The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1904-06-06
SIBERIA IN WINTER.
ARCTIC COLD AND lclNsss REIGN
FOR FOUR MONTHS.

In the Bngnnr-Const sIcdEe Racing.
Imagine black world frozen stIn.
and that is Nladiyostok in winter.
wherever water once flowed In bay
or hurbor. a wide gray white road now
runs aud these are the only two cOlors
in q WIDE still world There are no
trees. The large forests Of which the
old travellers wrote have long since
been cut down for fuel, and the i'm.
mediate hills behind the town are all
aS bare as mans hand. once behind
these hills the endless rolling plain be-
gins. which is Siberia. says Herbage
Edwards In London Black and White.
Directly summer is over all the
wealth Of flowers which for i've short
months have simply riOted In the land
20 black. die out The earth freezes
stin. Winter has come, and black and
stinf the world remains. In Nladivostok
there il little snow. Sometimes n gray
dust. more like powdered Ice than
snow, blows over the land. but for the
most part II Is a black. not a white,
world of frost, and In It's way II il
deep many feet down and Is ns hard as
iron. The whole harbor turns kind
of dull gray. That, too, Is frozen deep.
To keep any sort OF channel open the
powerful ice breaker has to go through
its work twice a day. Twelve hours OF
an ordinary winters day Is often SUN.
eient to block the passage. And all
this In a town In the same parallel as
Narseiles
To those who have never expert
snced II real arctic cold Is almost In
conceivable. They cannot grasp the
difference between 10 and 30 degrees
OF frost. II remains TO them merely
one of numbers. Indeed when once
the winter has gone II Is sometimes
difficult to remember really how cold
II was, but during the four severe win
ter months themselves 1t IL very
solid ana serious fact Every night
you go 10 sleep remembering. II you
are new 10 such things that failure
Of the furnace which heats the house
means death You might wake FIST to
know you were frozen or you might
not In the poorer houses the inhabit-
ants sleep on the stoves. md the weak
ones often die Drunhennoss boro Is
often attended with swift retribu.
tIon. which does NOT I'm thc Ieost nrn.
vent IL. and every dny I'm winter noonle
are taken M frozep from the cutters
thc snirit which IL I'm thrm opIv hos.
tening the freezing, SO that the carts
which are always sent round TO pick
up the sailors when the crews II the
mon of.,yor oro oshurn have In do thcl,.
work ouic,,Iv In tho summer t,nc
Nhcp tl.re is NOT tho some noel for
burrv IN. mon o,,cp uc ah,u, ,n Ont.
ters untl tho ,rtcrn.op rho wont
"yntto,,,,. ia uso1 sir,,l,. o., ,.-,,,,r,t, a.,
certain nort nf thc roadway ,,uttcrs
as sucl DO NOT cxjst Tho drrnlnn.
moss ,mo.,l, All ,a.sscs "a Russlrps l.
sImdy app,Ili,r Officers tbipI, moth.
iny ~ s,l,irr p, trn,llrrful or r,,.
WHISKY os , rrnd.st ..nith.rss h.rors
dinner
Mbcn thr v,nd is nat hl,yvInr tha
,old 10 .p1rr,b,, tbo,,,h oy,, r,,,. nm,
oycrcoots nrr NOT nj ,I an ey,roosdI.
nary amount of winter v,.an You
wear nt nnursr fnr hoots fur clovas
fur ,,ps Nr,pru b,,, tb,sr sl,irt.
and nniI.,s fr,.1 ,v,tb rrr yud,,t
bcinr both soft ana ,.,7, vcru Is of.
fen u,,d for tbis purnos, II ia ,uitc
astonishing tbe rortiglitv for sucb
things ns oily snrjinrs tb1t ono dcv,I
ops
I'm tbr winter finn. th, b,1o,r H. ro.I
Nv sight Eycrytnipr is rrnzcu sim
The huge. long stur,rops frnm thc IN.
terror stand i'm rows ou their ycr,, sborp
pointed noses no,krts fuu of Utrn
fishes ur, pilrl together ike c,-ns of
icc. Frozen birds huur down on long
festoons. and the mupicip,lIty is spor.
cd one trouhIc-u never has to mako
away with food "rouc had" Tho
bazaar is almost entirely I'm tbc honds
of tnr Chinese thc tou dark r,u,h
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