Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1902 — Page 6

FRIENDS WITH A NIHILIST

By PETTIGREW EDGAR

OpgrigW. 1901, by P. Edgar

I had been doing Poland in a leisurefir Itay—a young Englishman who had fienty of money and could go where be pleased—when 1 fell into trouble at Bandowtn, on the Austrian border. It la no use to tell an Englishman or an American that he must keep his mouth •hut while traveling in the dominions of the czar. He sets out intending to Ao so, but something is sure to happen sooner or later to arouse bis sympathies or indignation, and he finds blm•elf expressing an opinion that gets him into hot water. Now and then as I journeyed I bad heard of cases where citizens had been imprisoned or sent off to Siberia without trial, and had witnessed many incidents of autocratic power, but had come out of them unscathed. It was .while I was mixing with the rather •trange crowd at the hotel in SanAowin that I learned, almost by acciACnt, of the case of a returned exile. Ha was a man named Ostrov, who had formerly been quite a prominent citi■an of the town and bad considerable Wealth. It was in my own room that be told the story of his experience to three of ns. He had been arrested at a minute’s notice and started off for Siberia without a legal trial. His property had been confiscated, his family oppressed and driven out. and it was only when be was ready to set out on the long journey that be was told he had been sentenced to penal servitude for fifteen years for having said that taxes were too high. He had served his time and returned to find all bis family Acad or scattered beyond recall. He was an old man now, broken in health •nd having but a short time to live, •nd when be told us of his treatment our indignation was intense. I pitied him, and I know I used strong language and also made him a cash pres ent ¥ou will scarcely credit me when 1 •ay that Ostrov rewarded me by going •traight to the police and reporting all that I had said. It is possible that It was required of him, but I think he Aid it in a truckling way in order to curry favor. Before noon next day I received an official visit and was warned to get out of the country. I had sense enough to realize what that meant and to go. In the eyes of the Russian authorities I had become a •*BUspect, ” and had I been a Polander it would have meant a dungeon for me. I headed for Cracow, just within the Austrian border, and as soon as I had crossed the border the matter was settled. While Austria is almost as autocratic as Russia, in one way you •re not debarred from expressing a free opinion about other countries. I therefore took satisfaction in telling my story and abusing Russia. It was this story that brought about my acquaintance with a Poland nihilist named Grodno. I knew at once, of course, that he was a Polander, but It was a fortnight before I learned that -he was an exile and a nihilist. He was forty years old, well educated and of good address, and his story was that of a hundred other exiles. At the age of twenty-eight, while a professor in one of the colleges at Warsaw and while thoroughly loyal to czar In every thought, he Lad expressed a political opinion that caused his down-

KB LED THE WAY INTO THE POLICE BUILDING.

fall. He was arrested, confined In a dungeon for seven months and then without the farce of a trial was banished from the country. , Grodno arrived in Cracow to hunt up ■ome old friends, but hs soon as the police officials learned that he was an exile they arrested arid insulted him and ordered him to move on. He made his way to England, learned the language thoroughly and in time became a loading nihilist. For ut>ont eight years he bad spent all b'.a time scheming and planning against the Russian government, and all the efforts of the czar's officials to locate or Identify him had been futile. Grodno did not tell me as plainly as I have told you what he was, being too prudent for that but be left me to infer it. As to his business in Cftcowl did hot Inquire, and be did not volunteer the information. AR the towns along the Polish border are under the espionage of Russian ■pUa, and I thought Grodno was tak-

Ing great risks to show himself as openly as he did. He moved about In perfect unconcern for ten days, being most of the time in my company, and’ we had no adventure. Then he asked me one morning to accompany him to the police station, where he was going to seek certain Information. I noticed that he had a package under his arm, but gave it no particular attention. As we walked along the street he was as chatty as usual, and he led the way into ttye police building without (he slightest-.'hesitation. It was a two story building of stone and brick. There was a prispn in the basement and offices were on the first and second floors. We entered the main room, presided over by a captain of police on one side and an information bureau on the other. There were a number of people making inquiries, and Grodno and I sat down on one of the benches to wait. He stepped to a Window, asked a question I did not catch, and then passed out, and I followed. I noticed that be was pale and flurried, and when I joked him about It he said that he had seen a visitor In the room whom he thought he recognized. He had another errand, he Mid. and asked nte to wait at the bqtel for him. He left me on a street corner with a wave of his hand, and that was the last I ever saw of him. Two hours had passed, and I was still wafting in the office of the hotel, when the town was suddenly shaken as with an earthquake, and five ipinutes later it was known everywhere that the police station had been blown up. I rushed to the scene with thousands of others, and the sight was one never to be forgotten. The fine, large building was nothing but a smoking pile. It had collapsed, the walls blocking up the street, and the roof was lying on the floor of the first story. In the cells of the basement were twentyeight prisoners, all of whom escaped harm. On the two floors were thirty police officials, including the chief, and not one of them escaped death. It was a day and a night before the debris was removed and the bodies were recovered and another day before an investigation was begun. During this interval I heard nothing whatever from Grodno. After a day had gone by I made up my mind that he was among the killed. It came to me that he was not carrying the package when he left the building, and I figured that he bad returned for it and had been made a victim with the others. I got a look at every body taken out, but his was not among them. It was only when a public Investigation had begun and the newspapers were talking about nihilists and explosives that I suddenly caught my breath. In less than an hour I was speeding out of Cracow by train, and it was not until I was beyond the limits of Austria that I dared try to think it out Grodno had come to Cracow to do exactly as be bad done. He owed the police a grudge, and he left that package to blow up the building. Whether it was exploded by clockwork or by some one seeking to open It could not be told, but It certainly caused the disaster, and he had made good his escape before it happened. I learned that the investigation threw no light on the matter except that Some explosive had been used, and It was not even laid to nihilists. I "couth have told a story: but, innocent as I was of any complicity, it would have resulted In my death on the gallows.

A Knight's Way of Marrying.

Of all the matrimonial traffickingin the age of chivalry—the ways of widows are jit once the boldest and most comprehensive. As a rule their methods seldom resort ta blandishment: it is remarkable when tenderness is an item in their bargain. Speed was their maxim; it was one King John honored, for he profited by it. —-yet-ene of the rarert-exceptions ia-l the way of delicacy to these, compnrclal negotiations l.as ...evidently been® prompted by a widow-who had quite an exceptional lover. In 1200 William de Landa—either one of the most fainousnof Tbe crusaders .qr ids -sos-*offers 50 marks, and a pttyjpey for having to wife Joan,' whlT fths tile wife of Thomas de Arcsey. “if .he may bo pleasing to the said Joan,’’ the sheriff is instructed to ascertain the -widow’s wishes.- “and if. the said Joan shall be pleased to have him for a husband then the sheriff shall cause William to have seizin of Joan and her land,” both of which he obtained in the name of gentle love and the faith of a true soldier. It i« fitting that the name of one of the men who led the assault of Acre should be preserved in such a record ns the above. He was in truth a very perfect knight.—Gentleman’s Magazine. ‘

How to Bask Properly.

"Basklng in the sun” is in itself of real and considerable benefit, and it is no compliment to our human intelligence to find that cats and dogs understand that fact better than we do. The love of sunshine is naturally one of our strongest instincts, and we should be far healthier and happier if we followed and developed it instead of practically Ignoring and repressing it. How a sparkling sunny morning exhilarates us and makes us feet that “It’s too fine a day to spend indoors,” and yet bow few holidays are taken for . that reason! The wealth of the sunbeams is poured out lavishly all around us, and we turn from it to Struggle for a few pitiful handfuls of something else that, is yellow and shining, but’ not half so likely to bring us happiness, and .often has strange, red spots upon it. Give nature a chance, and we will find that there is more than a mere fanciful connection between natural sunlight and that "sunny” disposition which, after all. Is the true "philosophers •tone.”—Exchange.

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THE FAKE ISSUE OF INDIANA DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP. Mr. Democrat, the leadership now predominant in your party in Indiana was in the saddle in 1892. Under that leadership thjp Democratic party came Into power in every branch of the federal government in 18S3 and had a chance to manifest its antagonism to the trusts. Wfrat law vfas passed for their curtailment? wha! trusts were put out of business as the result of LEGISLATION ENACTED DURING THAT PERIOD OF ABSOLUTE DEMOCRATIC SUPREMACY? Tariff reform is pushed forward at this juncture as a cure for the evil. WE HAD A DEMOCRATIC TARIFF REFORM LAW WITHIN THE MEMORY OF EVERV PERSON OLD ENOUGH TO VOTE. What trusts did It destroy? What relief did it bring to anybody? Who got anything out of the last Democratic administration excepting J. Pierpont Morgan, the trust magnate, who drove a thrifty bargain for a sale of bonds made to supply deficiencies in government revenue caused by a tariff for revenue law that produced ruin, but not revenue? WHAT IS THE USE OF THEORIZING AS TO THE EFFICACY OF TARIFF REDUCTION AS A TRUST CURE. OR THE SINCERITY OF DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP IN ITS CLAIM THAT IT WOULD, IF ENTRUSTED WITH POWER, REMEDY THE TRUST EVIL. WHEN THAT SAME CURE AND THAT SAME LEADERSHIP WERE BEING PUT TO THE TEST ONLY SEVEN YEARS AGO. AND FAILED TO ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING EXCEPTING TO BRING UPON THE COUNTRY THE WORST "HARD TIMES” PERIOD WITHIN THE EXPERIENCE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE? If the tariff is the mother of trusts, who brought Into the world the trusts which infeat every country in Europe? Who brought into the world the one hundred and fifty trusts formed In this country for the control of commodities on which there is no prootection? If the tariff is the mother of trusts, why did none of them go out of business under the Wilson-Gorman tariff law, when legitimate enterprises went to the wall by thousands? If the fault rests in the non-enforcejnent of existing laws, as alleged by Mr. Olney, why did net the only Democratic administration this generation has known, with Mr. Olney as attorney general, enforce them? If the nesd is for additional laws, why did not an administration Democratic in every branch, enact such legislation during a period of absolute Democratic control? If, as Mr. Bryan has often alleged, a constitutional amendment Is necessary in order that effective legislation may be had, why did the Democratic members of the Fifty-sixth congress, by their solidly arrayed opposition, prevent the submission of such an amendment to the American people? THE CONTENTION THAT THE WAY TO KILL THE TRUSTS IS TO DESTROY PROTECTION IS CONCEIVED IN INSINCERITY, AND ITS ADVANCEMENT IN LIEU OF ANY PRACTICAL PROGRAMME IS IN ITSELF AN OPEN CONFESSION OF INSINCERITY ON THE PART OF DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP. *

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