New-York tribune., 1890-06-29
NOTES FROM PARIS.
THE RUSSIAN REFUGEES-A FAIR DOCTOR
OF LAWS.


OF LAWS.
lrRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF TIE rRrB7yEl
Paris, June Is.
lie Debats' states that the Russians in deten-
tion will soon be freed, though there seems to
be little to bear out this statement. Strictly
speaking there has been no revolutionary plot.
The Socialist party is too disorganized for that
II has been broken to pieces. but each fraction Is
lively, and acts on its own account, without con-
cert with any of the other fractions. Hence
the danger not of revolution, but of Czarecde.
Colonel Lavrof used four five years ago to
direct from here the Socialist revolutionary move
ment. But lie no longer does So communication
being broken off between him and his compatriots
In Russia He was against political assassination,
but for an organized rising in all the cities of the
Empire In long conversation yesterday he told
me that he had never heard from any of the
refugees here of dynamite plot against the
life of Alexander III, or the lives OF any Of his
children, or Minister'S and that he had not the
slightest reason even to suspect that such thing
was meditated But he added that evaporation
was so great in Russia and among Russian Social
ISIS everywhere that he could not answer for what
plans might now be fermenrng in the heads Of
people who brood silently over what they may
do. great danger for the Car is that nobody
III Russia now dares to say freely what he or She
thinks of him and of his Government
Colonel LavrOf is man Of great intellect and
of a heart OF exceptional warmth lie is great,
good-natured giant with towering forehead,
coarse nose of a purely Russian shape and pair
OF small twnklng. kindly eyes. | should say
that he is considerably taller than Tourguenet,
who was enormously tall; and like Tourgueneff,
Colonel Lavrof is magnifcently built. He was
colonel OF engineer, and a professor of higher
mathematics in the Polytechnic School Of st.
Petersburg. His wife is dead, and his daughters,
who married, almost elderly ladies' But
not to stand in their way he does not communi-
cate with them unless indirectly, and then merely
20 say that his paternal love for them and their
children has undergone change Poverty has
been his lot since he came here, little over twenty
years ago BIT he says checrfully that he has
all he needs, viz, the shelter Of house. decent
room looking a garden, fire, tea. and enough
food 10 keep up his strength. Every mouthful
of food taken in excess Of ones needs after fifty
five, says the Colonel, is so much rank poison.
He manages TO get along with porridge Of buck
wheat and milk or rice and milk and fish.
His great luxury j. rye bread taken with tea.
lie is now busy with A History Of Human
Thought" Before he was driven into exile he
was not Socialist and has never been Terror
ist lie always thought and still thinks that the
assassination Of Alexander III was political mis-
take, though ne cannot help seeing that that
Gar represented system the measure OF whose
iniquites was full TO flowing over
Colonel Lavrotf is the father of the Russian
students He has classes, in Which he is the sole
professor, for those too poor to pay for private
tuition at which they prepare fer certain eX-
amnations. They all attend his lectures on
sociology. The girls have, without exception,
their heads cropped and they and their brethren
smoke cigarettes and drink the savants tea when
the lecture is ended His is in the top OF
n house at the bottom of a large court in the
Rue 81. Jacques. and commands view Of the
garden of the Deaf and Dumb Institution.
asked Colonel Lavroh what he did 10 incur
tie severe treatment he met with. Nothing
r. said In 1866 there he'd been general cau
for constitutional government. All the knaves
and fine lady ocottes OF the court got frightened.
Parlian entary control of the finances might lead
to the knife being laid to the root Of their chs.
The courters pushed the Gar INTO pollcy OF
reaction. i student was hogged 10 deatn lor
having read paper at a debating society III
favor of the English system. | expressed quite
freely my horror al this crime a search was
made in my house by the police for proofs OF a
None were found. because l never
had then conspired. But an ode to liberty which
had lam desk since / was Il Wto
brought TO light 1t was in manuscript, and |,
tie author. had forgotten that | ever wrote
IT, An order WIS given Ior my lmprlsonment LII
a fortress, where was for nine months, Mhas
made confinement very irks0ne was my belns
ieprived of every kind of writing material ana
pf books was cxiled TO NalOdsa. where was
ilec 10 walk about the streets, but not 70 leave
the town. and was Obliged daily 10 report myself
10 the police The winters were there so hard
rs 10 freeze mercury. was three years at
Vaodga \ fresh spasm of reaction caused me TO
IL frt.an nn n MI ftsd
me obtained a passport for himself to travei
abroad, and lent II 10 me. ! thus got away.
He doubts if he could now escape so easily, unless
be had plenty of money. ne RUSSIAN polce haNs v
itching palms ard a quenchless thirst for NodhL
Mile Blbesco, the new Doctor of Laws Ii. d.,
5 the only daughter Of wealthy Rumanlan
banker lie always saw that she had tine
mind and gave her the education Of boy. EN-
Gng for her te'ehsrs the pr0.GssS5s GIRL 81 'Ge of
Ihrec and twenty. looking more tie GreeH tnah
he Rumanian. Her face is singularly pale. her
hair and eyes are snguhrv dark: and the faciat
inc is straight Bushes mantle her face on me
slightest provCcatIon, and she would nor, sne
avs fer tie world attend the law courts 10
plead. Wh1t she vents Is ny her eTanine 5 20 s't
I'D Young girls T. earn an honorable hTehhopu
II the bar Nothing can be more dead than the
ives of girls in the homes OF haii or hesrE
wholly ruined landholdors at buSharesI ine me
hak,n of the state OF inertia into which Iurklsh
nlp plunged the women of Rumania. II MNe.
Iilbc,cD shoald ever plead. II VIII bc Tor women
oo moor 10 pay fees - advocates. Nile. BilDesco
yas admitted TO read her thesis in an ordinary
Ircss She removed a Rnhens hat IN black lace
when she was reading, ana was dressed IN,
,loiu-cut black silk gown, trimmed with old
,oN simp nj the neck and wrists. Her voice is
nrliifluons and one could tell from I that she Is
musician She ho, attended the classes at the
aw school during every term for SIX wears. never
|issino n lesson Her mother was always win
er But The male students contrary 70 what
vas anprchepdcd by the professors when shc
skcd lcayc 10 matriculote. were always respect,
nj in seeming 10 ignore her presence among
hem. L. u