The Rugby news. (Rugby, Morgan County, Tenn.) 1890-189?, 1891-02-14
FIOGGING In RUSSIA.
Some of the Joys of Life in That
r. s~e ~ Country. y f,"'" I
How Peasant in Search of Work Was
Sent Home-A MOckery of Justice.
Or "A Few Examples of the
yssa whipping Mania.

Inc ADVISERS OF tne preSenC emperor, |
says allate number of the London Tel |
egraph, have long since come to the
conclusion that the emancipation OF the
serfs was an objectionable ,blunder, and
some of the most enterprising among
them have presented ingenious projects
of laws tonullify its most radical
clauses. The late Count Tolstofs plan
was at last accepted, creating peasant
tutors, called Zen1sky Natshalhiks,
whose duty it is to watch over the
peasants, control their acts, Judge
them or whip them without any trial
or Judgment, and generally to play the
part of policeman, judge, jury, disinter-
ested friend and powerful protector. At
first it was hoped that the ranks of the
Zemsky Natshalniks might be recruited
exclusively from the nobility. but this,
hope was doomed to disappointment,
owing to the circumstance that all the
mobiles who were qualified for lucrative
posts already occupied them, and those
who were not did not as rule possess
even the slight qualifications demanded
by the new law, viz, had not passed
through an establishment of interlnedi
ate education. The choice, therefore,
fell upon retired army and navy, officers
and "shelved" tschinovniks, the first
batch of whom was let loose upon the
country in January, 1890, the second on
June 13. The will of these men has
thenceforth become the sole substitute
for the electoral rights of the peasants,
who formerly elected their own judges
of the peace, and also, in many cases,
for the statute and common law of the
land. They were to drill and teach the
peasants according to the method fol-
lowed by Carlyle's DR.. Francia with his
beloved Guachos. Knowing that educa-
tion and instruction as impaired in the
schools is an abomination to the author
tiles, they naturally acted on the salu-
tary principle that what smarts teaches.
Their procedure was simplicity itself
''You stole Kaloff's hen? You didn't?
! don't believe you. Anyhow, sound
hiding can do you no harm. We have to
chastise a good child that it may not be-
come bad as we'll as bad one that it
may not grow worse. Give him thirty
five, hot!' Last spring it was stated in
the district of a very jealous Zemsky
Natshalnik, M. Mordvinoff, that there
was scarcely family that had not one
or more members logged.
The following fact-the truth of
which is acknowledged by the entire
Russian press-may. help, to show to
what lengths the whipping mania has
been carried One daya PEASANT, who
hadieft his native village some weeks
previously in search of work, was sent
home by etape that il to say, he was
arrested and put in prison till a band oi
convicts, felons and murderers were go,
together who were going the Same way
when he was .compellsd: to- join them
and to march for two or three days til
they arrived at the next etape prison, 6
filthy, loathesome shed, Here a halto
week or ten days would be made. ant
the march resumed; and so,oh, until ht
at last reached his native. place, Thi.
is the most economical mode of travel
ing in Russia; technically, tits not a pun
ishment. AS a matter of simple fact
it is a horrible ordeal to go through
always worse than imprisonment, ans
occasionally more terrible than death
but like the bulIetrwounds- made. out
side the chalk circle which a. diminu
tive duelist once proposed to draw OF
the ungainly, body of his giant adver
sary, it does not count. Any respectable
man, woman orchid in Russia is liabl
to be sent home by etape. Ifyou los
your money on the road, and have no
the wherewithal to patronizei a NOR
expeditions mode of locomotion, you ar
sent home by etape. If The yearly pass
port of man who is not residing in hi