The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-02-04

other pocket and brought forth fresh
list.
Fifty tins Of ham," he calmly an
nounced.
"Cannibalr' roared somebody.
The little lieutenant smiled sweetly.
while the patient line snickered.
Thirty pounds Of rice" ordered the
lieutenant.
'.Um-huhF said the Cossack captain
"a Japanesel / thought so. It's a Jap
anese trick to keep as 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 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 oyercoafs are lined with
sleeps wool and sell at the very rea-
sonable price Of 81 rubles about $l3
godl apiece. The fayorite coat with
the officers is a leather jacket that
LOOKS like the automobile coat worn In
the United States II is called sthe
Swedish coat and, being lined with
Sleeps wool. makes a garment that Is
both warm aud very strong for camp
wear About three out Of every five
officers one meets now wear these
coats.
The connoisseur In boots would be
filled with delight II be 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 dozen different kinds Of boots in
the Economical store. There are the
patent feathers, dainty and snug 1T
ting, that are greatly priced by guard
officers and good dressers 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 low shoe or rubber when worn.
and there are fur boots with the hair
side outside that make the wearers
look like arctic explorers.
The great black capes or .bourkass'
that reach to the ground and stand out
stir and uncompromising all around
are much in demand. When an officer
struts grandly away in his new bourka
he looks like dowager duchess in her
court robes
Twenty-seven cars of supplies sounds
pretty big. but it 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 noncommissioned officer
clerk who wags his head and says.
''Ne-it, nett, nett" this being Russian
for Nay, nay" The cigarette and bot
tied goods cars have sent up signals OF
distress carly in the day, and soon they
are empty and bare Next the boot de-
partment gives up IN despair. One art
er another of the others closes its doors
or its tent haps.
The officers who draw rein on wet
and hreathless horses after riding thir-
ty or forty sersts like mad in order to
secure something long hoped for mut-
ter CULTURAL maledictions on everything
In general and economical stores In
particular and wend their way toward
town to ransack the Chinese and Greek
stores and see il they can find aught to
satisfy their longing But now. when
all hope is fed and grim despair rules.
glad rumor dies about.
"Forty cars from TELLING viii be in
day after tomorrow
So that night black bread. as usual.
and the STUFF that Chinese call tobacco
and the troubled siumber under the
vermont waterproof coat. Let hope live
once more. for forty ears are on the
way from Telling.