Murderers May Be "nice."

At daybreak at Sakhalin - you could hardly see daybreak on account of fiie shutters - one of the ugliest-looking women I ever saw crept in wïth a cup of tea that is always given in Asia very early in the morning - and she ■was a murderess. 1 went to the little tent outside to have breakfast, and a man carne up behind me and reached ■over my shoulder and he was a murderer. Then when we rode out after fcreakfast a man, with magnifieent broad shou'lders and splendid face, drove, and he was a murderer. The fact is, strange as it may seem, they (the governor and Russian officers at Sakhalin) have no choice; all the domestics must come from the material ■they have, and if you take a thief he is almost always sure to stay a thief, ■while a murderer may be a very nice kind of a person. They did that kind of ttüng among themselves, and I don't want any better men than some of those that were sent there for