t, newsletter.
Twenty-five Cents a Year. April 1911. Vol. XII. No. 1
Back To Wood Island.
After an absence pf a year and half
I found things much changed. Tiny,
Gabriel, Eva and Toe have passed
away to be with theii I.ord. Our loss
is their gain. Others have left,
Johnnie, Amy and Annie Hern have
gone to their papa in Seward, Charles
Muthisou to the Cushman Indian
School; Ann and John Palmer to
their father. I miss them all.
I found Mrs. I.earn sick in bed
with La Grippe, which turned to
pleurisy. She is very ill. All the
otliers had recovered from their
colds.
(ieorgie, a little four-year-old said
he remembered me, hut I thought he
did not as he had been iti the mission
only three months when I went away.
When he asked me "Why did vou
stay away so long?” I concluded he
did remember.
Much needed improvements have
been made, and there is room for
more. When I see the fine large
range in the mission, the beautiful
modern range and hot and cold water
at the Winch Dormitory, besides
many other improvements my mind
turns back to twelve years ago when
I first came, when there was not even
cold water to be had short of a quar
ter of a mi'e.
Much is being done spiritually for
the children. The girls are very
well cared for, as are tile hoy;, and
all seem happy in their home life.
There are children asking to he ad
mitted all Ihe time. Four wanted to
come on the same boat that I came
on. The mission is known to a large
part of Alaska as a safe home for or
phans and friendless children
Mrs. M. (). Camioihi.i..
The steamer on which Mrs. Camp
bell came tu us was so long over due
that we were becoming exceedingly
anxious. When at last it did come
we did not recognize its whistle.
Then too it anchored out in the chan
nel as strange steamers always do. It
had a new coat of paint and seemed
to stand so high out of the water that
we were completely deceived, believ
ing it to be a stranger in these waters.
Hut when we rowed out to it we found
that it was the Bertha after all. Own
ing to the fact that the wharf at Kod
iak was much out of repair the Cap
tain refused to go in. So the pas
sengers and freight had to be taken
oft in small boats. It was easy to see
that Grandma Campbell had lost
none of her suppleness when she
scrambled down a common ladder
none too securely fastened to the ship
and so hung, that the foot of the lad
der was inclined towards the keel of
the steamer.
There is no question in our minds
that Grandma loves the children and