Northern light., September 01, 1913, Image 2

About Northern light. (Unalakleet, Alaska) 1913-1917

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NORTHERN EIGHT
Published monthly by the IJnalaklcet
-yj Eskimo School |E
E. E. Van Xess.Editor
Henry I van off.Business Mnnrger
One Dollar a year
S ngle Copies Fifteen Cents
EDITORIAL
Our piper is a little late this month
due to getting settle 1 in our new
home. From now on we hope to be
able to mail regularly to our sub
scribers. I)o not hesitate to have the
piper sent to your friends out side or
forwarded to your address, for we
have every thing necessary to issue
every month during the school year.
POSSIBLE WRECK OF TRE WASP
Due to the fact that the Wasp, a
ve*y ir.i-scnvorthy schooner, carry
ing school supplies to the Bethel sec
tion.has not been heard from since
a tig. 21 st. It is feared it lias been lost
with all on board. It is possible that
Mr. Evans was among the number,
for he has not been heard from for
several weeks, we are hoping that if
the boat is lost that the pass mgers
and crew are still stfe. The loss of
Mr. Evans would be a terrific blow to
the school work. And the natives
would loose in him their best friend.
Ore it anxiety is deeply manifested.
SEDDON
The wre ;k of the staunch little
gasoline sdiooner, Seddoa and the
loss of the entire crew is now known
to be a certainty. How it happened
is not known.perhaps will always re
main a mystery of the deep. The ac
cident oacurel near the coast between
Cape Prince of Walesand Kotz cl t e.
What can be done to lessen these
disasters is the question? We under
stand the Seddon had excellent
gasoline engine power but was noi
rigged with sail. Couscque tly a
bre k down of the engine would place
the 1 oat wholly at the mercy of the
waves. I lad she teen rigged pcrhaj.es
the entere crew would he with r.s
to day.
We believe another paragraph
should be added to the marir.cdaws
requiring power boats, licencd to can \
passengers,to be rigged with sail.
Our sermon this month is the fol
lowing sketch of ore who lived for
OTHERS
Franees E willard-the Reformer.
The women’s Temperance Crusade
changed the deleate'.y nurtured, re
fined, book loving teacher into a re -
former. Her interest in the Crr.sac'c
led her from the classroom into the
sdiool of life. She went into the
slums of the cities,she heard the cry
of the world,she gave up an offer of
a fir.c position at a salary of ,400
per year to wo k in Chicago,wl.e e
somedm.es she had not even the price
of a street-car fare. Of this she writes:
‘Instead of peace I was to particip
ate in war; instead of the sweetness
of home, never more dearley loved
than I had loved it,I was to 1 come
a wanderer upon the face of the earth:
instead of libraries, I was to frequent
public-halls and railway cars:instead
of scholarly and cultured men I was
to see the dregs of saloon and gam
bling-house and haunts of shame’.She
no longer studied books,she studied
men and women. She tried to restore
the image of God i:i them She gave
herself to redeem the world.
Temperance Educational Quarterly.
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