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THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE.
active army or the reserve. In the reserve, whether as officers or privates, they are liable to be called for duty any time before their thirty-sixth year."
COSSACK LANCERS AND RUSSIAN GUARD-HOUSE.
Fred asked what proportion of the male population was taken for the army every year by means of the conscription.
"As before stated, every able-bodied man is liable," was the reply; "but it is generally found that a conscription of four in a thousand will produce from ninety thousand to one hundred thousand men. On a peace
