| Show 01 A ItUSSIAN CONVICT SHIf Starter of the Votes from chlesea to te lilnnil of HaglKlln The MUlne of a HiiMlan convict shly from Odessa for the Island of Saghalln In the JAyatl Ben is nlwus an Impress Ire eight The motley civKd Indlge none to fell countries II of course present pres-ent but them are In addition many government oOlelals full of Importunes In their emblazoned uniforms and more numerous members of the clergy attending to perform the ceremony of sprinkling the ship with holy water and to give the Inmate a parting hIre Ing and a godspeed Nothing Is I dono In lliiHlfi without the help of prints and n Ituulan Is I bathed In holy water from the cradle to the grave The religious ceremony over It Is with a cargo of heavy henrls that the convict ahlp usually built at Glasgow by the wiy weighs nnchqr and do parts for even a hardened convict would prefer serving his sentence on his natlvo loll to dragging out his existence ex-istence In u foreign land Hut however how-ever that may be the arcommadatlon for the tlioiimnd or morn convict onboard on-board le I ample and the arrangement for their wellbeing complete The food provided Is I good and wholesome and It Is I not an Infrequent thing for people In tho saloon the convict ship carries ordinary passenger as well as state prisoners to ask for convict soup and rye dread All the convicts are In fetters wrist and ankle bracelets with a connecting chain These and their halfshut beads present n most hideous appearance appear-ance The dally routine on board Is I unvarying un-varying therefore to change the monotony mo-notony the prisoners have resort to all kinds of device to make the time pass Away as pleasantly aji the circum stance will allow Most lower class IliiMlan are horn card player so the convicts collect All the odd scraps of paper they can lay their hands on Clubs and spades are roughly scribbled on these slips with the Ink supplied for letter writing purposes pur-poses while to provide heart and diamonds dia-monds at the requisite color one or more of the company consents to have a vein opened This delicate operation Is performed with the aid of the tin pout of a lea can ground to n sharp edge on the Iron deck This Improvised Impro-vised llnnt also does duty as a razor sen Ing to remove the remaining hair from the bend of some devout follower of Islam The slakes of the card players play-ers are knobs of sugar saved by rigorous rigor-ous economy at the tea table When these tall bones and odds and ends are substituted On thn fifteenth day at men the fetters are removed This Is I Indeed a da of rejoicing and the most hardened criminal crim-inal I gives vent to a sigh of relief at being released from these hateful emblems em-blems of bondage The coveted freedom Is I not however of long duration A poor Inoffensive Crleman Tartar accidentally treads on the foot ot n regular cut throat villain to be solicit Immediately by tho throat The cr Is I Instantly raised l that the Iobamnle < lana are killing the Christians Chris-tians A general melee ensues In which racial hatred Is I given full play The guard Is I called out and turning on the but water hose pipes which are kept retily for any emergency soon cows the combatants The ringleader la I placed In Irons and put on dry bread and water for fourteen days Tho Tartar Tar-tar Is I carried more dead than alive to the hospital and the rest guilty and Innocent alike are kept In chain and shackles Ocr the rest of the voyage Prom the london Mall onII1I Ilhn kM Crumbling blink men to be plenty everywhere Stumbling bliirkr fir the I children stumbling Mix us for the young people stumbling blocks for Ibo I old people It Is I bard for us sometimes i some-times to tee where we are stumbling 1 others and It Is hard for wine others i to see bow and where the church of j nod II inch A stumbling block Ia It Is today In the face of temperance The I church Is doing a grand and noble work and yet 1 as It has never Mood together on the great queatlon of tern I peranc the special topic for today It Is I well worth while for us to face this fact It seems strange that all of nods people should nor bi ready and Clad and determined to stand ns one 1 man galas the glgintle evil of Intemperance Intem-perance that has been preached about talked about for these years and years I |
