Show LAZY LIFE ON SEAL ISLANDS ISLAND So TUE TUB YEARS WAGES AGES EARNED IN SIX WEEKS the sealing work is done by the n natives of the islands hired by the alaska commercial company which leases the seat seal grounds from the government the natives are a laz lazy Y happy go lucky set for nice months they do little or nothing generally the latter they seem to the sealing season is the only time in which they are called upon to work under this plan they have grown worse and worse they will aill do nothing which hey are not compelled to do when the seasons sealing ends and they ach 9 get et their e r proportion of the community lin jun ed d entered up to their credit in their ass books they feel the years work is ended it called upon to work on a road over wyica they travel and wheel their water meat and fuel or asked to launch a boat to board the vessel in the spring thoy they are paid by the hour or when called out by the treasur treasury agent in the spring to cleanup clean up around their houses bouses they are paid for their labor they earn their years salary or pay in six six weeks and for the remainder of the year they feel they ars ard irl irle e if called on to do any work even though it may be as much for the benefit ci 0 the natives as aa tile the lesse lessels lessees les sees they must be paid by the hour for it this system is very unjust to their brothers who are brought from Oun alka to belp binem the average pay ot of the st paul native sealer this year is a little over while toe the st paul man Has ass besides his cash till all the fresh seal meat he can eat and salt fuel fish house bouse medicines physician and schooling free special agent tingle thinks the po population U of the islands is last fast becam becoming 11 ng of the same sort as that of the nestr ne england states in the ol of women still he be has anaid anal zed it and finds the excess of women due partly to the greek church and partly to the treasury department toe re legious regulation forbids the marrying ot of parties where the most distant re exists it even extends to the relatives ot of the contracting parties godmothers and godfather godfathers godf god athen fathers this absurd obstacle maks makes it almost out of the question tor for residents of the tha islands to marry the priest controls all marriages his permission is absolutely required before bi fore a marriage can take place ise this rule of the church corces forces the men to go to Oun alaska or other islands for wives and every year pit pil gr grimaces images are made for that purpose khe priest first belag applied to tells the wife seeker whom lie ae way may marry war while accessions of females are m made to the population in this way no adult males are allowed to come from other islands and become citizens of the fur seat seal islands without special permission of the secre secretary tari of the th treasury |