New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

no proper place in it. They would
usually express these views very po-
litely, but sometimes they we're restivc
and now and then they seemed inclined
20 rise and sweep Robins from thei,
presence.
He was speaking one night in a great
military building at Gachina, some
thirty miles from Patrograd He has
reason to remember that building dis
tinctly. 1t had a high, curved, dark
roof; and it was lighted faringly and
set dismally, with spots of brilliance
and with great areas Of shadow, by
oil-name torches. The speakers stand
WAS reached by a ladder. Robins
climbed the ladder and got into the
stand and spoke.
dare say he contrasted strongly
with the Russians before him He is
among the Americans on wnom the
American climate and environment
have perhaps already had a physical
effect. His complexion is quite dark.
with not a little in it, should say, of
a coppery coloring; and his black hair
has an Indian strai ightness; and his
eyes have the searchingness of the
forest and the prairie; and the con-
tour of his face has a weathercd
suggestion of the modelling done bv
America on the faces of those who
preceded us in our present hunting
grounds; and, finally, perhaps just By
chance, perhaps in order 10 mislead
the observer into making groundless
cancellations about climate and en-
vironment and into seeing resem
blances which do not exist, it happens
that his very oratory, in its gestures
and III its actual words, in the simple
ity of alem, and in the art which turns
simplicity gradually into stateliness.
IS that Of sachcm traditionally ad
dressing an assembled tribe. In Rus
sia he was perhaps at least unusual,
AT Gachina, however, he was not
popular But he was not surprised.
Everywhere. among all the soldiers.
his arguments had been growing in un
popularity. SO, feeling quite accus
toned by now to a certain hostilitv
he pegsevered.
On the subject Of American institu-
tlon5 he was listened to IN silence
not without some respect; but or the
subject Of American diplomacy and Of
Allied diplomacy he began to be in
lerrunted; and on the subject of the
war IN general and Of Ruesia's par
tlcipation in il, he began to be mobbed
Masses Of men seemed to rise in a
black wave toward the stand. There
hoblns stood, with Il Russian officer.
high and dry, but not happy. while
great shouts of ''inDerialists came
at them and great multitude of arms
waved the shouts on. Robins did his
immediate best TO get those arms to
subside. After while, when shev
seemed less numerous and less earnest
he called to the Russian oficer for tne
ladder, and ne descended. And then
he got an evidence of certain Dec,,l-
lar boisterous good humor in Russian
people.
AS he made his way across the hail
toward the door at the other end of
IT, ne saw compact group Of soldiers
running at him. He thought he knew
their purpose. But he was in erro,
Instead of being picked up on their
bayonets, he was picked up in their
arms, and they began 20 treat hin, to
The ceremony which they visit upon
their leaders on occasions Of snecia]
approval and affection. Thev tossed
him in the air and caught him. and
tossed him and caught him again. and
then again and again. With the second
OF third toss he began TO perceive
that he was not being killed. He was
being applauded! Seldom. IMAGINE
has he had more satisfaction in snr.
vlvlng to say: Gentlemen, thank
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