The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 21, 1899, Page 23

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 21, 1899. T Saasnasassss? | BEATTIE'S CITY GOVERN- MENT, MY iZaBETH TOTTEN. Counclimen— MA!‘?A T A- SHELDON. VIR WATKINS. LETTIE KIRLIN. M@RY E. SCHLEIGH. City Clerk— KATIE O'NEILL. Suppression of saloons and gamb- ling dives, clean streets, good side- walks and the encouragem:nt of general improvement. POLICY OF MAYOR TOTTEN. AaARSARRRSA R A nenasnas s, | MAN can't call his soul his own in Beattle, Kans. Women are run- ning the town, and they have tamed nearly everything that wears pants. At least that s the way It seemed to one man, a St. Louls Star staff correspondent, who dropped off | the train Into that pretty little place the other day, with a thirst and the knowl- | edge that it had not Leen lessened by rid- | ing ninety-nine hot and dusty miles from | St. Joseph. | “Nearest glass of beer,” I inquired of | & sad-looking man on the station plat- | form. He grinned and pointed to a sign up the | street, which sald “Saloon.” I was surprised to find the place barred and across the face of the closed doors a placard with these words: e e e A AAAAAS | | D R R R R | + CLOSED BY ORDER OF *%| +| % THE MAYOR. 1 R R R R R R R R “What's the trouble?” “Trouble!” repeated another sad-faced | man. “Lord, that isn’t the name for it.” “We've got a lady Mayor, lady Council | and lady Clerk. They're running things. This town is going to the devil.” Afterward, when I met Mayor Elizabeth L sy mistaken. The town had been going to the devil up to April 4 But pralse the Lord, since that date she thought it had been going the other way. April 4, by the way, is a date it Is well to remember in this story. There was an electlon on that day. Several of the most prominent men in Beattie, who were politically buried be- tween the hours of 7 in the morning and § in the evening of April 4, told me that they were convinced that Mayor Totten was a very capable woman of affairs. They belleved that she would run her town. for the next year with a carpenter’'s hammer, a broom and a Marlin rifle. “A rifle?”’ I asked. *““Oh, yes; the Council has its armament and magazine.” The former Council bought them for protection agalnst Lem Gouldsberry, the Vermillion Creek “bad man”—but this is another part of the story. Well, anyhow, Mayor Totten got wind of tHe weapons and said she might need them before she got through. These are only a very small part of the funny things I saw and heard in Beattle. If Charles H. Hoyt and Chatles Klein want some new and strictly American comedy or comic opera material, or David Belasco s after an up-to-date Western drama, full of thrilling situations, Kansas atmoéphere and just a proper “tinge of blood; Beattie is the place to go. Even in Kansas, where they are used to being original, Beattie {s regarded as the prize town No other Kansas community s worthy of being mentioned now in. the same ment with Sockless Jerry and Sister ry Ellen Lease. he strangest thing 1 heard while in Beattie was that Mrs. Lease had never lectured there. The oddest thing I saw was the man, Town Marshal, sitting in Mayor Eliza- beth Totten's office, turning his hat in his fingers, between his legs, like ah awk- ward schoolboy, as he listened to the woman Mayor's energetic order that he | should uphold every letter of the law if it took every Marlin and every woman In the Councll to back him | | REGH STERING HER. HUSBAND nirehgbs ’ / =) | | “ND SON, on the woman's ticket, as if fate rebuked the members of her family, all of whom cast their ballots against her. Miss O'Nelll is also Assistant Postmaster. In Beattie such terms as Mayoress, Councilwomen ‘and Postmistress are ta- booed. The women ran on the ticket and were elected as Mayor and Councilmen. “As lone as we hold office we are men in every semse of the word,” is Mayor Totten’s dictum. I asked one of the defeated men can- didates what feature of the whole over- throw galled the worst. “Well, the majority of these women in the Council were schoolteachers. It was humiliating enough to be beaten by women, but to be dictated to by school- teachers is rubbing it in. You know what a ‘schoolteacher don’t know isn’t worth mentioning.” X Back comes Mayor Totten: “Schoolteachers know something of human nature. A man generally does not know what is gocd for him.” One of the things upon which the woman government relies for success is the fact that three-fourths of the Council own their own property and have ably managed their own affalrs. “A woman c beat 2 man in matters of domestic e 7, and we will prove she is his sup r in political economy,” Mayor Totten emphasizes. She is full of these aphorisms. 1 saw many persons carrying letters to the train instead of depositing them in the postoffice, and found that the Postmaster, S. L. Wilson, had been under a boycott since the election. He also enjoys the distinction of editing the Beattie Eagl woman's, or “dr: gang of “wets.” The defeated “‘wets” are now trying to cut down his cancellation of stamps from the ’ ticket against off. MORE COMEDY FOLDED. which supported the | | | | which he derives most of his official rake- | SITUATIONS UN- | | stalrway and rapped at a little door. It | for several years. | a game for any man to go up against.” These Councillwomen have a confounded vigilance committes established among their husbands and sons. If they knew we were at it an army of them would be down here In half an -hour and dump | every keg and bottle into the street, and really this is all we have left in the town.” ‘We went Into the hotel, down a back was unbarred by John Burnside, the man | who has run the only saloon in the town But somehow the vigilant Mayor did hear of the evasfon, and quietly sent word to Burnside, ordering him to get rid of every drop of his liquor by last Saturday night, without further notice. | “WHIl you do 1t?” I asked. | “Will T do 1t? I guess yes. I'm going | to give up the hotel, too. This is too hard tie Is a pretty little town of 1000 in- habitants, ninety-nine miles from St. Joe, on the line, of the St. Joseph and Grand road. It isin the northeastern part There are two business and many attractive residences cluster of hills upon which it is built. | “The men must keep straight.” With this warning keynote as to her future policy Mayor Elizabeth Totten tucked up her skirts and resumed house- | cleaning. “Suppose they defy you?” mildly. fy > The new Mayor suspended practice with her new broom long enough to shut her | thin lips. “Let them try it.” | Any doubt I may have held that Mayor Totten ruled, the roost in Beattle sud- denly quit me. B | Mayor Totten 1is a serlous minded woman with a quiet vein of frony. She| I suggested QImen Croker of Beattls. She removed when & young gir! from New York to Illinols, where she taught school and later came to Kansas. “My council and T are a unit,” she told me. “The saloon and gambling den must B80. The men made the prohibition law, which they break. They must respect it or the women . will show them how-it ought to be enforced.” “Already there {s a radical change in the male population. The men in Beattle never got such a surprise in their lives as the election of April 4. “They were whipped so thoroughly that, to-day, there is not a meeker or more orderly set of merchants, lawyers and doctors and farmers in Christendom. “Now their wives and daughters smile on them encouragingly, and promise that before the end of their term Beattie will come to mean Beattitude. “To one whose ears have cracked with tales of former lawlessness, yet whose eyes have seen the unequaled subjuga- tion of man in Beattle, the promise seems to have been nearly realized. “‘Houses have been burned In this town because people have not dared to attempt the prosecution of the whisky element,” Mayor Totten continued. “I expect to be burned out before I finish my administration, but T will fulfill the law. No saloon or gambling dive can run in Beattle while I am Mayor.” Then the Mayor objected to any traves- ty upon her administration. “I want you to say distinetly,” she re- marked impressively, “that this election s not the result of a woman suffrage movement. We are not suffragists. “We are all plain, home-loving women, devoted to our husbands and famlilies, and who regard our places as here at our hearthstones.” “Now, let me tell you a secret,” she began archly. We hitched our chairs nearer. “This whole thing was the scheme of men.” She watched me to observe the ef- fect. My face must have shown that the secret was still safe. “Well, the respectable element of men in Beattle either did not have the moral courage or the resolution to stop what we have undergone for two years. So the brilliant idea of getting women to run occurred to them. In Kansas, all women vote in municipal elections. “I refused to accept a nomination three times before I finally ylelded. I felt that I was too busy managing my own af- fairs. Then, all of us shunned the noto- | rlety, but we have been thrust there by the men, and now we are upon our met- tle and bound to make a record. Realiz- ing that we are women, we naturally un- derestimate our ability, but I will say that if we cannot do better than the pre- vious administration we ought to be ashamed of our intelligence and integ- rity. “This town has.been going to the rack long enough. Qur sons have been | ashamed to let their fathers see them entering saloons operated under the Burnett Hotel, kept by John Burnside. “Some time ago we did break up a | gambling den conducted in the basement of a private hpuse, under the guise of an ice cream parlor. ‘““We have been very careful before we proceeded agalnst the saloon question. We have consulted higher authorities than County Attorney Ed Berry, who has falled to close the place for two years, although we furnished the evi- dence.” Mayor Totten showed me a bushel of telegrams and letters she had receive since the election, from papers in the I invited the leading physiclan of Beat- | parts her gray hair in the middle after | East, asking for an account of the woman tle to do me the honor, after I discov- ered that there was a back door. Unfor- tunately the‘request was not a whispered The Marshal did not seem overpleased | on with his job. Quite the most attractive thing In Beat- | he demurred. ‘Ah, er—I thank vou, I never fndulge,” Then, drawing me aside, he exclalmed: } the good old fashion of our grandmothers, | Her husband, Charles Totten, operates a large farm near Beattie. They have three | children living. | New York was her birthplace, and out | of the natural genius of New York poli- | ticians for government she thinks that | government and pictures of its members. ‘With these were congratulations and {n- quiries from nearly all the leading wom- an’s rights advocates in the country. —_————— The druggist who has consclentious scruples should also possess conscien- v, who pol Totten, she told me that this man was ' Irish beau tie is City Clerk Kate O'Neill, a t_\‘picali lled the biggest vote “Be a little careful—careful, my boy. fate has led her to become the female | tious ounces and pounds. 0000000000000 0C0000000000000000000000000000000N0R 000000000000 )000000OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO000000000000000003')00000000 Continued from Page Seventeen. Even in this land of freedom he fears to walk abroad for he has heard that his merciless pursuers have n Francisco, and he dreads not only bodily that they may use strategy and force m back to a llving death. What little exercise he t t night when he goes out for a walk. When a few months 20 I d in this city from a salling vessel from Yoko- ey and no means of securing employment, Alex- a fel an, gave him food and shelter. ade 7 to this country by working for his rdinary seaman. nhoe was born in the town of Stavropol, which is in e of the same name in| the southern part of Russia. He ne of a large family. His father was a lawyer and well-to-do, i his family was among the best. Here it was Nicholas lived and eived his primary education until he was seventeen years of age, y the blow that was to wreck his home and change ell in the twinkling of an eye. His father had un- se of & man whom the government officials sup- 2 1ilist, but against whom they had no direct proof. The man was being tried for murder, and Ivanhoe’s father defended him with great energy. In endeavoring to acquit his client he dis- played more than professional warmth and interest, and unfortu- nately spent his own money freely in his attempt to save the man, who was, however, convicted to pay the extreme penalty of the law. There was in Stavropol those who hated Attorney Ivanhoe be- cause of his success and who whispered that he seemed unduly in- terested in the case of his cllent. The convicted man became in- censed at the lawyer because he had not cleared him, and when on the scaffold took a dying revenge of ingratitude and deception by declaring that his law r had done all in his power to clear him e f—a nihilist. s needed and it was not many days before r was arrested by the secret service officials and thrown A hasty trial followed, and upon only the word of a the unfortunate man was convicted of being a plotter ernment and was sentenced to be banished as an to the far-away Iisland of Saghalien, where 200,000 gs drag out an existence. 5 that caused Nicholas Ivanhoe to hate his country n his heart to do anything that could injure the govern- other died of a broken heart shortly after her husband His brothers and sisters were scattered to the four for their home was conflscated. Then it was S8t. Petersburg to try and make his living. himself, had grievances against the s end he joined them. To him the ad adopted represented only a possible means of ob- taining a venge. He lived in St. Petersburg for three years and during that time he became connected with the press. He worked hard and d his small pay. With the money that he ac- 'nv-vidho studied the ert of photography and bought himself a rera and outfit. It was in December, 1889, that he landed upon the island of Saghallen. As if by 2 strange coincidence the first person that he met there was a man named Kiroff, who, like himself, was a nihilist. t this time Kiroff was working upon the island as a common laborer r one of the rich lend-owners. He was familiar with the country 1d when Ivanhoe imparted to him the object of his coming to halien he told him that it would be impossible for him to obtain osition such as he desired. At first the poor fellow was greatly discouraged. for him to fail in hi listened to his story It seemed hard indertaking after he had come so far. Kiroff nd sympathized with him. He then advised Nicholas to go to colajevsk, which is at the mouth of the Omogoon Rives in Siberia, st across the Guif of Tartary, which is several hundped miles wide and which separates Saghalien from the main- land. Thither he went in accordance with his friend’s advice, little thinking at the time that in after years his visit to the place would be the means of saving his life. At Nicolalevsk he obtained employment as a saflor on one of the vessels that ply between that port and Saghalien. Here fortune favored him, for the very vessel upon which he sailed was one of the Government transports used to carry the exiles over to Saghalien. Thus he became acquainted with some of the jailers and assistant Ja s, who guarded the prisoners. He also learned how to handle 2 vessel, and ‘he never lost an opportunity to become familiar with the Gulf of Tartary and the port of Nicolalevsk, . After he had worked as a sallor for two years he obtained the position of assistant jailer at Alexandrovskii, which is the name of the town upon the island where the prison is located. This came about in a strange way. The vessel on which he was serving was transporting a lot of prisoners over on one occasion when a terrible storm suddenly rose. One of the guards was washed overboard and lost. Finally when the vessel reached the island the chief jaller asked the captain if he might get oue of the sailors to act as a guard. Nicholas declared that he was willing to go and his services were accepted. At last it seemed that he was about to accomplish his heart’s desire. He left the vessel with a light heart. So well did he perform his duty and with such apparent indifference did he strike a prisoner over the head whenever one lagged on the march that he made a favorable impression on the chief jailer. The outcome was that since the place of the lost assistant jailer had to be filled it was offered to Ivanhoe, who, after some as- sumed hesitancy, accepted it. At last he had achieved his main purpose. He was upon the island, and what was more he was in a position where he could best search for his father and where he could also obtain just such information as he most desired. It is needless to say that from the time that he left St. Petersburg Nicholas had traveled and worked under an assumed name. He began the performance of his duties with alacrity and fidelity. Well he knew the part he had to play and he realized that it had to be acted with a naturalness that would completely disarm every suspicion. He was placed in charge of one of the wards in the prison. His duties were to lock up the prisoners when they returned from the mines at night and to take them out in the morning. He also had to feed them every morning and night, and he was required to make two rounds every night to each cell in order to see that all of the prisoners in his ward were secure. One of the first things that he discovered was that his father bad been killed a few months prior to his obtalning his position. He was one of those that worked in the coal mines and one day he had been crushed to death by the falling of a car that was used to raise the coal from the pits. At first Nicholas was almost heart- broken and he was upon the verge of giving up his position and re- turning to Russia, but the thought of all that he and his family had suffered, of his father’'s unjust punishment and of his untimely death served to harden his heart and to make him strong in his resolve to prosecute to the bitter end his revenge. Ivanhoe made up his mind to stay at Alexandrovskii and to secure everything that would be of help to his one object in life—the exposing of the tor- tures and cruelties that were being inflicted on the unfortunate peo- ple that were confined at the prison. After two years' sojourn upon the island he was promoted to be a full jaller and in his new position he had access to the torture chamber. He made a careful study of everything about him, and every night it was his custom to complle a lot of notes of what had happened during the day. Dally he recorded the death of one or more of the unfortunate wretches, who had found liberty and free- dom In death. Many of these died from disease contracted for lack of medical attention, many completely worn out and only half fed died beneath the horrible torture that was inflicted upon them. More than once Ivanhoe saw some poor creature utter his last groans upon the flogging board. These barbarous tortures he was forced to witness, and when some prisoner would faint from sheer pain while being lashed he would have to apply restoratives in order to bring him to consciousness that he might receive the full sentence.of his punishment. i He assisted at more than one hanging, where some wretch was compelled to pay the death penalty because he had attempted to escape, or had fought with one of his fellow prisoners or done some- thing else that displeased Kononovitch, who was then the Governor of the island. All of these scenes made an Indelible impression upon the mind of Ivanhoe, and as he witnessed each new torture he grew stronger in his resolve. When he was able to do so he gave succor and medicine to the convicts. Sometimes he would increase their allowance of food. This, however, he was not able to do often, for well he knew the risk that he ran and what would have been the results if he had been caught in his acts of mercy. The hangings he described as brutal beyond the power of human tongue to depict in words. The man or woman, who was ordered to be executed sim- ply upon the word of Governor Kononovitch, was led into a cell or small square chamber, where they were permitted to view their scaffold. This was simply a cross-piece of “wood resting on two up- right supports. Over the convict there was placed a long black gown, shaped like a bag, then the rope was thrown over the beam and the attendants hauled the struggling wretch from the ground and held him suspended in the air until they thought him dead. Not Infrequently it happened that the poor prisoner would be lowered before the life had been strangled out of him, in which case the hanging would have to be gone over again. % Nicholas availed himself of his position to take photographs of these scenes, This he was able to do because he was generally the ESCAPED FROM THE HORRORS OF A NIHILIST PRISON official in charge in the torture chamber. He declares that of the 200,000 exiles supposed to be upon the island of Saghalien over one- third have disappeared, and that the greater proportion of these have been done to death by the inhuman cruelties to which they have been subjected. There was one occasion when Ivanhoe came very near losing control of himself, which would have been fatal to him. A woman was one day brought to the prison and by the order of the Governor she was to be loaded with specially heavy chains and was to be fed on bread and water while forced to do hard manual labor, This woman was the wife of a celebrated Russian statesman, who had been exiled and she had shared a similar punishment because of her loyalty to her husband. When he was in St. Petersburg Nicholas had once attended a grand ball that had been given at her palace. She was a woman who had been reared in wealth and luxury and noted for her charity and goodness of heart. On the journey to the island she had been subjected to revolting indignities, and when she reached the prison at Alexandrovskil she was' so completely exhausted from the march and the want of sufficient food that she could not stand. They took her into the blacksmith's shop to have her chains forged upon her, and one of the attendants struck her in the face with his fist because she was unable to stand upon her feet when he released his hold upon her. As the woman sank to the ground with a cry of pain the man again kicked her. For the moment Nicholas forgot everything and sprung at the fellow. For- tunately he remembered himself and did not strike his assistant. It was about this time that Ivanhoe began to send back to Russia tc the journals for which he was working descriptions of what he had witnessed and pictures of some of the scenes that he had taken. These were published, along with the pictures, but the identity of the author was kept a secret. Then it was that the Government officlals began to put in operation that perfect and merciless machinery of surveillance with the hopes of finding who it was that was disclosing the secrets of state. Very naturally their search took them to the prison at Alexandrovskil, for they knew that the traitor, whoever he might be, was within the walls of the prison. Despite their hardest efforts they were unable to detect the man whom they wanted. Finally one of the assistant jailers, who had been dismissed for some reason, and whom Nicholas afterward learned was the very man that he had attacked in the blacksmith’'s shop, called the at- tention of the Governor to the incident that had happened. He had been afraid to do so as long as he was employed at the prison be- cause he feared Ivanhoe. Kononovitch determined to have Ivanhoe's mail watched and to intercept his correspondence. This he did and one of the letters that fell into his possession contained some instruc- tions from one of the nihilist socleties to which Ivanhoe belonged. This was all that was needed. The Governor determined upon the arrest of the jaller. Here again it was that providence or his star of fortune stood Nicholas in good stead. The Governor had employed in his household 2 domestic. She was an old woman who had served out her term. She had yet been a convict when Ivanhoe came to the prison, and on one occasfon he had done her a kindness. The woman had never for- gotten this, and she risked her life to show her gratitude to her bene- factor. When Kononovitch was discussing the arrest with the officials of the secret service, and was showing to them the letter that he had intercepted, the woman overheard their conversation, and she determined to inform Ivanhoe. According to the plans of the Gov- ernor, Nicholas Ivanhoe was to be arrested the next morning. ‘When the conference at Kononovitch’s mansion broke up this woman went secretly to Ivanhoe and told him what she had over- heard: He thanked her for her kindness, and determined to make his escape while he yet had a chance. He fully realized what would be his fate if he permitted himself to be arrested. There was no time to lose. It was necessary to act and act quickly if he hoped to get away from the isiand. This was in December, 1896. The mountains were covered with snow, and the only transportation was by the means of dog sleds. Nicholas determined to try to get to Langra, which is in the extreme northern part of the island, on the coast of the Gulf of Tartary and opposite to Nicholalevsk. If he could reach this point before the police, there was a chance for him to cross the gulf, reach Siberia and work his way down into Korea, and thence take a steamer to Yoka- hama, from which point he hoped to sail for America. From the first he realized that permanent saféety could only be hoped for in the land above which floats the stars and stripes. The one thing in his favor was that there was no telegraphic communication between Alexandrovskii and Langra. If he could only get sufficient start of those who wished to work him harm he hoped to escape. He quickly changed his jailer's uniform for other clothes, and taking with him his photographs and notes he silently slipped out of the prison. He left Alexandrovskil about 10 o’clock at night. In the village he secured a team of dogs and a sled, and with a driver set out on his lonely journey. He arrived at Langra the next night. To do this he had to.travel incessantly, change teams and urging the driver to As soon as he arrived at only stopping to L continue his breakneck pace. ngra he hastened to the water m Where he was familiar with the locality. When he used to mr:l‘? lh there as a saflor he had studied the harbor and made many friends. He remembered an cld man who kept boats for hire, and to him he hastened. He soon struck a bargain with his friend for the use of a small sail boat, telling him that he wanted it early the next morn- ing, and requesting to be shown where it was moored, as he sald that he might go out on the gulf at a very early hour and did not wish to disturb any one to get the boat for him. He quieted any suspicions that the old man had by telling him that one of the prison transports was due early the next day, and that he wished to intercept it for the purpose of securing some information from one of the prisoners that it would be impossible to obtain from him after he landed. His old friend showed Nicholas where the boat was moored and then bid him good night. A few hours later Ivanhoe stole to the deserted seawall. ~ He realized that If he was to escape there was no time to be lost. He knew that it was a dangerous undertaking to attempt to cross the bay in a small sail boat, but it was his only chance. However, he was a good sailor, and he was familiar with the bhy. Fortunately it was a clear night, nd he was able to steer by the north star. It was bitterly cold, and he was in danger of freezing to death. Under such circumstances any heart less stout than Ivanhoe’s would have faltered, but he had been training himself too long to think of glving up now, and, besides, his resolve and the thought of revenge had by this time become so much a part of his nature that he would not have hesitated at death itself. The wind was in his favor, and the ge:t night he sailed into the port which he had left several years efore. So far all was well. He had accomplished his plrpose, and the next thing necessary was to get to a harbor of refuge. He knew that his pursuers would soon follow and that as soon as they once landed in Siberia no stone would be left unturned to locate his whereabouts if he was above earth. To attempt to reach Burope by crossing over the continent was to invite arrest; to keep along the coast and work his way south was equally dangerous. These were the thoughts that presented themselves for solution. Finally he hit upon a plan that seemed to him the safest, and which would afford him the best chance of escape. He succeeded by constant travel in reaching Khabarovka in ten days, and from there he set out in a due east direction for the moun- tains. This journey he made on foot, for he was unwilling to take the risk of traveling by the public roads, and in the day time at that. It was a weary march of more than & month. He only traveled by night, and during the day he would hide himself in some thicket or in the forests, and get such rest as was possible. For food he was more than once sorely pressed. The people at the farm houses at which he applied for bread and meat looked at him suspiciously. In Siberia, Ivanhoe declares, every one is suspiclous. Finally he landed one day at a small mining town in the very heart of the mountains. It was simply a rude settlement of huts. Here he man- aged to obtain employment. For a time at least he was safe. It would be hard to locate him, he knew, working as he was in the mines, and only coming out at nights to sleep. Nicholas Ivanhoe lived in these mountains for over a year. One night after he had been at the mines for a few months he heard the men talking of an escaped jailer from Saghalien. They said that the Governor had put a great prize on his head, and that the border countries were keeping a close lookout for him. They sald that he had in his possession certain state secrets that the Russian Govern- ment was very anxious to obtain possession of, and that the reward for his cagture would be paid whether he was taken alive or dead. This fact it was that made Nicholas decide that it was best for him to continue at the mines for some time. After he had been hidden in his mountain security for eighteen months, Nicholas made up his mind to make a bold break for liberty. It took him over three months to work his way into Korea. Ivanhoe declares with a smile that the first breath that he drew with any pleasure was when he crossed the Amnok River and entered the town of Suh, leaving behind him forever the dominion of the Czar. Next he proceeded to La Tsiu, which is in the southern part of Korea; then he went to the island of Quelpaert, whence he took a vessel to Yokohama. It was from this port that he managed to work ‘his passage to San Francisco. As for his future plans he can say nothing definite, except that he is as strong as ever in his one purpose to give to the worid the benefit of what he knows regarding the cruelties of the Russian prisons. The pictures that are here published are reproduced from soma of the photographs taken by Ivanhoe at the prison. He has many hundreds of these showing scenes too revolting to be gazed upon by the human eye. At present he is negotiating with a large Eastern magazine with a view of writing for them a history of his experiences upon the island of Saghalien.