The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-10-16

worked camel in the Cairo street seems
to understand thar.
We are just getting on a good work
ing basis with m intelligent andwilling
Swedish guide when somebody hurries
up from the rear and slaps us in the
face with the information that the deer
over there in the pen are not Laplond
reindeer at all, but common everyday
young deer OF our own country. Now
that have got back my second wind l
wish TO asi this intrusive person.
What's that TO US? Where there are
Laps there must DO reindeer. The
stomach would get along as well with
out the legs, the legs without the
stomach, as tho Lap without his rein
deer. Suppose it to be true that the lap
land reindeer were nearly all killed by
Chicago's summer resort climate; and
what II the ranks were recruited from
handy herds at home-what business oil
yours is that? This is Il Lap village;
here are Laps. their huts, their dogs /;
over yonder in the pen arc deer. The
deer are necessary to make the Lap
picture The picture will be spoiled II
you take away those frowsy animals.
You DESTROYER OF illusions, you
smasher OF idols, why don't you rig up
the Venus dc Milo with full compli-
ment of arms and then point to the
arms to show that it isn't the real thing
don't like your kind. Mr.. smarty. You
20 it too strong on realism. You con-
cede nothing 10 the bliss Of ignorance.
You allow no play to the imagination.
In spite OF your knowledgeous criticism,
sir, the animals in the pen are reindeer.
The Jap needs them in his business
and you shall not rob him OF them in
this land oil equal rights and respect for
property. Hath not the poet said OF
them in their relation to the little peo-
pie from the north
The raindoer form their riches; these their tonts,
Their robes, their beds, aud all their homey
Supply.
The guide says that the climate is
hard ou the reindeer; that some diod
and were replaced by our American
deer, but there are only one or two OF
these IL had been the guide | would
have suffered torture before making any
admission in the presence OF man who
had paid his quarter for the malicious
pleasure of knocking the pleasure out
OF other people. Who has not felt the
pain OF being undeceived?
Well, this is Lap village. There is
not much OF it. There could not be,
for it is hero to-day and gone to.mor-
row, after the manner of lap villages.
The huts arc lar from inviting, and it is
a surprise to find them inhabited by
white people who have SO long had
close contact with the high Scandina-
Wan civilization. By stopping you can
get into the hut. Low hunks arc on
each side. The woman lying on the left
and the other woman sitting on the
other bunk, nursing her babe, and the
woman who is preparing something to
| eat, smile on the visitors; but it is Il
Lap smile. II there be any other hui
man thing on the fair grounds that can,
or under any circumstances could,
match the Lap smile, we shall have to
look for it among the Aztec mummles
in Prof. Putnam's collection or over
there in the Cliff Dwellers' cave.
Tho. Lap face is heshless, the skin
drawn tight over the bones; n hard face,
bearing tho stamp OF a hard liie in a
hard climate. 1t is a kind face, for
these arc gentle and kind people; but
il a mummy were to smile on you it
wonld make the cold chilIs creep over
YOU, wouldn't it? We had the oppor-
tunity to note that Lap babies are born
old. This little one in the mothers
arms must have been at least hundred
wears OF ago when it came into the
world, and it hasn't been here long Tho
face OF this infant heir to three thou
sand reindeer has the deep.gravcn lines
OF advanced age; which suggests that tho
women we see and think to DO very old
may not have been in this world more
than twenty-five or thirty years.
Old King Bull, so-called, who is man
OF prominence among his people and
rich in reindeer, but no king, may be q
man of about sixty as Laps go. To
Judge from his aged face he might have
been from the beginning. The guide
says that when ct home Mr.. Bul! repre-.
sents the Swedish government to the
extent OF keeping the run OF his people
for taxing purposes. At this time he Is
chiefly engaged in mourning the death
OF his reindeer, OF all the dogs OF this
village butoue, andin reckoning the days
until he may start back to his noun
tains and his lakes and his rivers. |
had been thinking what nice thing it
would be for these people ii they were
| to take advantage OF their opportunity
| and remain here. OF course they would
like to stay II they could make the nee
essary arrangements When this
thought was respectfully submitted to
the guide he replied, "Thero isn't one
OF them that is not dying to got home"
So it is with the Bedouin Of the desert,
the black man OF Dahomey. the brown
man OF the South Sea Islands, the little
Javauese-home calls them back. Be.
fore John Howard Payne, before music,
before language, the human heart sang
Home, Sweet, Home"
The Lap is the shortest-headed man
in Europe; tina: is to say, he has the
shortest head in proportion to its
width, and tine shortness gives an ex.
aggerated appearance to the width. He
is short, bandy-Ieggod fellow rarely
more than five feet in height. As he is
seen on tho Midway his trunk is out OF
proportion to the length, or, ii you like
it better, the ehorIness, OF his legs. Ho
may have endurance, but he does not
show much OF the strength that moves