The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1906-01-17
HONE FRom WAR.
Startling Scenes Enacted in the City
OF MOSCOW.

I was passing the empty university
last Saturday morning. Minute snow
was lashing through the air before .
bitter wind, but it thswed as 1t fell,
and people went Stopping through the
filthy puddles, in galoahes, as IS th
ashton here. Training IN dlsord r
through the dirt and wind, mixed up
with the market people and the little
open dro5kies that dash up and down
the streets like our handsoms, came
q string of soldi,rs slowly making
their way west ward,
They had just passed the booths
whore the butchers and othe loyalis 8
slaughtered the students. They had
reached the point were the Ccssacks
shot blindly into the procession that
had accompanied the funera! OF the
student Baumann. There they halt.
ed because the cross road in front was
blocked with traffic and few passers'
by began to look at them curiously.
They were not to be called a col
umn, nor were they organized as an
advance party. They were. not organ-
ized at all, but few calvery came
first, their hairy little horses throw:
ing up steam into the winC; then q
few infantry, not more than a batal
ion, think, covered with fltn, their
uniforms torn and patched, some In
low caps, like our own men, some in
high furey caps matted with muo and
snow. Behind followeda ramb lag
line of carts, and it was the sig. t
Of the men stretched inside them with
dirty bandages rlund their heads, or
arms, or feet which showed to us what
the party really was.
They were the soldiers returning
from the war-the van Of the great
and ruined army coming hone. At
last they had complete d the 600 or
5000 miles Of their j urnoy through
the siberian plains auL neie alive IL
the heart Of their own country. And
this is how they were received.
The municipality had intended to
arrange some sort of festivities at
the station. Tney had intended to
give little presents to the men-choc'
olates and cigarettes, 1 suppose
little decorations for the officers With
the inscription: To the Defenders OF
the Country"
Whether these festivities were ever
held and those little presents given i
cannot say. The papers had anneun'
ced that 1l. sNdlets would b,sin
to arrive on Sunday. Tn: gov.rc-
ment took care that they saouid ar
rive on Saturday. The presents may
possibly have been rushed cut In carts
to meet them, the ugh 1T would be
more like the Russian Officials to re-
tain the offerings OF their patriotism
; for themselves.
But 80 little interest was taken 10
the whole thing that the evening pa
pers continued to announce that the
army would begin to arrive next day,
and as far as 1 can discover no furth
er notice Of any kind was taken OF the
defenders of the country. So they
drifted west ward of the dirty s5raets
and disappeared into their barracks.
The resefVlsts among them appear
to have been dismissed at once. At
all events the crowds of bsggars Who
with threats and curses violently &c
mand the milk of human kindness up
on the streets have been increased BY
many tattered creature who limp
about in traces of departed uniforms,
and as they pass the people say "A
soldier from the war."-Mo,cow Cor.
respondsDre New York Sum-.