Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1896 — An Arctic Christmas. [ARTICLE]

An Arctic Christmas.

Christmas came almost before we were aware. Spirts had been arranged for the occasion, and at half-past two we assembled. A double row of ice-columns led away in dim perspective over the Ice-covered bay for more than two hundred yards, reminded one of un alabaster colonnade forming the approach- to an ancient Greek temple. Over these were laid bamboo poles, and at each end of the course a red torch-light was thrust Into the snow. We then Indulged in hurdle-racing and other sports. It was a strange spectacle, with the wild figures of the Innults and the fur-clad members of the party, now in the cold blue light of the moon, now In the bright red light from the torches, grouped about the contestants, and the towering, gloomy mass of Mount Bartlett in the background. The games were hurried through, for 1; was cold sport with tile thermometer 24 degrees below zero^— Century.