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Show LAND BEAUTIFUL IN SUMMER Wild Luxury of Siberian Verdure Cannot Be Surpassed Even In the Tropics. Political exiles, the severe -winter (50 degrees below zero) and the immense im-mense stretches of snow, have done much to give a bad Impression of Siberia. Si-beria. Siberia is thought of by many as the most dismal and Godforsaken wilderness, where bears and cutthroats cut-throats parade in the placid moonlight. Nothing is unfairer than that. It is a most beautiful place, the parallel par-allel of which you can scarcely find elsewhere. In winter the groves of white birches on the wide stretch, of pure snow lit by moonlight Is a 8' vue most holy and sublime. .And the hike of Baikal, with its depth of 6,000 f.-et, the severest of winters can never (1 -irive of warmth. The River Selenga that Hows out of it never freezes and the water is pure as crystal. But the most glorious season Is certainly cer-tainly summer, says a writer In the New East. Summer is early in Siberia. Sibe-ria. In late June the whole verdure blooms out In wild luxury, and for thousands of miles the plain Is covered cov-ered with a glorious carpet of wild flowers yellow, crimson, purple and what not. I have never seen the equal In the world. The tropics cannot beat It; the cherries of Yoshino, never I |