The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-04-11

every form of influence and precedence.
The Czarewitch constantly uses his
private droschke unattended On busy
streets, and looks much robuster man
physically and mentally than his inn
periaI brother. This unescorted passing
about among the people of members of
the Cars family is, not what common
report would lead the foreigner to ex-
pect here. On the footwalk there are,
of course secret service men every few
yards and all day. They, alone, are
about to counter the movement of
which some may think but nobody
speaks and in plain truth the Cars
ally, the French President, moves
among the public with more display of
his high Office than the Car does here.
So it is through the governing houses
Kouropatkin takes morning walking
exercise with one aide-de-camp on the
Nevslxi, and nobdy turns to look twice.
When another General on the imperial
staff yesterday afternoon came out of
the headquarters bureau, wrapped in a
thousand ruble fur cloak, he found him
self up against two plain clothes port
ers, each clasping the handle of big
basketful of books and old papers, pass
ing from one door to the other. They
just on unmindful of him, and to pass
he had to step off the footwaik into the
deeper snow.
In Washington or London they would
surely have got out of the way as a
matter of course In Berlin they would
as surely have gone to prison for a
month if they did not move. Here the
General stepped aside merely because
they We're carrying a basket load and
he was not.
With all the alterations of indiffer-
ence and mbelief and speculation in
abstract ideas-which is the hobby of
the poor student class-no resident from
the outer world could call Holly Rus
STA" a misnomer. At Wirballen, the
passport collecting and customs exami-
nation depot hundred yards inside.
Russia from the German frontier, the
first feature of the baggage inspection
hall is a great ikon with candles burn
ing before it, set on the wall with its
back to the western world and it's face
to Holly Russia. Another surmounts
the lamppost in the middle of the sta
ton.
So it is here. The site of the Kazan
Cathedral in the Nevski Prospect about
corresponds to Grace Church in Broad
way-it faces on the main street at a
through shopping quarter. Dorschke
drivers crawl to and fro past it for a
fare, and each one as he passes doffs
his fur cap and crosses himself ener-
getically from his brow to his waist.
He may pass a score of times a day,
but he salutes the cathedral every time.
The driver who has a fare considers
presumably that works are as good as
faith, for he often omits the observance
that he would keep if he were not earn
ing money. Foot passengers do the
same. and the most devout are the big,
simple, bearded men that you would
call 'hayseeds.'
This display of religious feeling is the
real thing: it is no mere ceremonial at
tached to an ethical code of conduct;
it is blind, unshakable faith-you may
call it idoIatry or any other word for
the worship of craven images-but it
has hold of humber Russia. and NJ.
Pobedonostzff. procurator of the Holy
Synod, is its director here. This hater
of modernity has the right sort of ma
terial fer his incessant round of ritual
to the exclusion of anything approach
ing science in the manumitted serf
character. and it permeates so per cent.
of the population.
The forefather.s of Russia's millions
wandered westward from the banks of
the Hidoo Koosh a few centuries later
an lie aJlf WHO ar row nlostl1
lnged on the side of their present foe.
I'D the critics might do wen to think
2. On over these fcE cen
tries II are + g IND man
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