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..,s,,ndence OF the Associated Press.
s,sr,,,n October 20.--Mr. William I.
.,A writing from st. Petersburg, says
swhep Sir Robert Morier. one Of the
5s,.s, AZ British ambassadors. was trans
s .ssroa from the court OF Madrid to the CAPT
&, !, Russia he remarked on his arrival,
Z Rave come from a country which lives
/ 4 4. ~ rast to a country which lives In the
iuurt.
asnce then many years have gone by.
LIN has almost used up Its past in a vain
,sarl 10 contend with tho forces OF the
srsssut while Russia is exhausting the re-
.ourees Of the present In order to be able
~ rome with the immense possibilities OF
~ future Russie is the greatest aggre
40 of white men ever compacted into A
ssaie unit slnce the world begun. The
rnxlish. speaking family alone exceeds in
sumbers the Russian, but they know no
sns political allegiance such as that hich
k,nds ull the Russians to- the throne O!
Nicholas II.
y zone hundred and twenty millions OF
susn constitute world in themselves.
large enough to absorb their energies and
oopopolize their attention. The indifIet
fncs Of the Russians to what passes beyond
heir frontiers is phenomenal. Fifty years
ago one OF the aides-de- camp OF the then
[ smperor, falling into conversation with an
American, asked him to what country he
4 k1Il
leu? American said the eide de- camp
4 Where is American?
An American traveller recently returned
from Siberia gravely assured me that ali
ths war news he could find In the Grin.
\ burg papers were BRIEF reprints of tele.
grams describing the war which was raging
between Spain and England The Rus
\ sisn peasantry are not apt to make fine
distinctions. Their world is only two
grrat divisions, Russians and nom
hlssions. The small but highly cultivated
majority, which forms Russian society, the
4 lirger group which forms the administra-
toA al4@ 'eae oilcers Oh lne army and of the
navy, are. OF course keenly alive to the
4 evolution of events IN America
There is Pobyaonostsffi who lis upiver-
\ t'perseculor general throughout Russia.
No mildsr hammered man ever closed a
4 tonyeaticle or doomed a schismalic to ex-
" We. He is keenly alive to the American
tsout OH, or, as he thinks it, degi aliation.
10 him Boss Croker IL kind of somber
n pvfsvn VI the doom that awaits parla.
mentarism or representative government.
~ Ms Reflections of &, Russian States
nah, when mas just made its apps rance
N English, he expresses profound alarm
~ the prooable 90 triumph OF the Roman
3 catholic religion in the United states
Prince khilkoff pronounced Hilko),
miIster or ways ana communications, is
4 known as the American. He served some
4 Tine IN an American railway shop, He
wears his peur1 In the traditional Ameri-
can fsshion; his letters are written on
typewriter, and he is simply burning with
cesre 20 repeat in Siberia the great In
oestral development that the Americans
schieved the last fifty years west of the
Mississippi
AT the foreign office Count Muravieff-
oluff, cynical, Bismarckian in his ambi-
tion, though nou in his capacity-has kept
careful eye upon the development of
american ambitions. While scrupulously
preserving the most rigid neutrality dur
lng the war, he has a bias In sentiment
to~erds the United States. Great and
EloWlns powers have not much sympathy
VAN States that are moribund ana Spain
nad rev sympathizers among the ministers
& q the car. But the Spanish war inter
ssted them but little. 1t was waged, as it
we're In distant planet. Astronomers
might watch IL, but II was not the bust
uess OF the average man.
americans are coming we'll to the front
~ hussia as THEY are discovering more
snd more what an immense and undevei-
Opea held the lands of the czar offer 10
western enterprise Russia is at the be-
cunning of a new epoch in industrial de-
senpment. Before tinle next century closes
ene hop%s to have achieved a progress as
ereat as that which the United States has
accomplished In the closing century. NO
one adequately realizes the immense aEri-
cuNuraa resources of the immense prairie
,snrough which the czar and Prince knii-
Aoa are running an iron highway SOVo
uiies long. Americans are supplying many
81 the rails. American engineers are every
Where. One American is experimenting
~ sas construction of new steel works near
" Petersburg Bates dredges are to deep.
en ths Volga, the Dniepar, the Don AMI
Anow not how many Russian rivers pe-
smes The representative of Messrs.
Morhineton IL laying down 200 miles oil
eight inch piping in the Transcaspian re
s!on, through which the Roihschhd OIL COM
eIratNon wdll pump petroleum by means OF
PStilplh6 ptutlohSt GIL Va "hiS-> 49,
scpplled with the latest American pumps.
The other day l met an American emf
neer and geologist who having quit the
VS. OF city engineer in gr'sat American
uy, had been spending the summer eA-
snflning the gold mines OF Northern d.
Oeria, and before the day was over
stumbled ON another who had been report
ms on copper mines In the Khirgis steepes.
Inc testimony of these Americans was raw
Msole to the labor value OF the siberian
workman. The Russian is docile, quick 20
Earn and does quite as good work as any
puf the skilled laborer in the Spate; as
craftsman he is past master VIII nis
oaiy tool. the axe, ami my American lr,sn ,'.,
seelned to think that he would De eaualy
uett with other tools II he had nau Sne
trsining OF THE skille! artisan.
On the other hand, another American
declared quite as positively that the Rus-
slans employed IN his works work as ma
ssaanically as the machines they tenu.
ney never make a Suggestion OF piopose
a. Improvement. Their minds are slus
men.
There is manifest In certain quarters q
suspicion that after a time the cordiality
y Russian and American friendship may
sunnergo some little change. the Ans,
,ean element IN the country is as ht.ie
seass leavening Inc Russian mass Win
american IDEAS. Already Russian WORK
VI here and there have been heard 10 oo-
sesse thai they had no use for a Tsas,
srr1xf dat ,1~ net NIL