The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1913-08-29

thursday morning found US In
another world. The pretty. II
sQualid, Chinese villages =
matched roofs and empowered
in billowy foliage; the endless
stretches of plowed grain land
dotted with laboring natives in blue
overalls and straw lAmpshade hats;
the great herds of cattle and horses
and the browsing camels had gone.
Our train was rolling slowly through
q wooded hill country. Virginia to
the eye. though the map called 1t
western Manchuria. writes Bassett
Digby in the Chicago Daily News.
Here and there we cut athwart a
water meadow, skirted by a noisy lit
tie creek that foamed and frothed its
way through half q dozen channels In
the pebbly bed. "A smiling meadow"
10 q popular figure Of speech that you
can understand when, after many
weeks sweltering in the hot. treeless
plains of the Liaoyang peninsula you
wake UP among the hills OF Tsitsitcar.
The fiowers!
l sat on the step of the end plat
form Of the coach - We toiled up a
steep gradient and counted over four
dozen kinds in full bloom-wild roses,
red, pink and white. Flaming acres
of peonies; shoals Of Iceland peoples
over the rocky hillside and along by
the track-yellow Iceland peoples a.
big as those unattainable ideals in the
seedman's lists.
Vetches, yellow and m1uve. A
kind Of double daisy, now blood red.
now snowy trimmed. Waving edges of
yellow and blue and the little pale
blue Chinese ground sedge. Hemlock.
starwort and bedstraw. Wild straw
berry in profusion. Dandelion. thistle.
buttercup and feathery marsh flowers.
bushy heads on stout stems that over
topped the PUSHES. Lilies Of the val
Icy. pink stock, yellow trumpet lilies.
In the meadow grass. up on the dry
hills, great drifts Of deep blue forget
me-not
The brakes ground. and we came to
= standstill at tiny wayside sta.
train Of windowless horse boxes. dark
and nlthy horse boxes packed with
Russian emigrants bound for Amur
land and the Pacific coast near Vladi
vostok.
It costs nothing to emigrate to 81
IBERIA, even though you do not jour
ney as q convict In consequence
some half a million peasants come
out every year. while 10000 return
An annual emigration-by far the
most gigantic the world has evel
known-of twice the bulk of that t.
Canada. yet one of which the nations
have no cognizance. A Russian peas
ant today can receive free transporta
ton Of himself and family, his flock.
and his herds and everything that hs
hath, from his native village to a set
Element In PARKWAY Siberia, and Their.
will be given land and the loan Of {
grant that will cover the expenses O
the first years operations.
On an Emlqrant Train.
On the emigrant train you see wha
QuTQOTlo W UC CINlliLSO q
its very lowest level. You do no
quail at the housing and surrounding.
of the black races, but you vii
be unprepared for this degree o
| degradation among whites.
During long waits on the sidings-
an emigrant train is sidetracked to lie
coal trucks pass!-the poor creatures
| risk a calldown from the station pc
lice and slide open the middle door O
| the horse box for breath of air an,
a ray of light
There are trucks for families an,
trucks for single men. Both are sta
bles. In the former three human gen
srations. the grandparents. the ma
\ and his wife In their prime, and thei
children, herd together with the popr
lation Of their little farm yard back Il
Russia. Three COWS and half = dozsl