FROM LAW TO AGRICULTURE 21 



It had never entered their heads to rip open one of the 

 bindings; and so my husband was spared the prisons 

 and long years in Siberia that might have been his fate, 

 As a matter of fact, most of -the Russian customs offi- 

 cials, being ignorant men, were so stupid that the wide- 

 awake revolutionists generally got the better of them. 

 With a heart full of satisfaction and relief my hus- 

 band shipped the books home at once, ripped off the 

 bindings and mailed the pamphlets to their destina- 

 tions, where they were further distributed throughout 

 Russia and Siberia. 



Close upon his return to Odessa, my husband, in 

 quite high glee, accepted an offer from Maslinikoff as 

 the assistant editor of the forthcoming agricultural 

 paper. He waited impatiently for the assignment, but, 

 instead, the newly-edited paper arrived with my hus- 

 band's article printed in it, and a letter from Maslini- 

 koff, saying that he was very sorry he would not be 

 able to have him come to St. Petersburg, as the Swiss 

 diploma deprived him of the right of settlement outside 

 the pale. 



The blow was hard. The question of a livelihood 

 became again of pressing importance. The money re- 

 ceived for articles already published had been spent 

 as fast as it came. Not having a Russian diploma, my 

 husband could not obtain a position as manager of an 

 estate, for he was now compelled to live only within the 

 pale. So he turned to his good old stand-by tutoring. 



