Show Missionary ry Tells Tell or of Cold Spells Spell in Alaska Watching tn tM the thermometer shovel shovel- tn nf tag cool coat and listening to ones one's breath breaU crack at as he breathe breathes IU are the exciting current events nent In the life Ute of ot lie ney Robert lobert R. R MI Martinis n II ml missionary at Nenana Alaska according aC to o Q report received by the Presbyterian board of national missions Mr Ir Marquis had been a Sunday Bunda school missionary In Wyoming but took his hie wife und and child to Alaska last summer and now tells the board he like Ike hl his new work wor despite the Arctic Arctic conditions renditions We are oro experiencing tome some real Alaska Aluska weather he writes writE It went down to 7 72 degrees below belo last night and tune has only warmed up to CO below In n the middle of or the flay day so soe we e me spending most mOlt of or our spare time carry carry- lag Ing ng coal cool When It goes down to b between be tween 40 90 and ro BO bpi below ow zero a fog tog develops de de- de- de that Is every E bit of ot moisture freezes and the colder It gets the themore themore more more fog so that at night one can cnn hardly see sec a n light a n block away On Onlie tile the higher elevations they do not have lave the to fog The sled trail has drifted a n good food deal On the l last lt trip the mall stages It hud had to break trail trall first with one horse hone and then another and then take the tho sled which made mode slow going On the outgoing trip they bad bod a schoolteacher school schoolteacher teacher a middle aged married wom wom- an on She froze her nose She Sho was Wall determined however to go to the next road camp even though the driver wanted to return to the one be he had leftOn leftOn left On the return trip he brought a ayoung ayoung young foung woman with a three month three old old a-old baby While the driver was breakIng break break- Ing tug trail trait she would go along with a flashlight to show him where the trail was She hind had the baby wrapped up In Ln Ina t ta a skin rabbit skin bag balf In the sled near a J but It became become too warm want I so eo that she had to take lake some lome of ot Its wraps otto oft |