Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-03-02

incarceration he had been professor of Ian
! guages and earned fair income; but when
saw him he was an invalid and prematurely
aged, with snow white hair; he was accom-
| panied by his aged mother, whose only SOL
| he Was. Although old and feeble in body
| her mind was remarkably strong and clear.
She declared that nothing in the world would
| reconcile her to parting from Sacha: that
where he was ordered there would she &c
also, even to the remotest point Of the grea,
Siberian land
Nine Izmalofr was a little woman, with
beautiful gray eyes; her manner was sub
dued and refined: she had received her edu-
cation at Smolni institute, in the capital city.
Iznaloff had been arrested for participating
in riot Of the students, brought about by
the oppressive rules issued by tine minister OF
education. The students had rebelled against
the unnecessary and tyrannical restrictions
imposed upon them, and Izmaloff, as one OF
the tutors, was i'll the act of quelling the dis
turbance when arrested; his being in the
midst of the rioters was sufficient excuse for
the unlawful act. Thus was another bright
life crushed by the oppressor
After becoming acquainted our time was
passed IL discussing various scientific ques-
tons, and in relating interesting stories of
our past life. As became true Russians. we
all played cards The government allows a
prisoner, if 4 nobleman, fifteen kopekas a
day; to the peasant and other not privileged
classes seven kopekas per day is allowed for
their maintenance Each prisoner must fur
nish his own food from the sum allowed.
The first act Of the pohticals on forming a
party, either in prison or on the road, is to
elect a starosta or elder 20 manage their af-
fairs; to him each prisoner gives SO many
kopekas per day, and from it he supplies their
wants. He is like general superintendent,
taking charge of everything. 1t not infre-
quently happens that the politicals are well
supplied with money. In such cases life, Of
course, is much smoother than for the poor
fellow who must exc out an existence on his
seven kope!las per day, which in st. Peters
burg is barely sufficient to provide him with
blacl; bread to sustain life.
The sympathy one prisoner displays for an
other IS something wonderful, an instance OF
which | viii relate. We had among our
number a peasant named ,PoDof. He was
rather a superior member of his class, who
had suffered arrest for striving TO elevate his
neighbors to his level. Long years OF suffer-
ing had broken his health, and the blacl,
bread purchased with his miserable allowance
no longer sufficed to sustain life The rest of
the party, seeing the needs Of the man, gem
erously contributed from their own small
store Of money the sum Of five roubles and
sixty kopekas, which they placed in the
staroSta's hands for the purchase of moro
nourishing food. A little was spent for ex-
tras each day, and the sum, though small,
lasted considerable time.
Each political prisoner of the company had
his own sad story to relate Of how he became
a victim Of the abuses practiced throughout
the empire. It would require too much
space to commit to print the tales Of the nu-
merous indignties TO which really innocent
men and women were subjected. One thing
which surprised me very much was the knowl-
edge that so few of the number belonged to
any secret scciety-they had by ties of family
or through commercial intercourse been con-
nected with persons Of whose secret cali