The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-15

them, and the most promising. His
hug is very warm and furry and rir-
ty one, but you will like it, He will
reach out his little arms to you, out Of
the far, frozen up north where even
little boys hearts are frozen most of
| the year. ."o7
The house contains a wonderful room,
with a dresser and looking glass,
There is no such thing as this in any
other Eskimo house. 1t is on display in
the parlor, and the proudest Eskimo is
always overwhelmed with its magnifi-
cence. A sight of that dresser alone
would quell an unruly subject, If Mary
ever had one. The sleeping rooms are
in a loft above. Thither, one must
climb every night by means of shaky
ladder. Odds and ends Of rooms are
used for the servants and the work.
For Mary, although a, queen, works
like all Of her people, except that she
carries on business on large scale.
She lives by the profits that her rein
| deer bring her, and those are large.
In the first place, the deer cost al
most nothing. The land is as good as
hers. The food upon which these ami
mails live Is the white moss which COW
ers the tundra and grows of its own
free will in great plenty The moss Is
sufficient to keep them in good condi-
ton the year round. They need no
other food. 1t will sustain human life,
| by the way, and might have saved
many a traveller, If he had known it.
| The deer are estimated at a value of
about two hundred dollars apiece.
! This means a fortune Of eighty thou
sand dollars, which is immense wealth
| to an Indian. The income is larger to
Mary than it would be to most people,
| for she Is a business woman born and
made, and she gets every cent out OF
| those deer that there is to get. She
gets it in different ways, by system
of economic industry that is as up-to-
date as a great American packing
house or cotton factory Not one PRO-
duct is lost in working for others.
Some of the deer bring in an income
for use in transportation The troops
hire them for this purpose. One is fur
nished by the shrewd lady for some
thing like one hundred dollars month.
The creatures are we'll worth the mon
ey she gets for their hire, however, for
they can travel ten miles an hour over
the frozen snow, drawing as much as
two hundred pounds of freight, to say
nothing of the sledge. They sometimes
cover one hundred miles in a day. The
deer are at certain times killed and
sold for food. This is when they could
not bring in a better income by haul
ing. Mary watches and she never slips
up on her transactions. Reindeer por-
! terhouse steak is a Nome delicacy and
it brings a fancy price in the market.
But the deer dead is worth far more
than his price as steaks. His skin is
precious as cloth of gold, and when
Mary and her women have wrought it
into parkas and mucklucks it brings in
goodly sum. Day after day they sit
and cut and sew, making the garments,
which are later on sent down the thir-
| ty-mile road that leads south to Nome.
On the coolest days they work indoors;
when the sun makes it possible they
may be seen sitting under the shelter
of an upturned boat, all huddled In
their own parkas, each with her halo OF
fur thrown back that she may see, 1t