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Show A I.II.0U from l'alafculx A traveler newly returned from Iha I'aelllo Ocean telle pleaatlit storle-a of tha l'alagonlaue. Aa the steamer hu wm on wm i-asslug through Magellan's Hlialta tome liatlMt eainu out lo her lu boats. They wore no clothes nt all, though there wm snow In thu air. A laby that came alutigwllh llirm made i-ouiei deinonslrallun lliat dlsnluaivd lu molher, who took II by Iha foot, as I hells lock Achilles, und snuseii It ovir tho side of Iho leal Into the cold seavtalcr. When she ulled It lu, It ly a moment Mail ring In ihu but toinol tlio leal and then curled up and went to sleep, Thu lulisloiiarlit thoro havu trlud to tench the native Ui witr clotbia aud tuales pin huli; but, far, the traveler says, with very lluilli-l kue-ie-s. rho most aheltrr a PatngonUn ran tudura Is a little- heap of rocks, era log to thu windward of him; m for clothes, he deeplet-) them, ami he JalnJIdt renl tournaments. It takes ocea'lmi-,1 contact Willi such jeoi lu as the Pulagonlaus hi keep us In mind that civil! rallon lithe mere tul-llvallou tul-llvallou uf ocir wauls, and that the higher It Is thuiuoroour linc-alllca aro uiultlplled, until, If wonrurlch rnouirli, wugcieitirrvatad by luxury, and tuuycunrf nun tome In aiid carry us out. We want so mauy, many things; It e-ctrul a pity that Hiom rluiplu Paiagu ulans could not scud uiMoiiaili lo us to show ua how to do without. Muit thn wauts of the body shelli r, cloth. Ing and food bo cultlvAte.il first, before Ihu rntacltlet of Ibo soul cjiii bode. ve.oi.Jand gratified? Doubtless the nilssionarlc know their l-uilntbi, and aio going about It the right way; vet; all Iho same, It seems odd that Iho rudiments of a tuta for tiroa utone fronts and brocade ond terrnrln shouM bo cultivated ai a lit preliminary to Christianity. Count lolstoi Is thu man for tha Patsgonlanj. Their atll. tuda toward luxury suema to be almost Identical with his, and lliey would havo scarcely anything to unlearn boforo bo-foro accepting his teachings. |