The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-12-24
THE LAND OF THE CzAR.
What Demas Barnes, or Drosklyn, secs Of later
est In Russia.

49, $3.50
best built 400 miles of railroad in the
! world, is between ST. Petersburg and
Moscow. The contractors who COM
pleted this enterprise, were two Ameri-
cans-Messrs. Winans, of Baltimore,
and Harrison, o. Philadelphia. They
are said to haze pocketed some 49,
600 1000 each as a reward for their en-
terprise. Trains upon the road are
numerous, ars good, freight business
heavy, station houses fine and meals
frst-class. Eight telegraph wires are
in use between the two cities.
Nowhere that I have been
in that country have / seen
Russia dead. All the u of na-
tional greatness are everywhere visi-
BILE. The people only need liberty.
Give them liberty-they are oil intelli-
gent-and they would not only make
Cossack tyrants follow Bourbon
princes into exile, but they would
make all Europe tremble. st. Peters
burg is modern Germanic in it's exter-
nal characteristics, while Moscow is
ancient and Oriental. 1t is not only
distance that lends enchantment to
the view; it is the exceptional, the re-
mote and the grand that emphasizes
| distinctions, draws upon the imagin-
ation and tinctures our surroundings
with romance. When at Moscow, we
globe. The difference in time was
eight hours. While you we're beholding
the sun setting behind the Orange
mountains in the west, we in the
morning of the next day were viewing
him rise from the Volgan plains in the
east. You think of Moscow as one of
many almost mythical places. There,
upon the spot, whirled through crook.
ed narrow streets behind four finely
caparisoned T~artarian steeds abreast
seeing men in long robes embracing
each other at the doors oftheir shops;
beholding shrines and burning lamps
upon the corners and in almost every
room in every hotel, shop and depot;
inhaling incense in every alley and
catching glimpses of beautiful nina
rets, rising like pictures into the sky,
we find that Moscow is indeed q reali-
ty and not at all g. myth. In two
such distinct forms of government as
hers and ours, with long ages of an
cestral habits c~linging to her people, we
witness conditions in dress, in houses,
in utensils, in architecture and in the
evidences of religious zeal, that al
most make us question our relation
ship to the race with which we are
brought into contact. So much the
more interesting. No wonder that
Napoleon was silent with amazement
when he first caught sight Of the Mus
covite capitol, then not as grand as
now, and containing only one-third of
the population which it has at the
present time.
/ am informed that there are in
Moscow about one thousand Greek
churches. They are a composite of
Catholic, Mohammedan and Oriental
architecture, and probably the most
beautiful churches in the world.
| When the ornate and wonderful
st. Basil Church was completed,
the architect was asked by
his master. Ivan the Terrible, if that
effort was his very best; if, under any
circumstances or for any consider
alton and with any amount of mon
ey, he could construct q more beauti-
full edifice. The reply was he could
MOTTO make a more beautifulstruct-
ure would be impossible. Thereupon
the architects eyes were put out, that
even he should not copy this sublime
ly beautiful creation. Think not one
of those thousand churches has less
than three minerets and domes. Most
of them have five, some have twenty
five-always an odd number-for q
grand central effect-and some have
in the neighborhood of fifty to one
hundred. They are colored white,
green, red OF blue, or are covered
with silver or gold. Most Of them
have chime Of bells, and / presume
that there are in the city of Moscow
5000 bells. 1t was but yesterday
that / stood ON the eminence about
six miles west OF the city-where Ma
poleon stood on that eventful day
when he first beheld those 5000 min
arets, spires and domes and the Krem-
Inns golden roofs glistening in the sun,
and from whence he surveyed the
treasures which he Thought would soon
be at his disposal. l traversed the
same road which he took when he
marched his 500, 600 men TO an ex-
pected victory that proved to be the
most melancholy defeat recorded on
the pages of history. The immense
treasures of the museums in the Krem-
lin has been removed and the sullcn
Muscovites applied the torch
to their own devoted homes.
The sequel is very we'll known.
Moscow has been rebuilt, and its
treasures and relics have been return
ed, supplemented by the emperor's
cannons and flags and numerous tro-
miles takan from the Aae,nn inuadara