We like it Have you tried the plan?
We are not very successful in inter
esting pupils in geography.What do
you do to succeed?
Do your pupils or natives in the vil
lage tell you interesting legends? Fire
them at us. If it is a good shot it will
hit the N. L
Have you ever had a hair raising
i experience in travailing in Alaska?
Ik)il it bowu and send it to 11s.
Break into print or break a trace.
Your Suffering Ed.
The following is from one of our
old pupils of Wales, Alaska. Eight
years ago he was a wee bit of a lad
i.i the second or third grade. Weave
quite glad to be remembered by the
former pupils of Wales. There is a
warm place in our heart for them.
Nome, Alaska,nov. 26, 1915.
Mr. Klmer E. Van Ness
Unalakieet, Alaska.
Dear Old Friend;-I always had no
time to write to yon.Now 1 had very
little time to write. I have been here
long ago I will be here all winter I
guess.
Did yon forget me? My friend Klmer
Ootok was here also. I hear that you
were married a few years ago. How
are you getting along. Kverybody is
well here. I aint got very much
business here. I am through with
my reindeer business. So I came
down here to work. I was driving
race dogs for a fellow every day.
There's my cousin down there named
Kee Ink roo-wak. He used to be a
King island boy. I like to hear a word
from him very bad. I aint got much
to write.
Yours,Edgar Abertnaya.
THE POETS CORNER
If you see a tall fellow ahead of a crowd
A 1 a lor < f men inarching fearless and proud
And you know of a t ile whose nurc tellinf
Aloud
Would mean that his head must in anguisl
Be bowed,
It’.' a | r tty good plan to forget it.
If you know of a skeleton hidden a * ay
In a closet.and guarded and kept from the day
In the dark,and whose showing. whose
Sudden disp'ay.
Would cause grief and sorrow and life-ion^
Dismay.
It's a pretty good p;an to forgit it.
If yon know of a thing that will darken the
Joy
Uf a man (i a woman, a girl or a hoy.
That will wipe out a smile,or the least way
Annoy
fellow,or cause any gladness to cloy.
It's a pretty gi oil plan to forget it Anoi:
WISE AND OTHERWISE
AN AGE OK WONDERS
An old time Southerner and his
son were hoeing cotton by the road
side when all at o:u e an automobile
cameteari g down th.e road,rushed
by ina cloud of dust, and was soon
out of sight. Neither had see 1 no-*
heard of such a thi g 1 efo.e. While
thus watching the dire lion in which
the thing rushed they were some
what amazed to hear coming down
the road a motorcycle,whit h rushed
bv in the direction of the auto “Waif
I never, ’piped the farmer, “ Who’cS
a-tliot that blamed thing had a colt .
A START IN LIFE
Never miss a chance!
A chance stirs and spurs a striving
man to new and harder effort.
A chance opens the door that was
closed—smooths the road that vva?
rough—brings down where you car
grasp it and makes it real,the vision