we are to be married-and l will be ready also"
 She gave him kiss and was gone. Demetrius at once began to arrange for passports. A pettifogging lawyer got a passport for Ellen under an assumed name.
 Then, one night Insaroff could not sleep, and got up in the morning quite faded and i'll. However, be hustled him. self about his papers and letters, though he felt his head in confusion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26
Their Secret Revealed

shall l tell you why you found me here?" said she. Tt is because I was going to your house. You wished to force me to say l loved you Well, l have saio it."
 "Ellen.' cried InsaroT With silent. but passionate embrace he held her to his bosom. He had no need to tell her that he loved her
 And so,' he said at last, you will go with me wherever my fate calls me?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26
A CL A SSIC
 IN A P A c E
Copyright, 1914, by Irving King. All


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 This celebrated novel of Turgenieffs is generally known in it's translation as "On the Eve" Why, it would be diff ficult to say, except that the time of the story is just upon the eve of the breaking out of the Crimean war;
 In the story Turgenieff shows heartfelt sympathy with the cause of Bulgarian independence, which, 1t Is to be feared the ruling powers of Russia did not feel. As subsequent events have shown. it was an anneXation-and not an independence-tha caused Russia to take up arms in behalf of the Bal kan States-not once, but several times.
 However. as everybody knows, Tur- genieffs comprehension of the policy of the Russian government-and he was an official of the interior department was so bad that he lost his job. was sent to practical imprisonment in an obscure Russian village and finally died in exile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26

Paul to invite friend of his-a Bull garian named Demitrius Insaroff to spend the summer with him at his hired villa.
 1nsarof had been at the university with him and Andrew had conceived a vast admbiration for the Bulgarian and taken deep interest in the history of the exile
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26
Not a Valuable Dog

From the Detroit Free Press
 ''Is that a valuable dog you have?" 'T bought him for thoroughbred but don't believe he can be-"
 "Why not?"
 I've had him six weeks and he hasn't disappeared once.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26
A Sad Honey moon

While Insaroff had been i'll the long, expected storm in the Balkans had broken and massacre.
 He had planned to reach Sophia through
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26

was Ellen? I was told she had gone out alone. Where? Nobody knew.
 We don't know now where she went Is that proper?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26
His Two Ambitions

00l the banks of the River Mos M COW, at a distance of some 19 xY1NYU41 miles fro mthe ancient Rus lf46u sian capital of the same name,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26

Next weeks one-page classic will beY "A Dark Nights Work" by Mrs Gas llell.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-12-24
PROHIBITION
LAW LIKELY
WHEELING MAY FALL INTO Inns
WITH OTHER CITIES
VERY SOON.
City Solicitor Brennan Instructed -
Draft Ordinance to Be Pre-.
sented 70 Council

The city has decided 10 take the
mint very forcibly laid down bv the
state, and has started IN motion what
VIII ultimately mean an ordinance
preventing the manufacture. sale or
Keeping for sale 81 s%pirituous or In.
t~oNicatinR liquors within the city linn.
lts. Action on this matter was taken
yesterday ~ the meeting Of the Roard
~ Control. when city solicitor urap.
nan was instructed by the board fo
drait such IN ordinance and have if
c1
This ordinance will be- similar 10 the
one presented some time AGO bv gber.
M Sweeney. and which was turned
down BY council A. DAYS 10 on. lad.
ditional b%Ootleggcrs are picked no and
carted 20 the jail. while the police sit
IDLY BY and o. the revenue obtained
20 into the county Golfers. ~ b. be-.
heved that the many raids have
spurred the city officials into action.
and from now on something can b.
expected