Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1923-04-05

fine workmanship and detail, beg
gars description. It is model OF
u. s. revenue cutter, or small war
ship, about 20 inches long, made en-
tirely of ivory and whale-bone. 1t
is fully rugged with sails and equip
ped with guns. The slender thread
like ropes that stay the masts and
regulate the sails are made OF
whale-bone. 1t is complete to the
minutest detail. Our Uncle Samuel
did not get his eye on this as soon
as Joe. or he would have been the
possessor.
But Joe's vocation is that of teach
ing. And that means something
quite different from what it does
here. We read somewhere of a
farm agent who, for one mornings S
job, had to round up a pig-club.
help a fellow get some wiggle-tails
out of well, show farmer how to
vaccinate some hogs, and pass his
opinion on the merits of an old bait
tered-up violin, and it wasn't such
a very busy morning either. Now
that's the kind of a man Joe is, and
the kind Uncle Sam likes to get
our Eskimo neighbors.
He needs to be the architect and
builder of his home and school
room: superintendent and overseer
for the needs of his pupils; act as
lawyer, judge and jury in case OF
controversy (althOugh controversies
seldom occur). And in the case or
death act as minister and under
taker. That's the kind of man
Joe was,-and his wife-the two
made a good team, worked together
we'll. Eskimo government is rather
simple Each village has it's own
laws. Established customs have the
force of law.
The school room and the home
for the teacher are all under the
same roof. Often the windows and
doors are buried in snow and they
have to shovel their way out, with
the thermometer ranging from 80
to SO degrees below zero. 1t is diff
ficult for the average reader to real
iZe the vastness of this ice-bound
country and the distance travelled to
get there. We might we'll say the
work to get there, because we can
not think of trip to the Arctic Cir
Gle as a pleasure trip. 1t means
more perseverance and endurance
to stand the rigor of the climate,
than many of us would care to en-
dure.
They passed through the Behring
Strait and proceeded as far north
as they could by water, and then
the journey was finished with dog
sleds. Before taking to this mode
of travel they were ice-bound for
several days near a shore where the
goods were unloaded from the boat
and stacked up on the shore and
tents erected 1t was perilous sit
uation, but the natives were very
kind and helpful to them and they
finally came through all right.
One page of their history of this
last trip up there has black bor-
der around it, and is stained with
tears. 1t was the loss of their son,
by adoption. He was promising
young man, qualified to teach. rms
was a hard blow on them.
They brought back, many post
card pictures. Seemingly they new
er lost an opportunity to bring the
camera into play when it was need
eO. PICTURES OIL IllGlI uOulc dlio thO
village of Selawik taken by the
light of the sun at midnight. Pic
lures of the sun itself at midnight;
some taken at intervals of 90 min
utes, showing the sun in different
positions, just barely visible above
the horizon. Pictures of vast ex-
panses in which such vegetation as
adapts itself to those high latitudes,
Truly it is well named, 1.-The land
of the midnight SUM-
These folks are back to their
home, but what is in the brain of
the future for them we know not.
Uncle Sam is reaching forward
with his finger beckoning for them
to come and continue in the work,
but they hardly know,-undecided.
And now, dear reader. here is
where you shall retract. At the be-
ginning we said that this man was
the seventh son in the family, and
you have read into these
lines that we were attributing to
him that power, that lnborn
hidden, mysterious power which re-
quires nothing more than the lay
ing on of hands, and the mechani-
cal powwowing of meaningless