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thereby incurred of attracting the notice

thereby incurred of attracting the motto
of the police or their spies.
Now that both are gone there is NJ
| reason why it should not be known tina
in the house of Franjolis was made tn
dynamite destined to blow up the min
on March 10, 1880, and that Andre ant
his wife superintended the making o
the bombs which were used with sucl
fatal effect on the Katarina Canal.
Demenico Guerrazzi. an Italian
| writer, describes battle between Cor
sican patriots and a French force mucl
superior in numbers, in which tn,
wounded COrsicans formed with thei
bleeding bodies barricade to protec
their comrades from the bullets OF tn
| foe and enable the survivors to continue
the struggle. No less heroic was TIN
conduct OF the two Franjolis. He hard
" ALE to move from his bed, the hous'
| full of deadly explosives, not knowing
what day might bring forth, liable a
any moment to visit from the police
and neither able to escape himself no
destroy the damning evidence which
would have insured his death on TIL
| scaffold. She watching over her hus
band day after day, hardly ever daring
to venture from his side; listening ever
in the watches of the night for the foot
fall of the enemy and the summons t.
admit the emissaries of the Gar; living
in instant expectation of death, for boil
carried poison and were tirmy resolved
if the summons should come, to Iii,
rather than be taken.
But great as was their love for eacl
other, their devotion to that which they
believed to be their duty was even great
er. Eugene, with the full consent C,
her husband, placed herself unreserved
ly at the disposal of the Executive Com
mittee, and offered to 90 whithersoevel
her services might be most useful tc
the cause But none had the heart tC
require from them so terrible a sacrl-
flee, and they remained together to the
last.
After the death of Alexander II. they
left ST. Petersburgh-which had become
more dangerous than ever-fOr the
south of Russia, and from that time
forth, owing to Andres increasing
weakness. they were unable to take any
further part in the revolutionary move
ment. Early in the present year 1t
was deemed expedient for them to leave
Russia, and in May last they arrived in
Geneva. where they received warm
welcome from many old and faithful
friends. But death was written in An
dre's face, and none who saw him could
doubt that the end was near. Eugenic
never left his side; her devotion was
heroic. and the calmness of her manner
and the serenity of her spirit surprised
all who We're admitted to her intimacy.
We knew afterward that it was the Sc
renity of irreyocable resolve, a resolve
neither in life nor in death to be sepa-
rated from him she loved.
At nine o'clock on the morning OF
August Z, Andre, after cruel sufarings,
closed his eyes forever. cit . fin
ished," said Eugene, turning to friend
who was with her; "his troubles are
over. l am content Then she ar
ranged the chamber carefully, rs if she
expected solemn visit, and dismissed
her friend with the remark that, after
so many sleepless nights, she felt the
need of rest. When left to herself she
sat down and wrote a letter of farewell
to her friends This done, she sat
down on the bed where lay the corpse,
swallowed q large dose that she had
brought with her from Russia. and,
lying down, drew over herself the
same cloth with which she had yelled
the face of her dead husband. An hour
later, when member of the household
in which they had dwelt entered the
chamber of death, Eugene, though I'M
conscious, still lived, but it was impos-
sible to save her, and at three o'clock
in the afternoon she breathed her last.
Husband and wife were laid side by
side in the communal cemetery, and
followed to the grave by many mourn
crs who knew the touching story of
their lives.
In the Franjolis the party has lost
two of its most devoted members
but their deaths will not have been in
vain, and their friends will never for
get them. "They were noble repre-
sentatives," said one of their most in
innate friends in his funeral Grafton,
''of the Noradnaio VOLTA party. Let us
think of them as often as pOssible; let
the recollection of their herOism and
devotion encourage and strengthen us.
To those who are not of us their lives
and their deaths will not only show
how Nihilists love one another, but how
they love their, cause.-GeneUa Coz, IN
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