The Hawaiian gazette., 1881-09-28
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EST MoDUs IN MINUS.
WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 2s, 1881.
Tho Heroine. 81 Nfhiliz,n.


Tie weight of woman's brain in Slavonic
race, is greater than that Of mans. Among
the Germauic peoples the brain weight OF the
sexes is equal, and in the Latin nations the
brain Of the man is heavier than that Of the
woman Quantity does not necessarily imply
quality, but in this case, worth follows weight.
'sFor intelligence and resolution" says NJ.
Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, the most recent and
the most fascinating of writers on Russia, and
the Russians, "as well as for education. and
the rank she holds in the family, the Russian
woman is already the equal Of the man.
Among the Siav men is often mobile flexible
ductile. and impressionable to an excess, but,
as if in compensation, woman, IN mind and
character, possesses so much strength, energy
in one word, virility-that without losing
either her grace or her charm. she exercises
often a singular and irresistible as tendency"
This sscendency, frequently remarked in dip
lomacy, is not less remarkable in the revolu-
tionary movement which at the moment snip
plies many of the youth of Russia with ter
rible substitute for religion, which is well
nigh extingushed in the Orthodox Church bel
meath tho superintendent load of ritual, for
mali,y and oficialism. No one can have paid
even the most cursory attention to the Dumer-
Gus criminal processes which shed a ray of
such grim!y lurid light upon the fermenting
mass Of Russian discomfort without being i'm
pressed by tie prominent part played by wo-
men in the work Of revolution.
Sophie Bardin, of Tambof, young lady Of
noble birth, was the first TO familiariZe the
public with the spectacle of Russian revolu-
tionary heroine She had but finished her
studies and passed her final examinations when
she had decided to dedicate her life to the SER
vice of cher brothers" At eighteen years Of
age she went to Zurich 10 study the labor
question in Switzerland and in Germany, and
to sit at the feet Of Bakunin, "the apostle Of
universal destruction" and the prophet of
prnarchy. She soon returned to Russia con-
frmed in the faith as to the necessity for re-
modelling society, and resolved TO lose no time
in setting 10 work. She assumed the name of
a soldiers widow, and began to work at daily
wages in 4 factory, the better to he able TO
carry out tie work Of proselytism among the
disinherited Of the world The self-devotion
and self-sacrihcing enthusiasm which led
woman reared in the midst of luxury, and ed
ucated Russian women only are educated
to don the coarse garments Of the factory and
spend her life among the illiterate vulgar, not
from any belief in a divine command, but
solely from "love for the oihers," are by no
means unfamiliar in Russia. Sophie Bardin,
or rather the twenty-five year old widow Za-
zeft, was not long permitted 10 conduct her
propaganda in peace A year after her descent
among the workers she was arrested. The
authorities took two years toprepare herndi
meut, and she was not tried before the spring
Of 1871. She conducted her own defence, and
surprised everyone by the courage and passion
with which she pleaded her cause Thousands
of copies Of her address were sold in st. Pc
tersburg, aud the fate of the eloquent speaker
gave force and emphasis TO her closing words
"The association will avenge me, and its ven /
geance will be terrible. Let yOur hdngmen /
and judges massacre ard destroy us now, dur |
ing the short time that force is still on your /
side. We set against you our moral might, |
and that will triumph Progress, Liberty and /
Equality light for us, and through these ideas /
no bayunet eau thrust" Her eloquence |
awaited not, and Sophie Bardin was sent to
labor in the Siberian mines for nine years "a
dreary expiration for one years propagandsm
Of revolutionary doctrine.
Sophie Bardin is in Siberia: Vera Sassu-
Itch is in exile; Sophie Per6fTski is dead.
But although the three leading actors in the
tragic drama are thus accounted for, there are
many others whose names appear and re -ap-
pear in the blood stained annals OF Russian
sedition. OF these We catch but passing
glimpses, some of which, it must be admitted,
are by no means calculated to attract. Olga
Rassotfski, who sent bullet through the
head of polce-sergeant; Anna Makharevna,
who fed with passport forged hy two other
revolutionary women frotn the punishment due
for her share in the vitriOlizaIion of the spy
and Achristoff, the seventeen
year-old priests daughter who made love to
the detective Layroffski, in order TO betray
him into the hands of the Nihilists, who cut
of his ears and sliced off lis nose, are among
those WIG, ruthless destroying angels,
keep up the Red Terror in Russia. OF others,
such as the daughter of Major General Herr
field, who was arrested at Kef of Vera Pam
yutIn, Larissa Sarudaeif, aud Olga Shiiinski,
little more is known Than their names and
their fate. The case Of julie Krakofski, the
daughter of a university official Of Kielf, who
was remotely implicated in the affair Of Tchi-
girinski in 1871, and brought to memory tie
other day by the confirmation of her sentence
nf punishment 10 Siberia for the heinous .
offence Of having destroyed compromising
papers instead Of handing them over 10 the
police, and OF being in possession Of the for
hidden Story of 4 Peasant" by NM. Erck-
mann and Chatrian "She was only twenty
years old, but all Kieff, SAYS her admrer
who predicts that ere long her statue will rise
Upon the site Of the fortress of her native city,
knew her charming smile, and the immense
Teasure of her charity toward the poor"
Still more remarkable was the case Of Victoria
ioukoffski, daughter Of medical dispenser
f Odessa, who, on hearing that the Nihiiis;
Guvalsky had been sentenced to death, Gre
tied a riot in which two persons we're killed
" the soldiers, led mob of red-bloused men
through the public streets. and addressed
hem with revolutionary eloqueuce from
iaud in tile middle of the boulesards. She
vas arrested but was rescued by the crowd,
md made her escape, only to be arrested
gain the following month and sentenced to
Siberia for life. This week, however, the
Jews reaches Us that she has terminated her
misery by suicide.
a Model Indian Speech.