The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-07-22

| matched roofs and uncovered
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
wooded hill country. Virginia to
the eye, though the map called it
western Manchuria, writes Bassett
Digby in the Chicago Daily News
Here and there We cut athwart a
water meadow. skrtcd by noisy lit.
| tie creek that loaned and frothed its
way through half dozen channels in
the pebbly bed. "A smiling meadow"
is a 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 flowers
sat on the step of the end plat
form of the coach as 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 poppies
over the rocky hillside and along by
the track-yellow Iceland peoples as
big as those unattainable ideals in the
seedman's lists
Vetches. yellow and mauve 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 rushes. Lilies OF the val.
ley, 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
ton. On parallel siding lay long
train of windowless horse boxes, dark
and filthy horse boxes packed with
Russian emigrants bound for Amur-
land and the Pacific coast near Vladi-
vostok.
1t costs nothing to emigrate to ST.
IBERIA, even though you do not jour
tnk Tn
some half a million peasants come
out every year, while 10000 return.
An annual emigration-by far the
most gigantic the world has ever
known-of twice the bulk of that to
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 flocks !
and his herds and everything that he
hath, from his native village to a set
Element in faraway Siberia. and there
will be given land and the loan of a
grant that will cover the expenses Of |
the first years operations.
On an Emierant Train.
On the emigrant train you see what |
purports to be civilized humanity at |
its very lowest level You do not |
quail at the housing and surroundings
Of the black races, but you will !
be unprepared for this degree of |
degradation among whites.
During long waits on the sidnrs-
an emigrant train is sidetracked TO -,
coal trucks pass.-the poor creatu j.
risk a call-down from the station no.
lice and slide open the middle door of
the horse box for breath of air ana
q ray Of light.
There are trucks for families and
trucks for single men. Both are sta.
bles. In the former three human gen.
erations. the grandparents. the man
and his wife in their prime. and their
children, herd together with the popu.
lation of their little farm yard back N
Russia Three cows and half a dozen !