Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1917 — Page 2

TORD? ' f Among the political prisoners released from the Hertchinsk prison in Siberia was Maria Spiridonova. Upon her arrival at Chita she was recognized and carried through the streets on the shoulders of the crowd. She is the daughter of a Russian general. She shot and killed Chief of Police Luzhenoffsky of Tambov in 1906 and was sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to twenty years' imprisonment. While in Jail she was terribly tortured by two police officers who for eleven hours kicked her back and forth across the cell, tore her hair, and burned her flesh with lighted cigarettes. Both of her torturers were afterward murdered.

HE downfall of the czar of Russia means liberty and a chance of happiness for thousands of men and women in It is the dawn of a new day,

for which they have worked and hoped with pathetic eagerness for many years, always believing it was just ahead, just within sight. Many a political prisoner, sentenced to Siberia for life, kept hope alive by the belief that the revolution would cut short his sentence. The story of Marie Sukloff, a Jewish girl sentenced to Siberia, is not an un- — usual one, though it is fraught with horrors calculated to make the Western mind reel. Three years ago the story of Miss SuklofTs experiences was published in America by the Century company under the title, “The Life Story of a Russian Exile.” Marie Sukloff was born of peasant people in a tiny village. Till she was fourteen years old she could not read or write. Then the daughter of a rabbi, a child of seventeen, began to read revolutionary pamphlets to her, and Marie learned to read that she might know more of this strange new learning. She and the rabbi’s daughter and a few’ other children held secret meet- . Ings, sometimes in the woods, to iej»d together and talk over the wrongs and sufferings of the working people. It all had to be done secretly, for their parents feared what such activities would lead to. Once the two girls slipped away to a nearby town and helped stir up a strike among stocking makers of that town. They made speeches, urging revolt, and came near falling into the hands of the police. Marie’s father sent her to Odessa, to get her away from her revolutionary friends. She ran away from the uncle to whose home she was sent and went to work in a candy factory; her real business in life was revolutionary propaganda.

“There were six of us living in a sort of commune —Zhenia, a factory girl of twenty-two, who was a most ardent' agitator and strike organizer; David, a clerk; Grigory, a bookbinder ■who had already been in prison for distributing prohibited literature; Nicholai. a painter who became a socialist and joined our circle after his release from prison, where he was put for preaching Tolstoyism; Ivan and myself. It seldom happened that we all had work; sometimes the whole circle lived on the earnings of one or two." Thus she speaks of her fellows. Secret printing offices were established and thousands of proclamations printed and distributed; educational •work was done among the factory people. “Of course,” Miss Sukloff says, “each one of them knew that prison, solitary confinement and exile were their inevitable lot, but this did not deter them in the least, Although they awaited arrest a.t any' hour of the day or night, they spent their spare time as merrily as if nothing special were going to happen to.them.” This went on for two years ; Zhenia and Ivan went to prison, Grigory to Siberia and Nicholai was sent to serve an the army. _ Marie Sukloff went to the neighboring-city of Kishinev to establish a printing office. She was arrested and taken to prison. She was lher were taken the two innocent old people in whose house she was staying. They kept her in prison for more than a year, before her trial. “I began to buffer with insomnia. The twenty mlnjutes’ daily walk in the prison yard be-

THINGS THAT ARE NEW

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PRISON LIFE in SIBERIA

Horrors that the Russian revolution has ended described by a girl who belonged to a terrorist band and was sent to the “far country”

came a torture lu me. The sun shone so brightly without- the prison walls, and here I was shut up. The church bells which tolled so solemnly and joyfully outside, here in the prison sounded like the ringing of bells at a funeral.” She was seventeen years old when she was sentenced to be exiled to eastern Siberia, for .Ijfe. Down the dusty road to the railroad station the political prisoners were marched, fettered wrist to wrist with murderers and robbers. In the “forwarding prisons,” where they stopped along the route, onThe filthy floors with no covering save the gray overcoats with a yellow diamond athwart the shoulders, which marks the Russian convict. After sixteen days of travel they reached the Siberian city from which they were to be distributed in exile. Marie Sukloff was to go alone to a tiny village. It was a village of thirty huts. She was to stay in the house of the church watchman, and every day the village constable should call to see that she was still there. The women came out and wept over her. ~ “So young! So young! How your mother must have wept!” Her white-haired host found out that she could read. He brought out a letter from his son, a soldier in the war against Japan, to have her read it to him. Soon the news spread through the village—here was one who could read! The simple people brought her everything they had to read —she must read, -aloud to them, —They, treated her with great reverence.

“I was no longer in prison. I saw no more the prison walls, but I did not feel myself free. The purposeless life in a remote Siberian village seemed to me worse than a prison. The peasants, together with the priest, drank for two or three days during the week. They spent all their money at the government liquor shop, and when they had no ready cash they pawned, any-_ thing they could conveniently carry out of the house. It seemed that only the vodka gave them the possibility of forgetting the miseries of the wretched existence. In those drunken days I hid myself In some corner that no one might see me, and sat looking at the heaps of snow which separated me from the rest of the living. ‘You must escape, you must escape from here.’ an inner voice grew more and more insistent.” - She-did escape. A forged passport was procured, and money from revolutionists, exiles in Siberia. She set out on foot through the snow to a village 28 miles away. A peasant in a sleigh helped her on her way. In this village were a man and his wife and a child with whom she had come into exile. Marie Sukloff took the child with her, because no one would be looking for a woman with a £hild. They went by sleigh—on and on through the endless snow and cold. Everywhere the child proved a protection ; no heed was paid to Vie pair. They reached Vilna; the child was delivered to its grandparents and Marie Sukloff saw her parents once more. Her father tried to press upon ner money he had borrowed, that she might go abroad and live in safety, but she would not. “‘Father, I cannot do that. The thing which was done to me and thousandsof others cannot go unpunished. I cannot let it go!* I replied.” she says. “My--Tffther took my head in his hands and looked with his soft eyes straight at mine. ~ “‘Oh. God! What have they made of you? You do not even cry, and there is so much hatred in your eyes, even at the sight of your old parents.’ ” She went to Geneva and became a terrorist. They sent her back to Russia to slay. Nicholai, the painter.

The word “plate” is often incorrectly applied to vessels of gold. It is derivefl from the word plata, which In Spanish means wrought silver. Electric automobiles have been adopted for garbage collection fn Paris after a series of tests phowing them more economical and flexible than other vehicles. A small steam generator for medical purposes that has been invented by a German can be used to treat an entire human body or any single limb or organ. . - -

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turned socialist, w.as her companion. As peddler and flower girl they haunted the streets of Kiev, seeking a chance to kill the governor general. That failed; they went to Tchernigoff to kill the governor there. They studied his dally routine; when he got up, w’ljen lie went to sleep, when he received and whom. For a week this man did not leave his house. Marie Sukloff read and re-read the Story of his crimes, of the innocent blood he had shed. She would look at the bomb reposing on a shelf in her room. New Year's day was set as the day for the killing. A little group of children came to her door that morning to wish her Happy New Year. She4et them in. “An uncontrolable desire to remain a little longer with these innocent children seized me, and I begged them to take off their masks and have tea with me. I made tea and seated, the children around the table. They were becoming bolder and bolder and soon they were chatting carelessly and curiously regarding me and everything in the house. The samovar was steaming merily on the table, the Children were laughing noisily, the sun shone biightly in my window. For a minute I forgot what was going to happen in a few hours. Suddenly a Cossack galloped past, followed by a carriage. I recognized the carriage. •* ‘Go ! Go, children ! It is time 1 I exclaimed.”

She met her accomplice, Nicholai. The street still remained deserted. Suddenly-a mounted. Cossack appeared and behind him a carriage. Comrade Nicholai immediately stepped down from the curb. At that moment the carriage approached him. pe raised “his Tnuid and threw the bomb under the carriage. The bomb fell softly on the snow and did not explode. A police officer who was riding behind the governor sprang at Nicholai and I heard the report of a pistol. The carriage stopped, for an—Lnstarrtrbut evtdentiy taking in the situation, the coachman began to whip the horses and drove at full gallop straight in my direction. I stepped into the middle of the road and with all my might hurled the bomb against the carriage window. A terrific force instantly

stunned me.” 4 The governor was killed and Marie and Nicholai. were sentenced to be hanged. They took het- to prison; she waited one, two days, a week, in a curious state of exaltation. Nothing seemed real now that death was so near. “On the seventh day there came a knock on the wall. My heart began to beat joyfully; so I had a neighbor. ‘“Who are you?’ 1 knocked immediately, and there came an answer clear and unmistakable, ‘Shueizman’ (Nicholai). “ ‘Oh, God!’ I exclaimed, ‘how is that? He is here and they did not hang him yet!’ “Soon we were deeply ingrossed in conversation. “ ‘This is the last day,’ he knocked. “ ‘Yes, 1 am sure,’ 1 answered. “We hastened to share all our thoughts'and feelings, all that we had lived through in the years of our friendship, unbroken by prison and exile. “ ‘I don’t want you to die,’ Nicholai knocked, and the feelings which had been hidden deep in his heart were at this hour of death freely expressed in words. I went to Siberia.’ Four years she stayed in prison there. Then she was taken to the Siberian city of Irkutsk to be operated on for appendicitis, and ten days after the operation managed to escape. She was smuggled from house to house; many people were willing to help her. even though they must needs risk evervthing to do so. A colonel of the army helped her to leave Russia.

An inventor has combined an automobile horn and headlight, the sound being produced back of the lamp and issuing around it. The United States leads the world in the production of corn—known abroad as maize—producing more than two-thirds of the world’s supply. Manila hemp, from which the best rope is made, is known in the Philippines as abaca. It is a true banana plant and in appearance closely resembles the banana grown tn California. The. species is musa textilis. <

NOT NOBLE ANIMAL

Man Not Such Finished as Imagined, Says Savant Human Body Has Points lof Decided Inferiority to Despised Mammals, -It Is Asserted. Investigation is proving, declarer Dr. F. Wood Jones, professor anatomy at the university of London, in his new book, “Arboreal Man,” that the human body is no such finished product of evolution as we have fondly imagined. It has points of decided inferiority to the physical frames of mammals upon which we look with disdain as less finely formed than ourselves. Some of the lower animals are more capable of exquisite adaptations than are we ourselves. Their bodies are more splendid instruments than ours are, more complex, indicative of a higher stage of evolution on the physi cal plane. The upright attitude of man has been employed as an argument in favor of his superiority to the fourfooted beast physiologically, although the evidence makes such an argument ridiculous. It would tend the other way, says a review in the London Lancet. If we compare man’s body with the body of so-called "lower organisms” we are astonished to find that his points of resemblance are with the lowest in the scale of conscious being. Man is oddly unlike the noble beasts of the jungle; but he is amazingly like the creatures of a primitive type that infest the bog, the pond and the swamp. His relatives are not the lords of the forest, not the kings of the jungle, nor the mighty eagle, but the creatures of 'the slime. How is it that the various elements of the remote ancestral limb have been preserved in human limbs? Professor Jones’ answer is that the primates broke away from the early land living mammalian stock while the primitive bones and muscles were still preserved in that stock. These primitive elements proved useful and were preserved in that particular form which adopted an arboreal life and used the hand and foot to grasp with. The primitive plan on which the hands of man are built can be accounted for only by supposing that man’s ancestry spent a tong pilgrimage In the trees. It was during man’s arboreal phase of existence tfiat the vast majority of those anatomical .characters which we regard as adaptations to man’s upright posture were evolved. These anatomical traits indicate how low we are.— Current Opinion.

Dirty Windows and Poor Eyes.

The factors largely responsible for poor illumination are small, narrow windows, low power artificial lights placed too far ?rom the point of operation, and neglect of facilities at hand for obtaining light, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. By this neglect is meant lack of cleanliness. Tins applies first of all to the windows. There is scarcely a single industrial locality which does not contain at least one building, and all too frequently .jsevs era! buildings of the same type. They are built with a supply of window space sufficient to illuminate amply the interior. The dust and dirt accumulated upon them, however, destroy in large proportion their usefulness. The same condition is found in artificial lighting. The electric light bulb, dusty or streaked with dirt, the result of hurried and incomplete attempts at washing, often shaded with a fixture meant to be a reflector, but which in reality is anything but that,, faintly illuminates the work and impairs the health and the ’efficiency of the worker.—Scientific American.

The Eccentric Chinece.

Petroleum may be a thing for which one’s has to be cultivated. At any rate, the Chinese dislike the smell and touch of it so badly that they are much in the situation of the people who seventy-five years ago had salt works in western Pennsylvania —they abominate the petroleum and abandon a’well when the proportion of oil to brine gets high. Their repugnance for crude petroleum may be measured by the fact that in China it takes from one to three generations to bore a well! For the refined products of petroleum they have no such aversion, or even for the tin cans in which they get it from the United States, making out of the latter a source of almost as many of the necessaries of life as a South Sea islanders finds in his favorite coconut palm.—The Nation’s Business.

Where the Profit?

' “1 understand they sold their house for three thousand dollars more than they paid for it.” “Yes.” “How lucky!” “Lucky nothing. After they’d sold It they discovered that they’ve got to pay two thousand dollars more than they received for their house for another home to live in.”

A Helping Hand.

Decker (watching the game over her shoulder) —Gee, Miss Oldgirl, I d like to hold that hand of yours! / Miss Oldgirl—Oh, Mr. Decker, this Is so sudden! . .

Low Postage Rates.

The cheapest postal service in the world is said to be that of Japan. Letters travel for two sen —about seventenths of a penny.

Do You Neglect Your Machinery?

The machinery of the body needs to be well oiled, kept in good condition just as the automobile, steam engine or bicycle. Why should the human neglect his own machinery more than that of his horse or his engine? Yet most people do neglect themselves. To clean the system at least once a week Is to practice preventive measures. You will escape many ills and clear up the coated tongue, the sallow complexion, the dull headache, the lazy liver, if you will take a pleasant laxative made up of the May-apple, juice of the leaves of aloes, root of jalap, and called Pleasant Pellets. You can obtain at almost any drug store in this country these vegetable pellets in vials for 25c—simply ask for Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets. There can be no counterfeit if they have the Dr. Pierce stamp. Proven good by 50 years’ use.

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Love and logic are not on speaking terms. FOR SKIN TROUBLES That Itch, Burn, Torture and Disfigure Use Cuticura —Trial Free. The Soap to cleanse and purify, the Ointment to soothe and heal. They usually afford immediate relief in itching, burning eczemas, pimples, dandruff and most baby skin troubles. They also tend to prevent little skin troubles becoming great if used dally. Free sample each by mall with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston. Sold everywhere.-—Adv.

True economy lies in making the fullest possible use of what is bought. Alien’s Foot-Ease for the Troops. The antiseptic powder to be shaken into the shoes or used in the foot-bath. Young men in every community are using Alien’s Foot-Ease tn their drills for Military Preparedness. Used by the Allied, French and English troops because it rests the feet, takes the friction from the shoe and makes walking easy.—Adv. Painfully So. “There is something reminiscent of the fortunes of war in the mother ship of the Deutschland seized in New London.” “What’s that?” “You know it was the Willehad. Now it is what Willie hasn’t.” SWAMP-ROOT SAVES KIDNEY SUFFERERS • You naturally feel secure when you know that Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder remedy, is absolutely pure and contains no harmful or habit producing drugs. The same standard of purity, strength and excellence, prescribed by Dr. Kilmer many years ago, is maintained in every bottle of Swamp-Root. Swamp-Root is scientifically compounded from vegetable herbs. It is not a stimulant and is taken in teaspoonful doses. It is not recommended for everything. According to verified testimony it is nature s great helper in relieving and overcoming kidney, liver and bladder troubles. If you suffer, don’t delay another day. Go to your nearest druggist now and get a bottle. All drug stores sell it in two sizes—sissy cents and one dollar. However, if you wish first to tty this great preparation send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for a sample bottle. When writing be sure and mention this paper. Adv. Do your duty before blaming others for not doing theirs.

Canada’s Liberal Offer of Wheat Land to Settlers “K is open to you—to every farmer or farmer’s son — j I who is anxious to establish for hirtiself a happy home and ■ prosperity. Canada’s hearty I invitation this year is more attractive than ever. Wheat is much higher but I her fertile farm land just as cheap, and f*J * n the provinces of Manitoba, Saskat* chewan and Alberta fZf O 180 Acre Homesteads Art Actually Fret to Srttlere IJ ,nd Othe ’’ Land Sold at frem lIS to |2O par Acre * J ■■ ■■ The great demand for Canadian Wheat will keep up the price. Where a farmer can get HIKfJSAX-W ■ 1 near s2for wheat and raiae 20 to 45 bushels to ■iiilMlFlA-VT-_ z\— — I the acre he is bound to make money that a ■TOW, Tp-CA-fe what you can expecttri Western Canada. Wonderful yields also of Oat,. Barley and Flan. '■fVj® Mixed Farming in Western Canada is fully as —■). XK? profitable an industry as grain raising. (aJI "y/ The excellent grasses, full of nutrition, are the only food beef or dal? ■RO jsaarwsw’BSSfss&ww Wlvun JSI KXX^"‘« ,rH “ w p ■jMl T't C J Broughton. Room 412. 112 W. Adame UMS niuM. V. Maclnnee. 17® Jeff arson Ayenw, Detroit. Miah. 1B rW Canadian government Agentg

An Illinois Woman Testifies

Bluffs, Bl.—“ For years I have been troubled with nervousness, stomach and heart trouble. I took several kinds of patent medicine and doctored with five different doctors, but nothing seemed to do me much good. About eight years ago I had a bad spell-; I thought I was going to die. My folks sent for a doctor and he came and left me some medicine and said that I had but a short time to live. I took his medicine for a while and it did me no good, so I told my husband to go to town and get me some of Dr. Pierce’s medicine as I thought that would help me. He went and got a bottle of Golden Medical Discovery and one of Favorite Prescription and some Pellets. I commenced to take them and In a few days I. could see that they were helping* me, so I kept on for several months. I got so much better that I could do all my housework and washing and Ironing.—MßS. MARY E. BATLEY. All druggists.

Business Opportunities in Mexico. The following was received by a local firm of manufacturing plumbers: Mexico City, 19 January. More than one Caballero: Might I impress with pleasure the above peoples to dispatch Juan Vargas completely enumeration of shower washes befitting bathing rooms. It should be the impress of shower washes in American club for Mexico City. Rapidly can the above peoples say yes. With purity of heart JUAN VEGAS & SONS. Las Calles Mexico City—Buffalo News. All some men do in this life Is to hope for the reaction. —~ M<«»<«v»*»>«»»”>« , >*»<**>*****^*********‘**' l^~I * ll^*‘* l, * , ‘* ,lR 1 - | PAIN? NOT A BIT I | LIFT YOUR CORNS | OR CALLUSES OFF ? . ——. . ? f No humbug I Apply few drops • I then Just lift them away | with fingers. t -J ' J This new drug is an ether compound discovered by a Cincinnati chemist. It is called freezone, and can now be obtained in tiny bottles as here shown at Ve.Tfl very little cost from any drug store. Just ask for t *HI freezone. Apply a drop or two directly upon a tender S a corn or callus and Instantly the soreness disappears. || Shortly you will find the U corn or callus so loose that A you can lift it off, root -Ar - and all, with the fingers. Not a twinge of pain, soreness or irritation; not JB| | even the slightest smart'flawing, elther when applying | "I ' freezone or afterwards. I This drug doesn’t eat up the corn or callus, but .1 • shrivels them so they loosll| en and come right out. It II ! is no humbug! It works ' like a charm. For a few i . f cents you can get rid of every hard corn, soft corn or corn between the toes, as well as painful calluses on bottom of your feet. It never disappoints and never burns, bites or Inflames. If your druggist hasn’t any freezone yet, tell him to get a little bottle for you from his wholesale house. —adv. Weakness and murder will out.