Show THE COSSACK the russian military force is ie greatly in point of numbers to that of any y other european nation and the part taken by the cossack to la by nu no means a trifling one these theme fellows are generally set down BB as a wild aud woolly lot with hair and board beard browing rowing freely and nearly always un while they are presumed pree umed to be strangers gr angers if n t foes to soap and water title to be untrue and we might 1 I aa well become properly acquainted with fab them especially in view ot of the fact that they may ma be in the addle and engaged in the bust busi 4 dal new of making widows and orphans before another harvest we are ad faed that the cossack in winter to la obliged to sacrifice every other con Ide gilde ration to that of resisting tho deadly ca of f the steppes and as aa there is a belief among them that their entrance into heaven will be easier if are personally clean a scrupulous toilet is ie made before any chance of an oneo encounter unter this neatness to la not ap parent a rent at first glance elance tor for they are in andied up in areat boats of sheepskin or goatskin with a great pointed hood clumsy mittens conceal their hantis and wisps of straw are bound around their feet the officer itis it h said looks exactly it like ke the private the cossacks made their first campaign with rus bug sian ein soldiers sol diera in 1628 1528 those hose now in the humlan army number excle axe sive of those incorporated with the field troops they with a recklessness and desperation rarely equaled and it seems a burning shame that that should be the only use to which the russian government ever puts them |