The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-02-22
Fifty tins of ham," he calmly al


nounced.
"Cannibal"' roared somebody.
The little lieutenant smiled sweetly,
while the patient line snickered.
Thirty pounds of rice" ordered the
lieutenant
"Um-huhr' said the COssack captain.
"a Japanese! 1 thought so. It's Jap
anese trick to keep us from getting
supplies"
SO the muttered laments kept up I'M
til the lieutenant finished his purchases
and squeezed himself out through the
crowd on the side and disappeared, fol-
lowed by a large retinue of Cossacks
and Chinese bearing his plumber.
There are all sorts of warm clothing
designed especially for bitter cold
weather to be found in the Economical
store The overcoats are lined with
Sleeps wool and sell at the very rea
sonabe price of 81 rubles about $13
the officers is leather jacket that
looks like the automobile coat worn in
the United States. 1t is called ''the
Swedish coat and, being lined with
sleeps wool, makes a garment that is
both warm and very strong for camp
wear. About three out of every FIVE
officers one meets now wear these
coats.
The connoisseur in boots would be
filed with delight if he visited the Eco
nomical store. Boots form one of the
most important items of dress to Rus
slams, and they pay as much careful
and fond attention to their boots as we
DO to neckties and silk hats. There
are a dozen different kinds of boots In
the Economical store. There are tbs
patent feathers. dainty and snug At
rfDg. that are greatly priced by guard
officers and good dTeSSers generally.
Then there are the boots lined with
felt and others with fur. Some come
to the knee and others have extern
sions that pull well up the leg. There
are felt boots that require the addition
of a low shoe or rubber VIXEN worn,
and there are fur boots with the hair
side outside that make the wearerS
look like arctic explorers.
The great black capes or '%fbCurkas"
that reach to tine ground and stand out
stiff and uncompromising all around
are much in demand When an officer
struts grandly away in his new bourka
he looks like a Gowager duchess in her
court robes.
Twenty-seven cars of supplies sounds
pretty big, but lit isn't when the num-
Der of customers is considered. First
the grocery department gives up. The
cars are cleaned out, and the only salts
faction given to the sadly disappointed
crowd who still besiege the doors is the
sight of the nOnc0mmisSiOned othcer
clerk who ways his head and says,
Nett, nett, nett" this being Russian
for NAY, nay" The cigarette and bot
tied goods cars have sent up signals of
distress early in the day, and soon they
are empty and bare. Next the boot de
partment gives up in despair. One att
er another of the others closes its doors
or it's tent flaps.
The officers who draw rein on wet
and breathless horses after riding thlr-
ty or forty versts like mad in order to
secure something long hoped for NUT
ter cultural maledictiOns on everything
in general and economical stores in
particular ard wend their way toward
town to ransack the Chinese and Greek
stores and see if they can find aught to
satisfy their longing. But now, when
all hope is fed and grim despair rules.
q glad rumOr flies about.
Forty cars from Telling will be IN
day after tomorrow"
SO that night black bread. as usual,
and the stuff that Chinese call tobacco
and the troubled slumber under the
wornout waterproof coat. Let hope live
once more, for forty cars are on the
way from Telling.