A Siberian Prison

I tus June numbcr of the Cenlury Mauazim contains the second of George Kennan"s illustrated papers on Siberia and the Exilo SysU'iu, vvliii-li aro attracting su'.'h Wide atteution. The artilles are being extensively copied into foreign papers, among others the organ of the Russian liberáis, publishod at (Jeneva, by whom they arevery highly commendod. In this Junenumher Mr. Kennan gives au interosting account of his visit to the forwarding prison at Tiuinen, where he found doublé the number of prisoners conflned than there was room for. In reply to a quostion from Mr. Kennan as to how many prisoners died during the year, the warden replied : " About three hundred. We have an epidemie of tvphus alraost every fall. A prison so overcrowded can not bo kept clean, and as for tho air in the cells, you know now what it is like. The local authorities here have iirain and again urged the Government to make adequate provisión for the largo number of exiles crowded into the prison during the season of navigation, but thus far nothing has been done beyond the building of Uvo log barracks." In the overcrowded women's prison Mr. Kennan says ho found no crimináis- all of the occupants were voluntariiy going into banishment with their husbands. Mr. Kennan describes the marching away of au exile, aúd gives, also, a graphic pieture of a convlct barge. The illustratlons of this article aro romarkably iaterosting. f From a tkelch made Ij on txile, ia ttu Jutv I "Centvry." . ?