The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-08-19
Ohio Day Promises to be a
Great Event.
WILL OWN EXPOSITION GROUNDS
Governor and Staff Will
Attend.
September gath, the Most Desirable
Time I'm the Whole Season Has Been
Given to the Buckeye I'm Seattle by
Exposition officials.

Seattle is making extensive prepara-
tions for the celebration of Ohio Day
at the Exposition. which will be OBJ
served on September cath A spec
| ial train bearing Governor Judson
Harmon and staff will leave Column
bus for Seattle on September 18th, and
arrive i'm the city in time to partici-
pate in the events OF Ohio Day
TheGovernor and party will spend
several days visiting points of In
terest about the Exposition, city and
surrounding country of Puget Sound.
The Taft Day celebration will take
place on September 29th, and Ohio
visitors will be enabled to witness
two special events of Importance at
the Exposition.
The exercises of both days will be
particularly interesting, and the por-
grams provide for speeches, banqucts
balls and series of athletic and
other events of attraction. Sept
ember "a tn will be time for gene
raj gathering of former Oh!o-.and
now residing In the Northwest, and
excursions will be conducted from
many of the more important cities
to the Exposition.
The Presidential visit will mark
one of the particularly interesting
times OF the fair and will be the oc-
casion of drawing together one of
the largest and most representative
crowds of the season. No more de-
sirable time of the year could have
been selected for the visit, and the
| country and climate Is ut the very
| best.
From the exhibit of grains and
| food and grasses shown in the
| Alaska building of the Seattle eXposi-
| tion, it Is a new Alaska one sees; a
| country rich I'm agricultural possi-
| bilities and large enough to support
the population OF an empire.
| Wheat. oats. barley, rye, timothy,
corn and every cereal grown in the
north temperate zone is included in
the exhibit of agricultural Alaska.
| The snow and ice covered land has
disappeared with the opening of the
country's fertile valleys and blossom
ing plains have displaced the glazier
clad land of our early geography
days, and now. the northern pos
| sessions of the United States is
showing to the world that when the
population comes to make homes in
| Alaska, the question of a food pro-
| duction is one that can be answered
by the soil and climate of the country
itself.
Another thing about Alaska that
comes as a surprise ito most people.
is the question of climate. Alaska
Is shown, not as land inhospitable
and unbearable In extremeness of
cold, but as place, no colder nor
unhealthful than the northern states
of the Union or the countries of north
Europe and Asia. Its winters are
cold 1t is true, but they are no colder
than the countries named. In the
summers, much of the territory Is n
land of flowers, and winters offer hard
ships, no greater than are borne year.
ly by great part of the worlds po-
pulation.
How strongly NEUROLOGICAL ideas
enter into the life and thoughts of the
far northern Indian. Is well shown by
the collections of dress and ornamen-
tai decorations worn by the Shaman,
or medicine man of Alaskan tribes,
displayed In the Alaskan exhibit at the
Alaska -Yukon-Paciiic exposition.
Robes and cloaks made from var
ious skins, and woven from the bark
of cedar and spruce trees, are high
ly decorated with tribal emblems and
devices of animal and NEUROLOGICAL
design; grotesque head pieces often
bear carved images of animals or
creatures, differing entirely from any
specimens found i'm the fauna of any
land. Ivory taken from the walrus,
or tusks contributed from masto-
dons lead countless denturles and deep
In color, Is carved and shaped into
forms, clever In workmanship and fear
ful and wonderful In design. And
everything has its own peculiar mean
ing to the Indian. The grinning, i'm
becilic or fierce faces have each their
individual capabilities, and the gayly
colored patterns of the ceremonial
robe have signillance extending into
years, antedating the Oldest traditions
of the tribes who use them.
If, for the illness afflictlng the sick
man, the powers of a certain God or
| spirit Is necessary, the clothing, masks
and charms of this particular person.
age is donned, by the Shaman, and
the ritualistic forms most pleasing to
him are gone through with dignity
and elaborateness OF detail Some
times 1t works; other times the sick
| Indian becomes good Indian. 1t is,
| with the Shaman a mistake in selec.
ton of dress and incarnation.