The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-01-17
BONE FROM WAR.
Scenes Enacted in fhe City
OF Moscow.

Of Moscow.
I was passing the empty university
last Saturday morn1ng. Minute snow
was lashing through the air before a
bitter wind, but it thawed as it fell,
and people went stopping through the
filthy puddles, in galoshes, as is the
fashion here. Training IN disorder
through the dirt and wind, mixed up
with the market people and the little
open droskies that dash up and down
the streets like our handsoms, came
q string OF soldiers slowly making
their way westward,
They had just passed the booths
where the butchers and othe loyalists
slaughtered the students. They had
reached the point were the Ccssacks
shot blinoly into the procession that
had accompanied the funeral OF the
student Biumann. There they halt.
ed becau,e the cross road in front was
blocked with traffic and few passers-
by began to look at them curiously.
They wers not to be called a col
unn, nor we're they organized as an
advance party. They we're not organ
lied at all, but a few cslvery came
first, their hairy little horses throw
.nesup a steam into the wind; then a
few infantry, not more than a batal-
ion, think, covered with filth, their
uniforms torn and patched, some in
low caps, like our own men, some in
high furey caps matted with mud and
snow. Behind followed :. q ramble
line Of carts, and it was the sight
OF the men stretched inside them with
dirty bandages round their heads, or
arms, or feet which showed to US what
the party really was.
They we're the soldiers returning
from the war the van OF the great
and ruined army coming home. At
last they had completed the 5000 OF
5000 miles Of their journey through
the siberian plains and were alive in
the heart OF their own country. And
this is how they we're received.
The municipality had intended to
arrange some sort OF festivities at
the station. They had intended to
give little presents to the men-choc.
olates and cigarettes, I suppose-and
little decorations for the officers with
the inscription: To the Defenders ot
the Country"
Whether those festivities were ever
held and those little presents given
cannot say. The papers had anEoun'
ced thss 5l. soldiers would begio
to arrive on Sunday. The govern.
ment took care that they should ar
rive or Saturday. The presents may
possibly have been rushed cut in cart:
to meet them, Though it would be
more like the Russian officials to re.
tain the offerings OF their patriotism
for themselves.
But so little interest was taken IL
the whole thing that the evening :-ps
pers continued to announce Jnat .sthe
army would begin to arrive next day
and as far as can discover no turth
er notice Of any kind was taken of<ths
defenders OF the country. So they
drifted westward OF the dirty streets
and disappeared into their barracks
The resefvlsts among them appear
to have been dismissed at once. Al
all events, the crowds of -beggars wht
with threats and curses violently De
manG the: milk OF human kindness up
on the streets have been increased by
many tattered, creature who, limE
about in traces of departed uniforms
and as they pass the people:says 4
soldier from the VA" Moscow Cor
respondence New York Sun: -;