Show the russian soldier the great and pro eminent cause ol 01 lay in the almost boundless patience and endurance or the russian soldier from the time the movement was well under way the men never saw their knapsacks which remained north of the balkans till bome time after the armistice they and faught and blent in enow and ice and corded forded rivers with the thermometer at zero they had no blankets and the froden ground precluded all idea of tents the half worn oat shelter tents which the men had bcd during th summer were now cut up to tie around their loots which were approaching dissolution and although an effort was made to i helter themen in the hutsin the villages yet always abc least halfon them had to in the open air without shelter their clothing at night was the same as in the dav and it differed from that of the summer only in the addition of an overcoat woolen ja eket and a basalik or woolen muffler lor the head their food was a pound of hard bread and a pound und a half of stringy beef driven along the road they were forced to cary alx and even eight days rations on their backs in addition to an exta supply of cartridges n theia pockets more than one instance where the men foupht and fought well not only without breakfast but without having tasted food in 24 boure yet there was not a insubordination the men were usually in good spirits and the number of on tho maroa was les le s than during the heat of the preceding yammer bismarck has ordered the colacc lion of diplomatic documents attest ing ih hostile intentions of russia towards germany the fate of the ohio republican state convention was axed lu favor of blaines interest ti herman wished for an earlier date captain eada now in new york thinks thai ranal scheme I dead and he Is confident to carry through his ship railway tr the peruvian of finance and another high have had their properties proper confiscated and ix en on account of tract by them with alie credit of paris |