New-York tribune., 1903-05-31

- +se man. you see what # is" I an
sd 1T Is not enough anyway. 1t is moth
s n do with the railway" ! snatched the
,s- H-9 hack and asked anErily, w hat is your
P-ra7 Who are you Who say this Is not
L-,--h - He was taken aback- We'll, see the
e.i91 master he said, hesitatingly. I retorted
So .-Plaasa- Please come now Later.
SSS-,-ba it's enough he said, more good hunor-
- and wen, away hastily. / turned toward
++a hvstanLe-s for approval Ihey sneereu az
- man ana condemned his interference Tor
t-ss--rre-a - and in everything the sympathy Of
- -ubf!c is with the individual whenever he IS
- oT5~+7ir- with q Russian official of any kind
me officials all know this, and Go tneIr utmost
- avoid demonstration.
o- one u the few occasions when ! was lucky
s-1ugh 10 set covered wagon. was disturbed
- +be middle Of the night ny the entrance o.
= -rrnbsr ot the CossaCk guard BY and by
= cane @ CsFcaIn and questioned the Jrl2dIllh
=. - - r7,--3 as to soldier missing from Mo
sLi ana suspected Of desertion- There were
--sra1 --scraut passengers. and they exam
- fherr closely. At last they came TO me,
no feizueG 10 be asleep. one of the Cossacks
--,bl.e5 my ear roughly with his palm-the most
aar-1la. way Of rousinE a drowsy man one
S9s - use Russian KiplIngese when talking 10
-oSsarLs Devil skin you. you deformed cur.
49, i fra~ asked "W-what is y-your sur
nance 'S-a-l1 l1ubstoE- " :" iiai " on on C-celI ~
Tl-ourseIfe. 'Easih Easilievich.' 'H-Eou We're
IN No5ash. 7 was" ''Yyou belonged t-third
-regi-' Not that. or any other A stone
,asor not a soldier" Where FROM eau
--e7,e "C-rorre with US Go to nlcky, you
{Ie-k blank blanked blanks, I'm going to
rTan- 4
.tza ;Sr'- called q deep bass from dark cor
-ar- he has come with US all the way from
1a+1r Then one Of the men with a very IN
s+aadv hand held q candle few inches from
w. face auG the captain. luTChing badly, peered
closely into NY eyes and breathed- vodka into
M mouth and none too soon concluded that he
did not recognize me
Nj Gerrara spied out the railroad which Rus
s,a secretly began and is now pushing with all
sr445 down toward Peking by way Of kalgan'
3 r1,relv strategic route, designed 10 give Rus
Ga control O. the Chinese capital Indeed, the
777,ssiar conquest Of China is being conducted
hv railroad lust as surely as the Tartars in
vase6. .Fu~ooa on horseback, and as other lands
have been Won by the sword. Manchuria is al
-as=v IN his o-inion practically conquered and
annexed ar6 Khabarovsk is the capital OF
Greater Euss.ar-the Russia east Of Lake Bal
zal and extending down to the Gulf OF Pc
Chilli When Russia takes possession Of Peklng
The whole Chinese Empire will break up, and
Fu-ope. and America viii have TO look out for
-r-ei- c-,e- door and market as best they can
Az for Russia. all her present domain, and all
she NAV hereafter seize Of China, VIII he prae-
tigauy closed against the rest OF the world ana
reserved for Russian settlement and explolta-
ZION That Is not q novel view Of the case.
I'M one need ra- be ar alarnist OF a Russo
7t.se 10 believe j, To la the true one. MI
,a--s.~e is neither al a-armist nor Russophope-
IE-- h. has seen and understood Russia, and
,--..lsIl- Russia u Asia. not many others
have done. and H. has given Us an invaluable
account q ms observations, IL which he doubt
less considers there Is full reason for The l'1l'A
..st is IL him.