The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-08-09
Sound Finance and Strong
Army, Russian Needs
ALL HER CRAFTSMANSHIP
Devoted to Improving Her Credit Abroad
Through Bountiful Harvest--czar
Ferdinand to Make a Gala
Queer Border Fracas.

st, Petersburg, Aug. 9.-Russian opin.
ion takes a sober view Of the cars week
Of toasts and fraternizings and NJ. Isvol-
sky's interviews with foreign statesmen.
Prince sergius Troubetzkoi writes in his
Moscow Review that Russia now realizes
that sound finance and strong army are
the only factors that count information
ally and that without them the much ad.
yertised fact and diplomacy Of the czar's
recent hosts are worthless, as has been
abundantly proved during the past year.
Other leading commentators adopt
similar tone and are already turning
their attention to the exceptional efforts
at gathering and distributing this years
harvest.
After fornight's picnic cruising mi
the Finnish fiords, the car viii make
railway journey southwark through
Russia to the Crimea at the time when
the crops are being gathered. Ex-Direc.
tor Of Prisons Roukhloff. who is minis.
ter Of railroads. has issued an imperative
notice to his department that all neces.
sary additional railway sidings, rolling
stock and fuel must be at the centers
in the grain districts before September
8. Otherwise there viii be dismissals
and prosecutions win follow.
Despite devastating hailstorms in some
Of the southern provinces, the harvest,
in the great province Of Khar-
kof and the rich black earth regions,
promises to be much about the average.
As q good exoprt balance Of grain is
The only means Of strengthening Russia's
financial position, supreme effort is
being made this year to secure the best
results, Prime Minister stolypin will
pass the next two months IN directing
he government machinery from saratofT
Besides the new sultan Of Turkey the
'zar will receive during his stay in the
Cream Gar Ferdinand Of Bulgaria after
he has been ceremoniously crowned at
Sofia. Ferdinand then intends to adopt
he Greek orthodox church, will Is the
'aith Of the Bulgarian people. This
.hange win give him wider practical ex.
,erienee Of the different branches Of the
christian religion than any other ruler
n Europe When he arrived in Bulgaria
le was a Roman Catholic, but be had
lis eldest son received into the Greek
hureh 10 safety Bulgarian and SIav
sentiment This Il said 60 have broken
he heart Of his first wife, who was
devout Catholic. Then Ferdinand mar
led Lutheran princess. Eleonore Of
Seusa. according to both the Protestant
md Catholic rites Now ne proposes
hat his whole family embrace the Greek
communion.
The car Is not an indiscriminate al
nirer Of bis own Hague arbitration
curt One Of his soldiers on duty on
he German frontier took a man with
gun whom be saw just across the
,order line for poacher and disarmed
Inn. The prisoner proved to be a Ger
nan frontier Waterman. The German
Embassy at st. Petersburg suggested
hat If Russia did not see her way to
excuses the incident should be
emitted to the Hague arbitration court
The Russian ministry 81 foreign affairs
efused to aeoede to the suggestion, 50
he affair remains unsettled, but it is
lot worrying lovers Of European peace.