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THE CAPI7AL OF POLAND.

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Ou,wardly warsaw, like the rest Of fo~
land, IL paciEed and prosperous. NO eiy
In Russia can equal 10 for solid pfoHcs,
none maintains such high fveI OF com
mereial prosperity, IN spite OF The dcpres-
sion prevailing throughout the greater payt
Of the Russias empire. In popu'afi0n V
ranks third In the list Of Russian cities, -.
Petersburg coming first, with $4,000 pe0.
pie, Moscow next, with 623,00o, and
Warsaw third. with $4,000. Ia appear
anee there Is little that is Polish about
the place; u has not that national
look possessed by CBaeow. The lofty.
solid, whItews sehed houses depos'cd In
blocks along uniform and regular streets.
with horrible cobbie-stone paving and rat
flipg droskics. remind one of an inferior
81 Petersburg and Berlin. Barracks and
Government buildings thrust themselves
upon the gaze everywhere the streets
swarm with soldiers and officials; hut,
none the less, there Is plenty Of genuine
business in the place. and IN that respect
renders Warsaw more like MOSCOW or
Mini Novgorod thaOSt. Petersburg. Ef.
forts have been made bv successive Gov
ernors 10 Russianize Warsaw and give II the
orthodox whitewashcd toy-house appear
anse. Russian names and signs have been
insisted upon. Polish monuments and
buildings Destroyed, and husso-Greek
churches reared upon the sites Of CAthoiis
ones. With all this they have not succeed
"a in rendering Warsaw place that Rus
SLAMS admire and love. nor have they rooted
out the veneratlon which the Poles enter
tain for city every inch OF which contains
associations calculated 10 move the deepest
feelings OF the patriot. For the ordinary
hussian IL IL case OF exile 10 send
him 10 Poland. In many instances sibe-
ria would be preferred. The Russian
has three pet aversions-the jew, the Ger
man, and the Catholic Pole. Warsaw Il al
most entirely made mp Of these elements.
In the villages the Russian comes In con-
tact with sour.faced Polish peasants, pro-
Tossing q religion he hates, and In the towns
all Lis business has to be transacted with
Jews and Germans. The Russian Is thus
everywhere In q false position. lie dom.
mates, but il is at the expense Of mutual
detestation. The worst ~ that he feels he
10 losing ground. The Germans and the
Jews are oyerruDDing the country; out Of
a population OF 7,00O,00O. 9oO,000 are
Jews, and nearly 100000 Germans.
Thus one out Of every five psrsons he
meets is q Jew or d German. IL can be-
readily understood that witk a large sx-
panse OF splendid country. uneultvated
and awaiting colonization, stretching south
Of Russia to the Caucasus, the husco,its
should avoid settling down In Poland. The
climate and soil OF the steyropol plains
being infinitely better than Poland, aud the
land considerably cheaper, the Oyerpus OF
the middle Russian Provinces yearly makes
for the Black Sea, instead OF moving
west to the Vistuls. 70 encourage
the latter movement, the Russian
Government enacted in 1854 that no
Pole should sell his land 10 a fellow-coun-
iryman. There being no Russian buyers,
however. tho Germans have swarmed In,
and Russia. having won Poland from the
Pole. Il now in danger of losing Il to the
German. At the close OF the last century
Warsaw was Prussian possession: what
is now the Vistula province was admins
tered from Berlin. Germans have proven
bially long memories. aud have displayed
considerable tenaeity in sticking 10 their
programme Of extending the kaiser's rule
10 wherever IL was st once acknowledged.
With Warsaw converted into q second
Metz. Germany would be ~ powerful on
her eastern frontier a. she il now on the
Wet,