MR. FOSTER FRASER.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 642, 20 October 1909, Page 8

MR. FOSTER FRASER.

"JTHBOUGH EUSSIA IN EEVOLUTION." . , bo altogether devoid - of. Rumour, but whon v,- , the- object.-is to. describe a ■ country., where 1 (as somejof >the- lantern elides'last- night) r ■ ' .r; eyen tlie:oJtist3i of' the comic'iiewspapers draw ft : ii- TMP'^s;'vfigurfs!'ta/xenlteies; ! *'and''.. mefl - gib- ; Übeted^onVthe "railway i telegraph'-poles;"'' jokes vV . l rgely:^dp.,';ißut^fja'^n'atibnair(;risi5 J ' if tsoeial, -life :.seething-':rath -revolution,' a. series S;with; picturesquely : various! peoples,' and 'S 'magnificent iSconery—if all these ' inV.mercilesslyrfgenuine 'photographs, aro - interesting,- then' last 'nights . lecture— ■ Inrougli .Kussia in - Revolution"— worthy ..;■ -.the author,'and. fully ac- : : '; :'.i:°Pjinted ; f or -iMIs" s 7 B^cci^V . gave :thcm. an'.;hour,;and' a hnlf filled with almost, all r ,-kinds, of.'.interest. .-..A busy street . -. in'.Petersburg was the -;text\vfor./the 'remark , Mat ; one»;might, 'livo '-there'for- .weeks;- and not know that a was going on. In Poland, it was different. At one of the cities • of that province -Mr. Foster Fraser found'it -'-V ™ , w alk ;.witht hisVhands ' h'dd . wdll body, -lest;a- thoughtless, move-' ment towards a pocket should cause' a half. . Cossack to .think that he meant sorno , mischief with -a- revolver , .'or- a' bomb. A governor was assassinated on tho day. on which iV° 'W, 1 ?™ t?cre, and .he naked the, guns of the soldiers bj disobeying the orier that lie- : Pft .7/ y look at... the. funeral procession maiming.?, and ar- ....■ Tests were, numerous; every.:day. Out : bev'ond ; ;W6re: the, wide, plains whore the moujiks" lived their wild slow lives as if there were no' such ; ."onaractensed, and afterwards : Nijni-Novgorod, • Astrakhan, 'and Transcaucasia, with • its ■>. f5 fewgo,; asgloni.watjon/ of' races and its sixtyfive ' languages.'-,lftad -'l>odfe3 in- the streets 'at ■■■„:. Baku wero such common': objccts* that: people passed ,<(a, 'lanternslide-'.attested it) without partlsalarly 'them.''-Mr. Foster Fraffr'sor" hitnaelf,'during: his'stay there, became ac- .: customed 'to: hear jshots : ' and ' explosions with-;-;:;;:OUt;'going i 'tos^'..what. : ,was happening.,To in.dicato: a- tithe of .what the lecturer showed his :i;ivaWiehbe'and;told:'-thfl!n .would .be impossible : within , present-' space-limits. Some; of it . was ■:Erueajma;"sonie.lwas -matter of.- pity.:and h'or- .-. ror,' Es tlio'rtory of- Mario'. Spirijionoff y ir £oinb caaw, as in the 'portraits 'of ; ,the oh'ubbi infant who mar somo day be Tsar of all th< ■''*■ •.Bussiaa,.the:-.pathos '-ft , as all the mote poignant ;.:c-becatlso it could.not -bo photographed;". ■', : 'ln • Mr. Foster Frasor's minimi, - , the 'preseni form of government in cannot ' b indefinitely prolonged, .but. if a fully represen tative . system : takes its place, 'worse trouble, will follow. .The Jews,:who aro.tho most in telbgent- part of the population, will'obtaii the asconaanc/, and the Bnssiaiia wfll thei . -too. againat taem, thns entailing a eituatio: sot 'pleasant to contemplate. • . At 3 o'clock-'flic afternoon - Mr. Foster 'Fro - eer will deliver a lecture on IThe Women o i Many Lands," 'Lady Ward'will prcside.Hi subject this eromng > will bo "Across Siberia.'