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4 THE ALAMO'S MESSENGER. firm. I now increase the weight to i LARGEST ELECTRIC ROAD. AVE LITTLE HOPE. Llke tne men, the women must undergo one-third of their punishment In prison, but the island is considered as a prison, surrounded by floating walls, so that each prisoner, male or female, brought from Russia, is set at liberty in Saghalien, and his or her punishment consists only In obligatory work.

The male convict has the right to construct a small house upon a small tract of land, and to work on his own account. The convict always receives I playwright. Siberia, that Is to say, the Asiatic- portion of the Russian empire, Is divided for administrative pur-post into 12 governments, or provinces, which form Eastern Siberia, Central Siberia and the provinces of the Amour River. The Russian penal code, as has already been told, places the punishments which are foil wed by civil death in two classes. The victims of these punishments arn transported to Siberia with hard labor for iong terms or for life.

Some of the convicts go to Central Siberia, where they are not condemned to obligatory labor. In the provinces of the Amour River, where all transportation Is centralized, convicts are onb' sent to do forced labor'. Those who have completed Jhetr punishment can remain NEWS IN BRiEF. There -are 16,256,038 pupils enrolled In the public schools of this coun-try. A tooth of Napoleon, drawn at Helena, was sold at auction the other day for $38.

When Lieutenant General A. R. Chaffee retires he will make his home in California. A British Naval Museum Is one of the projected memorials of the Centenary of Trafalgar. In the first five days of Congress 14 proposed amendments of the Constitution were submitted in the House.

The ostrich feather trade in the Sudan seems doomed, owing to the success of the South African ostrich farms. There is room in Western Canada for 50,000 miles of railway. Today there are scarcely more than '5000 miles. tfearly $1,000,000 In postal orders is sent every year from -this country to Norway mostly gifts to relatives and friends. The latest alleged preventive of seasickness is to inhale deeply when the ship rises and exhale when it sinks.

A newspaper correspondent recently found near Klmberley, South Africa, a diamond of 149 carats that he sold for $13,455. TE OF RUSSIA'S POLITICAL PRISONERS. Vtoljtleal BilU. Woril t.ed of All, 'ad Death Seem Preferable to MUerabU KiLtenee They i vvMHWBuy it mem. Btripped of all the sensational fea- which writers in the past have yvnnea aoont Russian prisoners and prisons, it can be set down as a fact that Russia in deal-lug with her common, every -day prls- oners Is not at all Inhuman as a rule.f But WDn CQtnes to her political prisoners ''she is al- criminal.

moat as barbarous the most barbarous and uncivilized nation on the adobe Aside from 'the political prisons of Siberia it only needs a fiance at one prlsob la the entire system of the em-to understand them all. According to M. Wraskoy the Russian empire bad seen the necessity for a prison for short-term convicts since 1860, when I a wine warehouse of the epoch of Em- press Anna, in the Viborg quarter of SIBERIAN PRISONERS FARMING. thirty pounds, and Crash! The plate The audience smiled. i i But the faker, not at all disturbed, went right on: "And you will ladies, that the plate now breaks with ease, thus giving us an opportunity to cement the edges more firmly together whenever it is desirable to do so." BORGIA'S FAMOUS POISON.

Has Vanlahed from the Earth with Death of the Last of Line. Blaze de Bury, after reviewing the claims of the wife of a certain Italio-American to the title of the "last Countess of Borgia," tells a most interesting story about the last male descendant of the famous poisoning family, says the Louisville Courier-Jour-; nal. "He was named Duke and a well-known figure in the Paris grand o4 era. As our subscription seat? adjoined, I met him there two or three nights a week, and gradually, the duke bogar to honor me wkh his friendship. One evening he said: 'If it wasn't for music, my only passion, I would have dispensed with life long ago.

Burdened as I am with he knowledge of my family's secrets, I know little "Then Le told me that he was In possession, of the formula for making the poison by 'which tie Borgins rid themselves of their enemies and of persons whose fortunes or wives they, coveted. 'The secret has descended from father to son through ten centuries and more. If I had a legitimate son I would have to impart it to him before I die. says the family tradition. To avoid that dreadful responsibility I never The poison, he explained, was 'rather a simple and it was hard to be'ieve that no chemist ever found or rediscovered the formula.

i rhp he said, 'carries with it inevitable death, but no court of law and no expert physician is able detect aiv symptoms of violence in the victim's body. Hence the Cutarel-la Is the prince of poisons, just the poison for statesmen and kings to handle. 'My formula provides either for sudden or for lingering death, accord- THE ALAMO. ing to the poisoner's wishes. I could make you drop dead In an iistant by a handshake, or by a drop of liquid poured in your water or coffee, and I might sentence you to perish by inches, to burn up alive, etc' Blaze de Bury calls rlie duke a "theoretical philosopher of murder." He once said: "The truly great and just man, a man without egotism and without axes to grind, might become a great aid to justice by the possession of the Cutarella secret.

The Borgias used the poison as a vehicle for their ambition and greed it might be used to rid the world of a lot of secret criminals and vampires, laughing at the law. Justice, as we understand it, does not punish one-third of1 the crimes com mitted. Numerous perpetrators escape by technicalities, by bribery, by accident. Now, suppose that the possessor of the Cutarella secret hunts down such and women and rids the world of them. Suppose he makes himself the instrument of Vengeance for wronged women, for men driven to despair, for children robbed and betrayed by guardians? Suppose he would take it upon himself to kill faithless kings and ministers that op-, press the people? Suppose the Cutarella proprietor would go to Russia and do the work of the.

revolutionists there? What a grand prospect!" "Has your grace ever conceived that mission?" asked the author. "When I was young I sometime. considered its advisability," replied th duke. "But I was never a hero, never a great moralist. Besides, I felt I had no particular knowledge of character.

I might have executed more innocent people than guilty ones. And so concluded to let the secret of the vengeance poison sleep. Since I came into possession of the formula it was never put In operation. it never shall. I won't use it even on myself.

If horror of life ever seizes me 1 shall die by a pistol shot." Soon after that the last male Borgia actually killed himself with a revolver. Conldn't See It. "Do you believe in government ownership?" "I don't know," answered Mr. Dun tin Stax. "I don't see why the public should be In any desperate hurry take things out of the hands of the capitalists and intrust them to the politicians." Washington Star.

Brutal Chap. "Thirteen guests at down at my wedding breakfast." "Bring anybody bad luck?" "I don't think so that is, nona of the others." Cleveland Leader. ElRht Million. Dollar Honao. Lord Bute, of England, owns the costliest house In the situatArf It covers, two acres of ground, and represents an investment esii.nateJ at SS.OOO.OOO.

A Contract Closed for a Line from Spokane to Moscow, Wash. A contract has just been closed for the construction and equipment of the Spokane Inland Railway, extending from Spokane to Moscow, a dittance of 146 miles. The organization is controlled by a number of Spokane capitalists, of whom J. P. Graves is the president, says the.

New York Times. The.ays-tem for electrifying the line is West-irghouse single phase alternating current system, the same as the New York, New Haven Hartford Railroad is going to adopt as part of its system, and for which purpose it recently contracted with the Westing-house Company for twenty-five locomotives. Power for operating the road will be obtained from the Washington Water Power Company, which has harnessed the waters of the. Spokane River, and the electric current will be transmitted at a pressure of 4,600 volts to the power station of the railroad company. Erom this station electric current will be transmitted along the line of the track at the enormous pressv.re of 50.000 volts to fifteen transformer substations located along the line.

In these stations the current will be reluced for the operation of the motors cn the cars. The road will be equipped for passenger, freight, mail and express service. Each passenger ca. will be provided with four 100-horse-power motors, capable of maintaining a schedule speed of thirty-five to forty miles an hour. In the freight service four 150-horse-power motors will be used on eacn paj.

For the heavy freight service double locomotives, weighing approximately seventy to eighty tons, will be used, each consisting of two parts and each part a complete thirty-five to forty ton locomotive. Two or more of these locomotives may be coupled together and operated from the front cab as a single unit. The motor cars and locomotives will all be operated by the Westinghouse multiple unit control system. The electrical apparatus for the equipment of the road approximates almost When placed in operation the road will constitute the longest electric railway in this country. HIEING HEREFORDS.

Herefords7 as every farmer knows, are cattle of a breed, one distinguish ing mark of which is a white face. The disposition of the Western farmer to make humorous analogies has applied the nickname of "Herefords" to the pale-faced young men from the East wrho seek work in the fields. Last June, says the New York Sun, the farmers of Kansas were afraid they should not find men enough to gather their wheat, and they besieged the trains that came westward full of college boys and other laborers sent by Eastern employment agencies. Before a train stopped, bargaining began. "What ye payjn' here for good harvesters?" yelled a man in a flannel shirt, who poked his head from a car window.

"What do you want?" a farmer called back. "All we can git," came from a dozen throats. "Whatever is right," said another farmer- "Quit your kidding," yelled a harvester, "and give us figures! They're paying big money further out the line, and if ye want us, now is your time to holler." "Yes," retorted a farmer, "if you stay on that train long enough you'll reach some place where they keep banking hours and pay six dollars a day. We'll give you two-fifty and work you eight-hours." "Eight hours!" called a harvester, who spoke as if he had seen the country b'efore. "Eight hours! I know your way of reckoning an eight-hour day.

Eight hours before noon and eight after noon. When you start to bed you meet yourself coming out to breakfast." "It's pretty hard work," said one farmer, "for those of us who live in the eastern part of the State. These fellows all want to know what is paid further on, and we have to get clubs and knock 'em off the train." A Western Kansas farmer' hit on a simple device to prevent the abduction of his help by the" farmers of the eastern part of the State. He hired fifty men in Wichita, and bought tickets for them through to his farm. "I've paid for 'em all," he said to a friend, "but half of 'em will never get there.

They'll be dropping off all along the line." "Hire a car and lock 'em in," said the friend The farmer had a talk with the railroad superintendent, and presently an extra car was attached to the train. The farmer went through the other cars, calling, "All that goes with me has his fare paid, and can ride in a special car In the rear." The special car was filled instant, the doors were locked, and the precious freight arrived safely with the farmer among his waiting fields. Had to Nail the Creene. "You may bring me anything that Isn't nailed down," said the facetious diner to the waiter. "Oh, then you don't want any cheese to-day, air?" replied the waiter.

Yon-kers Statesman. Objection. 8andy Pikes Wouldn't like to be a rich lady's poodle? Why, yesterday yer told me It was a snap. Gritty George Yes, hut to-day I read about de number of baths those pet dogs take every day. The Best of Clear.

The king of Italy is presented an- nually by the emperor 'of Austria with Dftath of the Lat American to Leave the Texaa Thermopylae. There has recently died near Utopia, in the mountains of Uvalde County, the man last left among the living who saw and talked with Travis, Bowie and Crockett, in the doomed fortress of the Alamo, Benjamin F. Highsmith, who was blind In the last years of his life, was' the soldier boy who bore through many dangers the last dispatch sent out from the Alamo. He was born in Lincoln County, Sept. 11, 1817, the son of A.

M. High-smith, who served under Andrew Jackson as a scout and ranger in the war of 1812. The father moved Uo Texas and the boy first saw San Antonio in April, 1830, In company with a trading party which included in its members James Bowie and William B. Travis. At 16 years old Ben High-smith began his service as a soldier, and from 1832 until he was past middle life he had his part In the fighting with Mexicans and Indians.

When the Texas revolution came on in" Highsmith shared loitbe fighting, and when the little Texan army disbanded, after the surrender of the Mexican general. Cos, he remained with the 230 men charged with holding the far western outpost of San Antonio de Bexar. His adventures there are thus told in a letter to the Galveston News: entered the garrison of the Alamo, commanded by Colonel William Barrat Travis. Upon the approach of the Mexican army under General Santa Ana, Travis saw the need of recruits and sent Highsmith on a fleet horse to Fannin at Golaid, bearing a dispatch instructing that officer to blow up the fort and bring his men to the Alamo, but Fannin refused to obey. Highsmith was absent five days on this mission, and when he returned the red flag of Mexico was waving from the old church of Bexar across the river and the Alamo was under siege.

The courier paused on the crest of Powder House hill and viewed the sartling scenes being enacted below. Bands of Mexican cavalry were patrolling the brush and hillsides around the doomed fortress watching for the return of the courier. Highsmith, serving that he was discovered and ut it was impossible to communicate with or, aid his besieged comrades. STORMING and that he was in imminent danger of being cut off and" captured by the Mexican cavalry, took one last look at the Alamo and, turning the head of his tired horse in the direction of Gonzales, rode for his life, pursued by the Mexican videttes, but avoided capture, reached Gonzales: in safety and reported to General Houston the besieged and desperate condition of Travis and his comrades at the Alamo. General Houston sat once and giving the tired boy but little time to rest, sent him, in company with a youth named David B.

Kent, with a second dispatch to Fannin at Golaid, ordering that officer to demolish the fort and retire with his men to the east bank of the Guadalupe and form a junction with him. This, as is well known, Fannin stubbornly refused to do, and was massacred with nearly his whole command at that exposed post." From 1838 until the Mex'can war broke out in 1846, Ben Highsmith was many, times engaged in conflicts with the Comanche Indians. During the war with Mexico he fought at the bat-ttes of Palo Alto, Monterey and Buena Vista. After the close of the war Mr. Highsmith rendered service on the frontier as long as It was needed.

The old Texan ranger died in his 89th year, and is described as a gallant soldier, a volunteer for public service at all times, and a citizen above reproach. He GofFrom Under. A ready tongue is a "faker's" best stock in trade. It is capable of turning an untoward occurrence into such ingenious and plausible use that it wins the good will, and, what is of more purpose, the pence of the crowd. The Buffalo Enquirer prints an example of this resource of an Itinerant merchant: A faker was selling cement.

He stood on a village street corner, with a group of women about him, recounting eloquently the virtues of the cement and demonstrating with actual experiment. He took up a plate, broke it in halves, cemented the two pieces, and then suspended from the mended plate' a ten-pound weight "Look here," he said. "There is no cement like this. It is alwus ready, it needs no heating, and it is -as Strang as steel. To this plate, for instance, I have just hung a ten-pound weight.

1 will now substitute a twenty-flve-pound one. The cement, you see, holds i -e to "When I was living down South." said the Northern girl, "everybody called me a Yankee. Thev seemed to tnink It was a Joke." aren you a Yankee?" said comPanlon- 1 8UPPse so: Dut I'd never been llei one before. nl theway they 1 JU" aown think it was sort of The oren seism on fie old poc bo.ik i UUJ ends Uevebei' Hi. lul nB V.

En8tern Central Siberia is used for second-class convicts. Rut this system of transportation should not be con founded with the French system. It is applied to criminals at common law, and consists of exile without forced la bor, but a change of residence is pro hlbited. In the provinces of Eastern Siberia, which reach to the Ural Mountains, transportation Is concentrated. But this punishment Is not pronounced by the courts.

It Is applied by the councils of the communes, which form a flueal union. Thus, when a member of the rural commune has been condemned to un- dergo a correctional punishment, he is placed at the disposal of the commune, which decides whether it will retake or exile him. In the latter case, he is transported to a province in East ern Siberia for five years. At the end of that time he has the riht to seek permission from any- commune, and if granted, to re-enter Russia. But frequently he prefers to remain in Eastern Siberia, because the country is very rich and agriculture is extensive.

Transportation has existed to Siberia nearly 150 years. At first those who had been condemned for capital offenses were pardoned and sent there, and then Russia transported thither those condemned to hard labor, who went I with their families after having under gone punishment with labor in European Russia. This transportation took place principally in the Province of Transfarkal, because there were lands there rich In silver mines. Later gold mines were discovered. This tract Is really what was known as ancient Da-houria, which forms part of the steppes of Mongolia, and whose population consisted formerly of Bouriates.

a nomadic race. When, in 1689. the Province of Do-hourla, after a treaty with China, became a part of the Russian empire, the convicts were put to work In the mines. There is also a Russian penal colony on the Island of Saghalien, situated at the extreme east of Siberia, at the mouth of. the Amour River.

It has a special governor, who attends to the administration of the prison. No liberated colonists exist on the Island. When a Russian exile becomes a free prisoner he continues to receive food, rations, clothing, farming tools, cattle and horses. His food rations and his clothing are allowed him for two years, or until the two and one-half acres of land given him by the govern-: ment can be made to support him. At the end of ten years the colonist passes from the condition of a transported colonist to the state of a free colonist.

He can engage In and all industrial pursuits, and can travel all over Siberia. But he cannot return to Russia proper without a pardon. All women sentenced to forced labor are sent to the Island of Saghalien. POLITICAL EXILES tlon at one time. These short periods, dow of an UDner chamber is an Ideal place for a sun bath, provided that the air in the chamber is absolutely fresh and pure.

'in air on ttie norcti thp aim very beneficial, even If one must be so warmly wrapped up as to uuli- When about to be married, a young woman in Westphalia discovered that her birth and marriage were announced General E. A. McAlpin, of Ossining, N. who bought the Wittman flock of brown Leghorn chickens for Iris stock farm, paid $750 for one hen. Eli Guthrie, a 15-year-old boy of Berlin, O.

stands 6 feet 6 inches in his stocking feet, weighs 152 pounds in his shirt sleeves and is still growing. lrs. Francis Burton Harrison, who was killed in an automobile accident on Long Island November 25, bequeathed an estate valued at $1,000,000 to relatives. A monument, erected by the White Star Company, has been unveiled at Prospect, Nova Scotia, in memory of the 262 victtms of the wreck of the Atlantic in 1873. Chicago rules the world's prices for hides.

Hides which six years ago were selling at 8 cents a pound are now realizing over 15 cents, or a higher price than beef Itself. -r-The library of the late Professor Max Muller a collection of books of peculiar interest to Oriental students has been bought by Baron Iwasakl for the University of Tokyo. Burglars who have a dog to keep watch for them and give the alarm when danger approaches, are operating at Alameda, with success. The police have a description of the dog. Argentina's stock of gold now amounts to $81,400,000, against notes which have been issued at the rate of 227.27 per in addition to the $285,000,000 unguaranteed note circulation.

-In ten different streets of Paris there are as many different fountains, where for a penny you may buy twenty-two gallons of water or fill your bucket for a centimeV the tenth of a penny. The Pacific Mail Steamship Company's China took in Mexican dollars when she sailed from ban ran-cisco for China, recently. It is cheaper to send the coin than pay exchange. Professor Moissan declared at the Paris Academy of Science that he had succeeded in boiling copper at a temperature of 2100 degrees, by means of a powerful electric current. The invaluable private library of the Pacific Coast historian, H.

H. Bancroft, has now passed under the control of the University of California by payment Of $250,000 to its original collector and owner. By the end of 1907 the port of Hamburg will possess the greatest floating dock in the world. It is now under construction at Hamburg, and is to have an accommodation capacity of 35,000 tons. Its length will be 520 feet.

In a recent burglary in London the robbers used a new weapon an ammonia pistol. The pistol was loaded with about half an ounce of ammonia, and was discharged in. the face of the landlord of the house that was entered, badly injuring his eyes. Unlike some round fishes, the flat species keep to the bottom of the sea and move along it, traveling great distances. Records have beeen -obtained showing that plaice have traveled eighty-eight miles in twenty-eight days, or an average of not less than three, miles a day.

At the recent auction of the jewels of the late Maharana of Dholpur, the State crown of pearls and diamonds was put up for sale. Supplied with the crown was a necklace of diamonds, to which the larger pearls could be attached for wear as a necklace. The lot went for $168,330. Augustin Poole, a veteran trainer, who fought in the Crimea in 1854-'56, was thrown into a burial trench while wounded after the battle at Tchernaya, but made a slight movement that was noticed and was pulled out again. He died in England the other day, having lived 'just fifty years after his first funeral.

Willard A. Van Brunt, of Horicon, grand chancellor of Wisconsin Consistory Masons, has presented to the consistory the Egerton farm of 319 acres in Waukesha County. He designs it to serve as the "corner-stone" of a Ma sonic home, which will be the first of the kind to be owned by Consistory The gift is valued at 000. -An interesting trial made in Eng land on a farm near Biggleswade shows that fields can be so illuminated by acetylene gas that harvesting may be easily carried on at night. In this test foot swath were employed and a field of fifteen acres was mowed in three hours and thirty-five minutes A gasoline traction engine furnished th power.

mint Bells. "No sliver is ed in church bells, said the bell founder. "People claim there is, but I have assayed many an old bell that came here to be broken up, and never an ounce of silver did I find in one of them. "For the best bells we use old cannon. They give us the purest amalgam we can get.

The tenor bell I am making now is composed of twelve tons of old cannon from Spain. "These two molds, the core and the cope, are what give the bell its sweetness. It It In their cut that the secret of bell founding lies. The core is the Inner mold. It has the exact shape of the bell's inside.

"We fit the cope over the core and into the space between the molten metal is run. When the metal has hardened and cooled the bell is finished, save for Its clapper. "To tune bells It Is necessary to chip little pieces out of them. Our bell tuner is a good musician. He bas composed a number of hymns." Philadelphia Bulletin.

Harry Dountown (to country sweet-heart)-Mles Milkyweigh, do you play nd sing "When the Cows Are in the Corn?" Miss Milkyweigh Lord bless you, no! I get the dogs and chase 'em out. PUNISHING WITH THE KNOUT. a ration, and still further, his family, if It comes with him. receives a monthly payment for Its support. Nothing is given to women who have no children, but each child has the right to nearly three rubles a month, or about to $2.

The idea that there Is much cruelty to1 prisoners In Siberia is no longer true. A prison official who should at tempt to be unnecessarily cruel would be murdered In these days. Nearly all the workof Siberian con victs Is performed in the open air. They are engaged principally in the establishment of roads, in the improve ment of lands, the diinage of the soil, and the construction of buildings. Besides this there are the coal mines, where political prisoners are compelled to labor.

The political prisoner Is the worst used wretch on the face of the earth. Chained to a companion he is compelled- to labor, hnlf-clad. in groups of five to twelve, with a half-shorn head, and clothes of gray cloth, and with 'one leg of white, which is his badge of hopeless doom. He has no rights. While there is some hope for all other Siberian prisoners, there is none for him except in death.

It is little wonder that the detection of a political conspirator in Russia means usually the suicide of the vie-tin. Death is preferable to the life of a political prisoner in Siberia. MEAKIKG OF RUSSIAN TEEMS. PROLETARIAT. Instead of callin-themselves workmen, the Russian laborer? refer to themselves as the proletariat.

BLACK HUNDRED are the loyalists among Workmen. They want reforms, but at the same time they have not lost their inborn respect for the Czar and for religion. They regard as enemies all those who attack the' Czar and religion. REACTIONARIES are those who oppose the granting of liberal government. They are the large class of superior office holders and, nobles who realize "that when Russia is free they will lose their jobs.

INTELLECTUALS. A general term applied to the Russian people apart from the proletariat and reactionaries. They are educated Russians who are trying to liberalize the government and are split up into innumerable parties who have great difficulty in working together. CONSTITUTIONALISTS are a small body who are opposed to violent means for securing freedom for Russia. They want all reforms to come from the donma.

the new Russian parliament. CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS are followers of Tolstoi, who oppose all resistance to the bureaucracy and who want the establishment of a eo-op-'erative community through the abolition of private ownership of land. BUJD. The Jewish revolutionary organization, which is working for the establishment of full local government for Poland. It is the best organized revolutionary force in Russia and its work in Warsaw has completely ter- rorized the local authorities there.

ZEMSTVOISTS are the members of the various municipal governments of Rflssia who were the first to begin a systematic agitation this year for the granting of a constitution. The Rlarht Betrlnnlna-. "I want to do great things!" exclaimed the ambitious young man to the old financier. "How, sir, would you advise me to go at it?" "To begin with," drawled the elderly milloinaire, calmly, "I would advise you first to accomplish something small." Detroit Free Press. What has become of the old fash ioned child who was taught "Pretty is as pretty does?" OFF FOR SIBERIA.

difficult for the sun's rays to bene-trate to the skin. To He on the grass In the sun la better still on the irraaa with nnir a hiHnVt r.toon the in.i:j healing powers of mother earth The patient's head should not be exposed to the sun In any case, and a sun bath should be followed by a cool sponge bath when possible. Max- well's Talisman. A shipyad at Ornmi!" Hmin. Mill operation, was established 1W0 years ago.

the capital city of the empire had been built over for the purpose. But in time this prison fell Into a state of entire disorganization, and, notwithstanding improvements made upon it, it at last could be no longer maintained. In proceeding with the preliminary studies for the construction of a new prison in St. Petersburg, in conformity to the scale of punishments of the new Russian code, It was necessary that the prison should be built on the cellular plan. Prison officials do not, as a rule, In other countries, like the cellular, or solitary Imprisonment plan, as It induces nervousness and mad-Boss.

By a freak of Russian Justice, eminently proper, the convicts of the em pire were put to work in demolishing the old building, which had been used CMKI5AI. 15 HIS CELL. a a prison, while they were also used to build the new structure. Then all the other prison and correctional institutions were put in requisition to make doors, windows, locks, bells, iron beds. kitchen utensils, furniture for the cells and the prison office, as well as the mattresses for the use of unfortunates to follow In Imprisonment the men who had built their prison home.

The prison Itself consists of a large main building of stone and Iron, which la flanked by a dozen smaller buildings. As It is situated on the River Neva, only a partial wall of stone urrounds it The main or entrance building is two stories in height. In It are the quarters of the prison guards, the reception rooms, and the rooms of the officers of the institution. Then comes the prison Itself. It is five stories in height and contains Ave tiers of cells, which are reached by light Iron ornamental stairways and corridors.

Each tier of cells numbers 400, and they are about the size of those In the New York prison at 8tag Sing. Prts-nera are garbed in a yellow cloth cos-tame, and wear skull They are always kept at work, usually on public improvements, from 7 a. m. to 6 p. with an hour's cessation from labor for dinner.

Their food Is coarse In the extreme, and consists mostly of dry bread, meat, vegetables and milk. Prisoners do all the work of clean-lag the Institution, as well as In the kitchen and the bakery. They also run the prison's electric light system. There are three buildings connected with the prison which are known as hospital departments; while there Is also a separate hospital building for those who are seized with Infectious diseases. i Next In the order of Russian prison systems comes that of Siberia, that great field for the novelist and the UN BATH IS GOOD.

i however, may be repeated several la a fteat Factor la the Cure of times a day. The best results are ob-Aar DUoaa If Well Tried. tained by exposing the bare skin of There la no disinfectant made by the whole bodv (excent th head to Wn that can compare with the sun'a the direct rays of the sun. Conse-taya in effectiveness. auentlv a cot nlaced In the bow wtn- A aun bath la a moat potent factor tfca cure of any disease.

After Bsain Decomea accustomed to the rays of the sun one may lie in i uuui at a uuie viuu reati benefit, but at first the exposure iuL.X bo oulv few uiiuuti' dura- 10.001) American cigars i.