The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-09-26
ApAPTFROM WORLD
JEWELLERS IN ARCTIC clHcIF
LEAD SECLUDED LTvEsN
Know Nothing Of What TrznspIFes 7s
yond the Narrow Limits Of Their
Own Territory--Warfare
Thing undfeared OF.

Battle history halts at the arctic
circle. Beyond that human life is SC
difficult to sustain that its willful
waste Is unthinkable. The Lapps ane
Samoyeds Of arctic Russia. like the Es
kimos Of North America and Green
land. are so often compelled in times
Of dearfh and famine to sacrifice theii
aged weaklings that this form Of death
has become q vague religion and sd
clal principle with them.
The armies Of the great white czar,
like those Of the king-emperor, are not
recruited in such distant places; In.
deed, the men are Of such meager
stature and intellect that a military
training Is next to impossible-cer-
tainly not a thing to be thought Of
10 the days Of great campaign, Pear
sons Weekly observes.
The population Of arctic Russia, botl
in Asia and in Europe. outside the Of
fetal and mercantile classes. contains
few elements which are truly EIavonic,
but in the minds Of fnsular Britons the
reputation Of arctic dwellers pertains
TO all the people living in Siberia, which
IS always portrayed as land Of ice
and snow and unhealthy marsh.
The Siberian battalions, which have
won so great a fame in the Russian
campaigns, are drawn mainly from
territory MS near the equator as Great
Britain. II is undeniable that their
winters are terribly severe. but in the
hot summer crops Of the utmost value
can be sown. ripened ard harvested.
It Is not impossible TO lead robust
life in the Siberia of military Russia.
The real natives of the Arctic cap
endure hunger and fatigue-can march
In their own fashion through hurri-
cane and blizzard-but their value is
rather to the explorer Of the inhospi.
table North than to the soldier. AZ
hunters they are wonderfully clever,
yet they are curiously formal In ad
ministering the coup de grace.
They viii apologize to the fierce
white bear which they have cornered
before advancing to close attack
with bone-tipped arrows and spears. q
duel in which the odGs seem decisirely
on the bears destroying the man. They
are therefore not towards In any sense,
and few British sportsmen would risk
their lives against bear and wolf and
walrus protected only by futile weap-
ons and their own personal dexterity.
How goes the news Of war to these
arctic dwellers7
Most casually and slowly, without
zen North which have not yet heard
Of the Russo-Japanese war, and GER
tainly have no knowledge Of the pres
ent war.
They are free from national duties
and taxation, and their intercourse,
even with fur traders of blood alien to
their own. is meager indeed. There
are dialects spoken by these tribes
which have never been interpreted and
never reduced. to writing, and their
ideas of the great world outside the
tundras and steppes are very crude
A generation may pass before the
story of the grand dukes great cam
paign filters north, and even then 1t
will be incomprehensible to persons
to whom a crowd of even a hundred
human beings would be a marvel. Now
and again stray whaler or expIor
ing ship comes within sight of the
shore camps. and little barter by
means Of signs is carried on, but the
inland dwellers have not even this
communication with the outside world.