Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1912 — A "Typical” Russian Scene. [ARTICLE]

A "Typical” Russian Scene.

At our feet, moored to one of the support* of the bridge, wa* a flat barge, and on it a soldier, In a black tunic and high boots, was washing hi* linen himself; he must have climbed down the bridge to get there. There was not a sound in the air, except the splash made by the wash- ; Ing. And then from the plain, dusty, rutty road a whole line of flat carts creaked along, one in front of the other, Qve of the foremost being without drivers; all of > these carts were full of sacks. Alongside of th« sixth walked the owner, a bearded peasant, dressed In a brown leather and very dirty coat lined with sheepskin. And every now- and then he influenced the march of.the line of car 4« by shout- * Ing a word (r two to the horses. Not long after this the line of carts crossed the bridge ami turned'into the town, and the creaking died-away te: the distance; the lazy' sfll'lne&s fell upon the place once more; and so great was that stillness that the whole landscape seemed like a colored 5 sUde of a magic , Baring’s in “The Ilussian People.” ■ . . • - ■'• ‘ ■