| Summary: | Newsletter of the North Dakota School for the Deaf. 8 THE NORTH DAKOTA BANNER Current Events Jan. 1(1. Shall we of the United States soon be eating reindeer meat? It is reported that this meat will he sent here from Alaska in large quantities. Twenty-live years ago, there were no reindeer in Alaska. It is said that twelve hundred of the animals were imported from Siberia and Lapland. Some were domesticated, others were turned loose in the Alaskan forests and they have increased in numbers, and there are now large herds of them, both tame and wild. The reinder is protiatble to Alaska. They donot mind rhe cold. They are docile, anil they may be driven like dorses, and are swifter. Tdey can thrive on the coarse forage of the woods. Teeir beef of cattle and their hides make the best leather.—Lizzie Plecity, Jan. 12. A bench warrant has been issued for the arrest of Harry K. lhaw. who is charged with murderous assault upon the person of a Kansas college youth. It is reported that he tried to commit suicide, by cutting his throat and wrist, when detectives came to his home to arrest him. January 8th the Supreme Court of the United States declared the Webb- Kenyon law to be constitutional. This is a law prohibiting the shipping of liquors from “wet” to “dry” states in the course of ordinary Commerce. According to a statement issued by the health department at Washington, Cain is responsible for the illness and misery existing in cities. If Abel instead of Cain had laid out the first city he would have, had the streets run from south-west to north-east. In this way everyone would get at least enough fresh air and sunlight to enable them to live in a healthy condition. Hie entente allies having rejected the peace proposals of the kaiser, it is wondered if l hey will likewise reject the proposal of President Wilson, th.it they state what they are lighting for and on what terms they will accept peace. Jan. 15. Umatilla, Oregon is-to have a woman mayor and several couneilwo-men. The former succeeds her husband to the mayor's chair. She announced that she would not appoint a marshall as they would not need one. The girls in the domestic science class in the high school of Appleton, Wis., have adopted a two-month-old baby so that they may have a live model to practice on. They are kept quite busy caring for it scientifically. The parents of the child are too poor to give it proper care. The White House is being picketed b\ the silent suffrage sentinels, carrying 12-foot banners, on which is inscribed: “Mr. President, what will you do for woman suffrage?” So far the president has failed to notice them. They sav they will continue to picket the executive mansion until March 4. If tiie president is still indifferent, they will resort to new methods but refuse to say what these methods will lie.—Irene Murphy. A Debator And A Joker. Young Lincoln was not only winning in these days in the Jones grocery store a reputation as a debator and story teller, he was becoming known as a kind of backwoods orator. He could repeat with effect all the poems and speeches in his various school readers, he could imitate to perfection the wandering preachers who came to Gentry ville, and he could make a political speech so stirring that he drew a crowd about him every time he mounted a stump. The applause he won was sweet; and frequently he indulged his gifts when he ought to have been at work—so thought his employers and Thomas, his father. It was trying, no doubt, to the hard-pushed farmers, to see the men who ought to have been cutting grass or chopping wood throw down their sickles or axes to group around a hoy whenever lie mounted a stump to develop a pel theory or repeat with variations yesterday's sermon. In his fondness for speech-making he attended all the trials of the neighborhood, and frequently wa Iked 15 miles to Boonsville to attend court. If his struggle for both livelihood and education was rough and hard, his life was not without amusements. The sports he preferred were those which brought, men together—the spelling school, the husking bee, the “raising;” and of all these he was the life by his wit. his stories, his good nature, his doggerel verses, his practical jokes, and by a rough kind of politeness. Lincoln’s old comrades and friends in Indiana have left many tales of how he “went to see the girls;" of how .he brought in the biggest back log and made the brightest fire; then, of how, “sitting around” it, watching the way the sparks flew, the young folks told their fortunes. He helped pare apples, shell corn and crack nuts. He took the girls to meeting and to spelling school, although he was not often allowed to take part in the spelling match, for the one who “chose first" always chose “Abe Lincoln,” and that was equivalent to winning, as the others knew that “he would stand up the longest.”—The Minneapolis Journal. Sleeping Below Zero. Last fall Richard and Philip Sheridan had their bed out on the porch which was later enclosed, storm windows in place of the screens. The plan was to let thorn sleep out there as long as they could keep warm, and it was thought that it would bo necessary to lake them in during the ’coldest months of Decem-eber, January and February, in spite of the doctor’s advice that it would he line for them to be out there all winter, wrapped upsnugly and comfortably. As the days passed, the mercury began to sink. The lower down it went the thicker the covering. The only opening isa window 2b by 84 inches fixed to the storm door s > tiiat it hangs outward on hangers and it is open all night every night. The boys slept there together every night until December 22 when the whole family went away fora little vacation. All came back hut Philip. When Richard was told that the porch was for him again, he began to protest. What? Was it too cold or was ho afraid to sleep alone? It was colder in January and the bed was cold, so we wrapped him up in a warm blanket, curried him to his bed and covered him up for the night. This worked like, a charm. Not another kick from him again when he was told to go to bed. Saturday evening. January 13. the thermometer kept in the porch gave warning that it would be colder during the night, soa heavy woolen overcoat was spread over the boy. In the morning it was thirty below when we carried him into the house, but he never knew how cold the world was until we told him. Outside it was forty below, the coldest night this winter and and it is seldom anv colder than that in North Dakota. The experiment seems to be a success if the fat her is willing to carrv the boys back and forth. Last October just before the screens were taken down and the storm windows put up, there was a heavy snowstorm, and in the morning the boys’ bed was covered with snow, but they'' thought it was great. To get rid of this snow a shovel and broom hud ro be used. One night when it was Ihjrty below it was ihirlv above at noon, a rise of sixty degrees, but. this was while the sun was shining, and the great, amount of heat that goes in through the glass is retained for sometime during the day. The writer has in moderately cold weather spent not a few uncomfortable niglns in bed, curled up, and his foetus cold as the eggs in a refrigerator, but this \yas because his covering was inadequate. But the boys sleeping in the porch have each a hood of outing Hannel. They are first wrapped up in a double woolen blanket, and are put into lied between cotton blankets instead of sheets. Over these are another pair of woolen blankets, a quilt, a steamer rug. and a heavy overcoat, and they are warm enough without being too heavily covered.
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