ip frrt v WtliipuWI&B VV SBEffl t'M fw. ft ft fi&K I l b. Bf1 ;fK,' EVENING PUBLIC LEDGEH PHlfiADELPHIA, MONDAY, MAEOH 3, 1919 DETERMINED TO BECOME A SOLDIER, YASFKA FLEES FROM JEALOUS HUSBAND Walking at Night and Sleeping During the Day She Spent a Week Trav eling to Yakutsk, the Nearest Town i Maria Botchkarcva Brings Her Gripping Narrative to the Point Where She Is About to Embark on the Great Adventure (CopVTloht, 130. bv Vrtdtrick A. Stakr Co (This lor. told bv Marl Hot hiMra and franilalptl and trnrnrrlhfd bv lnc oti X.lnr. H iubllhtO l Krdriik Ctokis Company under lh tltl of ' aahkn i THIS STARTS THE STORY In thn Mtiinmrr of 1917 tlio word M thrilled by tlio aniioimroniom of the formation by Murl.i Uotrh karrva of n womun'H fighting unit In i the Russian army It wan known n tho Battalion of Drnth. "With tlilt announcement nu obcurs Kuvslnn peasant Klrl entered tho Intcrnatlon Bl hall of famp. This U hor ulory told by herself The first Install ments told of her early hlldhood. Sho married unhappily, lo.ivca her husband who brats her and liter contracts a civil marriage with a man who befriended her I Jo it -ent to Siberia for nldlns a politl, .il plot and Mie accompanies him They aro prosperous for a time at YnkutHk, their first placo of exile, but a treacherous C!ocrnor has them ncnt further north. AM) HERE IT CONTINUES AT THE end of about threo months, wo obtained permission to visit Takutsk for tho purposo of collecting; tho money duo to us for tho butcher shop, but tho man to whom we In trusted tho business now denied owIiir us any monev. claiming to Invo paid fully at tho tlmo of our exile to Amen. There was a violent quarrel, but no money. As I delivered the storo to him on faith, we could not substantiate our claims and oust him from Ills possession of tho premise?. There was nothing to ho done but return with empty hands, with the burden of the debts we had acquired at Amga weighing heavily on our shoulders. Thero was the dreary prospect of toll beforo me, of hard nnd continuous tolling', to pay what we owed. One summer day n. new party of exiles arrived at Amga. One of them was a young fellow of about twenty. Yosha took a liking to him nnd pro posed that he remain In our house to help mo alone Knowing of Yasha's jealousy, I objected. "Yasha," I argued, "what are you doing? You know how Jealous you be come when you find one of the colony In the house, and now vou want mo to keep this joungater here, with you away most of the time. You are just creating trouble for me. I don't want him, I need no help. Pleaso don't burden me with him." "llarusla," Yasha replied, tenderly, "I swear that I won't bo Jealous any more. I won't, dear. Forgive me for all the pain I have caused you." Yasha's words did not entirely pacify me, but he overruled my objections, promising to bo reasonable in the future. The same afternoon a Yakut 4 ? i VBBMhmH fT " 8 BvlKKr ABUKM JKCB Hj flV Bt m K.W wt IvMKmIH H&fek. . jVTmj 'JcsiflKj TrTij t . t " H JL ft Kf Ik Jfh F'M z bw The markrt plarc. Tomk, where Mnrir Holt liknrca enlisted a oldier in the Kuisinn army open. Then 1 lout rnnsrlousness that they never saw such exaltation ,me. J!y country called me. And nn As (ho nooso was tightening iinjund i of spit It. It was an elevating, glnrl- irreslstlblo force from within pulled my nerk Yasha came to hlmelt una oils, unfurgcttuhln moment In onn'flline. hnMened to loosen It. 1 dropped, life- I life. My oul was gripped, and I lcsn, to tho Moor. In response, to his calls for help seeinl politicals, among whom wcro a couple of mediiat stu dents, t-iinio running to thn house They made orrv effoit In revive me.1 horse. succeeding only lifter long nnd per-1 frenzy slstcnt cxemfro. hen I opened my eves, the whole colony was nt my bed side. 1'ie.ssed for nn explanation of his inhuman act Yasha told of Dmitri's storj Then I'rlnce (lutemtirov revealed , what he hid cecn tho previous night. had n dim realisation of n new world coming to life, n purged world, a hap pier nnd gudller one. And when Vaslll robbed me of our on his way home. Yusha was over whelmed. Ho fell on his knees nnd begged my forgiveness cursing Dmitri and promising to make short work of him lint Ynsh.i could not find him. Dmitri learned of tho disclosure and disappeared forever from Amga. Soon afterward, another Incident oe cuned which fuithcr embittered my life with Yasha. In his nh&euce Va sill, a political, came and told me that tho authorities wero In receipt of an order to arrest nnd send him to and tho dread of Yasha's had sebed-me, Intensified by my lnabllitv to tlnd nn escape, the thought, "U'AIl!" t-uddenly flashed Into my mind. "Go to wnr to help save thy coun trj!" n voice within mo called. To leave, Yasha for my personal cotnfoit and safety was almost un thinkable. Uut to leao him for tho field of untelflsh sacrifice, that was n different matter. And tho thought of going to war penetrated deeper and deeper into my whole being, giving mo no rest. When Ynsha returned. Prince Guto murov and several other friends weie In tho house ready to defend me. He had already learned from tho natives, on his way home, that Vnslll had escaped on our horse. It seemed lm- irKiii-K 10 lm irieci cm a new cunrge, i poiuio to him that I coul.l have which canied with It tho death sen- , B,vpn XM favorite hoise to nnvbody tence. It was a regular pinctice of ,,.,.,.. ,., nermlssion. nnd he there. foro suspected me of an intrlguo with Vaslll, whom I had dlspntched to make preparations for an elopement. He the Czar's government to recall exiles for fcccoml trials on some additional bit of e Idence. A'nslll asked that 1 lend him our horse, Mnltchlk, to help him escape. Knowing how attached Yasna was to the horse, I refused Vaslll's request. Hut ho persisted In Imploring me, claiming that Prince (iulemurov had seen tho order for the arrest, and that tho sheriff was already on nls tracks. "But how could the liorso bo re turned?" I asked Vaslll, touched by his continuous pleading. Ho replied that he would leave It with a certain Yakut friend of ours, some hundred versts away, and I flnallv yielded, al though not without misgivings. As made a violent scene, throwing him self upon mo savagely, showering blows. My friends tore him away, which onlv Infuriated him the more. This Inability to glvo vent to his rage made him act like one demented. His temper was clearly becoming a menace, for which a. remedy was needed. A physician came to Amga only onco a month. As Yasha con sidered himself In good health, there could be no question of suggesting to him that ho consult tho physlclin. It was, therefore, agreed among m friends that Prlnco Gutemurov should I only awaited tho opportunity when Yasha would bo gone for several days. It arrived ono September day. Homo Yakuts called for Yasha. As soon as ho left I cut off my hair, dressed In lien's clothes and provided in j self with two loaves of bread. I had no money to speak of, as I took no one of the colony Into my confidence. It was evening when I stealthily hur ried out of Amga nnd took tho lead to Yakutsk. Thero wcro two hundred versts of It before me. I ran nt such a pace that night, ns- I could not ex pect to travel In the daytime without being rccognled, that I covered, by dawn, fifty versts. Several times I hail met Yakuts, and nnswercd their greetings In their na tive dialect, with which I had grown familiar. In tho dark thev must have taken me for a Yakut. Otherwise, the Journey was uneventful. Tho toad was dry, the weather calm, nnd only the Mais lit my way, my fast-beating heart echoing my footsteps. When day broke I stopped beside a limpid stream and feasted on bread and cold water. I then made a bed of twigs In a holo by the road, lay down. . mi-ma jiii, iivn lu-ujinuwii overed myself with branches and went ( ment for a reunited Jtussla to sleep for the day. f awoke when r':? "Trr5'nf .1, ",' evening came, offered my jirayers to dally. In nn effort to save Jtussla from God dined on Bnnin tnnro l.ron.i o,,,i complete destruction, and all tills being uou, aineu on somo moro bread and . ,,,, without, a thought of political am. It'fltf,, -ITwt rngliniAil .,,. 4, .,, T. 1 (Hr.n " uild Unrirllla Sintnnnff flilut- ......... u..u .vo.,,,,,.,, ,,,j jl'Uilltj, J.I took me six nights of walking to nr rlve at Yakutsk, living only on bread and water, and sleeping in hidden nooks by the road during the day. quest to bo sent home, to Tomsk, nt tho expense of tho government. Ho oven offered mo a convoy for protec tion. My escapo was a success, but my heart would not rejoice. Tho lmngo ,f Yosha, stricken with grief, frantically searching for me, calling to me, rose beforo my eyes, and demanded nn ac count from my conscience, "Wan It right, was It Just, to leave poor Yn. elm all nlono in forlorn Amga7 Had I not vowed to remain eternally faith, ful to him? Was It not my bounaen duty to stand by htm to the end? Should I not return to him, then, and glvo up this wild fancy of going to war? I vacillated. Was It not true, on tho other hand, that Yasha had bo rnmo n professional gambler? Was not life with him a perilous ad. venturo? Devotion to Yasha, a vclco within mo spoke, did not mean perish. Ing with him, but nn effort to navo hlin. Indeed, to get Ynsha out of that wilderness vvus an Idea which suddenly gripped my Imagination, And how could I ever expect to find n better opportunity to do o than by distinguishing myself In war and then petitioning tho Cznr In his behalf? Sci thero I was again In tho magic circle of wnr, I asked nn acquaint ance to wrlto a letter for mo to Yasha, Apologizing for my unusual departure, I Informed him that I was going to Tomsk to enlist nn a soldier, leave for tho front nnd win distinction for bravery, then iictltlon tho Czar to par don hlni, so as to enable us to re sumo our peaceful life In Strctlnsk. It was a plan with which Destiny, that held no moro peaco for me, play, cd havoc. The war was to continue as many years ns I had expected It to last months, shrouding Jtussla In darkness, povvlng revolution, bearing thunder nnd lightning In Its wings, spreading famine nnd chaos and seeds of a new world order. In those stormy jear3 Ynsha was to retreat to the far background of my life, then vnnlsh altogether. Hut my heart was nil with him that autumn day of 1914 when I turned my eyes toward tho bleak North for the last time, as I boarded tho bargo that was to carry mo to Irkutsk, from thero to Tomsk, and thence to war. (CONTINCKt) TOM01UIOW) RUSSIANS BATTLEFOR UNION Forty Million Striving for Strong Republic, Says SuionofT 1'nrln, March 3. (By A. P ) "Forty million Itus-slans In organized govern- YANKEES RUN STOKEHOLDS cent of the fircroom forces aro now ' tart nl&ht at the banquet tit' hli honor. tendered by his friends ana menaoaw American nnd international dlnnltarlou, Thea Is Italian for goddess, the Con made up of Americans. Tlio protwrtlon uf Americans continues to grow, tho new men being supplied from tlio board's training schools, where, 39,000 ouths have so far been Admitted, 60 per cmt for flrcruoni Instruction, 2S per cent for sailors and 26 per tent for stewards. Sailors nnd Stewards Also "Anicr frnmizo U. S. Ships 1Valilfiton, Mnrch .1. Tlio war has resuii (i in tlio almost complete Ameri canization of tho fircroom forces of American merchant ships, Chairman Hurley, of the shipping board, said to. ilny. Hefore, the war 90 per cent of the men emplojed In thn flrerooms nn Ves sels Tying tho Auierlran flag were aliens, while today, on vessels trading out of J'nclflo ports, the percentage has exactly roversed. In Atlantic watcrw BO ior of Almerlgoltt was formally announced Army headquarters. gressmnn explained, nnd Thea AhneriH Kottl Is the name of his fiancee. La Cunrdia to Weil "Ooddctj" New York, MarcHt .1. The engage ment of Major V. It, I,a Gimrdln, tho flying Congressman, to "The Goddess" HVntntlon. It was announced at fhlrtl l'crtliing Jails Toe "BootleggeM" , Cnbtrni, March J. (By A. r.) Sn tencea of six months' imprisonment and fines of 100,000 marks each have "been Imposed on .Mnthlns Scheld and Jacob lllng, German wholesale liquor dealers, charged with bringing brandy Into ths American occupied area ny misrepre- J soon a ne ie,t .u. .,.auc-, .k tilke n wnIk nbout thc village With tlio anxiety gtew into inarm, l nurrieu to Prlnco flutemurov to verify Va slll's story. How thunderstruck I was upon learning from tho I'rlnce that ho knew of no order to arrest Vaslll, and that ho had even not seen him. called for him. and they left together! It was clear that I had been swindled to go to a gambling place. The young man remained with me. Nothing oc curred tho first day or two. Then, one night, I was awakened by the joung man. It was about 1 o'clock In the morn ing. Trince Gutemurov was returning home from an evening with a friend, and saw mo put the young man out Into the night. The latter, however, harbored a deep feeling of vengeance against me. He resolved to await Yasha's return, on the road outside the village, and tell him a false version of the story! "A fine wife Is yours," he addressed Yasha, derisively, as soon as the latter appeared. "What'H happened?" questioned Yasha excitedly. The joung man lied to him. Yasha only had sufficient belfccontrol to thunder tho question: "Swear, are ou telling the truth?" The joung rascal answered: "Of course It's the truth." When Yasha appeared on the thresh old I observed immediately with hor ror that he was in a ferocious mood, suppressing a storm. That made him i -the more dangerous. He spoke slowly, coining his words deliberately, words which struck terror to my soul. "You aro a faithless woman! You always have been faithless, deceiving doctor when ho arrived, pass by our houso as It by accident, and for me to greet them with an Invitation to come in for tea. Everything went smoothly. Tho iKysIclan was Intro duced to YashaJund Immediately re marked upon hw pale nppeaance nnd his Inflamed ejes. "What alls you?" he aked Yasha, you seem to have fever. Let me ex- Lltlon," said Herglus Sazonoff, Minister or Foreign Affairs In tlio Dcnlklne gov ernment, who also Is the representative In Paris of the Omsk government, In nn Interview today Continuing, he said; "In addition to tlio llu"slans fighting Uolshevlmn through and outside the gov prnnirnts Ihpre nin nlsn linnilrodn nP There was a now Governor In Ya-1 thousands of lttisslims within the Dol- lintol- ii,,-,.,, !-.. i i snevisis until ng tinny against me ci- Ktitsk. Baron Kraft had gone to , fort3 to tUfeat a reunited ltussla. Western Europe to Join his wife at some health resort, was stranded there Rr, W. R. Owens Off for Trance after the outbreak of the war, and Th" ,lex William Itussell Ouen ,.. ,,., . ... preached his farewell sermon csterdav laier uieu a prisoner in tlie Hands of , in the Memorial liaptlst matron. Doctor the enemy- The now Governor re. Owen will leave this week for France, -,., ,, , . 'where He will do Y M t A work with eelved me well, and granted my re- tho American expeditionary forces. The result of the examination was the advice to Yasha to go to a hospital fur treatment, which he, of coutse, ridiculed. Privately, tho doctor In formed I'rlnce Gutemurov that Yasha's nerves had broken down and that he and that 1 would never tec the horse again. "My God!" I thought, "what will linnitpn nmin Ynslin's return mwl Ills' , , ,.,.,,,, , ! amine you niscovery mac .muiuinic is j;onu. i Tho specter of death roo up before me, the Impression of my recent escape from hanging still fresh in my mind. 1 whs all atremble In anticipation of Yosha, with the feel lmr of an entrapped animal seeking to escape. Uut there seemed to be noh0'1 dangeious to live with, as he opening. might kill me for some trivial cause. It was August. 1914. The rumblings 'Th Physician urged that I leave him of the great collision were just reach- nt 01lce- But 1 hesitated. Another ing the remote Siberian provinces. Quarrel, however, was not long In The order for mobilization came, and Jcomlng. Yasha actually made another there was a great stirring) J.even In attempt to kill me, but was stopped the death-bound Arctic settlements, as by our comrades. The cup was full. I If suddenly a new life had been In- decided to escape. fused Into that land of monotony, j Day and night my Imagination car fpon the heels of the call to arms ried me to tho fields of battle, nnd my came the Czar's manifesto, abolish- eats rang with the groans of my Ing tho scourge of our national llfo wounded brethren. The Impact of the vodka-and with It it gigantic wave InBhty armies wns heard even In un of popular enthusiasm, sweeping the civilized Northern Siberia. There weie steppes, valleys and finest, of ast rUmors In the air, rumors of victory Hussia. from Petrograd mid Moscow, nml defeati and m lou. voices people across th 1'ral mountains and the tniked tlf t)rrcnts of blood nnd of rivers of maimed humanity streaming back from the front, and iilready over, lowing Into the Siberian plains. My Siberian tundras nnd taiga, to the bor. ders of China, and the I'aclllc toast. There was something holy about the nation's response Old men. who heart yearned to be there, in the boll- me continually, but you are caught had lougnt m me Crimean war m ing caioron ot war to ne naptizen in us now, and you won't escape. It's for-' the Turkish campaign of 1&77 78, and fire and scorched In Its lava. The tunato that Dmitri is a decent joung 'the nusso-.lspanese "War, declared spirit of sacrifice took possession of fellow and repelled your ndv antes. You can say jour last prayers, jou ba-e I creature." "While speaking thus Yasha proceed ed In a cold, business-like, purposeful ' manner to make a noose to hang mu, , 7,-Jva9 this calm about Yasha's actions. li Apeaklng his terriblo earnestness,) 'hat mado shivers run over me 'Yasha, I am Innocent, Yasha." I Bobbed, throwing myself at his feet and .kissing them, "I swear that I am In nocent," Jie cried. "Have mercy! think what you are doing! I tell you I am Innocent!" Yasha went on with hU prepara tions, undisturbed. He attached the rope to a hook on ' tka celling and tested the noose. '? Taeha, come to your senses," I lm- V Mart a, nugging nis tegs. I ,JST pushed me aside, placed a stool i - under the rope and orderea me, in a Unifying voice, to stand up on It. I "Now, say your last prayers," he re peated. I He then placed the noose around 'my neck and Jerked the stool from r upder my feet. 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