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WHAT
I WENT
THROUGH
Before taking Lydia 11 Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.
Katick, Mass. "I cannot express
what I went through during the change
lor me Deiore x meu
1 Lydia E. Prakham'a
ivesretaDie uom-
pound. I was in such
I a nervous condition
I could not keep
still. My limbs
were cold, I had
creepy sensations,
and I could not sleep
nights. I was finally
told by two phys
icians that I also
had a tumor. I read
one day of the wonderful cures made
by Lydia E. Pinkham's "Vegetable
Compound and decided to try it,
and it has made me a well woman.
My neighbors and friends declare it
had worked a miracle for me. Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is
worth its weight in gold for women
during this period of life. If it will
help others you may publish my
letter." Mrs. Nathan B. Gkeato,x,
61 X. Main Street, JSTatick, Mass.
The Change of Life is the most criti
cal period of a woman's existence.
Women everywhere should remember
that there is no other remedy known
to medicine that will so successfully
carry women through this trying
period as Lydia E. Pinkham's vege
table Compound.
If yon would. like special advice
about your case write a confiden
tial letter to Mrs. Plnkbam, at
Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free
and always helpful.
W. N. U., Kansas City, No. 43-1911.
AN EXPLANATION.
Sambo Say, granmammy, what
makes de moon shine so bright some
times, while some nights is so dark?
Granmammy Well, chile, I reckon
dat de good Lawd made dem dark
nights so dat poor colored folks kin
have chicken 'ithout de formality ob
payin' foh it.
v Grapefruit Greenery.
Effective greenery for the dining
room table may be made by planting
the seeds of grapefruit. Sow them
thickly, and in two weeks, if the earth
is good and has been kept moist in a
warm place, the little shoots appear.
Two weeks more and the leaves un
fold, and very soon there Is a mass of
rich, glossy green, which Is not af
fected by gas or furnace heat. Subur
ban Life.
An Unbeliever.
"Sir," said the haughty American
to his adhesive tailor, "I object to this
boorish dunning. I would have you
know that my great-great-grandfather
was one of the early settlers."
"And yet," sighed the anxious trades
man, "there are people who believe in
heredity." Argonaut.
SHIFT
If Your Food Fails to Sustain You,
Change.
One sort of diet may make a person
despondent, depressed and blue and a
change to the kind of food the body
demands will change the whole thing.
A young woman from Phlla. says:
"For several years I kept in a run
down, miserable sort of condition, was
depressed and apprehensive of trouble.
I lost flesh in a distressing way and
eemed in a perpetual sort of dreamy
nightmare. No one serious disease
showed, but the 'all-over' sickness w&s
enough.
"Finally, between the doctor and fa
ther, I was put on Grape-Nuts and
cream, as It was decided I must have a
nourishing food that the body could
make use of.
"The wonderful change that came
over me was not, like Jonah's gourd,
the growth of a single night, yet it
came with a rapidity that astonished
me.
. "During the first week I gained in
weight, my spirits improved, and the
world began to look brighter and more
-worth while.
"And this has continued steadily, till
sow, after the use of Grape-Nuts for
only a few weeks, I am perfectly well,
feel splendidly, take a lively interest in
everything, and am a changed person
in every way." Name given by Postum
Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Read the Jittle book, "The Road to
Wellville," In pkgs. "There's a reason."
Ever rea tfc above letter? A aew
me appears tntw- time t. time. They
re a-enniae, trae, aaa fall of sUMSUUt
(atereat.
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POLITICAL MURDERS INI
RUSSIA INSTIGATED
BY SPIES
rllJllHIWH limiilmilMll.1IW4 HI l'UlHiMM
HEN a political killing hap
pens in Russia, look for the
agent provocateur.
This maxim is fairly Jus
tified, yet it has exceptions.
There are contradictions
and sinister puzzles.
Things Russian are topsy
turvey from the moral as
well as other standpoints.
For latest example, take
the slaying of Premier Stolypin. Who
killed him, and for what purpose? The
answer is not as obvious as an Amer
ican would assume. Amazingly enough,
the assassin, Bogroff, was claimed
both by the government and by the
revolutionists. "He was a cog in our
machine who went wrong." assert the
police. "He was a revolutionist who
obeyed our orders," say the disciples
of terrorism.
It requires thought to appreciate
the niceness of the dilemma which the
situation presents, especially on the
side of the police. The officials find
it a shade preferable to take the
wrong cog view, and assert that Bo
groff had a regular permit to enter
the theater, and used a revolver sup
plied by the authorities. It is less
injurious to the police to take this
view than to admit that they were
outwitted by the enemy, and that ter
rorism is in successful ascendancy.
If Bogroff had been asked which
side he worked for, he would have
found it difficult to answer.
There is an Increasing roll in Rus
sia, headed by the arch betrayer Azeff,
who helped to kill a grand duke and
a minister while in government em
ploy, of ambiguous persons who may
be styled the missing links or unclass
ified monstrosities of revolution.
Agent provocateur, "secret co-worker,"
government spy, revolutionary spy
these seem to be simple terms whose
meaning can be easily learned and un
derstood. But the dictionary defini
tions do not satisfy an impartial stu
dent. There are things in the phe
nomena not covered by the definitions.
The revolutionists are with the diction
ary. Like" the police, they do not be
lieve in a twilight zone; they separate
the sheep from the goats with a clear
cut line. They explain most elaborate
ly that a sheep is a sheep and a goat is
a goat. Nevertheless, a survey of cold
facts shows that there are woolly goats
and goatish sheep. Azeff, Gapon, Pe
troff, Bogroff, they worked on both
sides and helped and hurt both sides.
A psychological zoologist would have
difficulty in placing them.
The Russian agent provocateur is a
government spy who encourages or
commits crime for the sake of making
arrests. But any spy or detective is
likely to conduct a degree of crime-in
order to succeed In his work. Be
tween direct provocation and condona
tion the difference is not always per
ceptible. The terrorist operating
against the government must needs
use to a greater or less degree the
same methods. He must betray some
what, injure his party a little in or
der to injure the enemy more. In a
game of desperate intrigue, where the
stakes are life and death, only the
stanchest characters preserve their
moral and mental balance. So great
Is the peril of losing integrity that
many leaders of the revolutionary
movement disapprove of any revolu
tionist entering the service of the po
lice.
Some new light on the spy problem
in" general and the Azeff case in par
ticular was given by Leonid Menschik
off, late senior assistant to the chief
of the Third section at St. Petersburg.
Mr. Menschikoff is the original ex
poser of the terrific Azeff and has
supplied evidence against lesser etars
of the inferno of provocation.
1
A boy of sixteen in a technical high
school at Moscow, Leonid Menschi
koff was arrested for belonging to a
revolutionary circle. He was betrayed
by a fellow member of the circle, Zu-
batofr, who became an eminent pro
vocateur and chief of police at St. Pe
tersburg. The young student spent a
few months in jail. Then he entered
the police service, not as a spy, but as
a kind of clerk or lower official.
He determined to learn the system
and the personnel and to obtain docu
ments for the benefit of the revolution
ists. But he could not do much for the
first fifteen years, being kept in subor
dinate positions. When he was trans
ferred to the office of the Ohkrana, De
partment of Protection of Third Sec
tion, at St. Peteresburg, in 1900, he
found his chance. As head of the de
partment of "procedure" he had
charge of secret ' and ' valuable aM6 them
chieves, and he directed his subordi
nates to make copies of documents,
which copies he appropriated and de
posited in various places in order to
insure their safety. Some documents
he would take home at night and make
typewritten copies himself, informing
his superiors that he could not do all
the work at the office by day. In this
Simple fashion be managed to accu
mulate more than 1,000 pages of valu
able material. He was not watched
or suspected during this period. He
worked alone and kept aloof from rev
olutionists, even as the tide of revolt
rose to its climax in 1905, for - he
wished to complete a large enterprise.
But something happened which forced
him to uncover himself.
Mr. Menschikoff saw in the secret
records that there were thrua extreme
ly able agents provocateur in the
Third Section. One was named Ras
kin, another Vinogradoff, another
Valuyski. These men were in the in
most confidence of the terrorists. They
knew beforehand all the big plots,
even the slaying of Minister Plehve
and Grand Duke Sergius. This trinity
of talent, strange to say, focussed grad
ually into one personage a master
traitor whose name has removed con
siderable stigma from that of Judas
in the minds of several million peo
ple.
Mr. . Menschikoff, regardless of dan
ger to himself and his plans, felt com
pelled to write an anonymous letter to
a member of the revolutionary central
committee, informing him that a great
terrorist leader was a police spy.
The committee member was asked to
tell no one except five of his fellows,
but In his astonishment be showed the
letter to Eugene Azeff, who was
known to him by another name, and
said: r
"Who is Azeffr" !
"I am Azeff." calmly replied the arch
spy. "But there Is a mistake.. The
guilty man Is Tataroff."
Tataroff. also mentioned in the let
ter, was in fact a police agent. He
was a candidate for the inner circle
of terrorism, sent forward by his em
ployers for the purpose of checking
up the activities of Azeff, whose splen
did villanies had no supervision. Ta
taroff tried to save himself by accus
ing his eminent colleague, though he
had no personal knowledge of Azeffs
police position. A revolutionary tri
bunal tried Tataroff. condemned him
to death and had him shot In 1906.
Before he was killed, however, Ta
taroff denounced Azeff to the police
being disloyal and engaged in terror
istic work. Azeff was arrested by
General Grassimoff, chief of police.
and threatened with exposure -of his
double role, wnereupon he made a
wholesale betrayal of revolutionists
whom he had perhaps not Intended to
betray. Several hundred were arrest
ed, exiled, shot or banged "
The confirmation of AzefTs charao- j
ter as a spy was given to Vladimir
Bourtseff, historian of the revolution.
on a railroad train in Germany by Lo-
poukln, assistant secretary of the Inte
rior and chief of police, for which act
the official was exiled to Siberia in
1909. Azeff was tried by a revolution
ary court at Paris in his absence, and
condemned to death. He Is in hiding.
If the revolutionists ever find him
Could not the treachery of Azeff
be balanced with his revolutionary
work in helping to kill a grand duke
and a minister of state? was asked-
No," replied Mr. Menschikoff.
Azeff was a beast."
James Persitz, late an official In the
Russian secret police, now in New
York engaged in writing his memoirs.
gave an account of his adventures as
a spy among terrorists.
"One society which I joined In the
course oi my duty provided me with an
experience which I shall never forget.
By the fierceness of my declarations
and the enegry I displayed I rose un
til I was selected to carry out a des
perate deed Involving the murder of
a number of prominent officials. Need
less to say, the plot was communicat
ed ly me to the officials of the secret
police. Communication with them
was, of course, extremely dangerous.
I took the greatest possible care to
cover up the traces of my handiwork,
but nevertheless the anarchist police
outwitted me and secured Incontro
vertible evidence that I was a police
spy. Their method of doing this was
interesting.
The chief of the society wrote out
the details of an attempt to be made
on a certain high official. At a time
when only the leader and I were In the
room he made some excuse for leav
ing me alone for a few moments. In
my eagerness to fulfill my duty I rap
idly searched over the papers he had
left, noting the place and the date
when the scheme was to be put into
execution. ' Shortly afterward the an
archist chief returned and pocketed
the documents.
On the faeful night the chief in
formed me that the attempt had been
postponed. As I afterward found out,
some members of the anarchist police
sent to survey the neighborhood had
detected signs of the watching officials
and realized -that their plans had been
divulged to the police by some traitor.
Since the chief of the anarchists and
myself were the only two people who
had any knowledge of the Intendd
outrag which, of course, was simply a
sham affair prepared to trap me. I
was Immediately known to them in
my true light as a police spy."
- After this, Mr. Persitz says, he was
decoyed to a lonely wood near Mos
cow, bound hand and foot by the ter
rorists and ordered to confess. "At
first, rendered desperate by my peril,
I stoutly refused to admit - my guilt.
shouting frantically, T deny It all
But, with many curses and blows,
they told me that I was already con
victed. They ordered me to divulge
the secrets of the political
police. This, however, I refused to
do. - My captors then held a consulta
tion and decided to follow the methods
of the inquisition and wring from me
by torture the particulars they were
seeking. . . . Pins were forced. In
to all parts of my body, each tormen
tor apparently vying with the others
to discover a place which would, pro
duce the most excruciating pain.
The lash was applied in addition to
the pins. Then the captors, consid
ering it vain to gain any information.
discussed methods of killing the trai
tor. A handsome young Polish Jew
ess, says the narrator came forward
and exclaimed:
" T have an excellent idea. All the
deaths you suggest are too quick. He
is tied; let us lay him on the railway.
The Petersburg express will shortly
be due, and the cus will have the
pleasure of lying helpless while he
sees the train coming nearer and near
er, it win give mm time to tmnK
over his treachery.
The suggestion was heartily ap
proved. With many a curse and blow
I was prcmptly carried off and laid
across the rails of the Moscow-Petersburg
railway, being tied face upper
most to the rails by the ropes that
bound my hands behind my back. After
having brutally kicked me almost into
insensibility and wished me a sarcastic
'goodby, my onetime fellow anarch
ists disappeared in the gathering dark-
ness of the night- .
"Slowly the minutes passed away,
and, at last, to my horror, I heard the
rumble of the approaching train.
Never shall I forget the unspeakable
terror o- that moment. Nerve racking
though the period of suspense had
been, it was as nothing to this. Pres
ently the rumble grew to a roar, and,
turning my head, I saw the lights of
the express approaching. Then I think
I lost all control of myself. In a fren
zy of fear I redoubled my efforts to
escape, flinging myself this way and
that. Larger and larger grew those
glaring orbs of light, nearer and near
er came the ponderous wheels. I real
ized that I had but a few moments
more t- live. Making an effort, I man
aged to lie calmly , for a brief second
or two; theu I braced feet and shoul
ders and heaved upward with all my
remaining strength.
"The cord parted. With one wild
scream of excitement I rolled between
the rails. I remember a deafening,
thunderous roar and the approach of a
hot blast, such as comes from the
opening of an enormous furnace door.
Then everything went red, and ' I
lapsed Into Insensibility."
Mr. Persitz says he woke np in
hospital three months later, having
been dellrous all that time. - On ac
count of the affair x he was rewarded
with 400 "gratification money," an in
crease of salary and a six months' va
cation, which he spent mostly in Italy
Would Arrest Him Anyway.
Sergeant 'Alt! Take Murphy's
name for talkin' in the ranks. .
Corporal Wy. sergeant, 'e weren't
talkin'.
Sergeant Wasn't he? Well, cross
It out an put 1m in the guardroom for
deceivln me. Tatler. -" ' '
You may have noticed how differ
ent men are from hogs. The latter
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good for them.
There are few beggars In Switzer
land, and two-fifths of the adult popu
lation have deposits In banks.
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They're All About Tailors.
"All criticism," said Professor
Brander Matthews In one of his bril
liant Columbia lectures, "Is, to a cer
tain extent, personal and biased." He
paused and smiled. "The Tailor and
Cutter, a weekly paper, he resumea.
"said in a recent leading article:
'Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus," Mere
dith's "Evan Harrington" and Kings-
ley's "Alton Locke" will be great
classics when the ephemeral novels of
today will have long since perished. "
And No Strong-Arm Squad.
The Greeks were piling Into the
Wooden Horse outside the walls oi
Troy.
"We might be called the first car
rowdies," they cried facetiously.
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A' woman Is apt to regard a bachelor
as a man who Is too much of a coward
to get married.
Tjerwis' Sinele Binder straizht 6c ciear.
You pay 10c for cigars not so stood.
Many an honest dollar acquires a
taint through association.
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where there are
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