The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-06-29

made to ct close TO the eyes, and is
held in place by strings passing behind
and ever the top of the head. 1t serves
to shelter the eyes from the direct and
reflected rays of the sun, but also inter-
rupts the vision so much that they
habitually push it up on top of their
head, and run q risk which almost in
variably results to their disadvantage,
yet their goggles are so unsatisfactory
that no amount of adverse experience is
sufficient to serve as q warning to them.
The civilized visitors among them
wear goggles of various patterns and
degrees of excellence. Some are made
of differently colored glass from the
various shades of smoked glass to blue
and green of varying degrees of opacity;
some are of glass surrounded with wire
gauze, others of wire gauze without the
glass, and some with merely strip of
bunting hanging from the peak of the
cap. OF all the various kinds the gen
eral experience seems to be in favor of
| the wire gauze without glass. They in
terfere very little with the vision and
yet furnish q perfect protection for the
! eyes. Glass of any pattern or shade
subjects the wearer to constant annoy
ance by Jogging from the breath, which
congeals very rapidly upon the surface
of the glass and, apparently always at
the most inconvenient time, as when
the hunter is stalking a deer by crawl
ing long distance upon his hands and
knees, and just as he raises his rifle for
a shot his goggles are like pieces of
ground glass. The native spectacles
give such limited field of vision
that it is impossible to use them in
hunting, but the wire gauze seems to be
free from all these objections A we'll
supplied expedition is provided with
every kind of snow goggles, as they are
absolutely essential to the well being
of the party. The superiority of the
wire gauze pattern seemed to have been
appreciated by the Franklin expedi-
tion, for many of them were found at
the various burial places and at other
points where relics were obtained. 1t
is also said that painting around the
eyes upon the upper and lower lids
with burned cork or some other dark
pigment is q protection against snow
blindness, but it is doubtful if this
method has been sufficiently tested to
admit of its being relied upon. The
symptoms of snow blindness are in
hammation of the inner coating of the
lids, accompanied by intense pain and
impairment of the vision so as to dis
able the sufferer from the performance
of bis duties. A wash of diluted tine
ture of opium is probably tho best
remedy and gives almost immediate re-
lief. The patient should remain within
doors for two or three days, by which
time he will usually be sufficiently cured
to resume his outdoor labors.
1t might be supposed that in the
utter barrenness of the Arctic landscape
flowers never grew there. This would
be great mistake. The dweller in
that desolate region, after passing q
long, dreary winter, with nothing for
the eye to rest upon but the vast ex-
panse of snow and ice, is in condition
to appreciate beyond the ability of an
inhabitant of warmer climes the little
fowerets that peep up almost through
the snow when the spring sunlight be-
gins to exercise its power upon the
white mantle of the earth. In little
patches here and there, where the dark
colored moss absorbs the warm rays of
the sun and the snow is melted from
the surface, the most delicate flowers
spring up at once to gladden. the eye of
the weary traveller. 1t needs not the
technical skill of the botanist to ad-
mire these lovely tokens of approaching
summer. Thoughts of home, in a
warmer and more hospitable climate,
fill his heart with Joy and longing as
meadows filled with daisies and butter
cups spread out before him as he stands
upon the crest of granite hill that
knows no footstep other than the tread
of the stately musk OK or the antlered
reindeer, as they pass in single file upon
their migratory journeys, and whose
caverns echo to no sound save the howl
ing of the wolves or the discordant
cawing of the raven. He is a boy
again, and involuntarily plucks the
dandelion and seeks the time of day by
blowing the puffy edge from its stem,
or tests the faith of the fair one who
is dearer to him than ever in this hour
of separation, by picking the leaves
from the yellow-hearted daisy. Tiny
little violets, set in a background of
black or dark green moss, adorn the
hillsides, and many flowers unknown to
warmer zones come bravely forth to
flourish for few weeks only and wither
in the August winds. Very few os these
flowers, so refreshing and charming to
the eye, have any perfume. Nearly all
smell of the dank moss that forms their
bed.-NeI0 York Herald.