Show SIBERIAN iberi 1117 Y PAIL ju on my mothers side zide tan y I li LW ta sl 21 beria berls in 1854 they we were re among the tint first exile exiles tinier under the administrative that Is oe pra a exiled 1 14 1 without 9 trial they were ware refined re lined educated end ive wealthy althy mr ity grandmother ft a beautiful young woman of or 26 year yea Is was during part of at her journey chained to a male convict at 0 the lowest clasa class the she he the then received drove toy my grandfather to fr brenty enty and ad he was killed by an n officer a w week tak after they I 1 left e ft bt st petersburg whether there waa ever any notice taken of his death I 1 cannot tell three my grandmother care pa birt Irto k daughter my larther impossible as it may boam they both llred lived and to prove that there ie is a park spark of manhood in the mot most hardened my grandmother received rather better treatment afterward though bow how he she could have lived god only knows at length be reached r e hed and there hr hor journey ended sentence of banishment had been for or twenty years and the knew that meant for lire hopelessly the dragged herself from honse house to bonee house seeking a shelter for herself and little one at length a wretched peasant gave her the use of one miserable lerable tn room she entered be kleving he should at least find solitude even thia la Is denied political exiles at any moment an officer may tany invade their privacy and their poor belonging belongings pass a under der nil his inspection hourly this most wretched woman prayed tat for death for herself and child bat but they lived on and on and strangely enough the little one throve thy tbt T lived upon the small allowance f a by the government treasur treasury trea eury y for the support of those unable to work tula 71 va was barely enough to prevent starvation not enough to giva give them one aria comfort bisot paper and ink cc cor re was however a doubtful pleasure as a every letter received 0 or r fie bent at had 31 to pa pas under the inspection of an officer a night after ther had d retired t 1 rea their room was w entered eteve and everything ve r at h ing examined examine deven areu the bed through all thia this they lived and the little alaria grew into a tat fair IS large rge eyed timid girl with a beancy so rare and delicate that her mother a heart woke awoke to salu another ache 1 ith nothing to help her bat but the wis do of unutterable love lay ray brand grand mother ducted her chiland made her a worthy branch of the boble house from which ehe she sprang for fourteen years they had lived in that bat dreary d cottage the mother was now rabaa unable to leave her miserable bed christmas was approaching lu and mary hid had never had kad a christmas present in it her ute life and old cola as an yon you gather about your christ trees on an this blessed morn wulf of this little giell she Is a 00 only jy the ype of a class clam there are ina many ny more as forlorn though thank 11 1 I 1 I 1 isn N I 1 I 1 FR Ayao ron czarn god she the now standa mantis where bitite re and nd where when storms are calm and the eternal e hills are an beautiful I 1 think of ber always I 1 all have no present I 1 will have nothing but an a opportunity to work I 1 far or those I 1 love who are still in exile I 1 t wr writ only to arouse arousa attention to help by ever over eo so little la Is better that to sit alt tift still when ivil I 1 read of those who give their live in this can cause how I 1 exult how liow I 1 long for their glorious but patica my day will come my grandmother in other knew that the coming cud Z balsa was to bo her lost on an earth and she be poured out her whole soul in supplication suk to god to send a r protector to her ner child one came but if it t 1 erel 4 A why 4 d 4 he not barken harken sooner somer one prec precious tous poss possession fou beside her treasured child my grandmother graild mother had kept all these yeara years so securely hidden that it had bad th the ab flag arbing I 1 eye to of the officers this was a picture of the little boy who died be before f the evil days fell upon ber her A little jo joyous faced framed in curls a lashly steady little fellowes fellow eo like the bus husband boand who hai for forstr atrall all at vnus left of a I 1 t happy home this picture the she bad never mentioned to irie marle afraid at times units to eren even think of it so ubiquitous we her raf tutors but now the he mud must soo oon 11 dr ale 0 and she the would give her elf self the ud plenum pleasure of bestowing thil this treasure upon her child for a carist mas as present christmas Chrit nia ere eve the tro two lonely ant at en car 41 4 in melt ois other a anna arans and the th hirzin erain nept the cherished memorie memories of her brave little boy again told the beautiful christmas sto atory and cd the customs of happy bout homes e s in la other ther lands thee then it being very late and the b I 1 I 1 9 I 1 I 1 ro f 71 Y I 1 0 7 1 AIL 11 I 1 j 4 I 1 15 daner of a visit deeming to be P pact t the mother drew from its it mi hiding ng place se the picture mrie gated upon it with wonder and rapture she had never ceen seen anything ao beautiful and it bar own darling little brother what can I 1 cay any to make you feel thi as I 1 feel it muse happy mothers and sisters al stera and imagine yourselves alrin livine through it the door opened an officer en entered tere snatched the piL ph turc ture and after a scene I 1 cannot describe carried it a away way ue he never returned it suspicion was aroused that ams por hollow cheeked woman on the verge of the grave bad had ecret secret communication with bt petersburg Pete rebury A chort short time ume at after ter my father took an i i room in this wretched cottage ay my I 1 iy grandmother bad had known and loved his hi parent parents and che she poured out the moat most devout thanksgiving to god for this friend who would surely watch over the child ilia Ills presence brocht bre ht the first feeling of security ahe the had mown kince linea her arrest so many tea yea a aco 0 my idy mother and father ath er loved each other 11 as from iho the first and my grandmother died V peacefully cerully in ili my father a arms after ahe burial they were married |