WANTED
We have received frequent inquir
ies from Missionary Circles as to our
ueeds, accordingly we are pleased to
j;ive the following suggestions to
those contemplating sending us boxes.
Kindly send only such things as
will be of real service, leaving out
l*i nice Albert couts, heavy overcoats,
pi» ture caids end old papers.
W e need for the boys, who range
m age from 5 to 1H years, coats,
tr imers, blouses and work shirts, both
i< :tou and woolen, under wear not too
heavy, sweaters, nightshirts, cups 6j
t. 7$, socks, stockings, suspenders,
i. kties and mittens.
I'or gills, ranging in age from 3 to
Is y**ars, work ap.ons, diesses, sweat
ers. undeiweur, skirts, stockings,
i-i iikts, night dresses, hair libhonu
s’, i mittens.
< hn era I, sheets lor single beds, slips
f r pillows Id x 20 in., blankets,
f \els, hairbrushes, tooth brushes,
mbs and stereopticou slides.
Krom the Pacific Coast States we
solicit fresh, dried and can tied
fruit.
iX ALL CASKS WHERE POSSIRLK KI
lUKR PllhPA Y l IIK FREIGHT OR 8ENI)
l - T1IK MONEY TO PA Y IT AT THIS KNI)
■ l‘HK KUt'TR, .\8T1IH STEAMSHIP
i AMhSCAN NO LONGER CARRY
I LIGHT FOR ITS ORATES.
l’otato dinging came unusually
early this fall. It is not often the
p. pie begin digging before October.
1 his year there were heavy frosts in
September mid fearing the ground
would freeze the people hustled their
potatoes cut. As the tops of ours were
still green we did not dig till later.
Fathkk Hkkman
Hie place where Father Herman
lived in Alaska wus fapruce Island
called I lie "Elovoi Ostlof,” named
l>> linn I lie “New Balaam. ’* Spruce
lliaud is separated irom Kodiak Isl
and by u strait, it is not very large,
is covered by a dense forest and is
very picturesque. In the first duys
of bis stay there he dug himself a cave
where he lived until he built a hut
where he spent mure than forty years
of his lite. Around this hut he c.ear
ed a space of ground lor agarden and
alwajs worked in lthimself. All that
l ather Herman produced by his labor
he used for the niauteuauce and clo
thing for native orphans his wards
and for books for them.
He wore the same kind of Clothing
both sumiinr and winter. Instead of
a shirt he wore a reindeer jumper.
Ills whole apparel was modest and,
of course, poor and coarse.
A. small bench covered with rein
deer skins served him for a bed, two
bricks for pillows. He bad no blank
et, ho used a hare board tocoverbim
Beif with, lie named this hoard his
blanket, leaving a request to be cov
ered with it after his death.
lie ate very little. When invited
out to eat he would just taste the food
set before him and remain dmnerless.
In Ins ow n home a very small portion
of fish and vegetables composed his
whole dinner.
His body exhausted with labor,
prayer and fasting was farther atl'lic
ted with a fifteen pound iron chain
fetters which he wore next to his
body constantly. These iron chain
fetters are still treasured ill the
Church at Kodiak.
To be Continued