The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-23

ed separately at one side, went chas- ing about the streets like mad. One of these droskies made me realize sud denly that we were no longer in the Orient but back in the Occident again. In Japan the man who goes by walk ing in the dignity of slowness has the right of way in the streets and roads, and the man who wishes to go in un- dignified haste in rickshaws or on a bicycle must go around the man who walks After five years of such Orien- tai training, I started across a street in Vladivostock with drosky bearing madly down in my direction, consid- ering that all anxiety in the case be- longed to the man who was driving the drosky. The result was that only a sudden wild jump saved me from an Occidental death.
 The third stage in the journey, the backbone of the trip, was the 12-days' ride on the Trans-Siberian railroad from Vladivostock to Moscow. The inte national trair-de-luXe leaves Vladivostock each Tuesday evening. The train is made up of a baggage car, | dining car, and first and second class compartment coaches. The first class compartments have individual practical difference. The Japanese capitalist party and the two French parties and an elegant Chinaman and stray cosmopolitan nondescript rode first class, and all the rest of us rode second. A corridor runs the length of each car at one side and the two- berth, three-berth and four-berth com partments open off the common cor ridor. By strenuous effort we secured a two-berth compartment for the whole trip, and this fact was most inn portapt in our comfort. There were two wide berths at night, and a broad couch by day on which we could sit or lie and talk or read or eat or sleep as we pleased in perfect privacy with our door locked. This privacy and comfort made the long train ride a restful process When we left our work in Japan we were tired out, but when we reached Moscow we felt re- freshed.
 The dining car served three regular meals each day, but we went in for the noon meal only. That consisted of two meat dishes and bread and cost fifty cents. Butter and all hot or cold drinks were extra. The morning and evening meals we ate in our own compart- ment. A kettle of hot water could be | fxrn usa could make tea or coffee on an alcohol lamp. The white bread at the stations was cheap-and delicious. So our breakfasts and suppers cost us but a few cents each and were better while travelling than heavy meals in the dining car. By the time our Japanese fruit was used up we could buy or anges at the stations.
 Every two or three hours the train stopped for Is or 20 minutes and we i all had a chance to promenade on the station platforms, oftentimes in the evening to the music of the locan band and to bargain for Siberian curios and to watch the emigrant families We passed a dozen emigrant trains every day all going Vladivostock way The cars were ordinary box cars, with the big openings on the sides. with little ladders to climb in and out on Broad wooden shelves made the cars double deckers. They were crowded with aged men and women fathers and mothers, children of all sizes, and their bedding and clothes and cooking utensils and food They were a patient good-natCred dull, dirty-looking lot of people. Their food was immense loaves of coarse bread and dried fish
 This stream of emigrant trains was so regular and constant that it seem.
 ed like government movement oi soldiers
 Around Lake Eaiki the air was coo
 and the scenery beautiful Flsewhert
 along the route the weather was ho
 and the scenery monotonous, but nev-
 CT tiresome. The whole stretch from
 Nladivostock to Moscow was fertil,
 land. In one wild expanse we caugh
 sight of drove of wild camels, ant
 that part of the country was full o
 innum berable little animals like bis
 woodchucks, Except in the larger cit
 les the houses were built of logs IT
 the ancient city of Irkutsk we chang
 ed from our original train to anothe'
 by its side in the station. and after
 two hours stop continued on to Rus
 sia and Moscow
 The remainder of the journey wa
 over more familiar though not less in
 teresting ground, from Moscow to Der
 lin, across Holland to Flushing, thenc,
 by the choppy channel to England
 reaching London on the morning O
 the Fourth of July
 The last stage of the journey wa
 second class on a White Star boa across the Atlantic. The fortunate on was. of course, in hurry, and th glimpse of England had driven al the wanderlust out of the heart O the other and he wanted simply to ge
 home, and so the Atlantic voyag
 was just impatient waiting to ge across. As we steamed up New Tor harbor the sight of an innocent ol Hoboken ferry boat neatly brought ;h
 the tears to our eyes We landed fiv | , weeks lacking one day from Tokio. The next day l presented myself a the Mission rooms and announced tha
 had come home bv the Trans-Si
 berian railroad The secretary said h would pay the usual amount of a tri from Japan the direct way, s2sO.
 said l would gladly pay the rest my self. Then I made an itemized bill ( my expenses and I could not make
 up to s26o. The total expense of tn trip from Tokie to New York WE s24o. The emergency piece of Amer ican gold was kept intact and pai the wedding fee.-Rev. Arthur I Berry in New York Christian Advocat, e BURNS CELEBRATION. e Caledonian Club Will Honor Sco