Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1891, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D.C. SATURDAY. {was shattered in some way. ‘The stroots wero | the uso of fire are discouraged for the present. PAL A SCENE IN NAGOYA. JAPAN'S CATASTROPHE The World's Greatest Earthquake Calamity of Modern Times. went on thon at © good pace for some time, | but presently began to slacken speed to strad- die earthquake cracks in the road. The cracks became more frequent, and sometimes the road was crumbled like a ploughed field. As it grow dark the coolies procured some paper lanterns with the wretched Japanese candles, which were constantly collapsing or going out. Now and then we came across damaged houses, and sometimes an overturned building would pro- trude across our path. The coolies stopped from time to time for s few minutes’ rest and ‘scup of tea, and on each occasion threw off every vestige of clothing in order to cool off while resting. As I could learn nothing of the SSS | alien ot Bases, tnd ik wes eee Cracks—Whole Streets of Prostrate Houses—| whether 1 could get lodging there, I con- Buried Ruins Still Smoking — Thousands | otatea to ppc the bate the village of Obu, about twelve miles from Nagoya. - aaa ee DODGING FARTHQUAKE CRACKS BY NIGHT. We had met with so many interruptions that it was now nearly 9 o'clock at night, and in order to reach Obu sooner the coolies under- T 6 O'CLOCK WEDNESDAY MORNING, | took a “short cu" by # narrow, sinuous road October 28, an earthquake shock ocenrred | that ran along the top of « dam or embankment at Yokohama, where I was staging, which threw | through the great rice swamps of that neighbor- down a couple of chimneys, but attracted no | hood. But we found that this road wns much great attention, asit bad been preceded by | More broken by the earthquake than the To-; slight shocks for a week or two. It was stated, kaido highway, though not shaded by trecs so however, in the Yokohama pupers that day that | much as the latter. The coolies in deserting there was considerable apprehension among | the Tokaido road seemed to be fearful of fall- | the native population of a culmination of the | ing into some earthquake death trap concealed shock in a great eatastrophe on the 4th by the gloomy shadows there. But our ri of November, similr to that of the | scrossthe rice swamps grew worse and worse. | great convulsion that destroyed half of | The cracks continued to increase in depth, | Tokio (then Yeddo) and killed many | Width and frequency until the road was all thousand people just thirty-seven years|seamed, bulged and wrinkled with them. previous to that date. The Japanese treat the Ther p was nothing to do but walk, and, leaving thirty-seventh anniversary of a death as an | the 'ricksha men to pull or carry their vehicles occasion of special note, and the 4th of Novem- | #8 best they could, I pushed on in the dark- ber of this year was to have been observed with | 2ess—for our lanterns had now gone out for special religious rites in all the principal tem- | g00d—and, guided by the white dust of the ples and shrines of Japan on bebalf of the vie- | toad, managed to reach Obu without falling | time of the destructive earthquake thirty-seven | Ver the embankment or into a crack. yearsago. The papers of the next day, the 4 JAPANESE INN. ‘29th, spoke of the earthquake as having been| Our stopping place for the night was at the most severe experienced for many years/a strictly Japanese tea house, whore I was! and as having destroyed railroad tracks and | perhaps the first foreign lodger it had ever | bridges om the Tokaido line, andas having | bad. The family were al!in bed when we thrown down a cotton mill at Osaka (near Kobe) | reached there, but in answer to the summons and killed twenty-five persons. of Naka, the native guide I had picked up, | JAPANESE JOURNALISTIC ENTERPRISE. they got up good-naturedly and gave us the | Still there was no information giving the | smiling welcome one is always sure of in Japan. | slightest indication of theextentof the calamity | As it was a Japanese home, pure and simple, and it was not until the third day after the | however, Ihad to take my shoes off before event that the news began to reach Yokohama | Stepping upon their sacredly clean mattings. of the appailing devastation in the Nagoya- | I was ushered into a spacious chamber, fitted | Gifa district, less than 220 miles from Yoko-| Up in Japanese style, with folding partitions, | hama, on the leading line of railroad in Japan. | paper windows and bare walls, with the excep- | ‘The failure to receive any intelligence is partly | tion of a single oblong picture, which bore explained by the destruction of telegraph poles | What I at first thought was a graceful design of | and wirea at some points, but to the American | flowers, but which Proved on inspection to be mind it is klmost impossible to eouceive how | * Cluster of crabs in the shape of s garland, such a frightful catastrophe could have oc- | 8d with a single flower in the corner of the curred without the news spreading at once far | picture. Que meets these odd conceptions in ‘and wide on such a densely populated line of | pictorial art everywhere in Japanese houses. | travel as the Tokeide railroad, which | The little landiady, with two or three pretty | runs parallel with the great Tokaido | little musumes(zirls), came fluttering in bearing | highway between Tokio and Kioto, $29 miles in| tea tray with dainty little cups, a brazer Jength. and which is lined by an almost con- | with a charcoal fire to heat water, and a little tinuous series of villages from one end to the | table just about six inches bigh. Also witha ether. On Saturday, the fourth day after the | little mat for me to sit upon by mylittle table. shock, so little was really known of the nature | Thenthe little women brought a little teapot and extent of the calamity that I felt sufiicient | and a little tea caddy and put in tiny spoon- | curiosity in the matter to undertake a little ae rok racargy a pee the — topics oration of the desolated distriet. | 0! wal ji pot would hold. reseed Then when the tea was cooked they placed it on my little table, with a plate of little candy cakes, This seemed rather SHORT COMMONS FOR 4 HUNGRY TRAVELER, but it wasonly a prelude for something more substantial. My guide, who had been skir- mishing around for provisions better suited to the American stomach, presently appeared with a nicely cooked omelet, some chicken and finally beefsteux. ‘The pretty little maidens were hovering around all the time waiting todo any service needed and bowing their foreheads to the floor whenever they approached. With all their marke of reverence they had their own 1 EARTHQUAKE-HUNTING! Eiuitorial Correspondence of The Evening Star. Nacora, Jarax, November 4, 1891. OFT FoR THE EARTHQUAKE DISTRICT. somewhat audibly when trying tc accommodate I left Miyanonta, a charming mountain re- | bis stiffened limbs to tho Jap fashion of sitting @ort near the Hokane pass, at Sa.m., Saturday, | ata six-inch tableto get bie supper. When by jinrickisha. for Koru on the Tokaido rail- | bedtime came they set out to make my conch road The jinrickisha, now the national car- | Japanese style,with » rug and @ wooden pilio' riage of Japan, was the invention of a Yankee | but Naka came to my rescue and ransacked the missionary, and seems to have been modeled on | house for rugs and coverlets, making » pretty the “‘one-hoss shay” celebrated by Holmes. It| comfortable bed with thom, end rolling up fe two-wheeled, buggy-topped and with shafts | one into a serviceable pillow. like a bagzy. only a coolie takes the place of a] In the morning the pretty musumes were on horse between them. These stout-legged coolies | hand before I was up with the tea things, and will pull these eusmalled buggies or enlarged | they were in and out later on, while I was baby carriages at the rate of six miles an hour | dressing, wholly unconscious apparently that on trips of forty, fifty and even sixty milesa | there was any impropricty in their presence. day without apparent suffering and with no DRESSING UNDER DIFFICULTIES ether-rest or refreshment than an cecasional | Their delighted curiosity and langhing eom- Stop at # tea house and a drink of ten—not beer | ments upon the peculiarities of American un- or whisky—with a little rice or bit of dried fab | derwear and tedious style of buttoning himself in the way of substantials. up, were rather trying, however, to a modest The down the mountain side was most | middle-aged District-of-Columbian. To the exhilarating. The air was pure and bracing, | buttonices Jap who can divest himself of his with all the transpareacy for which Japanese | entire clothing in ten seconds and three move- air is noted. Snow-capped Fusiama, sixty | ments our tedious fashion of dresping no doubt miles distant, appeared to be within = few | seems very odd and funny. ours’ walk, with all its ribs and ridges of lava- flows on ite sides distinetly defined. At Kora no information could be obtainea of the condi- tion of things in the earthquake district and it ‘was found that there was no possibility of get- ting by rail beyond Osazaki, twenty-five miles from Nagoya etd forty-five from Gifa, the focal points of the earthquake disturbances. I took passage for Okazaki, trusting to a news- THE C By 8 o'clock in the morning I was on my way to Nagoya, and the’ricksha men, by the aid of daylight. made such good progress, notwith- days, and perhaps weeks. The only way of | standing the constant difficulties from the getting on was by jinrickisha, and the jinrick- isha men were so demoralized by the stories of filled with hastily constructed shelters for the Cccupation not only of the houscless ones, but of those who were afraid to sleep in- Goors, and this number included about the entire population of the city, for the earth- quake tremors were still continuing, and there Was general apprehension that there would be still more severe shock on the ath of No- great convuls! shape and material. They were mado of matting, shawls, old clothes, old doors, paper and in on ther obstructed by tho poles and timbers Planted to brace up tho walls of tottering baildings. Now and thon a whole family would be seen quartered in a wooden box not much larger thanadry goods box. It has beena mercy that the woather bas boon fine and | wounded who were attending an early prayer ‘cad | meeting at the Union Mission. Rev. E. H. Van | work caring for the sufferers and sei | appeals for contributions for « relief fand. | There never was an occasion where such aid {could be better applied. Among these mis- sionaries that I see pushing about most ener- | getically in this work are Dr. W. 8. Worden and his good wife of the M. E. church and Rev. F. E. Klein of the M. P. church. vember, the thirty-seventh anniversary of the at Tokio. ‘These shelters were of every conceivable | windows, house partitions, rough boards, str: ase the shelter consisted of nothing but mosquito netting. The roadway was fur- warm. The suffering must have been terri- ble bad there been scold rain. Advancing into the heart of the city the evidences of the extent of the calnmity were ona largor scale. The brick post ofice and telegraph office build- ing was in rains (five persons having been killed in ite fall) and the post offics had been transferred to some rough sheds erecto:l in the yard of a Shinto temple. The telegraph force ‘Were quartered in other sheds erected on the Honchi Dori (main street). The brick bnild- ings suffered most heavily, but fortunately there were not many of them here. EARLY WORKERS KILLED BY TUE EARTHQUAKE. A large brick cotton mill fell, in which out of the 600 operatives only 120 escaped, 300 having been killed and 160 badly injured. The cause THE NAGOYA TWISTE Rote leundryman ean be found to wash a sin- gle pioce of linen for love or money. The fra- ternity have entered into an agreement not to kindle a fire of the proportions required for their work until the earthquakes are over. I found it dificult. on my arrival, to get hotel, or rather tes house, accommodations. The people at the ten houses were afraid to indoors or to kindle a fire to cook for guests. All night long gangs of people go about the streets beating drums and blowing horns, rat- tling castanets and tin pans filled with stones, making the most hidoous noises imaginable. ‘The reasons assigned for this charivari are va- rious, Sume say that it is to keep the people awake to be ready for escape in caso of an earthquake. Others, that it is to frighten or charm away tho earthquake divinity, but the most general theory is that the intention is to keep a sharp lookout for fires and to warn householders of the necessity for like vigilance. One of the doleful rics of these vigilantes, ut- tered in a minor koy, is said to be Japanese for “Becareful of fire!” And they have every roason to fear the renewal of the quakes, for thore have been continued tremors at short intervals ever since I reached here Sunday morning, November 1. Just think of the proportions of this ealam- ity! In this single Nagoya-Gifu district alone, within a distance of twonty miles, there were (as far as yet ascertained) 3,410 porsons killed, 4,230 wounded, 42,414 houses wholly destroyed, and 8,597 partially destroyel. Rating five per- sons to the house, which isa low estimate in this swarming population, the destruction of 50,000 houscs means that 250,000 people are homeless and without food, clothing or shelter. This is certainly one of the most distressing [ese D BRIDGE. Of 60 great a loss of life at this early hour in the morning was that the force wore working extra commencing at 4 o'clock in the morn- Four natives were killed and seventeen THE NAGOYA HOLOCAUST. | ing. Dyke and wife of the Methodist Protestant Mission were injured at the same time, but are doing well, The missionaries here are hard at ing out But the great field of devastation in Nagoya was in the Buvajima suburb of the city, where out of 2,300 houses 1,859 were destroyed. The | scene going through this quarter was most im- | pressive. There were streets upon streets of | prostrate buildings. The burnt district where 80 muny lives were lost was still smoking, but the owners, or such of them as survived, were already marking out the boundaries of their lote by bamboo poles, preparatory to rebuild- ing. The crowds of people, the owners or ten- ants of the prostrate houses, were busy fishing out whatever was worth saving from the heaps | of dirt, mortar, broken tiles and rotten thatch that these mud-walled buildings had crumbled | into. The narrow passageways through the | ruins were jammed with people bearing away | rescued portions of the wreck, broken pieces of timber, splinters of furniture, fragments of laths, &c. Crowds of victims wore gathered about the relief stations where food was being givenout, The best of the standing buildings bad been converted into temporary hospitals. ‘There was not a sound of lamentation or word of complaint to be heard in all this swarm of sufferera. And, singularly enough, not » beggar wasto beseen. The overflowing mirth and vivaeity of the Japanese was missing, but the people seemed to bear their overwhelming mis- fortunes with wonderfal patience and even cheerfulness. The children seemed to think it good fan to picnic this way in the open air. A TWISTED DRIDOE. ‘The bridges in this part of the city were either wholly destroyed or contorted in the most singular mauuer. The long wooden bridge over the Nagoya river was twisted and bulged into the shape of a switchback railroad and sunk ig the center to the surface of the water, so that adventurous foot passengors crossing it had to stick like flies to the short angles of - the flooring. The railroad bridge and tracks in this vicinity were also twisted, balged and de- pressed in the most fantastic shapes. The rail- road track in the direction of Gifu (the neigh- boring scene of disaster) presented a billowy aspect, at if the earthquake force extended in undnlations. In this neighborhood the cracks re enormous. In some places volcanic sand was thrown up through the fiusures. In others there was a flow of water. A stream of mine- ral water burst up under the platform of the ralroad station at Nagoya. At Gifu, adjoining, the destraction was still greater than here, aud at Ogaki, a little further on. not asingle house was loft standing. NAGOTA'S FAMOUS CASTLE SAVED. The Nagoyans have one gleam of consolation in thetr misfortunes--theie famous castle wi ite golden dolphins glittering from ite towers is saved though so vadly injured inside that visitors are not admitted. One of these dol- Phins, it may be remembered, was lost ina shipwreck on tho way back from the Vienna exhibition, but was afterward recovered and replaced upon the castle top amid great popu- lar rejoicings. To prevent any deprodations by thieves the dolphine are now inclosed in iron cages. The people here suffer not only from the de- struction of their homes, but from the loss of ASTLE But the dread of fires, in view of bility of is that iS Smip Sassen mee ‘All wanafactures or labor processes requizing calamities of modern times and makes an urgent appeal to the charities of all lands. 0. 8. N. Razors of All Ages. “Does it ever occur to you to wonder, when you complain of the torture of shavitig; how men managed to keep their faces clean before the exquisitely tempered steel razors of today were invented?” ® scientist to » Stan reporter. “You have only to observe the aucient sculpt- tres to soo that shaving was pragticed in, earliest times. Tho fac thoteld Egypti are represented in their statues and bas- as clean-shaved, except for the beard on the What sort of razors did they use? No- body knows; but something is kgown about the evolution of the razor ina general way. “The first razor was a pair of clam or mrigsel shells, with which our savage ancestors pulled out the hairs of his head by g them as with pincers, In the course af time it was found out that by sharpening the edges of th shells they could be ground against one another 60 as to saw off the haits. ‘Two keen- flakes of stone could be ‘employed for the same purpose, as the Mexican Indians util- ize bits of obsidian. Asa rulo, the straight: haired and scant-bearded races today, like the North American Indians, pluck out their beards. The Polynesians get rid of their su- perfluous hair with chloride of lime, which they manufacture by burning coral. “When the bronze ago arrived razors were \de of that material, which has since been perseded by tempered stecl. ‘The latest razors are fire and electricity. Barberd of the most advanced school nowadays singe the hair instead of cutting it, and an electric needle is used to destroy hairs where ena a grow by being thrust into the f a Current killing the roots.” ' Co pe ‘Taming Wild Animals by Electricity. From the St. Louis Mechanic. 4 Waldemar Otto, editor of the German paper Artist, has obtained # patent for a method to tame and train wild animals by means of an electric whip. The cage hasa metallic floor connected with one pole of a sufficiently strong battery, while the other pole, by meaps of a wire, is connected with the whip, while its i sulating handle has a button with which the current can be tried if desired If, now, the wild animal which bas to be “educated” shows obstinacy the trainer presses the button and this gives to the animal an elec- tric shock at every contact of the whip, of which the severity is regulated according’ to the requirements. If the electric current is not needed the button is not pressed, and the effect of the whip is reduced to that of an or- dinary o1 ‘this is @ new application of electricity for gGiueational purposes of a class of beings whlch thus far bas nm the most inaccessible to im- press with the advantages of civilization. In this way the lion may be made to lie peaceably with the lamb, even when the iamb is not in- side the lion. Lowell Met His Mateh, Ass young man Lowell visited the White mountains, and be used to relate this ancedote as one of his experiences thero, says the No England Magazice: ‘1 was walking through the Franconia Notch and stopped to chat with a hermit who fed with gradual logs the unwearied teeth of a saw mill I asked hiin the best point of view for the Old Man of the Mountains. ‘Dunno—never see it’ Too young and too happy either to feel or affect the juvenilian in. ference, I was sincerely astonished aud I 3 pressed it, ‘The log-compelling man attempt ication, but after a hittle while he ome from Bawsn?’ ‘Yes’ (with: iar lo to wee in the Tyeinity. of I said ‘I should like, “to stan'on Bunker Hill You've been there offen, likely?” ‘No-o,’ un willingly seetng “the little ond of the horn,’ in clea inion “ie jerminus of this Socratio rspective, ‘Awl, my young frien’, you've Frvned now that wat'n man kis’ seo euy day for nothin’, children half price, he uevor does see. Nawthin’ pay nawthin’ vally. —_+oo —__ Not to Be Expected From » Child. From the Boston Post, cannot be said that skipping across the Stroot is, as matter of iaw, negligence,” says the full bench of the suprome court in the case of Irene A. Brown againstCharles I’, Sherer. The plaintiff, a child of six years, on November 14, 1890, was “skipping across the street,” when she was run over by a horse and carriage owned by the defendant. ‘The defendant contended it the plaintiff was hersolf negligent, “but,” the court says, “the jury may have thought that the usual gait of a girl not quite six years old. No high degree of caution in guarding ‘agninat eareloss driving can be expected fro child.” ‘The defendant's exceptions were 0} wen. yes!” ‘awl I should" 4i ———+0-—__ ___ Deatrice's Baby's Name. ‘From the Pall Mall Gazette. The somewhat singular combination of names of the Princess Beatrice's baby, who was bap- tized the other day at Balmoral, seems to have escaped general notice. “Maurice Victor Don- ald” is the full title, tho latter name being, it is PATAGONIAN GIANTS. How the Early Navigators Romanced About Them. ILLUSIONS DISPELLE ‘Real Facts About These Indians and These on ‘Terra Del Fuego—They Have Become the Victims of Whisky and Civilization, Like the Red Men of This Country. From The Star's Traveling Commissioner. Poxta Angxas, Paragorra. iO HAS NOT HEARD MARVELOUS tales of the giants of Patagonia and of the dwarfs that live just across the narrow channel on the islands of Terra del Fuego? So much nonsonse has beon written and told about these people ever since the first white men found them (in the year 1520) that to this day the world possesses few actual facts concerning them. You remember how Don Pigafetta, the champion liar of Magellan's expedition, de- scribed the Patagoniane as “Of that biggencese that our menne of meane stature could reach up to their waystes,” and all the early explorers that followed felt bound to see and describe as amazing things as their predecessors had done, while « few of them went even further in their laudable efforts to keep up European interest in the new world. Regarding the stature of these giants there is an amusing discrepancy in the statements of celobrated travelers, ancient and modern. Sir Frances Drake, who came here in 1578, testi- fied that the Patagonians were “not taller than many Englishmen.” Schouten, the Germa: plorer, deciared them to be “living skelotons, ten or eleven feet long.” D'Orbigny, the French scientist, wrote in 1829 that he “never found any exceeding five feet eleven incher.” Fitzroy and Darwin computed their average height to be six feet, and Cunningham. who made them a careful study only about twenty years ago, says he found one chief who meas- ured six feet eleven inches, and saw few of less statue than five feet ten inches. Capt. Mayne Roid, whose delightful book calied “Odd People” stands next to “Robinson Crusoo” in the estimation of millions of words about the Patagon: “They have been mensured. ‘Twelve-foot giants can no longer be found. They never existed except in the fertile imaginations of the oldnavigutors, whose embodied testimony, nevertheless, it is diff cult to disbelieve. Other and more reliable witnesses have done away with the Titans, but still we are unable to reduce the stature of the Patagonians tothat of ordinary men. If not actual giants, they are very tall, many of them standing seven feet in their boots of guanaco leather, fow less than six feet, and a like few rising nearly to eight. These measurements are definite and certain, therefore, it not pos- itive giants, it is enfe to consider the Patagon- inns as among the tallest of human beings, per- haps the very tallest that exist or ever existed upon the face of the earth.” A MissIONARY's sToRT. One of the most vivid scenes in memory’s picture gallery—one that still stands out dis- tinct and clear amid a multitude of misty shape and half-obliterated facts of far greater importance—is that of a missionary lecture on a long-ago Sunday afternoon, when the speaker impressively said: ‘The poor giants of Pata- gonia, though nearly twice as tall as anybody fn this church, if not in this country—say from nine to twelve feet high—have neither minds nor hearts in proportion to their bodies They are among the most ficrce and degraded people on earth—they are cannibals, who feast on the bodies of their enemies and on shipwrecked sailors and other foreigners who happen to fall into their hands. At other times they subsist on raw fish. But when the streams are frozen, as they are during a greater part of the year, had, they eat all the old women of the tribe; next they devour their horses, if need be, and lastly, but only to save themselves from starvation, they sacrifice their beloved dogs to the cooking pot. The People of Terra del Facgo are even more ugly, being dwarfs not more than three or four feet tall, hb enormously swollen bodies, heads, short and crooked limbs. They file their front and devour live in a cold that ery night they build no houses and weer no clothes whatever.” May heaven forgive the reverend gentleman his ignorance, for I don't beliove he deliber- tely slundered the heathen. merely gave us the commonly accepted opinion in Burope and America, gleaned undoubtedly from some clopedia of universal knowl- y rate our youthful imagina- tions were so excited and generous pity aroused that every tin bank belonging to every child in the Sunday school was rutilessly broken and ali our hoarded pennies dispatched to the poor Patagonians through the pocket of the mis- sionary. Only the other day I read an exceedingly in- teresting three-column article (but alas for the truth of it) which has been going the rounds of the United States press, aud which deals in glib absurdities as un- biushingly as did the ancient mariners. The popular journalist who perpetrated it mixes up the Araucanians of Chile, the Patagonians aud the i manner and paints the poor things a great deal darker than they deverve, For cxampie, he says of the Fuegoans that ‘from time to time the corpses of wrecked sailors afford them much relished feasts, without the trouble of cooking.” He describes their houses as “holes under ‘the ground, covered with brush, bark and wild cabbage leaves,” and ad in the center of cack dwelling, which is ontered by an inclined tunnel, a fire is kept perpetually burn- ing. the smoke finding its way through a hole in the roof. The embers are never allowed to become extinguished, because the people know no way of making a fire, and if it was lost they could not reproduce it It is apposed that they brought it originally, centuries ago, from some volcano in the Cordilorra summing up of Fuegoan character, this imag- inutive writer remarks: *‘As soon as the young are weaned they ure permitted to take care of themecives and, at once taking to the chase think of it—e baby lately weaned), which is @ sole pursuit of their elders, they get a liy- ing by hunting for the young vicuns and guan- aco and for ostrich eggs.’ SOME ACTUAL, FACTS. In that case their “living” must be extremely meager, for an ostrich never yet sot foot upon ‘ny island of the Terra del Fogo archipelago, nor were vicunas, the animals of the Peruvian Andes, ever fonnd in this section. In some parts of Patagonia the Species of deer called 1) Save not jezonsed over to poi Fuegoans are any sense. ‘They live almost marine food — mussels, and no fish are to be rbich they and a few varicties of oot with bone arrows or catch out by wild berries during their sosson growth about the size and orange that forms upon the beech trees, have conversed with many people who reside near them and who have Wheitea these islands in recent years, as well as with aries who live amo: ieate compliment to the land of | Indians bad supposed, his birth. Thora has not been a royal’ Donald since Donald Bane, but it must be vonfessed that “Prince Donald” has not a very royal ring Cut His Eye,Teeth, ‘From the New York Weekly. P ‘Mr. Gotham—Come back east to Iive, eh? What was the matter with Dugout City?” Returned Westerner—“Too noisy. Couldn't Ms. Gotham (to himeelf)—“That town must booming.” like the North Amer- ican Indians rather than muddy brown like the South American. are excessively dirty, and fond of personal adorn- =e made out of bones, er boade and ; ver (gold, enous’ lo not like and are ready af soy. time ‘to barter ail thet earthly possdssions—wives, bi w garments that cover theif nak: little “‘fire-water. THE FOUR TRIBEA. The “Pampas Patagones"—so called because they inhabit the vast pampas or plains of the north—are subdivided into four tribes, known Tespectively as Puelches, of “‘eastern people,” the word puel meaning ‘east, che people: the Picunches, picun meaning north; the Pechuen- ches, “or people of the pines,” pechun mean- ing pine tree, and the Rangueles, or those who dwei the thistle beds, from Ranquel, a thistle. Though not quite so degraded ‘as their southern brothers, perbaps because fur- ther removed from civilization, they are trencherous, quarrelsome and cowardly to & degree. But pn are not beggars; they live by the chase and by plunder, bartering the prod- uct of the former to unscrupulous white trad- ers for ram and trinkets ‘Then there are the Chenna Patagones, who inhabit the Richer sutivodes ho difier —— nguage ani t from other tril and are leas lazy and erratic. ‘They are some: times called Manzaneros, because their head- = ‘are at s place named “Las Manzanas” the apples), where the Jesuits formerly had a mission ted a good many apple trees. They own sheep, cattle and horses in the sheltered valleys of the Cordilleras and mal very good cider from the apples that the old friara planted. They also brew an intoxicat- ang drink from tho beaus of the algaroba, which is in demand all over the country. WHAT PATAQONIAN MEAN! Of course the term “Patagonian” is entirely unknown among the Indians. Their true name, collectively and individually, is Tsonecas, and by it ali the tribes call themselves. ‘The word Pata-gones, meaning “‘duck-footed nen,” refers to their peculiar foot-gear. The lower limbs are encased in boots without soles, or rather Jong gaiters. made of guausco skins, with the Deautiful yellowish fur turned outward. ‘The leg is covered all around from below the knee, the fur passing over the top of the foot and sround the heel, leaving the tocs sticking out. ‘This trifling circumwtance obtained the appel- lation by which a vast territory ai ple who inhabit it are known’ to orld. The flaps or “uppers” of the gaitors, tending loosely across the top of their feet, exaggerated in breadth by long hair on the edges, give the wearers the appearance of bay- ing paws or i > ml When Magellan's men first saw these Indians they were unable to ac- count for the peculiar a pearance of their feet and the bright yellow fur upon their legs, and called them ‘‘duck-footed.”” ‘The southern Tsonceas—as yet I have seen no others—dress in tho rudest fashion. A large, equare rug of guanaco hides, sewed together, {a fastened (far side outward) around tie body under the arms, and extends about to the knees. Another rug, with» slit in the middle through wiich to pass the head, falls over the shoulfers, ‘The fong, stiff, unkempt, hair is Partially held in place by strips of cloth, which are often large enough to form a kind of cap or turban. Low down in the ecale of humanity as they look, {t appears that they have some -e- deeming qualities. For instance, they do not practice polygamy like most Indians, and they in the immortality of the soul. Did you ever notice that the character of aman, whether his skin bo white, black, red or yellow, can be pretty accurately 'told by the sort of he worships, or rather by the attributes with which bis own imagination invests preme being? The Tehuelche deity is not “an et spider weaving webs to catch the souls of men,” nor ® revengeful being who intends to torment any of his creatures. His namo is Coche and he is of a very tender, loving and forgiving disposition. Ho is wait- | ™ hunting grounds ing for his children, in happy he ting grounds re he beyond the farthest rim of repared all good things necessary to their ~ poe The “good things” mean a plenti- fi unlimited wine (of sapply of food and furs, which beverage they are inordinately fond and Purchase quantities of poor stuff from the hileans), no stones nor darkness, and above all no more cold weather. On the latter point the missionaries who go among them are obliged to be extremely careful. To their Antarctic imaginations the old-time hell of actual firo that we used to hear about pre- sents far more attractions than the orthodox heavon. ‘HOW THEY LOOK AND DREss. Let us see what Capt. Reid has to say about the “duck-footed men,” over his chapter on the gisnts and making here and there an extract. Let us int the portrait of the Patagonian himself. He wears no hat, but suffere his long black hair to hang loosely over his shoulders, or more frequently gathers it into aknot upon the crown of his head. To keep it from straggling into his eyes he usually wears a narrow strip of guanaco ekin around his forehend, or a plaited band of the hair of the same ammal, but although he possesses ostrich feathers at dincretion, be rarely i duiges in a plume. He knows he is tali enough without one. Over his shoulders and hanging to his heels be wears a loose mantle of gnanaco skins, which is of sufficient width to wrap around his body and meet over his breast shoald he feel cold enough to require it, but he often throws his mantle entirely aside to give him the freedom of his arms,” or more generally tics a girdle around it and leaves the upper. part to fail back from his shoulders and hang over the girdle. Perhaps his ample garment bas some- thing todo in producing the exaggerated ac- counts that have becn given of the stature of ‘the Patagonians. Certain it is that a man thus ap) Jocks taller than he otherwise would aud presen era more imposing aj pearance. The Caffre, in his civet-eat “kavoss”™ and the Pawnee Indisn, in his robe of shaggy buffalo hide, loom very large upon karroo and prairie—much larger in appearance than they really are. It is but natural. therefore, to sup- pose that the Patagonian, attired in his long, straight guanaco mantle—perhape seen against tho sky, standing upon the summit of ‘a con- spiouots clit—woald present a traly (figantic aud. appearance. Faxxre ——e- —____ SE GOT WHAT HE WANTED. And He Dida’t Try to Play Off Any O14 Pretenses. From the Boston Post. “Exente me, sir, but could you not give s Poor man a few cents—” Just there my friend interrupted the poor man in his familiar tale of woe. “I presume,” ace ampeortesersooi lodging. “No.” “Strange. Well, you have doubtless not tasted food for some days and are perishing of unger.” “No, sir, I—” “Hold ona minute. You must be trying to buy « ticket to your native land and aro a little short of—" ho sits am Bo tata hospital” ——— what, in heaven's name, do you “Well, P've beon drunk for a week—s lar batter—and I want dime to got a bracct. ‘the matter. I am uot ‘only want a drink.” "murmured my ‘a dime, which be |. | Stockbridge AWNINGS FOK BAD WEATHER. It Dees Not Pay to Own One, Though to Rent One Costs a Good Sum. 6*\OsT PEOPLE SEEM TO THINK AUD that €40 is an awful price to pay for awnings fora wedding,” ssid the dealer toa Stax reporter. “I don't see why they should, Tmeure. For that price we must supply and put up two awnings, one at the house and another at the church. An awning corte about €150. Yes, it is good interest on the invest- ment, but it doesn't pay for private person toown an awning all the sume, You see, it's got to be put up every time and it is necessary to have it done by people who know how. Our charge is $10 for that purpose. ‘The only peo- pleI know of in Washington who have their own awnings are Secretary Rusk, Senator nd Secretary Tracy. We make them toseil, but we don’t encourage it. “There is a good deal more about supplying an awning than people imagine. To begin with, there's the know how in putting it up. Then there's the going out and doing the work in all kinds of sloppy and suowy weather. The comfort which the guests enjoy from it is earned by our labor and discomfort. One of our employes died in consequence of a cold caught in tho performance of his duty and two others are at_pre-ent victims of chronic rheu- Matism contracted in the sae way. Then, after we have fetched the canopy back to the shop, it must be spread out and carefully dried. Besides, we are expected to provide, incident- ally, the carpet and lamps at night. “Mrs. Wilmerding has written to me, that sho wants to consult me about buying an awning for bez own use, but I shall recommend her not to doso. She will find it cheaper to hiro one when she wants it, and less trouble- some also. Itis getting to be more and more the fashion to have canopies for entertain- ments of all sorts, even when the weather is clear and sunshiny. “There is a luxury about having your guests get out of their carriages and walk into your house through a covered way. ‘Then, too, the ladies do not like to be stared at by'a crowd of curious people, even if they have their best clotnes Besides, you can never tell what the weather is going to be many hours in advance. One day last winter a customer of mine countermanded his order for an awning for the same evening becauso there seemed no chance of a storm; but « big snow came on suddenly and his guests had to wade through it. Yesterday a young lady came in hore and when ehe learned the price anid that she would wade knee-deep through the mud be- fore would pay @0 for acanopy. That hurt my feelings. “Secretary Whitney, when ho was in Wash- ington, paid me as much as £500 in one season for awnings. I used to keep a special one for his usc, ali ready to zo out at a moment's no- tice, because there was no telling when be might order it, He preferred to pay that much er than be bothered with owning a canopy and having it put upeach time. It takesagood deal of space to store an awning in, too, and it isn’t ensy to dry it in the yard. ‘There is money in the business of hiring out canopies, aud we keep six of them always on haud, They pay for themselves several times over in a scasou.” Goes ae SHE KNEW HEE BUSINESS. interpreter is employed in the Chicage ofice for the sole purpose of taking care of the Chinese mail matter. But euch is not the The government has never seen the of employing an interpreter, for « addressed in Chinese bieroglyphies has also @ duplicate address written in the English lan of one of his countrymen who is conversant with the English language. In hie own hand- writing he places the address on the en: The letter, duly stam; the continent to San 1" is put in one of China. When the le it goes into the post office aud is delivered im the same way ‘an ordinary letter would be handled in this country. With the Chinese Jangnage on one side of the envelope and an English transition on the oth eeen that no difficul sioned the post office authorities in either country in its transwission. Thus what at first ight seems a difficult matter is, indeed, quite ample. ‘he reverse process is employed by Ameri- in China who desire to communicate with friends in thix country. Instead of having the Chinese transiated into the English they hire an Americanized Chinaman and have him write the address in the Chinese iu order that it may pass sufely and surely through both Post ofices. © Chinese are poor: ondentsand write w letter unter the mont urgent som stances. Ont of the vast Uhinese po; in Chicago the post oftice clerks ore than @ dozen letters pass through their hands ina nd these are written chiefly by business Chinamen on businces matters. They observe the minutest details in letter writing, however, and make the closest inquiry as to how ench letter should be sent. Probably more money is sent through the mails by Chinamen in proportion to their numbers than by any other foreign element of their clam. ardiy @ day parce but tuat three or four Clinamen get money orders at the post ofiioe in amounts ranzing from [10 to €1 <o. mail ships bound for reaches its destination And the Old Man Found Out That She Has Played Him False. From the Detroit Free Press. She got around thoelevator boy so that by the time she had conversed with him ten m! utes she knew the name of every business man in the building. But nobody would have sus- pected she carried a book in the neat satchel on her arm. Pretty? Well, Ishould say so. Soft, fluffy, blonde bangs, a demure mouth and meek, luminous eyes that just looked a fellow through and through and melted him with their appeal- ing glances. She first ventared into Grimm's real estate ofice, and, as she hoped she would, caught Mr. Grimm alone. He sniffed danger at once. ‘No concert tickets or cook books for me,” id, waving her away. ten’ wens it You t off ion ‘ou can" im gatch-penny thingson me; no cid plates bound Mf morocco. I tell you, young lady, you Ht moe conte worth. 77S IP taid Mrs. Innocence, “be said you never bought anything.” Grimm's chair came down from ite tilt with a ~ Sie—who?” ‘The gentleman crom the way. He mid younever helped a poor, struggling woman, ‘or gave a mite to the widow and orplan” “Jim Smike said that, did he? hat else did he say, my dear: Grimm was becoming affectionate. “Ho said you were an old curmudgeon, and that you never bought book and tek at home to your family, and that he didn't be. Heve your family could read anyway.” “The oid wretch !” ‘And he said—but perhaps I ought peat what he said.” ented ; “go on, it's getting interesting. I like to Coes me.” ruEnan.s sal , he. said he didn’t believe you ever had €4 in your pocket at once, ‘and that ‘was Ny, you would never buy anything as ‘he “Ha! he said that, did he? many copies of your book did he sel “Only one, sir. Iexpect he couldn't afford more. “Pat me down for two copies and go back and toll him I'm not such a akindise Cee tries to make me out, and here's your money inadvance and call again when you have at other book to sell. 1 ve been slaudered, basel; slandered, by ® man I believed to be my friend.” ‘The young woman with tho aj eyes went away and at noon Grimm and Bmike soot wator. Each glared at the other. “So,” said Smike ina hateful tone, “I'm too sy to buy book, am Ly’ ‘Grimm started. ‘And And how take Lim. “Atlam” pihadn’t seen her then.” men looked solemn. Then they smiled, Then they said: “Let'sgoand have something,” and peace was restored **® —cor—_____ A Candle Story From Paris. From the New York Times. “Every traveler who stops at a Paris lodging house,” laughed a woman the other day, “hase candle story, and here is mine: We were served with two candles every morning, never half used up. These would be taken out, however, and fresh ones appear in their places. Knowi haps an inch. Someformer lodger sented the candle swindle like ourselves and had put his daily allowance where it would do the proprietor no good. ‘That night » brilliant illumination of nineteen candles, cach longed to a crowd on top of one of the end from the rapidity with which it wax passed around must have possessed some quality not found in the most horn tasde, At very abart intectale ete of thease jows would place