Evening Star Newspaper, November 5, 1898, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 19983+2V 2 AGES A COLI LESION. RIOTING IN PARIS Dreyfus Agitation Has Grown Out of All Bounds. Se ARMY IS NOW AGAINST THE PEOPLE Quite as Much as It Was Opposed ; to Revision. ae NEW ELEMENTS OF DANGER| ee eee Special Correspendence of The Evening Star PARIS, October isos. { OURISTS IN PARis ! do not lack excite- | in th latter | y Sunc after unday there are! Dreyfus riots to be | seen, while through- | out -k | i i is only a AN ve in the so- | cialistic plot to turn Dreyfus agitation into full revolu- tion adds immensely to the y element r. Aireac at th ta dhote re htful shivers | r to » In case of troubl “Will t ks he 2" Today you may see #1iKM) soldicrs picketed all over Paris. Of course abort this strike Then ere will be more strik it is in the s of the to » up disorder pend- disorder in Pari: the af appreh aey m the ave them Until the Avenue years of rolice Hoche ge Arrived. old gentleman asked was He ¢ to hur- in (Hurrah x med iat him s howling But th od. He is w Surface Trouble So Far. emed real enough for a be- Engl stood asserted that the ed sincerity. “It is all on the ted. “Both had things gone this and there ld To me ng. and ricans th w sides are req Undoubtedly in America or wo been greater viole more sustained more effective. But in these Latin tries, it must never be forgotten, the } fear of striking the first blow ex- | pi wordy parleys. t one side h use of a man kil I an- you will see.” We did in every case the cav- ¢ broke up the mobbing Then to see them scat- © cavalry came at them! Some- | sisted the policemen; but tie understand. These or social t up a revolution. "on the side y. in our e€ - ad penetrated to the © to the Salle Wagram. The ad hired this hall in which to There, we said, would | nd error! Apart! the chiefs, who sat in a cafe beside it, guarded by a double line of cavalry © Dreyfus me i venture near. The le streets were packed with them, but ss_ they > kept well divided. = two parties met there we . but it was | Nor could the Dreyfus men resist authority. Were not the they a . y on them. The with drawn c’ rushed them; they charged ai ned the others | that the Drey- Unweleome Adherents. Now, it ought to be well understood by time that it is the Dreyfus thizers who are accused of wish bring on a revolution. To the courag and high-minded minority this reflection is | all the more bitter because of its partial | truth. The socialists and anarchists, with- out being asked nut being wantel, be- ing dreaded plague, have taken their side. They are against the army The discontented workingmen are made to see that their advantage lies along the line of @ continued insurrection and dis- order. So it ts that every Dreyfus me: ing means a riot. So it is ‘hat :he great Strike has extraordinary meaning. so it | swarm them. The rooms are packed. is today that Paris is in a real state of siege. This ts the ot vunds are com- The rifles of the infan- ‘The horses of the cavalry : It is like a camp. Wherefore? To protect the workingmen who wish to work. Meanwhile there is no work done en the exposi The immense space, a!l tern up, is like a ruined city in the midst of Part Here and there a solitary stone mason or e painter may be seen. They have two hundred beds for such to sleep are stac! are picketed. jin. Outside the strikers swarm, from | street to wine shop, forming crowds that are dispersed. Winter is coming on. The great digging contrac are already !n ar- rears. The exposition will be compromised. So it is everywhere in Paris where a b where dirt is being nd s the die ant werk, Dreyfus ye e thousand piaces where building work is being done in Paris—chan- tiers, our “shan now vunded by the m the w 3ecause our broth ition us to.” * the exposition workmen his is our epportu: r There are 40,000) men There are 40,00) extra soldie mped in Paris. nee in Cries. Are arded by 1 the the military, gather day great groups of t = workingmen. When they ery “Hurrah for the strike!” they | are allowed to cry in peace. When they yell “Down * the pc e dis- perce th y will not disperse, the soldi: a military movement, get in It then there is disnersion, “Down w y, the anar volutior The Dreyfus a: t the ng the mobs declared to 1 the name rmy that Dreyfus tion is alse v7 Ettis honor of the break up the feared. one throws will charge $s will to stand it ypeal to other sentiments. erious the situation is. men; ¢ ‘It's all the me to wu replied one of the delegates. No one protested. The fa thec of the peop'e you mee day nishing fan friend to me revisionist. “Do you suppose the soldiers were brought in, picked troor from mar s of France, because th strike ne ated it? Do not imagine it They bi in to have them rea inst ion time. The army will nd out against revision even after it is under w that time s, and it will come in a few weeks, be anwWhile 40,000 extra idlers hang about he Paris The wine shops overflo By night lay ero march through the d avenues to the most “Hurrah for the “Down wit “Hurrah “Down w “Vive la F- “Vive Pieguar “Hurrah for the expositi “A bi les Jesuites!” “Down with the polic “A bas les Juifs!” Circulating a Crowd. The moment the police, with whom the streets are filled, note the approach of one of these crowds they prepare to “circulate it. The police spread straight across the street in double lines. Then they rush at the “Cire Circulate!” They say olution!" ns!” crowd. nothing el never stop a moment in their rush. They bring up with a shock. They strike and push. The flats of their cutlasses are used as clubs. The crowd dis- perses, yelling, only to reform again. The crowd does make a row not desire to fight. It wants to It takes a long time to work | up a revolution. In the wine shops it is difficult to get even a glimmering of sense or coherency out of the babble of workingmen who The air is full of smoke. The smell of absinthe and red wine is mingled with the smell of and damp boots. say la France! “And I say ‘Vive l'armee!’” “They are one,’? : ‘Vive Henry?’ Henry was a patriot r mouth!" 3ring 40,000 troops to Paris!” They are your brothers!” position is a long way off ou hurrah for Felix Faure ‘ou imagine they would fire upon the dia at Milan!” Jown with the contractors! Yes, I speak against the army. to help the capitalists!” Let them do just “Down with the “Hurrah for justic It is easy for the foreigner in Paris to go about smile at the exaggerations and incoherencies of an excitable people. But ene thing is tangible. A new and terrible ement of complication has come into the ready over-complicated Dreyfus affair. The army rrayed against the common It is here tat Major!’ is people. The in bad enough re- pute before. a ase, says Alexan- dre Hepp in this morning's Journal, “we ean now tell foreigners that Paris lives be- neath the eye of soldiers, and that in the air there is the smell of powder and the sound of charging troops."" STERLING HEJLIG. — If you want work read the want columns of The Star. —— a She—“Cold hands and a warm’ heart, you know. He—"I have also observed that a succes- sion of good hot hands is apt to give a fel- iow cold feet.”—Cincinngti Enquirer. | - TIERRA DEL FUEGO Facts About a Little Known Part of the World. INDIANS WHO WAR WITH WHITES Mighty Forests and Grass-Grown Plains of the Island. WHERE GOLD IS ———— FOUND Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. (Copyright, 1888, by Frank G. Carpenter.) PUNTA ARENAS, Strait of Magellan, September 20, 1898. HAT DO YOU DO to keep out the In- dians?” Lasked a man who has charge of 80,000 sheep in Tier- ra del Fuego the oth- | er night. “Do?” was the reply. “Why, we shoot them.’’ Some- times we catch them and send them to the Catholic misston sta- tion on Dawson Is- land, but it is cheap- er to Kill them on sight.” I have heard other men make sim- flar statements. The Ona Indians of north- ern Tierra del Fuego are hunted like wild beasts. They are shot down without ques- tion when they are seen near the white es- pointed with pieces of glars made out of the broken whisky and wine boftles thrown out by the steamers passing through the Strait of Magellan. The Ona women weave very pretty rush baskets of 4 bowl shape. They cure the skins which their husbands bring in from the hunt and sew them together with sinews into robes or rugs. These Onas, I am told, have no Great Spirit or God, like our Indians. Just whatitheir religion is I am unable to learn. They believe in polyg- amy, one man having several wives, which he buys of their fathers 4t-as low a price as he can. Z About the Yaghans. Befora the whites came here there were something like three thousand of the Yag- han Indians. They were described by sea captains as a healthy, hearty, naked, say- age race. The English established a mis- sion in south Tierra dél Fuego and persuad- ed them to put on clothes. It is claimed that with the wearing of clothes came con- sumption and pneumonia, and that this has reduced their number to less than 500. The head of the mission among these Indians is the Rev. Thomas Bridges, who has a big sheep farm in the south. He has an Indian settlement where the people live in houses and where they farm on a small seale. The information I hava about these Yaghans comes almost entirely from Mr, Bridges. He says they live in groups of abcut thirty families. They are not can- nibals, as has becn charged, and they do not eat raw meat. Their principal food consists of mollusks, fish, sea calves, birds, strawberries and furgi. Their women cook these things in different Ways. They cook birds by placing them on the coais and putting red-hot stones inside of them. They bake eggs by breaking a small hol2 in one end and then standing them upright in rather like that of the temperate than the frigid zone. The mountain slopes up to about one thousand fest are walled with a growth of trees, ferns and moss so thick tbat it is almost impossible to get through it. Upon the sides of the steeper moun- tains the trees, instead of going straight up, crawl upon the earth, so that a tre> with a trunk as thick as your waist is not more than three feet high, but spreads over a large tract of ground. This is probably due to the mountain snow, which presses the trees down to the ground and still ke2ps them warm enough not to impede their growth, And what kinds of trees do they have down here at the tail-end of creation? The most common is the beech. There are vast forests of antarctic be2ches in Chilean “Tierra del,” the trees of which are eighty feet tall and six feet thick. They make ex- cellent lumber, and I am told some ar> now being cut down and shipped to Buenos Ayres. One of the beech tree species is of cur evergreen variety, ard anothef is the common beech, much like those of our cen- tral states. There are also trees of the magnolia species. There are twenty-five diiferent varieties of shrubs and bushes in Tierra del Fuego, and wild gooseberries and wild raspberries. Wild strawberries of great size and delicious flavor are found in their season, and there are also wild grapes and wild celery. Ferns are to b2 seen a most everywhere, and one man says ini the tree fern is indigenous to ceriain parts of the country. The sheep farmers rai cabbages, potatoes, turnips and peas in the gardens connected with their stations, and they tell me that in the spring and sum- mer the ground is spotted with wild flow- 2rs. The Klondike of the South. Tierra del Fuego has been called the FOUR TYPES OF the embers before the fire, turning them round and round to make them cook even- ly. They cook and eat th blood of animals, but, as a rule, eat their vegetables ra The women are the fishers and the men do the hunting. The men make joes, but the women paddle them. They are good boatmen and are better and more fearle: swimmers than the men. One of the wonderful things about the Yaghans is their language. With no means of writing, they have a vocabulary of about Klondike of South America. So far, how- ever, there 1s no justification of the term. There is plenty of gold, but up to now no large quantities have been discovered and that found is difficult to mine. all placer gold. s The gold is Some of it is in the shape of nuggets large as marrowfat peas, but the greater part of It is in leaflets or scales. The most of the mines are in the southern part of Tierra del Fuego proper and the islands adjacent. The gold is found on the shore, the clay containing it running down under the water and being only at low tide. The gold shingle and sand, which mus be remove From Last Year. TRIFLING CHANGES Fashions for Men Differ but Little NOVELTIES IN COT AND MATERIAL soing in for satin knee breeches, colored coats and all the rest. Quiet Patter Fashionable materials are more than or- diMrily inconspicuous. In them all 1s noth- ing that approaches the goods used for golf and bicycle sults the past winter. Striped and checked goods are much f Vored, it is true, for business suits and edd trousers, but the stripes are indistinct and the checks faint. Trousers will fit loosely at the hips, range from sixteen to seven- teen inches at the bottom and be three or before bed rock is reached the Sk e | four inches larger at the knee. Coats will bay diggings, for instance, there is six fect 7 | Be loose or snug, as thelr wearers elect. of sand and gravel xbove the bed reck. : : ; erge will be far more plentiful than is This has to be shoveled off, hen the | All Details Should Be Quiet and in | usual. “Au qualities will be at hand trove tide comes in th pearing clay is again that which ts almost worthless to very ex- covered. Almost similar conditions exist at pensive weaves. Fine American serge is a the washings on the Island of Navarino Good Taste. j fect, however. Worsteds and homespuns and elsewhe From what I can learn | are present as usual. For overcoats the here there are only a few places where | most favored goods is covert cloth, and the gold n found in any quantity, av exact garment is rather short, fitting the eae thing >mparison Ww 5 | ae See ee SE AND] NG | body loosely. There are two or three compar who Seas Important Detatin. work sluice boxes with machincry pumping A liking for bright colors may be indulged peewee sce a eee = 5 Special Correrpendence of The in such Getails ax ties, but even here the gold dust w ninery on eee ethene Aes NEW YORK, N fabrie’s background is somewhat subdued modic an extaineitheter vT M | and the brighter figures are small. This tremely difficult to reach and t clothing for tne com- | color s lard holds, as well, in hose and ang. is — d with such ¢ ing winter disclose | Shirts. Cuffs are round cornered, and if T would’ some slight changes | the shirt is striped, the bars run across its at home. from those of a year | bosom. Dress shirts have two stud holes, Z ago. As to cut, much | 8B the ‘under front extends tor several Gi Rene - ie | inches benca other, some protection MEERSCHAUM PEPE is left to analy from cold and security against ° is == , wh taste, and there is | being thereby gained. Winter xt are Characterintios of the Stes Which {, nothing in tne whole | marked for subdued colors and slight orna. : Dhep van aii ceiieaes “U\|) showing that is any- | Mentation. The full dress glove" is pearl ONA INDIANS. From the Puiladelphia inquirer. i \ : nearly so radi- | Cred, und black stitching on its Most of the plain mesrschaum pipes sold Niece Sdinetanbs med thee Hurt ne ee es hag saree : \ 5 ce, aS / glove styles are practically andl every bie BUSTED are of practically the same | the dove-tailed coat | Jewelry is in worse standing 1 who keep a lookout for as briar pipes, and f i and} that flopped ungrace- | So little of it has any indorse Re en : ie Oe. mounted in the same manner. Of the once | fuliy about manly | ™&B¥Y_men who pride themselves There is p! ally no law in Tierra de! phies | familiar meeischaum, that was substan- ~ ee Sarco The weonmna wine | Well dressed carry the watch loose m the Fuego, and, although both the Argentinc IN Of || tialig: & meerschanni bewilwithtal ibe wie | heels five winters ago. The accompanying | ewer waistcoat pocket. without chal of Sud Glilel Go Re DOLE Ghat AtLbEtne crodter Steg [roe os Au Sees seh illustrations are representative of what is | any sort part Is as wild as was the United States | Let me tell 3 acy coraaae eet ay which a weichsel | stylish and unlike what was worn last win- New Winter Hats. of Cohumbu Fiego ts. My Infor a a a oe HRS em iv ly few lter. A new fancy In overcoats faces the| In hats there is no shape of assertive fs feetenrat ave seen and from are now sold. Many o meerschaum | }, sh on Satin’ ane aoe ‘ : : c etme We comet ints Gael deen ie eee n it and who | pipes of today are of the bulldog pattern, | “PES With quilted satin; the frock coat | newness. If the derby be not black i$ into them, and when they have the | have visited nearly every part of it. It f fadananslar ceed e tn ws er force they are not afraid to at-|important to know, tor if is one Ane an nade likew ight- Only a few months since two Chileaa | bones of contention bstweep Chile and the | Stemmed, but with bowls in various round- naval office re si me of the | Argentine Republic, and i war whic re briar-shaped pipes smaller islands ne were kill- | secms now fmminent It may be redivid He qnpuntinee! a ed by the India j As it is, Chile owns the lign’s share of it or ferrules, around had been | ng quictl rveyéd the t and g wrere the pit or mouthpiece them there | up th> f Maggllan before the nd, on’some pi, ne glass heads. | Argentine knew s,Was about. The sund the top of the bowl. In these pip it is di It to se ntines to that the nd roduced my Ameri: side the ic ation on Dawson I jshould belong t but rather than taDilitge aioe I have met with almcst none in my t jbave a war conceded all to s in modern style through the Strait of Magellan and along | Chile west of a line runniag south of-Caps | and in forms adapting them to the ire the northern coast of Tierra del Fuego. 1 | Virgins, at the eastern entrance to- the rilenteanal 2 teeaous uke HAS carte sed one or ut loads near the Isle | Strait of Mac: The result 1s they own | an increased for pipes of meer- on the south of the stra nd only Tis a some of the half-civilized ones | 0 proper. RUAT eR UNGENIDES iniatiS Ee ‘ » Catholic mission. I have, however, | serEyaclanecen ies eres s usually ppuent = pod th the priests who are working | ansas. It is wider wants a ‘c amoag them ard from them and_ other | f from Cleveland to pipes -Tnacaead ies have gathered some news informa- | C! and from north to south it is meerschaums that about these little-known people. One frum New York to Boston. The | eied more pipe with the stem the Catholic fathers has very kindly is made up of hundreds of } part and ce if any longer, pn me some of his photographs, but | wooded, isiands, mostly mountainous, but a | but and lighter than uence, sepneuent. there as/ Weutcr Clad than®|itews ofiwhichihave: valleys and! paindicovs | titoae parc of chal pines shone eae ete the average people of their kind. 2 , | ered with rich grass on which sheep and But while the American and the The most of his pletures are of the Ona | cattle quickly grow fat. The larg nds hman prefer generally wh y Indians, who are found in central and | of the archipelaco 4 # Sate en ears eet HEY of the archipelago are Onisin _ oe =a : 1 : northern ‘Tierra del Fuewo. ‘They. the nisin, ng y a meerschaum a good solid pipe, the ost numerous of the three tribes about | Secnland, or ie del Fuego | Frenchman who smokes a meerschaum puget “pumerous of) the, three ctibes abou Desolation Island, which lies near | wants a long and slender pipe uso Wiates: Huibarine Trem: 5000) tors G00s the i Serer ote ance ee ead does the It Jae The plain meers Bec. twor HelABetHe Caste nie ore hon aa EHEC my v pipe made for the French or Italian s : there are only 500, and who are found in | ina Dawson I Sa ee ws Suse the southern part of the island; and the | ¢ cave : 3 v a bo © genera ~ lavacatutes (acrcanceliilanenans tamensee (eo and the large islands of Hoste | though of finer lines, and with the : e Seng att eae arino on the south. Cape Horn | long, slender stem. But made of sucl wh number 500), itself is Sntlialy On mussels gad shell tah, self is on one of the little i at the | material as meerschaum and_ beautifully y bottom of the archipelago. The chief isl- | finished, a loves pale deli Slecp in Holes. and §s Tierra del Fuego pro It is half | mouthpiece of amber, there is no da Nearly all of these Indlans go nak big as Ohio and it now supports hun- | of the pipe being mistaken for a clay pipe. Where they have been captured by the mi rds of thousands of sheep. The best | Simpl at the same time quaint, as bane J ; sured pyathe mn ands of the Chilean part of it have been | sucli pipes may at first appear to one’ un- stonaries you find them wearing stray gar- | (A) ie mt of it 2 : ay taken up within the past few years under red to them, they easily be ments, but there ts seldom a semi-civilized | jease from the Chilean government. — The of beauty, as was inly in an man among them who will not sell his} Argentine portion is not so well. settle eciaNdeareeseone Ray Ss whole suit for a plug of tobacco, nor a | owing to the difficulty of access and the | many such pipes were displayed. It. was woman who would not in a driving snow | Uncertainty as to bounda finished in all but the polishing; was about HERE CHANGES ARE EV MORE MINUTE. orm take off all she has on and give it for Plains and Pampas. a foot in length, including the delicate 5 5 : aie yhich would measure a faite i egulece Of red (cloth) onse sinus oc bdene | MaSHUN trombwhatdicanlleacnlithe eAreen a | ro mean tcc ean e | amet Heads. | The \Onas) of) the: jwilds/iweat i litines shave some ofitheibestilands (Nearly, \(-vawor avcmooth andesilice oait eo ate Sealy Se a Sep igre marti reigtalortegenceond Se ee eeaaee ec mund oven the clea: | all of the southern and eastern portions of | while the long, slender amber mouthpicee | Year, and the cutaway coat—unchanged in | and Fedora hats revers not stylish, brows: Hed on by thongs bound over the chest. | the island are plains, wide stretches of | was of light yellow, clouded with white. cut and buttoning—has a “change” pocket | RMCH Ones are distinctly not. stylish. The men and women among them have s e bowls i = 40 seen a ome 5 Such pipes are m: with the bowls | and flap added at the right side. Such are | faye ti all a sure breech cloths, but the children go naked, | ™corland much like Scotland, covered with | (occa at different angles, as is the case , a ete OF Pastas eae have the refrala of = barring the coat of whale or fish oll with | grass, which in summer is green, but now | With clay pipes, and the bowis are made | ‘he Points that stand for new styles, an once popular comic song cried at tum tn de- which they are liberally smeared. This oil | in winter ts turned to a reddish-brown. The | rather thin walled than otherwise, in keep- | £0 far only do even tailors with most swag- con kon oggnhaes ve wegen : at Boe nenvesst0 keen aut Gh sold suchas eneve other parts are made up of mountains, val- | ing with the general character of the pipe. ] ger patrons dare to go. In evening dress tively grotesque. In clothing. too, the seen have show 2 » al- | leys a Arou: e west a These si eerschi pipes are made, > is c e, is Nov “ 2 5 0, - dicishstiegnive mths latituderoewenras leys and plains. Around the west and south | These slender meerschaum pip: ad there is no change, though this November dor, and I, with my winter flannels and overcoat. am none too warm. These Indians have been painted by trav- elers as wretched and miserable in the ex- treme. I do not find them so. They are sleek, fat and apparently well fed. Those I saw farther up in the Magellans had a per- petual grin on their faces, and both the Onas and the Yaghans, are, I am told, good natured. In traveling along the shores of Tierra del Fuego you come every now and then to an Ona house. It merely a hole in the ground with qa wind break of branches or trees bent down and tied to- gether over it. This hole is about three feet deep and is just big enough to contain the Indian and his family. They use it chiefly at night crawling In and cuddling up to- gether with their dogs lying about and over them for warmth. Such fires as they make are for cooking and are in front of, and outside, the sleeping hole. They do not like to stay more than a night or so in the same place, as they have an idea that the devil, or evil spirit, 1s after them, and they must move on or he will catch them. How the Indians Look. The Onas are of a good size, though not the giants that some travelers have painted them. The men are, as a rule, about six feet tall and the women about five feet five. The Yaghans are much smaller and the Alacalufes are between the two. Were it not for their stomachs the Onas might be said to be well formed. They are straight, deep-chested and muscular. The women when young are plump and well-rounded. ‘Their skins are lighter than those of most of our Indians. They have high cheek bones, flat noses and straight, dark eyes, with rath- er full, sensual lips. Their hair is straight; it is black, and with the men is singed close at the crown, forming a sort of tonsure. The women let their hair grow and it hangs down over their shoulders. The men do not begin to have beards until late in life, and they do not like to appear old they usual- ly pull out the stray hairs on their faces. An Ona seldom has a beard before he is thirty-five or forty. he Onas do not apparently care whether their food is fresh or not. Before the ad- vent of sheep farming in Tierra del Fuego they lived on fish, fungi and guanacos. Guanacos are wild animals which look like a cross between the deer and the camel, nd are of the size of a very large sheep. ‘The Onas run them down with their dogs and follow them also on foot. They are very fast runners and take steps, so an Argentine man who lived on the islands says, six feet apart. When they kiil more game than they can eat they bury the left- overs in the bed of a stream and come back a week or so later and eat them. This is especially so of the sheep they steal of the whites. They use only bows and arrows in war and for huntiag. The arrows were orig- inally tipped with flint, but now they are | Snow and glaciers on the mountains all the ccasts there is a rim of mountains, many of which rise almost precipitously from the water, and which probably gave Darwin some of them, with the stem fashioned to present a tw in appearance, but most of them are made with the stem straight and smooth. They are made, including the amber-bit. or mouthpiece,’ in various lengths, the price of the pipe depending on is marked as an exception to s have gone before. veral that That is, this year there is no rumor that Lord Soandso on the other side and his slavish imitators in this coun- marks of this winter's garments are not striking enough to make a man ashamed of an old suit. They are just enough to | distinguish the correct dresser to others | who are as particular as himself, the length, and as with other meerschaums on the quality. Such pipes of from eight to twelve inches in length are the pipes of this kind most commonly sold. se. Handicapped From the Start. From Puck. First Spaniard—That is a cowardly and contemptible ruse of the Yankee pigs.” Second Spaniard—‘It certainly is; what is it?” First Spahiard—‘Why, they threaten not to recognize us as bellizerents {n the event of our resuming hostilities.” but ilized, savage and Spaniard As Revised. From the Chicago News. Teacher—‘*Tommy, into how many classes is ths human race divided?” Tommy—"Fiv What are they?” ‘Enlightened, civilized, is See half-civ- Thousands of situations have Leen ob- tained through the want columns of Tne Star. Needed Practice. From the Chicago Post. “I learn,” she said reproachfully, “that you were devoted to no fewer than five girls befor? you finally proposed to me. How do I know that you didn’t make desperate love to all of them?” “I did,” he replied promptly. “You did!” she exc aimed. “Certain! he returned. “You don't sup- pose for a minute I would be foolhardy enough to try for such a prize as you are without practicing a little at first, do you?” Mission'Tnatiins. the ground fcr his statement that there was nota level acre-of ground upon the whole island. The ins @re genefally in the interior. Running) midayay between the rorth and south acrgss tMe country there is an elevated tablefand nd beyond this to the-north a secongepigln. The grasses of the plains are rich, but they are so largely eaten up by. ground rats that it takes frcm three to five acres to support one sheep. These ratg,burfow in the earth, filling it with holes like a prairie-dog town. They make it imposgible to drive over the plains with a wagan and iorseback riding has to be at a slow-pace@ Cattle are the only thirgs that will drive the rats away, and they are often jused>to tramp the ground for this purpose. = The Dense Wegétation. It seems queer to think of a dense vegeta- tion in Tierra del Fuego, One might almost as soon believe that grass could be raised on an ic2berg. The truth is that the winter climate of Tierra deluego is milder than that of Canada. The léwlands are seldom covered with snow for mcre than a day or so at a time, though:you are in sight of year around. The climate varies in diff2r- ent parts, but it is genezally cool, cloudy and windy. The worst featuré is the wind, which at times blows for day$ at a stretch and sends the chilly air through your bones in corkscrew curves. Tierra del Fu2go is in the latitude of Labrador, but so fs @ large part of England and Holland, and J im- agine that barring these winds, “Tierra del,” as they have nicknamed the island, has winters more dike those of northern Europe than Labrador, The vegetation is Re Pirr. In the meantime Mr. Pipp has been enlarging his acquaintance. His new friends his French is not equal to the occasion. (The bill is paid by Mr. Pipp.) become so flattering in their manner that