HOW TO MAKE !)RY Y,CA ST
until it ferments, then stir in suffi
cient corn meal to make a still dovgh.
Roll out and cut into small cakes to
dry.(Fort Apache Indian School.)
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The letters, in this issue wore written be
the pupils of this They \\fu. >. titten
with out help anil printed as written.
They art answers to letters received from
the sixth grade pupils of the Sheldon,
111. Public School. They were sent bv the
Prjn.Mr.J. 1'. Armitatje to Sup'.W M.p<husou
an old friend of Mr. Armitage Wr :.rt pub
lishing i.no letter from each of the four gratis
In all there w ere fourteen letters which have
been answered. The Sheldon letter'- consis
ted largely of questions concerning Alaska
which accounts for the trend nt the answers
given. The pupils hope to hear from Sheldon
again. — Kd
Unalakleet,Alaska Nov. tfc.i^if).
Ruby wilier,
Sheldon, I i 1.
Dear sir: —
Mr. e h. van Ness is our teacher here
Certainly we can talk English. We
would understand you if you read
a letter to us.
Our school is made out of lumbers
which Hureau of Education sent
here. There are 16 pupils in our
room , and I am in fourth grade, m
the middle of the winter tlie snow
is about sixteen or ten teet deep,
in some places. W1 en North wind
blows it is very cold here, in the
winter we travel with the dog team
we can travel forty fifty miles a day
Some of the teams have sixteen or
eighteen dogs. The sleds aie about
three feet wide and six feet long and
the highest part of the sied is about
three feet high, and most of the
Eskimos can make sleds, bouts, and
houses. About twenty years
ago they use to have skin bo -’s and
skin clothings. In our school we learn
how to set type. Some of the uskimo*
are now teachers, wst year we had a
Slmkto'.ik raiudeer fair.The next fair
Whl he I () I 7• Gabriel Kootok— 4th.Gx
ODDS AND ENDS
SIGN ALING TO MAKS
If the inhabitants, if there be such,
should hoist %•' H.i" as large as the
state of \ew York it might possible be
seen by the astronomers of theKartli.
S! liKKl'A OSCE WARM
In 1799 ;l tint 1 d’saoverd, frozen h»
the ice in Lake Oukoul, Siberia, 4
Mam noth with flesh and even cov
ered with skin The flesh was ted to
the dogs. Afterward** Mr. Adams took
the skeleton svid Oits of skin and
hair 7530 miles to St Petersburg
where the giant is mounted.
GKAl’HST LAKE
Crater Lake occupying the top of
an extinct volcano in southe:n Oregon
is 2o:>o feet deep Phis is the deepest
lake, on the American contirent.lt hi
surrounded by almost perpendicular
walls from 1000 to 2200 ft. high.kis
iag out of the water at one s?ie i> a
beautiful island some 800 feet high.
TIiis volcano of ages past has hc*n
named Mt.Mazama.
SOME HUNTING
What hunting it would have Wen
when the Uinosarus was wHggling
its way about the U ivtli. ;t would
have been possible for it to rise up
and peep over the tallest three story
house of to day.Along the gr.'vr'f
its tail stretched tor some fortv feet
then some twent;. feet of main body,
topped off with a neck that reared a
s nail head some 25 feet stin higher.
Alto of such gigantic size, its brain
would scarcely fill the smallest tea
cup. His si/e was .hie to its age fo*
b*»eig a reptile it kept on growing as
long as it lived.