Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-07-23
Revolutionary.

HOW THE POLICE ARE OUTwITTED.-PRINTING
UNDER DIFFICULTY THE CZAR's TERROR.
The office of Russian revolutionary
journal is usually little back room in
very big house. The room must be so
insignificant that it is, as it were, lost in
the house, and policeman would hardly
think of looking into it in q general
search 1t bears on the door IN humble
business announcement to the effect that
artificial fiower-making, or some such
handicraft, is carried on inside. The
room is scantily furnished, and the staff
of the journal is just one small unwhole-
some-looking eX-student, who has been
turned out Of college for insubordination
and who is now living by his wits on
pawning, and a small allowance from
revolutionary center. The staff has long,
uncombed, greasy hair, and face that
is rarely washed with anything but its
own tears. 1t wears long cloak, or
wraprascal, lined with what was once
fur, but is now merely bald surface Of
hide, and the only glimpse or hint you
get of neither garments is in certain fray
ed ends of trousers peeping out from be-
low. Within this wraprascal is the all
in all of revolutionary journal - its
soul and spirit and its material life.
When the cloak moves, the staff and the
type, the pen and paper, the ideas, the
principles and policy-all go with it.
The journal is not daily journal, but
what may be called an intermittent one.
1t comes out when it can. The first bus
iness is to collect material. For this
purpose, the reporting staff, after a scanty
meal on the cold remains of last nights
supper, wraps itself in its cloak, and sal
lies out to watch public events.
When the reporter has brought in his
account of how things are looking in the
city, it becomes the editors turn. The
leader is generally composed under the
trees in snow-covered public garden
1t is written on sheets of paper torn from
tiny pocket t-book, and as each sheet is
finished it is rolled up in a ball, ready tc
be swallowed at moments notice.
believe there is no instance known in
which the most vigilant detective has
ever caught leader writer IN .fGgrantt
deIictO. At the first sign of policeman
approaching the scene Of literary labor
down go the pills. The next stage is thu
setting up in type. The staff gathers VI
the pills into his hands, and proceeds tt
his little back room. The little bacl
room is locked and bolted, and ches
of drawers is pushed against the door
The dual member lays loaded revolve
: within easy reach, and the printing de
partment is in full activity. The type i
taken from under the mattress, and th
leader is slowly and painfully composed
with many a start at the sound of foot
step, which threatens to turn it all int
an immediate ''pi."
The distribution takes place at night
S fall. The first thing to provide for is tn
a supply of the honorary free-list, namely
= the emperor and two or three of his chic
o ministers, including the head of the pc
: lice department. Copies are forwarde
t to these through the post, with mani
d script intimation on the margin of til
d paper that the recipients will be done fC
:, at the first convenient opportunity. I'll
letters are posted and the regular distr
d button begins. A copy is left with ever
dead wall, where it may remain a
t night, with chance of being read by IL
ie moujiks as they are going to their labt
Us in the early dawn.
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