Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-02-19
RUSSIAN SPIES.
THEY ARE EVER AT THE ELBOW
 OF STUDENTS IN GERMANY.

OF STUDENTS IN GERMANY. Furnished by the Government with Money.
 They Manage to Get Almost Everywhere.
 The Students Get Tastes of Siberia for
 Very Small oHenses.
 All Russian students at the German uni versailles are carefully watched by the spies of the czar. These spies receive liberal sala- ries from tho Russian government in order that they may not be debarred by lack of money from associating with young Russian noblemen- They mingle as much as possible with all foreign university students. They register generally, as do the majority of their countrymen in the department of law. They attend all the drinking bouts to which they can get invitations, and note with care what their countrymen say about politics and the government of the czar. They play billiards and drink coffee in the same cafes with the other Russian students. They make many acquaintances in the university, as they spend their government funds liberally and their real mission is unsuspected by their fellow students.
 THE WALLS HAVE EARS.
 They have considerable difficulty, however, in gaining admission to the exclusive social circle of their countrymen. The Russian spy is usually 8 man of humble birth and name Most of the other Russians at his university arc noblemen of the most stiff necked and conservative type. AS they are all wealthy and free with their money, they are not so accessible to a display of wealth as the or Iina rv only in exceptional cases is the spy able to buy his way into this noble circle.
 Usually he picks up his information as to the politics and political connections of his fellow countrymen from unwitting German go-betwecns. And even these crumbs of hearsay are secured only with considerable pains, for all Russian students at German universities know there is a spy among them, though his identity Is unknown They often say, even when such abstract political sub jects as constitutional liberty are preached to them in public places: "N-a-a-a, my friend, but the walls have ears"
 But like most jolly good students at Ger man universities, the Russians often take 8 l drop too much in public beer cellars, and then the spy gets chance to earn his wages
  is an uncompromising aristocrat. In politics, especially after he has passed a year or two abroad, he is full of radicalism- This latent | radicalsm is just what is apt to get him into l peck of trouble when he becomes garrulous over his wine The omnipresent spy over 1 hears the young noblemnn's expression of radical political prejudice, reports it to head quarters at St. Petersburg, whence it is com municated to officials on the Russo German border, and when the imprudent young noble man starts home with his brand now Ph. D. and foreign airs he Is snapped up on the border by government officers, who escort him to St. Petersburg His fate then de- pends, of course, upon tho enormity of his crime If ho called the cEar a meal sack' he is liable to dose of Siberia. Smaller offenses, like complaints of the absolutism of the Petersburg court, are punished with 6 year or two in Siberia.
 | SPECIMEN CASE.
 Of course the ono important remark iu question is not always tho excuse for this punishment. The spy can generally get to gether good lot of moro or less relevan, evidence at his university to provo that the young Russian nobleman was not roya Russian or was guilty of general cussed ness"
 In 1881 young Herr Micalowski, of Mos COW, studied jurisprudence in Leipsic. Ont evening in tho Boersen-keller restaurant b, and his friends discussed the last flnancia crisis through which the Russian government had passed. Young Micalowski said: ''Th whole concern that is, the Russian govern menu would go the devil shortly if the finan cial methods weren't reformed" Eighteel months later, as he crossed the Russian bor der on his way home, an official quoted t, him the above derogatory remark concern ing the Russian government, adding: "Yo' said it in the Leipsic Boersen-keller on Nov 19, 1Ss1." Young Micalowski eventually go a short sentence for Siberia.
 Less than three years ago Russian SD.
 got very drunk at students kneipe in Jen and confessed his business. He was throwl out of the room by the students and two day later was driven out of the town. Generally
 however, the spies do their work quietly am } unsupported, and Russian student of hbera ? political tendencies must keep his mout pretty tight shut if he wishes to escape win ter or two in Siberia upon his return t I Russia.-Leipsic Letter.
 } Professors and Students. ' The professors at Harvard and other elect oS Eos,