Manchester Democrat., 1909-01-06


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''CIlBf:' 4 Tale
Of SakllaliIl.|
II PAUL. sxARcossox
White all over with the exception
q his left ear and the end OF his
tail, broad betwixt the eyes, but With
: peaked nose, rather slim legs, and
about the size OF a fox-terrier such
IL '.Chuff. = '!s.
OF what particular breed or strain
q dogs he Is, am quite unable to-
/ say. But he is q Giliak dog, and;
what might be called a. canine expert.
He has record Of over hundred
sable.skins, caught all by himself and
trought hom to his master. He was
Won't to- set on into the taiga alone
hunt till he caught sable, then fetch,
Drought home to his master He was
sable e-hunter at the little~ native VII
lage of Nucharo. In the northern por.
ton Of the island Of sakhaklins taught
him. and afterward presented him to
\ young political exile, named Grego-
risv. And 1t Is due to Chnff' skill
that Gregoriev escaped from Sakha-
lin and Is now in America,
The story OF Kosciusko Gregorieys
Il not unlike that Of thousands Of:
others in Russia. but none the less.
pitisbls ON that account. He came OF
good family IN Russian Poland, and;
was student first at Prague. after
ward at Moscow About year be-
fore the coronation Of the present
Tar. Nicholas II. Gregoriev, then but;
seventeen years OF age, was concern:
] 81 In q public demonstration which
proved displeasing to autocratic auth.
crity. It appears to have been lit;
tle more than q boyish outburst Of
high spirits, such as In this country
or In England or France, the govern
: ment would never think of noticing.
But not 80 With Russian autocracy.
For merely 4 few shouts In the
streets. forty Of the students we're
arrested. After examination twelve.
we're tried for sedition, and 1--WE res
eeived life sentences, three to Sredni
\ kOlymsk "the dreariest place on
earth. north nj the arctic circle. In
Siberia, and two to: the island Of SAX
= halin. Gregoriev was one OF the Iat-
ter
Order Is heavens first law, and
laws must be enforced. But even to
the most stanch advocate CT law and
order, there is something abhorrent III.
thus highting Ave young lives fofi
an offensesso trivial. A lffe sentence
to Sredni Kolymsk. or to saahalin,
ID worse than death, sI.s
GreEoriey's companion In exile,
Kristan Merroe, committed suicide by
jumping from the convict transport,
Yaroslay, while 1t was on the way
from castries Bay to Alexandroysk
In Sakhalin. $.
After his arrival at Alexandrovsk,
9rsgorievy was first confined In the
Testing prison, SO called for four
weeks, then put at hard labor: In,
fact, II would be better to call it
inhuman labor, He was act to tow
logs for q distance OF seven miles
along the beach, having to wade In
the sea. The logs were from the
forest to the north Of the town, and
were used for building new stock.
sdes. His load was three logs, drawn
BY q rope over his shoulders. Az
ways the water was knee-deep, often
waist-deep. and this In October, when
N Sakhalin the temperature is but
. . few degrees above frost.
a guard with loaded carbine walk
cd along the beach with orders to
make him hasten, and shoot him IL he
attempted to escape
This is not, as some might be led
TO suppose. . fanciful picture Of Rms
elan inhumanity but is quoted from an
sttested statement Of the manner In
which prisoners are treated at Alex
androvsk,
Wholly unused to such hardship,
laregorieY fell i'll on the third day
nf throat trouble, with fever: but
after lying unattended for day In
5 his eel, was summoned before the
prison superintendent charged with
feigning illness. This oficial was
Z pone other than the notorious Pat.
fin, whose name has grown infamous
for cruelty ip both hemlsphe here's.
Yet he seems to have been q man
approved by the Russian government,
since 1t was Patrin whom the Japan
ese found In charge Of the Sakhalin
prisons when they captured the island
10 June last. !,
Patrin Is described as q huge man,
slx feet three inches In height and
weighing two hundred and thirty
pounds Allowance must ever be
made for an offlcial who has to deal
Tith hardened criminals. There is
! abundant evidence. however, that this
man, Patrin, habitually perpetrated
needless cruelties, and was rufian
worse than those over whom he ruled
z: Vet avariee rather than cruelty is
the dominant trait Of his nature. The
most astonishing stories are told Of
his greed for money.
Translated into English. the fol
lowing Is said to have been what
passed between Ratrin and the young
convict; 9.
You think to impose on meg
'.Bnt 1 am indeed ill!a
eShirker!ts 8.
he work is beyond my strength;
! am unused to anything Ike It.
cannot endure the chill. Iwas numb
from cold ali day
Patrin rose deliberately and tool
step forward. You say that Il
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