CHAPTER IX. It wos nigh dawn when Hector and Alasdair turned their horses Into the downmsloping road, six inches deep, wi va-grit, that woun hetween t ch vaux-de- [rise of flowered and fruited cactus, and ended.in the cup of --~w the insurgents headquarters. a@oon that pinnacles eae 'ikea of extinct volennoes frowned an charged heavy with the mystery that broods for ever where life his been and is n front of them an behind the hollow where lay their halting-place, tower the mighty 1¢ Grande Monte 7 tho orges that cut seaward came ever and anon a _ following breath, cool and fresh | a new, the lieath of morning. ' opimost ~-- a took the sun; their grey-black, deep black, and black of death changed into wavering splasies of purple and yellow and amber and fit- tul crimson that slid down the gig- antic lava glacis as water slips over smooth stone; end up from the hid- cen hollows crept quiet, unexpected litthe wisps of gossamer mist, to climb and climb until the quickening blue gathered them to itself, and) they Were no mo e Val- rode Hector and his foste:-brother. in the regen ages Caldera ('the Cauidro ") was the crater of | the vast te ano that is now Palmetto. with vinevards, cut with guarded paths, and brilliant as Jos- eph's coat with patches of | bright color, while at the hottom nestles a round of tender g een, dott in the centre with three tiny houses washed white and pale pink. nthe right, ; like a broad streak of grey steps rise at | intervals of three hundred yards or to. 'This is Attalaya, the home of ' the pierced by shatlow ni hes, where dwell some three or four thousand barburous mountain folk, exclusive, Poor, and proud--the same to-day as | when Columbus touched there on his westward way--making with tery of porous clay for sale in Palm City, and subsisting mainly coarse onio coarser crusts. Even such poor devils as these were not beneath the notice of the His- Paniolan xX-ga S water-jur ther! of their rough make they sold fo two pence, hall of which "he Hispan- lolan took. So there was small love lost between them--a word would set the Attalayans fighting- , ready. Not to tHe pink and white amid the green did the two riders turn ficlidn, eld on fora C) face of a grey cliff. Day -- pos in all so night lingered. << t trotting brought them to the a had the gap, where they them, and all in front was darkness. Suddenly out of the torch. For this they made. A-man-eame to meet them : short, stout, stubbly-bearded and -- tiery- eyed 'Senor. Grant." he cried. 'San: Bernardo blesa you !"* ° td not expect me, Colonel | Tornivlli 2°" "No, by the Virgin! ot now We 'have had never a wo of you for three or fcur days, so I "aS looking for n surprise visit. Ru you find mo ready. The regiment of Firgasi is here) We have been bus al! night, 1 can tell yo am hoarse u& o raven. Difcult--vyves, it is difficult to instruct five hundred men when you have but twenty rilles for the lot. Hut I have got over that. Ab! senor, if we only had the guns! Howilenthusiastic, how cagert their hands arte jtching for the guns One night with the real article, and they will face any Hispaniolan force --the swine '--any foree double their number--lace then ANd thrash them rind Can sheut, you kpaw, our her t Mausers are arent soso fowling- pieces. Yet even Kno ledge of fowling-pieves tvils."" is he talked they entered the cave. In a side nook near the entrance they Jeft their tired horses. stretched, and high it lifted, wus black as the jaws of night, save for the dare of half a 'ozen torches fet in iron loops cla Miidka into the solid rock. undred = yards wide wns the cave, and it was at in height. They walked between two rows of sleeping | c po omen in the dress of quarricrs, vinedre> esol pao goat-herds, and so cises. Tornielli had been in Bispavicien orgy, and he had ten Oo o husband the strength of his men; and besides, know tho time ~-- short, s0 worked them har Haltw aan the Jane of slum- bering mev, Hector stopped. It was to Alasdair he spoke, -- he vouth, he was moyed beyond h is strange that alg a ---- Highlander my Rr ------ u motherto: e any ycurs, ro him be stirred real his utmost fee'ing. eHs the Gaelic, cither to * love or to hell of hate; pessimists cyaice. Like children they 'every characteristic expression of the day, all hopes and fears, all anxic- pe 'attributes of akness vanity an oO and and a cowardice, subli- mat magic of sleep : ry Palibente for- 'gotten; sleep their only quéen, their country drowsihood. And over their "-- masses, the scarlet or bright blue made nar pl oc. fell. ow flare: the 'torches,: hiding more the breast of the next the | simple craft of suvages commen pot- | dis- | 4 Hector s: black flared a carpenters, | eeandty on the hard | goo ly} shared my mo whitening hair of age. And al th are ready to. yield queen on whom they yield---it-for love of. liber benefits, the posses cynic addalen. a mei: shibboleth, would say the same cynic. With n wide wave of the arm Hec- tor indica the slow-breathing sleepers to Alnsdair; and in Gaelic: "See Al ir, brother of heart, they will tight for her, il mother, that have seen, that w--"' Alasdair's single it glowed like a conl, and fn Gaelic he, too, spoke. "God be good to pecl Hector, of my Mother's breast, drunk of my mother's milk, the mad ness is on thee too. Is it indeed | "She it is, + Alastair, Tho Bon and no | other'+.*"Thou spenkest of madnéss, cand trne is thy exery word Mad- ness it is, yet better the foo ishness | o -of the wise than the wisdom of the foolish. Alasdair, when thou leokest upon her, the - marrow shall. melt in thy bones, and the spirit go out of thee to be a ierents to cool her brow; thou shalt be ser- vant of her, even an J, ghillie and! cup-henrer and shield and footstool, yet. lord of all men that love not,"' "Yea, yea,"' answered Alasdair. i*Is she then so fair ?°* lauugred Hector. 'I had jthought that in the old tongue I 'coulk say anything, could tell thee iof the sun and of the one and the stars, and the -red heart of Ite; j but. even the old sommes F is + eaeu len 'of the fairness of Maddalena. 'the stars of night are in her eyes, | the tenderness cf night is in her | hair, all the Kingdoms of the earth are 'in the cup of her little Yet is not her fairness the gate she is oa saint for woman for wa mth pai of ones, is upon her, yet is her ,the house man's heart. t ~ that wants bonnie star, and a king 'that Scenpincs the earth By God ! uy fathe s0n would not be inore,' our father's son could not hand, only | . be less,"' said Alasdair "Maybe, maybe. O! man, there's {no pleasure jn life without her en cay dark, and there is no ac in the night: 1 can but bear rn |mind that 1 have touched her hand, and at the Brace of her loveliness Was upon ine. any man thi 'is*'enough: it is more than enough for me, whose heart was a wo of withered trees rchus Forest pat the pairing time." ) "And Queen," " sald Alasdair, S hagite hand on his brother's arm, "has she no _-- towards thee land thou a Grant miled ved at that litte touch of Highland pride. veens do not mate with last not arswer © more than that. When have seen her, had been or a momont in the soft of ber eyes, thou wilt ine, am then shalt pcuught up fo suminer 'those that die ta pleasure hor | Por the first time since Hector bad t eyes on Maddale ena, and had felt fute utterance to that were in him: none to whom he he had Alasdair, y= guage of ad honey-sweet mysteries and blood-clore bonds, tle spec of trange Isrical liitings, bore him and his heart and his pas slon as on a spring spate, and flung him high to the very heavens i {ree confession of his surrender to the divine dream of Maddalena cased him. and gave him the deepest pleas- ure his life had known gone: nought but Maddalena stay Tie years of youth matte the back- zround against whith the Quoen ptood radiant: the sears of toil and struggle, the years of brain-sapping 'routine in London, the scars of un- eventful plod--these were blown out of sight and mind as a common curl 'of smoke. Remaincd only the beauty of youth, the dreums of it, long ,dnys among the heather, long nights 'on the lochan, >; that was t. an The future bein sure, a ve, so. om 6 The greatest can h edge and if they ane will, the mean- need have no less . has she no ind thee 7?" pe sisted Alasdair. towatds .."Have I not answered thee, blind mole 2?' said Hector with a Jaugh. "Qucens do not mate with their ghiliies.'" "Happiness comes not always of mating 1 did not speak o hat. st i Heckie, man, I would oll a th wie 'a would have all the world, and the queens of it, of the same mind." ' "Brother of mine, we bé all crea- tures of a and what is true and what. is not true we know not. er heart--O | the fair place it is--1 bed of ina 'den of the hills, and I saw grow there the er at shall yet lie on my breast for re- membran oses of love of sorrow." ""God.save us! Saw that ?" of a and what is true what hgh aot true, we know not. But that " Thay toe a. be fu Tapet a -sinal that "May the = Sei be soon, Alusdair, son of the breast that suckled me. * "Even if that be thy pleasure, God five it thee : ereeiey OO . theb ie tgsen "a *S ° (To be Continued.) er | Browns and 57 and empty to utter one little thing Lj memories of Dev ce t aa 'the family ~Tlist:} stand a Judge; | a Barouet, rig ts 2 Members of P: . an Admir- al, 3 Colonels, 1 Lieutenant-Colonel, ne and 13 Rever- eighteen eac containing the names of about nine ty individual Smiths; so we ay take it that there are at least 1, 600 Smiths 1 the wotld of Londo -- number of permutostions and combinations of Smith nro to be 'oun 'Thus have Smith and Smyth, "e with tre addition of the oh Smithe and Smythe. have Smitha, comparative legree Smiters, and Smythers; there is i 1 no | Smithest. We also have the li lactive forms' Smithem, Smitham and Smithett, also Smi | Smths ms . Forei forms ate Smit, Schmit, (Schmitt, Sehnmridt, Schmitz and 'Smits. There are dou ot' er btlecs varinntkhut the above ave all that the eye 'of the untrained man ta likely to detect, furt'er dife-entla- tien may be left to Smith experts. | 'Ihe Joneses muster but "2055, c jwhom 42 are plain 'M's. Jones." 'There are 208 persons named | Brown Jes thr name Brownes. The Rob- insons are nowhere, by comparison. ------ THE PLOTTERS OF SIBERIA. \In Exile the Russian Revolution- | ist is a Conspirator. Siberin is not exempt from the spl it of insubordination so strongly inanifes ted oe dian Iicssia, says 'the Lontion 'Tiin The exiles, as lwell as the ature population, striving to organize agains st the autho. ilies. e number j of escapes and attempted genial is and it is omg to say which increasing. ge ee hancs are . tended ou all sic and in other soups money is collected and sent to Siberia so an to faci itate' the escape of political prisoners | The jailers themselves and the troops or police are sometimes par' posely careless in the execution | their duties. That some ye: sons raat authority gympothire with the revok | utionists ts°t ae deniountre tod by }the fact t recent circular, | though heac ted. » pentacaly scr! hos nevertheless fallen into revolu- tionist hands. It is entitled :--"'In- (structions given to the Governor of | {the province by His Excellency -- the Governor-General of the town of 5 & +t 2 Scotti rivers, or pecan gun in over f{ moorland says London Tit-Bits, - Few have such a record of ad-| v Mrs. Alan Gar the pretty and wife ot 'Colonel Alan Gard- who a score of times has had nothing betwixt her and @eath but he kas shot she ng account "A Day with the Tigere"'--lHovs in India, Nepaul, and eur ted for months at a time the rouga life of a wandering hunter i Somait- land, Abyssinia, and Australia; has Stal the' parties 1,000 of "the world's own King Edward as their Sov "rit is tho ae: "Beitish colony in: which. natives my their taxes in eae. Chlitty, coccdnare The badge worn rn by the Lord Mayor twelve inaeringey. out 'of every one has been 4 in |of London 'is studded with diamonds to the value of $600,000. Russia, is the coldest aco in the world. / The m sometimes falls to 78 deg. below "ero. ! Though there are only 18,000,000 yople in Spain, there are 35,000,000 in America speaking her tonguc. produces an im- Denmar! meonse -- of butter, has an average oO cow for every two inhabitant, Among 5,000 tramcar drivers in t census showed that fifty 4 Vienna a reeen there are 400 knights, about at heigl land, repeats a nn a 109" "nase, each clear and distinc f . = i A medical cathectar "gays that in k ed ber ogee § ne ise iri collissions the passengers ty hosiess : & who are asleep escape the bad elect. But Mrs. Gardner hese fair and |fornddable rival in the mene o ore: sowho has : "delightful month naning 't with her husband among the wilds of Fea Rocky Mountains, trackin, shooting and revelling ts the grizzlics FENIMORE COOPER. Another duchess who iy an expert ;° and who, indeed, has few superiois even awong men, is = yea of Beauford, gi oted throughout India for her skill 'aad a as a markswonman with the pen, who seorts "to have her game diitvon, and is supremely hapity when trump- ing the -- in search of it in the mpa rhea "hut pl pel the 'e clever shots, 8€ 'fo.midable one. resistance !Hamilton and Juady T'weedmouth are. 1 | | | of | | bring cown a slag pheasant as well as most men, is a The Duchers of } rival amon, queens x Ceer-stal es, | e greatest number of the the of diag in England, the March- 'io of Breadalbane, and Aceline ; Duche s of Restor Of famous angle es nae is | legion, The Duchers of Fif thusiastic and skilful angler, "holda the record for the yrentcst number salinon ever cacg!.t by n -- in one day. The Counters of Wi.ta once took 120 Ib. weight of varbel from the Thaines wituin three hours, thus establishing a :ecord for andl ; weilders of the ro SOUTH @F THE TWEED. Irkutsk, Count Kottayssof, in Sver since Lady Annesley landed, 1893."" 'This a, is worded ox - her oret trid, a 12 Ib. salmon, follows, and it gives-a picture of js ce of the keenest of ; of the present situation **Accordi to the reports con- | of their exile there submitted to public sceercle I {" tem nark ness. The authorities content t! e mores with sondirg official capaci | According to the information others entertained direct relations with Inbor groups. 'In order to put an end to criminal action of the political there: recommend the my authority the private life of the exiles. this purpose a police must be or ized for the posses of all Af sips to which exiles are sent. This police must draw up a daily report on each exile according to formula | their manner cf living give sus picion that they ore a be fon The couiminaloner of rorice thee same time their motive The exam- inations should he made frequantiy. ae is absolutely necessary to read politt: al exiles. Individuals who are puspected of bad political intentions must not be allowed to live in the same houses os the exiles, but shauld be sent away from the exiles' quar- ters. ----__4--_ NONE SUCH. "I'm looking for o painless dent- ist. Can you recommend one?"' BS --- knew any that didn't hurt "When his bill comes in."' A philosopher who had married an 1 her was sweet but unrefined. mber your wife as such a out a fine cook? has turned out half-a-iozen of them within the last three months."' do to_put in & handsome new house." s all right," said the customer, | "but it ain't the book I'm ing the cover don't suit me." * "My dear sir," said bookseller, "will you kindly just the book you're after?' '"Well, to be plain with you, I want a will what this high oflicial himself thinks aces cerning the surveillance of the poli- | had we | ee | tesa vB 8UP 'lady could, under any # the ee be a mistress all the polica; Newcastle r agents in the country who are uncer | the West Garbery Foxhounds, to watch continually own pack; | the accompanying ; tainly Those individuals who by | 'ome pg to oxaminn-' gate of the district should give orders for | took a flying leap over the gate, ing at the | the "the: Rethenee for man i} "I don't doubt that the readin' of | months. every | ear with hes rod in Bec and Ireland. Lady Westmoiland has a wonéerfully successful c angler, and: littl9, if at all, xpert are th uchesses A i | portiand and mer- Bedford, that their frequent -- lick, ard ard Bride. on possibly | ice best p the three sin Ca h our qroidceoe thers "were Sane the very sug<cstion that a wild life 60 graphically ee 8s is a truce spo: tswoman, ' of shaking and concussion 1} The largest photographic picture in |- Be 4 eoxstence- Is - "da < 'lin. It is about 40 fect by 5 feet, and ropresents a view of the Bay of Napks The Korcan Government has order- ed that all Koreans, without regard ank or class, should not wear [clothes except of a bluc or dark col- Hae one-third of the world's papu- fe = bread as a daily article of arly one-half of the people pre tlie word subsist chiefly on rice _| It is said that in Londo there no fewer than 10,000 professional imusicians of various grades, and owl more than half of them are {wo rae canaries excel all other canarics as singers, One has 'nowa to continue o nr trill for a) uvarter, with twenty subject s of deitetive eyesight are caused by wearing tight collars,» Which interfere with the cir- jculation of blood to the head. 1 The number of stars visible to the _clares lar,est telescope is probably no few- fer than 100,000,000. | While a bridal wreuth in this coun- try is usually composed of orange- , blossoms, Germany uses inyttle, ltaly | white roses, Spain red roses, Greece Vineleaves, and Bohentia rosemary. A doctor says that rsons who attain their thirtieth year without suffering from any serious discase are Daan things being equal--to tive they ere east seventy-three gh "the | eauirths of the catth's 8s surface it docs not provide in the same proportion jfor man's wants about per cent. of the people in the world gein their living directly from the Metal get tired as well as living , henge Telegraph wires are better ,conductors on Mon than on Sat- urd on account of their Sunday ng rest, and a rest of three weeks a 10 per cent, to the conductivity of a wire, | With the assistance of the latest | of hounds would havo sent them in horror to their smell- ing salts, and yet Ww day it i tions with the revolutionary leaguo. | t{ally masculine office; and that she They take an activé part in he | ils it excellently tlere cun be no ycriminal work done in Siberia by the | agubt. ~-, a object, | The 5 Lo more daring follower: therefore, for which these person®] of (\e hounds in Wales than Mrs. yi} were exiled has not been attatned R. Hughes, who took ovar the "The pro, watchfulnese 'pontrol of the .Nevaddfawr Fax- is more parlicular ly evident in the 'pounds on her husband's death, and San a of Minusinsk and Atchinsk, | wh. a season ago, 'vam her horas hich are within the government. At) across a swollen river, while tte Fnisseisk not only do tho exiles at- | rent of the compan. mand = all, escape or travel to other Places | made a cautious detour over Llun without being authorized to do so, |fgir Bidge. Tre Duchess of New- but tt has been clearly shown that | castle hes for mesy years been tle exilea Kracihof, Dr, Heycine.|-master" of a fine pack of hounds Pokrovaky, Arkhanguelsky, and! at Clumber, which SHE HANDLES SPLENDIDLY. Mies Edith rome ar proved ns her Grace of land in several Indy ips of harriers, such a8 Setslneoel Mrs. Siaepoole, Mrs. Bris Lady ell Campbteil, who one of the bh iokiest a - a &P an is cer- 'laugh, --_ amazement of its we hunt,' both ason; se) Cheape, the po orl Worcester- shire "Squire,"' and on finest horsewomen lying = )as hee many years been master of the Benticy well- years er | own '"'huntaman" in Ca and Mise Hilda Liey d Price, the fin- | est horsewoman in Wales, wha has for tons acted ag whip to her fath- er's ers. ----_---_-- Life Insurance Manager: "'Are you sure that man is a good risk ? hd Is seventy years old, and loo frail." Agent: 'Ob, he'll a for gen years. He is very rich, ewarm of poor and pil yr Mrs. Noolywed--"'And if I had real- ly refused you when you proposed, would you have given up?" Nooly- "x not. I would have ment: on trying to win you, even if you had me over dozen '* > Mrs. Noolywed--"Oh what a lot of fun I missed!" Jones: 'I -thougyt your friend hunts- > cuireyatour minutes, time a passes through the hands of sixty- chines. The railway companies of ss) and Wales employ between 999 men. The Scotch and Irish com- Fanics employ 40,900-men. The rail- wa the .world give employmunt 8 Qf to comatilngr ikea 6,000,000 persons. There are so muny languages en in the provinces of Austria-Hun- 'gary that interpreters re employed inter- unaki, Australia, is a church labelled es large letters on its out- ide walls with the --_ and tradcs o painter, and the advertise- In Italy the 2 ovesntanit permits jan old warder to act as moneylend- ler to the convicts. He advancos them buy luxuries in the shape 'of sugar, butter, and oil, and in re | turn he ghia an order on the {amount they car { The oldest building in the world that has been uninterruptedly used for church purposes is St. Martin's ates al at Canterbury. The aed ing : y ont ce for religious gatherings for more ee 1,500 years FARMING UNDER GOVERNMENT. In Denmark the Government gives such help to industrious peasants am- 1 of their own country *pocket-handker- chief" fa' A sober, ree farm- Inborer who has saved one-tenth the as 'mortgage valve of the little farm he poe value not to cx $1,- y the land by borrowing ment fund. mortgage on Z : tional towards pa out half - if has been paid he pays 34 per odliy a the remaind- cr until he owns the land. But this also holding. during his co. At Gov- ern expense he make various little j to sce model farms, and can receive instquction at h mark $500,000 a year, but it created a strong, adenine, wofficient, ; Own. His | small-pro: "holding class. wife was ill last week, and he si i oki are ed to a ian."" - Jones ¢ 'But = saw ys aaorale coming an POINTER . of Look a leedle ouif for der man dot "Well, "that's "erent. mith is 'tl geds £0 eg cannot find time F, Io at tend to own pitmess. | hree people and through fifteen ma-| | WHAT YOU ARE MADE OF Ce es BODY AS A SOAP-AND- SUGAR FACTORY. sat uf Us Are Com- Penge of Very ory. Materials. You will Probably be surprised fays a well-known professor of chem- istry, when I toll you that the most beautiful woman. or most intel- lectual i uehiet ever lived is really ane animated wi f egg; and 3 iy if tony knew how to do that. it, you could take a fow hundre:'s 'ou would want well over a thousand, by the. way--and manu- re a nti Shakespeare or a Helen be Tro -- fortunately, rather--although the materials of which man Is are' common the lending of them. . enough, form a living being is far beyond any human powers. But let us run through the constituents we ate made of and see of what very ordin- ary matorials the best and cleverest of us are composed, If we take ao 168 Ib. man and de- prive him of gas and carbon ther il te only 5 Ib. ofhim left; while even the least oratorical man that ever lived is five-sixths gas and nothing else bie nay it be said "we are such stuff as dreams are de of," for "wale we are just as insubstantial. In ovr 168 lb. subje:t we \ find no Iess than 118 Ib. o shall long, 10 shade over 10 feet high. ceed next to deprive him of his drogen he will only lose qa_ ilittle over 151b. of his weight by the pro- but the gas we procure will room of otr oxygen reservoir; for it »be 15 ft. ;Possibie 12ft. high, and will such a erp that it could cairy our paticn ,of which our | 1 has sixty ifour cubic feet stowed uway in his body--sullicient to Bll a nice littie; box 4ft. long, wice, and high We | been i have now doprived our man of three | low . is robbed of 'out constituents, have liberated gases sufficuent to fil feet pre hia his 'agin by sha'. asaiae 140. Ib. or, to be more exact, by 139 Ib, The ¢ is not much left of him Ib., in fuct, the weight of an infant Phd of this o single other consti- uent takes the lion's shure of 24 He This constituent is carbon, that ¢ ious ee which (ales such acai diverse for as common coal anc Fob-i-noot, and is not to be de- to the human nos We have now mals 5 lb, of our man in account for, and this is distribu- most uscfi consti- and a quarter pounds, nearly half of it, consist of calcium, which will be more commonly recog- nised as litne,-and which plays very important part in THE HUMAN MECHANISM; and to this we must add 1 Ib. ez. of ig ate from which, d make sufficient onc. to eve man, in Manchester. our 1 0%, and con- florine, and 11 if man only weigh 1lb. BOC 'juin, sulphur, n silicon; while in weight they range jfrom two or three grains to four fond a half ounces. Naturally these fourteen elements orm ce in tho in jorder to dischargo their. duties - pro- perly. Thus oxygen and hydrogen combine to form _ in our sub, at 107.5 lb. of water,- which ser serves body, and which fills in its time by Playing a useful part in building up our bones The body is indced a a most wonder- ful factory, car on «a number useful and complicasad processes makes other products moro wonderful still. --London Tit-Bits a Cee " HE'D Peng Teacher--Bo you three pasa and gave your bri ther Tommy five cents, what would it make? Bobby--Trouble. ee ee "What is the matter?' asked a lawyer of his coachman. "The horses () . d the lawyer, after a ju- dicial delay, "run them into some- ing cheap."' "To what do you attribute your longevity?' asked the reporter. "My which?"' eriéd the oldest inhabi- tant. 'Your longevity," repeated the repo . "Never had it. As far as I can' remember, I ain't never such a complaint.'* | to account for, you fee, now that the ; three gases are eliminated--only 20 of mokt The chlorine: es wh TOMMY. if your father gave What is said to be the coldest ~e- on in tho w ee ee district of Yakutsk Siberia, where_a temperature of 88.8! ces below zero 'in! was o' 1886, and since then that manence of the cold, however, serves to make life more 'endur able than ny otherwise be the case St. Moritz in the The sleighs dash down one is fig at cyclonic speed, the people all wish . or this ehriiling fun. On the Western plains they have oe that, under the action of the wind, pi'e up walls of snow sometimes fifteen fect or more. A railway . snow plow, howe' tive in front of an engine, cuts its ay through these obstructions ib remarkably quick time When the snow and ice descend up- scenes. The blue shy Wiese bri ly above the white gables and queer Russian domes. The cold is often so intense that -- -in- clived citizens light fires the stree NEAR THEIR HOMES, in order ive the townspeople oases of Warth, where they can thaw a little before passing on. I ; Moscow the cold is not only intense, (but constant, a halt jit ors. This comes from. its { continental Position, whereas St. | Pete oe situu at the end of | temy erat: ne, | Notwegians have t. form cf winter ; sport that they enjoy, notwithstand- jing the extremely low temperatures | revorded , and this ski sport has been adopted by may reople in the northwest. The early Norsemen put on their skis to go hunting in ; Winter, just as in summer ti.ey put j their boots; and it 4 d of the nineteenth cen- but. their intrataecrt on civilized circles is due to A Nani He saw the Telemarken lads disporting themselves on shis, and he took lessons from them. In particular they taught him to jump n skis. The new amurement became popular in Christiana, and, in due course competitions were organized. The first competitions were rather a "hole-and-corner™ affair. and took Place at 'Telemarken. / rwarda they were transferred to Holmenkol- len, where they assumed guch impor- tance that the meeting is sometimes spoken of as the Der- by." FAMOUS SKI-JUMPING. t is a three d ' meeting, and ie devoted to The third is j skidding down a snow they rvach a cliff about twelve feet in perpendicular altitude This the taking-off place, and how far they can jump from it. eis es place is artificially ucted by banking up the pea helow-it the snow ues aa bofore by the best- are 'Tecord being ananathins. like. 180 ar to Zdarsky, of Austria, went to an estate at Lillienfeld, -- were severe and the -- as heavy. Kemembering to heart of skis, he decided to einer ape. lt is not very casy to !earn manage thém without assistarce, bot Herr Zdarsky inana to learn. Tie not only mastered them, but he invented improvements. After many experiments, the Lilienfeld ski w evolved. Tt is more convenient than the Norwegian ski for many reasons, but. chiefly because you can wear it wit sd kind of footgedr, in: luding the avy hobnailed boots used by iGUK Aes. aving thus Ylorr Zdarsky perfected his skis, ught his visitors I t was gradua'ly recognized that they afforded a novel ard agreeable means of getting about in the winler snow, and t were taken up by climbers. Herr Panicke suceed in crossing the Berree Oberland on skis; Si ir Arthur Conan th They are now ordinarig used by mountaincers in wir THE KORYAKS. The Koryaks, of northeastern Sib- eria, are a tribe that has learred by long experience how to live with of comfort in f tzid maritime Korya' live mostly in anderground dweliings which arc reached by a ladder lead- ing down through the smokhole. The Yut Eskimos, in central Alaska, also have such homes. It is almost im- possible to describe the squalor of ero 'The smoke which {ills a. -- eves smart, blubber and refuse intoxicated with fly agaric, a 5) ies of mushroom, adds to the discom- fort. The : ieindecr Koryaks Lagas . teits The ered much information about odd people A British expedition is now at work in the Antarctic region. It is ption and - { the Roy Geographical society. The ship is the Discovery, co nded by Capt: R. C. Scott, R. N. Whether 1 worked its way out of vexsel has sthe ice that surrounded it known. Two vessels, Morning "Perra pga have left Ne for Ross and on their return the history , ot the whole expedition will be known. bo Dy