NORTHERN LIGHT
Pah'.ishe 1 monthly by the Uualakleet
-A| ICskimo School |/—
1' lalakieet Alaska
IC. 1C. V.t i Xess.ICclitor
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>.i>iT0RI\L AND COMMENT
AND WHO KM THEY
Gee! gee! Haw there you pup!
Who ill now: and the s'.eii stops and
o :e l>y one the fifteen big dogs drop
(’.own to rest and roll and get t uigled
up in tiie harness.
Looks as tho the driver would he
rt'.’. i i, for there's close to a thousand
po aids hew een the handle bars, but
.it lie is, he doesn’t have time to baby
the feeling for one after another of
the big sacks are pulled oil and
rushed i 1 side.
Sure he’s had a hard trip, but such
things count but litt'e with that
fellow; bli.'/.urds must be met,
ta -kledt and conquered and that fel
lo v just packing in the last sick is
the fellow to conquer such thi• gs.
lie’s a man. Doesn’t merely have
the shape but lie’s a man; one of
Alaska's best friends, and too often
goes about his work unthanked.
But the bliu/ards have gone, the
snow and trail cue gone and the ice
is thin, too thin. Listen,look! see the
ducks and geese What does that
mean? It means the gee-pole period
of navigation for that fellow. And you
do it know what the gee-pole is! But
that fellow does. See him loading
his sled again!lias he been in Alaska
too long? For sure as you are born he
is filling the sled with empty oil-cans,
what’s he going todo with them? Does
he deal in wind? Is he trying to haul
the blizzard out of the land? No, the
cans are there to accommodate you
and me.Over the treacherous ice that
sled must venture. Those sacks must
not sink. Sure that fellow often goes
thru,but the real man in him rises to
its highest and some way or another,
and invariably on time the gee and
h iw and who di, are heard and off
comes the cover and out comes the
sack as the whole town flocks about
and the little clurps cry out," The
mail is in! the mail is in!”
POPULAR SONG
file most popular song <>t the rein
deer fair held at Shaktoolik is the
one sung to the air ' ‘Tepperary. ’ ’ We
understand that i Ion. W. T. Ivopp was
instrumental in launching the ‘ hit”
by sending a verse or so to Supt.
\\ .C. Shields who added a verse or
two and forwarded it onto Supt.
\\ il Johnson \\ h.o added another
verse and now .every body in town is
singing it.
In our May nuaii er we stated that
it was to be t he iast issue until Sep
tember, but the pio o; geh cool spell
p eve: ts the nati\ es from leayii gthe
village and the.efore v itii a well
tilled school we me vo'kii g away.
Ily a vote taken this n:on u g it
was unanimously decided- to get out
a June nnml er.
NEW YORK
'“Today I nurture upon my broad
bosom some 5.646,966 souls livery
thirty days I add 17,000 to the num
ber. livery four minutesa new soul is
born to me; every seven minutes some
other soul, surfeited of life, passes
out; every ten minutes two souls
mate. And for these I rear a new
building every forty minutes a build
ing worth $13,621. ’’—pi.