The Cecil Whig., 1885-05-30

/ nldrkdDlc 1aCt ABOUT II IS the SClentil c
dispassionatencss with which he writes.
In his recital of the most narrowing ex-
perienccs there is not spark of indig-
nation. Now, that is Russian-it is
the horrible, dreary hopelessness which
does not even rise to the dignity of de-
spair. No man knows that feeling un-
til he has been IN Russia-or in Asia.
When you can slap man in the face,
and he mcekly bows and shows no sign
of resentment, you may safely shelve
that man, in his own day and genera
ton, as a subject for civilization. His
great grandchildren may perhaps be
worth experimenting with.
THE COMING REVOLUTION.
'Of course the Nihilists and my
other radical friends hate me when |
tell them this, but they cannot deny it.
1T there was any process by which man
could be educated for liberty, except
the enjoyment of liberty, l should rec
| ommend it fol Russia. The terrible
birth h-pains of liberty no barbarous lent
can escape, unless it chooses to rema n
in barbarism. This only and chaos
will come. Russia cannot in the Nine
teenth Century start at the bottom Of
the ladder and develop civil liberty by
slow and orderly degrees, as England
has done. Though | detest revolutions,
l believe that in Russia a revolution C.
some sort is inevitable, as prelude to
a more satisfactory condition, materially
and politically. When a superficial
civilization suddenly floods a barbaric
country, abnormal events are in order.
The terrific ferment in the minds of
nearly all educated Russians at the
present time is evidence that they are
vaguely expecting something of sem
sational character-they scarcely know
what. | shall not live to see it but l
should not wonder if you did. The
throne of the Romanofs is no more Sc
cure than any other throne of a barhar'c
ruler-that is built upon millions Of
crushed hearts and strangled asp
tons. That brulalizing force world
perhaps, be powerful enough for its
own protection, if Russia were al
Asiatic power and not European one.
l refrain from active agitation because
| am an old man, and perhaps, also,
because l am an indolent one. If l
were young l fondly imagine I should
60 back and endeavor to do something
and so to Siberia, perhaps, or 10
jail"
What l have reported above is fra J.
ments of two different talks Of ToI--
gueneff, belonging to different occa-
sions. One of the last times l saw him
he thanked me for having brought Mark
Twain to see him.
''There," he said with animation, "is
a real American-the first American
who conforms to my notion of what
American ought to be-"
He regarded ''Roughing 1t" as one
of the best books Wlitten in Americ
and for its author he had the kindlicSs
feeling. HJALMAR H. BolE5EN
| Paris Waiting in Mourning fc~ the Funeral
of Victor Huyo.
The street in front of Victor Hugo's
| house in Paris, France, was throngcd
with people last Saturday night up to a
late hour. A register had been placcl
outside the house, andspeople waited for
hours for an opportunity to iulcribo the;
names. The crowd maintained revei
| ent silence during the entire time, con-
versation being carried on in hushcd
tones. Tie official deputation appointed
by the Academy to attend the funeral
will consist CT the last four membc 9
elected to the "Fcrty Immortals." These
are Messieurs Pail!eron Mazade, Coprce
and De Lesseps.
The clerical papers denounco NJ. Lock
roy for Withholding Archbishop Guiberst' S
letter from the dying poet. They claim
that the answer retr ned by NJ. LockrO ;
was entirely unauthorized, and they
think that had NJ. Hugo seen the Arch
| bishops letter he might have accepted
the religious services therein offered. The
| features of the dead man, which had been
| distorted with pain during his last hours
of suffering, have, since his death, re-
| sumed their wonted expression Of calm
serenity.
| NJ. Alain- -Tarage, minister of the in
| terror, authorized TIE friends of Victor
| Hugo to allow the poets remains to lie
in state for three days under the Arc dc
Triomphe. The body was conveyed
| thither on Sunday and placed on c&,2.
| falque. Hugo bequeathed $10 600 to the
| poor. He left a request that his body
| should be conveyed to the grave in a
''pauper hearse," without any religious
rites In the document containing this
request, Hugo affirms his belief in God.
| A fund fer national monument to the
dead poet has already been opened
| Victor Hugo wished that his body be
| buried beside the remains of his wife and
daughter, in the little graveyard of the
parish church of Gille Quier, on the right
bank of the river Seine, half way between
Rouen and Havre. This wish will be
carried out unless the Government Cf
| France. to which Hugo left entice con-
troll of the question of his burial, decide
to have the poets remains inferred in the
| Pantheon.
In the Chamber OF Deputies Saturday
afternoon NJ. Floquet delivered an elo-
quent cnlogy upon Hugo.
NJ. Rlisson, the French prime minister
proposed grant ny the state of $4,000 to
defray the ordinary expenses of Victor
Hugo's funeral. The proposal was at
once adopted by the Deputies by vote