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Show '"'Mu" u ''nr?. MWfim (H- wAiy TIIE MORNING' EXAMINED JO : OGDEN, F- Siliaiin UTAH. SUNDAY, ton tea I MARCH 21, 1907. SSSiSeSSSMSMsW8Kt RUSSIAN ARTIST. RISKED DEATH TO PAINT SCENES IN FROZEN NORTH BORISSOFF NEARLY SACRIFICED I1IS LIFE TO GIVE TIIE WORLD TRUTHFUL riCTUIIER OF TIIE LAND OF ETERNAL ICE IS TIIE SON OF A PEASANT, BUT 1IAK WOX TIIE FERSONLL PATRONAGE OF TIIE CZ I! PENETRATED TO POLAR REGIONS AMID TERRIBLE llARDSDIPS IIAD TO ABANDON IIIS SHIP AND WAS MAROONED ON ICE FLOE&l TIMES iTAVE UP HOPE OF SURVIVING FINALLY RESCUED BY SAMOYEDE HUNTERS PAINTED IN A TEMPERATURr DRANK BLOOD OF SEALS TO gUENCJI RAGING THIRST-MA-NY AND BRUSHES SNAPPED OFF LIKE THREADS OF BRITTLE GLASS BUT HE HAS BROUGHT BACK 3U0 PR CONGEALED OF 30 DEGREES BELOW ZERO TURPENTINE FROZE, PAINT TUBES OF THE ARCTIC REGIONS HE WILL VISIT AMERICA AND PLANS TO GO NORTH AGAIN. ALEXANDER State an4 (Copyright ii the Unit Great Britain by Curtla Brava. All Bight Strictly RMervai. London, March 14. Rugein nay daiai ta have produced tve at tout of the world'! Boat daring artists. No on will have forgotten YaeelH the tearless painter cf ear, who went down with Makaroff'a Oar ahtp at Fort Arthur, and now there cotnei to light aa equally adventuraua Russian artist, who tells a thrilllug story la plotiuee aad graphic words. la contrast to Varestchagla'a work la the heat of battle. Alexander Boris-soft- . the new eelebrity, all but sacrificed his Bfo to paint cold terror and dmolaUsa of nature la lands of eternal Ice. The results of hie desperate are some luO unique paintings, van-tun- o isenr uninhabited and seldom visited, except by the most venturesome hunters. "Aran-with a few canvases, paints and brushes and with a much to small supply of provisions. I set out in company with twe Bamoyedea to penetrate tnla region of eternal ice and snow, to sketch and paint the Arctic acenea which explorers had vaguely deacribed aa wonderfully beautiful. Curiously enough, I found everything Just as I had funded it in my boyish dreams. Knowledge of the icebergs seemed to be born with me. Vast stretches of glacier with their yawning chasms of death, huge mountains of ice I greeted them all like eld friends, and bees nut enthusiastic at the thought of taking true picture! of them bock to my countrymen. "My enthusiasm, la fact, held out longer than provisions, and for the sake of my work 1 pushed on when I should have turned back. Subsisting on half rations and enduring the moat hitter cold, 1 sought land scapes or rather k escapes to paint and sketch. I often sat ta the open on the ice, with a temperature of 80 degrees below tern, trying to deplot on canvas the beautiful desolation about me. Sometimes It was impossible to . paint Bven the turpentine fries, the paint congealed la lumps, while the hairs of the brushes snapped off like brittle, glass. 1 had to put on fur glovee to hold the brush and to work with swift, energetic strokes, as the rough appearanoe of some of my pictures bears evidence. "Although the supply of provisions became so low that we had to resort to seal meat, I remained In tho Far North fur nearly three month a, until I had need the last of my seventy-fiv- e canvases. Upon my return to Russia of my best pictures were IMS sixty-thre- e bought by the National gallery of all about the Arctic. I longed to ace Moscow. "This appreciation Increased my amand paint the Arctic night a While etlll n student tn 1896 my Imps-tieno- e bition to penetrate still further north to visit Arctic regions ied me and bring back still better pictures. to embark on n steamer for Murman, All the money I had received from which is Russian territory adjoining the National gallery I put aelde toAt this From here 1 made my way ward another expedition. Norway. further north with a hunting party to time, thanks to the Intervention of a Novya Zeinlya. an Island directly north Count de Witte (and I have na ned of Russia. By looking at a map you glacier after him In acknowledgment will sea that this Island, of which one of the kindness), my work was tailed the ctar, and It was probably hears littls la your country. to the attention 1 ofshould go at his majIs about aa large as the British tales arranged that put together. Observing the map esty's expense to proeeed as for as closely it appears that Novya Steinlya north aa possible 1and bring bttk could to show the Is not exactly an Island, after all, but many pictures as two islands separated by a narrow emperor on canvas a part of his doneck of water, called the Matotchkln mains which he had never eeeu. Bkar. The southern half of this dou"In 1900, with the soologlet, Tlmo-this- , ble island' 1s Inhabited mainly by and two Samoyedes, I set out hunters who came over from Russia. again for the Arctic regions on what Thu northern portion ta practically proved to be a disastrous expedition. from the depths to the surface Russian society, even to tbs personal patronage of the our hlnisrif. When barely 15 years old Bortsaolf fell ill and hit pa reals sent him to the Sotowt ok monastery according to the peasant custom ta northers Russia. Here the boy was attracted by paint Inga of holy Image! and he act about copying some of them. When one Jay the Grand Duke Vied'mlr visited the monastery ha warmly praised the lad's work and later showed his appreciation by gaining admission for nun to the Imperial Academy of Fine Atts in St. Petersburg. Then. said Borisaolf, "the Idea which had been so long shaping in my brain took hold of me. Mir forefathers, I know, used to hunt bears la Spitsbergen, end as a hoy l.hud read f shall never forget it. Our live were wedged in tight between walls of toe in imminent danger a doxen times or which threatened to crush us. We demore. We had to abandon our ship in cided to turn beck, but it waa too late. n frosen sea and with sledges and ca- Winter waa closing In earlier than we noes to Journey for throe days across expected it was now the latter part a perilous toe fioe. Many times we of September and the broken ice were adrift onhuge blocks of tea and about us was fast becoming an alsaw ourselves being carried further most solid field. and further awey from the coast we "After a two weeks' battle we had to hoped to reach. We nearly perished surrender. Nature had captured us. one and of hunger and eold. at time and held us In a vast, drifting were forced to drink seals bfcod to field of Ice. tightly We were being carried Quench our thirst. off gradually Into regions of certain "Finally rescued by Samoyede hunt- death. Our in aban1 ers, 1 was enabled to bring back some :00 pictures of the regions where I had nearly met my death. "On this second Journey It had been our plan to proceed as far north as only escape lay doning our ship and attempting to regain the coast by Journeying across the dreadful sea of Ice on foot Gathering what provisions we could carry, our party of nine. Including the flvo sailors, set out with but little expectation of ever reaching land. The first day wo made considerable progress across. the uneven Ice pack, although in places we bad to plod through anow up to onr waists. On tho second day we had nearly reached the edge of our huge Island of Ice, end we could see colossal bergs end blocks of Ice being driven by wind and current toward us. We collided with aa awful smash. Islet after Islet broke from our ice field aad floated away. Our own Ice began to crack and suddenly one of the Samoyedes who was ahead with the dogs and provisions was left on one of these floating Islands. He cut the dogs harness, abandoned the sledges and provisions, and when the huge ice cake was driven against the pack he made a wild Jump across to us. The dogs tried to follow suit, but several fell Into the chasm and were drowned. "Huge fissures opened the length and breadth of our Ice with the sound of cannon announcing the doom which waa preparing for na We were adrift and a current waa hearing us quicker and quicker towards the south further and further away from the firm ice. Lacking provision!, we passed hours of agony. "We ell were silent as If awaiting death and feared to read in each other's eyes and faces our doubts and fears. Thera seemed not one chance In a hundred of being saved, and yet we still had hope. "The brave Samoyedes wandered about our floating Island in search of seal, while we built a miserable shelter with our skins against the northeast wind and then knelt down to pray for food and drink. "Our prayer was doubly answered, for soon the Samoyedes came back with two seals. We collected the blood from the wounds and drank it greedily, then devoured the liver and lungs with a good appetite. The bains of the seel, have a pleasant taste and we ate these aa well. ."There was nothing for us to do hut spend the night on the floating ice. Our sleeping sacks were getting worn end foiling Into ehreds and the rotten leather smell like a putrid corpse. As we crawled into them the thought croaeed our minds that they would ho onr winding sheets. "We passed a terrible night, but were fovarod wltb a fine calm morning and found ourselves floating slowly toward what appeared to be a field of firm toe. This might be our salvation If wo came close enough to get across and we prepared to try this by pressing on with our things to tho edge of onr floating ice. We did touch with a tremendous crash which sent portions of onr too Into enormous - ALBXAXDEE BOMlSSOrr, rsiattt rt tt AMk Btossa. possible In the Sea of Kara in our sailing ship, the Mechta, or Dream. We wanted to distribute our materials and provisions along the extreme northeastern coast of Novya Zemlya during the fall of 1900 and to return to a house we had built near the western opening of the Matotchkln Bhar, and there to spend the winter. 1c the spring we hoped to make an early start on sledges along the route where we had placed our supplies. "It was tn navigating the Sea of Kara that we encountered our first acute peril. The further north we got, the more numerous were Icebergs. Mora than once our small ship waa fci ssJ Eiariy In the spring e began ta excursion to the north with dogTaka. tho route where we had left The expedition occupied lu6 dlyVh Hinsorrs nonxa naa cusTm cua. CNv tt Duse fort is Rim S unstm. TV blocks. Luckily we were driven Into bay and came close enough to jump serosa "Wers vo saved? It seemed so, but the thought that ws wers on stationary loo was a bitter Illusion. Wo were still being carried to the south, but to tho west we could see land. Boujed up by this, we plodded on with empty stomachs, parching throats, tired and benumbed Limbs, to the edge of our new floating Island. Our third night closed In npon us and we repeated the agony we suffered before, la the morning the Samoyede startled na all by shouting that he sold smell the smoke of a Chanm a Samoyede hut made of reindeer skin. True enough for scanning the coast with our glasses, we could see tho hot We fell on our the'foce of most Utter can get outef doors end see ell the folks." "He's pretty sick, don't you think?" against the Man"Tea. joe, but mamma says he's feelgolds as I knew of," the Jelly storekeep- ing bettor, and if we're brave, strong er et the Reek Prai- boys, he'll get well again." "But the plowing! Can we do it all? rie aetttoraent re"Do tt? We've got to do It, and them marked, "hut ITS plate they dont an only e few days loft before the time amount to much." will be upand if we don't have It dons That's sx" spoke up one of tho set- we shall loan tho claim. Its too had the tlers who wore warming themselves hy harness broke this afternoon, but if the the fire et the Steve on en early Feb- atnrakoeper has soma straps we'U he all ruary evening. "They make the two right" The homes had started Into a gallop, little fellows do ell tho work. Ive sever seen the father anywhere." and the boys bobbed awkwardly In their eats. Over the swells, down the grassy "Neither have I," eaid the storekeeper. "They owns hero in kept ember. The first we set of em was noticing the white topped camper's wagon standing on the section of government lend near the cabin that the Blagg boys left whan they feund the land wasn't first class. The twe beys have been here for s few things end always paid far what llttlv they gat, but they wouldn't talk murk I guess they're pretty hard up, and I've thought N ge over end see em, but I never got te It." The ether maa agreed with this history ef the family and remarked that they, tea had thought of going to sea the family, hut had never carried out their purpose. One had passed the cabin about n month before. Be had seen a womaa through tho window, but nothing mors waa known of them. They were evidently the see family of dellnquonU te e prosperous community ef settlers. Nice, span winter," remarked Squire Olltott, aa they all rose te ge. "Tea, said the storekeeper. "Flowril be going next week, though tho nights era kind of ahiUy yet." "If tho Mengeids aspect te hold land, they meet get some plowing dene right off. "Correct, ffoe bed the eld man puts It ell aa tfeeee twe boys." Buttoning np their heavy coats, the settiers mounted their ponies and rode hamaward together. "Iters the two boys new," remark, ad Iqulro Qiltett. whan they bad ridden twe miles or more serosa the brown pralita. Looking off te tho west, they AT LJtST THE FAINT LIGHT IN THE now twe smell hoys d on large, CABIN SHONB ACROSS THE PLAIN. rawbaned work harass, their outlines slopes they wont, aad than, with s still distinct agrais ft the sunset sky. The twe boys ware jogging along foster poos, whllred down another deand crashed through the dead slewly end ta silenoo. Their Bleeder clivity forma seemed oddly in contrast with tho no Sower strike and tumble weeds that the bottom of the slough. rim of the hsnas they were riding. revered had gone but a few yards here They Thry shivered in the raw evening air. when the horses suddenly stopped and Heavy deads were coming up in great sent the young riders sliding forward te buck masses from tho northeast. animals shoulders and manes. must hurry, Joe," said one of the the The object which had stopped them boys, "or well get wet." was a large and dilapidated "prairie "I suppose to. for our coats aren't schooner." which stood at the side ot quite waterproof." arid the other. the trail. The horses which had been y. Clive," Joe went on after a mo- attached to It browaod upon the weeds. ment's ' alienee. "don't you think it's A camp firs had been started beside a pretty lonesome winter?" Joe nodded three or four times rather the wagon, and near It, his hands hold Ing hie head and his elbows on his raefully. knees, was a flannel shifted and unI shall be glad enough when kempt man. temes." he continued, for th-- n spring He did net look up until the boys rail papa HBRB'S mo-mie- bn nothing ed to him, and then he raised anxious, hopeless fare. a been n kind of doctor in (hs seat, but He get no farther. The look that tho was ordered out bare for his health. He storekeeper gave him quite upset him, hasn't been able to go about any ainro and he relapsed into silence. "Anything the matter?" Joe asked. Then a very important conference was "Tea, something's the matter. It's ba came, and hla brave little wife and the little one." He motioned toward the the twe boys have looked after every- held between the storekeeper aad the ether settlers, and after it the party wagon. thing." "Hick?" asked Joe. "That's It, ohr separated with smiling faces and a sati"Tee. And, besides that, out ef all of sfied air. "Too, aad maybe dying. I've come for Ths rain had cleared the atmosphere, days from tho west, calculating to take us they wars the ones to taka cars of the child home to tho old folks in Mis- tho camper. The poor fellow waa about and nest morning the sky gleamed in waa a godsend to such blue splendor as only prrirte skies souri. but the little redger couldn't discouraged, and It him that tho boys came across him, for can know. Ths air was full of ths softstand the Journey." The hoys slipped to the ground and tho tfebyd surely died right there In ness and warmth of aa early spring by the light of the fire approached the the ravine. morning in southern Kansas. "More'n that, boys, I found out that At an early hour there were seen here bark part of the wagon. They draw aside the cover, and let the firelight ths plowing that has te be dene on the and there wagons wending their way into the interior. along the prairie. In each wagon there waa a plow or a harrow, and In acme A child, hardly more thaa a baby, was of them were heaps of corn and other moaning on the bed of straw within. "Can't we help you?' asked Joe anxprovisions Clive and Joe looked out ef tho Maniously. "I don't know. I've tried to find a gold cabin and noticed that the horses' heads ware all faring them. doctor, but I don't seem to make out Let's hurry and hitch up," said Joe, Maybe the folks are afraid of mo. Any"and get te plowing. All tho folks are how, they don't seem to want mj coming ky here, and we ought to bo at around, and now I'vo clean lest my work." way." Til tell you what' we'U do." said Joe. They ran out and began harnessing the hones to tho plow, tho stranger "We'll take you home. Papa can doctor emigrant looking en dolefully. people." "Hold on there; beys! Unhitch those "But the harness, Joe?" said Clive. horses!" That'a so. I forgot it. Wall. I'U tell It was ths storekeeper, with a grin you: You drive home with the man, on his face. and I'll go to tho store. I aint afraid." "All you have to do today," he went In a few minutes the emigrant was on. "te to hoes. We'U de the work. Now, qn the road toward the Mangold robin say, where do you want your forty with Clive, white Joe, his courage Just acres plowtd V a Uttlr weakened hy the appearance of Joe, bewildered, looked around upon the still darkening sky, wss riding rapthe gathering teams and pointed to a idly in ths otker'dlrection. tract around which the boys had made My goodness, who's this! exclaimed several straggling furrows. the storekeeper as hs wss putting up "All right. Now, fellows, hurry np!" the blinds of the lonely prairie store for shouted the storekeeper. tho night. He could hardly believe his There waa a great rattling of chains eyes when the young rider presented and much laughter aa team after team himself. went with its plow to tho corner of the "And youve come all this way alone?" field, presently to sand a long chocolate he said when he had heard Joe's story. ribbon of sod rolling after as it took Its "Well, mr boy, you murt be a good onr. way around tho great square piece ef Look here! I'm going home with you. prairie. He put on his overrent and wrapped "Twenty-fou- r of them." said Mrs. a shawl about the Blander boy's shoulMangold, counting with extended finger, ders. her worn face lighting up with pleas"Corns." he said, picking up a bundle ure. The strong visitation and the pile which Joe thought waa certainly too "HOLD OK THERE. BOTfi! UNHITCH of provisions that had been brought by large to contain nothing more than ths THOSE HORSES!" the sattlen had almost overwhelmed pieco of harness. "Irt's go." her. Together they mounted the horse, claim te hold it from the government Following the plows were harrows and. through ths falling rain, the two ain't near finished. Tboee children have and (he tend rapidly took on the aprode oil mile after mile, the steady been to do it, and they've got pearance of a field long tilled. The sun trying swish ef the horse's feet through the a few acres plowed. The time ex- was half way acroee the sky when all deed gram being the only sound to only on the 15th of the month that's slopped at a signal from the storepiree break the stillness of the night. after tomorrow and the rlslm's keeper. At last ths faint light In ths cabin day to be likely Jumped by some outsider. "Bovs. he said, when the men had of ths Mangolds shone across the I know two fellows who'vs got their plain, gathered round, "now let's eat dinner, and a few momenta afterward the storeeyes on It." eaid the squire. "They've snd then we'U finish. But while we're keeper and the boy had entered the been wanting Jt for some time end are finishing how would It do for oomo one house. to make a break whenever they to go to the and bring out a "I tell you what." srid the atorekeep-e-r going can. They're eharp. and I think they' e certificate of village entry on the claim? Thatll the next evening, when a group of got wind somehow that the railroad's make it an euro. By that time he will settlers had gathered about his fire. It ring to strike through that quarter be able to prove that the required plowwasn't a pleasant sight There was the section." Is done, you see." baby moaning and suffering, while the "It'll be tough on tho Mangolds to ing The proposition was received with a little woman waa trying to comfort It tote their claim. droned out a shout of approval. slowly Over in the other corner wss Mangold lank herder who was occupying the top "I'll go." arid the lank herder, who himself. of a sugar barrel, "but, then, ther don't had been completely converted te the "The eld man. eh?" said the squire. amount to much in tho settlement, and Mangolds side. ' He's sick, boys, pretty sick. He'e the Hay boys, being bustlers' As he had the fastest pony In the worn, TUI weather 1 kept busily at work, and during the Jour ney I painted nearly 800 pictures of glaciers, icebergs, mountains sad fields of toe and the color effects of the fontastio and wtord Arctic nights. One morning I left the encampment on the shore and went some distance Inland, intending to paint some views of a huge glacier which could bo anally teen shining Ilka silver Is the brilliant morning nun. "I bad barely finished making the rough sketch when e shuffling sad a noise attrsrted my ah tontton. Glancing round I saw to my horror the huge shaggy white body at a polar bear within ten feet of ay back. The bear saw me turn hk deep-brathel- (Continued on Page Thirteen.) .. Cspyrlght, mr. by Frank Luckert, or hslw Will rt the Lias VlrtSe IWm ft' which he ta now exhibiting In Lao don, and which he will take to America next srssrm This artist adventntwr ta of the typical Russian type broad shouldered and heavily built, hta face bearded with fair hair, the high, outstanding cheekbones unshaven and the eyes set beck beneath a strong, masterful forehead that betokens Imagination and Intellect. He is Just 41 years oU. 1 persuaded Borluaoff to tell me hta story, and If the Interest of it can be transferred to paper It ought to make good reeding. la the village of Glubokl Rucbel which means e "deep stream' In- the government of Vologda, at the estreme end of the Russian empire, this artist was bora la 1164. He wee the son of peasant parents, but. Ilka many another Ruastaa genius, he hue risen knees and thanked our God slui shouted and lag the natives' attend Beared ns end we could see sJ. them hastening down lo n,- with alittle boat, it seemed to ns while they were making Sj rescue, and suddenly a fog drliM and cut oS our view of land, in L5 alienee we waited and the toe here vs slowly proved whru a voice in the mist! ThSt, ed our floating toe! We acre After two weeks spent in tx. vj pl table camp of our rescuers ZT eeeded to our house near the m..JT kin Bhar tor the remainder of thew j neighborhood he wss allowed te take with the twigs, afterward standing the trip. round redhot stores and pouring pain lfuls of too water ever one another! Just before the sun reached the - horl-ao- the square of prairie sod had been blotted out. As the party gathered around the cabin In the twilight the herder rode up, his horse white with foam. He held n large official envelope In his hand. "February the fourteenth," read the storekeeper aloud, beginning the certificate. "Boys," ha said, with a laugh, looking up, "this ta St. Valentine's day. That's so," arid several ef too settlers. Tell you what tots do," proposed Ushmonts. The bathere eat en marble below the surface ef the water, the edges of the basins, scraplni them salves with dull knlvaa of and Ivory and taking plunges Into tho water. Dissipated Romans would . whola days In tho bath seeking from overindulge nre in eating an drinking ths night before. Everybody von tho emperor, used these baths e wit which ware open to every chess te pay the price of admission. WHEN MARRIAGE IS A FAILURI Marriage Is a failure If neither bus band nor wife has married for torn w merely floF money or any other sisw dsna motive; if meals are ill aad badly served; if twe young psP rush Into matrimony and takemsupJ themselves all the burden of l life whan too young to realise ths incsmi the H responsibility of It; though well managed and mate moat of. cannot cover tho expenditure If tho huSband bo a teddy, fidgety m perpetually prying Into hote matters, and If be thinks be mere about thorn than anybody if both parties are absolutely resow" te see only tho worst side ef tn other's character; If the husbandar m t! bs mistress as well as master, wife master as wall aa mistress or bouse; if, when dark days esnta band and wife forget they took ether for better for worse, f rieaw for prooror; if tho wife Is a flte totally Ignorant of even thothink na of domestic economy and of her dress thaa her huabanda cow e fort. aw-fu- QUIRE GILLETTE MADE A VERY HANDSOME LITTLE SPEECH. Squire Gillette: "let's give the certificate to tho woman for a vatentlao!" Gathering together, with the squire at their head, they knocked at the door of the cabin. Mrs. Mangcld opened it, and the pale face of her husband waa seen behind her shoulder. Squire Gillette made a very handsome little speech snd presented her with the certificate aa a valentine, accompanying hla formal words with some hearty praise of the brave boys. GREAT BATHERS. Of all Europeans the Russians The flogging stimulates ths circulation, and when the reaction oomss or the too water performance the bath- - ( ere lie about te a condition of scat ary a sort of nervous Intoxication. The ancient Rofnaaa were extravagantly fend ef bathing. They got their notions about the bath as a luxary from ths Greeks, and at one time thsrs were nearly 909 public bathing srs most addicted te the bath. In 8L Petersburg there are vast vapor bathe, to which the poorer people repair by thousands every Saturday night, carrying clean towels and birchen twigs. While lying upon the marble slabs in the baths they flog each other severely rudl" WHISTLE. possesses the steam whistle in tho world. The iu comprises three whistles, the H being nearly six feet la height. LARGEST STEAM East St Louis tat" been aet up at the electrical gnerriJJ station of the railway system connected to an otoctric dock, waw five guaranteed not to vary whlstlri during tho year. Tho blows four times during the dw. first blast being at 7 oclock W to morning, summoning the maa lha second at II midday, dinner time; the third an hour recalling the men te the factories the last at I In the evening, announces the end of tho drily task. T dents throughout a radius ef tea m can hear the blast distinctly. " |