The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-10-16

in existence In the same position for an
other day were remote.
At 1 O'Clock that night I left my tenn
porary quarters along with Colonel Aniclr-
kon- 1t was a moonlight night. and the
weather was fine. but the roads and fields
were soft, owing to rain that had fallen
previously. / did not know where the
General was. but I believe that he re-
manned on the position till the last.
The road was crowded with Cossacks
goirg north. They were not excited, nor
did they move quickly. In fact. they went
times brought them to a halt. which lasted
half an hour. The moon shone through
clouds. so that this dim procession of
silent horsemen, with long pixies and furled
flags. seemed in the distance k an army
OF ghosts.
ON THE WRONG ROAD.
After marching slowly for an hour Or
so It was discovered that We were on the
wrong road. Maps were then produced
and a compass and the stars consulted.
with the result that we Numbered
through somehow to our destination after
turning back for some distance and scram-
bling through all sorts of rocky. wet and
slippery places.
The Chinese villages through which we
passed were as silent as tombs. but we
sometimes succeeded in knocking up some
OF the inhabitants and getting directions
from them about the roads. We also got
2 Chinaman TO act as a guide.
Our Interpreter was Il Cossack youth,
whose Chinese was so good that on one
occasion our chaplain asked him, some-
what severely, I thought. as Il he consid-
cred that the lad was going a bit too far
IN picking up such an o~utiandish. pagan
tongue: Where do you come FROM
From Trans-Balkal Guberny.' replied
And" = reproachfuIly now do you
Please. your reverence" said the lad.
we employed Chinese servants in our
house and 1 learned Chinese of them"
BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY.
When day dawned we found ourselves
in the heart OF q mountainous but beau
tiful country. well cultivated and evident
iy supporting a large population. Soon
after jaypreak we passed through a viii
lage whose early-rising inhabitants were
speeches. with wonder at the passage of
such a large body OF horsemen. There
were in this village. and in the others
we afterward visited. plenty of women
the Cossacks, and who did not seem to
fear the Russians
I am told that the women and children
fly before the japanese. and | have my
self seen some half dozen Cinnamon 90
so. The villagers seemed to regard US
simply with looks of blank establishment
and probably the children who saw Us
pass will often tell their grandchildren Of
this night march OF thc Cossacks. posi-
bly, the last march white soldiers will
make in these villages.
Soon after daybreak we heard the re-
Fort of japanese cannon and afteTward
learned that. in ignorance OF our flight !
the japanese had begun to shell the hill
which our battery stood.
At 5 on Monday morning We reached
the village of Tsenying-Lunshan, a beau
tiful and prosperous little village with a |
bir wooded peak rising precipitously be- |
hind it. and making i look < a jap
trict-the resemblance being still further
by the little Buddhist shrines at
the foot Of the mountain
Our Colonel Immediately ordered the
man OF the village to be brought be-
fore him. and that worthy gentleman, !!
who probably expected TO have his head
the visitors did not intend TO modest
women OF to trouble the people in any
way. but would a for everything they
took.
IS / can see. these Cossscks pay for ev-
arythIng with the scrupulousness Of tour
isfs Al Tsee-Lao-Gau I saw our intend
ant give the Chinanan In whose house We
mere fact that the ChinaMan. hagsled
Nd tried to get more, proved to me con-
i,,siyely that he was getting too much.
T have never knows OF a case in which
CosSack General did not pay in this
1,a amer. and I believe that all his officers
II likewise. In spite OF this. the China
nan sometimes gets kicks instead of half
,ence. especially when he has TO deal with
oncourissfoued officers or with privates.
mi until armies consist of saints instead
soldiers this sort of thing is bound TO
SEARCH FOR HOUSES.
After our Colonel had thus explained
Kings we scattered in search OF houses
4 is q somewhat peculiar position for a