The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-10-26

mournfully, for several miles on his
road, and, when they left him, looked
the blessings they dared not utter. And
later, when magistrates and officers
went to the village to search for proofs
| against FranioIi, not a single witness
could be induced, either by promises or
threats, to testify against him, albeit he
had carried on his propaganda freely,
and almost without disguise, in the
streets, at village fetes and friendly
| gatherings, as well as at communal
meetings and from house to house.
Three years and half he was kept
in prison without trial. and in the end
| the Judges, in default of sufficient evi-
dence to convict him, were compelled
to pronounce him not guilty. On this
ne was exiled, by administrative order,
to Solvitchegodiv, a small town in the
far North. On his way thither Franjoli
made an attempt to escape, which well
nigh cost him his life While his guar
dams were sleeping he jumped from
the window of railway carriage, but
he was 50 badly hurt that he could not
rise, and the next morning the gen
darmes, when they returned to the spot,
found him lying where he had fallen.
He was then taken TO the hospital OF
| Solvitchegodiv, and after being dis
charged took up his quarters in the
town. There he met Mile Eugene
Zadadray, whose acquaintance he had
made when she was one of the accused
in the trial Of the 1873
1t is sometimes said that contrasts are
mutually attractive. Perhaps this may
be true, yet it is much more natural
that common sympathies should be a
bond of union and cause of love, and
there are natures that can never SYM
pathize with their opposite natures,
whose contrasts irritate and repel.
Those are the natures that Heinrich
Heine would have called Hebraic,
whose popularity is to attach them
selves not to the conventionally beauti-
full and charming, but to an abstract
ideal which dominates and absorbs
them to the point of fanaticism and in
tolerance. Whether he possessed one
of those natures or not it was similarity
of character and community of ideas
that kindled the intense sympathy
which quickly developed itself between
Andre and the fair companion of his
exile; for Eugene belonged to the same
exalted and enthusiastic type as him.
self. Like him she had suffered bonds
and imprisonment, and like him she
was still ready to spend and be spent in
the cause to which both had consecrated
their lives, Soon the mutual sympathy
grew into an overmastering love and
became one of those great passions that
absorb the entire being and consume
| all the forces of the soul.
Attachments of this ardent sort are
much more common among Nihilists
than might be supposed. Men and
| women meet as companion-at- arms,
they combat in The same ranks, share
the same view, gain the same reward.
The complete equality that prevails be-
tween the sexes, and the sense of ever
present danger, to which all alike are
exposed, render that lofty and romantic
love sung by poets much more fire.
i quent in the wild aud indammable
world of Nihilism than in the world of
restraint and convention OF this sort
were the loves of Andre and Eugene.
The first months of their union were the
| happiest they had ever known or CON
ceived or were destined to know and
seemed to both rather the realization of
a romantic dream than an episode of
real life.
A common friend, Mile. A. R., who
visited them at this time, remarked to
another common friend, little thinking
how soon and how terribly her pre-
vision would be verified, that the affec-
ton of the Franjolis was greater than
life itself, and that neither could out
live the other. But love had quenched
neither their revolutionary ardor nor
their loyalty to the great cause in
which their friends were engaged and
to which they devoted their lives.
Their happiness became even a re-
proach to them, and they burned to
take part in the mortal struggle with
despotism which had now become one
Of acts as well as of words. They con-
trived plan of escape. In February,
1879, they left Solvitchegodiv, and
| after a long and perilous journey sue
ceeded in reaching st. Petersburg,
where they were at once affiliated
to the organization known as the Mar
odnaio VOLTA.
The difficulties and dangers which
always beset the path of conspirators,
especially in Russia, were greatly in
creased in the case of the Franjolis by
the state of Andres health His nat
urally not robust constitution, after
| suffering from the fatigues and priya-
tions inseparable from the life of an
active propagandist, had become still
further enfeebled by his long imprison-
ment, and he never fully recovered
from the effects of his terrible leap from
the railway carriage. He was affected
with chronic anemia and a disease of
the bones, and the physicians whom he
consulted at st. Petersburg were able
to afford him but little present relief,
| and not much hope OF ultimate rccov-
cry. The life of q revolutionist who
had to be perpetually on the move, and
to hide where he could, was moreover
altogether incompatible with the care,
attention and regimen which his case
imperatively demanded, and Andre
grew worse and worse.
A friend-one of the editors of the
NdrodaaGio VoliG-relates that in De-
cember, 1873, when he went to warn
Franjoli that his whereabouts had be-
come known to the police, and that he
must instantly remove to fresh quar-
ters, he could hardly walk, and it was
only by sort of miracle that they con-
trived to evade the spy by whom they
were tracked. Yet, despite his suffer
ings, aggravated by the dangers to
which he was exposed, and the entreat-
les of his fellow-workers, he refused to
retire from the contest. In the courage
of this young man, stricken with a
mortal malady, as weak as a child, and
with the look of a corpse, there was
something superhuman and almost sub
| lime.
~ Not being able to move about, Fran
joli took always the position of house
master in the Conspirationy Koartiry-
that is to say, in the rooms in which the
terrorists met to receive their orders and
discuss their plans. Holders of this po-
sition are invariably exposed to great
danger by reason of the coming end
going of the conspirators, and the risk
thereby incurred of attracting the notice