FEMALE NIHILISTS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2252, 17 May 1881, Page 3

FEMALE NIHILISTS.

Upon tho active and efficacious aid o£ women in tho Nihilistic conspiracies in Russia, a writer says :—“ I have often hoard mon say : —‘ Tho Nihilists dare so much and accomplish so much only because they always have women by their side, encouraging and cheering them on.’ And, indeed, women aro found everywhere, side by side with the male revolutionists—in tho office of tho clandestine journal, in tho secret laboratory, in the factories among tho work* ing people, in tho garb of tho peasant woman, ond in that of the Sister of the Bed Cross, in tho Nihilist mines, and alas, in those of Siberia and Sagha. lion. In the Czar’s country woman is refused only ono thing—the gibbet! Before wo saw tho Nihilist woman, pistol in band, firing at tho police, or pasting tho revolutionary proclamation on tho walls of the crowded streets. Now wo have seen somo now types Milo. Lebodcff in a watchhouEO in a railroad, sitting on a box filled with dynamite, chatting pleasantly with tho switchmen and mending a ragged cloak ; a beautiful young lady of twenty-two. Milo. Figner, niooly dressed, sitting in a handsome parlour and playing on a piano for hours and hours, trying her beat to drown tho noiao made by tho printing press working in tho adjoining room, and giving to her horrible krujok tho countenance of an artistic family ; an Excellency’s daughter, Mile. Borovsky, day by day watching tho approach of every stranger to the place -where tho Moscow mine was under way, and palling the underground bell, thus warning tho minors to stop work as often as she suspected danger. All those women, well educated and highly connected, leave society in tho prime of life far the gloomy mines, the dark forests, and the deep and eternal snows of Siboria; their vacant places will bo filled by now recruits. Such are the Nihilist women. And the mon. Those, too, in spite of all prosecutions, banishments, and executions, continue at their work. Their watchword is, ‘ Doatli for death, execution for execution, terror for terror! ’ ”