The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-05

e would grant MI aud ience q an American
Of c1ninence n III onn tEy and The
\ RUSSIAN told ilad that n lcholas Just q ted
n on Amcrlcnns.s and that there was hardly
ever al \. Amc ricail bal let u danger TIM ,! I
went to Russia but Nhht. tie Czlr sept ca
efprc the grand dukes, and he y Away vs.
gave them Jewels nd ca ~. ca l3 +
as souvenirs OF the liz II SIT ss5g
" dad thought It over all mig and the
next morning wsS started Sfor Riissla, and
sf / 5wlsl, NO had Joined an expedition to,
discover the North Pole instead OF COM
Ing here ~ Say. 7 IS harder ITO ,Ees 1nto
Russia than i II would DO ~ gfg ~
a penttentlary at home. AL sthaefrbAQArs
We were met by guards on horseback
and on foot, policemen, detective 6 and
other graf rho took our "a a hssportta re-
and money. and one I elbow N ade ar1es ex
u change my socks with him. Then they.
Imprisoned lis In a stable with some
cows until they could hold a coroncr's
Inquest on our passports end divide our
money. 81 we slept with the COWS the first
might In Russia, and I do not want to
Ssleep againSwIth animals that chew cuds
ali night, and get up, half a dozen. tln,es
TO hump up their ba cks and stretch and
hollow. w Q 8 never slept 81 wink. and
Il could look out through the cracks In the
stable and see tho guards Shaking dice
for olr m oney, y KS II e
Finally they looked d at tho great seal
on our passports and saw 1t was nm
American document, d ard they began to
turn pale, ms pale as a RUSS ian can ge'5
without using soap. and when X said j
s"',yYashIngto enlbassad or,f minister plen
aipotentary, Roosevelt, Hot Z lmei in the;
old Town TO. night. e Plurlbus Unum,
whoopla, San Juan Hill !" and pointed to
i dad . who was just coming opt OF the
\ stable, looking like yYashingt on at Valley;
3 Forge, n the guards and 54 Other robbcrl4
bowed to dad, gave him a bag full OF
Russian money IN place ct that Whlcl,
they had taken away, and let us take q
5frcight train for s f. petersburg, and they
must have told the train men G who we 70
were, because everybody on the cars
took Oft their hats to us, and divided
their lunch with lis, rs aI
fS Dad could not understand the change
an tho attitude Of tho people towards
us until told him that they took him for
4 distinguished American statesman, and
that as long MS We were In Russia he
must try ia look like George Washpgtor
and act Ike Theodore Roosevelt t, so every,
little while dad would stand up In the.
aisle Of tho oar and pose Ike George
Washington and VIXEN g anybody gave him
= a sandwich or n cigarette he would
show his teeth and say, 2 eelghtedp'j
and all the way to St. Petrsburg dad
carried out Ills part Of the programme,
and we were not robbed once on the
trip, hut dad tried to smoke one Of the
cigarettes that WAS given him by
#Cossack, and he died In my arms. pretty
near, h H, a # Il 5tf 3; i
They make cigarettes out OF bnled hay.
that has been Used for holdings and coY-
erred with paper that has beer. used to
poison flies. never smelled anything so
! bad since they fumigated our house by
the board of heal It'll after tho hired girl
had smallpox.
We'll, va got to ST, Petersburg in. an
awful time, and went to n hotel, suspected
by theApoica and marked ms undesirable
guests by the Cossa cks, and Winkcd nj by
tho walking delegates and strikers, who.
thought we were l,onr union men looking
for their jobs. Z
II Tho next day the religious ceremony OF
"bless!ng the NeYa" took place, where al
tho population tgets'out on the ban OF the
river, with overshoes on q nd FUR coats,
and looks down IN the river, covered with
ice four feet thick, and /, the river Is.
blessed, In our country t ne people would
damn a river ttat had Ice four feet thlcK,
but In Russia they bless arlyth thing that
wIlis stand IT.. 1Ve got a. good place, on the
bank OF the river, with about q mill lion
people, who had Isheepskln coats on, and
who steamed II Ike q sheen Ia No I, nd We're
enjoying the perfoIman nee looking occa-
u signally at the JNipt OF Palace Wiore sflee
szar' Wal i peek Ing but III n, Wind oy, Won
V ~ s,i,,1 from which II a ctiOli a. bomb