The Washington herald., 1909-01-24

She had taught love OF liberty TO
s1eslthily gathered groups Of working
men and OF peasants. and so the Cars
judges suited her punishment TO her
crime-sent the fraI twenty-year-oId SRI,
on foot. far up into the Cars great ice
prison beyond the Arctic Circle. where the
elements discharge the hangman's duties.
That arctic agOny-man cannot suggest
1t. Here. miserably fed. miserabIy clad
sheltered in q foul hut. she almost died OF
hunger, Of cold. OF their begotsen dis
eases. But-she made friends with the
EskimOsAand Usr5 years later an Eskimo
suddenly started his dog-team south
ward. On the sleGge fur-buried. IN Es-
k!mo dress, was woman--my wife"
the sledge driver explained to those he
met few months afterward. the brown
stain washed from her face. under new
name the girl was a medical student fl
the Women's University in St. Peters
burg-again committing her old crime OF
spreading the idea Of freedom. IN COZ
slant danger Of being returned into even
harsher exile. says Leroy Scott IN the
Outlook.
I marveled at the delicate girl as drew
her story from her.
DO you not fear exile-death?" 7
asked DO you not long for peace. FOR
happiness?"
She answered with her gentle, quiet
smile- When ones people Is suffering
such agonies. one has no right 70 think
Of self"
This girl represents. voices, thousands
Of Russian women. When IN the hap
pier future, the history OF the Russian
revolution IS written. one feature q the
great struggle which viii distinguish Il
from other movements OF its kind VIII
be the part played BY women. Wonan's
immemorial role II such a period has
been 10 wait al home and suffer. The
Russian woman has shared Ike and Ike
with man; IN leadership. in the dangerous
clandestine education q the masses. n
throwing the terrorists bomb. in prison.
In Siberian mines. on the scafTold. So
willing have they been 70 de for The sake
Of progress that with many death has
become an ambition At one OF the early
political trials q girl prisoner. OF hearing
her mates sentenced 20 death and herself
merely sentenced 70 Imprisonment. broke
down and vept that she had done too
little 70 be judged worthy OF sharing
their fate
Tender-hearted Women.
That tenderness should be one of ths
strongest characteristics OF the women
revoluuonists seems hardly credible Yet
It is this very tenderness, this intense
feeling for the victims OF tyranny, that
has impeIled so many gentie-souled
women 10 tyrannicide. OF this tenderness.
this exquisite sympathy. the life OF Lud-
milla Eoikenstein was one long rlustra-
ton. she wes OF noble family. In Iss9
she was arrested ~ completely n q ter
r0rist act but thers was so little proof
against her that the government could
not have established e case ha6 she
pleaded not guilty. But she proudly con
fessed her guilt She wore her chains
as though they were ornaments. and she
looked upon her trial as the holiday OF
her life. for Il gave her the longed for
chance 10 speak Out the truth 10 the faces
Of the authorities
She was sentenced 70 death, but the
court, Influenced by her exultant heroisu.
sent her to SchlusselbUrg prison instead
a 70 the gailOws- After three years. as
reward Of good conduct she was allowed
~ WIN II L--G ~ A--laa I---4L and
given a few feet Of sunless earth there
for garden OF her Il Is told that she
could not step on the smallest craving
thing; Il she saw beetle OF a caterpillar
IN trouble, she would pause and give il
aid; and one day she wrapped in a bit Of
paper bedbug she had found in her cell.
carried IL down TO her little garden and
set It free amonE her few stunted flowers.
Cheering Up Prisoners.
She was always trying 70 cheer I'D her
fellow-prisOners. protesting against the
brutalities inflicted upon them, trying 20
take their punishment upon herself. After
a time she refused the privilege OF her
daily walk. because II was denied 10
others: and when some OF her comrades.
as punishment, were removed 10 an old
and fouler part Of the prison. she also de-
manded 10 be removed. Il was usjn n
her 10 fare better than her comrades. Ali
this was not the result Of prison-born sen
tinentaIity; Il was the natural expression
Of her simple. tender nature.
At the end Of twelve years IN pr4soo
she was exiled 10 Siberia. and here her
seif-forgetti1g tenderness had no abate-
ment She was skiTfui doctor and nurse
and she was constantly giving herself n
the sick. both friend and foe. At the
time Of the Cars manifesto OF freedom
she was in peaceful crowd OF citizens
in FladivOstok that was celebrating the
supposedly stupendOus event Here hap
pened what happened 10 the celebrating
crowds all over Russia-soiGIers fred
upon the unarned people. When the I'D
roar subsided, among the dead that If
tered the street was the body Of LudmiIla
Volkenstein.
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