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Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 131, 6 April 1881, Page 3

Wombr. — Upon the active aid of woman m the Nihilist conspirnci s m Russia, a writer says : T have oftt-n heard men say ; " The Nihilists dare so much and accomplish so much only because they alwaj'H have women by their side, encournging and cheering them on.'" And indeed women are found everywhere s\d.e bj| sid^ witbi. U\e r^volutiQniftts.— -in

the office of the clandestine journal m the laboratory, m the factories among the working people, m the garb of the peasant woman, and m that of the Sister of the Red Cross, m the NihHist mines., and, alas, m those of Siberia and Saghalk'n. la the Czar'a country, woman is refused only one thing— the gibbet! Before we «aw the Nihilist woman, pistol m hand, fi ing at the police, or pasting the revolutionary proclamation on the walls of the crowded •treets. NW we have seen some new types — Mile Lebe<left m a watchhouse on a railroad, sitting on a box fiied with dynamite, chatting pleasantly with the switchmen and mending a rapped cloak ; a beautiful young lady of 22. Mile Pigner, nicely dressed, sitting m a handsome parlor, and playing on a piauo for hours and hours trying her best to drown the noise made by the printing press working m the adjoining room, and giving to her horrible krujok the c >uutenance of an artistic family ; an {Excellency's daughter, Mile Peroveky, day by day watching the approach of every stranger to the placewhere the Moscow mine was under way, and pulling the underground bell, thus warning the miners to stop work as often as she suspected danger. All th«se worn tn, well educated and highly connected, leave society m the prime of life for the gloomy miues, the dark forests,, and the deep and eternal snows of Siberia j their vacaut piaces will be filled l*y 'new' recruits. Such are the Nihilist women. And the men. These, too, m spite of all prosecutions, banishments, and executions, continue at their work. "Their watchword is ' Death for d.eath, ex.ecu-.. tion, ter. or fox terror, ' " .