Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-07-08

uon, winch does not III the IeusL PIE
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 that the carts
which are always sen round to pick
up the sailors when the crews of the
men-Of-war are ashore have to do their
work quickly. In the summer time,
when there is not the same need for
hurry, the men often lie about in gut
tiers until the afternoon. The word
CUTTERS Is used simply to designate II
certain part of the roadway. Cutters
as such do not exist. The drunken
ness among Ill classes Of Russians is
simply appalling. Officers think moth
ing of taking a tumblerful of raw
whisky as n modest 'bitters'' before
dinner.
When the wind is not blowing the
cold Is endurable. though five fur lined
overcoats are not at all an e%xtraordi-
nary amount Of winter wrap. You
wear, of course, fur boots, fur gloves.
fur caps. Women have their skirts
and bodices lined with fur. Wildcat,
being both soft and very warm, is Of
ten used for this purpose. 1t is quito
astonishing the Partially for such
things as oily sardines that one devel-
ops.
In the winter time the bazaar is real
ly n sight. Everything is frozen stiff.
The huge, long surgeons from the in
terror stand In rows on their very sharp.
pointed noses. Baskets full Of little
fishes are piled together like chips of
ice. Frozen birds hang down on long
%festoons, and the municipality is spar
ed one trouble-it never has to make
away with food gone bad" The
bazaar Is almost entirely In the hands
Of the Chinese, the tall, dark, rough
Chinese of the north, who live wrapped
up in wadded cotton clothes until they
look like bundles of bedding. Without
the Chinese and the japanese Vladivos-'
do all the work of the town. The
Russians garrison and govern it. The
Chinese, the Germans, the Japanese
and the other nations trade in it.
The great sport of Vladivostok in the
winter is sledge racing, and when once
the harbor is frozen oven Il proper
course is marked off, and every one~
who owns a horse takes part. A Rus
sian horse is Il superior brute. He
stands as high and looks as strong as
n cart horse, but he goes like the wind.
He will walk or he will gallop, but he
does not condescend TO do anything be-
tween. His harness Is weird and Won
derful and very Russian. consisting
primarily of Il huge wooden half hoop
over the head, the keystone Of the
whole structure, which is attached to
the shafts by winding long, thin straps
backward and forward. 1t takes hours
to put this on, is always liable to come
undone and II undone Is very danger
GUS. An English lady once related to.
me with horror how she was taken
for u drive in V~ladivostok and the
horse and carriage just went over ev-
erything-walls, banks or whatever
came in the way. 1t is quite true, a
Russian horse does, and If you have
once driven behind one you are never
nervous again. You are either killed
or cured.
In Vladivostok you take your daily
skate as your constitutional, and the
most exciting thing to do Is to sledgeg
along the cOast-dangerous because"
shore ice Is never quite trustworthy
to Askold, which il an island on tho
northeast coast Of SilsTSA-