senty-five Cents a Year.
February
1912.
Vol.
XII. No. ti
GETTING ACQUAINTED
->tiie time ago we published an ar
*etting Acquainted” in which
h h"\- and ^ 1 r 1 in the mission was
. i med. Since then there have
n in.my changes n the personnel
" those in the mission and the
: 1 ers to t he News better so that
her <utide under the same heud
- v\l.I not he untimely.
will begin with 'antes MoCona
put.c because we must begin
i some one, and partly because he
• highest* ! » y we have and
S, ‘r,d-s out as a good one to speak
■ i s;. He measures 6 it. . nd
• i Its about ioo lbs. and is 17 yeais
It does not seem possih.e that
v couai grow as much as he has
« ue lour years he li..s been in the
1 1 ’n. He has ti.-.ik eyes, brown
soft pleasant voice, gentle
o', s a;:d a good face.
w shorn ..t Sun i>e, but soon
‘-tber moved t . i yor.ok, when.
" engaged in cuiiug and . mok
■ ’ of salmon. James's motiier
a veais ago There was no
■ 1 yonok, th. w *s one re 011
tne. wished t" n iiii hi r. ami his
- - i-: e s .dattie un.i .viltie to us.
: niK-had learned it> read a little
ic, but when he ante to us he
egin in ihe primary depat t
Teir i.f the school. As he learned
v< ; idly he did not remain many
weeks in that department, hut passed
into the {grammar grades, and now
stands highest in the most advanced
class in '.lie school. In the manual
' raining department none of the boys
do better work than he.
f >ne day about 3 year ago, the Supt.
heard loud angry voices out by the
woodshed, and on investigation found
James and Joe in a very heated dis
cission. both were so angry their*
faces were crimson, and tears stool
in their eves. The cause of the quar
rel w.is that Joe had called James h
“Welshman “ Neither boy knew
what a Welshman was, but both
thought it the most insulting name
that could be used. Later when they
learned what the word meant they
both had a hearty laugh over their
quarrel.
More than eight years ago a ste am
er from the westward brought a C. O.
J). passenger in the person of a bay
eight or nine yeais old. No one on
the steamer seemed to know just
wht e he came from or who sent him.
He could not tell more of his name
than “.Mike”. If be spoke either
Russian or Aleut? be had a dialect
of his own for neither the Russians
or Aieutes here could understand
him, and he spoke no English Some
months passed before it wasdiscover
ed that his name was .Mike Cliabitnoy.
and that he came from Korosin Island
near I'nga.