The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-09-25

thirty to forty minutes for dinner is not
uncommon. AT every station peddlers
come around with fruits. cakes aud drink
ables, and q common sight is the old fellow
with the samOvar in which he makes tea
and serves all who will buy. 1t makes no
difference how hot it Is this man always
wears his overcoat, and a long-visored cap
usually shrouds his eyes. He is generally
bearded and ne has fat Jolly face like that
of Santa Claus. His tea is good, and he
serves it with bit of lemon and lump of
the hardest sugar you have ever put be-
tween your teeth If you drink the tea like
ne does you will put lump of sugar be-
tween your teeth and suck the tea through
this, and the chances are that when you get
as old as he is your teeth will be in the de-
cayed condition Of his. Nine-tenths of the
Russian peasants have bad teeth, ard there
is more chance for good. enterprising dent
lists here than anywhere else in the W orld.
[ don't doubt but that there are 500, 900, 900
cavities ready at this writing in this en-
pire for 500 600 gold or smalgam plugs,
and the Russian with sound teeth is the
exception.
THIRD GLASS CARS.
1t is wonderful how much travel is done
by the poor class in Russia. The third
class cars are always full. They are more
like cattle cars than anything else There
are no cushions in the seats and the people
are crowded in II all sorts of ways. They
are not supposed TO have any rights that
the railroad officials are bound to respect,
and | saw one man knocked down and
showed back in to the station just as the car
was about to start because he did not have
his ticket in his hand. He told the guard
that the party OF peasants with whom ne
was travelling had the ticket, and they had
already cotton on the cars, but this did
him no good, and though he cried and
howled he was held back while the car bore
his friends and his family away. The
peasant cannot travel in Russia without
passport. have not had to show my pass
port at the railroad depots except when |
came into Russia, but the peasant dare not
go from one part of Russia to the other
without permission of the local govern
ment under which he lives, and he is asked
to show his passport at the ticket Office.
At Tamboff | saw whole crowd OF peas
ants who were about to emigrate 10 another
province. Each had his passport in his
hand and they stood in single file waiting
for their turns to buy their tickets. 1t was
at this same station that ] saw my first
prison car These Russian roads have cars
especially devoted TO the carrying OF pris-
oners. and the prisoners which are taken
from here to Siberia go by rail TO Mini
Novogrod, whence they are put on prison
boats and are carried down the Volga and
up the river Kama to Perm and thence
start on their march to the wilds of Sibe-
ria These cars had iron bars to the
windows and they are guarded by soldiers
who are ready to shoot any who try to es-
cape. The cars themselves are third-class
ones and the prisoners sit On hard boards
rather than cushions.
THE LUGGAGE ARRANGEMENTS.
1t don't pay to carry much baggage in
Russia. l have trunk with me that
weighs about two hundred pounds and it
cost me S. every time move Only forty
pounds of baggage is allowed With ticket
bore and the excess is always charged for.
There is no charge, however, for packages
carried inside the cars and the result is
that every passenger has half dozen
bundles and the cars are filled with pack
ages and baskets and trunks with handles
on them. The poorer classes carry all
their baggage into the cars with them, and
as the most of them are too poor to own q
trunk they wrap their goods up in cloths
and carry them in bundles on their backs
II they have to wait over night a. the sta
tion they throw these bundles down for q
pillow and sleep on the stones, and com
mon sight at almost any of these stations is
a Russian peasant family, the father of