Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-22
Made a Mandarin


with some discomfort.
Made Mandarin
Eyes, you know. It's a positive dis
comfort for such an ordinary American
as myself to travel in China. Because
have received the 'single-eyed pea
cock feather of mandarinship, for
sooth, I am denied a decent incognito
You should see the glitter and pomp
and color of that bodyguard that fol-
lowed me about in China. 1t made me
ashamed. L fancied the grns Of friends
on this side. I was a continuous circus
procession!"
In Venezuela, where he served during
the revolution that was headed by
Matos against Castro, he was decorated
with the medal of honor. In fact, Mr..
Archibald's trunks are the coffins for
more of these gratifying begilt honors-
gratifying to other mcmillan fall to
hundreds of less adventurous mortals
in life.
Mr.. Archibald is strongly pro-Rus-
sian. The listener hearing his great
fund of moving statistics comes to
share his sentiments. He demonstrates
finally to himself the avariciousness
and braggadocio of the little brown men,
and proves by some of the most piteous
and moving stories the tenderness and
bravery and absolute "straightness" of
the big misunderstood foe.
For pure picturesqueness and ro-
nance, quite apart from sterner facts
and details, the great Russian army,
with it's thousands of different and bril-
liant uniforms, is a tremendous story
field, as yet quite unworked," said he.
"There is that tale-or rather straight
fact-of Elena Smolka, registered
Michael Smolka, a brave-hearted
young girl who enlisted as boy to
please her old father who lost his sons.
She told me, this entirely womanly girl
from Moscow, that the height of her
ambition was to win the Cross of st.
George for that bent old man at home.
"And on the very evening after her
mention for this honor, for bravery,
by the general-that young woman, un-
knowing she had reached the goal, was
shot down struggling to the front.
"That is one story. There are hum
dreds. There is another 1 will tell you,
with a brave broken-hearted woman
for the heroine.
"She was a countess, standing high
in the court circle of st. Petersburg
and had followed her young husband,
enlisted as an officer, to the front, as
red cross nurse.
"In the great Liao Yang carnage she
lost track of him. / happened to meet
her, and she implored me, as she did
everyone, to help her in her search.
when the dead and wounded were
brought in on litters l watched her
beginning her ministrations. A cruel
destiny made the first covering she
unrecognizable, her young husband. 1
stood not three feet away That was
one of hundreds OF these chance
tragedies"
Russia Must Win
How will it end? The end is abso-
lutely certain-a victory for Russia.
Russia has been unfortunate, but she
has not begun to use her great supply.
There is a huge glittering waiting
array of 100000 men that has not yet
seen the front. The cock-sure japanese
are reckoning against odds; they do
not even realize, bolstered up by the
uncertain success of Port Arthur.
81 was the only correspondent who
was foolish enough. to get to the
front with a huge supply of foodstufrs
$1,000 worth. bought at Mukden. That
little gamble was one of the most for
tunate / ever made. Long before that
nine months was over l was the most
nnnllar man In that division OF the