The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1917-03-30

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work was done among the factory
people.
"Of course, Miss suklon says.
each ono OF thcm know that prison.
solitary confinement aud exile were
their inevitable lot. but this did not
deter thom IN the least. Although
they awaited arrest Of any hour ~
tho day or mrht. they spent their
snare TINS "a mcrriiy as n nothinr
speriAi were goins to happen 70
them.
THIS went on for two wars. zhe.
MA AVID van went 70 prison. Grlgcry
TO siberia aud Nicholai was sent q,
4 serve In the army. Marie 'suklom
went 90 the %ncighboring city % Kish-
incv 80 establish q printing Office. She
was arrested and taken "a prison. and
with her we're taken the two innocent
old people IN whose house she WAS
! staying, They kept her IN prison FOR
more than n year. before her trial. Il
BEGAN 70 suffer with insomnia. The
twenty minutes daily walk In the
prison yard became n torture to me,
The sun shone 50 brightly without the
! prison walls, and here l was shut up.
The church bells which tolled SO sol
EMMY and joyfully outside. here IN
the prison sounded like the ringing D,
bells at a funeral"
She was II years old. she was sen
fenced 20 be exiled to Eastern ssberin
for life.
Down the dusty road 20 the railroad
station the political prisoners were
marched. fettcred wrist TO wrist with
murderers and robbers. In the for
warding prisons where they stopped
along the route. they slept ON filthy
floors with no covering a Y the gray
overcoats with a yellow diamond
athwart the shoulders, which marks
the Russian convict. After sixteen
days of travel they reached the ST.
berian city from which they ware to
be distributed In exile. Marie suk-
hon WIS TO 20 alone 20 a tiny village.
II was n village of thirty huts. She
was q stay in the house of the church
Waterman. and every day the village
constable should call to sec that she
was still there. The women came out
m wept owe her.
80 young, So young, How your
mother must have wepti"
AtSF NulNt-uuATGh uOEt iotU0 wv
shat she could read. He brought out
n letter from his scn. a soldier In the
war against Japan. 20 have her read
I. TO him. Soon the news spread
through the viilage-heie vas n
who could read! The simple people
brought her everything they had 10
read-she must read aloud to them.
They treated her with great rever-
ence.
Vodka to Make Them Forget.
II was no longer In prison. ! saw
no more the prison wallE. but | did
feel myself free The purpoSciess life
IN q remote siberian village seemed 70
me worse than n prison. The peas
ants. together with the priest drank
for two OF three days during the week.
They spent an their money at the
government liquor shop, and when
thoy had no ready cash they pawned
anything they could conveniently
carry out Of the house. II seemed
that only the vodka gave them the
possibility of forgetting the miscr.es
81 the wretched existence. In those
drunken da3s I hid myself In some
corner that no one might see me. and
sat looking at the heaps OF SNOW
witch separated me from the rest of
the living YOU must escape, YOU
must escape from here un inner
voice grew more and more insistent
she did escape. 4 forged pass
port was procured. and money FROM
rev~oIutionisis exiles IN Siberia. She
set IA on foot through the snow 90 60
village tWenty-cight miles away. \
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