The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-11-05

Linn HiSery--HOw :: detective occurred
the Secret of the Existence OF !, Mystcr-
iouS Printing Press.
New YORK, Oct. 29.--There arrived
in New York from abroad last week a
Russion who until recently was Il poll
| tical exile in Siberia. He was sent
there for having in his possession a
copy of Buckles History OF Civiliza-
ton" He had previously, when a stu
dent, published phamphlet which was
construed as showing some hostile
feeling to the government. He suffer-
ed four years of exile ana has been
pardoned. He now comes to America
to make it his home.
The name of the exile is DR.. Isaac
Aaronovich. He is cultured, and has
Il high reputation for legal ability IN
! Russia. Besides, he is a doctor Of medi-
cine. He has contributed to Russian
literature and speaks several languages
tluently. He is a guest of DR.. Woll-
mann, on East Broadway, near .1effer
son street. DR.. Aaronovich told his
story to reporter yesterday in French,
the language of cultivated Russia. A
quaint use of the tense known as the
passc define gave Il peculiar ring to his
tale.
Il shall begin,' SAID the doctor, "by
saying that George kennan has told
the truth. The men of whom he speaks
in his lectures | have known and have
met in exile. DR.. Dolgoboloy, upon
whom atrocious cruelties were prac-
tised, and who was taken from one
Siberian place to another in the dead
of winter, while Ill and dressed in his
night clothes, knew intimately. My
arrest? Well, / was student at St.
Petersburg in 1919. Like all other
young men, | was fond OF good COM
panions. OF course we talked politics,
an did so in the cafes. We were not
RevolutioniStS in any sense. Inspired,
however, by the love of authorship, l
had written a little pamphlet entitled
What is Constitutional? criticising in
a youthful way some features of the
government. l had this printed at the
Office of the Zemlja Vo,io. a radical
paper, the printing place OF which was
:. secret There Was reward of 1000
roubles offered by the police for the To-
cation Of the press rooms OF that Llber-
al organ.
There presently came among us a
young fellow dressed in working
mans clothes. lie had been discharg-
ed, he said, from rich manufacturer
mill, and he was very bitter against
capitalists. His wife and he lived in a
house near by, and, attracted by his
rough eloquence and determination
several Of my friends took interest in
him. We gradually held our little
meetings at his house. One day he
made the proposition that as working
men were getting very low wages in
St. Petersburg it was to their interests
that they should strike. Now, strike
in Russia is a crime-one of the numer-
Gus against the government. Our
friend volunteered, on account of his
great prominence among the working
men, to make the proclamation. But
it could only be made OF the presses OF
the Liberal paper. l was appealed to,
and at the request of my friends offer
ed to have the matter printed. But it
was found necessary to have it set up
by ourselves. The type was brought
from the secret press and IN the house
of the workingman the proclamation
was printed. The amateur press was
placed in one of the students rooms.
The day the document was finished the
police entered the place and arrested
everybody-that is everybody except
the workingman, who was clever de-
tective employed by the government,
and who, while he was urging the stu.
dents, his friends, to sign the proclama-
tion, had sent his wife around to notify
the police.
Ny rooms were searched. the mann
script of my pamphlet found and much
that aided the police in locating my
printers. l was spending the evening
at my sisters in company with a young
lady and three young men, none of
whom had any acquaintance with my
student friends. We were all dragged
to prison and were confined there two
weeks on suspicion, the ladies suffer
ing frightfully l was exiled from st.
Petersburg and placed in my native
town under strict police surveillance
as suspicious and dangerous charac-
ter. Nothing could be proved against
me except my unfortunate literary
effort. | organized reading class in
my village and we met once week. l
was guilty OF translating the terrible
book called Buckles History of Civili-
n
Siberia.
st was in 1881 had been married
a short time. l was sent to Siberia for
an indefinite term. We went from Mi
nii-Novgorod to Siberia in convey
ance called kilitka. Soldiers accom-
panied me all the way. Every forty
miles there was relay of horses and
another wagon. | was not allowed to
sleep anywhere on the road, but had to
do the best l could by getting maps in
the bottom of the wagon. The jolting
was trightful. Fortunately it was
Summer, but the transforms were Sc
we're, and had to travel drenched to
the skin. There were steamers on the
Volga, along the banks of which we
Travelled, but it was not considered safe
to allow me to make my journey in
that manner.
Il at last reached my destination,
Yalotorysk, a small village. AS had
really committed no very grievous
crime was simply under surveillance.
l was allowed to do manual labor, but
all other work was forbidden me.
Thrice day the police visited me and
inquired in the name of the Car re-
ding my health.
I'VE were an interesting little COM
munity. There was Mr.. Machlet, a
writer of considerable ability, who tried
to found Russian colony in Kansas.
His wife has been eXiled for an indeli-
mite term korolin, also we'll known
writer, Was with us, then there was for
Il time DR.. Dolgopoloy, kennan's friend.
He suffered seve;e punishment. When
be was first eXiled he was placsd at a
small Siberian village, the priest of