West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1883-11-02

workers with ali the passion of a Chris
tian ZcalOt who sees I'm his converts
brethren i'm the Lord, children Of his
Divine Master. and cOhcirs OF lIcav-
cnly inheritance.
In 1874 Franioli. abandoning his life
i'm the towns, took a place a. "A village
Schoolmastcr i'm th5 province OF
TchcInigoy, i'm order TO begin n social
propaganda among the peasants. After
icw months activity in his new sphere
of duty, he was arrested under suspi-
cion of teaching revolutionary doctrines.
When lac was led away by two gen
darmcs all the village. men and women
old and young Notwithstanding the
terror with which Russian peasant
always regards the cmissarics of the
law accompanied Franioli, silently and
mournfully. for several miles on hi,
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 FrauiOli. not single witness
could be induced, either by prc~nscs or
threats, to testify against him. albeit ne
had carried on his propaganda freely
and almost without disguise, in the
streets, ut village fctcs and friendly
gatherings, rs well as nj communal
meetings and from house to house
Three years and a half ne was kept
i'm prison without trial. and i'm the end
| the Judges, i'm default of sufficient evil
| dcncc to convict him, were compelled
To pronounce him not guilty. On this
he was cNilCd, by administrative order,
TO SOlvitchcgodiv, n small town i'm the
far North. On his way thithcr Franiuli
made an attempt to escape, which well
nigh cost him his life While his guar
dams were sleeping he jumped from
the window of Il railway carriage, but
| he was so badly hurt that he could not
rise, and the next morning the gen
darmcs, when they returned TO the spot,
| found him living where he had fallen.
| lie was then taken to the hospital Of
| SOlyitChcgodiv. and after being dis
charged took up his quarters in the
| town There he met Mile Eugene
! /adadray, whose acquaintance hc had
made when she was one of the accused
in the trial OF the 1913.
IL is sometimes said that contrasts are
mutually attractive. Perhaps this may
be true, yet it is much more natural
! that common sympathies should be
! bond OF union and a cause of love, and
| there arc natures that can never SYM
pathizc with their opposite natures,
whose contrasts irrilatc and rcpcl
J hose are the natures that Heinrich
| Hcine would have called HcbrLic.
whose peculiarly is To- attach them
selves not 10 the cOnvcntionally beauti-
| ful and charming, but TO an abstract
! ideal which dominates and absorbs
| them to the point of ianaticism and in
! tolerance. Whether he possessed one
/ ,f tlA-n In,
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
cNaltc and enthusiastic type n him
self Like him she had suffered bonds
and Imprisonment, and like him she
was still ready TO spend and be spent i'm
the cause TO which both had cOnsccrated
their lives. Soon the mutual sympathy
grew into an Oyermastering 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 moro common among Nihilists
than might be supposed. Men and
women meet rs 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 20 which all alike are
exposed, render that lofty and romantic
love sung by poets much more fire.
qucnt in the wild and innammable
world of Nihilism than in the world of
restraint and convention or this sort
were the loves of Andre and Eugenic
The first months of their union were the
happiest they had ever known or con-
cciycd or were destined to know and
seemed 10 both rather the realization of
a romantic dream than IN 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 aiicc-
tton Of the Franiolis was greater than
life itself. and that neither could out
live the other But love had qucnchcd
neither their revolutionary ardor nor
their loyalty To- the great cause i'm
which their friends were engaged and
To which they devoted their lives.
| Their happiness became even re-
prOach to them, and they burned TO
take part in the mortal STRUGGLE with
dcspotism which had now become one
of acts as well as of words They con-
trivcd q plan of escape. I'm February
1879, they left Simultaneously. and
after long and pcrilous Journey sue
cecded i'm reaching ST. Petersburg.
whore they were at once affiliated
TO the organization known rs the Mar
odnaio VOLTA.
The difficulties and dangers which
always bcset the path Of conspirators
especially i'm Russia were greatly in-
creased in the case of the Frauiol.s bv
the state Of Andres health. lis NAT
Wally not robust constitution. after
suffering from the fatiguc- and priya-
/ tiOns inscparahlc from the life Of an
active propaganda had lccomc SIN
further cufocblcd by Dis long morrison
Wcut and ho never fully recovered
from the effects of DIS terrible lean from
I Che railway carriage. lie was affected
with chronic aucmia and % disease of
To" bones, and thc physician whom lo
consulted at ST. Petersburg wer. able
to afford him but l.nle present roIicf
. Hnd not much hope of ultimate rergr.
rrv he life of rrvoluGoui.f WHO
had tp bo porpculI'y On Che move. and
~ hide whore Doc could. was moreover
altogether Incompatible wifh the care
attention and regimen which his ra..
ImUc"t...ir demanded. and Anir.
. grew trur.u and tr.r..