The morning call., 1895-01-06

too long to partake of the holy communion,
and enforce obedience to thousands of
multifarious orders aud regulations in
tended TO promote the welfare OF the peo-
pie, or insure the safety Of the state.
The "uriaduiks," or rural state police.
are supposed to wear uniforms and are
armed with sabers and reyoIvers. The
salaries they receive are simply miser-
able-frnm $50 to 500 year for private
and from $500 to $500 year for chief of
the district. They are expected, however.
to make up their income by bribery and
corruption" aud it is quite unnecessary to
state that they generally succeed In doing
this to perfection. Russian travellers tel!
very amusing stories of the great pro-
ficiepcy acquired by this rural police in
extortiDg money from the poor moujik.
Many of these stories have a certain in-
herent resemblance. and look as If the same
dramatis person@ were constantly appear
ing on the stage in different clothes.
In New York City every morning of the
wear all the mem bers of the detective force
either collect personally in Superinten-
dent Byrnes' office or are so near to him
that he can summon any OF them before
him and direct him to attend to certain
important business.
But in Russia it is not arranged this way
at all. There is no such thing as daily
marshaling of the police at the offire of
their chief. They are scattered ali over
St, Petersburg at their own homes. They
are all of the ime ''on call" or ION tap"
as we might say. but it is only when a
plain yellow envelope comes to them, IN ak
Ing an appointment for their immediate
presence somewhere, that their active du-
ties begin.
1t may be that they are directed in the
inclosed order TO call at a certain dis riot
station and get their instructions from the
prisav, or from some other inferior officer
of the law, or it may be that they are sum-
none 10 the house of some high official
The most extraordinary part of it is that
Dine-tenthS OIL these secret police agents
do not know who the tenth man is, or
what he is doi5g. 1t is the policy of the
whole system to prevent the disSemiuat
of knowledge of their individual move
ments among its employees. Panin. the
most adr0it detective on the force, disar-
peared mysteriouSly about year ago, and
nothing has been known of his move
ments since. There is no knowledge of
his death, and although he was one of the
best known on the force, it has become
only too apparent how little he was
known.
Now this is not the state of affairs in
this countryat all. The most skillful and
the most frequently employed of the NUM-
cipal detective forces bscome in lime we'll
known public characters. And. although
their movements may be covered with a
considerable amount of mystery. yet their
faces are so we'll known to the public gen.
orally that these movements must be
achieved with extreme celebrity and secrecy
In order to prevent constant recognition.
Of course this ability to at once pick out
and possess adroit and skillful detectives
and nave them erform services recurring
the utmost tact and shrewdness, without
being known TO each other or 10 the public
al large, shows high degree of skill IN the
notice management of the Russian En-
pire. And this very fact that they are
Eept apart as much as possible; that they
never all collect together anywhere; that
messages are sent to them In a secret way.