Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1908-03-26
For Humanity's Sake.
copyright. 1901

pursuing his StuQleS QlScOEereu tuluSS
that other men coveted. One Of them
was q dye for weavers. 1t was q pop
ular color at once. A certain weaver
saw that there was money in it, and
because he could not buy the secret
at his own price he went to'the police
and charged the Jew with talking trea-
son. His evidence was unsupported,
but it was enough. At twenty-three
years of age, just as he was about to
graduate with honors, Moses started
out one evening to pay visit to
Young lady. That was the last heard
of him for six years. Then pardoned
convict returned from Siberia to say
that he had met him there.
Six years later, after serving in the
mines for twelve years, Moses ka-
moff received a pardon and returned
home. A pardon for what? He had
been punished again for being loyal.
The car had no more loyal subject in
all the RuSsias. He had not expected
or asked for a pardon. They simply
removed his chains one day and told
him he was to return. He reached
home old and bent and stranger even
to his mother. He was glad, and yet
in the midst Of his gladness he was
told that that was not the end. When
the Russian police have once arrested
q man he is never forgotten. They
follow him up. He is fair game. A
relative had died and left Moses fair
ly wealthy. He had not been home
month when the police began to bleed
him. He must pay for being let alone.
He wanted to live quietly and obey all
laws and praise the czar, but it would
and did cost him so much money per
week to pay his fines that 1t ruined
him.
In two years more he became but lit
tie better than beggar. The police
had stripped him. Then Moses found
a situation with q chemist, but held 1t
only a week. The man had to let him
20 or be arrested himself as sympa-
thizer with suspect. The quicksilver
mines Of Siberia had made q wretched
old man Of him, but he shouldered a
peddler's pack and began q tramp. In
three days he was arrested and his
goods confscated. Two weeks later all
who were giving him food and lodg-
ings and sympathy were warned and
had to drive him from their doors. He
was arrested as q street beggar and
kept for weeks in q cell. Whenever he
got free the police were ready with an
other complaint.
There came q winters night wheh
Moses Kamoff huddled in doorway,
weak with hunger and exhaustion and
knowing that he was freezing to death.
He was glad of 1t. After death the po-
lice could not longer persecute him. In
their rage they might kick his frozen
body, but all feeling would have pass
ed from it. In half an hour the man
would have been dead had not the door
opened and q hand drawn him inside.
He was given food and drink and
comfortable bed, and he awoke next
morning to find himself still alive. He
knew at sight to what class his rescuer
belonged. He was an anarchist. If he
hadn't private wrongs to avenge, then
he would avenge the wrongs Of the
public. The man knew Kamoff by sight
and had heard the story Of his wrongs,
and he argued that the Jew would be
fierce for revenge. 1t was but natural
that he should have been. For two
days and nights the old man was fed
and made comfortable, and then the
other said to him:
you will not betray me, for you
have suffered. have also won your
gratitude. The police have bounded
you to the brink Of the grave. 1t is
time you turned and had your revenge.
1t is for me to show you how you
can secure it and run no risk"
II am a loyal man and wish only to
obey the law" answered Kamoff.
"Yes. you have been loyal, but the
police have punished you for it. For
years | have worked on an invention
that l might make myself feared. l
have suffered almost as much as you
have. but it is over and done with now.
Tonight we will both begin our re-
venge."
And with that and trembling and
laughing in his excitement the an
archist brought out rife. Its power
was compressed air and its bullet an
explosive one. Its discharge made no
sound. There was neither smell nor
smoke nor fame. Once on hOusetop