The San Francisco call., 1898-04-17

tain and the effect of that tiny ortas presence upon oo he as they gazed. A smile played over the face or hu- And. strangely enough it made her for the moment almost comedy. It intensified while the atom ppeu L her song and waved her doll-like arms and then knew what it radiated from-the mother-love with in For be it the spirtualized Madonna of an ar lists conception, or the face of an Indian croonng over her offspring in wgwam, the smile Of a woman when she looks upon babe is good to see.
 'Mfckaninni," murmured kunana, gently, rocklng unconsciously to an fro. Mickaninni ~ barian bousands ag sao of mes wav As for myself was wondering if Esqumau babies ever cry TOT thelr mothers
 Chiquta looked hesitatingy at the big, clumsy hand that Kunan- stretched toward her. then laid her humanity's smallest reprcsentat1ve IS more accus- toned to heather white visitors than heathen orown a understood the world and in the light that shone just then from Kunana's eye Chiquita was not afraid.
 Were your wild animal acquaintance limited to deer and polar bears what manner of creatures would the denizens of zoo seem to you? To the Tickeys they varieties of Arctic game, the like of which had never been slowed away in their caches and much did they speculate upon their edi- They were asking if the lion were good to eat, forth roar like the combined fury of dozen Arctic gales In the presence of such an unexpected blast safer distance lay between them and the caged un- known. MT. Tilton explained that the feeding was had fancy for lions, cooked uncooked, and that little way out in the ocean big rock had been the 
 which had yet been sacrificed for the white man larder
 Were these new kind of fox or merely different kind of white man, Chiquita different kind of mickannni? 1 respectfully leave these Esquimau interrogations for Dr. David Starr Jordan to answer
 But stranger than all else in the animals house" the elephant. Who of is not used to the ele- phant from infancy? Then how appreciate the awe and interest which the sight of one inspired in those Esqumaux? Especially did his long g-dstance manner of feeding impress them
 We left the theater with the most absurdly confused creatures in wake that ever saw kneto scope pictures thrown upon a screen They believed 1t a living reality. The white wonders would never cease. Where did the people and the animals the screen come from? Where did they go to so quickly?
 As slowly climbed the grade the scenic railway kunana pointed to the stars Were we too. too. charges to hold tight. Then the tore down the grade with three hundred pounds of as amazed indian avordupois as it will ever carry. Up down and around whizzed then shot into tunnel where
 sVyhe When we emerged looked back Hickey was hudded into ball, cocoonwise, and motionless as car. His eyes fixed with questioning, but unshaken confidence, upon MT Triton To him the end of all things coming but laughter as sured him that whatever it was, we were willing to it.
 Kunana her hand in his was trying to crawl under the and the picture they made will abide with me forever and day. No slough of despond will be deeply depressing that I cannot rise from it thought of those Esquimaux. dashng they knew not whither the puzzled playthings of white mans power. In sled" drawn by the unseen dogs of his deviltry.
 While we awaited on a corner the coming of a downtown Kunana drew forth her pipe and puffed long and deeply. It the familiar in animate object within reach the only thing that was and she fingered it affectonately Hickey lit his pipe and they boarded the dummy of the white mans sled, where tobacco of many brands makes the life of the gripman unenviable
 In Kunanas hand I noticed piece of paper which she had carefully preserved during the wild whirl between heaven and earth. It was programme which the gate keeper had gravely handed to her
 LILLIAN FERGUSON.