Twenty-five Cents a
DECEMBER, 1907.
Vol. VIII. No. 9.
THANKSGIVING. .
gHANKSGIVINCi is always one
of the most enjoyable days of
the year at the Orphanage.
Even the shining of Ihe sun is
net necessary to make it a day of de
lir.ht.
The celebration began, as usual,
Ws-dneeday evening with the prayer
meeting at the church in which near
ly every voice was heard telling rea
sons for thankfulness. Many were
the expressions of gratitude for a
home in the Orphanage and the priv
ilege of learning of the .Saviour.
Thursday was croudy but not cold,
and the coasting was fairly good, so
the children enjoyed the out door
sports. Sashka and Nicholai rowed
to Crooked Island to see their ermine
traps and Alex took the shot gun to
try to shoot some ducks, but all were
near when the dinner bell rang.
Pour large tables were set in the
school room and at these all gather
ed to enjey the bounties. The wait
ers, Ella, Nida, Alex, Nicholai, and
Kohlia, wore caps and capes, and col
lars and cuffs of white in imitation of
the Puritan costume. The dinner
consisted of roast Pekin duck and
dressing, celery, mashed potato, sug
ar corn, bread, coffee, candy, apples,
and pumpkin pic.
Before leaving the tables some np
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SAINT PAUL’S CREW SAFE.
ARIj/Y THURSDAY morning,
November ai-, the steamer
"Dora” iXras sighted and soon
■“^after glided into Kodiak. It
was not long before a boat was off to
see what word she had brought of
the schooner “St Paul” for which
she was to look and on which one of
our boys, Alexander Calngan, had
shipped as sailor. before our boat
had been at Kodiak long Alex was
seen coming up the bill to the Orph
anage. He hud lost no lime in get
ting home for it seemed like a good
place after his experience while
away.
The schooner had floated out dur
ing a calm and had made little prog
gress the first day or two. When
out on the open ocean a tremendous
sea was encountered. At one time
a heavy roller struck and set her on
beam’s end, shifting cargo and bal
last, and at the 3ame time a 'tailor,
clinging to the rigging, had an arm
broken by a flying rope’s end.
Two of the three laudings were fi
nally made, and the cargo for each
discharged, but weary with their
heavy labor, they remained at anchor
one afternoon at Sooth Semidi. At
night a storm arose and by morning
the anchors had been dragged clove
to the beach. Nothing could be
dpne aboard to increase the ship’s
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