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THE REINDEER THAT
SANTA CLADS DSES
PROPOSITION TO STOCK ALASKA
WITH THEM.
Means of Food Supply and Transporta
tion—Work of Dr. Sheldon Jackson.
, How a Remarkable Country Will Be
Made Habitable—A Useful Arctic Animal.
[Special Correspondence.]
Washington, Dec. 14.—The recent
departure of the revenue cutter Bear for
the relief of the arctic whalers has di
rected anew the attention of the coun
try to that most northern and western
of our possessions, Alaska. It may seem
n paradoxical statement, but I find my
self in closer touch with Alaska here at
Washington than when I was watching
the sailing of steamer after steamer at
Seattle for Dyea and Skagguny. Though
some 8,000 miles farther off, geograph
ically speaking, I am very much nearer
in point of fact so far as the securing
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of information goes. The reason is that
-every department of our government
has had a man or two up in Alaska
studying conditions there, which they
were peculiarly well equipped foi; in
vestigating.
The bureau of ethnology was perhaps
the first in the field, followed by the
geographical survey, the departments
of the interior and agriculture, the
treasury department, the bureau of ed
ucation, etc.
Alaska’s Future.
So it followed as a matter of course
that when I wished to get late and au
thoritative information on that country
I sought out the officials who have
themselves made the subjects particular
objects of inquiry. The first I approach
ed was one of ’ the last in the field, and
by no means the least widely known—
in fact, one who has obtained worldwide
recognition as an educator, Dr. Sheldon
Jackson.
He has been largely instrumental in
establishing the chain of mission schools
along the coasts of Alaska, having la
bored there for the past 14 years to
place on a sure foundation those out
posts of civilization. His latest achieve
ment has been the introduction of the
Siberian reindeer into Alaska and the
securing to its inhabitants of a means
of food supply and transportation the
benefits of which will be incalculable.
Already, as the reports now come in of
impending starvation in the Klondike
region and the inadequate transporta
tion facilities of that isolated section, a
thousand miles,from a base of supplies,
we perceive the wisdom of this measure
of our government.
The Food Supply.
The rgsult of extended inquiries serve
to confirm my own opinion that the
outlook for its immediate future is very
promising. There are reports of immi
nent starvation at Dawson and along
the Yukon, but the prospective famine
is owing to the neglect of the miners
thecj,-=lvc=. They went in re-
The Astronomy of Life.
When an astrono- I
mer foretells the ex-
act minute at which 'I [! *
two planetswill cross ME jU
each other, we know I B
there is no magic JR^nnWlljS' 81
about it. The whole lllW||B«
universe is governed MLLt— 11 'MI B
by laws. A man who studies these laws of
nature carefully and reduces them to a sci
ence, can count on exact results every time.
A doctor knows that certain remedies
affect certain diseases.
When a disease seems to have no remedy,
-the doctors pronounce it incurable. All the
time Nature may have the remedy right at
hand, but it will only be discovered by the
doctor who has studied longer and deeper
than others into this particular disease.
Consumption seemed for a long time with
out a remedy, until Dr. Pierce made his
•wonderful “Golden Medical Discovery” 30
years ago. It has proved to be a marvelous
and almost unfailing specific for consump
tion and all forms of lung, bronchial and
throat difficulties.
Its effects seem almost magical but its op
eration is based upon simple natural laws.
Ht has the peculiar property of enabling
the blood-making glands to manufacture
healthy, red blood and pour it abundantly
Into the circulation. This nourishing, vital
izing effect is rapidly manifested in the
lungs and bronchial tubes where it stops the
wasting process and builds up healthy tissue.
It is readily assimilated by stomachs which
are too weak to digest cod liver oil, and it
is far superior to malt-extracts as a perma
nent and scientific flesh - builder in all
wasting diseases.
•• Twenty-five years ago eight different doctors
-told me that I would live but a short time, that I
had consumption and must die," writes Geo. R.
Coope, Esq., of Myers Valtey, Pottawatomie Co.,
Kans. " Dfinally commenced taking Dr. Pierce’s
Golden Medical Discovery and am still on the
land and among the living. I have faith to be
lieve that it has lengthened my life for the last
•twenty-five vears, and I have so much faith in all
■of your medicines that I want one of your ‘ Com
mon Sense Medical Advisers.' "
Dr. Pierce’s medicines ate recognized as
standard remedies throughout the world,
’tie “Pleasant Pellets” cure constipatin’*
gardleSs 61 the' future, unequipped and
without money some of them. Many
abandoned tons of provisions along the
routes, owing to the high rates for
freightage charged by Indian carriers.
Many more started without sufficient
food to last them over the trail, let
alone working their claims after arrival.
Regardless, however, of the causes
which led to this serious condition, the
problem which now confronts the au
thorities is how to relieve the sufferers.
To some extent the evil may be obviated
by relieving the congestion at Dawson
and sending the surplus population
down the Yukon to the different settle
ments along that river and to St. Mi
chael'a This is easier said than done,
owing to the almost total lack of trans
portation facilities and of food enough
even to supply the departing people.
V ery few indeed can stand the strain of
that long tramp on foot. Even if they
could, they cannot carry with them
sufficient provisions for the trip. Nei
ther is the situation improved any by
the use of dog sledges, allowing that
enough of those can be obtained for the
purpose, for a team of dogs “eat their
heads off” every 500 miles or so of
travel. You have to carry as much pro
vision along for the dogs as for yourself,
and that complicates the situation terri
bly when there is scant “grub” in the
first place and insufficient beasts of bur
den in the second.
Now, there are at least two groups of
white people at present in danger of
starvation in the interior and on the
coast of Alaska. One group consists of
the Yukon-Klondike miners, the other
of the whalers in the arctio to the north
and east of Point Barrow. At this lat
ter, the northernmost point of land on
our continent, there is a native village
of some 150 people, a mission school of
the Presbyterian church, under the su
pervision of the bureau of education,
and a government refuge station. More
than 2,000 sailors have been wrecked
on this inhospitable coast during the
decade past, and in such a region,
where the temperature sinks to 60 or
70 degrees below zero, poor Jack has
pretty “rough sledding,” with nothing
to eat and no friendly groggery to take
him in and thaw him out. Death, either
from freezing or starvation, was sure to
be his fate. About ten years ago the
then captain of the revenue cutter Bear
had his attention called to the terrible
fate in store for shipwrecked sailors in
this region, with no possible succor
nearer than 1,500 miles away, and part
ly through private aid and by a con
gressional appropriation he succeeded in
getting money enough for the erection
of a building large enough to shelter
ItO men at a pinch.
Timely Belief.
Here we come around again to the
main problem—how to transport men
and provisions over mountains and
plains covered with snow and oceans
With ice in the depth of winter and
with the temperature, so far below the
freezing point that it can’t be captured
with an ordinary thermometer. Seven
or eight years ago Dr. Jackson happen
ed to land on King’s island, off the
Alaskan coast, on his return from a
cruise in the same little cutter, the
Bear, which is now plowing the waters
between Unalaska and Cape Prince of
Wales or butting the ice floes perhaps
still farther northward. He found the
natives of that island in the last stages
of starvation, driven to the necessity of
eating their sledge dogs and the corpses
of their relatives who had died. Now,
dogs and relatives are both dear to the
average Alaskan, but the dog is the
most cherished object of his life, and,
like the late lamented Artemus Ward,
he would rather sacrifice all his kin,
even his mother-in-law, than make sau
sage meat of the canines.
Seeing the islanders in this terrible
strait, Dr. Jackson began to inquire
how he could provide this country with
a food supply that might prove a safe
reliance for all future time. He first,
however—he and the commander of the
Bear—filled the poor wretches up with
blubber and tallow candles, thus ap
peasing the pangs of hunger, and then
set about securing them provisions
enough to last until the next whale and
walrus season.
The reason that the shores of Alaska,
formerly teeming with seal and walrus,
whales and wild ducks, are now so des
olate is that the white men have come
up here and bunted them out—formerly
a reliable source of food supply, from
which the native could draw enough in
summer to carry him through the win
ter. Now that supply no longer exists,
and the native is deduced to the neces
sity of begging from door to door dur
ing the winter months, an exasperating
and discouraging condition when there
aren’t any doors and nobody to beg
from.
Siberian Reindeer.
Vase herds of reindeer once ranged
the uplands and millions of wild fowl
haunted the shores, but now the deer
are quite near extermination and the
wild fowl also on their last legs. This
being the case, reasoned the doctor,
what existing animal or animals might
be available to supply their place? The
Siberian reindeer, in short, was the ani
mal he pitched upon to supply this long
felt want in the aboriginal larder and
the hiatus in transit facilities.
His herculean endeavors are too re
cent for recounting here, by which the
indefatigable doctor first obtained an
appropriation from congress, then per
mission to use the Bear to chase the
reindeer along, the Siberian co»"t, then
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the bbinging to fhIS country oi tne'ffrst
reindeer in 1891, and the subsequent
installation of several reindeer stations
at points on the coast as near the vast
Tundra, or arctio highlapds, as possible.
Today, through persistent search in Si
beria and the natural increase of the
animals, we have in Alaska not less
than 1,500 reindeer, cared for by trained
Lapps and Eskimos and under the su
pervision of intelligent Americans of
Norse origin.
Most men might have been contented
with the bringing over of some 500 or
so 'of the reindeer, and then, as the Irish
aiderman of Boston proposed with the
pair of gondolas, “let nature take her
ooorse. ” But, no; the doctor will not be
satisfied until we have a herd, or herds,
of at least 100,000 deer, these to be
scattered among the various tribes or
native settlements in bunches of 100 or
so, each bunch under the eye of a train
ed herdsman.
It is estimated that there are 400,000
head of reindeer in Lapland, subsisting
over 26,000 people, and from which the
government gets a tax of $1 a head, or
$400,000. Perhaps there is no animal
on the face of the globe that is so util
izable as the reindeer, from the tips of
its horns to the ends of its toes. Its skin
has hair so soft as to more resemble fur
and so light as to be in request for the
making of life saving apparatus, while
smoked reindeer tongues are a luxury
that even an American need not despise,
and then there is the milk from the
does, which is so rich that the doctor
was compelled to reduce it with water.
He introduced an innovation in the
process of milking, also, for whereas the
native Siberians have a habit of suck
ing it from the reindeer founts with
their lips and then injecting it into a
vessel like a John Chinaman sprinkling
clothes, now the deer are milked stand
ing up in a civilized fashion.
Lastly and chiefly the reindeer has
both speed and bottom and can travel
three times as fast and far as a dog—
-150 miles a day in emergency and aver
age 100 miles easily. Subsisting as it
does upon the tundra moss, of which
there is sufficient on the uplands of
Alaska for 10,000,000 head, and need
ing no supply of food to be taken on a
journey, like the dogs, it is with good
reason urged that the reindeer is the
coming animal for our arctic posses
i sions. The initiatory steps have been
taken to establish a line of reindeer sta
tions all along the Alaskan coast from
the Mackenzie river to Bristol bay, and
not only that, but also a line of rein
deer expresses from points on the coast
into the interior.
Now for the application of these
desultory remarks. Alaska has already
twice paid for itself in gold and fur
seals. It contains vast areas yet unex
ploited and from which not less than
<20,000,000 in gold will pour out next
summer from the mines of the Yukon.
The future of this rich country and the
lives of hundreds of its inhabitants will
be greatly benefited by the introduction
of the Siberian reindeer.
F. A. Ober.
Are You Nervous.
Mrs C. C. Fil
ler, 1354 South
Fourth it eet.
Columbus, Ohio,
'9 writes to Dr,
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lumbus, 0., as
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My stomach felt bloated, and I was
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with catarrhal dyspepsia. I wrote to
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your medicines. It has been ten months
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lam perfectly well. I think your medi
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Send for Dr. Hartman’s latest book
on “Winter Catarrh.” Address your
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Ask your druggist for a free Peru na
Almanac for 1898.
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“The next scholar may tell me which
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of the globe?” said the teacher in geog
raphy.
“The Derby, sir,” replied the smart
boy promptly.—Yonkers Statesman.
In Finland women have the right of
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and are carpenters, paper hangers,
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The average weight of the brain of
the Chinaman is greater than that of
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Everything at reasonable prices.
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WANTS ALL KINDS OF
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Prices quoted for next 60 days are as fol
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$5.00 to $25.00; Otter, $4 00 to $9.00; Martin
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to $2,00; Mink, 75c to $1.00; Skunk, 25c to
$1.00; Gray Fox, 50c to 75c; Rat, 20c to 25c \
Price list on all other furs and skins fur
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To all whom It mav concern: Notice is hereby
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and assign a year’s support to Mrs, Georgia M.
George, the widow or Junius A George, de- W
ceased, have filed tbelr award, and unless good I
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madetbe judgm nt of theejurt at th,Jann«rv
term, 18M. of the Court of Ordinary. Tita
December Bth, 1897.
.tohn p. davis,
Ordidary Floyd County, Georgia
Application for Letters of Dis
mission-
GEORGIA, Floyd County, j
Whereas John H Reynolds sad John Mont- J
gotnery. executors oi Thomae Berry, represents- JI
to the court tn tbelr petition duly died, that they M
have auministered Thus Berry’s : eetate. This Is Bfl
to cite all persons concerned, Kindred and cred- 49
itor •, to show cause, it any they can, why said
executors should not be dl«char< ed from
their administration and receive letters o f Hi.,
mission on the first Monday In March IS 93. Thta
December 6, 1897.
JOHN P. DAVIS.
Ordinary Floyd County. Georgia, '
Application for Homestead. I
GEORGIA--Floyd County;
Andrew J. Williams has applied for exemp
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nary, 1898, at my office. This Dec. 11th, 1*97. 1
JOHN P. DAVIS,
Ordinary Floyd County. Georgia. . '
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