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Show HENDRICKSON AND THE PEOPLE OF RUSSIA Our Fellow-townsman, John. A., visits the Land of Long Whiskerovitches, Dines with Alexandrovitch, and L PULLS THE BEARoVlTSKY'S TAIL Says Russia is a Land of Big People with Little Education and High Taxes. A Splendid Place to Stay Away From. St. Petersburg, Russia, Dec. 4, 190.1. No, 1 would prefer to live under the stars and stipes, but a trip to this country Is both Interesting and educational. edu-cational. European and Asiatic Rus-sla Rus-sla lias a population of 115.000,ono. it has long cold winters. The uncultivated unculti-vated land Is covered with foiests. The chief exports are grain, lumber, sugar, butter, hides and raw gold. The people are rough-and-ready the masses uneducated. In distant paits civilization is, Indeed, at a low stand-aid. stand-aid. As a nation they are dark com-plexioncd. com-plexioncd. Their voices arc of the gutteral quality and not melodious. They speak harshly, one to another. With each one It seems as a matter of supremacy. Beards arc very common even among the military men, a thing so uncommon among other nationalities. national-ities. All elderly men alwajs allow their beaids to grow. One must wonder won-der if It Is jeally true that "all nations were made of one blood to dwell on all the face of the eaith," but readily perceive the wisdom or "appointing the bounds of their habltitlon." No Russian Is allowed to ally himself him-self to any church other than the Greek Catholic church. Should ho do so and it becomes known, lie is Immediately Im-mediately exiled. St. Pcteisburg, the capital, Is a city of l.UiO.OOO and of these, 300,000 are foreigners. Moscow, Mos-cow, In the Interior, has a population of 1,000,000 and mav be considered a strictly Russian city. St. Petersburg Is not a city of great buildings. She has broad streets paved with unpie-pared unpie-pared cobble stone, but the sidewalks are unusually narrow. Peter the Gieat laid its foundation In 1703 and desired the city built where It Is that he might look out upon the Gulf of Finland and obseiveany appioachlng enemy who might come by water. Tho city stands near, and In places on, the wateisof the gulf. It Is built on a marsh and the land has either been built or piles diiven. on which tho buildings stand. The bioad, quiet running river, Neva, Ne-va, Mows to Its center, then divides Into the live streams and all How Into the gulf. Through many of tho stieets huge canals.tvvcnty feetacioss, are found, and on these wood, the fuel of the country, and other Height Is Isconvejed fiomono paitqf the city to another. Itl'SSIA's STANDING AltMV. Russia has a standing ai my of 1,500,000 out of her population of 115,000,000; Gci many with her popu-lation popu-lation of 00,000,000, has an army of 500,000. 1 am not so suic that Russia, with her great army, where lutein gence and strategy, as wellasstieiigth could be utllicd, could In a battle with Germany come out vlctoilous. Tho recent war between China and Japan Is a fair example of tho Intclll-g Intclll-g nt few being superior in battle to the uneducated mass. The great ma-Joiltj ma-Joiltj of the Russian soldiers aie uneducated, un-educated, but arc robust and large. SOLUIKItS' l'AY A joung man in Russia who icacl es the age of 21 and is able to read and write, serves the government as a soldier sol-dier three jears and eight months. If ho Is Illiterate he must serve four years and eight months. The majority major-ity servo the long term. If not of suftleient helghth or chest measurement measure-ment he escapes service. Their salary sal-ary Is six cents a month besides their board and clothes. "It costs the government gov-ernment tluee and one-half cents a day to feed them, their food consisting; consist-ing; of cabbage, gruel and a small pleco of meat once a week." Any man under forty jears may be mustered Into In-to the service In time of war. KDUOATION ANI SCHOOLS. I am Informed by the best authority that less than 25 per cent of the whole nation" can read or write. It Is a startling condition, but evidently true. Schooling Is not compulsory. Some free schools ate found in the cities, only, but these aie of a very low giade and aie supported by charity. char-ity. It Is difficult to obtain an advanced ad-vanced education. While there are colleges, still theyaic insufficient to meet the demand upon them, and I learn that "outofeveiy 400 who apply ap-ply for a higher education, room can be found for but 100, and the rest must either be content with what they have or else seek education in some foreign land." Those, educated in other countries must, If they re turn, pass examinations by Russian authority if they wisli to obtnln any position under the government. SCHOOLS OK OTIIKIt NATIONALITIKS. In St. Peteisburgcan be found English, Eng-lish, Swecdlsh, Gci man, French and Finnish schools, both common and adnanced. Any and all of these schools teach three or four languages, alwajs Including the Russian. I met a Moimon boy lltjeaisold who could speak and write Russian, Gci man and Sweedlsh, and Intended soon to take up French. The foreign lcsidents take far moie Inteicst In educational advancement than do the native Russians. Rus-sians. iHFHcuir 'io our i.vio ltUSSIA. No man can cntci Russia without a passpoit. 'Ere jou can buy a steamship steam-ship oi railway ticket jour passport must be endorsed by the ncaiest Russian Rus-sian consul. The captain of the boat takes possession of jour passport until jou i each Russia, and It Is theio again examined. At whatevei hotel jou take lodging jour passport must bo pioduced and is held during jour stay. Each t lino it Is handled thcic Is an expense ex-pense connected with It. Russia has so many peoplo of her own that she seems Indisposed tinvaid stiangers. C.Alt AND CVAIUNA. The Car iind his wife are said to llvo happily together. They Iwv live daughteis living and one dead; no son. Rumor has It that some Catholic priest once told her, befoio she was man led, that she would bo tho mother of six daughteis, but no son. Sho olfonded the priest and this statement state-ment was made out of revenge for her misconduct. The Car, whoso namo Is Nlkoll Alexandrovitch, Is 3" jears old, and is the grandson of King Christian, of Denmaik; the Carlna, Maria Fcodoiona, Is 31 jears of age, was Princess of Hcssen, Gcrmanj, and Is a granddaughter of uecn Vic-toila. Vic-toila. They weie man led on the 14th day or November, 1S!I, soon after the death of his rather, and the two weie ciowncd soon aftci. They aie deeply concerned over not having an heir. Should they leave no heir the throne would descend upon the heir appa-tent, appa-tent, a biotlici, who Is now '22 jeais of age. The Car Is a very small man while the Carlna Is tall and slender. Whenever they arc photographed together to-gether he never rails to place his chair upon a box, while she stands on the floor at his side. UIIUHUIIKH AND IlKLKIIONH. The government icllglon is the Gieek Catholic. They are not connected con-nected in any wav, neither do they believe be-lieve with the Pope at Rome. The Car Is the head or the church as well as the head or the government. All Russians must belong to the Gieek Catholic chuich. Should one Join any other he is exiled or must do penance to the pi lest and return lo the church. Other denominations who desire to preach their doctilne among their own people must Hist be gianted that privilege riom the general government. govern-ment. Those who aie now "tolerated" "tolerat-ed" are Roman Catholic, Lutheian, German, French and Dutch Reform, Baptist. Irvlnlte, the Biltlsh Church, and the British Amoilcan Chapel which Is also Congiegatlonal. Should the priest or iuiy or these chinches accept ac-cept a Russian as a member that pi lest would be banished. NO SKATS IN 1IIK ClllllUJIIKS It Is a known fact that Russia is well provided with churches. I cn-teied cn-teied seveial of the tlnest churches of St. Petcrsbuig dining the hour of chinch sei vices and was gieatly sui-piised sui-piised to llnd none of them piovldcd w Ith seats, or any descilptlon, to sit upon. The (loots are made or Hag stones and all must either stand or kneel. It Is not uncommon to see, In an audience, hundiedsof people kneeling kneel-ing and piobably with their foreheads touching the flooi. The sei v Ices consist con-sist or mass, music and song, and unlike un-like all othets I have seen before. "I'ltAVITKLSTChNNY HKNAT." Or In our language, the ecclesiastical senate, has chaige of all chinch matters, mat-ters, but not without tho consent of C.ar. He has absolute contiol over the church. To this body are the "tolerated" chinches icsponslble for their conduct. HTKKKT (JAltS ANI) HAILllOADS. St. Petersburg has no elevated or iinder-giound streetcar sjstcm. Not even a surface electric car line. All the cats are diawn by two hoiscs. The service I need not say is vety poor and much of the tiavel Is done by means of small, low-wheeled can luges and one hoise. Tho i all way set vice Is moderately mod-erately good ai.d Is conipaiatively cheap. You can rldo from St. Pcteisburg Pcteis-burg to Moscow.a distance of 100 miles, and take '2nd class which Is equal to our Pullman for $7.50. A sleeper for the night, with necessaiy bedding, cost $1.10. The tiack Is well made and smooth. Nov . '21, mm dko. 4. One Is almost persuaded to believe tho Russians delight in being dlirci-cnt dlirci-cnt riom other people. While this Is December 4th, with all other European Europe-an nations, It Is November 21st here. The cause or this they follow the Julian Ju-lian calendar. Neither do they use tho same alphabet In use by all other nations. 1 am told their languago Is very difficult to learn. I have found It voiy dlfllcult to understand, A MOItMON IN ItllbSlA Out or 115,000,000 people In Russia there is one Mormon family. The man has a wife and seven children, and resides re-sides In St. Pctcrsuurg. Ho Is a tino looking man; Is a goldsmith and doing Continued un Fouith Page. Hendrickson and the Russian People. (Continued fiom riistl'agc.) fahly well. He became a member of the Chinch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Latter-day Saints llftccn years ago, and has explicit faith I" the fiospcl of Jesus Christ. He and his family, have lived theie these many years and seldom see any one of thcli faith unless it should happen one should come thiough on a visit. It is a great pleasuic foi him to meet a man from Utah. I dined with the family. TOLSTOI. It seemed to bo an unsettled question ques-tion with our newspapers whether Tolstoi is in Russia or had t"een sent to Siberia. The fact of tho mattci Is he Is now an old man, very feeble, and is wheeled about In a chair. He resides re-sides at his country homo callcd"Yas-nayapollany" callcd"Yas-nayapollany" near the little town of Tula, southern Kussla.IIc has been an oyc-sore to Russia for a long time, but Is too old a man to handle as they might see tit. KKIOKMKU PAbKOlK. Dr. Paskoff who operated against the Russian faith previous to lbSO, gained gain-ed great recognitlon and has many followers. He was banished in 188.1 and his followers scattered. There arc many in St Peteisburg at present who believe his teachings. He died in 188a In Saltsbmg, Germany. tiik .mwK It is easy to see why the Jews are disliked and not wanted in Russia. Whcicver you llnd one of them who is let alone, he is a business man and doing do-ing well. As In all countries, gent's furnishing Is their Ideal business, and they always make It go. They are business men and here In Russia they as elscvvhoic,mako money whlleothcrs sleep, and as a result the Russians become be-come Jealous of them and dctermlncto drive them out. From all I can learn this is the cause of so much of the trouble between the Russians and the Jews, and not their disbelief In Christ. Tho only Jews who aie allowed to remain In the country in peace, aie the descendants of them who lived and served during the time of Czai NItlioll. Others seem to have no claim on the protection of the government. All other Jews will undoubtedly sooner or later, be compelled to leave the land, as the feeling against them Is becom-lug becom-lug moic serious every year. Jons A. IIkmuickmn, |