Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1910 — A PRISON HORROR. [ARTICLE]

A PRISON HORROR.

Awful Fate of a Russian Political . Offender. David Soskice writes in McClure’s Magazine of the horrors of the Schluesselburg, Russia’s political prison. "Grachevsky, unable to stand his life any longer," says he, “struok a*guard in order to be executed. But the commandant of the fortress declared him to be insane and therefore exempt from punishment. - . —-—_ “ ‘Then.’ said Grachevsky, ‘it remains for me but to kil myself.’ He was t£ken to the ‘stable’ and kept there under most vigilant watch. “‘One night,’ related Ludmilla Volkenstein, ‘a terrible, inhuman shriek was heard. Footsteps hurried toward Grachevsky’s cell. Feeble groans followed, and it was evident that something terrible had happened to him. Smoke and the smell of burnt clothing and flesh pervaded the building and hung about it till the following day. We then knew that Grachevsky had burnt himself alive. He had soaked his clothes and bedding with the oil from the little night lamp and, rolling himself up in his blanket, had set it on fire. For several days beforehand he had disarmed the suspicions of his guards by exceedingly rational behavior, so that they had relaxed their watchfulness a little and enabled him to commit the dreadful deed." If you are contented, you are prettj well off without an auto and a man, sion. When a young man flatters a girl she decides later that he really meant it.