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WOMEN AH GOVERNMENT SPIES.
Stealing Natal Plan*?Obtaining
Soiohelcee Powder Formula.
It may be remembered that a short
time ago some valuable admiralty
plana disappeared from Chatham.
Mr. MeKenna. the first lord of the
admiralty, admitted that they had
been etolen. but a mystery surround?
ed their disappearance. It la now
suggested that a well known In?
ternational woman apy, who la ev r
ready to aell her aervlces to the
highest bidder, be it the Russian.
Oerman or French government, wiia
responsible for the dtaappearan ;e
of those plana It waa known that
she was In this country for some
weeks prior to the incident and It
hi supposed that during that time
she engineered the plot which re?
sulted In the vanishing of the Im?
portant pa peri.
Whatever truth there may be In
the atory, It la a very feaaible or o.
for It la usually women who prove
the moat successful spies. "Whm
R cornea to trickery and cunning.
aaid a well known detective to tie
writer on one occasion, "there la
no match for a clever woman. If
ehe to pretty Into the bargain I
weald back her to beat the cleverest
men at Scotland Yard nine times ojt
a of ten." And judging from the
eucctsa of women in secret service
work It would seem that the tribute
Is In no way exaggerated.
It la only a short time ago that a
beautiful and fashionably dreeesd
teacher of lanjuagee, Frau lei n Peter
sen, about 15 years of age, was iJr
' rested at Kiel, In Germany, on suepl
cloa *of being a French spy. She
was aaid to have entered Into a love
affair deliberately with a non-com
sikaalnnnil officer named Dietrich of
the explosives department for the
par pees of Inducing him to divulge
$ Important Oerman naval secrete.
Dietrich flattered by the attent?
ions of auch a beautiful woman,
could deny her nothing, and at the
tlane of the arrest was said to have
been supplying her with the formula
for the manufacture of the German
smokeless powder (one of the most
effective yet Invented) and the situa?
tion of the port mines. To disguise
her true occupation she posed as a
teacher of languages. Suspicion was
directed against het on account of
the ample funds with which she was
?. always provided and of her fear of
grring the police the customary
notice of her frequent changes of
adilnsss
la Russia, where the secret service
at raised to the level of a fine art, the
Woman spy la re cog Used as an ex
I trsmely valuable medium for obtain
information, not only about for?
eign mattere but alao concerning the
various revolutionary movements
going on at home. One of the most
notorious of these feminine police
spies la Mme. Joutchenko. who haa
H been described aa a female Axtff.
This person, posing as one of the
Terrorist*, took part la their enter?
prises, and discovering all their plana
gave Information to thv police. For
thla work she obtained a handaoine
monthly aalary. She began her ne
f farious trade at the age of 23. and
her Bret big coup etas when ahe r e
trayed the Reepontlne plot against
the caar In 1895. Scores of these
who had trusted her went into exile
la Siberia on the plot being discover
ed.
She herself, to disarm suspicion,
was aent away also, but waa allowed
to oacape and rejoin the revolution?
ists In order to obtain more Infor?
mation. One of her victime waa a
handsome girl named Franla Frouin
kin. who was aent to the gallows after
aa abortive attempt to kill the pre?
fect of Moscow. The arch traitress
wormed herself Into the confidence
of families, with thi result that num?
bers of person* were banished to
Siberia.
Quit* recently the French govern
i aaent caused a large number of Ger?
man women employed on the eastern
frontier aa barmalda to be expel ed
from the country. These women had
been watched and found to be In the
pay of German aplea, to whom they
gave the Information that they ac?
quired from listening to the conver
aatlon of drunken sallore In the tav?
erns.
A mere serious affair waa that at
Raima. Seven men and three woman
alleged to be paid by agents of -.he
Oerman war office were arreated.
The three women were in the habit.
It was said, of making the acquaint?
ance of eoldlers and wheedling mili?
tary secrets out of them, which In?
formation they passed on to the man.
Compromising correspondence was
found at their lodgings and seemed
to reveal wholesale espionage by he
women. Aa a matter of fact the ir
reat of theee men and women is * .id
to have disclosed the existence of a
wldeepread organisation of German
aplea throughout the country.
I Allowing itome discount for the
apy mania which breaks out now
and again In tho various countries,
there la no doubt that the secret ser?
vice of every country contains miiny
aplea who art on the qul vlve for
military and naval Information c>n
cernlng other powers, and among
these spies women are to be found
doing much Important work.?Tit
Bits. I
It begins to look somewhat as if
the Balllnger-riuchot Investigation
were going to be transformed Into a
catch-as-catch-can wrestling match
between eminent counsel- Washing?
ton Star.
Reports are to the effect that Wall
street la weak juat &t*4S> but It always
cornea In strong at election time. ?
Charleston Newa and Courier.
TILLMAN ACCEPTS DECISION.
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Prays God's Guidance for the Mother
In Rearing Ihr Children.
Washington, Feb. 15.?Senator Till?
man, upon learning today that the
Supreme Court of South Carolina had
decided against him In the habeas
corpus case brought by Mrs. B. R.
Tillman, Jr., for the possession of her
two children and had awarded them
to her, said: "I pray God's guidance
to the mother in rearing my little
granddaughters, and that He will
shield them from contaminating In?
fluence and examples. The Supreme
Court Justices have lifted a great re?
sponsibility off me, and shifted It to
their own shoulders," he commented.
"My only motive In accepting the
guardianship was the welfare of my
little granddaughters. I knew all of
the facts and circumstances, many of
which were not brought out at the
hearing, and was actuated solely by
a sense of duty. The final result can
alone determine whether the court
has acted wisely.
"Fifteen years hence, when I am
dead and gone, and the character and
type of women that my granddaugh?
ters will have become will show
whether it was best to have given
them to their mother or not. I pray
God's guidance to her In rearing
them, and that He will shield them
from contaminating influences and
examples."
He explained that the decision was
rendered by ihc highest court in
South Carolina, and that he will abide
by that judgment. "I submitted to
the jurisdiction of the State court so
that the question could be decided
by our own State court. It has de?
cided and I shall, of course, abide by
the decision. Beyond that statement
I do not care to say anything more
until I see a copy of the court's de?
cision."
When the farmers begin to talk of
cattle prices instead of cotton prices
or tobacco prices, the change from
land-robbing to land-building will
really have begun?Progressive Far?
mer.
The firm in faith never stand still.
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. A $400 Piano and Two Gold Watches Costing $50
Each are the Prizes..
Contest Opens Monday, Nov. 29th and Closes February 28th.
Do You Want the Piano ? < It is yours if you comply with the Easy
Conditions and Make the proper Effort.
Conditio<and Prizes.
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the Watchman and Southron or Sum?
ter Daily Item receiving the greatest
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Sumter. receiving the next largest
number of votes.
The contest for the Grand Prize, the
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The Watchman and Southron or The
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a resident of Sumter, Lee or Clarendon
County, or some other County. One
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to be contested for by non-residents
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This Magnificent Cote Piano, wblch we will give aw? v. is A ft 9 in. high
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the Daily Item. The nomination
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son.
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collector.
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