f LAPLANDERS IN DISTRESS.
The? Have l,o.t Many Krludetr and
Hart Htroinc Vary Poor—K»m«
of the OiinoB.
Those famous nomads of North Eu
rope. the Laplanders, have been unfor
tunate in recent years, and the Nor
wegian press is calling attention to
their sad condition. The newspapers
even say that unless sotnet hing is done
for the Lapps or a fortunate change oc
curs in their condition they will dwin
dle away and finally disappear, victim*
of the circumstances that have berek
them of the larger part of their sole
wealth. Not many years ago the av
erage head of a family in Lapland
owned at least a score of reindeer, and
some of the wealthiest men had 1.000 to
2.000 animals. The largest herds.to-day
dc^not contain over 800 reindeer, and
many Lapps who once owned hundreds
of deer do not now possess more than
ten or twenty. This means dire poverty
in Lapland, for the deer is the. sole cap
ital of the country. To live in comfort
« family of five persons must sell or
kill from 30 to 50 animals a year, and
this require* a herd of from 300 to 500
deer. But many families now do not
own enough deer to keep them in food
and clothing.
A variety of causes has combined to
decimate the herds. Fatal diseases have
for some years been particularly preva
lent. Then the area of pasturage has
been diminishing because settlers from
the south have been invading Lapland.
The new peasantry are not* on the
friendliest; terms with the Lapps, and
when deer stray into their inclosures
they are shot. Beasts of prey are also
responsible for the disappearance of
many deer, and all these causes have
combined to destroy the property of
the poor Lapps, who, from their point
of view, were once very well to do in the
world.
La«t of the Order of the Ootf.
With the death of Mr. Sergeant
Spinks, Q. C., the Ancient Order of the
- dif ceases to exist, so far as the bar
s concerned. Indeed, of the members
of Serjeant's Inn two only now remain,
the master of the rolls and Lord Field:
md as a sergeant ceases to retain any
of the privileges of his position when
raised to the bench, it may be said that
rhe Order of the Coif (the judges who
have been serjeants wear a little black
• patch on the top of their wigs) is now
extinct. Mr. Ser jeant Spinks, who was
>hosena serjeant in 1862, when he had
reached his forty-sixth year, was con
servative member for Oldham from 1-874
to" 1880. He was an able'law-yer, and in
his day gained a great reputation as a
% :r®ss-examiner.—London Globe.
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