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THE SQHO ANARCHISTS.

By 20BEET BARE.

iM fCopyrisht, 1895, by the Author.]

fes It has been said in the London papers that the dissolution of the Soho Anarchist league was caused by want of funds.

This is vory far from being the case. An anarchist league has no need for funds, and so long as there is money enough to buy beer the league is suro of continued existence. The truth about the scattering of the Soho organization was told me by a young newspaper man who was chairman at the last meeting.

The young man was not an anarchist, though he had to pretend to be one in the interests of his paper, and so joined the Soho league, where he made ecme fiery speechos that wore much r.vrhwuled. At lart anarch: -t news hocamo a drug in the marker, isnrl the editor of the paper young Marshall Sinikius be? longed to tcld Lira that he would now have to turn bis attention to parliamentary work, as ho would print no more anarchist news in tho ?hcet.

Ono might think that young Sinikins would have been glad to get rid of -. liit anarchist work, as he had no love for the cause. He was glad to get rid of it, but ho found sumo difficulty in sending in his resignrition. The niomoii lie spoke "of resigning the members became suspicious of liim. He had always been rather better dressed than the others, and besides ho drank less beer. Jf a man wishes to 1)0 in good standing in the league ho must not be fastidious as to dress and he must be constructed to hold at least a gallon of beer at a sitting. Sinikins

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man, and this would have told against him all along if it had not been for the extra gunpowder he put in his speeches. On several occasions seasoned anarchists had gathered about him and begged him to givo up his designs on the parliament buildings.

The older heads claimed that, desirable as was the obliteration of the houses of parliament, the time was not yet ripe for it. England, they pointed out, was the only place where anarchists could live and talk unmolested, so while they were quite anxious that Sinikins should go and blow up Vienna, Berlin or Paris they were not willing for him to begin onJLondon. Sinikins was usually calmed down with much difficulty, and finally, after hissing "Cowards 1" two or three times under his breath, he concluded •with, "Oh, very well, then, you know bettet tlian I do—I am ouly a young recruit—but allow me at least to blow up Waterloo bridge or spring a bomb in Fleet street, just to show „t-hat wo are np and doing."

But this the anarchists would not sanction. If ho wanted to blow up bridges he could try his hand on those across the Seine. They had given their word that there would be no explosions in London so long as England afforded them an asylum. "But look at Trafalgar square," cried Simkins angrily. "We are not allowed to meet there." "Who wautrf to meet there?" said the chairman. "It is ever so much more comfortable in these rooms, and there is AO beer in Trafalgar square." "Yes, jes," put in several others. Thus was Simkins calmed down and beer allowed to flow again in tranquillity, while some foreign anarchist, who was not allowed to set foot in his native country, would get up and harangue the crowd in broken English and tell them what great things would yet be done by dynamite.

But when Simkins sent in his resignation a change came over their feelings -toward him and he saw at once that he was a marked man. The chairman, in a whisper, advised him to withdraw his resignation. So Simkins, who was a shrewd young fellow, understanding the temper of the assembly, arose and said "I have no desire to resign, but you do nothing except talk, and 1 want to belong to an anarchist society that acts.'' He fltaid away from the next meeting, and tried to drop them in that way, but a committee from the league called upon him at his lodgings, and his landlady thought that young Simkins had got into bad ways when he had such evil looking men visiting him.

Simkins was in a dilemma, and could not think what to do. The anarchists apparently were not to be shaken off. Ee applied to his editor for advice on the situation, but that good man could think of no way out of the trouble. "You ought to have known better," he Baid, "than to mix up with such people." "But how was I to get the news?" ttnked Simkins, with some indignation. Tlio editor shrugged his shoulders. That was not his part of the business, and if the anarchists chose to make tilings uncomfortable for the young man he could not help it.

Simkins' fellow lodger, a student who was studying chemistry in London, noticed that the reporter was becoming gaunt with anxiety. "Simkins," said Sedlitz to him one morning, "you are haggard and careworn. What is the matter with you? Are you in love, or- is it merely debt that is bothering you?" ''Neither,'' replied Simkins. "Then cheer up," said Sedlitz. "If 'toao or the other is not bothering you, then anything else is easijjf remedied." ]£. "I am not so sure of that," rejoined

Simkins. And then he sat down and told his friend just what was troubling him. "Ah," said Sedlitz, "that accounts fpr it. There has been a ruffianly looking man marching up and down, watching this house. They are on your track, Simkins, my boy, and when they discover that you area reporter, and there-. fara necessarily a traitor, you will be tubbed some dark night.''

Well, that's encouraging," said Sim•frma, with his head in his hands. Are these anarchists brave men, and ^rould thej risk their lives in any undertaking?" asked Sedlitz. "O^, I don't know. They talk enough,

but I don't know what they would da They are quite capable, though, of tripping me np in a dark alley." "Look here," said Sedlitz "suppose you let me try a plan. Let me give them a lecture on the 'Chemistry of Anarchy.' Iff a fascinating subject." "What good would that do?" "Oh, wait till you have heard the lecture. If I don't make the hair of some of them stand on end they are braver men than I expect them to be. We have a large room in Clement's inn where we students meet to try experiments and smoke tobacco. It is half club and half lecture room. Now, I propose to get those anarchists in there, lock the doors, and tell them something about dynamite and other explosives. You give out that I am an anarchist from America. Tell them that the doors will be locked to prevent polioo interference and that there will be a barrel of beer. Yont'iui introduce me as a man from America, where they know as much about anarchism in ten minutes as they do hero in ten years. Tell them that I have spent my life in the study of explosives. I will have to make up a little, but you know that I am a very good amateur actor, and I don't think there will bo any trouble about that. At the last you must tell them that you have an appointment and will leave me to amuse them for a couple of hours.'' "But I don't see wliat good it is all going to do, though I am desperate." Si.id Simkins, "and willing to try anything. I have thought some of firing off a bomb my.-alf at an anarchist, meeting.''

When the Friday night of meeting arrived tho large hall in Clement's inn was filled to the doors. Those assembled there saw a platform at one end of the apartment and a door that led from it to a room at the back of the hall. A table was on the platform, and boxes, chemical apparatus and other scientific looking paraphernalia were on it. At the hour of 8 young Simkins appeared before the table alone. "Fellow anarchists," he said, "you are all well aware that I am tired of the great amount of talk we do and the little action which follows it, I have been fortunate enough to secure the co-opera-tion of an anarchist from America, who will tell you something of the cause there. We have had the doors locked, and those who keep the keys are now down at the entrance of the inn, so that if a fire should occur they oan quickly come and let us out. There is no great danger of fire, however, but the interruption of the police must be guarded against very carefully. The windows, as you see, are shuttered and -barred, and no ray of light can penetrate from this room outside. Until the lecture is over no one can leave the room, and by the same token no one can enter it, which is more to the purpose. "My friend, Professor Josiah P. Slivers, has devoted his life to the chemistry of anarchy, which is the title of this lecture. He will tell you of some important discoveries which are now to be made known for the first time. I regret to say that the professor is not in a very good state of health, because the line of life which he has adopted has its drawbacks. His left eye has been blown away by a premature explosion during his experiments. His left leg is also permanently disabled. His left arm, as you will notice, is in a sling, having been injured by a little disaster in his workshop since he came to London. He is a man, as you will see, devoted body and soul to the cause, so I hope you will listen to him attentively. I regret that I am unable to remain with you tonight, having other duties to perform which are imperative. I will, therefore, if you will permit me, leave by the back entrance after I have introduced the professor to you.''

At this moment the stumping of a wooden leg was heard, and those in the audience saw appear a man on a crutch, with ono arm in a sling and a bandage over one eye, although he beamed upon them benevolently with the other. "Fellow anarchists," said Simkins, "allow me to introduce to you Professor Josiah P. Slivers of the United States."

The professor bowed and the audience applauded. As soon as the applause began the professor held up his unmaimed arm and said, "Gentlemen, I beg that you will not applaud."

It seems the fashion in America to address all sorts and conditions of men as "gentlemen." ,The professor contin-

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introduce to yon Professor Josiah P. Slivers."

ued: "I have here some explosives so sensitive that the slightest vibration will cause them to go off, and I therefore ask you to listen in silence to what I havo to nay. I must particularly ask you also not to stamp on the floor."

Before these remarks were concluded Simkins had slid out by the back entrance, and somehow his desertion seemed to have a depressing effect upon the company, who looked upon the broken up professor with eyes of wonder and apprehension.

The professor drew toward him one of the boxes and opened the lid. He dipped his one useful hand into the box, and, holding it aloft, he allowed something which looked like wet sawdust to drip through his fingers. "That, gentlemen," he said, with an air of the utmost contempt, "is what is known to the world as dynamite. I have nothing at all to say against dynamite. It has,' in its day, been a very powerful medi-

tim throngh which our opinions have been imparted to a listening world, but its day is past. It is what the lumbering stagecoach is to the locomotive, what the letter is to the telegram, what ul.cj sailing vessel is to the steamship. It will be my pleasant duty tonight to

hibit to you an explosive so powerful and deadly that hereafter, having seen what it can accomplish, you will have nothing but derision for such simpie, harmless compounds as dynamite and nitroglycerin.''

The professor looked with kindly sympathy over his audience as he allowed the yellow mixture to slowly percolate through his fingers back into the box again, Ever and anon he took up afresh handful and repeated the action.

The anarchists in the audience exchanged uneasy glances one with the other. "Yet," continued the professor, "it will be useful for us to consider this substance for a few moments, if but for the purpose of comparison. Here," he said, diving his hand into another box and bringing up before their gaze a yellow brick, "is dynamite in a compressed form. There is enough here to wreck all this part of London, were it exploded. This simple brick would lay St. Paul's cathedral in ruins so, however antiquated dynamite may become, we must always look upon it with respect, lust as we look upon reformers of centuries ago who perished for their opinions, even though their opinions were far behind what ours are now. I shall take the liberty of performing some experiments with this block of dynamite." Saying which, the professor, with his free arm, flung the block of dynamite far down the aisle, where it fell on the floor with a sickening thud. The audience sprang from their seats and tumbled back ono over the other. A wild shriek went up into the air, but the professor gazed placidly on the troubled mob below him with a superior smile on his face. "I beg you to seat yourselves," he said, "and for reasons which I have already explained I trust that you will not applaud any of my remarks. You have just now portrayed one of the popular superstitions about dynamite, and you show by your actions bow necessary a lecture of this sort is in order t.hat you may comprehend thoroughly the substance with which yon have to deal That brick is. perfectly harmless, because it is frozen. Dynamite in its frozen state will not explode —a fact well understood by miners and all those who have.to. work with,it,.and whOj. as a rule, generally prefe^to blow themselves to pieces trying to thaw the substance before afire. Will you kindly bring that brick, back to me before it thaws out in the heated atmosphere of this room?"

One of the men stepped gingerly forward and picked up the brick, holding it far from his body as he tiptoed up to the platform, where he laid it down carefully on the desk before the professor. "Thank you," said the professor blandly.

The man drew a long breath of relief as he went to his seat. "That is frozen dynamite," continued the professor, "and is, as I have said, practically harmless. Now, it will be my pleasure to perform two startling experiments with tho unfrozen sub-

Holding it far from his body as he tiptoed up to the platform. stance," and with that he picked up a handful of the wet sawdust and flung it on a small iron anvil that stood on the tabla "You will enjoy these experiments," he said, "because it will show you with what ease dynamite may be handled. It is a popular error that concussion will cause dynamite to explode. There is enough dynamite here to blow up this hall and to send into oblivion •every person in it, yet you will see whether or not concussion will explode it. The professor seized a hammer and struck the substance on the anvil two or three sharp blows, while those in front of him scrambled wildly back over their comrades, with hair standing on end. The professor ceased his pounding and gazed reproachfully at them then something oh the anvil appeared to catch his eye. He bent over it and looked critically on the surface of the iron. Drawihg himself up to his full height again, he said: "I was about to reproach you for what might have appeared to any other man as evidence of fear, but I see my mistaken I came very near making a disastrous error. I have myself suffered from time to time from similar errors. I notice now upon the anvil a small spot of grease if my hammer had happened to strike there you would all now be writhing in your death agonies under the ruins of this building. Nevertheless the lesson is not without its value. That spot of grease is free nitroglycerin that has oozed out from the dynamite. Therein tests perhaps the only danger in handling dynamite. As I have shown you, fou can.smash up dynamite on an anvil without danger, but if a hammer hap

pened to strike a spot of free nitroglycerin it would explode in a moment. I beg to apologize to you for my momentary nfifjlect.''

A man rose up in the middio of the hall, and it was some little time before command voice enough to speak, for he was shaking as if from 'palsy. As last he said, after he had ir.u!.U: .d his lips several times: wki'' Protessor, we are quite willing to tako your word about the explosive. I think I speak for all my comrades here. We have no doubt at all about your learning and would much prefer to hear from your own lips what you have to say on the subject and not have you waste any more valuable time with experiments. I have not consulted with my comrades before speaking, but I think I voice the sense of the meeting."

Cries of "You do! you do!" came from all parts of the hall. The professor once more beamed upon them benevolently. "Your confidence in me is indeed touching," he said, "but a chemical lecture without experiments is like a body without a soul. Experiment is the soul of research. In chemistry wo must take nothing for granted. I have shown you how many popular errors have arisen regarding the substance with which we are dealing. It would have been impossible for these errors to have arisen if every man had experimented for himself, and although I tliank you for the mark of confidence you have bestowed upon me I cannot bring myself to deprive you of the pleasure which my experiments will afford you. There is another very com mon error to the effect that fire will explode dynamite. Such, gentlemen, is not the case."

The professor struck a match on his trousers leg and lighted the substance on the anvil. It burned with a pale bluish flame, and the professor gazed around triumphantly at his fellow anarchists.

While the shuddering audience watched with intense fascination the pale bluish flame the professor suddenly stooped over and blew it out. Straightening himself once more, he said: "Again I must apologize to you, for again I have forgotten the small spot of grease. If the flame had reached the spot of nitroglycerin it would have exploded, as you all know. When a man has his thoughts concentrated on one subject he is apt to forget something else. I shall make no more experiments with dynamite. Here, John," he said to the trembling attendant, "take this boxi away, and move it carefully, for I see that the nitroglycerin is oozing out. Put it as tenderly down in the next room as if it were a box of eggs.

As the box disappeared there was a simultaneous long drawn sigh of relief from the audience. "Now, gentlemen," said the professor, "we come to the subject that ought to occupy the minds of all thoughtful men." He smoothed his hair complacently with the palm of his practicable hand, and smiled genially around him. "The substance that I am about to tell you of is my own invention, and compares with dynamite as prussic acid does to new milk as a beverage." The professor dipped his fingers in his vest pocket and drew out what looked like a box of pills. Taking one pill out he placed it upon the anvil, and as he tiptoed back he smiled on it with a smile of infinite tenderness. "Before I begin on this subject I want to warn you once more that if any man as much as stamps upon the floor or moves about except on tiptoe this substance will explode and will lay London from here to Charing Cross in one mass of indistinguishable ruins. I have spent ten years of my life in completing this invention. And these pills, worth a million a box, will cure all ills to which tho flesh is heir. "John," he said, turning to his attendant, "bring me a basin of water." The basin of water was gingerlv placed upon the table, and the professor emptied all the pills into it, picking up also the one that was on the ,anvil and putting it with the others. "Now," he said, with a deep sigh, "we can breathe easier. A man can put one of these pills in a little vial of water, put the vial in his vest pocket, go to Trafalgar square, take the pill from the vial, throw it in the middle of the square, and it will shatter everything within the four mile radius, he himself having the glorious privilege of suffering instant martyrdom for the cause. People have told me that this is a drawback to my invention, but I am inclined to differ with them. The one who uses this must make up his mind to share the fate of those around him. I claim that this is the crowning glory of my invention. It puts to instant test our interest in the great cause. John, bring in very carefully that machine with the electric wire attachment from the next

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