Near the ciiy of Vladivoßbock, where the construction of the new Hiberia railway was lately commenced in honor of the Czarowitb's visit, thorc are (says a St. Petersburg correspondent) among (ho workmen or helots, whoso guerdon is many stupes and no pay, some thousands of the least criminal convicts in the country. Among those who are being punished for acts which have absolutely nothing in common with moral crime was one boary old man of venerable aspect, a native of Koorok, who had deliberately trodden on the chain of the Governmental surveyor as ho was measuring the ground because he was suspected of an intention to transfer some of the peasanra' land to the Crown, This >mprudont act was labelled " violent resistance to tho lawfully constituted authorities," the old man was found guilty, and as the rigors of Siberia were deemed inadequate to give this dating spirit his due, he was deported to the more terrible island of Saghalien. When the scarcity of free workmen began to bo felt, he was taken from there, conveyed to Liberia, and sent to work along with one of the convict gangs. One day he was struck by tho amiliar look of the soldier who, with loaded rifle, guarded his gang ; and he made bold to ask him whence he came. To this question tho soldier, forbidden by the military rules to enter into con versation with the convicts, gave no reply. The old man, however, grew more fidgety, ioon ceased work alto gether, and fixed dia dark, piercing eyes on the soldier. At Uit, unable

A STRANGE STORY FROM SIBERIA. AN AGED CONVICT AND HIS SOLDIER SON.
DONALD DINNIE'S RECORD.
