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ant, who speak as if be were order THE PADDLE FOR OKIMINALS GORDON'S FUNERAL. Long-felayed Military Ob- sequies Described BY ORO, VW. STRRVANS, A Strange Scene Witnessed in- the Mahdi's Stronghold, BIBLE AND MAXIM CBREMONY, Solemn Bxpintery Service Opposite the Diemantied Patace- Gordon's Garden lt;Hojating 0. the Fiags An Affecting Story. Issues of the Dally Mall wh come to bind contain Mr. 6. ens story of that striking event, the explatory service at Khartoum in memory of Gordon. Mr. Steevens ar Molo Is as follows: The steamers 6 rews, stern-wheslers pluc-plueged, thels Bicaly way up tho fall Forthern triage of Omduemen,- where dhe shelf iaime out with the white fag, past the breach where we went fo the Khallfa s stronghold, past he Choke cmbrasures and the tac erated Mahdi s tomb, , past wamp-roote palms of Tutl We looket az it all with 4 jon- Ate, impressional curiosity. It was Sanday mor wid that farlous Fri Gas, een alrtady halt Iitetime bes id us. The sollleys ls out of our curs, ind the smoke-out-oF island. stiximers there was a de ry corps, white oF nt had -taked. part Ia the vengen very white officer that. coat be ot from ducy was thore. fifty picked British battalion, one or two each unit of the Cgyptian army. That we were golig up to Khartoum at all was ovidence of our triumph: yet, Af you tovuked about you, triumph was hot the uote. The most reckless sub- altern, the most barbarous black, was touched with gravity. We were goinx to perform a necessary duty, Which had been put off far. far vod DAYS. ; Soartees yours next Jununre yet eve through tat humliladl Thought there tan a whiaper of tre We may be stow; but In that y BOWNESS we sliow that we do Heb forget. Soon or inte, we give cur ows thelr due, Her. whee men that fought for wh lived disguised amd alone among furious enemies to get news of mm; Wa who pour: Scout hls b'ood Ii at Tamal and-Kirbekau ; Stuart-Wortley, who missed by but two days the bance of dying st lis side. And Were boys wio cous hardl thelr mothers toid them that Gordon wag dead, grow up now, aud ap- peating In the Blues of tinie to exact Ten thousand Ives (or cue. Gordon may die other Goruore may die in the future but th ie clean Umbed brood wil gruw nd avenge them, On thi from each from APT En MANY lisp when GORDON'S PALACE The boats stopne iug and thiero was silenc. Wv tying up opposite a grove wl the bank wis u of curiously. like tlie buckweesh-hunters to kre this Nile steame vs, bub we looked it them to. tge building ris Ing from a crimb. ike suas tall pal He had trodden this road to You could .City May Pisappear Under Water in a playing tho Dead March m Saul. Then the back band was playing the march from Handel's Soiplo. which in Fugland generally gocu with Toll for the Brave ; this was In memory of thove loyal met mong tho Khedive's sabjects who could have sayed themmelves by trescli*, , bub preferred to die with Gor Next fell a deeper hush tha: xoopt for the solemn minate at had followed the fierce tuts. Our ehAplaine Cuthotte. Anglican, Presbyterian and Methodist came slowly forward and ranged themselves, with thelr backs Palace, just before the Sirdar. Presbytorlan read the Fifteenth Panim. Tho Angllean led the rust- ling whilaper of tho Lord's prayer. Snow-halred Father Brindle, best be- loved of priests, laid his helmet at Ils and read memorial prayer bar -beaded Ih the sun, Then came forward the pipors and walled 4 dirgo. and the Sondanese played Abi With Me. Perhaps lips dd twitch ta little to wee the ebony heathens fervently blowing out Gordon's fayor- Ite hymn; but the most irreslstibie Incongrulty woukt bardiy have made. us laugh at that moment. And there were those who sald the cold Sirdar himself could hardly speak or 0, as General, Hunter and the rer stepped out according to thelr rai nd-abook bis hand. What. wonder ar toum for fourteen years, and le stooe at the goal at last. Thus, with Maxim-Nordenfelt 4nd Bible we burled Gordon after the manner of his race. The parade was over, the troops were dismimed, and for a xhort spaco we walked In Gor- don's garden. GORDON THE MAN Gordon has become a legend with his countrymen, and they all but delfy him dead who would never lave heard of him had he lived. But In this you w come to know Gordon the man, not the myth, aud to feel ear to him. Here was an Eng Nahman doing his duty, alon , aud at the instant peril of hig ilfe; yet still he-loved his garden. The garden was yet more pathetic ruin than the pelaee.-/Pho-palace- accepted - te Joon mutely ; the garden strove ngalnst It. Untrimmed, unwatered, the oranges and cltrons still struggled to bear thelr little hard, green knobs, as if they had been full, ripe fruit. The pomegrinates put out their vermil- Jon star-flowers, but the fruit was small 1 juiceless. The too, were small avd without-vigor. Rankly over- grown with dhurra, still-trat d over a low roof Ita dwarfed leaves and limp tendrils, but yielded. not a sign of grapes. It was all green, and a0 far livid and refreshing after Om- durman. But it was the green of hature, fot of cultivation: leaves grew large, and fruit grew small and dwindled away. Reluctantly, despalr- ingly, Gordon's garden dropping back to wilderness. And in the middle of the defeated fruit-trews grew rank- ly the hateful Soudsti apple,-tire pols onons herald of desolat The bugle broke iu upon us: we went luck to the boats We were quicker stcaming back than steaming up. We were not a whit jes clusteied, but 4sery men felt tighter. We came with a sigh of sham?: we went away with 2 sgh of relief. The long-delayed duty was done. The bones-of our countrs men were shattered and scattered abroad, and no man knows thelr place. None the less, Gordon had his dne bar- inl at Inst. So we steamed awax to the roaring camp and left iim alone again. Yet not one nor two looked back at the mouldering p and the tangled garden, with and 1 great contentment. We. Gordon alone ngain but alone in ma- Jeaty, under the conqtiering ensign of his own people. FRISCO SAID TO BE SINKING Ko Dungeon in the Colorado State Penitentiary. REFRACTORY ONES ARB SPANKED Tum 6 meme oe Naelona Prison Association, and also a mem- ber. and officer in the Warden's As- soolation of the United States. The latter amoclition meets anuually in some oue of the States, the last meeting of Prison Cougress belng held at Austin, Texas, but a short time ago. As usual the punishment and government of criminals was one of the important questions debated. There are those among the wardens who advocate solitary confinement In dungeons on bread and water, This an ancient custom, and 1 have abolished It, not In the light of prejudice, but after experience. We have no dungeons of oresd and water treatment at the Colorado Peniteatiary. Iam a firm bellever In corporal punishment, and at our last Prison Congress I ngaged In quite 4 discussion over this question. As a result of the expreasious I Nave Ut tered, I became quite wall. known in. his State ag a spanker. The spanking chair came about In this way: They have an Industrial schoo and house of cor-vction for bad girls ant FouME women at Denver: and they re had quite a time. in keepin them under control; in fact thes failed to do eo, and had to eall in th police force several times to quell In gurrections. On one of my trips to Denver some of the newspaper. re- porters Interviewed me, and asker me what I would do with those lu- corrigible girls. T sak) I woukt spank them. They didn't think that was possible, and gave many zeasons why young girls and young women could not be spanked. Fea *S00GESTED AS TORE. then sald that I would bulld a bottomless chair and arrange pad- dies and attach electricity to it, plac: the patient in the chair, strap her there, and let the attendant step out of. the room and push a button, a then let the chair do tle rest. Of courae, as we say here In the West, T was talking through my -bat. confined from tour to fifty daye wach recorded cages will show) low diet and ehance for medita- tion. os they: term it, whed in re- ality a tough prisoner will stay there until he grows there emaciated and is almost a physteal wreok, and thon Shy. hls fellow ieee, 7 e as oman and them hero. With iteelt pun- a die romance about all, andheroiam in the man who wilfully this teat a clash of wills, a teat of ondur- ance between himself and his keepers. Whereas, tho same man, for the same offence let ti say refusal to work throws down his tools and declares that he will die frat le taken away and spanked and returne to. work minw romance, the herolam, the ge bas : cea as common, ord - everyday convict in neod of dlscipline-e softy for going against the cold, matter of feet aide of a paddio. I have proven to myself beyond ae eee Se obedience, aniform disc ; and clean- sei wets oar: ore eee ee not et away from the punlahment. P. Hoyt in New York Herald. 9a rmRAvennIe DaRmms Tney Tench the Work to Those Who * Gannot Go to College. The mags of the people everywhere do not go to colleges, and if the wo- men on forme are t be helped you must carry the instruction to them. We try to muke agricultural eduea- toi available to.ail our people, and some of it unavoldable by them. We have what are called travelling dairies, A simple outfit for the making of butter is provided. It usually opn- nalete. Of a hand-power. centr cream separator, a Babcock milk butter worker, 3 pair of Swelghing m worker, a wel scales, lwo. thertnomettera pall, strain rs, dippers and a few other necessary utensils. The whole appara tuscan be packed in boxes and loaded on a horse wagon or sent by train. The weight does not. exceed five hun- deed pounds, baring Cairo or A stucco, two-storiet fr windows. was lean gone dows were filed up with et faced. with tall, Now the upper the blind win bricks; the you contd rubble. In : fi achelu, such as grow in Ismailia on the Ghezicoh at Cairo, only unprun d deep luscious n, only drooplig like a weeping willow. At that most ordinary sight every- i ry soleuaii. Vor it was a ther Of aft from the ig burpenness with tall -win- Wwaves the the tree Was no-need In tliat boc o before Us. pitt, oem formed up the alnce in: tliree sides of u rectangle Beyp left as we right Briuisil to the Wislol and. brigate, Ean stood in tbe open Palace. Then, ou the fhe very spot. where though the step bi Datchers mounted tiave Vanlshed we were awun Staves. By the right-ha stood Lieut. Staveley Captain Watson, Kit i: left hand Blmbashit Mitten other officers HOISTING THE FLAGS The Sirdar raised tis hand, A pull on tho halllards, up ran, out flew the Unlon Jack, tugging vagerly at bls reins, dazzling lorlousis Iu; the. aun. rejoicing in his strength and. ike freedom. Bane wnt whe Metis welve and a half pounder, am the boat-quivered-to-her mcktont Got Save Our Gracious Qnech hymned the Guards Band bang trom the nd. Sirdar and private stood bang attention, ever bang Tag liad gone up at the sar un now, the same earsmashing sul uplifting bangs marking tl Daud of the 1ith ese wats playing the Khedivial hymn Ther cheers for the Queen ona tho Sir dar; helmets leqped lithe jf and the melancholy rnin to th first wholesome whout of all. thes ears. Then the same tort - The comrade fines stretched themselvee lustily, enjoyini thelr own again; the bands pealed forth the pride of countrs; the 21. guns banged forth the strength of w Thus, white mon did back Chistian and Moslem, Anglo-Egypt sot. her weal onco more, forever, ori Khartount PIATORY SERVICE, murdered elvi- Hus to, trom thi lou snd two eK lie statement of the civil engineer who conducts the work of the clty und: county surveyor's office at the city hall. Suiking slowly but steadily, each recurring year bring- ing additional evidencesthat. a large portion of the city would in a few decades be below the water of the bay. This is no wild or irresponsible stitement, but a cold fact demon. strated and proved by the careful selentlflo observations of engineers in the. service of the municipality, men who have been establishing levels throughout San Franckico: for years, and have the duta and record of the city aurveyor's office as the basis of thelr discovery. These engineers find In surveying or leveling, in the un- stable districts, that the official mon- uments Indicating the levels, or heights above the city base, lin sunk with the land, and so it isn essary to begin on firm ground and carry lines over those sunken. marks, and always with the same rgsults streets, sidewalks, curbs, street rall- roads, balldings, all have gone down. ward together. The peculiar feature of the sinking henomenon is that the whole su face setts equally, a fact which has not only averted attention from the constant settlement, but also been ( source of endless disputes between owners of Iind In the district, who Imagine the grade 1+ raised upon the: by city surveyors every few yours n Interesting feld for mathemati cal effort ts opened through the cl surveyor's figures upon this subjec The average elnking of those districts which insist on moving into nether regions Is two Inches..2- year. There xa tendency to anttie lee ax the Years pass, though the sett 6 fot mop and the ratio of the crease Is 0 insignificant In compar with the time as to be barely, wortlt consiterlng. Two Wiches may, there: fore, be taken as the basis of calcula- ton. In 100 years the water of the bay would be ebbing through the first stories of buildings, and the second floor would be what seamen call awash, But as tho inhabitants of San Francisco will keep on. filling thi How Refractory Convie Was all suid in juke, bat one Gf the Denver papers took it up and publistied a column article Now it seems to have gone all over tho earth and I have received many letters, and, in faet, have now elght orders for spanking chairs. : The mote of paoishment at this im stitation fs spanking We do not rev move the clothes. We use an obd fas joned paddle, two feet and two Inches jong and three inches wide, three- Quarters of an inch thick, welghing fifteen and a quarter ounces. It is: not necessary to run it by electri- city. This institution is only about eight years old, and as the law com- pels us to keep record of all punish- ments it is not difficalt for one to: lool over the recorda. From a search of our books I find that the panish- ments inflicted with the paddle have been more effective than any other method, and now I do not average one punishment a month. I think this speaks well for the method. My experienice has demonstrated that it is the best and not only the best, but that It ls also the most effec- tive and free from the pernicious af- ter effects that follow other treat- ments. The method of punishment is oue of the important questions that arise at all prison congresses where, pron managers meet innually.Dit- ferent treatments have been resorted to and have been leghlated against by legislatures, so that It has reall put prison managers to much trouble to dx ide upor against, At the Prison Congress held at Aus tin, Texas, in December last, this xame question was brought up, ua fre, fonnd. there, og tone, manny Ot otors to vorporah punishment peo. ple who advovated the ancient meth of bread and water and the dungeoi They urged that these panishment were more humane than spanking, and we urged that spanking was tore con: duclve to 2 correet appreciation of tand, there will be no likellhood ofthe offence amt-a clearer-reajization fuch strange happening: The cause of this peeniinr in-w large the city ts to the nature sera deseribe as a. mixture of washed down from the. hititsl from. the bay and decnyed vey't matter, formation of age. utx the orl Engineer that in piaces no bottom h reached with piles alxty to elght Jong, and the heavy structur ed thereon sustain the tremendous welght by force of frletion, or res ance, against the sides of the: piles How deep 1s the ooze has not been aaoertalned in most placed in the sink Ing area. Nor ls It positively known whether the soft substcatum moves out Into the bay under the promure, rok Heemer Li ondtitic oreet Before we had time to think such thoughts over to ourselves the bands comes more stable. San Francisco The advoontes-of of punishment as a punishment than the pangs of hunger, the depletion of pliysieal and mental force, the morbid solitary vows of yen tain Me brea dungeon treatment SANKING Grood to yin th nd grow me grows physleally weaker, for all of his time and thonghta are conceritrated spat. for a min- it la over he 3 and rub a tenor so to spenk, and goes back to his work none the wore for the treat- the dungoon and Chrontele. bread and water keop a prisoner so ts Are Treated In Colorado. dairy. instruetor, who ly an expert Duttersmaker, and an assistant go together. The travelling dairy spe fone or two nsualls two-days at a Place. A local committee a3 for suitable lecture room, which le fre- quently the Town Hall, and also for a supply of milk and cream. Two meet. i day are held, at which practi demonstrations of the testinj milk and the making of butter are given. The instructor gives explann- tious as the processes are enrried on, and an hour or so is given to a siinpk lecture or discussion. Two. visits of 1 travelling dilry to a place bring about 4 marked improvement in the quality Of the dairy butter. The women see the use ofuthe apparatus, watch the methods of handting everything .and learn something of the principles which underlie them, The neiglbors who may not have attended the the travelling dairy learn from those who did, Of course, In many of the districts there are firmers' wives and daughters by the hundred who do sot need such justruction, bet many of those are the keenest stidents. Pros, Robertson'y Report. Ainoy st: HOTELEBEPER. The King of Wurtemoerg DerivesProftt From a Peeuliar Source. mberg may be regarded as 1 botelkeeper aa-well as A movarch:* This hae long been a tradition In his family, but not until German king an-keeping cat 7 the Great was through Europe of the bejutita: tit dom. bow profitu become. When Po travelling Incognite he refussd to stop anywhere but at an Inn. To cheamvent this win th thon of Wurtemberg put tavern sgn outelde one of the royal laces, siiid dresticet ni himself welcomed the Czar, personnge s, descendant now two large hotels, frum whieh Said to derive a -rewesne 50,000 4 year, Olan anh A dist thin st stalix fron ng of thy Kitchen oor to sit ing, the a woman from Go ord te Kltehen too, : foot dnstead of the hiw ag A motor, A bunch of steel shavings held togethor by bands is arranged 5 that It can be slipped over the boot and the wearer can skate or prance with thls foot over the spots that re quire Attention Instead of getting down on all fours and serabbing with the hand, to tho fatigue of the spine. There are 1,155 glacier tivors i the Alps, of which -a lengtti of more than fon: quarter miles. TN BARBAROUS RUSSIA Tales of Revolting Cruelty 1) THR * GHAR BLIND? ing a gluse of eognac. Now the executioner mys so the prisoner: ( See here, fellow, keep a stiff upper Up. . Never mind, Sidorow, only see that you don't dle, cries the direc- tor. The nolve made by the knowt om the naked, quivering bedy i too hor- rible to describe, Av the exeew bie ed, Ye Finedish Ingenuity of Officials in Infiioting Torture. Uk, GUBAS STARTHNG STORK The Mxperiences of a Former Physician of a Russian Penal Colony Made Public Through St, Petersburg Medica Journal The Terrors of the Prison are Beyond Description. Tho Wratech, St. Petersburg medical monthly, printed for private clroulation ai oo ouly, contalns a flat refutition of she pretty storiey published by receut ravelers in Siberia to the effect that 1 in the White Crary empire ani that the legions of deported are treated as humanely as any Sunday school Superintendant could ask: for. The new Georgo Kennan is, or rather was, Dr. Lobas, phy- of the State. 7 Inland: of Sgobaltn, the Rumian penal in apanese Sea. It 1 pears that Dr. Lobas, w: i hie work, kept s diary tted down bis experiences the various exeeutions he was forced to attend. He seems to have been a noble-spirited and humane man a yehite raven ameng.. in officals ln Siberia, for Sachalin Is part of Sk The erueities and brutalities prae- tleed under nls eyes, and whieh le armetion, to. 2. ay 081 on mind of this sunsitive man, He re- mained in Sachalln but nine months, In the spring of this year he returra- ed to St. Petersburg sick and worn out. Soon afterward he had te be put away in an asylum for nervous diseases. Now experts say he may go insane, tho Sachalin terrors having Fnnbalanced his mind, 8: Here are extracts from Dr. Lobas diary, as printed by the Wratech, which paper, by the way, regards thelr publication as interesting from a medical standpoint. without dar- Ing to allude to their political sig- nificance. The first. entry is dated Alexan- drowak, June Sth, 1897, i Yesterday, the *hird after my ar rival in th capital of Sachalin, I received the following from the director of the prisoner: Your honor is invited te come to office at 9 o'clock to-morrow ning, to attend the execution of prisoners condemned for punish- s your medical advice will be required, T cautio: your honor to be panetual DIRECTOR OF ALENANDER PRISON e plate Of execition the half dark, oppressive cellar of the prison The woods ule and supports biack with nocient dirt, the oor strewn with plue needies. At one end of the had a table with a number of rough shairs. Around it the state's uttor- bey, the director or commandant, as he is called, a number of secretaries and minor officials, 1 walk up tothe group, who greet me as a man Of im- portance, I'am such a man. can spoil thelp- plouxure if I have a mind to. I can say every one of those booked for a knouting is physically aufit to be puuished. And then I will bo dismissed nud the successor selected in my stead wil be a person war- unted to eay Yes and amen to what 9 EAS SE in Rome, and must do as the Romans. Fifty prces from the table stands the executioner s bench, low, narrow, durk of color on account of the blood spilt over It. There are holes In the woodwork at both ends gt;. With their aid the victim's body cat be secured to the bench by ropes. Twelve men to be knoted.* Quite a iumber, Little Father, said the commaudant smilingly, but we had no physiciun for the last two weeks, iuud su regular business was biterrupted. confoutd my luck, there was not one among the dozen stalwart priso ers whom I could eouscientiously eali uuuflt for punishment. They were ex- ceedingly healthy. Nothing the ma tr WIth thelr heart or naga signed runt for all twelve of them. Here comes the executioner. What a strange costume a white, high, sugar-toaf hat, adorned with sulity pictures, His feet in mighty fei: shoes. Wiack velvet trousers. A red shirt ne-sieeves turned uj Let me see the knout, I say, still hopeful of finding some sort of fault. L once examined some of these justru- moitts of torture in the old St. reters- turg prisons, where they are now out of use. The St. Petersburg variety, us 1 remember It, consisted of a thoug of thick jeatior, cut i a triangular form, from four to five yards long, and an luch wide, tapering off at one end: the small end being fastened to a little Wwooden handle about two feet loug. The Sachalin knout is different. Prem stout club hangs a horse leather whip, the upper part of which is as thick ag threo men s fingers round and From this thee. whip cords, likewise of leather and adorned by many Knots, bang down. Fach of ther: Is as thick as my thumb. The vietims aro lined up. On one of the side walls prisoner-soldiers, shorn of thelr locks on head and faco; stand opposite, londed revolvers. i thelr outstretched hands. The stillness ls oppressive, Orice in awhile yor-hear the rattle of chains, the rustle of papers, the hard breatli- lig of the prisoners. . Sidorow,' cries the command group of gray SHothed unfortunates, a jong, lanky figure detaghes itself. He walk wrth uncertain steps, his claim trailing on the ground. The re leaves hile lips, his yes wand around the rodm like those of jbini mal gbout to be slaughtered, The executioner. removes the chain and strips the man Now He down. . Sidorow crosses himself three times and Mes down on the bench, round which he- puts his arms. His hands are fastened together -under the bench. Tis legs are secured by her straps. How niany? usks the account Sixty -this from the command the body, it sharp wiilstii heat and the cords twine ody: Te tale: movement to di again. At the second stroke, or after the SS, 6. aplashing, ean wkaey with fhe seaieit 9 Ue hone meee lowing. Sidorow took his puniahment iilre a stole, He could not heip crying, but he did--so ina low, agonised voice. The fellows who came after him were loss hardenod. At firat they oried out with terror every time the whip struck them. After the fifth stroke the poor devils kept tip continuous howling. There were no casualties. A June 6th, It seems almost beyond belief; the moat Siete ees cay gee every 1 of captain the right to faflict cor poral punishment of the sort that cute the flesh and it with a cracks the . The lower courts also order men and wo- men to be kuouted with great fre- Tune 10th. I have learned that mout of the executioners. are, murderers. The; are chosen from the prisoners, ant those having *record for brutality are preferred for that position. An executioner takes the Ile of a prison- er into hls hands. He can crush and grind the fleh of prisoner; he.can., iI with ono lash If he pleases. There are some virtuosl among the execv- tloners, I understand. If an official has a grudge against a man hecan have him crippled for life at very short order, and keep strictly with- In the law at the same time. -Peroepatigey Augiat-- had nineteen prisoners, which two were released by my or- ders and despite the protests of the commandant. The latter Is the worst brute I shall hope to encounter. He has systematized cruelty by pro- longing the agony of the victims be- yond endurance. A mild form of knouting ts to get It over as quickly 28 possi The director of the pri- son. here allows an Interval of nearly minute between each stroke. When he bas gone from one-end of the room to the other the executioner must strike, and he must not strike a sic ond time untll he again reaches the place from which he started. And 60 on and 0 on. Flaralapadge, Aug. 1th I have nearly come to blows with Soltkow, the director of this penal settlement..'This scoundrel desired me to declare a man fit for punishment whose buck was literally eaten away by gungrene of the texture of the flesh, the result of previous knoutings. T refased, and the jadge upheld me. At the knouting there waa a ter- rible scene. Solkow thought the exe- gutloner did not strike hard enough. He came behind him and with a trem: endous kick threw him over the Lody of the man on. the bench. Then he took the knout In his own hands and hed both prisoner and execu: loner. The Intter lost nn eye, and he will not have the use of his hands for many months to come. I will report this madman to St. Petersburg, but will It do any good Solowloska, Sept. Twenty-five per cent. of the pri-on- ers of this district are cripples. The knout made them so. There lave been no knoutings ince January, and the settlement Is in a: highly flourisliing state. It has lost no man by flight. The disciplinary punishments now in Yorue are imprisonment, the rations are cut down or the freedom to select 3rd. * e me ze : gs naaoF Sipfagin at hls own accord, has done Ae emia pei SoTMnkaws Sept, 18. b nm t whippin; was hold a fow days Before ty cone ing. Prisoners may be whipped with- Out process f law. The. commandant can order thirty lashes; the captain of a district av many as one hundred, Sixty persone were Whipped here, and pon my arrival one of them, a preg- nant woman, was dying In eonse- quence, I could not help the poor greature, 60 1 chloroformed her. ait let her die palnlees, Hew ehild, which ave been born bef rist- mans, dled with the mother At Tretlerpadge, Mellow, emote ctlerpadge, Yellow, Luschik . aud Bolegajo Takala everywhere 1 foun the same awful situation, Knouting, kuouting, knoating, It Is as if the opel of ivan the Terrible Were living In these commanders, Tyan found a pecukiar tickling: seneation In murder ; these commatatiies seem experience: somethlag familar. Ww: tiey sec blood strommiig: trom backs of h low and women. Women ase not knouted, but they are birched or whipped, and some Dilemi-ceepurs sont the birches dil Vine egar overnight to make them smart wore, At lus phice kioutingy. are sets frequent, bur they ure lege feared thin birchings. The commandant. ol jows the executioner to accept. bribes from lis victiny and then divides the br.tes with Min. The krowted per- Soi receives punishment with the thick ond only. The three whipcords ure applied tothe woodwork of the each With a greau stow So the how 3 Wipe eee Dr. Lobus visited Korsakoff, at the southern extremity of the island, and then returned over the same circuit to Alexandrowsk, the capital. Many. pages in-his-diary are filled by re ports of the same character as those sbove quoted. His investigations of the bodies of knouted persons show that a few days after the executions they begin to look like carensses in ' state of decomposition. The Joctor says he advised the St. Prtersbure suthorities, shortly after tin arrival in Sachalin, to pr soribo a Nghter os oi fet a8 that now In use might knock na man's spine by He blow. one After each knoating or birching the. victim is-sont to the: heapite says Dr. Lobas, Iam afrabt they were not benefited much by. tho oo- tor's humanity. Sachalin Is fill -c eripplee cripples made by the kronts Accorling to the diary, punishment by birshing is Infilcted for any petty distipifiary fault. Hardened sinners against discipline make -nequaintance. ; with the knont; five or ten strokes is tho initia dose. Runaway prison ers are sometimes knouted to death: whether the commanding officer wants to take their lives or not, doe not much matter. ? plicated shoogt maintenance, w come of me; for I bad no othe world? Pugaled and seeing no could do nothing ress und dread follow. 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