Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-07-31
An American Boys 0pinio1
Of ArchangeI.

enough interesting Impressions Of
people and things in Archrng"l aud
the surrounding country to r.gale
their friends with for many long
day. An idea of what our fighting
men, mostly from Michigan and
Wisconsin, thought Of Arclang |, it's
girls. its customs and things in gen
eral ut the top of the world i, found
in THE American Sentinel" the
newspaper published up there by the
American Red Cross for their enter
taiment.
Copies of the Sentinel which reach
ed Washington Red Cross Hradquar-
tiers show that the artic weather was
mot severe enough to frcrze the humor
out of the soldiers or clog their rhym-
ing apparatus. The following de-
scription of Archang-l pronounced
by the Sentinel editor az the net
pen picture of the place written by
an American soldirr,' proves that
one of Uncle Sans boys didn t per
nit the job to get on his nerves:
we are so far north that the dog
gone sun works only when it feels
inclined to do SO, and in that way,
it is like everything else in Russia.
The moan isn't SO particular, and
comes up, usually backwards, at any
time of day or night, in any part of
the sky, it having no set schedule,
and often it will get lost and be on
the job at noon. Yes, we are so far
north that 80 degrees below will soon
be tropical weather for US, and they
will have to build fires around both
cows before they can milk them.
Probably about next month someone
will come around and say that we
will be pulling out of here in a day
or so, but then the days will be six
months long.
" Now up here in this tough town
there are 269, S3l inhabitants, of
which 81 1929 are human beings and
.2OS, SOP are dogs. Dogs of every de-
scription from the p odlc to the st.
Bernard and from the wolfhound to
the half-breed dach-ho.nd
THE wind whistles across the
Dvina like the Twentieth Century
Limited passing Podunk, and snow
flakes are as numerous us rctrcating
Germans were in France.
I'VE read i'm the Stars and Stripes
that the boys in Ilaly had some ton
guc-twisters and brain worriers, but
listen to this Confines and sous
and francs may be hard to count,
but did you ever hear of a rouhle or
a kopec? A kopec is worth tenth
of a cent and there are one hundred
of them in rouble. AS you will
see that makes a rouble worth dime
and to make matters worse all the
money is paper, coins having gone
out of circulation since the beginning
of the mix-up. A kopc is the size
of o postage stamp, rouble looks
like United Cigar Store Certificate,
"a % rouble resembles a porous plas-
ter and a 100 rouhle note, the Dec
laration of independence.
Every time you get ON street
car (Dramway) you have to count
out GO koprcs for your fare and most
of us would rather walk than b" jam
med i'm the two by four busscs and
fish for the money. Before boarding
IA car, each passenger usually hunts
up couple of ve-gallon milk cans,
IA market basket or two, and bag
of smoked herring SO that they will
get their kopecs' worth out of the
ride, besides making the atmosphere
nice and pleasant for the rest of the
passengers.
when a soldier in search of a
meal enters a restaurant, he says to
the waitress, Barishnia, zakazeetie
bifStek, pazalouista, m-aning, an
order of beefsteak. lady please You
say "barishnia' which means girl"
and until young lady is married
she is always addressed in that man
ner. She. will answer the hungry
costumcr with, yah ochen sojllayu
shtoo mas MET yestnik prepasov sic
ohas." CA simple home cure for
locknw.) meaning Il am sorry but
we are right out of food to-day.
when a Russian meets another
man he knows, both lift their hats
and hirt with each other. If they
stop, to talk, they always shake hands
if they haven't seen each other for
fully twenty minutes. Then they
simply must shake hands again when
thew leave. When a man meets a