St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-25
NOTED FOREIGNERS.
Well Known Men and Women
About Whom the World Is
Talking.
Stepniak's Ideas Of Dynamite
His Quiet London
Life.
The Anti-Parnellite Member
Just From Kilkenny Dis
tpict.
Small Talk From Royal Courts
carmen Sylva's New
Novel.

Stepniak, Russian revolutionist has
made name IN English and Italian
literature, has aroused on two CONT
nedts deep interest in the struggle OF
the Russian people for a constitutional
government, and has found time during
the intervals between his literary and
patriotic work to devote much attention
to the London poor, says the PIttsburg
Dispatch. He is now lecturing In this
country, and will attempt to harvest the
field planted and cultivated by George
KEENAN, and a score of newspaper
writers who have seen more or less
clearly the needs and difficulties of the
Russian people.
Outside of Russia the life of Stepniak
would belong between the covers of a
romantic novel. In Russia it is not I'M
usual. His real name is not known,
but is concealed, it is said, to save his
family from the persecution of the
ears police. More than half of his
thirty-eight years have been spent i'll
serving his people.
Stepniak lives in retirement, and few
persons could make their way to his
London address, an isolated villa in st.
Johns Wood.
He is known there only through his
books and his appearance at SoclalistIc
and reform meetings. There in humble
lodging in study Uttered with books
and papers, Stepniak writes books
that stir the whole EngliSh-reading
world, or newspaper articles for the
London Times which are copied extern
sively, to the annoyance of the Russian
government.
ut is difficult" said Stepniak to a
correspondent not long ago, ''for the
people of Western Europe, and it is
more difficult still for the people of that
greater West America, to realize the
condition of things in Russia. With US
freedom is the name of an unknown
state, and government only another
word for plumber, corruption and I'M
paralleled tyranny. YouWonder that the
Russian people have submitted so long.
They could do nothing else"
Are you terrorist, Mr.. StepniakW
To this question Stepniak responded
with another: Suppose" he said,
''y our sister were fioggea? What would
you do? Is there anything you wouldn't
do to destroy such government?
Il am in sympathy with the Terror
lists to a certain extent. The car is in
danger, and if he were killed | would
not object. Ii one method fails we
must try another. We have tried prop
uganda, and we got nothing but the
most barbarOuS treatment. We are
compelled TO use force"
On FEB. 4, 1888, Stepniak talked at
length in London to a New York World
correspondent regarding the situation
III Russia, and his plans. With pro-
test that assassination is the final re-
sort of the oppressed, Stepniak then
apOlogiZed for the use of dynamite and
the dagger in the secret warfare against
the Russian government.
The use Of these weapons" he said,
sis repugnant to humanity. 10 none is
1t more hateful than to our comrades
They use both one and the other under
the sternest compulsion of an ineXora-
BILE destiny. | have seen men bent with
weeping, leaving the meeting of the
central committee when intruSted with
some sanguinary mission. Not that they
were not glad to seal their fidelity to
the cause by uncomplainingly dying,
but Mortified at the thought of the only
means left to cripple the tyrant."
"Ihe word nihiliSt," sad Stepniak,
sis given TO us by our enemies in Rus
STA. Our demands are simply these-a
national parliament, universal suffrage,
local autonomy, naturalization of land
and absolute freedom in religious mat
ters."
Olepniak was born in the South of
Russia, of noble family. and is thirty
nine years old. While in England his
influence was so great and the results
OF his agitation so strong that the Rus
sian government sent Nine. NOvikCtf to
London to counterfeit his influence, but
with no results.
RudOIph's Little Daughter.
Poor little Archduchess Elizabeth! ex-
claims one of the Dispatch correspond
light up the time-hOnored Christmas
tree in the Burg, at Vienna, all alone
this yeari On this tree were placed all
the choicest gifts that money could buy,
from the grandparents. uncles and
aunts and other relatives Of the
small princess, who all felt as if
they could not do enough to make up to
the fatherleSS child for her grieVouS
loss. The empress had declared that to
keep up her Christmas at the capital,
and meet the Crown Princess Stephanie
and her little daughter during the Yule-
tile celebrations, would be more than
her nerves could endure. And so dis
NAL were the scenes when Empress
Elizabeth Of Hapsburg compelled her
self to dine in company with her wild
owed daughter-in-laW, the night before
the marriage OF the Archduchess Val
erie. that the emperor gave way to his
wife's wishes. On that occasion the
empress burst into tears as she kissed
Stephanie'S forehead, and then cried
bitterly all dinner time, being quite ill
with grief afterWard. That the two
ladies deteSted each other, and that to
this hour the elder one blames the
younger for Rudolph's tragic fate, is
well known to those behind the scenes
ut Hofburg.
The miniature archduchess, who was
seven last September, is tall damsel
for her tender years, with blue eyes and
fair hair. She is dressed like an Eng
liSh child, and is constantly to be seen
driving between II and o'clock in the
Austrian capital, where she is very pop
ular. The children who are out walk
ing at that hour look out eagerly for the
carriage, and her little highness never
fails to bow graclously to them as she
drives down the prater, and often blows
kisses to tie babies she passes. She is
very shy, but amiable. Last week, by
the emper0r's desire, she was intro
duced to her new tutor, professor who
is to teach her on precisely the same
system as the class he instructs
at one of the public schools
The Klein Frau, as the Viennese
call her, was rather frightened,
for she had hitherto only learned her
native language from a maid, though
she can speak French and Hungarian
tiuently; but when the pedagogue told
her she would please the emperor and
empress by making progress, she ear
Aestly promised to do her best.
Royal Family of Servia.
King Alexander is now fourteen years
of age, ana is rapidly developing both
physically and intellectually. He is only
allowed TO receive such visitors as are
agreeable to the regents, as the follow
inc IN lance will show: The Metropol-
itan Michael attempted lately to intrude
on the royal presence without having
announced his intention to the regents.
The consequence was that he was not
received, and since that time he has not
appeared at Konak.
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