MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. 



done you ! ' And with a triumphant laugh knd bow, 

 bade Mr. S. a good afternoon. 



This fact, which had happened a few weeks before, is a 

 fair specimen of the stories which were told illustrative of 

 the police, and is characteristic of the whole system of 

 " justice " from the highest to the lowest. There is 

 nothing, in fact, in the civilized world more infamous 

 than the execution of the civil and criminal law in Russia. 



One other trifling incident I cannot help recording. 



" Well, S.," asked one of the company, " how do you 

 and the government doctor get on now ? ' 



" Better a little," replied S. " Do you know, I have- 

 found out the reason why the fellow annoyed us so 

 much, and made so many complaints. I knew he was 

 a drunkard, and that he insisted on being supplied well 

 with liquor as It-is bribe. So, as I did not drink myself, I 

 hired a man, and paid him regular wages, to drink with 

 the medical inspector. Was that not liberal ? But the 

 rascal got offended, and determined to revenge himself on 

 me, because I drank with him by proxy, and did not give 

 him my own company ! ' 



" Are you afraid," I asked another person present, " ta 

 travel on the roads at night ? " 



" Never, unless we meet the Cossack mounted police, 

 who are sure to rob if they catch an unarmed traveller I ' 



So much for the police. But this led to a further 

 conversation on the cotton mills, working classes, and 

 general morality. 



There are in Russia about 140 cotton mills, containing 



