The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-04-26

ARCTIC COLD AND lClNESS REIGN
FOR FOUR MONTHS,
IGaGivoStok Then II Frozen StiG. u
" Grid at Rlack ana Deadly Frost.
The Way Frozen Food r. Displayed
In the Bazaar-CoaSt sIcdge Racing.

Imagine a black world frozen still,
and that is VlalivoSto'i in winter,
Wherever water once flowed in bay
or harbsr, q wide gray white road now
runs. and these are the only tive colors
in a wide. stu world There are mp
trees. TIE large forests q which Tie
old travellers wrote have L. since
been cut down for fuel ana tke i'm
mediate hills behind tie town are all
ms bare as a mans hand. once behind
these hills the endless rolling plain he
gins, which is siberia, says uer5age
Edwards in London Black and White.
Directly summer is over nl the
wealth OF flowers which for live short
months have simply rioird In The laul
"a hlack. dic out The earth freezes
stifT. Winter has come, ana black and
stir the world remains, In Nadiyoaioh
there isl.ttlc snow. Sometimes a S1ay
dust more like powdered lee than
snow. blows over the land, hut for he
most part il is q black, not white.
world of frost, and ia lis way it IS
more impressive The earth freezes
dccn many feet down and is as hard rs
iron. The whole harbor turns q kind
of dull gray That, too is frozen deep
To keep amy sort Of channel open th2
powerful Ice breaker has to 70 through
its work twice a day Twelve hours Of
an ordinary winters day is often suii.
cient to block the passage And all
this in a town in the same parallel IS
MarSeiles.
To these who have never expert
enced it real arctic cold is almost in
conceivable. They cannot grasp the
difference between 10 and 20 degrees
of frost. II remains 70 them merely
one Of numbcrs, Indeed when once
the winter has gone il is sometimes
difficult to remember really how cold
it was. but during the four severe win
ter months themselves it is very
solid aud serious fact. Every nisht
you ca TO sleep remembering If sou
are new to such things, that a failure
of the furnace which heats the house
means death. You might wake first II
know you We're frozen or Won might
not. In the poorer houses tine inhahit-
ants sleep on the stoves, ana tile weak
ones often die. Drunkenness here y
often attended with a swift retribu-
ton. which does not in the least pre-
vent it. and every day in winter people
are taken up frozen from the cutters.
the spirit which is in them only has
tening the freezing, SO TINT tile carts
( which are always. sent round To pick
Up the sailors whom the crews Of the
men-ofwar are ashore have 70 DO thoir
work quickly. I'm the summer time
when there n not the same need for
/ hurry. the men often lie about IN gut
ters until the afternoon. The word
cutters is used simply to designate q
certain part of the roadway Cutters
I as such do not exist. The drunken
/ ness among all classes Of Russians IS
simply appalling. Officers think moth
ing Of taking q tumblerful of raw
I whisky as a modest "bitters' before
+ dinner
When the wind is not blowing the
/ cold is endurlble, though 1--WE fur lined
cvercoats are not lit MI an cxtraordi-
nary amount Of winter wrap. You
wear. of course. fur boots, fnr gloves,
fur caps. Women have their skirts
and bodlces lined with fur Wildcat,
being both soft and very warm, is Of
Ten used for this purpose. 1t is quite
astonishing the Partially for such
things as oily sardines that one devel-
ops.
In the winter time The bazaar Is roal-
~ sight. Everything Is frozen stiff.
The huge long surgeons from the in
terror stand in rows on theft yery sharp
pointed noses. Baskets full Of little
fishes are piled together like chips Ct
Ice. Frozen birds hang down on long
festoons. and the municipality is spar
al one trouble IL never las 10 make
AWAY with food gone bad The
bazaar Is almost entirely i'm the hand.
Of the Chinese. the tall dark, roug.
Chinese Of the north. who live wrapped
w In wadded cotton clothes until thol
look like bundles of bedding Withou
the Chinese and the Japanese Nlativos
tok would find 81 hard to exist They
do ali tho work az thp town Tht
Russians garrison and govern it. Tin
Chinese. the Germans. the Japaues'
and the other nations trade in e.
The great sport Of |IldlyoStok in th
. winter IS sledge racing, and when one
the Earbor is frozen over q pa0po
: conra Is marked off, and every ON
Z who owns a horse takes par; \ Rus
sian horse Is superior brute II
J stands as high and looks as strong o
d cart horse. but he goes Ike the wind
' lie VIII walk or be viii gali0p. but b
e. does not condcscond To- DO anything BE-
tween. Ills harness Is weird and Wot
g defful ard very Russian, c3nsistin
Il primarily Of "a huge wooden h9lf hoo
y over the bead. thc keystone Ct th
& whole structure. which is attached
/. the shafts hy winding long. thin strap
@ bacisu p, end forward. II takes houl
2 to put th5s on. Is always liable to com
:. undoue aud II undone Is very DANCE
OTIS Al English lacy once related
me with horror how she was take