The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-17

fish for him. But for many years there
has been steady lessening of the sup
ply, and at times Holsters are so scarce
that Uncle Sam sometimes fears that
they will disappear entirely. That
would be a great calamity to the lob
ster fishermen of Maine and Massachu-
sets.
Uncle Sam has been at work for
many years trying to discover the
cause and to remedy the trouble. He
has sent his vessels out to catch lob
sters with eggs. These eggs were taken
carefully and Matched out in great
wooden troughs, and when the funny
little Holsters were able to swim alone
they were set free in the best waters
that he could find along the New Eng
land coast. But unfortunately all kinds
of fish love young Holsters as much as
human beings love the old ones. So not
many escaped the dog fish and the
sharks and the conger cells and the
skates and the bass and bluefish. Uncle
Sam 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 shellfish. But all his eff
forts have been only partly successful
and the lobster remains a great source
of worry.
Uncle Sans Indians do not worry
him as they did once, but he feels
keenly that he has grave duties con-
corning them. Many thousands of In
dian boys and girls were taken from
their wild country and placed in In
dian schools, in the east, where they
learned everything that is taught to
white children. And the Indians did
well and were credit to themselves
and to the government. But now Uncle
Sam has discovered that the real trou-
BILE begins for many of them after they
are educated. When they leave the
schools, they generally have to return
home. for they have no other place to
which they can go, any more than
white children have. But an Indian
child that has been reared for years
IN the pleasant and refined surround
ings of the government schools does
not feel very happy when it gets back
among it's relatives who still live in
wigwan1s or rude shanties.
They cannot fit themselves into
life that consists mainly of loafing
around, waiting for supplies at the
government stores. 1t is natural that
boy or a girl, well-dressed and with
good manners, should be gricved when
it returns home and finds the mother
still CARRIED in a blanket and probably
smoking pipe. So the educated chill
dren often become very sad and dis
couraged, and end either by despising
their parents, which is bad for every
child, no matter how uncouth the par
ents may be, or sometimes the chill
dren give up the struggle and try TO
forget their education and in a few
years they become as rude as the most
common Indians around them. So now
Uncle Sam is trying to find better
way of life for them, after he has edu-
Gated them.
Uncle Sam has other dependent peo-
pies to worry him in the shape of the
Alaskan Eskimos. Some of those liv-
ing along the coast have the bad habit
of eating too much when they happen
to obtain a good supply of food. They
are real drunkards in food. For in
stance, 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 children will
eat and eat from morning till night,
keeping II up for days at a time until
everything is either eaten up or they
are stuffed so full that they cannot
possibly gorge another mouthful. These
disgusting feasts 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
10 fall back on when time OF scare
!ty In food comes. And such times