The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-03
UNCLE SAM'S WORRIES.
SOME OF THE MANY THINGS
 IN HIS
Dsy's Work That wm Surprise Most
 Children


 Children.
 When folks speak of the troubles of the government they generally mean such great problems as the Philippines, tariffs, finance and so on. But Uncle Sam has scores on scores of troubles that are smaller, but still large enough to keep him worrying all the time.
 He is like a man who owns great country place, and who has to study one moment how he can find money enough to maintain it, and in the next to find out why the speckled hen sud- denly has stopped laying.
 For instance, Uncle Sam is busy all the time watching his coasts to be sure that there shall be no wrecks on them. He is busy watching the volcanoes in Hawaii, because it would never do for them to break out unexpectedly and take people there by surprise as Mont Pelee did in Martinique.
 He has to think of his Indians, who are doing pretty we'll, but still need lots of care. And he has to keep think ing of the fish of the coasts and the birds and the tides and the weather all the time Indeed, there is nothing in the sky or the air, on or under the wa ters and the land, that does not concern him nightly.
 One of Uncle Sam's worries just now is caused by the lobster. This queer creature is great source of income to many thousands of Uncle Sam's people, who do little else except fish for him. But for many years there has been steady lessening of the supply and at times Holsters are so scarce that Uncle Sam sometimes fears they will disap- pear entirely.
 Uncle Sam has been at work for many years trying to discover the cause and to remedy the trouble. He has matched the eggs of the lobster to increase the supply and he has also sent ships far out to sea to fish in water a thousand feet deep, hoping that he might find the deep sea home of the shelfsh, but all his efforts have been only partly sue cessful and the lobster remains a great source of worry.
 Uncle Sam's Indians do not worry him as they did once, but he feels keen 1y he has grave duties concerning them Many thousands of Indian boys and girls were taken from their wild country and placed in Indian schools in the East, where they learned every thing that is taught the white children. And the Indians did well and were a. credit to themselves and to the govern ment But now Uncle Sam has discov- cred that the real trouble begins for for many of them after they are edu- cated. What are they to do then? Un- cIe Sam is trying to find out
 Uncle Sam has other dependent peo- pies to worry him in the shape of the Alaskan Eskimos. Some of those living along the coast have the bad habit of eating too much when they happen to obtain a good supply of food
 For instance, if they kill whale or a, herd of seal, all the tribes for many miles around will collect around the meat, and then men, women and chil- dren will eat and eat from morning till night, until everything is either eaten up or they cannot eat another mouth ful. These eeatsts occur as regularly as the sea brings them a rich haul
 The consequence is that, no matter how much blubber or polar bear meat or seal meat and oil they may obtain at any time. they never have any left to fall back on when a tre in scarcity of foods comes. And such times come often in the long Arctic night. Then there is nothing for the Eskimos to do except to cover in their snow houses and wait until death from starvation overtakes them.
 Now, Uncle Sam has tried in vain to reform them and to teach them better ways: although his officers have often found whole villages that had been al- most completely destroyed by starva- ton, yet the little men of the North do not seem to heed.
 So the government has no other way to help them except to send ships into the polar seas again and again to feed the unfortunate creatures. It was part 1y Uncle San's worry over them that led him to import reindeer into Alaska and several large herds of them are there now, while he has lent small herds to certain Eskimo tribes that have promised to care for them.
 Uncle Sayns troubles do not end with caring for his people. A few years agc the lovers of birds found that gunners were destroying the pigeon gulls ant terms DV 11lllllUHS, III OIueE lp SSu tIt pretty feathers frcm their soft breasts Some of Uncle Sams rocky islands ir the Atlantic ocean has been almost de. nuded of the poor little crea ture wher he awoke to the fact. Now the govern nent is fsthering the gulls.
 Every time that great storm move! along the coasts of the Pacific or thu Atlantic Uncle Sam gets anxious les some part of his vast beaches shall de , velop new danger to his ships O those of other nations. He never i quite easy in his mind about sucl places as the shoals off Hatteras.
 The sands there move in the beatin' of the waters almost as if they had life and constantly new shoals are forming or old ones extending their arm further to seize the keels of the ships So there is hardly any time in the yea