Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1882-03-09
it OF Philadelph hospitality and good
breeding let it be said tlnat strangers in the
city are not generally treated in this way.
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THE ROAD TO IRKJJfSK

THE ROAD 10 7r fEKUfsK.
The Journey which the j ANN cite Isescuers
I#4S 8!8S3 $ s Must Make. zs i3t9g M
/ Cois.T w. Knox ii the New York Post
| LII Noyembe Der, 1866, ] left Irklltsk Tor st.
| Petersburg: the terminus Of tha railroad was;
then as Mini Novgorod, 3 4 400 miles from
| the FORMER city, ii you travel by the post
vehicles belonging to the station masters
i you must change at every station, and q
| transfer Of yourself and baggage four OF
| five times daY, with the thermomet be-
| low zero, is the reverse OF pleasant Consa-
/ guentfy most persons prefer to buy d car
| rage or 8 sleigh at starting and sell il fer
What it will bring st the END OF the route.
became the owner Of a a ikiDitha' 81 half
open sleigh, which somewhat resembles
! New England ehaisa greatly elongated.
| There was abundant room for two Of us,
] and We could be at full length on our
! furs and baggage, or sit half upright with
pillows enough to wedge us closely into our
/ places. The post stations are from 10 TO u
miles apart, and from Irkutsk
1 to Mimi Novgorod 4 changed
/ t0Yses and drivers 200 times and was drawn
/ by not far from 1000 horses altogether.
| The performance Of a Russian driver is
sometimes rather trying to q nervous person;
/ he deBcsnds hills at q breakneck pace and
is utterly regardless of shaking you up.
] Late in winter the roads are full of holloWs
or hog Wallows," especially on the kill
/ sides, and when team is driver, over them
at 3 gallop the sleigh jumps ia g snaaner a
great deal more than eshilelating. As long
SIS the vehicle preserves It's integrity the
driver pays it no attention. This sort Of
thing brings on what the Russians call the
| road fever; the pulse is high and every
/ pound OF the 6leIgh forces the blood through
| the veins ct q fearful pressure. Your head
! seerns ready to burst and the feeling at
each jar of the vehicle is very much az if
! somebody was trying to drive railway
/ subsides in two CIR three days, but sonas-
times IL il SO very severe that She traveller
! becomes delilious and must take several
| hours rest 81 every stage.
Along the ROAD there Tas little charge Of
! scenery. The country is uadulating. hut
/ not broken, and IN some places there are
i plains that resemble our western praiEies.
| The landscape, or rather snoWscape is mo-
! nntun0us and TaayigDme. except where ii is
crossed by rivers and the few ranges OF hills
i along tbs route. The villages containing
| the stations were from Toto 40 miles apart
| and generally built in o single street.
| Outside Of nearly every village was block
| house where exiles are LODGED on the way
| to the place of Punishment the movements
OF these involuntary einiggants ara 50 timed
| that only q given number are lodged in
/ any one house at the same hme--not so
1 much in consideration Of the comfort Of
| the exiIes as through fear OF attempts at
! revolt and escape. While the horses were
/ changed OF the stations we had tk9 ontIon
! OF entering the house or staying outside:
| we generally did ths latter, except ut meal
/ times as the change from several degrees
| below to so or 70 above is not altogether
| agreeable The rooms of Russian houses
are warmed by brick stoves and among the
| peasants tbs top OF the store is the fayorita
/ slesping place. AT nigh we used TO stir
| the drivers out from where they were being
slowly baked; their toilets were quickly
| performed, as ii only included donning q
| sheep skin coat and buekiiug o belt around
the waist, and chen they were resdy FOR q
drive OF two or three hours through an
! Arctic temperature.
The most parilous part Of the journey in
across the Barabinsky steppe, in western
Siberia, plain @ thousand miles wide and
| often swept by severe storms. The sGow
Isl Whlrled In binding masses, tbs wind, ii
blowing from the north, is bitter cold, and
not infreqUentiy men and horses perish.
Travel ceases during these storms, and
som etimes those who venture to brave them
never reach their destination. Wolves
abound here, and many stories are told Of
their ferocity, but they are less dangerous
In western Russia. where the population is
moro dense and gains less abundant than
in Siberia; even there they never attack
| men except in the seyarest winters when
| hunger has made them desperate.
A Siberian journey generally begins in
the evening, and is continued day and night
| till it's end. The governments couriers vii
i 60 from Irkutsk to Moscow in fourteen I
| fifteen days under favorable circumstances,
but more dignif cd and less fatiguing pace
will cover the distance i'll twenty two or
| twenty five days. Tbs larger the party the
slower will be It's progress, and 1t is not
likely that Lieutenant Donenhower and his
comrades will arrive at ST. Petersburg in
| less than a month from their departure
from Irkntsk They will be certain to re-
/ cieye all possible attention frona Russians
| along tho route, and it is by no means i'm
| probable that they may be detained o day
| or two in each of the half dozen towns, in
order that the inhabitants may have an op-
portuaity OF showing their sympathy for the
| survivors Of the lost Jeanette and their
| good viii TO Ri Americans.
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A EaiRragiaR caneerf.
Rev. Mr.. Talmage, the sensational
/ preacher said TO a reporter of The Ceye-
/ Land. Press aI am inclined to the belief,
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