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14 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 r z ■ ■'■■■ ■■ A REINDEER TEAM. 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 rHK ROME TRIBUNE. SUNDAY DECEMBER 2«. 1891 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. 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