Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-03

think that fate had given to her the
comfort of his companionship as some
sort of recompense for past sufferings;
that fortune, perhaps, had placed him
by her side as new human impulse, an
added arm in the great work which,
Ferrari assured her, would be the signal
for the coming millennium of their race
and the overthrow of the Colossus of
Despotism which threatened to bestride
the civilized world.
Ferrari had of late over and over again
eXpounded to Anna Klosstock Gin whom,
after all, his hopes of success in the lat
est enterprise of his career were center
ed the tremendous growth of the revo-
lutionary strength in Russia which had
taken place under the new car, Alex
ander III
While admitting the numerically small
numbers of the organizing and executive
forces, Ferrari had shown Anna by doc
umentary and other evidence the vast
extension of the movement towards
which they occupied the van; and while
receiving in secret conclave the reports
of the advance which was being made
right through the military services, they
both chiefly reioiced in the prospects of
the propaganda among the peasants, who
had in many districts and under more or
less authoritative encouragement, work
ed their will upon the Jews, but had of
late entered into secret agrariaD aili-
ances with their Semitic fellow citizens
against the mobiles and landed proprie-
tors.
Jews throughout the provinces most in
sympathy with the holy cause had been
welcomed into secret societies; and
1t was set forth in q recent important
work by TIkhomirOv that one of the great
significant political facts of the moment
was definite transition of anti-Semitic
into agrarian troubles.
The people, finding it difficult to form
peasant parties. had organized secret
societies, one of which, having wide and
powerful ramifications, had contributed
a new brother to the Ferrari organiZa-
ton.
Everything looked well and promising
tor the first signal of revolt, which,
being made in ST. Petersburg, was to act
as beacon fire over wide and extern
slve district of outposts, military, civil
and agraran, III which many classes,
official and otherwise, were engaged.
The train was laid. 1t was the patriotic
duty of Ferrari and his confederates to
light the match which should bring about
that great popular rising which is the
hope and was the hope and purpose of
the great popular movement throughout
the empire.
On the day which was to bring about
such great results st. Petersburg was
unusually gay, and to a stranger it might
even have seemed as if, for the time be-
ing, both military and police had made
some special relaxation in their discipline
and duties of surveillance.
But everything in st. Petersburg Is
more or less mysterious. No man can
account for the under current, which
GIBBS and flows and rushes hither and
thither beneath the surface of its ordi-
nary life. 1t is calm sea, that flows in
sdiouslY above the juttIng rocks, moving
sands and dangerous eddies.
e The police Of Russia are as secret as the
Revolutionists. Both are as active; and
on this momentous occasion the authori-
ties, instead of having relaxed their
watchful guardianship over the imperial
power, were especially lynx-eyed, well
informed and alert, as was only too COM
pletely manifested to the little band of
conspirators under the leadership of An
drea Ferrari.
II is rare occurrence in open daylight
for the police to disturb the citizens by
an important arrest. These operations
are generally reserved for the stiffness
and repose of the night; but on this busy
sunny day a little troop of police and
military were taking very devious routes
outside the leading thoroughfares, quiz
city surrounded a house near the Tav-
reda gardens, which had been for four
and twenty hours under the eye of an as
tute detective force. The result was one
of much greater Importance to st.
Petersburg and the czar than his Off
GERS understood. 1t prevented the
ignition of that train of fire which
had been laid with so much skill and pa
thence; and it added to Russia s political
prisoners, among others in whom the
readers Of this history are interested,
Anna Klosstock, Andrea Ferrari. Philip
Forsyth, Ivan Kostanzhoglo and Paul
Petuski. Fortunately, so far as their
immediate existence was concerned, the
plot, as it presented itself to the police,
was of minor character; presenting under
their investigation none of those grave
and serious features which really be-
longed to it,. and, like many another
enterprise in Russia, it was
nipped in the bud without exciting any
particular attention. It found, however,
during several weeks an interesting po-
lltical subject in the hands OF an English
attached to great Lon
don journal, and it was through this me-
dunn that Lady Forsyth and Dick Chet-
wynd became acquainted with the I'M
happy position of the Countess Stra-
venskY's companion.
The newspaper correspondent informed
the English public that among the pris-
ouers recently tried and condemned to
period of exile in Siberia, was a young
who, having first given an
assumed name to his captOTs, had con-
fessed that he was Philip Forsyth, an
artist, of London, a student at the Royal
academy, the son of an eminent engineer
who had lived and died in Russia, leav-
ing behind son, Philip and his mother,
Lady Forsyth, widow. of London |
The young fellow, said the correspond |
emit, had no doubt given these particu-
lars in the hope of some Intervention on
the part of his family. The plot with |
which he was associated was not regarded !
as of any very great Importance by the |
except that it compelled |
them to make an example of the per-
sons concerned, one of whom, an Italian |