The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-30

enjoyable.
Civic life comes under equal con.
demnation. The towns are wretChedly
planned. their slums obtrude their pres.
ence everywhere among the most or.
nate residences, the unpaved streets
are eloughs. He cites the case of one
~ the larger cities which has Just ok.
pended millions OF ruhles upon the cree.
ton OF n pretentious opera housc--it
was here that he saw wandering
troupe ~ players present Hamlet In
Saghalin"--yet rather than wade
through the knee deep mud Of the pub
lie square from his hotel he had 10 walk
more than n mile on roundabout side.
walks merely to get across the street.
~.
We lack tire impressions Of convict
life. II seems at the time OF his
two journeys across Siberia "a be little
more than memory. He does find
few families whose presence Is duo TO
the political transportation Of the past
hut these he mentions az so pleasantly
situated that they have rejected repatri
atic-. This applies only TO the politi-
cals the criminals he finds In the dreary
desolation NJ Saghalin.
The Indigenous population scantilv
engages his attention for Or Goehel IL
essentially n commercial traveller and
the aim of his journeyings is Ia discover
new purchasers for the wares Of indus
trial Germany. Upon one Of the river
steamers ne encountered the fisher folk
Of the shores of the Arctic returning
from the sale OF the seasons smoked
and silted fish They prove to be far
from pleasant fellow voyagers. for tho
doors Of their occupation cling to them
M an etiluvium.
The same odOr not Of sanCtlty, clings
to the Buriats whom he discovers south
of the railway near the Monaghan ter
| ritory. Their houses are stuffy. crowded
with men. women and children. and
| the lntcrstices chinked with domestic
| cattle of assorted sizes. Yet the Buriats
were hospitable, they pressed him to
| stay in their huts, they offered him such
provcnder rs they could bake on an
open hearth. He was peculiarly at
tracted by their religion, Lamaism Of
| Tihetan source thinly glazing the abo-
! riginal animism which has been so cX-
| haustivcly studied by the late jeremiah
| Curtin, who ranked as the highest au-
| thority on the cthnology of the Buriats.
In Mongolia and In ManChurla the
| Chinese made an excellent impression.
| DR. Goehel made their acquaintance at
Maimantschen. which faces Khiakhta.
across the border line Of Mongolia. He
was disguised with the Monaghan town,
| shabbier than Khiakhta. its streets mo-
| rasses. no signs Of activity behind the
| blank walls of its houses. Yet when he
| had been invited within the gates Of
| these grim barracks he was astoundcd
at the signs of prosperity and the evil
| dcnces not only of wealth but ~ tho re-
finements Of luxurious society. The in
vestigator came under the charm of
the great Chinese merchant adven-
turers serene as princes in the savage
frontier, and renders just praise To
| their commercial probty
He is sedulous to discover every Ger
man along his line of travel, and a
motley crew they prove to he There
are not many whom he is content TO
accept as imperial German. here and
there brewer and sometimes miller,
all seemingly prosperous and all setting
forth a board at which he can he con.
tent. Anything Tcuton!c falls into tho
statistics of the community as German.
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