Show AMERICANS IN the houlou lie aid prints the follow ing terrible stoby of alie imprisonment of lour ew angland sailors one of them born in for two cais and ten mantl s in a siberian coil mine their altense ft 13 poaching in russi in v liters for set and walrus one ameci can died after stara ing upon rice soup and being eiten by vermin this seems ilso to have been alie fate of the twelve or fifteen japanese who mie up the rest of the crew iho arst member or tl is little i airty to reach home being mourned is dead was arft W birns mirns of I 1 oston he hid mi ie out successful expedition to tho island in I 1 and then lie tried it again with the schooner helena manned by four americans and twenty two japanese sailors 1 C crocker of lie w as secord mate J uck 1 olger of nantucket han was mate and J colder of rath was rhe schooner made a successful run to the islands secured a full cargo of skins and was headed for yokohama when a I 1 man of war overhaul rd her lart of the crew were killed by volleys from tl e man of w or according to cai t morris story jtb e others w ere taken to w 1 ere aliey w ere kept under guard until after tl air trial they were refused hotel ind other ic and had to live out of doors sleeping nights in j bolcs in the bank lined with dry grass after tl e trial the evidence against them being given all in the russian tongue and they not knotting a word of it they were taken to the coal mines ati colaski where they i ere sentenced to lard labor for three airs mis capt morris our names were called one bv one and each of us received fron tl e inter preter a aper stating that each must dig and send up trem the mine he cir loads of coal a day if the spited amount of co 1 did not come up no rations would be sent down so that if any of us were sick we would lave to stane to death I 1 was the first to go down and I 1 did not again see the light of day for two ears and ten months I 1 w is left in a pit feet long and about bweni wide hiie darkness was so intense eliat I 1 w as never able to see but a few feet in front of me after I 1 had bi en dow n i little while I 1 saw a light at the end of tl e pt I 1 at once w ent tow ard it and there bel eld one of tie most woeful sights I 1 ever saw in my life it hiis a man six feet tall and built in or lion he was covered with coil dust from head to foot his clothes were in tatters and lie looked like a liend n e light thit I 1 lad seen came from tie miner s lantern on ins I 1 cad ou secir iB me t e let a sa ige ell and came towards me rai idly talk to ml ich I 1 could only berly with a shake of lie IP id he then went bick to ih in dis gust lo 10 this man who w is il olish i goliti capt morris iho man was it sane lit ate tl e captains rations and grew violent when 1 is fellow laborer remonstrated one day the bair had a terrible light in which tie lole wis baiten owing to 1 is lack of skill and tin effects of his long confinement after mantl s the lole died n e cirtain was by that time marly starved and was blouck by of he says 1 I thourl t that it I 1 could wheel the corpse from tie vein of coil to the shaft take it off there and dump my coal into the car and work laid mens work I 1 would get tl e rations sent down tor both of us and this I 1 did for four days ing both 1 interns up ev cry at the end of this time I 1 coulden couldn t stai d it any longer and I 1 decided to do my ow n w ork only thereafter as I 1 expected latious came down for only one at this time I 1 think that for several das my reason partially left me for I 1 can remember beating tl e cori ae with my shovel at the end of haleen days haling 1 ad to lift and carry the fellow around all the time I 1 begin to feel weak from labor and sick from tl i of the ing body what to di I 1 dian didn t know J ut sit 1 a fearful thought came to me I 1 took my sl ovel and cut alie corpe through at tie removing tie belt thus by tl e only possible way free ing myself from the boly and pi iced the ions of lie corise on hie car and sent them up on alie i axt load of coal on tl e next car down were 1 and cold chisel which I 1 divined aers for tl e puri ose of taking off my b ands and chain after tue llast lear oil t morris liace only three cars of co il to send ui but tins was worse thin ane he thought as he 1 id so much more time to tl tote he was kli g into a condition of despondency spon dency which thre iaci ed hii mental balance when lie received new stint his sentence 1 ad expired crocker AS released with 1 irn ie says aal he lad an that also survived as monia thus tells it is eliat of 11 e most outrageous treatment to which an citizen was ever subjected it axas early in Sei wl en tl e helen was captured and the bilal of tl e kofl cers and crew occurred in alie latter art of october ri c men beit fenced were six and japanese nik n i man knows 1 e cain ot get out 0 alie m id 1 is next impulse is to flou deeper I 1 he sublimity of wisdom 13 to do living wl ich are to t e de annd wl en living how good tiivi Is to 1 is wife tl e day after hi e has caugh t 1 im do ing log wron all men have their frailties and whoever looks fur a friend w imperfections will never land what ho seeks ve love ourselves faults jaults and we love in like manner |