A Siberian Prison

ÏE June number of the Century Magazine contains the second of George Kennan's illustrated papers on Biberia and the Erile System, which are attracting such wide attention. The articles are being extensively copied into foreign papers, among others the organ of the Russian erais, published at Oeneva, by whom they areveryhighly eommended. In this Juoenumber Mr. Kennan Rives an interesting account of bis visit to the forwarding prison at Tiumen, where he found doublé the number of prisoners confined than there was room for. In reply to a question f rom Mr. KenDan as to how many prisoners died during the year, the warden replied: " About three hundred. We have an epidemie of typhus almost every fall. A prison so overcrowded can not be kept clean, and as for the air in the cells, you know now what it is like. The local authorities here have again and again urged the Government to make adequate provisión for the large number of exiles crowded into the prison during the season of navigation, but thus far nothing has been done beyond the building of two log barracks." In the overcrowded women's prison Mr. Kennan says he found no crimináis- all of the occupants were voluntarilv going into banisbment with their husbands. From a tketch made by an exile, in the Juru "Century." Mr. Kennan describes the marching awaj Of an exile, and gives, also, a graphio picture of a convict barge. The illustrationi Of this article are remarkably interesting.