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WEDNESDAY, DEC. ll, 1895. On Snow shoes to the Barren Ground. Far to the northwest, beginning ten day's journey beyond Great Slave Lake and running down to the Arctic ocean, with Hudson Bay as its eastern and Great Bear Lake and the Coppermine River as its western boundaries, lies the most complete and extended desolation on earth, That is the Barren Grounds, the land whose approximate 200,000 square miles (for its exact area is unknown) is the dwelling place of no man, and its storms and sterility in its most northerly part are withstood the year round by no living creature save the muskox. There is the timberle6s waste where ice-ladened blasts blow with hurricane and ceaseless fury that bid your blood stand still and your breath come and go in painful stinging gasps ; where rock and lichen and moss replace soil and trees and herbage ; and where death by starvation or freezing dogs the foot? steps of the explorer. There are two seasons and only two methods of penetrating this great lone land of the North-by canoe, when the watercourses are free of ice, and on snow-shces dur? ing the frozen period, which occu pies nearly nine of the year's twelve months. The deadly cold of winter, and greater risk of starvation, make the canoe trip the more usual one with the few Indians than hunt the musk-ox. But, because of the many portages, you cannot travel so rapidly by canoe as on snow-shoes, nor go so far north for the best of the musk-ox hunting, nor see the Barren Grounds at their best, or worst, as you care to consider it. That is why I chose to make the attempt on snow-shoes Arthur Heming, the artist, and I found ourselves, December 2T, 1894, at Edmoudton, the end of the rail? road. We had traveled on the Cana? dian Pacific via Winnipeg and Cal? gary, and through the land of the Crees, Blackfeet and Sarcee Indians, without seeing anything so pic* turesque in the way of costuming as the Winnepeg dragoon and a Sarcee young woman resplendent in beads and glittering tinsel. I really ought to include the mounted policeman,for he too has a uuiform which, with scarlet jacket and yellow-stripped breeches, ?6 deserving of greater attention. But the mounted policeman has that which is far worthier of comment than uni form He has the reputation of be? ing the most effective arm of the Canadian interior Department And he lives up to il. These "Riders of 'the Plains/' as they are called, patrol a country so large that the entire force may !o6e itself within its "do mains and still be miies upon mi!e6 apart. Yet this comparative handful maintains order among the iawless white men and stays discontentment among the restless red men in a man? ner so satisfactorily and so unosten? tatiously as to make some of our United States experiences read like those of a tyro The success of the Northwest Mounted Police may be accredited to its system of distribution through? out the guarded territory. Unlike our army, it does not mass its force in forts adjacent to Indian reserva? tions. Posts it has, where recruiting and drilling are constantly going for? ward, but the main body of men is scattered in twos and threes over the country riding hither and tither-a watch that goet? on relief after relief. This is the secret of their success, and a system it would well repay our own government to adopt The police are ever on the spot to advise or to arrest. They do not wait for action until an outbreak has occur? red ; they are always in action. They constitute a most valuable peace assuring corps, and I wish we had one like it. A NEW YEAR'S DANCE IN THE NORTH? WEST. Half-breeds-French and Cree constitute the larger share of popu? lation ai La Biche, if I may class as its population those scattered over the immediately surrounding country, and where the settlement coasts of just three cabins besides the Hudson Bay Company's. But, after all, the French blood reveals itself chiefly in a few Christian names and in the more fanciful coloring and use of some articles of wear, for there is little French spoken, the children of mixed parentage almost invariably adop'*ng the mother tongue, Cree. There are not more than one hnndred Crees who come into LaBiche, which is the most northerly post where j treaty money is given, and they are j not thriving to any great extent, nor increasing. The annuity of about five dollars a head is not sufficient to support and just enough to interrupt keen hunting; ihey plant a few pota? toes, which grow here fairly well, ? but are making no progress towards self-support, as are those of the same nation more to the South. After what I had seen the night be- I fore of the preliminaries to the an- , nual feast day, I did not expect on : New Year's to be able to make any j preparation for our further progress. Long before we had turned cut of; our blankets the house was literally I packed with Indians, and by neon j time the fiddle was going and the dancers had entire possession of the ! floor. I doubt if I ever saw outside of some of the Chinese dens in San Francis?e, so many crowded into the j same space. I lacked the heart to talk business with Gairdner, who, I divined from some of his remarks, had not accomplished, in the way of making ready of our dog brigade, al! I had expected of him. I simply pitied him for the unpleasant and malodo? rous fullness of his home, and I pitied his half breed wife and her daughters, who were kept cooking for and feed j ing half starved Indians from early mom until late into the night. Hem? ing took his pencil and scratch pad and I my camera, and wt went out to see the New Year's day arrivals and the dogs and the Indians In front of the fort's stockade were j gossiping groups that grew with j each fresh arrival, while scattered all about the enclosure, just where their drivers had left them, were the dog trains of the Indians who had come to fill Gairdners house and eat the Hudson Bay Company's meat. There was no stabling nor feasting for these j dogs; in a 24 below zero atmosphere they stretched out in the SHOW and waited, without covering, and many eases without food. The Indians with their blankets, coats or capotes, and the dogs and sledges and "jump? ers." made a picturesque whole against the unbroken background of snow, but, like all Indian pictures, its attractiveness faded awa}T on the close inspection thai discovered the dirt of the man, and the scraggy, half-starved condition of the beast. These people had never before seen a camera, and many of my plates show them scurrying away or turning their backs. It was only after the most elaborate descriptions fco Gairdner, who instructed the interpreter, who explained to the Indians, that we in? duced one or two "types" to sit in our presence while Heming sketched them. They thought we were mak? ing "medicine" against them, but were won over by Heming drawing the moose and caribou, while they j watced the animals they knew so well develop under his pencil. When we returned to the house the dance was still on ; it was always "on" during the fir6t thirty-six hours of our stay at LaBiche. Formel ly the Hudson Bay Company officers merely "received'' on New Year's day ; but as the Indians have a cus? tom between sexes of kissing on meeting, and as it did not become an impartial officer to distinguish in this respect between old women and young, unattractive and attractive, the feast was substituted : so now the women are fed and danced instead of being kissed. I hope that New-Years' night will not be recorded against me. Those Indians danced until four o'clock in the morning, and they danced to my utter demoralization. We sat around and watched the "gymnastics" and pretended we en? joyed them until about one o'clock; then we retired. Weall three slept in Gairdners office, a tiny apartment cut from the main room by a thin board partition, of which a good quarter j section in the centre was removed to admit of the two rooms sharing a single stove There was a piece of loosened sheet-iron tacked to the partition to protect it from the heat, and my head was against thal parti? tion, and our blankets on the samn flour upon which those Indians sprinted and jumped and shuffled ! by Casper W. Whitney, in Harper s Magizinc for December Any person who wil! obtain sis new subscri? bers to the Watchman and Southron at $2.00 per year, will be given a leather bound Web? ster's Unabridged Dictionary. For ten new subscribers the Dictionary and a year's sub? scription to the Watchman and Southron will be given. ?in ?.&->. -a Look Through Your Old Papers. Confederate Postage Stamps wanted. Will pay good prices for them. Leave all stamps on original envelopes and bring or send io me at once. * C. D. SCHWARTZ, 3m. Sumter, S. C. 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