Photo by Gilbert H. Grosvenoi 



A VODKA SHOP ( SALOON ) IN NIZHNI-NOVGOROD 



Every dram shop in the Russian Empire is now said to be closed. "The abolition of 

 the sale of intoxicants in Russia represents the greatest prohibition victory of the age. With 

 one dash of the pen one-sixth of the earth's surface and one-tenth of its population went 

 'dry.' Heretofore vodka-drinking has been the curse of the Russian masses" (see text). 



and chrysoberyl, are found imbedded in 

 the solid sides of the rugged Urals. Most 

 of the porphyry, jasper, and malachite 

 used in the adornment of the important 

 buildings of Petrograd and Moscow, and 

 which give them that inimitable beauty 

 which every tourist notes, came from this 

 great treasure-house. 



There are extensive gold deposits in 

 Siberia, its mines producing about $25,- 

 000,000 worth of the precious metal an- 



nually. Eleven thousand gold-miners are 

 employed in normal times in the mines of 

 western Sibera, and 30,000 in those of 

 eastern Siberia. 



The wages in eastern Siberia are 83 

 cents a day, while those in western Si- 

 beria often are as low as 10 cents a day. 

 The men in the mines of eastern Siberia 

 work morning, noon, and night, recog- 

 nizing neither Sunday nor feast day. The 

 government finds that in this way it can 



