Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-07-25
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THE Esquimaux up here are all
Christians-the Moravian missionaries
converted them years ago. Christianity
is a saving influence for them; they
would have been extinct long ago from
the vices which follow trade As it
is, their number decreases with every
decade They are now installing the
wireless all the way up the Labrador
coast 1t is already as far north as
Belle Isle, which has summer connec-
lions with the mainland and the world
Wireless has now been put 200 miles
nearer the pole than it ever was be-
fore. 1t is of great assistance in my
work; it puts me within call when
there is an epidemic or a serious case.
1--WE have found the wireless a great
help to the fishing industry, which is
what our people live upon. The rum
ming of the fish is uncertain and when
one ship strikes the fish it can sum-
mon the entire fleet.
I'VE are gradually getting the ma
tfves to live a proper life. Liquor has
crept in among them, and has given
us trouble. 1t is not an essential in
cold ATTITUDES for physical well being.
1 can tell when liquor has seized hold
of a place as easily as / can tell an cpl
demic of diphtheria or beri-beri- Per-
sonaIly I remain a teetotaller-
ISVITE have many eye-diseases in the
w frozen north, due chiefly to the
glare of the sun on the ice and snow.
The great white plague is creeping in
upon us, too. But Labrador is still al
most germless. We can perform OPP
erations out in the open almost as
easily as they do in the marble lined
operating rooms in New York
1--WE wear dressed reindeer skins for
clothes, and the lighter and softer the
garment is the warmer it is You
could almost put your overcoat in your
pocket. With the thermometer at 20
and 80 below zero, with your bread
and condensed milk frozen, your but
ter no good, then's the time for fat
pork-it is nectar! You can never
understand it till you live in the
frozen north.
There are more feet in Labrador
than shoes and we are often called
upon to amputate frozen limbs, not
only of men but women and children.
l remember one case that shows we
have no creed in the Arctic. The
wife of a Roman Catholic had frozen
leg amputated and 1 was called upon
to supply an artificial limb. l had one
in stock, and after l had given it to
the patient l learned it's history 1t
had belonged to a Baptist soldier who
lost his leg in the civil war fighting
for the union. His wife was Presby-
terian but when he died she gave it
to an Episcopalian cripple. 1t worked
around to my mission in devious
way and 1 gave it to the Roman Cath
olic''
Now just a little about this man who
works away in the Arctic that the poor
creatures who dwell there may have a
little light and comfort in their frozen
lives.
eff 1 were asked to name the most
useful man on the North American
continent to-day, the man who most
nearly approaches the heroic ideal, l
think I should name DIR. Grenfell," said
Lord Strathcona of Canada not long
ago.
THE man he was talking about is
just plain, weather-beaten. self
deprecatory doctor, who is living his
life just where he thinks he can do
| the most good. He is captain of in
| dustry-under GOdt
Don't think for a moment that he
| is soft-spoken, SNUG country parson
no, indeed! He can play game of
| football with the best of them, and he