•Ib is taken off ab night when his day'B ; work is over, I suppose,' Pushkin re marked aa he ceased looking ab the ' un fortunate.' 'No/replied Dubayeff; «he must have it with him day and night, month in and month oub, in prison or ab work in the mine, tie cannot take more than a single step without ib, cannot even crost from one side to the other of a prison cell, and if he is or dered from this place to one a hundred or a thousand miles away he mußb trundle the barrow before him.' Pushkin stood speechless as Dubayeff continued: One prisoner named Shedrin, who had been » school-teacher in Russia and was sent to Siberia as a dangerous revolutionist, was chained to a wheelbarrow here in the mines, Orders came one day that he and some other politicals Bhould be sent to St. Petersburg to be shut up for life in one of the fortresses. He was thrown into a waggon with the wheelbarrow still chained to him and was compelled to carry it all the way to the imper-a! capital.' _ •Is such a thing possible V said Pushkin, m astonishment. 'Not only possible but actual,' was the reply. • When the roads were rough and the prisoners were riding instead of march ing, the officers found that the wheelbarrow caused great inconvenience to the occu pants of the vehicle. Ib was consequently removed and fastened behind the telyega bub ib was chained again to Shedrin ab every halb ab the etapes and in the trains and steamboats that completed the long journey. 1

♦What had tho man done thab caused such brutality?' 1 He struck an officer,' was the reply. Occasionally there are humane officers in charge of these prisons, and the men and women are treated as well as the severe rules of the discipline will allow. Bub for one who is humane there are five or more even who are brutes; some are cruel but honesb; some are cruel and ab the same time are thieves, and still others, are cruel, dishoneßb, and confirmed drunkards, or libertines. When all the bad qualities are combined what can we expect. •Yes, you may well say that,' Pushkin remarked as his friend paused. 