New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02

EperythingH Been We'll
Shaken Up There and
the Mixture Is Odd.

the Mixture is Odd.
Chinese padocks in the shape Of frogs ana dcr
and fishes; and great barrels and euoeS OF Des'ef
IRON meet to hold the doors Of cathedrsls ana the
ga,es Of cities against the battering rams OF ne
raging mob.
4 cart is a solid proposition IN TINS part Of ne
world. but at that it always needs tinser'ng W
Wander in the dust, lie the where"ltnS's -nann
# rome and Irvine and cord scraps oil sngieo iron
,rork and slabs Of sheetiron pins ana hats o.
wood and metal. Crudely Handicapped roots sad
forking branches Of trees, mats OF woven "'hos
bark and beaten yak wool. Massive bullock CAT
wheels made in six clumsy segments Oh neaf'
circle Skeins Of plated horsehsiF.
A dismoun.ing group Of Mongols Is Just 10 iron
the Cobb Hinterland. They want necessities nfs''
tho chips Of flint 20 into the tlnoe' purses
dangling from the girdle. The huge DISKS OF oi>et
bread arc strung up behind their saddles =
Then they take glimpse at the fripperies OF tns
Occident, msrvellng, doubtless az inc eAsrs'f'
3;ror, number Of useless things with which
white man elects 70 cumber his existence res
er,Iv tbcv come u a tool booth-knives and axes,
,incers and saws nails and vises, files and CHAINS
Waybe they are not tickled TO death with these
gUaFn-edIeG
fe1d and Essen, The smith back home, thou
sand miles beyond the mountains doesn't t'rn
ont This class OF work. Their faces light up.
Jabbering and gobbling turkey talk, their eyes
easb like the tools as. running finger down :
blade, or giving appreeiative wrench at ensiA'
they call their comrades attention.
When they leave the bazaar they wander up
and down the town, seeing what they shall see
and hearing what they shall hear. group gathers
outside a store in which gramophone IS squeak
ing a libel on Straus. Another group gathers
sround a drainage conduit that is rather neatly
steered under the sidewalk, examining Il like q
new toy.
THE EMPOWERED FINAL RESTING PLACES
OF THE WEALTHY.
Down the main street Of Troctskosavsk yoa
come to the last shop, which sells talking M.
chimes and samovars, bicycles, guns and seSint
machines, and pass church and cemetery
where the graves of the Weather dead are en-
lowered in rooted summer houses, hung VIA
festOons of bedraggled paper flowers. The sun
boa,s fercelv down on the white dust from vhiea
int vheel-polished backs Of powders. Il is pleas
ant to rest moment beneath a wayslde tree
where little peasant girl is selling kvss Mott
branch Is budding yet, Dut -Vhe""N WV ~
seems cooler than the road.
A beetle dressed in cherry pink and ernersas
green alights in your glass, swims 70 safety
combs its sntenne and booms down breeze again-
The man driving by in a rubber-tired trzr
"a rarity hereabouts-is wearing a sun helmet
When he takes an after dinner stroll this even
ing he will be wearing his fur coat and gloves
and his breath will be steaming in the chill eVea-
ING air. AN interlude of stOning dogs. 1t isnf
healthy here 10 have strange dogs shining sroune
you. Every year a good many persons have 70
make hurried journey through the Trans Bsin
10 the Pasteur Institute at Irkutsk. Mad wolves
Turk in the forests, and biting proving dog
keep rabies a constant menace)
sANDsTORMs THAT BURY YOU IN GRIT
FILLED GLOOM.
Pufrs Of wind sweeping down from the pineclAf
heights 20 the west raise miniature sandstone
that rush up the hill to meet you. Here CONES
one now. licking up all the dust and grit in rs
path. Through the riffs you catch confusss
glimpse Of shining steel-fxed bsyonets- sns
above them, here and there. camePs head, oom'
ing body!ess as Alice's Cheshire eat at its penuii
mate gasp above the drab cloud. few SECONDS
pass. Then, with the full throated roar oil
swinging marching chant the battalion and nc /
sandstone and its inhabitants-are upon you
There arc no traffic policemen in these parts sns
you have 10 look after yourself. couple Of cars
vans of oxen drawn carts, cropping folks sfoo''
herd of goats with a grievance, Ford sutoms
bile, knot of Chinese coolies staggering uscs
gigantic baskets, two eighteen-yesr-old high seh'0
girls in the regulation "pnnies," sundry red-rorea
MongoIs steering their horses back and forts;
twisted skein of cames about lazy eomrsde sm
has lain down in the road and is squesling %
determination to see himself sitting einders
Tophet before he'll get up and the light bears
young soldiers of the 10th Siberisns stridir<
rhythmically ahead and roaring their song ~
atmosphere that nearly ehokes the stranger
When the murky hullsbslloo has passed 90
your wake and you have leisure to look about 700 f
you will notice the barracks, big three and for +
stored buildings of red brick fanking each ~
of the road, twenty or thirty Of them, and
large military church beyond.
THEN ACROSS THE BRIDGE TO KIAKHTAs
MARrs.
Half mile on you cross bridge over the bro'' +
and find yourself in Kiakhts, where the Sieerf +
merchants hoard their imports and transact tSs. I
business. Large painted and esrven log eottsee E
in their pslisaded yards, many of them dating ssc
more than century, line the ayenued road
little park, densely wooded with lsrches as
birches. Limewashed administration buildings
silyer-domed church a hillock. few yam