Show HUSKIES OF THE NORTH Great Alaskan Dogs Half Wolf Half Collie Dr Alex Gale who has just returned to his homo in New York City lrur re a two years visit to the gold fields of Brit ish America describes the Alaskan doss the huskies of that country as tho only objects that to any degree meet the expectations of tho traveler or command hUs respect Ever thins else wanes as ono advances ad-vances northward and the mercury sinks said Dr Gale The whole land Is a great silent waste In winter I IS submerged In snow and in summer ai deep spongelike moss the lair of untold billions of voracious mosquitoes lies bilons vorcious mosquio les overall over-all like a witchs blanket But tho huskies are n joy forever They are great vigorous fellows hale wolf and weigh a hundred pounds often They are cheerful and playful too and live on ono meal a day given them an evening Upon being released from their heavy sledges after having dragged them through the snow for thirty or forty miles they would invariably go romplngi After beinr fed they would curl them elves up like kittens place their bush < tails oer the tips of their noses and goi to sleep The huskies never bark I exciteffit or troubled about anything they turn their noses np to the sky and whine very much as a wolf does But the strength and endurance of these dogs amazed ma isost Two of them would easily drag a man on a sledge all about while a team of eight were equal to really prodigious tasks Such ateam sold on th coast for J20CO once while I was there Every onol soon grew to learn that they were onB ta only kind of animals to depend upon Horses soon became fagged and had toj be abandoned before the Interior could be reached One American brought several hucoj Newfoundlands up with him thinking toj train them to toll with the huskies of his team They proved utter fallures1 giving out the first dhy and sitting down In the snow Their more sturdy companJ Sons waited till they were detached and tht n took the sledge on themselves and only shortcoming lies In a tendency all times to be lazy Sometimes it dfsn abso1 lutely necessary to whip one O more for shirking his work This was always r painful duty because of their keen and often pathetic Irtelligence The lcUm was neaJ1 always conscious of his guilt and would s iw up sa halfhuman whine aq the first sign of the lash belief the husky According to popular belef huSkYJ is half wolf and half Scotch collie According I Ac-cording to tradition he dates back to the time when the trappers for the Hudson Bay company overran the country In tha last century A Frenchman named Mari not having made friends with on indian dnl eh r woke one morning to find that bf haw been robbed of his dog a faithful oUIel He searched in vain for traces or them and gave them up A year later he suddenly sud-denly came upon the thief by the side oC a river A battle ensued and Marnots killed his adversary Upon enterincr hiS but he found his lost dog tied to a stake She was surrounded by several shaggy date the race puppies from whom present rce of huskies GEORGE A BECKENB CGH |