. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across !18 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. labor. A man may be sentenced to a given nnniber of years banishment,of whicli a certain designated portion sliall be to hard labor, or he may besentenced for life, witli no hard labor at all. The punishment is varied greatly, and, from all I hear, the sen-tence is rarely carried out to its fullestdegree. The time of exile is not les-sened until a general pardon liberatesentire classes, but the
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across !18 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. labor. A man may be sentenced to a given nnniber of years banishment,of whicli a certain designated portion sliall be to hard labor, or he may besentenced for life, witli no hard labor at all. The punishment is varied greatly, and, from all I hear, the sen-tence is rarely carried out to its fullestdegree. The time of exile is not les-sened until a general pardon liberatesentire classes, but the severity of the la-bor imposed is almost always lightened. Then, too, the exiles are distributedthroughout the country, and not allowedto gather in large numbers. The objectof the exile system is to give a popula-tion to Siberia, and not to cause thedeath of the banished individual. Everyeffort is made to induce the exile to for-. BANISHED FOR FIVE YEARS. get the causes that brought him to Si-beria, and to make him a good citizenin his new home. Ilis wife and children may follow or accompany himinto exile at government expense, but they cannot return to EuropeanRussia until he is personally free to do so. This permission is denied inthe cases of the worst criminals who are sentenced to hard labor andmust leave their families behind. Figures I was glancing at this morn-ing show that in one year 16,889 personswere sent to Siberia, accompanied by1080 women and children over fifteenyears old, and by 1269 under that the whole number of exiles mentioned,1700 were sentenced to hard labor, and1624 were drunkards and tramps. Thestatus of the rest is not given, but theywere probably sentenced to various termsof deportation without labor. I should say further, in regard tothis family matter, that an exile is re-garded as a dead man in the place from which he is sent, and his wife, if she remains in Europe, is legal
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