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rect, but the snow collects on thess
primitive shoes and retards his walking
The result of all the trials is the GRACEFUL
tapering Canadian snowshoe, with bevs
eled frame of light wood and netting OF
rawh1de, leaving no place for snow y
stick.
The mishaps of the learner on snow
shoes are very ludicrous, especially when
he s.scufs" and takes a header into thu
drift with snowshoes uppermost. Thf
National Museum has many different
forms Of snowshoes, from the oval, very
wide shoes of Labrador to the tapering
shoes of the Indians and Esquimaux.
The rudest snowshoes, perhaps, in the
world are usedby the California Indians:
They are mere hoops of wood with
coarse netting. The air shoe comes in
a close second in point of rudeness. just
how the Labrador people walk wlths
shoe Just twenty-five inches wide on
each foot is a query. The effort to bring
one foot around past the other must re.
suit in a peculiar amble. The Japanese
have a sort Of snowshoe with spurs, that
admits of walking NJ. the mountains IN
hard snow.
The skees of Norway are long and
narrow like sledge runners, and on them
travellers glide downhil with great
speed.
The contrary of skates aud snowshoe
are the ice creepers. No d likes tg.
skate or glide when unprepared for, com
tract with mother earth is peculiarly
violent when ice induces the descent
St. Louis Republic.
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For Bright Eyes.

Next to fair skin aud good health
bright eyes are desired by women, but
after all it is not the bright eyes SO much
us the expressive eyes which charm all
beholders. Belladonna may give q star
Ting appearance to the eyes, but it Will
not make them attractive. It rather re-
pels one instead of attracting. SO WITH
all the nostrums placed on the market
for improving the effect of the eyes.
The simplest method is to pencil the.
eyebrow, which is harmless and not to
be deprecated. This will give more
attraction to the eyes that any OF the
drugs used for the purpose. The true
way to have expressive eyes is to think
and reflect, to improve the mind and to
entertain ideal images in the thoughts;
The eyes are but an expression OF the
mind, and a gentle, cultured intellect will
surely have an effect upon the internal
organs. A proper. use of the muscles and
movements of the eyes to give ANNA.
ton and expression should be studied as
n would study the art and graceful
body motion, but beware Of afectation.
That is worse than all expressions
Yankee Blade.
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The Scotch have the reputation OF be-
ing good skaters both in the ''fen" or
straight, swift skating, and the ''fancy"
skating. Our country has the champion,
I think. at present.
The snowshoe may be called the over
land skate. While the snow lay in great
drifts, defying progress, keeping the
civilized New Highlander in the house
and setting Whittier to writing the
beauties of "Snow-B Bound" the Indian,
fixing a framework covered with netting
to his feet, could sally forth to kill the
foundering moose or deer. snowshoes
must have originated, like skates, from
sheer necessity. The savage cannot lay
up a supply of food for a long time; ne
must be able to hunt all seasons.
The same principls that men are trying
to apply now in the invention of the
6ying machine, namely, to get a wide
surface for the support of the air, has
been successfully applied to the snow
shoe. Whoever this forgotten wise IN
ventor was, he must have noticed that
sometimes the snow would almost bear
him up on the area OF his shoe soles, and
he reflected that if he had larger feet it
would be a positive advantage.
He plaits up some twigs into a circular
shape and finds that the surmise is cor
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Astounding Effects of a London Fog

Astounding EHectS OF q LOnuOn FOG.
When the fog drifts in from the Col
den Gate, as it sometimes does, we are
apt to make a great deal of fuss about
it and to declare that the climate of San
Francisco is a delusion, though it always
happens that the fog disappears by II
or IL o'clock in the day, and generally
earlier. What should we say if we had
such fogs as the one which recently pre-.
vailed in London, Englaud2 There the
fog hangs over the city like a funeral
pail and everywhere there prevails the
blackness of darkness.
1t is really astounding to read the ac-
counts of the effects which this fog has
produced. Business is interrupted,
street and river traffic are greatly him
dered and the darkness is so impenetra-
BILE that numbers of persons have lost
tieir lives by wandering into rivers,
canals and ponds. In the streets of the
great city it is impossible to see o
than a few inches in any direction. Gas
has to be burned all the time, and ven
then the streets have been practically i'm
passable. The fog makes the sidewalks
and crossings greasy and slippery, so
that tie pedestrians are in great danger
even if they can see where they are 60
ing,
To imagine the business Of q city like
London suspended OF even seriously i'm
peded is almost impossible, and yet the
fact cannot be disputed. The fog is
there and its effects are described with.
out exaggeration. 1t would seem that
modern science might find a remedy for
such a condition of affairs, but thus far
nothing has been discovered which is
effective. If rain can be produced arti-
fcially some sort of a reversal of the
rain making process ought 10 disperse
the fog and restore London TO q state of
comparative light. The smoke Of the
city undoubtedly intensiies the darkness
which the fog causes, and that could
certainly be decreased by the use of
understanding furnaces, as is done in
many places in this country.-san Fran.
cisco Chronicle.
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BILE manner without touching a dog
licksd utensil belonging to the toldo.

BILE manner without touching a dog
licked utensil belonging to the toldo.
However charming the life of q ''noble
savage" may be, its delights do not ap-
pear to be shared to any great extent by
the weaker sex, v in Patagonia. ]
never saw women work harder than
these-even society leaders in the centre
of the 4sswim"-and I am told that their
untiring industry is the same year in and
out. Notwithstanding the clumsiness of
their tools they sew neatly and with re-
markable rapidity-their only thread be-
ing sinews from the backs of old guam
acos and their needle a silver of bone,
sharpened at one end and a hole punched
in the other. The labor on a single fur
capa or mantle, which both men and
women wear, is immense, and, besides
those required for their own use, they
are constantly making others for sale.
The skins are taken from guapacos less
than a month old, because after that age
the fur begins to grow coarse and woody.
Then there are no end OF fllets to be
woven, for the mems heads and their
own, from the unraveled threads of cloth
obtained at the settlements or from the
Araucanians. In the same way they
weave belts or garte:s-the latter to hold
up the horse-hide boots of their lords
and masters. They must also sew skins
together for beds, the coverings OF the
toldos and for sale, serape and oress
horse hides for seats, saddles and parti-
ton walls, ard do a thousand other
things which keep them constantly en-
ployed, while their lazy ''men-folk"
smoke, gamble, race horses, play ball
and hunt only when the exigencies Of
the larder require.
Some of the men are surprisingly ex-
pert workers in silver, considering their
rude implements. They take the silver
dollars obtained in barter and temper
them until they become malleable enough
to be beaten into shapes for buckles,
garters, plates, beads or studs for emboss-
ing armor. Armor, did you say9 Yes,
the gentle Patsgonians actually don coats
of mail on occasions-made of horse
hide, in shape like an exaggerated night
shirt, and if the owner is rich enough it
may be thickly studied with silver plates.
Before going into battle the warriors pad
themselves like cricketers or like school
boys expecting a t%hrashing, using old
ponchos or saddle cloths, the thick folds
of which will turn a lance thrust or ever
the cut of a sword. The silver "studs"
are followed out on q stone, then pierced
at the edges with a sharp nail and then
sewn on with sinews. The Patagonians
are also handy arti6cers in iron and will
fashion q knife or an adze out of any old
piece of metal picked up from wrecks on
the coast or procured in the colonies. A
file they call ''khikerikikh," and the
words in their mouths sounds precisely
like the rasping Of a file over some dull
instrument.
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Chief among their weapons is the
yachilo or bolas, with three balls, for
guauaco hunting; the chume or bolas,
with two balls, for capturing ostriches,
and the bola perdita or single ball, so
named from the Spanish verb perdir, Ito
lose," because when once thrown
it is not picked up again. Before the
introduction of firearms the bola perdita
was the most deadly missile in
the hands of the Tehuelches. It ia
made by covering a sharp-pointed stone
with hide, all but the point, which pro-
trudes, and attaching a thong about a
yard long, with a knot tied in the end
to prevent il slipping through the hand,
David's historic sling was harmless be.
sides this weapon when whirled round
and round to give it force before shying
it at an enemy's head. Some Of them
also carry long, heavy lances tipped with
flint and adorned with tufts of feathers
very different from the light lances used
by the Araucanians. Nowadays guns,
revolvers, swords and daggers are alto
gether too common among them, bought
from traders.
Both the men and the women daub
their faces and sometimes their bodies
with paint made by mixing guanaco and
ostrich fat with red ochre or black earth.
On state occasions-as for a dance or 9
funeral-the men further add to their
beauty by rubbing white paint on their
hands and then making five white finger
marks on their chests, arms and legs. If
in mourning they put on black paint, and
when going forth to fight dab a little
/ white paint under each eye to impart a
ferocious expression. Not a small part of
the manifold duties of the women is to
attend to the toilets Of the men in the
way of paint and hair dressing, and, mot
being blessed with mirrors, they must
also perform those delicate services Tor
one another. The men are very partlc'
ular about their hair, and so the wives,
~sweethearts, mothers and sisters have to
brush their bushy locks at least twice
every day and tie them back neatly with
the illet. The greatest care is taken to
burn any stray hairs that may brush our,
for it is believed that witches work evil
spells with such things. The women are
also the t~atooers, both sexes ornament
ing their arms with triangles, crosses
and parallel lines by the simple process
of puncturing the flesh with bone
needles and rubbing in blue earth.
Those who have lived much among the
Patagonians declare that they do not de-
serve the character that has been given
them of fcrocious savages and brigands
of the deserts; that they lire kindly, good
tempered, impulsive children OF nature,
equally confirmed enemies, and that they
are not naturally treacherous, but always
keep faith with those who keep faith with
them.
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Skates are very old; hundreds, nay,
perhaps, thousands of years before this
crisp winter, skating was a merry sport.
Perhaps too many in this age of invention
think that more ideas are new than really
are so. If we remember that everything
We see around us grew up, then we can
begin to inquire about skates that came
before the keen.edged "club," with all
the ardor of historians. It is certain that
skates would be of no use in the tropics;
we must look for their home in the land
of long winters, of and slow, ice
bound rivers.
We would not envy the boy of long
ago., as he bound the shin-bones OF some
animal to his feet and went through s
kind of sprawling gymnastics that was
skating of the period. In Iceland skates
are called isleggir, ''ice bones" the
shin bones of a sheep.
If sheep shin-bones were the first
skates, then the boy who lived before
iron or bronze were known, back in the
stone and bone age, could enjoy himself
with this CHEEKY sport. The boys OF
London in the Twelfth Century, Fitz
Stephen tells US, sin winter bind under
their feet a pair of shin-bones, take in
their hands poles shod with iron, which
at times they strike against the ice, and
are thus carried along with the rapidity
of a bird on the wing or bolt dis
charged from q crossbow." The gener-
Gus Holland boy, Hans Brinker, was
forced to 60 back to the primitive way,
when be had given his skates to a poor
friend and had foregone his chances IN
the race for the "silver skates" Z
It. is thought that skates came into
use in Northern Europe, perhaps in Hol-
land, where it is cold and there is plenty
of smooth water, because, where the
rivers are swift there is no skating. The
wooden skates with iron runpers curling
up into a wonderful spiral terminated
with a brass acorn at the point, were in
troduced into England from the low
countries. Cosby Pepys, in his diary
of December 1, 1861, records: "To my
Lord Sandwiches, to Mr.. Moore, and
then over to the Parke, where I first in
my life, it being a great frost, did see
people sliding with their skates, which
is a very pretty art"
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Her apparent calmness astounded me.
Twill Won ansxar my ~nrastinn frst2n

AAOA NSf
will you answer my question frst?"
II prefer to withdraw my words"
Good heavens! And I am to marry a
woman whom you-you-have called IN
worthy! By all you hold most sacred
by your love for me and mine for you," I
cried in my passionate selfshness, i ado
jure you to tell me all you know"
She had moved toward the door while I
was speaking, and, laying her hand upon
the handle, opened it a little way. Then
looking at me with imploring eyes and q
face that told too plainly the torture she
endured:
Think what you will Of me-" she said.
Deem me most vile for saying what I
did. But, Jack-oh, Jack, believe it was
untrue!"
She was gone before I could reply.
I fastened down the stairs after her,
and across the hall, and was just in time
to see her into the carriage that was wait
ing. Then I held out my hand, but she
either did not or would not notice it.
AGood-by," said she simply.
turned and e-entered the house. In
doing 80 I ran against DR.. Gascoigne.
Anything wrong, Dudley?" he asked, as
I stood for q moment staring at him.
What the deuce is that to your" I e1-
claimed, roughly. Il beg your pardon.
Goodnight"
Half mad with conflicting emotions, I
rushed up to my room, and walked the floor
the whole of the livelong night.
ITO BE CONTINUED
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A Long Trip In a Row Boat.

..F-A.- AH-EL
G. g. Uddgren, a newspaper man OF
Sweden, has just accomplished the feat
Of travelling q thousand miles in arow
boat. He started in July last from
Gothenburg for London and recently
reached the British metropolis after an
adventurous journey, including the.
rough experience of q trip across the
channel from CALAIS, in a boat seventeen
feet long and three broad. Speaking OF
his remarkable feat, Mr.. Gddgren said::
ssWhen I arrived at Calais a old lady,
who had heard of my performances, ex.
claimed, Chow tired he must bet The
old lady seemed to think that [ had
made the whole trip In INF spell. When
I got the idea of making this voyage
must confess ! felt somewhat dubious.
But taking it in %piecemeal, the first day
from A to B, the next from B to G, and
SO on, I could imagine that it might be
possible. Aman may NOT be capable Of
drinking a cask Of wine at q sitting, but
he may emptyit gradually from day TO
day. But still, if you are drinking the
same stuff every day, knowing that you
must do it and cannot get anything else
you will soon acquire q distaste for 1t.
No one loves the sea more than Ido;5
rowing has always been my pleasure
but in spite of this, to keep on rowing
for DAYS and months becomes at last
painful, even f,r the most ardent sea
. - a~HH.F 80 80 = -
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"Lucky" BaldWin's Barn.

E. J. ('Lucky") Baldwin is having
architectural plans made for the most
royal barn in this State, and, perhaps, ON
the coast. 1t is to be built in his great
Santa Anita ranch, twenty-five miles from
here, and will cost from $40, 900 to $780,
900. 1t will be exactly the kind of a
barn that he has aspired to W all his
life, and will be used as the winter house
of his running horses and their grooms.
Everything about the barn is to be solid,
elegant and UNIQUE, no matter what the
cost. The stalls are to be of polished
oak; the box stalls of stained woods,
handsomely decorated to please critical
eyes of the horses; the grain aud feed
boxes will be of iron with nickel plate;
the floors are to be of colored woods;
the harness and blanket rooms will be
finished in oak, cherry and sycamore,
paneled and polished, and the feed Tor
the horses is to be warmed or cut or pre-
pared on purely scientific principles by
patent machinery. There are to be many
windows Of immense plates OF French
glass, so that the beasts may have . daily
sun bath, and there is to he a small cir.
cular track in the basement Of the barn
for the exercise of the horses in Indictment
weather; electric bells and lights will be
put in all parts of tho fine barn, and a
marble fountain will play in the court of
the building, probably for the delecta-
ton of "Lucky's' esthetic horses. We
have not learned the character Of the
oats to be fed in this equine palace, but
We suppose that nothing but gold oats
eighteen karats fine, will 60 there
Pomona (Cal.) Progress.
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The Man In the Iron Mask.

1t is said that the mystery of the 'smau
in the iron mask" up to this time unre-
vealed, has been discovered by Captain
Bazaries, of the French army. The dis
covery was made by decipheriDg the
secret dispatches passing between Louis
XIV. and the Duke Of Louvois. The
prisoner, according to Captain Bazaries,
wa General de Bulonde. His ofense
was the raising of the siege of CORA in
Piedmont, in violation of orders and
without necessity, thereby endangering
the success of the campaign in the
French wars of that period. The dis
covery of the identity is said to be abso-
lutely perfect, and Captain Bazaries's
translation of the secret dispatches is to
be published by tie French War De-
partment. Readers of history and
romance will recall the story of this
mysterious prisoner, who was forced to
wear always a black velvet mask upon
his face, fastened with springs of steel,
who was never allowed to open mis-
mouth to speak, and who was forbidden
to write, mark or make ineligible signs
under penalty of instant death. He was
attended always By his jailer, St. Mars,
and even at church a file of soldiers with
loaded guns were under orders to shoot
him should he violate the rules which
kept him silent and unrecognizable in
identity. He was first heard of at the
prison in the Isle Ste. Margaret, and died
at the Bastile November II, 1903, and
was buried under the name of Machiati.
1t was conjectured that he was an elder
brother OF Louis XIV, by others that he
was a twin brother of the King, with
perhaps an hundred other conjectures.-
Detroit Free Press.
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il the fashion here to suck it out), beat
the yolk thoroughly with a stick, a hair
pin, or whatever comes handy, adding a
little sugar if you have it, or plain salt
and pepper as we did. Then set the egg
on end in the hot ashes, Just far enough
from the blaze not to crack the shell,
beating the batter now and then and
turning it around so that the mixture
will not adhere to the sides. If q novice
you will probably burn your fingers
pretty badly and may be upset the whole
thing in the fire; but ever in the latter
case you may be consoled with the
thought that you haven't lost much, and
that the duty of friendly politeness, as
demanded by local etiquette, has been
reliriousk fulfilled in the cleanest posi-.
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CHAPTER TX.
BETWEEN TWO LOVES.

And we were to be married IN Friday
What would Edna think when she knew
what would she say? I could not keep
NV promise to her; it was impossible.
Dame Fortune had turned her wheel in
my favor, and I believe that I was being
drawn onward by fate.
That I was simply a mere puppet II
the hands of Mrs. Hargreaye-a weak
woman, with one foot in the grave
never once occurred to me.
went to Coaltown, saw my e~mployers.
and informed them that family affairs ne;
oessitated my Immediately relinquishing
nv clerkship. I offered no explanation.
There was none demanded.
Probably they guessed by my manner
that some good luck had come to me; at
any rate they agreed to let me go. 1 was
able to wind up my affairs in few hours,
handing over nv stool and desk to ?
young fellow-clerk who, 1 we'll knew, was
longing to step into my place.
After y hurried dinner I ordered q car
riaqe to convey me to Langdale Grange.
It was about three miles distant; the
roads, being billy. rendered progress diff
6cult and slow.
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OVER ICE AND SNOW.
SKATES AND SNOWSHOES ARE
WINTERS ADJUNCTS.
States Are Old and Were Formerly
Made of the Shin-bones of
Administrations Kinds
of Snowshoes. Z

HERE is no more
graceful and health
full exercise than
skating. A skilful
skater almost makes
one look forthe wings
that the a~ncients fixed
to the ankles Of
Mercury, Perseus and
Minerva. In one thing
can the birds be ri.
vailed by humans-
As they sweep,
On sounding skates a
thousand different
ways,
In circling poses, swift
as the WIND along.
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It is said that Tsuda Sanzo, the jap
anese who was sentenced to life lmprls'
onment for attempting to Kill the
Czarowitz of Russia, has died of pneu'
monia.
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u~DDeREN's BOAT.

alone out in the rolling sea. To all
who have asked me if I did not feel
lonely there I have answered.: No, not
at ALL feel more lonely here in this
immense desert Of millions OF people
which is called London than out on the
familiar sea.'"-Chicago Post.
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reyGraas

NOWADAYS the public is apt to
hear less Of q poets verses than his
reyeraas
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HAPPY SAVAGES.
HABITS AND HOMES OF THE
NATIVE PATAGONIANS.
Inner Furnishings of Their Houses
Hard Working Women-Experf
Workers in Silver Both
Men and Women Paint.
r. :,

HE indians, writes
Fannie B. Ward in
an article on the
native P~atagonians,
had selected a level
spot a few yards in
land, where shrubs
and boulders formed
o.kso1 wind
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Nearly a quarter Of all cases Of insan'
ity are hereditary.