THE ORPHANAGE NEWS LETTER.
THE KODIAK
BAPTIST ORPHANAGE
The Workers, on salary, are
Oeo A JLearn, Superintendent,
M- G. Campbell, Matron
Miss L. F. Krgen/.inger, Matron.
1'iiE i ■ kros!•: of the Orphanage is
to provide a Christian home and
training for destitute children.
I he Records show that 70 males
m«l 71 females (total 141) have been
received, 48 males and 49 females
discharged ( by completion of time
and by death ). 22 males and 24 fe
males now enrolled
v six Converts nave been
immersed and received 111 the church.
1 m-: SrI'I'urt is provided hv The
VV Oman’s American baptist. Home
Mission Society which expends here
£7500.00 a vear. It is hoped that the
C< *ntk nirriONS marked “Alaska’
will eventually suffice. Therefore.
f verv St nda v-schooi. and everv
\ tu n<; 1‘koj i.e’s Society in the
land is urged to make an annual con
tribution Help from all sources
*s itefully accepted. This is the
<)\rv lliPTfST mission home for
Alaskan children. And the
t)ni. y H \I'TIST Orphan v«*,f on tlie
F VCIFIC CO VST.
S d<l •■til CnjfTRlHfTlONS from New
!•'x »lani> to Miss tIkktki’in*; I..
Dwrs lord HuiHitig, Boston, Mass.
x o x r it j hit i ons from other
p.iit> <>: the country are to he sent to
Mrs l.'iuiiH v. Marshal) 2cj6y Vernon
Ac e Chic ago, 111
l*or tjuite a number of years the fill
ing of the silo has been let to a gang
of native men. This vear we decid
ed to do it ourselves as we have such
a staunch little launch to do the tow
ing. There is no heavy beach grass
growing on Wood island so we have
to go to neighboring islands and bays
tor it.
Our New Babies.
Miss i. i Krgknzingkr
Our German people say that everv
new child brings a blessing into the
home. I wasut very anxious to
prove the saying, for the girls I have
had to take care of were quite enough
to exhaust both strength and energy.
However the July bertha hud a pas
senger who was looked upon with
great sympathy. A father w ith two
little motherless babies, one a year
and a half old the other nearly four.
Those who are acquainted with our
Home were not surprised whe » they
saw the man go to the dock where
Mr. I,earn landed from Wood Island
to get our mail. He told Mr. l.earn
that he had tried for six months to
find some one to take care of his bab
ies but had failed He could not stay
at home and care for them and at the
same time ejrn a living, neither
could he leave them at home and go
to his work, so the only thing he
could do was to bring them to us and
beg us to take them.
A Kodiak lady who saw them after
we h id charge of them u while said
they certainly look'd pitiful when
they landed, hut do not look like
the same little girls now.
I told Mr. Patehell, their father, I
wasn’t very willing to take two litt.e
children, but he said “ 1 tried every
other place, even Chemawa, and no
one will take them, and there is ro
other place hut this." 'I be task which
fell tome was not without competi
tion. for they sav such cute things
The first bathing proved an aw ful
ordeal to hoth, hut the hahy cried the
most, finally Hes.-de turned to the
hahy and said consolingly " the
shirt s on." When they see Mike
feeding the calves they say “moose,
moose