The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-07-07

come. from generations OF contact with
gentle folk. Here was gentteman's
servant whose services could not be
obtained at an employment bureau.
He checred me on, and condoned the
Eenormity OF my intrusion with pleas
ant words and reassuring smiles, ana
he did not seem even to notice the
offonsiveness Of my clothes.
Made Him Welcome.
On the stairs I had another attack
OF stage fright. AFTER all" my bet
ter senses argued was this not an
impertinence?' I was certainly tho
first obscure American who had ever
dared this thing. Those who had pre-
ceded mo were men OF might, VIII Q had
moved mountains or swayed multi
tudes, or killed an octopus or two IN
fair outstanding fight. but l.
1.-THE Count has talked about your
coming all the morning. said the but
Ter, and pushed me In.
For a moment tho same eager look
came into Tolstoy's eyes that I had
seen there from the road below. He
remem bered 1t seemed to me. the long
line Of bold-faced men from America
who had come to him In pilgrimage;
perhaps in his incurable optimism he
! had remembered the words Of my fav-
orite Emerson, when i1alf-gods go
1.-THE gods arrive Perhaps he had had
hopes. Be this as 1t may. when ! stood
before him In the guise Of an imitation
European his countenance fell. Then.
as though he wanted to laugh at some-
thing, and yet recognized his present
duties as host. he said:
"You see this pencil? It was left
me by an American statesman who
called some months ago to consult
with me about affairs of state. ], shall
always remember that man. It Is the
best pencil ever had" Then we both
laughed. and the Count was SO uneX-
came within an ace OF telling him
my kvass adventure. the reason of my
i Disguise: but after all, who could talk
to a Tolstoy about clothes?
! And SO 1t was that suddenly oul
| conversation lost its momentum. Il
J was the first warm day OF wintry
/, spring. and the sunshine poured II
through the south window In llfe-giv,
i Ing streams. The trees had leavct
overnight. and the birds were de
| lighted. and said so with full-throatet
notes. and I was thinking what ,
4 brave interview this would have beef
had I sat at the feet of the Russian
cage twenty years ago. Then my pill
grimage became involved in Ball1il
: war, and ten years later. when I wa
,, in Russia again, It died away on tn,
shores Of the Amoor. Now life ha
answered SO many of my questions
and 80 fear the answers to the re
naming few, that I found myself talk
, Ing leisurely about Indians; Indians
Ihad met skulking along the shad,
sides OF Siberian rivers; more Indian
had met upon the sAwdust OF on
circus arenas. and few upon the Dor
!! ders of our vanishing wiidernesses.
: spoke of some stone images I had see
dwindling Gilyaki. and of someN /
Mexico. ani-hogv 'cnriously alike the
! were. The Count listened to my bah
= BILE, and used 1t against me when til
: proper time came. When the tai
s came hack to Russia, the Count aske
2 me what signs OF hope I saw in tn
present situation there. I told him
VI the DounR, the finest assemblage
: Russian men ever met to discuss thel
: own affairs and to exercise an infit
J, ence. however slight. upon the govern
: ment under which they lived.
= Against Popular government,
II have no hope In this Douma," II
;, |torted the Count II have no hope !
! any form Of parliamentary Govern
Q nlent. Parliamentarism means sim
o ply poulticing over old scores. I a.
.. against the Douma because parlia
vi mentarism Is not an Instinct Of II
d Russian people, And then. why shou
& we try to graft on to our Institution
i something which Is "a well~knoWn M
ylan acknowledged failure In GIL coul