New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-07

whole truth Is written there. This is
the very truth which the mobiles have
hidden from US
In the meantime the examining Of
fcer arrived, and there both Of them
began 20 read the proclamation aloud
Meanwhile multitude of peasants
gathered, listening even under the
windows. They learned my proclama-
ton by heart The county police
chief was notified. He arrived. imme-
diately perceived the meaning Of it
all, and ordered me TO prison.
In those days a woman propagandlst
was something unheard of and unseen.
In fear of this new phenomenon the
warden OF the Bratzlau jail thought II
necessary 10 incarcerate me immediate
" in a dark cell and handcuf me. A
month passed In wandering about coun-
try prisons, till gendArmes came. took
me away from the police and dragged
me first 10 Kief jail. then 20 Moscow.
and finally 20 Petrograd, where ! was
tried with other offenders after being
kept in prison for four years in solitary
confinement. The condition Of the i'm
prisOnment was serious. OF the 800
prisoners held for trial only 1913 sur
vived, among whom there were 81 wom-
en-. During all Of my imprisonment |
made no explanation 10 the judicial
authorities, and | was condemned 20
five years Of convict labor. But 1t was
not dreadful. Nothing was dreadful
when one had faith in ones righteous
ness.
My healthy organism and ripe age
helped me endure the many years tor
ments at time when the young, ten
der lives fell sick quickly and were
carried off one after another by death.
leaving feeling OF atrocious pain and
indelible bitterness.
But we all retained our eagerness for
activity, 80 early interrupted by an evil
hand. The thought of returning to the
party, 20 revolutionary work. lived in
our minds in the form or red-hot nail,
and aroused all our abilities, all our
power 10 seek means 70 escape. There,
to the fighters 10 the bright populists,
our spiritual vision was directed.
was already in on the rights Of a
settler, beyond the Baikal, in Barguzin,
when, together with three men COM
rades, moved into the billy taiga, with
its thousands Of impediments and dan
gers. Our daring escape, which ended
in our capture while wandering about
unfathomed abysses and rocks, has
been described by Tiutchev. ], as a
former hard labor criminal. was con-
demned TO four years more OF penal ser
vitude and forty whips, which, how
ever, the authorities did not dare 10 APP
ply, "in order TO arouse against the ad-
mInistration the political exiles,' as the
Military Governor Of the Outer Baikal
said in his report
was thus forced TO 60, in 1892,
after another year Of imprisonment,
to the same old Kara mines, at that
time full of prisons for convicts and
politicals. Both the first and the sec
ond persisted there Of scurvy, typhus,
endless tuberculosis, but mostly the
convicts. as the officials disregarded
them entirely and kept them in the
most shameful conditions.
My second arrival at Kara was for
me rather a joyous occasion. When
I first came there | was the only wom-
an doing hard labor; it was not fash
ionable yet 10 send women 20 mines.
Rut now J found already sixteen or
eigh teen feminine comrades. and all Of
my second term ! passed in the best
society in the world. The annual term
Of convict labor consisted Of eight
months and my term few past me un-
noticed. Only one thing was aCgravat-
ing, and that was 10 see how the Trailer
among US IN health gradually sank and
surely neared their graves, IN the bios
som Of their lives.