And yet in default of redskins we might get some excitement out of tiger-skins.
What a heading for a newspaper, and what a stroke of luck for a journalist! TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE.

A GRAND TRANSASIATIC EXPRESS ATTACKED BY TIGERS.

FIFTY VICTIMS.

AN INFANT DEVOURED BEFORE ITS MOTHER'S EYES--the whole thickly leaded and appropriately displayed.
Well, no! The Turkoman felidae did not give me even that satisfaction! And I treat them--as I treat any other harmless cats.
The two principal stations have been Yanghi-Hissar, where the train stops ten minutes, and Kizil, where it stops a quarter of an hour.
Several blast furnaces are at work here, the soil being ferruginous, as is shown by the word "Kizil," which means red.
The country is fertile and well cultivated, growing wheat, maize, rice, barley and flax, in its eastern districts.

Everywhere are great masses of trees, willows, mulberries, poplars.