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Evening journal., 1919-01-28

NOTICE.. TIMOTHY J. MCCARTHY,
~ the tenant of the house situated at s.
W. Cor. Seventh and Lombard streets, IN
the Eighth ward. of the city Of Wilmington,
county OF New Castle and State Of Della
ware, in compliance with the requirements
Of the Acts of the General Assembly. In
such case made and provided, do hereby
give notice that I shall apply In writing
10 the Court Of General Sessions. Of the
State Of Delaware, in and for New Castle
county, on Monday. the third day Of March,
A. ID. 1919, being the next term Of said
court, for a license for said house as an
Inn or tavern. for the sale therein Of In
toxicating liquors, In less quantities
than one quart, to be drunk on the
premises; and the following respectable
citizens Of said ward, at least twelve OF
whom are substantial freeholders Of said
ward, recommend the said application, viz:
Stonewall j. Sturtz James Cassidy
B. W. Shepherd Isaac V. England
James A. HurlOck Lyman ROthstein
Benjamin s. Lloyd Ihos. +. Hynes, Jr.
Geo. F. wilkins James Braden
Charles McAteer l.. w Rutherford
r. r Devine VIM. I. Anderson
John L. CrOmpton Il. A. Henvis
Charles y. Taylor Michael 7. Brown
Robert j. Kraemer Louis Scott
John II. Coverdale Augustus B. Gillespie
c. j. Albers Leonard G. Dyer
Michael Donohue August Mas
Ruben Berkowitz James Dougherty
ian27-3t TIMOTHY J. MCCARTHY.
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I ADY WISHES POSITION AS HOUSE
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NOTICE., SAMUEL ESFbNShADEs
~ the tenant and occupant Of the house
situated at 213 Monroe street, in the
Third ward, Of the city of Whining
ton, county Of New Castle and State
OF Delaware, In compliance with
the requirements of the Acts Of the General
Assembly in such case made and pro-
vided. do hereby give notice tn At !
shall apply In writing TO the Court
Of General Sessions of the State OF Della
ware. in and for New Castle county on
Monday, the third day of March. A. d.
1919, being the next term Of said court. for
a license for said house, rs an inn "r tsv-
ern for the sale therein Of intoxicating
liquors In less quantities than one quart,
to be drunk on the premises, and the fol-
lowing respectable citizens Of said ward
al least twelve OF whom are substantial
freeholders Of said ward, recommend the
said application, viz:
Geo. n. Lacey Edward D. Carr
Thomas f. MOntagueW Hard w. Draper
Norris Frankel Samuel B. Medkeh
Michael Haitsch J. Rapport
Thos. +. McEyilly Howard Loper
Daniel Haughey Frank Il. Welch
Frank Garner X Abberger
Antonio Chonte John F. Dantel
CHARLES Demel Julius Juresco
Michael j. Carney Louis Cognacct
Geo. J. Bacon William Cox
John ]. McGoldrlck George g Hughes
ian27-3t. SAMUEL ESPENSHADE.
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GIRL TO WORK IN CANDY AND
VI cigar store. Apply S. W. Cor. Sixth
and Walnut Sts. jan2s-lt.
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TOR sALE-CoAL RANGE WITH HOT
4 water back cook stove and parlor
stove. Apply COZ W. Front St. ian2s-St.
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STORAGE.
MAssFUsE.

RELIEVES NEURIrIs, NEU.
4il rasthenia and wards off the Flu. L. H.
Hitchcock. A NJ, 500 Adams st. Phone 15O7-J.
apr15-1yr
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-11-02

live wire" She wore a calm Slavic
exterior. But under the ivory skin
and behind the big blue eyes and in
the slender figure was a spirit that
seethed with sensibility. She was as
a Tyre to the winds of revolutionary
speech and thought. She met students
who were Nihilists and Socialists. and
her soul responded to their words.
She read books OF which the Car, his
Ministers, her parents and the priest
would not have approved. From these
all, from what she saw, Marie Spirido-
nova got the idea that IS Of every 100
Russians were being cruelty oppressed
and that the women were most op-
pressed OF all. Then, like a Russian
woman, she did not go about wanting
TO know what was TO be done about it.
She made up her mind that she was
going to do something" For all of
her feeling for the herd. Marie Spiri-
donova was a supreme individualist
Most women. especially most Russian
women. are individualists. Ever read
Maxim Gorki's story of his life and his
picture of his grandmother?
Imbued with the feeling that it was
Up TO her to do something" to over
turn the throne Of the Romanoffs with
her small. white, Slavic hand. if neeo
be, Marie Spiridonova got into what
her parents would consider mighty
bad company. Her companions were
Anarchists and others, who talked of
throwing bombs at all the aristocrats.
Her father. easy-going Russian that he
was, admired and INDUCED his ivory
skinned little daughter. Russians are
accustomed TO being governed by their
intensely individualistic women. He
attended to his business, and when his
little Marie sprung her anarchistic
stun on him he merely smiled, stroked
her tremendous coils OF coal-black
hair that might very we'll have cleo
trihed his hand and said. You read
too much. little one" But he did not
worry a bit Many hne young men
were coming TO tea and TO see Marie.
who was pretty and sure 10 make q
good marriage. Marriage is awfully
good for young girls. II tames them
so. But in her heart Marie was mar
ried TO herself She was intensely in
dividualistic, and she wanted 20 dc
something Russian women are doors
Russian men are takers. Worn with
listening Ia their men talk and talk
and talk. Russian women have been
custoped TO cut loose and do some
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She knew that Lupienofsky would
arrive at certain railroad station at
a certain hour. She was at the sta
ton before the hour. Lupienofsky ar
rived. His military escort was about
him. That did not worry Marie Spiri-
donova in the least She stood, cool as
ice, IN the shade of the station. Her
fingers felt for the butt of her revolver.
Lupienofsky approached. Without a
tremor. Marie Spiridonova drew her
pistol and shot him through the heart.
Sentenced to
Siberia
There was a tremendous hubbub
usual among Russian men They ran
this way and that Marie Spiridonova
never "batted an eye" to use an
American expression. 1t is said that
she even broke her gun" and blew
the smoke and sulphur fumes out of it
preparatory TO returning 1t to her
pocket. Then the Cossacks seized her
They cuffed and kicked her, threw her
over a horse and galloped her away TO
jail. They tore of her clothes and
thrust her in a cell The secret police
gave her the Russian third degree"
Who were her accomplices? Marie
Spiridonova looked at them coldly and
turned silently away. They whipped
her and burned her body With cigar
cite tips. Marie Spiridonova would not
speak. This they kept up for days.
The treatment given her was cguel,
but somehow she survived. Russian
women are vital human beings.
For some reason or other, probably
because no one liked Lupienofsky and
because even his Cossacks were glad
that he was dead. Marie Spiridonova
was not put to death. Instead she was
sent to Siberia
A small, frail girl. weighing scarce
100 pounds, softly bedde6 when at
home and tenderly cared for by her in
dulgent father and mother. Marie Spir-
idonova did not die. She spent eleven
years in Siberia. There she managed
to educate herself more fully than if
she had remained at home in Tamboy.
She learned, with the Slavish facility
for the acquisition of tongues. all the
leading languages OF Europeans
lish. French, German, italian. She
was taking up the Asiatfc tongues
when the revolution broke loose in
1917 Marie Spiridonova was free
woman.
Like an avatar OF the oppressed
Marie Spiridonova returned from ST.
IBERIA. She had done the thing that
millions upon millions OF Russian
men had wished to do and dared not. to
do, and she had suffered therefor. She
made no fuss about the doing and no
fuss about paying for the doing II
was all quite simple There was q
tyrant who should be killed. Marie
Spiridonova killed him. She was aent
TO Siberia and paid her stint Even a
child could understand all that Now
she was coming back TO Russia Of the
takers. She did not talk. She die
something. She had a record. What
was more natural that the always
talking and never doing Russian mar
should turn 10 Marie Spiridonova as
leader? Lupienofsky had been a per.
secutor Of peasants. Marie Spiridono-
va had relieved the peasants OF theil
prosecutors. To the simple moujik!
Marie Spiridonova was an angel ou
; OF heaven. They had worshipped hel
: during the eleven years of her exile
in Siberia. She was 70 them a martyr
not murderess. So when she re
? turned TO Russia the peasants cam,
for miles to see her, fell upon theii
; knees and kissed her feet. In a weel
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-11-02

to them the hand that. eleven years
before. had delivered them of the bru-
tai Lupienofsky and told them THAI
the same hand would deliver them
from the hands of all the Lupienofskys
in Russia. She called Kerensky's
government a "rapacious bourgeoise
tyranny" The peasants more than
ever looked upon her as an angel SEN
from heaven TO deliver them from their
oppressors as she had delivered thu
peasants Of Tamboy from Lupienofsky
Had she not done a great deed? Had
she not paid for it with her blood and
tears? What other persons in Russia
had done so much. suffered so much
for the peasants?
There was a second congress o.
peasants soviets in Petroerad. Kc-
rensky was still conciliatve. He want
ed to bring all factions in Russia to-
gether on an amicable basis. Lenin.
Trotzky and their kind were keener
than Kerensky. They were represen-
tatives Of mechanics rather than O,
peasants. But they say that they
could not win without the peasants
So they adopted Marie Spir.donova's
land platform. all the land for tle
men who work upon it,"
Lenin and Trotsky
Gain Control.
That turned the tide in favor OK Len
in and Trotzky. To that time they had
a following only among The mechanics
and artisans as a negligible quantity
in Russia. When Marie Spiridonova
threw her 100,O0O.00O peasants behind
Lenin and Trotzky she made a gov
eminent that. despite all opposition
had endured in Russia for twenty
months, where other governments en-
dured but a few days.
Six months passed. The Lenin gov
eminent had not carried out all It's
promises TO divide the land among the
peasants. Where the peasants were
strong enough and bold enough they
had taken the land and kept il Where
they were not bold enough or strong
enough TO take the land and TO keep
it they went without It Lenin was
more interested in his plans OF indu-
trial reform in the cities than be was
in the distribution Of the land Marie
called another congress OF her peas
ants. They came from al parts Of the
country TO Petrograd. Lenin. thor
oughly scared. promised TO be good. 70
carry out all his promises. The peas
ants. half assured. returned 70 their
homes. Then Lenin threw Marie spirf-
donova into prison
That was the signal for a revolt al
over Russia. In 1000 villages the
peasants arose and attacked LeninS
Red Guard The adherents OF Marie
SpiridonOva were as numerous az the
sands OF the sea Lenin's legiOnB had
no chance against them. He sent tor
her and suggested a compromise He
would release her from prison proytd-
ed she would pacify her peasant
Marie SpiridonOya had been too long
a stranger TO compromise 20 make IT'S
acquaintance now. The girl Of IS who
had dared 70 defy the Car and his
Black Hundreds and TO shoot LuDisn-
ofsky in the very midst OF lis guard
TO have scorned Cossacks and the Sc
cret police. 70 have endure the hor-
rors Of Siberia for eleven years, all
alone, one little slip OF girl, was not
likely 10 be scared By Nikolai 0ulano-
witch Genin) when she had 100000
peasants free TO come 10 her relief
When you carry out your promises
TO apDortion the land among the men
and women who work on IL ! VIII
speak in your behalf said Marie
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-11-02

~ all women. Russian women
are the most indiUdUalistic,
personally most striking. They
have personality TO a greater degree
than women Of any other nation.
The Russian woman. when she is
herself, absolutely dominates the Rus
sian man. Now they are finding out
that Lenin, the car of the proletaire,
IS dominated by a Russian woman.
The Russian leaders Of the various
revolutions act as II they were under
the influence Of women. They go the
whole hog" For them there is no
such thing as compromise. It is "Uto-
pia or bust" Which is a womans
way. Women are the poorest compro-
misers IN the world. Until taught by
men. women do not know that such a
thing as compromise exists. When
they do become aware of its existence
they do not like il. What woman did
you ever see who would give up any
part OF what was her children's?
That's where they get their uncompro-
missing character. They want it all
when they want it at all.
Take the women who have served
time for violation of the United States
espionage law. Emma Goldman, Kate
OHare and Rose Pastor Stokes have
all gone farther than any man would
90. When a woman throws the dice
OF fate she throws for keeps. She
throws in all she has got and Shoots
the bunch"
Such a woman Is Marie SpiridonOva.
queen OF the Russian peasants. Decent
folk have never heard OF Marie Spiri-
donova. Women who are Reds" in
politics know OF her. The Bolsheviki
and near-Bolshevih Of the ghettos
now know OF her. Washington Square
people. the bobbe6-hair women who
talk OF art and revolution and sip red
ink and call It. wine divine know OF
her. She is a Russian. Being a Rus
sian and known IN America she is, OF
course, a revolutionist? You bet. Ma
RE Spiridonova Is a revolutionist. red
as the sunset and as terroizing as an
earthquake. To the Russian arlstocracy
her name sounds like the thunder OF
1900 cannon. Dangerous? As the
plague. She has an idea that 100000
600 Russian moujiks or peasants should
rule themselves and the 100000
aristocrats and bourgeoise who ruled
them Marie Spirldonova was a dan
gerous woman. She did not believe
that the finest object OF life was for
six people TO slave that one person
might be rich and live al ease.
Shakes Russia
Like a Rug.
Then came the day when Marie Spir-
idonova picked up Russia in her small
hands and shook it as woman might
shake a small rug. When She got
through shaking il. the 15.00J.o00 aris-
tOcras had been loosed from the COM
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Portable locations in the rug and the
135. 900 900 peasants workingnen were
walking al over it as If they owned it.
Came Kerensky, who loved peace
and placatio. Marie Spiridonova could
have saved him and his government If
she would. She never compromised;
she hated compromise. Kerensky was.
like most men, fond OF compromise.
So she let him go. Then came Lenin
and Trotsky Marie Spiridonova can
break them any time she pleases. II
was Marie Sriridonova who made Len
in and TrOtsky leaders Of the city
workers when the peasants were about
to destroy hem. When the peasants
seemed about 20 slip away from them.
Lenin and Trotsky threw Marie Spi-
ridonova in prison. They would
cheerfully have had her shot had they
dared They merely tried to scare
her, to in3uce her to keep the peasants
on their side. But for two years Ma
RE Spiridonova was queen Of the po-
litical revels in Red Russia. where hui
man life was not worth the proverbial
straw. And no life was worth less
than that of the pale. spirituelle girl
who is ia RENE de la Revolution as
the French call her.
Marie SpiridOnOVa
a "LiIe Wire"
she's a bit OF a small kid" this
Marie Spiridonova, with big blue Slav
eyes. the ivory-coiored skin Of the
Slav and a turult of black hair show
ering about her head. She is 80 years
old now. yet she is so slim and frail
that Americans would call her kid
She comes of well-to-io. God-fearing
bourgeoise people in Tambof. Her ia
Their. is or was. a well-co-do merchant,
a big man in the Russian way. a free
liver. a generous, whole -souled fellow.
He always said when lsmenung what
his self-willed daughter had done that
there never had been. until she can
along. a touch Of Nihilism. or Bolshe-
vism in the honorable, well-to-do Spiri-
donoya family. He reared his little
daughter as a good Russian, 10 revere
the Car as head of the church and as
head of the nation. 10 bow before the
priests and before the ikOns, to read
books approved by the bishop and by
her parents and 10 look forward to q
good marriage with q comfortable hus-
band some day. Then Gospodin Spirl-
donova made the cardinal mistake OF
sending Marie 70 college TO get good
education.
Marie Spiridonoya was. naturally. a
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Marie Spiridonova was the leader of
over 100,OOo,OOO Russians.
WOrshiped by
Pessantry.
The peasants formed Soviets or
small group governments. Every viii
lage, every community in Russia elect
ed its Soviet according 10 occupation.
There were peasant soviets, me
chanics soviets, doctors soviets. so
viets Of all the occupations and all the
trades. As a great majority of the
Russian people are farmers, peasants.
a great majority of the soviets are
farmers or peasants soviets. Then
in 1917 the peasants held the first All
Russian Peasants Congress of soviets
in Petrograd. The story of Marie
Spiridonoyas disposal Of Lupienofsky
had been a freside legend for eleven
years. So when she appeared before the
great Congress of Peasants Soviets,
representing 100000 of people,
they fell down and worshiped her. To
these supplemented religious and
somewhat superstitious people the fact
Of her being alive was a miracle, or at
least proof Of the Intervention of God
on their behalf. She was regarded as
a semi-if not wholly-supernatu
being. OF all persons she was best
known to the peasants. So they elect
ed her president Of the congress in
Petrograd. Right then was bestowed
upon Marie SpiridOnova more power
than was ever bestowed upon any
woman save perhaps the Empress
Catherine ii. Of Russia, and speaking
literally, Catherine stole her power
while Marie Spiridonova had hers fair
ly forced upon her. Kerensky was
Provisional President Of Russia, but
Marie Spiridonoya held 100,000.00l
Russians in the palm of her hand
Then ensued a short and fatal strus-
gle between the Russian woman who
knows not compromise and the Rus
sian man who is all compromise. Ma
RE SpiridOnOva knew what the peas
ants wanted. The land. For ages they
had worked on the land, belonged 10
the land, believed themselves sprung
from the land. titled the land, made il
produce. Yet they had never owned a
foot of the land nor had they ever got
more than a bare existence from it.
Demands Land
Be Divided Among Peasants.
So Marie Spiridonova boldly de
manded that the land be taken from
the great lords. whose title she denied
and parceled out among the men who
lived on It and cultivated it.
Everyone who knows a peasant, a
farmer, knows of all things that be
loves the land. Land. land. more land
is the cry of the liver on the land
Marie Spiridonova knew what heI
peasants wanted.
Marie Spiridonova and her peasants
wanted no compromise, no concilia-
ton. The land owners had held the
land long enough, held it wrongly
they urged Why should men who had
stolen goods be compensated when
compelled to return the stolen goods.
The girl who killed Lupienofsky va:
not likely TO be considerate Of the
purses and rights of other Lupien.
ofskys. The land. all the land. FOL
the peasants without compensation.
was her ultimatum 10 the Kerensky
government No compromise. Still
Kerensky tried 10 compromise. H
might az well have tried 10 argue viii
a tornado or with the everlasting
tides.
Marie Spiridonova went from mir Il
mir. village 70 village. haranguing he
all too eager listeners. She held VI
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thing" mostly make a rough house."
even if they have to throw a bomb and
take a few lives to do that something
Listening to Russian men talking.
talking and never doing anything
drives the Russian women to raise
Cain. blow the lid of, do something.
Picks AutOcratic
Governor for Victim.
All this was in the days Of the Car
and the well-bred tyranny which made
SO per cent of all Russians slaves that
Is per cent might talk French and
drink tea afternoons in the drawing
rooms of Petrograd, Moscow, Kief and
other big towns. There were innu-
merable petty autocrats all over Rus
STA Marie may have had her do
something eye" on the pitiful little
puppet called the Car (Caesar) or
she may have in her heart chosen one
Of his cruel Ministers-Trepof Po-
binoffsky, etc.-for her especial vic
tim. But she was far away from head
quarters OF the tyranny in Tamboy.
She had to do something, so she pick
ed the best thing she could-Lupien-
ofsky, the autocratic governor Of her
native city. Marie Spiriodonova was
a practical idealist. She could not get
the tyrant she wanted. She chose the
best at hand.
Marie Spiridonova became quite GER
tain that Lupiensofsky should be sent
on his way via the bomb route. She
no doubt thought that if enough Of the
hated governing class could be bump
ed off" the cowed peasants would arise.
All that was needed. to speak the
truth. was enough Marie SpiridOnova.
In any event, she quietly made up her
mind to kill Lupiensofsky. 1t was all
quite simple TO her individualistic.
Slavish mind. She had a hand and a
will. She could get bomb. She
could approach Lupienofsky. She
could toss the bomb al his feet. That
was all there would be 10 ii. They
would of course kill her. but all over
Russia thousands OF other Maries
would arise TO kill the thousands OF
Lupienofskys that oppressed the mil
lions of Russian people. II is not
likely that Marie Spiridonova though;
of this angle. She believed that il
would be a good thing for Tamboy and
the Russian people that Lupienofsky
should die Therefore why should she
not kill him?
Marie was 1s years old then. Had
she been an American she would have
been graduating out of high school OF
preparing TO go TO college. In Rus
STA. Darkest Russia. the stress Of life
had made her a woman at 19. She
had serious work on hand. She was
going To rid Russia of at least one
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Then came the day when Marie Spir-
idonoya picked up Russia in her small
hands and shook it as q woman might
shake a small rug When She got
through shaking it. the 15.00U.o0O aris-
tocrats had been loosed from the COM