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Show Tuesday, April 9, 1912. THE The .railroad from IlelBingors to St. Petersburg parellels the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland and- - Extends in an eastern direction through a country generally level and featureless. There is little out of the ordinary on this ride, and one grows to look for diversions" to the groups of country folks generally found in and about the little stations scattered along th,e line. Here dur- the ten or fifteen minutes stop one may walk up and down the graveled platform where usually something of interest - in costume or character may always be found. The intervals between stations present vistas of level sometimess inclined to.be boggy stretches of monotonous : moorland. There was one feature, however, of the landscape which - , 'espeeiaHywhettnccurring-4tt-th- e wooded districts, always ..the scene. from absolute banality, - aud-thwas the presence of gls cial' boulders sometimes of enor- mous size and often in great Inum-ber' These "tremendous masses of granite deposited here by gla? -- ciers during the ice age, arouna and between which white trunked birches arose like colums of mar-- ; ble in a ruined eity, often preiented "landscapes as' unusual as they were striking and grotesque,. At times these boulder-strewwoodlands gave the impression of a deserted forest city- - where the lichen-covere-d rocks stood out like haunted houses peopled only by the shades and spirits of some former euraeridden population In St. Petersburg one of these immense boulders transported to the city on specially constructed . tracks and bridges, together with tons of solid shot used as ball bearings, and the employment of scores of men and horses, serves as a base, after having been by the sculptor for fhe heroic statue, of Peter the Great on horseback. Nothing in modern times has approached the magni tudeof this undertaking. x Kussian Autocracy. Viborg is the last town of any considerable size .this side of the Russian frontier. The approach of the Czars domain is proclaimed in various ways by the number of uniformed Russians on the train, the vigilance of special border police, the general air of suspicion and the furtive glances of every passenger upon the slightest provocation. The atmosphere of democratic Finland as we apthe border became heavy proach -- with the fetid fumes of Russian of autocracy,' the consciousness which, gave rise to a noticeable disqui etude and constraint. conFinland in The last stop firmed our preconceived impression of Russian red tape and pass- ports became the order of the s. U , ed hour. The Passport Problem. , Russias. r , , , In a Martlia TatuI e Our terminal station was miles from the centre of saved St. Petersburg and it was dark at rO this may, be, it required no end of red tape before I obtained the necessary vise or indorsement, and then only after I hal declared in writing pertain facts concerning my race, origin, marriage and religion I being required to enter this latter item on my passport, a particular not even demanded fey corrupt and tyable some Turkey, So at the J&isian border the train was entered by a corps of passport officials who at once began a careful scruting of our credentials. After a number of conferences and a deal of questioning we were finally given our clearance papers and the train proceeded to the capital of all the 1 f locat-ed.som- when we arrived. To enter Rus-6i- a at night onhtles8 emphasizes the air of mystery and espionage of which strangers in the Czars domain are generally conscious. offThe number of uniformed icials about .the i station ' and throughout the city spoke sias mailed hand. We were without thmbHnH martial landy the face of TRX-WEEEL- before the busy hours of the day feld began. He is a low, too, is this ubiquitous drosh-k- y man, and while he always hails the passing stranger as a possible fare with pozhalst if you please still if you refuse he smiles good naturedly and is just as pleasant when you repass him a few moments later. And so I held aloft a ruble and said Hotel dAngleterre,- - and twenty of the line shouted and. began, shaking the reins in anticipation of the possible speed of their chargers. Into the nearest carriage we climbed while the Noselstchiki porter deposited our . luggage alongside, and in a moment we were making good time for the heart of St. Petersburg. . We soon crossed a canal and then" a second ttndha third, for three concentric waterways - extend iu the form fr&m-OB- e braneir of theNeva to another, thus presenting prominent-features of this great city. Later I found much " interest in strolling, along these wide city canals andobservingthe lief here presented the curious eraft with their miscellaneous cargoes the peasant crews,' the wharf and the local color confined entirely to these marine , n thoroughfares. Wood Used as Fuel.X As in Finland, wood is extensively employed as fuel in St. Petersburg, and in places these great water streets were entirely .choked with mammoth canal boats loaded high above the gunwales with tons and tons of fire wood. It was perfectly safe to follow these canals, whether the good-nature- Poz-hal- pop-nlatio- ( e , . four-wheele- - 1 PAY" GOOD MONEY STUFF XI J FOR CHEAP coal and have order When you rates current at bill the foot to see that you get coal not an admixture of coal, slate, dirt, dust impuriand other ties. One thing may be said , of the coal served from this yard: It has been carefully screened and fuel. Thone cong is nection. DONT non-bumab- le -- free-burnin- 'y's M. fi L COAL AND twtnn rnMPANY - CJithev - pfcopg- 74 Latin-lettere- d - x ally nearly the entire length of lighted avenue, the Nexski Prospect, we reached our hotel, which stood facing a Cossacks square where the down shot and many of charged the mob ip the last revolution. Here we were met by the hall porter, the Alpha and Omega of every Russian hostelry, Of course his first query was concerning our passport, and this being deposited in the safe for. the inspection of the police we were shown to our room. We had a light'supper before leaving the train, so we retired forthwith without further ado. . that brilliantly A Search for Food. Eight oclock the next morning found us up and out in the street in search of a restaurant, for by lbi8. timewewererevenously hungry. Of course, we couldnt read the signs, so every place that seemedJb ?aQr:ofeating,wejri-e- d to break into, but soma sleepy pgrter" or attendant always repulsed us!" Several places we knew, were restaurants, for . the tables .were, set and alLthe of a dining room were case present, but found the door locked or the man in charge wholly out of sympathy with our aims and aspirations. It was now ten oclock and we were growing weaker and more faint every minute. A man who could speak a little German directed us to a vague place in the, next street. We attempted to storm what we took to be the establishment he described, but instead Of a restaurant we found it to be a second class theatre. Another sally ended in our stumbling down a flight of stairs into a ear-mar- in-e&- eh - 1- X tr spectre of starvation we discovered a milk depot in a basement room lying at our very feet. Feeling down the steps I pointed at a bottle of milk behind the counter and gasticulated wildly. The halfgrown boy, fearing we meant to do him badily harm, handed us the lacteal fluid at oncC I flung down a coin, anddh&overing another bottle,! cried: There, give methatone, too, and again . he tremblingly handed me the milk. ITbat phit of milk apiece doubtless ' saved our lives, for thus sustained we sought the and told our experience to Mr. Ekvall, the obligij-- y manager. Mr, Ekvall speaksTany languages that hphas lorottcu whether he ever' had a mother tongue or not, and he is so polite that instead of laughing he actwith us. uallysympathized But, he added by way of explanation, you may have search-ed.t,. Petersburg from c ente- r to circumference -- for a restaurant that would serve you, for none of them open before 12 oclock We had our next day coon. breakfast before we. retired., - ' t SIOEL ftOUSJI. . Res-ebure- -- au S - 4 f we-eith- nrmrir- 1 Why He Was Late. !! What .made you sojate I met Smithson.. Well, that is no reason why you, should be an hour late getting home .to supper - I .know, WicTd ejUal , he was feeling. his sw telling me .about ble. . Did you tell him': . Chamberlains Tablets! is what Sure, that needs. r'S Y9 u asuncohsc)OusIyfurni8hedTisT basement- butcher shop.W chad Our first attempt at a Russian wandered far from the hotel and breakfast was well nigh disastr- were loath to return defeated, for ous for asTsbur cusfbnf and3n prided ourselves oa be deed it is the universal custom in ing able to feed in all lands and Petersburg we took but few undejr all conditions. Not only that but we were weak and unmeals'at the al - we-'rath- EXCUR er SIONS hotel-Arriv- able to retrace our steps without On the night of our arrival grave danger of sinking by the after that most wonderful drosh- wayside exhausted. ky drive from the station through Partial Success. side streets, over bridges and fin .(While thus distraught with the at Hotel. FROM, Ogden '&' Salt Lake City To Eaxt-Rf- r Missouri RiverJ!, St Louis, Mr Peoria, IU Minneapolis,! St Paul.Mb-Chicago, nifeL V Also Reduced Rates to Other Points. StopOvers Allowed. , ' .DATES OF SALE May 18, 25, 31 J June 1,5,8,12,15,20,22, 29 . co-eo- on DUST 15 n' arrangement one can scarcely ever get lost. The Russian Language. In the matter of language Russian is quite as unintelligible to the tongues as if it were an Oriental lingo, for the alphabet, consisting of thirty-siletters, duplicates most of - our own characters and besides adds a sufficient number of mongrels to make most- - signs and uoticea appear Crazy and absurd beyond measure. Even if one doesnt speak French or German or Italian he can often spell out public directions and signs with some degree of accuracy, but an attempt to decipher a Russian sign usually ends in the conviction that either the sign writer was hopelessly insane or ones' self had tarried too long at the flowing bowl. So I grew-t- o look upon Russian signs as similar tu Chin-e- se a - smatideographs with-jus- t tering ofLatinlettersthrownin to befuddle the stranger within Russian gates." So in" the ideographic sense alone I finally learned, that something resembwith the ling PECTOPAHR final R reversed and heathenish-variations added "to several other letters, stood for a restaurant" creating house," and before I left Petersburg I could locate these dinning rooms half a block away. Once inside the banquet hall, however, a ravenous appetite, suggestive pantomimes and a sympathetic waiter, not to mention a generous tip, did the rest and we always found something in a Russian restaurant to interest and amuse. On the other hand the Russians present seemed to get value received for all the interest and amusement they quite 3 s, Before entering Russian territory it is always necessary- - to have ones passport , viseed by some properly constituted Russian official.-- . Therefore, before leaving Stockholm I called on the Russian Consul and presented, my passport." Jhere was a long wait in the outer office and then an attache came from the inner sanctum and plied "me with a long list of questions.. Perhaps my name .was suggestive of certain peoples persona non grata with the - government, , and perhaps these' precautions are uecessary for political1! reasons. However st the gendarme proclaimed it, the keeneyed detective confirmed it. We were in the land of .vast, wealth and abject, poverty; the gilded equipage of the autocrat showed it, muz-hi- k the were We in it. .the proved land of inexorable y deeree ; the political prisoner (led by bis stony keeper, to thq Siberian-exiltrain .was the evidence, the hopeless expression on the face of the Uffender'wasthe verdict. first,secbhdbrthirdwere'ch6s" We were in a city of unbridled en,' for one was sure to always dissipation; the gilded palaces of come out on familiar ground at eitEerend of lhese rainbow-shape- d for this life of indolent Idlewaterways. Indeed, St, Petness, the painted face and shallow ersburg is a very easy city to go expression of fashions slave pro- aboutTin, once the simple system vided the devotee. is comprehended, and though Like Our National Capital. ones linguistic accomplishments, St. Petersburg is a city of mag- aside frorii French and German, nificent distances built to order will avail him but little, still beupon the delta flats of the Neva. cause of the characteristic street In many respects it resembles Washington. Peter the , Great, the. father of Russia, planned it, as did the father of the United States plan W ashington. In both cases the architects came from foreign Countries, the one from Germany,. the other from France. Both St. Petersburg and WashA ington are (built on low lands and both" cities follow a plan of genf) erous streets and park prodigality. Again both capitals embrace the, plan, of radi atin g avenues from , common centres with sub sidiary streets crossing these main thoroughfares at various NITAS NEW YORK FASHIONS angles. But only in a material sense does this similarity apply, What Will be Seen (or Has, Been Seen) on the JEaster Parade-Fr- eak for in every other way St. PetersStyle3-AlaA Train, alone stands practically burg,. Too, and Grotesque, national , . . capitals. , among The Droshky. t Seasons come and seasons go. As we stepped from the station the Easter, parade of fashion But we I encountered a long line of maintains its hold on the rich, the d waiting droshkies, low middle class ,and the poor alike. to carriages peculiar Russia alone. A Russian droshky It is ashoW unlike any other, The with its driver and characteristic great mas first dutifully go to harness is a prominent haU mark ehureh and proudly and prayerof Peter b city, and the outfit nev- fully kneel in .their- new; finery. er failed to interest me! The Later, like (J strutting peacocks march the length of Fifth droshky driver, with his Falstaf-fia- n they from Second street Avenue, body, bis hair cropped on a as far north asForty Fifth! Ninety p line with his shoulders, his usualolden In the this promendays ly bushy beard, his squat plug place from! , Twenty-Thir- d hat with its peculiarly rolled brim ade took fifteenth to Street. But as and his tremendous boots, is a trade encroached on the lowhas picture as characteristic of Rus- er streets the avenue .with upper sia aa handsome its" residences, "palatial alreason fellows these unknown clubs and grand churches forms ways excited my" sympathy, for there'wai always a doininaninote the fitting, background- fo ! this ... of pathos in their grotesque ap- early spring display. Even that though many protest pearance. Their enormous bodies it is not good form, yet every are more apparent than real, for year the outpouring increases. incased in several. they-arAs a rule this first glimpseof suits," and this style is akin to the early spring of clothing swells' them out windows. The really deshow abnormally. In a Russian winter op I can understand the need of this pendable yles are, not then ' view. the like but generous protection, The radical changes the newLapps of Norway, the St. Peters- est and millinery novelburg drosky driver wears prac- ties colorings are galore enough, however, clothtically the same amount of : show one to make.Jhe passing round. I suppose, worth ing the year considering. however, the nights, even in sumwhen it rains, mer, especially grow chill and inhospitable, and so these drivers, sitting out of doors on the droshky boxes, find the extra suitsentirely accepta. eur- horyha been ble. In the sunshine of the morn- Ing eczema through the blood scientists, many different giten up bybeen tried for skin diseases. have ing rows and rows of droshkie salves been found that these salves But has it their in with their drivers dozing clog the pores and cannot penetrate to the inner skin below the epidermis seats like sparrows sunning them- only Where the eczema germs are lodged. selves, meet the early risers gaze , This the quality of penetrating at every turn, and there was - probably explaina the tremendous sue- ways something .grotesque remedy, oil of wintergreen, thymol, glyetc., as compounded in D.D.D. thetic in the appearance of these cerine, Prescription. sold other remedies for skin as and have Wt worn, night hawks, weary to RITER a BROTHERS DRUG short nap attempted get grim-visage- d PAGE JOURNAI LOGAN, UTAH Y It is to b hoped that the patchy effects seen on many of this year a owns "will not take hold. Still there Js no gainsay ing the value of this mode in using up odds and ends of dress - goods. A particularly noticeable feature, the outgrowth of the peplum is a sort of draped curtain effect below the waist line in front. This broadens out to a square at the back, for, all the world like the old fashioned basque . On black and white stripes which are high in favor this pring, this effect is produced by a plain black satin patch. On many of the plain blues, and peculiar new dull red, Oriental borders woven into the goods are planned to give almost a sash effect a little above the knees. - Then again there comes a gown of violet cloth "so planned thftflt looks aa though the Over section was actually slipping down. It appears to be only stopped in its flight by a rosette just below the knee at the left side. Another innovation ' of this Easter is a short train, which is in reality a prolongation of this drapery. It is neither square nor round like the .usual train to which we have grown accustomed. Instead it is a narrow pointed streamer appendage th&t apparently has no earthly excuse for existence, cave-tha- t the goods in fronx need not be cut off. A troubles I sincerely trust this mode will sink into oblivion. ' Else we shall be treated to the spectacle of a street cleaning brigade, which roused such a protest from those of sanitary desires when the train was' formerly in vogue. Sleeves too are noticeably different. They are considerably wider, and with shoulder 'draper' ies fringed. The elbow sleeve finished with two frills of contrasting colors, such as black and white, blue and green, black and orange, are "very effective in net or soft messaline silk. They add a decidedly Frenchy touch to any gown. This is one of the styles well worth copying.- - It is a small but important fashion revelation of the Easter parade of 1912. NITA. - You will look a good e you find a better medicine for coughs and colds than Chamberlains Cough Remedy, It not only gives relief it cures.' Try it when you have a cough or cold, and you are certain to be pleased with the prompt' cure which it will effect. whilO-be-for- ne recom-men- d July. 3, 12. 20 August 1, 2, 10, 23, 31 September 4, 5 . For further information and rates from other points, address, C. F. Warren, General Agent, A.T.& S. F.Ry., 233 Judge Building, Salt Lake (Sty, Utah . ! . , - 1 1 f&FI2Err is the crJk' ;sr Covinn r.lachinS I OUR CAPITOL i f7 ; The new state capitol which 1 Thlnll off It? ? Utah is planning to build will t Thz Fi Sewing Mzrhm occupy one of conspicu! ous cites in Salt Lake City Hired for five yezrz sr rT It is on a very high location but breakage, wear, fire, for and water. This bow3r underground approaches street cars and other vehicles are part of the arrangements and these will bring passengers to the j ground floor of the building. The is the ThlnX edifice"' what appropriation j j three million dollars. - Some beauU tpeaps.thar U yoa trak any Hi Ti J Frbs (needl, belt, Btfacbnent, etc.) or If til tiful State nouseg have been built M tiM machine it destroyed it will be replaced to f for that, notably the one in Conoc without chart. necticut, but that was when constructive work did not cost" as much as it does today. Boston - u Just the-mos- fr that we can as highly as this for we know that U.D.D. stops the itch at once. We can give you a trial size bottle for 25 cents that will be enough to prove it Of course all other druggists havs D.D.D. Prescription go to them you cant ceme to us but dont acceptitsome big profit substitute. But If you come to our store, we are tnxncz that we offer you a full size bottle on this guarantee: If you do not find that - Store news is a pirtnf the it takes away the Itch AT ONCE, it costs yu not a cent news of the day for all who buy COMPANY, LOGAN, UTAH. things at stores. but-no- 5 SevAng Machine Vm. Edwards 23 S. c r.Ib, Lcn,Ul!j I |